NOVUS N Control 6000 IP Recorders User Manual
- June 6, 2024
- Novus
Table of Contents
User’s manual
N CONTROL 6000
FOREWORD INFORMATION
Main characteristics
- Software used for connections to 6000 series NOVUS NVRs & NHDRs.
- Multiscreen environment;
- Group device management;
- Advanced user management;
- Site maps feature;
- Local record and playback;
- H.265 and H.264 compression;
- Support of alarm event scenarios;
Recommended PC specification
The PC hardware requirements are listed below:
- Intel i3 CPU Processor or higher. I5-7400 3.0GHz recommended.
- RAM Memory DDR3 4 GB. 16GB recommended.
- OS : Windows10 (32bit\64bit) Pro, Windows8 (32bit\64bit)
- The network adaptor 100/1000 Mb/s
- Graphic card NV GT430, AMD HD6570 or better. Nvidia GeForce GTX1060 6GB recommended.
- Hard disk 500 GB SATA minimum.
INSTALLATION AND LAUNCHING OF THE SOFTWARE
Installation of the software.
Download N Comtrol 6000 from www.novuscctv.com and save it on the local drive. Run the software to begin the installation. Setup windows is displayed (as shown below). Press OK to continue, or Cancel to exit the installation.
After confirming the language selection, the installer prepares the Installation Wizard.
Select the installation path. Press the Browse button to select new installation folder. Press Next to continue. The default path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Novus\N Control 6000.
After selecting the installation path, the program installs automatically.
When the operation is complete the window below appears.
Choose Launch Software to open the program automatically after clicking the
Finish button.
Software startup
The N Control 6000 program can be started by clicking on the MonitorClient.exe file (in the directory where installed software) or with the N Control 6000 Client icon located on the desktop.
Login window
After starting the software, the login window appears.
User name – select the user from the list. At first, start here is only a
super administrator account available called root. After adding more users,
the first time you log in, enter their names. The next time you log in, they
will be on the list choice.
Password – a place to enter the password of the selected user. The default
administrator password is passed.
Remember Password – the option saves the password in the program, the user
will not need it type next time Auto Login – the option saves the password in
the program, the user will not need to type it next time
Login – Log into the account of the indicated user.
Cancel – resignation from starting the software.
Reset password – the option to give a new password to the super administrator
account. At the first login is not available. To use this option, you must
first select 3 security questions and define the answers.
After pressing the Reset password button, the following window appears.
After pressing the Search button, the defined security questions appear. Questions are defined in the Accounts and permissions section, User Account Settings tab, button Edit security questions.
After correctly filling in the answer and pressing the OK button, a window
with fields for entering a new password appears.
After entering the new password twice, you can log into the software. All user account settings can be changed in the Accounts and Permissions section.
Record partition settings
During the first run (or when we do not select a partition). After logging in,
the application will display the window for selecting the partition for saving
the recordings by the program. In the program window, select the partition on
which the program is to save by marking the checkbox and pressing the OK
button. 
It is not recommended to select the system partition or with less than 50 Gb
of free space. Saving recordings on the system partition may cause partition
overflow and unstable system operation.
Therefore, after selecting the system partition, a warning window will appear.
Clicking the OK button will confirm the selection and clicking the Cancel
button will cancel the selection.
Application interface
Panels – displays the icons of the currently open application panels. By
clicking on the panel icon it appears in the main window.
The + button opens a new live camera view window. After entering in particular
settings, when a new camera preview window is opened, more are added on the
bar icons. They can be closed with a cross in the corner of the icon (it
appears when you hover over the icon). Individual panels can be moved as a
separate application window to another monitor.
Menu – allows you to switch between live view (View), enter settings available
functions (System Settings) or check the software information (Help).
Main window – active panel displayed. The initial Start panel displays a list
of panels grouped in sections.
Information bar – displays the authentication server IP address, communication
port, name logged in user, unit load level (CPU and memory), current date, and
time.
The red color of the unit load level additionally warns against overload.
Alarm Icon – allows you to quickly display a list of current alarms.
The Start panel shows 6 sections at the beginning. The last section Functional
Selection allows you to enable and turn off individual sections. After
clicking on this section, the following window appears: 
Live view, Storage playback, Resource management sections are mandatory.
The other sections can be turned on as an option for setting up, and turned
off when they are not needed.
There are buttons at the top of the window:
- Select All – selects all possible options.
- Reverse – inverts the selected selection (except for sections that cannot be switched).
- Clear All – deselects all sections.
After enabling all options, we have a maximum of 12 sections with all possible functions.
Server processes
When the N Control 6000 software is started, server processes are started in
the background.
They can be viewed using the N control 6000 Server icon in the right part of
the taskbar. 
After clicking on the icon, a window showing the status of server processors
appears. Clicking the Stop All button stops all N Control processes . After
clicking Start All N control processes should start. 
After clicking the Configure button, a window for specifying the port for the
service will open. 
Basic functionality support.
Device adding
To add a device, find the Resource Management section
To add a device, find the Resource Management section add click on Add, Edit
or Deleted Device.
In the window that appears, click the Add button in Encoding device
A list of devices found by the program will be displayed in the window. To add a device from the list they should be marked with a checkmark in the selection field of the first column to the right of the list and then clicking the OK button.
If the device has been correctly added, the device data will be displayed in black. A gray color in the data line and a status other than Online in the Online Status column means that the device has failed to connect.
To edit device parameters, click on the field in the Edit column.
