Hi, everyone. Mike, from CCTV Camera Pros here. In this video, I'm going to show you how to install
and configure the Mac video management software that's included with Viewtron DVRs and NVRs.
I'm going to download it and set it up to access my security camera system at my house,
so follow along. We're going to start right from the beginning by downloading the Mac software
from the CCTV Camera Pros website. On the website, hover over the support link and click on Viewtron
software and apps. On the software and apps download page, click on the Mac NVMS software.
choose a download folder that you want to save it to. And once the file is done downloading,
click on this arrow and select show in Finder, and it's a zip file, so you need to double click
on it to unzip it, and then there's the installer package. If that warning pops up, just close it,
and then double click on the package, and you're going to get this warning because you
did not download this from the Mac App Store, we don't have it there.
Just press okay, and then open up your system preferences
and go under security and privacy, and then general, and then click open anyways.
It'll confirm that you want to open it, click open,
and then you can close these other windows so we just have the installation screen there.
And then click continue, select the hard drive you want to install to, click install,
and then you may be required to enter in your Mac password, and then click install software.
That'll take a few minutes, I just speeded things up, but when it's done, go ahead and close it.
And then you can select okay for that, and then you can move the installer to trash.
Okay. So next, open up Finder and go into your applications folder and then find Viewtron VMS. I
create a shortcut and put it on my doc like this, so it's easy to access, and then close Finder out.
Then click on the Viewtron VMS, the default password, this is not your DVR password,
this is for the software, it's admin and the password's one, two, three, four, five, six.
You can click remember password and auto log-in if you don't want to be prompt for that again.
And then you'll be asked to set up these security questions, I'm going to skip that for now.
And then we'll maximize this window and here's the software.
Te first thing you want to do is go into resource management to configure your DVR or NVR and then
click add. Now, I'm at the office and I'm going to be setting up my NVR at my house,
so I have to do that manually. And then I'm going to be using the DDNS domain name that I set up,
so I change IP address to domain name and then I enter the domain name that I'm using for my NVR.
And if you don't know what this is, I have another video that explains how to use and
set up DDNS on these Viewtron DVRs and NVRs. Enter in your password and then click test,
it'll try to connect to your DVR or NVR. And then when it's successful,
it'll let you know, you can press okay there, and then you can press okay again.
So next, click on the live view tab, and what we're going to do is we're going
to set up a live view. Over here, is all the cameras that are connected to my NVR,
they're in there in this default area, that's just the name of that connection there. And now,
I can click and drag each camera over to one of these areas of the grid view.
I have seven IP cameras on my house, I'm just going to drag those all into
a nine camera view. And then you can use these icons down here to switch between
the different views that are supported, there's a whole bunch of them. Here's the four camera view.
If I double click on any of the cameras, it'll go to the full camera view and then switch to the
HD video stream. Once it's in these multi-camera views, it goes lower resolution. And then when you
go single camera, it switches to HD, which all the cameras in my house are four megapixel. The six
camera view's kind of neat, the one big camera in the middle and then the five other surrounding it.
So I'm just going to click around a little bit and show you guys a couple of the other live views,
but that's basically how you set up the Viewtron VMS software for Mac. And by the way,
Windows is exactly the same, the Mac software and the Windows software is identical, so you
can follow these instructions for Windows as well. If you have any questions about the Mac software
for Viewtron security camera systems, feel free to email me anytime at mike@cctvcamerapros.net.
Before I wrap up, I want to mention a few other things. Number one, that Mac software can connect
to Viewtron DVRs, NVRs and even IP cameras directly, even if you're not using a recorder.
The Windows VMS software looks identical, you can't even tell the difference between the Windows
and Mac software, it's the same exact platform. Last, the mobile apps for Android and iPhone are
also excellent. You can see video demos of all the desktop software, as well as the mobile apps,
just go to www.cctvcamerapros.com/viewtronapps. Thank you for watching.