1st Edition (Sept 08, 2008) Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................................1 1-1 PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS ...........................................................................................................................1 1-2 MAIN FEATURES ..............................................................................................................................................
5-7-1 Time Synchronization ...........................................................................................................................73 5-7-2 Other Functions.....................................................................................................................................75 5-8 NETWORK SETUP ...........................................................................................................................................
1.Introduction 1-1 Product Characteristics Optimum Replacement for Time-lapse Recorder Traditional Time-lapse Recorder is a mechanical device.
Function of one set of DVR system = Time-lapse Video Cassette Recorder + Multiplexer processor + Motion Detection Processor You can backup the data to CD-R/RW, remotely monitor the images and still recording the current video data at the same time. IP Surveillance Instead of only analog camera, from V5.03, this DVR system also supports IP camera connections to build a IP surveillance system to enjoy higher scalability, lower deployment cost, and greater intelligence of IP surveillance compared to CCTV.
1-2 Main Features Items Description OS Embedded Linux 4/8/12/16 channels in BNC jack for SV, SV1000, HV3000 Video Inputs -Analog Camera 8/16 channels for SV+, HV5000 16 channels for SV2000 Video Inputs -IP Camera (Optional) System 4/8 Channel IP camera for SV1000, HV3000, HV5000 Video Outputs D type 15 Pins VGA and TV-Out Video Format NTSC/PAL 1 channel input and 1 channel Output for SV, SV+, SV1000 Audio Input/Output 4 channel inputs and 1 channel output for SV2000 Audio on each channel for
HV5000: 120/240fps@D1, 240/480fps@QVGA(NTSC); 100/200fps@D1, 200/400fps@QVGA(PAL) HV3000: 120/240/360/480fps@D1(NTSC); 100/200/300/400fps@D1(PAL) Pre-Schedule Recording By 7days x 24hours, set each hour as: recording by motion, continuously recording, non-recording Define any 8x8 cell for motion detection. Free combinations of Motion detection area Motion detection sensitivity detected areas. No limitation on the number of detection areas.
Remote Backup Inputs by Windows Network Neighborhood SV, SV+, SV1000, HV5000, HV3000: 4/8/12/16 NC/NO inputs SV2000: 4/8 NC/NO inputs SV, SV+, SV1000, HV5000, HV3000: 4/8/12/16 NC/NO outputs Outputs SV2000: 4/8 NC/NO relay outputs Alarm IO & Camera Relations Alarm Behavior Alarm to Zoom, Alarm to recording, Alarm to Notice (by Email / FTP / SMS), Alarm to DO output Tamper Protection Camera covering/spray detection HDD Interface Support IDE & SATA HDDs with Max 8TB RAID support Storage & Backup 1-1
2.The First Time Start You can select your preferred display language at “Main Menu” before starting DVR system. This DVR system supports seven kinds of languages that including Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Besides Language selection, please also set up “ Camera Signal” type as “NTSC” or PAL” according to the camera you use. Please be noted that incorrect camera signal will cause abnormal image format.
Wait 5 seconds for time out and then the system will detect new hard disks and ask if you want to format hard disk. Click “OK” to start formatting. Follow the on-screen instruction to continue. Click “Setup” to see the figure below. Click “Finish” to complete the setting and the system will restart automatically.
3.Main Screen The controls in the main screen including: Function Description 1 Storage Space Indicate the HDD free space status 2 Recording/ DI/DO Status Camera recording and alarm/sensor input and output status 3 Monitor Authority Login to see the live display.
3-1 Display Mode If “Monitor Password Protection” function is enabled (Please refer to Chapter 5-4 User Account Management and Chapter 5-7 System Setting), the system will request you to enter User name and Password before seeing the live monitor. Click the monitor icon on the main screen to login to the DVR live monitor. This DVR system provides different kinds of display mode depending on the DVR model you install. 16- channel DVR provides 4/6/8/9/10/13/16 split modes.
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3-2 Motion/Alarm to Zoom The function of “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” is zooming in the screen when there is any motion or alarm occurring. After clicking icon, it will activate the “Motion/Alarm to Zoom“ mode. Motion/Alarm Zooming Area Motion Picture 1. To set up “ Motion to Zoom”, you must go to the “ Alarm Notice” sub-menu under “System Setting” to set up the channels that you want to enable this function.
enabled the “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function, it will not be zoomed and will not be marked in red frame even there is a motion or alarm triggering in this channel. 3. If there is no other motion or alarm triggering, the current zoomed channel will be continually kept in “ Motion/Alarm Zooming Area”. If yes, the zoomed channel will stay in “ Motion/Alarm Zooming Area” just for three seconds and will be replaced by the one from any channel waiting for zoomed.
Select the channels you want to enable “Alarm to Zoom” function 4. Zooming in a specific channel: You can decide just to zoom in a specific channel. When clicking any channel you want to zoom in, this channel will be zoomed in to the “Motion/Alarm Zooming” area marked in yellow color frame and the original screen of this channel will be replaced by a “locked picture”.
3-3 Storage Space On the right side of the main screen, you can find the free space of hard disk. If there are more than one hard disk is connected, it will display the status of each HD every 5 seconds. When you start using a new hard disk (for example, a hard disk with capacity 80GB), the percentage of free space will be very close to 100% (e.g. 99%), and the color will be BLUE. However, as recording continues, the available space will diminish.
3-4 Recording & DI/DO Status The first column indicates the recording status of each camera: Color Orange ( ) Recording Mode Full recording Status Green ( ) Motion-sensor Motion not detected Red ( ) Motion-sensor Motion detected & recording Gray ( ) No recording The second and third column shows the status of each DI and DO device.
4.Playback Click the playback icon on the main screen to enter playback mode.
Item Function Description 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Calendar Select the calendar of playback. Hour menu Select the hour of playback. Time Map List the time slots with recorded video Minute Bar Select the minute of playback. Search Result List all of the logs of search result. Time Search Search the playback video by “Time” condition Exit Back to Main Screen.
4-1 Playback Password Setting If you want to activate “Playback Password Protection” function, click in the main menu to go the “System Setting” as the figure below. Change the “Security” from “ Disable” to “Enable” mode and then click “Playback Password”.
! Note The default setting of playback action has been authorized to Administrator. To further identify the level of “ Supervisor”, please enable the playback function when setting the “ Normal User Account”. Please refer to the Chapter 5-4.
4-2 Search for Recorded Data This DVR system provides two modes of “ Search for Recorded Data”. One is “ Search by time” and the other one is “Search by Event”. 4-2-1 Search by Time Time Map When you click the icon of “ Time Search” on the lower right corner of Playback screen, it will show three kinds of time parameters for users to select and jump to the recorded data by time directly including “ Calendar, Hour and Minute”.
