UniVision Canada PICO-2000, UC-PICO2K-XXXYZZ00, UC-PICO2K-309APG01, UC-PICO2K-416DM01, UC-PICO2K-413MPG01 User Manual

PICO-2000

User Manual

UniVision Canada Limited

TEC00-014 Pico2000 User Manual (Rev. 3.0) Page 1 of 51

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PICO-2000

................................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................4

O

VERVIEW

.............................................................................................................................................4

S

TANDARD FEATURES

...........................................................................................................................4

O

PTIONAL FEATURES

.............................................................................................................................4

P

ACKAGE MODELS

................................................................................................................................4

G

ENERIC MODEL NUMBER

....................................................................................................................4

M

ODEL NO

. S

TRUCTURE

.......................................................................................................................5

A

RCHIVE BACKUP SYSTEM MODE

.........................................................................................................6

A

UDIO RECORDING OPTION

...................................................................................................................6

FRONT PANEL......................................................................................................................................7

REAR PANEL.........................................................................................................................................8

C

AMERA CONFIGURATION

.....................................................................................................................8

STARTING THE PICO-2000................................................................................................................9

T

URN ON THE POWER

.............................................................................................................................9

L

OGON

...................................................................................................................................................9

T

HE MAIN SCREEN

.................................................................................................................................9

DISPLAY (THE MULTIPLEXER FUNCTION)..............................................................................10

D

ISPLAY CONTROL PANEL

....................................................................................................................10

For Models 104, 309A, 413A & 416...............................................................................................10

For Models 205A & 208.................................................................................................................11

1-S

CREEN MODE

..................................................................................................................................11

4-S

CREEN MODE

..................................................................................................................................11

For Model 104................................................................................................................................11

For Model 205A, 208, 309A, 413A & 416......................................................................................12

M

ULTI-SCREEN MODE

.........................................................................................................................13

8-S

CREEN MODE

..................................................................................................................................13

16-S

CREEN MODE

................................................................................................................................14

R

APID ZOOM

........................................................................................................................................14

F

ULL SCREEN DISPLAY

.........................................................................................................................14

S

EQUENCE

...........................................................................................................................................14

REMOTE ONLINE VIEWING AND PLAYBACK RECORDED VIDEO....................................14

T

HE INTELLIGENT REMOTE PLAYER

....................................................................................................14

PICO S

ERVER BUTTON

.......................................................................................................................14

RECORDING........................................................................................................................................15

S

TORAGE DRIVE

...................................................................................................................................15

R

ECORDING MODES

.............................................................................................................................15

M

ULTIPLE CAMERA RECORDING

..........................................................................................................15

T

HE RECORDER CONTROL PANEL

.........................................................................................................15

I

NSTANT RECORDING

...........................................................................................................................16

A

LARM RECORDING

.............................................................................................................................17

P

RE-ALARM RECORDING

......................................................................................................................17

S

CHEDULED RECORDING

......................................................................................................................18

PLAYBACK..........................................................................................................................................19

P

LAYBACK THE VID EO

.........................................................................................................................19

S

ELECT DRIVE

.....................................................................................................................................19

T

HE VIDEO PLAYER

..............................................................................................................................20

L

IST FILE RECORD

...............................................................................................................................20

V

IDEO PLAYBACK CONTROLS

..............................................................................................................21

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P

LAYBACK CAMERA CONTROL

.............................................................................................................21

A

BSOLUTE DATE/TIME AND LENGTH DISPLAY

......................................................................................21

P

LAYBACK SPEED CONTROL

................................................................................................................21

R

EWIND AND REPLAY

..........................................................................................................................21

F

RAME MODE FOR PRINT AND SAVE A FRAME

......................................................................................21

R

ETURN TO VIDEO MODE

.....................................................................................................................21

T

HE VIDEO SEARCH ENGINE

*...............................................................................................................22

P

LAYBACK THE CURRENT FILE

.............................................................................................................22

O

PEN THE VIDEO FILES AND PLAYBACK CONTINUOUSLY

.....................................................................22

S

EARCH THE VIDEO INTERACTIVELY

....................................................................................................22

MOTION DETECTION ......................................................................................................................23

M

OTION DETECTION

............................................................................................................................23

S

ET UP THE MOTION DETECTION

..........................................................................................................23

S

ET DETECTION AREA

..........................................................................................................................24

I

NDICATE THE DETECTION AREA

..........................................................................................................24

S

ET SENSITIVIT Y FOR MO TION DETECTION

...........................................................................................24

D

ETECTION INTERVAL

.........................................................................................................................24

R

ECORDING TIME EXTENSION

..............................................................................................................24

E

NABLE THE MOTION DETECTION FUNCTION

.......................................................................................24

T

IPS

.....................................................................................................................................................25

PAN-TILT ZOOM CONTROL...........................................................................................................26

P

AN-TILT ZOOM

...................................................................................................................................26

D

RIVER MODE SETTING

.......................................................................................................................26

P

ORT SETTING

.....................................................................................................................................27

C

AMERA SELECTION

............................................................................................................................27

M

ONITOR SELECTION

..........................................................................................................................27

S

PEED CONTROL

..................................................................................................................................27

P

AN-TILT ZOOM CONTR O L

...................................................................................................................27

P

RE-POSITION

......................................................................................................................................27

UTILITY FUNCTIONS.......................................................................................................................28

A

CCESS TO UTILITY FUNCTIONS

..........................................................................................................28

R

E-ACTIVATE TH E DISABLED HOUSEKEEPING FUNCTIONS

..................................................................28

CAMERA CONFIGURATION...........................................................................................................29

C

AMERA TITLE ASSIGNMENT

...............................................................................................................29

M

AXIMUM NO. OF CAMERA IMPOSED BY SOFTWARE

............................................................................29

C

HECK THE ACTIVE CONNECTED CAMERAS

.........................................................................................29

A

PPLY THE CAMERA TITLE

...................................................................................................................29

RECORDER SETTING.......................................................................................................................30

T

HE RECORDING PARAMETERS

............................................................................................................30

F

RAME RATE

........................................................................................................................................30

T

HE START AND END TIMES FOR SCHEDULED RECORDING

....................................................................30

I

NSTANT RECORDING

...........................................................................................................................31

A

LARM RECORDING

.............................................................................................................................32

P

RE-ALARM RECORDING

......................................................................................................................32

S

CHEDULED WEEKDAY RECORDING

.....................................................................................................33

S

CHEDULED WEEKEND RECORDING

.....................................................................................................34

E

XAMPLE

1..........................................................................................................................................35

E

XAMPLE

2..........................................................................................................................................35

A

UDIO RECORDING

..............................................................................................................................35

OPTION SETTING..............................................................................................................................36

D

ISPLAY SEQUENCING

.........................................................................................................................36

I

MAGE RESOLUTION FOR ALL RECORDING

............................................................................................37

R

ECORDING MODE SELECTION

.............................................................................................................37

A

TTACH AUDIO TO CAMERA

...............................................................................................................37

D

RIVE CAPACITY

.................................................................................................................................37

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B

ACKUP FUNCTION

..............................................................................................................................38

N

ORMAL MODE

...................................................................................................................................38

A

RCHIVE MODE

...................................................................................................................................38

S

WAP DRIVE

........................................................................................................................................39

R

E-INSERTION OF REMOVABLE DRIVE

.................................................................................................39

S

YSTEM OPERATION DATA

...................................................................................................................40

HOUSEKEEPING................................................................................................................................41

B

ACKUP

...............................................................................................................................................41

R

EMOVE VIDEO FILES

..........................................................................................................................42

H

OUSEKEEPING TOOLS

.........................................................................................................................43

S

YSTEM INFORMATION

........................................................................................................................44

TOO MANY FILES WARNING.........................................................................................................45

T

OO MANY FILES WARNING MESSAGE

..................................................................................................45

I

NVOKE T HE MESSAGE BOX

..................................................................................................................45

