ACTi Network Video Recorder User Manual Download

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ACTi NVR User

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s Manual

Version 2.2.57

2010/5/25

Summary of Contents for Network Video Recorder

Page 1: ...ACTi NVR User s Manual Version 2 2 57 2010 5 25 ...

Page 2: ... 16 Ports and Firewalls 17 Disabling UAC in Windows Vista and Windows 7 20 NVR Main Program 20 Restore old setting to NVR Database 21 License 21 How does registration work 22 Online Registration 22 Offline Registration Through ACTi website 23 Verify your license 24 3 NVR Quick Start 25 Logging In 25 Finding Cameras on the Network 27 Find cameras with IP Utility 27 Adding cameras to NVR System 28 A...

Page 3: ...ding and snapshots 36 View recorded video 37 Export Video as Evidence 37 4 NVR Operation Explained 38 Camera Setup 38 Camera 38 Add New Camera 38 Auto Scan 39 Manual 40 Detail Description Setting 43 Frame Rate Setting 44 Advanced Setting 45 Delete Camera 48 Copy Settings 50 Record Path 51 Schedule 52 Special Day 54 Motion 56 PTZ 59 PTZ Preset 61 Preset Tour 63 Event Manager 65 Event List 65 Mail N...

Page 4: ...E Map Setup 91 Add Map 92 Edit Map 92 Add Cameras 93 Add Map Link 95 Map Tour 96 Active Monitor 97 Overview 97 Active Monitor Toolbar 99 Camera Panel 100 Event Panel 101 PTZ Panel 104 Adding cameras into preview windows 106 Personal profile 107 Layout Manager 107 System Monitor 109 Active Player 111 Overview 111 Active Player Toolbar 112 Video Search 113 Video Search Result 114 Play Archive from S...

Page 5: ... drop channel 122 Finding your time and Synchronize 123 Sync Main and Sync Follower 124 Sync Playback 125 Active Map 126 Map Overview 126 Mini Preview 127 Web Client 128 Introduction 128 Connecting to NVR as a Web Client 128 Web Client Restrictions 131 ACTi Utility Suite 132 IP Utility 132 Media converter 132 Backup Wizard 132 Streaming Explorer 132 Archive Player 132 ...

Page 6: ...mera Setup Manual Get Device Setting completed 42 Fig 18 Camera Setup Detail Description Setting Tab 43 Fig 19 Camera Setup Frame Rate Setting 44 Fig 20 Camera Setup Advanced Setting Video Quality 45 Fig 21 Camera Setup Advanced Setting Video Adjustment 46 Fig 22 Camera Setup Advanced Setting Connection Port 47 Fig 23 Camera Setup Delete Camera 48 Fig 24 Camera Setup Copy Setting 50 Fig 25 Camera ...

Page 7: ... System Setup License Verifying Registration Info 87 Fig 54 System Setup System System Property 88 Fig 55 System Setup System System E Mail Setting 89 Fig 56 System Setup System System FTP Setting System 89 Fig 57 System Setup System License Information 89 Fig 58 System Setup System Available Disk Drive Capacity 90 Fig 59 System Setup System Workstation Setting 90 Fig 60 System Setup System Camera...

Page 8: ...107 Fig 83 Active Monitor Change Password 107 Fig 84 Active Monitor System Monitor 109 Fig 85 Active Monitor System Monitor Select Type of Log 109 Fig 86 Active Monitor System Monitor Export 110 Fig 87 Active Player Overview 111 Fig 88 Active Player Video Search 113 Fig 89 Active Player Video Search result 114 Fig 90 Active Player Play Archive from Search Page 115 Fig 91 Active Player Snapshot Sea...

Page 9: ... Administrator The server configurations are done by NVR Workstation or NVR Web Clients The services are Active Event Manager Event Manager handles events and responses and executes all rule based reactions Active Schedule Service Schedule service provides recording and scheduling management Active Service Manager This program monitors the other software service modules If the other services are d...

Page 10: ...erations with mouse or Joystick view system log receive alert on the Event panel setup view layouts or survey with pre defined multi layout tour Active Player You may find and playback existing recordings in this module Up to 4 channels may be played back synchronously Snapshots or excerpted video segments can be taken from playback files Recorded files can also be exported to AVI format here Acti...

Page 11: ...ard memory 512 MB or more 512 MB or more 512 MB or more 512 MB or more Hard Drive Space 2 GB for NVR 100 GB for Video 2 GB for NVR 250 GB for Video 2 GB for NVR 500 GB for Video 2 GB for NVR 1TB for Video Fig 1 System Requirements NOTE Live view for multiple channels require good hardware for smooth performance If your live view performance is not satisfactory please reduce the number of channels ...

Page 12: ...r Enterprise Version provides remote access from another PC User may connect to Server by either Workstation or Web Client Recording is done on the server Enterprise version is divided into Server and Workstation Remote users do not need to install NVR Server Function Overview Some functions cannot be setup through web client and must be configured via workstation OS Version 32 bit 64 bit Windows ...

Page 13: ...start the application session and starts from login page Ctrl F6 Toggle Video display stretch Ctrl F7 Create snapshot Ctrl F8 Toggle start stop tour Ctrl F9 Show hide camera tree panel Ctrl F10 Cancel auto login mode during login Ctrl F11 Show hide title bar Ctrl F12 Toggle full screen mode ESC Cancel full screen mode return to normal mode This function is only valid in full screen mode Fig 3 Keyb...

