LJD Digital Security Leviathan Series User manual

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Leviathan DVR Range User Guide
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By Michael J Archer
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Index
1. System Overview
1.1 Contents
1.2 System connection
1.3 Connect Cameras
1.4 Power on
2. Configuration
2.1 Getting started
2.2 Preferences
2.3 Camera Setup
2.4 Video Capture Card
2.5 Motion Detection
2.6 DELTA
2.7 Sound
2.8 Video Database
2.9 Users
2.10Server
2.11About system
3. Video Explorer
3.1 Selection
3.2 Video Fragment
3.3 Zoom time
3.4 Play Back
3.5 Save Fragment
3.6 Open Database
3.7 Bookmarks
3.8 Save Picture
3.9 Search Motion
3.10Pic Tools
4. Scheduler
4.1 Common Functions
4.2 The Scheduler Interface
4.3 The Scheduler Structure
4.4 Recording
4.5 Address Book
4.6 System Events
4.7 Options
5. Remote Client
5.1 Overview
5.2 Installation
5.3 LAN connection
5.4 Modem / ISDN (option)
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Chapter 1
System Overview
1.1 Contents.
Your Leviathan DVR system will either the Rack Case as shown on the Front Cover,
which can be a 4 8 12 and 16 camera unit, or one of the following 4 Camera systems:
Leviathan Lite DVR Leviathan Shuttle DVR
Keyboard for System Unit
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Mouse for System Unit
Mouse will vary due to availability.
Power lead for Base Unit
Quick Start Guide
Quick start manual.
System Manual
This Manual.
Software CD
CD Contains the LJD Server Software, LJD Client Software, Adobe Acrobat Reader,
PDF files of All Documents including this guide.
The Leviathan Lite and Shuttle are installed with windows XP and do not require
additional an CD Burning application, other windows2000 systems will either come
with Nero CD Burning tool, or equivalent.
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Mouse
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Mouse &
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1.2 System Connection.
Connect the Power lead to Base Unit. The power lead is only able to plug into one socket.
The connector is the same type of connector as a Kettle lead which you’ll find at home.
Plug in the Keyboard and mouse, which are normally colour coded. See below.
Attach your VGA monitor to the VGA Monitor connection unit.
Connect to your LAN / Wan to the Ethernet Port. (Optional requirement). Ethernet cable is not
supplied
You may wish to add a printer to the system, so it’s a good time to add this to the system.
Please follow instructions supplied with your device.
If you have a Leviathan Lite system, then the back of the unit will look 90° rotated clockwise
from the diagram above. As the light system is an upright case.
The Shuttle system is also a different back, and will look like the diagram below.
The system is now ready to be powered on, the power on button is behind the glass front
door on the rack mount Leviathan systems, or the Big Silver button on the Lite system. With
the industrial case system, the door is lockable and key is supplied with the packaging.
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Spot Output
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Chapter 1 – System Overview
1.3 Camera Connection
Connecting all your cameras to the camera ports see diagram below, which are located at the
rear of the DVR system unit. Depending on the System you have, there will only be
connections for that number camera unit.
The connector is the standard BNC or Bayonet type. Camera signals should be of the
standard 1v vpp using 75Ωcable. We recommend good quality cable, talk to your camera
supplier for advice.
We suggest connecting the cables before you put power to the camera/s. The DVR has no
voltage protection inside the system unit.
Back of a Typical DVR
4Camera 8Camera 12Camera 16Camera
The camera inputs are numbered from the bottom to top, working from left – right. We may give better spacing
between the inputs shown above, as the BNC connectors can be cumbersome when close together. So if there is a
gap between the inputs do not worry this makes not difference to the system it’s purely cosmetic.
Note that the BNC’s can be detached. As this can give a little protection against leads being pulled from the system
by accident.
The Spot Outputs (S1 – S4) give a standard composite -video signal on the first camera input
for each DVR card. The default output is the bottom most input on each DVR card, only by
modifying a jumper on the capture board can you change this. We do no recommend you
change this setting.
