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DVC Remote Utility
DrVeiw
User's Manual
Ver.:1.0

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  • Page 1 DVC Remote Utility DrVeiw User’s Manual Ver.:1.0...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Content CONTENT........................II REFACE ...........................1 NSTALLATION .........................2 2-1 Install DrView ....................2 .......................3 ROFILE ANAGER 3-1 Create a New User Profile ................3 3-2 Delete Profile....................5 3-3 Edit Profile......................5 3-4 Import profile....................6 3-5 Export Profile ....................6 3-6 Login.........................7 CREEN ..........................9 4-1 Main Screen.......................10 4-2 Display mode.....................12...
  • Page 3: Preface

    DVR systems through network located in different sites from one point of control. Each DrView system can manage up to 64 sets of 16CH DVR. You can monitor the DVR through network at any time. You can also proceed to set up the remote system configuration.
  • Page 4: Installation

    2 Installation DrView can serve up to 64 DVR (1024 channels) at the same time. Before the installation, make sure your computer meets the following minimum requirement. DrView Requirement Windows 2000, Windows XP P4 2.6G above 64MB above Display Card...
  • Page 5: Profile Manager

    DVRs. You can create different Profiles for different configurations at the same time. Next time when you start the DrView, you don’t need to create a new User Profile any more and you just open one of Profile you prefer.
  • Page 6 Key in the “Profile Name”, “Supervisor Password”(R/W Password), and “ User Password”(Read only Password) in the Profile Setup Dialog. After the new profile has been created successfully, the new profile icon will be shown on the Profile Manager screen as following. Refer to 3-1-6 to enter the new profile.
  • Page 7: Delete Profile

    3-2 Delete Profile If you want to delete the User Profile, click “Delete” button. Then, the system will request you to enter the Supervisor password. Only supervision has the authority to delete the Profile. 3-3 Edit Profile If you want to edit the Profile, just select it and click the “Edit”. The system will request you to enter the Supervisor password.
  • Page 8: Import Profile

    After importing file, the imported file will be added in the Profile Manager screen as following, 3-5 Export Profile DrView If you want to back up the profile or execute on another computer but use the same profile, you can export the “ Profile”.
  • Page 9: Login

    The user can choose the created Profile, enter the password and then start to login. There are two kinds of password identification-Supervisor and User password. Each one has different authority in DrView. The following is comparison tables of the authority.
  • Page 10 Profile Manager Monitor Sequencer Options New Delete Edit Import Export Login Supervisor User Quick Select Tag Full System Snapshot Setup Playback Screen Status Save Delete Rename Supervisor User...
  • Page 11: Main Screen

    4 Main Screen When you login the profile successfully, the following monitoring window will appear. Exit Date & Time DVR List Preview Window Full Screen Snapshot Setup Motion to Zoom Playback E-MAP Display Mode Quick Select Tag System status Sequencer...
  • Page 12: Main Screen

    4-1 Main Screen After finishing the DVR configuration (refer to 4-3 “DVR setup”), go back to Main Screen and it will show the following screen. Drag & Drop Preview Window Click button in front of the DVR in the window of DVR List and it will list all of the cameras connected to this Remote DVR.
  • Page 13 4-1-1 Zoom in/ Zoom Out Adjustment You can Zoom in or Zoom out any Spilt window. Double click on any split window and it will be enlarged to Full Display mode. You can double click again on this enlarged window and it will go back to the original spilt mode In Full Display mode, you can enter [+] or [-] to Zoom in or Zoom out the screen.
  • Page 14: Display Mode

    4-1-3 PTZ Camera If remote DVR has PTZ camera connection, the PTZ control panel will pop up when the screen is displayed in Full Display Mode. PTZ controls include “Zoom In”, “Zoom Out”, “Focus Near”, “Focus Far”, “Auto-Focus”, and “PTZ Speed”. Auto-Focus Focus Far Zoom Out...
  • Page 15 4-2-1 Sequencer Mode The DrView provide three kinds of Sequencer Modes, 1- channel, 4- channel and 64-channel Sequencer. When you click Sequencer icon , it will show three options to let you select. However, 64-Channel Sequencer is just for TV Wall display. That is 64 channel sequencer option will not appear if TV Wall display function is not enabled.
  • Page 16 Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 When you select 64-channel sequencer mode, these 64 cameras will be divided into 4 sequencer groups with different color based on Camera No.1-16, 17-32, 33-48, 49-64. Each sequencer group will play sequentially based on camera number. As above picture Group 1 (1-16 camera), it will proceed sequencer to play s from camera 1 to camera 64 with the red arrow order, the other groups will proceed in the same wa.
  • Page 17: Setup