R

EMOVE THE MESSAGE BOX

................................................................................................................45

S

ETUP AND THE DEFAULT VALUES

.......................................................................................................46

WORKING AT LOGOFF ...................................................................................................................47

L

OG OFF

...............................................................................................................................................47

R

ECORDING DURING LOG OFF

..............................................................................................................47

SHUT DOWN THE UNIT ...................................................................................................................47

E

XIT

.....................................................................................................................................................47

SYSTEM MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................48

S

CHEDULE BACKUP AND REMOVE THE VIDEO FILE

...............................................................................48

C

OMPACT DATABASE SYSTE M

.............................................................................................................48

TYPICAL CONFIGURATION...........................................................................................................49

ALARM INPUT CONNECTION........................................................................................................50

COLOR CODE OF ALARM INPUT AND OUTPUT CABLES .....................................................51

TEC00-014 Pico2000 User Manual (Rev. 3.0) Page 4 of 51

Introduction

Overview

The PICO 2000- Series of Digital Surveillance Recorder has inherently been
designed with flexibility of different video camera inputs and display different
camera images in real time. Notwithstanding the different inputs and display, all
models will have the same features which are kept as uniform throughout the
series.

Standard Features

!

Digital multi-channel video recorder and multiplexer

!

Support up to 16 camera inputs with multi display modes

!

Supports both PAL and NTSC standards

!

Easy to use graphic user interface

!

State of the art real-time display and recording under optimum condition of
up to 4 channels

!

Support full resolution video (768x576 PAL, 640x480 NTSC)

!

Real-time digital video compression

!

Simultaneous playback and recording

!

Playback with sophisticated search functions

!

Alarm triggered recording

!

Alarm I/O interface

!

Pre-alarm recording

!

Programmable timer for recording

!

Motion detection recording

!

Easy to expand by software upgrade and system integration

!

Multilingual Capability

!

Intelligent remote player with telephone dial up and LAN connectivity to
access on-line and recorder videos

Optional Features

!

Video displays on SVGA monitor and support a secondary display unit

!

Audio Recording attachable to selected video input

!

Pan/Tilt/Zoom Control (optionally selected Codec)

!

Fast Video Compression/decompression (optionally selected Codec)

!

Tamper protection for video recording

Package Models

!

The package model of PICO2000 refers to the product package, which
includes the necessary application software, peripheral boards and
accessories for Input and output interface, to be put into the customer
provided PC (Main Processor Unit) workstation to construct the equivalent
PICO2000 System.

!

There are a number of package models in the series that we can offer to our
OEM, distributors, system integrators and dealers etc., and the model
number describes the number of real time video display and the number of
cameras that the model can support

Generic Model
Number

The generic model no. is extractable from the following syntax :

!

For System Product PICO2000 – generic model no.<opt>

!

For Packaged Product P ICO2K – generic model no.<opt>

Through out this manual,

Model

will refer to the generic model no.

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Model No.
Structure

Model # UC-PICO2K-XXXYZZ00

!

The first 2 letters signify the manufacturer -UC represents UniVision Canada

!

The next block of alpha numeric signifies the product series – PICO2K
represents PICO2000 digital video recorder system.

!

The next 3 numbers XXX represent the functional requirement of the
recorder model. The first number signifies the number of real time video
that the model will display, i.e. 4 represents that the model will displa y
FOUR cameras in real time video. The next 2 numbers signify the
maximum number of video inputs, including the real time video, that the
model will support, i.e. 13 represents that a total of 13 cameras can be
connected to the system.

!

The presence of the next character indicates that the model will have
additional recording features:­A – One channel synchronized Audio recording capability.
R – Four real time video-recording capability.
M- One channel synchroni zed Audio re cording and four real time video

recording capability

!

The next two letters ZZ differentiates whether the unit is supplied as a

“Demo” – DM or as a “package” - PG.
The next two numbers signify the language to which the version of the software
supports, i.e. 00 for English, 01 for Chinese and 02 for French etc.

Example 1

To order a “package” system of PICO2000 digital recorder from UniVision
Canada for 9 camera inputs, 3 real time video display and with additional audio
recording feature. The system will be assembled in the PC locally by the
OEM/distributor. The required language version will be in Chinese.

The model selected will be

UC-PICO2K-309APG01

Example 2

To order a “demo” system of PICO2000 digital recorder from UniVision Canada
for 16 camera inputs, 4 real time video display, no audio recording required. The
system will be assembled in the PC locally by the OEM/distributor. The required
language version will be in Chinese

.

The model selected will be

UC-PICO2K-416DM01

Example 3

To order a “package” system of PICO2000 digital recorder from UniVision
Canada for 13 camera inputs, 4 real time video display, one channel audio
recording and 4 real time videos recording capability. The system will be
assembled in the PC locally by the OEM/distributor. The required language
version will be in Chinese.

The model selected will be

UC-PICO2K-413MPG01

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Archive Backup
System Mode

Considering the total process ( record-optional playback-backup-optional restore­erase obsolete video-recycle storage media for record) of recording of the videos
for Surveillance purpose, we can come up with two different backup system
modes:
Normal Mode – The PICO2000 Digital Surveillance Recorder will record all new

video into the Fixed Hard Drive (s). As required, the operator of
the PIC2000 can backup the recorded video to an Removable
IDE drive via the Housekeeping function from the Utility Menu
The raw copy of video can optionally be deleted during the
backup process

Archive Mode- The PICO2000 Digital Surveillance Recorder will record all new

video into one of the assigned Removable IDE drive. When it is
about full, it can be removed from the recorder (system control
or physically) for additional archiving to DAT or other backup
media. The PICO2000 Digital Surveillance Recorder will
maintain continuous recording to an al ternate remo vable drive
during the archiving operation. When the videos inside a
Removable drive is obsolete, they can be erased immediately
before video recording is resumed on this drive.

The backup system mode of the PICO2000 Digital Surveillance Recorder should
be selected at the very beginning of overall system operation. The normal backup
mode is set by default. To switched to the Archive mode, please refer to the
Backup Function of the Options Setting Menu. You will need to have two (2)
removable IDE drives configured in the PICO2000 Digital Surveillance Recorder
to support this mode of system operation. The PICO2000 application needs to be
closed and restart to apply the mode switching from each other

Audio Recording
Option

For all models with an “A” suffix, e.g. Model 205A/309A/413A etc, the audio
recording function can be enabled and have the recording attached to one of the
active camera. To setup audio recording, please refer to the Attaching audio to
camera of the Option Setting Menu.
Before you can activate this function, you will need to have a Sound (Capture)
board installed and properly configured to the PICO2000 Digital Surveillance
Recorder, as follows:

•

Click Start-> Programs-> Accessory -> Entertainment (Multimedia, for

Windows 95)-> Volume Control, Click Properties from the Options Menu.

Select the Playback check: Make sure the Microphone option is selected

from the “Show all volume control” list box. Click apply and OK, then make

sure the Microphone is Muted at Playback.

•

Repeat the same steps for Recording, only for this time, the Microphone (or

any other input port you may choose as an input feed to the sound board as

the recording source) is selected in this case.

•

You will need to adjust the volume of input and output by using the sound

recorder which is built in with the Windows 98 Operating System.

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FRONT PA N E L

Hard drive
indicator

Power
indicator

Power
switch

Mouse

PICO Unit

SVGA monitor
(Optional)

Keyboard

CD ROM drive
(Optional)

Floppy drive

Reset
Switch

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REAR PANEL

(Shown as Model 416)

*Note:
Camera

Configuration

Camera configuration includes camera connection and the camera title
assignment.
The camera should be connected to the “Camera inputs” properly prior to do the
camera conf i guration.
Assign camera title inside the “Camera Title” message box within the “Utility”
menu. Go to “Utility Function” chapter for detail of camera title assignment.

Tip:
Make sure that the “Active” box is unchecked for the non­connected camera(s), in order to perform the optimum video
quality.

