Bosch_Appliances_Home_Security_System

Introduction and safety instructions

What do these operating instructions tell you?

These operating instructions provide you with all relevant information that you need in order to perform the tasks described in the table of contents quickly and easily.

You will find more detailed information about the respective screens online on your system if you press the F1 key or click the Help button.

Caution!

To avoid electrical shock, do not remove the cover. Leave all maintenance to qualified personnel.

Warning!

To avoid fire or electrical shock, never expose the device to rain or humidity.

Warning!

Installation should only be undertaken by qualified customer service personnel in accordance with all applicable electrical regulations.

Power connection!

Devices with or without power cords have voltage in the device as soon as the power cord is plugged into the outlet. However, the device is only ready for use if the power switch (ON/OFF) is on ON. If you unplug the power cable from the outlet, the voltage supply to the device is completely halted.

Note

It your are not able to accomplish some of the described steps of this manual, it may be that you don???t have the rigth authority level. In this case please contact your authorized dealer.

Notes on cleaning

When cleaning the surface, be sure that you do not use any caustic or scrubbing cleansers and that no liquid gets inside the device.

The device may only be operated by trained

persons! For security reasons and in order to avoid faulty operation, any authorization code required for operation should only be communicated to these persons.

Service station:

Telephone:

Introduction to the system

When the computer is booted, the system runs automatically in the background and is able to respond to signals and record images. You must only log on if you wish to perform operating tasks. Only authorized users have access to operate the system, based on a password. Depending on your access privileges, with the user interface you can:

??view live images for monitoring purposes and manually switch camera views ??open the image archive and retrieve, print, and delete saved images ??perform system configuration

??perform an alarm simulation

You must log on to the system in order to commence operation.

After you have switched on the system and the live image screen appears, you will see a dialog box in the middle of the screen that invites you to log on.

The basic live image window

General information

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The basic live image window

1Menu bar

2Toolbar

3Status bar

Connection window

4Title bar of the connection window for the selected station

5Display all configured cameras of the selected station

6Display of selected camera images

7Display of status of all configured alarm inputs of the selected station and re lay statuses

Display of several live images

You can display several live images, depending on the number of connected and configured cameras. The live images are always arranged automatically from left to right in consecutive rows.

For each camera marked with a , a live image is shown.

The basic live image window

General information

Camera deactivated

Camera activated: if you click this box, you can activate the camera and show the live image.

If several cameras are selected and activated with the left mouse button (highlighted in blue), these camera images can all be shown together. Click to show and hide the camera images.

If you click the Ctrl key and click the left mouse button on selected cameras, you can combine these into non???continuous camera blocks.

If you click the Shift key and click the left mouse button on the first and last selected cameras, you can create continuous blocks.

If you click this button (in the upper right corner), you will minimize (depending out the configuration) the basic window. This gives you the opportunity to look at the minimized images and to edit texts in the interface simultaneously.

Click to return to a full???sized image.

Basic window toolbar / alarm simulation bar in live image

Configuration Hardware, image saving, image transmission, and user settings.

Not active with integrated operating station.

The alarm simulation bar can be embedded in the toolbar or free???standing.

Embedded

Alarm simulation 1 triggered

Alarm simulation 2 not triggered

Alarm simulation 3 and 4 not configured

Free???standing

Basic window toolbar / connection window in live image

The Status bar (lowermost line of the screen) contains help information about the menu you are currently using. It shows the name of the remote station to which an external connection has just been established.

The Title bar contains:

???the window title with the name of the selected station and

???the buttons to minimize, maximize and close the window.

Clicking minimizes the window and places it at the bottom edge of the screen.

Clicking restores the window to normal size.

Terminates the existing connection

Display of the existing / approved cameras

On the left side of the screen, you will find a list of the configured cameras.

Existing / approved cameras will be displayed in live image.

Display of the configured alarm inputs

The lower portion of the image displays all configured alarm inputs.

Configured alarm inputs are displayed in the live image

Contact input or video motion detector of a camera

Foyer card reader / barcode reader

Status display of the configured alarm inputs

The statuses of all configured alarm inputs are displayed as follows.

?Input does not exist as hardware

Control of a dome camera

Configured dome camera

If a dome camera is configured, an arrow will appear in its live image if the user moves the mouse (variable speed) over the live image. With the left mouse button, you can control the camera in the direction of the activated arrow.

