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ACTi NVR User's Manual
Version 2.2.57
2010/5/25

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  • Page 1 ACTi NVR User’s Manual Version 2.2.57 2010/5/25...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Restore old setting to NVR Database ..........21 License ..................... 21 How does registration work ............22 Online Registration............... 22 Offline Registration (Through ACTi website) ......23 Verify your license ................ 24 3 NVR Quick Start Logging In ..................25 Finding Cameras on the Network ..........
  • Page 3 Special Day Motion ..................56 PTZ ....................59 PTZ Preset ................... 61 Preset Tour ................... 63 Event Manager ................65 Event List Mail Notification Setup System Setup ................... 70 Camera Groups ................70 User Roles ................... 71 Users.................... 72 www.acti.com...
  • Page 4 View Tours ..................79 Language ..................81 Services ..................83 License..................84 How does registration work Online Registration Offline Registration (Through ACTi Website) Verify Your License System ..................88 Map Setup ..................91 E-Map Setup ................91 Add Map Edit Map Add Cameras ................
  • Page 5 Web Client ..................128 Introduction ................128 Connecting to NVR as a Web Client .......... 128 Web Client Restrictions .............. 131 ACTi Utility Suite ................132 IP Utility ..................132 Media converter ................. 132 Backup Wizard ................132 Streaming Explorer ..............132 Archive Player ................
  • Page 6 Camera Setup – Motion - Motion Setup ......... 57 Fig. 32 Camera Setup - PTZ setup ............59 Fig. 33 Camera Setup - PTZ preset ............61 Fig. 34 Camera Setup - Preset Tour ............63 Fig. 35 Camera Setup – Event Manager - Setup ......... 65 www.acti.com...
  • Page 7 Active Monitor - Side panels ........... 98 Fig. 71 Active Monitor - Active Monitor Toolbar ........ 99 Fig. 72 Active Monitor - Camera Panel ..........100 Fig. 73 Active Monitor - Camera Panel - Sorting the Camera Tree .. 100 www.acti.com...
  • Page 8 Active Map - Active Map Overview ........126 Fig. 96 Active Map - Mini Preview Window ........127 Fig. 97 Web Client – Login Screen ............. 129 Fig. 98 Web Client – Basic Mode ............130 Fig. 99 Web Client – Advanced Mode ..........130 www.acti.com...

  • Page 9: Overview

    ACTi NVR Architecture ACTi NVR is a windows-based program that provides full functionality IP-based network video surveillance. It consists of several modules, such as: ACTi NVR Server, ACTi NVR Workstation, ACTi Web Client and ACTi Utility Suite. ACTi NVR Server NVR Server includes several Win32 services.

  • Page 10: Acti Nvr Workstation

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual ACTi NVR Workstation NVR Workstation includes a set of programs that provide interface between users and the NVR server. NVR Workstation may be installed on the same PC as the NVR server, or they may be installed separately and connect to NVR Server via network.

  • Page 11: System Requirements

    PC will be overloaded and NVR will stop operation. This is a common limitation imposed upon all Windows based video management programs. Enhancement for this limitation will be available in the next version of NVR. NOTE: PC Spec requirements are the same for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. www.acti.com...

  • Page 12: Operating System And Browsers Supported

    Fig. 2 List of Supported Operating Systems Editions Explained ACTi NVR comes in two versions, Enterprise and Professional. Professional Version provides full functionality on a single PC. You record and access the videos on the same computer. Enterprise Version provides remote access from another PC. User may connect to Server by either Workstation or Web Client.

  • Page 13: Keyboard Shortcuts

    Show / hide camera tree panel Ctrl+F10 Cancel auto-login mode during login Ctrl+F11 Show / hide title bar Ctrl+F12 Toggle full-screen mode Cancel full-screen mode; return to normal mode. This function is only valid in full-screen mode Fig. 3 Keyboard Shortcut List www.acti.com...

  • Page 14: Installing

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual Installing If you are using ACTi NVR CD-ROM, just follow the auto run sequence. If you downloaded NVR from our website, please run the installer .exe file included. Users that start from auto run will see the first three screens described below.
  • Page 15 NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual For installing Workstation, just follow the on screen instructions. For installing NVR Enterprise Server or NVR Professional, please see sample screen from NVR Enterprise Server setup, and follow below steps: www.acti.com...

