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  • Page 1: Network Camera

    Network camera Installation instructions TV7210 TV7217...

  • Page 2: Preface

    Preface Dear Customer, Thank you for purchasing this Network camera of the DIGI-LAN series from Security Center. You made the right decision in choosing this state-of-the-art technology, which complies with the current standards of domestic and European regulations. The CE has been proven and all related certifications are available from the manufacturer upon request.

  • Page 3: Before Using This Product

    Before using this product The use of surveillance equipment may be forbidden by law in some countries. This Network camera is not only high-quality web camera but can also be used as part of a flexible surveillance system. Before using this equipment, make sure that all your surveillance activities are completely legal.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Contents Preface ................................2 Precautions ..............................2 General: .............................2 Before using this product ..........................3 Contents ..............................4 Scope of delivery ............................6 Hardware installation ............................7 Installation in Ethernet........................7 Installation in Wireless LAN.......................7 First access to Network camera ........................9 Setting the IP address ........................9 Note: ..............................10 Access to the network camera via the Internet Explorer...................14 Defining a password to prevent unauthorised access ................
  • Page 5 Appendix ..............................43 A. Troubleshooting ..........................43 B. Frequently asked questions (FAQ)....................44 C. URL commands of the security network camera .................46 D. Technical specifications.......................61...

  • Page 6: Scope Of Delivery

    Scope of delivery Network camera Lens Antennas (only TV7211, TV7213, TV7215, TV7217) Transformer Camera mount Software CD Installation instructions (on CD)

  • Page 7: Hardware Installation

    Hardware installation Make sure that all accessories and articles listed above are present in the scope of delivery. Depending on application, an Ethernet cable may be required. This Ethernet cable must meet the specifications of UTP Category 5 (CAT 5) and must not be longer than 100 meters.
  • Page 8 The Network camera is equipped via an I/O terminal block with a digital input and a relay for device control. At Pin 3 and Pin 4, an external digital input signal can be processed, whereby the voltage state is monitored in the start phase at LOW.

  • Page 9: First Access To Network Camera

    First access to Network camera Setting the IP address To set the IP address of the camera: Use a network cable to connect the Network camera to your computer network. (The simplest way is to connect the Network camera direct to your PC using a cross-link cable.) If your PC is not yet integrated into a network, you first have to configure it for the network application.

  • Page 10: Note

    - The network connection of your PC is now configured. 3. Now start the Installation Wizard from the software CD supplied. 4. Follow the installation instructions of the Installation Wizard. 5. If installation is successful, start the program under Programs/Installation Wizard. 6.
  • Page 11 8. Select one of the camera models found. 9. Click “Setup” to enter camera setup mode. If a password is required, use the device serial number (no spaces, uppercase letters only). You can change the hostname, the administrator password and the date/time settings of the camera.
  • Page 12 10. Now click “Next” to change the IP address of your network camera. If you use a router in your network, enter this IP address (gateway) in the Default Router field. 11. If you disable “Reset IP address at next boot”, you do not have to reassign the IP address of this camera following a power failure.
  • Page 13 Now press the button “Skip” to skip the wireless LAN setup at this point. You will find more information under “WLAN configuration”. 13. Follow the instructions on the screen to save or change your settings. The Installation Wizard is finished. Click “Previous” to change your settings. Click “Apply” to save your input and transfer it to the selected device.

  • Page 14: Access To The Network Camera Via The Internet Explorer

    Access to the network camera via the Internet Explorer Defining a password to prevent unauthorised access For security reasons, the administrator should define a new password immediately. After the new administrator password is stored, the Network camera asks for the user name and password every time it is accessed. The administrator can define up to twenty (20) user accounts.

  • Page 15: Changing The Administrator Password

    Changing the administrator password Click “Configuration” and then “Security”. Under “Root password”, enter the administrator password and confirm it under “Confirm password”. Click “Save”. The new administrator password is saved. Click “HOME” in the column on the left to exit configuration.

  • Page 16: Installing The Plug-In

    Installing the plug-in When you first access the Network camera under Windows, the web browser may ask for the installation of a new plug-in for the Network camera. This query depends on the Internet security settings of your PC. If the highest security level is set, the PC will refuse any installation and any attempt at execution.

  • Page 17: Basic User Functions

    Basic user functions Main window and camera view The view of the main page consists of two parts: Configuration: The camera can be configured via this user interface. Camera view: Camera video stream Click the configuration link on the left of the picture to open the configuration page.

  • Page 18: Configuration

    Configuration Digital Output Click to switch the relay output on/off. Snapshot Click . The web browser displays a new window containing the snapshot. To save the snapshot, either left-click it and then click the diskette icon or right-click it and select Save from the context menu. Camera view The information bar at the top of the camera view shows the assigned caption and the current date/time.

