Panasonic PC Software Package Wv Asm200 Series Operating Instructions

							Before attempting to connect or operate this product,  
please read these instructions carefully and save this manual for future\
 use.
The model number is abbreviated in some descriptions in this manual.
 
Operating Instructions
PC Software Package 
Model No. WV-ASM200
WV-ASM200W
Extension Software
Model No. WV-ASE201, WV-ASE202 WV-ASE203, WV-ASE204 WV-ASE231
WV-ASE201W, WV-ASE202W
WV-ASE203W, WV-ASE204W 
						

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CONTENTS
Preface ...................................................................... 3
Software configuration  .......................................... 3
System configuration  ............................................ 3
System specifications  ........................................... 4
Compatible devices  ............................................... 5
Features................................................................. 6
Standard accessories  ............................................ 7
About the user manuals  ........................................ 7
Trademarks and registered trademarks  ................ 8
About use of open source software  ...................... 8
Abbreviations  ........................................................ 9
Document convention  ......................................... 10
Restrictions when operating MPEG-4 or H.264 
images  ................................................................. 12
Operation flow  ......................................................... 14
Start/exit the operation software  ............................. 15
Start the operation software  ................................ 15
Exit the operation software  ................................. 17
User management  ................................................... 18
About the user level setting  ................................. 18
Password’s validation period  .............................. 19
User switch  .......................................................... 20
Operation window  ................................................... 21
Function panel  ..................................................... 26
Layout of the operation window  .......................... 27
Pop-up menu  ...................................................... 28
Information display area  ...................................... 29
Camera operation panel  ...................................... 29
Playback operation panel  .................................... 32
SD operation panel  .............................................. 34
Search window  .................................................... 35
Alarm/event notification message  ....................... 37
License registration message  .............................. 38
Outline of the multi-monitor function  ...................... 39
Live window  ........................................................ 40
Map window  ........................................................ 43
About the "Face Search" window  ....................... 44
Monitor live images  ................................................. 45
Confirm the registered devices  ........................... 45
Monitor images from the selected camera  ......... 49
Display images from the cameras registered as a 
group (group display)  .......................................... 52
Display images from the cameras registered as a 
group sequentially (sequence display)  ................ 53
Switch the pattern of the screen  ............................. 55
Switch the screen pattern from 16-screen  .......... 55
Operate using the multi-monitor function  ............... 59
Operate the operation window  ............................ 59
Operate the live window  ...................................... 60
Operate the map window  .................................... 60
Operate the cameras  ............................................... 63
Operation of SD memory card  ................................ 64
Download recorded images  ................................ 64
Playback  .................................................................. 67
Play images using the "Quick playback" panel  ....... 69
Start/stop recording manually  ................................. 71Search 
..................................................................... 72
Search recording event  ....................................... 72
Search for times and dates of motion-containing 
images  ................................................................. 74
Play from the search results  .................................... 76
Play recorded images from the  
search result list  .................................................. 76
Play recorded images using the  
"Search" panel  .................................................... 77
Search face  ............................................................. 78
Search by time and date  ..................................... 78
Search by face  .................................................... 79
Play recorded image in search result  .................. 81
Check the alarm notification  ................................... 83
Display the "Alarm notification" window  ............. 83
Play images recorded by the alarm recording  .... 84
Search the alarm notification   .................................. 85
Search by time and date  ..................................... 85
Search by person (face)  ...................................... 86
Play recorded image in search result  .................. 87
Register a face for the alarm notification   ............... 89
Register from a face thumbnail image  ................ 89
Register from recorded images  ........................... 90
Register from snapshot  ....................................... 91
Display the statistical graphics of age/gender/ 
head-count  .............................................................. 92
Display the statistical results  ............................... 92
Download the statistics results as a CSV file  ...... 93
Change the display setting (Hide the display)  ......... 94
Display the border frame for face  
(Hide the border frame)   ...................................... 94
Save recorded images  ............................................. 95
Download recorded images  ................................ 95
Save as a JPEG file  ............................................. 99
Print  ....................................................................... 100
Display/edit text information  ................................. 101
Convert a file to the standard format  .................... 102
Control a decoder  ................................................. 104
Control a decoder  ............................................. 104
Viewer software  ..................................................... 107
Install the viewer software  ................................. 107
Uninstall the viewer software  ............................ 108
How to use the viewer software (ND_Viewer)  ... 108
Alarm/event notification and  
management of logs  .............................................. 112
Alarm/event notification window  ....................... 112
"Alarm notification" window  .............................. 113
Alarm mode of the live window  ......................... 115
"Alarm log" panel  .............................................. 120
"Device error log" panel  .................................... 121
"Network error log" panel  .................................. 122
Troubleshooting  ..................................................... 123
Displayed messages and solutions

