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Leviathan DVR Range User Guide

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By Michael J Archer

Intelligent Security & Fire Ltd

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Page 1: ... 2003 Michael J Archer v1 1 1 Leviathan DVR Range User Guide V1 1 By Michael J Archer I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 2: ...Server 2 11About system 3 Video Explorer 3 1 Selection 3 2 Video Fragment 3 3 Zoom time 3 4 Play Back 3 5 Save Fragment 3 6 Open Database 3 7 Bookmarks 3 8 Save Picture 3 9 Search Motion 3 10Pic Tools 4 Scheduler 4 1 Common Functions 4 2 The Scheduler Interface 4 3 The Scheduler Structure 4 4 Recording 4 5 Address Book 4 6 System Events 4 7 Options 5 Remote Client 5 1 Overview 5 2 Installation 5 3...

Page 3: ... Leviathan DVR system will either the Rack Case as shown on the Front Cover which can be a 4 8 12 and 16 camera unit or one of the following 4 Camera systems Leviathan Lite DVR Leviathan Shuttle DVR Keyboard for System Unit I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 4: ... Manual Software CD CD Contains the LJD Server Software LJD Client Software Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF files of All Documents including this guide The Leviathan Lite and Shuttle are installed with windows XP and do not require additional an CD Burning application other windows2000 systems will either come with Nero CD Burning tool or equivalent I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 5: ...o it s a good time to add this to the system Please follow instructions supplied with your device If you have a Leviathan Lite system then the back of the unit will look 90 rotated clockwise from the diagram above As the light system is an upright case The Shuttle system is also a different back and will look like the diagram below The system is now ready to be powered on the power on button is be...

Page 6: ...e system unit Back of a Typical DVR 4Camera 8Camera 12Camera 16Camera The camera inputs are numbered from the bottom to top working from left right We may give better spacing between the inputs shown above as the BNC connectors can be cumbersome when close together So if there is a gap between the inputs do not worry this makes not difference to the system it s purely cosmetic Note that the BNC s ...

Page 7: ...rrect and verify its own settings and the video database No user knowledge is required as this is all automatic Please note this can possibly take a few seconds of time to check the data it does depend on a variety of factors Such as how the system was powered off if it was recoding at the time Normally however this will not even be noticed The system does keep track of events in a log file in c P...

Page 8: ...inputs the default is set to display 16 Don t worry is you have only a four camera unit this is a configurable display The system ships with the Camera inputs not enabled so you will see as Figure 2 Do worry that you have connected the cameras and expect to see the inputs You should read the quick start guide to quickly show you how these are activated Configuration Save Log off Video Start Stop L...

Page 9: ...ou need to check that the recoding icon which is the Recoding in red as shown in the graphic At any point when a camera is doing a recoding the system will show a Red marker in the Bottom of the screen C1 C16 Icons The example here has the Camera Shop doing a recording Also when a camera is recording and this camera is on the main layout display a REC message will appear at the bottom right of the...

Page 10: ...s names and also to layout selection settings The default Icons show the camera names which are C1 C16 If you click the Layout Icon as shown in Figure A above you change these icons to the following These are user layouts which are default names of L1 L16 by clicking any of the Icons you change the display to the saved layout You can click this Layout to toggle between both sets and options Save L...

Page 11: ...than off You ll see the bottom right Icon change to a highlighted clock graphic This shows you that the Auto switch time is available To activate the Switching Layouts you click the Icon This will now change to an Active Clock Icon Now your timer switching layouts will run To disable these just re click the Icon and the green highlight will switch back for the normal If you already have a layout s...

Page 12: ... way to almost instantly have camera views However there only a 4 quick views and if you have save five camera you don t want to use the eight view and have blank images The way this is done is simple when the system is in a quick view single click the current highlighted view Icon for example it ll be the only one which is outlined in green So it goes too grey outline the camera layout will norma...

Page 13: ...ages too small This option uses the hardware of the Leviathan graphics card to expand the image with the effect that you may notice some blocking on the images this has no bearing on the image recorded to the hard drive and it is only a visual aid It does not mean the system is saving low quality images the blocking is how the hardware expands an image The Antialias filter is another visual aid to...

Page 14: ...el of the main display area Most Icons which are an on off setting are show as either a Green background for on and a Grey background for Off This is common feature throughout all areas of the software All you need to do to change between each setting is a single mouse click Toggles the display of camera number and caption name The camera names C1 C16 can be changed explained in next Section 2 3 T...

