COP-USA NVMS 1000 User Manual

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NVMS-1000

User Manual

Contents

1 Software Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 1

1.1 Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 1

1.2 Operation Environment ......................................................................................................................... 1

1.3 Install and Uninstall ............................................................................................................................... 2

1.3.1 Install the Software .................................................................................................................... 2

1.3.2 Uninstall the Software ............................................................................................................... 4

2 Login Software .................................................................................................................................................. 5

2.1 Login ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

2.2 Control Panel Instruction ....................................................................................................................... 6

3 Device Management .......................................................................................................................................... 8

3.1 Add Device ............................................................................................................................................ 8

3.2 View, Change or Delete Device ............................................................................................................. 9

3.3 Area and Camera Management ............................................................................................................ 13

3.3.1 Area Management .................................................................................................................... 14

3.3.2 Camera Management ............................................................................................................... 15

4 Group and Scheme Setting .............................................................................................................................. 20

4.1 Create, Change or Delete the Camera Group ....................................................................................... 20

4.2 Add or Remove the Camera Group ..................................................................................................... 20

4.3 Create, Change or Delete Group Dwell Scheme ................................................................................. 21

4.3.1 Create Scheme ......................................................................................................................... 21

4.3.2 Change and Delete Group Dwell Scheme................................................................................ 21

5 Live Preview .................................................................................................................................................... 23

5.1 Preview ................................................................................................................................................ 24

5.1.1 Monitory Point Preview ........................................................................................................... 24

5.1.2 Stop Preview ............................................................................................................................ 24

5.2 Dwell Preview ..................................................................................................................................... 25

5.2.1 Group Dwell Preview .............................................................................................................. 25

5.2.2 Scheme Dwell Preview ............................................................................................................ 25

5.3 Preview Control ................................................................................................................................... 25

5.4 Snap ..................................................................................................................................................... 26

5.4.1 Snap ......................................................................................................................................... 26

5.4.2 Snap Number ........................................................................................................................... 26

5.4.3 Record and Snap Path .............................................................................................................. 27

5.5 Multi-screen to Preview ....................................................................................................................... 27

5.6 Talk and Broadcast............................................................................................................................... 27

5.6.1 Talk .......................................................................................................................................... 27

5.6.2 Broadcast ................................................................................................................................. 28

5.7 PTZ Control ......................................................................................................................................... 28

5.7.1 Parameter Configuration of PTZ ............................................................................................. 28

5.7.2 PTZ control .............................................................................................................................. 28

6 Record Management ........................................................................................................................................ 29

6.1 Manual Record..................................................................................................................................... 29

6.2 Schedule Record .................................................................................................................................. 29

6.3 Motion Detection Record..................................................................................................................... 30

6.4 Sensor Alarm Record ........................................................................................................................... 31

6.5 Set Record Partition ............................................................................................................................. 31

7 Playback Management ..................................................................................................................................... 32

7.1 playback ............................................................................................................................................... 33

7.1.1 Playback by Setting Time ........................................................................................................ 33

7.1.2 Playback by Searching Event................................................................................................... 34

7.2 Snap When Playback ........................................................................................................................... 34

7.3 Clip and Backup Record ...................................................................................................................... 34

7.3.1 Clip and Backup Record .......................................................................................................... 34

7.3.2 Backup Path Configuration ...................................................................................................... 34

7.4 Download Record By Time Search ..................................................................................................... 34

7.5 Download Record by Event Search ..................................................................................................... 35

7.6 View the Progress of Downloading ..................................................................................................... 35

7.7 Synchronized Playback ........................................................................................................................ 36

8 Alarm Management ......................................................................................................................................... 37

8.1 Sensor Alarm ....................................................................................................................................... 37

8.2 Motion Detection Alarm ...................................................................................................................... 38

8.3 Video Loss Alarm ................................................................................................................................ 39

8.4 Alarm Preview ..................................................................................................................................... 40

8.4.1 Alarm Preview Configuration .................................................................................................. 40

8.4.2 Alarm Preview ......................................................................................................................... 40

9 E-Map .............................................................................................................................................................. 42

9.1 Create map ........................................................................................................................................... 42

9.2 Modify or Delete Map, Hotspot and Hotzone ..................................................................................... 42

9.2.1 Change or Delete Map ............................................................................................................. 43

9.2.2 Add, Change and Delete Hotzone ............................................................................................ 43

9.2.3 Add, Change and Delete Hotspot ............................................................................................. 44

9.3 E-map Monitoring Settings .................................................................................................................. 44

9.4 E-map live preview .............................................................................................................................. 44

10 Local Log ......................................................................................................................................................... 47

10.1 Search log ............................................................................................................................................ 47

10.2 Log Maintenance ................................................................................................................................. 47

10.3 Export .................................................................................................................................................. 47

11 User Management ............................................................................................................................................ 48

11.1 Create a Resource with the Default Permission ................................................................................... 48

11.2 Create, Change and Delete Users ........................................................................................................ 48

11.3 Account Right Configuration............................................................................................................... 49

12 Basic ................................................................................................................................................................ 51

12.1 System Startup and Maintenance ......................................................................................................... 51

12.2 Backup and Restore ............................................................................................................................. 51

12.2.1 Backup System Configuration data ......................................................................................... 52

12.2.2 Restore System Configuration Data ......................................................................................... 52

12.3 Manually Trigger the Alarm Output .................................................................................................... 52

12.4 Video Display Settings ........................................................................................................................ 52

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Item

Recommendation

CPU

Intel Core Dou，2.6GHz or higher

Memory

2GB or above

HDD

250GB or above

Graphics Card

Independent graphics card; 512M graphics memory or higher

System

Recommendation

Windows XP

Windows XP professional version (32bit), direct 9.0c.
Microsoft YaHei front need to be installed.