  ....................... 130
Operation using the system controller 
.................. 13

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Preface
The PC Software Package WV-ASM200 (hereinafter this software) is desig\
ned for integrated management of 
multiple Panasonic network disk recorders and digital disk recorders (h\
ereinafter recorders), network interface 
unit (hereinafter encoders) and network cameras (hereinafter cameras)\
 connected to a network such as a LAN 
or the Internet, and runs on the Microsoft
® Windows® operating system.
Refer to the "Compatible devices" section (+ page 5) for the devices compatible with this software.
By using this software on a personal computer (hereinafter PC) via a n\
etwork, it is possible to display live 
images of the cameras, to play images stored on the recorder, and to dow\
nload image files to the hard disk 
drive of the PC.
Software configuration
This software consists of the following 3 applications:
Setup software:  The settings required to run the operation software can be configured \
and managed with this software.
Operation software:  Displaying live images, playback, downloading, searching for images 
stored on the recorder, and controlling of the camera is available using\
 
this software.
Service software:  Reception of Panasonic alarm protocol and auto deletion of the operation\
 
log will be carried out by this software.
  This is the resident application (in the system tray). Once the PC is \
turned 
on, the service software runs in the background of the PC.
System configuration
PC in which the 
software is installed System controller†2
Network disk 
recorder Network disk 
recorder
Digital disk 
recorder
Network Video Encoder
Network
Network camera
Network camera
†1
Network camera
Network Video Encoder WJ-GXE500
Digital Disk Recorder WJ-HD616 
						

