Planet Technology DVC-800 User Manual

DVC Remote Utility

DrVeiw

User’s Manual

Ver.:1.0

Content

CONTENT...................................................................................................................II

1、PREFACE ...................................................................................................................................1

2、INSTALLATION.........................................................................................................................2

2-1、Install DrView ..................................................................................................2

3、PROFILE MANAGER...............................................................................................................3

3-1、Create a New User Profile................................................................................3

3-2、Delete Profile....................................................................................................5

3-3、Edit Profile........................................................................................................5

3-4、Import profile....................................................................................................6

3-5、Export Profile ...................................................................................................6

3-6、Login.................................................................................................................7

4、MAIN SCREEN..........................................................................................................................9

4-1 Main Screen.......................................................................................................10

4-2 Display mode.....................................................................................................12

4-3 Setup..................................................................................................................15

4-4 Snapshot.............................................................................................................26

4-5 Full Screen.........................................................................................................27

4-6 Motion to Zoom.................................................................................................27

4-7 Playback.............................................................................................................29

4-8 E-MAP...............................................................................................................31

4-9 Quick Select Tag ...............................................................................................39

4-10 Log System Status Window ............................................................................40

4-11 Central Backup................................................................................................42

4-12、Use Local Playback......................................................................................50

5、APPENDIX...........................................................................................................53

5-1、Maintenance....................................................................................................53

5-2、FAE Support...................................................................................................53

1、Preface

With DrView, Central Management System allows administrator to manage several DVR systems through network located in different sites from one point of control.

Each DrView system can manage up to 64 sets of 16CH DVR. You can monitor the DVR through network at any time. You can also proceed to set up the remote system configuration.

With user friendly GUI, administrator can monitor the DVRs very easily.

2、Installation

DrView can serve up to 64 DVR (1024 channels) at the same time. Before the installation, make sure your computer meets the following minimum requirement.

DrView Requirement

OS CPU

Display Card

RAM Hard Disk Network Card Mouse CD-ROM USB Interface DirectX

Windows 2000, Windows XP P4 2.6G above

64MB above (nVIDIA TNT2/ GeForce2/ GeForce4 are most optimal), 1024*768 screen resolution

256MB above 20 GB above 10/100Mbs PS/2 or USB compatible General

1.1 / 2.0 V7.0 & above

2-1、Install DrView

1. Insert the installation CD.

2. Then go to the directory E:\utility\DrView (suppose E:\ is your CD-ROM drive) to

run the Setup.exe and follow the steps. When finishing the setups, it will show up the message. Then, you can find the application from the Windows Start menu.

3、Profile Manager

After the installation, start the application by clicking the icon or in the folder of “DrView” from the Windows Start menu. The “Profile Manager”

will show up to let the user to Create, Delete, Edit, Import, Export or Open “User Profile”.

on the desktop

First time to use DrView, user has to create a new “User Profile” to save the configuration of DVRs. You can create different Profiles for different configurations at the same time. Next time when you start the DrView, you don’t need to create a new User Profile any more and you just open one of Profile you prefer.

3-1、Create a New User Profile

Click “ New” on the Profile Manager, it will show the Profile Setup Dialog as following

Key in the “Profile Name”, “Supervisor Password”(R/W Password), and “ User Password”(Read only Password) in the Profile Setup Dialog.

After the new profile has been created successfully, the new profile icon will be shown on the Profile Manager screen as following. Refer to 3-1-6 to enter the new profile.

Note:

z “Profile” name can’t exceed 50 characters. z “ Profile name only supports Chinese & English words and does not support

special marks.

z Password can’t to exceed 30 characters. z Password only support numbers& English character.

3-2、Delete Profile

If you want to delete the User Profile, click “Delete” button. Then, the system will request you to enter the Supervisor password. Only supervision has the authority to delete the Profile.

3-3、Edit Profile

If you want to edit the Profile, just select it and click the “Edit”. The system will request you to enter the Supervisor password. Only supervision has the authority to edit the Profile. Therefore, enter the Supervisor password.

3-4、Import profile

You can import the backup profile to system. It’s easy for copying the settings between computers.

Click “Import” button, and select the *.bkp file which you want to import. (the file you have exported before)

After importing file, the imported file will be added in the Profile Manager screen as following,

3-5、Export Profile

If you want to back up the profile or execute DrView on another computer but use the same profile, you can export the “ Profile”.

Please choose the profile you want to export and click “Export” button.

The system will request you to enter “Supervisor” password. Enter the password and the address of the saved profile will show up. You can select the path to save the .bkp file which has just been exported, and it will appear on the appointed address.

3-6、Login

The user can choose the created Profile, enter the password and then start to login. There are two kinds of password identification-Supervisor and User password. Each one has different authority in DrView. The following is comparison tables of the authority.

Supervisor

User

Supervisor

User

Profile Manager

New Delete Edit Import Export Login

Sequencer

Monitor Options

○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ╳ ╳ ╳ ○ ○ ╳

Quick Select Tag

Save Delete Rename

Full

Screen

Snapshot Setup

stem

Status

Playback

○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ╳ ╳ ╳ ○ ○ ╳ ○ ○

4、Main Screen

When you login the profile successfully, the following monitoring window will appear.

