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Skywalk NVRs
User's Manual
Version 1.5
iSC-NVR5316-T/iSC-NVR5532-U / iSC-NVR5532R
iSC-NVR5532-A / iSC-NVR5532-D
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  • Page 1 Skywalk NVRs User’s Manual Version 1.5 iSC-NVR5316-T/iSC-NVR5532-U / iSC-NVR5532R iSC-NVR5532-A / iSC-NVR5532-D Copyright © Ingrasys Technology Inc. All rights reserved.
  • Page 2 About This Document This manual introduces Skywalk NVR for administrators and users. It covers configurations as well as instructions for using and managing Skywalk NVR on your devices. We will post this document on the official website, as required. Some countries prohibit the usage of video surveillance by various laws. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that the operation of such devices is legal before installing this unit for surveillance purposes.
  • Page 3 In addition, the symbol of “TM” is omitted in this document. Liability The preparation of this manual has taken care of everything. Ingrasys is not responsible for any technical or typographical errors and reserves the right to make changes of the product and manuals without notification.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .................. 6 1.1 Overview ....................... 6 1.2 Illustration of Hardware ..................7 2 INSTALLATION ................... 12 2.1 Installation of Server Hardware (iSC-NVR5316-T) ..........12 2.2 Installation of Server Hard Drives (iSC-NVR5532-R/A/D only) ........ 14 2.3 Installation of Windows Application on Client PC..........15 2.4 Requirements of Client PC ..................
  • Page 5 5.4 Instant Playback ....................65 5.5 eMap control ....................... 66 5.6 View and Sequence ....................68 5.7 Multiple monitor control ..................74 6 MAIN CONSOLE of SClient-PLAYBACK ..........76 6.1 Overview of User Interface................... 76 6.2 Date/Time Search ....................78 6.3 Snapshot in Playback....................
  • Page 6 8.1 Event Viewer ...................... 108 8.2 Action of Event....................111 8.3 Event Popup Window ..................111 8.4 Event log Export ....................112 9 WEB VIEWER .................. 113 9.1 Installation & Login .................... 113 10 UTILITIES ..................115 10.1 Backup Player ....................115 11 Mobile Viewer for iOS ..............

  • Page 7: Introduction

    1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview Skywalk NVR is a high performance and low cost Linux-based standalone NVR that designed to satisfy the needs for the small and medium-size business. It supports up to 16 channels of live view, four channels of playback and various important features. Skywalk NVR can integrate with our outstanding cloud surveillance solution for easy view and control via the network from anywhere.

  • Page 8: Illustration Of Hardware

    1.2 Illustration of Hardware Front view of iSC-NVR5316-T Front cover, it protects hard disks from being removed by invaders easily. Front cover lock Power button Note: This power button enables only when the front cover of Skywalk NVR is opened. It is a secure design to defend invader to power off Skywalk NVR when recording is running.
  • Page 9 Rear view of iSC-NVR5316-T Power cord socket 2 x RJ45 Network Port: In “Standalone” mode, “LAN 1” is used for WAN and “LAN 2” is used for LAN. In “Failover” mode, “LAN 1” is the primary port and “LAN 2” is the secondly port. VGA output for Local display 4 x USB port E-SATA Port...
  • Page 10 iSC-NVR5532-U Power switch Alarm mute button Fan failed LED Power LED 4 x 3.5” HDD tray Power socket Audio: Mic-in, Line-in, Line-out COM1 COM2 DVI-D HDMI 4 x USB 2.0...
  • Page 11 iSC-NVR5532-R / iSC-NVR5532-A (Redundant PSU) NVR2532-R NVR2532-A (Redundant PSU) Power switch System reset button Alarm mute button System read/write LED Power LED System alarm LED LAN1 LED LAN2 LED 2 x USB 2.0 16 x 3.5” HDD tray Power socket Audio: Mic-in, Line-in, Line-out COM1 COM2...
  • Page 12 iSC-NVR5532-D Power button System reset button Alarm mute button Power LED System alarm LED LAN1 LED LAN2 LED 2 x USB 2.0 24 x 3.5” HDD tray Power socket Audio: Mic-in, Line-in, Line-out COM1 COM2 DVI-D HDMI 4 x USB 2.0...

  • Page 13: Installation

    2 INSTALLATION 2.1 Installation of Server Hardware (iSC-NVR5316-T) Open the front cover and pull out the HDD trays from the chassis. Mount hard disks onto the HDD tray by three screws (for 3.5” HDD) or four screws (for 2.5” HDD) under the tray. 2.5 inch HDD 3.5 inch HDD...
  • Page 14 Insert the HDD tray back to the chassis and make sure the lever of the chassis is properly in place. Connect one end of your network cable to the network connector of Skywalk NVR and the other end of network cable to your Ethernet switch. Connect USB keyboard and mouse to rear side.

  • Page 15: Installation Of Server Hard Drives (Isc-Nvr5532-R/A/D Only)

    2.2 Installation of Server Hard Drives iSC-NVR5532-R/A/D only have to insert the hard drives sequence. The Setup Wizard on system will recognize the hard drives in sequence and show on the Hard Drives list (continuous number). That would be more convenient and easy to maintain locations of hard drives in the future.