  • Page 16: Backup

    NVR 2.2 SP3 requires Microsoft IIS server to operate. You need to install and configure IIS before installing or upgrading your NVR. Please refer to the document “How to Setup IIS Server” for detailed instructions. Please note that 64-bit systems are configured slightly different from 32-bit systems. www.acti.com...

  • Page 17: Ports And Firewalls

    Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Allowed Programs to add the following two programs to the allowed list: C:\Program Files\NVR\ActiveStreamEngine\ActiveStreamingService.exe C:\Program Files\NVR\ActiveScheduleService\ActiveScheduleService.exe Sample screenshots from Windows 7 are shown below. The steps are similar in other versions of windows OS www.acti.com...
  • Page 18 NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual Step 1: Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Allow a program through Windows Firewall Step 2: Allow Another Program www.acti.com...
  • Page 19 Step 3: Browse to the target program. In this sample Active Streaming Service is shown. Add this into the list of allowed programs. Step 4: Streaming Service is added to the allowed programs list. Do the same for Active Scheduling service. www.acti.com...

  • Page 20: Disabling Uac In Windows Vista And Windows 7

    “sa” password, use this instead of the default password. If you forgot the password for “sa” account, please select Windows Authentication instead. When you use Windows Authentication, just use your windows login account / password. Please see following image. www.acti.com...

  • Page 21: Restore Old Setting To Nvr Database

    Please refer to Backup Wizard User‟s Manual for detailed instructions. License ACTi NVR software has 16 channel / 32 channel / 48 channel / 64 channel packages. For NVR Enterprise it is free for up to 16 channels. For more than 16 channels, you have to purchase a license key.

  • Page 22: How Does Registration Work

    During registration, your license key is matched against the MAC address on the Network Interface Card (NIC) on your computer. This MAC address is used as the Machine Key. This matching record will be stored on the ACTi web server. If your computer has more than one network card, only the network card with the smallest MAC address will be used.

  • Page 23: Offline Registration (Through Acti Website)

    If your PC cannot connect to the internet (e.g. in a restricted military base), then you should register offline. You may obtain an activation key from ACTi website with another PC that has internet connection, and activate your NVR license on the server PC off-line.

  • Page 24: Verify Your License

    Once you‟ve successfully registered your NVR, you will receive a notification message as shown here. You may check your current NVR license from Active Setup -> System Setup -> System tab Fig. 7 Verifying License Registration Info If you encounter any error message, please report on our Customer Help Desk: http://www.acti.com/support/case/index.asp www.acti.com...

  • Page 25: Nvr Quick Start

    This section will demonstrate the fundamentals of how to setup your security surveillance system with ACTi NVR. We will guide you through the basic steps required to setup your surveillance system. This section will only explain the necessary part of the User Interface, and will not detail every function.
  • Page 26 PC, but others may also gain access to this PC. In such cases you do not want to breach security protocols by automatically logging in without verifying if the user has permission to use this account. This method provides convenience with proper security safeguard www.acti.com...

  • Page 27: Finding Cameras On The Network

    Before using NVR to view cameras, you may use IP Utility to find and access IP devices (download the latest version here). IP Utility will scan your network and display a list of ACTi Cameras. From the list you may check the IP address of each camera, access them through web configurators, or perform firmware upgrade to many cameras at the same time.

  • Page 28: Adding Cameras To Nvr System

    3. A message will appear when searching for devices. Once the search is complete a list of available devices will be shown. You may click on the title header to sort by that column. Click again to sort in the reverse order Fig. 11 Auto Search Camera List www.acti.com...

  • Page 29: Adding Cameras Manually

    NOTE: If any one of the five fields is incorrect, you will not be able to connect with the device. When you have any device connection problem, please check these settings. Fig. 12 Add New Cameras – Manual www.acti.com...
  • Page 30 4. Click open the expand arrows on the right of Media Source information tab, and you will see that the Detail Description Setting fields have been automatically filled up by NVR. 5. Click “Apply” to save settings to NVR and finish manually adding this camera. www.acti.com...

  • Page 31: Add Or Configure Cameras Via Copy Setting

    If you select “Add New Device”, then a new camera will be created. If you select a particular existing camera, then the settings in NVR for that camera will be overwritten. www.acti.com...