Windows 7

Windows 7 (2bit/64bit，support SP1)，Direct 11.0 or above

Windows8

Windows 8 (32bit/64bit)，Direct 11.0 or above

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1 Software Introduction

In this chapter, you will read a detailed introduction of the operation environment, install & uninstall of this
software.

1.1 Summary

Network Video Monitoring System (hereinafter referred to as ―NVMS-1000‖) is a monitoring client which is
specially designed for network video surveillance. After the network video monitoring system is well built, the
super administrator can control the video input signal devices, such as cameras, domes, etc., to achieve live
monitor, video record and backup by configuring the video parameters and viewing the live in the control panel.
Users can choose the menu to control video surveillance system in the control panel. The main functions of the
control panel include live view, playback, E-map, device management, group and scheme settings, user account
and permission, local log, basic configuration and alarm management.

1.2 Operation Environment

1）Operating System Requirement:

2）Hardware Requirement：

3）When running NVMS-1000, you need to ensure that all the running antivirus software and firewall are closed,
so that the program of the NVMS-1000 can be installed.

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1.3 Install and Uninstall

1.3.1 Install the Software

Double click ―Setup.exe‖ to enter the Installation
Wizard Click【Next】to install.

Select ―I accept the terms of license agreement‖ and

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click 【Next】to continue.

Click 【Browse】 button to change the directory to save
the program files. Click【Next】to continue.

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Check ―Vcredist_x86‖ and click【Next】to install this
plug-in.

Click【Next】; check ―I have read and accept the license terms‖ and click【Install】to start installation of
Vcredist_x86; then click【Finish】to complete installation. Please refer to the below three pictures.

Note: If the above plug-in has been installed, please click

【Repair】 and click【Next】to repair software. Click【Finish】
button to finish repairing.

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Click【Next】to continue.

At last, check ―Create desktop shortcuts‖, and then

click【Finish】button to complete installation.

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1.3.2 Uninstall the Software

Click ―Start‖ at the bottom of the desktop to find the
shortcut of NVMS-1000 ; then click ―Uninstall‖ to pop

up a dialog window; click【 Yes】to uninstall the
software.

At last, click【Finish】button to finish uninstall .

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2 Login Software

2.1 Login

First time to login:

① For the first time to run the NVMS-1000, you need to

register a super administrator. You shall self-define the
username and password.

② To avoid forgetting the password, you can set some

questions to help you find the password quickly.

③ After you input your user name, password and set the

questions and answers, click【Register】to enter into the
software.

Input the username and password created by you.
If checking ―Remember Password‖, there will be no need to
input password when you log in next time.
If checking ―Auto Login‖, it will automatically log in as
current user next time.

Successful login for first time:

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After successful login, a window will pop up. Check the partition for storing record files and click【OK】to save
the settings.

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Area

Description

Area

Description

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Function Area

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Tab Bar—to display the operated functions

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Menu Bar

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Alarm Information List.

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Status information list

Menu

Description

Start

Export the control panel, live preview, playback tab and lock or exit the client.

View

Export the live preview, control panel, local log, E-map, alarm preview, playback, user
account and permission, basic configuration and device management and organize the live
view

System

Including lock client，broadcast to device, switch user, import or export configuration, etc.

Help

View user manual and software version

Menu

Description

Live Preview: To view live images and record, snap, control PTZ, etc.

2.2 Control Panel Instruction

The control panel of NVMS-1000 is shown below

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There are five areas in the main interface of this software. The descriptions of each area are as follows：

Description of Menu Bar

Descriptions of Function Module

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Playback: To remotely play the local record.

E-map: To manage and display maps, hot zones and hotspots. To operate E-maps – zoom
in/out e-maps, view hot zones and hotspots, display alarm information on the map.

Device Management: To create, modify or delete areas, devices and cameras.

Group and Scheme Settings: To create, modify or delete camera groups and schemes.

User Account and Permission: To add, modify, delete user and user permission.

Local Log: To search, view and backup local log.

Basic Configuration: To setup record partition and path, system startup and maintenance &
backup and restoration.

Alarm Management: To add or remove the sensor of the area; To setup alarm trigger and
modify the area of the sensor.

Button

Description

Click to hide the window

Click to zoom in/out the window

Click to exit the window

Click to extend or shrink the window (eg. Extend or shrink the list of alarm information list)

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Descriptions of Other Buttons

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3 Device Management

In the control panel, click icon to enter the device management interface.

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3.1 Add Device

Click button to enter the interface.

① Select device type and input device name;
② Input IP address or domain, port of the device, then

input its user name and password.

③ Create an area. If you haven’t created area, you can

click ―Create a New Area‖ to create.

④ Check ―Upload bandwidth more than 2M‖ according to

the actual network situation. Checking or not checking
it will affect the stream choice of live preview.