Alarm Connector #1

Alarm Connector #2

Power

Camera inputs*

9

10

11

12

5

6
7
8

1

2
3
4

13

14

15

16

SVGA
monitor

Composite output
(Optional)

S-video output
(Optional)

Mouse Keyboard

Line volta ge
selector

LAN card
(Optional)

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STARTING THE PICO-2000

Turn on the power

Make sure that the line voltage selector in the rear panel is selected correctly.
Press the “POWER” switch in the front panel of the PICO-2000 to power up the
unit.

Logon

After the system start-up process, the PICO-2000 logo and the main screen will
appear as shown in Figure 1.
Click the “Too Many Files Warning” message box “X” icon to clo se the message
box.
Click the Log ON/OFF button. A Logon Screen dialog box will pop up for input.
Two default usernames are available: “

SUPER

” and “

OPERATOR

”.

The factory default password is “

pico

” or

NULL

for either case.

When you logon as “

SUPER

”, you can click on the Utility button to change the
logon password (to be discussed in more detail later on page 37).
However, if you logon as “

OPERATOR

”, the Utility button will be disabled to
prevent the password and some other system and recording settings from being
modified by the operator.

Figure 1

The main screen

Two control panels and various common control buttons are displayed on the
right hand side of the main screen.
The username is shown on the lower left-hand corner.
A progress bar located at the bottom of the screen shows the amount of storage
occupied and available for video recording. The color of the status bar will
gradually change from BLUE – when it is empty to RED – when it is full.
The current time/date is shown on the lower right hand corner.

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DISPLAY (THE MULTIPLEXER FUNCTION)

Display control
panel

PICO-2000 uses a unique Graphical User Interface (GUI) design for display
control. A “DISPLAY” panel is implemented on the upper right hand corner of
the main screen so that the user can interact with the unit more easily.
The “DISPLAY” panel consists of “display mode” buttons, “camera” buttons and
a “sequence” button respectively (see Figure 2-1 for Models 104, 309A, 413A &
416, Figure 2-2 for Models 205A & 208).
All of the push buttons have their individual built-in indicator lights. Once the
button is pressed, it toggles on and off with the indicator light on and off to
indicate its status correspondingly.

Tip:
You are able to know which camera(s) is/are being displayed by the
“DISPLAY” panel indicator lights, and you can press the buttons on
the “DISPLAY” panel to enter your display input right away.

For Models 104, 309A, 413A & 416

Figure 2-1 (Models 416 & 104)

Tip:
No camera button can be selected prior to the mode selection. User
should click on one of the display mode button first.

Multi-Screen mode buttons

1-Screen mode button

Sequence button

Camera buttons

Camera button pressed
down to start display.
Yellow light indicator
represent the camera is
displaying.

16-Screen mode button
4-Screen mode button

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For Models 205A & 208

Figure 2-2(Model 208)

Tip:
No camera button can be selected prior to the mode selection. User
should click on one of the display mode button first.

1-Screen mode

Click the 1-Screen mode button to select this mode.
Only one camera can be selected for display.
Click the camera button to select camera to display in this mode.
The down button will light up in yellow.

4-Screen mode

Click the 4-Screen mode button to select this mode.
Four cameras can be selected for display simultaneously.
Click the camera buttons to select camera(s) to display in this mode.
The down buttons will light up in yellow to indicate the display status.

The camera display in 4-Screen mode is assigned as the following figure for easy
operation.

For Model 104

Figure 3-1

Multi-Screen mode buttons

1-Screen mode button

Sequence button

Camera buttons

8 split Display Mode,
With 1 Large, Higher
Refresh Rate * plus 7 small

16-Screen mode button

4-Screen mode button

Camera 1

Camera 3

Camera 2

Camera 4

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For Model 205A, 208, 309A, 413A & 416

Figure 3-2
Tip:

To make the most use of the 4-Screen real time display of the unit,
consider the arrangement of your camera connections to the unit.
You can think of the cameras that you want to display
simultaneously in a 4-Screen mode as a group. Connect the
grouped cameras to the inputs of the unit in a horizontal
arrangement instead of in a vertical arrangement.

Example: Two possible horizontal arrangements of the grouped
cameras are shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

(Shown as the standard version of PICO2000 system product, for packaged
products, the actual location of camera assigned will vary with the
motherboard and slots being used)

Group 1

10 6 2 14

9 5 1 13

12 8 4 16

11 7 3 15

Camera Inputs in Rear Panel

Group 2

Camera 1,2,3,4

Camera 9,10,11,12
(Model 309A, 413A & 416 only)

Camera 5,6,7,8

Camera 13,14,15,16
(Model 413 & 416 only)

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Multi-Screen mode

A group of four multi-screen buttons is implemented for multi-screen display
control.
The multi-screen buttons are enabled only under the 4-screen mode.
You can click on any of these mode buttons to further split any quadrant of
the original 4-Screen display into a smaller quad display (quad within a quad).
All multiscreen mode buttons can be selected simultaneously.

Example:
Using the following multi-screen buttons configuration (as that shown
in Figure 5-1) as an example, the camera display will be assigned as
Figure 5-2.

Figure 5-1 Figure 5-2

8-Screen mode

Click on the 8-Screen mode button to select this mode.
All cameras will be displayed simultaneously at first time entry to this mode.
Click the camera buttons to select or de-select camera(s) to display in this mode .
The down buttons will light up in yellow to indicate the display status
Click on the surrounding (small) screen will cause the camera on display to be
swapped with the one at the center(Large) screen. Keep doing the swapping until
the designed cameras is assigned to the respective screen. The assignment will be
maintained even if there is a momentary change to other multi-screen modes, but
it will return to its default by logging out and on again.

The camera display in 8-Screen mode is assigned as in Figure 6-1 by default.

Figure 6-1 Figure 6-2

(For Model 205A & 208 only)

Select 4-screen mode to
enable multi-screen selection

The multi-screen buttons can be pressed
simultaneously to superimpose the

q

uad-quad selections.

Cameras 5,6,7,8

1 2
3 4
9 10 13 14
11 12 15 16

1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16

1

5

4

3

2

68 7

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16-Screen mode

Click on the 16-Screen mode button to select this mode.
All cameras will be displayed simultaneously.
The camera buttons will then all light up in yellow to indicate the selection of all
the cameras.

The camera display in 16-Screen mode is assigned as in Figure 6-2

Rapid Zoom

You can switch any camera display to one-screen display mode rapidly.
Simply double-click on the desired image on screen, and the image of that screen
will be switched to “one screen” mode immediately.
For an example, you can change the camera 3 display from 4-Screen display
mode to 1-Screen display mode by double click the camera 3 image on screen.
You can return to the original display mode by a click on the previous display
mode button.

Full screen display

Click on the “Full Scrn” button to display the video(s) in full screen.
All the control panels and buttons will be hidden and only videos will be
displayed on the screen in order to fully utilize the display area of the monitor.
Right-mouse click on any part of the full screen to restore the normal control
panel display.

Sequence

Click the “SEQ” button in the “DISPLAY” panel to toggle the sequence function
on or off.
The indicator of the button lights up in yellow to indicate the sequence functio n.
The function of sequencing is effective for all display modes, except for the 16­Screen mode.
The user can select individual camera(s) for sequencing display.
For the sequence parameter setup and the implementation example, please see the
“Display Sequencing” under “Option Setting” section of this manual.

Note:
When the unit is in sequence mode, all the camera selection buttons
inside display panel will be inhibited. You should click the “SEQ”
button to off position to re-gain manual access of the camera
selection.

REMOTE ONLINE VIEWING AND PLAYBACK RECORDED VIDEO

The Intelligent
Remote Player

An intelligent remote player is designed to provide online viewing and
playback recorded video functions in the remote client station.
While the remote client is doing online viewing, the Pico2000 will
automatically switch to 16-screen display mode.
Please refer to the Intelligent remote player manual for detailed operation
procedure of the intelligent remote player.