  • Page 32: Configuring Access Rights

    2. Type in the Group name and the Group Description. The Group name is mandatory, while the description may be omitted. 3. Click “Apply” to save the currently typed group name/description as a new camera group. Camera groups already in the system will be displayed below in the camera groups table. www.acti.com...

  • Page 33: Setup Which Groups Does Each Camera Belong

    “No Group”. This means that “No Group” will contain all devices unless the administrator has unchecked the check box from specific cameras. Defining User Roles 1. Please go to Active Setup -> System Setup -> User Roles www.acti.com...

  • Page 34: Defining Users

    You may add users to NVR system by going to Active Setup -> System Setup -> Users You may configure the User Account, User name, password, email Address, User Role and Descriptions here. The camera groups available to this user are also selected here. www.acti.com...

  • Page 35: View Live Video

    4. You may arrange the channels by clicking and dragging them to different view windows. www.acti.com...

  • Page 36: Recording And Snapshots

    If you wish to record a give channel while viewing live video, first select the channel to record by clicking on the view window. Then just click on the record icon to start manual recording. By default, manual recording will continue automatically for 5 minutes then stop. www.acti.com...

  • Page 37: View Recorded Video

    To export video as evidence, you should first locate the file via Active Player. If the format you need is AVI or RAW, you may export directly from Active Player. If you need JPEG files, you may also use Media Converter to convert part of the video into JPG images. www.acti.com...

  • Page 38: Nvr Operation Explained

    If you are just starting to use NVR and have no camera in your system, you will see the Add New Camera screen automatically when you use active setup. If you already have devices in your NVR system, then click “New” under the Camera tab to add new camera. Fig. 13 Camera Setup - Add New Camera www.acti.com...

  • Page 39: Auto Scan

    The column “Channel No” is used for multiple channel Video Servers. One video server may connect to many analog cameras, and they are identified by the Channel No. You may add each Channel No. as a separate Channel in NVR. www.acti.com...

  • Page 40: Manual

    Fig. 16 Camera Setup – Manual - Basic Settings Web Configurator: Click this button to open web configurator of the camera/video server. Some detailed settings are available only through the web configurator and not through NVR. www.acti.com...
  • Page 41 17. Get Device Setting: Get Setting information from device After you have filled in the basic setting and completed getting device settings, your screen will be similar to the figure below. You can click to open/close Media Source Information section and the Advanced Setting section. www.acti.com...

  • Page 42: Fig. 17 Camera Setup – Manual - Get Device Setting Completed

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual Fig. 17 Camera Setup – Manual - Get Device Setting completed Click the apply button to add device to NVR system. We will explain the other sections below www.acti.com...

  • Page 43: Detail Description Setting

    5. OSD Position: for devices with OSD (On Screen Display), this determines where to show them. In most cases you do not need to edit this value. 6. Camera Groups: Select the camera groups for this device to belong to. One camera may belong to many camera groups at the same time. www.acti.com...

  • Page 44: Frame Rate Setting

    IMPORTANT: It is highly recommended that users use Get Device Setting before making configuration changes, and use “Apply” after the changes are made. This way the status of IP Camera can be synchronized to the NVR Server. www.acti.com...

  • Page 45: Advanced Setting

    5. Bitrate Mode: Select Bitrate Mode of camera/video server 6. Maximum Bitrate: Select the maximum bitrate of camera/video server 7. Bit Rate: User can see the target Bit Rate on this IP camera. To modify it, enter the new one and click the Apply button www.acti.com...

  • Page 46: Fig. 21 Camera Setup – Advanced Setting – Video Adjustment

    2. Saturation: Adjust the Saturation value either by clicking on the bar or selecting from the drop down list. 3. Contrast: Adjust the Contrast value either by clicking on the bar or selecting from the drop down list. NOTE: Some devices do not allow setting for some of these values. www.acti.com...

  • Page 47: Fig. 22 Camera Setup – Advanced Setting – Connection Port

    2. Control Port: User can see the current control port on this IP camera here. 3. Streaming Port: User can see the current Streaming port on this IP camera here. 4. Multicast Port: User can see the current multicast port on this IP camera here. www.acti.com...

