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How to connect the Sapphire Series CVI DVR to a POS machine, search and configure POS overlay settings, and back up recorded videos and snapshots to a USB device.
Configuring POS Settings
You can connect the Device to the POS (Point of Sale) machine and receive the information from it. This function applies to the scenarios such as supermarket POS machine. After connection is established, the Device can access the POS information and display the overlaid text in the channel window.
Playing POS information in the local playback and viewing the POS information in the live view screen only support single-channel mode and four-channel mode. Displaying monitoring screen and playing back in the web support multi-channel mode.
Searching the Transaction Records
The system supports fuzzy search.
Open the POS Search interface
Select Main Menu > POS > POS SEARCH.
The POS SEARCH interface is displayed. See Figure 5-192.
Enter the search keyword
In the POS SEARCH box, enter the information such as transaction number on your receipt, amount, or product name.
Set the time period
In the Start Time box and End Time box, enter the time period that you want to search the POS transaction information.
Configuring POS Settings
Open the POS Setup interface
Select Main Menu > POS > POS SETUP.
The POS SETUP interface is displayed. See Figure 5-193.
Configure the POS parameters
Configure the settings for the POS parameters. See Table 5-57.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| POS Name | In the POS Name list, select the POS machine that you want to configures settings for. Click the edit icon to modify the POS name. The POS name supports 21 Chinese characters or 63 English characters. |
| Enable | Enable the POS function. |
| Record CH | Select the channel(s) that you want to record. The selected channel(s) starts recording after an alarm occurs. The recording for POS alarms and auto recording function must be enabled. For details, see 5.1.4.9 Configuring Recorded Video Storage Schedule and 5.9.1 Enabling Record Control. |
| Privacy Setup | Enter the privacy content. |
| Protocol Type | Select POS by default. Different machine corresponds to different protocol. |
| Connect Type | In the Connect Type list, select the connection protocol type. Click the settings icon, the IP Address interface is displayed. In the Source IP box, enter the IP address (the machine that is connected to the Device) that sends messages. |
| Convert | Select a character encoding mode. |
| Overlay | In the Overlay list, Select TURN or ROLL. TURN means to turn a page when there are 16 lines of overlay information. ROLL means to roll up the interface when there are 16 lines of overlay information. The first line disappears each time. When local preview mode is 4-split, overlay information is substituted when there are 8 lines. |
| Network time out | When the network is not working correctly and cannot be recovered after the entered timeout limit, the POS information will not display normally. After the network is recovered, the latest POS information will be displayed. |
| Time Display | Enter the time that how long you want to keep the POS information displaying. For example, enter 5, the POS information disappear from the screen after 5 seconds. |
| Font Size | In the Font Size list, select Small, Medium, or Big as the text size of POS information. |
| COLOR | In the color bar, click to select the color for the text size of POS information. |
| POS Info | Enable the POS Info function, the POS information displays in the live view screen. |
| Line Delimiter | It does not need to configure. The system goes to a new line 1s after no data is received. If you enter a line delimiter, the system goes to a new line when overlay information identifies the line delimiter (hexadecimal). For example, if line delimiter is F and overlay information is 123156789, the local preview and web overlay information is displayed as: 123 / 6789. |
Apply the settings
Click Apply to complete the settings.
Configuring Backup Settings
Finding USB Device
When you inset a USB storage device into the USB port of the Device, the Device detects the USB storage device and pops up "Find USB device" interface, which provides you a shortcut to perform backup and upgrading operations. See Figure 5-194.
For details, see 5.14.2 Backing up Files, 5.20.2 Viewing Log Information, 5.19.5 Exporting and Importing System Settings, and 5.19.7 Upgrading the Device.
Backing up Files
You can back up the recorded videos and snapshots.
Open the Backup interface
Select Main Menu > BACKUP.
The BACKUP interface is displayed. See Figure 5-195.
Configure the backup parameters
Configure the settings for the backup parameters. See Table 5-58.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Device Name | In the Device Name list, select the device that you want to back up the files to. |
| Format | Click Format, the Format interface is displayed. If the capacity of external storage device is less than 2TB, you can select FAT32 or NTFS to format it. If the capacity of external storage device is equal to or more than 2TB, you can only select NTFS to format it. |
| Path | Click Browse, the Browse interface is displayed. Select the route where you want to search for the files. |
| Record CH | In the Record CH list, select the channel where you want to search for the files. |
| Type | In the Type list, select the file type that you want to search. |
| Start Time / End Time | Enter the start time and end time for the files that you want to search. |
| File Format | In the File Format list, select the file format as DAV or MP4 that you want to search. |
Search for files
Click Search to search the files that meet the configured settings.
The searched results will display in the table.
Select the files
Select the files that you want to back up.
Back up the files
Click Backup to back up the selected files to the configured path.
Click Clear to remove all the searched results.
IoT Function
Pair wireless sensors, configure temperature and humidity cameras, and set up wireless sirens with alarm linkage on the Sapphire Series CVI DVR.
Network Management
Configure the Sapphire Series CVI DVR network settings including TCP/IP, ports, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G, PPPoE, DDNS, UPnP, email, SNMP, multicast, alarm center, register, P2P, 802.1x, and run network connection tests and packet capture.