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Cam Viewer 3 Pro
User Manual
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Table of Contents
1. System Requirement........................................................................................4
2. Software Installation.........................................................................................5
3. Configuration Wizard .......................................................................................9
3.1 System ...................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2 Channel..................................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.1 Adding Cameras ............................................................................................................. 12
3.2.2 Remove Cameras ........................................................................................................... 17
3.2.3 PTZ setting - Preset Point ............................................................................................ 18
3.3 Intelligent.................................................................................................................................. 21
3.3.1 Intelligent - Motion ......................................................................................................... 22
3.4 Event Handling........................................................................................................................ 25
3.4.1 Event Handling - Mail server ....................................................................................... 27
3.4.2 Event Handling - FTP server........................................................................................ 28
3.4.3 Event Handling - HTTP server..................................................................................... 29
3.4.4 Event Handling - TCP server ....................................................................................... 30
3.4.5 Event Handling - Warning Sound............................................................................... 31
3.4.6 Event Handling - Emergency....................................................................................... 33
3.4.7 Event Handling - Event Trigger schedule ................................................................ 35
3.5 E-map ........................................................................................................................................ 37
3.5.1 E-map - Location setting .............................................................................................. 38
3.5.2 E-map - Detail setting ....................................................................................................40
3.5.3 E-map - Detail setting - camera group ...................................................................... 41
3.5.4 E-map - Configure E-Map for a camera .................................................................... 43
3.6 User account ........................................................................................................................... 45
3.6.1 User account - User Group..........................................................................................46
3.7 Recording................................................................................................................................. 47
3.7.1 Recording - Setting........................................................................................................49
3.7.2 Recording - Schedule.................................................................................................... 50
3.8 Backup ...................................................................................................................................... 52
3.8.1 Backup - Backup media Database ............................................................................. 53
3.8.2 Backup - AVI Export.......................................................................................................54
3.8.3 Backup - Configuration Backup .................................................................................55
3.9 Backup - Log View ................................................................................................................. 57
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4.0 Client Viewer - Log In ............................................................................................................ 58
4.1 Client Viewer - Add Servers................................................................................................. 59
4.2 Client Viewer – Live View ..................................................................................................... 61
4.2.1 Client Viewer - Overview .............................................................................................. 63
4.2.2 Client Viewer - Adjust Viewing Layout ..................................................................... 65
4.2.3 Client Viewer - SEQ Monitor........................................................................................68
4.2.4 Client Viewer - Full Screen........................................................................................... 70
4.2.5 Client Viewer - Screen Assign .................................................................................... 73
4.2.6 Client Viewer - PTZ & Preset Control ........................................................................ 74
4.2.7 Client Viewer - Video Window Control Bar.............................................................. 75
4.2.8 Client Viewer - Video Window Control Bar.............................................................. 76
4.2.9 Client Viewer - Server and Channel Status ............................................................. 81
4.3 Client Viewer - E-Map Monitor ............................................................................................ 82
4.4 Client Viewer – Playback ...................................................................................................... 92
4.5 Media Player ............................................................................................................................ 96
4.6 Remote Monitor – Web Browser ...................................................................................... 105
Appendix A Specifications............................................................................................................ 118
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click on desktop, choose “Settings” tab
1. System Requirement
The Minimum system requirement
Hardware requirement:
CPU
RAM
HDD SATA 200GB or above is recommended
Display card
Ethernet interface 10/100Mb Ethernet card or above
Make sure your display DPI setting is set to default at 96DPI To set DPI value, right-click on desktop,
choose “settings” tab >> “advanced”
Intel Core 2 Duo or above
Minimum 1 GB, 2GB or above is recommended
Independent display card suggested
Make sure your display DPI setting is set to default at 96DPI
To set DPI value, right-
>> “Advanced” >> “general”
Software requirement:
OS
Windows 2000(SP4), Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows
Vista(32-bit) and Windows 7(32-bit)
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2. Software Installation
1. Double-click on the setup executable file to initiate the installation:
2. The setup wizard will be initialized and preparing to install:
3. Once it finishes initializing, click “Next” to Begin
:
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4. Click “Next” to continue, or click “Change” if you wish change the installation directory:
5. Enter a new valid path in the “Folder name” field for new installation directory, or click the
icons highlighted below to switch to a desired directory and create a new folder if desire.
