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Axis CAMERA RECORDER 1.1 User Manual

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  • Page 1 AXIS Camera Recorder User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: About This Document

    AXIS Camera Recorder for surveillance purposes. Liability Every care has been taken in the preparation of this manual. Please inform your local Axis office of any inaccuracies or omissions. Axis Communications AB cannot be held responsible for any technical or typographical errors and reserves the right to make changes to the product and manuals without prior notice.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    AXIS Camera Recorder User’s Manual Table Of Contents Introduction ......... 4 Installation Guide .

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Introduction AXIS Camera Recorder is a powerful and flexible surveillance solution that turns your TCP/IP-based Axis network cameras and video servers into a sophisticated digital video surveillance system - all fully controlled from your PC. AXIS Camera Recorder provides these main features: •...

  • Page 5: Installation Guide

    Installation Guide Installation Guide This installation guide will help you install AXIS Camera Recorder and configure it for your Axis Network Cameras and Video Servers. The guide also provides a brief introduction to the functionality and usage of the surveillance software.

  • Page 6: System Requirements

    RAM required is dependent on the number of cameras in use. For up to 8 cameras - use 512 MB, and for 9-16 cameras - use 1024 MB. Whilst not absolutely essential for operation, using an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for the computer running AXIS Camera Recorder is highly recommended.

  • Page 7: Software Requirements

    Software Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. Incompatible software FTP-Server: already included in AXIS Camera Recorder. Do not run other FTP servers on the same port number or change the default port number used by the AXIS Camera Recorder FTP-Server.

  • Page 8: Installation

    Complete the installation process by following the on-screen instructions. Important! The license code for AXIS Camera Recorder will be needed again if you ever need to re-install the software. The code should therefore be treated as a valuable item and...

  • Page 9: Help & Support

    Installation Guide If a demo version of AXIS Camera Recorder was already installed, it will be necessary to remove the image databases. This can be done either by uninstalling the demo version or by clearing each camera database from within the new version of the AXIS Camera Recorder software. See also Setting Image Quality and Recording Conditions, on page 18.

  • Page 10: Devices - Quick Setup

    Monitor Manager Figure 1 - The main Administrator window. 2. Enter the IP address of the Axis camera/video server. 3. Click Next and enter the administrator password for the device. 4. Click Next to auto-detect the device. If successful, the device type and MAC address (S/N) will be shown.
  • Page 11 Devices - Quick Setup Now that a device has been added we will add the camera to the Monitor application and configure its layout. 1. Click the Monitor Manager button in the Administrator. Figure 2 - The Monitor Manager window. 2.

  • Page 12: Using The Monitor Application

    Devices - Quick Setup Using the Monitor application 1. Now open the Monitor application. You should now see the image from your camera. If not, the camera was not properly added to the Monitor manager. Go back to the previous page and add the camera again.

  • Page 13: The Administrator Application

    The Administrator Application The Administrator Application The Administrator application is used when setting up the system for the first time, when new cameras or video servers are added to the system, and whenever the system configuration needs to be changed. It is also used to configure the layout of the Monitor application, which recording conditions to use, etc.

  • Page 14: Devices - Detailed Setup Information

    The Administrator Application • Add Device - Add new cameras or video servers. See the previous section Devices - Quick Setup, on page 10 and the more detailed section Changing Device Settings, on page 15. • Edit Device - Edit/update the configuration of an existing device. •...

  • Page 15: Changing Device Settings

    Camera Setup - Used to set up/modify camera names and PTZ devices for the device. For example, the AXIS 2400 video server uses the default camera names Camera 1, Camera 2, etc., which can be changed here. PTZ devices (PTZ cameras or fixed cameras on PTZ heads) can be enabled, and the COM port and PTZ driver can be selected.
  • Page 16 The Administrator Application Configuring Video Servers For video Servers, you must specify if the connected cameras are Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras or not. You can also give names to individual cameras. To do this, select the video server in the device list and then click the Edit Device button.

  • Page 17: Configuring Monitors And The Layout

    The Administrator Application Configuring Monitors and the Layout Once the software has been configured for your cameras and video servers, you should then set up the screen layout for the Monitor application, and specify where each camera should be displayed on the screen.

  • Page 18: Setting Image Quality And Recording Conditions

    The Administrator Application Hot Spot Window - This special window can be used for various purposes and will, when enabled, occupy up to 9 (3x3) of the available windows, depending on the layout in use. The Hot Spot window can show an enlarged view from one camera, it can be used for interactive PTZ control, or it can be used to browse through previously recorded images (Quick Browse).
  • Page 19 The Administrator Application Save images within … - If Images with motion has been selected as the recording condition, it is then also possible save images from immediately before and after the alarm, i.e. when the detected motion exceeds the given limit.

  • Page 20: Motion Detection Settings

    The Administrator Application For all cameras combined, a maximum total of 160 GByte can be saved. (in minutes, hours or days). Select this to limit the Delete images older than - recordings in the database by age. When selected, images will automatically be deleted when older than the specified age.

  • Page 21: Image Quality

    These preset positions must be defined in the device’s web interface before they will be available in the AXIS Camera Recorder software. For detailed information about PTZ preset positions and how to use them,...

  • Page 22: Calibrating Motion Detection

    The Administrator Application Calibrating Motion Detection The motion detection system can control (a) when images are saved to disk, and (b) when alarms are generated, and is therefore a vital element of the system. Motion detection requires careful calibration or it will not function properly.
  • Page 23 The Administrator Application Noise Sensitivity Slider - Adjusts the noise sensitivity level of individual picture elements (pixels). The noise sensitivity level determines when the change in light intensity and color (light change) of individual pixels should be considered noise (i.e. an insignificant change) and when it should be considered motion (i.e.