Page 15: ...sk so you can once you have the system set correct any tampering with settings can be restored to how you had them The contents of this file can t be edited it is not a text file You need to enter a filename and select a location for the backup file to be stored too Select the restore process of a CFG file which was previously made from the backup process You need select the location of the file v...

Page 16: ...a Red border Once the system is running you can quickly just click the camera this way rather than having to remember the number Note that you can change and modify multiple camera settings in one go and save the setting for all at once You do not need to change one and save change another and save just use the selector to change all you need The icon is the camera enabled status once Green shows ...

Page 17: ...Brightness and Saturation slider give you the ability to change the image of the camera input The Leviathan system works in a way that what you see on the screen is what the system will or has recorded digitally This means that we give a true What you see is what you get This setting set the maximum that a camera would be able to record too If you want say 1fps for a camera just set the slider to ...

Page 18: ... the little marker to the card number you wish to modify the settings for Specifies the camera resolution 384x288 320x240 Pal NTSC Enables the highest video processing and record compactness It is highly recommended for inexpensive cameras with low resolution 768x288 640x240 Pal NTSC Video processing and record compactness are high in this resolution It is suitable for all camera types including h...

Page 19: ... the noise level becomes noticeable as well Keep this setting enabled because it reduces size of recording frame while keeping details legible enough If recording of slight differences in small details is required especially when high optical zoom is used one may disable this feature to improve quality sharpness of details as much as possible TURBO MODE is a special regime that gives the possibili...

Page 20: ...ed from one frame to the next frame This increases the storage capacity of the system There are a few bonuses to this smaller data set or as it is called in the system as VideoDatabase One being that playback of imagery is processed quicker And because of a smaller amount of data required to rebuild the movement of a frame when you have remote clients the data sent is much smaller than would other...

Page 21: ...splayed rather than the default C1 C16 names Also it s now worth pointing out that in the configuration you are able to select back to And back to without the system loosing the information between each section This in effect allows you to modify parameters for a camera and not commit unless you are happy with the selection This does mean you can select a different camera and modify all parameters...

Page 22: ...ow would not trigger the recording Other good examples are trees and if you only want to activate when a door is opened If in the case that you want only activation of a small area the best way to do this is make a box over the area and just click the invert The Highlight option is set and what you can see the pink lines created around the person This is the area which has been detected as motion ...

Page 23: ...ttings affect the Stream value on the main display Picture quality slider specifies video picture quality based on video compression intensity The higher the picture quality the larger the storage space it requires Delta sensitivity slider determines sensitivity of delta algorithm based on video frame differences The lower the sensitivity higher compression rate is and the square pattern of delta ...

Page 24: ...only If recording of changes in very high details of picture is required disabling this feature will increase sharpness detection By default this option is enabled Highlight button highlights blocks with differences detected delta Use compression button enables delta video compression to be active You can turn this on and off to see how much the frame data size would normally be as I n t e l l i g...

Page 25: ...dec s are supported by the system The Microsoft ADPCM codec with different quality settings is recommended Sound recording level is shown by the indicator and to adjust it use Volume control button Sound recording is activated on the threshold basis that can be adjusted by threshold slider which is below the indicator Threshold exceeding may trigger recording of chosen cameras Cameras are selected...

Page 26: ...he system supports any number of VMB files User defines their number and sizes Creating Video Database would be the first step after starting the system Close up of database list In the Database file list the first line is determined for the VDB format file Its size is handled by the system and depends on the video frames number in recycle recording loop The default name and location is c VServer ...

Page 27: ...ouse button You ll get an option menu as below show You note the Remove file from list is greyed out this is because you must have at least one VMB file in the database before you are able to remove one from the list So select the Add new file to list option The following will then show on the database list Also you ll get a popup window with the following information This is a prompt to make sure...

Page 28: ...creation process you ll notice that the status on free space about drive volumes see below will in real time give you an ever decreasing value to show free space on that drive volume This gives a fair indication of how much storage you can fit onto that drive We do not recommend you fill your boot drive normally the C drive so no space is free We recommend leaving a minimum of 1gig of space to all...

Page 29: ...reated from To physically remove the file you must use the windows explorer or whatever tool you would normally use to delete a file with The check and Pack option set the system to do a quick process of the video database set to verify its integrity and repair any oddities that may have occurred For example if the system was recording and during this time a power failure happened it s possible th...

