INDEX:
SUBJECT PAGE NO.
1. COMPUTER SPECIFICATIONS 2
2. INTERFACE INTRODUCTION 2
3. PRIMERY CONFIGORATIONS
- Video 2-3
- Recordings 3-7
- Users & permissibility's 7-9
- Automatic restart 9
4. PLAYBACK
- Configuration 10 -11
- Back up 11 -12
5. INTERNET
- General settings 13 -14
- Watching thru the web 15 -17
- Menus 17 -18
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Please notice:
Before setting the system it is important to make sure that the computer specification matches
the card demands, if not it may cause some problems.
SPESIFICATIONS:
Mother board: Intel chipset of 865G 915G 945G 965G P31 P35 G33
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 – 3000 and above
Memory: 512 Mb and above
Display card: ATI 9000 9200 9550 X300 X550
O.S: windows XP HOME/ PRO, windows 2000 sp4
Hard Disc: according to your needs, 200Mb per one hour of continues recording.
INTERFACE INTRODUCTION:
Play/ Stop recording:
Allowing stopping/starting of immediate recording of a
specific camera
PTZ control
Active only with PTZ cameras
Rotation-
Allowing a rotation among the cameras
Playbacks
Full screen-
Present the cameras on full screen
without the software Config
system lockdown
Split screen- after pressing this button every action
Determine the no. of cameras on screen will require user name and password
Minimize
Exit
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PRIMERY CONFIGORATIONS:
Video:
1. Press the hammer on the main screen
2. Choose "video"
3. Define the resolution
The recommended resolution in order to record in the highest quality is 640 X 480
Important- lower resolution will reduce the quality of recording but will improve the video
streaming over the web.
4. Make sure that the mark "V" on the "View" field is marked only for the cameras plugged
to the DVR, if you are not using all the cameras ports on the DVR, cancel the "V" for the
ports which is not connected.
5. You can name the cameras and that name will appear on the screen of that camera.
Enter the required name under the "Text" field
6. Set the frames rate:
As a default the no. of frame rate for each camera is 25 fps. This is the max frame rate and
the most recommended one, this called "REAL TIME".
Note: if your card doesn't support real time, the card will automatically divide the no. of total
frame rate of the card to the cameras that are marked with "V".
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7. Set the display mode
The recommended one is "DirectDraw(ACC)" and this is the default.
If the card doesn't display the cameras on the main screen, chose "Direct 3D" and then press
"Apply".
If the cameras still doesn't on display you should change the display card that you have.
Please look again at the computer specifications
Recording:
First choose the hard disc where you want to save your recording
1. Press the hammer on the main screen
2. Chose "Storage"
3. Now you can see your storage areas/ hard discs on your computer.
Mark with a "V" the hard disc that you want your records to be saved on.
For example:
Notice: the system works on FIFO (First In First Out) which means that the system will store
the recording on all the available are on the driver that you chose and once it will reach the
maximum capacity it will start "run over" the older recording in a way that the first file to be
recorded is the first one to be deleted.
You cannot limit the storage area on which the system will do its records, the system will use
all of it.
Records location:
The files will be save on the driver that you chose under the path displayed in the "Video
directory"
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How to record:
There are 3 recording mode-
1. Continues record
In this mode the system will make a continues record with no stops, every one hour the
system will close and open a file, meaning that every file will be of one full hour.
2. Motion record-
In this mode the system will start recording only when it detect motion (the kind of camera
is not important), the recording will last as long as there is motion and will stop a few
seconds (changeable) after the end of the motion.
3. No record-
In this mode the system will do no record.
1. Press the hammer on the main screen
2. Choose "schedule record"
3. The table before you represent 1 week
You can set for every hour of the week one of the 3 record modes.
Chose the number of the camera which you want to set-
4. Now chose the recode type
M- Motion detect
C- Continues record
- No record
5. Chose the starting time and ending time to the record mode
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Notice: the number t 0 represents 24:00 a.m. and the number 23 represent 23:00 p.m.
Once you have chosen an hour you have chose the entire hour, meaning the recording will
last until the end of the hour.
6. Press set
The settings you made will be on the table
In this case the recording will be-
From 12 a.m. till 8 a.m. - motion detect
From 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. - continues record
From 7 p.m. till 12 a.m. - no record
7. Repeat actions 3-6
8. In order to set other cameras repeat actions 2-7
In order to set the other cameras exactly the same as this camera you can press-
Apply to all cameras
9. Press apply at the bottom of the page
10. If as a part of your settings you set motion detect you should follow steps 11-17,
If not then you have finished setting the recordings.
11. Go to motion recording bar-
12. Chose the no. of the camera you want to set
13. Now you need to set the area at which the motion detect will refer to (one area only)
Remember- the system will start recording only in a case of motion in the defined area,
Motion outside of that area will not activate the recording.