Page 14: ...may only install workstation as long as you can connect to the server Before actual installation you will be asked to register online Registering provides many benefits including online customer help desk e Newsletter and free software downloads You may choose to Skip and proceed to NVR installation The next screen will show the Installer Choose the software you wish to install on this PC Please r...

Page 15: ...2 2 57 User s Manual 15 For installing Workstation just follow the on screen instructions For installing NVR Enterprise Server or NVR Professional please see sample screen from NVR Enterprise Server setup and follow below steps ...

Page 16: ...xact match Enter the correct NVR IP address NVR Admin account and password Then choose the destination folder for backup files Default folder is C backup For detailed instructions please see Backup Wizard User s Manual SQL NVR 2 2 requires SQL database engine to work The NVR installer will automatically install Microsoft SQL 2005 Express SP3 on your PC Please follow all on screen instructions If y...

Page 17: ...ation You can go to Control Panel Windows Firewall Allowed Programs to add the following two programs to the allowed list C Program Files NVR ActiveStreamEngine ActiveStreamingService exe C Program Files NVR ActiveScheduleService ActiveScheduleService exe Sample screenshots from Windows 7 are shown below The steps are similar in other versions of windows OS Port Name Number Workstation Web Client ...

Page 18: ...www acti com NVR 2 2 SP3 V2 2 57 User s Manual 18 Step 1 Control Panel Windows Firewall Allow a program through Windows Firewall Step 2 Allow Another Program ...

Page 19: ...Manual 19 Step 3 Browse to the target program In this sample Active Streaming Service is shown Add this into the list of allowed programs Step 4 Streaming Service is added to the allowed programs list Do the same for Active Scheduling service ...

Page 20: ...th TweakUAC after NVR has been fully installed NVR Main Program After you completed setting up SQL server disabling UAC for Vista Win7 and setting up IIS server you can proceed to install NVR Please follow the on screen instructions For NVR Server the recommended path is C Program Files NVR You can change the destination folder path if you really need to NVR will need to log into the SQL server du...

Page 21: ...Backup Wizard to restore and recover old settings You can find Backup Wizard in NVR Workstation or the Utility folder in original install files Please refer to Backup Wizard User s Manual for detailed instructions License ACTi NVR software has 16 channel 32 channel 48 channel 64 channel packages For NVR Enterprise it is free for up to 16 channels For more than 16 channels you have to purchase a li...

Page 22: ... and Enable Multiple Network Cards on ACTi Knowledge base website for more information Online Registration This is the recommended and easiest way to register NVR on your PC You will need to have internet connection to register this way Please log into NVR with Active Setup Click on the Setup System symbol and then click on the license tab See following image Fig 5 Online Registration Click the On...

Page 23: ...to our website http www acti com support_old SoftwareRegistration asp See following image 2 Enter your license key and MAC address you need to record the MAC address you re your server PC beforehand 3 Make sure the MAC address shown is correct 4 Click Apply to generate your Activation Key Fig 6 Offline Registration 5 Copy the complete Activation Key and transfer it to the NVR server PC By pasting ...

Page 24: ...ed your NVR you will receive a notification message as shown here You may check your current NVR license from Active Setup System Setup System tab Fig 7 Verifying License Registration Info If you encounter any error message please report on our Customer Help Desk http www acti com support case index asp ...

Page 25: ...of functions please see the User Interface Explained section Logging In The default login User Account and Passwords are Admin 123456 You can use either workstation or web client to access NVR We will describe how to use Workstation at this moment Web client access will be covered in later sections 1 Click on one of the four NVR Workstation icons on your desktop or go to Start Program Files NVR Wo...

Page 26: ... basic preview mode 5 You may choose to check the box Auto login with this account NVR will then remember the settings you used to login this time and automatically login in future startups saving you valuable time Please note that if your workstation will be accessed by more than one individual then you may not want everyone to be able to auto login with the default account In this case you shoul...

Page 27: ...om the list you may check the IP address of each camera access them through web configurators or perform firmware upgrade to many cameras at the same time Fig 9 IP Utility A few tips on using IP Utility After a short initial search IP Utility will display devices it has found in a table The IP address of each will be shown If the IP is displayed as a hyperlink then it is in the same subnet as your...

Page 28: ...ras manually or automatically Assuming your cameras are in the Local Area Network and not over the internet we will start with Auto If your cameras are located over the internet or in other LANs please use manual For now select Auto and click Next Step Fig 10 Add New Cameras Auto 3 A message will appear when searching for devices Once the search is complete a list of available devices will be show...

Page 29: ...up Camera Setup Camera New Adding cameras Manually If your camera is not within the same LAN segment i e over the internet it will not be searchable by NVR In this case you need to add it manually 1 To add a camera manually go to Active Setup Camera Setup Camera New Manual 2 The camera setting page will appear as below The most important settings are the Protocol Camera IP HTTP Port username and P...

Page 30: ... to see real time video from the camera so that you may verify this is the device you intended to add 4 Click open the expand arrows on the right of Media Source information tab and you will see that the Detail Description Setting fields have been automatically filled up by NVR 5 Click Apply to save settings to NVR and finish manually adding this camera ...

