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® Contents Preface ........................................................................................................................... 3 Statement ....................................................................................................................... 3 Intended Reader ............................................................................................................ 3 Terms in this Manual ......................................................................................
® Preface Thank you for using ZMODO network camera product and client software. The client software applies to integrated network cameras developed by ZMODO Company for network video monitoring, including network bullet camera, network IR bullet camera, and network dome camera and spherical camera etc. High performance, monolithic SOC chip is utilized as media processer integrates video capture, compress and transmission. Standard H.
® Operating Environment Operating Environment Software Subitem Operating system Hardware Basic configuration Recommended configuration Zviewer Installation Double click “Setup” for the Zviewer installation: 4 Description WindowsXP/ Vista/Win7/ Win8 1.6 GHz CPU, 1G memory, 1024x768 display resolution, 100G HD 2.
® Select the installation path: Choose whether to create shortcut on your desktop: Finish the installation Login Interface Fill in [ User Name ] and [ Password ], then click [ Login ]. The initial User Name is admin, password is 111111.
® Main Interface of Zviewer 3 4 1 2 5 6 Area No. Area No. 1 2 Device tree list Video on-demand interface 4 5 PTZ control panel Image quality control panel 3 Function module options 6 Video display interface layout Logout Interface Single click to log out and the interface will jump back to the login interface. Device Management Click the [ Setting ] into the settings page, click the left [ Device Management ] to add, delete or edit the device etc.
® Manually Adding a Device On the right information display area, right click [ Add ] to pop up “New Camera Wizard” interface. Name: Fill in device name (User defined) Type: Choose device type (IPC or NVR) Fill in the necessary information and click [ Next ] to go to camera configure interface. IP: Fill in the IP address of the device. Port: Fill in the device port number. Max Channel: Fill in the quantity of channels of the device. Login: Fill in the user name of the device.
® After inputting all the necessary information, click [ Finish ] to finish the step. Delete a Device If want to delete a camera, select the IPC and right click once and click [ Delete ], the following window will be popped out: Click [ Yes ] to confirm the selection of delete. Click [ No ] to cancel your selection of delete. Edit a Device Select one of the devices, right click once and select [ Edit ] to revise the corresponding settings of the device.
® Auto Search for Adding Devices Searching for Device Click on [ Discovery ] to go to the auto searching interface. In [ Type ] drop-down list, select the device type (IPC, NVR or All) and click [ Search ] to search, the search results are as shown in the below figure. It can show the network parameter configurations of all the devices.
® Edit the Device Double-click any one searched out device can pop up dialog box of network parameters. You can modify the parameters of the network such as IP, gateway and subnet mask, then click [ save ]. Batch Editing Devices Set up an IP Start address, subnet mask and gateway, then click the [ Modify All ] button. Distribute the network parameters to all the searched devices within the network segment. Add Device Click [ Add All ] button to add all searched-out devices automatically.
® Add a User Enter configuration page, select [ User Management ] : In the user information display area, click [ Add ] to pop-up a dialog box, as shown in below figure: [ Role ] Administrator and Operator two roles. [ User Name ] User name of logging in the client. [ Password ] Password of logging in the client. [ Telephone ] Contact number of user. Delete a User Super administrator can delete users: select a user and click on the [ Delete ], you can delete the user.
® Edit a User Right click on the user need to be modified, select [ Edit ] to modify the user information. Video Browsing Click on the [ Live ] into the main video interface for VOD operation. Video Display Screen Click on for a channel video display layout. Click on for 4-channel video display layout.
® Click on for 8-channel video display layout. Click on for full-screen display at any layout. Open the Video Drag the on-demand device to the right side of the window area to display the surveillance images. Right click and select “Open Video” for the way of opening the video.
® Close the Video Click the × at the top right corner of the open video window to close the video. Select any one of the device on the left side, right click and select “close all” to close all of the videos. Refer to below figure.
® Recording Plan Set the local manual recording plan, the selected device will begin recording at the set time period. The video files will be stored in the local PC. The file path can be modified at the [ Local Setting ] and the stored video can play back locally. Steps for setting the local recording plan: 1. Set the time period for recording, left click to select the time period, the selected area is displayed in blue color (click the blue area again can cancel the operation).
® Left click the weekday(i.e. ) to set the recording plan for the day. Left click 0 to 24 area of the timeline to set the recording plan for the same time period of the week. 2. Click the device allocated for the recording plan to select, one or more devices can be selected and then click the [ Save ] button. Double click any device to check the recording plan of the device.