Note: You can click ―Create an Area‖ shortcut menu under Device to create an area in the control panel.

You can also check ―Auto report‖ to add device. The setting steps are as follows:

 Choose the device type and check ―Auto‖.
 Input device name.
 If you want to add DVR, please enter NetworkSever tab from device. Check ―Enable‖, input IP address

and port(2009) of NVMS-1000 & device ID.

 If you want to add IP camera, please enter Network Configuration  ECMS Configuration. Check ―Do you

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want IP camera to connect ECMS-1000‖ and input ENVMS-1000 Address, ECMS-1000 Port and Device ID
(Here ECMS-1000 refers to NVMS-1000).

 Input the Device ID according to the device ID of DVR or IP camera device.

 Add Online Devices

Click button to automatically search online
devices in the local network. Click a device to display its
basic information. Double click it to add it.

If the device is added, this device will be hidden in the
search device interface.

3.2 View, Change or Delete Device

Select the added device and click button to
delete the device from the list.

Select the added device and click to pop up
a window. In this interface, you can change the device
name, address, port, etc, or change basic configuration,
time configuration, DDNS configuration and Email
configuration, etc.

 Change the Device Name

Click “Change Device Name” to change the name of
selected device.

 Change Device Address

Click “Change Device Address” to change the IP address
of selected device.

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 Change Deviec Port Number

Click “Change the Port Number of Device” to change the
port of selected device.

 Change Device User Name

Click “Change Device User Name” to change the device
account name.

 Change Device Password

Click “Change Device Password” to change device
password.

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 Change Connection Bandwidth

Check “Upload bandwidth more than 2M” according to the
actual situation.

Note: Checking or not checking it will affect the stream

choice of live preview.

 Change Basic Configuration

Click “Change Basic Configuration” to pop up a dialog
box. You can change the basic configuration of device and

check ―Permission Check‖ or ―Record Coverage‖

according to the actual situation.

 Change Time Configuration

Click “Change Time Configuration” to enter the interface.
Change the time and date if you need.
Check ―Sync by NTP Server‖ to synchronize with NTP
server.

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 View Device Log

Click “View Device Log” to enter the interface.
Choose the type of system logs; enter start time and enter
time to search the log information of the device.

 View Disk Information

Click “View Disk Information” to check the detail
information of disk from the list.

 Change Network Configuration

Click “Change Network Configuration” to enter the
interface. You can change HTTP port, Server port; network
address, etc.

Note: If changing the port and IP address there, the network

will disconnect. Then you need to accordingly change the
port and IP address of the device connecting the
NVMS-1000.

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 Alarm Input Trigger and Schedule Configuration

Click “Alarm Input Trigger and Schedule Configuration”
to enter the interface. Select a sensor corresponding to the
alarm input; choose a type and holding time for it. You also
can set trigger alarm or other configurations.

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 Device Alarm Output Configuration

Click “Alarm Output Configuration” to enter the interface.
Select an alarm output and holding time; then edit a name
for it. You can enable buzzer alarm and set a time for it.

 Abnormal Alarm Configuration

Click “Abnormal Alarm Configuration” in to enter the
interface. Choose the alarm type according to your need.
Enable ―Buzzer Alarm‖ and select alarm out.

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 User Information Management

Click “User Information Management” shortcut to enter
the interface. You can check the information of user who is
logging in the device.

 Email Configuration

Click ―Email Configuration‖ to enter the interface. You can

configure the basic parameters of Email.

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 DDNS Configuration

Click ―DDNS Configuration‖ to enter. You can configure

the basic parameters of DDNS.

3.3 Area and Camera Management

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In the control panel, click ―Change Camera Settings‖ under Device to enter the interface. You can modify or
delete the area and manage the cameras. Select a camera you want to setup as shown on the below figure.

The camera without some functions will not display ―Image Video Parameters‖ as shown in the following
picture.

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3.3.1 Area Management

Click button to create area.
Select an area and click button to change

its name.
Select an area and click button to delete

it.

Select an area and click to pop up
a window.

① Check the camera on the left column and click

button to add the camera to the area.

② Check the camera on the right column and click

button to remove the camera from the area.

Select a camera and click
button to modify the area of this camera.

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3.3.2 Camera Management

The real-time image will be displayed after selecting a camera. You can setup the parameters of this camera.

 Image Settings

Image settings include image video parameter, image
quality and image display.

Click “Image video parameters” to enter the interface .
① Adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and

chroma of the image.

② Clicking 【Restore Default】 button will restore the

above parameters to factory default settings.

Click “Image Quality” under Image Settings to enter
the interface.
Choose the device stream, resolution, quality, etc.
according to practical situation.

Click “Image Display” to enter the interface.

① Create the camera’s name and set up its display

position on the OSD including the time stamp.

② Click【Copy to】button to apply the settings to the

selected channel.

 Record Settings

Click “Record Settings” to enter the interface as shown
on the right.
Under the record of device

① Enable schedule Record.
② Set schedule.
③ Choose pre-recording time, duration and record save

time.

④ Click 【Copy to】 button to save the settings to the

selected channel.

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Under the record of system
You can set schedule and record stream.

How to set schedule?

The picture of setting schedule record of device:

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The picture of setting schedule record of system:

Click 【Set Schedule】 button to pop up the follow figure.

