Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Table of Contents FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS ............1 Overview ..........................1 Features ..........................1 Specifications ........................2 1.3.1 iDVR51H-F Series ......................2 1.3.2 iDVR51HE-F Series ....................... 6 1.3.3 iHCVR51H-F Series ....................10 1.3.4 iHCVR51HE-F Series ....................15 OVERVIEW AND CONTROLS ...............
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Virtual Keyboard & Front Panel..................33 2.6.1 Virtual Keyboard ......................33 2.6.2 Front Panel ........................33 INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS ..........34 Check Unpacked DVR ..................... 34 About Front Panel and Rear Panel ................. 34 HDD Installation ....................... 34 3.3.1...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Boot up and Shutdown ....................42 4.1.1 Boot up ......................... 42 4.1.2 Shutdown ........................42 4.1.3 Auto Resume after Power Failure ................42 4.1.4 Replace Button Battery ....................42 Startup Wizard ........................43 Preview..........................46 4.3.1 Preview .........................
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Main Menu ........................62 Operation .......................... 65 4.8.1 Search .......................... 65 4.8.2 Face Search ......................... 73 4.8.3 Backup .......................... 74 4.8.4 Shut Down ........................76 Information ........................77 4.9.1 System Info ........................77 4.9.2 Event..........................80 4.9.3...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 5.6.2 Relay output ....................... 166 WAN Login ........................167 Face search ........................168 Setup ..........................169 5.9.1 Camera ........................169 5.9.2 Network ........................177 5.9.3 Event........................... 192 5.9.4 Storage ........................201 5.9.5 System ........................204 5.10 Information ........................
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual APPENDIX A HDD CAPACITY CALCULATION ........234 APPENDIX B COMPATIBLE BACKUP DEVICES ........236 Appendix B-1 Compatible USB list ..................236 Appendix B-2 Compatible SD Card list ................... 237 Appendix B-3 Compatible Portable HDD list ................237 Appendix B-4 Compatible USB DVD List ................
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Welcome Thank you for purchasing our DVR! This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your system. Here you can find information about this series standalone DVR features and functions.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Important Safeguards and Warnings 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes. The product must be grounded to reduce the risk of electric shock. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electric shock caused by improper handling or installation.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS 1.1 Overview The standalone series DVR is an excellent digital monitor product designed for security field. It adopts embedded Linux OS to maintain reliable operation. It is easy to use and can realize surveillance function after some simple setups. It has various functions such as record, playback, monitor at the same time and can guarantee audio video synchronization.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Record & playback function Support each channel real-time record independently, and at the same time it can support search, forward play, network monitor, record search, download and etc. Support various playback modes: slow play, fast play, backward play and frame by frame play.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Interface User-friendly graphical user interface Input USB mouse Devices Input Arabic number, English character, donation and extension Chinese Method (optional) Shortcut Copy/paste operation, USB mouse right-key shortcut menu, double click Function USB mouse to switch screen.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Image Channel information, time information and privacy mask zone. Information TV Adjust Adjust TV output zone suitable to anamorphic video. Channel Cover secret channel with black screen though system is encoding Lock normally. Screen-lock function to prevent unauthorized user seeing secret video.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Partial When in one-window full-screen playback mode, you can select any zone Enlargemen to activate partial enlargement function. Backup HDD backup function Backup Support peripheral USB backup device. (Flash disk, portable disk and Mode etc.) Support network download and save View monitor channel remotely.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Data Data stream statistics for each channel (in wave mode) Stream Statistics Backup to 1024 log files. statistics Support various search engines such as time and type. Display version information: channel amount, alarm input and output Version amount, system version and release date.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual System Multiplex operations: Multiple-channel record, multiple-channel playback Resources and network operation simultaneously Interface User-friendly graphical user interface Input Front panel, USB mouse, remote control. Devices Input Arabic number, English character, donation and extension Chinese Method (optional)
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Image 6-level image quality (Adjustable) Quality Privacy Support one privacy mask of user-defined size in full screen. mask Support max 4 zones. Image Channel information, time information and privacy mask zone. Information TV Adjust Adjust TV output zone suitable to anamorphic video.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Multi-chann There is 1/4-channel playback mode. el Playback (It may vary due to different series.) Window Switch between self-adaptive screen/full screen when playback Zoom Partial When in one-window full-screen playback mode, you can select any zone Enlargemen to activate partial enlargement function.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual RS232 System Hard Disk Display HDD current status Information Information Data Data stream statistics for each channel (in wave mode) Stream Statistics Backup to 1024 log files. statistics Support various search engines such as time and type.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual High-performance industrial embedded micro controller Main System Processor Embedded LINUX System Multiplex operations: Multiple-channel record, multiple-channel playback Resources and network operation simultaneously Interface User-friendly graphical user interface Input USB mouse Devices Input Arabic number, English character, donation and extension Chinese...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual (PAL/NTSC) All-channel: 720P 1280×720 960H 960×576/960×480, D1 704×576/704×480, HD1 352×576/352×480, 2CIF 704×288/704×240, CIF 352×288/ 352×240, QCIF 176×144/176×120 Support dual streams: extra stream resolution D1 704×576/704×480, CIF 352×288/ 352×240,QCIF 176×144/176×120. Image 6-level image quality (Adjustable) Quality Privacy Support one privacy mask of user-defined size in full screen.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Recording 1 to 120 minutes single record duration (Default setup is 60 minutes) Length Playback When hard disk is full, system can overwrite previous video file. Repeat Way Record Various search engines such as time, type and channel.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Manual Alarm Control Alarm Input Alarm Output Alarm Relay Two USB 2.0 ports. Interface Interface Network One RJ45 10M/100M self-adaptable Ethernet port connection PTZ control port RS485 Support various PTZ control protocols. RS232 System Hard Disk...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Working -10℃-+55℃ Temperatur Working 10%-90% Humidity Air Pressure 86kpa-106kpa 325(W) x242 (D) x55mm(H) (Including feet) Dimension Weight 1.25KG KG(Exclude HDD) Installation Desktop installation Mode 1.3.4 iHCVR51HE-F Series iHCVR 5104HE-F iHCVR 5108HE-F Parameter High-performance industrial embedded micro controller...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Real-time Mode: PAL 1f/s to 25f/s per channel and NTSC 1f/s to 30f/s per Record channel Speed Video 1/4/8/9 /16 windows Partition Monitor Support monitor tour functions such as alarm, motion detection, and Touring schedule auto control.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Disk Hard disk Space Hard Disk Audio:PCM 28.8MByte/h Occupation Video:56-900MByte/h Manual recording, motion detection recording, schedule recording and Recording alarm recording Mode Priority: Manual recording> alarm recording>motion detection Record recording>schedule recording. playback Storage Support channel record quota setup...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Network alarm input and output Bidirectional audio. Motion Zone setup: support 396((PAL 22×18, NTSC 22×15)) detection zones. Motion Detection Various sensitivity levels. Detection and Alarm can activate record or external alarm or screen message prompt. Alarm Video Loss Alarm can activate screen message prompt.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual User-friendly interface when login. Provide the following options: Logout /shutdown/ restart. Right authentication when shut down to make sure only those proper people can turn off DVR Power DC 12V Power ≤15W (With adapter, exclude HDD)