A magnifying glass appears in the middle of the screen. If you see a + sign, this means that you are zooming in on the image. If you see a ??? sign, the camera angle is getting larger.

+Zoom in: reduce camera angle (zoom in)

???Zoom out: enlarge camera angle (zoom out)

Note

Depending where you place the mouse cursor you operate with a variable speed.

By clicking the right mouse button on the live image, you activate the following menu:

???Dome camera control

???Positions saved

???Macros saved

Dome camera control

Here you can set the focus (sharp/ blurred) and aperture (open / close).

Positions saved

In the configuration, you can call up set camera positions here.

Macros saved

Call up saved camera commands. (Start/end macros).

Note

Pre???positions and macros are to be configured in the set up in advance.

Please also use the online help

The image archive of the basic window

Information about image archive

You can also use the Image archive menu to open and close live image display. It enables access to and searching in:

???local and remote video system image archives and

???existing files on hard disk or diskettes.

In the image archive you have the following possibilities:

??Start configuration (in addition to the image archive)

??Call alarm simulation

??Establish an ISDN, network or modem connection to a remote station (in addition to the connection to the local station); the remove archive tree is thus shown under the local archive tree

??Swap out saved images

??Print saved images

??Search for saved images

Basic live image window

1 Menu bar of the image archive basic window

2 Toolbar of the image archive basic window

3 Status bar of the image archive basic window

4 Tree structure of configured archives

Image display window

5 Title bar of saved image

6 Display of saved images

7 Recorder buttons for playback of saved images

8 Print the displayed image

9 Save images on drive or diskette

10 Set the playback speed

11 Slider for further switching

12 Anzahl der zu ??berspringenden Bilder ver??ndern

13 Image information about the saved image e.g. date, time, camera no., image resolution, etc.

14 Check authentication

15 Show detected cells

Image archive toolbar / alarm simulation bar

The alarm simulation bar can be embedded in the toolbar or free???standing.

Embedded

Alarm simulation 1 triggered

Alarm simulation 2 not triggered

Alarm simulation 3 and 4 not configured

Free???standing

Image archive status bar / connection window / recorder buttons

The Title bar contains:

???the window title with the name of the selected station and

???the buttons to minimize, maximize and close the window.

Clicking minimizes the window and places it at the bottom edge of the screen.

Clicking restores the window to normal size.

Terminates the existing connection

Display of configured archives

On the left side of the screen, you will find a list of the configured archives.

Changes the playback speed.

Jumps ahead within the images of a cluster.

Here you have the opportunity to check wheter the stored images were changed.

This information (detected motion in the image) is only available for images that were recorded with activated motion detection function.

Example: movement in image

Looking at, printing, saving, swapping out, and deleting archive images

You are now on the live image means you are logged into the system.

Looking at 1. From the System menu, select the Image

2.Open the archive by clicking in front of the archive name.

3.Double???click on the first entry of the relevant day. You will see the first image of the saved film sepuence.

4.Let the film run ventually reduce the playback speed. To do this, use the recorder buttons at the

bottom of the image window.

Print archive1. Use the recorder buttons to navigate to the images images that you would like to print. Keep in mind

that you can only print the image that is currently displayed on the screen.

2. If necessary, change the format on the

File/Setup printer menu and on the File/Print comment menu, enter a comment about the cluster. This note will only be printed in panel format.

3.Click the Print icon, which you will find at the buttons of the image window.

Save archive Use the recorder buttons to navigate to the images images that you would like to save. Keep in mind

that you can only save the image that is currently displayed on the screen.

Click on the Save icon, which you will find at the bottom of the image window and on the Save as dialog box, enter the file name with the ending

.jpg. Saving will occur without any additional image information!

or with the ending HTML (recommended). Saving occurs with additional image information!

Swap out 1. Your backup drive must be connected. If not,

Deleting archives / searching for archive images and additional data

You are now on the live image

Search dialog (single images)

Note

This function is only working for images which one record through the internal motion detection, not for continously recorded images.

Search dialog (motion information)

For a targeted search, an image selection can be displayed on the camera image. If you click the left mouse button, you will see a (+) sign. You can set several selections next to one another or individually. If you click the right mouse button, you will see a (???) sign. Now you can modify or remove image selections. Enter the search criteria and click Search.

Connecting backup drive and / swapping out archive images on diskette

Saving saved archive images on diskette

Connecting a backup drive

Swapping out saved archive images on a backup drive

Images 1. Your backup drive must be connected. If not, see

Connecting a backup drive.

