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BVM SCode User Manual

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  • Page 1 Surveillance Digital Video Network System SCode (V3.3) User’s Manual 1 / 143...
  • Page 2 Notes Please read this manual carefully, before installing or operating this product. Before using the step-by-step user’s manual, please read the system introduction. Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Words are registered trade marks of Microsoft Corporation. This product pass CE and FCC test. CE number : W6M20504-5792-E-11 FCC number : W6M20504-5792-P-15B Remark:...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1.2 User Interface: Operation and Display....... 7 Chapter 2 Installation ..............12 2.1 Hardware Installation ............12 2.2 SCode DVR Software Installation........13 2.3 SCode RMS Software Installation ........13 Chapter 3 System Operation ..........14 3.1 General Display ............... 15 3.2 Operation Functions ............16 3.3 PTZ Panel................
  • Page 4 Chapter 10 Remote Access............97 10.1 System Introduce............97 10.2 SCode RMS Installation..........97 10.3 SCode Network Structure ..........98 10.4 SCode Server ..............99 10.5 SCode Client..............107 10.6 Link SCode DVR to SCode Server ......142 4 / 143...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 System Introduction

    The SCode DVR software provides professional video surveillance tools. The additional SCode Client and SCode Server programs provide IP secure remote access and control of any SCode DVR and cameras, anywhere in the world, through the data network. 5 / 143...
  • Page 6 SCode Server; or you can link direct to other remote SCode Servers and go into their network to access SCode DVRs, or you can link to SCode Center Server and go into its sub-server to access SCode DVRs, giving you the capability to monitor and operate thousands of cameras, and manage their systems from one centre.

  • Page 7: User Interface: Operation And Display

    You can follow standard M.S. Windows practice, to operate the SCode software. 1.2.2 SCode DVR : where to find what SCode DVR has 2 kinds of main displays: Normal Mode and PTZ Mode. (1) GUI in Normal Mode Active image window...
  • Page 8 (3) Normal mode and PTZ mode If you want to access the PTZ Mode, < >. The display will switch from the Normal Mode to PTZ Mode. The button, , is located in the right-up corner. Normal mode PTZ mode (4) Image window The Image windows show the incoming video signals from the cameras (Video channels).
  • Page 9 (6) Control panel PTZ control Setup control Host In this Control panel, you can view the system information and or activate functions and settings for video, alarm features. You all also can control the camera platform, the speed dome, and I/O device. (7) PTZ panel (P = Pan, T = Tilt, Z =Zoom) On PTZ panel are the setup controls for the activated camera plate or the speed dome.
  • Page 10 Adjust the camera’s Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Hue HDD information : View the HDD status. Show camera information : Show/Hide/Set OSD of camera information. Communication link : Link or Unlink with SCode Server. eMAP : Open or Setup eMAP. System setup: Set up the system...
  • Page 11 Power off : Turn off this porgam There are 3 buttons located in the up-right coner. Switch mode : Swap the Simple Mode and Control Mode of the GUI. Minimum : Minimize the SCode program. Close : Close SCode program. 11 / 143...

  • Page 12: Chapter 2 Installation

    Installation 2.1 Hardware Installation 1. Plug the SCode SP-5200 capture card(s) in a PCI slots. The card closest to the VGA card will be automatically defined as card number 1, with camera number 1-4. (Channel) 2. Turn on your computer. Windows will detect the SCode SP-5200 card and will start the Add New Hardware Wizard.

  • Page 13: Scode Dvr Software Installation

    2. Execute \SCode_DVR\SCodeV33_DVR_EN_PAL.exe (in PAL areas) Or \SCode_DVR\SCodeV33_DVR_EN_NTSC.exe (In NTSC areas) Or \SCode_DVR\SCodeV33_DVR_DE_PAL.exe (In German) 3. Then, follow the instructions of the setup program to finish the SCode installation. 4. Reboot your computer. The SCode software installation is completed. 2.3 SCode RMS Software Installation 1.

  • Page 14: Chapter 3 System Operation

    System Operation Run the SCode DVR software Execute SCode DVR program and the login dialog will appear : (The default user name = admin, Default password = admin) After select one user and input its password, this general display will appear:...

  • Page 15: General Display

    3.1 General Display SCode DVR program has 2 GUIs: Normal Mode and PTZ Mode. The following figure describes the name of each unit of the general display: Active image window Image window Information window Operation panel Normal Mode Control panel...

