Digital ID View SV, SV1000, SV-2000 User Manual

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Digital IDView

CYSX/SV+/Real Time

User Manual

Version 4.03

English

Digital IDView Card Kit User Manual

2nd Edition
Dec, 2006

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translated into any languages in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the
purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of Digital IDView

Liability. Digital IDView provides this manual “AS IS” without warranty of any kind, either
express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Digital IDView, its
directors, officers, employees or agents be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or
consequential damages (including damages for loss of profits, loss of business, loss of use or
data, interruption of business and the like), even if Digital IDView has been advised of the
possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product.
Specifications or information contained in this manual are furnished for informational use only,
and are subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be constructed as a
commitment by Digital IDView Digital IDView assumes no responsibility or liability for any
errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual, including the products and software
described in it.

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identification or explanation and to the owners’ benefit, without intent to infringe.

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Contents

1. PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS...............................................................................................................1

1-1 PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................................................................... 1

1-2 MAIN FEATURES...............................................................................................................................................3

2. LANGUAGE SELECTION...........................................................................................................................6

3. MAIN SCREEN..............................................................................................................................................7

3-1 DISPLAY MODE ................................................................................................................................................9

3-2 MOTION/ALARM TO ZOOM.............................................................................................................................10

3-3 STORAGE SPACE .............................................................................................................................................14

3-4 RECORDING & DI/DO STATUS .......................................................................................................................15

4. PLAYBACK..................................................................................................................................................16

4-1 PLAYBACK PASSWORD SETTING.....................................................................................................................18

4-2 SEARCH FOR RECORDED DATA .......................................................................................................................19

4-2-1 Search by Time .....................................................................................................................................19

4-2-2 Search by Event ....................................................................................................................................20

4-3 AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYBACK CONFIGURATION ...................................................................................................29

4-3-1 Vi deo Playback Configuration..............................................................................................................29

4-3-2 Audio Playback Configuration..............................................................................................................30

4-4 SNAPSHOT/BACKUP .......................................................................................................................................31

4-4-1 Snapshot and save to floppy..................................................................................................................31

4-4-2 Backing up Video Files.........................................................................................................................32

5. SYSTEM SETTINGS...................................................................................................................................35

5-1 CAMERA SETUP..............................................................................................................................................36

5-2 PTZ................................................................................................................................................................40

5-3 VIEW SETUP ................................................................................................................................................... 42

5-4 USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT.....................................................................................................................43

5-5 DI/DO............................................................................................................................................................46

5-6 ALARM NOTICE..............................................................................................................................................48

5-7 SYSTEM..........................................................................................................................................................53

5-7-1 Time Synchroni zation...........................................................................................................................54

5-7-2 Other Functions.....................................................................................................................................56

5-8 NETWORK SETUP ...........................................................................................................................................57

5-8-1、Remote Connection via Internet by a modem....................................................................................62

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5-8-2、Remote Connection when SV Series is connected to the Internet by a modem.................................69

5-9 DISK...............................................................................................................................................................75

5-10 AUDIO..........................................................................................................................................................76

5-11 VOICE DIALER..............................................................................................................................................77

6. REMOTE OPERATION..............................................................................................................................78

6-1 DOWNLOAD PLAYER......................................................................................................................................79

6-2 REMOTE MONITOR VIA MPEG4.....................................................................................................................79

6-3 REMOTE MONITOR VIA JPEG.........................................................................................................................82

6-4 REMOTE PLAYBACK .......................................................................................................................................83

6-5 DVR PLAYER.................................................................................................................................................87

6-6 DVR REMOTE SETUP.....................................................................................................................................90

6-6-1 Remote Setup Record............................................................................................................................90

6-7 DVR REMOTE BACKUP..................................................................................................................................92

7. APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................................................93

A.COMPATIBLE PC HARDWARE............................................................................................................................93

B.MAIN MENU .....................................................................................................................................................96

C.FAQ .................................................................................................................................................................98

D.INTERNET CONNECTION ................................................................................................................................ 100

E.MAINTENANCE ...............................................................................................................................................102

F.WARRANTY.....................................................................................................................................................103

G.CUSTOMER SERVICE .......................................................................................................................................104

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1. Product Characteristics

1-1 Product Characteristics

 Optimum Replacement for Time-lapse Recorder

Traditional Time-lapse Recorder is a mechanical device. It is very easy to break down after
long-term operation and it causes many problems such as: the overly used magnetic heads
which cause blurred image; tapes need to be changed often and manually; the recording time is
not long enough; the management of recorded tapes is complicated; inefficient when trying to
locate the needed data; recording a huge amount of useless images, etc.