Afterwards, click “OK” to continue:
Up one level
Create new folder
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6. Click “Install” to start the installation, or click “Back” to go back and make further changes:
7. The installation process should be displayed:
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8. Simply click “Finish” to exit the setup wizard when installation finishes:
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3. Configuration Wizard
To configure detail settings to the software, open up the config wizard program to do so. There
are two ways of accessing the config wizard:
Accessing the config wizard from the main program:
Open up the main program from the desktop shortcut or under the “Start” menu
Go to “Start” >> “All Programs” >> “PLANET” >> “Cam Viewer 3 Pro” >> “CV3 Pro Config”
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3.1 System
Upon the start of the CV3 Pro Config, the “System” page should be displayed:
Drop-down menu for
multi-language Time zone
setting of the PC Software
IP address of the PC
Connection port for video
streaming Port number used
by the software’s web server
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3.2 Channel
The “Channel List” page should be display which is an overview page that displays a list of
cameras currently added to the software.
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3.2.1 Adding Cameras
To add cameras using the configuration wizard, go to “Channel” from the menu on the left.
To add a new camera, click on the “Channel Setting” tab and select an available channel from
the “Channel” drop-down menu, and then click on “Search” to begin:
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2
3
* The “Search” function only works when the cameras are installed in the same subnet as the
PC the CV3 Pro software is installed
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You can also click on any of the empty slot in the Camera List to start searching cameras on
the network:
The CV3 Pro software will perform a search and locate the cameras available within the same
subnet:
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A new dialog should be prompted and displays a list of available cameras:
* For cameras located in different subnet (but within the same local network), enter its private
IP, HTTP port, user- name and password manually and click “Detect”.
Fill in the camera’s username and password (must be the root privilege account) in the
corresponding fields shown below and click “Detect”:
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2
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Upon a successful detection, the camera’s information and its current settings should be
detected: (as shown below)
The settings shown in the “Other Setting” section can be changed by using either the available
drop-down menu or by clicking the corresponding cell box:
Use the drop-down to make changes
Clear settings and exit this page
Click to confirm adding the camera
Removing an existing camera
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Click the “Add Camera” button to confirm the settings and you should be directed back to the
“Channel List” page:
You can click the “Cancel” button to cancel the configuration and you should be directed back
to the “Channel List” page:
You should now see a list of cameras you’ve been added to the software from the “Channel
List” page:
Confirm adding camera
Cancel adding camera
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3.2.2 Remove Cameras
To remove a camera, simply click on a camera from the list under the “Channel List” page; it
should direct you to the “Channel Setting” page:
Click
And all settings of the camera you just clicked on will be displayed. Click on the “Remove
camera” button to remove the camera:
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3.2.3 PTZ setting - Preset Point
After adding cameras to the software, all the PTZ cameras will be available in the “PTZ
Setting” page (Channel >> PTZ Setting)
Only PTZ cameras will be listed in the “Channel” drop-down menu: (as shown below)
Its live video should then be displayed in the lower-right hand corner:
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Use the on-screen PTZ panel to move the view point and select PTZ movement speed from
the “Speed” drop-down to determine the distance of each movement:
Next, type in a name in the “Preset Point Name” field to name the preset point and click “Add”
to finish:
The preset point will then be added and will be available in the “Preset Points List” (as shown
below)
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Click to highlight the preset point will give you the options to “Confirm”, or “Remove” the preset
point:
* To confirm an existing preset point, click to highlight the preset point from the list, and then
move to a new view point with the PTZ panel. Finally, click “Modify” to confirm and save the
new point
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3.3 Intelligent
The software has built-in motion detection function which needs to be configured and enabled
in the configuration wizard. The configuration page can be accessed in the configuration
wizard under “Intelligent” from the menu on the left. You should be greeted with an overview
list when first access this page.
The overview provides the overall configuration status of the motion detection function on the
available channels.
Channels Status of the intelligent functions
Status of the intelligent functions
Only the channels that have been configured with cameras (regardless if they are online or not)
would have the “X” or O” mark.
X: Disabled
O: Enabled
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3.3.1 Intelligent - Motion
To configure the detail settings of each intelligent function, click on the “Intelligent Setting” tab
to access the detail configurations:
* ROI: Region of Interest
To start configuring the detail settings, select a channel by clicking on the radio button first, and
its video should be displayed in the lower-right hand corner:
Detail setting of a particular intelligent function
Clear defined area Channel selection
Apply setting Cancel setting
Defined detection area
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Check the “Start” checkbox to enable motion detection for the selected channel:
Adjust the detection sensitivity by altering the “Sensitivity” value (smaller number means less
sensitive)
Select the motion detection trigger source:
Server --> Use software’s built-in motion detection function
Camera --> Receive motion detection trigger from the camera
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Finally click and hold the mouse left button to draw multiple squares on the video to define
motion detection region:
You can click the “Clear” button to remove the defined regions and re-define new motion
detection regions:
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3.4 Event Handling
The software can receive different types of events and respond to certain actions such as
performing recording, send warnings to various event servers or FTP an event image...etc.
Users can also create an “action group” and apply it to a certain type of event on a particular
channel.