  • Page 16: Operation Functions

    Close : Turn off this porgam. A confirmation dialog will appear. 2. There are 3 buttons located in the up-right coner. Close : Close the SCode program Minimum : Minimize the SCode program. Switch mode : Swap the Normal Mode and PTZl Mode of the GUI.
  • Page 17 After confirmation, the system is locked and its icon will become (2) Disable Password Protect Mode < > to unlock the system. Select one user name and Input the password to release the protect mode. If you want to change the password, go to the system setup to modify. (Please refer to Section 45, User setup, for the details.) 17 / 143...
  • Page 18 System information View the system records. The below dialog will appear: (1) Click to find the system records after input the Begin date and End date. The left table will show as below : (2) Select one day listed in the left table. The table will show as below: The user can check Alarm log, Login/Logout, and opeartion log by click their icon.
  • Page 19 3.2.3 Operation functions Schedule If the schedule recording is stoped by the manual, you can click this button to execute the schedule recording function again. (Please refer to Section 4.6, Schedule Setup, for the detials of the recording schedule setup). Snapshot Activate the image window of which you want to take a snapshot >...
  • Page 20 Split mode Click this button. The Split control panel will be opened. (1-split) : The activated window will be shown in 1-channel display. If the Auto page switch is enabled, the images of the other channels will be displayed one after the other. (4-split) : It will show the 4 channel’s image of the active row to 4-split display.
  • Page 21 > The mouse will go back to Normal Mode. becomes (8). To set alarm mask areas to other cameras, please repeat steps 1 to 7. Open speaker : Not provided in SCode V3.3 Video signal adjustment Adjust the video signal’s parameters : brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue.
  • Page 22 HDD information < Refresh > to update the status of the hard disks. Show camera information Click the button to open the setup window of the camera information, shown below: (1) Set camera information < Setup information >. It will open the following window, 22 / 143...
  • Page 23 Communication (Link to the SCode Server) Click this button and the below window will appear. (1) Mobile Phone (SMS) : Not provide in SCode V3.3 (2) UDP/IP : Please refer to Section 4.4, Communication Setup, and Chapter 10. eMAP : Please refer to Chapter 9.

  • Page 24: Ptz Panel

    3.2.4 Information window The information window shows the below information : 1. Camera number : Cam =1 2. Camera name : cam1 3. Image motion detection status : in motion detection or blank 4. The starting recording time : rec=23:4:7 5.

  • Page 25: Control Panel

    3.4 Control Panel The panel has 3 sub control panels : PTZ ( ), Setup ( ), Host ( ). You can change these modes by clicking their function key. PTZ panel Setup panel Host panel 1. PTZ control There are 3 sub control pages in PTZ panel. You can use to change these pages.
  • Page 26 2. Setup control There are 2 pages in this Setup panel. You can use to change these modes. These control panels allow you control each camera one by one. Video Alarm Enabled : Disabled : (1) Video control Enable/Disable each camera’s Video Recording or Video Monitoring function. (2) Alarm control Enable/Disable each camera’s Motion-Detection or Camera-Alarm function.

  • Page 27: On-Screen Command

    3. Host This is used to show the user information and the available space of the working HDD. User : Show the current user’s name Date : Show the login date of the current user Time : Show the login time of the current user Space : Show the available space of the HDD 3.5 On-Screen command While in monitoring the video, the user can use the mouse’s right button to click the image...
  • Page 28 2. Snapshot Take a picture from the working image window. Please refer to Section 3.2.3 ( 3. Video signal setup Adjust the video signal’s parameter. Please refer to Section 3.2.3 ( 4. Camera Information Adjust the video signal’s parameter. Please refer to Section 3.2.3 ( 5.

  • Page 29: Chapter 4 System Setup

    Chapter 4 System Setup < > to proceed to the System setup: There are 8 setup tabs for: 1. Camera setup 2. File setup 3. Auto setup 4. Communication setup 5. User setup 6. Schedule setup 7. I/O Device setup 8.

  • Page 30: Camera Setup

    4.1 Camera Setup You can set up the camera one by one. 1. Channel enable/disable You can enable or disable one camera by checking its block, , which is in front of the camera name. 2. Give a Camera name In this blank, you can input a name for the camera in order to identify the camera’s location.
  • Page 31 Note 2 : If you want to set up the alarm mask in one image window, you shall enable its motion detection first. 4. Camera setup Click the camera’s setup button. The below dialog will pop up. This dialog can define one camera’s settings more details. ■...
  • Page 32 CPU power. 2) Fast MPEG4 : This will use less CPU power. But it will drop the image quality. 3) SCode : This is a proprietary image compression technology. It will increase the image compression rate. 32 / 143...
  • Page 33 ■ Image motion detection The motion detection is controlled by 2 parameters: Sensitivity and Checked frames. Sensitivity : This parameter controls the detection sensitivity of image motion. There are 17 sensitivity levels. (The system default = M). You can adjust the sensitivity according to requirement.
  • Page 34 For instance, if you want to move Cam16 to Window1, click of Window1 and select Cam16. The Cam16’s image will go to Window1 and Cam1 will go to Window16. 34 / 143...

