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  • Page 2 Safety Precautions The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of insulated dangerous Voltage within the product’s enclosure that may be sufficient magnitude to constitute risk of electrical shock. The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operation and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying...
  • Page 3 3. To prevent fire or electrical shock, do not expose the product to heat or moisture. 4. Be sure to read this manual before using this stand alone DVR Model. 5. For questions and technical assistance of this product, contact Q-see. ►Strong recommendation on installation of the DVR unit 1.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS 1. FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS………………….………………………………….…..6 2. DESCRIPTION OF FRONT PANEL.…………………………………..……….7 2.1. RECORD/PLAYBACK CONTROL BUTTONS.………………..…….……………7 2.2. FUNCTION CONTROL BUTTONS.………………..………………………………8 2.3 CHANNEL SELECT BUTTONS.………………..……………………..……………9 3. REAR PANEL AND SYSTEM CONNECTIONS…..…………………………………10 3.1. BACK PANEL CONNECTIONS.…………………………………………………10 3.2. VIDEO & AUDIO CONNECTIONS.………………………………………………10 3.3. ALARM CONNECTIONS.………………..…...……………………………………11 3.4.
  • Page 5 7.3. LIVE PLAY………………………………………..…………………………………40 7.4. PLAYBACK………………………………………….………………………………41 7.5. SCANDISK…………………………………………………………………………41 7.6. FILE PLAY………………………………….………………………………………42 7.7. SAVE AS AVI………………………………………………………………………42 7.8. SAVE TO PC HARD DRIVE………………………………………………………43 8. MAIN STANDARD & PARAMETER CHART……………..………………………44 8.1. DVR…………………………………………………………...……………………44 8.2. CAMERAS…………………………………………………………………………44 9. TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE……………..……………..…………………45 10. RECORDING TIME TABLE………………...……..…………...…………..………47 Q-SEE PRODUCT WARRANTY……………………………………………………...47...

  • Page 6: Features And Functions

    1. FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS Video input: 16channels; Video output: 3channels. Audio input: 4channels; Audio output: 2channels. 16 alarm input and 1 relay alarm output. Compression mode: MJPEG. Supports network view. Supports USB backup. Compatible with NTSC and PAL format. Supports zoom, auto function, watermark security. Four levels of image quality: very high, high, normal, low.

  • Page 7: Description Of Front Panel

    2. DESCRIPTION OF FRONT PANEL 2.1 Record/Playing Control Buttons 1. REC: this is the manual recording button. Press this button to record video to hard drive, press this button again, it will stop recording. Recording and stop will work simultaneously on 16 channels.

  • Page 8: Function Control Buttons

    2.2 Function Control Buttons 1. Auto/1: Auto key, in shift mode, press this button and the DVR will be in auto dwell state, it dwells according to the time set in auto sequence set menu, and you can set the dwell time of each channel.

  • Page 9: Channel Select Buttons

    8. ADD/7: Add key, press this button to see channel 7 full screen. When in system setup menu, this is an increase button. When inputting numbers this button is used to enter the number “7”. 9. DEC/8: Decrease key, press this button to see channel 8 full screen. When in system setup menu this is a decrease button.

  • Page 10: Rear Panel And System Connections

    3. REAR PANEL AND SYSTEM CONNECTIONS 3.1 Back Panel Connections The power cable and input, output signal terminals are all on the back of the DVR, including connections to monitor, cameras, etc. The terminals and sockets on the back panel of the DVR are shown on the illustration below.

  • Page 11: Alarm Connections

    3.3 Alarm Connections The DVR can support up to 16-alarm inputs and 1 alarm output. Alarm input: there are two types of alarm input. 1. Voltage output (5V and 0V) A: If the sensor outputs high voltage (5V) normally and outputs low voltage when triggered (0V), then users must set the DVR as low voltage alarm.

  • Page 12: Hard Drive Installation

    Alarm output: There are three alarm output pins, the status of these pin are illustrated below: Before Alarm After Alarm There is an example for alarm output connection 3.4 Hard Drive Installation Here are instructions to install the hard drive. Notice: If the DVR comes with a HDD pre-installed then skip the following steps.

  • Page 13: Remote Control

    4. REMOTE CONTROL REC: Start or stop recording SCHEDULE: Start Schedule recording function 0~9: Select channel or input password 2x2: Display Quad mode on screen 3x3: Display 9-channel cameras on screen 4x4: Display all 16-channel cameras on screen AUTO: Same with “Auto” button on DVR keyboard DISPLAY: Same with “Display”...
  • Page 14 Hold down the menu/search button on the keyboard or press the remote control to enter the Setup Main Menu. This will show the password input box. If you enter the wrong password 3 times, then you can’t enter the setup menu. Default password is “0000”, If you enter the correct password, the main menu will display as shown below:...

  • Page 15: System Setup

    5.2 SYSTEM SETUP Press “ENTER” button to enter sub menu PLAY REPEAT: Set the Playback Repeat option VIDEO SYSTEM: Set video format of the DVR as NTSC or PAL BUZZER SOUND: Set the Buzzer On/Off 5.2.1 TIME/DATA SETUP Set the date and time. DATE: Set the date TIME: Set the time (24 hour format) FORMAT: Set the time display format (USA, EURO and Asia Users)

  • Page 16: Hdd Format Setup

    5.2.2 HDD FORMAT SETUP Use to format the hard drive . Select “YES”, to format the hard drive and all video on the HDD will be erased. 5.2.3 FACTORY RESET If you select Factory Reset; the DVR will reset to factory default settings.

  • Page 17: Change Password

    5.2.4 Change Password Move the cursor to CHANGE PASSWORD and press the Enter button, the Change Password window will appear. Password Level: There are different levels of password security SETUP: If set to “YES” you have to input password to enter menu. SYSTEM: If set to “YES”...

  • Page 18: Firmware Update

    5.2.5 Firmware Update Move the cursor moves to FIRMWARE UPDATE and press the Enter button, the firmware update window will appear. Update Method: There are two methods to update the DVR’s firmware, USB (for USB flash drives) and Network (not supported on this model) USB update: create a new folder called “firmware”...

  • Page 19: Display Setup

    5.3 DISPLAY SETUP BOUND COLOR: Set the Color of Video Boundary (BLACK / WHITE / GRAY). BLANK COLOR: Set the Background Color of Lost Video screen (BLACK / WHITE). 5.3.1 CAMERA NAME SETUP Move the cursor to Camera Name and press the Enter button, the Camera Name Setup window will appear as shown below: Press the up or down buttons to select channels, press the Enter button to change the channel name.

  • Page 20: Color Setup

    Each channel’s name is a combination of six to eight characters. Press UP or DOWN buttons to select each character, press LEFT or RIGHT buttons to modify each character, and then press the Enter button to save this name. DISPLAY: if Display is set to “OFF” the channel’s name will not display on the screen. COLOR SETUP 5.3.2 Move the cursor to color set and press the “ENTER”...

  • Page 21: Auto Sequence Setup

    5.3.3. AUTO SEQUENCE SETUP Set the Display Time of Auto Sequence. Press “ENTER” button, the auto sequence setup window will appear, which is illustrated below: Set the time of the selected channel. Time can be set in a range from 0 to 99 seconds. 5.4 RECORD SETUP OVER WRITE: if set to “YES”...

  • Page 22: Audio Channel Setup

    REC QUALITY: There are four video quality settings: VERY LOW, LOW, NORMAL, HIGH and VERY HIGH. The higher the video quality, the clearer the images when you playback. The lower the video quality the more space you can save on the hard drive. RESOLUTION: The record picture size of the DVR.

  • Page 23: Record Channel Setup

    5.4.2 RECORD CHANNEL SETUP Move the cursor to REC CH Set and press the “ENTER” button. The REC CH setup window will appear. This option is only available in Field mode. Press the up and down buttons to select a channel, then press left or right buttons to change the setting.

  • Page 24: Network Enable Setup

    NETWORK ENV: the DVR has three types of different network environments: LOCAL, EXTER_LAN, EXTER_WAN. If on a local network select LOCAL. For internet access choose EXTER_LAN If the internet condition is not very good select EXTER_WAN. VIDEO PORT: the port the DVR uses to transmit video. COMMAND PORT: the port the DVR uses to transmit commands.

  • Page 25: Mac Address Setup

    5.5.2. MAC ADDRESS SETUP Move the cursor to MAC set then press the “ENTER” button. The MAC set window will appear which is illustrated below: If you have more than one DVR in a local area network you have to set each DVR to have an exclusive MAC address, but remember that you have only one chance to modify the MAC address, once you have changed the MAC address this menu will no longer appear.

  • Page 26: Accessing The Dvr From A Remote Computer

    5.5.4 ACCESSING THE DVR FROM A REMOTE COMPUTER To access from a remote computer, after you complete the above steps you need to forward ports 5000 and 5001 on the router the DVR is attached to, to the IP address of the DVR.

  • Page 27: Motion Detection Settings

    MOTION ENABLE: motion alarm switch, it can be set to on or off. If users set it to off the DVR’s motion alarm will be ignored. If it is set to on then the DVR’s motion detection will be enabled. MOTION LEVEL: motion detection sensitivity level, if the figure in the picture is small please set to high or very high, the default is normal.

  • Page 28: Motion Area Set

    Notice: The above suggestions are a guide based on testing in a general environment. You will need to select the best settings according to the actual operation environment you are covering. Try different settings until you get the desired motion detection result.

  • Page 29: Schedule Set

    5.7 SCHEDULE SETUP Move the cursor moves to Schedule Set and press the Enter button. The schedule setup window will appear listing the days of the week. Select a day and press the Enter button and the below window will be displayed. You can setup a recording schedule for each day by using this setup window.

  • Page 30: Storage Info

    There are two types of backup mode: STILL and MOVIE, in STILL mode you can backup Pictures and in MOVIE mode you can backup video files. 5.9 STORAGE INFO Storage information shows the status information on the hard drive as shown below: CAPACITY: Model Number of the Hard Drive HDD SIZE: Total capacity of Hard Drive USED SIZE: Amount of space used on Hard Drive...

  • Page 31: Ptz Set

    5.10 PTZ SETUP Set the right protocol, baud rate, and ID and you can control SPEED DOME cameras through the DVR. Move the cursor to Protocol Set, then press the “ENTER” button, the protocol set window will appear which is illustrated below. Press up or down buttons to move the cursor and press right or left buttons to change the value.

  • Page 32: Turning Off The Dvr

    6.2 TURNING OFF THE DVR You normally only turn off the machine when you want to shut the system down. Do not turn off the machine while playing or setting the system up. Especially do not to turn off the DVR while recording.

  • Page 33: Scheduled Recording

    6.5 SCHEDULED RECORDING Scheduled recording starts and stops recording automatically according to the pre-arranged time period. To start scheduled recording, after setting up the record schedule you must press down the schedule button on the front panel to turn the schedule on. While pressing down this button the schedule symbol “S”...

  • Page 34: Time Search

    6.8 TIME SEARCH Move the cursor to Time Search, then press “ENTER” button. The time search window will appear as illustrated below: A red block during a time period means there is video at that time Press left and right buttons to move the cursor among year, month, day, hour and minute. If you select the year and press the “ENTER”...

  • Page 35: Record Search

    time recording, NETWORK means network recording Press up and down buttons to move the cursor among the event lists, press left and right buttons to see previous or next page, press the “ENTER” button to play the file you select. Press search button to return to Search Play menu.

  • Page 36: Usb Backup

    6.11 USB BACKUP To use this function the first step is to format the USB device with “FAT” system on your computer, the DVR doesn’t support “FAT32” file system. Plug in the USB flash drive, go to the Backup set menu, check to verify if the flash drive was detected or not, and if there is enough free space on the flash drive for the file or files you want to backup.

  • Page 37: Zoom Feature

    6.13 ZOOM FEATURE (For use with PTZ speed dome cameras) In shift mode press the zoom button or press the zoom button on the remote control, the DVR will be in zoom mode which is illustrated below: Press up, down, left or right buttons to move the zoom area and then press the “ENTER” button to zoom.

