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SmartVIEW NVRs

User Manual

iSC-NVR2316-T / iSC-NVR2532-T

iSC-NVR2532-U / iSC-NVR2532-R

iSC-NVR2532-A / iSC-NVR2532-D

Version 1.5

About This Document

This manual is intended for administrators and users of iSC-NVR2532-U/R/A/D/T and

iSC-NVR2316-T. It covers configuration of storage and SmartVIEW configuration, as well as

instructions for using and managing SmartVIEW NVRs on your mobile devices. Later versions

of this document will be posted on the official website, as required.

The use of video surveillance devices can be prohibited by laws that vary from country to

country. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that the operation of such devices is legal

before installing this unit for surveillance purposes.

Version history

Version

Description

Date

1.5

First release

2014-06-10

Legal Notices

Ingrasys Technology Inc. reserves the right to modify product specifications without

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Support

Should you require any technical assistance, please contact your reseller or SI. If your

questions cannot be answered immediately, please forward your queries through the

appropriate channels to ensure a rapid response.

Introduction

SmartVIEW is a series of user-friendly Windows-based NVRs which can manage up to 32

channels with just one server. It provides powerful local display functionality with up to 32

channels live view and 16 channel playbacks. The whole series of SmartVIEW NVR provides

completed hardware solutions for user to choose what’s the best for their application is,

include both rack mount and tower desktop types.

For remote monitoring, user can log-in NVR built-in remote web client interface or iOS

mobile APP Eye2GO, to access to their monitoring system anytime and anywhere.

Furthermore, with our “Internet Service” and “UPnP” functions, user can easily access NVR

data from internet. For Eey2GO, user can monitor multiple NVRs on Eye2GO APP at a time, or

monitor single NVR from web client.

Table of Contents

1 System Overview ............................................................................. 6

1.1 How to start? ............................................................................................................. 6

1.2 Hardware interface .................................................................................................... 7

2 System Setting ............................................................................... 12

2.1 SysGuard .................................................................................................................. 12

2.2 RAID Setting ............................................................................................................. 15

2.3 Add Storage ............................................................................................................. 19

2.4 Change System Language ........................................................................................ 21

3 SmartVIEW initialization ................................................................ 23

3.1 Installation Wizard ................................................................................................... 23

3.2 Exit the system ......................................................................................................... 28

3.3 Log Off and Switch Login User ................................................................................. 29

4 Live view ....................................................................................... 30

4.1 The Live view page ................................................................................................... 30

4.2 About the SmartVIEW System Version .................................................................... 36

4.3 System Information ................................................................................................. 37

4.4 Two-way audio chat and broadcast control............................................................. 38

4.5 Digital PTZ ................................................................................................................ 39

4.6 Snapshot Browsing .................................................................................................. 40

4.7 Speed Dome Camera Control .................................................................................. 41

4.8 Screen Layout .......................................................................................................... 46

4.9 Event Display............................................................................................................ 47

5 System Settings ............................................................................. 49

5.1 System Configurations ............................................................................................. 49

5.2 Storage Settings ....................................................................................................... 51

5.3 User Account Management ..................................................................................... 53

5.4 Hardware Monitoring .............................................................................................. 59

5.5 IP Camera Management .......................................................................................... 60

5.6 Group Settings ......................................................................................................... 70

5.7 Sequence Settings ................................................................................................... 72

5.8 SMS / Email Settings / FTP Settings ......................................................................... 75

5.9 DO (Digital Output) Settings .................................................................................... 77

5.10 Sensor Settings ........................................................................................................ 79

5.11 Event Action Settings ............................................................................................... 81

6 Playback & Log search ................................................................... 84

6.1 Playback ................................................................................................................... 84

6.2 Event Log Query ....................................................................................................... 99

7 Network Service Configuration .................................................... 101

8 Internet Service Configuration ..................................................... 104

9 Remote web client ...................................................................... 105

9.1 Log-in and Live View page ..................................................................................... 105

9.2 Remote event search ............................................................................................. 108

9.3 Remote video playback.......................................................................................... 109

10 Backup Player .............................................................................. 111

11 Eye2GO ....................................................................................... 113

12 . Abbreviation and definition ....................................................... 113

1 System Overview

1.1 How to start?

Following steps are for bringing on this system from storage setting to starting recording and

live viewing. Details will be described in following contents.

Hardware preinstall & power on

RAID setting

(for iSC-NVR2532-R/A/D)

Windows partition setting

Enable SysGuard

NVR quick setting by Installation wizard

Enjoy your surveillance system

1.2 Hardware interface

(1) NVR2316-T

Power switch

Power LED

Reset button

System read/write LED

Front cover for 4 x 3.5” lockable HDD trays

2 x USB 2.0

Power socket

LAN

VGA

4 x USB 2.0

COM

E-SATA

(2) NVR2532-T

Power switch

Power LED

Reset button

System read/write LED

Front cover for 4 x 3.5” lockable HDD trays

2 x USB 2.0

Power socket

Audio Jack

COM1

COM2

VGA

DVI-D

HDMI

LAN

4 x USB 2.0

(3) NVR2532-U

Power switch

Alarm mute button

Fan failed LED

Power LED

4 x 3.5” HDD tray

Power socket

Audio Jack

COM1

COM2

VGA

DVI-D

HDMI

LAN

4 x USB 2.0

(4) NVR2532-R / NVR2532-A (Redundant PSU)

Power switch

System reset button

Alarm mute button

System R/W LED

Power LED

System Alarm LED

LAN1 LED

LAN2 LED

2 x USB 2.0

16 x 3.5” HDD tray

Power socket

Audio Jack

COM1

COM2

VGA

DVI-D

HDMI

LAN

4 x USB 2.0

NVR2532-R

NVR2532-A (Redundant PSU)

(5) NVR2532-D

Power button

System reset button

Alarm mute button

Power LED

System Alarm LED

LAN1 LED

LAN2 LED

2 x USB 2.0

24 x 3.5” HDD tray

Power socket

Audio Jack

COM1

COM2

VGA

DVI-D

HDMI

LAN

4 x USB 2.0

2 System Setting

2.1 SysGuard

To prevent from any exception and keep high performance for the SmartVIEW NVR, the

operation system is built with Microsoft Window Embedded 7 and the system drive (Drive C)

is protected with FBWF (File Base Write Filter). If you want to change any settings of

Windows operating system (i.e. storage, network IP address, system time zone, system

date/time, computer name … etc.), you MUST follow the steps to apply changes.

Please do the 4 steps below before using SmartVIEW NVR.

Notice : For the system safety, you have to enable the SysGuard for running SmartVIEW

NVR after changing settings on Windows operation system.

○1 Choose not to enable SysGuard

when warning message pops up.

○4 System auto reboot

○2 Change settings

○3 Enable SysGuard

(1) You should disable the SysGuard before changing the system settings.

After system start up, system will pop out a warning message automatically, please click

No to disable the SysGuard.

(2) Close Install action Wizard and SmartVIEW for changing Windows operation system

settings.

Notice：Default user name is admin, default password is 1234

You can change the system settings after disabling SysGuard. In this session, all the

changes of the system settings would be applied and the system is not under protection

until the SysGuard is enabled.

