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Description Digital Sentry® DS ControlPoint is an intuitive graphical user interface that allows users to monitor and manage any combination of analog or IP devices through a common digital video security application.
Installing the Software The DS ControlPoint installation file can be downloaded from the following Pelco Web site: http://www.pelco.com. WARNINGS: • Do not run the DS ControlPoint software as a regular monitoring utility on a server or combination component. Reserve a dedicated client computer for this purpose. • Do not activate any system lock or screensaver features while running the DS ControlPoint software. These features can interfere with certain Digital Sentry processes.
DS ControlPoint Overview The DS ControlPoint client window consists of four major pages: Setup: Allows you to manage systems and create tours. Live: Allows you to view live video. Search: Allows you to search for recorded video. Help: Allows you to search for user operation instructions. Each of these sections is accessible using the icons located in the upper-left corner of the navigation pane. Any page can be “undocked” so that it can be viewed while simultaneously viewing other pages.
Operation SETUP The Setup page (refer to Figure 2) contains the following options when you click the Setup icon window or the Setup tab. located in the top-left corner of the Application Settings: Allows you to select general settings for the application. Manage Systems: Allows you to add, remove, and connect to the Digital Sentry and Pelco DX Series video recorders.
APPLICATION SETTINGS When you click Application Settings in the Setup page, the Application Settings dialog box appears (refer to Figure 3). This dialog box allows you to control your general, bandwidth, and synchronization settings for the application. General: Allows you to save the last live configuration when the application is closed.
Figure 4. Bandwidth Settings Dialog Box Once these options have been configured, you can open the ThrottleAssistant by typing “B” on the keyboard (refer to Figure 5). The settings configured in the Bandwidth Settings dialog box appear in the ThrottleAssistant dialog box. • If Individual was selected under Throttle Override, a list of connected systems will appear under “Available for Override.
Figure 6. Sync Settings Dialog Box Using Auto Sync: The Auto Sync function allows the CP or XML file to be enabled at the following settings: • On Start Up of ControlPoint • Hourly • Daily • Weekly • Monthly Using Auto Sync 1. Determine the location of the file (Ex. C:\ControlPoint Files\CPSettings.cp. 2. Configure your auto sync setting. 3. Click OK. 4. Export the CP file. 5. In order to disable the auto sync setting, delete the .cp or .xml file. To import systems: 1.
To change to global settings: 1. Click Application Settings in the Setup page. The Application Settings dialog box appears (refer to Figure 6 on page 14). 2. Click the Sync button. The Sync Settings page appears. 3. Choose one of the following global settings options: • Click the Save Global button to automatically open global settings the first time you open DS ControlPoint. • Click the Load Global button and restart DS ControlPoint to change from personal settings to global settings.
MANAGE SYSTEMS When you click Manage Systems in the Setup page, the Connection Management page appears (refer to Figure 9). This page allows you to add and connect to systems. It also displays information about the DVMS connected to the client computer. Figure 9. Connection Management Page Numerous systems can be managed by administrators. For example, 30 guards configure their systems with different setups (that is, different buildings, cameras, and tours).
2. On the Add System tab, type the computer name of the DVMS, a host name or IP address, the video recorder network port, the system type, and an optional category. The default video recorder network ports are as follows: • 18772 for DS • 9001 for DX4100/DX4500/DX4600/DX4700/DX4800 • 9002 for DX8000/DX8100 3. Type the required user name and password.
SYSTEM LIST The list of configured systems on the Connection Management page can be sorted by clicking any column title. The following columns are included: Connected: Indicates whether the system is connected (green), disconnected (red), or attempting connection (yellow). Auto: Indicates that the system is configured for automatic connection when DS ControlPoint starts. Name: Lists the name entered for the system during configuration.
CONNECTING TO A SYSTEM You have several options to connect to a system that lacks the appropriate user name and password. To connect using Connect: 1. Select a disconnected system in the Connection Management page. 2. Click the Connect icon or double-click the disconnected system. The User Name and Password dialog box appears. NOTE: This dialog box appears only if the user name and password are not defined during system configuration. 3. Type the correct user name or password, or both. 4.
