IPCMonitor User Manual
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1. Devices management Figure 2 Devices Management 4 1 Adding A Device 1 Basic configuration Add device into General info Alarm setting Record scheduling Sees 5S DomainiP 492 168 0 158 Port Viewing account admin Viewing pas weorel Figure 3 Adding A Device tab Click the F button shown on Figure 2 information of the device will be prompted to input As of Figure 3 O device name is unique operation will be denied in case name conflicts in Device Management and once set it is recommended not to be changed e Choose the right product series Required e The fields Domain IP Port Viewing Username and Viewing Password are required Test the connection from web browser Since the device is connected to WAN IP address can be instead by a domain name 2 Alarm Setting Alarm mode can be set by clicking on the Alarm Setting tab as of Figure 4 Enabling the alarm check the Enabled alarm first Add device info Device name General info Alarm setting Record scheduling Enabled alarm 2 All time Trigger motion detective J outer input Action v siren snapshot record O schedule armed day stan Time end Time trigger Figure 4 Alarm Setting Select All time or Schedule armed then fill out the Trigger and Action blank Note Before alarm setting please make sure the ip camera s configuration is correct and it could detect the alarm2. refer to the ip camera user manual During the armed period alarm action like siren snapshot or video recording will be taken once the trigger meets 3 Record Scheduling Video recording can be scheduled by clicking on the Record Scheduling tab The device will perform video recording automatically according to the schedule as of Figure 5 Add device into General info Alarm setting Record scheduling Enabled schedule Schedule da eX nc start Time end Time 1 17 11 00 18 11 00 2 20 11 00 22 11 00 Figure 5 Record Scheduling 4 2 Adding Multiple Devices in LAN Multiple devices within the LAN can be added by clicking the o button A sample is shown in Figure 6 e Select the product series and click Search the found devices will be listed Tick the checkbox on the device which going to be added assign a name and set the viewing username and password e Click OK then the device is put in the device list Search amp add devices Found devices Select series Devi cefamet Domain IF 1 fw 00Zadat officel 192 168 0 188 80 admin o 2 V 002acgw office 192 168 0 178 30 admin pec 3 Masai 192 168 0 240 10540 Figure 6 Add Multiple Devices NOTICE In case a firewall is running on the computer by the time clicking the search button a window would pop up asking whether block or unblock the application please click unblock 4 3 Modifying Devices Modify the setting of a
3. device by selecting the device and click button The modifying window is same as Adding A Device window lt can change the device data alarm setting and record setting When modifying a device name click the down arrow and select Modify device name from the drop list As of Figure 7 Bodify selected device Modify device name Figure 7 drop list 4 4 Deleting Device Delete a device by selecting it and click the x 7 button When deleting all the devices click the down arrow on the right side and select delete all devices from the drop list 4 5 Further Notifications for Device List Window 1 After adding a device right click on the device and select open browser a browser window will be opened and auto login to the device In case the login fails the device may be offline or the device info is incorrect 2 A E icon will be shown on the right side of a device in case alarm is enabled 3 A Y icon will be shown on the right side of a device in case video recording is scheduled 4 If you double click and area it will pop up the alarm and record setting window 5 The last column of the list is to display alarm double click this area It will present the device s alarm Devices management ves x 6 0 List apt Al e 1 officel e office E testl T E Figure 8 Device list 5 Video view After adding devices IPCMonitor doesn t work until the related devices are started IPCMonitor provides th
4. the user manual of the IP Camera to know the IP Camera belongs to which series support Q B H series products This article provides a how to on viewing the IP Camera s video by using this dedicated client application 2 Computer Requirement Using IPCMonitor your computer should meet the following configuration gt CPU Dual core CPU RAM 1GB or above Hard disk 160GB or above OS Windows XP or higher Resolution of display 21024 768 VV VV 3 Installation IP Camera Centralization Honitor Y1 0 0 2 O e E ex TP Camera History About Devices mana gement VOS 6 0 List opt All v ice Manage eh Device contr el Local IP 127 0 0 1 Login date 2010 03 29 21 08 51 o Figure 1 Application User Interface Insert the bundled CD to the drive double click IPCMonitor a pop up window will be shown please follow the instruction on the window to finish the software installation After a successful installation run the application and the user interface will be shown as Figure 1 4 Device Management The following steps are required before using this application 1 Plan and install the IP Camera s which intend to be monitored 2 Login to the IP Camera s by web browser and set the IP address port username amp password alarm setting system time etc 3 DDNS setting is a plus whenever you intent to visit the devices by WAN In this application Device Management tab is shown as Figure 2
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6. e following operation functions display the devices video arm the devices and decide when to start a scheduled video recording response to user s command 5 1 Start the Video Video can be start by the following three methods gt gt Select and double click on a device needed to be started a free channel will be taken to show up the video Select a device and click the O button will start it as well By clicking on the down arrow start all the devices command can be found on the drop list Select a device drag and drop it to a channel it will show up the video in this channel Device name will be shown in green on the status bar when it s started In case the device is offline or IP address port viewing username or password is wrong the connection could not be established and related information will be pop up 1 2 3 4 9 6 5 2 Alarm Trigger After started a video the application will detect the device to determine if there s any alarm occurred Whenever an alarm is detected the application will check the armed time once the alarm is within an armed time alarm action will be taken When a icon twinkling on the device field means an alarm action is being taken click on the icon can stop the siren When a appears but not twinkling means there was an alarm double click on the icon will pop up a recent alarm list The 5 icon will disappear by closing the alarm