Notice：The most important setting is to create RAID and format disks, SmartVIEW

Installation Wizard will apply 1st available drive letter (e:) automatically as default

Recording Media

(3) Double click on the shortcut of system desktop and click Yes to enable the

SysGuard. System will be restarted automatically.

(4) If your SmartVIEW is already running and SysGuard is enabled, you may open the

SysGuard program and select Disable the SysGuard function and click OK. Then, click

Yes . The system will be restarted to disable the SysGuard. After system reboot, please

refer to above steps to change settings.

2.2 RAID Setting

Notice : For NVR2532-R / NVR2532-A / NVR2532-D Only.

If you are using NVR2316-T, NVR2316-K, or NVR2532-T, please Skip to Chapter 2.3 directly.

(1) Login MegaRAID Storage Manager

A. Insert all hard drives to the trays. B. Power on the system. C. Please disable the SysGuard (Refer to Chapter 2.1) before changing the RAID

settings.

D. Double click on the icon on the Windows desktop to open the MegaRAID

Storage Manager.

E. Click on IP Address link ( ) under Remote servers list to type User Name “NVR”

( ) and password (There’s no password in the default setting) then click Login ( )

button to login MegaRAID Storage Manager.

(2) RAID configuration

You will enter the main console of MegaRAID Storage Manager.

A. Select to Physical tab and make sure every hard disks you installed in your

SmartVIEW NVR’s front slots are all “Unconfigured Good” (like )

B. Right click on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i ( ) and choose Create Virtual Drive.

C. Create Virtual Drive – Choose mode will pop up, please select on Simple and click

Next button.

D. Create Drive Group – Drive group and Virtual drive settings will pop up, please

select RAID 5 ( ), then click Next ( ) button to create RAID.

E. Create Virtual Drive - Summary window will pop up to confirm all settings are

correct, and then click Finish and OK to complete settings.

F. Please make sure all HDD you configured are online ( ).

G. These hard drives will be regarded as one single disk in Windows7 operation

system.

Now you may go to initialize the disk and create new volumes through right click

mouse at WindowsComputer and select on ManageDisk Management.

Please be aware of the recommended maximum volume size is less than 2TB for

the best performance of database.

(3) Enable SysGuard

Please execute SmartVIEW and enable the SysGuard. The system will be under

protection after system is restarted.

2.3 Add Storage

SmartVIEW NVR is capable to install up to 24 hard drives as recording storages. To keep the

system working normally, you should operate steps as the following for adding recording

storages:

Notice：If you are using NVR2532-R/A/D and your RAID setting has been just done, please

jump to step (5) directly.

(1) Insert all hard drives to the trays. (2) Power on the system. (3) Please disable the SysGuard (Refer to Chapter 2.1) before add storage of SmartVIEW. (4) For storage volume setting in Windows, you may go to initialize the disks and create

new volumes through right click mouse at Windows Computer and select on

Manage  Disk Management. Please be aware of the recommended maximum

volume size is less than 2TB for the best performance of database.

(5) After disk volumes were created properly, system will pop-up window as following

picture. Please close the AutoPlay window.

(6) Double click on the icon on the Windows desktop to enable SysGuard, after

reboot, SmartVIEW will be started automatically, you may go to Chapter 7. About

“Quick Setting” to add camera directly or click Setup , expand System menu and

select Storage to add more storages if you already added cameras and have many drive

letters.

Notice： More details are described in the Chapter 5.2 of the Users’ Manual.

2.4 Change System Language

If you want to change the system language, please follow the steps to change the operating

system display language and system locale

(1) Please disable the SysGuard (Refer to Chapter 2.1) before changing the system settings. (2) The system will be restarted to disable the SysGuard.

(3) Open the Control Panel Click Region and Language .

(4) Click Keyboards and Languages ( )and select a proper display language ( ).

(5) Click Administrative.

(6) Click the button, Change system locale… (7) Select a proper system locale and click OK .

Notice：STOP!! A Change System Local dialog box as the following would be shown.

Please DO NOT click any button on this dialog box. Just ignore it.

(8) Double click on the shortcut of system desktop, then click Yes to enable the

SysGuard, system will be restarted automatically.

(9) The system change (language setting) would be applied after the system reboot.

3 SmartVIEW Initialization

3.1 Installation Wizard

Once the SmartVIEW software has been lunched first time after completing Windows

system settings and enabling SysGuard, the Installation Wizard will be also automatically

started. This wizard will help users to easily configure the system setting values (ex.

Snapshot Folder, Max Record Days, Recording Media, and the Free Space of the recording

media) and Cameras Discovery.

Users are able to set： (Figure 3-1～Figure 3-5)

(1) System Setting (Figure 3-1)

Snapshot Folder：To assign a folder to store snapshot pictures.

Max Record Days：To specify the maximum days for reserving event logs.

Recording Media：To assign a storage partition for video / audio recording data.

Free Space：To specified the reserved space of this partition that assigned for storing

recording data

and will be disabled (gray) until any available recording storage is installed.

Figure 3-1

OK：To start using SmartVIEW immediately and leave the wizard.

NEXT：To enter the next step of the wizard.

PREV：To back the previous step of the wizard.

Exit：To exit the wizard without saving.

(2) Cameras Discovery (3) Users are able to complete most basic and important settings on adding a camera. By

Cameras Discovery, users can find all cameras in local network and then complete basic

setting easily. (Figure 3-2)

Discovery：To start the cameras discovery procedure.

Figure 3-2

Recording (Figure 3-3)：To turn on / off the video recording function.

(Users are needed to prepare the storage of recording for each camera in the system

configuration.)

Add (Figure 3-3)：To specify whether the camera to be managed or not.

Figure 3-3

Note: User can choose to finish the setting and enter SmartVIEW main console after

this step. If user wants to have detail setting, please go to next step.

(4) Cameras Setup (Figure 3-4)

Record Stream：To assign a stream for recording.

Preview Stream：To assign a stream for previewing.

Motion Detecting：To turn on / off the motion detecting function.

Audio Recording：To turn on / off the audio recording function.

Recording Mode：To specify the recording mode. (Full-time Recording / Event-driven

Recording)

Figure 3-4

Notice：All of these settings are also to be modified later in the System Configuration.

(5) Confirmation Step (Figure 3-5)

Figure 3-5

3.2 Exit the system

If user wants to exit from this program, on the main page of SmartVIEW software, click on

the icon Exit AP (Figure 3-6a, ), then a dialog box which is titled Exit will be pop-up

(Figure 3-6b) and you will need an authorized account to exit system. In the Exit dialog box,

you may click the button Cancel to give up exiting system.

Figure 3-6a

Figure 3-6b

3.3 Log Off and Switch Login User

In the main page of SmartVIEW software, click on the icon Switch User (Figure 3-6a, ),

a dialog box which is titled Switch User will be pop-up (Figure 3-7) and you will need an

authorized account to exit system. In the Switch User dialog box, you may click the button

Cancel to give up log off system.

Figure 3-7

4 Live view

4.1 The Live view page

Users are able to monitor the real-time videos on the Live View page; users can also query

the system event log, monitor the system Hardware status, or control PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) of

the speed dome cameras.

Figure 4-1

System information

Main content

System status & Source of content

Cross-channel functions

Figure 4-1a

(1) To display live video, just drag channels or a whole group from the channel tree (Figure

4-1a, ) and drop into any video display window.

