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CONTENTS Notes............................................................................................................................................................................................ ii Chapter 1 DVR Instruction ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Specifications .......................................................................................................
5.3.2 PTZ Control ........................................................................................................................................................... 35 5.3.3 Video Switch.......................................................................................................................................................... 35 5.3.4 Playback ................................................................................................................................................
Chapter 1 DVR Instruction Real-time Monitoring Analog output, realize monitor functions through monitor. Record Storage Support HDD to save real-time record. Record Backup Playback Support USB flash drive, removable drive, network backup to HDD. Enable multiple CH playback via DVR host or Network. Network Operation Support remote access by authorized users to increase expansibility and security of system. Support HDD & Video input alarm Management and external Alarm alarm signal inputs.
1.1 Specifications Video compression format H.
Chapter 2 DVR Introduction 2.1 Front panel (only for reference) 2.
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HDD Install: (1) Open the hard disk back cover of the DVR (2) Fixed hard drives to holder (2) Connecting HDD wire and power wire to the hard disk interface. (3) Put the back cover back. 3.2 Connecting Cameras ,Monitor and Audio Connect camera cable to video input of DVR, and connect the video output cable from DVR to monitor via BNC connector. If the camera is PTZ dome, connect RS485 A & B to the port of DVR respectively. 3.
Chapter 4 Basic Operations 4.1 System Initialization After connecting the power adapter and pressing the power button, the system will be turned on. Note: You must enter the main menu and select HDD Management to format the hard disk. 4.2 Main interface After turning on the system will enter main interface. Picture 4-1 is the main interface defaulted by system. Once there are video inputs, the interface will display live images from the channel; if not video input, the interface is blue.
Picture 4-2 Picture 4-3 4.4 User Login Click the Menu Key to pop up the information of the User Login, as shown in Image4-3, the default user name: admin; Password: 00000000 If any users to be added or passwords to be modified, please refer to the 'User Management' in Chapter 4.7.5 4.5 Record file Playback and Backup 4.5.1 Playback Pls click 'Record Search' in the quick menu (reference to 4.
types: ALL/Manual/Schedule/Alarm/Schedule&Event, then click 'search' button to display the file list as shown as the following image Picture 4-5 Select one of the files in the list, pop up the following note: Picture 4-6 Click Playback to enter the playback as shown in the following image: 8 16 Channel Embedded Digital Video Recorder User Manual
Picture 4-7 This DVR supports the 16 channel playback simultaneously, or you can also double-click one channel to operate the single-channel play. Among the function icons of the PLAY Control Bar under the PLAY window, there are fast backward, step backward, Stop, step forward, fast forward,16-ch split,9-ch split, 4-ch split, single display, mute. the PLAY Bar will hide automatically. 4.5.
Picture 4-9 Backup successfully: Picture 4-10 Setting Method: (1) Set the backup device, channel and some other functions in the recording backup interface Backup device: support USB and DVD Recorder. start date and time of the file: setup of start date and time of the backup file End date and time of the file: setup of end date and time of the backup file (2) The capacity of external device and remaining capacity could be automatically detected and displayed at the bottom of the window.
4.6 Overview of main menu Basic ` Record Advanced Plan Main MENU Single channel Alarm Alarm In Motion Multi-channel Channel HDD Next screen Network Password Start record User Video loss Record Search MENU Basic PTZ Control System Intercom Display Digital Zoom Advanced Basic Advanced PIP Log System Inform HDD System Reset Maintain System Event 4.
Picture 4-11 4.7.1 Record 1)Basic setting Click [Main menu]→ [Record] to enter [record] menu(Shown as picture4-12) There are options of Resolution, Image Quality, Frame Rate, Audio, Pre- record available in the interface. Resolution: CIF/HD1/D1, just now the resolution of 16 CH only supports CIF real-time.
Picture 4-12 2)Advanced setting To get to the ADVANCED SETUP, left click to the interface or via DISPLAY of front panel to other tags. There are two options: Override & Time and Date override Setting method: Note: Please note that PTZ also functioned as Enter. (1) Overwrite: If select YES, this will make the new record file will overwrite the former record file when the capacity of HDD is full. If select NO, the new record file won't be stored in HDD when the capacity of HDD is full.
(3) Move cursor to any time options; select time area. (4) If apply all settings to other channels, just move cursor to "Copy to" to copy the settings to one channel or all channels. (5) Move cursor to "Enter" to save above settings. Picture 4-14 4.7.2 Alarm Setup 1)Alarm In Alarm Channel: chose the alarm channel. Sensor Type: depending on the Sensor you can select „Normal Open‟ or „Normal Close‟. Record: setup the record channel if the alarm was activated.
