Live View

Live View is the default screen that appears when the software is started. On this screen you can view video feeds from connected cameras. Search, Playback, Pan/Tilt/Zoom functions are accessible through this screen.

1. Lock/Unlock – Allows you to “lock” or “unlock” the software. When the software is locked, all the buttons are disabled; by default software automatically locks if it is idle for 60 minutes.

2. Power – Shuts down the DVR Server.
3. Date and Time – Indicates date and time on the DVR server.
4. Display Screen – Displays the videos from the cameras.
5. Image Adjustments – Controls for brightness, contrast, hue and saturation adjustments.
6. Disk Usage – Shows hard disk space consumption.
7. Video Event Log – Displays recent event logs.
8. History – Opens a window to display a full listing of the event logs.
9. Full Screen – Displays current layout of cameras in full screen.
10. Screen Layout – Changes the screen layout of the live view.
11. Next Screen – Switches to the next set of video feeds.
12. Cycle Screens – Cycle through the feed(s) sets.
13. De-interlace – Switches the de-interlace option on/off.
14. Mute/Unmute – Mutes/Unmutes the alarm sound.

15. Volume Control – Adjusts the output volume.
16. Record – Starts forced (manual) recording. The video quality and resolution will be based on current settings.
17. Screen Capture/Snapshot button – Takes a snapshot of the image displayed on-screen.
18. Camera Selector– Displays the video of the selected camera in 1-camera layout.
19. Sensor/Relay/Audio – Selects Sensor/Relay/Audio device.
20. Setup – Opens Server Setup window.
21. Search – Opens the Search and Playback window.
22. E-map – Opens E-map window.
23. Pan/Tilt/Zoom Function – Displays the PTZ control section.
24. Remote Connections – Indicates an active remote connection by blinking. Left click on the icon displays the remote IP.
25. Help – Opens the help window.

1. Camera Label – Displays name assigned to the video feed. You can change the name in camera settings setup
2. Recording Status [REC] appears when the recording is in progress. Color of the label shows the type of the recording in progress:
•    Continuous Recording - Magenta
•    Sensor-triggered Recording - Yellow
•    Motion-triggered Recording – Light Blue
•    Object Detection-triggered Recording - Orange
•    Forced Recording - Red
3. Motion Indicator – A red border around the camera display indicates a detected motion.

1 - Switch between 1, 4, 9, or 16 channel views by clicking on it.
2 - Next Camera and Cyclic Screen
3 - Click on the Next Camera button to switch to the next camera or cameras.
3 - Click on the Cycle Screens button to display camera or cameras in sequence.
4 - Full Screen Mode - Click the Full Screen button to display channel view in full screen. To exit full screen mode, right-click on the display screen.

Digital zoom allows you to zoom up to 10x.

Zoom In
To Zoom In left click your mouse. One can do this in either full screen mode or single camera mode.

Zoom Out
To exit zoom right click your mouse.

The Video Event Log displays recent events that the DVR system has logged. It displays the type of event, timestamp, camera, camera label, and date for each event that occurred:

To instantly play back the video, simply choose from the event list and click on your selection. A smaller playback window will appear on your screen.

1. Play/Pause – Plays / Pauses playback of the video.
2. Top – Moves playback of the selected video to the first frame.
3. Skip Back – Moves playback of the selected video 10 seconds back.
4. Previous Frame – Moves playback to the previous frame and then pauses the playback.
5. Next Frame – Moves playback to the next frame and then pauses the playback.
6. Skip Forward – Moves playback of the selected video 10 seconds forward.
7. Playback Speed controls – Increases/Decreases playback speed.
8. Playback Speed indicator – Indicates playback speed.

Through Image Adjustments, you can change brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation settings of the cameras currently displayed.

1.    Simply click on + or – to increase or decrease the selected image control option.
2.    To apply the changes to all cameras, click on the Apply to All button.
3.    Click the Restore Defaults button to return settings to the factory default settings.

1.    To capture an image of the display screen, click on the Capture button.
2.    A separate window will open with a printable form containing the captured image, time stamp and camera information.
3.    To print the page, click on Print. The page should be printed in landscape mode.
4.    To save the captured image, click on Save. Then, save the file under the selected folder.
5.    To stop using a mounted USB, click on the Unmount USB link at the bottom right corner.
6.    Click on the Close button to exit the Screen Capture window.

To know which sensors are active, click on the Sensor button. Active sensors are represented as highlighted buttons. If the beep alarm notification is turned on, the system beep will also be heard.

To know which relays are active, click on the Relay button. Active relays are represented as highlighted buttons. Relays can be activated/deactivated by clicking on the respective relay button.

To know which audio is active, click on the Audio button. The active audio channel will be highlighted. Only one audio channel can be on at any particular time. The audio channel can be activated/deactivated by clicking on the respective audio button.

To manually start recording, click on the Record button. Click on Record button again to stop recording. Forced recording can also be scheduled through setup.

NOTE: Pressing this button will stop any ongoing recording (Continuous / Sensor-triggered / Motion-triggered / Object Detection) and Forced recording will start.

Disk Usage displays ratio of amount of space used to total space available.

Deinterlace is the process of creating a single frame from the two interlaced fields of a video frame. While interlaced, the video can look much better on a TV screen. On the other hand on a VGA monitor the image will look pixilated during movement between frames. Interlace is the method of smoothening the video picture by having double the amount of frames than the video's FPS value suggests.

When toggling the Deinterlace, there are several options to choose from.

Adaptive Blend
Blends the pixels of the video frames with motion to remove tearing.

Continuous Blend
Blends the pixels all the time, with or without motion. The "blurry" effect on live view will be constant.

Adaptive Deinterlacing
Displays odd and even lines in separate frames consecutively to remove the tearing effect on the video frames with motion.
NOTE: This may cause “jumping” effect when no motion is detected.

Continuous Deinterlacing
Displays odd and even lines in separate frames consecutively all the time.

None
Deinterlace is turned off.