PICO Server Button

The appearance of the icon of the “PICO Server” button on the PICO200
Main Screen indicates the server is on for Online Viewing & Dialing in.
The user can turn off this service by clicking the button and click the “close”
icon on the menu bar of the control window.
To re-open this service, click the “Utility” button and select the “PICO
SERVER” function. The icon will re-appear in the Main Screen.

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RECORDING

Storage drive

PICO2000 will automatically detect available fixed hard disk(s) in the unit for
recording for “Normal” backup mode of operation.
PICO2000 will directly record into the active removable hard disk in the unit
for “Archive” backup mode of operation.
Notes: The active (selected) drive should be assigned properly before the
overall backup and restore operation is executed. Assign the target drive inside
the “Insert drive” message box by clicking the “Swap Drive” button while the
system is operated in “Archive” backup mode. Go to the “Option Setting”
chapter for further detail.

Recording modes

According to the recording initiation method, four different modes are
available for selection in PICO-2000:

•

Instant recording

•

Scheduled recording

•

Pre-alarm recording

•

Alarm recording

Multiple camera
recording

All cameras can be recorded independently.
Each camera will be recorded into individual video file(s).
The camera ID, start date/time, and the recording mode of the individual
camera will be logged with database management.

The recorder control
panel

Pico2000 has a “RECORDER” panel (see Figure 7) to let the user interact with
the unit for recording control with enough indication.
There are sixteen camera buttons in the “RECORDER” panel, all of which can
be toggled on or off.
Each button has four built-in indicators with different colors to indicate
different recording modes and statuses.
The available indicator colors are yellow, red, light blue and green,
respectively.

•

Yellow -- the corresponding camera is performing instant recording, which
is initiated by the pressing down of the button manually.

•

Red -- the corresponding camera is under alarm recording, which is
initiated by the alarm input or by motion detection.

•

Light blue -- that the pre-alarm function of that camera is activated.

•

Green -- the corresponding camera is under scheduled recording, which is
controlled by the programmable timer.

Figure 7

Camera buttons

Camera button pressed down
to start instant recording.
Yellow indicator represent
instant recording of the
camera is taking place.

Green indicator signifies that
timer recording of the camera is
taking place.

Red indicator represent
alarm recording of the
camera is taking place.

Light blue indicates that
pre-alarm is activated

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Instant recording

Instant recording is the most interactive way and easy to use recording method.
It is designed to start instantly to capture some unexpected special events.
It works as a complement of the scheduled background recording.
You can simply toggle on or off the video recording by clicking the camera
button in the “RECORDING” panel.
The down button with a yellow light indicator indicates that the camera is
under instant recording.
Instant recording parameters of each camera can be programmed.
Please see the section of “Recorder Setting” for parameter setup.

Tip:
Instant recording is expected to work in a real frame rate for short
time recording while scheduled recording is expected to work in a
lower frame rate for longer time recording.

For quick, instant recording of all installed cameras, the user can click on the
“REC” button in the “RECORDER” panel (as shown in Figure 8 on the lower
right hand corner) to activate/deactivate this function.

Figure 8

One quick button click
to start all cameras for
instant recording.
Another click would
release all cameras
from instant recording.

Click on any camera
button to start instant
recording of that
camera

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Alarm recording

The alarm recording will be triggered by the alarm inputs or the motion
detection.
Sixteen alarm inputs are assigned one to one corresponding to the 16 cameras.
Once the alarm is triggered either by the alarm input or the motion detection,
the corresponding camera will start recording automatically.
A red indicator indicates that the camera is now under alarm recording.
The alarm recording function of an individual camera can be disabled, also the
alarm recording duration and the frame rate of each camera can be
programmed individually.
Please see the section of “Recorder Setting” for the setup details.

Note:
Only the logon username of “SUPER” can access the utility for
alarm enable and alarm recording parameter settings.

Tip:
In order to verify that alarm recording of particular camera(s) is
actually taking place, the user can try and see if the red indicator
light(s) in the RECORDER PANEL is/are being displayed.

Pre-alarm recording

Pre-alarm recording works together with the alarm recording. Pre-alarm
function enables you to capture images before the alarm event is happened.
Pre-alarm allows images to be temporarily recorded for a short period of time
(1 to 60 second) at normal situation. Once an alarm is actually being triggered,
the pre-alarm images become permanent files, which can be retrieved and
played back.
Using “Play Search” function can playback the pre-alarm images.
The pre-alarm function is setup in the “Alarm”, “Recorder Setting” inside
“Utility”.
You can activate the pre-alarm function accordingly when the alarm function is
selected.
Please see the section of “Recorder Setting” for the setup details.

Note:
Pre-alarm images are stored into two temporary files alternatively
under normal situation. Therefore, when alarm is being triggered,
there will be two pre-alarm files accompanies with the alarm file.

Tip:
Pre-alarm recording provides an effective way of using the hard
disk storage:

•

The pre-alarm image will be kept in the hard disk only when an
alarm is actually taken place.

•

Since it provides the image happened before the alarm, you can
review what is happening right before the alarm triggering, it is

no longer necessary to do schedule recording at all time.
For an example, the door was opened, and it triggered the alarm
recording and you can also know who opened the door by playback
the pre-alarm recording video.

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Scheduled recording

A programmable timer is implemented for scheduled recording.
PICO-2000 supports both weekday and weekend scheduled recording.
The timer will start and stop scheduled recording automatically according to
your input.
A green indicator indicates that the camera is recording under the timer control.
The default recording duration value is 0, which represents infinity or continue
recording.
During schedule recording, you can manually over ride to instant recording
mode by pressing down the camera button. The indicator will change to
yellow to indicate that the camera is under instant recording.
However, it will automatically resume scheduled recording once you click the
camera button again to turn off instant recording of that camera. The indicator
will then resume to green.
Please see the section of “Recording Setting” for the setup and implementation
example of the schedule recording.

Note:
Only the logon username of “SUPER” can access the utility for
configuring settings of scheduled recording parameters.

Tip:
The user can verify if scheduled recording is actually taking place
by trying to see if the green indicator light(s) in the RECORDER
panel is/are lit.

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PLAYBACK

Playback the video

Recorded video in all hard disk(s) and removable disk(s) can be retrieved for
playback.
Click the “Play Back” button in the main screen to activate the Select Drive
dialog box. (as shown in Figure 9)

Figure 9

Select Drive

Click the Downward arrow and select desired drive no. C, D, E….from the pull
down list

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The video player

(Figure 10)

Click the “Play search” button in the Pico2000 and select which camera to
playback by the play search functions of the Pico2000. Once the video is
selected, click the “Play” button to invoke the video player.

List File Record

Click the “File Record” button in the Video Player Dialog Menu bar to display
the list of video files for the selected camera. Click on the desired file from the
list and Click Open File Button to start the playback.
The File List will change as the video search engine is manipulated, to match
with only those files appear on the video bar window. Click the Reset Button to
resume the List of all files on Selected Camera title.

Figure 10

Open
Multiple
Files

•

Snap
Shot

•

Video
Mode

•

Zoom In

•

Zoom
Out

•

Print

•

Save

Camera
Title

Absolute
Date/Time
and length
of the video

Speed control
for playback

Frame
operation

Open
Single file

Video Search Engine (see following
page for detail description)

Scroll bar for manual search

Play

Stop

Steps advance and go to begin/ end

Begin/end mar ke r

Event(s) under
search

Reset Magnify

Display
Video Files

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Video playback
controls

The video file selected in “Play Search” will be loaded and played automatically.
Use the video playback controls beneath the video image to control the video
playback function.

•

User can stop the video and use the scroll bar to search the video if needed.

•

Press the “two-arrow” keys to advance one frame at a time.