Setting method (following introduce use Remote control for demonstrating) (1) Press the arrow key to select [Sensitivity], popup dropdown menu with PTZ, and then press the arrow key to choose “Sensitivity”. (2) Enter PTZ to apply the selected sensitivity. Picture 4-16 MD Area Setup MD Area refers to corresponding MD area in motion detection when the event record mode is motion detection or alarm record.
press PTZ to open dropdown menu and arrow key to choose ON/OFF. If select ON, the buzzer is activated; if select OFF, the buzzer is invalid. When the event is finished, the buzzer is off automatically. (3) Event duration means the duration of alarm when the start of event setup. Press the arrow key to select [Event Duration], popup dropdown menu with PTZ, and then press the arrow to choose working time. The system default is 10 seconds. Finally, press ON/OFF to apply selected time with PTZ.
finished, the buzzer is off automatically. (3) Event duration means the duration of alarm when the start of event setup. Press the arrow key to select [Event Duration], popup dropdown menu with PTZ, and then press the arrow to choose working time. There are following options: (3/5/10/20/30/60/120/180/300/600/900/1200 S), while the system default is 10 seconds. Finally, press ON/OFF to apply selected time with PTZ. (4) Setting the above parameters, press the arrow key to Enter and PTZ to save the parameters.
5. PTZ ID: Press the arrow key to select [PTZ ID], popup dropdown menu with click of PTZ, and then press the arrow key to choose the number, finally enter PTZ to apply the selected number. PTZ IP ranges from 0-255. Picture 4-21 6. Color Setup: Through the setup of color, bright contrast, saturation, hue to set the display of channel. Press the arrow key to select [Color setup] and PTZ to enter the interface.
(3) NTP Server address setup: to realize DVR's time synchronization. Setting method: Press arrow key to select "NTP Server" → enter PTZ→ select NTP Server→ enter the address in the interface, finally, click "Enter". (4) Port Number Setup: HTTP Port, Media Port and Intercom Port. Setting method: Press the arrow key, enter "HTTP Port", and press the PTZ to popup the edit menu, input port number ( between 1024-65535) , finally, click "Enter". Setup of Media Port and Intercom Port is the same way.
(2) Email Setup is shown as the picture 4-25: a) Press the arrow key to select [email] and enter the interface with PTZ, and then tick "√" with the combination of arrow key & PTZ, open the [Email] menu. b) Input SMTP port number, SMTP server, Sender address and password, recipient's address respectively, at last, press Enter and PTZ to save above settings.
Picture 4-27 (5) Mobile Enter the interface; you can setup the mobile port. (6) UPNP When the UPNP function is on (UPNP function on the router is also on of the router setting), then the DVR will reflect the port and IP into the router automatically. 4.7.5 User Management Enter "Main Menu"→ "User Management", the menu screen as shown in picture 4-28 User Manage is referred as the adding, modifying and deleting of users in addition with the setup of users' grades.
1) Basic Setup Setting Method: (1) System Date Format: YYYY/MM/DD,DD/MM/YYYY,MM/DD/YYYY Setting Method: press the Arrow Key to select the System Date Format Column, press PTZ button to pop up the drop-down menu, then press the Arrow Key to select the appropriate format, press PTZ button to apply the selected format.
2) Advanced Setup Press DISPLAY key to switch into the interface of Advanced Setup. Advanced Setup Interface indicates three functions: System Language, Format Selection, Auto lock (1) System Language: set the system display language Setting Method : press the Arrow Keys to select system language column, press PTZ key to pop up the drop-down menu, then press the Arrow Keys to select the system display language, press PTZ button to apply the selected language.
Picture 4-31 4) System Maintain Press DISPLAY key switching to the system maintain interface as shown in Picture 4-32 The system maintain interface mainly deal with the updating of DVR. Upgrade indicates: System BIOS, System Image, and System APP. Note 1)The power should not be interrupted when updating; you could also not restart the machine during this period; or the machine can not start. 2) The lower left of the screen would appear "Upgrading Successfully" after the successful upgrade.
Setting Method : Press the Arrow Keys to select SPOT switching interval(Spot Interval) column, press PTZ key to pop up the drop -down menu, press the Arrow Keys to select the intervals, then press PTZ key to apply the selected intervals. The optional numerical value indicates (1/2/3/5 second etc. ), the default value is 2 seconds. (3) Camera Loss is referred as the skipping of the channel without video signal input.
2. Event Log Event log indicates: the records of triggered event deletion, video loss, linkage alarm, dynamic detection, wrong password, HDD error. Setting Method: (1) In the system log interface, press the arrow keys to select the category query column, press PTZ key to pop up the drop down menu, and then press the arrow keys to select the queried log type, press the PTZ key to apply the settings.