  • Page 35: File Setup

    4.2 File Setup ■ Storage directory The default storage folder of the system is located in D:\. If you want to add a new storage directory, click Add . The below window will appear. Follow the normal procedure of Windows to select a new directory: 35 / 143...
  • Page 36 To delete an old storage directory, select a directory and click Delete . When the 1st HHD is full, the system will jump automatically to the next disk installed in the system. Note 1 : if the default folder D:\ is not existed in your computer, the system will not allow you to execute the recording function.

  • Page 37: Auto Setup

    4.3 Auto Setup ■ Auto execute the program, after this machine powered on If this is enabled, after power on, the system will execute the program automatically. Remark: 1. A mother board with a ATX specification can be set to power on the system automatically, after a possible power-loss.
  • Page 38 How to avoid the unexpected user to access Windows : Please enable the below functions: (1) Enable 3 functions of Keyboard lock. It will avoid the user to access Windows system when SCode program is running. It will disable (Minimum) of SCode program too.

  • Page 39: Communication Setup

    This box is used to input the IP of the SCode Server. If this DVR is located inside of a LAN, please input the internal IP of SCode Server. If this DVR is located outside of a LAN, please input the external IP of SCode Server.

  • Page 40: User Setup

    ■ Last user auto login If this is checked, when the system executes the SCode program, it will go into SCode program directly without any password check. But SCode program will be lucked by using the last user’s name.
  • Page 41 2. User setup ■ Add a new user Click Add User . The below Add User dialog will appear: The new user can be limited to do the below functions : (1) Local operation authorization - Allowed cameras to be viewed - Local operations (2) Remote operation authorization - Allowed cameras to be viewed...

  • Page 42: Schedule Setup

    4.6 Schedule Setup Here offer 2 kinds of the schedule. Note : We suggest to use 24 hours format in you computer, not to use AP/PM . 42 / 143...
  • Page 43 (1) Recording schedule Enable schedule record. You can enable the schedule recording, after check The system will execute the schedule recording function according to the contents in its Setup. (Shown as the below figure) 1) Please select one repeat mode. 2) Please set the working time.
  • Page 44 (2) Alarm schedule Enable You can enable one schedule to execute the alarm function, after check schedule alarm. The system will execute the schedule alarm function according to the contents in its Settings. (Shown as the below figure) 1) Please select one repeat mode. 2) Please set the working time.

  • Page 45: I/O Device Setup

    4.7 I/O Device Setup Here, you can set up the PTZ scanner, the speed domes or the external I/O devices. RS232/485 Converter I/O controller I/O controller COM n RS232/485 COM 2 Converter PTZ controller PTZ controller COM 1 RS232/485 Converter Speed dome Speed dome 45 / 143...
  • Page 46 Having finished the above procedures, < >. This new device will put into the device table. 2. Delete an existed device from SCode DVR Select one device from the device table and < > to delete it from SCode DVR.
  • Page 47 ■ Preset Point You can set the available preset points which will be stayed while the system executes the Auto scan function and the scanning time of the selected preset points. : Set the available preset point Check the preset points that you want to use. : Set the stayed time Input the time that you want to stay while in the auto scanning.
  • Page 48 (3) If the device is I/O controller ■Output port setup You can setup one output port by clicking its number’s button. (1) Set up the normal status Set this port as normal open or normal close state while in the normal status. (2) Set up the alarm action You can assign the alarm action to this port to be Normal open, Normal close, High pulse, or Low pulse when this port is activated by alarm events.

  • Page 49: Alarm Setup

    4.8 Alarm Setup This dialog is used to setup the alarm functions. 1. Alarm interval: 30 Sec. Set the alarm action interval. During this set time, next alarms occurring to the same camera or input port within this period will not trigger its alarm function, until the time interval has lapsed.
  • Page 50 2. Alarm function You shall select one camera or one input port from the device table first. By double clicking one device name, it will show all the available components. Select one component (Camera or Input port) and set up this component its alarm functions.
  • Page 51 ■ Snapshot If a device is triggered by one event, its related cameras can be take pictures. Click Setup to set its action. You can enable multiple cameras in the camera selection table to do the snapshot. You can set how many the pictures will be taken when one alarm is happened and the interval between each picture.
  • Page 52 ■ Computer If a device is triggered by one event, this function executes the remote alarm function. It can inform the remote SCode Client by the living video, a preset alarm sound. Click Setup to set its action. 52 / 143...
  • Page 53 (1) Select the users you want to inform when one alarm event happened Click to select a user. (If there are some remote SCode Clients using the same user name to log into this DVR, the alarm inform will be sent to all of them.) (2) Select the cameras that you want to transfer their living image to the remote sites Here, it is allowed you to select multiple cameras.
  • Page 54 (3) If you want to check the selected sound, please click Preview button. (4) Input the playback delay time in to control the starting play time, after the phone is dialed. After finish the above settings, Click Add to add this new remote phone into the alarm inform table.