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 2 Overview and Controls This section provides information about front panel and rear panel. When you install this series DVR for the first time, please refer to this part first. 2.1 Front Panel 2.1.1 iDVR51H-F/iHCVR51H-F Series The front panel is shown as below.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Increase/decrease numeral. Assistant function such as PTZ menu. Shift current activated control, Left Right When playback, click these buttons to control playback bar.. Go to previous menu, or cancel current operation. When playback, click it to restore real-time monitor mode.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 2.2.1 iDVR51XXH-F Series The iDVR5104H-F rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-3. Figure 2-3 The iDVR5108H-F rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-4. Figure 2-4 The iDVR5116H-F rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-5.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 2.2.2 iDVR51XXHE-F Series Here we take iDVR5108HE-F series rear panel as an example. See Figure 2-6. Figure 2-6 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Video input Video output Video VGA output HDMI port...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual The iHCVR5108H-F rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-8. Figure 2-8 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Icon Name Function VIDEO IN video in port Connect to analog camera to input video.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 2-9 The iHCVR5108HE-F series rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-10. Figure 2-10 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Icon Name Function VIDEO IN video in port Connect to analog camera to input video.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Icon Name Function as speed dome PTZ. RS485_B.It is the cable B. You can connect to the control devices such as speed dome PTZ. Power input socket Power port. Input DC 12V. Power switch Power on/off button.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 2-11 2.3.2 iDVR51XXHE-F Series Please refer to Figure 2-12 for connection sample. The following figure is based on iDVR5108HE-F series product. Figure 2-12...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 2.3.3 iHCVR51XXH-F Series Please refer to Figure 2-11 for connection sample. The following figure is based on iDVR5108H-F series product. Figure 2-13 2.3.4 iHCVR51XXHE-F Series Please refer to Figure 2-12 for connection sample. The following figure is based on iDVR5108HE-F series product.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 2-14 2.4 Remote Control The remote control interface is shown as in Figure 2-15. Please note remote control is not our standard accessory and it is not included in the accessory bag.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 2-15 Serial Number Name Function Power button Click it to boot up or shut down the device. Address Click it to input device number, so that you can control it. Forward Various forward speeds normal speed playback.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual click this button to realize normal playback. In reverse playback click this button to pause playback. Esc. Go back to previous menu or cancel current operation (close upper interface or control) Record Start or stop record manually...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual When you have selected one menu item, left click mouse to view menu content. Implement the control operation. Modify checkbox or motion detection status. Click combo box to pop up drop down list In input box, you can select input methods. Left click the corresponding button on the panel you can input numeral/English character (small/capitalized).
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Right click In real-time monitor mode, pops up shortcut menu: one-window, mouse four-window, nine-window and sixteen-window, Pan/Tilt/Zoom, color setting, search, record, alarm input, alarm output, main menu. Among which, Pan/Tilt/Zoom and color setting applies for current selected channel.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 3 Installation and Connections Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local electric safety rules. 3.1 Check Unpacked DVR When you receive the DVR from the forwarding agent, please check whether there is any visible damage.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual ○ ○ ○ Loosen the screws of the Fix four screws in the HDD Place upper cover and side panel. (Turn just three rounds). accordance with the four holes in the bottom. ○ ○ ○ Turn the device upside down Fix the HDD firmly.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 3.3.2 1U series This series DVR max has four SATA HDDs. Please use HDD of 7200rpm or higher. ○ ○ ○ Loosen the screws of the Line up the HDD to the four Use four screws to fix HDD.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual If the distance is too long, you should use twisted pair cable, and you can add video compensation devices or use optical fiber to ensure video quality. You should keep the video signal away from the strong electromagnetic interference, especially the high tension current.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual d. Alarm input mode can be either NC (normal Open) or NO (Normal Close) e. When you are connecting two DVRs or you are connecting one DVR and one other device, please use a relay to separate them, 2.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual NO1 C1, There are four groups of normal open activation output (on/off NO2 C2, button) NO3 C3 NO4 C4 A group of NO/NC activation outuput (on-off signal) NO5 C5 NC5 Earth cable. 3.7.1.2 iHCVR51HE-F Series The series product interface is shown as in Figure 3-2.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 3-3 3.7.3 Alarm Output Port Provide external power to external alarm device. To avoid overloading, please read the following relay parameters sheet carefully. RS485 A/B cable is for the A/B cable of the PTZ decoder.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual When the DVR receives a camera control command, it transmits that command up the coaxial cable to the PTZ device. RS485 is a single-direction protocol; the PTZ device can’t return any data to the unit. To enable the operation, connect the PTZ device to the RS485 (A,B) input on the DVR.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 4 Overview of Navigation and Controls ALL FUNCTIONS LISTED BELOW FOR REFERENCE ONLY. YOUR PURCHASED PRODUCT MAY NOT SUPPORT ALL THE FUNCTIONS LISTED BELOW. 4.1 Boot up and Shutdown 4.1.1 Boot up Before the boot up, please make sure: ...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 4.2 Startup Wizard After device successfully booted up, it goes to startup wizard. Click Cancel/Next button, you can see system goes to login interface. Tips Check the box Startup button here, system goes to startup wizard again when it boots up the next time.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Note: For security reason, please modify password after you first login. Within 30 minutes, three times login failure will result in system alarm and five times login failure will result in account lock! After input corresponding user name and password, you can click OK button. System goes to the startup wizard.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-4 You can see the remote device interface if there is an IP channel. Click Next button, you can go to remote device interface. See Figure 4-5 For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.10.1.1.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-6 Click Finish button, system pops up a dialogue box. Click the OK button, the startup wizard is complete. See Figure 4-7. Figure 4-7 4.3 Preview 4.3.1 Preview After device booted up, the system is in multiple-channel display mode. See Figure 4-8.Please note the displayed window amount may vary.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-8 If you want to change system date and time, you can refer to general settings (Main Menu->Setting->System->General). If you want to modify the channel name, please refer to the display settings (Main Menu->Camera->CAM name) Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Use mouse middle button to control window split: You can use mouse middle button to switch window split amount. 4.3.2 Preview Control Interface Move you mouse to the top centre of the video of current channel, you can see system pops up the preview control interface.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-12 Right click mouse to cancel zoom and go back to the original interface. Manual record function It is to backup the video of current channel to the USB device. System can not backup the video of multiple-channel at the same time.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Auto focus: It is to set auto focus function. Please make sure the camera supports this function. Color setting: Set video corresponding information. Search: Click it to go to Search interface to search and playback a record file.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Channel: Select the current camera channel. PTZ type: There are two types: local/remote. Please select local mode if you are connect RS485 cable to connect to the Speed dome (PTZ). Please select remote mode if you are connecting to the network PTZ camera.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 4.4.2 PTZ Control After completing all the setting please click save button. Right click mouse (click “Fn” Button in the front panel or click “Fn” key in the remote control). The interface is shown as in Figure 4-16. Please note you can only go to the PTZ control interface when you are in 1-window display mode.