Exit Date & Time

DVR List

Preview Window

Full Screen Snapshot

Setup Motion to Zoom Playback

E-MAP Display Mode

Quick Select Tag

System status

Sequencer

4-1 Main Screen

After finishing the DVR configuration (refer to 4-3 “DVR setup”), go back to Main Screen and it will show the following screen.

Drag & Drop

Preview Window

Click ＋ button in front of the DVR in the window of DVR List and it will list all of the cameras connected to this Remote DVR. Click any listed camera and the screen of this camera will be displayed in the “ Preview W indow ”. You can decide if you want to display this camera in the Spilt Window. If yes, just click this camera, Drag and Drop it to any spilt window you want to display. You can also Drag and Drop a group of cameras to the Left Spilt Window at one time. When clicking the right button of mouse on one of the DVR in the DVR List, it will show the following dialog box. Select “ Add to Monitor” and there are four Group 1, 2, 3, and 4. Choose the Group you want to add at one time.

Add to Monitor

4-1-1 Zoom in/ Zoom Out Adjustment

You can Zoom in or Zoom out any Spilt window. Double click on any split window and it will be enlarged to Full Display mode. You can double click again on this enlarged window and it will go back to the original spilt mode In Full Display mode, you can enter [+] or [-] to Zoom in or Zoom out the screen. There are ten display modes “ Full, 250%, 225%, 200%, 175%,150%, 125%, 100%, 75%, 50%”.

Full Display Mode

4-1-2 Camera Options

Click right button of mouse on any split window, the screen will appear the following list for camera options.

The following table is the description for each function.

Function Description Execute -Enable: Enable to display the camera in the Spilt Window

-Disable: Disable to display the camera n the Spilt Window

Sequencer Time -Set up the Sequencer timer Motion Detect -Enable/Disable Motion Detection function.

Alias Name Setup -Name the Camera Alias name

4-1-3 PTZ Camera

If remote DVR has PTZ camera connection, the PTZ control panel will pop up when the screen is displayed in Full Display Mode. PTZ controls include “Zoom In”, “Zoom Out”, “Focus Near”, “Focus Far”, “Auto-Focus”, and “PTZ Speed”.

Auto-Focus

Focus Far Zoom Out Focus Near

Zoom In

PTZ Speed

When the user adjusts the PTZ control, it will not only change camera image, but also effect the recording result.

4-2 Display mode

There are 10 kinds of Split modes and 3 kinds of Sequencer modes in display mode. These 10 kinds of Split modes are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, 16 splits, 25 splits, 36 splits, and 64 splits. The default option is 64 splits

4-2-1 Sequencer Mode

The DrView provide three kinds of Sequencer Modes, 1- channel, 4- channel and

64-channel Sequencer. When you click Sequencer icon , it will show three options to let you select. However, 64-Channel Sequencer is just for TV Wall display. That is

64 channel sequencer option will not appear if TV Wall display function is not enabled.

When you select 1-channel sequencer mode, the screen will display sequentially from cam 1 to cam 64. You can set up Camera sequencer timer according to 4-1-2 Camera Option. If any camera is disconnected, the sequencer will skip over it to the next connected camera channel,

When you select 4-channel sequencer mode, the Main screen will change to 4-split display mode. The 1st Spilt Window will display Cam 1 to Cam 16 sequentially, the 2nd Split Window will display Cam 17 to Cam 32 sequentially, the 3rd Split will display Cam 33 to Cam 48 sequentially and the 4th Split will display Cam 49 to Cam 64 sequentially. Please refer to the following two figures.

1st Split Window

3rd Split Window

Display Cam 1

to Cam 16

sequentially

sequentially Display Cam

33 to Cam 48 sequentially

Display Cam 17 to Cam 32 sequentially

Display Cam 49 to Cam 64 sequentially

2nd Split Window

4th Split Window

8 9 16 1

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

Group 4

49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

When you select 64-channel sequencer mode, these 64 cameras will be divided into 4 sequencer groups with different color based on Camera No.1-16, 17-32, 33-48, 49-64. Each sequencer group will play sequentially based on camera number. As above picture Group 1 (1-16 camera), it will proceed sequencer to play s from camera 1 to camera 64 with the red arrow order, the other groups will proceed in the same wa.

If you want to exit the sequencer mode, you can press “ESC” or click

to end the

sequencer mode.

If the system can connect 4 monitors at the same time, it can export the images to TV-wall by utilizing 4- channel or 64-channel sequencer mode. The main screen will be unchanged, and the 4 monitors will play 4 channel sequencer image. Besides, it can map the main screen into TV-wall composed of 4 or many monitors.

Note:

z 64 Channel Sequencer can be available when the products have TV-wall

function and must be equipped with VGA card supporting TV-wall.

4-3 Setup

Setup

When you click the setup icon

4-3-1 DVR Setup

, you can see the following Setup menu.

4-3-1-1 DVR Configuration

Click DVR Setup button to set up the remote DVRs which you want to monitor in DrView when you login the system at the first time. Then, it will show the following screen.

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