To create an event action group, go to the “Action Group” tab and click the “+” button to begin:
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Noticing a new event action group has been added but the “Detail Setting” section is not
available for configuration yet:
By default, all the event servers are grayed out as none has been added to the soft- ware yet.
Settings of these event servers will be described in the next page.
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3.4.1 Event Handling - Mail server
Mail servers are used to send warning emails with pre-defined text content to designated
recipients when events are triggered.
To add a new mail server, click on the “Add” button at the bottom:
Next, fill in the empty fields like shown below:
* Enter a valid public IP address or FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the “Mail Server”
field
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3.4.2 Event Handling - FTP server
FTP servers are used to send warning with pre-defined text content or camera snapshot to
designated FTP servers when events are triggered.
Click “Add” button at the bottom to add a new FTP server:
Fill in the empty fields as illustrated below:
Clear settings
* Enter a valid public IP address or FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the “FTP Server”
field
* By default, the software uploads files to the top-level directory of the FTP server. Enter the
folder name after the “\” in the “Upload Path” field if you would like to soft- ware to upload to a
specific folder.
Apply setting for the current page
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3.4.3 Event Handling - HTTP server
HTTP servers are used to send warning with pre-defined text content or camera snapshot to
designated HTTP servers when events are triggered.
Click “Add” button at the bottom to add a new HTTP server:
Fill in the empty fields as illustrated below:
* Enter a valid public IP address or FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the “Host
Address” field.
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3.4.4 Event Handling - TCP server
TCP servers are used to send warning with pre-defined text content to designated TCP
servers when events are triggered.
Click “Add” button at the bottom to add a new TCP server:
Fill in the empty fields as illustrated below:
* Enter a valid public IP address or FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the “Host
Address” field.
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3.4.5 Event Handling - Warning Sound
Users can set up sound files in the software and have the software play them when events are
triggered. Different warning sounds can be used for different types of triggered events.
Only .Wav file is supported
To Configure, click the “Add” button:
Put in a description for the warning sound in the “Description” field (as shown below):
*
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Click on the “folder” icon to locate the sound file:
You can preview the sound before applying the new configuration by clicking on the “Speaker”
button:
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3.4.6 Event Handling - Emergency
This allows users to create emergency contact information and it can be assigned to a
particular channel. This information will be shown in the remote client viewer program under
the “E-Map Monitor” when a particular channel is selected:
* Refer to page 82 for instructions on how to use E-Map Monitor.
To add information, click “Add” button:
Fill in the empty field with desired information:
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Finishing Configuring Action Group
Once you have all the event servers configured, you can go back to the “Action Group” tab and
finish the “Detail Setting” section by selecting the desired event servers for a particular event
action group:
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3
1
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3.4.7 Event Handling - Event Trigger schedule
The software provides users the ability to set one schedule per channel and only events
triggered during the defined schedule will be treated as events and the con- figured event
actions will be triggered.
Channel selection
Time that has
been selected
To configure an event schedule for a particular channel, select one from the top (only the ones
available will a checkbox next to the channel number):
By default, the schedule is set in full:
Clear schedule selection
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To quickly clear the default setting, click on the “Clear” button as shown below:
Click and hold the mouse then move the house cursor from left to right (horizontally or
diagonally) to define (add) new hours or days for event trigger:
* Click and hold the mouse then move it from right to left (horizontally or diagonally) will erase
the previously added hours/days
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3.5 E-map
The software provides E-Map function in a multiple layered structure. Users can place
cameras on one map and create a “group” that contains those cameras, and then place the
camera “group” on a different map. Users can also create an additional group that contains
multiple camera groups and place the new group onto a different map.
When accessing the “E-Map” configuration page in the wizard, you should be prompted with
the “Overview” page first:
E-Map Types Camera or Camera
group’s position based
on coordinates
Display all E-Maps
Display E-Maps only contains camera groups
Display E-Maps only contains cameras
*Cameras and camera groups can exist on the same layer of E-Map
* CV3 Pro supports unlimited layers of e-map.
* CV3 Lite supports only 2 layers of e-map.
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3.5.1 E-map - Location setting
This page is an overview page based on the final E-Map settings. It displays all E-Maps and
the positions of each camera (or camera group).
E-Map Name
Camera Group
Camera
Double-click on a “camera group” (ex. Group 1) icon will direct you to the E-Map that
represents camera group 1 and displays the positions of each camera (or cam- era group) in
camera group 1.
To go back to the previous layer, simply double-click anywhere on the map in the current layer:
Double-click
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* The position of each camera (or camera group) can not be re-arranged in this page. This can
only be done in the “Detail Setting” page.
A camera can be quickly placed to a new camera group (a group that’s on the same layer) on
the fly in this page. To do so, simply click and drag a camera icon then drop it onto a camera
group icon:
Drag and drop to place the camera
to a different camera group
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3.5.2 E-map - Detail setting
This page allows users to define new camera groups, E-Map image, and the positions of each
camera (or camera group).