  • Page 16: Installation Of Windows Application On Client Pc

    2.3 Installation of Windows Application on Client PC The section describes the installation of the powerful SClient Windows AP that manages Skywalk NVR easily. It provides configurations of video channels for live view, instant video/audio playback, monitoring through eMap, historical data playback, event notifications and etc.
  • Page 17 You can change the installation folder or click Next button directly to install in the default folder. Click Next button to start the installation.
  • Page 18 The Wizard will show you the progress of installation. Click Close button to complete the installation after the progress completes.

  • Page 19: Requirements Of Client Pc

    2.4 Requirements of Client PC For better system performance, your computer should meet the following requirements. Client PC is used for Windows AP or web client of Skywalk NVR. Hardware platform Intel Core2™ Duo, minimum 2.0 GHz (recommended Quad Core for larger views) RAM: Minimum 512 MB (recommended 1 GB for larger views) HDD: Minimum 100 MB free Graphics Card...

  • Page 20: Installation Of Ios And Android Apps

    Skywalk NVR also supports free App named SViewer on Android system. You just need to search Ingrasys on Play Store, install and enjoy that. After installing SViewer, you may launch the App directly or tap the shortcut...

  • Page 21: Quick Start On Local Display

    3 QUICK START on LOCAL DISPLAY 3.1 Basic Settings of Local Display The following steps will instruct you to set the basic settings of Skywalk NVR including Server Name, Date/Time, Password, Network, iSecuCloud Service and RAID creating through the local Display. Currently, local display supports 1440x900 resolution. Please follow the steps to setup Skywalk NVR by local display: You will see the login page from local display (VGA) as below snapshot.
  • Page 22 Setup Wizard will instruct you to set necessary settings step by step. This page shows you the NVR information. You can input NVR name and description to apply to the remote client application (SClient) for further recognition purpose. Then click Save button to save the information.
  • Page 23 Set time zone, day light saving and date/time. Setting consistent time zone is very important to synchronize recording data when playback video by remote clients. The time will spring forward for 1 hour after enabling Day light saving. Click Save button then click icon to move to next step.
  • Page 24 You can select Dual mode or Redundant Mode by your circumstance. We strongly suggest you inputting static IP address manually for Skywalk NVR as a server. Click Save button and it will pop up a dialog box of Network Info. Confirm the settings and then click icon to move to next step.
  • Page 25 Skywalk NVR supports Ingrasys iSecuCloud Service. You can enable it (connecting router has to support UPnP NAT-T) to register Skywalk NVR to iSecuCloud server for monitoring Skywalk NVRs and IP Cameras from anywhere via internet. You can enable Manual settings and input the port mapping as your router if your router does not support UPnP NAT.
  • Page 26 (11) 3U and 4U models (iSC-NVR5532-R/ iSC-NVR5532-A/ iSC-NVR5532-D) support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10. The system uses LSI RAID card that supports alarm buzzer. You may check “Alarm Enable” to activate the buzzer for triggering alarm of RAID status. Once the buzzer is triggered, you can click the Alarm Silence to mute it.
  • Page 27 (13) After the RAID creating completes, click icon to move to next step. Setup Wizard will show the summary for confirming all settings are correct. Click Reboot button then click OK button to reboot system. After system is ready, please install SClient application in client PC for adding IP cameras and further configurations.

  • Page 28: Adding Ip Camera(S) On Local Display

    3.2 Adding IP Camera(s) on Local Display This section describes how to login Skywalk NVR on local display, discover and add IP Cameras for Video/Audio Live View, Recording, Event log checking, Playback and etc. (1) You will see the login page from local display (VGA) as below snapshot. (2) Input username and password then click to login and start the basic settings after reboot system.
  • Page 29 Note 1: Please make sure the Port and Password are as same as the settings of IP camera. You can edit them if the value is wrong and unable to Preview the image of IP camera. Note 2: Do not forget to input the Device Name for adding IP cameras. Note 3: Default HTTP port is 80 (range of setting value: 1~65535), the allowed maximum characters for Device Name are 24.
  • Page 30 (7) If you want to delete the IP cameras, click the icon again and click the trashcan on the channel you want to delete. (8) Then it will pop up a confirmation window. Click Yes button to delete IP camera.