Page 31: ...py settings from 2 Click Copy Settings and the copy setting screen will appear as below 3 You may select the types of settings you wish to copy from the item list below You need to select at least one type of settings to proceed The Camera Data Target may be a new device or it may be an existing camera If you select Add New Device then a new camera will be created If you select a particular existi...

Page 32: ... have access to different camera groups Both will be allowed to see live view perform PTZ operations take snapshots and export evidence But they may perform these functions only to the cameras in the building they are responsible for They will not be able to change the camera or system settings which are reserved for the system administrators Defining Camera Groups Setup Camera Group Basic Info 1 ...

Page 33: ...n setting Camera Groups Select the Camera Groups for each camera to belong to Click Apply to save settings Every camera that has not been specially reassigned will automatically belong to the section named No Group This means that No Group will contain all devices unless the administrator has unchecked the check box from specific cameras Defining User Roles 1 Please go to Active Setup System Setup...

Page 34: ...If you have other combinations of allowed functions in mind then you may create a new User Role by typing the Role Name Role Description and selecting the intended functions in the list below You need to first check the boxes to the left to enable the module then select the detail operations allowed for this role Then click Apply to add this role to the User Role list Defining Users You may add us...

Page 35: ... interface is shown as below To the top left is the camera tree Above the video display windows are the layout selection tab 3 There are two ways to see live view from your camera You may click and drag the appropriate camera from the camera tree to the view window or select the view window then double click on the camera you wish to add 4 You may arrange the channels by clicking and dragging them...

Page 36: ... and drag over the scheduler to setup For Event only recording Triggered by motion detection Digital inputs PIR click on Event with Streaming and setup the time segments Each segment represents 20 minutes Time segments left blank will not be recorded If you wish to record a give channel while viewing live video first select the channel to record by clicking on the view window Then just click on th...

Page 37: ...to search for some specific event but do not know the exact original recording file Use archive player when you have already located the file and wish to perform further processing Export Video as Evidence To export video as evidence you should first locate the file via Active Player If the format you need is AVI or RAW you may export directly from Active Player If you need JPEG files you may also...

Page 38: ... should first select a camera to access its settings Add New Camera There are two ways to add devices into the system auto or manual Use auto search if your cameras are located in the same subnet as your NVR server If your cameras video servers are located outside of local subnet or if you are unable to find it via auto search then please use connect to it by Manual Add You need to know the IP add...

Page 39: ... is a list of devices found over the network You may click on the row of the device you wish to add and User can see the list of all the IP cameras video servers found You may click the column heading to sort by each column 4 LAN WAN IP Address Most devices have a single IP address Some devices provide two IP addresses identified as LAN or WAN Please click on the radio button to select the IP addr...

Page 40: ...Manual Please fill up the Basic Setting of the camera Then Click 17 Get Device Setting to read the other settings from your device Fig 16 Camera Setup Manual Basic Settings 1 Web Configurator Click this button to open web configurator of the camera video server Some detailed settings are available only through the web configurator and not through NVR ...

Page 41: ...his method options 11 15 will show up This allows you to get video stream by logging to another NVR system Then user has to fill up all these fields to access the assigned NVR Please make sure you have the proper access rights on the target NVR You should also verify the port settings and the firewall forwarding configurations on all the routers between your current NVR PC and the target NVR PC II...

Page 42: ...www acti com NVR 2 2 SP3 V2 2 57 User s Manual 42 Fig 17 Camera Setup Manual Get Device Setting completed Click the apply button to add device to NVR system We will explain the other sections below ...

Page 43: ...n ID This is a more detailed parameter on what product series does the camera belong to In most cases you will not need to edit it 4 Connection Timeout Enter the amount of time without response for NVR to consider the device to be disconnected in seconds We recommend you to set different values for different types of connection The default setting is 5 seconds For devices located over the internet...

Page 44: ...ptions 7 and 8 will show up 7 Live View Stream Show the stream used for Live View NVR uses only media 1 for live view 8 Recording Stream Select the stream Media 1 or 2 to use for recording By using different streams for recording and live view you may use different values so that the live view stream is smaller in size with lesser frame rate to save decoding CPU power and bandwidth Meanwhile the r...

Page 45: ...deo Encoder Show the codec of camera video server 2 Stream Mode Show whether the streaming mode is single or dual 3 FPS User can see the FPS Frames Per Second on this IP camera here To modify it select the new one and click the Apply button 4 Resolution User can see the Resolution on this IP camera here To modify it enter desired resolution and click the Apply button 5 Bitrate Mode Select Bitrate ...

Page 46: ...htness value either by clicking on the bar or selecting from the drop down list 2 Saturation Adjust the Saturation value either by clicking on the bar or selecting from the drop down list 3 Contrast Adjust the Contrast value either by clicking on the bar or selecting from the drop down list NOTE Some devices do not allow setting for some of these values ...

Page 47: ...he web configurator to access camera firmware directly over Internet Explorer 1 Register Port User can see the current register port on this IP camera here 2 Control Port User can see the current control port on this IP camera here 3 Streaming Port User can see the current Streaming port on this IP camera here 4 Multicast Port User can see the current multicast port on this IP camera here ...

