PC-ZViewer User Manual
Contents Preface...............................................................................................................2 Statement........................................................................................................ 4 Intended Reader.......................................................................................... 4 Terms in this manual................................................................................ 4 Software Introduction...................................
Screen display parameters................................................................ 15 Recording Plan............................................................................................16 Video playback............................................................................................18 PTZ Control....................................................................................................20 Device Configuration Parameters...................................................
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, 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.
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more and more users need a network video surveillance software to meet their daily work needs. In such a background, ZMODO launches its PC-ZViewer software. PC-ZViewer is the windows client software of the general users’ front-end equipment and it can satisfy the users’ daily management needs of IP camera, DVR and NVR. Operating Environment Operating Environment Software Subitem Operating system Description Windows XP/ Vista/Win7/Win8 1.
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】.
User Name is admin, password is 111111. Main Interface of Zviewer Area No. 1 2 3 Device tree list Video on-demand interface Function module options Area No.
Logout 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.
Fill in the necessary information and click 【Next】 to go to camera setting 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 Password： Input the login password After inputting all the necessary information, click 【Finish】to finish the step.
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 clickce and select 【Edit】 to revise the corresponding settings of the device. Auto Search for Adding a Device Searching for device Click 【Discovery】 to go to the auto searching interface.
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. User management Click 【 Setting 】 into the settings page, click the left 【 User Management】for adding, deleting, editing users.
【Role】：Administrator and Operator. 【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 the 【Delete】, you can delete the user. * Admin user is the system default super administrator user and can not be deleted, but its password can be changed. Edit a User Right click the user need to be modified, select 【Edit】 to modify the user information.
Click for 4-channel video display layout. Click for 8-channel video display layout.
Click 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 video. Right click and select”Open Video” to open this channel 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” to close the videos.
Screen display parameters Icons Brightness Contrast Saturation Description Adjust the brightness Adjust the contrast Adjust the saturation Color Adjust the color(black and white) Orientation Adjust the orientation(normal, flip, mirror, flip plus mirror)
Voltage Adjust the voltage Reset Restore default settings 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.
Left click the weekday(i.e. ) to set the recording plan for the whole day Left click 0 to 24 area of the timeline to set the recording plan for the same time period of the whole 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 its recording plan.
Video playback Click the Playback button to enter into the video playback interface Select the device from the list on the left side to playback Select the playback date from the calendar
Click the button to play the video, click to stop the video Click the 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. Control the display accuracy of the play scale 24-hour display accuracy 2-hour display accuracy 1 hour display accuracy 0.
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： Figure 220 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. User Settings： 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. Modification of user: select one of the users, select another user 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.
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.
【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.
You can select a wireless network from the auto search list or manually add one. 【Wireless Network】 is SSID, is the login name of wireless network for authentication, it must be consistent with the SSID of the wireless gateway (router/AP). (Such as: TP-LINK_4A2DDC). 【Authentication Mode】can choose WEP, WPA, WPA2 three encryption methods, this setting must be consistent with the security type of wireless gateway (router /AP).
【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. PPPOE Settings： 【Switch】：Tick 【Switch】to select the PPPOE dial-up mode. 【 User 】： The user name can be obtained from Internet service providers. 【 Password 】： Password can be obtained from Internet service providers.
【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.
【Service provider】3322.org or dynDDNS.org selectable 【 Domain 】 the device domain which is set by user, such as golinwei.3322.org. 【 Register name 】 The user name which you registered on DDNS server. 【Password】The password which you registered on DDNS server. 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.
FTP services will send the alarm triggered recording file or captured photo via FTP to certain FTP server. 【FTP server】IP address or HTTP network address of FTP server. 【FTP port】Port of FTP server, default port is 21. 【FTP user name and password】User name and password of FTP Server. 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.
the image. It can mask up to four areas.
【 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.
【 Protection time setting 】 Set the protection time of motion detection. It can set detail time period of everyday, up to four time period. 【Motion detection switch】Set whether to edit the mobile area or open the motion detection. 【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.
Settings】on the left. 【Video Storage Path】：Set local video, as the default installation directory: \Zmodo\Zviewer\ZviewerVideo. 【Screenshot Storage Path】：Set capture image storage path. The default installation directory is \Zmodo\ZViewer\ ZviewerImage. 【 HDD Full 】： Operate after the hard disk is full, can choose to 【Overwrite】 or 【Stop Record】. 【Video Storage Size】：Default is 512M，minimum is 100M.