  • Page 31: Overview Of Live View

    3.3 Overview of Live View System Time & Monitoring the alarm of CPU Loading, Memory Utilization, CPU Temperature: It displays the system date/time and current CPU loading, memory utilization, CPU temperature for users to monitor the alarm status of CPU usage. The icon will change to yellow color while alarm triggered.
  • Page 32 Device Tree List: Skywalk NVR, it displays the host name of Skywalk NVR behind the icon. The host name can be modified via Settings -> System >> General -> NVR Information -> NVR name. Disconnected, camera disconnected by some reasons. You may check connection settings to reconnect to it.
  • Page 33 Sequence button, you can click this button to start sequential view after setting sequence display. PTZ button, you can click this button to launch the PTZ control panel if your camera supports PTZ function. This function can be enabled in device setting (select channel ->...
  • Page 34 Gallery button, clicking the Gallery button to launch the Snapshot folder for reviewing the snapshots. Broadcast button, clicking this button pops up the device list. You can select partial or all IP cameras and start to broadcast/ multicast. 3 buttons of Preferred Layouts, you can quick select the layouts to replace the current layout.
  • Page 35 ePTZ button, clicking this button and scrolling mouse wheel to zoom in or zoom out; holding left button of mouse to control Pan and Tilt. Audio button, you can click Audio button to enable/disable the audio output. Note 1: Please make sure you have audio recording on the channel. Note 2: iSC-NVR5316-T has No audio jack: Mic-in, Line-in and Line-out.
  • Page 36 Information button, it shows the settings of RAID Mode and Network of Skywalk NVR. Setting button, it shows the personal information including Name, Real Name, Role, E-mail, Phone and Mobile. Logout button, you can log out user account and return to login page. Current Events Widget: it shows the current events.
  • Page 37 Instant Playback Control bar: this provides the operations of Step Backward, Pause, Stop, Playback, Step Forward, Speed Control, Date/Time Search and Time Interval Note: Only allow one instant playback channel at the same time. Display Area: you can drag and drop IP cameras into the area to play live view and playback here.

  • Page 38: Overview Of Events

    3.4 Overview of Events System Time & Monitoring the alarm of CPU Loading, Memory Utilization, CPU Temperature: It displays the system date/time and current CPU loading, memory utilization, CPU temperature for users to monitor the alarm status of CPU usage. The icon will change to yellow color while alarm triggered.
  • Page 39 Functional Tabs: Skywalk NVR includes 3 main modes: Live View, Events log and System Settings. System Function: It shows the infomration of current user and the version of Skywalk NVR. Please refer to Chapter 3.3.F for detail. Conditions Setting: You can filter the event logs by setting the conditions including Category, Camera and Event Type.
  • Page 40 Video Ratio button, you can click this button to toggle the size of video image between original ratio (e.g.16:9 or 4:3) and fitting the window. Manual Snapshot button, you can click this button can take a snapshot of current video and save the file in the folder of Skywalk NVR. Users can review the images with the Gallery function that is on Main control bar.

  • Page 41: Overview Of Settings

    3.5 Overview of Settings (1) You can go to Settings -> System >> Hardware Monitor to setup the alarm threshold. Note 1: The range of setup value for CPU temperature should be between 45~90 Note 2: The range of setup value for CPU loading should be between 60~100 Note 3: The range of setup value for Memory utilization should be between 60~100 (2) You can go to Settings ->...
  • Page 42 (4) You can expand capacity and add new HDD by Settings -> Storage >> Disk Management on local display. To avoid RAID configuration error, you should prevent the system from powering off or restart during the process of expanding or adding HDD. The rebuild time of RAID configuration depends on the amount of data stored in RAID.
  • Page 43 For Mini-tower and 1U models (iSC-NVR5316-T / iSC-NVR5532-U) For 3U Models (iSC-NVR5532-R / iSC-NVR5532-A) For 4U Models (iSC-NVR5532-D)

  • Page 44: Expand Capacity Of Disk Management

    3.6 Expand Capacity of Disk Management When one of the HDD is damaged or the disk space is running out, it allows users to expand capacity of hard drives by replacing drives one by one in Disk Management. This expanded function supports three RAID types including RAID 1, 5 and 10.
  • Page 45 (3) It reloads the current configuration and pops up a dialog box automatically “1. Please remove the HDD from Disk 02. 2. And insert the new HDD into Disk 02. 3. After finish 1.2, then click OK.”. (4) Now, plug out the original HDD from system and insert the new HDD into original tray. After that, click OK button to reload the current RAID configuration.
  • Page 46 (5) It will start to process the RAID configuration automatically. (6) It will pop up a dialog box “Expanding is ready” and the new HDD will show after “RAID Processing 100%”. Click OK button to close the dialog box.

  • Page 47: Add New Hdd Of Disk Management

    3.7 Add New HDD of Disk Management This function allows users to add new HDDs in Disk Management. Mini-tower and 1U models support three RAID types including RAID 1 and 5. In contrast, 3U and 4U models support four RAID types including RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. Please follow the steps to add new HDDs: (1) Insert a new HDD into the disk tray and click Refresh button.
  • Page 48 (3) It will start adding the new HDD into the RAID configuration. (4) It will pop up a dialog box “It is complete! Please, press OK and the system will reboot.” after “RAID Processing 100%”. Click OK button to reboot system and the process is complete.

  • Page 49: Quick Start On Application

    4 QUICK START on APPLICATION 4.1 Discovering and Adding IP Camera(s) on SClient This section describes how to login Skywalk NVR via SClient remotely on your Windows PC. You can discover and add IP Cameras into Skywalk NVR for Video/Audio Live View, Recording, Event management, Playback and etc.
  • Page 50 Select one Skywalk NVR that you would like to login then click OK button. The IP address of Skywalk NVR will display on the column of “Server IP Address” automatically. Input correct username and password then click Login button enter the page of user interface of SClient. Note 1: You may skip searching Skywalk NVR to input IP address directly if you already knew the IP information.
  • Page 51 SClient will pop-up the Smart Wizard automatically for the first time of installation (refer to step (8) directly). Otherwise, you may select Settings tab and choose Device from left tree panel to start Smart Wizard manually for adding additional cameras. Click the icon to start Smart Wizard.
  • Page 52 Select preferred cameras or check Add column to select all cameras automatically. Then you may click Add button directly to add selected cameras quickly without changing camera settings including recording mode, record stream, preview stream and mobile stream. (Refer to Chapter 4.2 for detail.) Note: The recording mode will be set as “No Recording”...
  • Page 53 (11) Congratulations! You’ve just completed the basic settings. Please enjoy our surveillance solution.