Page 48: ...server Click this button to remove this device from NVR 2 Delete All Click this button to delete all of the cameras and video servers in the camera list NOTE Please be very careful when you select this option This delete is irreversible We recommend you to backup your data with backup wizard before using the Delete All option Even if you have kept a backup with the backup wizard it will only save ...

Page 49: ... 49 After user click Delete All button the three options will also show up Please select one method to delete Deleting cameras will also remove them from Layouts and View Tours but will not remove the maps or the camera groups they are involved in ...

Page 50: ...up Copy Setting 1 Apply Click this button after you have selected the types of info to copy 2 Cancel Click this button to cancel copy settings 3 Camera Data Target Select one camera video server to copy data to If you select Add New Device a new device will appear with the same settings as your current camera You may wish to modify the settings from there 4 Items Check the settings that you want t...

Page 51: ...erver in extreme cases Please set this to at least 10 minutes unless there is special requirement Recommended value is 30 minutes per video segment 6 Pre event recording buffer NVR keeps a short cache of video received from devices If an event is triggered NVR will automatically store the pre event buffer along with the recording of the event itself E g Digital input is triggered when the gate is ...

Page 52: ...each time segment click the radio button then click and drag across the schedule to change the color 1 View By Camera Click this button to configure recording schedule of this camera 2 Delete Click this button to remove all weekly schedules of this camera Please note that you still need to click Apply to confirm editing Special day schedules are not affected 3 Apply Click this button to save the s...

Page 53: ... Weekly Schedule only the weekly schedule will be copied The special day settings of the target cameras will not be changed 2 Apply Once you completed the choices click apply to save settings to target cameras 3 Camera Check the Cameras to copy schedule to You may also click the checkbox in front of Camera to select all devices 4 Schedule You may adjust your schedule before copying to devices Note...

Page 54: ...this button to remove all special schedules of this camera Please note that you still need to click Apply to confirm editing Weekly schedules are not affected 3 Apply Click this button to save the settings 4 Schedule Calendar Select the day to edit with the calendar here 5 Schedule The camera will record continuously during your designated period 6 Event with Streaming NVR will keep receiving vide...

Page 55: ...ist of all special day schedules are shown here You may perform Copy camera setting in the same way as the weekly schedule Only the special day schedules will be copied if you select copy camera setting here Please see the sample screenshot below Fig 29 Camera Setup Schedule Copy Setting Special day ...

Page 56: ...e device and see live view The parameters of each motion region from the device will be displayed to the right In this stage red motion region borders will show up if you have previously configured motion detection in NVR and applied it to both device and NVR You can check if the current setting detects video motion satisfactorily If you wish to modify the motion detection settings click Motion Se...

Page 57: ...d rectangle representing the motion region will in Active Monitor during live view if there is motion activity Please note that if the motion detection region was configured only in camera and not through NVR the live view camera title bar will turn red but the motion region rectangle will not show up in Active Monitor live view Whether PIR motion sensor activity will show red borders around the l...

Page 58: ...and the description will be shown in the event manager 10 Enable Disable PIR Event Click this button to enable disable PIR detection Available only to certain models 11 Motion Region Click and Drag to setup the location and size of the target motion region in view window After you ve completed setup please click Apply to save into to camera and NVR This process may take a short while If you have p...

Page 59: ...r of the PTZ device speed dome you wish to control You may select the device type directly if it is listed here 4 Protocol Select the protocol of the PTZ device speed dome 5 PTZ File If the protocol for your PTZ device is not within the previous list you can import a new protocol file to control the PTZ device speed dome Commands in PTZ file will override the protocol previously selected For detai...

Page 60: ...r s Manual 60 9 Baud Rate Enter the baud rate of the PTZ device speed dome This option appears only for certain models 10 Absolute Position Check this box to enable PTZ by absolute positioning This option appears only for certain devices ...

Page 61: ...ick this button after you ve completed setup to save the settings 4 Image Preview You can see the camera preview here 5 OSD setting Control Panel For devices that provide On Screen Display control OSD you may open control panel and configure the camera via OSD here 6 PTZ Operation Control Panel You may control camera movement in this panel Please note that if the device does not support zoom then ...

Page 62: ... move the camera to your desired view angle including pan tilt and zoom via the PTZ control panel After you re satisfied with the view please enter a name for the Preset point and click this button to save the settings Click this button to delete this Preset point from both NVR and Device Click this button to go to the preset point NVR supports up to 32 Preset Points Some devices may not support t...

Page 63: ...e sure you configure PTZ and PTZ Preset sections correctly before setting up Preset Tours Fig 34 Camera Setup Preset Tour 1 New Tour Click this button to create a new tour Enter the Tour Name and Description then click apply to add a new tour to the tour list 2 Delete Tour Click this button to delete the currently selected tour from the tour list 3 Add Preset Point Click this button to add preset ...

Page 64: ... a unique preset tour ID stored in the system The ID column is entered automatically by the system 7 Tour Name Enter the name of this preset tour 8 Description Enter the description of this preset tour 9 Preset Points Sequence Control Panel You may rearrange the preset point sequence here First click on the row of the preset point you wish to move then click the buttons to move to top move up move...