  • Page 19: Client Settings

    Client settings When you first access the Connection Type page under Windows, the web browser asks for the installation of a new plug-in. This plug-in was registered at certification and can be used to change parameters on the Client settings page.
  • Page 20 Two settings are available on the Client settings page. Under “Media Options”, you can disable the audio function. Under “Protocol Options”, you can select a transmission protocol for data transfer between the client and the server. Three protocol options are available for optimising the application: UDPand HTTP. The UDP protocol gives you a larger number of realtime audio and video streams.

  • Page 21: Administrator Settings

    Administrator settings Configuration / video Best performance is produced by the maximum frame rate with best video quality and minimum network bandwidth. The six factors “Size”, “Maximum frame rate”, “Video codec type”, “Key frame interval”, “Fix bit rate” and “Fix quality”...

  • Page 22: Protecting The Network Camera With A Password

    For higher-quality pictures For best video quality, set “Fix quality” to “Detailled” or “Excellent” and the “Maximum frame rate” so that it corresponds to the bandwidth of your network. If your network is slow and you get “broken” images, go to the HTTP protocol under “Protocol Options”...

  • Page 23: More Flexible Options For The Viewer

    More flexible options for the viewer Allow “demo” account to view: If you want to have a guest account for viewers only, you just need to add a user without password and disable all privileges. Share the account to you friends. Format of a multimedia website Demo on two or more pages –...
  • Page 24 5. In the left column, click “Application”. 6. To upload the pictures, select the weekday and the daily schedule. 7. Select “Sequential operation” and set the interval. 8. Unselect the FTP without the date/time suffix as transfer method and click 9.

  • Page 25: If No Ftp Service Is Available In The Web

    If no FTP service is available in the web An automatically updated homepage can be used for occasional retrieval of the latest pictures from the Network camera. You get the best performance by using a free website provider, since the FTP service can be restricted. <html>...

  • Page 26: Time-Controlled Surveillance

    Time-controlled surveillance 1. On the homepage, click “Configuration”. 2. In the left column, click “Application”. 3. Click the boxes next to the weekdays you require and define the time period under “Snapshots begin at” and “Snapshots stop at” for daily supervision of the trigger conditions. 4.

  • Page 27: Integrated Video Sensor

    Integrated video sensor If no external sensor is available, the administrator can use the integrated motion sensor to monitor movement and send snapshots by e-mail for inspection. 1. In the left column, click “Motion detection”. 2. Enable “Enable Motion detection”. 3.

  • Page 28: Updating The Software Version

    Updating the software version You can download the latest software from the website. A user-friendly update wizard (installation wizard) is provided for updating the Network camera software. Only the administrator can start the update function. To update the system: 1. Download the firmware file with the name TV721X_english.pkg from the corresponding products folder. 2.

  • Page 29: System Configuration

    System configuration Only the administrator has access to system configuration. The following sections explain each element in the left column. Specific tasks on the Options page are printed bold. The administrator can enter the URL under the picture to jump direct to the pictures page of the configuration. For setting specific options via the URL, see Appendix C. “url”...

  • Page 30: System

    System „Host name“ The text represents the title of the homepage. „Turn off the LED indicator“ Select this option to switch of the LED on the rear of the camera. This prevents other persons knowing that the camera is in use. „Keep current date and time“...

  • Page 31: Network

    Network All changes made on this page cause a system reboot so that they can take effect. Make sure that the fields are correctly filled before you click „Get IP address automatically“ This can be tedious having to perform software installation whenever the network camera starts.

  • Page 32: Wlan Configuration

    WLAN configuration “SSID” (Service Set Identifier) The name that identifies the wireless network. The access point and the WLAN network camera must use the name SSID. The factory setting is “default”. IMPORTANT: The max. length is 32 characters; do not use: “ , ”, <, > and spaces. “Wireless mode”...
  • Page 33 Incorrect settings may prevent access to the camera. If the system can no longer be addressed, read the notes on restoring the factory settings in the appendix. <URL> http://<Network Camera>/setup/wireless.vspx <Network Camera> is the domain name or original IP address of the network camera.

  • Page 34: Ddns And Upnp Settings

    DDNS and UPnP settings „Enable DDNS“ Enables the DDNS function. „Provider“ The provider list contains four hosts that provide DDNS services. Connect to the service-provider’s website to make sure that the service is available. „Host name“ This field must be completed if you want to use the DDNS service. Enter the hostname registered with the DDNS server.

  • Page 35: Mail & Ftp

    Mail & FTP SMTP If the SMTP server supports SMTP authentication, the user has to enter a valid user name and password to send an e-mail via the server. „1st SMTP mail server“ Domain name or IP address of the external e-mail server. „1st SMTP account name“...
  • Page 36 “url” http://”Network Camera”/setup/mailftp.vspx “Network Camera” is the domain name or original IP address of the security network camera. Incorrect settings can result in malfunctioning. Change the configuration only if absolutely necessary and consult the network administrator for the correct settings. Resetting and restoring the original configuration is described in Appendix A.

  • Page 37: Video

    Video „Text on video“ The text appears in the black bar above the video window with a timestamp. This timestamp (date and time) is supplied by the security network camera, and the date and time are supplied by an integrated realtime clock.