  • Page 54: Setting Ip Camera(S)

    4.2 Setting IP camera(s) Select preferred cameras or check Add column to select all cameras automatically. Click Next button to next step. Note: If camera’s account, password, HTTP port or RTSP port were changed, you can double click related column to modify the values. Setting of Smart Wizard, you can select the stream of IP cameras for Record, Preview and Mobile.
  • Page 55 Summary of Smart Wizard, system will ask you to install the cameras. Click Yes button to install cameras then the Smart Wizard will display the result of adding devices. Click Finish button to close the wizard. It will display the device tree of added cameras. Please enjoy our surveillance solution.

  • Page 56: Main Console Of Sclient-Live View

    5 MAIN CONSOLE of SClient-LIVE VIEW 5.1 Overview of User Interface System Time of Client PC & CPU Monitoring: Displaying the system date/time of client PC and current CPU loading for users to modify video resolution or channel numbers to reduce CPU usage Tree Panel: Listing Device/eMap/View tree and displaying camera status for users to control the monitoring conveniently...
  • Page 57 Not Recording, camera does not enable recording. SensorIn, indicate that the camera supports digital input as event source. AlarmOut, indicate that the camera supports digital output as event action. eMap Tree eMap icon, you can expand the tree in the eMap tab then drag & drop maps into display area (refer to Chapter 5.5 for detail) for monitoring the camera’s location, events and actions easier.
  • Page 58 Alarm button, you may set event actions (refer to Chapter 7.10 for detail) to alarm with sound in SClient by PC’s buzzer or speaker when event happens. You can click the Alarm button to mute this sound after noticing the event. Volume button, you can control the volume of the alarm sound and the audio of displaying channel on SClient.
  • Page 59 Functional Tabs: Skywalk NVR includes 3 main modes: Live View, Playback and System Settings. Display Layout: Skywalk NVR provides 16 sets of default layouts and 4 sets of customized layouts (refer to Chapter 7.1.2 for detail) for live view with different channels.

  • Page 60: Live Display

    5.2 Live Display In the Live View interface, Skywalk NVR provides 16 sets of default layout for users to determine how many channels of IP cameras will display on one page. Select preferred one to get better monitoring efficiency. Drag & drop NVR from left tree to the display area to start Live View monitoring. It depends on the layouts to display video channels of all IP cameras on the device tree sequentially.
  • Page 61 You can also drag & drop the IP cameras from camera list of left tree to the display area one by one for more flexible arrangement to monitor the most important video channels. You can double click one channel on the display area to switch to single display when you are viewing multi channels of live view.
  • Page 62 The function bar will show up while you select one channel and move mouse cursor to the bottom of the display window. Disconnect: clicking this button to disconnect the displaying channel ePTZ: clicking this button and scrolling mouse wheel to zoom in or zoom out; holding left button of mouse to control Pan and Tilt.
  • Page 63 Snapshot Viewer: clicking this button will pop up a window to display the snapshot foldersand thumbnailsof this channel. You may expand the folders to find outthe snapshots by date. Audio Listening: clicking this button will hear the live audio on the Client PC if your IP camera has enabled audio recording.

  • Page 64: Ptz Camera Control

    5.3 PTZ Camera Control You can click the button to call out the PTZ control panel if your camera supports PTZ function. Directional Control AutoScan Speed Setting Zoom In/Out Focus Setting Go To Present Point Mode Set Preset Point Directional Control Controlling cameras with eight directions remotely Click this button to move camera with all preset points one by one.
  • Page 65 After clicking Auto Scan button, the camera will start to move position to all preset points one by one automatically and continuously until you click the button again to stop the scanning. You may click Mode button to change to Patrol mode. This mode will only move the camera to preferred positions for patrol purpose.

  • Page 66: Instant Playback

    5.4 Instant Playback SClient allows you to playback the video instantly from the live view channel. It is convenient for you to check the historical video quickly. The function bar will appear while moving the mouse cursor to the bottom of the video channel.

  • Page 67: Emap Control

    5.5 eMap control Click the eMap tab in the left tree panel. Drag & drop the map to the display area and you will see the eMap display with the video channels. Note: You can double click the map to switch to single display. Double click the map icon and you will enter to next layer of map for camera location and related information.
  • Page 68 Move mouse cursor to the bottom of the map then click the icon to go back to upper layer of map. You can also drag and drop the 2 or deeper layers map to the display area directly. The camera icon will be blinking with red and green color once any event triggered.

