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MigmaDVR Version 1.5 User Guide November 2009 MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
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Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Companies, names and data used in examples herein are fictitious unless otherwise noted. Migma Systems, Inc. does not endorse or approve the use of any of the product names or trademarks appearing in this document.
MigmaDVR can perform the intelligent search over all stored detection videos and condense the search results in one unified video file. MigmaDVR operate without any user interactions, 24/7. It is an ideal surveillance system for banks, office buildings, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, etc.
Windows 7, Windows Vista or XP. The minimum screen resolution of monitor should be 1152×864 pixels. MigmaDVR can operate without any monitor. 2.2 Software The MigmaDVR software application, device drivers and this User Guide are included in MigmaDVR installation CD. MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
After mounting the cameras using brackets (included), the user needs to connect all of the cameras to the 8-channel video capture card installed on the desktop computer. The user must connect all of the cameras with their power adapters (included). MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
Software Installation In this section, we describe how to install MigmaDVR software in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. 4.1 Windows XP Setup 4.1.1 Video Capture Card Driver Installation If it is the first time installing the video capture card to the computer, the user needs to install its drivers.
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CD into CD-ROM or DVD drive. The setup program will automatically start. If not, please go to the CD-ROM or DVD drive directory and double-click on “setup.exe”. Follow the steps shown subsequently and finish the installation. 4.1.3 MigmaDVR Software Uninstallation\Reinstallation MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
MigmaDVR . If the user prefers to reinstall the MigmaDVR software, all of the surveillance video files stored previously (if not deleted manually) will remain in the same folders.
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8. At this point, the “Found New Hardware – Unknown Device” dialog box will appear one more time. Follow Steps 6-7 to finish. 9. Once all of the drivers are installed, “Driver Software Installation” window will appear, as shown in Figure 4-11 for reference. The “Device Manager” MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
MigmaDVR . If the user prefers to reinstall the MigmaDVR software, all of the surveillance video files stored previously (if not deleted manually) will remain in the same folders.
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4. Select and click on “Browse my computer for driver software” and a window will appear as shown in Figure 4-17. In this window, click on the Browse button and browse to the driver directory, BT848_Driver, located in the MigmaDVR installation CD and click “Next”.
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“Uninstall.” Although the uninstallation program will not remove the saved surveillance video files shown in Figure 4-24 (above), the user is strongly recommended to backup these files to a safe place before uninstalling MigmaDVR . If the user prefers to...
Starting MigmaDVR After installing MigmaDVR hardware and software, double click MigmaDVR icon on the desktop of computer to start the surveillance program. Once MigmaDVR has started, its main window will appear as shown in Figure 5-1 and MigmaDVR will start performing the surveillance for you. Figure 5-1 shows the live videos from 8 IR LED cameras connected to the system.
Video Camera Configuration On the right side of the MigmaDVR window, click “Video Cameras” tab. The Video Cameras options will appear. The “Video Source” box will show that the video source is video capture device. The “Video Capture Device” in “Video Source” drop box indicates the video capture device associated with each individual camera.
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Figure 6-2: Video camera selection Note: Some disabled buttons are not functional in the current version of MigmaDVR MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
IP camera. User can start or stop an IP camera by clicking “Start Preview”/”Stop Preview”. Figure 7-1: IP camera setting. Note: Some disabled buttons are not functional in the current version of MigmaDVR MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
Video Analytical Cueing The motion trigger is an important feature of MigmaDVR . It is based on our sophisticated video analytical cueing technologies. To configure this feature, user needs to select the camera of interest. Click on “Motion Trigger” tab. The motion detection window appears as shown in Figure 8-1.
The designation email address can be configured. The user can type in the desired email address in the “Email Configuration” text field and click “Set” (see Figure 8-2 above). Internet connection is required for this function. MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
“full screen” check box (shown in Figure 9-1). To exit the full screen display, press the “Esc” key on the keyboard. Figure 9-1: Full screen display selection. Note: Some disabled buttons are not available in the current version of MigmaDVR MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5)
Windows port number for that camera. As an example, Windows port 65526 was selected for camera 2. Please perform these steps for all of the other cameras. Click “Done” to finish. MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5) 10-1...
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Control Panel Windows Firewall, and then click on Allow a program through Windows Firewall. Figures 10-3: Open Windows communication port. When the “Windows Firewall Settings” dialog box appears, click on “Exceptions”, as shown in Figure10-4. MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5) 10-2...
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To add a port for camera 2, click “Add Port”, type a different port name and port number. Figures 10-6: Open Windows communication port. After creating ports for all of the cameras, the “Windows Firewall Settings” dialog appears as shown in Figure 10-7. MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5) 10-3...
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Figures 10-7: Open Windows communication port. Note: For each camera, the “Name” can be some meaningful text, and the port number entered in “Port number” text box should be the same as what typed in MigmaDVR network configuration. Note: Some disabled buttons are not available in the current version of MigmaDVR...
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To add a port for camera 2, click on New Rule… again, type a different port number and follow all the steps described above (shown in Figures 10-15 and 10-16). For example, we used 65526 as the port number and MigmaCam2 as the name for camera 2. MigmaDVR™ User Guide (Version 1.5) 10-5...
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Figure 10-17: Inbound rules window. Note: For each camera, the Name can be some meaningful text, and the port number entered in Port number text box should be same as the port setup using MigmaDVR network streaming configuration. Note: Some disabled buttons are not available in the current version of MigmaDVR MigmaDVR™...
Viewing Saved Video Files The recorded surveillance video files are stored in the folder where the MigmaDVR software is installed. As shown in Figure 11-1, all the video files are stored in Camera_1, Camera_2 …, and Camera_8 folders (the names of the folders cannot be changed). In each camera folder, there are two subfolders –...
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