  • Page 24: Defining Motion Detection Exclude Areas

    The Administrator Application Defining Motion Detection Exclude Areas Areas that should not be included in the motion detection area can be excluded from the image by marking the relevant areas in the Exclude Regions settings. Filled squares indicate that motion will not be detected here.

  • Page 25: Setting Up And Using Ptz Preset Positions

    Up to 25 PTZ preset positions (PP’s) can be created for absolute positioning PTZ cameras. These are then accessible in the Monitor application’s control panel. For relative PTZ cameras, the number of PP’s will depend on the Axis video server and the PTZ driver used. For relative PTZ cameras, only the PP’s defined...
  • Page 26 Zoom buttons - Press these buttons for extra, digital zoom. Use Preset Positions from Device - For absolute PTZ cameras you can choose to use the PP’s on the video server, or the ones defined in AXIS Camera Recorder. For relative PTZ cameras on Axis video servers, the PP’s defined PP’s in the server will automatically be used, i.e.

  • Page 27: General Settings

    The Administrator Application General Settings The General Settings dialog box allows you to define various administrative settings, as described below. Figure 8 - The General Settings window. Logfile Path - Specify the directory on the disk where the log files should be located.

  • Page 28: E-Mail Setup

    The Administrator Application E-mail Setup The e-mail alerting system must be configured prior to use. The following settings must be configured; Enable E-mail - Select to enable E-mail alerting. Note that camera and system failures will automatically be sent via e-mail if this has not been disabled under Advanced in the General settings window.

  • Page 29: Scheduling Camera Activity And Alert Periods

    The Administrator Application Scheduling Camera Activity and Alert Periods Using a a one-week calendar, the built-in Scheduler provides automatic control over important system functions. The main principle for scheduling is to click and drag in the window to create (or delete) a time period, during which various functions will be enabled: •...

  • Page 30: Setting Up Schedules - An Example

    Sound - Check to add (or delete) sound alerts for events for the selected camera. The sound file used must be located in the AXIS Camera Recorder directory and the file must be named alarm.wav. To use a sound other than the default one, simply rename your new file alarm.wav.
  • Page 31 The Administrator Application 6. Click the day name again to zoom out. 7. You should now see a purple bar that represents the times you specified. This bar indicates that the selected camera will be active during this period. We now need to cover the rest of the week, but we now only want the camera to be triggered by events, i.e.

  • Page 32: The Monitor Application

    The Monitor Application The Monitor Application The Monitor application is the heart of the AXIS Camera Recorder system, and is used for all normal day-to-day operation. Besides being the main user interface, the Monitor starts and stops the cameras, acquires and displays images, detects motion, saves images in the databases, sends alarms, etc.

  • Page 33: Tools And Options Available In The Monitor Window

    The Monitor Application When the Monitor application is started, it automatically starts any cameras that have been specified in the Scheduler as being Online at that time. The Scheduler can be disabled and overridden by pressing the Manual button, which allows all the cameras to be started manually, one at a time, by clicking the Start button for the selected camera, or alternatively, all at once, by clicking the Start All button.

  • Page 34: The Pan/Tilt/Zoom Panel

    The Monitor Application Buttons for manual control of outputs - These buttons are used to manually control any outputs that have been linked to the camera currently selected. The outputs controlled by these buttons can be on any device/camera in the system. To set up outputs, please see page 39. To link an output to a particular camera, please see page 21.

  • Page 35: Using The Recordings Browser

    The Monitor Application The Hot Spot window supports interactive Pan/Tilt/Zoom. When PTZ Mode is enabled, click in the Hot Spot window and hold down the mouse button while dragging. A slider (0-100%) indicating the zoom factor will appear. Move the slider to the desired zoom factor and release the mouse button.
  • Page 36 The Monitor Application Camera - Select the camera to view recordings from. Use these controls and press the Go To button to jump directly Data/Time - to the specified date and time. If no image was recorded for the specified time then the first recorded image found after the specified time will be shown.

  • Page 37: Features In Advanced Mode

    The Monitor Application Features in Advanced Mode Advanced mode allows you to print or export individual images, create AVI video files and zoom into or out of the images. Clicking the Advanced button displays the following information and buttons: • Records - Shows the number of images cur- rently stored for the selected camera.
  • Page 38 Figure 15 - The Create AVI dialog. the dialog will ask for the compression codec to use. Note that AXIS Camera Recorder pro- vides no codecs - only codecs already installed on the system will be available.

  • Page 39: Appendix A - Inputs And Outputs

    Appendix A - Inputs and Outputs Advanced Control with Input Devices Axis Network Cameras and Video Servers support the use of various types of input devices, for example, passive infrared sensors, or door and window contacts. Please refer to the device’s manual for a description of how to connect input devices.
  • Page 40 Inputs and Outputs A plus sign (+) will now appear to the left of the device to which the sensor is connected. Click this to see the defined external event entry. The event name appears under the device, which indicates that this event is controlled through that device.
  • Page 41 Inputs and Outputs 6. Now find the start time of the event-controlled period and click and drag the mouse to the end time. 7. You will now be asked to define the selected time period as On Events or Always. Select On Events and the selected time period turns yellow in the Scheduler overview.

  • Page 42: I/O Control

    Inputs and Outputs I/O Control Clicking on the I/O Control button brings up a group of panels from where it is possible to define which events will control which outputs. An event can control multiple outputs, and an output can be controlled by multiple events.

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