Playback camera
control

Using the camera title control box can select the camera by name or title for
playback. Click the downward arrow and click the desired camera for playback.
During other playback operation, repeat the same procedure to select the new
desired camera for playback, the playback action of the previously selected
camera will terminated.

(Simultaneous playback of two or more recorded videos is possible by invoking
the playback operation from the main menu but this is not recommended.)

Absolute date/time
and length display

The absolute date/time of the playback and the length of the video will be
displayed on the control panel.

Playback speed
control

Using the sliding control box can adjust the playback speed. Drag the control
button to the right side to increase the playing speed. Drag it left to decrease the
playing speed. The normal playback speed is indicated in the speed control box
when the control button is put in the middle.

Rewind and replay

Using the Begin/end Marker can select a portion of the current video file to be
replay in a loop. Drag the scroll bar (Scroll bar for manual search) to the desired
beginning position, click the “Begin” button to enter the marker, then repeat the
process to enter the “end” position with the “end” marker button. Click “Play’
button to begin the playback with auto-rewind.

Frame mode for
print and save a
frame

Use “Snap shot” to grab a frame from the video and enter the frame operation
mode.
User can select area of interest using mouse movement and the mouse left button
and then click “Zoom” button to zoom in the image. Click “Unzoom” to return
to normal display.
Click the “Print” button to print out the image captured.
The frame can be saved to floppy disk in drive A by clicking the “Save” button.
The saved filename has the following format:

x-mmddyy-hhmmss.bmp

x: camera number
mmddyy: month/day/year
hhmmss: hour:minute:second
bmp: bmp file extension

Tip:
The user can set up printer properties for printing hard copy and
previewing the hard copy before actual printing.

Return to Video
mode

Click the “Video mode” button to go back to video playback mode.

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The video search
engine*

A video search engine is a sep arate functional block for video searching of a
camera graphically.
Two date/time pickers are used for begin and end date/time input and indication.
All the available recorded videos within this date/time limits will be presented
inside the video bar window.
Different types of video will be presented in different colors, codes as follows:

•

Yellow - Instance recording video

•

Green - Schedule recording video

•

Blue - Pre-alarm recording video

•

Red - Alarm recording
Down the event-search button to select types of event under search, they are
color coded in the same manner the event. By default all types are selected when
the Player is activated.
A marker, which is a small rectangle box inside the video bar window (which
shows multiple video files), marks the “video header” position of the video.
Point the mouse cursor and click inside the video bar window, the video marker
will snap to the nearest “video header” position of a video.
A date/time display box in the middle of the video search engine displays the
current date/time value of the marker position.

Playback the
current file

Click the “Open Single file” icon button to open the marked video for viewing.
Once the button is pressed down, the video will be playback until the end of the
file is reached.

Open the video files
and playback
continuously

Click the “Open Multiple files” icon button to open the marked video for
viewing.
Once the icon button is pressed down, the videos will playback one by one
continuously. Or user can click the “Open Multiple files” icon button to release
the button to disable the continuous playback.

Search the video
interactively

User can directly input the begin/end date/time by using the “begin and end
date/time picker” to select interesting portion of the video bar window to show in
more detail.
User can also use the mouse click to mark the interesting “video header” and then
click the “Magnify +” icon to magnify the interesting portion.
Use the left and right arrow icon buttons to scroll the video bar window.
Repeat the mark and magnify actions to search for the video of interest.
Click the “Magnify all (Reset)” icon to resume to present all available video.

*The video search engine is designed to search the available video in the selected hard disk(s) only.

Event(s)
under search

Begin Date/time picker

End Date/time picker

Marker position

Video bar window

Magnify All
(Reset)

Magnify +

Current Date/Time of the marker position

Video header

Left arrow for
scroll control

Right arrow for
scroll control

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MOTION DETECTION

Motion detection

An advanced digital video-processing algorithm is used to implement motion
detection function in Pico2000. The motion detection function is designed to
automatically detect any activities within a selected detection area(s), and to start
recording of that camera when activity is detected inside the detection area(s).

Set up the motion
detection

Right click the mouse button on the video screen of the camera you want to set
motion detection.
A “Motion detection setting” dialog box will pop up for motion detection setting.

Selected area for
motion detection

Grid superimposed
on the video screen

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Set detection area

The first thing to do is to input the detection area(s). Click the “Detection area
setup” button to show the grid on video screen for detection area selection.
Simply click on any spot to select/de-select the grid(s) to form detection area(s)
of any shape in the video screen for motion detection.
The “Select all” button is used to rapidly select the whole video screen for
detection.
The “Clear all” button is used to de-select all the selected areas.

Indicate the
detection area

If you want the detection area to be presented on the video screen during normal
operation, click the “Show at all time” button.
If you don’t want the detection area to be presented in the video screen during
normal operation, click the “Not show” button.

Set sensitivity for
motion detection

Click the “Sensitivity setup” button to display the “activity blocks” for sensitivity
setup.
The “activity blocks” will superimpose on the moving object to highlight the
activities on the video screen.
You can adjust the sensitivity by using the sensitivity cont rol box. Clic k t he up
arrow button to increase the sensitivity and click the down arrow button to
decrease the detection sensitivity respectively.
The sensitivity value display inside the control box, which is an arbitrary value,
indicates the relative detection sensitivity.
Adjust the sensitivity by monitoring the “activity blocks” on the screen to
determine that the sensitivity is adjusted to an optimal condition for motion
detection and without false alarm.
User can check the “Show within detection area” button to confine the “activity
blocks” only to display within the detection areas you have selected.

Detection interval

The occurrence of motion is detected by correlating the successive frames of the
video. The “Detection interval” control box can adjust the detection interval
between these successive frames. The detection interval is in unit of 100mS.
The default value is at 200mS.

Recording time
extension

The motion detected in the detection area(s) will be used as an event to trigger
the alarm recording of the corresponding camera.
Once the recording is started, it will continue with an extension time even the
motion is stopped.
This extension time can be adjusted by using the “Post motion rec.” control box.
The time interval is in unit of second show inside the control box and the default
value is 3 seconds.

Enable the motion
detection function

Check the “Motion detection enable” box to enable the motion detection function
once you have set all the parameters.
(User can temporarily disable the motion detection by uncheck the “Motion
detection enable” box. All the settings of the motion detection will stay
unchanged, which let the user to enable the motion detection back again
afterward more easy).
Click the “Close” button, the corresponding camera button in the display panel
will light up with a yellow grid indicator to indicate the motion detection
function.
The detection area will be presented in the video screen if the “Show at all time”
button is checked.

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(Show as Model 416)

Tips Use the same image resolution for displaying and recording to get better and

stable performance of the motion detection function.

•

When display at QUAD mode; use “High” resolution mode for motion
detection recording.

•

When display at 16-screen mode; use “Low” resolution mode for motion
detection recording.

•

When display at one screen mode use “Supper” mode for motion
detection recording.

•

Without displaying the motion detection camera.

Yellow grid indicator
indicates that the motion
detection is enabled

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PAN-TILT ZOOM CONTROL

Pan-tilt Zoom

Using the pan-tilt zoom function, the camera can zoom in or out to adjust the
view angle of the camera for a better image, or it can pan and tilt the camera to
different position of interest for better surveillance.
Click the PTZ icon button besides the “EXIT” button to activate t he P TZ panel.

Note:
The camera number setting of the On Site Receiver Driver (OSRD)
should be set up correctly with the same camera number as the
camera attached to it.

Driver Mode
Setting

Right click the mouse on anywhere of the PTZ Panel, a menu will appear which
can select the MODE, PORT SETTING or EXIT.
Select the MODE item, a sub menu will show up the item MV912RS, Old OSRD
Code, PTZ Receiver Driver and/or other available Custom’s option. After your
selection, a tick will appear left to the item.