  • Page 38: Picture Settings

    “url” http://”Network Camera”/setup/video.vspx “Network Camera” is the domain name or original IP address of the security network camera. Picture settings Click to open another window in which you can set the of the video picture. Each field has levels from –5 to +5.

  • Page 39: Audio

    Audio “Transmission mode” There are five options to select. For all the modes, only one client can talk to the server at the same time. “Full-duplex (Talk and listen simultaneously)” In this mode, the user can talk to the server while listening sound from the server simultaneously.

  • Page 40: Motion Sensor

    Motion sensor „Enable motion detection“ Check this option to turn on motion detection. Adds a new window. A maximum of three windows can be open simultaneously. To resize the window or move the title bar, click the window frame, keep the mouse button pressed and drag the window to the required size.

  • Page 41: Application

    Application Weekly schedule „Sun“ ~ „Sat“ Selects weekdays for the following operations. „Snapshots begin at“ Sets the time for start of operation. „Snapshots stop at“ Sets the time for end of operation. Start time and stop time settings should be entered in 24-hour format. „All the time except for the above schedule“...

  • Page 42: Viewing System Log

    Naming rule of snapshot file Method With date Sequential Event and time suffix <Prefix>_20050107175903.jpg <Prefix>_20050107180653_1_pre.jpg <Prefix>_20050107180654_2_pre.jpg <Prefix>_20050107180655_3_pre.jpg <Prefix>_20050107180659_4_trg.jpg <Prefix>_20050107180700_5_pos.jpg <Prefix>.jpg <Prefix>_1_pre.jpg <Prefix>_2_pre.jpg <Prefix>_3_pre.jpg <Prefix>_4_trg.jpg <Prefix>_5_pos.jpg Email N.A. <Prefix>.jpg <Prefix>_1_pre.jpg <Prefix>_2_pre.jpg Example: <Prefix>_3_pre.jpg Periodic Snapshots <Prefix>_4_trg.jpg <Prefix>_5_pos.jpg From: http://192.168.1.53 <Prefix>.jpg: 2005/01/07 Example: 17:59:45 Event snapshots: Motion detection...

  • Page 43: Appendix

    Appendix A. Troubleshooting LED status display Following switch-on, the security network camera runs a diagnostic self-test to detect potential hardware faults. The following table lists the general LED patterns. In the event of a serious fault or error, the LED flashes differently from the patterns listed below.

  • Page 44: Frequently Asked Questions (Faq)

    B. Frequently asked questions (FAQ) F. What do I do if I forget my password? A. Every access to the security network camera requires an authentication. If you are one of the managing users, ask your administrator for your password. If you are the administrator, there is no way of reactivating the root password.
  • Page 45 F. Why is access to the security network camera not possible while I am setting options in the application? A. If the security network cameras are started by events, snapshots need more time since they are written to memory. If the events occur too often, the system is constantly trying to store the pictures. If an event occurs very frequently, use sequential mode or an external recording program to record the pictures.

  • Page 46: Url Commands Of The Security Network Camera

    C. URL commands of the security network camera For some customers who already have their own web site or web control application, Network Camera can be easily integrated through convenient URLs. This section lists the commands in URL format corresponding to the basic functions of Network Camera.
  • Page 47 where the <parameter> should be <group>[_<name>] or <group>[.<name>] If you do not specify the any parameters, all the parameters on the server will be returned. If you specify only <group>, the parameters of related group will be returned. When query parameter values, the current parameter value are returned. Successful control requests returns paramter pairs as follows.

