HIK VISION NB V6 User manual

DVR Surveillance System
NB V6
User Manual
( Version 2.0 )
January 2006
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Contents
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ...............................................................................4
CHAPTER 1 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE INSTALLATION..................................5
1.1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ....................................................................................5
1.1.1 Hardware Driver Installation.........................................................................5
1.1.2 Connection Wizard.......................................................................................8
1.1.3 Video andAudio Input Ports Description....................................................11
1.2 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ...................................................................................15
CHAPTER 2 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION .........................................................18
2.1 OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................18
2.2 SYSTEM CONTROL PANEL ...................................................................................22
2.3 CAMERA SETUP..................................................................................................22
2.3.1 Preview configuration.................................................................................23
2.3.2 Record configuration ..................................................................................25
2.3.3 Alarm configuration.....................................................................................27
2.3.4 Schedule configuration...............................................................................32
2.3.5 PTZ configuration.......................................................................................35
2.3.6 Camera Color Configuration.......................................................................36
2.4 SYSTEM SETUP...................................................................................................38
2.4.1 Web Server configuration...........................................................................38
2.4.2 E-Mail Configuration...................................................................................39
2.4.3 SMS Configuration .....................................................................................39
2.4.4 Network port configuration..........................................................................40
2.4.5 Full Screen on Alarm Configuration............................................................42
2.4.6 Other configurations...................................................................................42
2.5 DIGITAL MATRIX ..................................................................................................44
CHAPTER 3 PLAYBACK....................................................................................47
3.1 OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................47
3.2 PLAY CONTROL TOOLS .......................................................................................48
3.3 PLAYBACK MODES..............................................................................................48
3.3.1 Browse Picture ...........................................................................................48
3.3.2 Zoom ..........................................................................................................49
3.3.3 Play mode...................................................................................................51
3.3.4 Burn CD......................................................................................................53
3.4 CLIP TOOLS........................................................................................................54
3.5 SMART SEARCH..................................................................................................54
CHAPTER 4 SYSTEM MANAGEMENT .............................................................56
4.1 OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................56
4.2 USER MANAGEMENT...........................................................................................56
4.2.1 Local User Management ............................................................................56
4.2.2 Remote User Management ........................................................................58
4.3 TOOLS................................................................................................................60
4.3.1 E-Map.........................................................................................................60
4.3.2 Voice Broadcast..........................................................................................62
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4.3.3 File Transfer................................................................................................63
4.3.4 Software Update.........................................................................................64
4.3.5 Remote Connection Status.........................................................................65
4.4 DISK MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................65
4.4.1 Local disk space.........................................................................................65
4.4.2 Disk access log...........................................................................................66
4.5 LOG MANAGEMENT.............................................................................................67
4.6 COMMUNICATION ................................................................................................67
4.6.1 Chat Room .................................................................................................67
4.6.2 Send SMS ..................................................................................................68
CHAPTER 5 REMOTE LIVE VIEW AND SETUP ...............................................70
5.1 INSTALL THE CLIENT SOFTWARE ..........................................................................70
5.2 CONFIGURATIONS AT SERVER END .......................................................................70
5.3 RUN CLIENT SOFTWARE.......................................................................................71
5.4 CONFIGURATIONS AT CLIENT END ........................................................................71
5.5 LIVE VIEW REMOTE VIDEO....................................................................................75
5.6 REMOTE CAMERA SETUP IN CLIENT END..............................................................76
5.7 STORAGE LOCATION SETUP.................................................................................77
5.8 PLAYBACK IN CLIENT SYSTEM.............................................................................78
5.8.1 Local playback............................................................................................78
5.8.2 Remote playback........................................................................................78
CHAPTER 6 IE LIVE VIEW ................................................................................80
6.1 ENABLE ACTIVEXCONTROL ................................................................................80
6.2 ENTER THE SERVER IPADDRESS ........................................................................82
6.3 LIVE VIEW REMOTE VIDEO....................................................................................85
APPENDIX I MENU STRUCTURE.....................................................................86
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Important Information
For optimal performance of your system, it is important to follow these recommendations.
1．It is strong recommended that dividing your hard disk into two partitions(C: and D:) at
least. The first partition will be used to install Windows OS and other applications, and
left partitions will be used to store recording files.
2．Please choose NTFS (NT File System) as the file system format when formatting hard
disk.
3．Please use appropriate motherboard and video card. Contact with our support engineers
if you have questions.
4．Please use industrial case.
