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User’s Manual

ND8321

Network Video Recorder

8-CH • 2-Bay HDD • Auto Setup • Auto Adaptive Stream •

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Page 1: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability User s Manual 1 Rev 1 6 1 11 Rev 1 0 User s Manual ND8321 Network Video Recorder 8 CH 2 Bay HDD Auto Setup Auto Adaptive Stream Hardware Decoding Rev 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...ps Panel 31 2 2 4 DI DO 32 2 2 5 Others 32 2 2 6 Right click Commands 33 Chapter Three Configuation Using the Local Console 34 The Main Control Portal 34 3 1 Layout 34 3 2 DI DO 34 3 3 Search recording clips 35 3 3 1 Basic Search 35 3 3 2 Advanced Search 38 3 3 3 Storyboard 41 3 4 Settings 45 3 4 1 Settings Overview 45 3 4 2 Settings Camera Management 46 3 4 3 Settings Camera Recording 51 3 4 4 Se...

Page 3: ...nel 93 Adding Cameras to View Cells 93 4 2 6 PTZ panel 102 4 2 7 Alarm panel 104 4 3 Graphical Layout and Screen Elements Playback 108 4 3 1 Camera List Panel 109 4 3 2 Playback Layout 110 4 3 3 Logo Menu 110 4 3 4 Playback View Cells 111 Playback control panel 112 4 3 5 Alarm Panel 114 4 3 6 Calendar Panel 115 Chapter Five System Settings 116 5 1 System 117 5 1 1 System General 117 5 1 2 System U...

Page 4: ...ory 159 5 7 Logs 160 Chapter Six Operation 163 6 1 Liveview 163 6 1 1 Placing Cameras into the Layout 163 6 1 2 PTZ and Other Screen Controls 167 6 1 3 Audio 170 6 1 4 Camera Properties and Controls 171 6 1 5 Alarm Panel 172 6 1 6 Layout view Control Buttons 173 6 2 Playback 174 6 2 1 Begin Playback and Search for Past Recordings 174 6 2 2 Past Alarms and Bookmarks 175 6 2 3 Synchronous Playback 1...

Page 5: ... first verify that all contents received are complete according to the Package Contents listed below Take note of the warnings in the Quick Installation Guide before the Network Camera is installed then carefully read and follow the instructions in the Installation chapter to avoid damage due to faulty assembly and installation This also ensures the product is used properly as intended The Network...

Page 6: ...splay Fisheye dewarp is also design in ND8321 ND8321 supports software dewarp of VIVOTEK fisheye cameras allowing seamless display in a fisheye surveillance scenario Together with VAST CMS and ST7501 VMS users can set up an easy to use IP surveillance system with ease VIVOTEK also provides the mobile application iViewer for both iOS and An droid handheld devices enabling users to monitor live vide...

Page 7: ...ons must be complied with at all times during installation Ensure that all maintenance and repair work is handled by qualified personnel such as electrical engineers or network specialists Read this manual before installing or operating the system The documentation contains important safety instructions about permitted uses The rated AC input is 100 240V 1 6A 60 50Hz the max consumption 60W DC12V ...

Page 8: ...HDD 1 activity LED 6 Recording activity LED 7 System Status LED 8 Power LED 9 Power button 1 Reset button 2 HDMI port 3 RJ 45 LAN port 4 USB port 5 DC 12V power input 6 Chassis lock hole NOTE You can also use the Reset button to restore system defaults Use a straightened paper clip to press and hold down the button for longer than 5 seconds The system should start restoring defaults ...

Page 9: ...cm SATA hard disk s are user supplied The network video recorder can readily accommodate most of the off the shelf SATA hard drives Hardware Installation 3 1 2 To ensure normal operation maintain ambient airflow Do not block the airflow around chassis such as placing the system in a closed cabinet 2 Slide the top cover back and then remove the top cover 1 Use a screwdriver to loosen the retention ...

Page 10: ... 4 Gently put the hard disks into drive bays with its label side facing the inside of the chassis and the connector side facing downwards When the hard disks reach the bottom use slightly more force to engage the the SATA connectors 5 When done install the top cover HDD 1 HDD 2 3 4 Label side ...

Page 11: ... camera s IP is changed for some reasons the system should be able to detect its new IP NOTE LAN WAN Router 1 2 3 4 1 Connect to a monitor using an HDMI cable 2 Connect CAT5e or better quality Ethernet cable to cameras via a local switched network or clients through the Internet Refer to next page for more information 3 Connect USB devices such as mouse keyboard USB optical drive or USB thumb driv...

Page 12: ...n or higher IMPORTANT If you connect the NVR to a PoE port of the AW FED series PoE switch make sure you turn off the PoE output on that specific port using the onboard DIP switch Otherwise the high power output can damage the LAN port on NVR WARNING ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PoE cameras ND8321 NVR AW FED PoE switch PoE ON OFF switch ...

Page 13: ...lete the initial configuration 1 Select the UI language Time zone and current date and time Click on the Contunue button to proceed A local console requires the following 1 A monitor is connected via an HDMI cable 2 A mouse and or a keyboard are connected to the system 3 It is presumed that the system has not been configured yet ...

Page 14: ...ximum recording bandwidth is 32Mbps When cameras are recruited into the configuration their stream 1 is used as the recording stream The camera stream 1 will be configured into H 264 720P 30fps CBR 3Mbps The resolution and fps of stream 1 may vary depending on the specifications of different cameras 2 If there are more than 8 cameras in your local network you will need to manually select cameras I...

Page 15: ...e Initial Configuration via a Web Console Optional 4 2 From a management computer install the IW2 utility software included in the product CD Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation 1 Press the power switch on the front panel to start the NVR Wait for the system status LED to light green If you configured the system using an Ethernet web console please skip the Auto Setup ste...

Page 16: ...the ND8321 entry to start a web session with the NVR system 5 The login page will prompt Enter admin and admin as user name and password for access for the first time Expand the menu on the right of the Login button Select and click on the Settings button to begin your configuration You can select the display language from the lower left corner of the screen ...

Page 17: ...ngs page check if your hard drives are present and identified by your system Click on the Create button 8 Refer to the later discussions for the rest of the configuration procedure 6 On the Settings page click on Storage Volume to access your storage volume configuration ...

Page 18: ...ng 3 Flashing Red H D D configuration errors 4 Off H D D is disconnected or removed 4 HDD 1 activity LED 1 Constant Green H D D is ready and connected 2 Constant Red SMART related disk errors or a configured H D D is missing 3 Flashing Red H D D configuration errors 4 Off H D D is disconnected or removed 5 Record LED 1 Flashing Red Camera streams are recorded to the system storage 2 Off No recordi...

Page 19: ...orruption operating system malfunction virus infection HDD component failures and so on Therefore it is highly recommended to regularly back up your data and VIVOTEK disclaims responsibilities of data loss or recovery 2 Always power off the system using the power button Do not disconnect the power cord while the system is still operating Doing so will result in data inconsistencies The normal powe...

Page 20: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability 20 User s Manual Section One Management over a Local Console Chapter Two Introduction to the Local Console Interface 1 2 Local console ...