  • Page 48: Available Parameters On The Server

    \r\n <parameter pair> where <parameter pair> is <parameter>=<value>\r\n [<parameter pair>] Only the parameters that you set and readable will be returned. Example: Set the IP address of server to 192.168.0.123 Request: http://myserver/cgi-bin/admin/setparam.cgi?Network_IPAddress=192.168.0.123 Response: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/html\r\n Context-Length: 33\r\n \r\n network.ipaddress=192.168.0.123\r\n Available parameters on the server...
  • Page 49 di<1~4> <state> H – NC connected with COMMON L – NO connected with COMMON supportscriptversion <text string shorter than 10 The version of supported script/webpage characters> scriptversion <text string shorter than 10 The maximum version of currently installed characters > script/webpage language <text string shorter than 16...
  • Page 50 smtp2 <domain name or IP address, secondary SMTP server (r/w) string shorter than 40 <blank> characters> mailto2 <text string shorter than 80 mail recipient address (r/w) characters> <blank> mailuser2 <text string shorter than 63 User name of secondary smtp server (r/w) characters>...
  • Page 51 10 ~ 11 Channel number of Spain <10> 10 ~ 13 Channel number of France <10> 1 ~ 14 Channel number of All <6> txrate "NONE", "1M", "2M", "5.5M", Transmit rate in Mbps (r/w) "11M", "6M", "9M", "12M", <Auto> "18M", "24M", "36M", "48M", "54M", "Auto"...
  • Page 52 normal normal x 2 double color monochrome (r/w) color quality fix bit rate (r/w) fix quantization quant lowest quality of video (r/w) lower quality of video normal quality of video higher quality of video highest quality of video bitrate 64000 set bit rate to 64K bps (r/w) 128000...
  • Page 53 Group: Audio NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION bitrate 8000 set bitrate to 8K bps (r/w) 24000 set bitrate to 24K bps 32000 set bitrate to 32K bps transfermode Full-duplex (Talk & Listen simultaneously) (r/w) Half-duplex (Talk or Listen, not at the same time) Simplex –...
  • Page 54 (r/w) Turn on flickless (1/100 NTSC, 1/120 PAL) update Update the above settings mode Preview Apply the parameter of image but not save Restore Restore the last saved image parameters Save Directly save the adjust image parameters Group: Motion NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION enabled...
  • Page 55 NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION enable 0, 1 Enable or disable the UPNP service. (r/w) <1> Group: App NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION scriptname <text string shorter than 255 File name of script (r/w) characters> <script.vssx> enablescript Disable script (r/w) Enable script Group: Feature NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION...
  • Page 56 method Get parameters, if no parameter followed, all the parameters value will be listed. Otherwise, it will list followed parameter value. Set parameters normal Display normal application page contents Disable/Enable Sunday weekly schedule check box Disable/Enable Monday weekly schedule check box Disable/Enable Tuesday weekly schedule check box Disable/Enable Wednesday weekly schedule check box Disable/Enable Thursday weekly schedule check box...

  • Page 57: Drive The Digital Output

    Drive the digital output Note: This request requires the privilege of I/O access control. Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/setdo.cgi?do1=<state>[&do2=<state>] [&do3=<state>][&do4=<state>][&return=<return page>] Where state is H, L. H means NC (normal close) connected with COMMON and L means NO (normal open) connected with COMMON. The number of DO dependents on the server type. parameter Value description...
  • Page 58 Query status of the digital output Note: This request requires the privilege of I/O access control. Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/getdo.cgi?[do1][&do2][&do3][&do4] If no parameter is specified, all the status of digital output will be returned. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n Content-Length: <length>\r\n \r\n [do1=<state>]\r\n...

  • Page 59: System Logs

    [&privilege=<value>][…][&return=<return page>] parameter value description method Add an account to server. When using this method, “username” field is necessary. It will use default value of other fields if not specified. delete Remove an account from server. When using this method, “username”...

  • Page 60: System Information

    Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/admin/configfile.cgi Server will return the up-to-date configuration file. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n Content-Length: <configuration file length>\r\n \r\n <configuration data>\r\n System Information Note: This request requires normal user privilege Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/sysinfo.cgi Server will return the system information. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n...

  • Page 61: Technical Specifications

    215mm (L) x 90 mm (W) x 65 mm (H) Up to 25 frames at 704x576 pixels - Weight - Camera specifications 500g TV7210/TV7211: 380TVL Sony Super HAD CCD 0.5 Lux @ F2.0 - Power Picture elements: 537 (H) x 597 (V) Consumption: max. 9.6W...
  • Page 62 16-Channel Record Software User manual Version 2.0...
  • Page 63 INSTALLATION........................4 .......................4 ARDWARE REQUIREMENTS ......................6 OFTWARE INSTALLATION ............6 HE FOLLOWING STEPS DESCRIBE THE SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FIRST PROGRAM START...................... 11 .........................12 AUNCHER ...........................12 ECURITY ....................13 SER INTERFACE OF AUNCHER MONITOR ........................16 ..................16 EATURES OF MONITOR SOFTWARE ......................17 ONITOR SETTINGS ........................19 OGGING IN ....................20...
  • Page 64 ..........................55 REAS ........................56 ISTOGRAM FIELD ........................56 NDICATORS ...........................57 ETTINGS ....................62 OOLS IN THE CONTROL FIELD ......................63 LERT ELECTION ......................64 LAYBACK CONTROL ......................65 ISPLAY DJUSTMENT ......................66 ANGE DJUSTMENT ..........................67 OOLS .......................68 YSTEM ONTROL...

  • Page 65: Installation

    Installation Hardware requirements Before installing this application software, please make sure that your computer meets the following minimum system requirements: Operating system: MS Windows 2000/XP CPU: 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon Memory: 256 MB SDRAM Hard disk: 40 GB Graphics: nVidia, GeForce series with 32 MB playback memory or higher...
  • Page 66 Suggestions The following suggestions will help you to run our software faster and smooth. All suggestions are optional: 1. Maximum supported HDD space 200 GB is the maximum supported hard disk space. Performance can’t be guaranteed if 2. Windows provides a system restore function. But when system restore is turned on, the disk I/O would be much worse.