Digital IDView DVR adopts digital recording technology. The quality of images will not
deteriorate with time. With its high compression rate, the storage time can last for months
under normal applications. The overwrite operation mode will overwrite the earliest data, and
no more tape change is required. Motion detection function will enable the recording only
when there is motion of the objective, and makes the system and data retrieval more efficient.

 High Reliability

Normal PC digital surveillance system adopts the MS-Windows OS (Operating Systems). Such
kind of system is so often to crash. It usually makes a negative impression which digital
surveillance system is unreliable.

Digital IDView DVR adopts Embedded-Linux OS. Our advanced embedded technology
condenses the entire system into a tiny flash module, which makes the system more reliable.
Even when the power fails, the system will re-boot and return to normal operation in less than
one minute.

 Longer Recording Days

Digital IDView DVR adopts the advanced MPEG-4 compression to store the video images. It
allows you to record more data on the same capacity of hard disks.

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 Ease of Operation
Mouse clicking on the Graphical User Interface controls all the operations. No keyboard is
needed so that it is most suitable for the security guards and normal non-IT based users to use.

 Multi-Function

Function of one set of Digital IDView DVR = Time-lapse Video Cassette Recorder +
Multiplexer processor + Motion Detection Processor

You can backup the data to CD-R/RW, remotely monitor the images and still recording the
current video data at the same time.

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1-2 Main Features

Items Description

OS Embedded Linux

Video Inputs

*4/8/12/16 channels in BNC jack for SV, SV1000
*8/16 channels for SV+

*16 channels for SV2000
Video Outputs D type 15 Pins VGA and TV-Out
Video Format NTSC/PAL

Audio Input/Output

*1 Channel input and 1 Channel Output for SV, SV+

*4 channel inputs (optional) and 1 channel output for SV1000

*4 channel inputs and 1 channel output for SV2000
PC Interface PCI Slot

System

Multi-Tasking Yes
User Interface 800*600, very user friendly
Frame rate Real time display
Resolution 640*480
HDD Usage Display Yes
Hidden Camera Yes
Video Loss Detection Yes

Display

Image Parameter Adjustment Brightness/Contrast/Hue/Saturation for each camera
Compression MPEG 4 like Compression
Resolution 640*480,640*240,320*240

Frame rate

*NTSC:30/60/90/120, PAL:25/50/75/100 @320*240 for SV

*NTSC:120/240, PAL:100/200 @320*240 for SV+

*NTSC:120/240/240/240, PAL:100/200/200/200 @320*240 for SV+

*NTSC:400, PAL:400 for SV2000

Pre-Schedule Recording

By 7days x 24hours, set each hour as:

recording by motion, continuously recording, non- recording

Motion detection area

Define any 8x8 cell for motion detection. Free combinations o

f

detected areas. No limitation on the number of detection areas.
Motion detection sensitivity 10 ranges per camera
Pre-Recording 0~10 sec
Post-Recording 0~20 sec

Recording

Watermark Yes

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Date Code

Recording includes time/date information.

T o prevent date code from being modified
Playback channels 4 channels playback at the same time
Playback mode Play, Pause, frame by frame play, fast forward, fast backward
Video Enhancement De-interlace, Sharpen

Search Search by time, date and event.

Playback

Image Adjustment Brightness/Contrast

Networking

Internet/PSTN/LAN by Ethernet/ Modem

(Fix IP, PPPoE/DDNS, DHCP)

Remote Monitoring JPEG mode or MPEG 4 streaming.

Remote Playback

Remote 4 and 16 channel playback with MPEG 4 Streaming

Technology.