Select Hour Click “Hour Menu” and it will show the pull-down menu providing 0~23 hours for selection. If there are recording data in the hour, it will show red color for selection, otherwise it will show black color. If it is daylight saving time with extra one hour, the color in that hour will show yellow color. After you select any hour with recording data, you can see the scattered data bar in each channel in that hour. Each bar represents two minutes recording data.
RAM size DVR channel 256MB 512MB 1GB 4 Max 4 ch playback Max 4 ch playback Max 4 ch playback 8 Max 8 ch playback Max 8 ch playback 16 Max. 4 ch playback Max. 16 ch playback Switch the size of Playback channel If DVR system provides 16-channel playback, the default playback channel will be 16 splits. This 16 channel splits are divided into four groups as below pictures.
you enlarge 1st ch from 16-ch split size to 4 ch split size, the other three channels in that group including 2nd, 5rd and 6th channels will be hidden. As a result, the data bar background of these hidden channels in Timemap will be in black color as below picture and others will keep as white color. Hidden camera Switch the playback channel location By Dragging and Dropping the data bar of any channel in Timemap, you can switch the playback channel location.
4-2-2 Search by Event Event Search By clicking the “ Event Search” icon , it will show the “Search Window”. There are four kinds of event search modes, “ Time, System, Device and POS”. Search Mode Description Time Search all of the events within the time range you set up. System *Search all of the System events within time range which you set up by ticking the “ Time Search” at the same time or *Search all of the System events without time boundary by disabling the “ Time Search”.
Time Mode: Step 1: Select “ Time” mode in the Search type. Step 2: Set up the time range of starting point and end point including Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second. Step 3: Click “ Search” button “ button to start the “ Event Search”. Click “ Reset to go back to Default time range. Click “Cancel” button to stop the event search.
Step 4: Then, the system will open the Search Result Window and show the “Search Result”.
event log including “Date, Time, Event, Type, Motion Record, Remote Alarm Record, Camera Video Loss, Camera Enable, Camera Disable, DI Trigger, DO Trigger and Content”. The columns of Date and Time list the event time information. Event column list “ System”, “Camera” or “Device” event. Type includes “Information ( )”, “Warning ( )”, or “Error( )”. Camera Motion, Camera Video Loss, Camera Enable or Camera Disable represents the camera with event. The Content column makes the description of System event.
Search Result Step 6: Select one of the search logs. It will pop up a window on the left side of Search result to show the detail information of this log including Event, Type and detail Content. Click “GoTo” button and it will start to play the event video.
! Note It will list 10 event logs in one page each time and you can click one of the “ Jump Button” to go to the event page you want to see. System Mode: You can search the event by “System” mode and you can also add the “Time Search” condition to narrow the search range. By marking the various System conditions, you can decide the search range. The following table lists all of the “System Events”.
Capture card error Watchdog Fail DIO mapping Fail Update time to RF clock Timer Update time to RTC clock Timer update error No RF clock device Other Startup Event log error Enter play recorded video Mode Enter disk tool menu Enter setup mode Enter playback mode Monitor DVR online Current Timezone Detect camera count error System Shutdown: Disk error detected Setup Playback System Setup change Max user count limit is 128 Enter monitor Enter backup No disk found Storage Disk error Recycle disk FTP al
Device Mode: You can search the event by “Device” mode and you can also add the “Time Search” condition to narrow the search range. By marking the various Device conditions, you can decide the search range The following table lists all of the “Device Type” Device Event Event Type Log Message Camera Motion Camera Motion: 1, 2, 3… Camera Video Loss Video Loss: 1, 2, 3… Camera Enable Camera Enable: 1, 2, 3 Camera Mask Camera Mask: 1, 2.. Remote Alarm Record Remote Alarm Record: 1, 2, 3..
POS Event Search: You can search the event by “POS” and you can also add the “Time Search” condition to narrow the search range. By marking the various POS conditions, you can decide the search range. DVR provides the following search conditions POS No: Search the video by POS No Transaction Amount: Search the video by setting the transaction amount. Total Transactions Quantity: Search the video by setting the transaction quantity. Camera No: Search the video by the camera no.
Click “Search” to list all of the event logs Refer to the Step 4 to Step 6 of Time Mode Search to play the event video. There are two ways to see the POS transaction content. One is clicking any POS event log in the search result window and the window of POS transaction content will pop up. The other one is POS transaction content is directly overlaid on the channel. To enable this function, please refer “4-3 Playback Configuration”.
4-3 Playback Configuration Playback Configuration , DVR will show up the following dialog box. When you click Playback configuration icon It provides you with the configurations of video and OSD (On-Screen-Print). 4-3-1 Filter The configuration of “Filter” is provided you to adjust playback video quality. There are two kinds of modes- “De-interlace” and “Sharpen”. You can enable these two modes at the same time. In De-interlace mode, you can select “ Even only” or “Weave.
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4-4 Snapshot/Backup/Save Log Snapshot/Backup/Save log 4-4-1 Snapshot and save to floppy In the playback mode, it provides Snapshot function to catch the images that you can print or save them to storage device including floppy or USB storage device (this selection shown after plugging in USB storage device). Click the button and select Snapshot. The following dialog will appear: Save the Image Select Device: Select the storage device where you want to save the snapshot images.
! Note 1. If Floppy controller in M/B BIOS setting is set as “ Enable” but DVR is not equipped a Floppy drive, it will take over 12 sec to open the menu of Snapshot or Backup Log File after you click “ Snapshot” or “ Backup Log File” icon. Please “Disable” the Floppy controller in MB BIOS setting. 2. This DVR only supports USB printer. If DVR don’t connect a USB printer, the print button will be disabled. 3. The default paper size is A4. 4.
4-4-2 Backing up Video Files You can backup the video files from hard disk to burning device such as CD-R/W or DVD-R/W or USB external storage media, such as USB pen drive or USB Hard Disk. Click button and select Export to see the following screen: the Items Function Description 1 Reset Time Range 2 Rescan Device Rescan burning device.
4-4-2-1 Backing Up Procedures 1. Before you start to back up the video files, make sure that the back up program has detected the IDE/USB burning devices or USB storages. If not, please check if the device is installed properly and click to rescan the device. After that, the device still can’t be detected, please verify if the device is ok. 2. When you put the disc to burning device or plug the USB storage device to the DVR, click the “Backup Device” or “Rescan Device” to get the device information.
right column of the screen for backup. Click this Burn Disc icon and the system will start to convert the selected files into standard ISO 9660 format files (Make ISO), and burn the files to the disc. 8. If the backup device is USB storage and the device space is enough to back up the selected files, the Export Files icon will lighten when you Add the “Selected files” to the right column of the screen for backup. Click this icon and the system will start to copy the files to the storage. 9.