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†1: When the system is configured as "System A" in the illustration a\
bove, live images from the cameras con-nected to the recorder can directly be monitored with this software, not\
 through the recorder.
  To monitor live images directly from the cameras with this software, the\
 following are necessary. 
Register cameras in the recorder. 
•	
The recorder should be used with a single port.
•	
†2: The system controller is optional.
Important: Do not use cross cables to connect the PC and each device.
•	
When connecting multiple system controllers, operation of this software \
is not guaranteed.
•	
System specifications
•	Recorder	registration:	 Up	to	100	recorders
•	Encoder	registration:	 Up	to	64	encoders
•	Camera	registration:	 Up	to	256	cameras
•	Decoder	registration:	 Up	to	10	decoders	(The	license	for	the	WV-ASE204	is	required.)
•	User	registration:	 Up	to	32	users
•	User	levels:	 5	levels
•	Group	registration:	 Up	to	400	groups
•	Sequence	registration:	 Up	to	10	sequences	(Up	to	64	steps	can	be	registered	for	a	sequence)
•	Map	registration:	 	
Up	to	100	maps	(Up	to	64	cameras	can	be	assigned	on	a	map,	up	to	20	
registered maps can be used.) (The file size shall be less than 10 M\
B. 
Available file type is JPEG and BMP.)
•	Number	of	the	alarm	logs	that	can	be	stored:	 Up	to	30000	logs	(Up	to	1000	logs	can	be	displayed)
•	Number	of	the	device	
error	logs	that	can	be	stored:	 Up	to	1000	logs	(Up	to	1000	logs	can	be	displayed)
•	Number	of	the	network	error	logs	that	can	be	stored:	 Up	to	1000	logs	(Up	to	1000	logs	can	be	displayed)
•	Number	of	the	system	logs	that	can	be	stored:	 Up	to	1000	logs	(Up	to	1000	logs	can	be	displayed)
•	Number	of	the	operation	logs	that	can	be	stored:	 Up	to	100000	logs	(Up	to	1000	logs	can	be	displayed)
•	Number	of	search	results	that	can	be	displayed:	 	 Up	to	1000	logs search results (Up to 200 results for 
VMD search)
Note: Number of PCs that can concurrently access a single recorder differs dep\
ending on choosing whether or 
•	
not to use "Live window" and the model of the recorder in use.
Recorder Use of "Live window"
YesNo
ND300 46
ND200 24
HD300
†32†13†2
ND400 816
HD600 48
NV200 11
ASR500
†4 †4
†1: When displaying images on a 16-screen or 
9-screen, only a single PC can access.
†2:  When displaying images on a 16-screen, 2 PCs 
can access.
†3:  Under the following conditions, connection to the 
recorder may be interrupted and a black screen 
may be displayed. 
Event recording and sequence are being oper-
•	
ated.
The total live rate for each HD300 is 15 ips or 
•	
more 
Refer to "WV-ASM200 Setup Instructions" for 
how to configure the settings for the live rate 
for HD300.
†4:  Note that it varies depending on the system con-
figuration in use.
When exceeding the maximum number of concurrent access due to an increas\
e in the number of accesses 
•	
using web browsers or FTP accesses, connection to the recorder may be in\
terrupted and a black screen 
may be displayed.
By adding the license for the Extension Software WV-ASE203 (option), i\
t will become possible to expand the 
•	
maximum numbers of registered recorders, encoders and cameras to 100, 64\
 and 256 respectively. Up to 4 
licenses for the WV-ASE203 can be added. 
						

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Compatible devices
The following devices are compatible with this software.Important: Some functions may not work depending on the firmware version of the c\
ompatible device.  
•	
Refer to the Panasonic support website (http://security.panasonic.com/p\
ss/security/support/index.html) for 
further information.
Note: Refer to the operating instructions of the recorder in use for the camer\
as that can be connected to the re-
•	
corder in use.
Compatible recorders
Model Appears in this document as Version Compression
ND300 series ND300
5.20 or later MPEG-4
M-JPEG
H.264
ND200 series ND200
3.30 or later MPEG-4
M-JPEG
H.264
HD300 series HD300
3.44 or later Model-specific
ND400 series ND400
2.20 or later MPEG-4
M-JPEG
H.264
HD600 series HD600
2.06 or later H.264
NV200 series NV200
1.04 or later MPEG-4
M-JPEG
H.264
ASR500 series ASR500
5.9.1901.48362 
or laterMPEG-4
M-JPEG
H.264
Compatible encoder
Model
Appears in this document as Version Compression
WJ-NT304 NT304 1.32 or later MPEG-4
M-JPEG
WJ-NT314 NT314 1.32 or later MPEG-4
M-JPEG
WJ-GXE500 GXE500 1.30 or later H.264
MPEG-4
M-JPEG
WJ-GXE100 GXE100 1.72 or later H.264
M-JPEG
Compatible cameras
Refer to the Readme.txt on the provided CD-ROM.
Compatible decoder (The license for the WV-ASE204 is required.)
Model Appears in this document as Version Compression
WJ-GXD400 GXD400 2.20 or later  H.264
MPEG-4
M-JPEG 
						