DVR Card jumper setting
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1.4 Power On
When you power up the system it will eventually display as Figure 1. It is possible that the
colour scheme could be slightly different then shown. This has not effect on the DVR software.
Figure 1
You do not need to change any of the system BIOS settings. The factory settings are correct,
and users do not need to modify these. We do supply the Motherboard manual for the system,
so future expansion or user own devices may wish to be added. This should be included with
the other materials inside your packaged system.
Because the software is running in the background, it is automatically loaded when the DVR system is
powered on. In event of power failures or such, the system when re-powered, on will auto correct and
verify its own settings and the video database. No user knowledge is required as this is all automatic.
Please note this can possibly take a few seconds of time to check the data, it does depend on a variety
of factors. Such as how the system was powered off, if it was recoding at the time. Normally however
this will not even be noticed. The system does keep track of events in a log file in “c:\Program
Files\LJD-Video Server\VServer.log”. You can look at the file with notepad to check system events.
These events are also available as electronic messages via an email, which is discussed in the Scheduler
section of this manual.
When the system is set to a recording mode, you may notice the Yellow icon will have
a Dark Red background. This will change to Light Red when the system is recording. So this flashing
is normal operation. It is only an indicator if you choose to leave the application running whilst
minimised.
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Chapter 2
Configuration
2.1 Getting started
Click on the little yellow camera icon on the bottom right panel as show in Figure 1
This will now bring up the main Video server software (Figure 2).
Figure 2
At the top of the screen shows five icons, explained below. The main bulk of the display below, is a
picture of all current camera inputs, the default is set to display 16. Don’t worry is you have only a four
camera unit, this is a configurable display. The system ships with the Camera inputs not enabled, so
you will see as Figure 2. Do worry that you have connected the cameras and expect to see the inputs. You
should read the quick start guide to quickly show you how these are activated.
Configuration Save Log off Video Start / Stop
Layout Explorer Recording
These Icons are the main control to access to the system settings and configurations.
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Top right Icons, are standard windows icons.
Min. Max. Close.
Minimise, Maximise, and Close Window/application.
“Stream information above is highlighted in Red when system is recording. The “0 Mh” is the value in
Megs / Hour which data is being recorded to hard drive, 0 will change when the system is setup and
recording a video stream. The “11:19:19” is the system current time. The default is this master
recording is disabled. The 0 at the bottom left is the time in hours the system has been running for.
Start / Stop Recording
Clicking the 5th top left Icon button on the top display so it highlights to this will
now activate the recording status of the Leviathan system.
Now to make sure your cameras are recording, you need to check that the recoding icon, which is the
“Recoding” in red, as shown in the graphic.
At any point when a camera is doing a recoding the system will show a Red marker in the Bottom of
the screen C1-C16 Icons. The example here has the Camera “Shop” doing a recording. Also when a
camera is recording, and this camera is on the main layout display, a “REC” message will appear at the
bottom right of the camera image.
The status below gives the duration of the amount of recorded video information on hard disk. The
recording will automatically just start from the oldest recorded material, in a circular way when full. So
the system records in a “first in first out” way, or FIFO as it is known. Of course the default will have
no recording; all systems are shipped with the video database already to record. (See2.8). you’ll see the
clock like graphic which is a representation of the storage available, as below shows.
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Layouts
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Chapter 2 –Configuration
The bottom and the bottom right icons on the Figure 2 are the main layout controls.
X 1 X 4
Figure A
X 8 X 16
These bottom right icons above refer to the display camera layout selection. This gives you the control
of how you like the layout of the main camera display to be presented.
The bottom icons refer to the camera inputs, names, and also to layout selection settings.
The default Icons show the camera names, which are “C1-C16”
If you click the “Layout” Icon as shown in Figure A above, you change these icons to the
following:
These are user layouts, which are default names of “L1-L16”; by clicking any of the Icons you change
the display to the saved layout. You can click this Layout to toggle between both sets and
options
Save Layout
To saves a layout, all you need to do it click the Layout save Icon 2nd Icon top of Display.
This will now bring up the following save Layouts dialog box.
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