  • Page 67: Software Installation

    Software installation The following steps describe the software installation. 1. After you insert the CD in the CD-ROM drive, installation starts automatically. If installation does not start automatically, open the folder on the CD and start the “autorun” program. The following installation window opens: 2.
  • Page 68 3. Click to continue installation. If the window below appears on your screen, an older version of the recorder is already installed (this is a video-only version – i.e., no audio stream is transmitted). To keep the old version, choose the second alternative. If you are installing the recorder software for the first time, this window does not appear, and you can go straight to step 4.
  • Page 69 4. The Customer Information dialog box appears. This dialog box asks you to enter a user name and a company name. Click to continue installation. Under Windows XP , you can also define access permissions. 5. Enter a root password and confirm the password. Click to continue installation.
  • Page 70 6. Choose the installation folder and click . If you want to change the installation folder, click Browse…. 7. Select a program folder where you want to install the application software and click...
  • Page 71 8. After checking all setup information, click to start file transfer and the updating of the Registry entry. 9. Click to end installation. The program is now installed.

  • Page 72: First Program Start

    First program start Before you can start the surveillance program, you have to change some IE (Internet Explorer) settings. Enable Download signed ActiveX controls under Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > Security > Custom Level > Settings. You can also find this path via the IE browser as shown in the following. Change the settings as described below.

  • Page 73: Launcher

    Launcher The Launcher is a control program that allows you to start the surveillance or playback program quickly. It also enables you to start recording before logging on. The Launcher is on the right of the Windows system bar. Security You can start the Launcher without entering your user name and password.

  • Page 74: User Interface Of Launcher

    If the Launcher is locked, the Unlock dialog box looks like this: After three failed attempts, the input field is disabled for 60 seconds. User interface of Launcher The Launcher user interface: The actual user interface for the Launcher is an icon on the Windows Start bar. If you click the icon, the pop-up menu appears.
  • Page 75 The menu options are as follows: Lock Select this function to lock the Launcher. If a user tries to open the menu, a dialog box opens and asks for the user name and password. Monitor startup mode Do not Autorun – The monitor will be run as a service but will be not invoked automatically after Windows boot up.
  • Page 76 The following table represents the privilege of each group in Launcher. Function root Power User General User Monitor Startup Mode √ User Management √ Playback √ √ Change Password √ √ √ Exit √ √ √ Lock/Unlock √ √ √ Logout √...

  • Page 77: Monitor

    Monitor Features of monitor software 1. Traditional surveillance features Realtime display P(an)T(ilt)Z(oom) Control (PTZ) Recording 2. Special surveillance features Simultaneous realtime surveillance with audio and video recording High-quality fullscreen display High compression rate Support of max. 16 cameras with different display settings Playback Event-triggered recording with preview Fast database search...

  • Page 78: Monitor Settings

    Monitor settings This section gives you an overview of the monitor settings. Some of the monitor settings are described in detail in the following sections. Misc. functions Videoarea Channel area Layout area Display frame Hard disk status Talk PTZ, DI/DO, Alertmsg. The monitor screen has the following sections: Miscellaneous functions These functions are: exit program, minimise, maximise, full-screen display, lock program, switch...
  • Page 79 Video area Here you can see the video of the selected channel in the display frame. The number of display frames depends on the camera view selected by the user. You can also make settings for the video display. Display frame You can change the display layout here.

  • Page 80: Logging In

    Logging in Authentication takes place in the Launcher. If the user was accepted by the Launcher login, the monitor view can be started without further authentication. If the user did not log in to the Launcher, the login screen appears again and has to be filled in order to display the video screen. The user protection system has three privileges, the administrator privilege (root user), power user and general user.

  • Page 81: Configuring The Camera

    Configuring the camera At first login, the application software must be configured in the Camera Configuration menu. To make this setting, you need administrator privilege. IMPORTANT: When you open the Camera Configuration menu, a warning is displayed telling you that all recording processes will be stopped. Camera configurations This section tells you about local connection settings and the function settings of each camera.
  • Page 82 Local settings Setup page Camera selections Remote setting web page Local Settings The Local Settings field contains three functions. History Insert Camera Delete Camera Insert Use this function to add a video server or network camera to the camera list. If you click “Insert”, the Insert New Channel dialog box opens.

  • Page 83: Alert And Recording Settings

    then click “Ok” to close the dialog box. The system now tries to connect to the selected camera. If the attempt is successful, the camera appears in the camera list. Delete Use this function to remove a selected video server or network camera from the camera list. History Use this function to display a list of the last 16 (max.) cameras added to the current camera list.
  • Page 84 Recording Settings Name In diesem Feld kann die eigene Adresse näher spezifiziert werden. If you leave this field blank, it is given the value <Default>. The default value links the character string in the Text on Video field of the server with an underscore and the channel index. Record x secs.

