16CH Smart VS-IP Surveillance System User’s Manual
Contents

Chapter 1   Installation. 1-4

1.1     System Hardware Requirements. 1-4

1.1.1   Recommended minimum system hardware requirements. 1-4

1.1.2   Suggestions. 1-5

1.2     Software Installation. 1-9

1.3     First Start up. 1-14

Chapter 2   Launcher 2-16

2.1     Security for Launcher 2-16

2.2     User Interface. 2-18

Chapter 3   Monitor 3-23

3.1     Features of Monitor Tool 3-23

3.1.1   Traditional Surveillance Features. 3-23

3.1.2   Special Features. 3-23

3.2     Application Layout and   Functionalities. 3-24

3.3     Logging In. 3-26

3.3.1   The Privilege of Each Group. 3-26

3.4     Camera Configurations. 3-27

3.4.1   The Layout of the Configuration. 3-28

3.4.2   Local Settings. 3-29

3.4.3   Alert Settings and Recording Settings. 3-31

3.4.4   Changing the Camera Order in the List 3-33

3.4.5   Saving the Changes. 3-33

3.5     Global Settings. 3-34

3.6     Display & UI Settings. 3-38

3.7     Using Monitor Tool 3-42

3.7.1   Connection of the Intellisystem Technologies Video Server / Network Camera Series  3-42

3.7.2   The Layout 3-49

3.7.3   Backup. 3-56

3.7.4   About 3-57

3.7.5   Miscellaneous Functions. 3-57

3.7.6   Common Control Functions. 3-59

3.7.7   Multiple Focus. 3-60

3.7.8   Status Bar 3-60

Chapter 4   Scheduling. 4-62

4.1     Invoke Scheduling Tool 4-62

4.1.1   Starting the Scheduling tool 4-62

4.2     The Layout and Functionalities. 4-63

4.2.1   Introduction. 4-63

4.2.2   The Functionalities of Configuration Components. 4-64

4.2.3   The Schedule Scheme operations. 4-65

4.3     Primary Schedule. 4-66

4.3.1   Schedule with Time Lines. 4-66

4.3.2   Schedule with Time Picker 4-67

4.3.3   Schedule in event mode. 4-68

4.3.4   Schedule in Continuous mode. 4-69

4.4     Secondary Schedule. 4-70

4.4.1   Schedule modes. 4-70

Chapter 5   Playback. 5-71

5.1     Features of Playback. 5-71

5.2     Logging In. 5-72

5.3     Layout 5-73

5.3.1   Main Areas. 5-73

5.3.2   Indicators. 5-76

5.3.3   Pull Bar 5-76

5.4     Settings. 5-77

5.5     Normal (Single Frame) Mode. 5-79

5.5.1   Histogram Area. 5-80

5.6     Preview (Multiple Frame) Mode. 5-81

5.6.1   Histogram Area. 5-82

5.6.2   Histogram Legend. 5-82

5.7     Using Tools. 5-83

5.7.1   Selector Tools. 5-83

5.7.2   Play Control 5-85

5.7.3   Display Adjustment Toolbox. 5-86

5.7.4   Searching Range Adjustment Toolbox. 5-87

5.7.5   Toolbox. 5-88

5.7.6   System Control Toolbox. 5-89

 


Chapter 1              Installation

1.1  System Hardware Requirements

Before installing the application software, make sure your system has the following recommended minimum hardware requirements. This software was made exclusively for Intellisystem Technologies Video Servers and Network Cameras products other products brand are not supported.

1.1.1      Recommended minimum system hardware requirements

The system requirement recommended for this application is as follows.

 

OS:

MS Windows 2000/XP

CPU:

Intel 2.0 GHz Pentium IV or above and AMD Athlon or above

SDRAM:

512MB SDRAM or above for 16 channels

256 MB SDRAM for 9 channels

Hard disk:

40 GB

Display Chip:

nVidia, GeForce series with 32 MB Display memory

ATI Radeon series with 32 MB Display memory

Table 1-1 Recommended System Hardware Requirements

The following notes should help you with the proper installation of the software on to the recommended hardware system.

 

This application software only supports Intel Pentium IV series or above and AMD Athlon or above CPUs.

 

It is also recommended to run this application software on Win2000 OS to avoid any functional limitation.

 

Make sure all Power Management and Screen Saver functions are turned off to avoid system hang-ups.


1.1.2      Suggestions

The following suggestions will help you to run our software faster and smooth. All suggestions are optional.

1.      Maximum supported hard disk space

200GB is the maximum tested supported hard disk space. Performance are not guaranteed if the recording hard disk space is greater than 200GB.

