http://www.viakom.cz Digital Video Recorder User’s Manual Please read instructions thoroughly before operation and retain it for future reference. CPD507 V0.
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IMPORTANT SAFEGUARD CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. Only operate this apparatus from the type of power source indicated on the label. Failure to do so may cause injury or death by electric shock and invalidates the warranty.
TABLE OF CONTENTS PARTS AND FEATURES 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.
PARTS AND FEATURES 1.1 FEATURES DVR Features MPEG-4 real time compression format High resolution recording (For 16 channels): Frame: 720 × 480 pixels with 120 IPS〈NTSC〉/ 720 × 576 pixels with 100 IPS 〈PAL〉 CIF: 352 × 240 pixels with 480 IPS〈NTSC〉/ 352 × 288 pixels with 400 IPS 〈PAL〉 Image quality setting: Best, High, Normal, and Basic Extensive recording time by connected to Independent Disk Array.
1.3 SPECIFICATION Video System NTSC / PAL (switch able) Video Compression Format MPEG 4 Video Input 16 / 8 Channels. Composite video signal 1 Vp-p 75Ω BNC Video Loop Out 16 / 8 Channels.
Specification Continued… Backup Device USB1.1 backup, and network backup USB Interface Support 2 USB 1.1 ports (front panel * 1, back panel * 1) R.E.T.R. Support Remote Event Trigger Recording Web Transmitting Compression Format Motion JPEG Ethernet 10/100 Base-T. Support remote control and live view via Ethernet. Mobile Surveillance Support GPRS to access the system via mobile phone (require J2ME, MIDP2.
1.4 FRONT PANEL a b c d e f g h i j k 1) POWER: (a) Press “POWER” button to turn on/ turn off the DVR. (Under recording mode, please stop record before turn off the DVR) 2) MENU: (b) Press “MENU” button to enter main menu. 3) ENTER / RECORD : (c) Press “ENTER” button to confirm. / Press “ l m n ” to activate the manual recording. 4) “＋ ＋ CH － ”: (d) Press “＋ ＋ CH － ” button to change the setting in the menu / to select the channel.
8) “ ”: (i) Press “ ” button to pause the play back files. 9) “ ”: (j) Press “ ” button to stop the play back files. 10) “ “: (k) Under playback mode, press “ ” button to fast rewind. 11) “ “: (l) Under playback mode, press “ ” to fast forward. 12) “ZOOM”: (m) Press “ZOOM” button to enlarge the picture of selected channel (2X digital zoom). 13) “PLAY” : (n) Press “PLAY” button to playback recorded files. 14) “▲▼◄►“: (i), (j), (k), (l) Press “▲▼◄►” to move the cursor up / down / left / right.
1.5 REAR PANEL (Take 16 channels as an example.) 14 15 16 9 10 17 13 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 1) DISK ARRAY PORT: Connect to disk array for extend HDD capacity. 2) IR: Connect to IR receiver. 3) RS485: Connect to external device (such as PTZ camera) with RS485-A and RS485-B. 4) EXTERNAL I/O PORT: Connect to external device. Control external device or controlled remotely by external device (alarm input, external alarm). 5) USB PORT: Support firmware update and files backup.
10) POWER: Connect to provided adapter. 11) FAN: For ventilation. 12) VIDEO INPUT (CHANNEL 1 - 16 / CHANNEL 1 - 8) : Connect to video source, such as camera. 13) LOOP (CHANNEL 1 - 16 / CHANNEL 1 - 8): Video output. 14) 75Ω / HI: When using Loop function, please switch to HI. When you don’t use Loop function, please switch to 75Ω. 15) MONITOR: Connect to Main monitor. 16) AUDIO IN (1-4): Connect to audio source, such as camera which equipped with audio function.
INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION 2.1 PHYSICAL CONNECTION Connecting all the devices to construct a surveillance system, as shown below. (Take 16 channels as an example.) 1) Install HDDs: The HDDs must be installed before the DVR is turned on. 2) Connect cameras. 3) Connect monitors. 4) Connect the external devices. 5) Connect power. NOTE: Please refer to Appendix #1 for HDD installation instructions. NOTE: Please refer to Appendix#2 for pin configurations of the external I/O port .
2.2 GETTING STARTED 1) Before using the DVR, please have the HDDs installed ready. (refer to Appendix #1 for installation of HDDs). 2) Connect the AC power cord to power adapter and plug into an electrical outlet. The standby LED light will turn to red. Press the “POWER” button. The power LED will be red. It takes approximately 10 to 15 seconds to boot the system with the message : “ SYSTEM INIT... ”, “DETECTING MASTER HDD”, “DETECTING SLAVE HDD”, “DETECTING DISKARRAY”, and also version information, etc.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONS “Advanced Motion Detection Setting” allows users to adjust different sensitivity factors base on different environment. And “Network Backup” allows users to use licensed software AP to backup the recorded files to PC, and playback the backup files. 3.1 MOTION DETECTION SETTING 1) LS : The sensitivity of comparing two different images. The smaller the value is, the more sensitive the detection will become.
3.2 NETWORK BACKUP Users could easily use the licensed software AP to backup the recorded files to PC. And then playback the backup files. BASIC OPERATION 4.1 RECORDING The DVR offers three recording modes, manual record, event recording, and timer record. If power is off accidentally, recorded video files will still be stored in the HDDs. DVR will return to original recording status after power is on again.
4.2 PLAYBACK Press “ PLAY ” button, the DVR will display the last recording video. 1) FAST FORWARD (F.F. ) & FAST REWIND (REW): You can increase speed for fast forward and rewind on the DVR. In the playback mode, ＊ Press ” ” once to get 4X speed forward and press twice to get 8X speed,… and the maximum speed can reach 32X. ＊ Press ” ” once to get 4X speed rewind and press twice to get 8X speed, … and the maximum speed can reach 32X.
DETAILED MENU CONFIGURATION 5.1 MENU TREE MENU TITLE RECORD TIMER ADVANCE DATE BRIG CAMERA MANUAL RECORD ENABLE EVENT RECORD ENABLE TIMER RECORD ENABLE DATE: YEAR MONTH DAY DATE SATU HUE START HH : MM TIME: HOUR MIN SEC COV END HH : MM FORMAT: YY-M-D … REC DETECTION TITLE DET OVERWRITE RECORD IMG SIZE CONT AREA DISPLAY LS ALERT RECORD QUALITY MANUAL RECORD IPS EVENT RECORD IPS EXT. ALERT DATE DISPLAY INT.
5.2 ACCESS MENU Press “MENU” button to enter the main menu list. The default password is 0000. Enter the default password and press “ENTER”. (Users could alter the password later, please refer to “Section 5.12 ADVANCE MENU_SYSTEM”) Tip: Tip The default password is “0000”, users could just press “ENTER” four times instead of using “＋” , “－” to select “0” “0” “0” “0”. (MENU) RECORD TIMER DATE ADVANCE There are 4 options available in the main menu: RECORD -------- Record mode setup.
5.3 MAIN MENU OPTIONS___RECORD (MENU) ► RECORD TIMER DATE ADVANCE Move the cursor to the “RECORD”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options. RECORD MANUAL RECORD ENABLE EVENT RECORD ENABLE TIMER RECORD ENABLE OVERWRITE RECORD IMG SIZE RECORD QUALITY MANUAL RECORD IPS EVENT RECORD IPS TIMER RECORD IPS TOTAL IPS SHARE 1) MANUAL RECORD ENABLE: Start / Stop the manual recording function. 2) EVENT RECORD ENABLE: Start / Stop the event recording function.