  • Page 85: Global Settings

    Saving your changes Click in the bottom left corner of the screen to save all camera setting changes. NOTE: If you want to change the remote settings of a video server / network camera on the website on the right of this window, you have to confirm these changes by clicking Save on this page (for changes to the settings of the local IP surveillance system and for setting changes of the video server / network camera, the Save buttons are different).
  • Page 86 Backup status information Directory Settings Snapshot Directory Snapshots of the video channels in *.bmp format are saved in this directory. Recording Directory The recorded video data is saved in this directory. Scheduler Directory The basic settings of the schedules (plots) and the user-defined schedules for the recording program of each channel are saved in this directory.
  • Page 87 Internet Settings Set the proxy server and IP filter after clicking . This setting is for connecting the remote video server or the network cameras to the intranet via the proxy server. The proxy server is activated by clicking this selection field. If both the proxy server and IP restrictions are enabled, the listed IP addresses are not used as proxy server.
  • Page 88 Backup Settings Select the directory for the video database backup – e.g., a remote hard disk – and set the size of the backup medium. Backup Location Select This field contains the settings for the backup and the deletion of the video database. Mark the selection field to choose the channels for which you want a backup.
  • Page 89 Display & UI settings Options of video display and alert settings can be modified in Display & UI settings dialog. Recording and monitoring can be continued when you open this dialog. Local Alert Settings You can select individual sound files (*.wav) for the alarm result. Press the Play button (with the right-facing black arrow) to hear the selected sound.
  • Page 90 Display Options There are two status displays for each display screen. The upper display shows the camera location and the local time of the recording location. The lower display shows the connection time and the recording time. Each display can be switched on or off. You can also enable full screen mode.
  • Page 91 Apply to new device After reconnected to network camera or video server, if monitor found that the server type has changed, for example, the original camera is with built-in PT lens, but the connected device is a video server. This setting tells the monitor to accept the new device and use the previous setting values (such as schedule and recording media type, …...

  • Page 92: Operating Elements Of The Monitor View

    Operating elements of the monitor view Connecting to video server / network camera Channel After connecting the video server / network camera, you can drag the camera and drop it in the video area. If no camera is selected for a channel, the channel number is underlaid grey. If a camera is selected for a channel, the channel number is shown in blue.
  • Page 93 No Connection Connected an monitoring Recording Reconnect Configured Channel Selected Channel Not configured channel Trash If you don’t want to monitor a video any more, you can drag it (in the video area) to the trash can (in the Common control field). The following steps describe the Drag and Drop procedure.

  • Page 94: Video Display Of A Specific Channel

    Video display of a specific channel 1. Move the mouse pointer to a channel number. Display frame Display frame No droppable area Press the left mouse button and keep it pressed, and drag the mouse pointer to the display field in the video area. The mouse pointer shows whether the selected object can be dropped in the selected area.
  • Page 95 Similarly, you can drag channels from their current display window to a free display window. You can perform these functions by a simple drag and drop with the mouse. This makes customising the layout of the video display for surveillance simple and convenient. Note: In all layouts, the monitor automatically connects newly inserted channels to free display windows –...

  • Page 96: Closing A Channel In The Display Window

    Closing a channel in the display window 1. Move the mouse pointer to the display window assigned to the channel you want to close. The mouse pointer changes to a hand when it is moved to the display window. Press the left mouse button and keep it pressed.

  • Page 97: Camera View

    Camera view There are six ways of showing the display window in the monitor tool. Left-clicking the desired view activates this view. In any layout, you can select the channel number and move it via Drag and Drop to any display window of the video area. The video recordings of the corresponding channel are displayed.
  • Page 98 Back to previous layout If you want to view pictures from a camera in a multi-camera layout, double-click the display window of this channel in the video area. The display window is now the same size as for a single frame view.

  • Page 99: Input/Output Control Tool

    Input/output control tool Pan/Tilt/Zoom control Alert message Digitaler In-/ Output The application software provides three other utilities for monitoring the video servers / network cameras of the connected channel. Click the respective button to change to the different control programs: PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) control, DI/DO (Digital Input / Digital Output) control, and warning messages.
  • Page 100 DI/DO control Click the DI/DO button to open the DI/DO control panel. Only users with administrator privilege have access to the DI/DO control of the remote video server / network camera. The colour of the channel number shows the state of the DI (digital input) of the channel. Click the Switch button to switch between HI/LOW state of the DO (digital output).

  • Page 101: Warning Messages

    Warning messages If motion detection or alarm input is active, an alert message appears in this field if an alarm is triggered by a user-defined movement or by a change in the digital input level. Use the scroll bar to view earlier alert messages. The message consists of two parts, the time and the channel: time=>alarm type #channel number(window1,window2,window3) The message “11:54:00=>MO #6(0,1,1)”...

  • Page 102: Talk Control

    Talk Control Talk control is shown as follows: Talk available Talk unavailable No Connection No connection Talk volume setting Talk available When the connected videoserver/network camera product supports the feature of 2-way audio, talk with remote side is available. User can click the button to establish talk channel. Talk unavailable Talk may be unavailable if the connected Videoserver/Network camera product doesn’t support 2- way audio feature.