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual In the middle of the eight direction arrows, there is a 3D intelligent positioning key. See Figure 4-18. Please make sure your protocol supports this function and you need to use mouse to control. Click this key, system goes back to the single screen mode. Drag the mouse in the screen to adjust section size.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Pattern Scan on-off button Rotate Go to menu 4.4.2.1 PTZ Function Setup Click , you can go to the following interface to set preset, tour, pattern, and scan. See Figure 4-20. Figure 4-20 Preset Setup In Figure 4-20, click preset button and use eight direction arrows to adjust camera to the proper position.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Tour Setup In Figure 4-20, click tour button. Input tour value and preset No. Click Add preset button to add current preset to the tour. See Figure 4-22. Tips Repeat the above steps to add more presets to the tour. Click Del preset button to remove it from the tour.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual setup process is complete. Figure 4-24 4.4.2.2 Call PTZ Function Call Preset In Figure 4-19, input preset value and then click to call a preset. Click again to stop call. Call Pattern In Figure 4-19, input pattern value and then click to call a pattern.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Click , system goes to the following interface. The options here are defined by the protocol. The aux number is corresponding to the aux on-off button of the decoder. See Figure 4-25. Figure 4-25 4.4.3 Auto Focus It is to set auto focus function.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-26 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Note Period There are two periods in one day. You can set different sharpness, brightness, and contrast setup for different periods. Effective Time Check the box here to enable this function and then set period time.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Item Note too bright. Please note the video may become hazy if the value is too high. The recommended value ranges from 40 to 60. Contrast It is to adjust monitor window contrast. The value ranges from 0 to 100.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Please refer to chapter 4.10.4.3.1 for detailed information. 4.4.7 Remote Device Please refer to chapter 4.10.1.1 for detailed information. 4.4.8 Manual Record Please refer to chapter 4.4.8 for detailed information. 4.4.9 Alarm Output Please refer to chapter 4.10.3.5 for detailed information.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-28 4.5.4 Tour Click button to enable tour, the icon becomes , you can see the tour is in process. 4.5.5 PTZ Click , system goes to the PTZ control interface. Please refer to chapter 4.4.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual refer to chapter 4.10.1.1. 4.5.11 Network Click , system goes to the network interface. It is to set network IP address, default gateway and etc. Please refer to chapter 4.10.2. 4.5.12 USB Manager , system goes to the USB Manager interface. It is to view USB information, Click backup and update.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-31 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Main The 2 Menu Note Menu Menu Search Record search and playback. Face It is to display human face record file and view Search face recognition record.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Main The 2 Menu Note Menu Menu Remote Search remote device Device corresponding channel. Set camera saturation, brightness, contrast and Camera etc. Set video bit stream, image bit stream, video Camera Encode overlay and etc. Channel Change remote channel name.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Main The 2 Menu Note Menu Menu System Device setup, date setup, holiday setup. Menu display, TV adjust, tour and zero-channel Display encode. Set the communication protocol, baud rate bit and etc with the PTZ device.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-32 Please refer to the following sheet for more information. Name Function Here is to display the searched picture or file. Support 1/4/9/16-window playback. Display The 4-channel series product max support 4-channel playback.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual mode In 1-window playback mode: you can select 1-16 channels. In 4-window playback mode: you can select 4 channels according to your channel requirement. selection In 9-window playback mode, you can switch between 1-8 and 9-16 channels.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual In normal play mode, when you pause current play, you can click │ and │ to begin frame by frame playback. In frame by frame playback mode, click ►/ to restore normal playback. ► Slow play In playback mode, click it to realize various slow play modes such as slow play 1, slow play 2, and etc.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual the specified folder. Check the file again you can cancel current selection. System max supports to display 32 files from one channel. After you clip on record file, click Backup button you can save it.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual When the system is in full-screen playback mode, left click the mouse in the Digital screen. Drag your mouse in the screen to select a section and then left click zoom mouse to realize digital zoom. You can right click mouse to exit.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual the Figure 4-34 For example, input time 11:00.00 and then click Search button you can view all the record files after 11:00.00 (The records includes current time.). See image on the right side of the Figure 4-34 Double click a file name to playback.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Playback Mark During 1-window playback mode, click mark file list button in Figure 4-32, you can go to mark file list interface. Double click one mark file, you can begin playback from the mark time.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual After you go to the mark management interface, system needs to pause current playback. System resume playback after you exit mark management interface. If the mark file you want to playback has been removed, system begin playbacking from the first file in the list.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-38 4.8.3 Backup DVR support CD-RW, DVD burner, USB device backup, network download and eSATA. Here we introduce USB, eSATA backup. You can refer to Chapter 7 Web Client Operation for network download backup operation.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-39 Select backup device and then set channel, file start time and end time. Click add button, system begins search. All matched files are listed below. System automatically calculates the capacity needed and remained. See Figure 4-40.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Click Start button, system begins copy. At the same time, the backup button becomes stop button. You can view the remaining time and process bar at the left bottom. See Figure 4-41. Figure 4-41 When the system completes backup, you can see a dialogue box prompting successful backup.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-42 4.9 Information 4.9.1 System Info Here is for you to view system information. There are total four items: HDD (hard disk information), record, BPS (data stream statistics), version. See Figure 4-43. Figure 4-43 4.9.1.1 HDD Information...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-44. SATA: 1 here means system max supports 1 HDD. ○ means current HDD is normal. X means there is error. - means there is no HDD. If disk is damaged, system shows as “?”.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-45 4.9.1.2 Record Info It is to view record start time and end time. See Figure 4-46. Figure 4-46 4.9.1.3 BPS Here is for you to view current video data stream (KB/s) and occupied hard disk storage...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual (MB/h). See Figure 4-47. Figure 4-47 4.9.1.4 Version Here is for you to view some version information such as version number, built date, serial number and etc. See Figure 4-48. Figure 4-48 4.9.2 Event It is to display device status and channel status. See Figure 4-49.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-49 4.9.3 Network 4.9.3.1 Online Users Here is for you to manage online users. See Figure 4-50. You can disconnect one user or block one user if you have proper system right. Max disconnection setup is 65535 seconds.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-50 4.9.3.2 Network Load Network load is shown as in Figure 4-51. Here you can view the follow statistics of the device network adapter. Here you can view information of all connected network adapters. The connection status is shown as offline if connection is disconnected.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual After Sniffer began, you can exit to implement corresponding network operation such as login WEB, monitor. Please go back to Sniffer interface to click stop Sniffer. System can save the packets to the specified path. The file is named after “Network adapter name+time”.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Details: Click the Details button or double click the log item, you can view the detailed information. See Figure 4-54. Here you can use rolling bar to view information, or you can use Page up/Page down to view other log information.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 4.10.1 Camera Note You can see this interface after you set IP channel in chapter 4.10.1.3.5. System supports ONVIF standard protocol. 4.10.1.1 Remote Device (For digital channel only) 4.10.1.1.1 Remote Device In the main menu, from Camera ->Remote, you can go to an interface shown as in Figure 4-55.