Page 65: ...era Setup Event Manager Setup 1 Delete Click this button to delete all the settings on the event Settings on other events are not influenced e g only settings for MD1 are removed while settings on MD2 and Alarm 1 are kept 2 Apply Click this button to save settings to NVR and device 3 Event type User can see the list of event type here and select the event user wants to trigger to modify it The Act...

Page 66: ...cti com NVR 2 2 SP3 V2 2 57 User s Manual 66 When cameras have PIR the event type PIR will show up Therefore user can take it as one of the events and set actions for it Fig 36 Camera Setup Event Manager PIR ...

Page 67: ...ings are still kept if you disable action responses by clearing the checkbox The settings will be grayed out as a result 2 Snapshot Click to enable disable Snapshot when this event occurs 3 Trigger DO1 Click to enable disable DO1 when this event occurs You may also setup the duration for DO1 to be triggered 4 Trigger DO2 Click to enable disable DO2 when this event occurs You may also setup the dur...

Page 68: ...on for video to be displayed in the Pop up window Please note that you may activate either the Hot Spot window or the Pop up window but not both at the same time 10 None Click here to disable both Pop up and Hot Spot windows 11 Enable PTZ Command Upon event NVR can move specific camera to specific PTZ presets Check this box to enable this function 12 Camera Channel and Preset number Select which c...

Page 69: ...age you may wish to include special words and use the words to do white listing on your mail sever 4 Mail Message Write the message body of your email here NOTE Only Alphabets numbers dash and underscore are allowed in Mail Subject Message Special characters are not allowed 5 Attach Snapshot File Click to select whether to include Snapshot in E mail upon event Attach Snapshot File option can only ...

Page 70: ... Group Name Enter the user group name for a new camera group or to modify existing camera group 2 Group Description Enter the description of this camera group 3 Group List User can see all the groups already created here 4 Apply button When you first enter the Camera group screen you are by default in a ready to add new group mode You can just enter a group name and click Apply to add a new camera...

Page 71: ...ee all the existing roles and their permission settings here 5 Apply When you first enter the User Role screen you are by default in a ready to add new User Role mode You can just enter a Role name and click Apply to add a new User Role You may also select a group from the list of existing user roles below and edit the role permissions Always click Apply before leaving to preserve changes you ve m...

Page 72: ...ent manager the emails are sent to the email stored here for the user account 5 User Role Select the user role for this user 6 User Description Enter the description for this user 7 Camera Group Permission You may assign which camera groups are available to this user The user will not be able to see cameras outside for their permission 8 User List User can see all the info on existing users here 9...

Page 73: ...e stored This section will be inserted between the drive letter and the Channel number subfolders 3 Manual Record Duration During manual recording in Active Monitor this is the duration when recording will automatically end if not stopped by user If the user forgets to end the manual recording this prevents the recording from taking up unnecessary space 4 Recording Delete Rule There are two ways t...

Page 74: ... space information for your disk drives 8 Shift drive up down If you have multiple drives in your system this changes the priority in which they are used 9 New Delete These two buttons control whether a drive is added to the system To add new disk to be used for NVR storage select a disk below and click New To remove a drive from use select a disk above and click delete Please note that removing a...

Page 75: ...ick 4 Joystick Picture When any joystick is selected user can see a representative picture of the joystick here 5 Button setups You may configure the joystick buttons to perform specific actions Please the dropdown list in the next page for details Other joysticks are also supported but they may not offer 3 dimentional operation The user may need to define zoom in and zoom out with specific button...

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Page 77: ...to the view before clicking Apply to add a new layout 2 Delete Button If you have selected one layout from the list below this button will appear You can click this to delete the layout from list 3 Camera Groups Select the camera group you wish to view from the drop down list Only cameras in the camera group can be assigned to the windows in the view layout 4 Name Enter the name for a new layout l...

Page 78: ...lease note that if you assign one camera to more than one window the streaming load will be increased 9 View Layout List User can see the existing view layout list here Click on the row of the target layout to edit 10 Apply Button Click button to confirm and save the settings If the View Layout screen is in the New mode clicking Apply will add a new layout ...

Page 79: ...rs 11 New Tour Click this button to create a new layout tour Enter the Tour Name and Description and then click Apply to add a new layout tour to the tour list 12 Delete Tour Click this button to delete the currently selected tour from the tour list 13 Add Layout Click this button to add layout to the current layout tour After you click the button you will enter the subsection showing the availabl...

Page 80: ... bottom of list 18 Dwell Time You may setup how long should Active Monitor stay in each layout by selecting from the drop down Dwell time list Default dwell time is 30 seconds You may change the value here but do not use dwell time smaller than 15 seconds unless absolutely necessary 19 Tour List All layout tours currently configured are listed here You may select each tour to edit the details 20 A...

Page 81: ...age section of NVR Fig 47 System Setup Language 1 Insert button If the language you wish to translate to is not in the Language list to the right click here to select from the full Language list Check the boxes before the ones you wish to translate and click Insert again as in the figure below Fig 48 System Setup Language Language List to Insert ...

Page 82: ...o default settings 4 Export button Export current language to an XML file for editing Click here and a select path and filename to export This is available only to workstation not to Web Client 5 Import button Select a translated XML file to import You may update support for new languages or change the more up to date translated version for your language this way 6 Apply button Confirm and save cu...