    , you can see the following Setup menu. 4-3-1 DVR Setup 4-3-1-1 DVR Configuration Click DVR Setup button to set up the remote DVRs which you want to monitor in DrView when you login the system at the first time. Then, it will show the following screen.
  • Page 18 DrView site. In addition, Supervision also can name the new names for all cameras connected to the remote DVRs in the DrView site. All of these new names are just for DrView site and it won’t change the names in DVR site.
  • Page 19 Each DVR has remote monitor function. If you want to execute remote monitor, please click “ Enable” in the . If you don’t need it, please get rid of the “ Enable” in the After finishing the setup or modifications, click button to save the DVR changes.
  • Page 20 Setup screen to exist the DVR Setup. The system will keep the latest setup status automatically. If there is any remote DVR disconnected, the system will show it as disconnected status in DVR List. DVR Remote Setup You can click Setup icon to have the remote DVR and camera configuration.
  • Page 21 4-3-1-2 Alias Name You can click the icon of “ Alias name” to set up Alias name for camera, DI and DO. After you key in alias name for each camera, DI and DO, click “Apply” to save the names which you have set up. Set up Alias Name Setup Alias name for Camera/DI/DO...
  • Page 22 4-3-1-3 Event Activation You can set up “Alarm popup message”, “Alarm to Audio” or “ Motion to Zoom” when the events are activated from Camera, DI and DO. Event Activation Add Popup Message Camera Event configuration: Motion Detect: Enabled Motion to Zoom Alarm Popup Support Motion No Signal...
  • Page 23 You can define the music you want to play when the event occurs. Go to the “Environment Setup”(Please refer to the 4-3-2 DrView Environment Setup) and click “ Alarm Audio” to set up the music you want to play for different event.
  • Page 24 Save to Log Motion No Signal Capture Fail Save the event to Log so that Administrator can look up any time. DI/DO Event configuration: Alarm Popup Support: Enabled Ext Message Support Save to Log Enabled When there is DI or DO event occurring, you can enable the “ Alarm Popup message” and define the “...
  • Page 25 4-3-1-4 Sequencer You can set up the display duration for individual camera.
  • Page 26 Reboot Info. One is from the “ Health Status” function in DVR Setup and the other one is DrView system automatically checks the DVR health status and save these health information in the database which can provide external application for usage.
  • Page 27 4-3-2 DrView Environment Setup When you click the setup icon , you can see the following Setup menu. Click “DrView Environment Setup” to proceed DrView Environment Setup.
  • Page 28: Snapshot

    DVR Connect--- Retry Times You can set up Retry Times for DVR reconnection. If DVR is disconnected, DrView will try to reconnect to the remote DVR actively. The number of reconnection is the one you set in the “Retry Times.”...
  • Page 29: Full Screen

    Click “ Save” and it will show the following dialog box. Select the folder you want to save the Snapshot picture and click “ save. The Snapshot of file format are JPEG file format. If clicking the right button of the mouse on the snapshot icon , you can capture the single split window which you select.
  • Page 30 Zoom , the system will activate “ Motion to Zoom” function. You can change the Frame color of camera which has motion happening (Refer to 4-3-2 DrView Environment Setup). The mode of Motion to Zoom will be displayed in 13 split window.
  • Page 31: Playback

    4-7 Playback Playback If you want to review the former recording video please click the playback button . The screen will show the following screen and you can select the camera/DVR you want to review on the right of screen. 4-7-1 Playback Control When you want to playback the selected camera, you can click the following playback control panel.
  • Page 32 Control Description Rewind Playback Rewind speed 0.5X, 0.2X and 0.1X Forward Playback Forward speed: 1.5X, 2.0X, 4X and 8X Play Playback the selected Rewind Play Next 1 min Stop video Previous 1 min Jump to preview 1 minute Forward Previous 1 min. Pause Next 1 min Jump to next 1 minute...
  • Page 33: E-Map