Step #2 Click “ Verify files in disc after burning” and enter “OK” button to save the burning configuration. Step #3 Start to proceed with file burning. Please refer Chapter 4-4-2-1 Backing Up Procedures. Step #4 Verification Report After files burning are complete, the DVR will automatically create a verification report as below.
Step #1 Select device as “ CD-ROM/DVD-ROM”. Select Export Device Verify Disc Step #2 Click the button of “Verify Disc” If there are no CX3 files in the disc after files burning, the message below will be prompted and that means the files are failed to burn to the disc. ! Note You should enable “ Digital Signature” in system configuration when recording. If you don’t enable “ Digital Signature”, the recording files can’t be verified and will be marked as “Unverifiable Files”.
4-4-3 Backup Log File You can backup the log file to external storage device. DVR provides two log file formats. “txt” and “ cvl”. Click “Select Device”, “log file format”. We recommend you to use “txt” format.
5.System Settings Click the icon on the main screen to go to the system settings page. Click on the keyboard icon to enter the user name and password of “ Administrator”. To exit the System Settings, click on the upper right corner in the “System Settings” menu.
5-1 Camera Setup Beside analog cameras, this DVR system also supports IP cameras to build a Hybrid DVR system or NVR system. However, this function is optional. If you have Hybrid requirement, please ask your supplier for details. The default cameras listed in the “Camera List Window” in Camera Setup menu are only analog cameras. If your DVR supports Hybrid function, you can add IP cameras by clicking the tab of “Add” or delete IP camera by clicking “Delete” tab in Camera Setup menu.
5-1-1 Analog Camera Setup 1. Select the desired camera for setup. 2. Camera Name: Use the “keyboard figure” on the right of “Camera Name” field to enter the description for the camera. 3. Camera Status (Disable/Enable/Hide): If the channel is not connected to a camera, set “Disable”. If it is connected, set “Enable”. If you do not want the camera image to be showed on the main screen, set “Hide”. ! 4. Properties Note If a camera is set as “hidden”, the video is still recorded in the hard disk.
to have the audio recording on any channel, just enable the audio function. ! Note This version, only analog cameras support audio function. 4-5 Recording Enhancement: There are two options. One is “ Enhance Frame Rate” and the other one is “Enhance Quality”. “Enhance Frame Rate” is used to enhance recording frame rate and “Enhance Quality” is used to enhance recording quality.
5-1 Schedule Type: There are three types of recording schedules. 5-1-1 Week (Cycle Type): You can set the recording schedule of one week from Monday to Sunday. By the unit of week, DVR will repeat the recording type weekly. #Step 1: Select a day #Step 2: Set the recording period: Select recording “ Start Time and End Time #Step 3: Set the “Recording Type”. There are two kinds of Recording type, Fully Recording and Event Recording.
Event Recording: (1) Events (Motion/DI): Set up the Motion or DI event to trigger DVR recording. (2) Event Occur: Set up recording frame rate when event occurs. (3) Event Not Occur: Set up recording frame rate when event does not occur. There are two options to select. One is “pre/pos Recording and the other one is “Low frame Rate recording. For the pre-Record setting (0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10) is to record a certain seconds before an alarm happens.
5-1-3 Range type: DVR will use the same recording type during the period you select. #Step 1: Set the Start Date, hour and minute. #Step 2: Set the End Date, hour and minute. #Step 3: Set the “Recording Type” in this recording period. Please refer to the Week (Cycle type) above. 5-2 Comparison between “Week”, “Routine” and “Range” recording Type: Below pictures compare the difference among three recording types by setting fully recording from 6:00 to 18:00, 2007-07-01 to 2007-07-05.
Week Type: Setting: Full recording from 6:00 to 18:00, Monday to Sunday.
Range Type: Setting: Full recording from 6:00 to 18:00, 2007-07-01 to 2007-07-05 Hour/Date 0 07-01 07-02 07-03 07-04 07-05 6 12 18 24 Setting: Full recording from 18:00 to 6:00, 2007-07-01 to 2007-07-05 Hour/Date 0 07-01 07-02 07-03 07-04 07-05 6 12 18 24 5-3 Priority of Schedule Type Rule of Routine and Range schedule type will be prior to Week schedule type.
7. Detection : Set the Motion Sensitivity, Motion Detection Area and Camera Mask. 7-1 Sensitivity (10/20/30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100): You can set the sensitivity of motion detection during recording. It is recommended to adjust the setting to 100 in order to prevent any data loss. However, in some special conditions, the system continues to record even when no motion has occurred. This will result in a considerable amount of useless data being recorded.
8. OSD : OSD (On Screen Display) Position: you can select where the “time” and “camera name” will be displayed in the image in live view. There are four positions to choose from: Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left and Bottom Right. ! 9. PTZ Note SV2000 V5.01 and above version only supports two OSD positions-Top Left and Top Right. : Set the PTZ camera.
To make the PTZ camera function correctly, please follow the instructions below: 1. Connect the PTZ to RS485 port (via RS485 Adapter). 2. Set PTZ” Status to “Enable” 3. Set the COM port that you use to connect to PTZ. 3. Select PTZ Model according to the PTZ you install. 3. Refer to the user manual of PTZ to setup the baud rate and ID. Now, you can control the PTZ camera using the control panel in this page. : Focus near : Focus far : Auto focus Preset function: 1. Select preset point 1. 2.
10. Copy Camera Setting: After finishing the camera setup for one camera, you can click the “Copy Camera Setting” button, located on the upper right of the “Camera Setup” screen, to copy the setting of this camera to other cameras. This saves time and effort. Below dialog will appear. Click the setting area you would like to copy (Refer to the three “areas” below), and then click the cameras located on the right of the screen and click “OK”.
2. Select the IP CAM model. This version supports Panasonic, Axis and Vivotek IP cameras. 3. Enter IP Address of IP cam & connection Port number 4. Enter Username & Password of IP cam that you set in the software provided by IP cam supplier and press “OK”. Now you can see the IP cam in the camera list. 5.
IP cam configurations. 6. Save the configuration and you can start to use the IP CAM. ! Note 1. Make sure your Network is working. You can ping your DVR in another Window PC. 2. Maker sure your IP cam connects to the network. You can detect the IP cam via the software provided by IP CAM supplier to make sure it works or not. 3. Make sure the IP CAM model you select is correct. 4. If DVR is in the LAN (Local Area Network) network, the network mask of DVR and IP CAM must the same.