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Please note: This series product supports the IPC from many popular manufactures such as Sony, Hitachi, Axis, Samsung, Dynacolor, Arecont, Onvif and Dahua. System default IP address is 192.168.0.0 if you do not input IP address. System will not add current IP address.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-56 4.10.1.1.2 Channel Status Here you can view the IPC status of the corresponding channel such as motion detect, video loss, tampering, alarm and etc. See Figure 4-57. IPC status: : Front-end does not support.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-58 4.10.1.2 Camera For analog channel, the camera interface is shown as in Figure 4-59. For digital channel, the camera interface is shown as in Figure 4-60. Channel: Select a channel from the dropdown list.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual is noise if the value here is too high. The default value is 50 and the recommended value ranges from 40 to 60. Mirror: It is to switch video up and bottom limit. This function is disabled by default.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-59 Figure 4-60 4.10.1.3 Encode It is to set video bit stream, picture bit stream, video overlay parameter and etc. 4.10.1.3.1 Video Video setting includes the following items. See Figure 4-61(iDVR51H-F/iDVR51HE-F) or Figure 4-63((iHCVR51H-F/iHCVR51HE-F).
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Channel: Select the channel you want. Type: Please select from the dropdown list. There are three options: regular/motion detect/alarm. You can set the various encode parameters for different record types. Compression: System supports H.264 and MJPEG.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-62 4.10.1.3.2 Snapshot Here you can set snapshot mode, picture size, quality and frequency. See Figure 4-63. Snapshot mode: There are two modes: regular and trigger. If you set timing mode, you need to set snapshot frequency. If you set trigger snapshot, you need to set snapshot activation operation.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-63 4.10.1.3.3 Overlay Overlay interface is shown as in Figure 4-64. Cover area: Here is for you to set cover area. You can drag you mouse to set proper section size. In one channel video, system max supports 4 zones in one channel.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-64 Figure 4-65 4.10.1.3.4 Channel Name It is to modify channel name. It max supports 31-character. See Figure 4-66.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-66 4.10.1.3.5 Channel Type It is to set channel type. Each channel supports analog standard definition connections/analog HD connection/network camera connection (Slight function difference may be found). Please note DVR needs to restart to activate new setup. See Figure 4-67 (iDVR51H-F/iDVR51HE-F) and Figure 4-68 (iHCVR51H-F/iHCVR51HE-F).
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-68 4.10.2 Network 4.10.2.1 TCP/IP The interface is shown as in Figure 4-69. IP Version: There are two options: IPv4 and IPv6. Right now, system supports these two IP address format and you can access via them.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual setup when you want to change MTU setup. Click OK button to confirm current reboot, or you can click Cancel button to terminate current modification. Before the modification, you can check the MTU of the gateway; the MTU of the DVR shall be the same as or is lower than the MTU of the gateway.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual TCP port: Default value is 37777. UDP port: Default value is 37778. HTTP port: Default value is 80. HTTPS port: Default value is 443. RTSP port: Default value is 554. Important: System needs to reboot after you changed and saved any setup of the above four ports.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-71 WIFI working status: Here you can view current connection status. Please note: After successful connection, you can see WIFI connection icon at the top right corner of the preview interface. When the hotspot verification type is WEP, system displays as AUTO since the device can not detect its encryption type.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual APN: It is the wireless connection server. It is to set you access the wireless network via which method. AUTH: It is the authentication mode. It supports PAP/CHAP. Dial number: Please input 3G network dialup number you got from your ISP.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-73 4.10.2.6 DDNS Setup DDNS setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-74. You need a PC of fixed IP in the internet and there is the DDNS software running in this PC. In other words, this PC is a DNS (domain name server).