By default, all the cameras should be listed in the tree-view list on the left (as shown below). All
cameras should be listed under the “Home” group (or Group#1):
Cameras not in a camera group
Top group (E-Map layer) Sub group (Sub E-Map layer)
Cameras in- side a
camera group
Top group
(E-Map
layer)
(Sub E-Map
layer)
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3.5.3 E-map - Detail setting - camera group
To create a new group, click on the “Add new group” button as shown below:
The next available group ID and group name should be automatically filled in to the
corresponding fields. If you’d like to configure this group as a sub group of another group,
choose the main group from the “Dependent” drop-down menu:
To change the map image, click on the icon (as shown below) to do so:
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Then locate the new map image:
Finally, click on the “camera group” icon and hold the mouse then drag the icon to the desired
position on the map to determine its new position.
Move the icon on the map to determine its position
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3.5.4 E-map - Configure E-Map for a camera
Similar to the instructions described from page 37 ~ 39, except you click on the camera from
the list on the left this time:
The “Channel” and “Name” fields will be automatically filled. Simply select a desired camera
group this camera will belong to from the “Dependent” drop-down menu:
Click and drag the camera icon to determine its new position:
Move the icon on the map to determine its position
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You can also change the camera’s pointing direction on the map from the “Direction”
drop-down menu based on its actual setup in the real world environment:
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3.6 User account
The software provides the option to allow users to set different access privileges and they can
be assigned to different user groups. Users can then create multiple user accounts and
assigned them to different user groups to determine the access privilege of each user account.
Click and select
an existing user
from the list
and click the “-”
button to
* By default, the software does not have any user account/user group created. It’s strongly
recommended that you create a user account to prevent unauthorized access to the software.
* Please do not create an additional user group account that has less access privilege and
assign the only user account to that group. You will be asked to log in next time you start the
software which you will then only have limited access.
Add new user Remove user
remove a user
* You can not create a user account until you create a user group (the first user group will be
the “Admin” group)
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3.6.1 User account - User Group
To create a new user group account, click on the “User Group Setting” tab and click on the
“Add Group” button at the bottom:
You will then be able to assign access privileges to the new group. You may also change the
name of the group if you wish:
A particular function of a particular channel that
has not been granted for access
Group name
A particular function of a particular channel
that has been granted for access
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3.7 Recording
The recording configuration page allows users to configure the followings:
* Quickly enable/disable certain types of recording
* Recording storage path
* Recording frame rate of each recording type on each channel
* Pre-alarm/Post-alarm time
* Schedule recording
You should first be prompted with the overview page that displays the current recording
configurations of each channel and the storage path.
To add a new storage path, click on the “Add” button (as shown below):
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A new dialog should be prompted which you can select a new path to store the recording data:
You can also configure the software to always keep the previous number of days of recording
data if you wish to do so:
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3.7.1 Recording - Setting
You can configure the detail recording settings in the “Recording Setting” page. In this page,
you can configure the followings:
* Enable/disable recording types
* Recording frame rate
* Pre-Alarm/post-alarm time
* The “FPS” is available only if the video for- mat of the selected channel is MJPEG.
* The “I/P Frame” is available only if the video format of the selected channel is
MPEG4 or H.264
Channel selection
Recording type
Frame rate selection
Pre-alarm
Post-alarm
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3.7.2 Recording - Schedule
Schedule recording allows users to set the software start and stop recording automatically
within the scheduled time frame:
Hour
Day
To configure schedule recording for a particular channel, click on one of the channel from the
“CH” column in the upper-left hand corner. Then you can edit the recording schedule of the
selected channel in the “Schedule” section:
Double-click
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Next, click on the cell boxes on the schedule table to configure the desired recording time.
Selected cell boxes will be marked in green which means recording will be started at that
particular time of that particular day:
* Each cell box represents 15 minutes
To set the software to record in consecutive hours on a particular day, click on a cell box (as
the starting point) and hold the mouse then move it horizontally. Release the mouse when you
are done.
To set the software to record on consecutive days during a particular hour, click on a cell box
(as the starting point) and hold the mouse then move it vertically. Release the mouse when
you are done.
Click and drag the mouse horizontally
to set consecutive hours
* Click and drag the opposite direction to clear previously selected time frame
Click and drag the mouse vertically to
set consecutive days
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3.8 Backup
The software provides the backup function which can back up the followings:
* Media database: Recorded data in the database format
* AVI export: Recorded data exported to AVI file format
* Configuration: The configuration files of the software
Available channels
Unavailable channels
Default backup
directory
Begin time and
time length of the
backup file
Click to start the
backup process
Backup progress Change backup path here
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3.8.1 Backup - Backup media Database
To backup the media database, follow the procedures below:
* Select channels from the “Channel List” to back their media database
* Change or accept the default backup directory
* Set the “Begin Time
* Set the “End Time” or select the “Export length”
* Click
You should be notified once the process completes. The stored file name and the storage
directory should also be displayed:
to begin the backup process
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3.8.2 Backup - AVI Export
The software provides the function to allow users to backup the recorded file of one or more
channels and export them as AVI file format. The file can then be played by the bundled media
player.