Remote Setup Yes
Download and Local Play Yes
Central Management Yes

Remote

Functions

Remote Backup by Windows Network Neighborhood
i-Mode Yes

Inputs

*4/8/12/16 NC/NO dry contact inputs for SV, SV+ and SV1000

*4/8 NC/NO dry contact inputs for SV2000

Outputs

*4/8/12/16 NC/NO relay for SV, SV+ and SV1000

*4/8 NC/NO relay for SV2000,
IO & Camera Relations 1-1, 1-many, many-1, many-many

Alarm

Alarm Behavior

* Alarm to Zoom, Alarm to recording, Alarm to Notice (

b

y Email /

FTP / SMS), Alarm to DI output
HDD Interface Support IDE & SATA HDDs

RAID support Support IDE/SCSI RAID

Backup

USB/ IDE burning device(CD-R/RW, DVD±R/RW) ; USB storage

(Pen Drive, HDD)

Storage &

Backup

HDD SMAR T Diagnostics

Yes
Password protection 100 user accounts, each one can see different cameras
PTZ camera support Yes
Power Down Management Yes. Auto-recovery when power back
Watchdog Yes Hardware Watchdog.
Time Zone/Daylight Saving Yes

Other

AVI Format Export Yes

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Time Sync Support Time Server, FM and RTC Time Sync

UI Language

7 languages in single software: English, French, German, Japanese,

Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

* Specifications subject to change without notice

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2. Language Selection

You can select your preferred display language at “Main Menu” before starting DVR system.
There are seven languages that are supported in this version- Traditional Chinese, English,
Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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3. Main Screen

After turning on the DVR, launch the DVR program and it will show the following main
screen,

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The controls in the main screen including:

Function Description
1 Storage Space Indicate the HD free space status
2 Recording/ DI/DO Status Camera recording status and alarm/sensor input

and output status
3 System Setting Quick access to system configuration
4 Playback Quick access to playback mode
5 Full Screen Monitoring Monitor in full Screen
6 Date/Time Display current date and time
7 Display Mode Select display divisions
8 Motion/Alarm to Zoom Activate zooming function when motion or alarm

occurs
9 Sequencer Display in sequence

Note:

Whenever you click this button

, the system will return to the main screen.

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3-1 Display Mode

There are 7 kinds of Display mode, 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, and 16

splits.

The default display mode is 16 splits. The cameras displayed on each split mode can be
configured in the system setting menu.

Besides the different kinds of split modes, you can click in a camera image on any split screen
to show the full screen of that specific camera as shown in the example below.

In the full screen mode the “Screen Adjustment Parameters” will locate at the bottom of the
screen. These parameters are “contrast”, “brightness”, “chroma”, and “saturation”.

When a Speed Dome is connected and the system is in full screen mode, PTZ control buttons
will pop up in the lower right of the screen. These controls include “Zoom in”, “Zoom out”,
“Auto Focus”, “Focus Near”, “Focus Far”, and “PTZ Speed”.

Zoom In

Zoom Out

Brightness

Chroma

Auto Pan

Focus Near

Focus Far

Auto Focus

PTZ Speed

Preset Point

Saturation

Contrast

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3-2 Motion/Alarm to Zoom

The function of “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” is zooming in the screen when there is any motion

or alarm occurring. After clicking

icon, it will activate the “Motion/Alarm to Zoom

“mode.

Motion/Alarm Zooming Area

Motion/Alarm Picture

1. At first, you must go to “ Alarm Notice” in “System Setting” menu to set up the channels
that you want to enable the “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function. For the “Alarm to Zoom”
function, you need to have further set up in “DI/DO” under “System Setting.” Click “ DI/DO”

in “ System setting and then select “DI->Zoom”. Next, click channels which you want to
enable “Alarm to Zoom” function and then return to the “Main Menu” to click the

“ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” icon. To note that only “DI/DO” and “Motion to Zoom” be set can

the “Alarm to Zoom” function work.

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Select the channels you want to
enable “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom”

Select the channels you want to
enable “Alarm to Zoom” function

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2. When the channel which is enabled the “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function occurs motion or
alarm, its’ screen will be zoomed in the “ Motion/Alarm Zooming” area and the original screen
of this channel will be replaced by a “Motion/Alarm Picture”. If the channel is not enabled
the “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function, the screen of this channel will not be zoomed and will
not be marked in red frame even there is a motion or alarm in this channel.