ADDING CUSTOM FIELDS You can add custom fields for each system. For example, you might want to list a site location such as an address, a city, or a building. These custom fields will appear as columns in the Connection Management page. 1. Click the Edit System button or the Add System button . The Edit System or Add System tab appears in the Connection Management page (refer to Figure 13). 2. Type a custom field in the Custom Field text box. 3.
UPDATING YOUR PASSWORD 1. Click the appropriate system. 2. Click the Update Password icon . The Update Password dialog box appears (refer to Figure 14 on page 21). 3. Type the old password, the new password, and then confirm the new password. 4. Click the OK button to close the dialog box. Figure 14. Password Update Dialog Box FILTERING THE SYSTEMS You can use a filter to show or hide systems. This is a useful tool when you have hundreds of systems to manage.
SHOWING THE SYSTEM LIST 1. Highlight the text in the Filter box. 2. Press Delete on your keyboard. All the systems are now visible. TROUBLESHOOTING THE SYSTEMS DS ControlPoint provides you with a diagnostics tool to search for network or software service issues and to reestablish network connections. 1. Right-click a system that has lost connection to the network, or highlight the system and then click the Diagnostics icon. The Diagnostics tab appears (refer to Figure 16).
WORKING WITH TOURS Creating tours allows you to configure different groups of cameras and sequence through those tour groups. The system cycles through the tour items based on a defined dwell time. CREATE A NEW TOUR To create a tour of cameras: 1. On the main Setup page (refer to Figure 2 on page 11), click Create New Tour to open the Edit Tour page. You can also right-click the Tours button on the navigation pane. The Edit Tour page allows you to configure an automated tour of cameras. Figure 17.
4. Select the tour, and click the Add Tour Item icon. This opens the Add Tour Item tab. Figure 18. Add Tour Item Tab 5. Type a name for the first tour item in the Tour Item Name text box. In the Dwell Time text box, type the amount of time (in seconds) that you want the tour item to be displayed. 6. Select the Systems section of the navigation pane and expand the tree until you see the cameras and other sources that you want to include in the tour.
ALARM POPUP If you are assigned Alarm Activity rights in DSAdmin, Digital Sentry immediately notifies you when an alarm event occurs. Alarms are sorted by the time they occurred in descending order (from oldest to newest). PLAYING BACK CURRENT ALARMS You can play back video associated with an alarm event by clicking the event notification. The alarms will populate the video screens depending on the layout.
CONFIGURING THE ALARM PAGE SETTINGS Alarm Popup allows you to receive a pop-up notification when an alarm occurs on any connected system. When Alarm Popup is enabled, the alarm window moves to the foreground indicating that an alarm event has occurred on a connected system. The Alarm Popup screen allows you to select the type of alarms you want to display, such as motion and zone. You can also select the location in which you want the alarms to display, such as in an undocked window or in a new tab.
ENABLING BEEP ON ALARM You can configure Beep On Alarm to make an audible sound when an alarm is received. This feature is disabled by default. 1. Click the Alarms tab. The Alarms page opens. 2. Click the Beep On Alarm icon . The Beep On Alarm tab appears. Figure 22. Beep On Alarm Tab 3. Click the On button in the Status section of the Beep On Alarm tab. 4. Choose the minimum beep delay, silence beep option, and the alarm types. 5. Click the Apply button.
EXPORTING POP-UP ALARMS You can save and export pop-up alarm information. 1. Click the Application Settings tab. The Application Settings screen opens. Figure 23. Export Pop-Up Alarms Screen 2. Click the Export button. 3. Enter the destination to which you want the pop-up alarms report sent in the Alarm export path field. 4. Click the OK button. 5. Go to the destination you’ve selected to view the Pop-up Alarm Export Report.