Note :
To run the pan-tilt function properly, you should match the OSRD
with the selected protocol.
MV912RS must match the OSRD model of MV360.
Old OSRD Code must match the OSRD model of MV561.
PTZ Receiver Driver must match the OSRD model of PTZ100

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Port Setting

The port setting is about the COM port (the serial port) connection preferences.
The default of the connection preferences is as the following figure.
Please refer to individual OSRD connection preferences for correct setup of the
connection preferences.

Camera Selection

The camera selection box in the PTZ control panel is for selecting the desired
camera for PTZ control.

Monitor Selection

While the MV912RS protocol is selected, there will be a monitor selection box in
the PTZ control panel.
Monitor selection is for use with the video switcher product MV900 of
UniVision Engineering Limited (UEL).
For the MV900 switcher system, there will be 176 possible cameras which can be
distributed to 16 individual monitor outputs.
The monitor selection box is for monitor selection.
In order to control PTZ of the desired camera through the MV900 switcher, you
should select the monitor number and the camera number accordingly prior to do
so.

Speed control

The speed of movement of the pan-tilt head can be controlled. The slide bar is to
control the speed of movement.

Pan-tilt zoom
control

Once the camera is selected, click the arrow buttons for corresponding direction
movement, the focus and zoom control.

Pre-position

The positions of the pan tilt head can be saved so that camera can repeat its
position when wanted.

Set Pre-position

Use the “Pre-position” box to enter the pre-position number.
Once the number is selected, pan/tilt the camera to a desired position and then,
press “Set” button to assign this position into that particular pre-position nu mber.

Show Pre-position

Use the “Pre-position” box to enter the pre-position number.
Once the number is selected, press the “Show” button to send the camera to the
saved pre-position.

Pre-position hot keys

Four hot keys are implemented for four frequently used pre-positions.
Once programmed, press these hot keys will send the camera to it’s pre-position
accordingly.

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UTILITY FUNCTIONS

Access to Utility
Functions

When the user logged on as “SUPER”, he/she is authorized to use the Utility
functions.
However, if the user logged on as “OPERATOR”, the Utility button will be
disabled to prevent the password and some other system and recording settings
from being modified by the operator.
Click on the Utility button on the main screen, and the Utility menu will then pop
up as shown in Figure 12.

Re-activate the
disabled
Housekeeping
Functions

The Housekeeping Function of the Utility Menu is disabled in case the PICO2000
is operated in the “Archive” Backup mode. To activate those build-in
housekeeping functions from PICO2000, switch the system back to “Normal”
backup mode. Go to the Option Setting Chapter for further details.

Figure 12

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CAMERA CONFIGURATION

Camera title
assignment

To assign the Camera title correctly for individual camera connected to the
Pico2000 unit, Click the “Utility” button and then select the “Camera Setting”
button for camera title input. A camera setting dialog box (as seen in Figure 13)
will be displayed for camera title input.
The default camera title is Camera 1 to Camera 16 respectively.
Click the desired input area for data entry, and then input the camera title
accordingly. User can use the Backspace and Del keys in the keyboard to edit
the text in the input field.

Maximum no. of
camera imposed by
software

The max. no. of cameras is limited to 4 for model 104 and 8 for model 208 etc.
This is to match with the desi gn no. of cameras shown in the corresponding part
of the generic model no. The camera assignment check box(es) will turn to Grey
color and no manual assignment is possible.

Check the active
connected cameras

The “Active” check box should be unchecked for the non-connected camera
inputs.
When the “Active” check box is unchecked to the Cam ID, then the

corresponding buttons in the “Display” and “Recorder” panels will be

disabled

to stop the display and recording function of these camera inputs.

Apply the camera
title

Click the “Apply” button to apply the camera titles right away.
Click OK to confirm the inputs and close the dialog box.
Or you can click “Cancel” button to close the dialog box without change.
The camera title will be displayed on the screen to indicate the camera title.
The camera title will also be used for the video playback search.
The camera number buttons will be disabled in the “Display” and “Recorder”
panels for the non-connected camera inputs.

Figure 13

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RECORDER SETTING

The recording
parameters

The instant recording, alarm recording and the scheduled recording modes
should have their individual sets of recording parameter settings.
Click the “Utility” button and then select the “Recording Setting” to start
program the recording parameters of individual cameras for different recording
modes.

Frame rate

Frame rate is the most important parameter for recording setting.
The value of frame rate is in f/s (frame per second), which controls how many
frames will be recorded for every second.
PICO-2000 provides a selection list for frame rate input. The possible frame
rates are 25, 12.5, 8, 4, 1, ½ and 1/60 frames per second respectively.
The ½ frame per second frame rate selection is interpreted as one frame
recorded every two seconds, and a 1/60 frames per second frame rate selection
means the recording of one frame every 60 seconds.

Note: The actual frame rate of recording will be same as this setting if the
system resource at the condition taken care of other system setting
permits. However, the PICO2000 may regard this setting as the target
maximum frame rat e.

The start and end
times for scheduled
recording

The start time and end time is needed for scheduled recording.
The input time is in the 24-hour HH:MM format.
The factory default setting of the weekday recording start time is 0:0 and the
default end time is also 0:0.
Under this default setting, the camera will start at Monday 0:0 and end at
Tuesday 0:0 and then start right away at Tuesday 0:0 and repeat all over again
for the rest of the weekdays. Therefore, weekday recording will record at all
times from Monday 0:0 through Saturday 0:0.
Weekend scheduled recording also has the default 0:0 start time and 0:0 end
time.
Under default start and end time the unit will start recording at Saturday 0:0
and end at Monday 0:0.

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Instant recording

Select the Instant tab inside the Recording Setting menu and a screen similar to
that of Figure 14 is shown.
Input the desired frame per second for individual cameras.
The default frame rate is 25 frames per second.
Click OK to confirm the input and close the dialog box or click the X box in
the upper right corner to close the dialog box after use.

Tip:
Eight frames per second or above is recommended for instant
recording to capture real-time video.

Figure 14

Use scroll bar to
see more selections

Click this arrow to
show the list

Recording setting for instant recording

Click OK to
confirm input

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Alarm recording

Select the Alarm tab inside the Recording Setting menu (a screen similar to that in
Figure 15 would then pop up).
Check the “ON” box for corresponding camera to enable the alarm input and the
alarm recording function.
Input the alarm recording duration in the (in sec) column.
Check the Nopen (Normally open) box if the switch connected to the alarm input is a
normally opened switch.
Input the frame per second for individual cameras. The default frame rate is 25 f/s.

Pre-alarm recording

Check the “ON” box in the pre-alarm column to enable the pre-alarm function of the
corresponding camera(s).
Input the pre-alarm duration from one to 60 seconds.
Every time when the alarm is triggered, the pre-alarm recording image will be saved
into a permanent file, which can be retrieved for playback.
Click OK to confirm the input.

Tip:
Pre-alarm lets you review images prior to the actual happening of
the alarm event. Also, pre-alarm keeps the images only when the
alarm is actually taking place, so that storage space can be used
more effectively. This mode is more effective than that in
scheduled recording.

Figure 15

Check the cameras
for alarm recording

Input recording time

Check the box if the
sensor device is
normally open type

Input frame per
second

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Scheduled weekday
recording

(Figure 16)

Select the Schedule Weekday tab inside the Recording Setting menu.
Check the camera you want to record.
Input the start time and the end time for scheduled weekday recording.
Input the frame per second for individual cameras.
The default frame rate is 1 frame per second.

Figure 16

Use scroll bar to
see more selections

Click this arrow to
show the list

Check the cameras for
weekday recording

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Scheduled weekend
recording
(Figure 17)

Select the Schedule Weekend tab inside the Recording Setting menu.
Check the camera you want to record.
Input the start time and the end time for scheduled weekend recording.
Input the frame per second for individual cameras.
The default frame rate is 1 frame per second.

Tip:
Scheduled recording is a background recording activity of the
recorder. A lower frame rate for scheduled recording will much
prolong the recording time. It is recommended to use frame rates
of four frames per second or lower for scheduled recording.