 

2.      In Window XP system, close system restore

In Window XP, system restore will help you to back to the previous restore point that recorded a snapshot of your computer. But when system restore is turned on, the disk I/O would be much worse. This means the recording of our application would be affected dramatically. So we recommend turning off the system restore for the application’s recording disk. You can disable system restore in System Properties page (Start \ Control Panel \ System \ System Restore).

 

Figure 1-1 System Restore

As shown in Fig. 1-1, you can disable system restore of all disk or specified disk.

 

3.      Exclude file protection for specified files in AntiVirus

The following table 1-2 represents the specified files that should be excluded in AntiVirus to accelerate our application.

 

Suggest to Exclude:

DBS, DES, DIA, DSK, DSS, HGD, WAP, BCK

Table 1-2 Specified Files to Exclude

        There are two ways to exclude file protection of above files from AntiVirus:

        Method One:

        Find “Option \ Auto-Protect \ Scan files using SmartScan \ Customize” and ensure above files don’t exist on the list. The following Fig. 1-2 shows the location of the list.

 

Figure 1-2 The File List in AntiVirus

        Method Two:

Find “Option \ Auto-Protect \ Exclusions” and ensure all above specified files are added on the list. The following Fig. 1-3 shows the list.

 

 

Figure 1-3 Auto-Protect Exclusion List

4.      Exclude file protection for specified files in PC-cillin

As shown in Fig. 1-4, find “Settings \ Real-time scan \ Selected files \ Select File Types” and ensure the files described in table 1-1 do not exist in the list.

Figure 1-4 The File List in PC-cillin

NOTE: If the above settings cannot help you to improve performance, try to use disk defragmenter “Start \ All Programs \ Accessories \ System Tools \ Disk Defragmenter” to reconfigure your hard disk may help your computer more efficient.

1.2  Software Installation

The following are steps for the software installation.

 

STEP 1: Put the Installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and installation should start automatically. If installation does not start, click on “Start” on the lower left corner of your screen and open “My Computer” and double click on the CD-ROM icon. Select the DVR Software link on the main page. The DVR Software Window will appear as Fig. 1-5 below.

Figure 15 Smart VS-IP Recorder Installation Window

STEP 2: Click on “Install Software DVR” to launch the installation shield. The InstallShield Wizard will come on and Fig. 1-6 will appear.

Figure 16 Welcome page for the Smart VS-IP Recorder

STEP 3:  If you click on “Next” and Fig. 1-7 appears, it means you have installed a previous version of the recording software (the previous version may be the video-only version, which means it would not get the audio stream from servers). If you want to keep the previous version, choose the second option. If you are new to the Smart VS-IP recorder software, this window will not appear; skip on over to Step 4.

Figure 17 Video only version detected

STEP 4: Click on “Next” and the “User information” window will appear as in Fig. 1-8. This window prompts you to enter a username, company name. Click on “Next” to continue.

Figure 1‑8 User information for Smart VS-IP Recorder

 

STEP 5: Set up the administrator’s password by entering a password and confirm the password as shown in Fig. 1-9. Click on “Next” to continue.

Figure 19 Confirm Password

STEP 6: Select the installation directory for this application software and click on “Next”, as shown in Fig. 1-10. You can also change the installation directory from the Default directory by clicking on “Browse…”

Figure 110 Destination Location for Installation

STEP 7: Select a program folder to install the application software into and then click on “Next”, as shown in Fig. 1-11.

Figure 111 Select Program Folder

STEP 8: After checking all the set up information shown in Fig. 1-12, click on “Next” to start file movement and registries update.

Figure 112 Check Setup Information

STEP 9: Click on “Finish”, as shown in Fig. 1-13, to finish installation. This completes the program installation.

 

Figure 113 Finish the Installation

 

 

 

 

1.3  First Start up

After installation, one of the IE settings needs to be changed before you can start running the Monitor program. Enable the mechanism for submitting non-encrypted data in the path “Start->Settings->control Panel->Internet Options->Security->Custom Level…\Setting:”. You can also find the path from the IE browser, as it is depicted in the following. You can follow the instructions to complete this setting, as shown in Figure 11.

 

Figure 11 Enable Submitting Non-encrypted Form Data

Upon completion of the settings, you can start to invoke the Monitor program.


Chapter 2              Launcher

Launcher is a controller program that allows starting the recording procedure before the user logs in and the program will run as a service procedure after Window starts up automatically. LauncherUI is the program that provides a uer interface to allow the user to invoke Monitor or Playback quickly. In the following we refer to Launcher for both Launcher and LauncherUI.

2.1  Security for Launcher