Product Specifications
Compression Card
Video&Audio
Channels Recording Rate
(NTSC/PAL)
Recording
Resolution Compression Technology
DS4001HI 1 30/25 QCIF/CIF/2CIF/DCIF H.264
DS4002HI 2 60/50 QCIF/CIF/2CIF/DCIF H.264
DS4004HI 4 120/100 QCIF/CIF/2CIF/DCIF H.264
DS4004HCI 4 120/100 QCIF/CIF/2CIF/DCIF/D1 H.264
DS4008HCI 8 240/200 QCIF/CIF/2CIF/DCIF/D1 H.264
Decoder Card
Decoder Video Decoder Audio
DS4001HDI 1 1
DS4002HDI 2 2
DS4004HDI 4 4
DS4002MDI 4CIF/1D1 4
Recommended System Requirements
Chipset: Intel 845PE, 865PE, 875PE, 915P
Motherboard: Intel: D915PCY, D865PERL Asus: P4P800SE, P5P800 MSI: 865PE Neo2-F,
865PE Neo3-F Gigabit: GA-8PE667, Ultra2 GA-8IPE1000PRO
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9250 128MB ATI Radeon 9550 128MB nVidia GeForce 6200
128MB nVidia GeForce 6600 128MB
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or better
Memory: 512MB minimum
All specifications are subject to change without notice.
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1
Chapter 1 Hardware & Software Installation
1.1 Hardware Installation
1.1.1 Hardware Driver Installation
Here is a demo installation of DS-40xxHCI card of Hik Vision.
Before installing hardware, be sure that the computer is power off.
To install the DS-40xxHCI card to your PC, follow these steps:
1. Insert the DS-40xxHCI card into an empty PCI slot, and fasten it.
2. Turn on your PC and start Windows OS.
3. A Hardware Installation Wizard for this newly installed card will appears. Ignore the
wizard window.
4. In Windows Resource Management, locate and unfold the folder-DS-40xxHCI Driver,
double click to run Driver Install.exe. A Driver Installer dialog box appears.
Figure 1-1. Driver Install
5. Click [Install or Update Driver] to install/update the driver. Window OS will pop up a
window ,it is as following :
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Figure 1-2. Hardware Installation on Windows 2000
Figure 1-3. Hardware Installation On Windows XP
6. Click [Yes]/[Continue Anyway] to continue the hardware installation, If there are more than
one board are inserted in the PC or more than one DSP in one board, the operation system
will remind you of repeating the above process.
7. When the installation is done, this message will appear: Driver Installed Successfully!
Figure 1-4. Driver Installed Successfully
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8. Click [OK] to quit the driver installation.
9. At last you will find the detail information of the board on the windows Device Manager (it
depends on the total number of boards you installed in the computer).
Figure 1-5. Driver’s installed on Windows 2000
Figure 1-6 Driver’s installed on Windows XP
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1.1.2 Connection Wizard
The following card and cable should be ready for connection:
1. DS-40xxHCI card:
Figure 1-7 DS-4004HCI card front view
Figure 1-8 DS-4008HCI card front view
2. External video input and audio input cable. Red cables are for video input, and the white
ones are for audio input:
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Figure 1-9 Video &Audio Input Cable
3. Internal audio connection cable between DS-40xxHCI compression boards:
Figure 1-10 Internal Audio Cable 1
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4. Internal audio cable, connecting the DS-40xxHCI compression board with PC motherboard:
Figure 1-11 Internal Audio Cable 2
5. Boards internal audio connection: Connect audio output of first HCI board with the audio
input of second HCI board, connect the audio output of the second HCI board with the
audio input of the third HCI boar, the rest may be deduced by analogy.
Figure 1-12 Internal Audio Cables Connection Example
6. Connect the last audio output of HCI board with the CD IN of PC motherboard /PCI sound
card:
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Figure 1-13 Internal Audio Cables Connection Example
1.1.3 Video and Audio Input Ports Description
DS-4004HCI
The DS-4004HCI provides a DB 15-pin female connector to input 4 channels’ video and
audio signal (DB1).
9 15
1 8
Figure 1-14 15-pin DB port description of DS-4004HCI
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Pin Signal Description
1 Video 1
2 Video 2
3 Video 3
4 Video 4
5 Audio 1
6 Audio 2
7 Audio 3
8 Audio 4
9 GND
10 GND
11 GND
12 GND
13 GND
14 GND
15 GND
DB1 pins description
The DS-4004HCI also provides optional internal PIN for video and audio input (DB2) .