Page 21: ...ntrol portals Search recording clip DI DO Layout Settings Search panel Storyboard Camera Alarm Management Recording Media Image Camera options PTZ settings Alarm Email System Information Maintenance Display UPS Logs User Storage Network IP DDNS Services Overview camera connection storage Revision Info Play recording clip PiP PTZ DI DO Snapshot Manual recording Deselect camera Config portal Camera ...

Page 22: ...a when you select a view cell This portal appears with a camera that supports mechanical PTZ This portal appears with a camera that does not support mechanical PTZ This portal appears with a fisheye camera The PiP and PTZ buttons will then be disabled Note that only one dewarped view can be displayed at one time if you have multiple fisheye cameras You can also hide these portal toolbar Right clic...

Page 23: ...o retrieve and access recorded videos 2 1 One is to access the video clips taken within 2 hours Left click to select a view cell and then click on the Recording clips button Select a time value by a single click You will be prompted for User name and Password enter admin and admin the default user name and password and then click Login ...

Page 24: ... past videos is to open the Search recording clips window Move your mouse cursor to display the Configuration Portal without selecting any view cell Click on the Search recording clips button Please refer to page 35 for more information about the search functions You will be prompted for User name and Password enter admin and admin the default user name and password and click Login It is highly re...

Page 25: ... detection an alarm message will prompt on the screen Use the arrow button to browse through the alarm messages If the alarm is configured with video recording as the responding action you can click on the alarm entry The Playback window will appear allowing an instant playback of the alarm related footage You will enter the Search alarm results page even if the alarm does not trigger a recording ...

Page 26: ...navailable The default live view receives a camera s stream 2 If a camera s stream 2 is configured using MPEG 4 as the video codec the following message will prompt You can go to the Settings Camera Media Video window to configure the video codec of stream 2 into H 264 ...

Page 27: ...tem comes with idle modes Below are the applicable conditions 1 Live view if no management activities occur for 5 seconds the tool bars disappear from screen When in the idle mode mouse cursor and tool bars will disappear Moving the mouse cursor will re activate the screen 2 Settings page If left unattended for 10 minutes system will automatically log out The system will prompt for user credential...

Page 28: ...ve to 2 Focus Click on the Focus near and Focus far buttons to adjust camera focus 3 Home Click to move the camera lens towards the default home position 4 Zoom Use the Zoom in and Zoom out buttons to adjust the camera s zoom ratio 5 Presets If you configured preset positions a list of preset positions will appear 6 Patrol If you configured preset positions into a patrolling tour click on this but...

Page 29: ...sitions a list of preset positions will appear 5 Speed Adjusts the speed when moving across the field of view 6 Patrol If you configured preset positions into a patrolling tour click on this button and the camera will proceed with patrolling through the preset points Below is the PTZ panel that appears with ordinary PTZ cameras Please refer to page 100 for the description of fisheye display modes ...

Page 30: ... as shown below You can display only a portion of the complete video frame as an area of your interest Using a click and drag on the ROI window you can instantly move to other areas within the video frame Use the zoom ratio pull bar at the bottom to change the zoom ratio You may also move the ROI around by click and drags Global view ROI Note that not every camera supports the PiP function For exa...

Page 31: ...gs on the system You can select 30 secs 1 min 3 mins 10 mins and 60 mins for an immediate playback For security reasons using this function requires users to enter his her credentials The Playback window will prompt and a playback begins from the point in time you selected e g 30 seconds ago This function allows you to quickly review what has just happened ...

Page 32: ... to disable the DO Otherwise the DO signal will be continuously triggered As the result if the DO is configured as an alarm trigger many alarm messages will be generated WARNING 2 2 5 Others 1 Snapshot is used to take a snapshot from the camera currently selected Note that this function only saves the snapshot in JPEG to a USB thumb drive The USB thumb drive has to be one that is formatted in FAT ...

Page 33: ...play on the upper left corner of a view cell 2 Fit screen with ratio The NVR server automatically optimizes the display camera view cells However you can still select this option to display the camera s original aspect ratio for example the original video feed can be 4 3 Without the fit screen every camera s image will be expanded to fill the view cell 3 Show tool bar You can hide the tool bars by...

Page 34: ...n button will appear Click the rotation button below to let the system swap the display of different cameras by every 5 seconds The rotation speed is configurable via Settings System Display Move your mouse cursor across the screen to display the portal 3 2 DI DO Click on the DI Do button to display the full list all DI and DO signals whether they are connected or not from all cameras in the confi...

Page 35: ... A confirm box will prompt Enter User name and Password to proceed 17 15 41 2014 03 14 1x The search and calendar view will appear Select a day on the calendar when the the recordings took place the days with recorded clips will be highlighted in blue and green Double click on a day to begin playback and search 3 3 1 Basic Search ...

Page 36: ...you paused a playback Pause Each click on it speeds down by 1 2 The slowest speed is 1 16 Each click on it speeds up by 2x The fastest speed is 16 times The current playback status is indicated on the screen The fisheye dewarp modes can be selected during a playback e g 1R 1P and 1O3R PiP Picture in Picture This applies when a camera is displaying the full of its field of view You can use the PiP ...

Page 37: ... click to select the 1O 1P Panoramic 1R Regional or 1O3R 1 Original and 3 Regional modes If 1P 1R or 1O3R mode is selected you can exert the mouse control on screen such as swiping the view or hold down the mouse button and swipe the field of view Please refer to the User Manuals that came with fisheye cameras or page 101 for description of fisheye display modes ...

Page 38: ...anually enter the From time and the To time 4 Click on the From time tab using a single click 5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 to configure the To time 6 Click on the Export button 1 2 The export process is indicated on the right Depending on the length of footage to be exported this process can take minutes When completed a message will display on screen The default for export is 5 minutes before and 5 min...

Page 39: ...r s Manual 39 3 3 2 Advanced Search Click on the Advanced search button on the upper left of the screen to enter the Advanced Search mode You can specify the search criteria by selecting the devices to be involved in the advanced search ...

Page 40: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability 40 User s Manual You can then specify the start time and end time to form a span of time to be searched You can also determine what alarms will be included in the search ...

Page 41: ...econds of post alarm footage When the Search window is left unattended for 5 minutes the NVR will return to the live view display To enter the Search window you will have to enter the user credentials again NOTE Up to 200 search result entries will appear If more than 200 entries have been found click on the New results button on the last entry page If two cameras participate in the recording of a...

Page 42: ... a glimpse of past recordings over a timeline It looks like doing the film editing after a film was shot To enter the Storyboard window click on the Storyboard shortcut on the upper left of screen Below are the screen elements of the Storyboard window To search for a particular video footage select the target cameras and the time of recording On the Storyboard the timelines of up to two cameras ca...

Page 43: ...then moving in to a 4 hour 1 hour 10 minutes and 2 minutes span When the screen displays a 24 hour span each snapshot represents a 3 hour time span Each click on a snapshot brings you deeper into the timeline 24 hour 4 hour 1 hour 10 mins 2 mins Time span 1 hour 22 00 00 22 07 30 22 22 30 22 30 00 22 37 30 Below is a sample screen showing the screen of a one hour time span Each snapshot represents...