  • Page 48: Delete Camera

    Even if you have kept a backup with the backup wizard, it will only save your camera settings, and will not retain your video recordings if they are also deleted. After you clicked the „Delete‟ button, you will see three options with different settings to delete. Please select one method to delete. www.acti.com...
  • Page 49 After user click „Delete All‟ button, the three options will also show up. Please select one method to delete. Deleting cameras will also remove them from Layouts and View Tours, but will not remove the maps or the camera groups they are involved in. www.acti.com...

  • Page 50: Copy Settings

    New Device, a new device will appear with the same settings as your current camera. You may wish to modify the settings from there. 4. Items: Check the settings that you want to copy. Some detailed settings require you to first select Camera model to be able to include them in copy settings. www.acti.com...

  • Page 51: Record Path

    If you expect to encounter frequent short triggers, you should use scheduled recording to keep track of the whole time period. An example would be the entry of a retail shop during business hours. www.acti.com...

  • Page 52: Schedule

    This method saves the storage space and keeps only the relevant video. Delete: The camera will not perform any recording during the selected time period. After configuring the recording schedule, if you need to copy the schedule to other cameras, www.acti.com...

  • Page 53: Fig. 27 Camera Setup – Schedule – Copy Setting(Weekly)

    Camera to select all devices. Schedule: You may adjust your schedule before copying to devices. Note: After you modify the recording schedule and click „Apply‟, it would only save to the assigned cameras but not to the original camera. www.acti.com...

  • Page 54: Special Day

    This method saves the storage space and keeps only the relevant video. 7. Delete: The camera will not perform any recording during the selected time period. 8. Schedule table on Special Day: After you‟ve selected the day to edit, this is where you www.acti.com...

  • Page 55: Fig. 29 Camera Setup - Schedule - Copy Setting (Special Day)

    You may perform Copy camera setting in the same way as the weekly schedule. Only the special day schedules will be copied if you select copy camera setting here. Please see the sample screenshot below. Fig. 29 Camera Setup - Schedule - Copy Setting (Special day) www.acti.com...

  • Page 56: Motion

    PIR motion sensor. The previously grayed out check boxes for each region will be enabled now. In this stage you may configure the size and location of each individual region. Please see screenshot on the next page. www.acti.com...

  • Page 57: Fig. 31 Camera Setup – Motion - Motion Setup

    Set: After checking/unchecking “Show Motion Region in Active-Monitor”, click „Set‟ button to save the setting. This setting applies to all cameras, regardless of which camera you enabled it from. Enable / Disable Motion Detection: Click this button to enable / disable this motion www.acti.com...
  • Page 58 NVR and press Get device settings, then click apply to save to NVR. This is to ensure that the settings in NVR are always in sync with the device. * For ACTi TCM/TCD model devices, motion detection is available when codec is either H.264 or MPEG4. MJPEG does not support motion detection.

  • Page 59: Ptz

    User Command List: If your speed dome or PTZ device has a special function not supported in the standard protocol. Ex: Activate the wiper to clean the window of the PTZ. User can manually input the command to activate the wiper for later selection in PTZ controls. www.acti.com...
  • Page 60 NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual Baud Rate: Enter the baud rate of the PTZ device/ speed dome. This option appears only for certain models. 10. Absolute Position: Check this box to enable PTZ by absolute positioning. This option appears only for certain devices www.acti.com...

  • Page 61: Ptz Preset

    / zoom out buttons will not show up. Auto Scan Panel: You may setup Auto scan parameters in this panel. For some devices, you can only start or stop the auto scan. The camera will automatically scan between the www.acti.com...
  • Page 62 : Click this button to go to the preset point NVR supports up to 32 Preset Points. Some devices may not support that many Preset Points. After you finish setting or deleting preset points, please click “Apply” to ensure NOTE: the changes are properly saved to the device. www.acti.com...

  • Page 63: Preset Tour

    Delete Tour: Click this button to delete the currently selected tour from the tour list. Add Preset Point: Click this button to add preset point to the current tour. After you click this button, you will enter the subsection showing the available preset points. www.acti.com...
  • Page 64 You may change the value here, but do not use dwell time smaller than 15 seconds unless absolutely necessary. 11. Tour ID list: All tours currently configured are listed here. You may select each tour to edit the details. www.acti.com...