5-2 View Setup Clicking the “Screen” tab will display the view setup screen as following. 1. There are 7 kinds of Display mode, 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, and 16 splits. Click the “small block” on the split screen, and then you can modify the camera shown on each split screen. An example for the description of the all cameras when doing the view setup is located on the right side of the table. 2. Sequencer Setting There are 1 channel and 4 channel sequencer modes.
5-3 Multiplexer (Optional) This configuration menu will only exist when your DVR system equips with Multi-Quad Card (MQ16) at the same time. Multiplexer can provide with the function of multiple analog BNC outputs with Main monitor and Quad monitor outputs. Number of Quad Card: The number of Quad card installed in your DVR. Main Monitor: You can set the number of split screen in Main monitor and the channels displayed in it. The maximum number of spilt screen is 16.
5-4 User Account Management User Account Management function allows the administrator to create users, assign the authorized actions to secure the system. To start using this function, click on the User icon. This DVR provides two system preset accounts. The user names and passwords for these two accounts are as below. User name: “admin”; Password: “1111” is for the system management account. This account cannot be deleted. User name: “net”; Password: “1111” is for the normal user account.
Enter the name and password for the new user. Administrator Account/ Normal User Account: Only administrator account can enter the system setup menu to change the settings. The default settings of “Camera Permission” and “ Export Log ” are enabled for “Administrator”. Camera Permission: Click “Setup” icon to set user permission as below. Note ! You can define different levels of user permission on Monitor and Playback authority.
[Modify User Account] Click “Modify” icon to modify the existing user account. The operation is similar to that of the “Add User Account” above. [Delete User Account] Click “Delete” icon to delete the user account. A screen will display as follows. Click “OK” if you would like to delete this user account. [View] Click “View” icon to see the account authorization.
5-5 DI/DO Click on the DI/DO icon and select the total number of DI/DO installed on your system to see the following figure: [DI Status] Choose Disable, NC, or NO according to your DI device (e.g., photo sensor). Disable: Disable the DI function. NC (normal closed): The signal loop is closed under normal conditions. When the loop becomes open, DI will be triggered until the loop becomes closed again.
1800 and 3600 seconds. If DO is triggered, in this time interval, DO will keep on triggering. [Action] There are 6 actions that are related to the DI/DO functions. DI →Camera Recording When DI is triggered, DVR can start to record the video of selected cameras. You can select the cameras to be recorded when DI is triggered by using the “DI/Camera array” shown below the setting. Each DI signal can trigger more than one camera recording.
zoomed in the “Motion/Alarm Zooming area” (refer to Chapter 3-2). Below figure may help to understand the concept described above.
5-6 Alarm Notice The DVR can send four types of alarm to your pre-defined email addresses, FTP site, mobile phone number (via SMS) or Voice dialer. This section gives step-by-step instructions to send different alarms to each destination. We define four types of alarm sources as below. Alarm Source Definition Motion Alarm Motion is detected in selected cameras (despite the recording mode is full recording, motion sensor recording or no recording). DI Alarm Selected DI is triggered.
[Alarm to Email] (1) Make sure the DVR system connects to Internet. (2) Key in the IP address or the hostname of the mail server. If the mail server requires user name and password to send emails, please click the icon “Authorization SMTP” to enter the user name and password. ! Note If you don’t know the IP address of your mail server, you can ping the mail server to get the IP address as following figure. (3) Key in sender’s full email address. It must be a valid email address.
[Alarm to FTP Site] (1) Make sure the DVR system connects to Internet. (2) Key in the IP address of the FTP site. (3) Enable “ Passive mode” if DVR is behind Firewall/NAT and connects to network by PPPoE. (4) Enter the directory you would like to store the alarm notice (logs and pictures). (5) Add Alarm Notice: Click the icon Add to see the above figure. (6) Alarm Duration: The duration time can be from 1 minute to 1440 minutes (1 day).
[Alarm to SMS] This function requires an external GSM modem to send messages to mobile phones via SMS (Short Message Service). (1) Please refer to your GSM modem user manual for the physical connections. (2) Back to this Alarm Notice sub-menu, select the correct COM Port you use to connect the GSM Modem. (3) Set the Baud Rate to be 9600 baud per second. (Note: If you fail to send SMS successfully, you may reduce the baud rate to 4800 or 2400 bps and try again.
(9) Click “OK” when you have done the setting. (10) You can add another alarm notice by repeating the step (5) to (9). [Motion to Zoom] You can click the camera No which you want to enable the “ Motion to Zoom” function. [Alarm to Voice Dialer] This function requires an external Voice Dialer to send alarm messages to phones. DVR V4.0 and above version only supports Voyager Voice Dialer. (1) Please refer to Voyager Voice Dialer user manual for the physical connections.
5-7 System Click “System” tab for the settings: “Date/Time”, COM Port for Modem and RAID, “TV-Out”, “Watch Dog” and “Security”.
5-7-1 Time Synchronization There are four kinds of methods to synchronize DVR’s time. Type Description 1. Manual Set up time manually 2. Time Server Synchronize DVR time with Time Server 3. RF Clock Synchronize DVR time with RF Clock 4. RTC Synchronize DVR time with Real Time Clock (RTC) When you select “ Time Server” Synchronization, enter the IP address or hostname of the Time Server. You can test the Time Server function by clicking “Time Server test”.
display it on the screen. RF Clock should be connected to DVR through RS232 port. Please select the correct COM Port you use to connect RF Clock device. ! Note Configuring Time Synchronization will reboot DVR. When you synchronize DVR time by RF Clock, the selection of RS232 COM port in System configuration must be the same as the physical connection.
5-7-2 Other Functions [Timezone] When using DVR first time, you should set up the correct Timezone according to the DVR location. Incorrect Timezone setting will result in incorrect time synchronization via NTP and incorrect Daylight Saving time. [Modem] This setting is for Modem COM (RS232) port setting. This DVR supports COM1, COM2 and maximum 26 USB COM Ports. [RAID Box] This DVR integrates with Areca RAID Box and supports RAID alarm notification.
[TV Out] If you connect an external TV out adapter to DVR VGA out socket, you can export DVR screen to TV Wall. DVR supports 640*480 User Interface fitting for TV resolution. You can click the icon and choose “Disable”, “NTSC-J”, “NTSC-M”, “PAL-B”, “PAL-D”, “PAL-G”, “PAL-H”, “PAL-I”, “PAL-M”, PAL-N” based on the TV-out function requirement. . [Watch Dog] Watch Dog is a hardware device to monitor the system status.