DIGITAL SENTRY REPORTS Several types of reports can be viewed from DS ControlPoint: Camera Usage Report: Displays recording activity (per camera and per day) in terms of the amount of disk space used for storage. Activity Report: Displays the user or administrator activity by date/time, user name, object, IP address, activity type, or description, and identifies the DS machine name. Zone Report: Shows how zone alarms are configured.
4. Click the Next button. A dialog box appears to configure the report settings for the system. Figure 26. Configuring System Report Settings Dialog Box 5. Select the report type(s) from the drop-down list. 6. Select the report format: PDF or HTML. 7. Select “Use configuration for all systems” if you want to reserve these settings for future reports. 8. Select “Separate file per system” if you want multiple reports to be generated as separate files instead of being consolidated into one. 9.
CONFIGURING ANALOG OUTPUTS Analog outputs are visible in the Systems tree after connecting to a system in DS ControlPoint. Only analog cameras located on the same board and capture card as the analog output can be viewed through the output. Figure 28. Analog Output Screen To configure analog outputs in DS ControlPoint: 1. Double-click an analog output in the Systems tree to open a new analog output tab titled Mon <#>, which will connect the system to a specific monitor. 2.
Live The Live page allows you to view live video in any of 22 configurations. To choose a configuration, click the Layout icon configuration from the menu. To close the configuration menu, press the key. and select the To view video or data in a video pane: 1. Select the Systems section of the navigation pane. 2. Right-click on a system to expand the tree until you see the appropriate camera. 3. Drag and drop the camera or device name into any of the video panes (refer to Figure 29).
Clicking any one of the video panes causes all of the following Live page icons to appear. Table B. Live Page Icons Full Screen Enter full-screen mode and remove the window border. Layout Select a video pane configuration. Quick Review Review the last few minutes of recorded video Manual Record Manually stop/start recording on a camera. Snapshot Export the current still image from the selected Live/Playback video. Create Group Store the selected list of displayed streams as a group.
QUICK REVIEW To view video recently recorded from the cameras displayed in the video panes, click the Quick Review icon and select the amount of video you want to view from the list. You can quickly view video recorded in several increments ranging from the last minute to the last 90 minutes. When you select the increment, recorded video for the entire time range is played back starting from the beginning of the increment.
SNAPSHOT To export a current still image from a selected live or playback video: 1. Click the Snapshot icon . The Snapshot Preview dialog box appears. 2. Select a file type from drop down list: PNG (default), BMP, GIF, JPEG, and TIFF. 3. Select a file name for the snapshot. 4. Click the Save Path button to select a location to save the snapshot. 5. Select “Keep Open after Save?” if you want the Snapshot Preview screen to remain open. 6. Select “Add note?” if you want to add a note to the snapshot. 7.
VIDEO PANE BORDERS Video panes displaying video that is currently being recorded are surrounded by colored borders, which indicate the current recording mode: time-lapse (green), motion (blue), alarm (red), or motion (purple). When you click a video pane to modify it, the window is also surrounded by a yellow border. REMOVING VIDEO FROM A WINDOW To stop and remove video from one of the configuration windows, click in the desired window to highlight it with a yellow border, and then click the Remove icon .
IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS To adjust the brightness and contrast of displayed video: 1. Select one or more windows that are currently displaying video. 2. Click the Image Adjustments icon Adjustments tab. , or right-click the windows and select Image Adjustments from the menu. This opens the Image 3. Using the slider, adjust the brightness and contrast of the desired video. You can also select the Inverse check box to display a negative of the video. 4. When finished, click the Apply button.
Search The Search tab allows you to search for recorded video on specific cameras. Figure 33. Search Tab What is displayed on the Search tab depends on the camera type: either a non-DS camera or a DS camera. If the video of a non-DS camera is selected to be searched, the Search page will look similar to Figure 34. WARNING: Video search requests may utilize large amounts of memory resulting in degraded and unpredictable system behavior.
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Recorded video from the selected cameras and time range is played back starting from the beginning of the increment. The status bar in the bottom-right corner of the window indicates the progress of the video. You can control the video playback parameters with the Playback Bar. The Playback Bar, located at the top of the window, consists of nine buttons (refer to Figure 35). To view the function of a button, place your mouse pointer over the button.