8) EVENT RECORD IPS: Recording is activated by event (alarm and motion trigger). Select the images per second for event record, The options are as the followings: NTSC: PAL: NTSC FRAME: 120, 60, 30, 15 PAL FRAME: 100, 50, 25, 12 CIF: 480, 240, 120, 60 CIF: 400, 200, 100, 50 9) TIMER RECORD IPS: Recording is activated by timer schedule.
1) DATE: A scheduled record date (SUN/MON/TUE/ WED/ THU/ FRI/ SAT/ MON–FRI / SAT-SUN / DAILY/OFF) could be set to activate the timer recording. NOTE 1 : Specific date could be changed by “＋” or “－” button. NOTE 2 : If you plan to set the timer recording across the midnight, there are two ways for setting the timer recording schedule, please following the instructions below.
5.6 MAIN MENU OPTIONS___ADVANCE (MENU) RECORD TIMER DATE ►ADVANCE Move the cursor to the “ADVANCE”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options. ADVANCE CAMERA DETECTION DISPLAY ALERT REMOTE SYSTEM NETWORK BACKUP HDD INFO EVENT LOG 5.7 ADVANCE MENU ___CAMERA Move the cursor to the “CAMERA”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options.
1) TITLE: Move the cursor to the title which you want to change, and press “ENTER” to access the setting screen. Assign each channel a title (up to six characters (letters or symbols…)), the default title is the channel number. 2) BRIG / CONT / SATU / HUE: Adjust the Brightness/Contrast/Saturation/Hue of each channel. The level is from 0 to 255. The default value is 128. 3) COV (COVERT): Select “YES” to mask the selected channel which is under recording.
1) TITLE: Show the title of each channel of the camera. 2) DET: Select “ON” to activate the motion detect function of each channel. Select “OFF” to inactivate the motion detect function of each channel. 3) AREA: Press the “ENTER” button to set detection area. Pink blocks represent the area that is not being detected. While the transparent blocks is the area that is under detection.
6) TS : The sensitivity towards how long the object gets triggered. The smaller the value is, the higher sensitivity for motion detection. The highest sensitivity setting is 00, and the lowest sensitivity setting is 15. The default setting is 02. 7) RE : The value of RE is a reference for detection. The default value is 10, which means DVR will compare 10 continuous images at one time according to the sensitivity of LS, SS, TS simultaneously.
6) DWELL DURATION (SEC): Set the duration time of each channel for CALL MONITOR (2, 4, 8, 16 sec.) 7) DE-INTERLACE: Set the “DE-INTERLACE” function on / off. 5.10 ADVANCE MENU ___ALERT Move the cursor to the “ALERT”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options. ALERT EXT. ALERT INT. BUZZER KEY BUZZER VLOSS BUZZER MOTION BUZZER ALARM BUZZER HDD BUZZER HDD NEARLY FULL (GB) ALARM DURATION (SEC) ON ON ON ON ON ON ON 05 05 1) EXT.
5.11 ADVANCE MENU ___REMOTE Move the cursor to “REMOTE”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options. TITLE 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 UP DEVICE PTZ CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA DOWN ID 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 REMOTE PROTOCOL P-D NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL RATE 02400 02400 02400 02400 02400 02400 02400 02400 1) TITLE: Title of each camera. 2) DEVICE: Select to control normal camera or PTZ camera for each channel.
5.12 ADVANCE MENU ___SYSTEM Move the cursor to the “SYSTEM”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options. SYSTEM SERIAL TYPE BAUD RATE HOST ID IR PASSWORD RESET DEFAULT CLEAR HDD UPGRADE R.E.T.R. (MIN) AUTO KEYLOCK LANGUAGE VERSION VIDEO FORMAT RS - 485 02400 003 ON 0000 RESET MASTER NO 3 NEVER ENGLISH 1026-08-G6-04-V354-07 NTSC 1) SERIAL TYPE: Press “ENTER” or “＋” or “－” button to set the control serial type (RS-485, RS232) of DVR.
