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Foreword
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VMS Video Monitoring Platform User Manual.................................................................................1
Foreword...........................................................................................................................................2
1 Software installation and operating environment.........................................................................5
1.1 Overview.............................................................................................................................5
1.2 Operating environment......................................................................................................5
1.3 Software Installation..........................................................................................................6
1.4 Software Uninstall...............................................................................................................7
2 instructions.................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Software registration...........................................................................................................7
2.2 soft login..............................................................................................................................8
3 preview function..........................................................................................................................13
3.1 Interface introduction.......................................................................................................13
3.2 Live Preview......................................................................................................................15
3.3 Device Tree and View........................................................................................................19
3.4 PTZ function......................................................................................................................22
3.5 Window Segmentation......................................................................................................25
4 Add equipment............................................................................................................................26
4.1 Search Add Device.............................................................................................................26
4.2 Manually Adding Devices..................................................................................................28
4.3 Modifying Device Information..........................................................................................29
4.4 Delete Device and Device Configuration...........................................................................30
5 device configuration.....................................................................................................................30
6.Playback.......................................................................................................................................31
6.1 Interface introduction.......................................................................................................32
6.2 Playback Device Recording................................................................................................33
6.3 Playback Local Recording..................................................................................................36
7 Round trip plan............................................................................................................................38
7.1 Configure round robin plan...............................................................................................38
7.2 Carry out the round plan...................................................................................................41
8 Logs..............................................................................................................................................42
8.1 Operation log....................................................................................................................42
8.2 Alarm Log..........................................................................................................................43
9 digital map...................................................................................................................................43
10 Event..........................................................................................................................................45
11 Event configuration....................................................................................................................45
12 Video plan..................................................................................................................................48
12.1 Add channel....................................................................................................................48
12.2 Video plan.......................................................................................................................49
13 User configuration..............................................................................................................50
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environment.
1.1 Overview
Note: This software is for connecting multiple different types or models of devices
(NVR/HVR/DVR/DVS/IPC). This user manual only describes the software operation. Please refer to
the relevant product manual for the function settings of specific devices.
This manual is provided for those responsible for planning, executing, or reviewing the hardware
installation of the network video surveillance software. You should have the basic operating
knowledge and experience of related equipment (NVR/HVR/DVR/DVS/IPC).
operating Windows2000/xp/2003/Vista/Windows 7/
System Windows 8/Windows 10System
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RAM 1G or above
Network 100/1000M
card
Step one: Double-click the VMS software installation package, and the installation interface appears
as shown in the figure below.
Step two: Click "Next", select the software installation path, the default path "C:\Program Files \
VMS"
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Step 3: Click Next and wait for the installation to complete. Click Finish to exit
Note: If the computer has a different version of VMS installed, it is recommended to uninstall the
original version of the VMS, and then follow the above installation process for software installation.
Method One: Click [Start] [Programs] [VMS] [Uninstall VMS] Uninstall software will delete. For all
related files, it is recommended that you back up the video files and screenshot before uninstalling
to avoid being deleted.
Method 2: Go to the system control panel and select [VMS]. Select “Delete”. Uninstalling the
software will delete all related files. It is recommended that you back up the video files and
screenshot before uninstall to avoid being deleted.
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2 Instructions
Step one: Double-click the VMS shortcut generated on the desktop, the registration screen
appears, enter the admin password, confirm the password, and click Next.
Step 2: Enter the password protection problem (forgot password to retrieve admin password),
and click Finish.
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Step 1: Double-click the desktop generated VMS shortcut, the login screen appears, enter the
user name, password, check the login interface under the "save information", you can save the user
name and password, check the "Auto Login", next time you can directly log in Without entering a
username and password. (Forget your password by clicking on the blue "forgot password" below
the login page to retrieve your password).
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Step 2: Click "Login". After the user passes the verification, enter the main program, as shown
below:
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1 Feature tab
Click to add the "new
function page" tab, in the
new function also click the
corresponding function to
enter the corresponding
function interface, while
the tab name is updated to
the function name.
2 Event Management
❶ And , click to
switch the alarm sound or
silent.
❷ , indicates the
number of alarm
3 User Management
❶Click to select the
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❷Click to select
Switch User and Switch
Login User.
❷Click to maximize
the software window.
3 Preview function
According to the area introduced the various parts and functions of the interface.
Click , and select Preview on the New Features interface. The Preview interface is displayed.
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1 The device list Contains the device tree and the view
area module.
❶ The device list supports management
devices (rename groups and deletion
groups), code stream switching, device
configuration, and synchronous intercom
operations.