  • Page 65: Event Manager

    4. Enable Action: After selecting an event, first user has to enable the function by checking it and then select which action to take upon event. 5. Enable E-Mail Notification: If you wish to send email notification, you need to first enable it by checking the checkbox. www.acti.com...

  • Page 66: Fig. 36 Camera Setup – Event Manager - Pir

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual When cameras have PIR, the event type PIR will show up. Therefore, user can take it as one of the events and set actions for it. Fig. 36 Camera Setup – Event Manager - PIR www.acti.com...

  • Page 67: Fig. 37 Event Manager Setup – Action Tab

    3. Trigger DO1: Click to enable / disable DO1 when this event occurs. You may also setup the duration for DO1 to be triggered. 4. Trigger DO2: Click to enable / disable DO2 when this event occurs. You may also setup the duration for DO2 to be triggered. www.acti.com...
  • Page 68 14. Enable Execute Command and enter its File Path: Click to enable NVR to execute a certain command upon this event. This is a very power function. User can use it to integrate NVR‟s event handling with other programs. User can enter the path of the command to be executed upon event. www.acti.com...

  • Page 69: Mail Notification Setup

    Event responses will only be triggered when the trigger time falls within either the “Scheduled” Recording or the “Event with Streaming” Recording period. There must be video stream from device when the event happens for event responses to work. www.acti.com...

  • Page 70: System Setup

    You may also select a group from the list of existing camera groups below and edit the group. Always click “Apply” before leaving to preserve changes you‟ve made. IMPORTANT: Please do not delete default Camera Group. Default Camera Group is “No Group”. www.acti.com...

  • Page 71: User Roles

    User Role. You may also select a group from the list of existing user roles below and edit the role permissions. Always click “Apply” before leaving to preserve changes you‟ve made. NOTE: Please do not change default User Roles. Default User Roles are: Administrator, Guest, Standard User and Guard. www.acti.com...

  • Page 72: Users

    You may also select a user from the list of existing users and edit the roles and permissions. Always click “Apply” before leaving to preserve changes you‟ve made. NOTE: Please assign the correct Camera Groups to the user account created. www.acti.com...

  • Page 73: Storage

    Select the method you wish to use by choosing the radio button. 5. Snapshot delete rule: This field defines how long will snapshots be kept on the disk drive. www.acti.com...
  • Page 74 10. Available Disk Drives: These are the drives detected by NVR, but not yet included for video storage use. Note: When deleting storage drive will delete all recorded logs on this disk. www.acti.com...

  • Page 75: Joystick

    USB joystick shown here may be obtained from www.chproducts.com or other online distributors. Note: Joystick Setup is available only through workstation and not available through web client. www.acti.com...

  • Page 76: Fig. 44 System Setup - Joystick - Dropdown Features Menu

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual Fig. 44 System Setup - Joystick - Dropdown features menu www.acti.com...

  • Page 77: View Layouts

    6. Set as Default: Select this option to use this layout as the default view to see upon login. 7. Description: Enter descriptions for this view layout here. 8. Layout Setting: Pick the cameras to view in each window for this view layout. Only www.acti.com...
  • Page 78 9. View Layout List: User can see the existing view layout list here. Click on the row of the target layout to edit. 10. Apply Button: Click button to confirm and save the settings. If the View Layout screen is in the “New” mode, clicking Apply will add a new layout. www.acti.com...

  • Page 79: View Tours

    Check the checkboxes in front of each layout to select it. When you‟ve selected all the layouts you wish to add, click “Add” to add them to the layout tour. Click Return to return to preset tour page without making any changes. www.acti.com...
  • Page 80 Be sure to click Apply after you finished setup, before configuring something else. Note: If you remove a camera that is part of a layout, the window for that removed camera will display a black video when viewed. www.acti.com...

  • Page 81: Language

    , click here to select from the full Language list. Check the boxes before the ones you wish to translate and click Insert again as in the figure below. Fig. 48 System Setup - Language - Language List to Insert www.acti.com...

  • Page 82: Fig. 49 System Setup - Language - Language List To Remove

    5. Import button: Select a translated XML file to import. You may update support for new languages or change the more up to date translated version for your language this way. 6. Apply button: Confirm and save current settings. 7. Language: Show the keyword list of the selected language to edit. www.acti.com...

