Planet DrView User manual

DVC Remote Utility
DrVeiw
User’s Manual
Ver.:1.0

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Content
CONTENT...................................................................................................................II
1、PREFACE ...................................................................................................................................1
2、INSTALLATION.........................................................................................................................2
2-1、Install DrView ..................................................................................................2
3、PROFILE MANAGER...............................................................................................................3
3-1、Create a New User Profile................................................................................3
3-2、Delete Profile....................................................................................................5
3-3、Edit Profile........................................................................................................5
3-4、Import profile....................................................................................................6
3-5、Export Profile ...................................................................................................6
3-6、Login.................................................................................................................7
4、MAIN SCREEN..........................................................................................................................9
4-1 Main Screen.......................................................................................................10
4-2 Display mode.....................................................................................................12
4-3 Setup..................................................................................................................15
4-4 Snapshot.............................................................................................................26
4-5 Full Screen.........................................................................................................27
4-6 Motion to Zoom.................................................................................................27
4-7 Playback.............................................................................................................29
4-8 E-MAP...............................................................................................................31
4-9 Quick Select Tag ...............................................................................................39
4-10 Log System Status Window ............................................................................40
4-11 Central Backup................................................................................................42
4-12、Use Local Playback......................................................................................50
5、APPENDIX...........................................................................................................53
5-1、Maintenance....................................................................................................53
5-2、FAE Support...................................................................................................53

1、Preface
With DrView, Central Management System allows administrator to manage several
DVR systems through network located in different sites from one point of control.
Each DrView system can manage up to 64 sets of 16CH DVR. You can monitor the
DVR through network at any time. You can also proceed to set up the remote system
configuration.
With user friendly GUI, administrator can monitor the DVRs very easily.

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2、Installation
DrView can serve up to 64 DVR (1024 channels) at the same time. Before the
installation, make sure your computer meets the following minimum requirement.
DrView Requirement
OS Windows 2000, Windows XP
CPU P4 2.6G above
Display Card 64MB above (nVIDIATNT2/ GeForce2/ GeForce4 are
most optimal), 1024*768 screen resolution
RAM 256MB above
Hard Disk 20 GB above
Network Card 10/100Mbs
Mouse PS/2 or USB compatible
CD-ROM General
USB Interface 1.1 / 2.0
DirectX V7.0 & above
2-1、Install DrView
1. Insert the installation CD.
2. Then go to the directory E:\utility\DrView (suppose E:\ is your CD-ROM drive) to
run the Setup.exe and follow the steps.
When finishing the setups, it will show up the message.
Then, you can find the application from the Windows Start menu.

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3、Profile Manager
After the installation, start the application by clicking the icon on the desktop
or in the folder of “DrView” from the Windows Start menu. The “Profile Manager”
will show up to let the user to Create, Delete, Edit, Import, Export or Open “User
Profile”.
First time to use DrView, user has to create a new “User Profile” to save the
configuration of DVRs. You can create different Profiles for different configurations
at the same time. Next time when you start the DrView, you don’t need to create a
new User Profile any more and you just open one of Profile you prefer.
3-1、Create a New User Profile
Click “ New” on the Profile Manager, it will show the Profile Setup
Dialog as following

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Key in the “Profile Name”, “Supervisor Password”(R/W Password), and “ User
Password”(Read only Password) in the Profile Setup Dialog.
After the new profile has been created successfully, the new profile icon will be
shown on the Profile Manager screen as following. Refer to 3-1-6 to enter the new
profile.
Note:
z“Profile” name can’t exceed 50 characters.
z“ Profile name only supports Chinese & English words and does not support
special marks.
zPassword can’t to exceed 30 characters.
zPassword only support numbers& English character.

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3-2、Delete Profile
If you want to delete the User Profile, click “Delete” button. Then, the system will
request you to enter the Supervisor password. Only supervision has the authority to
delete the Profile.
3-3、Edit Profile
If you want to edit the Profile, just select it and click the “Edit”. The system will
request you to enter the Supervisor password.Only supervision has the authority to
edit the Profile. Therefore, enter the Supervisor password.

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3-4、Import profile
You can import the backup profile to system. It’s easy for copying the settings
between computers.
Click “Import” button, and select the *.bkp file which you want to import. (the file
you have exported before)
After importing file, the imported file will be added in the Profile Manager screen as
following,
3-5、Export Profile
If you want to back up the profile or execute DrView on another computer but use
the same profile, you can export the “ Profile”.
Please choose the profile you want to export and click “Export” button.

