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Note: ·Put DVR on horizontal plane; ·Select appropriate installation position to provide good ventilation and prevent overheating of the device. ·Do not put liquid stuff onto it ·Install the device in suitable humidity and temperature environment. Statement: · We strive to ensure the exactness and integrality of the manual in the process of preparation, but still error or omission is inevitable.
Content CHAPTER I MAJOR FUNCTION INTRODUCTION............................................8 OPTIMIZED COMPRESSION ....................................................8 CHAPTER II INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION ..............................................11 ....................................................11 NSTALL HARD DISK ......................................................11 NSTALL DEVICE ..................................................11 NTERFACE ON REAR PANEL OPERATION INSTRUCTION ..............................................13 CHAPTER III ..................................................... 13 EMOTE CONTROLLER ....................................................... 14 3.2 M OUSE OPERATION ......................................................
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< > ..........................................21 USING TO CHOOSE THE DATE TEP TWO HOOSE DATE ..................................21 SELECT RECORDED FILES AT PAGE DOWN AND UP TEP THREE HOOSE RECORDED FILES ..................................... 21 SELECT THE VIDEO AND PRESS MENU KEY AND PLAY IT TEP FOUR LAY VIDEO ..................................................
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........................................................23 RECORD CONFIG “ COPY A CHANNEL PARAMETER INTO OTHER CHANNEL OR ALL CHANNELS OTHER CHANNEL WILL WORK THE SAME WAY AS THE FORMER ONE HOOSE A CHANNEL IN COPY HANNEL PARAMETER COPY ” “ ” ............................. 23 AND PRESS COPY BUTTON...
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....................................................40 5.5 A LARM ONFIGURATION ....................................................43 5.6 E XCEPTION HANDLING ..................................... 44 “E ” : HDD F HDD E NTER XCEPTION HANDLING MENU REFER TO THE PICTURE ABOVE THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS ULL AND RROR IN EACH OPTION USER CAN SELECT UZZER LARM...
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........................................45 ......................................................48 5.8 P REVIEW SETTING ......................................... 48 LL PICTURES SHOW OUT AT THE SAME TIME ULL SCREEN ..................................................... 48 5.9 U SER CONFIGURATION Authorization setting ................................................49 5.9.1 The administrator is enabled with full authority by default and the authority setting of administrator is invalid. (e.g. cancel certain authority of administrator in menu.)......50 ....................................................
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................................... 51 ......................................................52 5.11 M ANAGER OOLS ......................................53 ......................................................53 5.11.1 L OAD DEFAULT Page 7/67...
“B ” ..................56 T WILL SHOW ALL OPERATIONS SINCE IT USED SER SHOULD OPEN THIS LOG FUNCTION IN ASIC ONFIG AND THEN WRITE LOG IN OG LIST ................................56 ROVIDE A TOTAL REPORT FOR USED OPERATIONS IN DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER OG STATISTICS ....................................................
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• Search by date/time, list or exact search; • Normal/alarm recording search; 4 Channel playback • Synchronized playback at single channel, 2channel or 4channel A/V; • Playback: Fast forward, fast rewind, pause, single frame, previous track, next track, track head, track end, mute;...
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• Backup by some pointed channel or backup according time period • Backup with USB, DVDRW or USB HDD; (USB 2.0) • Backed files can be back played Server update • Upgrade by USB • Upgrade by network Page 10/67...
Chapter II Installation Instruction Install hard disk This digital video recorder isn’t equipped with hard disk. Before install the digital video recorder, please prepare the hard disk. It cannot work without the hard disk. Please choose the supplier recommended HDD, suitable for DVR working, to meet the time and capacity request. Prefer to purchase it from regular disk supplier, to sure the quality, which will affect DVR working.
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Above picture is rear panel picture. Different model will be with different rear panel. 1 Audio output (optional) Connect to (analog) audio output device. 2. Audio input (optional) Connect to (analog) Audio input device. 3. Video input Connect to video input device; Output video signal by two BNC connectors. 4.