(2) To drag and drop the videos, users are able to re-arrange the channel display order.

(3) Double-clicking any video will enlarge this channel into a single-cannel layout.

Double-clicking the video again will let the video restore to the original layout. This

feature is both provided in the Live View page and Playback page.

(4) Click on the icon will make the video display become full-screen. Click “ESC” on

user’s keyboard will make it back to the original display status. (Figure 4-1a, )

(5) Real-time video snapshot：Move the mouse cursor to the upper left corner of any

video window, the mouse cursor would become a “camera” icon and users are able to

take snapshots by clicking the “camera” icon (Figure 4-1b, ). Users are also able to

open the “Snapshot Viewer” to browse the snapshots. To open the Snapshot Viewer,

users may move the mouse cursor in any video window and click the right button of the

mouse, and then select the “Snapshot” item (Figure 4-1c).

Note: User can also refer to Chapter 4.6 for more detail of snapshot functionality.

Figure 4-1b

(6) Click the right button of the mouse on a channel’s video window (Figure 4-1c), users are

able to do other operations like：

Figure 4-1c

 Reconnect：Manually reconnect this channel if there’s trouble of video displaying.  Record Stream：Display for record stream of this channel on live view  Preview Stream：Display for preview stream of this channel on live view  Manual Recording：Users can manually start/stop recording despite of the current

recording mode of that channel and search in the playback page. About the duration

of an event, it will be defined as the time span from the starting to the stopping of

the manual recording.

 Snapshot：Snapshots browsing for all channels and all time  Digital PTZ：Digital zooming  Keep aspect ratio：Change the video displaying ratio to its original ratio rather than

filling the video window

 Popup windows：Users can select this item to open another pop-up video window

for an important channel. Besides, all of the right-click functions mentioned above

for the real-time videos are also available in this Popup window. (Figure 4-1d)

Figure 4-1d

 Duplicate：Duplicate a channel display on another one. (Figure 4-1e)

Figure 4-1e

 Remove：Remove the channel.  Page：While the number of the real-time videos is more than the max. videos of the

current video layout, the SmartVIEW system is capable to automatically paging these

channels. For example, there’s totally 30 channels user wants to display, but the

layout user selected is 16, so all of the channels displayed will be divided into 2

pages, the page 1 is for channel 1 to channel 16, and the page 2 is for channel 17 to

channel 30.

Figure 4-2a

 Camera list： Drag any camera in this list into the video display window and the camera’s

live video can be displayed instantly. An icon is located on the left of each camera name

(Figure 4-2a, ), it would help users to aware the statuses of cameras. There are 3 kinds

of status (Figure 4-2b) and users are able to click the icons to get more details about the

cameras’ statuses (Figure 4-2a, ):

Figure 4-2b

4.2 About the SmartVIEW System Version

In the Live View page of SmartVIEW software, click on the icon (Figure 4-3a, ), which

is located at the upper right corner, a dialog box which is titled SmartVIEW will be pop-up

(Figure 4-3b).

Figure 4-3a

Figure 4-3b

4.3 System Information

In the main page, a set of indicator about the system information is located at the upper left

part of the Live View page (Figure 4-4). User are not only able to be informed the system

temperature ( ) and the CPU loading ( ) but also be notified any abnormal speed of the

system fans with a “RED” fan icon and an alarm sound from the system buzzer ( ). User

may configure for hardware monitoring in the Configurations -> System -> H/W Monitor.

Notice：The status of fan will have notification once one of the system fans break down.

Figure 4-4

4.4 Two-way audio chat and broadcast control

Select a real-time camera video, click the icon (Figure 4-5, ), users are able to create a

voice chat between the SmartVIEW system side and the selected camera side. If users are

going to listen to the audio of this channel, just click the icon (Figure 4-5, ). If user

wants to start audio broadcasting from client PC’s microphone for multiple channels, please

click on icon and then check on the channels you want to broadcast (Figure 4-5, ).

Notice： Only one voice communicate function can be turn on at the same time and a

specific icon ( for “2-way audio chat”, for “Audio Broadcast”) will be shown at

the lower-left Conner of the specific channel video.

Figure 4-5

4.5 Digital PTZ

Select a real-time camera video, click the right button of the mouse, users are able to turn

on / turn off the digital zooming function of the specific channel video by clicking the item,

Digital PTZ (Figure 4-6, ). In the enabled mode of Digital PTZ (Zooming), a “PiP

(Picture-in-Picture) Window” which is marked with a red border (Figure 4-7, ) will be

shown at the lower-right corner of the specific channel video (Figure 4-6). This PiP Window

intended to help users to know the relative position and size about the zooming window.

Users can change the scale of zooming by scrolling the wheel of the mouse. Users are also

able to change the displaying region by dragging and dropping the main window and the

position relationship will be shown with a blue-border rectangle (Figure 4-7, ).

Figure 4-6

Figure 4-7

4.6 Snapshot Browsing

Select a real-time video and right click of the mouse, users are able to take a snapshot

(Figure 4-8a, ) for the video and click the icon (Figure 4-8, ) to open a window to

browse all manual snapshot images. Users are able to browse recorded files with a specific

channel No. and time, (Figure 4-9). By double-clicking one of the thumbnails which are

located at the lower-left corner of the Snapshot Viewer.

Figure 4-8 Figure 4-8a

Figure 4-9

4.7 Speed Dome Camera Control

(1) In the Live View page, a set of control button for PTZ Controlling is provided (Figure

4-11) which is located at the top part of the Live View page (Figure 4-10, ). Users are

able to control the direction, zooming scale, focus, preset positions, and the speed of

speed dome cameras.

Figure 4-10

Figure 4-11

 Direction：Pan and tilt in 8 directions and patrolling control.  Speed：The speed setting of moving for speed dome cameras, the right to accelerate

and the left compared to slow down.

 Zooming Control：Press the icon can forward the scaling to reduce the

monitoring region (Zoom-in), press the icon can zoom back to enlarge the

monitored area (Zoom-out).

 Focus：Focus function of speed dome cameras, press the icon is about the

lens focal point closer to the icon will be a focal point to pull away.

 Preset Position： Press the icon to setup a “Preset Position” (Figure

4-11, ), press the icon to move to a “Preset Position” (Figure 4-11, ).

(2) The following steps will guide you to set the automatic cruise of the speed dome or

cameras with a PT head：

A. Enable the PTZ control functions for a PTZ camera：

(A) Open the Configurations page. (B) Select a specific Speed Dome Camera item in the IP Camera tree list.

Notice：The speed dome camera will be listed under the node, “IP Camera”,

(Figure 4-12).

(C) Switch tab to General, and check the PTZ Enable. (D) Users will also need to set the following setting for an “IP Camera”：

“Protocol”, “Baud Rate”, “Address ID”, and "Home Position" (Figure 4-12).

Figure 4-12

B. Setup the preset point (Figure 4-13)

(A) Click the PTZ icon which is located at the Live View page (Figure 4-13, ). (B) Adjust the PTZ angle of the cameras to focus at a specific range which you

want to monitor. (Figure 4-13)

pop-up. (Figure 4-13, )

(D) Select the “Preset” No. and input an appropriate description for the specific

“Preset Position”. Click the button Set Preset to setup a preset position or

click column “Descriptions” for updating descriptions for this preset point.