Chapter 5 IE and Client Software Login 5.1 IE activeX plug-in download and installation Open your IE browser, enter the IP address and web port of DVR. Ex:http://192.168.xxx.xxx:8000/ , then press ENTER key, if your computer is connected to internet, you will be prompted to download and install "ActiveX Control" Unable to download the plug-in problem Notice 1. Check the network cable and network setup. 2. Check if the safety levels or firewall setting are set too advanced. 3.
5.2 IE Login After the plug-ins installation, (the login interface as shown in picture 5-1)enter the port, user name and password, then click "LOGIN" to view DVR remotely. The default password:00000000 Picture 5-1 Picture5-2 Indicator Function Indicator Function LIVE live Intercom PLAYBACK Play back menu Record SETUP Setup menu Auto 1x1 Up,Down,Left,Right 2x2 ZOOM 3x3 FOCUS 4x4 Full screen IRIS PRESET Snap CALL PRESET 5.
5.3.1 Menu Bar Preview: After PC client end log in the system, enter the default live preview interface as shown in picture 5-2 Retrieval: Click "Retrieval" to review the DVR video files remotely and select to play some files. Click "Retrieval" after selecting the date and record type, and then select the event play in the event lists of the search results, meanwhile, use the play control bar at the bottom of the interface to control.
Notice Only when DVR is in the preview main interface, its parameters can be modified remotely. The settings come into effect after the parameter savings are submitted to DVR. The parameter modification in IE is consistent with the same modification in DVR. The remote configuration interface mainly indicates system configuration, recording configuration, events configuration, User Manage. a. System configuration includes display setting, web setting, channel setting, log q uery, system setting.
Picture 5-6 Click "System Configuration"→ "Channel Setting" to enter channel setting interface as shown in below picture. Users can set the channel name, PTZ protocol, PTZ Baud rate, PTZ address and the color in the interface. The Setting Method is consistent with that of DVR end. Picture 5-7 Click "System Configuration"→ "System Setting" to enter log query interface as shown in below picture.
Picture 5-8 The recording configuration includes recording setting and recording schedule. Click "Recording Configuration"→ "Recording Setting" to enter recording setting interface as shown in below picture. Users can set recording resolutions, definition, frame rate, sound recording, pre-recorded frame rate, superposition information and cycle covering in this interface. The Setting Method is consistent with that of DVR end. Please refer to 4.7.1 Basic Setting.
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Picture 5-12 c. User Management indicates the adding, deletion and modification of the users. User management interface is as shown in the below picture Picture 5-13 The above Setting Method of the interface is consistent with that of DVR. Please refer to the Setting Method of DVR.
Picture 5-14 The local configuration includes spot overlay characters, record path and snap path A.Live overlay characters indicate the displaying channel name set during the live preview. B.The record path indicates the saving path of the downloading record videos C.The snap path indicates the saving path of the screenshot images. 5.3.2PTZ Control PTZ Control: the zoom, focus and iris control of PTZ.As shown in picture 5-2. 5.3.
5.4 Client software login Pls open the file"player.exe"( ) in the CD Files,the interface is as shown in the following image: User Name: DVR User Name(default is admin) Password: DVR Password( default is 00000000) Minor Stream: After ticking √ in this option, the stream of the system transfer is minor Stream. Otherwise, it is main stream.
Chapter 6 Troubleshooting 1. What can I do if the system cannot detect the HDD? A: Check if the power supply is properly connected, data cable and power cables accurately connected. 2. We are not getting any video signal on the DVR, what is wrong? A: Check camera video cable and connections; or check monitor video cable and connections; or confirm that the camera has the power and / or check camera lens setting. 3.
Appendix 1 Domain name application 1) Create account First open www.dyndns.com, and click the Create Account option: Fill in the account information. After confirmation, the system will prompt that the verification message has been sent to the designated mailbox, as shown below: 2) Activate account Log in your mailbox and open the confirmation link sent from support@dyndns.com, as shown below: Click the link below and enter the website to activate the account.
4) Application for free domain name After entering the “Dynamic DNS Services” screen, click “Dynamic DNS Free” to apply for a free dynamic domain name, as shown below: Enter the “Dynamic DNS Free” screen, as shown below. Click “ ”.
Enter the hostname, select the service type and then enter the dynamic IP address (usually being the dynamic IP address of the network of the DVR host) to be tied in the Add New Hostname screen, as shown below. Complete the application for the dynamic domain name as prompted.
Appendix 2 Player Pls open the file "player.exe"( ) in the CD Files,the interface is as shown in the following image: 17 16 6 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 NO. 7 8 9 10 11 Function NO.
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