11) LANGUAGE: Press “ENTER”, and select the language of the OSD. 12) VERSION: The firmware version information will be shown on the screen. 13) VIDEO FORMAT: The information of the DVR’s video format will be shown on the screen. 5.13 ADVANCE MENU ___NETWORK Move the cursor to the “NETWORK”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options. NETWORK NETWORK TYPE DNS PORT 1) STATIC 168. 95. 0080 1.
5.14 ADVANCE MENU ___ BACKUP Move the cursor to the “BACKUP”, and press ”ENTER”, then the screen will show the following options. BACKUP USB BACKUP Select “USB BACKUP” and then press “Enter”. USB BACKUP START TIME END TIME AVAILABLE SIZE CHANNEL HDD NUM BACKUP TO USB 2005-10-27 11 : 25 : 46 2005-10-27 11 : 50 : 58 0512 MB 01 MASTER START 1) START TIME: Select the start time of the backup. 2) END TIME: Select the end time of the backup. 3) AVAILABLE SIZE: The information of the USB available capacity.
5.15 ADVANCE MENU ___HDD INFO You can get all the capacity information of the connected HDD. HDD INFO HDD NUM MASTER EXT001 EXT003 EXT005 EXT007 EXT009 EXT011 HDD SIZE 400.517 400.517 400.517 NO HDD NO HDD NO HDD NO HDD HDD NUM SLAVE EXT 002 EXT 004 EXT 006 EXT 008 EXT 010 EXT 012 HDD SIZE NO HDD 400.517 NO HDD NO HDD NO HDD NO HDD NO HDD 5.
ADDITIONAL OPERATION 6.1 SEARCH Press “ ”+“ ” buttons on the front panel of the DVR to enter the search mode. Then the screen will show the following options. SEARCH HDD MASTER FULL LIST RECORD LIST SYSTEM LIST ALARM LIST MOTION LIST EVENT SEARCH TIME SEARCH 1) HDD: Select the the specific HDD. 2) FULL LIST: List all recorded files ( R: RECORD / S: SYSTEM / A: ALARM / MS: MOTION / T: TIMER). 3) RECORD LIST: List of manual recorded files. 4) SYSTEM LIST: List of system recorded files.
6.2 2X DIGITAL ZOOM Press “ZOOM” button on the front panel of the DVR to enlarge the picture of selected channel (2X digital zoom). You will have ¼ view size of the enlarged picture. Therefore use the “ ▲▼◄► “ to navigate. 20052005-MAYMAY-30 [MON] 14:50:37 DIGITAL ZOOM 400 GB 20052005-MAYMAY-30 [MON] 14:50:37 DIGITAL ZOOM 01 400 GB 01 1) Press the “ZOOM” button again to exit the zoom picture. 2) Press “ ▲▼◄► “ button to move the zoom position.
6.5 USB UPGRADE Users can use USB for upgrade. Please format the USB memory device first. 1) Get the upgrade files from your distributor. 2) Save the upgrade files in your USB device (Do not change the file name). 3) Go to the “MAIN MENU – SYSTEM - UPGRADE” , and press “ENTER”. 4) Select “YES”, and press “ENTER” again to confirm upgrade.
2) Software Operation: Operation Connect DVR with PC via RJ45 network line. LAN Setting : The default DVR IP is “192.168.1.10”, and default “username” and “password” are both “admin”. Users should set PC IP address as “IP:192.168.1.XXX XXX (1~255, except 10)” (in order to let the PC and DVR under the same domain). Click twice to enter login page. Key in IP (192.168.1.10), username (admin), password (admin) into the login page.
Introduction of Basic Operation : Video Web Server Control Panel. Digital Device Control Panel ~ 16CH DVR a c b e f g h i 219.85.22.168 j. k. l. m. n. o. p. q. r. s. t. u. v. w. x. a. Image Transfer Rate Per Second b. Data Transfer Rate c. Connect / Disconnect d. Resolution: NTSC: 320 × 228 PAL: 320 × 276 e. Image Quality (High, Medium, Low) f. Snapshot : press this button to have a snapshot of the image which will be saved in the designated destination.
g. h. i. j. k. l. m. n. o. p. q. r. s. t. u. Record : press this button, the video web server will start to record, and press this button again to stop record. The recording files will be saved to PC. Each recording file can up to 18,000 frames. When the recording file capacity is full, the new recorded file will be saved to the second file. Besides, if the HDD space is less than 200MB, the program will stop recording. System Config: press this button to enter the setting page of the video web server.