❷Adding groups, deleting view groups,
renaming view groups, and deleting views
are supported in the view list.
2 Preview Browse the video area, the number of
area windows supports multiple ways of
segmentation.
In the process of previewing the video, it
supports capturing images and videos, and
supports operations such as turning round
robin, voice intercom, and area zooming. For
details, see "4.2 Live Preview."
3 PTZ control The access device supports the PTZ
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Real-time view camera captures video data, supports local recording, capture, open audio, and
zoom in during the process.
The following methods are supported to enable preview:
Select the preview window and double-click the device to be previewed in the device list area.
Drag the device that needs to be previewed in the device list to the preview window.
If you open the preview of the view, you can enable the preview of all the cameras under the view
at the same time.
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Analog PTZ:
1. Click on the analog PTZ on the window to open this function.
2. Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse to rotate the head to the direction of the drag.
3. Click on the analog PTZ on the window again to turn off the function.
Picture Adjustment: Click on the picture adjustment in the window to open the picture
adjustment window.
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1. Open the remote control channel, right mouse button Po-pup directory as shown above.
2. Select to open the remote control for remote control.
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3. Click to close the channel or press ESC to exit full screen to close the remote control.
Device tree:
Right-click the blank area to create a new group and enter the Add Group interface as shown
below.
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2. Enter the view name, select the view group, click the OK button, and save the view.
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PTZ control moves in 8 directions, zoom, zoom, iris, step, and more functions
Click to select the window to open the video (the window has a blue border) to control the PTZ
(the channel's PTZ settings will not be described)
1. [Direction Control]: respectively control the PTZ up, down, left, right, the mouse is pressed and
kept as always controlled, released as stop control;
2. [Mouse Simulation]: Click to open the mouse simulation, and simulate the mouse in the
right window of the video window.
3. "Magnification" adjusts the zoom control of the PTZ camera lens;
Click to reduce the zoom lens, click to enlarge the zoom lens multiple;
4. [Focus] Adjust the focus of the control PTZ camera lens.
Click the PTZ to zoom out and click the PTZ focus to zoom in;
5. [Aperture] Adjust the aperture of the PTZ camera lens.
Click PTZ aperture to zoom out, click PTZ aperture to zoom in;
6.[Step size]Adjust the step length to control the top, bottom, left and right of the PTZ, and the
speed when cruising; Drag the dot to set the step, and the mouse
pauses to display the step;
7. [Preset Point] By setting a preset point, you can quickly switch the camera to the position
corresponding to the preset point.
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Step 2 Select the preset point in the Preset column and enter the time in the Time column.
You need to set at least two "preset points" to set the cruise.
10. [Horizontal rotation] By setting two boundaries, the camera is rotated repeatedly between
two boundaries.
Step 1 Use the PTZ direction control to turn the PTZ left to the desired position and click to
set the left boundary.
Step 2 Use the PTZ direction control to turn the PTZ right to the desired position and click to
set the right boundary.
Step 3 Click , and the camera rotates repeatedly between the two boundaries.
11. [Surveillance] It records the user's operation to rotate the camera. It can make the camera
rotate according to the recorded track.
Step 1 Click to start setting the patrol and zoom, focus or rotate the camera.
Step 3 Select the required patrol number, click , and the camera rotates according to the
recorded trajectory.
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Click to display in full screen, press ESC to exit the full screen.
4 Add equipment
VMS supports a variety of ways to add devices. Add devices based on the number of added
devices and device protocols.
You need to add devices in batches or do not know the device IP address. It is recommended that
you add devices by searching for them.
On the Device Management page, click Auto Search.
The system displays the "Auto Search" screen as shown in the figure below.
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The device model can select the device to search, click Search, the system displays the search
results. (The added device will not be displayed).
Select the device you want to add, click Add, and the pop-up is added. Click OK to pop up the
login information, enter the user name, and password to add the device.
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Select the device to be modified, and click to enter the modify device IP interface,
enter the user name, password, new IP address, modify the IP.
Add a single device and support the device's IP address or domain name or cloud ID. It is
recommended that you add devices manually.
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The adding method is changed to LT cloud or TS cloud to add devices through the cloud.
Enter (select) the appropriate information and click Add to add the device.
Incorrect username or password You can modify the correct user name or password by modifying
the device information.
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Click to enter the modify page, enter the new username and password, and click Save.
To delete devices in batches, tick the check boxes of the devices to be deleted, and click and
to delete all checked devices.