Figure 1-15 DB2 of DS-4004HCI
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Figure 1-16 DB2 of DS-4004HCI
Pin Description Pin Description
1 Video 1 2 GND
3 Video 2 4 GND
5 Video 3 6 GND
7 Video 4 8 GND
9 Audio 1 10 GND
11 Audio 2 12 GND
13 Audio 3 14 GND
15 Audio 4 16 GND
DB2 pins description
DS-4008HCI
The DS-4008HCI provides two DB 15-pin female connectors to input 8 channles’ video and
audio signal .(DB1 and DB2)
DB1 DB2
Figure 1-17 DB1 and DB2 Ports of DS-4008HCI
Pin Signal Description
1 Video 1
2 Video 2
3 Video 3
4 Video 4
5 Audio 1
6 Audio 2
7 Audio 3
8 Audio 4
9 GND
10 GND
11 GND
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12 GND
13 GND
14 GND
15 GND
DB1 pin description
Pin Signal Description
1 Video 5
2 Video 6
3 Video 7
4 Video 8
5 Audio 5
6 Audio 6
7 Audio 7
8 Audio 8
9 GND
10 GND
11 GND
12 GND
13 GND
14 GND
15 GND
DB2 pin description
The DS-4008HCI also provides optional internal PIN for video and audio input (DB3 and
DB4).
Figure 1-18 DB3 and DB4 Ports of DS-4008HCI
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2 16 2 16
1 8 1 8
Figure 1-19 DB3 and DB4 Ports of DS-4008HCI
Pin Description Pin Description
1 Video 1 2 GND
3 Video 2 4 GND
5 Video 3 6 GND
7 Video 4 8 GND
9 Audio 1 10 GND
11 Audio 2 12 GND
13 Audio 3 14 GND
15 Audio 4 16 GND
DB3 pin description
Pin Description Pin Description
1 Video 5 2 GND
3 Video 6 4 GND
5 Video 7 6 GND
7 Video 8 8 GND
9 Audio 5 10 GND
11 Audio 6 12 GND
13 Audio 7 14 GND
15 Audio 8 16 GND
DB4 pin description
1.2 Software Installation
1. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. In the installation CD folder, locate the file-Setup.exe, double click it to run this application,
then the startup window appears:
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Figure 1-20 DVR Startup Window
Figure 1-21 DVR Installation Process
Figure 1-22 DVR Installation Process
Click [Next] and use default installation directory.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. It will create a shortcut on
desktop.
Note: To uninstall the software, please enter software folder and execute UNWISE.exe, then
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follow the on-screen instruct cess.ions to complete the un-installation pro
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Chapter 2 System Configuration
2.1 Overview
Follow these steps to begin to configure your system:
Step 1
The picture followed will appears when you start up the DVR system by double-click the
shortcut of DVR in the desktop.
It means the system is loading.
Figure 2-1 System Star up Window
Step 2
Then you will be prompted to enter the username and password:
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■ Username: super
■ No Password
Figure 2-2 DVR Authorization
By default, you can input the username with “super” and null password to pass the
authorization.
Usage Tips: you can modify the password in this menu: [Others] - [User Management] -
[Local]
Step 3
When entered correct username and password, you will see the main interface as follows:
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Figure 2-3 DVR Main Interface
Main Interface Description:
1. Date/Time: shows the current date and time, which will be written in recording files.
2. Camera Name: The defined name of each camera. By default, it is the Camera number.
3. Digital Matrix: You can output the video to monitors beside DVR by using digital matrix
card.
4. Preview: To preview all the channels’ or cameras’ videos in one screen simultaneously,
press [Preview] to unfold [Preview] button, then preview configuration panel appears. All
the camera numbers will list in this panel. For example, you have inserted two DS-
4008HCI cards, so 16 numbers (from 1 to 16) will be listed here.
A number in bight green background means that this number’s camera video is
previewed in the screen. You can click on the number to change the preview state of
one camera, or click [All]/[None] to select all the cameras to change state.
For detailed information and configurations about preview, please refer to 2.3.1 Camera
Preview Configuration.
Note: System supports preview all the cameras in one divided screen at the same time.
5. Record: It shows and enable control the recording status of all the cameras.
Press [Record] button to unfold record configuration panel, in which the recording status
of all the cameras shows. A number in bight green background means that this number’s
camera is in recording. To start or stop recording a camera, just click on the number to
change the recording status of one camera, or click [All]/[None] to select all the cameras
to change state.
When a camera is in recording or recorded, you can find recording files in the disk.
For detailed information and configurations about record, please refer to 2.3.2 Record
Configuration.
6. Alarm: here you can control the alarm detection for each camera.
Press [Alarm] button to unfold alarm configuration panel, in which the alarm detection
status of all the cameras shows. A number in bight green background means that this
number’s camera is in alarm detection status. To start or stop alarm detection of a
camera, just click on the number to change the status of one camera, or click [All]/[None]
to select all the cameras to change state.
The number will turn red on alarm.
For detailed information and configurations about alarm, please refer to 2.3.3 Alarm
Configuration.
7. Color: Adjust the color configuration here, such as brightness, contrast, saturation, hue.
Press [Color] button to unfold color configuration panel. Drag the slider to change the
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