NVR web interface - Function: System
This tile covers informational and administrative tasks.
Contents:
Basic Settings
General Settings
Here you prescribe fundamental settings for your system.
Device Name and Number does not appear in displays; it’s available for housekeeping/inventory use.
Set the Video Format based on your location (NTSC in North America, and PAL in Europe).
Enable Fixed Display Resolution to adjust the resolution of the stream to your specifications.
Main Output and Secondary Output (420/820 only): High-capacity NVRs can support two independent screens displaying 9 channels each. Here you set the resolution of those screens.
Enable Wizard: The setup wizard launches on both the local and web UI when you first activate the NVR, or after you factory reset it. You can disable it here.
App Live Self-adaptation: When enabled, the NVR adjusts resolution for the Luma View app based on the internet connection.
When you enable Dwell Automatically and select a time, then, if the system has not been operated by a user in that specified amount of time, the system switches to the next camera or grid view.
Date and Time
You have three options for maintaining your NVR’s time clock.
If you want it to coordinate with one of the national servers, set Synchronous to NTP and select your preferred NTP server. This is our recommended setting.
If you want it to synchronize with your computer, set Synchronous to Manual and enable Synchronize with computer time. The NVR syncs with the computer once, then maintains its own time henceforth.
You can also define the NVR time yourself. Set Synchronous to Manual. Click in the System Time box, set the date, and set the NVR time at the bottom. Click OK. The NVR resets to that time, then maintains its own time going forward.
Use the dropdowns to adjust how the timestamp appears.
Output Settings
This is where you manage your display schemes. A scheme is a selection of cameras in a specific arrangement. This page has three primary areas.
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Left Column: To the left, the NVR displays the NVR's dwell schemes.
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Center Area: The center area shows the selected display scheme and a toolbar.
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Right Column: To the right you can select various cameras and groups.
To create a new scheme, click the + icon in the left column. When you have at least one scheme, you can select it by clicking on it (the outline turns blue), or delete it by clicking the X at the top right. When a scheme is selected, you can edit it using the center toolbar. Note that the toolbar allows you to select the scheme as a favorite (with the starred button at left).
To customize a scheme,
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select it in the left column,
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choose the multicamera display in the toolbar,
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select a camera window in the display, then
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double-click a camera or sequence in the right column.
A single camera cannot appear twice in the same scheme. To remove a camera from a scheme, select its window then click the trashcan icon in the toolbar, or right-click the camera and select Clear.
Click Apply to save all changes.
POS Settings
To use POS surveillance, choose one of the POS lines in the table. Set Enable to ON and choose the connection type. Click Configure to open a dialog where you set the POS IP address. If needed, click the POS Port checkbox and enter its port number in the text box. Finally, select your POS protocol.
Click the Trigger Camera checkbox, then click the just-enabled Configure button to bind the POS to the camera. One POS can be bound to multiple channels, but each channel can be bound to only one POS.
Under Display Settings, click Configure to set the
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General Settings, where you set the characters that define the text that gets displayed
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Display Position, where you can draw a box to define the POS inset
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Display Mode, where you select the font color(s) and display method of the POS information.
Finally, set the format for the data. Click Apply to save all changes.
PoE Power Management
Set PoE on or off on a port-by-port basis.
Recorder OSD Setting
This controls the OSD for the signal sent through the NVR’s local HDMI output. It also allows you to create custom views on the live page with the Web UI.
Maintenance
View Log
Here you can review all activities in your system.
When the window opens, it displays all events. To filter, choose the type of log you want to viewnext to Main Type, select the starting and ending time, and click Search.
Click Export to save a text file of the logs to your computer’s Downloads folder.
Factory Default
In the top box you can set all NVR parameters to their default states (including or excluding network settings as desired). If you exclude network settings, the defaulted recorder is still activated, and maintains the settings for passwords, time zone, language, video format (PAL/NTSC), date format, and time format.
In the bottom box you can restore everything in your NVR to its original state (though it does not roll back firmware). The NVR acts as if it were just removed from its box.
Upgrade
To update your NVR’s firmware, click Browse and use your system’s standard explorer window to navigate to and select the file. Click Upgrade to install the firmware on your system, or Backup and Upgrade to first export a copy of your current firmware to your computer’s Downloads folder, and then update.
Luma x20 devices run in a dual-firmware mode to protect the hardware (and your installs) from unforeseen glitches.
Once the firmware has been applied to the first (operational) partition, the device goes into an observation mode to ensure the new firmware operates properly. Observation mode lasts for about ten minutes once the firmware update is completed.
Once proper function has been verified, the device applies the firmware to the second (backup) partition and logs the new firmware version with OvrC. If the new firmware fails, the device restores the backup firmware to the first (operational) partition.
As of this writing, OvrC does not track whether a Luma x20 device is in observation mode. This means that, for about ten minutes in OvrC, it looks like the firmware update didn’t take, and that an update is available. If you try to update the firmware again while your Luma is in observation mode, the update will fail in OvrC but this will not impact the performance of the device.
The status of these firmware files is shown below the controls.
Config Backup and Restore
Import System Configuration: To load an NVR configuration file, click Browse and use your system’s standard explorer window to navigate to and select the file. Click Import to install the config on your system.
Export System Configuration: To create a backup of your NVR’s config, select the desired options, then click Export. The NVR creates a config file and copies it to your computer’s Downloads folder.
Reboot
This forces an immediate reboot of the NVR.
Schedule Reboot
If you want the NVR to perform a regular maintenance reboot, click Enable and select the frequency and time for each reboot. Your system will be offline while the NVR reboots. Click Apply.
Information
Basic
This gives basic information on the NVR’s network to assist with troubleshooting. You cannot edit anything
Camera Status
This gives basic information for each camera’s operation. You cannot edit anything, but you can refresh the data by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner.
Alarm Status
This displays each alarm the NVR handles (including those on active cameras). If an alarm has an alert or exception, click the down arrow at right to see more information.
Record Status
This gives basic information for each camera stream to assist with troubleshooting. You cannot edit anything, but you can refresh the data by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner.
Network Status
This gives basic information on the NVR’s network to assist with troubleshooting. You cannot edit anything, but you can refresh the data by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner.
Disk Status
This gives basic information on NVR’s available disk drives to assist with troubleshooting. You cannot edit anything, but you can refresh the data by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner.