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This product has been tested and found to comply with the limits for Class B Information Technology Equipment according to European Standard EN 55022 and EN 55024. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference in which cause the user be require to take adequate measures. www.acti.com...
ENR surveillance system. The reader is expected to own not only the basic operation skills but permissions to access major functionalities defined by the System Administrator. You may also visit ACTi Download Center for updates and documents: http://www.acti.com/downloadcenter Technical Support If you have any questions during system installation, please feel free to contact our engineers via our Customer Help Desk platform http://www.acti.com/CHD.
At A Glance ....................9 Power Button & Reset Button .............. 10 5 Local Client Operation Log in to & out of ENR ................13 System Overview ................... 14 Monitoring ....................17 Understand Channel Status ..............25 Understand Event Notifications ............26 Playback……………………………………………………………………….27 www.acti.com...
Introduction Product Overview ACTi ENRSeries (hereafter referred to as ENR) is a compact and reliable multi-channel standalone NVR. It features a stable embedded Linux operating system and capabilities of supporting mega-pixel resolution H.264 streaming, an HDMI output for local display, PTZ control, scheduled/event-triggered/event speed-up recording, event management, synchronized playback, time/event-based playback search and video bookmarks.
On Live screen, click Setup Power tab, and click “Shutdown”. The local display screen will turn black, with an information dialogue box showing up. When the System LED on the front panel is off, you may switch the Power Button to “OFF” to completely shut down the unit. www.acti.com...
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3. Switch the Power Button to “ON” position, make sure the Reset Button remains in pressed state for a full 5 seconds after the unit is powered on, and then release it. The unit will enter the resetting process immediately and automatically restart. www.acti.com...
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ENR-010P/ENR-020P User’s Manual LED Indicators The LED indicators on front panel show the current device status: Item Indicator Status Light Color Description Power LED Solid The device power is on. LINK(System) LED Solid Green The O/S is running. www.acti.com...
Login window. Please contact your system administrator for account and password information. Log In On Login window, click into the Account and Password fields to enter your account information. Log Out On Live screen, click on the Logout button. www.acti.com...
After logging in, you will enter Live screen. Live screen is the interface where you see the live streaming from your cameras and manipulate PTZ functions. Playback screen Where you can search the recordings, view the playback, put video bookmarks and export the video. www.acti.com...
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The onscreen keyboards allow you to input characters without using a physical one. By clicking in a character field (e.g. Account or Server name) or number field (e.g. IP address or Port), the specific onscreen keyboard will be brought up. Standard Alphabet + Symbol Keyboard Number + Symbol Keyboard Symbol Keyboard www.acti.com...
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To disable the virtual keyboard if a physical one is already in use, on Live screen, click Setup System tab click “Keyboard”. Uncheck the box “Always shows software keyboard”. You may adjust other input devices’ settings by entering “Keyboard” or “Joystick”, and refer to System Administrator’s Manual for further details. www.acti.com...
USB storage device, (2) LAN1 IP address, (3) LAN2 IP address,(4) Status Bar total free disk space, (5) your user account and (6) current system time. Opens Setup menu. Setup Menu Lists available layout selections and live view operation controls. Live Menu www.acti.com...
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Enter Full Screen Mode You can hide the control panels by entering full-screen mode. On Live Menu, click this button to enter full-screen mode; on the bottom of full screen view, click “Exit Full Screen” return to normal display mode. www.acti.com...
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Take a snapshot of this single channel ● Start manual recording of this single channel ● Enter Digital PTZ operation mode ( for all cameras, in 1x1 layout) ● Enter Optical PTZ operation mode ( for cameras with pan/tilt/zoom capabilities) ● www.acti.com...
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, click on it again to stop manual recording. Digital PTZ Operations Double-click on a channel to display it in 1x1 layout, and then click on it again to reveal Single Channel Menu. On Single Channel Menu, click to enable digital PTZ controls. www.acti.com...
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To take a snapshot of a layout containing all visible channels, select the desired layout and click on Live Menu. Manipulate PTZ Devices on PTZ Panel On Live screen, select a PTZ channel, the PTZ panel will become enabled. www.acti.com...
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Preset Points Operation mode, and click a red ID button. Start PTZ Preset Tour Click to enter Tour list. The ID of a saved tour will appear red. Click on it to start the tour, and click to stop. www.acti.com...
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To execute optical Panning and Tilting, click anywhere on the live window to allow the camera to move in that direction. The farther you place the cursor from the center, the faster the Pan/Tilt movement. 2. To execute optical Zoom in or Zoom out, scroll the mouse. Pan/Tilt Zoom in Zoom out www.acti.com...
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ENR-010P/ENR-020P User’s Manual Layout Patrol By performing the Patrol function, all the four channels can be displayed by 1x1 layout in turns. www.acti.com...
This will flash along with the channel outline border when the camera detects video motions on camera site. Recording Status This will appear when ENR is recording this channel by schedule, event or user’s manual control. Manual recording is proceeding Scheduled recording is proceeding www.acti.com...
On Live screen, the Event Panel displays the latest camera status alerts including digital input detection, motion detection, network loss, or network recovery. By clicking on the event notification card, you will be brought to the playback of this very event. www.acti.com...