 Check ―7x24‖ or ―Custom Schedule‖ to set schedule.
 Click icon and move the cursor to select the time.

 Click icon to delete the selected time.
 Clicking ―Manually‖ to manually input time
 Click ―All‖ / ―reverse‖ to quickly select the time.
 Click ―Empty‖ to clear all the time.

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 Motion Detection Alarm Settings

Click “Area and Sensitivity” under Motion Detection
Alarm Setting to enter the interface.
① Drag slide bar to set the sensitivity value. The

higher the value is, the more sensitive it is.

② Click ―Erase‖/ ―Add‖, then hold press ―Ctrl‖ and

left click mouse to delete /add the area you want.

③ Click 【All】/【Reverse】/【Clear All】 button to

select area or clear all the area quickly.

Click “Set Motion Alarm” under Motion Detection
Alarm Setting to enter the interface .

Note: Please refer to the user manual of the device for

device linkage configuration.

Click “System Trigger” under Motion Detection Alarm
Setting to enter the interface.

Under the system linkage, check ―Trigger to Play Audio

File‖. If the motion alarm of a certain channel is

triggered, there will be given out a sound like ―beep‖.

Click 【Trigger the Big Screen】 button to select channel.
If the motion alarm of the selected channel is triggered, a big picture will pop up on the screen.

Click 【Trigger the Record Channel】 button to select channel. If the motion alarm of the selected channel is
triggered, the channel’s record will be opened automatically.

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 Video Loss Alarm Settings

Click “Video Loss” to enter the interface. The steps of
configuring video loss are same with the device settings,
please refer to the video loss chapter of device user manual.

 Video Loss of System

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Click “Video Loss of System” to enter the right window.
You can set the video loss of system.

 PTZ Settings

Click “PTZ Protocol Configuration” under PTZ
Settings to enter the interface. You can enable or disable
PTZ. From the Protocol and Baud Rate drop-down
menu, choose a protocol and a baud rate to associate
with the PTZ, and then input the address of the PTZ
connecting the software.

Click “Preset Point Configuration” under PTZ
Settings to enter the interface. Enable corresponding

preset points and create a new name in the ―New

Name‖ field by selecting the preset point. Adjust the

dome direction, speed, etc by clicking the buttons.
Click【Save Position】to save the current position of the
dome.

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Buttons

Description

means the dome rotate up； means the dome rotate up left; means the
dome rotate up right; means the dome rotate down. means the dome
rotate left down; means the dome rotate right down; means the dome
rotate left; means the dome rotate right； means the dome stop

rotating

Drag the slider bar to adjust rotation speed of the dome

Focus button. Click button to obtain long focus. Click button to
obtain short focus

Iris button. Click button to increase light of the dome. Click button
to decrease light of the dome

Zoom button. Click button to zoom in the picture of this camera.
click button to zoom out the picture of this camera

Track

Auto Scan

Wiper button

Light button

The definitions of the buttons are below:

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Return to Area and Camera Management interface, and
then click “Cruise Line Configuration” PTZ Settings.
You can add/change/preview/delete curies.

In the Area and Camera Management interface, click ―PTZ Track Settings‖ to see the
picture on the right hand. You can set the PTZ track.

 Remove camera

In the Area and Camera Management interface, select a camera, click button to pop up a dialog
window, click【OK】button to remove the camera.

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4 Group and Scheme Setting

In the interface of control panel, click “Group and Scheme Setting” to enter the interface. Please refer to the
below picture:

4.1 Create, Change or Delete the Camera Group

In the above interface, click
button to create a group.

Select a group in the group list, click button
to delete it.

Select a group and click button to enter the
interface as shown on the right. You can change the
group name and dwell time interval in this interface.

4.2 Add or Remove the Camera Group

① Select a group and click button to enter

the interface. Then click “Add or Remove the
Camera Group” to pop up the window as shown
on the right.

② Check cameras on the left and click button

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to add the selected cameras to the group on the right.

③ Check cameras on the right, then click button to remove them from the group.

4.3 Create, Change or Delete Group Dwell Scheme

Scheme is used for dwelling group by group. Therefore, at least one group should be created. Click “Change or
Delete the Group Dwell Scheme” on the left side of the menu to enter the interface as below.

4.3.1 Create Scheme

Click button to create a scheme.
The added scheme will be displayed in the scheme list.

4.3.2 Change and Delete Group Dwell

Scheme

Select a scheme in the scheme list, click
button to delete it.

Select a scheme and click button to
enter the interface. You can change the name of scheme
and the dwell time interval.

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Select a scheme and click button. Then
click “Add or Remove Group of the Scheme” to enter the

interface.  Check group on the left and click button
to add the selected group to the scheme on the right.

 Check group under scheme on the right and click
button to remove the group.

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Icon

Description

Icon

Description

Close image

Snap

Start/stop manual record

PTZ control. Clicking the icon will
display the control panel of PTZ.

Start/stop talk

Camera configuration

Open/close audio

Zoon in

Fit to window

5 Live Preview

In the interface of control panel, click “Live Preview” to enter the interface:

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Buttons description of live preview:

Toolbar on the display window:

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Menu

Description

Menu

Description

Snap

Snap picture

Open Manual
Recording

Start manual record

Start talk

Start or stop talk

Camera
Configuration

Enter the interface of the area and
Camera configuration

Stream

Choose stream to view.