5-8 Network Setup Click “Network Setup” tab to set up the network configurations as follows. Enable the “Static IP ” and enter the IP address, NetMask, and Gateway in the fields. Note ! If you use another network port (like port 81) instead of default port 80, when you start the remote viewing, please remember to add the port number followed by the IP address and the “http://” in front of the IP address. For example: http://142.173.62.171:81.
#1 Exit DVR setup menu #2 Click “Reconnection” button #3 Turn off and then turn on the DVR. Note ! After enabling PPPoE connection and receiving a IP configuration from ISP, DVR will reconnect to ISP if it detects connection over time. However, this behavior will not be recorded as a log. It will be recorded as a DVR log when DVR dials out successfully, failed or reconnects. If it is in connection status.
mode enable” message. Please click “ Ok” and DVR will send alarm message to FTP server in “Passive mode”. Passive mode is designed to for DVR is behind Firewall or NAT. [ DNS ] An internet service that translates domain name into IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com can translate into 198.105.232.4. [ DDNS ] The Dynamic DNS service allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname, allowing your computer to be more easily accessed from various location on the Internet.
! Note It is possible that the function of auto detecting Firewall/NAT IP address will be affected by the ISP’s transparent proxy so that DDNS provider detects the wrong IP. Please ask your local ISP to solve this issue. [ DHCP ] A protocol for assigning dynamic IP address to devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can have a different IP address every time it connects to the network.
[Network Share] This function allows you to find the DVR in the network and copy the recorded files to your PC remotely. 1 2 3 4 5 Enable ”Network Share Status”. Give a name for this DVR for identification in the network. Enter the Workgroup. Give a password for remote access of the files. Click on the camera numbers to be shared in the network. Please refer to chapter 6 for remote operation. ! Note Network Share only can be used in LAN environment.
5-8-1 Remote Connection via Internet by a modem ISP A RAS ISP B Router Internet Modem Ethernet Modem PC SuperVision [DVR site] Before starting the remote monitoring function, users need to apply for a fixed line (leased line or ADSL), and get the IP address from the ISP (Internet Service Provider). The framework to perform this feature is depicted in the above figure. Moreover, please follow the procedure described in section 5-8 “Network Setup” to setup the network configuration.
Step 2 In the Network and Dial-Up Connections window, open Make New Connection to start the Network Connection Wizard.
Step 3 In the Welcome to the Network Connection Wizard window, click Next. Step 4 The New Connection Type window will have several selections. Choose Dial-Up to private network, and then click Next.
Step 5 For the Phone Number to Dial window, first choose a local service number from the following Web sites... Please type in the number you have chosen and click Next to continue.
Step 6 In the Completing the Network Connection Wizard window, check the box labeled Add a shortcut to my desktop, then click Finish to close the wizard, and therefore, start the Connect window. DVR Step 7 Before dialing, the Connect window has several text fields to fill. Your User name will be your entire official USF e-mail address and the Password will be the password to that e-mail address, respectively.
Step 8 Your connection setup is now complete! If you have not paid for USFBasic Dial-up yet, please do so at the iConnect Marketplace. Qualified faculty must register through the Faculty Modem Pool Eligibility page. Both Web addresses are respectively listed below for your convenience. After successful connect, the user's PC will be assigned an IP Address from the RAS (Remote Access Server) of ISP.
5-8-2 Remote Connection when DVR is connected to the Internet by a modem Modem Modem SuperVision PC Similar to dialing up to ISP (Internet Service Provider) for connecting to internet described in the previous section, direct dial-in access is another way to let users remotely connecting to DVR products which is equipped with a modem device. The above figure depicts the framework of this feature.
Please refer the following procedure, which is extracted from documents provided by MicroSoftM Inc. to finish the setting of user site where a window 2000 system is installed. Windows 2000 Dial-Up Guide Step 1 Click Start on your Windows taskbar, select Run. Type ncpa.cpl in the Open field then click OK to begin. Step 2 In the Network and Dial-Up Connections window, open Make New Connection to start the Network Connection Wizard.
Step 3 In the Welcome to the Network Connection Wizard window, click Next.
Step 4 The New Connection Type window will have several selections. Choose Dial-Up to private network, and then click Next. Step 5 For the Phone Number to Dial window, first choose a local service number from the following Web sites... Please type in the number you have chosen and click Next to continue.
Step 6 In the Completing the Network Connection Wizard window, check the box labeled Add a shortcut to my desktop, then click Finish to close the wizard, and therefore, start the Connect window.
Step 7 Before dialing, the Connect window has several text fields to fill. Your User name will be your entire official USF e-mail address and the Password will be the password to that e-mail address, respectively. In addition, you may check the Save password box and/or customize the phone number (to disable call-waiting or other features) if you prefer. Step 8 Your connection setup is now complete! If you have not paid for USFBasic Dial-up yet, please do so at the iConnect Marketplace.
5-9 Disk This function allows you to self-define HDD recycle duration and check disk status easily and precisely through pressing the S.M.A.R.T. Note ! The video recycle duration is between 0 to 365 days. When the duration is set to “0”, DVR will not automatically recycle the video data except HDD is full. The function of Recycle Disk is to set the recycle duration of the video file and it doesn’t recycle log file. Even if the video files are recycled, DVR will keep the log file for the last two weeks.
5-10 Voice Dialer Click on the icon “Voice Dialer” to set up the dial out phone number of “Voice Dialer” to let the Voice Dialer send alarm message when Alarm occurs. You can enter three phone numbers to be notified for a single alarm at the same time. Please refer Chapter 5-6 about the setting of Alarm Notice. ! Note This DVR system only supports Voyager Voice Dialer device. Set the correct Com Port used to connect the Voice Dialer.
5-11 POS From DVR V5.0 version, it successfully integrating with POS system can allow the recording of all transactions for later review for such thefts as sweethearting, substitute scanning, no rings, short changing, short rings, and pilfering. It can largely be applied to convenience store, grocery, gas station and etc. V5.01 for POS application integrates with EPSON printer protocol and 3688 printer protocol in it. Generally, if your POS system supports EPSON printer or 3688 printer protocol, DVR V5.
5-11-1 POS Setting Step 1 Click “ Add” to start to add POS device. If you finish POS device setup, it will be listed in the right window and the detail POS setup content will be described in below column. You can click “ Modify” or “ Delete” to modify POS setup content or delete POS device. Step 2 Enter the POS Name and “ Enable” the POS device. Currently, DVR just supports English POS name. If you don’t enter any character or enter repeated POS name, DVR will pop up message to remind you.
