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NETAVIS Observer 3.4 User Manual
Contents
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 5 1.1 The Observer documentation set ........................................................................................... 5 1.2 What is new with this release ................................................................................................. 5 1.3 Observer data security ............................................................................................................ 5 1.4 Video streaming methods and compression .......................................................................... 6 2 Starting and operating the Observer client .............................................................................. 9 2.1 Introduction to Observer clients .............................................................................................. 9 2.2 Starting the Observer client in a standard web browser ....................................................... 10 2.3 Working with the locally-installed Observer client (Windows only) ....................................... 16 2.4 Observer Transcoding™ for low-bandwidth client-server connections ................................ 19 2.5 Logging out and exiting the client ......................................................................................... 19 3 Setting up cameras ................................................................................................................... 20 3.1 Preparations.......................................................................................................................... 20 3.2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties .............................................................. 20 3.3 Setting up the camera recording archive .............................................................................. 25 3.4 Optional: Configuring video analytics (iCAT) ........................................................................ 25 3.5 Defining brightness, contrast, and saturation ....................................................................... 25 3.6 Working with camera groups ................................................................................................ 26 4 Managing users ......................................................................................................................... 29 4.1 Creating a new user account ................................................................................................ 29 4.2 Setting general user privileges ............................................................................................. 30 4.3 Setting camera access rights ................................................................................................ 31 4.4 Working with user groups ..................................................................................................... 32 4.5 Defining Online Monitor views for a new user ...................................................................... 32 4.6 Information about logged-in users ........................................................................................ 32 4.7 Changing the password ........................................................................................................ 33 5 Using the Online Monitor .......................................................................................................... 34 5.1 Creating a new view.............................................................................................................. 34 5.2 Selecting cameras ................................................................................................................ 35 5.3 Navigating in the Online monitor........................................................................................... 36 5.4 Modifying view port settings .................................................................................................. 37 5.5 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings ................................................................ 39 5.6 Manual recording control in the Online Monitor .................................................................... 39 5.7 Working with round tours (the Smart guard™ function) ....................................................... 41 5.8 Copying views between users .............................................................................................. 42 5.9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio (MPEG-4, H.264, and MxPEG) ........................... 42 5.10 Working with PTZ cameras and I/O contacts (view port Camera menu) ........................... 43 6 Working with archive recordings ............................................................................................. 44 6.1 Programming archive recordings .......................................................................................... 44 6.2 Playback of archive recordings ............................................................................................. 47 6.3 Exporting recordings (images and video sequences)........................................................... 54 6.4 Motion detection in archive recordings ................................................................................. 55 7 Working with simple motion detection ................................................................................... 58 7.1 Observer’s own server-based motion detection ................................................................... 58 7.2 Motion detection in archive recordings ................................................................................. 61 7.3 In-camera motion detection .................................................................................................. 61
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