Page 30: ... this value When the check is operational the system will stop the recording process However this is normally only a few seconds of time VDB Backup is a feature which allows the Video database data to be backed up to an additional location this in effect allows for an almost unlimited amount of recording data to be archived Clicking the above option will bring up a further selection of options whi...

Page 31: ... is created on the system which has a blank password Please note we recommend you change this to a more meaningful password To add users to the system click the icon this will bring up the following display As you see there is a simple set of options which you need to set for each user The view camera section lets you set which cameras are available to be visible by this user I n t e l l i g e n t...

Page 32: ... of course views the Archive When you click this option it will show the user information as below You can just toggle between the two settings by re clicking the Icon When you are happy with the settings for the user click the Ok or Cancel as required The Icon brings up the following which is the same as the add user but allows the modification of a current users settings To select what user you ...

Page 33: ...er from the Registered user list box You will be prompted to confirm a deletion of a user as below shows Also as with configure user you are unable to delete a connected user The following will be displayed if this is attempted The last setting on the Users section is the this brings up the following dialog box By default the DVR software system will auto start You can change the default user to a...

Page 34: ...mote user type is a web or Internet Browser type of connection Firstly the Client server has a status indicator this is default setting This means the remote connections are NOT enabled Only when the Activate status is disabled are you able to modify the Server parameters The standard single click toggles the status as with all leviathan system settings the green is show as on active or selected W...

Page 35: ...umbers Again under normal use there is no need to worry about this setting Defines maximum number of simultaneous users allowed to connect to the Server This setting stops too many concurrent connections We found that even with the largest of installations only a few users would be normally allowed to use the remote client connection software Defines the regime of transmitting live video stream to...

Page 36: ...ort number for the web server is default of 80 This need not be changed unless you have a requirement which demands otherwise All web browsers default to look at this port The following is an example of a non standard port http myserver com 100 in this case the web browser would try to look at port 100 Unless you understand port number we do no recommend you change this value it can interfere with...

Page 37: ...ter 2 Configuration 2 11 About From the main display select the configuration Icon now select the This is a stand list of information about the system software version memory space etc I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 38: ...s which were selected In the above example you can see it has more than just one day Now recorded days which have data available are in the Black bold font clearly visible in the above example and of course where there is nothing recorded you are not able to select this and these days are greyed out So you have the option to which will select every recording which remains recorded on the system as...

Page 39: ...u ll get a display like below Sometimes the data is very small and you ll not even notice this information However if you use a remote client and are retrieving over a slow data path this will be more noticeable Once the data is retrieved the display will change to something like below The main area is pretty much the same as normal viewing camera positions etc are all still movable and your layou...

Page 40: ... graphical representation of the recorded events The very top information as below shows the information about the fragment that is displayed This information is dynamic in that when you move the mouse pointer over the area within the fragment the information will change to give you a reading at that position I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 41: ...election which is of any size down to minutes or even seconds The video fragment data itself a portion shown above gives an indicator about the recorded activity Firstly in our example there are three columns of information these are basically the cameras which are shown on the display area This means that you are able to use your selection and layouts to look at only the camera you are interested...

Page 42: ...certain time Also the top status of the video fragment will change to a white text and also give the date time status for that position A quick mention about this highlight and time hint that you may decide you don t like this feature Bother are enabled by default and there is of course a way to remove these Whilst in the video fragment area use the right click on the mouse This will bring up the ...

Page 43: ... information you will find trying to get to a time a little tricky This is where the zoom function comes into play What you do is when you left click a fragment you hold down the selection and drag an inverted box to zoom into fragment When you select a zoom area the system automatically changes the Fragment status to show the first selected area on the top line which is also puts a in from off An...

Page 44: ...system remember each time the selection you had made The back function will recall back every step Also now the top right Icons will now have the Back Icon available this icon is the same as the Back function on the menu above and personally I find it quicker to use After you have used the Back function the Forward Icon becomes available This allows you to go forward to the previous back video fra...

Page 45: ...of the screen Once you use them you ll see it s easier than setting your home VCR clock time Click the Play Icon and the system will start playing through the video segment The status of playback is indicated as the Icon changed to the standard green background like this as normal clicking again will de activate the playback Note that you still can zoom into the segment and go back and forth the s...

Page 46: ...e video fragment dialog box As you see the file name it automatically generates is made up from the date and time information of the start of the segment A more descriptive name can be used here You ll notice that the Save in I have created a Fragment Windows Folder which We suggest you make such a folder for you own such saved data This is because the Database it creates is made of three individu...