  • Page 83: Services

    4. ActiveServiceManager.EXE: This program monitors the other software service modules. If the other services are down, it will automatically restart them. 5. ActiveStreamingService.EXE: Streaming engine handles connection to ACTi IP devices and provides video stream to multiple clients. 6. ActiveMessageEngine.Exe: Message engine maintains proper background communication between the various win32 services.

  • Page 84: License

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual License ACTi NVR software has 16 channel / 32 channel / 48 channel / 64 channel packages and is free for 16 channels. For more than 16 channels, you have to purchase a license key.

  • Page 85: Offline Registration (Through Acti Website)

    If your PC cannot connect to the internet (e.g. in a restricted military base), then you should register offline. You may obtain an activation key from ACTi website with another PC that has internet connection, and activate your NVR license on the server PC off-line.
  • Page 86 NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual www.acti.com...

  • Page 87: Verify Your License

    You may check your current NVR license from Active Setup -> System Setup -> System tab Fig. 53 System Setup - License - Verifying Registration Info If you encounter any error message, please report on our Customer Help Desk: http://www.acti.com/support/case/index.asp www.acti.com...

  • Page 88: System

    A sample message is shown below. 11. Event status on Camera Tree: Check this box to enable cameras with recently triggered events to highlight and flash on the Camera Tree. 12. Apply: Confirm and save the settings in System. www.acti.com...

  • Page 89: Fig. 55 System Setup - System - System E-Mail Setting

    4. Password: Enter the password for NVR FTP account 5. Upload Folder: Enter the FTP folder path to upload files onto. Fig. 57 System Setup - System - License Information License Information: You may review the software license information here, including shipping date and Channel Number. www.acti.com...

  • Page 90: Fig. 58 System Setup - System - Available Disk Drive Capacity

    Camera Model Update: You may update supported device list to NVR by uploading a new Camera Model file. Click the text field to select file to import. This is only available on the workstation interface and not available for web client. www.acti.com...

  • Page 91: Map Setup

    Fig. 61 Map Setup - Map Manager (Before adding any map) Before you add any map in the system, the Map Name dropdown list will be empty. Click “Add Map” to select the camera group you wish to monitor and the map image file you wish to show. www.acti.com...

  • Page 92: Add Map

    Fig. 63 Map Setup - Selecting Map You may select one of the maps you have already added to the system and edit settings in this screen. You may add cameras and arrange their icons / mini previews on the map here. www.acti.com...

  • Page 93: Add Cameras

    Fig. 64 Map Setup - Adding Cameras to Map Check the cameras that you want to add to the given map and press [Add]. Alternatively, you may cancel the adding process by pressing [Cancel] button. Fig. 65 Map Setup - Arranging Cameras www.acti.com...
  • Page 94 You can delete the camera from the map by pressing [Delete Camera] button if necessary. Please note that it will not delete the camera from the NVR system, but only from the current E-map. You can delete the map by pressing [Delete Map] button if necessary. www.acti.com...

  • Page 95: Add Map Link

    (for example a school‟s campus) and several other maps containing floor plans of each building in the area. Map link can also be used when the area is too big so that it has to be divided into several smaller maps. www.acti.com...

  • Page 96: Map Tour

    You can run the Tour later on ActiveMap by pressing the following [Patrol] button: Once you have added the maps to the Map Tour, the option of deleting the maps from the Tour will appear – the [Delete] button. Click [Delete] to remove one or more maps from the Tour. www.acti.com...

  • Page 97: Active Monitor

    2. Active Monitor Toolbar: Contains buttons to operate in Active Monitor application 3. Personal Profile: Click on this to bring up Personal Profile settings; you may change the password for the current user and select the preferred Language. www.acti.com...

  • Page 98: Fig. 70 Active Monitor - Side Panels

    (PTZ, snapshot, close camera, etc.) 10. Change Layout: You may select a layout from this dropdown list to change the view. The layouts here need to be setup first in the View Layouts section in System Setup. www.acti.com...

  • Page 99: Active Monitor Toolbar

    What you speak will be heard over all cannels in current layout, but you cannot hear from them. 14. Volume Control: Turn audio signal on/off and adjust the volume. New channels are set to Mute On as default (No Sound). www.acti.com...