Click to enter the device configuration interface. The device that is not logged in is displayed
5 Device configuration
The device configuration can obtain and modify the configuration information of the device. You
can access the device configuration by right-clicking the device tree in the preview interface or enter
it through the device management interface. (Different equipment and equipment management
interface functions are different, please take the actual total energy as the main)
6.Playback
You can play back and export device videos, device pictures, local videos, and local pictures.
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9 Video button save the video on the device to the local time
13 Quick release button Quick release button to speed up the play order
Steps:
1. Select the Devices tab on the Playback screen.
2. Select the device channel in the "Device Tree" (check box).
3. Select “Video” in the query conditions, then select the video type, stream, and time, and
click Search.
4. After the query, if there is a video timeline as shown in the figure below, double-click the
timeline to display the video for that time. (Playback by time).
5. Click on the query result to enter the video file playback list, select the desired file, and click
"play". Note: If you select multiple playback, instead of opening all files at the same time, play each
file in order. (playback by file)
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6. If you select Download in the figure above, you can download the file to your local computer.
Click to enter the download interface and check the download progress. )
7. If you select a picture in the search criteria and select the time, you can view the device
capture.
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Prerequisites: There is a device recording on the channel. (For details, see 3.2 Real-time preview)
Steps:
1. Select the Local tab on the Playback screen.
2. Select the device channel in the "Device Tree".
3. Select “Video” in the query conditions, then select the video type, stream, and
time, and click Search.
4. In the query results page, select the file to play.
5. If you select a picture in the search criteria and then select the time, you can view
the local capture.
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10. The video channel can be deleted by adjusting the order of the video channels in the task.
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12. Finally, the task's dwell time must be changed. If the task dwell time expires, the next
video channel will not be played again. Instead, the next task will be executed. Therefore, the figure
above should modify the task dwell time to a value greater than 30. Otherwise, the task cannot be
played.
13. Click Save to save the rotation task.
14. Double-click the task name to modify the task name, click to delete the task, click
to re-enter the task editing interface.
15. Repeat 3 operations to continue adding patrol tasks
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16. Dragging a task to another task can swap the order of execution of the two tasks.
1. Open the preview interface and select the rotation training plan to be executed in the polling
control area (see 3.1 for the specific location).
8 Logs
9 Digital map
The electronic map can clearly show the location of the managed device.
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2. Click the picture preview to select a picture, enter a picture name, picture description, and
click OK to add the picture.
3. Double-click the added picture to open the map.
4. Drag the camera from the device tree to its location, and drag the other maps from the map bar
to where the map is located (such as, drag the Riverside map to the Hangzhou map). If you hover
over the hot spot, the mouse will show the close button and delete the hot spot.
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5. Click Save to save the edit, click Clear to clear all points on the map, and click Resume to restore
the status before this edit.
10 Event
In the "Events" interface, you can view the real-time alarm information. You can view the latest 1000 messages at
the latest. For historical alarm messages, query the logs. For details on the log query, see "8 Logs."
Select the event, you can select "disable alarm sound" to disable the alarm sound for the event; select "disable
pop-up linked video", disable the pop-up video for the event; select "pause refresh" to pause the refresh of the
event.
Select the event and click "annotate" to add description information to the event.
After the event is processed or annotated, the state of the event cannot be modified.
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11 Event configuration
After the linkage notification is configured, an alarm is notified when the corresponding event occurs. Supports
the configuration of multiple event linkage notifications. (using motion detection as an example)
3. Open the alarm for the device's mobility policy. (click motion detection switch , off
, open ).
4. Select the notification, open the map flashing, alarm capture, alarm sound (map flashing needs to open in the
system settings pop-up electronic map to take effect).
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5. Select the linked video and configure the linked video. (Linked video needs to be opened in the system settings
to activate the alarm).
9. Double-click the cell to modify the stream duration, duration, click , delete the video
channel.
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12 Video plan
It can realize the client's local scheduled recording, and can record multiple devices at the same
time, at different time, video, general video, alarm video and video recording. The recording plan
switch is shown below.
2. Drag the channel to the right channel list and click to delete the channel.
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2. Select the pen type, draw directly on the time bar, or erase the time
period setting time. You can also click the button to enter the setting plan time interface to set
the time period.
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13 User configuration
Click
to add a user.
1. Enter the user name, select the user's role (different roles can choose different user rights), enter
the password, confirm the password, enter the comment, check the menu permissions, channel
permissions.
2. Click Save to complete the user addition.
note:
1. admin has all rights and cannot be modified or deleted. Add user support to modify user rights or
delete users.
2. User rights You can only add the rights owned by the user's role.
14 System Configuration
You can set the system parameters of the software. Click in the upper right corner of the main
interface. The System Configuration pop-up window is displayed.
Parameter Description