Page 44: ...e time span of your current position For example if you are in a 4 hour time span the Back to previous state button will bring you back to the 24 hour time span Back to previous state Previous hours mins Next hours mins The smallest time span is 2 minutes And on the screen of 2 mins span each snapshot represents a 15 seconds video footage You can then click on the Play button to playback the recor...

Page 45: ... 15 41 2014 03 14 1x The playback window will appear Please refer to page 36 for the operation details To return to the Live View window click on the Back to Search recording clips button and the Back to Liveview button on the upper left of the screen ...

Page 46: ...ge displaying the camera connection and storage statuses An empty position will be left in blank and a disconnected camera will be indicated as The storage volume usage is displayed as the used and unused spaces The Mute Reboot and Power down buttons are also available on this page There are conditions that can sound the system buzzer such as a disk failure You can use the Mute button to temporari...

Page 47: ...ur configuration 4 Change the Network settings 5 Change the cameras positions on the layout screen 3 4 2 Settings Camera Management The Camera menu provides access to Management Recording Media Image Camera options and PTZ settings pages For camera name you can enter up to 64 alphabetic and numberic characters including 0 9 a z A Z _ For user name and password you can enter up to 64 alphabetic and...

Page 48: ...k the Add button the camera will be placed at an unoccupied position You may also expand the menu on the side of the Add button to select a position number 3 When a camera is added it should appear on the graphical placement below 4 Click the Apply button after you added cameras 5 You may click the page back button to return to the previous window ...

Page 49: ...A list of cameras will appear 2 The Remove button will turn yellow Mouse over to the camera you want to remove and its entry will display the Remove message 3 Click on the Remove message The camera should then disappear from the camera list The recording from that camera will also be discontinued ...

Page 50: ...n manually configure static IPs for a single or all cameras Using static IPs is recommended Although the NVR can remember the MAC addresses of cameras if IPs are changed under the DHCP configuration your NVR may still fail to connect the cameras Please consult your network administrator for details about network settings It is usually not necessary to change port numbers for the HTTP and RTSP port...

Page 51: ...sition Note that you can not swap the positions of two cameras by dragging a camera onto a position already populated by the other Also the camera index number on the management list is not affected by the change of positions Click the Apply button for the configuration change to take effect The position screen displays the current layout on the Liveview screen ...

Page 52: ...he streaming characteristics Note that you can not assign the recording task to other video stream 4 Enable the Activity Adaptive Streaming feature This feature records the I frames only when there are no activities detected While when activities or alarm is triggered the camera raises the recording stream to the full frame rate This feature can save tremendous ammount of bandwidth 5 Enable or dis...

Page 53: ...e select the the Clear checkbox and move the cursor across the time table The minimum unit on the table is half an hour 3 You may also use the scheduler tool on the right to facilitate the process You can select a condition checkbox and then select the All day Work hour Off duty Working day Weekend options to apply a time selection 4 Repeat the process on individual cameras or select the Apply to ...

Page 54: ...tting Configuration Default Medium resolution full frame rate High Quality Guaranteed video quality set as Good full frame rate Economical Medium to low resolution frame rate at 5fps High quality w economical High resolution Good image quality frame rate at 5fps With each recommended configuration applied the estimated bandwidth consumption value is immediately calculated and displayed at the lowe...

Page 55: ...value e g 5MP in the 1920x1920 resolution 3 Maximum frame rate the highest frame rate 4 Intra frame period How often an I frame will be inserted into the video stream 5 Video quality You may either select Constant bit rate or Fixed Quality as the defining rules for video transmission Constant bit rate Places a packet size threshold on video frames This guarantees the frame rate per second performa...

Page 56: ...iew cell 3 Powerline frequency Depending on power line frequency of your country select a matching option NTSC 60Hz or PAL 50Hz to avoid image flickering due to unmatched electricity 4 Video orientation select these options if the image from camera needs to be vertically or horizontally flipped 5 Click Restore to poll for the original settings or click the Apply button to finish the process 3 4 5 ...

Page 57: ...igh TV line Gamma curve low light compensation etc The rest of the options depend on the lens and image sensor type of each individual camera Therefore the options here can vary For unique options coming with each individual camera please refer to their User Manuals for more information Click Restore to poll for the original settings or click the Apply button to finish the process For features com...

Page 58: ... than the detection area to trigger an alarm 5 Select a Sensitivity level using the slide bar 6 Click the Apply button for the configuration to take effect The sample screen shows a connection with a speed dome camera If you already configured Preset positions expand its menu and click on the presets to move to a position 3 4 6 Settings Camera Motion Detection Detection window 1 2 3 5 6 4 Please n...

Page 59: ...field of view where you want to designate as a preset position 3 Click the add button and enter a name for the position Press Enter to proceed Repeat the configuration to create more positions 4 Click the Apply button for the configuration to take effect Note that the PTZ panel can vary with different PTZ cameras 3 4 7 Settings Camera PTZ settings 1 2 3 4 ...

Page 60: ... to change the position on the order or click the remove button to disband a position from the order You can also change the interval to stay before moving from one position to the next position 3 You may then click on the Preview patrol button to see if it runs as expected 4 Click the Apply button for the configuration to take effect 5 Click on the Back to preset list button to return to the pres...

Page 61: ... FTP HTTP site 3 Triggering the camera s for its lens to move to a preset position 4 Triggering the cameras digital output You can create up to 10 instances of alarm Hardware connections to DIs or DOs e g window sensors should be made separately The motion detection configuration can be made in the Camera configuration window Below is a glimpse of alarm sources and alarm actions Sources Actions DI...

Page 62: ... for the current setting You can enter up to 16 numeric or alphabetic characters for the name including symbols such as 0 9 a z A Z _ You can also designate the interval between one alarm and the next triggered alarm to avoid the situation that the alarms can be too frequently triggered Click on the next button to proceed ...

Page 63: ...matically detected and displayed through individual checkboxes The Motion detection function if there are many detection windows configured on a camera is all triggered by one checkbox Note that the triggering sources will be listed even if the camera is currently not connected You may also select the Copy trigger from menu to borrow the setting you previously configured Click on the next button t...

Page 64: ...otage of the length defined by the pre post event setting to the NVR system 4 2 Email The Email action sends an Email to the administrator along with a snapshot of the event To configure Email notification enter valid Email addresses as the Sender and Recipient addresses an Email subject and the SMTP server address through which the Email will be delivered If you need to log in to SMTP server to d...

Page 65: ...s a duration of 1 second while a short tone 0 5 second A very short tone lasts only for 0 1 second Select how many times the buzzer tones will be repeated on the occurrence of an event If events of different importance are issued at the same time e g one major and one minor event system will ignore the minor event and sound the buzzer tone for the major event only The buzzer can be sounded either ...

