Viewtron DVR, NVR, IP Camera Setup & Support
Please use these links to access technical support articles and videos for
Viewtron IP cameras, hybrid BNC security camera DVRs, and IP camera NVRs. The links are organized into categories below.
- Video Recording Setup
- Smart Motion Detection Recording Setup - "Smart Motion Detection" is a feature built into Viewtron DVRs that allows you to configure motion detection only for humans, only for cars, or both. Smart motion detection filters out motion from other types of objects, wind, and video noise.
- Recorded Video Playback -
- Recorded Video Backup/ Export via Intelligent Analytics Search - the intelligent analytics search lets you search by AI alarm event types such as human detection, vehicle detection, license plate recognition, and facial recognition.
- Search Video by Event - In addition to continuous 24/7 and scheduled video surveillance recording, Viewtron DVRs and Viewtron NVRs support the following events that can trigger video recording: manual recording, alarm input recording, AI event recording, motion detection recording, Point of sale transaction recording. You can find another event search and video backup video demo here.
- Custom Camera Display Layout
- Motion Sensor Alarm Input Setup
- Magnetic Door Sensor Alarm Input Setup
- Alarm Relay Output Setup - includes AI security camera setup to trigger alarm light connected to alarm output on NVR. You can find another alarm relay output setup video for Viewtron DVRs here.
- Connect IP Camera to BNC DVR
- New User Setup & Custom Permissions Management
- Camera Name & Time / Date Live Display Setup
- Digital Zoom Function
- How-to Access a BNC Camera's OSD Menu from a Viewtron DVR
- Video Motion Detection and Mobile App Push Notification
- POS Text Overlay / Cash Register Camera Setup (RS-232) - all of our Viewtron security camera systems can be a "POS camera system". This integration allows you to view and record all of your cash register text overlayed on top of one or more of your security camera video feeds. These setup instructions cover how to overlay cash register transaction data using a RS-232 printer port and one of these POS text inserter boxes. Please note that we also have these older setup instructions that were created with older DVR / NVR firmware. The DVR setup screens are a little but different. We were also using a different version of the RS-232 POS text capture box.
- POS Text Integration via TCP/IP - if your POS cash register supports camera system integrations via sending transaction data over TCP / IP network. Check out these instructions.
- RTSP Stream URL Setup - you can enable RTSP stream URLs for all security cameras connected to your Viewtron DVR / NVR. The RTSP URL setup applies to IP cameras and BNC security cameras (DVRs and NVRs)
Video Storage Calculator
- Disable Infrared LEDs - Viewtron BNC cameras can be put into a permanent color mode. In this mode the IR LEDs never turn on.
Video Demos
You may be interested in our Viewtron video demo library. We have organized the videos into the following categories.
Viewtron IP cameras and DVRs have a developer API SDK.
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