Available
channels
Unavailable
channels
* The default directory that stores the exported AVI files is C:\Program Files\PLANET\CV3
Pro\AVI and this can’t be changed.
Backup progress
Click to start the backup process
Begin time and
time length of
the backup file
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3.8.3 Backup - Configuration Backup
To export the recorded video to AVI, follow the procedures below:
* Select channels from the “Channel List” for AVI export
* Set the “Begin Time
* Set the “End Time” or select the “Duration time”
* Click to begin the backup process
In the “Configuration” page, you can backup the current settings or restore a previously saved
configuration file.
Change backup
directory here
Click to start the backup
Locate a previously save
configuration file
Click to start restoring
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To backup the configuration file, select a folder of where you would like the configuration file to
be saved to and click “Backup”:
You should be notified once the backup is completed successfully (as shown below):
To restore a previously saved configuration file to the system, locate the file first and then click
“Restore”
Change backup directory here
Click to start the backup
You should be prompted to confirm the restore process: (as shown below)
Click “Yes” and restart the configuration wizard to complete the restoration.
Locate a previously save configuration file
Click to start restoring
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3.9 Backup - Log View
The software provides a detailed log which records what has been done and who has done
what to the software:
Click “Export” to export the log file to text file. You should be prompted once it’s exported
successfully and the directory of where it’s saves to would also be displayed:
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4.0 Client Viewer - Log In
Client Viewer is the program that connects to the Cam Viewer 3 Pro server and performs
certain functions to it. Once the client viewer is started, you should be prompted with the login
screen.
The login screen provides the following options:
* Connect to a Cam Viewer 3 Pro server (local or remote)
* Display language
* Login username and password
Search new servers or add manually
Available servers
Language selection
Username/password
Log in
Cancel and exit
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4.1 Client Viewer - Add Servers
You can select available servers from the drop-down menu at the login screen or you can click
on “...” to add new servers.
The server list dialog should be displayed as shown below:
Required information to
access a new server
Search server
* Cam Viewer 3 Pro can only access servers within the same LAN
Cancel
Add new server
Remove server
Modify server
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To add a new server manually, enter the corresponding information in all fields on the “Server
List” dialog and click “Add”:
* The “server port” is the port that’s used for video streaming. By default, Cam Viewer 3 Pro
uses port 9877
The new server will then be added and you should find it on the server list:
To change its settings, click on it from the server list and click the “Modify server setting”
button:
To remove, simply on
the “Remove server”
button
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4.2 Client Viewer – Live View
Search New Servers Automatically
You can also perform an auto search and the software should be able to find servers that are
available on the same subnet:
A new dialog should be prompted and displays the search progress:
New servers that are found should be listed in the list on the top:
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Client Viewer - Add Servers
Double-click on it should direct you back to the previous dialog and you should find it listed on
the server list:
The newly added server would be listed in the drop-down menu at the login screen next time
you log in:
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4.2.1 Client Viewer - Overview
The software basically provides the following functions for the live view:
* Change screen layout (views in various numbers of split screens)
* Show OSD and sequence viewing
* Display videos in their original ratio
* Server and channel status
* Audio
* Snapshot of live videos
* On-screen event warning
* PTZ and Digital PTZ controls
* Manual recording
* Image enhancement
Top Menu Bar
Split screen selections
Enable/disable video control
bar
Current time
E-Map/Playback/Event
monitor
Add current live view
layout to favorite
Show OSD on video
Display video in original
ratio
Apply “Event Display
on all channels
CPU usage of the
Current
logged in
CPU usage of the remote server
local viewer
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Side Menu
Dock away side menu
Channel Status
Live Event List
Channel Status:
Blue: Channel Online
Green: Recording in
process
Red: Event Trigger and
vent Recording in
E
process
Gray: Channel Offline
Camera List
SEQ Monitor
PTZ & Preset Control
My favorite view
* Despite of full screen mode, the side menu can be “docked away” to allow maximum viewing
space:
Full screen
Screen Assignment
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4.2.2 Client Viewer - Adjust Viewing Layout
The software offers various viewing layouts which allow users to determine how
many videos can be displayed at once. Users can select from the available split
window options on the top to changes the viewing layout:
Once the layout is determined, users can quickly decide which channel they would like to view
by selecting cameras from the “Camera List” which is available from the side menu:
Simply click and drag a camera from the list and drop it onto a desired video window
on the left:
Drag and Drop
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Add Current Viewing Layout to “My Favorite”
Once you have finish placing the desired cameras on the chosen layout, you can click on the
“Add Favorite” button to save the layout as a profile:
Click “Yes” to confirm:
You can find all the “Favorites” from the side menu under “My Favorites”:
You can also:
* Add new favorites
* Edit settings of existing favorites
* Remove existing favorite’s right from the “My Favorites” side menu:
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Edit favorite
Remove new favorite
Add new favorite
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4.2.3 Client Viewer - SEQ Monitor
Manual SEQ
SEQ (Sequence) Monitor is a function that displays videos of the selected channels
(or favorites) and they are switched automatically with definable interval. The SEQ
Monitor can be accessed from the side menu under “SEQ Monitor”:
To configure the software to automatically sequence the videos of the selected channels,
decide the sequence interval first from the drop-down menu (as shown below):
Next, choose how many channels you would like to view at once by choosing an option from
the drop-down menu under “Manual SEQ”, and then click “Start”:
(*Options are given depends on the number of channels available in the software)
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“My Favorites” SEQ
Other than viewing the channels you manually selected in sequence automatically, the
software can also be configured to sequence the “My Favorites”. Simply check the ones you
like from the “Favorite SEQ” list and click “Start”:
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3
2
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4.2.4 Client Viewer - Full Screen
The software can detect the number of monitors are currently installed on the PC and display
different function pages or live videos onto those monitors. The software supports up to 5
monitors and live videos can be assigned to be displayed onto all 5 monitors in full screen.
(*Live Monitor only supports 2 full screens)
The software is capable of displaying up to 16 live videos on each monitor when in full screen.
To enter full screen,
1. Select the screen layout from the top bar
2. Choose the channels in camera list from the side menu and drop them onto the live view
area
3. Click “Full Screen” from the side menu
4. Choose the monitor to go full screen
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3
4
* Windows OS assigns an “ID” number for each monitor installed on the PC; the NVR software
uses the same ID number for displaying videos in full screen or different function pages.
Drag camera and
drop them onto the
live view area
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Functions Available When in Full Screen
There are various functions provided when in full screen for maximum flexibility and
convenience. You can:
* Switch among different “My Favorite”
* Enable/disable display of OSD
* View all videos in their original ratio
* Turn on/off video window control bar (more details about this function on page)
To access these functions, right-click anywhere on the screen when in full screen:
Switch among different “My Favorite” by right-clicking anywhere on the full screen,
and go to “Favorite”. Select a “Favorite” from the pull-down menu:
If “Show OSD” is clicked, the OSD will be displayed on all videos, which display the channel
number and their current frame rate
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If “Keep Ratio” is clicked, all videos will be displayed in their original ratio:
To turn on the video window control bar, right-click anywhere on the full screen and click
“Menu Show”, and then hover the mouse onto any video window:
Before After
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4.2.5 Client Viewer - Screen Assign
As mentioned in the previous page that the software can display either live videos in
full screen or different function pages on up to 5 monitors, users can configure
which monitor displays which function page.
To do so:
1. Click “Screen Assign” from the side menu
2. Assign monitors based on its ID number in the drop-down menu for the listed
function pages
3. Access the function pages from the top bar
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2
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selections
Pan left
4.2.6 Client Viewer - PTZ & Preset Control
The software comes with various controls for PTZ cameras. They are provided in the
virtual PTZ panel from the side menu. The control includes:
* Pan, tilt, zoom and PTZ speed adjustment
* Preset points (total 8) monitor, go to preset “Home” point and preset sequence
viewing
* Pan right, pan left, and auto pan
* Manual focus adjustment and auto-focus
* Manual brightness adjustment and auto brightness
Preset points
Preset points
auto sequence
Pan right
Auto pan
The software also offers a more intuitive way to control PTZ cameras with the
“mouse-over-video” PTZ controls. That is, users can click (right-click) on the video to pan and
tilt view points, and to use the mouse scroll button to zoom in/out.
This feature is only available for PTZ cameras and you can tell it is available when the “red
cross” and “red arrow” are shown on the video:
* For “non-PTZ”
Adjust PTZ Speed
Zoom out
Zoom in
Focus near
Focus far
Auto focus
Auto brightness
* The closer the red
Brightness up
Brightness down
cameras, the software
provides the “digital
PTZ” function which is
mentioned in page.
arrow is to the red
＋＋＋＋
↘↘↘↘
cross; the lower the PTZ
speed will be applied.