PTZ Control

To display the control panel of PTZ

Enable
Audio

Enable or close audio

Close Preview

Close single channel preview

Full Screen

To display in full screen

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Right button functions:

5.1 Preview

5.1.1 Monitory Point Preview

To start the live preview, drag the cameras from the list to
the right display window or select a window and
double-click the camera to display the live image.
You can drag the image to any window at random.

Note: Node unfold rule: After the first time for setting the

device and area, you shall obey the following rule to view
all tree nodes: when the tree node is more than 64 nodes,
the system will unfold the upper node by default.
For example: A (There is camera group AC under A; sub-area a under AC; camera group ac under
sub-area a). If the nodes number is more than 64, A will be unfolded and AC will be displayed, but a will not be
unfolded and ac will not be displayed. If the node number of A is less than 64, A will be folded and all nodes need
to be unfolded manually.

5.1.2 Stop Preview

 Close Preview of Channel

Place your mouse on the window to display the menu
toolbar, then click icon to close preview of this

channel.

 Close Preview by Right-clicking

Choose “Close Preview” by right-clicking the display
window to close preview of this channel.

 Close All Preview

Click icon on the main menu toolbar to close all
the windows.

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5.2 Dwell Preview

After setting up group or scheme (Please refer to chapter 4 for creating group), enter to the live preview interface
and click button to display the group list or scheme list. The below sections will introduce how to

realize group dwell and scheme dwell.

5.2.1 Group Dwell Preview

 Start Group Dwell

In the interface of live preview, click
shortcut on the left side to display the groups , drag a

group under scheme to any window( icon stands
for group). The cameras of this group will play one by
one on this window at the set time.

 Stop Group Dwell

Right click the display window to select ―Close
Preview‖ to close preview of the this channel or click

icon on the main menu bar to close all windows

for stopping dwell.

5.2.2 Scheme Dwell Preview

 Start Scheme Dwell

In the interface of live preview, click
shortcut on the left side and then drag a scheme to the

right window to dwell ( icon stands for
scheme).The screen mode will be distributed
automatically according to the number of camera
under the group

Note：To achieve dwell between devices, the device

should be as a unit when adding groups. Then add all
the groups into one scheme to dwell.

 Stop Scheme Dwell

Click icon to close all the windows for stopping
scheme dwell.

5.3 Preview Control

 Full Screen

Click icon on the display window or right-click to
choose ―Full Screen‖ to view in full screen.
Right-click to choose ―Exit Full Screen‖ to exit full
screen preview.

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 Single Channel in Full Screen

Double click the selected window to view in full screen. Double click again to recover the window.

 Stream of Live Preview

Right click on the display window to choose recording stream as shown on the right. The above stream is main
stream (eg: D1 25fps) and the below is sub stream(eg: CIF 6fps).

Modify Device Stream: Click button on the display window to enter the Area and Camera Management
interface. Click “Image Quality” under Image Setting to modify device stream. Please refer to chapter 3.3.2
Image Settings for details.

 Audio

Right click on the displaying window to choose ―Enable Audio‖ or
click icon to enable audio of this channel.

Note: Only one audio can be enabled at the same time. If enabling

another channel’s audio, the enabled audio will be closed
automatically.

 Zoom In

Click icon on the toolbar in the displaying window
to zoom in the image; click icon to recover the

image.

5.4 Snap

5.4.1 Snap

click button on the toolbar of the selected channel or
right click to choose “Snap” to capture the pictures.

After snapping pictures, a message prompt box will pop up to
remind you the pictures are captured successfully and where
the pictures are stored .

Note: Capturing pictures can be realized only in live preview

or playback.

5.4.2 Snap Number

In the interface of control panel, click “Set Snap Default Number” under Basic to configure the number you want
to capture every time .

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5.4.3 Record and Snap Path

In the control panel , click “Basic” to enter the interface. Click “Partition and Path” to select a folder to save the
record files. Click “Set the Default Path of Snap” under Partition and Path to set up the path to save the snap
files.

5.5 Multi-screen to Preview

In the interface of live preview, click button to plus a tab of live preview. Drag any tab of live preview or
right click the tab of live preview to select ―Float‖ to pop up a independent live preview interface as below.
Multi-screen to display can be realized by dragging the independent interface to other screen (graphics card
should support multi-screen output at the same time).

Clicking the button of the live preview interface to choose ―Tab view‖ can embed this tab
in main interface .。

Note：1. 20 live preview tabs can be added.

2. Live preview interface can be displayed on multiple
screens.

5.6 Talk and Broadcast

5.6.1 Talk

Click button on display window or right click to pop up a
menu bar. Choose ―Start Talk‖ to enable bidirectional audio.

Note: Since NVMS-1000 only allow to open one device’s talk at

the same time, the system will stop talk with the current device

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for enabling new talk with another device which is launching talk.

5.6.2 Broadcast

① Click “System” on the menu bar of software at the upper right ; choose “Broadcast” to enter the interface.
② Click button to

pop up a window; then check the
devices you want to broadcast, click

【OK】button to save the setting.

③ Click button to stop

broadcast.

5.7 PTZ Control

5.7.1 Parameter Configuration of PTZ

Please confirm the parameter of PTZ has been configured correctly before operating PTZ. Click icon in
display window or “Change Camera Setting” under “Device” to enter the interface. Click “PTZ Setting” to
enable PTZ and setup protocol, baud rate and address of PTZ.