Page 66: ...You can enter a directory name you prefer on the FTP site The server port default is 21 a different number between 1025 and 65535 can also be assigned The snapshot thus delivered has a size of 320x240 pixels If authentication is not applied login will proceed using the anonymouse account The file names of the snapshot jpeg files will look like this MAC _ DATE _ TIME _ CAMERA_INDEX jpg If similar f...

Page 67: ...A PTZ capable camera can move its lens to the preset position in case of a triggered alarm For example a triggered sensor may indicate an area of interest has been intruded and a camera s field of view should be moved to cover that area The precondition is that you properly set up preset positions on your PTZ cameras using a local or a web console ...

Page 68: ...hroughout a specific timeline For example in some situations you can disable the alarm triggers during the office hours and choose to enable the triggers only during the off office hours 6 Click Finish to end the configuration 7 Repeat the process above to create more alarms according to the needs in your surveillance deployment ...

Page 69: ...he connection to a Mail server Via the Mail server the system can deliver Emails containing system alarm messages to multiple receivers A reachable Mail server and Email accounts must be provided before you can apply the settings The configuration options are identical to those found in the Email configuration in Settings Alarm window ...

Page 70: ... from a server within your network 4 Click the Apply button for the configuration to take effect Note that if NTP time server configuration Auto is preferred you should configure all of your cameras to listen to the same time server as those shown in the pull down menu You need to configure camera settings over a web console and set up the same configuration in the System General settings System t...

Page 71: ...ck Backup a message window will prompt Click Save to preserve your system configurations Note that the backup action does not involve the following 1 Recorded videos and database 2 Alarm records bookmarks and bookmarked footages Select a location for your backup file then click Save to complete the process If you back up to a USB thumb drive that thumb drive must be formatted using the FAT format ...

Page 72: ...secutively display rotate cameras view cells on the Liveview window For example if you have 8 cameras in 2 2x2 layouts the rotation can let you see the live views of all cameras by every few seconds You can also enable or disable the Alarm notification To enable the rotate function click on the rotate button on the layout panel ...

Page 73: ...User s Manual 73 3 4 13 Settings System UPS On this page you can configure the system to gracefully shut down when UPS battery is lower than a certain level You may also let it shut down when the estimated sustainable time is reached ...

Page 74: ... User s Manual 3 4 14 Settings System Log System logs are categorized as System Recording User and Error To display system logs select a range of time and click on the Search button You can search for past logs in each category window ...

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Page 76: ...tings When users try to access the Settings window the login window prohibits regular users to log in There is simply no regular user s name on the login window 3 The administrator users can access all cameras recruited in the configuration while the regular users can be configured to have access to some or all cameras 4 The system blocks out the video feeds from users who are denied of the access...

Page 77: ...group by unfolding its pull down menu Select either an Administrator or regular user as the user group 2 Enter the User name and password The max number of characters for a user name is 64 with alphabetic and numeric characters including 0 9 a z A Z _ The max number for password is also 64 ...

Page 78: ...e Since each volume contains only 1 hard drive details information about the hard drive is also displayed on this page You can format an existing storage volume in situations such as when you need to re deploy the system elsewhere Disk Information Model family The brand name of the HDD manufacturer Device model The disk model name Serial number Serial number assigned to the disk drive Firmware ver...

Page 79: ...rough this button Bad block check Performs read write test to drive sectors to locate bad blocks This action may take several hours to complete Fast S M A R T test Tests the electronic and mechanical performance and disk read performance including those on disk buffer read head seek time and integrity of drive sectors The short test is performed on a small section of disk platters and takes about ...

Page 80: ... system is connected to the LAN Manual setup Select this option to manually assign a static IP address to the Network Camera Enter the Static IP Subnet mask Default router and Primary DNS provided by your ISP Subnet mask This is used to determine if the destination is in the same subnet The default value is 255 255 255 0 Default router This is the gateway used to forward frames to destinations in ...

Page 81: ...net access Click the Register button The terms of service agreement window is selected from a checkbox at the bottom Click to read the license agreement terms When completed a confirm message will prompt You will also receive a confirm Email You can now access your NVR system using the xxxx safe100 net domain name address Note that access from the Internet should be routed to the private IP assign...

Page 82: ... by default Instead of a web console you can also access the NVR and the subordinate cameras using the iViewer and VIVOTEK s VAST software The NVR can be managed as one of the sub stations in a hierarchical device structure Set up a password for access from the VAST server before you can join the NVR to a VAST configuration For access from the iViewer you log in using the same user name and passwo...

Page 83: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability User s Manual 83 3 5 Information This window shows the revision number of the firmware running on this machine ...

Page 84: ... on the system 1 One is connecting mouse and keyboard and an HDMI cable to a TV screen or monitor The local management thus made is described in Section One of this manual 2 The other is accessed through the Ethernet connection Management via a web console will be described in Section Two of this manual LAN WAN 1 Web console ...

Page 85: ...he browser press F12 to check its status It is highly recommended that you should change the default user name and password Please refer to Settings Security User account page to see how to prevent unauthorized access The system will prompt you if you entered an incorrect user name or password Remember me Your user name will be preserved in browser cookies for two days if you select the Remember m...

Page 86: ...he selected language Login errors below are the login errors that might occur A Login failure can result from the incorrect user name and passwords The No permission error occurs when a user logs in using an authentication that has no access rights to the Settings page He will then be re directed to the Liveview page Remember me Select the checkbox to save your user name for use on the next login ...

Page 87: ...an then enter the Liveview Playback or Settings window Liveview Playback Settings The NVR system features a very simple UI structure which consists of a Liveview window a Playback utility and a system Settings window Once logged in you can move from one window to another by selecting the hot link buttons on the upper right of the screen ...

Page 88: ...if your PC runs a default 64 bit IE browser and you manually enter the NVR s address on the browser your browser session may malfunction Instead if you double click on the discovered NVR on the IW2 utility a 32 bit IE browser will open 3 When you log in to the Liveview or Playback interface to stream a live or recorded video install the ActiveX plug ins If it does not prompt when you log in instal...

Page 89: ...th a screenshot 2 Layout Provides access to various layouts 3 Layout contents Provides functions to extend rotate and redo the layout 4 Logo Menu Provides access to the Playback and System Settings utilities as well as system time and logout function 5 View cell panel Displays video streams from one or multiple cameras Snapshot streaming bookmark and audio control functions are also available on i...

Page 90: ...napshots of 8 cameras are displayed in this panel If a user logged in using a credential of a limited access he may only see cameras that he can access instead of all of the cameras To arrange a view cell layout users can click and drag a camera to a view cell Once connected a camera s video stream is displayed Camera Thumbnail A mouse click on the camera name under the thumbnail brings forth the ...

Page 91: ...al input is triggered Connected and recording video to system storage Connected with live streaming Disconnected or trying to establish a connection Sorting criteria Use the sorting buttons to re arrange the order of the cameras on the list Cameras that match the condition will be brought to higher places on the list front of the order regardless of its original camera index Online the online came...

Page 92: ...r can change and preserve a custom layout and every user can designate a specific layout to be displayed when he she logs in The default layout for each user is stored in a browser s cookies Whenever changes are made to the current layout a message prompt will appear on the side of the layout panel reminding you to save your current setting 1x1 1 3 1 5 2x2 3x3 User layout 1 User layout 2 User layo...