(Figure 4-13, )

(E) Click the button OK to complete the setting. (Figure 4-13, )

Figure 4-13

C. Setup automatic scan (patrolling)

(A) Open the Configurations page. (B) Select a specific PTZ Camera item in the IP Camera tree list. (C) Switch tab to General, and click the button Auto Scan and a dialog box

Auto-Scan Setting will be pop-up.

Figure 4-14

(D) In the Auto-Scan Setting dialog box, users can change the interval of scanning. (E) Users are also able to drag and drop one or some preset position(s) from the

Available Preset to the Selected Preset.

Figure 4-15

(F) After completing the above steps, click the OK button. (G) You may start / stop the Auto Scan function by click the button Sequence

(Figure 4-16, ), which is located at the top part of the Live View page.

Figure 4-16

4.8 Screen Layout

In the main page, click the icon (Figure 4-17, ) to pop-up a layout box. Users are able

to select a specific layout (1, 4, 8, 9, 16, and so on) in this layout box. Users can also set

specific real-time channel video to "full screen", or change every video displayed by "group"

or "sequence" playback.

Figure 4-17

4.9 Event Display

(1) Real-time logs display

User is able to see latest event logs on the main console of live view page’s left down corner

(Figure 4-18 ) and can enlarge the log display area to see more logs at a time by clicking

the button (Figure 4-18 ) .

Figure 4-18

(2) View historical events

By clicking the button at Figure 4-18 the “View Event History” window will pop out. Use

can enter search criteria include start/end date/time and event type, event status, device

name, and device port (for DIO-related events). When all search criteria is set, click Search

and results will be displayed.

If user wants to export a report for event logs, click Save and all logs user found can be

exported as an Office Excel file. If user wants to print out logs, just click Print.

Figure 4-19

All types of event user can search is as Table 4-1.

Event type

Event status

System

System leave, application startup, exit application, change configuration, create server fail

Record

Recording space full, recording storage regain space, record failed

Connect

Remote view connected/disconnected, remote play connected/disconnected, RTSP remote client connected/disconnected, RTSP playback connected/disconnected

Motion/Sensor

/Manual record

(by device)

Video signal

Video loss, video detected

E-Mail/SMS/FTP

Sent successfully, fail to send

Table 4-1

5 System Settings

5.1 System Configurations

Click the Setup icon ( ) which is located at the Live View page (Figure 5-1, ) and a

dialog window which is titled Configurations will be pop-up (Figure 5-2). Users are able to

set system configurations as the following：

Figure 5-1

(1) Shutdown the system when program exit (Figure 5-2, )

Once this setting item has been checked, the computer system will be automatically

shut down (power-off) after the program is exited.

(2) Host Name (Figure 5-2, )

This name will show on the central management system NVMS (Network Video

Management System), you can use the name to recognize which SmartVIEW NVR once

you have many SmartVIEW NVRs need to manage.

(3) Save Interval (Figure 5-2, )

This value defines the file length (in minute) of each video data file. The default value is

5 minutes and 8 types of length (1 / 3 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30) are available. For

example, if this configuration has been set to 3 minutes, the SmartVIEW system will

create a new recording data file every 3 minutes (per each available channel).

(4) Auto Login (Figure 5-2, )

If this configuration is enabled, the SmartVIEW system will be login with the selected

account after each starting of the operation system. The installation will automatically

create a default account (with an “Administrative” permission) whose user name is

“Admin” and the password is “1234”, users will need to login with an authorized

account and password at each system starting, if this configuration has not been

checked.

(5) Enable Remote Reboot (Figure 5-2, )

If this configuration is enabled, any HTTP connection with the input password will

trigger system to reboot. Ex.：

A. http：// SmartVIEW IP address {：Port Number} / Reboot.cgi B. Input the correct password. C. The operation system will be rebooted.

(6) Reboot (Figure 5-2, )： Users can configure the SmartVIEW system to automatically

reboot on a weekly day and time. If this configuration is enabled, please do not set any

password for the default login account unless you do not want the SmartVIEW system

be automatically logged in after the SmartVIEW system rebooting.

Figure 5-2

Notice： Any changes in this Configurations Page won’t be saved until the OK button has

been clicked.

5.2 Storage Settings

To add, modify, delete storage setting groups for streaming data file. Instructions：

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click System / Storage in the tree view item, (Figure 5-3) to adjust the following

configurations：

(1) Max. Event Record Days

The number of days (1～365) for the video recording files saving. Once any recording

file has been kept longer than the duration user set, it will be deleted automatically by

the SmartVIEW system.

(2) Snapshot folder

The folder for saving snapshot pictures.

Figure 5-3

(3) Add Storages

 Storage Media Setting：Set a path for recording data files saving. To click the Add

button, a dialog box Storage Device will be pop-up (Figure 5-4). To check the items

of the Storage table to assign partitions to be storages and to check the items of the

Information table to assign cameras’ streaming to be stored in this storage group.

 Recycle：If this item is checked, once the available spaces of the storages are less

than the settings value (Storage Reserved Size), the older recording files will be

deleted automatically by the SmartVIEW system with the deleting unit of one hour.

(Figure 5-4, ).

 Storage Only for Event Clip：If this item is checked, the recording files would be only

saved while any event occurred. (Figure 5-4, )

Figure 5-4

(4) Modify Storages

Select one of the storage device in the Storage Lib (Figure 5-3, ) which you want to

modify, and then click the Edit button, a dialog box Storage Device will be pop-up

(Figure 5-3). Modify the settings (just like the “Instruction (3)： Add Storages”

described) and click the OK button finally to apply settings.

(5) Delete Storages

Select one of the Storage Device in the Storage Tab which you want to delete, and

then click the Delete button, a confirm dialog box Storage Device will be pop-up

(Figure 5-5). Just click the Yes button to process the deleting or click the No button to

back the last page.

Figure 5-5

Notice：For each camera which is enabled to record, please make sure that each

camera is assigned with proper storages.

5.3 User Account Management

To add, modify, delete “User” and “Authority Group”.

Instructions：

It is recommended to create some authority groups before creating users, and then assign

users to the specific authority groups. To do these, you will need to click the Setup icon

( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be pop-up. Click System /

Authority Group in the tree view item, (Figure 5-6) to adjust the following configurations：

Figure 5-6

(1) Add Authority Groups

The Authority Groups can be regarded as the classification of user privileges; users can

achieve permissions management through inheritance from different Groups. Once the

permissions of an Authority Group are changed, the permissions (channel permissions,

system privileges) of all the users that inherited from the Authority Group are also

changed.

(2) If a specific Authority Group is deleted, all the users that inherited from the Authority

Group are also deleted unless there is any the user has been assigned with any

individual permission and it will be remained.

(3) There is a special Authority Group, which is named “Supervisor” and it has been

already created by the SmartVIEW system, which won’t be listed in the “Authority

Group” page but the “Authority Group” of the “User” page.

(4) To create / modify an Authority Group, please refer to the following steps：

A. Enter the “Name” for the Group in the “Group Name” field. B. Set Permissions for Channels – In the “Channel authorization” table, users are able

to assign permissions independently for each channel. The permissions include：

(A) Local Preview：Be authorized to open the local real-time video. This permission

is required to browse the local snapshot pictures.