Note: Here the protocol, baud rate and address of PTZ must be consistent with the PTZ decoder.

5.7.2 PTZ control

Return to the live preview interface after configuring parameter of PTZ; select the channel
and click icon or right click to choose “PTZ Control” to open the control panel of

PTZ.

 Click the direction buttons to control its rotational direction; drag the slider to control
its speed.

 Click and buttons to adjust focus, iris and zoom.
 Select a preset point and click to operate this preset point or double click the

preset point to operate it.
 Click【Cruise】button to list the cruises. Select a cruise and click button to cruise;
click button to stop cruising.

PTZ can also support track, auto scan, wiper and light function.

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6 Record Management

NVMS-1000 supports manual record, schedule record, motion detection record and sensor alarm record. This
chapter will introduce the above four record types respectively.

6.1 Manual Record

Select a channel and click button or right click to choose ―Open Manual Recording‖ to start recording.
Then click button or right click to choose ―Close the Manual Recording‖ to stop recording.

Note：If a channel is recording, closing preview will give rise to stopping it

6.2 Schedule Record

In the control panel, click “Area & Camera Settings”
under Device to enter the interface.

Select a camera and click “Local Record of Device” as
shown on the right figure.
Enable Schedule Record and set schedule and
pre-recording time, record duration, etc.

Click “Local Record of System” as shown on the right
figure.
Under record of system , you can choose record stream and

set record schedule.

Note: Please refer to section 3.2.2 for details.

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6.3 Motion Detection Record

In the control panel, click “Area & Camera Settings” under
Device to enter the interface.

Select a camera and click ‖Set Motion Alarm ” under
Motion Detection Alarm Settings as shown on the right
figure.

Enable Alarm of device and set the relevant trigger.

Click ‖System Trigger ” under Motion Detection Alarm
Settings as shown on the right figure.

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Click button to select channel. The
selected channel whose motion detection alarm is triggered
will be recorded automatically.

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6.4 Sensor Alarm Record

In the control panel, click “Change Camera Settings”
under Device to enter the interface.

Select a sensor and click button
as shown on the right.

Click button to
choose associated record cameras. When the sensor
alarm is triggered, the selected cameras will be recorded
automatically.

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6.5 Set Record Partition

In the control panel, click “Set Record Partition” under Playback as below. You can choose a partition for storing
record.

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Area

Description

Area

Description

1

Playback Area

2

Toolbar

3

Record time Area

4

Resources Area

5

Time search or type search Area

Icon

Description

Screen mode. 1,4,9,16,25 channels are optional

Close playback of all channels

Full screen

Play

Pause

Stop

Playback by single frame. When playback, click button firstly and

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In the interface of control panel, click “Playback” to enter the interface. You can play back the local stored
record files.

Area Descriptions:

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then click this button to play frame by frame.

Backup the start time

Backup the end time

Download

Event list. Click this button to pop up the event list

Playback speed bar

Icon

Description

Icon

Description

Close playback

Snap

Open/close audio

Zoom in

Fit to window

Menu

Description

Menu

Description

Snap

Snap picture

Enable Audio

Enable or close audio

Download By
Time

To download record

by time search

Close Channel

Close single channel preview

Full Screen

To display in full

screen

Toolbar on Playback Window:

Right button functions:

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7.1 playback

In the playback interface, select date and record type, then drag the camera to the right display window for playing .
you can click button to search the record file , then click button to playback.

Playback Record type includes manual record, motion detection record, schedule record, and sensor record.
In the timeline, green bar stands for manual record data; yellow bar stands for motion record data; blue bar stands
for schedule record data; red bar stands for sensor record data.

7.1.1 Playback by Setting Time

Right click the color bar to select “Set the Play Time of the Channel X”, then a dialog window pops up. Input
time manually or click button to select time. The system will play the video from the time you set.

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7.1.2 Playback by Searching Event

Click button to display the event list. Double click an event to play this event record.

Note: and buttons on the timeline are used to expand and narrow down the time bar, so you can choose a

more accurate playback time.

What’s more, you may also change playback speed by dragging bar.

7.2 Snap When Playback

Click button on the playing window to capture pictures. A message prompt will pop up after snapping.

7.3 Clip and Backup Record

7.3.1 Clip and Backup Record

When playing back record file, click button to set the start time; click button to set the end time. then
click button to download the video files within the configured time.

Note: The default path is C:\\backup.

7.3.2 Backup Path Configuration

In the control panel interface, click Basic to enter the
interface. Then click “Backup Path Settings” to choose
path to save.

7.4 Download Record By Time Search

Right click the image in the playback interface to pop up a drop-down list as
shown on the left hand.
Click ―Download By Time‖ to pop up a window as follows:

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Select record channel, start time and end time, checkmark event type and then click【Record Search】button to
search record information. After the information is searched, a backup information window will pop up by
clicking【Download】button. Click【Browse】button to choose save path. Then click【OK】button to download
record.

7.5 Download Record by Event Search

Click button to display event information list. Choose a event and right click to download this event.

7.6 View the Progress of Downloading

When starting downloading, you can view the progress of downloading and stop downloading manually by put
the cursor on the lower right corner (under button).