Digital Device Control Panel ~ PTZ 219.85.22.168 j. k. l. m. n. j. k. l. m. n. o. p. q. r. o. p. q. r. Hot Point: You can control your PTZ camera screen to a specific Preset 1 ~ 16 point by using cursor. AUTO Zoom Tele Zoom Wide Focus Near Focus Far Max Zoom In Max Zoom Out Enter PTZ Control Off / On: When you turn the PTZ control on, then you could select the PTZ device, and press “OK” button to enter the PTZ control AP screen.
Playback Operation. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. Snapshot Stop Pause Fast Rewind (1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X) Slow Rewind (1X, 1/2X, 1/4X, 1/8X, 1/16X) PLAY (1X) Slow Playback (1X, 1/2X, 1/4X, 1/8X, 1/16X) Fast Forward (1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X) OSD ( show / hide ) Config.
3) Advanced Setting: Setting 219.85.22.168 Press “System Config ” button to enter the system setting page. In this system setting page, you can select the function which you want to set up. After setting, please press “APPLY” button to save the settings. System setting includes: Network, DDNS, Account, Online User, Alarm, Mail, FTP, Alarm Database, File Path, Device, Detection, Camera, and Toolbox.
DDNS DDNS is a service for transforming dynamic IP to corresponding to a specific “Hostname”. Enable the DDNS function. Key in the “DDNS username” into “username”. Key in the “DDNS password” into “password”. Key in the “Hostname” into “Domain”. Choose the “DDNS system name”. DDNS APPLY: Go to a website which provide free DDNS services. For example, “http://www.dyndns.org”. Create an account in DynDNS. After created your account, you will receive an confirmation e-mail within a few minutes.
DDNS Hostname created. YourHostName YourHostName.dyndns.org Account Set up the user’s account ( Max 5 accounts) , password, life time, and authority level ( Max 5 accounts on line at the same time). time User’s level: SUPERVISOR — Control all the functions (“a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e” and “f” ). HIGH — Control only “a”, “b”, “c”, “d” and “e” functions, but cannot control “f” function. NORMAL — Control only “a”, “d”, and “e” functions, but cannot control “b”, “c” and “f” functions.
Online User You can get all the online users’ information here (Name, IP Address, Authority Level, Resolution, and Image Quality). Alarm Alarm Trigger: Enable or disable Email and FTP notification function. Alarm Method: Two selections—Email or FTP. Post Number: MJPEG pictures (1-10 pictures). Alarm Duration: You can set the alarm duration time for 3 sec., 15 sec., 30 sec., 1 min., or 30 min.. Alarm Refresh: Clean the alarm message “ ” which is shown on the screen.
Mail When alarm is triggered, the Video Web Server will capture the instant picture (10 JPEG pictures max), and e-mail it to the assigned recipients. You can get information (SMTP server) from your e-mail system supplier. You can add the email addresses where motion trigger captured pictures or film will be sent to by setting “Modify alarm email address” . If the mail server require verify password, please key in user name and password.
Alarm Database It’s a database, which precisely lists all alarm triggered events, with IP address of Video Web Server, alarm triggered time, and number of frames. You can directly play, delete, or clear all alarm recording events with ease. Click on the “Refresh” button to update the database list even you’re checking alarm events. All the alarm triggered files will be listed systematically for easily search. File Path Snapshot Path: You can assign the route for snapshot image.