Page 93: ... the current page will be shown between the arrow buttons When your current layout is displayed in a full view move your cursor to the left center of the screen to return to the default Liveview screen The Return button will appear 4 2 4 Logo Menu A logout button system time panel and 3 hot link buttons to access the Liveview Playback and System Settings utilities The system date and time refers t...

Page 94: ...he size of the view cell to the full of the panel 3 The 3rd click shrinks the maximized view back into the focused mode To deselect a view cell and return to the normal view click on the Restore button at the lower right of the window Adding Cameras to View Cells 1 Click and drag a camera from the camera list to an unoccupied view cell 2 Double click a camera on the camera list The camera will be ...

Page 95: ...s e g on the second page of the 1 5 layout Placing a camera in the 9th to 11th view cells will bring out the following message A view cell attempting to connect to a network camera will look like this If the connection attempt takes a long time it may result from network problems or incorrect configuration with video streaming For example you may have configured the camera to be streaming a 5MP st...

Page 96: ...l not be able to use the Manual Recording function on the Liveview A mouse hover over the status icon will produce the following messages 1 Connecting or Cannot connect Connecting to a camera or connection problem might have occurred 2 Live streaming Video is being streamed 3 Recording Currently recording the video stream Status icon Camera index Video time Video time The time configured on the NV...

Page 97: ...011 05 03 1 07 05 Português dd MM yyyy HH mm ss 03 05 2011 01 07 05 简体中文 yyyy M d H mm ss 2011 5 3 1 07 05 繁體中文 yyyy M d tt hh mm ss tt 為上午下午 2011 5 3 上午 01 07 05 Tool Bar Buttons Buttons Description Resumes streaming Pauses a video stream Adds a Bookmark that saves a short description and a one minute footage from the current feed Takes a snapshot Removes camera from the view cell Mutes if there...

Page 98: ... between a camera and the NVR system 2 Bookmark This function allows you to place a bookmark on a recorded stream when you observe a situation from your live view window The bookmark is preserved as a one minute footage along with a short description of a particular incident The precondition of using this function is that the video stream while you are watching it on the view cell must be recorded...

Page 99: ... video 3 Snapshot This button produces a snapshot prompt You may then right click on the snapshot image to save it to a preferred location Bookmarks will be erased if the user system erases the video clips they were appended to For example system will recycle storage space by deleting old videos along with their bookmarks Note that the size of a snapshot is equal to the frame size set for the vide...

Page 100: ... a live video When activated a Global view window will appear at the lower right of the view cell as shown below You can display only a portion of the complete video frame as an area of your interest Using a click and drag on the ROI window you can instantly move to other areas within the video frame Global view ROI Note that not every camera supports the PiP function For example the fisheye serie...

Page 101: ...default The actual sound level is also dependent on the system volume of the PC having a web console with the NVR The sound volume configuration will not be preserved when a camera is removed from a view cell web console is restarted or when the Liveview layout is re configured 10 Fisheye display modes A view mode selector icon appears in a view cell of a fisheye camera You can click to select a v...

Page 102: ...lly and vertically 1R View Single Regional View Zoom in out all directional navigation control Zoom In Zoom Out Note that if your fisheye mounting type is set to the Wall Mount type your screen control in the view cell will be limited to 90 pan and tilt Make sure your mounting type and camera settings have been properly configured Because fisheye lens can cover a wide surveillance area you can ins...

Page 103: ...le such as PD8136 and PT8133 Pan Tilt controller Preset location selector Zoom controller Auto pan patrol controller Focus controller Model series Pan tilt controller Preset location Zoom controller Focus controller Auto Pan Patrol controller PD Yes Yes No No Yes VS VS8100 and 8102 Depends Depends Depends Depends No VS84xx 88xx Depends Depends Depends Depends Depends Listed below are the camera mo...

Page 104: ...a has no preset locations Pan Tilt controller A mouse hover over the arrow buttons activates the arrow button Use the buttons to navigate to a preferred location Zoom controller The zoom controller buttons only apply to cameras that come with an optical zoom module such as a speed dome camera Focus controller The focus controller buttons apply to cameras that come with focus control over its lens ...

Page 105: ...r motion detection can all be used to detect conditions in external environments When the alarms are triggered you can configure certain kind of actions to take place in response to the alarms such as 1 recording the immediate image 2 sending an Email 3 sounding the buzzer 4 sending snapshots to an FTP server 5 sending event messages to web server 6 moving camera lens to a preset location 7 trigge...

Page 106: ... icon The alarm icons indicate unread alarms The number of unread alarms will be listed on the title bar The alarm playback window will begin playback of a footage taken 10 seconds before the occurrence of an alarm The playback of an alarm triggered recording will normally last for one minute If however you configured a shorter pre and post alarm recording time your alarm recording may be slightly...

Page 107: ...y button will become available Buttons Description View live video displays the live view streaming instead of the alarm recording Resumes the alarm playback Begins the alarm playback Pauses the current playback Mute or unmute the audio with the current playback Drag the controller to change the audio volume level Use the playback slider to quickly change the playback position The following button...

Page 108: ...OTEK Built with Reliability 108 User s Manual Incoming Alarms New alarms will be indicated by the messages in bold letters the alarm bell icons and the increasing number of unread messages on the title bar ...

Page 109: ... a screenshot 2 Layout contents Provides functions to extend rotate redo the layout and the synchronous playback 3 Logo Menu Provides access to the Playback and System Settings utilities as well as system time and logout function 4 Playback panel Displays the playback functions Snapshot bookmark and export functions are also available on individual view cells 5 Alarm panel Reports alarms transmitt...

Page 110: ... begin playback and search for past recordings 1 Double click on a camera 2 The Calendar panel will display the days video recording actually took place And those days will be highlighted by a blue background as the 25th and 28th in the screen below x2 2 3 4 There are two key differences between the Camera List on Liveview and that on the Playback window 1 Users can not click and drag a camera thu...

Page 111: ...r stops the Synchronous playback Full view extends the view cells on the current layout to the full of the screen When your current layout is displayed in a full view move your cursor to the left center of the screen to return to the default Liveview screen The Return button will appear 4 3 3 Logo Menu A logout button system time panel and 3 hot link buttons to access the Liveview Playback and Sys...

Page 112: ...video into a 3GP or Windows exe file The length of exported video is configurable to 1 3 5 or 10 minutes Adds a Bookmark that saves a short description and a one minute footage from the current feed Takes a snapshot Removes camera from the view cell Mutes if there is audio input from the camera Unmutes Restores the view cell s original position on the liveview panel Maximizes the size of current v...

Page 113: ...ou paused a playback use this button to browse video frame by frame Speeds down by 1 2 The slowest speed is 1 8 Speeds up Increases the playback speed to 2x 4x 8x 16x 32x and then to a maximum of 64x Displays the current playback status such as Playing Pause play speed or Stop Restores the view cell s original position on the liveview panel Maximizes the size of current view cell Activates the PiP...