3. If there is no other motion or alarm occurring, the current zoomed screen will be continually
kept in “ Motion/Alarm Zooming Area”. If yes, the zoomed screen will be kept in
“ Motion/Alarm Zooming Area” just for three seconds and will be replaced by the one from
any channel waiting for zoomed after three seconds. If there is more than one motion or alarm
occurring at the same time, the zooming rule will be as follows,

a. The previous zooming channel will be the first priority for zooming again and others will

be marked in red frame to wait for zooming in after three seconds. However, the number of
continually zooming the same channel will be limited to three times. After three times,
even this channel occurs motion or alarm again, the motion/alarm zooming area will show
the screen of other channel. If the motion or alarm in one of the channels waiting for
zooming and marked in red frame disappears within three seconds waiting time, this
channel will not be zoomed in and the red frame will disappear.

b. If the previous zoomed channel does not have motion or alarm again, the first priority

being zoomed is the channel of which number is the smallest. For example, if channel #3
and channel #7 occur motions or alarms at the same time, channel #3 will be zoomed firstly
for three seconds and the screen of channel #7 will be marked in red frame to wait for
zoomed after three seconds.

4. Zooming in a specific channel: You can decide just to zoom in a specific channel. When
clicking any channel you want to zoom in, the screen of this channel will be zoomed in to the
“Motion/Alarm Zooming” area marked in yellow color frame and the original screen of this
channel will be replaced by a “locked picture”. Then, the screen of other channels, even
occurring motion or alarm, will not be zoomed in “Motion/Alarm Zooming Area” and it will be
just marked in red color frame. You can click the “ Motion/Alarm Zooming Area” to cancel the
“ Zooming in a specific channel”.

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Motion/Alarm Zooming Area
marked in yellow color

Locked Picture

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3-3 Storage S pace

On the right side of the main screen, you can find the free space of hard disks. If there are
more than one hard disk is connected, it will display the status of each HD every 5 seconds.

When you start using a new hard disk (for example, a hard disk with capacity 80GB), the
percentage of free space will be very close to 100% (e.g. 99%), and the color will be BLUE.

However, as recording continues, the available space will diminish. When the remaining
available space is less than 4GB, the display color will change to ORANGE. This serves as a
warning message that the system will soon enter the Recycle Mode; which means, the earliest
recorded data will be replaced by the newest recording data. If you would like to keep all the
data, this is the time to swap a new hard disk.

If the disk has not been changed and the recording continues, the system will go into Recycle
Mode when the hard disk free space is less than 1GB. The color of “Hard Disk Free Space”
will turn RED.

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3-4 Recording & DI/DO Status

The first column indicates the recording status of each camera:

Color Recording Mode Status

Orange ( ) Full recording

Green ( ) Motion-sensor Motion not detected

Red ( ) Motion-sensor Motion detected & recording

Gray ( ) No recording

The second and third column shows the status of each DI and DO
device.

Color Status

Green ( ) Device not activated

Red ( ) Device activated

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4. Playback

Click the playback icon

on the main screen to enter playback mode. If “Playback

Password Protection” function is enabled (See 4-1 Playback Password Setting), the system will
prompt you to enter User name and Password to enter playback mode as following,

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The controls of Playback function are as following,

Browse

Calendar

Status

Search by hour
Search by minute

Time Map

Snapshot/Backup

Play

Camera

Selection

Event

Search

Setup

Full

Screen

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4-1 Playback Password Setting

If you want to activate “Playback Password Protection” function, click in the main
menu to go the “System Setting” as follows. Change the “Security” from “ Disable” to

“Enable” mode and then click “Playback Password”.

Set up User authority

Enable Playback
Password

Then, set up the “User” authority of playback as follows,

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4-2 Search for Recorded Data

This DVR system provides two modes of “ Search for Recorded Data”. One is “ Search by
time” and the other one is “Search by Event”.

4-2-1 Search by Time

Time Map

When you click the icon of “ Time Map” on the lower right corner of Playback screen, it will
show three kinds of time parameters for users to search and jump to the recorded data by time
directly including “ Calendar, Hour and Minute”.
First, click on the date of the calendar on the upper right corner of the
screen and then select the “hour” and “minute” using the two bars on
the lower right corner.