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Features
Important:To use the following functions, it is necessary to add the license for t\
he Extension Software WV-ASE201 
•	
(option).  Live window
•	
Map window
•	
Control using the System Controller WV-CU950
•	
  Refer to the WV-ASM200 Setup Instructions (PDF) for further informatio\
n about how to add the license for 
the Extension Software. 
To control the GXD400, it is necessary to register the license for the E\
xtension Software WV-ASE204 (op-
•	
tion) additionally.
To use the following functions, it is necessary to add the license for t\
he Extension Software WV-ASE
•	 231 
(option).
Face search monitor
•	
Remote operation of devices
It is possible to operate the recorder, encoder and cameras via a networ\
k using this software. When operating 
the recorder via a network, displaying live images, playback of recorded\
 images, camera operation, status indi-
cation, searching, etc. are available.
Refer to the following chapters for further information.
"Status bar" (+ page 23)
"Monitor live images" (+ page 45)
"Operate the cameras" (+ page 63)
"Playback" (+ page 67)
"Search" (+ page 72)
Multi-monitor function
The multi-monitor function using up to four PC monitors is available, an\
d it makes possible to display the oper-
ation window, the live window and the map window simultaneously.
Refer to the "Operate using the multi-monitor function" (+ page 59) for further information.
To use the multi-monitor function, it is necessary to add the license fo\
r the Extension Software WV-ASE201.
Image download
It is possible to download recorded images by designating the time range\
 and the target recorders or cameras.
Refer to the "Download recorded images" section (+ page 64) for further information.
Alarm/event notification and management of logs
Alarm notification:
•	  The alarm description will be displayed in a pop-up window (alarm noti\
fication window) 
on the operation window when an alarm occurrence is notified from the \
recorder. The alarm description will 
also be displayed as a log in the alarm log panel.
Event notification:
•	  The error description will be displayed in a pop-up window (error noti\
fication window) 
on the operation window upon a recorder error occurrence or upon a netwo\
rk error occurrence. The error 
description will also be displayed as a log in the device error log pane\
l or in the network error log panel.
Management of logs:
•	  Each time an alarm or an error occurred, a log will be filed automati\
cally. Logs can 
be checked in the log panels (alarm log panel, device error log panel a\
nd network error log panel) by log 
type (alarm log, device error log and network error log) respectively.\
  
When a log displayed in the log panel is clicked, playback of the respec\
tive recorded images will start.  
Refer to the "Alarm/event notification and management of logs" section\
 ( + page 112) for further information 
about the management of logs. 
						

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Security
It is possible to enhance security by using the user authentication func\
tion (requires entering a user name and 
password). This software manages the administrator (who can administra\
te this software) and the registered 
users (who can operate this software except configurations).
It is also possible to restrict operable functions by applying the user \
level to each registered user.
Refer to the "User management" section (+ page 18) for further information about the user management.Important: Check if the model in use is compatible with each function.  
•	
Refer to the Panasonic support website (http://security.panasonic.com/p\
ss/security/support/index.html) for 
further information.
Standard accessories
CD-ROM  .......................................................... 1 pc.
Installation guide  ............................................. 1 pc.
Activation Key Card  ......................................... 1 pc.
Important: The provided CD-ROM contains the installer of this software, the operati\
ng instructions (PDF), the setup in-
•	
structions (PDF) and the Readme.txt.  
Prior to installation, read the Readme.txt.
This software will not work if the license is not registered. After inst\
alling the software on the PC in use, reg-
•	
ister the license.
About the user manuals
There are two PDF manuals (the operating instructions and the setup ins\
tructions) and the installation guide 
(leaflet).
This PDF manual contains descriptions for the registered users such as d\
escriptions about the functions of the 
operation software and of how to operate the operation window.
Refer to the WV-ASM200 Setup Instructions (PDF) for descriptions of ho\
w to install this software and about the 
required preliminary settings before starting running this software.
"WV-ASE201" shown in the instructions and illustrations used in this man\
ual indicates the WV-ASE201, 
WV-ASE201W.
"WV-ASE202" shown in the instructions and illustrations used in this man\
ual indicates the WV-ASE202, 
WV-ASE202W.
"WV-ASE203" shown in the instructions and illustrations used in this man\
ual indicates the WV-ASE203, 
WV-ASE203W.
"WV-ASE204" shown in the instructions and illustrations used in this man\
ual indicates the WV-ASE204, 
WV-ASE204W.
The descriptions in the following pages are based on the assumption that\
 Microsoft
® Windows® 7 Professional 
runs on a PC.
Operation windows may not be the same as those appearing on the pages wh\
en a different OS is used or dif-
ferent settings are applied.
When using other OS, refer to the operating instructions of the respecti\
ve OS. 
						