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2) Function Introduction The Dahua DDNS client has the same function as other DDNS client end. It realizes the bonding of the domain name and the IP address. Right now, current DDNS server is for our own devices only. You need to refresh the bonding relationship of the domain and the IP regularly.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Domain name:There are two modes: Default domain name and customized domain name. Except default domain name registration, you can also use customized domain name (You can input your self-defined domain name.) After successful registration, you can use domain name to login installed of the device IP.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Default: Click it to restore default setup. In this case, the trusted sites and blocked sites are both null. Note: If you enabled trusted sites, only the IP in the trusted sites list can access the device.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Title: Please input email subject here. System support English character and Arabic number. Max 32-digit. Receiver: Please input receiver email address here. System max supports 3 email boxes. System automatically filters same addresses if you input one receiver repeatedly.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual need to grant write right to FTP upload user. See Figure 4-78. Figure 4-78 You can use a PC or FTP login tool to test setup is right or not. For example, you can login user ZHY to FTP://10.10.7.7...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual channel. Click the Test button, you can see the corresponding dialogue box to see the FTP connection is OK or not. Figure 4-80 4.10.2.10 Easy Space This function allows you to upload motion detec record or snapshot image to the dropbox and etc.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-81 Note: The uploaded file is for sub stream only. Please go to record control interface (main stream->setting->Storage->Record) and then select sub stream. The easy space function uses upload bandwidth. Usually the recommended upload bandwidth shall be more than 512kbps and please make sure the network is stable.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Delete: Click it to remove one mapping item. Double click one item; you can change the corresponding mapping information. See Figure 4-83. Important: When you are setting the router external port, please use 1024~5000 port. Do not use well-known port 1~255 and the system port 256~1023 to avoid conflict.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual network management frame of the network management system. The SNMP widely used in many environments. It is used in many network device, software and system. You can set in the following interface. See Figure 4-84. Figure 4-84 Please enable the SNMP function.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-85 Here you can set a multiple cast group. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. IP multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255 -“D” address space The higher four-bit of the first byte=”1110”...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Multiple cast PORT: 3666. After you logged in the Web, the Web can automatically get multiple cast address and add it to the multiple cast groups. You can enable real-time monitor function to view the view.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual The server IP address can also be domain. But you need to register a domain name before you run proxy device server. 4.10.2.15 Alarm Centre This interface is reserved for you to develop. See Figure 4-87.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-88 4.10.3 Event 4.10.3.1 Detect In the main menu, from Setting->Event->Detect, you can see motion detect interface. See Figure 4-89.There is three detection types: motion detection, video loss, tampering. The video loss has no detection region and sensitivity setup and tampering has no detection region setup.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual rectangle to set the motion detection zone. After you completed the setup, please click ENTER button to exit current setup. Do remember click save button to save current setup. If you click ESC button to exit the region setup interface system will not save your zone setup.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual PTZ activation: Here you can set PTZ movement when an alarm occurs. Such as go to preset, tour &pattern when there is an alarm. Click “select” button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-91 ...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-93 Motion detect here only has relationship with the sensitivity and region setup. It has no relationship with other setups. 4.10.3.1.2 Video Loss In Figure 4-89, select video loss from the type list. You can see the interface is shown as in Figure 4-94.This function allows you to be informed when video loss...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-94 4.10.3.1.3 Tampering When someone viciously masks the lens, or the output video is in one-color due to the environments light change, the system can alert you to guarantee video continuity. Tampering interface is shown as in Figure 4-95. You can enable “Alarm output “or “Show message”...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-95 4.10.3.2 Alarm Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. In the main menu, from Setting->Event->Alarm, you can see alarm setup interface. For analog channel, there are two alarm types. See Figure 4-96 to Figure 4-97.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Period: Click set button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-101. There are two ways for you to set periods. There are max 6 periods in one day. There are four record types: regular, motion detection (MD), Alarm, MD & alarm.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot. Buzzer: Highlight the icon to enable this function. The buzzer beeps when alarm occurs. Please note, network alarm means the alarm signal from the TCP/IP. You can use NET SDK to activate network alarm.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-101 Figure 4-102 4.10.3.3 Face Detect System can detect and filter the human face via analyzing the video. When it detects the human face in the specifed zone, it can trigger record, snapshot, alarm operation and etc.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual detect the human face that it is smaller than the min size or is larger than the max size. Enable: Check the box here to enable face detect function. For detailed setup information, please refer to 4.10.3.2.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-106 4.10.3.5 Alarm Output Important This function is for some series only. Here is for you to set proper alarm output such as schedule, manual. Please highlight icon to select the corresponding alarm output. After all the setups please click OK button, system goes back to the previous menu. See Figure 4-107.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 4.10.4 Storage 4.10.4.1 Schedule 4.10.4.1.1 Record Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDDs have been properly installed. After the system booted up, it is in default 24-hour regular mode. You can set record type and time in schedule interface.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-109 Please draw manually to set record period. There are six periods in one day. See Figure 4-110. Figure 4-110 Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-111 Figure 4-112 4.10.4.1.1.1 Quick Setup Copy function allows you to copy one channel setup to another. After setting in channel 1, click Copy button, you can go to interface Figure 4-113. You can see current channel name is grey such as channel 1.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-113 4.10.4.1.2 Snapshot 4.10.4.1.2.1 Schedule Snapshot On the preview interface, right click mouse and then select Manual->Record, or in the main menu, from Setting->Storage->Record, check the box to enable snapshot function of corresponding channels. See Figure 4-114.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-115 Figure 4-116 4.10.4.1.2.2 Trigger Snapshot Please follow the steps listed below to enable the activation snapshot function. After you enabled this function, system can snapshot when the corresponding alarm occurred.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual In main menu, from Setting->Camera->Encode->Snapshot interface, here you can input snapshot mode as trigger, size, quality and frequency. See Figure 4-117. In main menu, from Setting->Event->Detect, please enable snapshot function for specified channels (Figure 4-118). Or In main menu, from Setting->Event->Alarm (Figure 4-119) please enable snapshot function for specified channels.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-119 4.10.4.1.2.3 Priority Please note the activation snapshot has the higher priority than schedule snapshot. If you have enabled these two types at the same time, system can activate the activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Please input corresponding information here, if you just upload the image FTP. Figure 4-120 4.10.4.2 HDD Manager Here is for you to view and implement hard disk management. See Figure 4-121. You can see current HDD type, status, capacity and etc. The operation includes format HDD, and change HDD property (read and write/read-only/redundancy).