Device You can edit all the external device in this Windows. Select the device, and then press “Edit” button to set up “Device Type”, “ID No.”, “Protocol Type” and “Baud Rate” to control the equipments via Video Web Server. This video web server supports different AP screens for control the following peripherals: Camera, PTZ. Detection You can set the detection area and detection sensitivity factors in this window. Select the device, and press “Edit” button to enter the setting page.
Camera You can get the setting information of the connected cameras in the window. You can select a specific camera and press “Edit” button to set the brightness / contrast / saturation / hue of the camera. After setting, press “OK” to confirm. Tool Box You can get the information of firmware version in the window. You can select “turbo step” (1 - 10).
Network Backup Users could backup the recorded files to the PC from DVR via network. Set backup information, and then press “Start” button to backup and play the backup file. After backup, users will see one backup files and one converted backup files on the PC.
6.7 CONNECT TO AP VIA IE BROWSER You can also connect to the video Web Server E via IE browser. This function is suitable in both Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Step 1: 1 Type IP address into the URL address box and press “enter”. Then you’ll see the following page. Download JAVA Step 2: 2 Press the “Download JAVA” button, and you’ll see the following page. Download JRE 5.0 Update 4 Step 3: 3 Press “Accept License Agreement”.
Step 4: 4 Choose “Windows Offline Installation” or “Windows Online Installation”. • Windows Offline Installation • Windows Online Installation Step 5: 5 Take “Windows Offline Installation” as a example. Save the setup file “jre-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p” on the desktop of PC. Click “ “ twice to setup. Step 6: 6 After installation, please type the IP address of your DVR into the URL address box and press “enter”. Then you’ll see the login page. Key in the “user name” and “password”.
6.8 R.E.T.R. Before you activated the R.E.T.R. function, please set the detection area and activated the motion detection function first. There are three way to activate the Remote Event Trigger Recording function. 1) DVR Front Panel: Press “Menu” + “ ” buttons on the DVR front panel. And R.E.T.R. function will activate 3 / 5 / 10 minutes later. Please refer to “Section 5.12” 5.12”. When the R.E.T.R. is activated, the red “R.E.T.R” OSD will shown on the screen. 2) Licensed Software AP: Press “R.E.T.R.
TROUBLE SHOOTING 7.1 FAQ Please refer to the FAQ table below for easy trouble shooting. The table below describes some typical problems and also their solutions. Please check them before calling your DVR dealer.
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APPENDIX #1 APPENDIX #1 – INSTALL THE HDD Carefully following the steps to ensure correct installation. *** Note: If you want to install two HDDs, please set one HDD to “Master Mode” or “Single Mode”, and the other one to “Slave Mode”. *** 1 2 1) Open the upper cover of the DVR and screw out the bracket. 2) Screw HDD to the HDD bracket. 3 ~ 8 3) Connect the HDD to power connector and IDE BUS (make sure to align the HDD precisely to the pin connection). 9 ~ 14 4) Close the upper cover of the DVR.
APPENDIX #2 APPENDIX #2 – PIN CONFIGURATION PIN 1. GND GROUND PIN 2. ~ PIN 9. ALARM INPUT To connect wire from ALARM INPUT ( PIN 2 -- 9 ) to GND ( PIN 1 ) connector, DMR will start recording and buzzer will be on. When Menu/ Camera/ Alarm is set up to “Low” : When alarm input signal is “ Low ”, the unit starts to record and buzzer. When Menu/ Camera/ Alarm is set up to “High” : When alarm input signal is “ High ”, the unit starts to record and buzzer. PIN 10. PIN OFF PIN 11.
APPENDIX #3 APPENDIX #3 – RECORDING TIME TABLE 1. Take NTSC system and outdoor environment as an example. 2.
APPENDIX #4 APPENDIX #4 – COMPATIBLE USB BRAND NOTE: Please upgrade the firmware of the DVR to ensure the accuracy of following table.
APPENDIX #5 APPENDIX #5 – COMPATIBLE HDD BRAND NOTE: Please upgrade the firmware of the DVR to ensure the accuracy of following table.
