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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* 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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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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