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 4.10.4.3 Record 4.10.4.3.1 Record Control Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDD has been properly installed. There are three ways for you to go to manual record menu.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-123 Tips You can check All button after the corresponding status to enable/disable all-channel snapshot function. 4.10.4.4 HDD Detect The HDD detect function is to detect HDD current status so that you can clearly understand the HDD performance and replace the malfunction HDD.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-124 Figure 4-125 4.10.4.4.2 Detect Report After the detect operation, you can go to the detect report to view corresponding information.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual The detect report interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-126. Figure 4-126 Click detect item you can see the detailed information such as detect result, backup. See Figure 4-127. Figure 4-127...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 4.10.5 System 4.10.5.1 General 4.10.5.1.1 Device General setting includes the following items. See Figure 4-128. Device ID: Please input a corresponding device name here. Device No: Here you can set device number. Language: System supports various languages: Chinese (simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Italian, Japanese, French, Spanish (All languages listed here are optional.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-128 4.10.5.1.2 Date and Time The interface is shown as in Figure 4-129. Date format: There are three types: YYYYY-MM-DD: MM-DD-YYYYY or DD-MM-YYYY. Date separator: There are three denotations to separate date: dot, beeline and solidus.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-129 4.10.5.1.3 Holiday Holiday setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-130. Click Add new holiday button, you can input new holiday information. See Figure 4-131. Here you can set holiday name, repeat mode and start/end time.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-130 Figure 4-131 4.10.5.2 Display 4.10.5.2.1 Display Display setup interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-132.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Transparency: Here is for you to adjust transparency. The value ranges from 128 to 255. Channel name: Here is for you to modify channel name. System max support 25-digit (The value may vary due to different series). Please note all your modification here only applies to DVR local end.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-133 4.10.5.2.3 Tour Here you can activate tour function. Click Setup button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 4-134 Enable tour: Highlight box here to enable this function. Interval: System supports 1/8/-window tour. Input proper interval value here. The value ranges from 5-120 seconds.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-134 4.10.5.2.4 Zero-channel Encoding Click zero-channel encoding button, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 4-135. Here you can enable and set zero-channel encoding function so that you can view several video sources at one channel.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-135 4.10.5.2.5 Favorites It is for you to set and save favorites preview setup. You can select different window display modes and then select corresponding channel(s). Please note for one mode, one channel can only be selected once. See Figure 4-136.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-136 On the navigation bar, you can see the Favorites shortcut menu. You can select from the dropdown list. Click View 1, you can see the channel(s) you saved on the Favorites folder. See Figure 4-137.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Baud rate: Select baud rate. Data bit: Select data bit. Stop bit: Select stop bit. Parity: There are three choices: none/odd/even. After completed all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-139 For digital channel, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-140. Figure 4-140 4.10.5.4 ATM/POS...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual The ATM/POS function is for financial areas. It includes Sniffer, information analysis and title overlay function. 4.10.5.4.1 Network Type The network type interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-141. Here we take the ATM/POS protocol to continue.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-142 Click Data button you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-143. Here you can set offset value, length, title according to your communication protocol and data package. . Figure 4-143 4.10.5.5 Account Here is for you to implement account management.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Modify group Modify password. For account management please note: For the user account name and the user group, the string max length is 6-byte. The backspace in front of or at the back of the string is invalid. There can be backspace in the middle.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-144 Figure 4-145 4.10.5.5.1 Add/Modify Group Click add group button in Figure 4-145 , the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-146.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Here you can input group name and then input some memo information if necessary. There are total 98 rights such as control panel, shut down, real-time monitor, playback, record, record file backup, PTZ, user account, system information view, alarm input/output setup, system setup, log view, clear log, upgrade system, control device and etc.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-147 When you create a new user, you can input the corresponding MAC address of current user. If you leave this item in blank, any MAC address user can share this user account to login. Please note system needs to check the validity of MAC. Only the 12-digit 0-f format address can pass the validity verification.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-148 4.10.5.7 Config Backup The configuration file backup interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-149. This function allows you to import/export system configuration. You can use this function when there are several devices need the same setup.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-149 4.10.5.8 Default Click default icon, system pops up a dialogue box. You can highlight to restore default factory setup. See Figure 4-150. Camera Network Event Storage System Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 4-150 4.10.5.9 Upgrade Here is for you to view hardware features, software version, built date, release SN information and etc. You can also update system here. See Figure 4-151. Start: Please insert the USB device that have the update file to the device and then click the Start button to begin the update.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 5 WEB OPERATION Slightly difference may be found in the interface due to different series. 5.1 Network Connection Before web client operation, please check the following items: Network connection is right DVR and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup(main menu->Setting->Network)
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-2 5.3 LAN Mode For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 5-3. Figure 5-3 This main window can be divided into the following sections. Section 1: there are five function buttons: Live(chapter 5.4), setup (chapter 5.9),...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Section 2: There are channel number and one button: Start all. Start all button is to enable/disable all-channel real-time monitor. Click it the button becomes yellow. See Figure 5-4. Figure 5-4 Please refer to Figure 5-5 for main stream and extra stream switch information.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-8 Section 6: From the left to the right ,you can see video quality/fluency/ full screen/1-window/4-window/6-window/8-window/9-window/13-window/16-window/20- window/25-window/36-window.. You can set video fluency and real-time feature priority. Section 7: PTZ operation panel. Please refer to chapter 5.5 for detailed information.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-10 1: Digital zoom: Click this button and then left drag the mouse in the zone to zoom in. right click mouse system restores original status. 2: Local record. When you click local record button, the system begins recording and this button becomes highlighted.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Parameter Function You can turn on or turn off the light/wiper. Light and wiper 3D Intelligent Positioning You can click this icon to display or hide the PTZ control platform. Figure 5-11 5.6 Image/Relay-out Select one monitor channel video and then click Image button in section 8, the interface is shown as Figure 5-12.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-13 5.7 WAN Login In WAN mode, after you logged in, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-14. Figure 5-14 Please refer to the following contents for LAN and WAN login difference. 1) In the WAN mode, system opens the main stream of the first channel to monitor by default.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual For multiple-channel monitor mode, system adopts extra stream to monitor by default. You can not modify manually. All channels are trying to synchronize. Please note the synchronization effect still depends on your network environments. ...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-16 5.9 Setup 5.9.1 Camera Note You can see this interface after you set IP channel in chapter 4.10.1.3.5. System supports ONVIF standard protocol. 5.9.1.1 Remote Device (For digital channel only) Remote device interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-17.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-17 Figure 5-18 Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Click Device search button, you can view the searched device Device search information on the list. It includes device IP address, port, device name, manufacturer and type.
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Note: System supports manufactures such as Panasonic, Sony, Dynacolor, Samsung, AXIS, Arecont, Dahua and Onvif standard protocol. If you do not input IP address here. System uses default IP 192.168.0.0 and system does not connect to this IP.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-20 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period It divides one day (24 hours) to two periods. You can set different hue, brightness, and contrast for different periods.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual from 40 to 60. Color mode It includes several modes such as standard, color. You can select corresponding color mode here, you can see hue, brightness, and contrast and etc will adjust accordingly. 5.9.1.3 Encode 5.9.1.3.1 Encode The encode interface is shown as below.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-22 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Video enable Check the box here to enable extra stream video. This item is enabled by default.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual character and underline. 5.9.1.3.2 Snapshot The snapshot interface is shown as in Figure 5-23. Figure 5-23 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are two modes: Regular (schedule) and Trigger. Snapshot type ...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Cover-area Check Preview or Monitor first. Click Set button, you can privacy mask the specified video in the preview or monitor video. System max supports 4 privacy mask zones.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 5.9.2 Network 5.9.2.1 TCP/IP The TCP/IP interface is shown as in Figure 5-27. Figure 5-27 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Mode There are two modes: static mode and the DHCP mode.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Alternate DNS Alternate DNS IP address. For the IP address of IPv6 version, default gateway, preferred DNS and alternate DNS, the input value shall be 128-digit. It shall not be left in blank. System can process the downloaded data first if you enable this LAN load function.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual HTTP port The default value is 80. You can input the actual port number if necessary. HTTPS The default value is 443. You can input the actual port number if necessary. RTSP port The default value is 554.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-31 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function WLAN type Here you can select 3G network type to distinguish the 3G module from different ISP. The types include WCDMA, CDMA1x and etc.