Chapter III Operation Instruction Remote controller Remark Name Turn on/off the power Power Turn off/on audio output Mute Start/stop video recording manually Record/stop Turn on and search recording list Search Control the voice up and down Voice Same as Alert, Cancel, Search, PTZ control, Exit, Info and VGA on front panel Advance Control pan/tilt, zoom in/out, focus, light circle PTZ control...
Play, pause, FF and FR on front panel, previous/next track, first/last track Play 0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7//8/9/10+ numerical keys Numerical keys Press to display images in different number of channels, single, 4 channel, 9 Channel switch channel, 16 channel Activate/stop remote control, choose and revise the device no. of the controlled Remote controller machine activate...
Cancel alarm Same as Cancel key on front panel Record Start recording manually Stop record Stop recording manually Playback Playback the recorded files PTZ control Start PTZ control Stop PZT Stop PTZ control Menu operation The main functions are including in the main menu. In order to operate device, user needs to get the correct PWD. Page 15/67...
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Password protection is divided into two levels: administrator (senior user) and operator (common user). The authorizer has access to all functions, but operator only has assigned function access. To enter “System settings” menu, press [Menu] key on front panel to enter directly if password protection is disabled. If the password protection is disabled, you can press [Menu] key to enter “System settings”...
Return to main menu and move cursor to “Exit”, then, press [Menu] key and the following message box will popup: To save the setting, click “Yes”. Click “No” to exit without saving. To continue the setting, click “Back”. You can also choose to restart or close the device.
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FR symbol: Indicates fast rewind, followed such as x4, indicate the fast reward speed Single frame symbol: Indicates pause in single frame playing state. Timing symbol: Indicates the video recorder is in timing state. Alert symbol: Indicates the video recorder is in alerted state. If alarm signals generated, the recorder will record and output the alarm automatically.
Chapter IV Basic Operation Turn on Check whether the current and voltage of power supply accord with the digital video recorder before turning it on. Check whether video recording device is connected and whether the connection is proper. Check whether monitor is connected to VOUT port or VGA port on rear panel.
Step 2 Press [↑], [↓], [←], and [→] to move cursor. Select “Basic Config” to enter the menu and then select “time adjusting as shown below. Date/time Setting Move cursor to the item and press numerical keys on front panel to enter the values. Step 3 Select “OK”...
Step 1 Press [Menu] key to enter system menu. Press [↑], [↓], [←], and [→] to move cursor to “Record Config” Step 2 Customize video quality in “Video Quality” box. Move cursor to Quality and press [Menu] key to enter. Available options include: Normal, Medium, Superior, Best and Custom.
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Step one: Press search button, right picture will popup: Step two: Choose the desired channel Step three: input the recording time in the time window Step four: Press “play”, it will play the video in this time period. If no video, it will play the video next to this time. 4.5.3 USB backup Two methods are available for backup: period backup and condition backup.
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Step five: Press “condition backup” 带格式的: 项目符号和编号 4.6 Alarm Setting Two important aspects for alarm function are alert and disalert, controlled by the “alert” key on front panel. Function of the alert key: fast activate alarm or disalarm function. This key is double used for alert and disalert. Authority for alert and disalert: Alarm function will be operated by authorized user.
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Chapter V Menu and Parameter Settings Basic configuration PAL and NTSC are available. The system should be same to that of the output device. It is PAL Video format in Mainland China. Select menu language. Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English, Hungarian, Spanish, Language French and Eesti keel are available.
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Lock front panel. To lock the panel, press [Menu] key to select the tag in options. (The maximum Panel Lock waiting time is 99 minutes before panel is locked.) You can’t operate the panel if it is locked. “Wait” indicates the time before panel is locked.
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5.2.1 Camera configuration Select desired channel. You can select up to 16 images or select single image to operate. Channel Give name to the recording image for the convenience of operation and viewing. You can name Name every image here or select a already exist name either. Customize the brightness.