  • Page 69: View And Sequence

    5.6 View and Sequence The View is a screen arrangement of display layout with camera videos. It can customize the preferred display layout with preferred camera videos for live view monitoring. You can save different screen arrangements of View by clicking Add button for future use. By doing so, it would be easier to manage the Views you would like to see simply by dragging and dropping the saved Views to the display area.
  • Page 70 SClient will pop-up a dialog for inputting the View name after clicking add button. Input View Name and click Add button to save the View (screen arrangement). SClient will save and list the View on the tree panel as below. Repeating step 1 to step 4 can add Views as more as you want.
  • Page 71 Dragging and dropping the Views to the display area will change the screen arrangement immediately as you saved in the Views by different View Name. Without View Pubic View Private Area...
  • Page 72 Example 2: repeat step 1 to set the screen arrangement first. The following steps will instruct you to manage Views by adding Category. Click Category button to create a category. Input category name. Click Add button to create the category Input View name and select Category.
  • Page 73 (11) Based on the created view groups, you can click Sequence button to add saved Views for sequential view. (12) Click Add button to select View group for sequential view. (13) Input group name of sequence and click the preferred Views in the window of View group.
  • Page 74 (14) Click the View group and click OK button to start the sequential view (refer to Chapter 7.1 for changing time interval of Sequence mode). (15) You can click Sequence button again to stop the sequential view.

  • Page 75: Multiple Monitor Control

    5.7 Multiple monitor control SClient supports multiple monitors for displaying the Live View, Playback, Settings window at the same time. You can drag and drop the tab to the 2 or following monitors to display related window. Connect multiple monitors to your client PC (with add-on graphic card). Go to Settings ->...
  • Page 76 You may drag Live View tab to all monitors for monitoring more video channels at the same time. Monitor 1 Monitor 2 Monitor 3 Monitor 4...

  • Page 77: Main Console Of Sclient-Playback

    6 MAIN CONSOLE of SClient-PLAYBACK 6.1 Overview of User Interface Tree Panel: Device list is for users to drag and drop into display area for playback purpose. General Function for Playback: It includes Alarm, Volume, Backup, Upload to YouTube, Keep Ratio, Full Screen, View Task, Disconnect all and Event Viewer. Alarm button, you can set event actions (refer to Chapter 7.10 for detail) to alarm with sound in SClient by PC’s buzzer or speaker when event happens.
  • Page 78 Volume button, you can control the volume of the alarm sound and the audio of displaying channel on SClient. Backup button, clicking this button to backup recording data to local USB drive of Skywalk NVR or selected SMB shared folder through network.

  • Page 79: Date/Time Search

    6.2 Date/Time Search In the UI of Playback, you will see the calendar at the bottom left corner. You may select the preferred date and time for searching the historical video data. Choose the display layouts for playing back video later. Drag and drop the preferred channels to the display area one by one then it will display available data in the Time Slider.
  • Page 80 Click the playback button to start the video playback. The function bar of Playback will show up after moving mouse cursor to the bottom of the display channel. Disconnection: click this button to disconnect the displaying channel. ePTZ: click the button and scroll mouse wheel to zoom in or zoom out. It can control Pan and Tilt.
  • Page 81 Snapshot: clicking on the button can take a snapshot of current video channel and save the file into the folder of Client PC. (Default path is C:\ProgramData\SClient\Snapshot\ManualSnapShot\, it can be modified via Settings -> Client System -> General-> Gallery) Snapshot Viewer: SClient will pop up a window to display the snapshot folders and thumbnails of this channel.

  • Page 82: Snapshot In Playback

    6.3 Snapshot in Playback Select the preferred video and move the mouse cursor to the bottom of the displaying channel and then click the Save button The image (snapshot) will save to the assigned path of PC. (The default path can be modified from Settings ->...

  • Page 83: Smart Search

    6.4 Smart Search The Smart Search can help users to search the specific data of historical video with time. This feature will find out the possible events by the algorithm of motion detection with action zone. You can select the preferred video, move mouse cursor to the bottom of the displaying channel and then click the Smart Search button System will pop up a window for you to set searching condition.
  • Page 84 Click Search button to start the smart search. The search results will display on the dialog. You may click on one of these results then click Select button to return to playback UI. System will set the time slider to the related time automatically and you may click playback button to see the related video after that.

  • Page 85: Saving Video

    6.5 Saving Video You can save the historical video/audio data to local PC that is running the SClient. Please refer to the following steps to save the video. You can select the preferred video, move mouse cursor to the bottom of the displaying channel and then click the Save Video button You may set the time and File Format then click Save button to export the AVI or an EXE file of video data.
  • Page 86 After exported the video data, you may run Windows Media Player to view the AVI file or execute the EXE file directly as below. The EXE file has saved with player that you do not need to run other players to playback the video. Besides, it allows you to add additional watermark when saving the video data.

  • Page 87: Backing Up

    6.6 Backing up Skywalk NVR allows you to backup all important recording data to remote PC/Server via SMB/CIFS protocol or local USB disk (connected to Skywalk NVR) easily. It is easy to connect Skywalk NVR to My Network Places of Windows Platform or any shared points, too. Click the Backup button on the general function panel of Playback.
  • Page 88 SMB. Click Start Backup button to backup after all settings done. Note: The file format of AVS is raw data of Skywalk NVR that Ingrasys provides external player to playback this kind of format. (Refer to Chapter 10.1 for detail.) Please contact your distributor to get the player.