Setting that area will be by continues pressing of the left mouse and dragging it,
A blue dotted square will appear on the camera screen and will mark the boundaries.
14. Set the period of time at which the system will continue the recording even after the
motion has stopped.
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The recommended time is 10-20 sec.
15. Set the sensitivity level of the motion detect.
Notice- the system sensitivity is very high regardless to that feature, because of this settings,
the "high" mode will create false records,
The recommendation is to set to "Middle" in close places and "Low" for outside cameras.
16. Repeat actions 12-15 for all the other cameras
17. Press "Apply" at the bottom of the page.
Users & permissibilitys:
This feature allows you to set different users and passwords and their permissibility
Chose users on the main screen
Setting user and password for the system administrator-
The system administrator is the user with the highest level of permissibility, meaning that he
can make any changes in the system. As a default there is no username and password for
him.
It is not possible to cancel the system administrator permissibility's, but we can add a
username and password to him.
1. Mark the first line of the table so it will change to blue.
2. Chose the option "Edit"
3. Enter your username
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4. Enter your password and confirm it
5. Press "Save"
Setting new users-
1. Chose the option "Add"
2. Enter username and password for the new user
3. Mark with "V" the permissibility's you want for this user
Permissibility's-
Config- allowing the user to enter the setting browser and make changes under that
section.
Recording- allowing the user to enter the recordings browser and watch the
recording.
Start/ stop recording- allows starting or stopping of quick recording by
pressing the camera number on the main screen.
Exit- allowing the user to exit and close the system.
Camera PTZ- allowing the user to operate PTZ cameras (if there are any)
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Remote viewing- allowing the user to watch the cameras from the web.
Marking a "V" on this option will open at the bottom of the screen the possibility to choose
which cameras the user can watch.
Minimize- allowing the user to minimize the system in order to work on the pc.
4. Press "Save"
5. To set other users repeat actions 1-4
6. Press "Apply"
Automatic restart:
The provision DVR are set by default to restart the windows automatically everyday at 1 a.m.
after the windows restart the DVR system will automatically restart itself as well and return
to the same condition as before.
This assures a maximum stability of the system.
Important- make sure that the windows restart well and doesn't required a username and
password which will prevent the restart of the DVR system.
Setting the restart hour-
1. Press the hammer on the main screen
2. Chose "running"
3. Change the time as you desire (1-24)
4. Press "Apply".
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PLAYBACK:
Configuration:
The playback interface is most convenience.
1. Press the glass on the main screen
2. Chose the date
The table before you represents all the records for that day. The table divided by camera no.
and hours of the day.
Notice- areas marked in blue are for "continues record" and areas marked in red are for
"motion detect"
3. Mark with "V" the cameras that you want to watch- it can be more then one.
There are 2 ways that you can choose the file you wish to watch
1. Dragging the green marker to the desire hour
Notice- at first the table is of a 24 hours so that each square is off 1 hour, that's make hard to
accurate with the search, for that you can starch the table for 2 hours so each square is of 5
minutes. You do that by clicking the right mouse, you can also return to the 24 hour table by
clicking again the right mouse.
2. Setting the exact hour
Enter the exact hour which you want to watch on the right menu on the screen and press the
arrow to start playing.
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Playback menu:
Pause/ play-
Allowing you to pause or play the recording
Frame-
Allowing you to watch the recording frame by frame so you could find your exact
location
Photo-
Allow you to save the frame as a picture.
After pressing this button you will have to choose the location at which you want to
save the picture. The picture will be saved as a file of format bmp and can be
watched by any viewer.
Zoom-
Allowing you to watch the camera on a full screen
You can always go to the file of the saved picture and zoom in more, but remember
that there will be a lost of pixels.
Play speed-
Here you can determine the fast forward speed
Font color-
Allow you to set the color of the font of the time and date on the
camera screen.
Back up:
Allowing saving a desire segment out of the entire file and by doing so we make sure
that this segment won't be deleted in the FIFO delete of the system.
1. Press the back up button.
2. Chose the cameras that you want to save from
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Notice- you can chose a number of cameras by holding the CTRL key and marking the desire
cameras.
3. Enter the starting time and ending time of the recording which you want to back up.
4. Chose EXE Format.
In this example the file will be save in drive C dvr_media back up
5. Press OK
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INTERNET:
General settings:
The provision DVR allows watching the cameras thru the internet from everywhere in the
world.
Notice-
There are 2 ways of internet connections
1. thru dialer
2. thru router
Please follow the relevant instructions.
Thru dialer-
1. In a connection thru dialer first you need to make sure that the computer is set to automatic
dialer, which automatically connect whenever the computer is turned on.
Remember that the system is set to "automatic restart" every day and if the dialer won't
connect automatically the system won't connect to the internet and you won't be able to
watch the cameras. Setting automatic dialer will make sure that the system will stay connect
to the internet at all time.