  • Page 55: Chapter 5 Monitor And Record

    Chapter 5 Monitor and Record Dependent on the number of SCodeSP-5200 capture cards installed, the system will show a 4-, 9- or 16-channel display. For example, if 4 boards of SP-5200 card are installed, this 16-channel display will appear : In the Split control panel, it will show the chosen set of channels.

  • Page 56: Schedule Recording

    (2) Operating in Video Control Panel This panel is located in Setup panel of Control panel. Recording : Not in recording : In the video panel, each channel has its own control button. You can enable/disable the recording function, channel by channel. 5.2 Schedule Recording The system provides the schedule recording.

  • Page 57: Video Monitoring

    5.3 Video Monitoring 1. Zoom Click twice Click twice (Left button) (Left button) Double click (Left button) (1) Use the mouse’s left button to select the image window you want to enlarge. This window becomes the activated image window. A white line will be shown around the borders like the following figure: (2) Use the mouse’s left button to click the active window twice to enlarge.

  • Page 58: Window Edit

    5.4 Window Edit You can rearrange the camera shown in the different image window. It provide 2 ways to do this function. 1. Use Window editor Please go into the Camera setup of the System setup. Click and the below dialog appear.

  • Page 59: Motion Image Detection

    Motion detection Camera Alarm Enabled : Disabled : 5.5 Motion Image Detection In Motion detection section of Alarm page, you can enable or disable the motion-detection (MOT-DETECT) function of one camera, directly. Each channel has its own control button. You don’t need to go into the system setup to enable or disable its motion detection function. Note : If you want to set up the alarm mask in one image window, you shall enable its motion detection first.

  • Page 60: Instant Playback

    Skip back : Jump back to the start point ■ Snapshot : Take a picture from the video. The pictures will be saved into : C:\Program files\SCode\Picture ■ Close : Quit the instant playback player program ■ Pull bar You can move the image playing time from this pull bar directly.
  • Page 61 ■ Zoom Click the image window with the right button of the mouse. You will see a command window. Select one size and the image window will be enlarged. ■ Information window This window will show the related information of this playing video file. Window number : C1 Camera name : cam1 Current time : 18:46:32 (Show this image timing)

  • Page 62: Chapter 6 Playback

    Chapter 6 Playback < > to run the playback program. Image window Fast search panel Operation panel Information window Function panel File window (The Function panel is hidden by After this playback program is executed, the Fast search panel goes into All File Search Mode and automatically lists all video files in the file window, during this day.

  • Page 63: File Search

    Here, you can search 3 kinds of the files. They are : ■ Search the local recording files ■ Search the imported files ■ Search the remote downloaded files (Only available in SCode Client program) Local recording files Here, you can use the below 2 search ways to find the video.
  • Page 64 Alarm file search In this search, this program will search the today’s files created by alarm events and listed them in the File Window (See the right fig.) If you want to search files created within a specified time period of the day, < >...
  • Page 65 Search the imported files Click this button. The system will list all of the imported files in the File Window. (1) Play the videos from the beginning You can select 1 ~ 16 video files from the File Window. < >...
  • Page 66 6.1.2 Playback modes This program provides 2 playback modes. ■ Normal mode ■ Frame mode 1. Normal mode In the mode, you can play 1 ~ 16 different video files, simultaneously. < > to select the Normal mode and becomes After select the video files from the File window, <...
  • Page 67 The below figures are showing examples of playback of 1, 2, 3, and 4 video files. Case 1 (1 video) Case 2 (2 videos) Case 3 (3 videos) Case 4 (4 videos) After the video files are called out, you can do the following operations. Playback operation : (1) <...
  • Page 68 You can search the local files, the imported files, or the remote downloaded files. : Click this button to find the local files. : Click this button to find the imported files. : Click this button to find the remote downloaded file. (Only available in SCode Client program.) (Search the local files) This mode is used to search the local recording files.
  • Page 69 3) Go into the playback program window and < > to play the selected video files. (2) Search all files < > to search the files. All stored files will be listed in the File Table. 1) Select one or multiple files (1 ~ 16) from the File Table. 2) <...
  • Page 70 If you want to export the files to other HDD/FDD, enable the HDD/FDD item and set the path of Export directory. Then, click < > to export those files. If you want to export the files to CD-R/RW, enable the CD-R/RW item. The system will use the first CD-R/RW driver as the target driver.
  • Page 71 This mode is used to search the imported files. It will list all of the imported files in the File table. You can do all of the same operation described in above section. (Search the remote downloaded file) This mode is used to search the remote downloaded files files. It will list all of the remote downloaded files in the File table.