  • Page 89: Uploading Network Storage

    6.7 Uploading Network Storage Skywalk NVR supports to upload specific historical data to third party storage. This section will instruct you to upload the data to YouTube or Dropbox Drag and drop one preferred video channel to the display area of playback and click the display channel.
  • Page 90 You may click the View Task icon to see the status of running task. After the process is completed, you may login YouTube or Dropbox to check the uploading video.

  • Page 91: Main Console Of Sclient-Settings

    7 MAIN CONSOLE of SClient-SETTINGS 7.1 Settings-System Click Settings tab and you will see the page of Client System as below. CPU Threshold Alerting: you may set the ThresholdAlerting to monitor the CPU loading of SClient. The system information tab will become red color to alarm you once the CPU loading is over the threshold.
  • Page 92 Event Notification: it supports Event Notifications including Event Popup Window, Device Tree Alarming, Buzzer, or Sound Play on SClient side. Once events happened, SClient will notify you immediately. If you enable the action of Sound Play, please click … button to choose a sound file (*.wav) for playing the sound. Click Save button to apply the settings.

  • Page 93: Settings-Emap

    7.2 Settings-eMap Click Settings tab and select E-map >> E-map Management from left panel. Click add new map button, input eMap Name and Description, select an image file and Hierarchy path then click Save button to add it. Click Live tab -> eMap to check it. It would be the 1 layer of eMap shown on the eMap list.
  • Page 94 Back to Settings tab, click add new map button again to add the 2 layer of eMap. Input eMap Name and Description, select an image file and Hierarchy path under the layer of eMap then click Save button to add it. You may click Live tab -> eMap, expand the eMap of 1 layer to see the 2 layerofeMap.

  • Page 95: General Settings Of Device

    7.3 General Settings of Device Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management -> click the Skywalk NVR and then click sub-menu of General to configure. NVR Name: you may modify host name of Skywalk NVR for recognition purpsoe. Just input name (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ @ #) then click Save button to apply the name.

  • Page 96: Network Settings Of Device

    7.4 Network Settings of Device Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management -> click the Skywalk NVR then click sub-menu of Network to configure. SMTP Server: input the information of SMTP Server and add Sender email then you can send the event notification via the SMTP Server.

  • Page 97: General Settings Of Ip Camera(S)

    7.5 General Settings of IP Camera(s) Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management, choose one preferred camera then click sub-menu of General to configure. If camera connects fail, you can modify the connection settings here. After modifying to correct values, click Save button to apply and retry the connection again. If you would like to remove the camera from Skywalk NVR, click the trash can to remove it.

  • Page 98: Video Settings Of Ip Camera(S)

    SClient supports to overlay an OSD on the Live View video. You may enable OSD and change the Font Size of OSD to fit the screen size of display then click Save button to apply it. 7.6 Video Settings of IP Camera(s) Click Settings tab and select Device >>...
  • Page 99 (2) Skywalk NVR supports triple streamings for SClient or SViewer. You may select Stream and modify the settings of Video Format, Resolution, GOV, Frame Rate and Bit Rate and then click Save button to apply the settings of the IP camera directly without opening the web page of the video settings.

  • Page 100: Record Settings Of Ip Camera(S)

    7.7 Record Settings of IP Camera(s) Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management, choose one preferred camera then click sub-menu of Record to configure. You may configure the Maximum recording days of the selected camera. The time of Pre-record and Post Record is used for recording video/audio when event is triggered.
  • Page 101 Then you may modify the recording time by Schedule Setting. The default setting is Record Full Time. You can select Record Event Only and drag the edge of time bar (Blue for recording full time, Red for recording event only) to change time then click Save button to save the new schedule.

  • Page 102: Motion Detection Settings Of Ip Camera(S)

    7.8 Motion Detection Settings of IP Camera(s) Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management, choose one preferred camera then click sub-menu of Motion Detection to configure. You may select zone, enable it and change the Sensitivity and Object Size from SClient. Then click Save button to synchronize the values to camera.

  • Page 103: Di/Do Settings Of Ip Camera(S)

    7.9 DI/DO Settings of IP Camera(s) Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management, choose one preferred camera then click sub-menu of DI/DO to configure. Skywalk NVR will get the status of DI/DO from cameras. You can modify the settings from SClient then click Save button to synchronize the values to cameras.

  • Page 104: Event Settings Of Ip Camera(S)

    7.10 Event Settings of IP Camera(s) Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management, choose one preferred camera then click sub-menu of Event to configure. You can drop down the Event Type to choose event and input the Device Description to note this camera.
  • Page 105 Click Setup button to the page of Action Item Setting. Skywalk NVR supports the actions of Digital Output, PTZ, E-Mail, SMS, Buzzer and Push Notify. You may choose suitable actions for the event then click Add button to apply the settings. Note 1: Should setup the preset and home position to activate the action of PTZ.
  • Page 106 Note 4: The action of “Push Notify” is used for mobile devices-SViewer. To activate the action, you should ever logged in NVR on SViewer successfully, do NOT forget to turn ON the Notification & Sounds in mobile Settings and the NVR and mobile devices should connect to Internet.