Figure 17

Use scroll bar to
see more selections

Click this arrow to
show the list

Check the cameras for
weekend recording

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Example 1 Suppose you want to start and stop your recording on one camera

within the same day every weekday, say 9:00 to 17:00 from Monday to
Friday. You should go to the schedule weekday recording menu, check
on the desired camera, enter 9:00 in the start time input, 17:00 in the
end time input, then enter the frame rate you want and finally click OK
to confirm.
You will see the green indicator light of that camera in the RECORDER
panel at 9:00 to 17:00 to indicate that scheduled record ing is taking
place.

Example 2 Suppose you want to start recording one camera at 18:00 and stop at

6:00 the next day, for everyday from Monday to Friday.
You should go to the schedule weekday recording menu, check on the
desired camera, enter 18:00 in the start time input, 6:00 in the end time
input, then enter the frame rate you want and finally click OK to
confirm.
In this case, the recorder will start at Monday 18:00 and then stop at
Tuesday 6:00 and the schedule continues every weekday. While on
Friday, the recorder would start at 18:00 as usual but it would stop on
Saturday at 0:0.
Therefore, you should enter another schedule for weekend recording to
fit your scheduled planning as a whole.

Audio Recording

This is an optional function only available to models with an “A” suffix to the
generic model no. such as 205A, 309A or 413A. Go to the “Options Setting”
Chapter for further details.

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OPTION SETTING

Display Sequencing

Click “Utility”, “Option Setting” and then “Displa y” to get to the sequence
display menu.
Enter the dwell time for sequencing duration. The default dwell time is 1 second.
Check the camera(s) you want to display during sequencing.
Click Apply to apply the input parameters right away.
Click OK to confirm and close the dialog box.
For sequencing operation please see the “Display” section of this manual.

Example:
The cameras 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 are checked in Figure 18.

Figure 18

While in the 1-Screen mode, the sequence will be performed as follows:

While in the 4-Screen mode, the sequence will be performed as follows:

3 4 5 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16

13 14 15 16

5 7 8

3 4

9 12

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Image resolution
for all recording

Select the Recording tab in the Option Setting menu (Figure 19).
The Resolution check box controls the image resolution for recording.
Super recording mode set the recording in the full resolution, which is 640 pixels
by 480 pixels in PAL and NTSC system.
High recording mode set the recording in a standard resolution, which is about
384 pixels by 288 pixels in PAL system and is about 320 by 240 pixels for NTSC
system.
Low recording mode set the recording in a low resolution, which is about 192
pixels by 144 pixels in PAL system and is about 160 by 120 pixels for NTSC
system.

Tip:
Check the “High” box in Resolution for most of the case. It is to
optimize the system performance and storage usage.

Figure 19

Recording mode
selection

Linear recording mode:
When linear mode is selected for recording, the recording (alarm, pre-alarm,
instance and schedule) will stop automatically when the storage device(s) is all
used.
Circular recording mode:
When circular mode is selected, the recording will keep on by automatically over
writing the oldest files once the storage device(s) is full. However, the alarm
image file(s) will be protected in this mode.

Attach Audio to
Camera

For Models with Audio Recording support only, make sure the system is properly
set up for audio recording, equipped with an audio pickup device and have the
volume control setup for both recording an playback etc. The message box is
opened for input. Enter the camera no. for attaching recorded audio data. When a
“0” is entered, no audio recording will be performed.
The audio data is now setup to be recorded and playback in sync. With the video
part of the selected camera.

Drive capacity

The total space, free space and the used space of the selected drive are displayed
simultaneously.
A progress bar is displayed to indicate the usage level of the recorder drive
graphically.

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Backup function

Make sure to select the intended Backup Mode prior the formal use of the
PICO2000 system for routine video recording.

Normal Mode

Make sure to select the backup drive prior to the backup.
Click on Utility, then Option setting, and finally the Backup tab (Figure 20).
Click the down arrow in the backup drive box to display the available
removable drive(s) for backup and select the desired backup drive.
The removable device can be a DVD-RAM drive or a removable IDE hard
drive.
The user can choose to keep copies on hard disk after backup or not.
Click Apply to confirm and click OK to close the dialog box.

Archive Mode

The system is set to “Normal” backup mode as system default. T o switch to
“Archive” mode, check the bullet option next to Archive, then Apply and OK.
The PICO2000 application should closed and restarted to effect the change.
At the start up on Archive backup mode, the main screen of the PICO2000
will be slightly modified and refreshed as shown in figure 21.

Figure 20

Figure 21

Swap
Drive

Red

– Indicate the Drive is set Active, being used for immediate video recording

Green

– Indicates the Drive is dismounted, ready for physically taken out

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Swap Drive

(Applicable to Archive
Backup mode of operation
only)

Make sure the system is properly setup with two available “Removable Hard
drive” and there is a fixed hard drive to support system operations.
Click the Swap Drive button in the Main Screen and then the “Swap drive”
message box will appear as shown in Figure 22.
Click the down arrow in the Select drive dialog box next to the Remove
button to display the registered removable drive(s) for removal and select the
desired drive. Click Remove button and follow the pop up instruction to
complete the REMOVE process.
The entire drive can be back up (Archive) to other long term storage media
such as the DAT or equivalent device with huge storage capacity but may not
work as fast. This operation on a dismounted drive can be down off-line
(while the PICO2000 is closed) or in a separate PC workstation.

Re-insertion of
Removable Drive

Click the Swap Drive button in the Main Screen and then the “Swap drive”
message box will appear as shown in Figure 22.
Click the down arrow in the Select drive dialog box next to the Insert button
to display the registered removable drive(s) for insertion and select the desired
drive. Click Insert button and follow the pop up instruction to complete the
INSERTION (RE-Insertion) process.

If a blank new drive is inserted in the slot, make sure it is of the same make
and configuration as the removed drive for proper operation.

Figure 22

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System operation
data

Click on the System tab in Option Setting menu (Fig ure 2 3)
There are two default usernames for PICO-2000:

SUPER

and

OPERATOR

.
Two passwords can be introduced for security use during the logon session. The
users should input the correct password to logon to the system.
You can select the date/time display format to 12-hour or 24-hour format.
Click Apply to confirm the input, click OK to confirm and exit or click Cancel to
exit without any changes.
Check the “Logout continue display/recording” box if you want the image to
continue to be displayed and instant recording still function activated upon logout

Figure 23

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HOUSEKEEPING

Backup

The Housekeeping Menu is disabled when the system is set to “Archive” Backup
mode, To revert it to “NORMAL” mode, go to the Options Setting chapter for
further details.
Click Utility, Housekeeping then backup to open the backup menu (Figure 24
Select the camera(s) you want to do backup on.
Check the file(s) you want to backup by clicking on the file list, or you can
backup all files by checking the backup all files box.
You can keep copies on the hard disk after backup by checking the “Keep copies
on hard disk” box.
If you want to clean up old files in the backup device prior to do backup, check
the “Delete all files in the backup device” box.
The free storage capacity of the backup device is also shown in the dialog box.
Click the “Start” button to start the backup process.

Figure 24

Backup progress
Indicator

A progress bar will be shown at the bottom of the main screen to indicate the
backup progress. The number of files to backup and the progress will be
indicated accordingly.

Tip:
Use the Play Search function of the unit to playback video of
the backup drive.

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Remove video files

Click Utility, Housekeeping and then Remove Files tab (Figure 25).
Click the down arrow in the camera box to select one or all cameras.
The camera related video files would then be displayed inside the window.
You can check the file(s) to delete by clicking on the camera title or you can
check the “Delete all files” box to delete all files.
Click Start button to execute the file delete function.
The video files will be deleted to spare storage space and the database will be
updated accordingly.

Figure 25

Note:
Camera

The camera column displays the corresponding camera titles

Date/Time

The date/time column displays the record starting date and time

Event

“SCH”, “REC” and “ALM” represents schedule, instant and alarm recording events
respectively.