  • Page 72: Playback Operation

    6.2 Playback Operation 6.2.1 Playback button (Universal / Individual control) Click this button to set the playback operation keys to work in Universal control mode or in Individual control mode. Individual control When this button is in this status, the playback operations will apply only to one selected playback window placed in the display.
  • Page 73 3. Save clip After clipping procedure is done, the below window will pop up. Select the folder to save the clipped video section. 6.2.3 Speed control button There are 8 keys to select a playback speed. (1/8-time speed) for 1/8 x the playback speed. (1/4-time speed) for 1/4 x playback speed.
  • Page 74 : (Mute) Open / Close the audio. : (Camera information) Show or hide the camera information. : (Snapshot) Chick this button to take a picture from the active window : (View pictures) Click this button. The below window will appear. Select one picture and open it.

  • Page 75: Import Files

    6.2.5 Zoom Use the mouse’s left button to click on a video window. You can enlarge the video window directly. 6.2.6 Video information window This window shows the below information: 1. Camera number : C1 2. Camera name : cam1 3.

  • Page 76: Export Files

    6.4 Export Files In Fast search mode, you can export videos to an external device or other HDD’s folder. Note : This function shall use Nero program. You must install the Nero program. Its version shall be V5.9.9 or higher 1.

  • Page 77: System Setup

    6.5.1 Local video file This below setup window is used to set a folder for the local recording file when the program is running in SCode Client program. 6.5.2 Snapshot The below setup window is used to set a folder for the pictures which are taken in the playback.
  • Page 78 6.5.3 Font Color The below setup window is used to set up the color of the camera information. If you want to change the font color, please click Select to change it. 6.5.4 Exported file The below setup window is used to set the targeted HDD’s folder of the export video files. 78 / 143...
  • Page 79 6.5.5 Clipped video file The below setup window is used to set a folder for clipped video files. 6.5.6 Imported video file The above tab dialog is used to set a folder for imported video files 79 / 143...

  • Page 80: Format Of File Name

    6.6 Format of File Name The meaning of video file codes is described below : Recording date Year Date Month Video file type Cam1 – 2004 – 2 – 15 – 23 – 57 – 17.mfv Camera name Min. Hour Sec.

  • Page 81: Chapter 7 Snapshot

    You can take pictures during monitoring, recording and playback. These pictures will be saved as .BMP format. 7.1 Snapshot 1. In SCode DVR program, < > to take a picture from this active window. 2. In Playback program, < > to take a picture from this active window.

  • Page 82: Viewer Program

    : Printer setup 2. View command : Click it. The system will show: - Toolbar : Show or hide the Toolbar - Status bar : Show or hide the status bar 3. Help command : SCode Version description 82 / 143...
  • Page 83 ■ Toolbar : Open : Save : Print : Help ■ Status bar Shows the working status of the Viewer Program. ■ Zoom ( Move the mouse to , located at the right-bottom corner of the Viewer window. Hold the left button of the mouse and drag the window to the expected size. Then, release the button.

  • Page 84: Chapter 8 Ptz Control

    Chapter 8 PTZ Control COM port RS232/485 Converter Scanner Scanner COM port RS232/485 Converter Speed Dome Speed Dome You can control a speed dome or PTZ scanner by activating an image window. 8.1 PTZ Panel On the PTZ control panel, you can control P, T, and Auto function of a PTZ scanner or a speed dome.

  • Page 85: Control Panel

    8.2 Control Panel In the control panel, there are 2 PTZ pages. PTZ control (1) PTZ control (2) You can use to change the pages. 8.2.1 PTZ control page (1) ■ IRIS : Click to adjust the IRIS. ■ FOCUS : Click to adjust the focus.
  • Page 86 8.2.2 PTZ control page (2) Here you can control several features. ■ Preset point of the speed dome In this panel you can configure the preset-positions of your speed dome. Click . The panel will go into the preset-point control mode. Preset point Number Save (1) Go to the preset point:...