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4.2.7 Client Viewer - Video Window Control Bar
The software provides a “quick access” to certain functions for live videos with a
“mouse-over-video” control bar. This function is turned off by default and can be turned on
from the top bar (as shown below):
Once enabled, hover the mouse onto any video window and the control bar should appear on
top of the video window:
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5
6 7 8 4
Check to enable
the control bar
The control bar provides the following functions:
1. Turn on/off audio
2. Audio post
3. Snapshot
4. Display warning on video when an event is triggered (On-Video Event Display)
5. Display OSD
6. Digital PTZ
7. Start/stop manual recording
8. Keep ratio
9. Image enhancement
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4.2.8 Client Viewer - Video Window Control Bar
Audio
If a camera does not support the audio function, a pop-up message will be displayed when the
audio button is clicked. This is to notify the user that this channel does not support the audio
function:
Snapshot
When this button is click, the software takes a snapshot of the video. A new dialog should
appear and display the snapshot of the video:
Simply close the dialog window and the snapshot will be saved automatically. A pop-up
message indicating where the image is saved will also be displayed:
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event in general
Event Display
The event display is a function that helps users quickly identify when there are events going on
one or more channels. The movement in the video will be marked with small green cubes:
* Motion detection must be enabled and configured in the “ Config Wizard” before this function
1. Event recording
2. icon indicates
can work properly. For configuration regarding motion detection, refer to page 22 for details.
* You can also enable “Event Display” on all channels by checking
“Show Detect” from the top bar
Certain types of events will be displayed under different section at the bottom of the event
display list. They are:
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1. Camera Tampering Detection
2. Object Loss Detection
3. Foreign Object Detection
The reason for this is that the software needs the users to manually acknowledge the event
detection for the detection to be resettled and start detection over again. Without users
manually acknowledging the detection, the warning would stay on the screen in case the users
are not in front of the monitor and can then be reminded when they return.
To acknowledge the detection, simply double-click on the red check mark and then the
detection would be resettled.
To use digital PTZ, enable the function from the video window control bar first:
Double-click to reset the
detection
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The mouse cursor should turn into a magnifier when you hover the mouse onto one of the
video windows. Click and drag diagonally on an area you would like to zoom in:
Drag and Drop
* Once the video is zoomed in, the mouse cursor will turn into the icon which you can click and
drag to move within the zoomed area.
* Use the scroll button on the mouse to zoom in further or zoom out. Right-click on the video to
exit the digital PTZ mode.
Before
After
Manual Recording
You can quickly start manual recording from the video window control bar when seeing
something abnormal from the live video. Click the same button to stop:
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Once the manual recording starts. You can find the corresponding changes in the UI in
“Channel Status” and “Event List” from the side menu:
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1
Channels marked in green means “manual recording” is currently in progress.
*
* icon indicates manual recording
Image Enhancement
This function is aimed to improve the interpretability or perception of information in images for
human viewers. Simply enable this function from the video window control bar to see the
difference:
Before
After
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Current Channel
Current Frame Rate
Current BitRate
4.2.9 Client Viewer - Server and Channel Status
You can obtain the detail information about the server and the current status of each channel
by clicking “Local Service” from the top bar:
It opens up a new dialog which displays detail information of the followings:
* Server CPU usage
* Total Bandwidth consumption
* HDD usage and recycle status
* Channel number and name
* Channel IP address
* Channel Status (Connected/Disconnected/Recording...etc)
* BitRate consumed by each channel
* Current frame rate of each channel
Channel Status:
Blue: Channel Online
Green: Recording in
process
Red: Event Trigger and
Event
Recording in process
Gray: Channel Offline
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Live View
Event Monitor
Playback
Camera
Event list
Channel
video
4.3 Client Viewer - E-Map Monitor
E-Map Monitor provides monitoring with instant event notifications with the geographical
information of each camera (and camera group). Small-sized video of a channel will be shown
on the map during a trigger of an event.
E-Map: Go to “Home” layer
E-Map: Go back up a layer
Channel info &
event triggers
info.
Contact info of
the triggered
Camera group
channel
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Double
-
click
The E-Map Monitor displays the top layer of E-map by defaults. Double-click on the camera
group icon to go down a layer and enter the E-map of the camera group.
* Go back to the “Home”
layer or previous layer
When there is an event going on, the camera icon (or the camera group icon) will be
surrounded with red square flashes on the map:
Double-click on the “camera group” icon will direct you to the E-map of that camera group (like
what’s shown on page 66)
Double-click on the “camera” icon” will display the small-sized video of that channel:
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Once the “camera” icon is clicked, its channel information and event trigger information will be
displayed on the side bar:
The triggered events will be listed on the side bar:
The contact info of the channel will also be displayed on the side bar if this has been
configured in the “Config Wizard”:
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Event Monitor is a function that plays back “event only” videos. It’s a convenient tool that
allows users to play through a list of event recordings that are happening at the moment:
Events will be listed on the side bar and clicking on any one of them will
the recording:
instantly play back
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The channel information and contact information of that particular channel will also be
displayed on the side bar:
The software also displays thumbnail images of the most recent events. The image gets
replaced whenever there are new events coming in:
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The mini-sized E-Map available at the lower-left hand corner displays the location of the
camera:
History Events
By default, the Event Monitor page displays “live” events which, events listed on the side bar
gets refreshed automatically whenever new events are triggered.
