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ACTi Mobile Server
User Manual
01/05/2012

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Summary of Contents for ACTi Mobile Server

  • Page 1 ACTi Mobile Server User Manual 01/05/2012...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Mobile Server Table of Contents 1 Overview Introduction ..................4 Main Specification ................5 System Requirements ..............5 2 Installation Disabling UAC Function in Windows ..........7 General Configuration ..............8 PTZ Camera Configuration ............10 Things you need to know before you start ........14 System Startup ................
  • Page 3 Figure List Fig. 1 Network Architecture .............. 4 Fig. 2 TweakUAC ................7 Fig. 3 Configurations of Mobile server ..........8 Fig. 4 Media Server URL ..............8 Fig. 5 NVR ports ................. 9 Fig. 6 Configuration file ..............10 Fig.
  • Page 4: Overview

    Overview Introduction ACTi Mobile Server provides streaming re-direction from NVR Server to all web clients that can see MJPEG format video. Users do not need to modify encoding type of IP devices or NVR settings for Mobile Server, because the service will automatically encode video in MJPEG format.
  • Page 5: Main Specification

    Live Output Format MJPEG QCIF @3 FPS Supported Browser iPhone Safari NVR Server ACTi NVR Enterprise 2.2 SP3 v 2.2.57.52 or later Display Layout According to NVR Server channel setup. Thumbnail Display Snapshot from each channel upon login. NVR Supported...
  • Page 6 Mobile Server Supported Windows OS for 32 bit and 64 bit systems are listed below Version 32 bit 64 bit Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Enterprise For 64 bit NVR version, 64 bit Internet Explorer is not supported. Please use ...
  • Page 7: Installation

    Mobile Server Installation These are the general steps of completing the mobile server installation. For the NVR Server PC, please: 1. Set up port forwarding rule to open ports for NVR HTTP (default:80) , NVR control (default: 6001), NVR streaming (default:6001) and Mobile Server streaming (uses only 90, please don‟t change it).
  • Page 8: General Configuration

    „Mobile Server.msi‟ in the same PC. After it is installed, you have to configure IP address and ports to let web clients access to Mobile Server. There is one file under NVR folder that you have to edit: C:\Program Files\NVR\IPControlCenter\m\config.xml.
  • Page 9: Fig. 5 Nvr Ports

    (2) NVR Server Fig. 5 NVR ports  < IP>: Mobile Server will use it to communicate with NVR server. Since we install Mobile Server in the same PC with NVR Server, we can use 127.0.0.1 as the IP address. ...
  • Page 10: Ptz Camera Configuration

    Step1: Please enable PTZ function in NVR for each PTZ camera. And please make sure PTZ function work in NVR with proper settings. Step2: Please go to Media Server folder “C:\Program Files\ACTi\Mobile Server\Media Services\config\device\”, and open MediaSourceConfig.xml file with Notepad. We are going to edit the settings of PTZ camera in this file.
  • Page 11: Fig. 7 Find Ptz Camera Configuration Section

    Mobile Server Fig. 7 Find PTZ Camera Configuration Configuration Section text start ●In this document, User editable scope is between <MediaSourceConfiguration> and </MediaSourceConfiguration> labels; there are originally three sections in the content, each section begins with “- <MediaSource id="X">”and ends with “...
  • Page 12: Fig. 8 Configurations Of Ptz Cameras (Example)

    Mobile Server Fig. 8 Configurations of PTZ Cameras (Example) First, you will have to find the PTZ camera that you have according to Model Production Id . After that, you will be able to start to configure all the other fields. Items from (1) to (11) need to be properly configured.
  • Page 13: Fig. 10 Nvr Camera Advanced Setting

    Mobile Server [User Name] shown on NVR Camera Basic Setting page of NVR Server( See Fig. 8). (9) Model and (10) Production Id: It shows the model name of the PTZ camera. See the model name shown on NVR Camera Basic Setting page of NVR Server( See Fig. 8).
  • Page 14: Things You Need To Know Before You Start

    Mobile server from your iPhone. There is a demo of Mobile server. You may try it before you have your own mobile server. Please use your iPhone browser and connect to http://mobile.acti.com:80/m/. Account/password is guest/guest.
  • Page 15: Login

    Mobile Server Login Fig. 11 Login Screen Username Please key in account username. Default username is Admin. Password Please key in account password. Default password is 123456. Remember Password Check the box to remember username and password. Login Please Click on Login button to log into the service.
  • Page 16: Live

    Mobile Server Live Live Main Screen Upon login of the system, Live tab will automatically display thumbnails of all the channels captured on that second from IP devices. Thumbnail layout may change in accordance with display panel resolution. Module Tabs...
  • Page 17: Module Tabs

    Mobile Server Module Tabs There are two modules in the system, Live and Playback, to carry out live streaming and playback. Fig. 13 Module Tabs Under Live module when a specific channel is selected, tabs may vary depending upon IP device model.
  • Page 18: Live Streaming

    Mobile Server Live Streaming In Live main page, double click on a channel to start live view. Fig. 16 Live View 1. Home To go back to Live main page. 2. Playback To switch to Playback page. 3. PTZ To control PTZ. Details please refer to Function.
  • Page 19: Ptz Function

    Mobile Server PTZ Function Fig. 17 Live streaming with PTZ control 1. Speed You may define speed of movement here. 2. Preset To select a preset point. 3. Go Click on Go to move to the preset point with pre-defined speed.
  • Page 20: Fig. 18 Ptz Speed And Preset

    Mobile Server Fig. 18 PTZ Speed and Preset www.acti.com...
  • Page 21: Playback

    Mobile Server Playback Playback Overview Users may search recorded video clips regarding channels, date/time, duration, and type. Module Tabs Quit Thumbnails Search Panel Submit Thumbnails Fig. 19 Playback Main Screen Summary of the Playback Main Screen Module Tab To switch modules.
  • Page 22: Search Panel

    Mobile Server Search Panel Fig. 20 Search Panel Camera The service allow users to search playback from a single channel. Start Date To select a date. Start Time To define the start time. Duration To define the duration of search period.
  • Page 23: Fig. 21 Search Results

    Please note that recording file length and pre-event recording length are defined in NVR Server configuration. Users are not allowed to change any NVR settings through the Mobile Server service. Timestamp may have 3 seconds offset due to connection limitation.

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