  • Page 87: Chapter 9 Emap

    Chapter 9 eMAP Click . The below window will appear. Click to close the above window. 9.1 Setup eMAP Click to open eMAP Setup program. ■ Exit : Click this button to close the eMAP setup program. 87 / 143...
  • Page 88 9.1.1 Create a new MAP Please follow the below procedure to create a new map. ■ Select the background map ■ Place the devices ■ Save the new map (1) Select the background map Click to create a new map. The below dialog appears. Select one *.bmp file as the new map’s background map.
  • Page 89 (2) Place the devices into map There are 12 kinds of devices. Icon Select Table ■ Camera Click this to add a new camera. There are 8 directions of the camera’s icons that you can choose from the icon select table : Upwards Downwards Leftwards...
  • Page 90 If you want to change the background map, click this button to change it. The icon select table will show all the available map which is put in the folder, C:\Program Files\SCode\initial\bitmap. The available map’s icon is show as below : *.bmp Double click the map icon that you want change and the new map will be show on the background.
  • Page 91 ■ Add string If you want to put some notes in the map, click this button. Only one device’s icons is in the icon select table : Add text Please follow the below step to input the note. (1) Click the above icon, the mouse cursor will become “+”. (2) Move it to the place that you want to put the note and hold the mouse’s left button to draw a rectangle.
  • Page 92 Please finish the setup and click OK to confirm the copy. ■ Delete device If you want to move one device out off the map, select one device and click this button to delete it. 9.1.2 File operation There 4 file operation functions. ■...

  • Page 93: Open Emap

    ■ Save as : Click this button to save the map as a new file. 9.2 Open eMAP Click to open eMAP. The system will call the default eMAP. Fig 9.2.1 The device icon has 3 kinds of the colors: ■...
  • Page 94 ■ Close eMAP : Click this command to close the map. ■ Max eMAP : Click this command to enlarge the map to full image window. (Fig 9.1) ■ Min eMAP : Click this command to reduce the map size as below figure. (Fig 9.2) Fig 9.2.2 9.2.2 View camera images from eMAP There are 4 positions in the image window, when you use eMAP to access the device’s...
  • Page 95 Double click the one device’s icon (Camera, Speed dome, or PTZ scanner) of the eMAP. The eMAP will reduce to Position 1 and this device’s image will show in the Position 2. (See the below figure) If you click the 2’nd device, the 1’st device’s image will go to Position 3 and the 2’nd device’s image will be appeared in Position 2.
  • Page 96 If you click the 4’th device, the 1’st device’s image will leave the image window, the 2’nd device’s image will go to Position 4, the 3’th device’s image will be appeared in Position 3, and the 4’th device’s image will go into position 2. (See the below figure) 9.2.3 On-screen command Click the device icon (Camera, Speed dome, and PTZ scanner).

  • Page 97: Chapter 10 Remote Access

    ■ SCode Central Server : A machine where SCode Client program is installed and defined as a central server. NB: When one SCode DVR stands alone, or operates in a small network of DVRs, both the SCode Server program and SCode Client program can be installed and run simultaneously on a single computer.

  • Page 98: Scode Network Structure

    SCode RMS supports a multi-server and a central server structure. ■ Basic network structure Figure 10.3.1 describes a basic network structure. All of the SCode DVR machines and SCode Client machines are linked to one SCode Server. The network shall support TCP/IP and UDP/IP.

  • Page 99: Scode Server

    ■ Internal IP address : The Server that links with an internal network. ■ External IP address : The Server that links with an external network. 1. If one SCode Server is a gateway between 2 networks, its internal IP and external IP are different.
  • Page 100 Client 1 Client 3 Client 2 There are 3 SCode DVRs and 3 SCode Clients, loacted in different places. (1) For SCode DVR DVR1 links to the internal IP of Server 1 . DVR2 links to the internal IP of Server 2 .
  • Page 101 10.4.2 Run SCode Server Execute the SCode Server program and its icon will appear in the right down corner. Click its icon and the below window appears. There are 4 commands in the command bar : ■ Execute ■ Tool ■...
  • Page 102 Click this command and the below dialog appears. After input the Center Server’s IP address and the port number used by the Center Server, click Connect to link this server with the Center Server. 2. Tools command Click Setup and the below System setup window will appear. You can setup your server in this System setup window.
  • Page 103 ■ Server name : You can give a name to this server machine. ■ Auto execute this program after the machine powered on You can execute this server program automatically, after the machine is power on by enable this function. ■...
  • Page 104 You can set the IP address and the communication port which is opened to DVR, Internal Client and External Client. Here, you also can limit the serviced number (User number) of this server to DVR, Internal Client and External Client. 104 / 143...
  • Page 105 If want to set this machine to be Center Server, you must enable this function. Here, you also can limit the serviced number (User number) of this center server to SCode Servers. 3. View command (1) Click Tool bar to show or hide the tool bar.
  • Page 106 : Connect to Center Server. : Setup : Help (2) Click Status bar to show or hide the status bar. 4. Help command 106 / 143...