  • Page 100: Camera Panel

    Clicking the icon displays a popup info panel with basic information about the camera as shown in the figure below. If “Event on Camera Tree” is enabled in System setup, then cameras with current events will highlight and flash. www.acti.com...

  • Page 101: Event Panel

    Clicking the icon will pop up a mini playback window which shows the recording for this particular event. The mini-preview window and the playback window are shown in the following two figures. www.acti.com...

  • Page 102: Fig. 76 Active Monitor - Event Panel - Event Preview Window

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual Fig. 76 Active Monitor - Event Panel - Event Preview window Fig. 77 Active Monitor - Event Panel -Event Playback window www.acti.com...

  • Page 103: Fig. 78 Active Monitor - Event Panel - Event Popup Mini-Preview

    2. List of triggered event: Each entry records the camera name, event type and dwell time. 3. Live preview: Here is the actual preview window of the channels with recent events. NOTE: For PTZ cameras, you may also use mouse for PTZ controls in pop-up preview window. www.acti.com...

  • Page 104: Ptz Panel

    Depending upon its position on screen, the PTZ camera will Pan/Tilt with different speed or zoom in/out. The below overlay image shows some of the possible cursor images. Fig. 80 Active Monitor - PTZ Panel - Mouse PTZ www.acti.com...
  • Page 105 11. Goto: Go to a preset point. Just select the target from the drop down list. You must first setup the preset point through NVR to use this. 12. Action: If you have special PTZ commands entered here, you may select from the drop down list to issue that particular command. www.acti.com...

  • Page 106: Adding Cameras Into Preview Windows

    A red border will show on the window where preview will be displayed. You may also first click on the preferred preview window then double click on the camera you wish to display there. www.acti.com...

  • Page 107: Personal Profile

    1. Patrol: Click here to select the view layout tour to use. You may click “Cancel” to stop layout tour. 2. 1 window view 3. 4 window view 4. 9 window view 5. 16 window view 6. 25 window view 7. 36 window view 8. 49 window view www.acti.com...
  • Page 108 1 when you next refresh this layout. This way you may verify that media 2 is acceptable to your recording needs, but do not need to keep decoding a larger video stream in live view. www.acti.com...

  • Page 109: System Monitor

    5. Export Button: Export the logs into XLS file. Pressing the button will pop up a window for you to confirm the path and name of the export file. This function is only available through workstation, not Web Client. www.acti.com...

  • Page 110: Fig. 86 Active Monitor - System Monitor - Export

    6. Navigation buttons: Click here to move through the pages of records 7. Displaying Data: Here you can see the record numbers being displayed. 8. Records: Display the search result according to the search filters. The results may contain different fields depending upon the type of log filter. www.acti.com...

  • Page 111: Active Player

    5. Camera Panel: The Camera tree is displayed here. 6. Open/Digital Zoom / Export: Open local file to playback. Once file is open, you may perform digital zoom or export to local PC. Digital zoom is performed in the same way as in Active Monitor. www.acti.com...

  • Page 112: Active Player Toolbar

    10. Snapshot Search: Click this button to search and browse snapshots taken by the system, and bring up related archive playback. 11. Volume Control: Turn audio signal on/off and adjust the volume. New channels are set to Mute On as default (No Sound). www.acti.com...

  • Page 113: Video Search

    Time Period: Mark the Start and end date/time for this search. Video that began before the starting time will be included unless “Include video that began before this time period” is unchecked. Search: Click to search video archives according to the filter above Return Button: Click to return to main page www.acti.com...

  • Page 114: Video Search Result

    Start Time / End Time: Displays start / end date/time of the video clip End Time: Displays end date/time of the video clip Page Indicator: User may go to different pages of the search result here. Download: Download video file to your local drive. Return: Click to return to search page www.acti.com...

  • Page 115: Play Archive From Search Page

    Play Archive from Search Page Fig. 90 Active Player – Play Archive from Search Page After clicking the link from the search page, user can see the file information on the screen first, and playback will begin when the file is ready. www.acti.com...