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Draw Upper Boundary: Move the active zone onto the upper line of the rectangle; Press [↑] and [↓] key to move the upper and bottom line then enlarge or reduce the mask zone size. Draw Bottom Boundary: Move the active zone onto the bottom line of the rectangle; Press [↑] and [↓] key to move the upper and bottom line Draw Left Boundary: Move the active zone onto the left line of the rectangle;...
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and remind with sound according to settings. Step 1: Select channel and sensitivity Enter “Live Config” menu. Move cursor to “Channel” to select the image to set mask alarm. Press [Menu] to confirm. Step 2: Activate mask alarm Press [Menu] key to select “Mask alarm” to activate mask alarm. Step 3: Sensitivity setting Set “Sensitivity”.
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Move cursor to “Alarm” and press [Menu] key to enter. The interface of video loss processing is same to video mask interface. (Refer to: Alarm processing in this manual) Step 4: Save and Activate After the video loss processing setting of all channels, click “OK” button in “Live Config” menu to save and exit. 5.2.5 Motion detection In monitoring status, it can detect removable objects through analysis of the video.
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In the video scene of this channel, you need to define which area will be processed if motion detection occurs. The whole image is divided into 48 (6×8) panes. Three colors are available for cursor to set motion detection: yellow indicates moving cursor only;...
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Step 5: Process motion detection alarm Move cursor to “Alarm” button of motion detection and press [Menu] to enter “Motion detection processing” interface. The interface of motion detection processing is same to video mask interface. (Refer to: Alarm setting in this manual.) Step 6: Select motion detection type The recording of motion detection will be saved as alarm/normal recording.
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5.2.6 Schedule detection Schedule detection only relates to normal detection and won’t affect the effective time of alarm detection. Enter valid time. The end time must be later than the beginning time; otherwise the period motion detection won’t take 带格式的: 项目符号和编号 effect.
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Set the quality of images being monitored. Five options are available: Normal, Medium, Video quality Superior, Best and Custom. Prompt: Video quality is calculated as how much HDD capacity one channel occupied in one hour. (Unit: M) Higher quality image will occupy more space. The number of images that will be recorded in one second.
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5.3.2 Normal record setting It means you are flexible to re-set the default 5 optional settings (Normal, Medium, Video quality definition Superior, Best and Custom) by yourself, from 50M to 5000M. You can customize the size of these five options here. Different quality levels cost different hard disk spaces.
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Ten options are available. According to weekdays, from Monday to Friday, or from Saturday to Sunday, Date or other weekdays separately, users can set it by themselves. The time to start recording. The recording will be started at specified time. The format is 24-hour. Press From numerical keys on front panel to input time.
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Available modes to get IP: Auto and Static. DHCP protocol is used to get IP automatically. The LAN IP Config must have DHCP server, otherwise the recorder can’t get IP. This IP address is unique. The recorder can’t detect whether there IP address conflict automatically. IP address Please specify valid IP address.
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transimite port: 3360; IE browse port(WEB):80 (The 80 port has been closed in some areas. Please change it to 81, or 82, or 2010, or 7006) At the controll of network, it needs to open these port according to network standard or set these ports on router. If these ports are closed by administrator, the device will not able to transimite information in network.
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5.4.4 E-mail Notification 5.4.4.1. To activate this function, click “Send a e-mail” as following shown.. And please click which channels you want to trigger. Page 38/67...
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5.4.4.2. Set correct IP address to keep the network in normal working state. 5.4.4.3.Set receiver’s e-mail address. Page 39/67...
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5.4.4.4. When alarm is triggered, the picture will be sent to your assigned e-mail box automatically. 5.5 Alarm Configuration Page 40/67...
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The device includes alarm input and alarm output. Alarm inputs receive outside alarm; alarm output connect warning machine, such as beeper and alarm lamp. 5.5.1 Outer alarm setting Select alarm input number which will be set. Select Alarm in Alarm input type Select N/O if the alarm input port is connected to normal opened alarm; select N/C if it is connected to normal closed alarm.
