ACTi Snapshot Utility Installation Guide V.2.1.06

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Utility
Snapshot Utility
V2.1
User’s Manual
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 3
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UNCTIONALITY ................................................................................................................................... 3
NAPSHOT UTILITY POSITIONING ........................................................................................................ 3
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NAPSHOT UTILITY POSITIONING ........................................................................................................ 4
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SETUP
TEP1.SELECT A CHANNEL ID ............................................................................................................ 5
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TEP2.SELECT SOURCE ..................................................................................................................... 6
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Select IP Camera Source Select NVR Source
TEP3.SETUP PROCESS ..................................................................................................................... 8
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Snapshot Configuration On Screen Display Configuration Image File Name Format Configuration
TEP4.SETUP SCHEDULE ................................................................................................................... 9
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TEP5.SETUP UPLAOD MODE .......................................................................................................... 10
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Save to Local Drive Upload to FTP Send Mail
TEP6.START SNAPSHOT ................................................................................................................. 13
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HANNEL STATUS ............................................................................................................................. 14
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Table of Figures
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Introduction

Functionality

Snapshots
Send to FTP
Serve multiple access
Application Type – Internet Viewing – Mobile Phone Viewing
Mo-soft Soft ware on Nokia, Sony Ericsson

Snapshot Utility Positioning

IP Speed Dome
FTP
Snapshot
NVR
Web Server
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Snapshot

Snapshot Utility Positioning

IP Speed Dome
FTP
WAP Server
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Setup

Step1.Sele ct a Channel ID

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Select a Channel ID to setup all configuration in snapshot utility It will show description and Source in drop down list.
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Step2.Select Source

Select IP Camera Source

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1. Select IP Camera option in source item.
2. Fil l in IP Address of camera or vi deo server .
3. Fill in Video Server HTTP port.
4. Fill in Video Server Video port.
5. Fill in Stream ID
6. Fill in Channel Number
7. Click Preview button to see if it can connect to camera.
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Select NVR Sourc e

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1. Fill in NVR IP Address, Username, Password and HTTP Port.
2. Click “Get Camer a List” Button to get camera list in NVR Server .
3. Select a camera from NVR Server in drop down list.
4. Column of camera setting will be locked to prevent from being modified.
5. If Save this se t t ing as default checkbox i s checked, NVR IP Address, NVR U sername, NVR Password, NVR HTTP p o rt, NVR Camera List data will be saved as default.
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Step3.Setup Process

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Snapshot Configuration

There are four options to set your snapshot rule.
1. Use FPS from camera will capture pictures per second as FPS setting.
2. When motion trigger in NVR, snapshot utility will capture picture and upload file as your setting
3. When DI trigger in NVR, snapshot utility will capture picture and upload file as your setting
4. Fill the interval of capture image from camera.
Except snapshot rule, you also can resize your snapshot image to 160X112 QCIF, 352x 24 0 CIF, 640x480 VGA, 720x480 Full D1 and 1280x1024 SXGA

On Screen Display Configuration

1 Check the item to show on frame.
1.1 Camera Name
1.2 Camera IP Address
1.3 Date
1.4 Time
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Image File Name Format Configuration

Select the file name format.
1. Default will be Channel<ID>.jpg
2. Channel<ID>_<Date>_<Time>.jpg
3. User defined text
Note: if you select Channel<ID> or user defined text as the snapshot file name, it will replace the old one

Step4.Setup Schedule

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1 Schedule setting
1.1 Select run process by schedule setting or always.
1.1.1 Always: User can set the schedule setting to always in date or time
1.1.2 By schedule: User can set the schedule setting by user defined date or
time
1.2 If run by schedule, setup schedule in the columns.
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Step5.Setup Uplaod Mode

After snapshot, system can select upload mode to dispatch th e snap s ho t file t o u se r, or storage. The upload mode includes:
1. Save to Lo cal Driv e
2. FTP
3. Send by em ail

Save to Local Drive

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1. Browse a existing folder to save file.
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Upload to FTP

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1 Fill in FTP login information.
1.1 FTP server: Fill with FTP server IP address or domain name
1.2 Login information:
1.2.1 User n ame and password
1.2.2 FTP port
2 Fill in a path on FTP to upload.
2.1 For example “\Snapshot\Camera1”
3 You can check the box “Delete file after upload successful” to delete file from
local drive after upload successfully.
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Send Mail

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1 Fill in SMTP server login information.
3.1 SMTP server: Fill with SMTP server IP address or domain name
3.2 Login information:
3.2.1 Username and password: If need to authenticate before send mail, fill in SMTP username, password.
3.2.2 SMTP po rt
2 Fill in Mail fro m, Mail to, Ma il CC and subject. 3 If there are more than 1 reveiver, split e-mail ac co un t b y “;”
3.1 Example:
4 You can check the box “Delete file after upload successful” to delete file from
local drive after upload successfully.
user1@yahoo.com;user2@msn.com;
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