AirLive CamPro Express 64 User Manual

CamPro Express 64

64 Channel IP Camera Management Software

User’s Manual

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1. Overview...................................................................................................3

1.1. Introduction....................................................................................3

1.2. Product Feature.............................................................................3

1.3. Minimum System Requirements....................................................4

2. Installation................................................................................................5

2.1. Software Installation ......................................................................5

2.2. Recording Configuration..............................................................13

2.3. Motion Detection Recording ........................................................16

3. Using CamPro Express 64 ....................................................................21

3.1. Live View Monitor ........................................................................21

3.2. E-Map Monitor .............................................................................27

3.3. Event Viewer ...............................................................................30

3.4. Playback ......................................................................................32

3.5. Remote Live View........................................................................33

4. Configuring CamPro Express 64..........................................................39

4.1. System Configuration ..................................................................39

4.2. Channel Configuration.................................................................40

4.3. Intelligent Configuration (Motion Detection) ................................43

4.4. Event Handing .............................................................................46

4.5. User Account Configuration.........................................................54

4.6. Recording Setting ........................................................................56

4.7. Backup.........................................................................................59

4.8. Log View......................................................................................62

4.9. Screen Assign..............................................................................63

5. Appendix ................................................................................................64

1. Overview

1.1. Introduction

CamPro Express 64 is the ideal video management software for home to enterprise application. It’s capable of managing up to 64 AirCam IP cameras. Deliver and store high quality live video on the network.

Depending on the built-in graphic analyzes function; CamPro Express 64 can detect the motion area to pixel accuracy. Remote monitoring and playback is possible through the web browser.

CamPro Express 64 is compatible with most major brand cameras and its ability to automatically search and find the available cameras on the network can greatly reduce the user’s effort when configuring the system.

1.2. Product Feature

 　 Manage up to 64 Network Cameras  　 Support H.264 /MPEG4/ MJPEG  　 High Quality Live/Playback Video  　 Export Playback Videos to AVI  　 Smart Search  　 Remote Login via IE Browser  　 E-Map Monitor and Event Alert  　 Support 4 monitors

1.3. Minimum System Requirements

Software requirement:

 OS: Windows XP, Windows2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 bit

edition)

Hardware requirement:

 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo or above  RAM: Minimum 1 GB, 2GB or above is recommended  HDD: SATA 200GB or above is recommended  Display card: Independent display card suggested  Make sure your display DPI setting is set to 96DPI  Ethernet interface: 10/100Mb Ethernet card or above

2. Installation

2.1. Software Installation

2.1.1 Open the software folder and double click on the setup.exe for starting the installation. If your operation system is Windows Vista or 7 (32 bit edition), please right click on the setup.exe and select the “Run as administrator” for installing the program.

2.1.2 The installation program will prepare to install the program.

2.1.3 Click on “Next” for the next step of installation until the “Finish” button comes up.

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2.1.4 After the installation, the icon of CamPro Express64 will show on the desktop. Or you might find the short cut in the “Start Æ Program File Æ AirLive Æ CamPro Express 64”.

2.1.5 If your operation system is a Windows 7 (32 bit edition), please right click on the icon and configure the privilege level to administrator.

2.1.6 Double click on the desktop icon for starting the program. By default, you don’t have to input your user name and password for logging into the system. The login window will show up as below.

 Camera Configuration

2.1.7 Click on the “Channel Configuration” for invoking the Channel configuration window.

2.1.8 The easy search function will automatically search all the available IP cameras in your Local Area Network at the first time installation.

2.1.9 The searching result will show on the result list. If the desired IP camera does not list on the search result, you might click on the “Search again” button for repeat the search function again.

2.1.10 Double click on the desired IP camera on the list and its IP address will bring back to the Channel Setting window.

2.1.11 After entering the login User Name and Password for the IP

camera, click on the

icon for inquiring the configuration of

the desired IP camera. You might further configure the IP camera as the explanation below.

 Channel: Assign a channel number to this IP camera.

 CH Name: Give this IP camera a meaningful name, like Front Door,

Lobby and so on.

 User Name: The user account for login to the IP camera.

 Password: The password of the user account above.