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Press [Menu] key to select among the 16 images. The selected image will record Select triggering image when alarm is triggered. Move cursor to select image and press [Menu] to activate channel image. Buzzer Press [Menu] to activate buzzer. The buzzer will send alert if alarm occurs when it is activated. Upload the alarm image to remote host.
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Note: You also need to set these three items (Recording time before alarm, recording time after alarm, alarm output time) in other options (e.g. video loss processing). Their values are interrelated, e.g. if the “Recording time before alarm” in “Mask alarm” is changed, the “Recording time before alarm” in “Video loss processing” will also change. 5.5.3 Alarm setting There are two types for alarm output, normal open and normal close Select alarm output number which will be set.
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nter “Exception handling” menu (refer to the picture above); there are two options: HDD Full and HDD Error, in each option, user can select Buzzer, Alarm Upload and Alarm Output for reminders. Note: Alarm Upload and Alarm Output are only available when alarming device is equipped; the Buzzer is built in the DVR host. 5.6.1 Automatic abnormity search HDD full or disk wrong (Different device will be with different methods to deal with abnormity.
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带格式的: 项目符号和编号 5.7 P.T.Z Configuration Set the channel number of decoder, including velocity, data bit, stop bit, checkout and stream control, in serial port device menu. The values of these items must match the connected serial device. The default values are: 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, none checkout bit and hardware stream control.
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Copy the decoder setting of this channel to another channel. Save and exit. Copy PTZ Pan/tilt and dome camera setting 5.7.2 Port: select 485 serial port Baud rate: select one from 19200, 9600, 4800, 2400 or 1200, which should be consistent with the communication baud rate of the decoder or uniform speed dome camera.
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setting. Preset point number: input a number from 00 to 63. Adjust location: press the “Adjust” button to enter control status and adjust the location of the dome by direction buttons. Press Menu button to return. Save: to save current setting to the preset point number. Set your required preset points one by one.
Load: input preset point number and press Load button, the dome will switch to the preset point automatically. If there is no preset point, the dome will remain still. Copy: to copy the set parameters of the channel to other channels to save time. 带格式的: 项目符号和编号...
Protect the setting and using of digital video recorder through authority setting. Set the management and operation authority in system settings. The levels of authority are: Administrator, Operator 1, 2 and 3. Administrator is enabled with the highest authority. The administrator may set the authority of operator. Press [Menu] button to select operator (multichoice) User Administrator can log in without this code.
The password is 1-8 digits figure. Operator uses this password to access menus. Repeat the new password to confirm. The prompt box “PSW checkout error” indicates Confirm new password that you didn’t input same password. Only selected authority may be set. Press [Menu] button to activate selected option. Authority setting Step 3: Save setting Move cursor to select “OK”...
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Set the backup time. Backup will be performed in specified time period. By time (from, to) Select recording image. Only selected images will be backup. Channel Select the type of video recording. Common, alarm and all are available. Even type Set the accuracy of recording searching.
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Step 2: Select channel Play or backup he video recording of selected channel. Press [Menu] to enter dialogue box. Press [Menu] button to activate single channel and press “OK” to confirm. Step 3: Select video type Common, alarm and all are available. Select Common to operate common video recording. Select Alarm to operate alarm video recording.
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带格式的: 项目符号和编号 5.11.1 Load default Restore default settings. It will take effect when the device is restarted. (IP and gateway are also reset.) 带格式的: 项目符号和编号 5.11.2 Update fireware Upgrade the software. Check whether the date and main board of original software is congruent with update. The update will fail if they don’t have same function.
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Restart the recorder after update. Note: Do not interrupt the upgrading process. Cutting off power supply or pressing the power button is prohibited; otherwise, the recorder can’t be run in order. 5.11.3 HDD management HDD info: Provide the storage information list and management for the HDD data. Covered X Times: When the cursor move onto the HDD list, it will show that how many times it recycled since it start to be used.
