Page 3 - AXIS Camera Recorder User’s Manual; Table Of Contents
AXIS Camera Recorder User’s Manual 3 Table Of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 4 - Introduction; AXIS Camera Recorder provides these main features:
Introduction 4 Introduction AXIS Camera Recorder is a powerful and flexible surveillance solution that turns your TCP/IP-based Axis network cameras and video servers into a sophisticated digital video surveillance system - all fully controlled from your PC. AXIS Camera Recorder provides these main f...
Page 5 - Installation Guide; Overview; Administrator; The Administrator application -
Installation Guide 5 Installation Guide This installation guide will help you install AXIS Camera Recorder and configure it for your Axis Network Cameras and Video Servers. The guide also provides a brief introduction to the functionality and usage of the surveillance software. Overview AXIS Camera ...
Page 6 - System Requirements; rate. The values shown below are obtained from real-life tests.; Minimum Processor Requirements for Frame Rate; Whilst not absolutely essential for operation, using an; Uninterruptible; (UPS) for the computer running AXIS Camera Recorder is
Installation Guide 6 System Requirements Before installing, you should be aware of the various requirements that will apply for your application, and in particular for the desired frame rate. The values shown below are obtained from real-life tests. Minimum Processor Requirements for Frame Rate s Ap...
Page 7 - Hard Disk Space; The Axis cameras and video servers used with AXIS Camera Recorder; Software Requirements
Installation Guide 7 Hard Disk Space The amount of disk space required can be roughly calculated from the table below. Always add a further 5-10% disk space as a safety margin. Axis Network Camera and Video Server Requirements The Axis cameras and video servers used with AXIS Camera Recorder must be...
Page 8 - Installation; Step 1 - Locate your License Code; Yes
Installation Guide 8 Installation Step 1 - Locate your License Code To install the full retail version of AXIS Camera Recorder a valid license code must be entered. This code can be found on the product label in the software retail box. The license code starts with “ACR” and is followed by a combina...
Page 9 - Setting Image Quality and Recording Conditions,; Step 4 - Configure for First Use; The Administrator Application,; Help
Installation Guide 9 If a demo version of AXIS Camera Recorder was already installed, it will be necessary to remove the image databases. This can be done either by uninstalling the demo version or by clearing each camera database from within the new version of the AXIS Camera Recorder software. See...
Page 10 - Devices - Quick Setup; Add Device...; Figure 1 - The main Administrator window.; Next
Devices - Quick Setup 10 Devices - Quick Setup This short description will help you set up your first device, without going into too much detail. It is assumed that the software has already been successfully installed. 1. Start the Administrator application and click the Add Device… button. The Devi...
Page 11 - Monitor Manager; Layout Size; OK; not
Devices - Quick Setup 11 Now that a device has been added we will add the camera to the Monitor application and configure its layout. 1. Click the Monitor Manager button in the Administrator. Figure 2 - The Monitor Manager window. 2. Select a Layout Size (e.g. 2x2 = 4 cameras) and click on one of th...
Page 12 - Using the Monitor application; The
Devices - Quick Setup 12 Using the Monitor application 1. Now open the Monitor application. You should now see the image from your camera. If not, the camera was not properly added to the Monitor manager. Go back to the previous page and add the camera again. 2. Click the Manual button. This enables...
Page 13 - The Administrator Application; configure the layout of the Monitor application, which recording; Set up the screen layout and positions for cameras,; Scheduler; - Control when cameras start and stop and when alerts are; General Settings
The Administrator Application 13 The Administrator Application The Administrator application is used when setting up the system for the first time, when new cameras or video servers are added to the system, and whenever the system configuration needs to be changed. It is also used to configure the l...
Page 14 - Add Device; Changing Device Settings,; Edit Device; Devices - Detailed Setup Information; Device Setup Wizard; root; Autodetect Type
The Administrator Application 14 • Add Device - Add new cameras or video servers. See the previous section Devices - Quick Setup, on page 10 and the more detailed section Changing Device Settings, on page 15. • Edit Device - Edit/update the configuration of an existing device. • Remove Device - Remo...
Page 15 - Configuring Video Servers; Device Manager; Changing Device Settings
The Administrator Application 15 MAC address (S/N) - This is the hardware address of the camera/video server, e.g. 00408c291ba2 and it corresponds to the serial number found on the product’s serial number label. This is the MAC address used to initially install the device. Name - The name for the ca...