(B) Local Playback：Be authorized to operate the local playback. (C) Local PTZ：Be authorized to operate the local PTZ controlling. The permission of

“Local Preview” is required to authorize this permission.

(D) Remote Preview：Be authorized to preview the video this channel remotely.

The right of browsing snapshot remotely will also be granted.

(E) Remote Playback：Be authorized to operate the playback remotely. (F) Remote PTZ：Be authorized to operate the PTZ controlling remotely. But the

permission of “Remote Preview” has to be granted first in order to enable this

permission.

(G) Local Data Export：Be authorized to local export data (Recording data backup,

save snapshot, print snapshot, saving video as AVI files). But the permission of

“Local playback” has to be granted first in order to enable this permission.

(H) Remote Data Export：Be authorized to export data (Recording data backup,

save snapshot, print snapshot, saving video as AVI files) remotely. But the

permission of “Remote playback” has to be granted first in order to enable this

permission.

Notice： Users are able to check all the permissions by checking the check box

which is nearby the channel number (Figure 5-6, ). Users are also able to

check all the channels to grant a specific permission by clicking the check box

which is near by the permission (Figure 5-6, ).

C. Set Permissions for System – In the Authorization table (Figure 5-6, ); users are

able to grant permissions for the SmartVIEW system operating. The permissions

include：

(A) System Shutdown：Be authorized to exit the SmartVIEW system. (B) View Log：Be authorized to browse the event log of the SmartVIEW system. (C) Export Log：Be authorized to export (saving as, printing) the event log of the

SmartVIEW system.

(D) Local Setup：Be authorized to change the configurations of the SmartVIEW

system.

(E) Local DO Control：Be authorized to control the digital output devices of the

SmartVIEW system.

(F) Remote Setup：Be authorized to change the configurations of the SmartVIEW

system remotely.

(G) Remote DO Control：Be authorized to control the digital output devices of the

SmartVIEW system remotely.

D. Duplicate Authority Groups

If you want to create an Authority Group which is similar to any existing Authority

Group, you can duplicate a new Authority Group from the existing one first, and

then modify the settings for the new one. The steps as the following：

(A) Tap the existing authority group you want to duplicate. (B) Enter a new name for the new Authority Group in the Group Name field. (C) Click the button Copy , and a new Authority Group would be successfully

created (duplicated).

(D) Tap the new Authority Group which is just been created, adjust the permission

settings of channels and system.

(E) Click the button Update to complete and apply the operation.

E. Update Authority Groups

To modify an existing Group, the steps as the following：

(A) Select the item which is to be modified first (B) Adjust the permission settings of channels and system. (C) Click the Update button to apply the setting.

(5) Add a user (Figure 5-7)

Each user must be inherited at least from one Group (or more than one Group). All of

the inherited permissions are granted (union operation) and cannot be removed. A

user is not only granted with inherited permissions but can also be granted with

non-inherited permissions. Non-inherited permissions can be granted or removed to

any users. The inherited permissions do not affect the non-inherited permission unless

the user is operating actions which involved non-inherited permissions.

A. Enter the Basic Information of User (in the Base Data tab) (Figure 5-7, )

(A) User Name：The name of account. Alpha letters, numbers, special symbols

(1～50 characters) are accepted.

(B) Password：The password of account, 1～50 characters are accepted. (C) E-Mail：The e-mail address of the user. (D) Phone number / Mobile Phone Number：Only numbers (0～30 characters) are

accepted.

Figure 5-7

(E) Once you complete the above items, please select at least one Authority

Group in the Authority data tab, and then click the Add button to create a

new account. (Figure 5-8, )

(F) You can select an account which is listed in the table Authority Information

(Figure 5-8, ) and then modify settings for updating.

(G) You can also select an account which is listed in the Authority Information

table and click the button Delete to delete it.

Figure 5-8

B. Set Information of Permissions

(A) Select inherited permissions of Authority Group

Check one or more (at least one) Authority Group from the Authority Group.

(Figure 5-9, ).

(B) Grant additional non-inherited permissions

Check the non-inherited permissions from the Channel Authorization (Figure

5-9, ) and Authorization. (Figure 5-9, ).

Figure 5-9

If you want to add a new account by copying permissions and other settings

from an exist account, you may select the account which you want to duplicate

and modify the user name and finally click the button Copy to complete the

account-duplicating.

(D) Delete accounts

Select the user which you want to delete and click the button Delete, and then

click the button Yes in the confirmation dialog box (Figure 5-10) to confirm the

deleting.

Figure 5-10

(E) Update accounts

Select a user which is to be updated, modify the information and click the

button Update to apply the change.

5.4 Hardware Monitoring

The SmartVIEW system provides monitoring of the CPU temperatures and fan status.

Instructions：

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click the tree view item, System / H/W Monitor (Figure 5-11), to adjust the

following configurations：

(1) Max CPU Temperature：The high-temperature warning for CPU. The default value is 80.

(Figure 5-11, )

(2) Temperature Unit：Celsius (

C) or Fahrenheit (oF). (Figure 5-11, )

(3) Fan Speed：If this item is checked, the system will automatically get real-time speed of

the fan; (Figure 5-11, )

(4) System Fan Monitor：If this item is checked, the SmartVIEW system will alert users while

any speed of fan is less than the setting value. (Figure 5-11, )

Figure 5-11

5.5 IP Camera Management

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click the tree view item, IP Camera (Figure 5-12), to adjust the following

configurations：

(1) Manually add an IP camera (Figure 5-12)：

Vendor / Model：Specify a proper vendor and model.

Channel / Camera ID：The SmartVIEW system will automatically assign these two

items.

IP Address：The IP address for the connected IP camera.

Camera Name：A name or description for the IP camera.

Account / Password：The account and password for the IP camera.

After complete the above items ( to ), users are able to get the profile of the

specific camera by click the button Get IP Camera Profile .

Record Stream / Preview Stream：Select proper properties for the record stream

and preview stream. The values of properties would be just noticed as “Stream 1” /

“Stream 2” unless users click the Get IP Camera Profile.

Specify a proper storage for the IP camera.

Finally, click the Add IP Cameras to apply the above settings.

Figure 5-12

(2) Automatically Find IP Cameras：

A. Click on the Find IP Cameras (Figure 5-12, ) button, a wizard named Add Camera

will be started. The wizard is able to help users to easily discover cameras which

are connected to the network. To start the discovery, just click the 00000icon

(Figure 5-13, ). After few seconds, any available camera will be listed in the

table. By checking the corresponding check-box, users can not only add them to be

a managed IP camera but also specify the default setting of Recording (Figure

5-14).

B. In each step of this wizard, users are able to click the icon to switch next page,

click the icon to back to the previous page, click the icon to cancel and

close the wizard, or click the icon to finish the wizard and apply changes.

Figure 5-13

Figure 5-14

C. In the next step ○

of the wizard (Figure 5-15), users are able to setup the default

options of cameras. All these settings will also be modified later.

 Recording/Preview stream：Choose a stream for previewing or recording from

available streams of a channel.

 Motion Detection：To enable full-area motion detection or no motion detection.  Audio Recording：To enable audio recording or not.  Recording Mode：Choose to enable full-time recording or event recording

(with motion detection, DI events etc.).