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Sleep: The HDD status while it is connecting to this port. N: stands for working; Y: stands for sleeping. Capacity: the total capacity for the connected equipment; if it connect to a hard disk, it will show the capacity of the HDD (unite: G).
System Log 5.11.4 Log list: It will show all operations since it used. User should open this log function in “Basic Config” and then write log in. Log statistics: Provide a total report for used operations in digital video recorder. 5.11.5 System information Run System information to view the information of the video recorder;...
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Note: It’ the earliest data and latest data saved. If some mistakes occur during recording, the saved data might be wrong. Recycle: the recycle method for HDD (Auto/Manual is optional.) Covered: the recycled times MAC Address: the MAC address for network IC. Mainboard: the mainboard software NO.
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Chapter VI Trouble shooting Thanks for purchasing the product of our company. We will provide services for you wholeheartedly. If any fault occurs, please check according to the following procedures. If the problem still can’t be solved, please call the hot line or send e-mail.
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① Check the HDD. If the HDD hasn’t been formatted or the HDD has fault, the DVR will be restarted; ② Check the power supply of DVR; ③ Pull out the network cable and restart the DVR. Serious network fault may cause the DVR to restart repeatedly.
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2. Why the monitor doesn’t display anything? ① There is a black screen process (about 30 seconds) when the DVR is starting; ② If there is no image displayed when the DVR is started for a long time (more than 60 seconds), please check whether the monitor is turned on and whether the video cable is connected properly.
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3. Why I can’t perform moving recording or alarm recording? ① The time period of moving recording or alarm recording is invalid. The end time must be later than the beginning time; ② No motion detection area is selected; no alarm recording channel is selected; ③ The sensitivity of motion detection is too low;...
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Appearance ①Serial specification parameters Item Specifications and parameters Passway 4-channel 8-channel 16-channel Video signal PAL (625 lines, 50f/s); NTSC (525lines, 60f/s) Video input BNC(1.0V p-p/75Ω) x 4 BNC(1.0V p-p/75Ω) x 8 BNC(1.0V p-p/75Ω) x 16 Video output Composite video: 1.0V p-p/75Ω, BNC connector ×1 , VGA x 1 Audio input 2 x RAC Audio output...
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HDD capacity Support 2 x 2000G HDD Encryption Data encryption + secondary password management Voltage DC 12V/5A Power consumption 6W(without HDD) 8W(without HDD) 12W(without HDD) Environmental temperature Working temperature: +5 ~+50 ; RH: < 90% Storage temperature: -20 ~+70 ; RH: < ℃...
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Audio output 1 x RAC Alarm input 2-channel input. Trigger closed without Voltage,Open or Closed Alarm output 1-channel output. Trigger closed without Voltage,Open or Closed Alarm access Senor input; Video motion detection alarm; Video loss alarm; Disk full remind alarm Network 10/100M self adaptive Ethernet port, support LAN, WAN and ADSL dynamic IP networking Control mode...
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Appearance ③Serial specification parameters Item Specifications and parameters Passway 4-channel 8-channel 16-channel Video signal PAL (625 lines, 50f/s); NTSC (525lines, 60f/s) Video input BNC(1.0V p-p/75Ω) x 4 BNC(1.0V p-p/75Ω) x 8 BNC(1.0V p-p/75Ω) x 16 Video output Composite video: 1.0V p-p/75Ω, BNC connector ×1 , VGA x 1 Audio input 4 x RAC 8 x RAC...
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HDD capacity Support 4 x 2000G HDD Encryption Data encryption + secondary password management 220V(±10%)/50Hz,180W Voltage Power consumption 13W(without HDD) 13W(without HDD) 32W(without HDD) Environmental temperature Working temperature: +5 ~+50 ; RH: < 90% ℃ ℃ Storage temperature: -20 ~+70 ; RH: < 95% ℃...
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This manual is used for below models: Appearance ① Appearance ② Appearance ③ Page 67/67...
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