  • Page 116: Snapshot Search

    Time Period: Mark the Start and end date/time for this snapshot search. Search: Click to search snapshot archives according to the filter above Return Button: Click to return to main page www.acti.com...

  • Page 117: Snapshot Preview

    Snapshot View: When you click on one thumbnail, a preview image the original snapshot will be displayed below in the Snapshot view area. You may see the physical file location below the snapshot, and click the link to the right to download snapshot file. www.acti.com...

  • Page 118: Playback Control Panel

    11. Next recording: Click this button to go to the recording file after the current one. 12. Speed bar: This bar shows how fast this recording is being played. User can click the button on this bar to change playback speed. F to the left means frame-by–frame. www.acti.com...

  • Page 119: Export

    NVR Server. NOTE: To play the exported .AVI file, you must have FFDShow or DivX codec installed in your computer. They can be found over the internet at the following sites: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack www.acti.com...

  • Page 120: Time Based Search Bar

    If it is day, it will go forward one day. 10. File Information: Shows the recorded, date and time of the recording file. Note: The time displayed is based upon device time, not NVR PC time. www.acti.com...

  • Page 121: Channel Layout

    10-Window View: Shows two video channels with a larger view, and 8 others at a lower resolution. 10. Synchronous Button: 4-channel synchronized playback. NOTE: The Synchronous Button will be enabled only when there are files being played back. www.acti.com...

  • Page 122: Synchronous Playback

    1. Drag: You may drag a channel into one of the 4-window view or 2. Open: You can open a file from archive to sync with Note: You may sync to a maximum of 4-channels at one time. www.acti.com...

  • Page 123: Finding Your Time And Synchronize

    2. Playback Time: Find the time you want to sync/view from Playback Control Panel 3. Time Bar: Or find the time you want to sync/view from Time Based Search Bar 4. Synchronize Button: Then click on the synchronize button to confirm the current channel as Sync Main. www.acti.com...

  • Page 124: Sync Main And Sync Follower

    Sync Playback. Note: You may only have one channel acting as Sync Main. Once a channel is defined as Sync Main, you need to first click “Cancel” below to exit Sync Playback mode before disconnecting the Sync Main channel. www.acti.com...

  • Page 125: Sync Playback

    8. Disconnect Channel: You may disconnect all sync followers except sync main. Note: Under Sync Playback mode you may not use Search and Snapshot view button. While Sync Playback (Play/Pause) you may not drag/add more channels to empty ones nor replace original ones. www.acti.com...

  • Page 126: Active Map

    Related event symbol will appear beside it, and red rectangle will appear for Motion Detection or PIR events. 4. Camera Info: if your mouse hovers over the camera, then a popup text box will show up www.acti.com...

  • Page 127: Mini Preview

    Double-clicking on the live preview window Fig. 96 Active Map - Mini Preview Window Mini-Preview Window: Mini-preview window displays with larger display window. Audio Control: User may turn on/off audio transmissions here. NOTE: You may also control PTZ cameras via on-screen mouse PTZ. www.acti.com...

  • Page 128: Web Client

    If you are logging in for the first time, a warning bar will appear in the page. Click to install the ActiveX control and run the add-on to access NVR. This installation is secure, and you will only need to install once for each PC. www.acti.com...

  • Page 129: Fig. 97 Web Client – Login Screen

    Secondly the Preview mode now has two options, Basic and Advanced. Advanced mode is almost the same as NVR workstation. Basic mode is used when you want to restrict access or for simple observers. www.acti.com...

  • Page 130: Fig. 98 Web Client – Basic Mode

    Active Monitor If you do not have access right to Active Monitor, it will connect you to modules where your account has permission to. Fig. 98 Web Client – Basic Mode Web Client – Advanced Mode Fig. 99 www.acti.com...

  • Page 131: Web Client Restrictions

    In Setup System, Joystick setting is not available to Web Client. In Setup System -> System, Default Export Path is not available to Web Client You may not export files from Web Client, including Language files, Raw/AVI files and system logs. You may not setup eMap from web client www.acti.com...

  • Page 132: Acti Utility Suite

    NVR 2.2 SP3 (V2.2.57) User’s Manual ACTi Utility Suite Aside from NVR, we also provide a set of utilities to help round out the features. Here is a brief introduction to the utility programs. For details, please go to the respective user‟s manual.

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