Acumen Camera AiM series User Manual

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Chapter 5.
  Audio 
Chapter 5-1. Two-way Audio  
To perform two-way audio, please first select a particular channel for listening to the audio of the 
channel.    Click on Speaker icon to enable audio feature.    To change volume, please change 
volume bar.     
   
To speak to remote site, please click MIC On button.         
To enable audio monitoring, please double click on a channel in full screen mode for audio 
monitoring.     
 
Chapter 5-2. Two-way Audio Auto Switching   
AiM Software HD 2.6 supports two-way audio for IP cameras.    E nable "Audio Aut o 
Switch" button 
 which allows automatically speaking to remote site and listening 
to 
the  audio, when the camera is triggered by the remote IP camera’s digital input.     
   
 
Chapter 5-3. Audio Recording    For IP cameras with audio input models, AiM Software HD 2 .6 can record audio with its video. 
To listen to the audio recording, playback feature can play the audio.   
						

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Chapter 6.    Archiving Manager   
AiM Software HD 2.6 Archive Manager can archive video to a central network storage.   
Archive Manger is located in each AiM PC.    It can perform video clips archiving to the central 
storage automatically.   
   
Chapter 6-1. Archiving Source   
To perform video archiving, select the cameras for video archiving.    You can keep the video 
clips from the AiM PC (Duplicate Archiving), remove the video clips from the AiM PC, or  choose the time not for archiving.    After configuring above, you can schedule the archiving task 
starting at specific hour of the week of the camera or apply all for the schedule to other cameras.        
						

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Chapter 6-2. Archiving Destination 
 
A user can choose the Archive Driver for archiving the video clips from a AiM. The Archive Drive 
could be a network
  RAID drive or internal SATA RAID for large among data.    For a network 
RAID (NAS), click on "Setup Network Disk" button to attach the drive to the  AiM.    After setting 
up the archiving dri ve, select Real-Time Archiving or Scheduled Archiving.    For  the Read-Time 
Archiving, the archiv

ing task is activated in the next minute.    After the configurations, a user can 
click Start button for archiving task. 
   
   
						

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Chapter 7.    User Settings 
User setting allows add a user, delete a user, change password for a user, and assign feature 
accessed by a user.         
 
To add, delete, and modify a particular user, click on User button in NVR tool box.   
 
The User Setting dialog box shows up.   
 
Chapter 7- 1.   Add  a User 
To add a user, click on a particular user in the user list and click Add button.    Add User window 
shows up.    To add user, specify user name, password, and confirm password.    Please also 
specify the user level and click on OK button.   
 
Chapter 7- 2.   Modify an Existing User 
To modify an existing user, click on a particular user in the user list and click Property button.   
To modify the user, specify user name, password, and confirm password.       
Chapter 7- 3.  Delete a User 
To delete  a user, please select the user in user setting window and click on OK button. 
 
Chapter 7- 4.  User Authorization 
Features of AiM Software can be assigned for a user.    To enable a feature for  the user, please 
first click on Property button.      The User Property dialog box shows up.    Click on the check 
box for the user in Access Level list item.  
						

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Chapter 7-5.    Alarm Email Notifications  For sending alarm email notifications, please configure the email setting in the user.    After 
finishing email setting, please configure Alarm Output Management at Camera Settings.  
						

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Chapter 8.    PTZ Control Panel 
In order to perform PTZ movements, you have to select a particular live channel which contains 
an IP Fast Dome.    Once an IP Fast dome is selected, you can control the movements using PC 
keyboard and/or PTZ control Panel. 
                 
Chapter 8-1.    Preset Point Settings  To setup preset points, please invoke Presets dialog box.    Follow the following steps: 
  Step 1.    Select preset point dropdown list. 
Step 2.    Type the time field. 
Step 3.    Type the speed field. 
Step 4.    Click up, down, left, or right to move the IP Fast Dome to specific position. 
Step 5.    Click Apply button to set the position. 
   