There are four colors for the peaks and ridges within the search grid, and each color represents one of the following video states: Red: Alarm video Blue: Motion video Yellow: Event video Green: All other video Use the following methods to enter your search criteria: • Use the mouse wheel or the Plus (+) and Minus (–) buttons located in the Modify Search tab to zoom in and out the graph.
DS SERVERS AND DX8100 SERIES SYSTEMS SCAN You can scan for DS servers and DX8100 series systems. 1. Click the Systems tab. The Connection Management page appears. 2. Right-click the Systems tab, then select the Discover System option from the drop-down menu. The Discover Systems tab appears. 3. Click the Scan Network for Systems button. All available systems will display. Figure 39. Scanning the Network for Systems 4. Select the system(s) you want to add to your systems list, then click the Close button.
ALARM SEARCH The Alarm Search page allows you to perform simple alarm-based searches. Figure 40. Alarm Search To search for alarm-based events: 1. Select the Search icon, and then click Alarm Search. A Search Options screen appears (refer to Figure 41). 2. Set the alarm duration by selecting the date and time from the From and To lists. 3. Type a description in the Event Description box. 4. Click the Show Alarms button. A list of event alarms appears for the specified time frame. Figure 41.
INSTALLING THE ALARMCLEAR SERVICE TO MONITOR COM1 PORT 1. Go to the Files directory. 2. Copy all of the files into a permanent location (from which the service will run). 3. Run the alarmclear.cmd to execute the alarmclearbystring.sql against the database. 4. Run the alarmautoClear.cmd to install the AlarmClear service. NOTES: • You must be logged on with administrator permissions to perform this installation. • If there is an error, edit the alarmautoClear.
ADVANCED SEARCH (DS DataPoint) DS DataPoint is an application integrated with DS ControlPoint that allows you to receive and analyze transactional data (TD), such as video analytics, and information from devices, such as cash registers and ATMs. NOTE: To use DS DataPoint, you must be connected to a DVMS with DS DataPoint software installed. When you add the system using DS ControlPoint, you must select the DS DataPoint Server check box (refer to Figure 10 on page 16).
THUMBNAIL SEARCH The system has been upgraded to allow thumbnail screens to be displayed below the graph in the Search tab. These thumbnails represent the same time line as represented in the graph. Moving the graph updates the thumbnails according to the time line of the graph. 1. Open the Search tab and select Advanced Search. 2. Drag a DS camera to a search pane to display the thumbnails. Figure 43. Thumbnail Search Screen 3. Drag and select a time line range for the desired search. 4.
Figure 44. Detailed View of Thumbnail Search Screen EXPORT DS ControlPoint allows you to export both recorded video and individual captured images to the client computer’s hard drive or other connected media. Table C. Search Page Icons Modify Search Export Authenticate Samples Print Filter Samples EXPORTING TO A NON-CD/DVD LOCATION To export video included from a search result to a location on your hard drive (non-CD/DVD), complete the following steps: 1. Click the Export icon (refer to Table C). 2.
4. Click the Browse button to select the name and location for the export file, and then click the Next button. 5. Select the streams to export. In this tab, you can select Select All or Clear All, and then click the Next button. 6. Use the status bar slider to select the beginning of the search result that you want to export, and then click the Next button. 7. Use the status bar slider to select the end of the search result that you want to export, and then click the Next button.
PTZ Cameras DS ControlPoint provides features for pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras that allow you to control and configure PTZ-enabled cameras (by way of presets) through the viewing area. NOTE: To control PTZ functions on Digital Sentry systems when connected through DS ControlPoint, you must be assigned the Configuration Manager permission. This permission must be assigned using DSAdmin. For more information, refer to the Integral Digital Sentry Operation/ Configuration manual.
PTZ CONTROLS Click the PTZ Controls icon to display the PTZ Control tab below the PTZ video frame (refer to Figure 48). The PTZ Controls tab provides tools for more precise control of the PTZ-enabled cameras that are currently displaying video. Figure 48. PTZ-Enabled Video with PTZ Controls Tab CAMERA LENS Lens controls adjust the zoom, focus, and iris of PTZ-enabled cameras. Figure 49.