Page 16 - Main Entrance
The Administrator Application 16 Configuring Video Servers For video Servers, you must specify if the connected cameras are Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras or not. You can also give names to individual cameras. To do this, select the video server in the device list and then click the Edit Device button. Then ...
Page 17 - Configuring Monitors and the Layout; Once the software has been configured for your cameras and video; Monitor; In the Administrator, click the; The Monitor Manager provides the following options:
The Administrator Application 17 Configuring Monitors and the Layout Once the software has been configured for your cameras and video servers, you should then set up the screen layout for the Monitor application, and specify where each camera should be displayed on the screen. Important! In the Admi...
Page 18 - Hot Spot; Setting Image Quality and Recording Conditions; Settings...; Record Settings; Desired Recording Speed -; Images with motion
The Administrator Application 18 Hot Spot Window - This special window can be used for various purposes and will, when enabled, occupy up to 9 (3x3) of the available windows, depending on the layout in use. The Hot Spot window can show an enlarged view from one camera, it can be used for interactive...
Page 19 - Save images within ... -; Camera Monitor Setup; Motion Color; Update on motion only -; Database Settings
The Administrator Application 19 Save images within … - If Images with motion has been selected as the recording condition, it is then also possible save images from immediately before and after the alarm, i.e. when the detected motion exceeds the given limit. These images are constantly buffered fo...
Page 20 - Delete images older than -; Motion Detection Settings; Calibrating Motion Detection,
The Administrator Application 20 For all cameras combined, a maximum total of 160 GByte can be saved. Delete images older than - (in minutes, hours or days). Select this to limit the recordings in the database by age. When selected, images will automatically be deleted when older than the specified ...
Page 21 - Exclude Regions Settings; Defining Motion Detection Exclude Areas,; Image Quality...; Configure Device; Outputs...; On Manual Control; PTZ Preset Positions...; absolute
The Administrator Application 21 Exclude Regions Settings It is also possible to set up regions for the camera that should be excluded from motion detection. Exclude Regions… - Click this button to specify the areas to exclude. See also Defining Motion Detection Exclude Areas, on page 24. Region Col...
Page 22 - Calibrating Motion Detection; Motion Level Indicator -
The Administrator Application 22 Calibrating Motion Detection The motion detection system can control (a) when images are saved to disk, and (b) when alarms are generated, and is therefore a vital element of the system. Motion detection requires careful calibration or it will not function properly. ...
Page 23 - Noise Sensitivity Slider -; high; Motion Sensitivity Slider -
The Administrator Application 23 Noise Sensitivity Slider - Adjusts the noise sensitivity level of individual picture elements (pixels). The noise sensitivity level determines when the change in light intensity and color (light change) of individual pixels should be considered noise (i.e. an insigni...
Page 24 - Defining Motion Detection Exclude Areas
The Administrator Application 24 Defining Motion Detection Exclude Areas Areas that should not be included in the motion detection area can be excluded from the image by marking the relevant areas in the Exclude Regions settings. Figure 6 - The Exclude Regions dialog. Clicking in the image with the ...
Page 25 - Setting Up and Using PTZ Preset Positions; Figure 7 - The PTZ Preset Positions dialog box.
The Administrator Application 25 Setting Up and Using PTZ Preset Positions Up to 25 PTZ preset positions (PP’s) can be created for absolute positioning PTZ cameras. These are then accessible in the Monitor application’s control panel. For relative PTZ cameras, the number of PP’s will depend on the A...
Page 26 - Zoom buttons
The Administrator Application 26 Tilt (Vertical bar) - Click on the bar to set the tilt position for the camera. When clicking, the tilt level will be set to the level indicated by the cursor position on the bar. Pan (Horizontal bar) - Click on the bar to set the pan position for the camera. When cl...
Page 27 - Logfile Path
The Administrator Application 27 General Settings The General Settings dialog box allows you to define various administrative settings, as described below. Figure 8 - The General Settings window. Logfile Path - Specify the directory on the disk where the log files should be located. The specified di...
Page 28 - Scheduling Camera Activity and Alert Periods,
The Administrator Application 28 E-mail Setup The e-mail alerting system must be configured prior to use. The following settings must be configured; Enable E-mail - Select to enable E-mail alerting. Note that camera and system failures will automatically be sent via e-mail if this has not been disab...