  • Page 103: Backup

    Backup Click Backup to copy a recorded video to another medium, according to the size and storage location that you define. You can save the video data manually to any portable storage medium (e.g., CD-ROM, ZIP disk, DVD-RAM or tape). After configuring the backup settings, activate the backup operations by clicking Configurations \ Backup (see above).

  • Page 104: Miscellaneous Functions

    Miscellaneous functions Configurations Minimize Quit Fullscreen Stop alert sound Lock This section describes other functions represented by icons. These functions can be used independently of the channel selected. Quit Click this icon to exit the program with the settings last saved. Minimize Click this button to minimise the monitor window.

  • Page 105: Common Control Functions

    Common control functions End Record Trash Volume Printer Record Moment- aufnahme This section describes the common control functions represented by icons. These functions can only be used for the currently focused channels. Volume Click this button to regulate the volume (if the camera supports audio functions). Record Click this button to manually activate video recording for the selected channel.
  • Page 106 Multiple focus Some functions can be used for two or more cameras simultaneously, such as PTZ monitoring, volume regulation, recording, stop recording, printer and snapshot. First select the cameras for which you want to make settings, and then perform the functions (PTZ monitoring, recording, etc.).

  • Page 107: Scheduler

    Scheduler The scheduler helps you to schedule the recording time of selected channels. You can schedule recording for every channel via the graphical user interface or the period selection function. Scheduler features: User-friendly graphical user interface Flexible planning schemes suitable for almost every requirement Individual scheduling for each channel Automatic periodic recording Starting the scheduler...
  • Page 108 Layout and functions This section describes the layout and functions of the scheduler. Introduction The figure below shows the arrangement of the scheduler elements. The layout is divided into four areas: At the top of the scheduler, you select the cameras. This area contains IP addresses and location information of the connected channel.
  • Page 109 The fourth section contains buttons for saving, loading and undoing settings, and a button to close the scheduler. Functions of the configuration components Location IP-Address Channel If you click a line to select a channel, the scheduler automatically loads the schedule assigned to this channel.
  • Page 110 Clear Deletes all entries in the schedule of the selected channel that you have just edited. Save Saves changes to the current schedule. Save as... Saves changes to the current schedule under a different file name from the current file name. Close Closes the scheduler.
  • Page 111 Hour scale The next figure shows the hour scale. This contains the specification time scale and the scheduling information. Marking the recording time Use the left mouse button to mark times on this scale. Settings on the hour scale are made in the same way as on the week scale.
  • Page 112 Apply and Delete buttons After selecting the Begin and End times, you choose the period for which they are to apply. Click the Apply button to save these three settings. To delete all settings you have just made, click the Delete button.
  • Page 113 high: The event is triggered by a digital HI input signal. low: The event is triggered by a digital LOW input signal. rising: The event is triggered by a rising digital input signal. falling: The event is triggered by a falling digital input signal. Scheduling in continuous mode If you select Continuous mode, recording is made regularly according to the user-defined schedule.

  • Page 114: Playback Mode

    Playback mode Features of playback software The playback module of this software is efficient, user-friendly and convenient. You can use it to search the video database. Three display modes are available – normal, event-related and three playback modes. List of features Playback Playback from beginning, stop, pause Forward...

  • Page 115: Logging In

    System control Lock System settings Minimise Miscellaneous Location selection Alarm window selection Logging in The authentication prompt (login window) is part of the Launcher. If you have authenticated yourself there, you can start playback without further security queries. Otherwise the Launcher login window appears in which you have to authenticate yourself.

  • Page 116: Areas

    When you log in, the main window opens and the screen resolution is automatically set to 1024x768 if the previous resolution was less. This window has four main areas: the display area, the histogram field, the control area and the status area. There are also three visual indicators: the range selection indicator, the selection area and the pull bar (slider).

  • Page 117: Histogram Field

    Histogram field The histogram is an interactive display with which the position in the time domain of the event and the motion percentage can be displayed. From the histogram field, you can select a group of events or a specific period. Picture selection frame The functions of this control area are used primarily for a database search (except for the page selection function).

  • Page 118: Settings

    Slider The slider is a fast, flexible tool in the search for specific data of a selected period. You can position the slider over the whole length of this period to define a start time from which the video recording is to be played. If playback is interrupted, the time you selected is shown on the display area.
  • Page 119 AVI Compressor We use a colour depth of 24 bits to export AVI files in this mode. When selecting the AVI compressor, you can choose a compression method supported by your computer (both video and audio). Due to different compression methods, this can vary from computer to computer. Modulation Mode The modulation mode defines the video size on the screen.
  • Page 120 Time Format There are two kinds of time format (12-hour, 24-hour) that can be selected by user to determine the time format in the upper statur bar of display area. Snapshot Format Two formats (jpg, bmp) can be selected by user to determine the file format of snapshot. Normal playback mode There are different methods of starting video sequences in normal display mode: (1) Change the database path to the required sequences in the Settings dialog box.
  • Page 121 In normal display mode (single frame), you can use all playback tools except frame selection. In this mode, the start and end times of the respective time period are displayed under the slider. Histogram field Inverted area Dark area The histogram field of the normal display shows only the time of the event and the percentage of detected movements as a red bar.
  • Page 122 Page up Site status Diplayed event number Page down Histogram Total Event Count Histogram Legend If you click Legend over the histogram field, a box opens explaining the meaning of the colours of the histogram.