Step 3: Set up POS configuration Status: “ Enable” or “ Disable” POS device. Printer Protocol In V5.01 version, DVR supports EPSON and Generic (3688) printer protocol and Maitre’D POS solution. Please select the correct printer protocol your POS system supports. POS Product In V5.01 version, DVR has integrated with NILES, EMIS, KANGS and Maitre’D POS system. Please select the correct POS system. If your POS system is not in the list, please contact your supplier to ask the technical help.
input. Font Color: Set the font color. Please drag the triangle to the color you want. Select Camera: Select the cameras POS message will show on. Display: Enable the POS message showing on the camera. OSD Position: Click “ Setup” to open OSD setup menu as below picture. You can drag mouse to define location and area of POS message that is printed on screen. Connection Type: *Type: There are two options to connect POS to DVR. One is directly through RS232 serial (COM) port. The other one is Ethernet.
Connection Type RS232 Illustration POS Remarks DVR *One POS connection COM Port *The distance between Y Cable POS and DVR is within RS232 to RS485 1.8m RS232 RS232 POS DVR COM Port Y Cable RS232 to RS485 *One POS connection *The distance between POS and DVR is over 1.8m RS485 RS232 Ethernet *Multiple POS LAN POS DVR RS232 to Ethernet Connections * The distance between Y Cable POS and DVR is Unlimited. RS232 Ethernet ….
DVR connection type is RS232/RS485 COM Port: *COM Port: Please select the correct COM Port you use to connect the POS to DVR. *Baud Rate: POS Data transmission speed through COM Port to DVR. Please set up the Baud according to your POS device. *Start Bit: Please set up the Start Bit according to the COM port transmission spec of your POS device. *Data Bit: Set up the data bit according to the COM port transmission spec of your POS device.
Now, POS configuration is finished and DVR can start to receive POS transaction message. Note ! V5.01 new supports Maitre’D POS system. If you select Maitre’D POS system, please follow below setting. 1. Please select Maitre’D in Printer protocol and POS product. 2. Because Maitre’D POS system only supports Ethernet connection, please select “Ethernet” in connection type. 3. The default port number used to connect to Maitre’D POS is 5111.
6.Remote Operation This DVR System allows you to monitor and control the system via network. Open an IE browser on the remote PC and enter the IP address of the DVR to see the screen below: Enter DVR IP Address 1 2 3 4 Items Function Description 1 Connect to DVR 2 Log 3 Language Support four-language operation including English Traditional Chinese, French and Japanese.
6-1 Download DVR Client (dvrsetup) The remote PC needs to install the DVR client when the first time you want to connect to DVR and follow the instructions to install the DVR from remote IE. Click the “Download” icon Client (dvrsetup program). If DVR with new version upgraded, you should also upgrade dvrsetup. 6-2 Remote Operation After you finish the installation of DVR client, you can start to connect DVR from remote IE.
If you pass the remote authorization, you can start to use remote client as screen picture below, 1 2 5 4 3 6 7 8 Items Function Description 1 Date/Time Show the DVR date and time 2 Camera list Camera display list 3 Setup 4 Snapshot Catch display image and save to the storage device 5 Full screen Display in full screen 6 Playback Remote playback 7 Display Mode Select display division 8 Log DVR Log List Set the network transmission preference and remote DVR setup 6-2-1 Remote
6-2-2 Remote Setup Remote configuration provides three major functions as below Select the suitable network setting based on the actual environment. You can adjust network speed based on real speed status, just select “ 56K”, “128K”, “256K”, “384K”, “512K”, “768K”, “1M”, “1.5M”, ”2M”, “4M”, “8M” ,“10M” or unlimited for adjustment on the ComboBox. If you use company’s or school’s LAN, we suggest you can choose “ 10M” for quick display.
Each DVR remote setup change will be saved in the log system (refer to 4-2-2 Search by Event). The record will show any configuration that is changed by remote users. Record shown in “Event Search. Besides, once any remote setup change is done, it will immediately send a message to DVR. Configuration of Remote Audio Alarm When remote IE client disconnects with DVR, you can set the times of auto connection to DVR.
6-2-3 Snapshot You can click the icon (Snapshot) to catch the whole screen picture and save it as JPEG files by clicking the “Save” button or print these pictures by clicking ”Printing” button . 6-2-4 Full Screen You can click the icon (Full Screen) to enlarge the monitoring screen display. If you click any channel, it will enlarge that channel.
“ ESC” button on your keyboard. If you want to operate the PTZ function, click on the channel with PTZ camera directly. The screen will enlarge and a PTZ control panel will appear on the right as below.
6-2-5 Remote Playback Click the Playback icon Items to see the screen below.
[Start to Playback] Select a date on the calendar. Click button to select playback split mode. There are 1, 4 and 16-channel split modes. Click button to select the playback channels in different split modes and it will show the following Window to let you to select the playback channels. You can individually tick the cameras you want to playback or click to select 16 channels at the same time. “Select all” button is only provided in 16-channel split.
Download file window [Snapshot] Click button to show the Snapshot Window. If you don’t want to print or save certain picture, you just click on that channel to “Hide” the screen. You can click the channel again to “Show” the screen. Click button to print the snapshot pictures per channel per sheet by 320*240 resolution or click button to save the snapshot pictures as JPEG files. SNAPSHOT WINDOW Speed (-): To reduce the playback speed. Speed (+): To increase the playback speed.
6-3 Remote DVR Log Query You can query DVR log from remote IE browser. Click the button of “ Log” in the front page and it will show the menu below. Step 1 Select Log Type There are four types to select. All, System, Device and POS Step 2 Select the time for Log Query You can query the logs by day. Step 3 Click “OK” Click “OK” button to start log query and the result will show in the right window.
6-4 Remote Operation Language In V5.01, DVR support four languages for remote IE operation including English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and French. The default setting of operation language will be according to the language of Windows Operation System in your PC. If you want to change the operation language, click the button of “ Language” in the front page and select the language you prefer.
6-5 DVR Player The DVR Player is used in three applications: 1. To watch the video clip downloaded from the DVR; 2. To watch the video clip burned on the CD-R/RW; 3. To verify the Digital Signature of the video clip. You can find the DVR Player application in the program files. Click on the icon on bottom right to select a video clip. You can check the digital signature in File -> Check Signature. AVI Format Export: This function provides you to transform the download files from CX3 format to AVI format.
c. Select the transforming format. Here we choose Microsoft MPEG 4 Video Codec. d.
e. Enter “ OK” and then it will show the transforming status. ! Note The codec you choose are not all workable but it will prompt a warming message if it is not workable. Below four codecs are not supported by this systems, *Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50 *Microsoft RLS *Microsoft H.263 Video Codec *Microsoft H.261 Video Codec The time of transforming format will depend on the file size and the codec you choose.