  • Page 107: Advance Settings Of Ip Camera(S)

    7.11 Advance Settings of IP Camera(s) Click Settings tab and select Device >> Device Management, choose one preferred camera and then click sub-menu of Advance to configure. If your cameras supports PTZ feature, you may enable the PTZ function to control the camera on SClient.

  • Page 108: Settings Of Account

    7.12 Settings of Account Click Settings tab, select Account >> Role. Skywalk NVR has four roles built-in (Admin, Maintainer, Supervisor and Viewer) by default and it allows you to add and edit them. You can select one preferred role and change the Authority. Then click Save button to apply the settings.

  • Page 109: Main Console Of Sclient-Event

    8 MAIN CONSOLE of SClient-EVENT 8.1 Event Viewer Click Event Viewer button in Live View or Playback to open the Event Log Viewer. SClient can notify you the event happened via the Event Viewer button. Once you see the Event button with a number (e.g. , the number means the amount of events happened in the past time), you may click it immediately to check what events happened.
  • Page 110 In the window of Event Search, select preferred device (camera) and choose the time interval then click Query button to search events. The Log Viewer will display the search results as below.
  • Page 111 You can double click the Preview icon to check the Event snapshot window. You may double click the Playback icon to switch to Playback page and playback the recording video of that event.

  • Page 112: Action Of Event

    8.2 Action of Event Both Skywalk NVR and SClient provide you to set up actions once events happened. This feature allows you to make notifications and drive devices (via Digital Output) for saving human resource to check what happened on site. Most importantly, it is the auto-action makes your environment more secure.

  • Page 113: Event Log Export

    8.4 Event log Export SClient supports to export the event logs to excel file, you may click Export Report button to save the event logs. Click Select button to browse and choose the target path first, then input preferred file name, and then click Export button to save the excel file for backup purpose.

  • Page 114: Web Viewer

    9 WEB VIEWER 9.1 Installation & Login You can login Skywalk NVR on web page by inputting the IP address of Skywalk NVR then follow the steps below to start the Web GUI. Input the IP address of Skywalk NVR in IE web browser. If it is the first time for you to login Skywalk NVR with IE web browser, IE will pop-up a message to ask you to download plugin.
  • Page 115 System probably asks you to allow the permission or not (User Account Control). Please click Yes button to allow the program to continue the installation. After the installation is successful, please reopen IE web browser and input the IP address of Skywalk NVR again to the login page. You may input username and password to login Skywalk NVR.

  • Page 116: Utilities

    10 UTILITIES 10.1 Backup Player Backup Player allows you to playback the backup files with AVS file format (refer to Chapter 6.6). Besides, Backup Player has built in verification function to verify whether the historical data distorted or not. It is an automatic process to check the watermark (Skywalk NVR will add the digital watermark when recording data) and verify during playback the historical data.
  • Page 117 You may change the installation folder or click Next button directly to install Backup Player. Confirm the installation and click Next button to start installing Backup Player.
  • Page 118 Click Next button again to confirm the installation after the process completed. Click Close button to finish the installation. You will see a Backup Player shortcut on your desktop of Client PC after Backup Player successfully installed.
  • Page 119 (10) Double click the shortcut to start Backup Player and it will pop-up a dialog box to ask you to select backup file path. You may click “Browse” icon to select the index file of backup data (*.dat). Note: You can open the *.dat file saved from Playback -> Backup button -> SMB Type -> .avs Format.
  • Page 120 (13) It will open the GUI of Backup Player and display the historical data. (14) You may Control playback function and Search historical data via the function panel at the bottom left corner. Playback Function Panel Quick Search Event Search Thumbnail Search Date/Time Search Smart Search...
  • Page 121 (15) You may control the display with Full Screen, Division view, Save Video, Save Image, Print historical data and etc. through the function panel on the upper area. Full Screen: click this button may stretch the display area to fit the screen. Press “Esc” key can toggle to original size.

  • Page 122: Mobile Viewer For Ios

    11 Mobile Viewer for iOS Ingrasys provides remote viewer (SViewer) for connecting to Skywalk NVR and iSecuCloud service to monitor all of the registered devices on mobile devices. You may search “SViewer” on App Store and install it on your iOS devices. SViewer supports Live View and receiving Notifications of events.

  • Page 123: Live View

    11.2 Live view Tap Live view to Devices page and you will see the list of cameras that connected to Skywalk NVR. You may tap on the preferred camera to start live view of the video channel. SViewer supports four Live View channels. After seeing the 1 channel of Live View, you may scroll your finger from right to left to the next channel of live view.
  • Page 124 Scroll your finger on the camera list to see more cameras connected to the Skywalk NVR. You may drag and drop the camera to the display area of the 2 or 4 channels of live view.
  • Page 125 If your camera supports PTZ function, you may double tap on the display area to start PTZ control. You may tap Search icon >> PIP icon to view live view and playback at the same time.
  • Page 126 You can tap icon to modify date/time, click OK and tap to start Event Search. If you would like to hear the audio from camera, you can tap the Audio icon while viewing the live video. You may take snapshot by tapping the Snapshot icon when viewing the live video.
  • Page 127 (10) SViewer supports four channels of live view at the same time. You may pinch two fingers to zoom out the display of the single channel to switch to four display layouts.
  • Page 128 (11) You may rotate your mobile devices to switch display from portrait view to landscape view as below snapshots.

