LuxRiot Blog

July 31, 2006

HOWTO: Uninstall LuxRiot software

Filed under: How To, Support — roman @ 12:43 pm

The information applies to:

  • LuxRiot 1.1.x

Summary

The article provides step-by-step instructions on uninstalling LuxRiot software.

Instructions

To uninstall LuxRiot software:

  1. Open Control Panel, through Start Menu or shell explorer
  2. Choose Add or Remove Programs icon
  3. Find LuxRiot in the list of installed software
  4. Select the LuxRiot item and press Remove button
  5. Follow instructions of the uninstall wizard

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July 27, 2006

Recording to a network drives

Filed under: How To, Support — AlexB @ 4:48 am

LuxRiot can record on the network drives, but at first network drives should be mapped to the local drive letter, since LuxRiot doesn’t support UNC path.
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However, Luxriot Server needs to be started in the application mode, not as a service, because drive letters only exist within logged on user context.

July 26, 2006

LuxRiot on Microsoft Vista OS

Filed under: Change Log, Support — alex @ 7:17 am

Preliminary support of Microsoft Vista OS added in upcoming 1.1.19 version of LuxRiot. Tested on Vista OS Beta 2. The full support of Vista OS will be added in near future. We are working hard to make the product better.

LuxRiot on Vista OS Beta 2

July 20, 2006

Multiple ComArt XeCap and extention boards support

Filed under: ComArt Boards — alex @ 11:01 am

LuxRiot 1.1.18 and above support multiple ComArt XeCap capture boards and extension daughter boards. Maximum number of channels supported by single capture board is 32 (depends on model). Installation of two or more capture boards increases maximum amount respectively. Popup window in Structure pane helps to find out what particular board the given channel belongs to, e.g. 1:16 means board_number_1:channel_16.

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It is however important to be aware of multichannel capture constraints imposed by available PCI band-width, especially in case of ComArt XeCap boards, since the board may utilize the entire available band-width. To workaround possible problems and achieve highest frame rates it is recommended to check “PCI band-width control” checkbox and to choose YUV 4:1:1 video format (XeCap properties. YUV411 can bring more frame rate than YUV422 (1.3 times). Video quality, however, may slightly degrade and CPU load may increase.

XeCap properties

For a 240 FPS capture board (or several boards delivering 240 frames per second in total) required YUV411 PCI band-width is approximately 60MB/sec, YUV422 video format requires 80MB/sec for the same amount of video data. Allowed PCI band-width is limited around 60MB/sec. As a result, the board would be able to send YUV411 video data within available band-width. YUV422 capture, however, is likely to be distorted because of overusage of PCI band-width.

July 18, 2006

ComArt XeCap board video output support

Filed under: Change Log, ComArt Boards — alex @ 9:58 am

LuxRiot (version 1.1.18 and above) supports XeCap boards video output channels. Now it is possible to view all cameras simultaneously on both computer and analog monitors.
Usually there are two output channels on these boards. One is used for single channel output, another one for multiplexed channels output (depends on model). Different layouts can be applied for multiplexed channels.

XeCap video output   XeCap video output propeties

HINT: Quick filling out network camera parameters

Filed under: How To, Network Cameras, Support — alex @ 2:10 am

Now (version 1.1.18 and above) you can paste fully qualified network camera web URL, e.g. “http://guest:guest@mycamera.mydomain.com:8082/index.html” into IP Address control to fill out all required parameters.

CTRL+C  CTRL+V

July 14, 2006

HOWTO: Using network cameras not listed as supported by LuxRiot

Filed under: How To, Network Cameras, Support — AlexB @ 3:33 am

1) At the beginning try to use network cameras search wizard, since there are a lot of cameras of unnamed manufactures selling under known brands (OEM).
To do that, right click on server name and then choose “Tasks-> Find Network Cameras…”.
In opened window mark «intelligent camera search» checkbox, then click next.

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Wizard will scan your local network in order to figure out what network cameras you have installed.

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2) If it didn`t help, try to use method written in http://blog.luxriot.com/111
3) If any of mentioned above methods not working than make this network camera available online and send us a web URL. Our engineers will try to implement support for your camera.

July 13, 2006

PROB: LuxRiot DVR Server running with ComArt XeCap capture board stops itself

Filed under: Bugs, Change Log, ComArt Boards, Fixes — roman @ 7:35 am

The information applies to:

  • LuxRiot 1.1.12 through 1.1.17

Symptoms

When LuxRiot DVR Server is configured to run in service mode with ComArt XeCap boards, it may appear that one or more of the capture board channels stop sending video in which case LuxRiot DVR Server Watchdog restarts service in attempt to recover from the error occurred.

However restart mail fail and LuxRiot DVR services would remain stopped.

Resolution

An update of one of the LuxRiot modules is required on LuxRiot server machine. Please follow update instructions below:

  1. Download archive with updated module DVRServerWatchdogTools-1.1.18.891.zip
  2. Stop all LuxRiot applications and services
  3. Find installed DVRServerWatchdogTools.dll file on server machine, it is located in LuxRiot installation directory, typically C:\Program Files\LuxRiot Digital Video Recorder
  4. Overwrite existing file with new file from archive
  5. Start LuxRiot applications and services

The fix will be included into next release of LuxRiot 1.1.18.

July 11, 2006

Luxriot suddenly switched back to the shareware mode

Filed under: License, Support — AlexB @ 5:40 am

Symptoms

Luxriot suddenly switched back to the shareware mode, i.e. all the cameras but one became disabled, disabled remote connectivity and limited recording.

Description

During activation process Luxriot Server software attaches itself to the computer using its unique MAC address of the Network Adapter. If for some reason you have removed or disabled network  adapter which has been used to activate Luxriot Server, than Luxriot would switch back to the shareware mode.

Solution

During LuxRiot activaion process make sure that only network adapter intended to be used with the system is installed and active. In case that activation has already been made with the wrong network adapter please make a Problem Report, as described in http://blog.luxriot.com/70

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