    4-8 E-MAP EMAP Before you start to enable the EMAP function in DrView, you need to build up the EMaps in EMAP Editor. Click “ Start” on your Windows taskbar, select “ Programs” and then find the folder of “ CenterManager200”. In this folder, please click the...
  • Page 34 EMAP Editor (Only the administrator is authorized to create the E-MAP). Once you set up the EMAP profile in the EMAP Editor, you can start to use EMAP function in DrView manager. You just click EMAP icon in the DrView main menu.
  • Page 35 Camera List PTZ camera Delete Camera 8 kinds of Camera Direction MAP List Create MAP Link Edit EMAP Load/Add EMAP DI List Delete EMAP EMAP Format Map should support JPEG or BMP format. The size of map should not exceed 1024*768. Create EMAP Step 1 Load/Add EMAP: Click “...
  • Page 36 You can see the MAP in the Preview Window. Enter the MAP Name and click OK. Then, you can see the MAP loaded into the EMAP Editor and the MAP name in the MAP List.
  • Page 37 Step 2 Add Cameras/DI/DO in the MAP “Drag and Drop” the cameras, DI or DO from the right window of Server List to the MAP. You can decide the camera, DI or DO location in the MAP. To adjust the camera direction, you can click the one of 8 Camera Directions you want and the picture of camera on the MAP will change the direction immediately.
  • Page 38 Step 3 MAP Link You can build another detail map for the specific area and make connection between these two MAPs. Just Add MAP and Drag and Drop cameras as Step 2 and the second MAP will show on the MAP List. You can switch the MAP by click the MAP name shown on the MAP list.
  • Page 39 Step 4 Save the EMAP Once you finish building the EMAP, please make sure to save the settings by clicking the “Save” in the file in the left upper corner of Window and click Exit to escape the EMAP Editor. If you want to delete the MAP, click the Delete icon .
  • Page 40 You can also edit this EMAP by clicking the Edit icon 4-8-2 EMAP Operation When you finish building or editing an EMAP, you need to login to the DrView again to reload the new EMAP in the DrView. Click the EMAP icon in the DrView to activate the EMAP function in the DrView and then you can see the following screen.
  • Page 41: Quick Select Tag

    Click any camera in the MAP and you can see the camera image shown in the Preview window. Then, Drag and Drop the image from the Preview window to any Spilt window you want to monitor. When you click left button of mouse on the Map Link icon shown on the EMAP, you can see the Link location in the Link Information area.
  • Page 42: Log System Status Window

    Quick Select Tag in the following dialog box. and press “OK” to finish saving. You also can select “Default View” in advance, and you can use the selected option whenever you initialize the DrView and Auto-Login. 4-9-2 Delete Quick Select Tag...
  • Page 43 Camera Event: show the cameras with motion events. Connecting Status: show all DVR connecting status. DVR Status: show DVR status. Channel Status: show each channel status. Connecting Log: show each connecting log. Log Search: Search the event log You can query the events according to time, event type, time, camera and DVR. Set up Event type, Time, Camera and DVR and click “Go”...
  • Page 44: Central Backup

    Log in Please select the DrView User Profile which you want to execute the backup. Because only administrator has the authority to back up DVR files, please open the User Profile by entering administrator’s password to login to the Central Backup.
  • Page 45 Task List Backup DVR List information Backup status Click “ File>Backup Schedule Setup” in task list to start to arrange the DVR backup schedule. It will show the following dialog box. Select DVR you want to arrange the backup schedule and click “ Modify schedule” in the left bottom of window. Modify Schedule Then, it will show the following window.
  • Page 46 There are two types of backup schedule. One is backup by “Once” and the other one is by “ Periodical”. Target Directory Select the directory where you want to save the files. You can choose the directory of local HDD or the Network Drive. Backup camera Backup...
  • Page 47 will be recorded as “Lost ”. (2) “Not Found”: The file has been scheduled to be backuped and backup is not finished. However, you can’t find this file in DVR any more. Then, this file will be recorded as “ Not Found”. (3) “...
  • Page 48 4-11-4 Backup Information DVR Backup status You can click any DVR in DVR list to see the total DVR backup status including backup settings, total backup files, backup size and remain sizes as the following picture. Camera Backup status Double click the DVR in the DVR list and it will list all of the cameras connected to this DVR.
  • Page 49 File Backup status Double click the camera in the DVR list and it will list all of the dates with recorded files. Click any date and it will list all of the backup files in this date and the status of backup file. Double click any file in this backup file list and you can activate DVR player to play the file you backup directly.
  • Page 50 Task state (1) Sleep: It’s not the time to start the backup task. (2) Wait: It’s time to start the backup task but the number of total backup tasks is over the one you setting. (3) Download: Files are being downloaded. (4) Finish: Backup task has been finished but it doesn’t mean that all files are backuped.
  • Page 51 “No Limit”. Others Backup log files are saved in the directory of DrView and named as “ RBLog.mlb”.
  • Page 52: Use Local Playback

    4-12 Use Local Playback In the playback mode, you can download the video files ( Refer 4-7-2) by clicking the and save the files in the directory. The files you download are CX3 format. If you want to play the file, you must execute “ DVR Player” from Windows taskbar->Start->...
  • Page 53 Select the transforming format. Here we choose Microsoft MPEG 4 Video Codec Select transforming parameters and it will influence the file’s quality and size.
  • Page 54 Enter “ OK” and then it will show the transforming status.
  • Page 55: Appendix

    5 Appendix 5-1 Maintenance Avoid placing the system at high temperature , high humidity , and also keep away from working in the frequent vibration environment. Operate the system under the conditions of stable and high voltage, If possible, the system should be equipped with UPS ( Uninterruptible Power Supply ). 5-2 FAE Support Any questions, please contact your supplier for your service.

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