Page 83: ... rule based reactions 3 ActiveScheduleService EXE Schedule service provides recording and scheduling management 4 ActiveServiceManager EXE This program monitors the other software service modules If the other services are down it will automatically restart them 5 ActiveStreamingService EXE Streaming engine handles connection to ACTi IP devices and provides video stream to multiple clients 6 Active...

Page 84: ...r has more than one network card only the network card with the smallest MAC address will be used If your Server PC has multiple network cards you will need to disable the extra network cards which you do not intend to register Please refer to the support document How to Disable and Enable Multiple Network Cards on ACTi Knowledge base website for more information Online Registration This is the re...

Page 85: ...ain an activation key from ACTi website with another PC that has internet connection and activate your NVR license on the server PC off line 1 Please go to our website http www acti com support_old SoftwareRegistration asp See following image 2 Enter your license key and MAC address you need to record the MAC address you re your server PC beforehand 3 Make sure the MAC address shown is correct 4 C...

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Page 87: ... NVR you will receive a notification message as shown here You may check your current NVR license from Active Setup System Setup System tab Fig 53 System Setup License Verifying Registration Info If you encounter any error message please report on our Customer Help Desk http www acti com support case index asp ...

Page 88: ...5 NVR Control Port NVR Control Port Default 6001 6 Message Engine Port Number NVR Message Engine Port Default 8001 7 IIS HTTP port IIS HTTP Port Default 80 If you have changed this port during IIS setup please be sure to change it here 8 OSD FPS Select this checkbox to display real time Frames Per Second info for each channel on Active Monitor preview windows 9 OSD Camera Name Check this box to sh...

Page 89: ...VR to send E mail from 6 SMTP password Enter a password to login SMTP server with Fig 56 System Setup System System FTP Setting System FTP Setting Section This section includes a FTP account for NVR to send notification when events are triggered 1 FTP Server Enter a FTP server address for NVR to upload data 2 User Name Enter the FTP user name to login FTP server with 3 Port Enter the port number t...

Page 90: ... may select the default export path for the data to export to This is only available on the workstation interface and not available for web client Fig 60 System Setup System Camera Model Update Camera Model Update You may update supported device list to NVR by uploading a new Camera Model file Click the text field to select file to import This is only available on the workstation interface and not...

Page 91: ...cons It is possible to define convenient hyperlinks that help you switch between the maps with a single click In order to set up the E map system you have to use the Workstation that is located in the same PC with the NVR server Before you proceed with creating the maps please make sure you have already created the necessary camera groups and added the cameras into those groups Once the E map is p...

Page 92: ... image file field to the right to select the map you need Before you change it will show initialMap jpg 3 A browse window will pop up for you to select the map image on your local hard drive 4 Once the needed map image has been selected press the Add button The Map Information page will appear together with the map image you had just chosen Only alphabets numbers dashes underscores or spaces can b...

Page 93: ...era group will also show to the right in Map Description Note Add Camera button will only appear after you have added at least one camera into the camera group that you are using for current map Add Cameras Fig 64 Map Setup Adding Cameras to Map Check the cameras that you want to add to the given map and press Add Alternatively you may cancel the adding process by pressing Cancel button Fig 65 Map...

Page 94: ...era icons shown on the Active Map with live previews will contain the camera IDs for better recognition It is also possible to add the viewing direction arrows for each camera icon on the map In the camera information section click on the drop down list under Direction and choose one of the 8 possible directions Upper left Up Upper right Right Lower right Down Lower left Left As soon as you select...

Page 95: ...presented by maps will not be available for selection An icon representing map link will appear on the map information page once you ve added the MapLink Occasionally the MapLink icon may appear outside the actual map image In that case please use scroll down to find the map link icon and drag it to your desired location Press Apply to save the changes You can delete the Map Links by pressing Dele...

Page 96: ... the maps you want to be added to the tour Dwell time indicates how long the screen will display this given map before switching to the next Once you have added the maps you wish into the Map Tour you can re arrange the order of maps by using the following arrow keys on the right side of the window You may also select each row and redefine the dwell time Fig 68 Map Setup Changing sequence in Map T...

Page 97: ... given channel trigger Digital output and broadcast or talk to specific cameras First we provide an overview of the UI elements and then we describe the functions in each section Overview Fig 69 Active Monitor 1 About Us Click on the logo to bring up the About Us dialog box which contains software version system information technical support knowledge base and other details about the software 2 Ac...

Page 98: ...Panel Displays a real time log of events from devices including motion detection alarm input PIR Video loss recovery and Network Loss recovery events You may click on each item to see further details 7 PTZ Panel PTZ operations are controlled here 8 Layout Manager Controls the various window layouts 9 Video Window Each video window displays live view from one device Click on any window once to sele...

Page 99: ... your workstation local machine and cannot be searched by NVR Server 7 Manual Record Click to record the current selected channel immediately The recording will be stored on NVR server PC and can be searched by NVR Server A red indicator will show on the top right of video channels currently being recorded 8 Disconnect This Camera Click to stop video streaming for the selected channel 9 Disconnect...