® Select the device from the list on the left side to playback. Select the playback date from the calendar. Click the Click the button to play the video, click to stop the video button for fast forward playback and click the for slow playback. Drag on the time bar for playback of the video, the blue bar means there is a time period while the gray area means there isn’t.
® 1 hour display accuracy 0.5-hour display accuracy PTZ Control PTZ control is realized through PTZ panel.
® Device Configuration Parameters Select the device need to modify parameters, right click [ Device Settings ] to set. Set the relevant parameters on the popped out interface. Device Information Display Such information as ID, software and hardware version information, header information and network connection status will be displayed on the interface.
® System Information Setting Date Time Settings: System Sync Time [ Time Synchronization ] Select to synchronize the local time. [ Synchronization Method ] Select [ Use Local Time ] and click [ Sync Time ] can realize the PC system time synchronization.
® 1. Each IPC can be set to be used by multiple users. 2. User privilege: Administrator: Root Ordinary users: Ordinary 3. Modify password: in the password input box directly enter the new password, click the [ Modify ] to modify the password. 4. Modify user type : select one of the users, select user types and click [ Modify ] . Upgrade Device Firmware: Upgrade the equipment in the upgrade interface. Click the Browse button, select the upgrade file, and click the [ Update ] button to upgrade.
® Backup Restore Settings: Periodic Maintaining: Choose any time of any day and set the time for auto reboot. Restore Factory setting: Click this button to make all settings of the equipment restore to factory condition. Reboot: Click this button to reset device. Backup & Restore: Equipment backup and recovery.
® [ DHCP ] Start the DHCP function of the route, then IP camera will obtain address automatically from the router. [ IP Address ] Set the IP address of IP camera device. [ Subnet Mask ] Default is 255.255.255.0 (Suggest user not to change this) [ Gateway ] Set gateway IP of IPC, for example if IPC access public network through router, the gateway IP need to be set as the router IP which has accessed the public network.
® [ Password ] is a authentication password of wireless network, this setting must be consistent with the security type of wireless gateway (router /AP). Save parameters after all settings are done. Now unplug cable can realize the IPC wireless access through wireless IP, such as 172.183.230. Port Settings: [ Web Listening Port ] The default value is 80. [ Video Listening Port ] The default value is 8000. [ Mobile Phone Listening Port ] The default value is 9000.
® UPnP Settings: [ Switch ] If in LAN it has server with UPNP function, enable this function, the server will automatically forward the set port to public network. [ web Mapping Port ] set the web port which will be mapping to the server. [ Digital Mapping Port ] set the digital port which will be mapping to the server. [ Mobile Phone Mapping Port ] set the mobile phone port which will be mapping to the server. DDNS Service Settings: [ Service Provider ] 3322.org or dynDDNS.org selectable.
® Mail Service Settings: [ SMTP Server ] Send email server address, different email service provider provides different email server address. [ Email Receiving Address ] Email address to receive the email, 4 addresses can be added. [ Email Sending Address ] Email address to send email. [ SMTP Password ] Log in password for the email box. [ SMTP Port ] Port of SMTP Server, different email server has different port. [ Email Title ] The title of sending email.
® Video Settings Encoder Settings [ Video Quality ] User can choose suitable image quality per need: best, very good, good, common, or poor. [ Stream Type ] Two types: CBR (Constant bit rate) and VBR (Variable bit rate) to choose, CBR applies constant bit rate coding, VBR applies variable bit rate coding. [ Resolution ] Set image resolution, main stream VGA (640*480=307200 pixel), sub stream QVGA(320×240=76800 pixels). [ Frame Rate ] Set coding frame rate per second.
® Video Block User can set the image mask area by clicking and dragging the cusor or cancel the shield area by right clicking the mouse. You can choose to shield the entire image, or only shield the part of the image. It can mask up to four areas. Storage Management You can view the total disk capacity and the remaining space and set loop video.
® Video Plans [ Appointment Setting ] Set reservation time of timing video recording, can set everyday specific video time, up to 4 time period. [ Set Recording Time ] Can set a single file recording time as 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes. [ Other Settings ] Before recording, can choose video types as timing recording or alarm recording; can choose record any day of a week or record everyday of the week; can choose a single channel or all the channels.
® [ Motion Detection Setting ] After enable motion detection switch, the setting interface will appear grid line. User only needs to click the little cube on the image to set the motion detection area. Right click the little cube to cancel related area detection. [ Alarm Action Mode ] Set linkage output format after triggered alarm. Sound alarm or sending email can be selected. Sending email is sending motion detection alarm information via email to user.
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