VERSION 5 143 Cadycentre #86 • Northville Michigan 48167 • USA Copyright ©2021 Ken Pletzer, All Rights Reserved Last revision: September 25, 2021 PAGE 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................6 System Requirements .................................................................................................6 Activation .................................................................................................................6 Quick Start ...............................................................................................................6 What’s New .............................................................................................................7 Update notes ..........................................................................................................11 User Interface .........................................................................................................30 Cameras .......................................................................................................41 Adding a new camera .............................................................................................41 Video Settings .........................................................................................................42 More Video Settings ...............................................................................................46 Audio Settings ........................................................................................................49 PTZ/Control ............................................................................................................51 Advanced Video Topics ...........................................................................................55 General settings ......................................................................................................59 The Camera Context Menu ......................................................................................61 Screen layout and frames ........................................................................................62 Camera Groups ......................................................................................................63 Triggering and Motion Detection ..............................................................................67 Artificial Intelligence ................................................................................................70 Global AI settings ....................................................................................................74 DeepStack Status Window .......................................................................................76 The Motion Sensor ..................................................................................................77 Alerts .....................................................................................................................83 Schedule and Events ...............................................................................................85 Webcasting ............................................................................................................88 Image Posting .........................................................................................................90 Watchdog ...............................................................................................................91 Configuration synchronization ..................................................................................92 Global Camera Settings ..........................................................................................93 Camera Status Window ...........................................................................................96 Recording and Clips ......................................................................................99 Recording options ...................................................................................................99 PAGE 2 Encoder options ....................................................................................................105 Manual recording .................................................................................................107 Clip folders ...........................................................................................................107 The Database and Clips list ....................................................................................110 Clip Playback and The viewer window ....................................................................115 The speed slider .....................................................................................................119 Timeline playback .................................................................................................120 Trim, Convert, Export ............................................................................................122 FTP Clip Backup ....................................................................................................125 Global viewer options ...........................................................................................126 Alerts and Actions ......................................................................................127 Conditions ............................................................................................................127 Sound ...................................................................................................................129 Push notification ....................................................................................................130 Run a program or write to a file .............................................................................131 Web request or MQTT ...........................................................................................132 Send email ...........................................................................................................133 Send SMS .............................................................................................................135 Make a phone call ................................................................................................136 Set DIO bits ..........................................................................................................137 Popup toast ...........................................................................................................138 FTP upload ...........................................................................................................138 Change schedule/profile .......................................................................................139 Do command ........................................................................................................140 Wait .....................................................................................................................140 Timecode and other Macros ..................................................................................142 Testing the Action Set ............................................................................................145 Shield, Profiles and Schedules ....................................................................146 The Shield .............................................................................................................146 Camera Pause .......................................................................................................146 Profiles .................................................................................................................147 Schedules .............................................................................................................149 Run, Hold and Temporary Profiles ..........................................................................151 PAGE 3 Camera Profile and Schedule Override ...................................................................151 Remote access ............................................................................................152 The Web Server ....................................................................................................152 Networking and Router Configuration ....................................................................154 Remote Access Wizard ..........................................................................................155 NGROK ................................................................................................................161 Users and connections ...........................................................................................164 Browser interface ..................................................................................................168 Mobile device access .............................................................................................169 Remote management .............................................................................................172 SSL and HTTPS ......................................................................................................174 More on Security ..................................................................................................175 Other Advanced Web Server Topics .......................................................................177 Email and FTP Servers .................................................................................181