Figure 5-15

 Storage: Choose a specific storage media for recording. (This column would not

be displayed on the first time running of Installation Wizard.)

Figure 5-16

D. In the next page ○

of the wizard (Figure 5-16), all cameras to be added which

user checked in the page ○1 and their option settings would be listed in the table

for confirming. Users are able to modify those settings or finish the procedure.

E. Users are able to click the (Figure 5-17) icon which in the Live View page to

open this Discovery Wizard.

Figure 5-17

(3) Modify the IP Camera settings：

A. Connection (Figure 5-18).

(A) Click at the main page, choose a channel and choose on the Connection

Setting button a dialog box Camera Connection Setting will be pop-up (Figure

5-19). Users can modify the IP Address, HTTP Port, Account, and Password,

and finally click the OK button to complete the modification.

Figure 5-18

Figure 5-19

(B) Click on the Camera Setting button, the Web user interface of the camera will

be opened (Figure 5-20), after editing, click Save and close the internet

browser.

Figure 5-20

the deleting (Figure 5-21). Check for the deletion-related items and click Yes to

delete the selected camera according to user’s requirement.

Figure 5-21

B. General (Figure 5-22)

Figure 5-22

Camera Enable：When checked, the channel will be activated.

Camera Name：A name or description for the camera.

Font Display Size, Font Display Color：The font size and font color settings for

the OSD on the real-time video.

Record Stream：To specify a proper stream for recording

Preview Stream：To specify a proper stream for previewing.

Video Record Enable：Enable or not to record the video.

Audio Record Enable：Enable or not to record the audio.

Record when event occurred only：If this item is checked, the recording won’t

be started unless any event occurred.

PTZ Enable：Enable or not the controlling of PTZ for a speed dome camera or a

c amera with a PT Head.

Pre-record time / Post Record time：It defines the length of time for event

recording. The system default value is 3 seconds for pre-recording and 10

seconds for post recording. This function usually works with the motion

detection or other events related to cameras. Once any event occurred, 3

seconds of video will be recorded before the occurring time of event (can be

set between 0～10 seconds), and 10 seconds of video will be recorded after

the occurring time(can be set between 0 and 3600 seconds), in this example,

the entire length of recording is totally 13 seconds.

Record Schedule：Users can specify the recording schedule by weekdays or

dates (Figure 5-23), the default value is always record, select Schedule mode

first, you may use mouse to hold the edge of time bar (Blue for normal

record, Yellow for event record) to change the time become shorter or

longer (Figure 5-24), and then click OK button to save the new schedule.

Figure 5-23

Figure 5-24

C. Motion：(Figure 5-25).

Motion Enable：To check it to enable the motion detection function.

Local (Software) or IP camera’s Motion Detection：You may select the motion

detection event source from Camera or SmartVIEW to operate that.

Event Interval Time：If several events occurred within Event Interval Time, all

of the events will be treated as a single event. This default value is 10 seconds

and can be set between 0 ～ 3600 seconds.

Sensitive：This setting defines the sensitivity of the motion detection. This

default value is 80 and the value can be set between 1～100. The higher value

means the higher sensitivity.

Add Action Zone：Click this button to create a zone for motion detection.

Select Whole Zone：Click this button to set the whole area on the video

become detection zone.

Delete Action Zone：Click this button to specify a zone which is disabled for

motion detection.

Delete All Zone：Click this button to disable all motion detection zones in the

picture.

Motion detection schedule：To set when to enable/disable the motion

detection according to weekday/hours or calendar date. (Refer to Figure 5-26)

Notice：One channel can only have one detection zone; therefore no matter

how many zones are drawn in a channel, they will all be regarded as one

irregular-shaped zone.

Figure 5-25

Figure 5-26

5.6 Group Settings

User can create, update, duplicate, and delete channel groups in this section. Instructions：

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Choose Group in the function tree (Figure 5-27) to adjust the following

configurations：

(1) Add a group

Group Name：

Input a name for the Camera Group.

Select Camera：

Users can select several cameras join the group by simply dragging a camera

which is listed in the Camera list and dropping it in the Select Camera list. Repeat

this drag-and-drop process until you have selected all cameras you want to be in

this group, and finally click the Add button to complete the operation.

Figure 5-27

(2) Duplicate Groups

Select the group (which is listed in the Group list) you want to duplicate and click on

the Copy button to create a new group, and then you can assign a new name for the

new group.

(3) To delete the group

Select the group (which is listed in the Group list) you want to delete and finally click

on the Delete button to delete it.

(4) Update Group

Select the group (which is listed in the Group list) you want to update, modify the

contents, and then click the Update button to update the group information.

5.7 Sequence Settings

To provides the “Recursive Playing” function across camera groups. The “Sequence” can be

created, updated, duplicated, and deleted by users.

Instructions：

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click the tree view item, Sequence (Figure 5-28), to adjust the following

configurations：

(1) Create Sequences

A. Sequence Name：A name or a description of this Sequence mode. B. Interval Time：This time is defined the time how long to wait to switch to the next

Group (Camera Group) to display.

C. Schedule Setup：Click the Schedule Setup button, users can assign different

Sequences by a weekly or daily schedule (Figure 5-29). Therefore, desired

sequence mode will be automatically started and stopped in the period defined by

the user.

D. Enter Sequence Name and Interval Time for the new Sequence and drag Groups

from the right list and drop them into the left list, and finally click the Add button

to complete the creation of Sequence.

Figure 5-28

Figure 5-29

(2) Duplicate Sequences

Select the Sequence (which is listed in the Sequence list) you want to duplicate and

click on the Copy button to create a new Sequence.

(3) Delete Sequences

Select the Sequence (which is listed in the Sequence list) you want to delete and click

on the Delete button, a confirm dialog box Sequence Setting will be pop-up (Figure

5-30), click Yes to complete the deletion or click No to cancel this deletion.

Figure 5-30

(4) Update Sequences

Select the Sequences (listed in the Sequences list) you want to update, modify the

contents, and finally click the "Update" button to update the Sequences information.

(5) Start Sequencing

In the Live View page, click the icon (Figure 5-31, ), and then the list of available

sequence modes will show up, just select one to start the sequence. Click on the mode

again to stop it. (Figure 5-31)

Figure 5-31

5.8 SMS / Email Settings / FTP Settings

Set configurations for SMS, E-Mail, and FTP. If any Action Definitions involved SMS, SMTP, or

FTP, these configurations must be set correctly. Instructions：

C lick the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click the tree view item, SMS\SMTP\FTP (Figure 5-32), to adjust the following

configurations：

Figure 5-32

(1) SMS settings

A. SMS：SMS function is enabled when checked, B. Serial Port Number：Select a port can be used to send SMS. C. Baud Rate：The system defaults to 115200, system provides 2400 / 4800 / 9600 /

19200 / 38400 / 57600 / 115200 / 230400 a total of eight kinds of users based on

the need for choice.

(2) SMTP (E-Mail) settings

A. Host Name：Enter the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the host. B. Port：Enter the port number of the host. C. Authentication Mode：“True” (YES) or “FALSE” (NO) to authenticate the account

while sending.

D. Account / Password：Username / Password.

E. Language Code：The encoding code. The system default is Unicode (UTF-8) and the

following are available：

Figure 5-33

F. Sender E-Mail：Users can assign an e-mail address of the sender here. G. Sender name：Users can assign a name of the sender here.

(3) FTP settings

A. Host Name：Enter the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the host. B. Port：Enter the port number of the host. C. Account / Password：Username / Password. D. Remote Directory：The name of a directory which is the destination directory for

uploading. This directory will be automatically created in the home directory.

E. Passive：Check this check box if the FTP site is in Passive Mode.

5.9 DO (Digital Output) Settings

Configure digital output devices that are connected to IP Cameras. For example, speakers,

alarms, etc. Instructions：

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click the tree view item, DO (Figure 5-34), to adjust the following configurations：

(1) Add a device

Device Name：Select a name of the master device which DO device connected to

IP camera.

Device Port：The port number of the master device.

Device Description：Descriptions of the DO device.

Click the Add button to add a new device.

Figure 5-34

(2) Delete the device

Select a DO Device which is to be deleted from the DO Device list, click the Delete

button, a confirmation dialog box (Figure 5-35) will be pop-up, just click the Yes button

or complete the deleting.

Figure 5-35

(3) Update the device

Select a desired DO Device which user need to updated from the DO Device list, modify

the contents, and then click on the Update button to complete the updating.

5.10 Sensor Settings

This instruction describes how to create, delete, or update the configurations about sensors

(ex., Door Sensor, Smoke Detector, etc.)：

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click Sensor on the tree view items (Figure 5-36) to adjust the following

configurations：

(1) Add a sensor device

Enable：If this box is un-checked, SmartVIEW will not process the notification

from this sensor.

Device Name：Select a name of the master device which DI device physically

connected to like IP camera.

Device Port：The port number of the master device.

Device Description：A description for the sensor device.

Add：After finishing of the above settings, users can click the Add button to add a

new sensor device.

Mode：Users are able to select one mode to define a time segment (weekly or

specific days), a description, an interval, and a delay time for the sensor.

Figure 5-36

(2) Remove the sensor device

Select a sensor device which is to be deleted from the Sensor Device list first, and then

click the Delete button, a confirmation dialog box will be pop-up (Figure 5-37). Just

click the Yes button to complete the deleting or click the No button to cancel.

Figure 5-37

(3) Update a sensor device

Select a sensor device which is to be updated first, modify the settings, and finally click

the Update button to complete the updating.

5.11 Event Action Settings

Define a variety of response actions for every types of event. For example, to turn on a siren

linked on an IP camera for 10 seconds while any motion detection occurred, or to send an

e-mail to the administrator to alert him that a hard drive disk is going to be broken, etc…

And one event can be set to trigger multiple actions!

Instructions：

Click the Setup icon ( ) and a dialog window which is titled Configurations will be

pop-up. Click Action (Figure 5-38) to adjust the following configurations：

Figure 5-38

(1) Description： A name or a description of the Action. (2) Event Type： The type of the trigged event (Table 5-1). For Motion Detection, Sensor,

and Camera Signal, the items Device Name and Device Description are required.

Event Type

Status

Record

Recording space full

Recording storage regain space

Motion

Sensor

Video Signal

Video loss

Video Detected

Table 5-1

(3) Device Name：A name of the device that the event belongs to. (4) Device Description：A name of the device that the event belongs to.

Notice： Please refer to Section 5.100 Sensor Settings.

(5) Action Interval：If the same event occurred within a period of event interval more than

one time, all of the events will be treated as a single event. This default value is 10

seconds and the value can be set between 0 ～ 3600 seconds.

(6) Action Setup：Click on the Action Setup button to open a dialog box titled Action Item

Setting (Figure 5-39 ). Users can set an action definition by selecting actions.

A. DO：Digital Output, to trigger external digital devices attached on IP camera. For

example, siren and alarm light, speaker, etc.

Notice： Refer to Section 0 DO (Digital Output) Settings.

B. PTZ：To drive the specific speed dome camera to aim a specific position for a

specific time.

Notice： Refer to Sections 4.7 Speed Dome Camera Control and Section 5.11 Event

Action Settings (PTZ related information)

C. E-Mail：To send an email to relevant person. D. SMS：To send a SMS text message to relevant person.

Notice： Refer to Section 0 SMS / Email / FTP Settings.

E. HTTP Call：To perform a CGI calling to a specific HTTP web site. F. Video Clip：To start saving a video clip of a specific camera. G. Snap Shot：To snapshot a picture and save it to a specific folder.

H. Play Sound：To play a user-defined sound. I. Display：To pop-up a window with user-defined live video of a channel with

optional auto-countdown to close window; or to display the real-time videos of a

specific camera or a camera group for a user-defined time replacing the original

previewing video channel temporarily.

J. Execute App：To execute a specific application on this local server.

Figure 5-39

(7) After setting, finally click the Add button to complete the creation. (8) If user wants to add another action for this event, click the empty row on action list

(Figure 5-39 ) and then repeat the process of adding a new action.

(9) Duplicate Action：

Select the Action which you want to duplicate, modify the Action Settings, click the

button Copy, you can create another new Action.

(10) Delete Action：

Select the Action which you want to delete, click the button Delete, and then click the

Yes button in the confirmation dialog box to confirm the deleting.

(11) Update Action：

Select the Action which you want to update, then modify the Action Settings and click

the button Update to apply the change.

6 Playback & Log search

6.1 Playback

Users can playback and query out desired time spot by date/ time, events, snapshots, and

bookmarks, or process an “Smart Search” by motion detection analysis toward recording

file.

Instructions：

In the Live View page of the SmartVIEW system, click the Playback icon ( )

and the page will be switched for the Playback View page (Figure 6-1, ).

Figure 6-1

Figure 6-2

Notice： An authorized permission is required to do the following about playback operation.

(1) Date / Time Search

A. Click on the Search By Time icon ( ) (Figure 6-2, ), pop-up the Search By

Time dialog box (Figure 6-3)

Figure 6-3

B. In the calendar box (upper part of the Search by Time), the date which is marked

with green background indicates there are some recordings have been saved.

C. In the camera-time-schedule list (lower part of the Search by Time), the time

segment which is marked with blue background indicates the corresponding

camera has recording files at the time segment. There is a vertical blue line which

indicates the base time of the playback.

D. Users are able to move the blue base time line to any time, and then click the

Search button, the Search by Time dialog box will be closed and the base time of

the playback is changed correspondingly.

E. Press the icon (Figure 6-2, ) will start playback of the video.

(2) Event Search

A. Firstly, select a camera which is to be searched on the main console of playback. B. Click on the Event Search button, Search by Event dialog box will be pop-up

(Figure 6-4).

C. After specifying the condition (date, time, event type, etc.), click the Search button,

it will list the event log about the camera.

D. For the event log, there are four types：

 Motion：Be trigged by motions detected.  Sensor：Be trigged by sensors active.  Video Signal：Be trigged by videos missed or recovered.  Manual Record：Be trigged by users’ Manual Recording.

Figure 6-4

E. Select an event log and click the Select button, the Search by Event will be closed

and the playback time will be jumped to the time of the event, and automatically

start to play.

F. If save video clip for this channel was set when setting event action, user will be

able to see a “ ” mark next to the event log in the Search by Event dialog box.