Page 100: ...different ways Select the criterion to sort by from the drop down list Fig 73 Active Monitor Camera Panel Sorting the Camera Tree 3 Camera Tree List of cameras added into NVR Note that there is an icon to the left of each camera in the list Clicking the icon displays a popup info panel with basic information about the camera as shown in the figure below If Event on Camera Tree is enabled in System...

Page 101: ...top of the scroll down list Each entry describes the Channel ID the Camera Name the type of event and the time You may click on the Clear button to clear the log entries in the event list By the side of each entry there are two clickable icons and Clicking the icon will pop up a mini preview window which shows the live view of the channel in this event Clicking the icon will pop up a mini playback...

Page 102: ...www acti com NVR 2 2 SP3 V2 2 57 User s Manual 102 Fig 76 Active Monitor Event Panel Event Preview window Fig 77 Active Monitor Event Panel Event Playback window ...

Page 103: ...on each event in the window to switch between them Shown below is the popup window for multiple events Fig 78 Active Monitor Event Panel Event Popup Mini Preview 1 Mini Preview window This window will automatically popup if configured to do so in event manager 2 List of triggered event Each entry records the camera name event type and dwell time 3 Live preview Here is the actual preview window of ...

Page 104: ... pan tilt with this channel You must zoom in first with Digital zoom to perform digital PTZ 3 Mouse PTZ Enable PTZ control by mouse on the preview screen Available only for PTZ cameras When you perform Mouse PTZ your cursor icon will change with your position in view Depending upon its position on screen the PTZ camera will Pan Tilt with different speed or zoom in out The below overlay image shows...

Page 105: ...use manual controlled focus then auto focus has to be disabled on the camera side via web configurator Otherwise the camera will return to the auto focus value once you finished the focus command 8 Iris In Out If the camera has controllable iris this will modify Iris level 9 Pan Set the Pan speed of the control pad 10 Tilt Set the Tilt speed of the control pad 11 Goto Go to a preset point Just sel...

Page 106: ...indow Users can add cameras into the preview window by simply dragging the camera from camera tree and drop it onto the preferred window A red border will show on the window where preview will be displayed You may also first click on the preferred preview window then double click on the camera you wish to display there ...

Page 107: ...the top left corner of the Active Monitor a window will pop upon click with slots for password confirmation and change Layout Manager Layout manager is a toolbar where you can quickly switch between frequently used layouts 1 Patrol Click here to select the view layout tour to use You may click Cancel to stop layout tour 2 1 window view 3 4 window view 4 9 window view 5 16 window view 6 25 window v...

Page 108: ... default NVR will accept live view only on media 1 while recording can be done with either Media 1 or 2 In active Monitor channels with dual streams will by default preview in media 1 You may temporarily change the displayed video stream to media 2 by clicking on 2 here This does not affect the recording and the live view will still use media 1 when you next refresh this layout This way you may ve...

Page 109: ...ype of Log 2 Date Time Enter the start and end time filter to limit your search results 3 Camera ID enter a specific Camera ID here if you wish to limit the search to a particular camera 4 Search Button Press the button to search the logs according to the filter 5 Export Button Export the logs into XLS file Pressing the button will pop up a window for you to confirm the path and name of the export...

Page 110: ...xport 6 Navigation buttons Click here to move through the pages of records 7 Displaying Data Here you can see the record numbers being displayed 8 Records Display the search result according to the search filters The results may contain different fields depending upon the type of log filter ...

Page 111: ...bout Us dialog box which contains software version system information technical support knowledge base and other details about the software 2 Active Player Toolbar Contains buttons to operate in Active Player application 3 Personal Profile Click on this to bring up Personal Profile settings you may change the password for the current user and select the preferred Language 4 Layout Manager Control ...

Page 112: ...system or E Map settings 5 Full Screen Click to go to full screen mode The entire video layout will be enlarged together not just video in the window CTRL F12 To return press ESC 6 Snapshot Takes a single screenshot at maximum resolution for the selected video window CTRL F7 The screenshot is saved in JPG format It will be saved in the Recording Path for that particular channel as defined in the R...

Page 113: ...DI Motion and PIR Manual 3 Camera Select the cameras to include in search Beside each camera there is an icon you may click on it to see camera information tab 4 Time Period Mark the Start and end date time for this search Video that began before the starting time will be included unless Include video that began before this time period is unchecked 5 Search Click to search video archives according...

Page 114: ... the recording type This value can be Schedule Manual or event 3 File Location Displays physical file location in NVR Server 4 Start Time End Time Displays start end date time of the video clip 5 End Time Displays end date time of the video clip 6 Page Indicator User may go to different pages of the search result here 7 Download Download video file to your local drive 8 Return Click to return to s...

Page 115: ...s Manual 115 Play Archive from Search Page Fig 90 Active Player Play Archive from Search Page After clicking the link from the search page user can see the file information on the screen first and playback will begin when the file is ready ...

Page 116: ...plays the recording type This value can be Schedule Manual or event 3 Camera Select the cameras to include in search Beside each camera there is an icon you may click on it to see camera information tab 4 Time Period Mark the Start and end date time for this snapshot search 5 Search Click to search snapshot archives according to the filter above 6 Return Button Click to return to main page ...