6-6 DVR Remote Backup If the Network Share function is enabled, you can copy the video data of the DVR to any Windows PC in the same network. (1) Search computer in the network by the DVR name or IP address. (2) Enter the username and password you set in Chapter 5-4 “User Account Management”. If user wants to have the right of “ Remote Backup”, he should enable “Remote Playback”, ”Remote Setup” and “ Dial in Access”. (3) Copy the files to hard disk or storage for backup.
6-7 Remote Reboot DVR This DVR system provides the function of rebooting DVR from remote IE browser. However, only “ Administrator” account has the right to do the remote reboot function. Step 1. Enable “ Remote Reboot” in “System” Setup menu of DVR. Please refer to Chapter 5-7-2. Step 2. Open IE Browser and enter Remote Reboot command. Remote Reboot command: http://DVR ip/rmapi/system?control=remote-reboot Step 3. Enter “ User Account” and “ Password” .
6-8 Remote Upgrade DVR Firmware This DVR supports the function of upgrading DVR firmware from remote IE browser. However, only “ Administrator” account has the right to do the remote reboot function. Step 1. Open IE Browser and enter Remote Upgrade command Remote Upgrade command: http://dvr_ip_address/dvr/remote-upgrade-form.html Step 2 Select the file for upgrade and click “Go” button” If file is successfully uploaded to the remote DVR, it will show the following message.
Step 4: DVR Starts to Upgrade After finishing SYSTEM/DVR rebooting, it will start to upgrade the new firmware and show the following message. After SYSTEM/DVR is successfully upgraded to the new firmware version, it will reboot again and SYSTEM/DVR will operate in a new firmware version. If upgrade failed, you should use “ DVR Tool” to do local SYSTEM/DVR upgrade.
6-9 Remote Monitor via 3G/GPRS/Wi-Fi Mobile Handsets From V4.20, DVR also supports remote monitoring and remote PTZ control via 3G/GPRS/Wi-Fi handsets. You can browse a live MJPEG image with your mobile handsets. [Main Features] Access DVR image directly instead of using somebody’s computer to transmit. Support MJPEG video format Support JAVA As long as your mobile phone supports JAVA, you can download this Mobile browser to your phone. Transmit Speed With 2.
3G Transmit Speed 1~2 fps 3~10fps 6-9-1 Download Mobile Browser Before you start to use “ Mobile Browser” at first time, you should download it from WAP Gateway to install it in your mobile phone. Because the application of “Mobile Browser” resided in the WAP Gateway and your mobile phone communicate with WAP Gateway via WAP protocol, you should use the WAP service to connect to the WAP Gateway.
Step 2: Select system & version Select “Mobile Surveillance system” Select “Vender” Select “Version” Select the Version you want to download. If you want to download “ Professional” version, please select “ Full Version”. However, “ Full Version” should get the license in advance before downloading. Please refer to Chapter 6-7-3 “Purchase a Serial No on line” .If you want to download “ Commercial” version, please just select “ Free Version”.
Device Protocol) version your mobile phone support. If you select “Free version”, it won’t pop up the selection. Most of 3G mobile phones support MIDP 2.0 while 2G mobile phones only support MIDP 1.0. Please refer your mobile phone spec and select the correct version. Then, the application of Mobile Browser will start to download to your mobile phone and install in your mobile phone.
Control Key Main Menu Camera: Add: this function let you to add new DVRs for mobile surveillance. When you click , it will show the below screen to ask you to enter the related DVR connection information including “DVR Alias Name “, “IP Address”, “Port”, “Username” and “Password”. In “Camera Type” column, please tick “ DVR” and then click “ Add” to finish the configuration. Then, this DVR will be shown in the “ Camera List”. Camera List: List the DVRs you can access.
Camera Setting After adding a new DVR, you can find this DVR in Cam List. By clicking it, below menu will pop up for your selection. Alias: You can change the name of DVR. Live Vision: Show you the DVR live image you want. Setting: Set up the DVR configuration or remove the DVR. Commercial version does not need to provide with Serial no. If you install Professional version, please enter serial No you bought. Next: Switch to another DVR to control.
Right, Enlarging and Shrinking. Preset: Set a fixed position point. Channel: Switch the channel you want to monitor. Split: Select the split mod you want to monitor in. Image: Quality: You can adjust the image quality. There are three ranges of image quality including Poor, Middle and High. Size: Adjust image size including “Small” Middle” and “Large” Rotation: Rotate the Image. Snapshot: Capture a single image.
two-splits mode and four- splits mode. Different Kinds of Split mode Original: Make the image back to the original size. Album: You can see the picture or image you save in the Album. Back: Back to the “Main Menu”. 6-9-3 Purchase a Serial No on line Step 1: Link to the Mo-Soft Shop If you want to have a Professional version, you should purchase a serial No in the Mo-soft Shop of which web address is www.mo-soft.com before you start to download the Web Browser to your mobile phone.
You can query your DVR Mac Address by making the command of http://DVR IP/rmapi/info/productinfo.php in your IE explorer. The underline of “ DVR IP” in this command, please enter your DVR IP address. For example, if your DVR IP address is 192.168.123.55. This command will be http://192.168.123.55/rmapi/info/productinfo.php Finish It will summarize all of the product information and please click “Paypal” if the information is correct.
7.Appendix A. Hardware Compatible List Minimum Hardware Requirement HV3000 Channels 4 RAM 8 1G CPU Power Supply 350 Watt SV2000 HV5000 12 16 2G 8 16 16 1G 2G 1G Intel E2200 2.2G 420 Watt 420 Watt 350 Watt SV1000 Channels 4 8 RAM 256M 512M CPU Intel E2200 2.2G SV/SV+ Channels 4 RAM 256M 8 16 512M CPU ! 12 Intel E2200 2.2G 1. To ensure reliable DVR system, DVR will automatically detect system DRAM capacity.
M/B Compatible List Brand Name Model Chipset # of PCI slot Gigabyte GA-P31-S3G IntelP31/ICH7 3 Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R IntelG33/ICH9 3 Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L IntelP35/ICH9 3 Gigabyte GA-P35-S3G Intel P35/ICH9 5 Gigabyte GA-EG31M-S2 Intel G31/ICH7 2 After installing the DVR, please enter the motherboard “BIOS” to have the settings as below to ensure SATA HDD work well, ! 1.