Page 114: ...er to scale down the span of time For example if the time span is reduced to 1 hour then each section on the time line represents 15 minutes of recording The total time span of a timeline starts from the minimal of 4 minutes 20 minutes 40 minutes 1 hour and up to a maximum of 24 hours In the Synchronous play mode a change to the zoomer will be reflected by all synchronously playing view cells If r...

Page 115: ...fferent pages of alarm entries Up to 200 entries can appear on one page Note that the new alarms that occurred seconds or minutes ago may not be instantaneously listed on the page If bookmarks are listed in the Alarm list a bookmark entry will look like this Camera index camera name time bookmark In the icon mode a bookmark message will look like this Camera index camera name bookmark time of mark...

Page 116: ...recordings taken in the days of the following month will be shown stead 4 3 6 Calendar Panel Double click on any of the existing cameras to display the Calendar panel Days with recorded videos will be highlighted in blue regardless of the length of existing recordings that occurred in that day You may then click on a day to begin viewing the past recordings 2 3 1 4 ...

Page 117: ...dow is accessed by clicking on the Settings button on the Logo panel You will enter the Overview of the Settings window All the configuration menus are placed under 7 major categories System Network Camera Storage Security Alarm and Logs Click on any of the menu shortcuts to begin configuration ...

Page 118: ...figure all of your cameras to listen to the same time server as those shown in the pull down menu You need to configure camera settings over a web console and set up the same configuration in the System General settings System time page The precondition is that the system must have access to the Internet 5 1 1 System General Pnotify During the configuration process configuration errors or informat...

Page 119: ...plete Note that during the upgrade the recording task will be interrupted 5 1 2 System Upgrade The Schedule reboot device allows the system to clean up dirty cache by a scheduled reboot You can configure a reboot by a specific time within a week Note that during the reboot the video recording will be temporarily interrupted Scheduled reboot is an recurring event Select the day within a week and a ...

Page 120: ...ing the Backup function Click Backup a message window will prompt Click Save to preserve your system configurations 5 1 3 System Backup Select a location for your backup file then click Save to complete the process Note that the backup action does not involve the following 1 Recorded videos and database 2 Alarm records bookmarks and bookmarked footages ...

Page 121: ...m defaults can be restored using the resetbutton on the system panel press for 5 seconds This applies when users forget about its IP address or login password while most other operation details will remain unchanged The factory defaults operated on this window restores to its primitive state before shipping and hence users configurations such as host name IP address and layout settings will be era...

Page 122: ...U and memory usage LAN port operation and its bonding disk drive temperatures and UPS status 5 1 4 System Maintenance The Reboot button is used to restart the NVR system The Refresh button polls the system for the latest system information as previously described The Reboot process will take about 2 minutes to complete ...

Page 123: ...ine or On battery battery charge level is listed in the Maintenance page as shown below The NVR supports APC s Back UPS and Back UPS Pro series models Reactions on power outage When the UPS battery charge is lower than 10 or can only sustain system operation for 3 minutes the NVR system will automatically shut down When the power source is restored the NVR system will automatically power up UPS su...

Page 124: ...ime the system is connected to the LAN Use fixed IP address Select this option to manually assign a static IP address to the Network Camera Enter the Static IP Subnet mask Default router and Primary DNS provided by your ISP Subnet mask This is used to determine if the destination is in the same subnet The default value is 255 255 255 0 Default router This is the gateway used to forward frames to d...

Page 125: ...pply one domain name for each NVR system 5 2 2 Network DDNS Enable dynamic DNS service Select this checkbox to enable the DDNS setting Make sure you have internet access Click the Register button The terms of service agreement window will prompt Click Accept to proceed In the Register column fill in the Host name xxxx safe100 net Email Key and Confirm Key and click Register After a host name has b...

Page 126: ... display the following messages Enter a Host name Email address and password twice and then click Register to proceed Forget key Click this button if you have forgotten the key to Safe100 net account Enter host name and Email address and then click the Forget key button Your account information will be sent to your Email addres The acceptable characters for email address are 0 9 a z A Z _ Two succ...

Page 127: ...ge these ports 5 2 3 Network Service Instead of a web console you can also access the NVR and the subordinate cameras using the iViewer and VIVOTEK s VAST software The NVR can be managed as one of the sub stations in a hierarchical device structure Note that the password here should be identical to that you use to log in to a VAST server For access from the iViewer you log in using the same user n...

Page 128: ...y 128 User s Manual Use the test utility to test the connectivity with a network device such as a camera Test results will be displayed by a message prompt 5 2 4 Network Utility Failure to reach a device displays the message below ...

Page 129: ...es management tools to recruit or disband cameras from your NVR configuration 5 3 1 Camera General 1 Search The Search button allows you to locate all VIVOTEK cameras within a local network Use the check circles on top to display all cameras or only cameras that have not been recruited ...

Page 130: ...t number or a number already appointed to another camera However doing so will replace an existing camera Repeat this process to select more cameras in your deployment and then click the OK button If you select an index number already appointed to an existing camera for a new camera the recorded data taken from the existing camera will still be intact However the recorded data is accessed through ...

Page 131: ...IE web console with the camera MAC address A unique MAC address as that printed on the camera s label Model Camera model name Channel This indicates the stream number If connected via a video server the channel number indicates the channel through which an analogue camera is connected A recent snapshot from the camera will also appear at the bottom of the camera list window The legends used in the...

Page 132: ... camera comes with password protection enter its User name and Password here Otherwise you will not be able to manage or access the camera If preferred the acceptable characters for a new camera name can be 0 9 a z A Z _ The max number of alphabetic and numeric characters is 64 For a user name the acceptable characters for a camera name can be 0 9 a z A Z _ The max number of characters is 64 ...

Page 133: ...uffer time seconds if the alarm triggered recording is preferred set up a length of time for the system to record video after the occurrence of an alarm The configurable options are 10 20 30 40 60 and 300 seconds 2 4 Enable audio recording Selected by default Audio input is also recorded along with the video However audio can be muted by default on some cameras For example a speed dome camera requ...

Page 134: ...ving the Camera General page without saving your configuration you will lose your configuration changes 4 Save Click the Save button to preserve your configuration whenever changes are made to the configuration or when you are leaving this page IMPORTANT ...

Page 135: ...bit rate and resolution settings of a camera the configuration applies to the camera firmware settings on its individual video stream If a camera becomes disconnected your configuration change will not take effect util the camera come online again 2 Frame size The applicable video resolutions comes available in a pull down menu For different cameras the applicable resolutions can vary 3 Maximum fr...

Page 136: ...n detection 1 Select a camera from the list using a single mouse click 2 Use mouse clicks and drag to draw a square to cover an area of your interest 3 In a graph below raise the Detecting area bar blue to a percentage you prefer A moving object can only trigger an alarm when it is larger than the preset percentage of the detection area If set a very low level any activities can trigger an alarm 4...

Page 137: ...for specific time during a week or enable event triggered recording during some time use the Event recording and No recording buttons 3 Use them as a paint brush or eraser on the weekly time chart Click or drag your mouse cursor across the time chart to change the recording schedule Change a non recording hour to continuous recording by one click on the Continuous recording button and then click a...