Filename

The filename has the following format:

x-mmddyy-hhmmss.avi

x: camera number
mmddyy: month/ d a y/ ye ar
hhmmss: hour:minute:second
avi: avi file extension

Size

The file size in KB

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Housekeeping tools

Click on the Tools tab to enter the tools utility (Figure 26).
Users are recommended to use the “Run Scan Disk” and “Run Disk
Defragmenter” functions on a frequent basis to optimize and debug the
storage device(s) being used.

Figure 26

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System Information

Click the System Information button to display the “About Pico2000”
message box, which shows relevant information about the PICO-2000 (Figure

27).

Figure 27

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TOO MANY FILES WARNING

Too many files
warning message

All of the recording will be logged with a database system.
Even a very short video file (such as few seconds long) will occupy as an
entry of the database.
Large number of entry will affect the performance of the database
management.
Therefore, a “Too Many Files Warning” message box is designed to provide
information to the user about the file number.
A warning message and the exact number of file will be displayed in the “Too
Many Files Warning” message box.

Invoke the message
box

The “Too Many Files Warning” message box will automatically pop up when
the number of file is excess the default value.
Or user can press the “Ctrl” “Alt” and “1” in the keyboard, do not use the “1”
key located on the Numeric Keypad, to show the message box at any time to
check the number of file in the unit.

Remove the message
box

User can close the message box by clicking the “X” icon at the upper right
hand corner.
To permanently disable the message box, user can check the “Do not appear
in the future” box and then click the “X” icon to close the message box.
Once the “Too Many Files Warning” message box is permanently disabled,
user should restart the unit (“Exit”, power down and then power up) to re­activate the message box again.

Tip:
False alarm (including by motion detection) will generate many
small files. It is recommended to setup the unit properly to avoid
false alarm.
When the “Too Many Files Warning” is shown, user should
remove the out dated files to decrease the number of file.

Note:
The number of file is not directly related to the storage space usage
of the hard drive.

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Setup and the default
values

User can adjust the default value of the “Too Many Files Warning” signal.
Right click the mouse button inside the dialog box, and then click “Setting”, a
setup dialog box will be displayed.

Warning string:

The default warning string is “Remove files/use longer duration for alarm
recording”.

Filename string:

The default value is “c:pico\image\*.avi”
Don’t change this default or the warning message will not work pro perly.

Warning number of files:

The default value is 1500.

Update time interval (sec):

The default value is 5 seconds.
Click “OK” to confirm input or “Cancel” to cancel the change.

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WORKING AT LOGOFF

Log off

Click the Log ON/OFF button on the main screen to log off.
Once logged off, the unit will not show any video images. The PICO2000
logo will then be displayed on the screen.

Note:

You should re-logon with the correct password to regain operation
of the unit.

Note:

In the System menu of Option Settings, check the “Logout
continue display/recording” box if you want the image to be
continually displayed after logoff.

Recording during log
off

The alarm and scheduled recording functions of the unit will keep on working
during the logged off period.
PICO-2000 will continue recording even if the unit is under the logged off
condition.

Note:

In the System menu of Option Settings, check the “Logout
continue display/recording” box if you want the instant recording
function to be continually functioning after logoff.

SHUT DOWN THE UNIT

Exit

Make sure that all the current recording jobs of the PICO-2000 is closed
before shutting down the system to prevent data loss.
Click the EXIT button on the main screen and confirm shutdown.
The system will automatically shut down and power off.

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SYSTEM MAINTENANCE

Schedule backup and
remove the video file

The video files in the Pico2000 unit should be backup and remove in a regular
basis with a properly setup schedule.
This will insure that the performance of the Pico2000 unit is working under
its optimum condition.
It is also a vital procedure to prevent from data lose due to out of storage
space of the hard drive.

Compact Database
system

As a normal operation, it is recommended that user should log off and turn off
the Pico2000 unit in a monthly basis.
This will allow the database to close and then do some optimization and
compacting of the record configuration during the system power up.

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TYPICAL CONFIGURATION

Alarm tester box
(Optional accessory)

Alarm input
connector #1

Alarm input
connector #2

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ALARM INPUT CONNECTION

External view of connectors

Connector #1 Connector #2

Alarm Input Connector #1 Alarm Input/Output Connector #2

Pin No. Designations Pin No. Designations

1 Alarm input 1 1 Alarm input 13
2 Alarm input 2 2 Alarm input 14
3 Alarm input 3 3 Alarm input 15
4 Alarm input 4 4 Alarm input 16
5 Alarm input 5 5 Alarm output 1
6 Alarm input 6 6 Alarm output 2
7 Alarm input 7 7 Alarm output 3
8 Alarm input 8 8 N.C.

9 Alarm input 9 9 Gnd
10 Alarm input 10 10 Gnd
11 Alarm input 11 11 Gnd
12 Alarm input 12 12 Gnd
13 N.C. 13 Gnd
14 Gnd 14 Gnd
15 Gnd 15 Gnd
16 Gnd
17 Gnd
18 Gnd
19 Gnd
20 Gnd
21 Gnd
22 Gnd
23 Gnd
24 Gnd
25 Gnd

25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

15 14 13 12 11 10 9

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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COLOR CODE OF ALARM INPUT AND OUTPUT CABLES

1. 24-core cable (Blue ring) to connector #1 (DB25 female connector)
Alarm Inputs #1 to 12

Color Code for 24-core cable (Blue Ring):
Pin 1-Alarm #1 input: R/Or Pin 14-Alarm #1 ground: Wh/G
Pin 2-Alarm #2 input: Bk/G Pin 15-Alarm #2 ground: Wh-Bk/R
Pin 3-Alarm #3 input: Bk/R Pin 16-Alarm #3 ground: Wh/R
Pin 4-Alarm #4 input: Bk/Or Pin 17-Alarm #4 ground: Wh/Bl
Pin 5-Alarm #5 input: R/Bl Pin 18-Alarm #5 ground: R/Bk
Pin 6-Alarm #6 input: Bk Pin 19-Alarm #6 ground: Wh/G
Pin 7-Alarm #7 input: Wh Pin 20-Alarm #7 ground: Bk/Bl
Pin 8-Alarm #8 input: G/R Pin 21-Alarm #8 ground: Bl
Pin 9-Alarm #9 input: G/Or Pin 22-Alarm #9 ground: R/Wh
Pin 10-Alarm #10 input: Or Pin 23-Alarm #10 ground: Bk/Wh
Pin 11-Alarm #11 input: Wh-R/Bk Pin 24-Alarm #11 ground: G
Pin 12-Alarm #12 input: Bk-R/Wh Pin 25-Alarm #12 ground: Wh/Bk
Pin 13-Not Used

2. 8-core cable (Blue ring) to connector #2 (DB15 female connector)
Alarm Inputs #13 to 16

Color Code for 8-core cable (Blue Ring):
Pin 1-Alarm #13 input: R Pin 9-Alarm #13 ground: Bk
Pin 2-Alarm #14 input: Y Pin 10-Alarm #14 ground: Wh
Pin 3-Alarm #15 input: Or Pin 11-Alarm #15 ground: Br
Pin 4-Alarm #16 input: G Pin 12-Alarm #16 ground: Bl

3. 6-core cable (Yellow ring) to connector #2 (DB15 female connect or)
Alarm inputs #1 to 3

Color Code for 6-core cable (Yellow Ring):
Pin 5-Alarm #1 output: R Pin 13-Alarm #1 ground: Br
Pin 6-Alarm #2 output: G Pin 14-Alarm #2 ground: Bk
Pin 7-Alarm #3 output: Wh Pin 15-Alarm #3 ground: Bl
Pin 8-Not Used

Abbreviation:

R-Red G-Green Wh-White Bl-Blue Bk-Black
Br-Brown Or-Orange Y-Yellow