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Device IP is not fixed if you use ADSL to login the network. The DDNS function allows you to access the DVR via the registered domain name. Besides the general DDNS, the Dahua DDNS works with the device from the manufacturer so that it can add the...
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2) Function Introduction The Dahua DDNS client has the same function as other DDNS client end. It realizes the bonding of the domain name and the IP address. Right now, current DDNS server is for our own devices only. You need to refresh the bonding relationship of the domain and the IP regularly.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 5.9.2.9 Email The email interface is shown as in Figure 5-36. Figure 5-36 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please check the box here to enable email function. Enable Input server address and then enable this function.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Parameter Function email according to the interval you specified here. This function is very useful when there are too many emails activated by the abnormity events, which may result in heavy load for the email server.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-38 Note: The uploaded file is for sub stream only. Please go to record control interface (main stream->setting->Storage->Record) and then select sub stream. The easy space function uses upload bandwidth. Usually the recommended upload bandwidth shall be more than 512kbps and please make sure the network is stable.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-39 5.9.2.13 SNMP The SNMP interface is shown as in Figure 5-40. The SNMP allows the communication between the network management work station software and the proxy of the managed device. It is reserved for the 3 party to develop.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual The multicast interface is shown as in Figure 5-41. Multicast is a transmission mode of data packet. When there is multiple-host to receive the same data packet, multiple-cast is the best option to reduce the broad width and the CPU load.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-43 5.9.2.17 HTTPS In this interface, you can set to make sure the PC can successfully login via the HTTPS. It is to guarantee communication data security. The reliable and stable technology can secure the user information security and device safety. See Figure 5-44.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-46 5.9.2.17.2 Download root certificate In Figure 5-44, click button, system pops up a dialogue box. See Figure 5-47. Figure 5-47 Click Open button, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 5-48. Figure 5-48...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-49 Click Next button to continue. Now you can select a location for the certificate. See Figure 5-50. Figure 5-50 Click Next button, you can see the certificate import process is complete. See Figure 5-51.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-51 Click Finish button, you can see system pops up a security warning dialogue box. See Figure 5-52. Figure 5-52 Click Yes button, system pops up the following dialogue box, you can see the certificate download is complete.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual You can see HTTPS default value is 443. Figure 5-54 5.9.2.17.4 Login Open the browser and then input https://xx.xx.xx.xx:port. xx.xx.xx.xx: is your device IP or domain mane. Port is your HTTPS port. If you are using default HTTPS value 443, you do not need to add port information here.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-58 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable motion detection function. Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period Motion detection function becomes activated in the specified periods.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Parameter Function system will not save your zone setup. Record System auto activates motion detection channel(s) to record once channel an alarm occurs. Please note you need to set motion detect record period and go to Storage-> Schedule to set current channel as schedule record.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-59 5.9.3.1.3 Tampering The tampering interface is shown as in Figure 5-60. After analysis video, system can generate a tampering alarm when the detected moving signal reached the sensitivity you set here. For detailed setups, please refer to chapter 5.9.3.1.1 motion detect for detailed information.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-61 5.9.3.3 Alarm Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. The input mode includes local alarm and network alarm. 5.9.3.3.1 Local Alarm The local alarm interface is shown as in Figure 5-62. It refers to alarm from the local device.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-63 Figure 5-64 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable this function. Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period This function becomes activated in the specified periods.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Parameter Function whole week. Click OK button, system goes back to local alarm interface, please click save button to exit. System only memorizes one event during the anti-dither Anti-dither period. The value ranges from 5s to 600s.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-65 5.9.3.4 Alarm Output It is to set alarm output mode. See Figure 5-66. Figure 5-66 5.9.3.5 Abnormality It includes two types: No disk, disk error, disk no space, net disconnection, IP conflict and MAC conflict. See Figure 5-67 and Figure 5-68.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-68 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event The abnormal events include: No disk, disk error, disk no space, net Type disconnection, IP conflict and MAC conflict. You can set one or more items here.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Pre-record Please input pre-record time here. The value ranges from 0 to 30. Redundancy Check the box here to enable redundancy function. Please note this function is null if there is only one HDD.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-73 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here you can view channel number. Channel The number displayed here is the max channel amount of your device. Status There are three statuses: schedule, manual and stop.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-74 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function It is to set device name. Device ID Device No. It is device channel number. Language You can select the language from the dropdown list.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-75 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here you can select date format from the dropdown list. Date format There are two options: 24-H and 12-H. Time Format The time zone of the device.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-76 5.9.5.2 Display Display interface includes GUI, TV adjust, Tour and zero-channel encoding. 5.9.5.2.1 GUI Here you can set background color and transparency level. See Figure 5-77. Figure 5-77 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual It is to set TV output region. See Figure 5-78. Figure 5-78 5.9.5.2.3 Tour The tour interface is shown as in Figure 5-79. Here you can set tour interval, split mode, motion detect tour and alarm tour mode.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-80 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function This function is disabled by default. Check the box here to enable Enable this function so that you can control the zero-channel encoding function at the WEB.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-81 Figure 5-82 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Select speed dome connected channel. Channel There are two options: local/remote. Please select remote if you are PTZ type connecting to the network PTZ.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Parameter Function Data Bit Default setup is 8. Please set according to the speed dome dial switch setup. Default setup is 1. Please set according to the speed dome dial switch Stop bit setup. Parity Default setup is none. Please set according to the speed dome dial switch setup.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Six frame ID groups verification can guarantee information validity and legal. Figure 5-84 5.9.5.5 Account Note: For the character in the following user name or the user group name, system max supports 6-digits. The space in the front or at the end of the string is null. The valid string includes: character, number, and underline.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Add user: It is to add a name to group and set the user rights. See Figure 5-86. There are four default users: admin/888888/666666 and hidden user “default”. Except user 6666, other users have administrator right. The user 666666 can only have the monitor rights,.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-87 5.9.5.5.2 Group The group management interface can add/remove group, modify group password and etc. The interface is shown as in Figure 5-88. Figure 5-88 Add group: It is to add group and set its corresponding rights. See Figure 5-89.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual includes: shutdown/reboot device, live view, record control, PTZ control and etc. Figure 5-89 Modify group Click the modify group button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-90. Here you can modify group information such as remarks and rights.