Page 117: ...small Play icon You may click on the Play icon or double click on the thumbnail to playback that video The video playback will start from the time of snapshot The time of snapshot within that video is shown below the thumbnail 2 Snapshot View When you click on one thumbnail a preview image the original snapshot will be displayed below in the Snapshot view area You may see the physical file locatio...

Page 118: ...rd from the playback file Click again to stop recording This file is located in local PC and cannot be search from NVR When local record is in effect the playback speed is automatically locked into 1x normal Click on the Local Record button again to finish local record This is a useful way to retrieve a segment out of a long video archive clip 8 Stop Click this button to stop playback 9 Pause Clic...

Page 119: ...ent The original file must be located on the same PC as the workstation If you are connecting to the server from a remote workstation then you may open the files from Server but will not be able to export them If there are local recording files on the remote workstation PC then the remote workstation user cam export from these files but not from files on NVR Server NOTE To play the exported AVI fi...

Page 120: ...6 Search button Search for video with the above filter and display below 7 Time bar The video clips found by the above filter will be displayed here You can see the time and type of recording available at a glance 8 Show previous section Go to the previous section If the time scale is hour the time bar will go back one hour If it is day it will go back by one day 9 Show next section Go to the next...

Page 121: ...t one time 5 25 Window View Shows a maximum of 5x5 video channels at one time 6 36 Window View Shows a maximum of 6x6 video channels at one time 7 6 Window View Shows one video channel with a larger view and 5 others at a lower resolution 8 8 Window View Shows one video channel with a larger view and 7 others at a lower resolution 9 10 Window View Shows two video channels with a larger view and 8 ...

Page 122: ...ync Main channel Then you may add up to three other reference channels that will synchronize with the Sync Main channel These other channels are called Sync Follower Open file Drag drop channel There are two ways to start a sync playback first you need to define a sync main for other channels to sync with 1 Drag You may drag a channel into one of the 4 window view or 2 Open You can open a file fro...

Page 123: ...synchronized playback 1 Choose Video Screen Open a recording in the view window to use as Sync Main 2 Playback Time Find the time you want to sync view from Playback Control Panel 3 Time Bar Or find the time you want to sync view from Time Based Search Bar 4 Synchronize Button Then click on the synchronize button to confirm the current channel as Sync Main ...

Page 124: ...synchronize with Sync Main here 4 Sync Follower 3 Drag add the channel you want to synchronize with Sync Main here If the channel you drag into Sync Follower view windows does not have recording at the time selected then it will show as Sync Fail You will need to find another channel with recording at the same time to do Sync Playback Note You may only have one channel acting as Sync Main Once a c...

Page 125: ...to play backward 5 Cancel Cancel sync playback 6 Synchronization Button Cancel sync playback 7 Disconnect all Channels disconnect all channels and cancel sync playback 8 Disconnect Channel You may disconnect all sync followers except sync main Note Under Sync Playback mode you may not use Search and Snapshot view button While Sync Playback Play Pause you may not drag add more channels to empty one...

Page 126: ...o the right is the map view area Fig 95 Active Map Active Map Overview 1 Camera Tree The cameras are shown in camera groups here Select each camera group to show the map linked to that particular group 2 Camera Icons representing each camera is shown here on the map Arrows indicating the direction they point to may also be shown if it is configured in the map setup section Double click on camera i...

Page 127: ...here for full screen mode To return pres Esc 8 Map Tour Click here to start the predefined Map tour Please go to Map Setup section for details 9 Live View Start Stop Click here to toggle live view from all cameras Mini Preview To get a more detailed view on a certain camera there are two ways to bring up the mini preview window 1 Double clicking on camera icon or 2 Double clicking on the live prev...

Page 128: ...type in the web address of the NVR server If the HTTP port it uses is the default 80 then you do not need to add any port number If the HTTP port it uses has been changed please add a colon and the port number after the IP address Sample Scenarios http 127 0 0 1 Local host used when running web client on the NVR Server PC http 127 0 0 1 3456 Local host HTTP Port changed to 3456 http 192 168 0 200 ...

Page 129: ... login screen of Web Client and Workstation Firstly the Server IP Address port is not editable as you have already decided how to access your server when you typed in the address bar Secondly the Preview mode now has two options Basic and Advanced Advanced mode is almost the same as NVR workstation Basic mode is used when you want to restrict access or for simple observers ...

Page 130: ... Client it looks exactly like the NVR workstation The default login connects you to the Active Monitor If you do not have access right to Active Monitor it will connect you to modules where your account has permission to Fig 98 Web Client Basic Mode Fig 99 Web Client Advanced Mode ...

Page 131: ...Web Client 2 In Setup System PTZ setup you may not use PTZ file function from Web Client 3 In Setup System System Camera Model Update is not available to Web Client 4 In Setup System Joystick setting is not available to Web Client 5 In Setup System System Default Export Path is not available to Web Client 6 You may not export files from Web Client including Language files Raw AVI files and system ...

Page 132: ...ay convert between RAW AVI MP4 JPG formats You may also trim a section out of the original video for your convenience Backup Wizard Backup Wizard provides a convenient way to safeguard your NVR settings In case of any troubleshooting needs you may also provide a backup file for easier troubleshooting Streaming Explorer Streaming explorer is a handy little tool to control camera directly It is espe...

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