PAN/TILT MOVEMENT AND SPEED Pan/tilt movement and speed can be adjusted using the directional buttons and slider. Figure 50. Directional Controls on PTZ Controls Tab To adjust the pan/tilt: 1. Click a directional button to move the camera in the direction indicated by the arrow. 2. Click the middle button to center the camera. 3. Click and hold the middle button to control the camera direction (similar to joystick control). 4.
PATTERN Patterns allow you to run a PTZ camera through an automated tour of camera presets. To configure a pattern: 1. Click the up and down arrows to display the desired number for the Pattern. 2. Click the Start Recording button (refer to Figure 52). 3. Call each of the presets that you want to include in the pattern, as described in Camera Presets on page 51. NOTE: You can also pan, tilt, and zoom using the PTZ controls. 4. Click the Stop Recording button. 5. Click the Call button to run the pattern.
Appendixes APPENDIX A: DS CONTROLPOINT FEATURE SET FOR DS AND DX SERIES PRODUCTS Table D.
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APPENDIX B: USING A KBD300A KEYBOARD WITH DS CONTROLPOINT Pelco’s KBD300A keyboards can be used to control certain functions of the DS ControlPoint software. To use a KBD300A with DS ControlPoint, your hardware and software must meet the following minimum requirements: • KBD300A version 5.7 or later • DS ControlPoint version 6.7.1.
3. Remove the cover from the KBDKIT or KBDKIT-X wall block. 4. Connect the transmission wires from the receiver (Spectra® or Esprit® system) to the wall block. a. Connect RX+ from the receiver/driver to TX+ (terminal 1) on the wall block. b. Connect RX– from the receiver/driver to TX– (terminal 2) on the wall block. NOTE: Communication to the keyboards is RS-422. The maximum cable distance for RS-422 communication over a 24-gauge wire is 1,219 meters (4,000 feet).
2. Right-click USB Serial Port, and then select Properties. The USB Serial Port (COM1) Properties dialog box appears (refer to Figure 56). NOTE: The USB brand name should appear in the Ports list if it is installed correctly. Refer to the USB manufacturer for driver compatibility with Microsoft® Windows®. Figure 56. USB Serial Port (COM1) Properties Dialog Box 3. Configure the port settings, and then click the Advanced button. The “Advanced Settings for the COM1” dialog box appears. Figure 57.
KBD300A OPERATING FUNCTIONS The following DS ControlPoint functions can be controlled using the KBD300A: Table E.
APPENDIX C: USING A KBD5000 KEYBOARD WITH DS CONTROLPOINT Pelco’s KBD5000 keyboard can be used to control certain functions of the DS ControlPoint software. The KBD5000 is configured with three control modules that are installed in receptacles on the keyboard base. Refer to the KBD5000 Operation manual for detailed information. NOTES: • You must install DS ControlPoint version 7.0.41 or later. • Windows virtually assigns a COM port so no Windows configuration is required.
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KBD5000 OPERATING FUNCTIONS The KBD5000 keyboard performs best in live and playback modes. Table F. KBD5000 Menu Operations (1 of 2) Joystick Module Key Description Joystick: Used in conjunction with the Iris and Focus buttons. Joystick trigger: Activates and exits PTZ mode. Iris button: Changes the light settings. In PTZ mode, press the Iris button, and then turn the joystick left or right to adjust the iris.
Table F. KBD5000 Menu Operations (2 of 2) Joystick Module Key Description Quick review: • Searches for all the current live streams for the last 60 seconds. • Guides you to the Search tab. • Removes a stream. Move to the stream and then press 0 (zero) and the CAM button. Live Mode: Enters Live mode and guides you to the Live tab. CAM/MON (camera/monitor): 1. From Live mode, press the Camera button. 2. Highlight a camera. 3. Press the MON button to display the stream. 4.
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