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 5.9.5.6 Auto maintain The auto maintain interface is shown as in Figure 5-91. Here you can select auto reboot and auto delete old files interval from the dropdown list. If you want to use the auto delete old files function, you need to set the file period.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 5.9.5.9 Upgrade The upgrade interface is shown as in Figure 5-94. Please select the upgrade file and then click the update button to begin update. Please note the file name shall be as *.bin. During the upgrade process, do not unplug the power cable, network cable, or shutdown the device.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-96 Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Log types include: system operation, configuration operation, data Type operation, event operation, record operation, user management, log clear. Set the start time of the requested log.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-97 5.11 Playback Click Playback button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-98. Figure 5-98 5.11.1 Search Record Please set record type, record date, window display mode and channel name. ...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-99 Select Channel 1~4 means main stream and A1~A4 means sub stream. Select Record Type Check the corresponding box to select record type. See Figure 5-100. Figure 5-100 5.11.2 File List Click File list button, you can see the corresponding files in the list. See Figure 5-101.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-102 5.11.4 Download Select the file(s) you want to download and then click download button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 5-103. The Download button becomes Stop button and there is a process bar for your reference. Please go to you default file saved path to view the files.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 5.11.5 Load more It is for you to search record or picture. You can select record channel, record type and record time to download. Or you can use watermark function to verify file. 5.11.5.1 Download By File Select channel, record type, bit stream type and then input start time and end time.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-106 Select Backup device and backup type first and then click Start backup button. After the download operation, you can see corresponding dialogue box. 5.11.5.2 Download by Time Select channel, bit stream type, start time and end time.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Figure 5-108 5.12 Alarm Click alarm function, you can see an interface is shown as Figure 5-109. Here you can set device alarm type and alarm sound setup (Please make sure you have enabled audio function of corresponding alarm events.).
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Type Parameter Function External alarm Alarm input device sends out alarm. Operation Prompt Check the box here, system can automatically pops up an alarm icon on the Alarm button in the main interface when there is an alarm.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 6 Professional Surveillance System Besides Web, you can use our Smart PSS to login the device. For detailed information, please refer to Smart PSS user’s manual.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual 7 FAQ DVR can not boot up properly. There are following possibilities: Input power is not correct. Power connection is not correct. Power switch button is damaged. Program upgrade is wrong. ...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual DVR and monitor resistance is not compatible. Video transmission is too long or degrading is too huge. DVR color or brightness setup is not correct. I can not search local records. There are following possibilities: ...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual PTZ decoder setup, connection or installation is not correct. Cable connection is not correct. PTZ setup is not correct. PTZ decoder and DVR protocol is not compatible. PTZ decoder and DVR address is not compatible.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual MAC address conflict. PC or DVR network card is not good. 16. Burn error /USB back error. There are following possibilities: Burner and DVR are in the same data cable. System uses too much CPU resources. Please stop record first and then begin backup.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Camera quality is too low. Lens is dirty. Camera is installed against the light. Camera aperture setup is not correct. HDD capacity is not enough. HDD is damaged. 22. Can not playback the downloaded file.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual There are following possibilities: Check the camera is online or not. Check IP channel setup is right or not (such as IP address, user name, password, connection protocol, port number.). The camera has set the whitelist (Only the specified devices can connect to the camera).
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Do not connect the TV to the local video output port (VOUT).It may result in video output circuit. Always shut down the device properly. Please use the shutdown function in the menu, or you can press the power button in the front pane for at least three seconds to shut down the device.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation Calculate total capacity needed by each DVR according to video recording (video recording type and video file storage time). Step 1: According to Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity that is the capacity of each channel needed for each hour, unit Mbyte.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Samsung TS-H653 Ver.F Samsung SH-224BB/CHXH SONY DRU-V200S SONY DRU-845S SONY AW-G170S Pioneer DVR-217CH Appendix B-6 Compatible SATA HDD List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. Here we recommend HDD of 500G to 4T capacity.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST31000322CS SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST1000VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST1500VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST2000VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST2000VM003 SATA Seagate Seagate Constellation ST3500514NS 500G SATA...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Westem Digital Cariar SE WD2500JS 250G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD7500KS 750G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD5000KS 500G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD4000KD 400G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD3200KS 320G SATA Westem Digital...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCP725050GLA380 500G SATA 5K500 Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCT721050SLA360 500G SATA 7K1000.B Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCT721075SLA360 750G SATA 7K1000.B Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCT721010SLA360 SATA 7K1000.B Maxtor DiamondMax 20 STM3320820AS 320G SATA Maxtor DiamondMax 20 STM3250820AS 250G SATA...
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Appendix C Compatible CD/DVD Burner List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. And you can use the USB cable with the model recommended to set USB burner.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Appendix F Compatible Wireless Mouse List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Model Rapoo 3500 Logitech M215 Shuangfeiyan Tianyao G7-630...
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Appendix G Earthing 1. What is the surge? Surge is a short current or voltage change during a very short time. In the circuit, it lasts for microsecond. In a 220V circuit, the 5KV or 10KV voltage change during a very short time (about microseconds) can be called a surge.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Signal lightning arrester: This device is mainly used in the PC network, communication system. The connection type is serial connection. Once you connected the signal lightning arrestor with the signal port, it can cut the channel of the thunderstorm to the device, and on the other hand, it can discharge the current to the ground to guarantee the device proper work.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual conductance of the ground conductor. In the high-frequency circuit, you need to use the multiple-point ground mode and each cable needs to connect to the ground. The length shall be less than the 1/20 of the signal wavelength.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual The thunder proof ground shall adopt the special ground cable from the monitor control room to the ground object. The ground cable adopts copper insulation cable or wire and its ground section shall be more than 20mm2.
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Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual For L (live cable) Turn the digital multimeter to 750V AC, use your one hand to hold the metal end, and then the other hand insert the pen to the L port of the socket. See the following figure. If the multimeter shows 120, then you can see current live cable connection is standard.
Dahua iDVR&iHCVR User’s Manual Appendix H Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Component Name Cr VI PBDE Sheet ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Metal(Case) Plastic Parts ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ (Panel)...
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