  • Page 107: Scode Client

    The default username = admin The default password = Note : If you are first time to run SCode Client, select the user , admin. And then, click Login directly. You don’t need to input the password. Select a user name and input the password. Click Login button to enter the SCode Client program.
  • Page 108 The below figure describes each unit of this SCode Client Display. Active window Image window Link panel Information window Operation panel PTZ panel : (Exit) Quit the SCode Client program : (Minimize) Minimize the SCode Client program : (Exit) Quit the SCode Client program...
  • Page 109 Click this button and the below dialog will appear: There are 2 ways to link with a SCode Server. (1) Local link If one SCode Client is located in the same network as the target SCode Server, you choose this link. Select and click OK button.
  • Page 110 Fig 10.5.3 You can click the server name and to show the DVR linking status (Fig 10.5.2) : SCode Server linked by your SCode Client : SCode DVR linked to the SCode Server : The camera linked to the DVR You can click the DVR name to show the cameras (Fig 10.5.3).
  • Page 111 (2) Remote link If one SCode Client and the target SCode Server are not located in the same network, you choose this link. Select and click OK button. The below window appears : Input the IP address and communication port of the targeted server.
  • Page 112 (1) Group link Click to execute the group link function. The below window appears: Select one group and press Link button. The system will get the remote camera’s image based on the preset linking, automatically. (2) Group scan Click to execute the group scan. The below window will appear: 112 / 143...
  • Page 113 Select one group scan and press Link button. The system will get the remote camera’s image based on the preset linking, automatically. For instance, in G1, there are 2 groups : Taipei and ShangHai. The system will view the group, Taipei, for 10 seconds and jump to view the group, ShangHai, for 10 seconds.
  • Page 114 ■ How to create a new group There are 2 way to create a new group. (1) On-screen When you monitor remote cameras, if you need to save this linking, click one image window by the right button. One command window appears : Execute Save link to Group command and the below window will appear: Input a name for this new group and click OK to save it.
  • Page 115 (2) In Group link window You can go into Group link window and click New button to add one new group. The below group setup window will appear. 1) Give this new group a name. 2) Select one window number in the table. 3) Click Add button to set up this image window.
  • Page 116 ■ How to create a new group scan You can go into Group scan window and click New button to create one new group scan. The below Group scan setup window will appear. 1) Give this new group scan a name. 2) Click Add button.
  • Page 117 6) After you finish the Set time procedure, go back to Group scan setup window and click Save button to store this new group scan. Disconnect Select one server from the Net link window and click this button. (Or select one server and click its icon by right button. One command window will be shown.
  • Page 118 10.5.2 Communication Operation functions Stop file download Stop the file download before the system finish the remote file download procedure. Close the video monitoring Stop viewing the working image window’s image. Stop all video monitoring Stop viewing all cameras’ image. Stop group scan Stop the group scan function.
  • Page 119 View pictures Click this button to find and view the picture. The system will open the Viewer program. (Please re for to the Chapter 7 for the details) Split mode panel Click this button and the split mode panel will appear Select one slit mode you want.
  • Page 120 System operation log Click this button to show the system log. Here you can check 3 kinds of system logs : ■ Alarm log ■ Login | Logout log ■ Operation log Input the Begin date and the End date and click Search button to find the system logs. It will show the logs on the left table.
  • Page 121 Open the playback function. Please refer to Chapter 6 for the details. Close the alarm sound When the SCode Client receives a remote alarm, this button will become will be kept in this alarm state till you click it and this button will go back to If the alarm is sounding, you can click this button to stop the alarm sound.
  • Page 122 10.5.5 System setup Click the button. The system setup window will appear and show the System setup page. There are 5 kinds of the setups : ■ System setup ■ Video record setup ■ Directory setup ■ Alarm sound setup ■...
  • Page 123 ■ Auto reconnect to Server, if an unexpect disconnect happened Enable this setting and this SCode Client will try to re-link with the SCode Server, if the linking between SCode Client and SCode Server is disconnect by an accident. The re-link will be tried depended on the period, Reconnect checking time : sec.
  • Page 124 ■ File length It is used to set the video recorded length when you execute the local recording. ■ Reserved space It is used to set the HDD space which can not be used by SCode client program. 124 / 143...
  • Page 125 3. Directory setup Here, you can set up the storage folders for the snapshot function and the remote download file. You can select the folder by click . Then, please follow the Windows operation to choose one folder for the snapshot function or the remote download file. 125 / 143...