7. e other part and ends up with avi H series products suffix is asf Whenever the recording time is longer than one hour for manual recording or scheduled recording a new file will be created for each hour 5 4 Stop the Video A video can be stopped by the following two methods 1 2 Select a started device and click the o button can stop it s video All devices can be stopped by clicking on the down arrow and select stop all video from the drop list Right click on a channel and select stop video from the pop up menu to stop it 6 Device Control Select a video channel from the display area directly and you can control the device of this channel 1 6 1 Base Operation Double click on a channel will stretch the video to full screen By double clicking it again the video will shrink back to its original size 2 Click and hold a channel can drag and drop it to another channel in case the target channel is utilized the two video channels will swap 3 By right clicking on a channel user can perform some operations like stop video stretch etc from the pop up menu 4 By clicking on the icons in the status bar for each channel you can snapshot or record manually Due to different functions every series product has its own icon content Status bar of B Series is as Figure 10 it displays the frame rate is 20 5 click these icons talkback sound intercepting snapshot and manual video recording can be perf
8. list The alarm list window is as Figure 9 Device alara log Refresh toda 2010 324 p0000 235959 4 r time trigger snapshot record 2010 03 24 16 13 53 outer input Y 2010 05 24 16 03 03 outer input Figure 9 Alarm List window Even the video alarm recording trigger is set it will not take any effect in case it is taking a scheduled recording job or capturing a video manually by the time an alarm activated In case snapshot trigger is set the file name will be started with an A prefix following by the time stamp as the other part the suffix is JPG 7 1 2 3 Please refer to chapter 8 1 for the option of alarm action 5 3 Video Recording Trigger The application can perform 3 types of video recording the alarm video recording set in Figure 4 scheduled recording set in Figure 5 and manual recording by clicking on the record button in Figure 10 The manual recording has top priority scheduled recording takes second then alarm recording Example gt If a manual recording is initialed by the time an alarm is activated the application will stop the alarm recording first then start the manual recording gt When performing a scheduled video recording an alarm is activated the application will not response to the alarm recording request Prefix of A M and S will be set to the file name according to alarm recording manual recording and scheduled recording time stamp will fill up th
9. ormed accordingly ENE NA OD Figure 10 Channel Status Bar Note the talkback icon is disabled in case another user is utilizing the talkback function User can only talk to and intercept the sound from the device according to current channel A window will pop up after a snapshot take more snapshot or delete snapshot can be performing within the window The file name for manual snapshot will start with M time stamp as the rest then JPG as ending 6 2 Device Control Panel Device control panel can be accessed by clicking on device control at the lower right corner or pressing space 1 You can look up the current channel device information in the Device Control Panel including device name and device IP address 2 The Pan Tilt can turn up down left right by clicking on the arrows accordingly in the PTZ Control area You also use keyboard to control Pan Tilt like as gt 1 3 Part of H Series IP Camera like High Speed Dome to click _ IJ can control Zoom 4 Part of H Series IP Camera if it has connected a Pan Tilt to click You will Set Call the preset and click auto the Pan Tilt will cruise according the preset and click stop the Pan Tilt will stop cruise 5 A window will pop up by clicking the advanced button for the purpose to set up the video compress parameter such as definition bit rate control etc 7 Channel Management For the purpose of better video viewing multiple channel s
10. rectory Pictures and videos will be stored in snap and record directory If tick Delete the oldest files When the disk space is insufficient when the disk space is less than 500M this programmer will automatically delete the first day s data and then realize the cycle record function or it will stop recording 3 The other options Play all the devices when running this software or not Stretch video from all channels or not Hide status bar or not Prompt before shutting down this system or not 8 2 History Log By clicking on the History Log the video play will be opened and enter the record directories user can play the videos sorted by device name 9 Further Notifications 1 Use administrator to login in your operating system and then install the ipcmonitor software 2 Before using this software please ensure the devices can be access by web browsers from LAN or WAN please consult the user manual of the IP Camera 3 When performing centralization monitoring please open Windows Task Manager and check the percentage of CPU usage If it take more than 80 of CPU usage the CPU s performance may not be good enough please refer to the third part in 6 2 click advanced and access video setting page to adjust the bitrates or resolution
11. witches are provided There are switch buttons above the device and channel management panel shown as Figure 11 WMulti screen settings E NH TETE i See fees HAL oi AJ LS Figure 11 Channel Switch Buttons The application can provide up to 16 channel videos it can manage up to 64 devices simultaneously 8 Other Settings On the top of Device Management and Device Control there are System Setting History and About three buttons 8 1 System Setting System settings Alarm action settings IN E Siren duration SEC snapshot num 3 poz Record duration 30 Sah Picture and video files storage location DOTE d Delete the oldest files When the disk space is insufficient Play allthe devices when runing this software Stretch video from all channels Hide status bar Prompt before shutting down this system Figure 12 System Setting System Setting window is shown as Figure 12 Following are some notifications for this window 1 About alarm settings In the Alarm action settings section user can select other sound file wav as siren sound The default sound will be used in case this field is blank Users can also configure Siren Duration Snapshot Number Record Duration data 2 About storage location User can define the picture and video files storage location leaving this field blank the default location is the application installation di
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