Proware DP-503AA Hardware RAID Level 1,3,5,6,0+1 ACS-75200 Accusys Hardware RAID Level 1 Accusys Areca Areca SATA HDD to SATA SATA HDD to SATA ACS-7500 IDE to IDE Hardware RAID Level 1 Ultra DMA100 drives ARC-5010 Hardware RAID Level 0,1,3,5 ARC-5030 Hardware RAID Level 0,1,3,5 IDE HDD to IDE or SATA SATA HDD to IDE or SATA I/O Extension Card Brand Model Interface HighPoint Rocket133 PCI PROMISE Ultra 133 TX2 PCI PROMISE SATA 300 TX4 PCI PROMISE SATA 300 TX2Plus PCI Tekram TR
Mobile Surveillance Handsets Vender Handset Models Motorola E770/E1070/E1000/V975/A760/A768/A780/E680/E680i/V3/V3x/T720/A388c Nokia N70/N90/7650/3650/7210/7250/6610/6100/6108/3300/N93/N80/E61/E70 Samsung SGH-Z548 Sony Ericsson Z800i/K608i/K500i/K700i/S700i/Z800/P800/P900/P910/K600i/M600i BenQ S80 WinⅡ F868/F860/F520/F320 PTZ Model Model Lilin Pelco-D Pelco-P Panasonic Sensormatic DongHwa TOA Kalatel SANYO Hi Sharp Samsung GTICO(Small) GTICO(big) YoKo Dynacolor Elmo Eye View Messoa Elbex DongHw
DVD/CD-RW Burner DVR Burner Disk Type Support Remarks *DVD+R Pioneer *DVD-R *DVD-RW *CD-R *CD-RW *DVD+R Asus *DVD-R *DVD-RW *CD-R *CD-RW *DVD+R *DVD-R NEC *DVD-RW Not support DVD+R/RW *CD-R *CD-RW *DVD+R *DVD-R Nu *DVD-RW *CD-R *CD-RW 135
IP Camera/Video Server Support IP Cam/ Video Server Axis Panasonic Vivotek WV-NS Series, IP6112, IP6117, IP7138, IP7139, IP7142, WV-NF Series, IP7151, IP7152, IZ7151, FD6111V, WV-NP Series, FD6121V, FD6112V, FD6122V, FD7131, WV-NW Series SD6112V, SD6122V, SD7151 Brand IP Cam AXIS 2XX Series PTZ Camera PZ7151, PZ7152 Video Server+Analog VS7100 Camera Video Server+PTZ VS7100+Peleco D, Dynacolor, Lilin PTZ camera camera 136
B. Main Menu Every time you start the DVR, you shall see the Main Menu for advanced system functions. Start DVR: To start the DVR normally. Play Recorded Video: Playback only. Be sure to enter admin user password first when you want to enter the Play Recorded Video icon. This option is used to playback a hard disk without rewriting it with new recording contents. Disk Tools: Be sure to enter admin user password first when you want to enter the Disk Tools icon. S.M.A.R.
hard disk when reallocating the camera to hard disks. When you plug in or replace new hard disks/ DOM, or execute “Disk Tools” in “Main Menu”, Diskmanager will help you collect data of a camera that is recorded in different hard disks to one specific hard disk. The following dialogue will appear: Click “Finish” to start re-allocation. RAID Box Configure V4.
Because RAID box sends the RAID log message to DVR through COM port, please select the actual COM connection (Refer to Chapter 5-7-2 System Setting). Step 2: Authentication If RAID Box provides password authentication, DVR will prompt the following dialog box to ask you to enter password. If password authentication is failed, below message will show up. Please retry again. Step 3: Select RAID/JBOD mode There are two modes for selection, RAID or JBOD.
If you select JBOD, DVR will prompt you the following message. If you click “Yes”, the following message will occur and reboot DVR after you press “OK” to finish the RAID configuration. ! Note If the interface between RAID Box and DVR system is through IDE and you select JBOD mode, DVR will just support max two channel HDDs. If the interface between RAID Box and DVR system is through SATA interface, it can’t support JBOD mode.
DVR will provide the selectable RAID level according to the assignment from above step, and the criteria are as below, RAID 0: Require minimum one HDD. RAID 1+0: Require minimum three HDD. RAID 3: Require minimum three HDD. RAID 5: Require minimum three HDD. Select the RAID level that you want to use. Step 5: Select capacity and stripe size “ Available Capacity” means the max capacity that can be used in the RAID disk. You can select how much disk space that you want to use.
After you click” Create”, below prompt message will appear, If you select Foreground Initialization, it will show the RAID initializing progress after you click “Yes”. If RAID is successfully initialized, it will prompt below message. Click “Ok” to reboot DVR and finish RAID configuration. System Tools: Reset Configuration: To reset all the settings to factory default. Select Language: To select your preferred language (Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish).
C. FAQ 1. Q. I have set the recording mode as motion sensor recording. But why the DVR still records a lot of video that has no motion at all? A: (1) The digital recording system is very sensitive. It can detect the tiniest motion that human eyes cannot perceive. You can lower the sensitivity setting in camera setup menu. (2) Flickering fluorescent lights (when traditional 120 Hz ballast are used) or TV (or computer) screen can be the motion source.
connect to DVR from remote IE. Make sure you have installed the DVR Client (dvrsetup program) with correct version. If DVR with new version upgraded, you should also upgrade dvrsetup. (4) Check security setting in IE browser is not too restricted. The active X option must be enabled. 4. Q: How to check the log file of the DVR from remote site? A: The log file can be seen from remote PC using IE browser. From V5.01, DVR provides Log viewer in IE client for user to query DVR log from remote side. 5.
D. Internet Connection D-1: IP address is used by one DVR only Assume the static IP address you get from ISP is 211.23.87.163. When (1) The IP address is not used by any other devices, and (2) ISP does not require user name and password to connect, You can connect like the following figure: Ethernet (RJ45) DVR ADSL Modem In this case, just follow the instructions in section 3-6-7 and section 4-2 to make the DVR on Internet. User from Internet can use http://211.23.87.163 to connect to the DVR.
Ethernet (RJ45) 192.168.123.51 DVR 1 211.23.87.163 192.168.123.52 DVR2 192.168.123.xx ADSL Modem NAT Router Windows PC In this case, you will need an NAT router to connect to the high-speed modem. Please refer to the user manual of your NAT router to translate DVR1 (192.168.123.51 port 80) to a port of 211.23.87.163, for example, port 8001. Similarly, translate DVR2 (192.168.123.52 port 80) to another port of 211.23.87.163, say, port 8002.
E. Maintenance Avoid placing the system in a high temperature or a high humidity environment and also keep away from the place with frequent vibrations. Operate the system under stable voltage.
F. Customer Service For technical questions, please contact our Technical Support Team at 972-247-1203 *2.