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7.7 Synchronized Playback

In control panel interface, click ―Synchronized playback of device‖ to enter synchronized playback interface.
You can play 25 channels synchronously. Click the highlighted time block to select the time for playing, Thus,
all channels will play from this time.

Synchronized playback support device playback which gets rid of the limitation of the quantity of channels for
playback.

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8 Alarm Management

8.1 Sensor Alarm

In the control panel, click “Alarm Management” to enter the interface.

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 Add or Remove Sensor of the Area

In the interface of Alarm Management, choose an area,
click button to enter the

interface.
① Check the sensor under the area on the right and

click button to move out the sensor .

② Check the sensor on the left and click button

to add sensor.

 Rename or Change Area

In the interface of Alarm Management, choose a sensor and click button to change its name;
click button to change the area of sensor.

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 Alarm Link Setup

In the interface of Alarm Management, choose a sensor and
click button to enter the interface.

If checking “Trigger Alarm Playback”, there will be a
sound like ―beep‖ when sensor alarm is triggered.

 Add Associated Preview Camera

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Click to pop up a window; check
cameras and click【OK】 button to save the setting. When sensor
alarm is triggered, the alarm preview and e-map preview will pop

up automatically.

Select the added camera, click to
remove the camera.

 Add Associated Record Camera

Click to enter the interface; check the associated cameras and click 【OK】 button to
save the setting. When the sensor alarm is triggered, the selected channels will be recorded automatically.

Select the added camera, click to remove the camera

8.2 Motion Detection Alarm

In the control panel, click “Change Camera Settings”
under Device.
Select a camera and click “Area and Sensitivity” to
enter the interface as right. You can adjust the detection
sensitivity and setup the motion area.

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Click ―Set the Motion Alarm‖ to enter the interface as
right.

Click “System Trigger” to enter the interface as shown on
the right.

Please refer to section 3.3.2 for details.

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8.3 Video Loss Alarm

In the control panel, click “Area & Camera Management”
under Device.
Click “Video Loss” to enter the interface. The steps of

configuring video loss are same with the device settings,
please refer to the video loss chapter of device user manual.

Choose a camera and click ―Video Loss of System‖ to
enter the interface.
Please refer to section 3.3.2 for details.

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8.4 Alarm Preview

The interface of alarm preview will automatically pop up if the relevant alarm page and alarm preview have been
already configured.

8.4.1 Alarm Preview Configuration

 Motion Detection Alarm: In the control panel, click “Change Camera Settings” under Device to enter the
interface. Select a camera, and then click “System trigger” shortcut under Motion Detection Alarm Settings to

appear a window; click 【Trigger the Big Screen】 button under system linkage to select channel.

 Video Loss Alarm: Click “Video Loss of System” to enter the interface; click 【Trigger the Big Screen】
button under System Linkage to select channel.

 Sensor Alarm: In the control panel, click “Alarm Management” to enter the interface. Click

button to add the associated preview cameras.

In the control panel, click ― Change Alarm Preview
Settings” under Live Preview to pop up the window

① Alarm preview will pop up automatically when alarm

is triggered if checking ―Automatic Pop-up Alarm
Page‖.

② Alarm preview will pop up automatically in full screen

when alarm if triggered if checking ―Full Screen

Display When Popping Up‖.

③ Choose a display monitor from the ―Full Screen

Display‖ drop-down menu. The alarm image will
display on the designated monitor when alarm is
triggered.

④ Choose the number of screen.

8.4.2 Alarm Preview

After configuring the alarm, the alarm preview will automatically pop up if the alarm of selected channels is
triggered. The default pop-up window of system is independent interface. Please refer to the below figure.

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Click button on the upper right corner of the sub interface; then select “Tab View” to
embed the sub interface in the main interface.

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In the control panel, click ― E-Map‖ to enter the interface as below:

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9.1 Create map

In the E-map interface, click 【Shortcuts】 button on
the left side to appear the shortcut menu, then click

“Create Map File” to enter the interface. Import a map
and edit a name for it.

9.2 Modify or Delete Map, Hotspot and Hotzone

In the E-map interface, click “Edit E-map” on the left side to enter the interface.

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9.2.1 Change or Delete Map

In the above interface, click “Map File” to appear the map files on the left side. Choose a map and click
to change a new name for it.

9.2.2 Add, Change and Delete Hotzone

 Add Hotzone

Click “Map File” and choose a map and then click

icon to pop up a dialog widow.

① Check a map related the hotzone
② Click to choose text color displaying under the

hotzone icon.

③ Click to choose icons for the hotzones.

After finishing, double clicking a hotzone will lead you to
enter this map.

 Modify and Delete Hotzone

Right-click a hotzone on the map. Choose “Modify Hotzone” or “Delete the
Hotzone to change font color, icon or name or delete it.

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9.2.3 Add, Change and Delete Hotspot

In the E-map interface, choose a map, click
to enter the interface.

① Check associated cameras and sensors
② Click to choose text color displaying under

hotspot.

③ Click to choose an icon for the hotspot
④ Edit a name for the hotspot.

There is another way to add hotspot.
Select a map and double click the camera, or drag the
camera to the map for adding hotspot.

Note: The hotzones or hotspots will focus on the map in the

same position after being added. You should drag them to

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the corresponding positions on the map. Click to
save the settings.

