Searching, adding, configuring and removing IP devices

General information

You can add IP devices to the system using the IP Device Discovery Wizard. To open the IP Device Discovery Wizard, click on the Add device... link at the end of the Server device list.

The IP Device Discovery Wizard interface includes:

• Automatic device search.
• Manual entry of device data.
• Adding devices to the configuration.     A
• Bulk adding devices using .CSV files (see Bulk creation of IP devices).

Automatic search for IP devices

IP devices search

To start searching for devices, click the Search button. While searching, a progress bar will be displayed.

To stop devices search at any time, click the Stop button.

The search results are color-coded based on the status of the device.

Filtering IP device search results

Search results can be filtered in two ways:

1. By status. To hide devices with a certain status, deselect the relevant checkbox.
   
   
2. By manufacturer, model or IP address. To do this, use the Filter field. For example, this filters the Sony devices.
   
   In addition, you can filter cameras from a subnet.
   
   

Manually entering device data

If an IP device is not shown in the search results (because it is located on a different subnet or the connection with it is temporarily lost), you can add it manually. To do this, you need to select the type of IP device to be added, specify the IP address and connection port of the device, and select the manufacturer and model in the area with a neutral background located under the list with automatic search results.

You can also specify the manufacturer and model of the device using the search in the input field.

If the device's IP address, Port, Manufacturer, Username and Password are set, the device model can be automatically detected by clicking the button.

Adding devices to the configuration

To add an IP device to a configuration:

1. Set the device settings, if necessary.
2. Select a mode for adding the device to the configuration.
3. The device is added to the configuration.

Modes for adding devices to the configuration

Three modes are available for adding a device to a configuration. These are described in the following table.

Configuring IP device settings

When adding a device, you can immediately set several configuration options, such as:

1. Manufacturer and model.

2. Login and password.

3. ID and object name.

   Note

   • An object identifier must contain: numbers, English characters and the "_" sign.
   • In the Object Tree, added devices will be sorted by ID.
4. Select an archive and set the recording parameters (see Configuring recording to an archive):
   1. No – camera is linked to the archive, no recording.
   2. Always – continuous recording.
   3. On motion (default setting) – a VMD tool and an automatic rule for writing to the specified archive are automatically created for the camera you are adding. By default, recording stops when an event detection is finished.

   4. On motion/Embedded detection – an embedded VMD tool and an automatic rule for writing to the specified archive are automatically created for the camera you are adding. By default, recording stops when an event detection is finished.

      Note

      This option is available only for devices that have on-board VMD.

      When creating a new device, the pre-alarm time interval for video footage recording is automatically set to 3 seconds (see Configuring recording to an archive).

   5. Camera coordinates (latitude, longitude, azimuth) which are used when the camera is added to the geo map (see  Adding video cameras and changing size of their icons on the map).

Adding devices

During a single configuration change, you can add a single device or all devices listed in the search results (other than devices for which compatibility is not guaranteed). To add one device, click the  button. To add all devices, click the Add all button.

To remove a device from the search results, click the button.

If you set no individual access parameters while adding hardware, a dialog window appears for setting unified access parameters. 

Next, the device is added to the configuration.

When you add a device to the system, the Default permissions will be applied, which are configured for each role (see Configuring user permissions).

Removing IP devices

To remove IP devices, select one or more objects in the hardware tree by left-clicking (while holding down the Ctrl key) and click the Delete button.