User's Manual

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4. GETTING STARTED AND THE MAIN SCREEN
1) Switch on your DVR and wait for the system program to load. If you have not yet installed
a hard disk drive into the device, or the device didn’t read the HDD, or a new HDD didn’t
be formatted, or there is no space of the HDD to record, it will display an icon “
” in the
video preview interface. You must format the HDD in the DVR before first using. The steps
as follows: System settings > SYSTEM > HDD management > format. After formatting for
the first time, the system will restart. If the HDD is already installed, then the default setting
is for the DVR to start recording and a red dot
on the screen will indicate that.
4.1 The Main Screen
The standard layout is four (nine or sixteen, depending on the device) windows evenly
distributed over the screen. From the main screen you can access menu options and switch
among channel views, displaying either all channel feeds simultaneously or bringing forth a
full-screen view of a selected channel.
4.1.1 Displaying A Single Channel
In the multiple screen view, you can make a particular window active by left-clicking on it once
with a mouse, or navigating to it using directional buttons. If an audio output device is
connected to this channel, you can monitor both audio and video feeds.