In the opened window, you can edit connection parameters such as Port, Username, Password and IP Address. After making changes, press the OK button to save the parameters.
Change the device’s IP address
The device’s IP address can be changed in the device search window before adding. Click on the ModifyIP Address field.
In the opened window, you can modify the following data: IP address, Mask,
Gateway, Port, User name and Password. The network settings will be changed
after pressing the OK button, if the credentials provided in the User name
and Password fields are correct. 
Manually adding a device.
To add a device to the program that is not searched, e.g. outside the local network, select the Manual adding tab in the search engine.
The following address specification modes to connect to the device are
available in the IP Address / IP Range / Domain Name / URL column:
IP address – The address of a single device given as decimal numbers
IP range – allows you to add more devices by specifying a range of IP
addresses including the first and last addresses. Devices will be added with
each available address between the ranges given.
Domain name – allows you to enter an address using the domain name changed
into an IP address using the DNS service URL – Enter a URL to the RTSP
streaming device.
After defining the address to connect to the device, in the Protocol field, select Standard device for the recorder or camera, and in the Ports field, enter the data port (by default 6036 for the recorder, 9008 for the camera). Enter the login details in the User name and Password fields. After clicking the Test connection button, the program will check the connection. If the test is successful, press the OK button to save the parameters.
Adding devices to the zone.
The program has a defined default zone Default area to which devices are
added, unless we define other zones. To add a zone, click on the Create zone
button in search device window. In the opened window, select the Parent Zone
and enter the required zone name in the Zone name field. When adding a device,
in the Select zone field you can select the zone to which the device is to be
added.
To transfer an already existing device, select the check box on the device
list and click the Select Area button.
After selecting the target zone and pressing the OK button, the device will be moved to another zone.
Removing a device from the list.
To delete devices, select devices on the list and click the Delete button. In the window that opens, confirm your choice by clicking the OK button.
Displaying images from devices
Live view
To switch to the image display, select from the bar at the top of the screen or select Live View form menu.
In the tab with the list of channels, expand the list of devices by clicking on the + field. From the expanded list devices, drag the selected channels while holding the left button to the display windows .
The
selection of divisions is available after clicking on the icon of one of the
divisions
After clicking the button for additional divisions a window with additional
divisions is displayed.
Additionally, the following settings are available on the bar:
– displaying video images in full screen
– enabling / disabling OSD display in video windows
– enable audio broadcasting from selected devices
– manual activation of alarm outputs on connected devices
– enable / disable display of detection areas
– disable display for all cameras in the window
– saves display layout
– selection allows you to manually select the type of stream displayed in the
window.
Records playback
To run the recordings playback window, click on the Record playback in Storage
Playback menu.
The recordings playback panel is displayed then.
In the lower left corner of the program there is an icon in which the settings mean the program has play recordings from external devices such as recorders or use the recordings saved by the program on the selected partition.
– selects recordings from external devices
– selects playback of recordings saved in the client softwarec
To view the recordings, move the name of the selected channel from the list on the left while holding left mouse button to right video window. At the bottom of the menu, a bar is displayed specifying the length of available recordings for the selected day. To change the day of playback, select it in the calendar window. Days for which devices with recordings are marked in blue.
Clicking on the calendar opens the day and displays a bar of available
recordings. Clicking on the bar starts playback at the selected point in time.
The colors of the record bar indicate the type of recordings according to the
descriptions at the bottom of the playback window.
In the record control bar there are buttons for selecting splits and controls
displaying images in windows.
The following buttons are used to control playback
– Rewind
– Slow playback
– Stop playback
– Play / Pause
-Next frame. The button is active after pausing the material
– Speed up playback
– Play 30 seconds forward or backward.
– Selection of backup start time
– Selection of backup end time
– Run a backup
– multi-channel synchronous / asynchronous reproduction switch.
Copying recordings from the playback window
It is possible to copy recordings from the material playback panel.
From the channel list on the left, drag a channel to the video display window.
A bar showing the available scope of the recording will be displayed in the window below. To switch to recordings from the main stream, right-click on the video screen.
In the displayed window, select the Main Stream option to display and rip the
main stream.
After loading the recordings bar, click on the bar at the point in time from
which you want to start copying recordings and click on the button .
Then select the point in time you want the recording to end and press the
button a white bar will be displayed on the time bar indicating the time of
the clip to be copied.
Then select the point in time you want the recording to end and press the button .
After clicking the button, the Backup panel opens with information about the
backup being made.
The saving path is displayed in the Backup Path column. Clicking the Open File
Position item in the Operation column opens the window in which the files are
saved.
The Start Time and End Time fields contain information about the start and end time of the recording file. The Progress column shows the percentage of the copy performed. If the field in the Progress field displays a value of 100%, it means the backup is completed.
Copying recordings to the remote device
The program enables remote backup of recordings to a USB flash drive in the recorder. The copying process can be started without the necessity to log into the recorder by a local user. To start remote copying, select Backup in the Storage Playback section.
In the menu that opens, double-click on the selected channel from the list on the left to load the bar showing the type and time of recordings. The selected time range of recordings should be marked by clicking in the selected place on the bar and holding the left mouse button, select the end of the recording and then release the mouse button. The copying process will start after clicking the Backup on Dev button. (Be sure to connect the disk recorder to the USB port.) The Progress column shows the percentage of the copying process. 100% means copying the material.
After the copying process is completed, you can disconnect the USB disk from the recorder. The video data will be saved in AVI format.
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