  • Page 38: Information Display

    6.15 INFORMATION DISPLAY In shift mode press the display button, the main information of the DVR will display on screen. HDD SIZE: the size of the hard drive HDD USED: the amount of used space on the hard drive. HDD READ: current HDD address for playback OVERWRITE: overwrite time of the HDD NETWORK IP: IP address of the DVR.

  • Page 39: Using The Pc Viewer Software

    7. Using the PC VIEWER SOFTWARE Using the PC Viewer software you can view the DVR over a network or the Internet. You can also view and backup the video information on the HDD to a computer. When you open the software you will see the window below: 7.1 SETTINGS When you click button you will see the window below: enter the IP address of the...

  • Page 40: Connecting To Dvr

    7.2 CONNECTING TO DVR Pressing the button will display the login box. <Successful connection> <Connect failed > 7.3 LIVE PLAY Once you have connected start the video by clicking on the play button.

  • Page 41: Playback

    7.4 PLAYBACK Click the “Playback” button and the net search window will display. First you have to select the HDD of the DVR (first picture below). Click the “Get record list” or “Get event list”. If the DVR has record list you can see the second window below: Double click a file on the record list and you will playback the video.

  • Page 42: File Play

    7.6 FILE PLAY Press the “File Play” button; you will see the picture below. Press the “open” button to play the video file on the computer. < File play Menu> 1. By pressing this button you can record the video from the DVR to the computer.

  • Page 43: Save To Pc Hard Drive

    7.8 Save to PC Hard Drive To record the video stream to your PC’s HDD , just click" DVR" button and the video stream will be saved in the directory that you set (the default directory is c:\DVR\) Notice: to play the file saved to DVR just click "FilePlay" tab to open it.

  • Page 44: Main Standard & Parameter Chart

    8. SPECIFICATIONS 8.1 DVR Item Specification Compressed picture M-JPEG Video signal NTSC/PAL Video input Conposite:1.0Vp-p/75Ω,BNC×8/16 Video output Conposite:1.0Vp-p/75Ω,BNC×2 S-VIDEO Audio input -8Db 22KΩ,RCA connector×4 Audio output -8Db 3KΩ,RCA connector×2 Alarm input Alarm output Recording time 18-1680 hours/40G Electronic clock Year/Month/Day; Hour/Minute/Second Password protection Secret function Update method...

  • Page 45: Trouble Shooting Guide

    9. TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE Q. What kind of cameraS should I buy for this DVR? A. Any BNC or RCA interface indoor/outdoor/infrared camera will work with the DVR. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a color or black/white camera. However web cameras that require a USB interface are not compatible with the DVR.
  • Page 46 Q. Why can’t I access Time/Date Set, HDD Format Set, Record Set menu? A. Please stop recording or playing back before you access these menu. Q. Why can’t I access Network Set menu? A. Please quit the connection of the PC Viewer software from the network or Internet before you access Network Set menu.

  • Page 47: Recording Time Table

    Notice: The above figures are from our tests with a 250GB hard disk and are for users’ reference. Q-SEE PRODUCT WARRANTY Thank you for choosing our products. All of our product users have a conditional free warranty repair service for hardware within 12 months starting from the purchase date, and a free exchange service within one month (valid for manufacturing defects).
  • Page 48 Purchase Date Distributor If you have questions: Contact Us: Mailing Address: Customer Service: DPS Inc. Phone: 877-998-3440 x 538 8015 E. Crystal Dr Email: cs@dpsi-usa.com Anaheim, CA 92807 Website: Tech Support: http://www.q-see.com Phone: 877-998-3440 x 539 Fax: Email: ts@dpsi-usa.com 714-998-3509...
  • Page 49 The material in this document is the intellectual property of our company. No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, translated, transmitted, or published in any form or by any means without our company’s prior written permission. 1. Our products are under continual improvement and we reserve the right to make changes without notice, therefore no guarantee is given as to the correctness of its contents.

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