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The system will request you to enter “Supervisor” password. Enter the password and
the address of the saved profile will show up. You can select the path to save the .bkp
file which has just been exported, and it will appear on the appointed address.
3-6、Login
The user can choose the created Profile, enter the password and then start to login.
There are two kinds of password identification-Supervisor and User password. Each
one has different authority in DrView. The following is comparison tables of the
authority.

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Profile Manager
New Delete Edit Import Export Login Sequencer Monitor
Options
Supervisor ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
User ╳ ╳ ╳ ○ ○ ╳
Quick Select TagSave Delete Rename Full
Screen Snapshot Setup S
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stem
Status Playback
Supervisor ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
User ╳ ╳ ╳ ○ ○ ╳ ○ ○

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4、Main Screen
When you login the profile successfully, the following monitoring window will
appear.
Date & Time
Exit
DVR List
Preview Window
Full Screen
Snapshot
Setup
Playback
Motion to Zoom
E-MAP
Display Mode
Quick Select Tag
System status Sequencer

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4-1 Main Screen
After finishing the DVR configuration (refer to 4-3 “DVR setup”), go back to Main
Screen and it will show the following screen.
Drag & Drop Preview Window
Click ＋button in front of the DVR in the window of DVR List and it will list all of
the cameras connected to this Remote DVR. Click any listed camera and the screen of
this camera will be displayed in the “ Preview Window”. You can decide if you want
to display this camera in the Spilt Window. If yes, just click this camera, Drag and
Drop it to any spilt window you want to display. You can also Drag and Drop a
group of cameras to the Left Spilt Window at one time. When clicking the right button
of mouse on one of the DVR in the DVR List, it will show the following dialog box.
Select “ Add to Monitor” and there are four Group 1, 2, 3, and 4. Choose the Group
you want to add at one time.
Add to Monitor

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4-1-1 Zoom in/ Zoom Out Adjustment
You can Zoom in or Zoom out any Spilt window. Double click on any split window
and it will be enlarged to Full Display mode. You can double click again on this
enlarged window and it will go back to the original spilt mode In Full Display mode,
you can enter [+] or [-] to Zoom in or Zoom out the screen. There are ten display
modes “ Full, 250%, 225%, 200%, 175%,150%, 125%, 100%, 75%, 50%”.
Full Display Mode
4-1-2 Camera Options
Click right button of mouse on any split window, the screen will appear the following
list for camera options.
The following table is the description for each function.
Function Description
Execute -Enable: Enable to display the camera in the Spilt Window
-Disable: Disable to display the camera n the Spilt Window
Sequencer Time -Set up the Sequencer timer
Motion Detect -Enable/Disable Motion Detection function.
Alias Name Setup -Name the Camera Alias name

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4-1-3 PTZ Camera
If remote DVR has PTZ camera connection, the PTZ control panel will pop up when
the screen is displayed in Full Display Mode. PTZ controls include “Zoom In”,
“Zoom Out”, “Focus Near”, “Focus Far”, “Auto-Focus”, and “PTZ Speed”.
Auto-Focus
Focus Far Zoom Out
Zoom In
Focus Near
PTZ Speed
When the user adjusts the PTZ control, it will not only change camera image, but also
effect the recording result.
4-2 Display mode
There are 10 kinds of Split modes and 3 kinds of Sequencer modes in display mode.
These 10 kinds of Split modes are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits,
16 splits, 25 splits, 36 splits, and 64 splits. The default option is 64 splits

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4-2-1 Sequencer Mode
The DrView provide three kinds of Sequencer Modes, 1- channel, 4- channel and
64-channel Sequencer. When you click Sequencer icon , it will show three options
to let you select. However, 64-Channel Sequencer is just for TV Wall display. That is
64 channel sequencer option will not appear if TV Wall display function is not
enabled.
When you select 1-channel sequencer mode, the screen will display sequentially from
cam 1 to cam 64. You can set up Camera sequencer timer according to 4-1-2 Camera
Option. If any camera is disconnected, the sequencer will skip over it to the next
connected camera channel,
When you select 4-channel sequencer mode, the Main screen will change to 4-split
display mode. The 1st Spilt Window will display Cam 1 to Cam 16 sequentially, the
2nd Split Window will display Cam 17 to Cam 32 sequentially, the 3rd Split will
display Cam 33 to Cam 48 sequentially and the 4th Split will display Cam 49 to Cam
64 sequentially. Please refer to the following two figures.
Display Cam 1
to Cam 16
sequentially
Display Cam 1
to Cam 16
sequentially
Display Cam
49 to Cam 64
sequentially
Display Cam
33 to Cam 48
sequentially
Display Cam
17 to Cam 32
sequentially 2nd Split Window
1st Split Window
3rd Split Window 4th Split Window