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demarks of Adobe Systems 
•	
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Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista, Internet Explorer, Active X and Direc\
tX are either registered trademarks 
•	
or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other\
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Microsoft product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Micros\
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•	
Intel and Intel Core are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Co\
rporation in the United States and 
•	
other countries.
All other trademarks identified herein are the property of their respe\
ctive owners.
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About use of open source software
This product uses open source software.
Software name Copyright License name
OpenCV Intel Corporation
Willow Garage Inc License Agreement For Open Source 
Computer Vision Library (BSD License)
Dynamic Json neuecc  Ms-PL
Extended WPF Toolkit Xceed Software Inc. Ms-PL
The following are the entire text of the license agreements to be applie\
d.
License Agreement For Open Source Computer Vision Library (BSD License)\
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If you do not agree to this license, do not download, install, copy or u\
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Abbreviations
These are descriptions of the basic terms used in these operating instru\
ctions.
Microsoft
•	® Windows Vista® Business SP2 (32-bit) and Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business SP2 (64-bit) are 
described as Windows Vista.
Microsoft
•	
® Windows® 7 Professional SP1 (32-bit) and Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional SP1 (64-bit) are 
described as Windows 7.
Microsoft® Windows
•	
® 8 Pro (32-bit) and Microsoft® Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit) are described as Windows 8. 
						

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Administrator
Indicates a person responsible for management and 
operation of this software.
User
Indicates a person who operates this software. Each 
user should be defined as an administrator or a regis-
tered user in this software. Only a user who is regis-
tered as an administrator can configure and maintain 
this software.
Recorder
Indicates Panasonic network disk recorders or digital 
disk recorders.
Refer to the "Compatible devices" section (+ page 5) 
for the devices compatible with this software.
Encoder
Indicates Panasonic network interface unit.
Refer to the "Compatible devices" section (+ page 5) 
for the devices compatible with this software.
Fixed camera
Indicates cameras without the panning and tilting 
functions.
PTZ camera
Indicates cameras featuring the panning, tilting and 
zooming functions.
Fisheye camera
Indicates Panasonic Fisheye network cameras.
Live image
Indicates live images from the camera.
Decoder
Indicates Panasonic network video decoders. Refer 
to the "Compatible devices" section (☞ page 5) for 
the devices compatible with this software.
Direct image reception
Indicates that image reception directly from a camera 
registered in the network disk recorder, not through 
the recorder.
Group display
Images from cameras can be registered as a group 
and displayed by groups.
Sequence
Images of each registered group can be displayed 
sequentially in the order determined in advance.
The sequence function of this software is available 
only for live image display.
EL-zoom
Indicates the zoom function available when displaying 
live or recorded images.
While the zoom function of the camera enlarges 
images using the zoom lens of the camera, the 
EL-zoom function enlarges images by processing 
images on this software.
Clicking a point in the EL-zoomed image moves the 
displayed EL-zoomed image by positioning the 
clicked point as the center point.
Camera operation
Indicates the operations of the camera connected, 
such as panning/tilting, zooming, focusing, starting 
the preset function (move to the preset position), 
starting the selected auto mode function, brightness 
adjustment, preset registration and AUX control.
Network playback
Recorded images on the recorder can be played via a 
network.
Manual recording
Indicates recording that is performed by clicking the 
[REC START] button and the [REC STOP] button.
Download
Indicates file (recorded image on the recorder) trans-
fer from the recorder to a PC using the FTP function.
Image file
Indicates downloaded recorded image from the 
recorder.
File playback
Indicates playback of image files using the viewer 
software.
Notification function using the Panasonic 
alarm protocol
Indicates the function that uses alarm/event notifica-
tion transmitted from the device using Panasonic 
alarm protocol.
Document convention
These are descriptions of the basic terms used in these operating instru\
ctions.