  • Page 126 If this is checked, the SCode Client will play the alarm sound continuously in a fixed times, till the user to click After the SCode Client get a remote alarm, it will play a alarm sound according to the the setup of the Alarm sound bank. Click to setup the alarm sound.
  • Page 127 Alarm sound bank : ■ Search the alarm sound Click to see the built alarm sounds. They will be listed in the table. You can hear the alarm by clicking ■ Build the alarm sounds Please follow the below steps to add and set up the alarm sound to one dedicated remote camera/device.
  • Page 128 You can hear an alarm by clicking before you set up it. (2) Select one sound and click . A setup dialog will appear: Input the related information and the location of the target device (Camera or device). And click OK to save this setting. (3) Repeat Step 2 to set up the alarm sound till you finish all the alarm sounds.
  • Page 129 5. User setup This dialog is used to build the authorized users of this SCode Client. SCode Client must have one administrator. Only the administrators can create new users. 129 / 143...
  • Page 130 (1) Add a new user < Add >and the below window will appear: The administrator can create new “Administrator” or new users. He also authorizes access to specific system functions that may be operated by the common users, by enable/disable the system functions described in this dialog. (2) Delete a user Select one user and <...
  • Page 131 10.5.6 Information window The information window offers the information of the active image window. C = Remote camera name W = Image window’s channel number S = Server name which the remote DVR is linking with D = DVR name which the remote camera is installed in M = Starting date and time of this monitoring action R = Starting date and time of this recording action L = Recording length...
  • Page 132 (FPS) or the received bite rate (bps). FPS : bps ; This value is the total frame rate or the total bit rate of one SCode Client. This function can provide the user to arrange their bandwidth. 132 / 143...
  • Page 133 ■ Show/Hide camera information You can click this commend and show or hide the camera information. ■ Device Information V3.3 does not support his command. ■ Set Transfer Speed and Quality You can change the video transfer speed and image quality of the active window, in the below window.
  • Page 134 10.5.8 Remote PTZ control You can control the camera plate of the remote camera. Please activate the window which is a speed dome or a camera with the PTZ controller. (1) Pan and tilt control On the PTZ panel, you can control P, T, and Auto function of a PTZ scanner or a speed dome.
  • Page 135 (2) PTZ control page In the Link panel there are 3 buttons. (Shown as the above figure) Click to show the PTZ page (Right fig.). ■ IRIS : Click to adjust the IRIS. ■ FOCUS to adjust the focus. : Click ■...
  • Page 136 Link information panel. (Fig 2.) The Net link window will receive the network information from the SCode Server automatically. The INFO window will show all the records of the linking action with the SCode Server. 136 / 143...
  • Page 137 (1) Operation on a selected server Click the icon of one server. One dialog will appear : ■ Disconnect with server Execute this command to disconnect the linking between this SCode Client and this selected server. ■ Delete the server Execute this command to disconnect the linking between this SCode Client and this selected server t and delete this server from the NET LINK window.
  • Page 138 10.5.10 Remote Alarm log download Click the icon of one remote DVR. One dialog will appear : Execute this command to get the system logs from the selected DVR. The below window will be shown: You can get the system logs in the above table. (Please refer to the Section 3.2.2 for the details) 138 / 143...
  • Page 139 10.5.11 Remote file download Click the icon of one remote DVR. One dialog will appear : Execute this command to get the video films from this DVR. The below window appears: Please follow the following steps to download the remote video files. 139 / 143...
  • Page 140 (1) Input Begin date and End date. Then, click Search . The left table will show : (2) Click a camera that you want to get its video films. The File selection table will show: (3) Select the video films that you want to download and click Selection button.
  • Page 141 Please repeat Step (2) till you select all of the video file you want to download. If you have a wrong selection, you can mark the wrong file and click Delete to move it from the File download table. (4) If you have finished the file selection, click Download to execute the remote file download function.

  • Page 142: Link Scode Dvr To Scode Server

    To link a SCode DVR with a SCode Server, follow the below steps: 1. Input the SCode Server’s IP Go to Communication tab of System Setup of SCode DVR. Input the SCode Server’s IP and communication port. 2. Link with the SCode Server <...
  • Page 143 You can use the auto-link function to connect with a pre-selected SCode Server. Enable the setting: Automatically link to Server (IP), after this program executed This SCode DVR will auto-link with the preset SCode Server after the SCode program is executed. 143 / 143...

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