2.From the System menu, select the Image archive command. The image archive will be opened.

3.From the Database menu, select the

Show backup drive command . A dialog box for selecting the backup drive appears.

4.On the Select backup drive dialog box, click on the drive. Confirm with OK.

5.From the Database menu, select the

Swap out backup command. A dialog box for searching the archive will open.

6.Enter the archive to be swapped out and, if necessary, additional criteria and click Search. The system will search.

7.Enter the new backup archive name and confirm with OK.

8.On the Database menu, deactivate the command

Show backup drive.

Formatting a CD

Call up the taskbar. It is located below your status bar. If it is not shown, call it up with the keyboard using the Windows key. You will find the CD icon on the right side of the taskbar. Click on the dialog box for the desired action and confirm. Bosch recommends using CD???R disk as they do not require as long of a formatting time, (formatting CD RW can take up to 20 minutes).

If you see a red character, this CD is already formatted.

Double???click on this icon. If the icon does not have a red character, this CD must be formatted.

After you double???click, this dialog window will be activated. Place a blank CD in the drive and click

Format CD.

Enter a name. Continue with Start format.

The CD is formatted.

The CD is read for read/write access. Confirm with OK

Export data to CD

You must be in the image archive to export data to a CD.

When exporting proceed as follows:

???Place a CD into the CD writer and format it (see ???Formatting a CD)???.

???In the toolbar, click on the CD symbol, or in the Database menu, click on Export to CD.

The search dialog box is displayed.

???If necessary, change the search criteria in the search dialog box.

If necessary, click on the Transaction data ??? show tab if you wish to search for data from automatic cash dispensers and barcode scanners.

Note: If you have opened the image that you wish to save, DiBos will automatically export this image and an extra 5 minutes onto CD.

Click on Export.

Export data to CD

???This is followed by a new dialog box.

Enter the archive name, e.g. East Gate, and click on OK.

A backup archive with this name is created in the archive list of the image archive.

??? Click on Close to export the detected images onto the CD.

Once recording is finished, the images can then be viewed in the image archive. To do so, click on the archive in the archive list.

???In the Database menu, click on Hide backup drive.

The backup archive is hidden from view in the archive list of the image archive.

???Click here on the CD symbol at the bottom right of the status bar.

The directCD dialog box is displayed.

???In the directCD dialog box, click on Eject.

Export data to CD

???Activate the function

Close to Read on Any Computer ??? Close the CD so it can be read . . .

and

Protect CD so it cannot be written to again.

???Click on OK.

The CD writer is opened.

Export data (e.g. to hard disk or network drive)

You must be in the image archive to export data.

Proceed as follows for remote storage:

???In the Database menu, click on Select backup drive. Select a drive and confirm with OK.

???In the Database menu, click on Export to backup drive. The search dialog box is displayed.

???If necessary, change the search criteria in the search dialog box. If necessary, click on the Transaction data ??? show tab if you wish to search for data from automatic cash dispensers and barcode scanners.

Click on Export.

Note: If you have opened the image that you wish to export, this image and an extra 5 minutes are automatically exported onto CD.

Export data (e.g. to hard disk or network drive)

???This is followed by a new dialog box.

Enter the archive name, e.g. East Gate, and click on OK.

A backup archive with this name is created in the archive list of the image archive.

??? Click on Close to export the detected images.

Once exporting is finished the images can then be viewed in the image archive. To do so, click on the archive in the archive list.

???In the Database menu, click on Hide backup driveor close the image archive.

The backup archive is hidden from view in the archive list.

Alarm simulation

If alarm simulation signals are configured, you will be able to see this from the buttons shown (see alarm simulation bar) and from whether the Alarm simulation element is active on the System menu.

If you select alarm simulation, a dialog box in which you can trigger alarms for a maximum of four detectors will appear. Another click on the alarm button will cancel the simulation.

The alarm is represented on the simulation detector (connection window) by a red exclamation point.

A second possibility for alarm simulation is to use the alarm simulation bar.

To carry out an alarm simulation, click on the corresponding simulation button. Thus the color of the button changes and the alarm is represented on the simulation detector (connection window) by a red exclamation point.

Connection with a remote station

Incoming alarm connection

You are on the live image view of an image receiver

Automatic On alarm, an external station automatically connection establishes image transmission to your system established and the images transmitted can be saved

by a remote automatically by the receiver in the archive station on <Remote station> Alarm.

alarm