  • Page 123: Tools In The Control Field

    Tools in the control field This section tells you how to use the tools in the control field. Selection tools The next figure shows the selection tools: location, start time (for selecting the start time of a period), end time (for selecting the end time of a period), playback method and alert area. Location Select the camera whose pictures you want to see.

  • Page 124: Alert Area Selection

    Period Start Time / Period End Time Select the start and end times of a new period. The end time must be later than the start time. After specifying the start and end times, click the playback button on the navigation wheel. The system plays the contents of the new period in the display area and changes the information in the start and end time legend.

  • Page 125: Playback Control

    Playback control Playback is controlled by a navigation wheel. All buttons except the playback button can control the video recordings in normal display mode and the selected video recordings in the event preview. Speed indicator Pause Play Step forward Stop Playback from the beginning The function of the playback button varies according to the selected mode.

  • Page 126: Display Adjustment

    Fast and slow playback The playback speed can be increased or decreased by any factor up to 16. This function gives you more flexibility in paging through your surveillance database. To change the playback speed, just rotate the speed indicator. To increase the speed, rotate the indicator in a clockwise direction. To decrease the speed, rotate the indicator in an anticlockwise direction.

  • Page 127: Range Adjustment

    Range Adjustment If you move the mouse pointer over the histogram field, the Display Adjustment toolbox is replaced by the Range Adjustment toolbox. You can now quickly change the range of the displayed time interval. With this toolbox, you can page through the database of a recording location.

  • Page 128: Tools

    Tools Data converter Use the data converter to convert the played-back video sequence into an AVI file. Click the data converter button to start conversion. The speed of data export depends on the speed of your computer. You can stop export at any time during data conversion by clicking the data converter button again.

  • Page 129: System Control

    System Control The system control tools provide basic functions for the playback software. Lock window If you have to leave your workplace, you should lock the playback window for security reasons. Just click the “lock window” button to lock the window. The main window is now hidden and a login dialog box opens.
  • Page 130 DIGI-LAN Manual fort he Installation Wizard...
  • Page 131 Installation Install Software Following are the steps for the software installation. Put the Installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and the installation should start automatically. If the installation does not start, click on “Start” on the lower left corner of your screen, open “My Computer”...
  • Page 132 Select the installation directory for this application software and click on “Next”. You can also change the installation directory from the Default directory by clicking on “Browse…” Select a program folder to install the application software into and then click on “Next”. Click on “Finish”...
  • Page 133 Usage User Interface Once you run the Installation Wizard, you will see the user interface. You can click on the device list to select device. The three buttons (Setup, Upgrade, and Reset to default) won’t be enabled until you select at least one device. InstallWizard allows you to setup or upgrade multiple devices (of the same model) at the same time.
  • Page 134 Action buttons Search Click on this button to clean up the device list and search all devices on the Intranet again. It will take about 5 seconds. To setup or upgrade the devices that are not on the same intranet with Installation Wizard, please click on this buuton to add them manually.

  • Page 135: Hardware Setup

    Function buttons Setup Click on this button to modify the settings of the selected devices. Upgrade Click on this button to upgrade the firmware of the selected devices. Reset to default Click on this button to load the factory default value of the selected devices. Exit Click on this button to close the Installation Wizard.
  • Page 136 System Setting After connected to the selected device(s), it will switch to system setting page. “Back” Click on this button to back to the previous page or main page “Next” Click on this button to keep the settings and go to the next page.
  • Page 137 Network Setting In this page, you can change the server’s IP address, subnet mask, default router, primary dns, and secondary dns. Fix the IP address Check "Reset IP address at next boot" will force Network Camera to reconfig its IP address whenever it reboot.
  • Page 138 Wireless settings (TV7204) This configuration page is availlable at TV7204 only. Please use a network cable fort he initial installation of the camera. If you want to change the wireless settings at this time please read the pages at „Wireless setup“ in the user manual of the camera TV7204. Please check the settings before applying to the camera.

  • Page 139: Firmware Upgrade

    Firmware upgrade Initialise the uprgade When you select one device or multiple devices (of the same model), the “Upgrade” button will be enabled. Click on it to upgrade the firmware of the selected device(s). After click on the “Upgrade” button, Installation Wizard will try to connect the selected device(s). If the authentication is failed, it will popup a dialog to ask for the correct password and http port number.
  • Page 140 File Selection You can use the file combolist to browse the file that you want upgrade onto the selected device(s). After selecting the file, Installation Wizard will check whether the file you selected is correct. If it is correct, then the package information will display the information about the file and enable the “Upgrade”...

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