Page 138: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability 138 User s Manual The Event recording is triggered by digital inputs or motion detection You can click on the setup button to select or deselect the triggering options ...

Page 139: ...isk configuration provides no fault tolerance The system stores video recordings to one or more single disk volumes in a consecutive order 5 4 1 Storage Volume 5 4 Storage Single disks Disk 1 Disk 1 Each single disk volume contains one disk drive If you remove a disk drive and insert it into a different drive bay the system will consider it as a new and different disk drive IMPORTANT ...

Page 140: ...al usable capacity size in Gigabytes Used The used capacity in Gigabytes Status The statuses display when processing volume configuration deleting and formatting a volume Error Configuration or hard drive errors The volume is invalid and may need to be manually removed The legends used in the Volume list are described below You can click to select a volume and its current status will be displayed ...

Page 141: ...leted and if you already have cameras in your configuration the recording task will immediately begin To delete a storage volume 1 Click to select a storage volume from the list 2 Click on the Delete button 3 A warning message will prompt saying all recorded data will be lost Click OK if you want to remove the volume ...

Page 142: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability 142 User s Manual To format a storage volume You may also format an existing storage volume in situations such as when you need to re deploy the system elsewhere ...

Page 143: ...hassis Model Disk model name Capacity Disk capacity in Gigabytes Status Disk operating status Can be stated as Connected Disk is properly installed but not yet configured into storage volume Identified The storage volume this disk belongs to is operating normally Corrupted Disk is faulty S M A R T S M A R T status polled from the disk drive This is not the results from a manually executed S M A R ...

Page 144: ...failed 3 Verify Three types of check disk actions can be initiated through this button Select the action you wish to take and click the OK button Bad block check Performs read write test to drive sectors to locate bad blocks This action may take several hours to complete Fast S M A R T test Tests the electronic and mechanical performance and disk read performance including those on disk buffer rea...

Page 145: ...ake changes to alarm network and all other system settings When a normal user tries to access the system Settings window the following message will prompt 3 The administrator users can access all cameras recruited in the configuration while the normal users can be configured to have access to some or all cameras 4 The system blocks out the video feeds from users who are denied of the access to par...

Page 146: ... access to cameras deselect the checkboxes in front of the cameras to deny the user access 5 Click OK to close the configuration window Repeat the process to create more users and please remember to click the Save button to preserve your configuration after you created all users To remove users 1 From the Security User account window left click to select an existing user 2 Click on the Remove butt...

Page 147: ...nt window click on an existing user 2 click on the Change password button 3 The password prompt will appear Enter the new password twice and click OK to confirm 4 The user s entry will appear in a lighter color to distinguish it as a changed entry that has not been applied 5 Click Save to preserve your changes on the screen ...

Page 148: ...at need to access the NVR Note that you can use the asterisk mark to represent all decimal numbers in each individual octet of the range of IP address such as using 172 16 0 for addresses ranging from 172 16 0 1 to 172 16 0 254 A decimal number between two asterisks e g 172 10 is considered as invalid 5 5 2 Access list 3 Deny only Denies the access from the listed IPs You should manually enter the...

Page 149: ...the occurrences of events to an FTP HTTP site 3 Triggering the camera s for its lens to move to a preset position 4 Triggering the cameras digital output You can create up to 16 instances of alarm 5 6 1 General 5 6 Alarm ND8321 LAN WAN VIVOTEK Network Cameras Email Alarms Digital input output Motion detection Event triggered recording Web Console Events triggered FTP HTTP Buzzer Preset positions 1...

Page 150: ...ols such as 0 9 a z A Z _ You can also designate the interval between one alarm and the next triggered alarm to avoid the situation that the alarms can be too frequently triggered Below is a glimpse of alarm sources and alarm actions Sources Actions DI Video recording video footage DO Email snapshots Motion detection Buzzer FTP snapshots HTTP messages Camera preset points Camera DO To create an al...

Page 151: ...e or more cameras by selecting its checkboxes The number of DI or DOs on each camera is automatically detected and displayed through individual checkboxes The Motion detection function if there are many detection windows configured on a camera is all triggered by one checkbox Note that the triggering sources will be listed even if the camera is currently not connected ...

Page 152: ...sion below 4 1 Recording When an event is triggered the selected camera will record a video footage of the length defined by the pre post event setting to the NVR system See below for an Alarm playback window Once an alarm is triggered it is listed on the Alarm panel on the Liveview window See page 104 for details about the functions of alarm panel and the alarm playback function ...

Page 153: ...need to log in to SMTP server to deliver an Email enter the User name and password for access to that account The Email subject and addresses can be composed of 254 characters in numeric or alphabetic characters including 0 9 a z A Z _ You can enter the addresses of multiple recipients Use semicolons to separate the addresses of multiple recipients Select the checkboxes below for which camera s sn...

Page 154: ...nce are issued at the same time e g one major and one minor event system will ignore the minor event and sound the buzzer tone for the major event only The buzzer can be sounded either by the Alarm actions or the system events If Alarm actions and system service events occur at the time Alarm actions have the higher priority If multiple Alarm actions occur the currently sounded events can be deple...

Page 155: ...assword for the user account You can enter a directory name you prefer on the FTP site The server port default is 21 a different number between 1025 and 65535 can also be assigned If authentication is not applied login will proceed using the anonymouse account The file names of the snapshot jpeg files will look like this MAC _ DATE _ TIME _ CAMERA_INDEX jpg If similar files already exist an additi...

Page 156: ...The URL format for the HTTP server address is http host port abs_path The applicable characters for the abs_path are 0 9 a z A Z _ If you need to log in to HTTP server enter the User name and password for access to that account The user name can be composed of 64 numeric or alphabetic characters and symbols including 0 9 a z A Z _ ...

Page 157: ...e of a triggered alarm For example a triggered sensor may indicate an area of interest has been intruded and a camera s field of view should be moved to cover that area The precondition is that you properly set up preset positions on your PTZ cameras using a web console 4 7 Camera DO A triggered alarm triggers a camera s DO e g an alarm siren ...

Page 158: ...ring the office hours and choose to enable the triggers only during the off office hours 6 Click Finish to end the configuration A configured instance will appear in lighter color and an asterisk mark in front to distinguish it as a changed entry that has not been applied 7 Click Save to preserve and enable your alarm setting 8 Repeat the process above to create more alarms according to the needs ...

Page 159: ...tton 1 2 1 2 To edit an existing alarm select by a left click and then click on the Source Action or Schedule button on the left function tree The associated parameters will display on different windows You can then edit the previous configuration such as selecting a different triggering source reactive action or time span on a schedule 1 3 2 While in the editing window the Create and Remove butto...

Page 160: ...tory The alarm history comes with a search engine for a quick access to the list of alarms that happened before To search for past alarms select the search conditions such as the span of time of its occurrence trigger type and the device and click the Search button ...