Chapter 8-2.   AiM Software HD 2.6 Status Panel  AiM Software HD 2.6 status panel is described as following chart.  PTZ control  IRIS control  
Focus control  
Speed control   Zoom   control 
control  Auto pan 
control  
Preset settings   Preset points   
						

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Chapter 8-3.    Control PTZ via CO -98/99 Keyboard 
To use CO-98/99 keybo
ard f
 or AiM, please follow the following steps.    First, please add a 
RS -232RS-485 convertor for connecting CO -98/99 keyboard and a AiM PC.     
Chapter 8-3-1.    DVR Control Mode  Press the 
SHIFT button and the  DVR button to set the keyboard to DVR control mode.    +  
   
 
To control a 
AiM, please first enter the DVR ID  (CMX ID) follow
  by the ENT  button.     +  
  +  
 
To recall a grouping, please 
type 1 + MON  and following by grouping ID and the  PRESET 
button.     +  
  +  
  +  
 
Chapter 8-3-2.    Window-division 
To change window-division, please first control a Ai M and type the following buttons. 
    16 - division  
  8 - division   36 - division   AiM ID   +    DVR   +  ENT  
  9 - division  
  4 - division      Recording percentage of HDD   System date  
System time  
Sequence mode  CPU usage  
Speaker status  MIC status  
User status    
						

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-window -division, please type Ai M ID followed by  DVR and  ENT buttons.    The 
operati
 on is same controlling a 
AiM. 
 
Chapter 8-3-3.    Recall a Camera  For recalling a camera, please select camera numbe
r and follow by CAM button.  
  Example: Call camera #8 
 
 
    Zoom in  
  Zoom out  
  Tilt up  
  Tilt down  
  Pan left  
  Pan right  
    Zoom in  
  Zoom out  
    Focus  near  
  Focus  far  
  IRIS small  
  IRIS large  
  Aut o Pan      
 
Chapter 8-4.    IP Camera ePTZ or ROI Feature 
For some IP cameras, they provide ePTZ or ROI feature.    A user can still use the keyboard 
controller for ePTZ or ROI feature via Ai M Software HD 2.6.   
 
Chapter 8-5.   

Sw
 itching in Between AiM and Virtual Matrix Monitors 
Please first gain Ai M access by press SHIFT button and DVR button.    +  
 
To control the AiM , please type AiM ID,     
DVR button and  ENT bu
 tton.    +  
  +  
 
After a AiM gets controlled, a user can address the monitors of the Ai
M.     +  
  +  
  
						

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To control #5 monitor, please click 5 button + MON for controlling #5 AiM monitor. To recall a 
grouping, please type the monitor ID + MON and following by grouping ID and the PRESET 
button. 
 
Chapter 8-6. Keyboard Playback    Please press SHIFT and DVR buttons for playback a AiM and press one of the follow buttons 
for playback. 
To control multiple channel playback feature, please click on Stepping Forward button. This 
invokes multiple channel playback features. 
  To control multiple channel playback feature, please click on Stepping Forward button.   
This invokes multiple channel playback features.  
 
To control single channel playback feature, please click on Play button. 
   
 
A date and time dialog box shows up. Please use    for entering date and time.    Press ENT 
button for searching the video.    Press ESC to exit the dialog box and press ESC again to exit 
playback dialog box.    For operating playback features, please follow the following: 
 
Pause: Press 
PAUSE button during playing video can pause the video in pause mode.     
Play: Replay the video after Pause, Fast Forward, or Fast Rewind. 
Fast Forward: Fast Forward the playback video. 
Fast rewind: Fast Rewind the playback video.   
Stop: Stop the playback video and return to playback menu. 
   
Select various split display modes on live and playback monitoring.      
						

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Chapter 9.    eMap Manager  
eMap is an application which can manage devices such as IP camera, IP 
Fast Dome, and DVRs/NVR on multiple maps.    With eMap, user can easily 
locate a particular device on a map.         
 
Chapter 9-1.    Before Accessing eMap  Before accessing eMap, terms and screen layout are described in the following section:  
 
   
 
 
     
Find Device Panel 
To find a device, please click on Find Device Panel button or View->Device menu.   
Click on the device in Find Device Panel.     
   Alarm Snapshot   Camera with Camera View   Multiple Live Video   Map Representation  
Alarm   Snapshot   Device Tree