9.3 E-map Monitoring Settings

In the E-map interface, click “Monitory Settings of E-map”
on the left side to enter the interface.

Check ―Automatic Pop-up Alarm Preview Window‖，then
click 【OK】 button to save the setting. If the configured hot

spots raise the alarm, the preview image will pop up
automatically

9.4 E-map live preview

In the E-map interface, click “Monitory with E-map” on the left side to enter the interface.

Note: If the item ―Edit E-map‖ appears on the below of menu bar in the E-map interface, the current interface is

monitory with E-map interface. Double clicking a hotspot will switch to the its map
The icon of hotspot will become a flashing light if this hotspot raises the alarm. What’s more, there will be
preview windows on the right side if you had checked ―Automatic Pop-up Alarm Preview Window‖. Clicking the
alarm preview image will switch to the map whose hotspot issues alarm.

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Area

Description

1

Menu bar

2

Zoom in/out the map

3

Alarm preview

4

Overall display of map(suppressible)

5

Alarm message prompts

Item

Description

Item

Description

Snap

Picture capture

Open Manual
Recording

Start manual record

Start Talk

Start talk

PTZ control

Click to display PTZ control panel

Zoom in

Zoom in the image

Size of window

Recover the image size

Stream

Choose stream to view

Enable audio

Enable audio

Close
preview

Stop preview of single channel

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Area Description:

Right Click on the Alarm Preview Window:

Click to clear all the number of alarm
Click to make the alarm preview windows to overlap together. You can drag each window to view

respectively .

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click button to tile the alarm preview windows on the right side.

Right click on the map to pop up a menu bar. Choose ―Full Screen‖ to view the image in full screen.

Right click on the map to choose ―Exit Full Screen‖ to exit.

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In the interface of control panel, click “Local Log” to enter the interface.

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10.1 Search log

Choose main type, sub type , set the start time and end time, click【Inquire】button to search the relevant log
information. click【First page】【 Previous】【 Next】【 Last page】to view the information on different pages.

10.2 Log Maintenance

In the log interface, click button to
pop up a dialog window. You can save the information of
log for a certain time by configuration in this interface.

10.3 Export

In the log interface, click button , then choose a storage path to export the log information.

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11 User Management

In the interface of control panel, click “User Management” to enter the interface.
There is only one super user registered by you when firstly log in the system. You can add several users and set
right for them through the function of ―Set Account Right‖.

11.1 Create a Resource with the Default Permission

In the above interface, clicking “Create a Resource with the Default Permission” means that permission of
new resources will be given to all the users if you are going to create new resources.

11.2 Create, Change and Delete Users

 Create Account

In the interface of User Management, click

to pop up a dialog window. Input
account name and password. Choose account type
and default right.
You can bind account by e-mail or telephone and
add description if you wish.

Note:  Two types of user: administrator and

operator. administrator enjoys all the system
permissions except

account and permission management.
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 If you have checked ―Default Permission‖ under initial permission when creating new account, all the resource
permissions and system permissions will be added for the user

 Change Account

In the interface of User Management, select a user and
click button to enter the interface. You can

change account name, password, e-mail address, etc.
according to need.

 Delete Account

In the interface of User management, select a user and
click button to delete it .

11.3 Account Right Configuration

In the interface of User Management, select a user, then click to enter the interface.

 Camera Permission

In the interface of Camera Permission,
click button to add resources, check

camera permissions on the right.
You can add different permissions for different users.

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 Device Permission

Click “Device Permission” to enter the
interface. Select the right on the right hand
you want to enjoy.

 E-map Permission

Click “E-map Permission” to enter the
interface. Add map permission for the selected
user.

 System Permission

Click “System Permission” to enter the
interface, you can set the right of broadcast ,
searching log information and exporting it for
the user you selected.

 Restore Default Permission

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In the interface of account right management, select a user and click to restore default
permission of this user.

 Clear Permission

In the interface of account right management, select a user and click to clear this user’s
permission.

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12 Basic

In the interface of control panel, click “Basic” to enter the interface. System startup and maintenance, backup and
restore will be introduced in this chapter. Partition and Path configuration have been introduced in the above
chapter, there we do not repeat again.

12.1 System Startup and Maintenance

In the interface of Basic Configuration, click ―System
Startup and Maintenance” to enter the interface.

Under the system startup settings, two ways to enable
the software can be select.
If checking ―Automatically Restart Your Computer‖ ,
user name and password of the computer need to be
input; time interval and restart time need to be selected.

12.2 Backup and Restore

When upgrading the software to a new version, you should firstly export the data of the previous version and then
import to the new version so that repeated addition and settings could be avoided.

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12.2.1 Backup System Configuration data

In the interface of Basic Configuration, click “Backup
System Configuration Data” to export the

configuration data.

12.2.2 Restore System Configuration Data

In the interface of Basic Configuration, click “Restore
System Configuration Data” to import the
configuration data.

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Output

In the control panel, click “Manual Alarm Output”
under Basic Configuration to enter the interface.
Check ―Enable‖; select a corresponding device and
alarm output; then edit a name for it .

Then an icon will appear at the right bottom of the
software. Clicking this icon will trigger the alarm of selected device.

12.4 Video Display Settings

In control panel interface, click ―Video Display
Settings‖ to set video title display and video resolution

mode.