Then user can directly select on the log with video clip and click the Play button, a

video window will pop out and the event video clip will aquatically start to play.

(3) Smart Search

It can help users to analysis and check a specific area in the recording files with a

specific time segment.

To start an Smart Search process, users should select a camera which is to be analyzed

first, and then click the Search By Smart in the Playback View page (Figure 6-5, ),

and assign the conditions (date, time, sensitivity, and interval) in the Search By Smart

{name of camera} dialog box.

Figure 6-5

Figure 6-6

A. Select Motion Area：Click this button to define the areas for motion detection

(Figure 6-7).

 To add a new detecting area, check the Add Motion Zone check-box first, and

then start to assign which part to be added.

 To delete a detecting area, check the Delete Motion Zone check-box first, and

then start to assign which part to be deleted.

 To add all the detection area, click on the Select Whole Motion Zone button.  To delete all the detection area, click on Delete All Motion Zone button.

Figure 6-7

B. After assigning the detecting zones, click on Search button (Figure 6-8, ), you

can analyze the selected zone on the recording video and search results will be

displayed on the dialog. Click on one of these results, and click on select button

(Figure 6-8, ) to return to main console of playback and automatically start to

play from the event time spot.

C. If you want to stop the event searching process, click Stop (Figure 6-8, ) button.

Figure 6-8

Figure 6-9

(4) Thumbnail search

A. In the playback view page, select a channel you want to execute thumbnail

search. And then click the Thumbnail Search icon ( ) (Figure 6-9, ). A

“Thumbnail search {Camera name}” dialog box will be pop-up. (Figure 6-10)

B. Select the date and start time for this search, and enter a valid interval (the time

interval between each thumbnail) and click on Search button.

C. Thumbnails will be displayed on the left upper side of the dialog with their time

under the image. If thumbnail can’t be retrieved, the icon ( ) will be shown.

D. Video preview： Click on any thumbnail and click

for video previewing from the time spot of that thumbnail with

forward/backward playing, pause, and go to next or previous time spot.

E. Click Select and you will go back to the Playback View page, the time bar will be

jumpped to the time of the selected thumbnail and automatically start to play.

Figure 6-10

(5) Print

In the Playback View page, select a camera from one of playing channels, and then click

on the Print icon ( )(Figure 6-9, ), it will bring on an Image Edit {camera name}

dialog box (Figure 6-11), modify the following information, then click the "Print" button,

and select Print image size, you can have the picture print out.

 Rotation：180 degree rotating for this photograph.  Crop：Select a region on the photo by dragging & dropping, then click on this button,

this area can be enlarged and rest of the area will be deducted.

 Revert：Restore for the previous change.  Show Date / Name：Put Camera Name and Date / time on the picture.  Save with watermark：User can choose to overlay a watermark on the image. Click

on Watermark and a dialog (Figure 6-12) will be pop-up with all related

configuration. Afterward, click “ok” to save all configurations and close the dialog.

Then if user check on “Show Watermark” check box, the image will be save with

watermark successfully.

 HSL effects：To adjust the picture’s Brightness and Saturation instantly. Click "Reset"

button to restore to default.

 RGB effects：To adjust the picture's color scheme with the level of red, green and

blue. Click "Reset" button to restore to default.

 Print：After all above settings are done, press “Print”, select the size of the actual

printing, and click “ok” to activate the printing.

Figure 6-11

Figure 6-12

Notice： To use the Photo Print functions, the privilege of local data export is required.

(6) Save Video (as AVI)

In the Playback View page, select a camera from one of playing channels, and then click

the Save Video icon ( ) (Figure 6-9, ), pop-up Save Video {camera name}

dialog box (Figure 6-13). After finishing the following settings, press Save and set the

storage path, the AVI file will be saved successfully.

 To set the start/end date/time of the video saving period, user can input the

date/time manually, or select from event’s time, from manual snapshot search’s

time, or from a bookmark.

 Displays watermark： Save AVI movies with watermark overlay. Check the Show

Watermark check box, and click Watermark for detail settings.

 Display Name / Date： Check for displaying the camera’s Name and Date/time on

the image.

Notice： To enable the function of Save Video, the right of “local data export” must be

granted first. The progress of saving and the date/time of on-going data will be

displayed in the “Progress” column.

Figure 6-13

(7) Save image

In the playback page, select a camera from one of playing channels, and then click on

the Save Image icon ( )(Figure 6-9, ), it will bring on an Image Edit {camera

name} dialog box (Figure 6-14), modify the following information, then click the Save

button on upper side of this dialog, you can have the picture saved and the dialog will

be closed.

 Rotation：180 degree rotating for this photograph.

 Crop：Select a region on the photo by dragging & dropping, then click on this button,

this area can be enlarged and rest of the area will be deducted.

on Watermark and a dialog (Figure 6-12) will be pop-up with all related

configuration. Afterward, click OK to save all configurations and close the dialog.

Then if user check on Show Watermark check box, the image will be save with

watermark successfully. (Figure 6-12)

 HSL effects：To adjust the picture’s Brightness and Saturation instantly. Click Reset

button to restore to default.

 RGB effects：To adjust the picture's color scheme with the level of red, green and

blue. Click Reset button to restore to default.

Notice： To enable the function of Save Image, the right of “local data export” must be

granted first.

Figure 6-14

(8) Backup

A. In the Playback View page (or Live View page), click the Save Backup icon

( )(Figure 6-9, ), a Backup dialog box will be pop-up (Figure 6-15) with two

options – Back up to the Hard Disk or Burn to CD ：

Figure 6-15

B. Click on the Back up to the Hard Disk button will be pop-up Backup to Hard Disk

dialog (Figure 6-16). To set the start/end date/time of the backing up, user can

input the date/time manually, or select from event’s time, from manual snapshot

search’s time, or from a bookmark. If user chooses Burn to CD , the same dialog

will also pop out with only some slight difference (Figure 6-17).

C. Click on Detect Burn Volume, estimated data size according to user’s configuration

will be brought out.

D. Click Burn or Start to backup, the backup will be started and users can check the

backup progress on the progress bar on the lowest side of this dialog.

Figure 6-16

Figure 6-17

Figure 6-18

(9) Bookmark

Users are able to make bookmarks during video playback when finding any important

moment in the record. Users are also able to jump the playback to a specific moment

which has marked as a bookmark.

A. Add a bookmark (Figure 6-19)

Click on the icon ( ) (Figure 6-18, ), a dialog Add Bookmark will be pop-up.

Enter the name of the bookmark and click Save to save this bookmark.

B. Playback by Bookmark (Figure 6-20)

(A) Click the icon ( ) (Figure 6-18, ). The menu of Bookmark will be

pop-up.

(B) Choose one and press Select, the time axis of playback will be jumped to the

time of the bookmark you selected. Then click the on the Playback View

page, the video will start to playback from the time user selected.

Delete.

Figure 6-19

Figure 6-20

6.2 Event Log Query

In the Live View page of the SmartVIEW, click on the View Log icon ( ) (Figure 6-21, )

to bring up the View Log dialog box (Figure 6-22). Users are able to query the log with one

or some filters (ex. Date, Start / End time, Event type / status, etc.), and then click Search,

the logs will be brought out immediately. Afterward, users are able to save as CSV format or

print it out.

Figure 6-21

Figure 6-22

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