Page 47: ... this graphic is the remaining time left This value will change as the system tries to judge as it processes the information You can as shown previous image cancel the save process by clicking the mouse or using the ESC key on the keyboard If you do a dialog box will be shown This of course will confirm the cancel of the process So you select as required Once the system has completed the save proc...

Page 48: ...he Calendar option depending if the database saved covered data across more than one day month Normally you d not save such large files and the system will just load the data without any prompts You ll notice at the top status has a change to show this current explorer session is from a database file All functions within the explorer will now work Keep in mind that this database is a complete set ...

Page 49: ... marks from the Video Explorer playback right click the mouse over any active video window and the following popup selection will be displayed As you ll see there is a new selection of nine new options which are not available on the normal DVR display screen options Note some may or may not be highlighted or selectable this does depend on a few factors Each will be dealt with in later sections So ...

Page 50: ...ompt you for an overwrite option as below With the mouse over the Bookmarks window making sure that the Bookmarks text is not grey as this needs to be the active window you can use the right click to bring up a few options as shown below The first option is to remove all bookmarks the system will prompt you for a confirmation before this happens as below shows The Select fragment option is used fo...

Page 51: ...ment Start in our example this is the first bookmark 7 Point to end of event Select fragment Stop in our example it is the second bookmark As result on the graphical bar the will be shown the entire event Then using the Save video fragment function one can easily save exactly defined fragment into file I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 52: ... if you have the playback animation working All Icons will be a light shade of grey as below Once you click the save icon the system will indicate you are on save picture mode by making the Icon a standard shaded of green Now to save an image of any of the current displayed frames you move the mouse to any of the cameras displayed You ll then notice the system will put a box at the cursor position...

Page 53: ... ll notice the preview Icon is now highlighted to active And where the None use to be there is a scaled clip of the image You can now click the Preview Icon and the system will bring up a full scale version of that image If you had multiple files in the directory by left mouse clicking the name you can preview any file previously saved On the next page is a full preview of the image as above You l...

Page 54: ...ht of this image You can t disable this feature This is because you can prove that you can re create the same file as many times as you wish from the Leviathan system and that the image is authentic It is impossible to edit the System Video Database to change an image because it is not stored in any format which is understandable by any software I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 55: ... is activated from right click when mouse is on any video display layout As soon as you activate the Search the Icon will change its state to reflect the current setting to the standard green background As soon as you activate the search you ll notice also that the system now brings up a popup floating windows which is the search motion window Will shows the results of a motion search As shown on ...

Page 56: ...o is using the standard left click and drag the box to outline the area you wish to search for motion within that area As soon as you have a selected area you just left go of the mouse click and the system will then start to search that area On the nest page is a perfect example of a search for motion with the results shown Here what we have selected is the door frame so every time the door is det...

Page 57: ... setting is the Search sensitivity defines changes in brightness level while comparing pictures With the rightmost value function will catch slightly changes in the brightness level with the leftmost value only significant changes will be considered Use the mouse to move the sliders position The at the bottom controls weather when you do a search the searched window is animated as the search carri...

Page 58: ... before the system will change the video fragment pointer to reflect this position You may notice you if had more than one camera on the display the system will of course open all the other cameras to the same time line as the select one Within the Search Motion popup if you right click you also get a small menu of options The Clear Search Results is the same as the Graphic on the main popup windo...

Page 59: ...low the Search Motion Once selected you get a floating window much the same as the Search Motion popup it will remain until you close These tools will act on the current selected camera view as we know is the one highlighted with an outlined coloured border The first tool is the Sharpen this attempts to give a better edge detail You can click this twice and the system will have another go clicking...

Page 60: ... unless you have a really requirement for this option we do not set the system to record at this resolution Now the last Pic option is the Zoom function clicking this will set the status to active and the Zoom icon will be outlined in green Now as with both save picture and search functions a box at the cursor position will be present when you move it around in a camera windows Now as normal what ...

Page 61: ... Leviathan system to give the best possibly results When the zoom window is open you can still use the Sharpen function The Restore Original will return the active camera window back to the previous un zoomed state You may wonder if you can save this zoomed picture and of course this is possible All you need to do is select the Save Image Icon and follow the instructions in Chapter 3 8 If you choo...

Page 62: ...er is disabled i e the same button on the left with disabling beep sound Dialog button Brings up another menu or dialog box to enter additional settings i e the button on the left activates a dialog box to set up custom settings Action button A button of action type calls some procedures i e the button on the left makes new task Greyed out button and fields Button types and fields can be greyed ou...