Page 161: ...his 0002D1112233_20130222_011013 csv 2 Page selector buttons from left to right First page Previous page Next page and the Last page 3 Page size buttons These buttons determines how many event logs will be displayed on a single page The selected number will be displayed without the underline 5 7 Logs The event logs fall into he following categories System Recording User and Error A click on each c...

Page 162: ...some sample messages Event Level Source Message DHCP renew address Info service name DHCP renew interface interface Address IP address Subnet mask subnet mask Gateway gateway DDNS result Info service name DDNS result OK Failed Reboot Info User username System reboot System shutdown Info Power button System shutdown Restore Info User username Restore configuration NTP time update Info service name ...

Page 163: ...IVOTEK Built with Reliability User s Manual 163 Recycle finish Info service name Recycle finish volume name volume size volume free Recycle fail error service name Recycle fail Disk space is insufficient ...

Page 164: ...ut Layout contents 1 Before operating the NVR make sure you have properly installed hard drives and configured the storage volumes Otherwise you will not be able to operate most of the system s functionality 2 Since the NVR system comes with 32 bit plug ins for screen control if your PC runs a default 64 bit IE browser and you manually enter the NVR s address on the browser your browser session ma...

Page 165: ... the layout You may also double click on a camera s thumbnail to fill it into the first unoccupied view cell To begin the design of your layout 1 3 1 Select a layout pattern by a single click The options are 1x1 1 3 1 5 2x2 and 3x3 Camera list 2 3 When you filled up the current layout e g 6 camera into the 1 5 layout click the page switch button to continue on the next layout page ...

Page 166: ...ore user layouts by mouse overing the user layout button You may create more user layouts for different purposes such as for the use of different users or playing different views of a fisheye camera on multiple view cells The fisheye mode button is available on the view cell where you inserted a fisheye camera When a regional view is displayed the shooting angle and image orientation is kept with ...

Page 167: ...rrent console 1R View Single Regional View Placing different regional views of a fisheye camera into view cells will look like this In addition to fisheye cameras if a camera has a wide field of view you may also display its different fields of view in multiple view cells Some view cell may also contain a PiP view that is digitally zoomed Only an administrator can alter the display modes of fishey...

Page 168: ...d zoom module and may not be applicable to every PTZ camera The preset positions and the patrol functions require the associated configuration on the cameras via a web console Before you make use of these functions you should set up the preset positions on a web console with the camera The NVR GUI does not provide the configuration options with PTZ preset positions You can use Preset button to dis...

Page 169: ...ct a view cell you can click on another view cell in the display area or click on the Restore button A selected focused view cell If you have concerns with the display quality and frame rate per second refer to page 134 for how to configure video feeds for live viewing as well as for video recording The configuration options can be found in Settings Camera Video Note that the constant bit rate met...

Page 170: ...rk 1 Click on the button 2 Enter a short description that can be as long as 120 characters 3 Click on the button or simply press Enter on your keyboard 1 2 3 To place bookmarks and exert screen controls On a focused view cell you can temporarily stop or start an ongoing streaming or place a bookmark that saves a short description and a one minute footage from the current feed The bookmark is also ...

Page 171: ...within the video frame Global view ROI Note that not every camera supports the PiP function For example PTZ cameras and fisheye cameras do not support the PiP feature You can resize the ROI window by a mouse hover on the lower right corner of the window until the resize mark appears The default size of the ROI window is 25 of the Global view Click on the deactivate button to close the PiP window R...

Page 172: ...ble the scheduled or continuous recording set for the camera Click on their associated icons to change their recording status For a camera that is not performing a continuous recording you can click on the Manual Recording button to start a manual recording The recording will stop using the same button You can also manually turn on the digital output e g to trigger an external alarm that is connec...

Page 173: ...itions in external environments You can configure certain kind of actions to take place in response to the alarms such as 1 recording the immediate image 2 sends an Email notification 3 sounds the onboard buzzer 4 sends snapshots to an FTP server 5 sends videos to web server 6 moves camera lens to a preset location 7 triggers a camera s digital output The operation details of the Alarm panel and A...

Page 174: ... a user layout by the intervals of 10 seconds The layout page that does not contain camera views will be skipped A Rotate action will stop when you 1 move to another page in the user layout 2 move to another user layout 3 click to select a view cell 4 remove a camera from view cell 5 click to disable the rotation function When your current layout spans across multiple pages use the arrow buttons t...

Page 175: ...dar panel will display the days video recording actually took place And those days will be highlighted by a blue background as the 25th and 28th in the screen below x2 2 3 4 However on a Playback window you can not 1 Users can not click and drag a camera thumbnail to a playback view cell 2 A double click on a camera does not display video in a view cell A double click displays a calendar where day...

Page 176: ...n the Liveview window which only plays back the related video for only one minute the alarm playback will continue throughout the reccording of that day 6 2 2 Past Alarms and Bookmarks If you set up multiple triggering sources on a camera you can use the Alarm filter button to find the alarms of a specific type You can select the check circles to narrow down the types of listed alarms using search...

Page 177: ...fic point in time To perform synchronous playback 1 Select a layout from the Layout panel e g a 2x2 layout 2 Click on the Synchronous playback button 3 Double click to select a camera from the camera list This camera becomes the Master camera 4 When the Calendar panel appears click to select a date you prefer 5 Click and drag other cameras from the camera list to the empty view cells These cameras...

Page 178: ...able by an embedded Media Player The 3GP format is a multimedia container format for 3G UMTS services These files can be played on Quicktime Realplayer and VLC The file name will look like this MAC _ DATE _ TIME _ CAMERA_INDEX 3gp exe 4 Select an export length of video by 1 3 5 or 10 minutes The actual length can be longer due to the fact that the program needs to trace back to the previous I fram...

Page 179: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability User s Manual 179 7 Select a location to store your file 8 When the progress is done click Close 9 A self executable EXE file should look like this ...

Page 180: ...r more precise skimming Timeline slider thumb Click and drag this thumb button to move along and reach a specific point in time Details of the control bar in the Playback window can be found on page 112 You can use the timeline zoomer to scale down the span of time For example if the time span is reduced to 1 hour then each section on the time line represents 15 minutes of recording The total time...

Page 181: ... Each section 3 hrs Total time span If recordings take place by an event triggered recording the intervals between recordings can be down to 1 minute and the individual recordings will not be easily discernible In this situation you can mouse over the timeline to pin point individual recording instances ...

Page 182: ...t FTP Digital Output Camera Buzzer PTZ Control Go to Preset Pre Record 5 max 10 Post Record 20 max 300 USB Dongle FAT Format User Account 10 User Account Time Limit 10 mins User Level Administrator Regular User User Feature Definition By Camera System Recording User Error Time Zone Manual Automatic Sync NTP Daylight Saving Time Smart FAN Speed Manual update Supported Supported Czech English French...

Page 183: ...her Countries outside the European Union This symbol is only valid in the European Union If you wish to discard this product please contact your local authorities or dealer and ask for the correct method of disposal Safety and Compatibility Federal Communications Commission FCC Statement This Equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Par...

Page 184: ...VIVOTEK Built with Reliability 184 User s Manual Japan VCCI Class A statement ACA Australian Communications Authority ...

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