Page 29 - Scheduling Camera Activity and Alert Periods
The Administrator Application 29 Scheduling Camera Activity and Alert Periods Using a a one-week calendar, the built-in Scheduler provides automatic control over important system functions. The main principle for scheduling is to click and drag in the window to create (or delete) a time period, duri...
Page 30 - Setting up Schedules - an Example; Add
The Administrator Application 30 E-mail - Check to enable (or delete) periods during which e-mail alerts will be sent for events for the selected camera. Before setting up e-mail alerts, e-mail must be configured in the General Settings dialog, also available from the main Administrator application....
Page 31 - On Event; Inputs
The Administrator Application 31 6. Click the day name again to zoom out.7. You should now see a purple bar that represents the times you specified. This bar indicates that the selected camera will be active during this period. We now need to cover the rest of the week, but we now only want the came...
Page 32 - The Monitor Application; Start the Monitor from the Program Menu or from the shortcut on the
The Monitor Application 32 The Monitor Application The Monitor application is the heart of the AXIS Camera Recorder system, and is used for all normal day-to-day operation. Besides being the main user interface, the Monitor starts and stops the cameras, acquires and displays images, detects motion, ...
Page 33 - Online; Indicators; Tools and options available in the Monitor window; Using
The Monitor Application 33 When the Monitor application is started, it automatically starts any cameras that have been specified in the Scheduler as being Online at that time. The Scheduler can be disabled and overridden by pressing the Manual button, which allows all the cameras to be started manua...
Page 34 - Buttons for manual control of outputs -; all; Preset Position Buttons -
The Monitor Application 34 Buttons for manual control of outputs - These buttons are used to manually control any outputs that have been linked to the camera currently selected. The outputs controlled by these buttons can be on any device/camera in the system. To set up outputs, please see page 39. ...
Page 35 - The Hot Spot window supports interactive Pan/Tilt/Zoom. When PTZ; Using the Recordings Browser
The Monitor Application 35 The Hot Spot window supports interactive Pan/Tilt/Zoom. When PTZ Mode is enabled, click in the Hot Spot window and hold down the mouse button while dragging. A slider (0-100%) indicating the zoom factor will appear. Move the slider to the desired zoom factor and release th...
Page 36 - Go To; pressed
The Monitor Application 36 Camera - Select the camera to view recordings from. Data/Time - Use these controls and press the Go To button to jump directly to the specified date and time. If no image was recorded for the specified time then the first recorded image found after the specified time will ...
Page 37 - Features in Advanced Mode; Advanced mode allows you to print or export; Advanced; button displays the following; Records; rently stored for the selected camera.; Record Limit; - Shows the maximum size of the; Export; - Press this button to export single orig-
The Monitor Application 37 Features in Advanced Mode Advanced mode allows you to print or export individual images, create AVI video files and zoom into or out of the images. Clicking the Advanced button displays the following information and buttons: • Records - Shows the number of images cur- rent...
Page 38 - Figure 16 - Examples of codecs
The Monitor Application 38 • Create AVI - Press this button to create an AVI file, using the images included in the period/region defined by start time to end time (see previous page.) Enter the name of the AVI file to create in the Create AVI dialog and optionally include a timestamp. Once the file...
Page 39 - Inputs and Outputs; Appendix A - Inputs and Outputs; Advanced Control with Input Devices; Example; external event
Inputs and Outputs 39 Appendix A - Inputs and Outputs Advanced Control with Input Devices Axis Network Cameras and Video Servers support the use of various types of input devices, for example, passive infrared sensors, or door and window contacts. Please refer to the device’s manual for a descriptio...
Page 40 - timer event
Inputs and Outputs 40 A plus sign (+) will now appear to the left of the device to which the sensor is connected. Click this to see the defined external event entry. The event name appears under the device, which indicates that this event is controlled through that device. We will now create a timer...
Page 41 - On Events; Setting up Output Events
Inputs and Outputs 41 6. Now find the start time of the event-controlled period and click and drag the mouse to the end time. 7. You will now be asked to define the selected time period as On Events or Always . Select On Events and the selected time period turns yellow in the Scheduler overview. Whe...