Page 63: ...mmon task options are as follows A task unique name to distinguish one another i e New Alert A task status a check box before the name Checking out this box enables a corresponding task for processing When it is unchecked the system will ignore it This is useful option to disable some of the tasks temporarily Activation time option defines the time schedule for a task The system will execute the t...

Page 64: ...ss to this dialog one should disable at first 24x7 setting To operate on tasks each scheduler dialog has action buttons New is used to create new task and Delete removes existing one NOTE The Scheduler interface has no cancel operation thus any entered modifications are automatically saved I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 65: ...camera by colour border in case it is displayed on the screen or by changing colour of a corresponding camera state button In the Sound options one can choose Beep or custom sound file Custom dialog button that will be sound if motion is detected To have an access to the Custom sound file dialog box one should disable the Beep option at first The Send E mail list gives possibilities to send e mail...

Page 66: ...ntinuously emergent alerts These values define a time interval in seconds in which the only alert notification is allowed The guard time values are applied to each task autonomously One can adjust them in the Options section of the Scheduler interface NOTE An alert is enabled only when its status box is checked out I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 67: ...rver is switched on by the Start Recording button in the main menu If no one recording task is defined the system will record all cameras by default Therefore there is no need to create tasks which toggle on recording in every camera The main purpose of the recording tasks can be considered disabling recording of particular cameras in a desired interval of time Enabled and Disabled functions make ...

Page 68: ...ss Book has the Description field to provide more convenient information about registered recipients E Mail address field allows entering an e mail address or addresses of chosen recipients To direct messages to the multiple recipients by the only entry one should insert the e mail names by separating them with semicolon e g police rossers com thief alert com Attach pictures parameter defines the ...

Page 69: ...s are ordinary e mail messages that are directed to SMS gateway For example the common syntax of the e mail address of SMS message is as follows xxxxxxxx sms co za where xxxxxxxx is a mobile phone number and sms co za the registered domain name of a Mobile Service Provider gateway NOTE The e mail notifications operate only when SMTP server setting which can be found in the Option section described...

Page 70: ...arting up and shutting down of the VServer application These events arise by operator Intervention as well unexpected restarting or resetting of whole system Start Stop Record Inform about changes in the recording state that are happened by any condition User Connected Disconnected Notify about audited security access of remote users Software malfunction Send information about a software error if ...

Page 71: ...es This list shows preliminary entered in the Address Book recipients only Adding new recipients is described in the Address Book section NOTES A System Event task is enabled when its status box is checked out only All of above events are also recorded in the system log and can be found in the VServer log file which is placed in the VServer installation directory I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i ...

Page 72: ...the button will have been greened out otherwise the error message will appear While the e mail service is activated the SMTP server and Sender fields are greyed out and unavailable To change these settings one should turn off the active service at first SMTP log dialog button provides error reporting on e mail operations Alert guard time values are used to limit repeated notifications of continuou...

Page 73: ...ime and or creating too many tasks with e mail notification will cause increasing outgoing SMTP traffic that negatively affect on a network performance Also some ISPs Internet Service Providers consider too frequent e mail sending as spam and can deny access to the SMTP service I n t e l l i g e n t S e c u r i t y F i r e L t d ...

Page 74: ...hould be in a safe secure location The minimum requirements to connect remotely are a data link between the Server DVR and the Client software This can be a LAN Wan Internet connection As long as you can talk between both machines over an IP network then you will be able to connect to the Server unit The IP number which you used to connect to the server unit is a value which the user must setup fi...

Page 75: ...s totally automatic and will just end A shortcut will be made to the desktop to show this software as shown below Depending on your windows background the colour may be different The standard double click on this icon will invoke the client software We do not put any restriction on the client software and are more than happy that is can be copied as part of evidence or installed at multiple locati...

Page 76: ...nnection box as shown below enter the number as show in graphic 192 168 0 1 Which is the default value of the DVR Server unit Click the Connect and the following box will be extended to show additional information The name of the Selected Server of your unit s will be show the default name is VServer and you ll need to enter the Name and Password which was configured on the Server Software side Th...

Page 77: ...ave slight different dialog boxes for make a new connection with windows XP having a direct Wizard to do this All that you normally require to know is the phone number where the Server unit is connected too And that you need to talk using TCP IP and have the Client for Microsoft as part of the connection The user name to log onto this connection has been set to remote And a password of remoteljd A...

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