Upon entering Playback screen, you will enter 16-channel synchronized playback. Display area Item Description Lists all channels Camera List Provides controls that help you search through the recorded Playback Control Panel footages easily. Lists available layout selections and playback related controls. Playback Menu www.acti.com...
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Channel 9 and Channel 13 to be played at the same time in a 2x2 layout. Drag these channels to the top. You can play certain channel in 1x1 layout by double-clicking this camera on Camera list. 1 5 9 13 To restore all the channels back to their original positions, click this button. www.acti.com...
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2. On layout selection panel, select Start Time Search If you know the specific time of the event, you may start from choosing the precise, date and the hour. 1. Click on the current-time indicator above the time bar www.acti.com...
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The digital input device (e.g. PIR sensor) connected with the camera detected motion events during this period. ENR lost network connection with this camera during this period. Video encoder loses the signal from this camera Click “OK” to close the window. www.acti.com...
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1. Click on the “Event Search” button on Playback Menu. 2. On Event Search window, define the Search Time, Duration, Cameras and Event Type then click “Search”. 3. After the search is completed, click “Cancel” to close this window. www.acti.com...
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List of events Play the Video Footage Use the buttons on Playback Control Panel to play your desired video footages. Bookmark the selected time Go to present time Reverse Play / Pause / Play Timeline scale Switch Play Speed Switch www.acti.com...
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The bookmarks will be shown on the left, click any bookmark to go to the saved time position. To delete a bookmark, simply right-click on it to being up the confirmation window, click “OK” to delete the selected bookmark. www.acti.com...
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2. Select the Export Duration and Export Type, and click “Start”. The exported video will be saved onto the USB mass storage. Please make sure the USB mass storage has already been connected to ENR device and the available storage space is enough. www.acti.com...
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Type in the IP address and port number directly into Internet Explorer. Sample IP will look like this: http://220.228.146.21:1000 or domain name http://enr.acti.com. If the port number is 80, you do not need to append it when typing the address. http://ip address:port number Log In www.acti.com...
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To have the server remember your Account, Password and language setting for future, check “Remember me”. Auto-login By enabling Auto-login function, you can enter ENR Live screen directly without inputting user account and password next time. Log Out On the bottom of Live screen, click on www.acti.com...
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Points and Tour controls. This panel is only enabled when a PTZ device channel is selected on live view display area. Live Screen Lists available layout selections and live view operation controls. Menu Click the tabs to enter other screens: Playback and Setup Screen Switch www.acti.com...
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You can switch you current view to another pre-set custom layout by clicking on the layout name. Watch a Specific Camera View To watch a certain camera view which is not in your current layout, double-click on it on Camera list, the new channel will be added to your current layout. www.acti.com...
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To record the live stream of a channel, right-click on it and then select “Manual Record”. As the manual recording proceeds, a hand icon will appear right on this channel on Camera list. To stop recording, right-click on the channel and select “Manual Record” again. www.acti.com...
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If a camera is connected with an audio-out device( e.g. a speaker), you can make use of the audio-in device ( e.g. a microphone) to send the audio signal to the camera side. To do this, right-click on the channel and select ”Audio Out”. www.acti.com...
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Picture in Picture view. Draw Zoom area Picture-in-Picture area Cancel Zoom area If this camera has optical PTZ feature, you will have to right-click on the channel and select “Digital PTZ” to start digital PTZ navigation. www.acti.com...
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Pan/Tilt Zoom in Zoom out - Use onscreen controls to operate PTZ movements: Open the PTZ panel on the left, and click on the controls the functions of which are explained below: www.acti.com...
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If the system administrator has previously defined certain PTZ preset points, you can directly click on a preset button to have the camera find the corresponding view. The executable preset point buttons appear as buttons 1 and 2 below: www.acti.com...
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If the system administrator has previously defined certain PTZ tour, you can directly click on a preset tour button to have the camera execute the tour. To stop the tour, click on the “Pause” button. The executable preset tour buttons appears as buttons 1 below: www.acti.com...
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Upon entering Playback screen, you will enter 16-channel synchronized playback Display area Item Description Lists all channels Camera List Provides controls that help you search through the recorded Playback Control Panel footages easily. Lists available layout selections and playback related controls. Playback Menu www.acti.com...
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1. Click on the current-time indicator above the time bar. 2. Specify the date on the calendar, and click “OK”. 3. To search for footage of a specific event, click on the event filter to highlight those special events in different colors. www.acti.com...
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If you want to filter the recording by Event Type, you may perform an event search to locate the desired video footage. 1. Scroll the time bare to your desired position. 2. Click on the “Search” button on Playback Menu. www.acti.com...
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4. The search result will be display on the Search Result panel. Click on an event to jump to the time spot. Play the Video Footage Use the buttons on Playback Control Panel to play your desired video footages. Reverse Play / Pause / Play Click to change play speed www.acti.com...
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You can take a snapshot of the currently-displayed image of a channel and save it as a JPG file on your computer. On Playback Menu, click . Select the camera channel, input the overlay text (optional), select the destination folder to save the file and click “Save This” to export this image. www.acti.com...
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2. Drag the time bar to the end point of the footage, right-click on the time bar and select “Mark Export End” 3. Click on the Playback Menu. 4. On Export window, select the channels, file format and the destination folder, and then click “Export”. www.acti.com...
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