 Video Port: Change the video streaming port of the IP camera.

Please do not change this value unless necessary.

 Format: Select the video compression format of this IP camera.

 Resolution: Select the video resolution of this IP camera.

 MAX. FPS: Configure the maxima FPS of the IP camera.

 Rate Control: Switch between VBR and CBR for bit rate control

method.

 BitRate: Configure the maxima bit rate of the video stream.

 GOP: Configure the GOP of the video compression format.

 Quality: Configure the quality of the video.

Note: Please according to

Higher the level of your hardware is, the higher values you might set for getting the

better result.

your hardware performance to set those values.

2.1.12 Click on button to save the configuration.

2.1.13 The program will switch to the Channel List for you to add other IP

cameras. Please double click on the empty channel for adding another IP camera.

2.1.14 After clicking on the empty channel, the searching result will show up. Please repeat step 4 to 6 for completing the configuration.

2.1.15 Click on button when finish. The program will

restart and the video stream of those IP cameras should be played on the screen.

2.2. Recording Configuration

2.2.1 Click on “System Configuration” for invoking the system configuration window.

2.2.2 Select the

configuration.

2.2.3 Click on the

to save the recording file.

button for starting the recording

button on the Overview tab for adding the folder

2.2.4 Select the Recording Setting tab, and configure the values as

explaining below:

 Channel: Select the desired channel for configuring. Or just click on

the channel on the list left to the configuration area for selecting the desired channel.

 Recording Mode: Please check if you would like the CamPro Express

64 to recording continuously or by schedule.

 I/P Frame: Choose if you would like the CamPro Express 64 to record

only I frame or both I and P frame. If the HDD space is a concern, please select I frame only.

 Pre-Alarm Time: Set the Pre-Alarm recording time before an event.

 Post-Alarm Time: Set the Pre-Alarm recording time after an event.

2.2.5 Click on

button for saving the configuration.

2.2.6 Select other channels for further setting if necessary.

2.2.7 Click on button when finish. The program will

restart and the video stream of those IP cameras should be recorded.

2.3. Motion Detection Recording

2.3.1 Click on “System Configuration” for invoking the system configuration window.

2.3.2 Select the button for setting the motion

detection area. Please follow the explanations below for configuring the motion detection function:

 Channel Table: Select the desired channel for setting the motion

detection area.

 Start: Use this check box to determine whether to turn on the motion

detection function.

 Sensitivity: Set the sensitivity level of the motion detection.

 Trigger Source: Select the trigger source. If the user sets this value to

Server, CamPro Express 64 will detect the motion by itself. On the other hand, if this value set to Camera, the detection task will be taken by the IP camera side. Once the motion is detected, the IP camera will send message to CamPro Express 64 for alerting the software to start recording.

 Live View Window: Just click on the mouse and drag the detection

area over the Live View window. The defined area will show in green over the Live View window. You might also right click on the green gird for cancel the very grid you selected.



Button: Clear the motion detection area setting if you needed to

redefine the detection area.



Button: Click on this button for saving the configuration.

Button: Use this button to cancel the configuration you made.

2.3.3 Select the

Recording.

button for configuring the Event

2.3.4 Select the Action Group tab and click on the button for adding

the action group.

2.3.5 Click on button for saving the action group setting.

2.3.6 Select the Event Action tab and click on

button for creating the

event trigger.

2.3.7 Please configure the event trigger as explanation below:

 CH: Select the desired channel for setting.

 Event Type: Use the dropdown menu to set the event type. The event

type includes Digital Input (DI) and Motion Detection.

 DI: Select the DI device in use. 0 means the first DI device and so on.

 Action Group: Use the dropdown menu to select the action group for

applying.

 Preset Point: If a Pan/Tilt supported IP camera is in use, you might

specify a preset point for the IP camera. When an event is triggered, the lens will move to the preset point.



Button: Click on this button for saving the configuration.



Button: Use this button to cancel the configuration you made.

Button: Use this button to remove the event action on the event

action list..

2.3.8 When under the Live View Monitor, you might press the button

above the video to enable the ROI function. There will show green grids on the video if there is any motion detected in the defined area.

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