2. Move on to the section – "setting for dialer and router"
Thru router-
1. Make sure that the computer is connected to the router and that there is proper connection
to the internet.
2. You need to set "port forwarding" in the router for the DVR computer.
First checks the IP address of the cameras computer and then forward the ports in the router-
port number 80, 9000-9002 (port number for the DVR) to that computer IP address.
Changing the ports number-
Port number 80, 9000-9002 are the default ports and there is no reason to change
them, however they are changeable.
A. chose network
B. change the ports that you want to the new ports
C. press "Apply"
3. Move on to the section – "setting for dialer and router"
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Setting for dialer and router-
In order to watch the cameras thru the internet you need a "FIX IP".
An IP is an address which the computer gets from the internet provider each time the
computer connects to the internet. (Its ID number so it can communicate to other computer
on the web)
In order to make sure that we'll always get to the cameras computer, it has to be "FIX
IP". It is a sequence of numbers for example 62.90.161.191 which we type just like a domain
on the internet browser- http://62.90.161.191
There are two ways to get FIX IP-
A. required payment
Call your internet provider and ask for a FIX IP, the cost change between the
providers. This is a very steady IP and more recommended.
B. free!!!!
The Provision-Isr DVR provide, free of charge, a service of free IP.
The registration is very simple-
1. Press the hammer on the main screen
2. Chose network.
4. Mark with a "V" –Enable Dynamic IP
5. Enter your desire username- in the example "provision"
6. Press Register
If the username is not already taken by others you will get a message that the
registration was successful.
7. Press Apply
Now that we have finished the system configurations we will see how the monitoring
thru the internet works.
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Monitoring thru the web:
The monitoring on the internet is thru the explorer browser.
First we have to make sure that the security of the computer will allow entering the
cameras recordings.
1. Go to the desk top and right click on the icon – "EXPLORER" and then chose the
option "properties".
2. Chose the tab "security"
3. Chose "default level"
4. Chose "Apply", now the setting are at default
5. Now chose "custom level"
6. Go down to "Download unsigned ActiveX controls"
And chose "Prompt"
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7. Chose Apply and then OK
Now open the internet browser and enter the cameras FIX IP or the username that you have
registered with.
For example-
A blank internet page will open and at the top will be-
Right click on that line and chose "Install ActiveX control"
Confirm the control installation and follow it thru till the end, it is very short.
Notice- this installation only required for the first time you log on to the DVR system.
From this time on you want have to install it again on that computer.
At the end of the installation a black screen divided to 4 will appear.
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(If not, refresh to the web page).
Press the hammer on the upper right side.
The next screen will then appear-
Enter the following details-
IP- enter the numeric IP that you have bought or the domain which you have registered.
User- enter the username you have registered (if there is one)
Password- enter the password you have registered (if there is one)
Press "Next" and the cameras will automatically start playing.
Important to know:
When watching the cameras thru the web, you won't get the same streaming as you would get
when watching them locally. The internet traffic is not sufficient enough to move the entire
information at the same time.
The traffic streaming determine from the bandwidth of the internet at which the computer of
the cameras connect to, Also known as the "UP LOAD".
The higher the up load is the higher the streaming is.
If you are not happy with the streaming that you get there are a number of things you can do-
1. Call your internet supplier and check whether you can get a line with a higher up load.
2. Lower the amount of information going to the internet:
A. watches fewer cameras at the same time.
B. lowers the resolution of the cameras. (See "video configuration" at page 3 section 3)
C. lowers the frame rate of the cameras. (See "video configuration" at page 3 section 6)
Menu:
1. Stop/ Play camera
Pressing the camera number will stop or start the camera monitoring.
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Notice- before playing the camera you need to chose an empty square on the cameras
windows and only then press the play button.
As a default all the cameras are automatically start playing once you have entered the system.
In order to cancel that, you need to press the hammer on the upper right menu and then
cancel the "V" mark on "AUTO PLAY".
2. Choosing the number of cameras on display-
You can set the number of cameras you want to watch on the screen from 1 to 16.
Chose the split that you want on this menu-
Watching the camera on full screen is made by standing on the desire camera and then
pressing the magnifying glass on that same menu.
3. Recording the camera-
A. First you need to stop the camera by standing on that camera and left click on the
mouse.
B. Stand with the marker on the number of camera and left click
C. Choose the option Play & Record.
4. Watching the recordings-
A. Stand with the mouse on the camera number and left click.
B. Chose "Remote File"
C. Chose a date
D. Before you are a list of all the files of that date for that specific camera.
E. Chose an empty square where there is no camera playing and press the file you want to
watch. The file will then start playing.
Notice- the files are organize by hours.
Watching a number of IP address – "MULTI IP"
The provision DVR allows watching a number of IP addresses at the same time.
All you have to do is press the connection icon on the left top menu-
Then enter the IP address, user name and password, and you'll see the new site cameras on
the menu on the right.
ENJOY….
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