Hour bar
Minute bar

Next, select the cameras for playback using the buttons at the
bottom of the screen. You can playback up to 4 cameras at the
same time. When you click the camera button, camera numbers
1 to 16 will appear. Select the desired camera to playback.
Choose “ - ” if no camera is to be played back on this screen.
The color of the selected cameras on the right side of the screen
will be in “light blue” background.

Click the Play button to start playback.

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Time

Rewind

Play

Forward Next Frame

Pause

Status

Note:

z You can 2×, 4×, 6× forward by clicking Forward button one more time.

4-2-2 Search by Event

Event Search

Click the “ Event Search” icon

, it will show the “Search Window”. There are three

kinds of event search modes, “ Time, System and Device”.

Search Mode Description

Time Search all of the events within the time range you set up.
System *Search all of the System events within time range

which you set up by marking the “ Time Search” at the
same time or
*Search all of the System events without time boundary
by disable the “ Time Search”.

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Device * Search all of the Device events within time range

which you set up by marking the “ Time Search” at the
same time or
*Search all of the Device events without time boundary
by disable the “ Time Search”.

z Time Mode:

Step 1: Select “ Time” mode from the Search type.
Step 2: Set up the time of starting point and end point including, Year, Month, Day, Hour,
Minute and Second.

Step 3: Click “ Search” button to execute the “ Event Search”. Click “ Reset

“ button to go back to Default time range. Click “Cancel” button
to stop the event search.

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Step 4: Then, the system will open the Search Result Window and show the “Search
Result”.

In the Search Result Window of Time Mode, there will be 11 information columns for each

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event log including “Date, Time, Event, Type, Motion Record, Remote Alarm Record,
Camera Video Loss, Camera Enable, Camera Disable, DI Trigger, DO Trigger and
Content”. The columns of Date and Time list the event time information. Event column list

“ System”, “Camera” or “Device” event. Type includes “Information ( )”, “Warning( )”, or
“Error( )”. Camera Motion, Camera Video Loss, Camera Enable or Camera Disable
represents the camera with event. The Content column makes the description of System event.

It will show 24 event logs in one page each time and you can click one of the “ Jump button

to go to the event page you want to see.

: Jump to the first page of event search result.

: Jump to the preview page of event search result.

: Jump to the next page of event search result.

: Jump to the last page of event search result.

Step 5: Click button. The system will jump to “Playback Window” as the
following picture. The search result will be shown on the right side of “Playback Window”.

Or click “ Re-search” button and the system will go back to Search
Window.

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Search
Result

Step 6: Select one of the search logs. It will pop up a window on the left side of Search result
to show the detail information of this log including Event, Type and detail Content. Click
“GoTo” button and it will start to play the event video. This software version can provide four
channels playback at the same time. If this event just happens in four channels ( ex. 2nd, 3rd,
5th, 7th ch) at the same time, the four channel split will just playback these four channel videos.
If this event happens in over four channels ( ex. 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th 9th, 11th ch), you can decide
which channel video will be played in the split window by manually setting up the playback

channel

. Otherwise, the system will decide the event playback channel priority

according to the following rule:

z The first priority of playback channel will be the channel of which number is already in

the preset playback channel. For example, Preset playback channel is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Ch. The event happens in 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th 9th, 11th Ch at the same time. Then, 2nd and
3rd channel will be the first priority to be played on the split window. The rest of two split
windows will play the channel with small number. In this case 5th, and 7th channel will
be played in the split channel too. However, 11th Channel will not be played in the split
window except you can manually change the playback channel.

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Note:

z System Mode:

It will show 10 event logs in one page each time and you can click one of the “ Jump button

to go to the event page you want to see.

You can search the event by “System” mode and you can also add the “Time Search”
condition to narrow the search range. By marking the various System conditions, you can
decide the search range.

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The following table lists all of the “System Events”.

Event Group Rule

Recording Start
Recording Stop
Recording running

Record

Recording exception
Capture setup error
Capture sync error
Capture card error
Watchdog Fail

Capture

DIO mapping Fail
Update time to RF clock
Update time to RTC clock
Timer update error

Timer

No RF clock device

Other Event log error

Enter play recorded video Mode

Startup

Enter disk tool menu

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