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
Group 1 16 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
When you select 64-channel sequencer mode, these 64 cameras will be divided into 4
sequencer groups with different color based on Camera No.1-16, 17-32, 33-48, 49-64.
Each sequencer group will play sequentially based on camera number. As above
picture Group 1 (1-16 camera), it will proceed sequencer to play s from camera 1 to
camera 64 with the red arrow order, the other groups will proceed in the same wa.
If you want to exit the sequencer mode, you can press “ESC” or click to end the
sequencer mode.
If the system can connect 4 monitors at the same time, it can export the images to
TV-wall by utilizing 4- channel or 64-channel sequencer mode. The main screen will
be unchanged, and the 4 monitors will play 4 channel sequencer image. Besides, it
can map the main screen into TV-wall composed of 4 or many monitors.
Note:
z64 Channel Sequencer can be available when the products have TV-wall
function and must be equipped with VGA card supporting TV-wall.

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4-3 Setup
Setup
When you click the setup icon , you can see the following Setup menu.
4-3-1 DVR Setup
4-3-1-1 DVR Configuration
Click DVR Setup button to set up the remote DVRs which you want to monitor in
DrView when you login the system at the first time. Then, it will show the following
screen.

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zAdd remote DVR
Click button to add new DVR. The system will appear a dialog box to prompt
you to enter “DVR Name “, “IPAddress”, “Port”, “Username”and “Password”.
The DVR’s Name shown in the DrView doesn’t need to be the same with the remote
DVR’s name. That means DrView Supervisor can create a new name for DVR in the
DrView site. In addition, Supervision also can name the new names for all cameras
connected to the remote DVRs in the DrView site. All of these new names are just for
DrView site and it won’t change the names in DVR site.
After finishing adding new DVRs, it will show the selected DVR information
including connected cameras and DVR configuration when you point one of the DVR
in the DVR list.
Besides, you can adjust network speed based on real speed status, just click “ 56k”,
“128k” , “256k”, “512k”, “768k” , “1M” for adjustment on the ComboBox. If you use
company’s or school’s LAN, we suggest you can choose “ 1M” for quick
display. For ADSL , Cable Modem , and Dial-up service , please adjust the setup
based on real ISP speed.
You also can adjust the image quality, just click “low”, “Medium”, “High” modes for
adjustment on the ComboBox .We suggest you choose “High” for higher image
Quality. However higher quality will occupy more system resources, network
bandwidth, and it also cause to reduce the display speed.

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Each DVR has remote monitor function. If you want to execute remote monitor,
please click “ Enable” in the . If you don’t need it, please get rid of the
“ Enable” in the .
After finishing the setup or modifications, click button to save the DVR
changes.
zDelete Remote DVR
You can also delete monitoring the remote DVR. Just select the remote DVR you
want to delete on the DVR List and then click button.
zRefresh remote DVR
If you modified DVR configuration and want to save the latest setup, you can use
Refresh function. Select the DVR you want to refresh in the DVR List, and modify
the DVR configuration on the right side of System Setup screen, then click
button to complete the action.
After finishing refreshing DVR, click button on the bottom of the System

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Setup screen to exist the DVR Setup. The system will keep the latest setup status
automatically. If there is any remote DVR disconnected, the system will show it as
disconnected status in DVR List.
zDVR Remote Setup
You can click Setup icon to have the remote DVR and camera
configuration.
DVR advance setting
When you click setup icon , it will show the following screen.
You can have the “ Camera configuration”, Create or Edit “User” account, “ DI/DO”
setup, “Alarm Notice”, “System setting” and “ Network” status”. Please refer to DVR
User Manual to have detail setup for each items. After you finish the remote setup,
click button and press button to exit the remote setup mode.