If you want to access the older events without going to the Playback page. You can access the
“History Events” from the top bar in Event Monitor page:
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Event History
The History Event page should be displayed with the similar user interface with only the
difference of letting users to “search” the older events. The search function is available at the
lower-right hand corner on the side bar:
To perform search, select which channels to perform search on by choosing either “ALL” or
“SELECT”, which gives you a drop-down menu to select channels:
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Then determine a start time by using the drop-down menu:
Finally, you can either search all events or set up a filter to search a particular type of event
only:
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Results will then be listed. Simply click on to start playback:
Playback should then start and the corresponding channel information and camera’s
geographical information would also be displayed accordingly:
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The “Event Image List” at the bottom would display the thumbnail images of the events with
the time that is the closest to the event trigger time of the channel that was just selected for
playback.
For control of the playback, check “Playback Control Bar” from the top and it should appear in
the playback video window:
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4.4 Client Viewer – Playback
Playback provides functions to allow users to playback all recording data of all channels while
offering additional features to assist users to find what they are looking within the shortest
period of time and to enhance the playback experience. These features are:
* Display all available recording data at the bottom and display “event only” recordings of the
selected channels on the side bar
* Capture screenshot
* Digital PTZ
* Image Enhancement
To start search recordings, simply select desired channels from the channel list at the
upper-right hand corner:
* You can select up to 9 channels as the software supports 9 channel synchronous playbacks.
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As soon as the channels are selected, their recording data should be display in the bottom bar
as well as the side bar (If there are event recordings):
Event Recording
Recording data
Channels
Recording data
About the time bar at the bottom:
Indicator of current
playback time
* Areas that are marked in dark gray: regular recording data
* Areas that are marked in red: event recording data
* Green Playback indicator: indicating the progress of the playback
Event Recording
Recording data
End time
The time bar displays all recording data from the oldest to the latest. You can then ask the
software to display a portion of the recording data by selecting on the time bar. Simply click
and hold the mouse, then drag it horizontally to select:
It will then zooms in and display the recording data of that portion. The begin time and end time
would also change accordingly.
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To go back up a level, simply “right-click” anywhere on the time bar:
You can click and drag the green indicator horizontally to jump to a specific play time:
Right-click
The playback also provides control bars with the following features:
* Playback Control Bar: Single step back/rewind/play/stop/pause/fast forward/single step
forward videos
* Playback Video Window Control Bar: Turn on/off audio/snapshot/display OSD/digital
PTZ/keep video ratio/image enhancement
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By default, these two control bars are hidden but can be enabled from the top bar:
You can also set to have all playback videos to be displayed in their original aspect ratio and
display OSD by checking the options from the top bar:
The green indicator in the time bar at the button indicates the progress of the playback and
which portion is being played back. You can find the exact playback time from the top bar:
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4.5 Media Player
The software comes with a player program which plays the recording files that are in their
original database file format or in the AVI file format that were exported by the NVR software:
To access the media player, double-click on the shortcut created by the software installer:
It can also be started from the Windows “Start” menu:
Play the exported AVI file
To playback the exported AVI file, go to “Open” >> “AVI File” from the top menu:
A new dialog will be displayed asking you to locate the AVI file. Go to C:\Program
Files\PLANET \Cam Viewer 3 Pro\AVI as it’s the default directory of where the exported AVI
files are saved:
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The playback should begin and the video should be played back in its original resolution by
default:
Move the indicator horizontally to jump back and forth to a specific time:
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Use the control buttons at the bottom to play/stop/pause/rewind/fast forward the video
You can click on the “Snapshot” button at the bottom to take a snapshot of the video:
* The snapshots can only be saved in “JPEG” format
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Click on the “OSD” button at the bottom displays the OSD on the video:
* The OSD displays in the upper-left hand corner by default. More settings can be done to it
such as font size/color and display position. More details about this will be covered in page 94.
The player also supports the digital function. Simply use the scroll button to zoom in/out. You
can also click and hold the house then drag diagonally to select a particular area to zoom in.
Draw a square on the video
to zoom in a particular area
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Once the video is zoomed in, click and hold the mouse button then move the mouse to move
the zoomed area:
Click and hold the mouse
button then move the
mouse to move the
zoomed in area
To exit digital PTZ mode, simply right-click anywhere on the video.
Play the database file
To play the media database file, simply go to “Open” >> “Media Data Base” from the top menu:
A dialog shown like below should be displayed:
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