  • Page 129: Event Search

    11.3 Event Search Login NVR and tap Event Search to next page. You may tap to start “Search Setting” and set the Server, Device, Start Time, End Time and Event Type then click Search button. Select the event on the event list then you can click playback icon to play the video.

  • Page 130: Gallery

    11.4 Gallery (1) Login NVR and tap Gallery to Gallery page. You can find out your snapshots of Photo and Video in the Gallery.

  • Page 131: Settings

    11.5 Settings You can tap Settings on main Menu of SViewer. There are three options: a. Auto login, you can turn ON “Auto login” for reducing your time to input the user name & password to login every time. b. Notification, enable “Notification” for receiving the Notifications from Skywalk NVR once events happened.

  • Page 132: Link To Isc Service

    11.6 Link to iSC service SViewer allows you to link to iSC service. You may select Link to iSC service and input your account/password on iSC to login via SViewer. The advantage of Linking to iSC service is you can manage all of your Skywalk NVRs and IP Cameras via the iSecuCloud service.
  • Page 133 Tap the Device groups to see all of the groups. You may expand the device tree and tap on any IP camera to live view the video channel. (Refer to Chapter 11.2 for detail.) Another advantage of iSecuCloud service is that you may tap the arrow icon to change to different groups for more cameras.

  • Page 134: Mobile Viewer For Android

    12 Mobile Viewer for Android Ingrasys provides remote viewer (SViewer) for connecting to Skywalk NVR and iSecuCloud service to monitor all of the registered devices on mobile devices. You may search “SViewer” on Play Store and install it on your Android devices. SViewer supports Live view and receiving Notifications of events.

  • Page 135: Live View

    After login the Skywalk NVR, you will see Monitoring, Settings and Gallery. a. You can click Monitoring to enter Devices page with connected IP cameras in this Skywalk NVR. b. You can enable Notification in Settings from Skywalk NVR. c. You can check snapshots in Gallery. 12.2 Live view Tap Monitoring to Devices page, expand the NVR and you will see the list of cameras that connected to Skywalk NVR.
  • Page 136 SViewer supports four channels of Live View. After you seeing the 1 channel of Live View, you may scroll your finger from right to left to the next channel of live view. Follow the steps below to start Live view of other channels. View Scroll your finger on the camera list to see more cameras connected to the Skywalk NVR.
  • Page 137 You may drag and drop the camera to the display area of the 2 or 4 channels of live view. If your camera supports PTZ function, you may tap PTZ icon to start PTZ control.
  • Page 138 If you would like to hear the audio from camera, you can tap the Audio icon while viewing the live video. You may take snapshot by tapping the Snapshot icon when viewing the live video. It will save the snapshot to your mobile devices. SViewer supports four channels of live view at the same time.
  • Page 139 You may rotate your mobile devices to switch display from portrait view to landscape view as below snapshots.

  • Page 140: Gallery

    12.3 Gallery (1) Login NVR and tap Gallery to Gallery page. You can check your snapshots in the Gallery.

  • Page 141: Link To Isecucloud Service

    12.4 Link to iSecuCloud service (1) SViewer allows you to link to iSecuCloud service. You may select Link to iSecuCloud service and input your account/password on iSC to login via SViewer. (2) The advantage of linking to iSecuCloud service is you can manage all of your Skywalk NVRs and IP Cameras via the iSecuCloud service.

  • Page 142: Isecucloud Service

    13 iSecuCloud Service iSecuCloud Service provides value-added and impressive surveillance functions on internet. It is more convenient to use our products with iSecuCloud Service. You can enjoy Live view, Playback, monitoring devices status, event notifications and various surveillance features by borderless iSecuCloud Service.
  • Page 143 Open IE browser then input the address of http://service.isecucloud.com/ to open the home page of our service. Find out the ID of IP camera from product package and input it as username then fill in the password and click login icon to login to iSecuCloud Service.

  • Page 144: Registering Account On Isecucloud

    13.2 Registering Account on iSecuCloud You may click the link of Register Account directly or click Register button as above step to register your private account by the popped up window. Fill in all of columns and click Finish button to register your account to iSecuCloud Service.

  • Page 145: Device Management

    13.3 Device Management You will see the Management page on the first login to iSecuCloud Service. You may manage your devices via this page. Click “Claim Device” or icon to input your device ID, Password (login password of device) and Device name (for further recognition) then click OK button to manage all of your devices via the interface of management on iSecuCloud Service.
  • Page 146 If you added Skywalk NVR for managing on iSecuCloud Service, you will see the GUI as below: If you added IP Camera for managing on iSecuCloud Service, you will see the GUI as below:...

  • Page 147: Monitoring Devices Via Isecucloud Service

    After adding your devices into the iSecuCloud Service, you can monitor your devices from anywhere and anytime. Ingrasys provides various methods including Web Page (with IE web browser), SViewer (with iOS devices or Android devices) and SClient (Windows AP) to monitor devices.

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