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Network Video Recorder TBK PLUS TBK-NVR5004 User Manual v1.0...
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Notes Please read this user manual carefully to ensure that you can use the device correctly and safely. There may be several technically incorrect places or printing errors in this manual. The updates will be added into the new version of this manual. The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Contents Introduction ........................5 ......................5 1.1 F EATURES ..................6 1.2 I NSTALL RIVE ................7 1.3 F RONT ANEL ESCRIPTIONS ................8 1.4 R ANEL ESCRIPTIONS Basic Operation ......................9 ................... 9 2.1 S...
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ......................32 8.1 B ACKUP ....................33 8.2 C ACKUP Alarm ........................... 34 ....................34 9.1 S ENSOR LARM ....................35 9.2 M OTION LARM ....................37 9.3 O THER LARM ...................... 37 9.4 A LARM P.T.Z ..........................
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ..............58 14.3 R & B EMOTE LAYBACK ACKUP ..............61 14.4 R EMOTE YSTEM ONFIGURATION ......................62 14.5 T OOLS .................. 62 14.6 R EMOTE ANAGEMENT Appendix A FAQ ......................... 63 Appendix B Calculate Recording Capacity ..............67 Appendix C Compatible Devices ..................
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 1 Introduction 1.1 Features Live Surveillance Support VGA/HDMI output Support 4 CH 1080P/960P/720P @ 30fps IP video input Support channel security by hiding live display Display the local record state and basic information ...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Support remote time and event search, and channel playback Support remote full menu setup Support mobile surveillance by phones with iPhone & Android OS Support software TBK VMS-3000 to manage multi devices on internet 1.2 Install Hard Drive...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 1.3 Front Panel Descriptions The following descriptions for model TBK-NVR5004 Name Description Power indicator Power Indicator, when connected, the light is blue. HDD indicator The light turns blue when reading/writing HDD. Net indicator The light turns blue when it is able to access the network.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 1.4 Rear Panel Descriptions Here we only take a part of real panels for example to introduce their interfaces and connections. The interfaces and locations of the interfaces are only for references. Please take the real object as the standard.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 2 Basic Operation 2.1 Startup and Shutdown Please make sure all the connections are done properly before you power on the unit. Proper startup and shutdown are crucial to expending the life of your device.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS If it still doesn’t work, please change a new remote controller to try, or contact your dealers. The interface of remote controller is shown as below. Button Function Record manually Search To enter search mode...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 2.3 Using a Mouse During live: ① Double-click on any camera window to see the full screen. Double-click again to return to the previous screen. ② Right click to reveal the control menu on the screen. Right click again to hide the menu.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 2.5 Common Buttons 【Default】 :Restore the settings to the factory default setting. 【Apply】 :Apply and save the settings. 【Copy】 :Copy button. Click this button to copy the settings of one channel to other channels quickly.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ③ Set the disk management. You can format the HDDs and set their properties. Then click “Next” button to continue. ④ Click “Next” button to complete the wizard setup. You can login or log off the NVR system.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 4 Add IP Cameras This chapter mainly introduces how to connect multiple IP cameras through NVR. Once you finish adding IP cameras, you can see the live images through the monitor of the NVR. To add IP cameras via LAN: IP Camera tab.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Checkmark the searched devices and click “OK” button to return to the previous ③ interface. Click “Apply” button and then the added devices will be listed in the device management interface. “Connected” status means connecting the device successfully and you will see the live image.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS To add IP cameras via WAN: ① Please go to Main Menu IP Camera tab. Click “Add” button to pop up a window as shown below. You need to check “Enable” ② box, select channel and manufacturer and manually input IP address, server port, username and password of this device.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Click right mouse or press ESC button on the front panel and then the control bar will display at the bottom of the screen. Click the icon beside the screen display mode to display a channel select dialog.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ② A software keyboard will pop up by clicking camera name area. Click the letters and (or) digital numbers on the keyboard to input the name you want to display in live image. ③ Checkmark the camera name in the show name area. All channels will show the camera name by checking “All”...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 5.2 Picture-in-Picture View Click button on the menu toolbar. You will see a channel choice box. Select the bigger picture and then click button to confirm. Then click the little PIP button beside the word “None” to select the smaller picture. Then click button to confirm.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS picture. Click button to set the latter channel groups of dwell picture. ④ Click “Apply” to save the setting. ⑤ Return to the live view interface. Right click to show the menu toolbar. Then enable Dwell button.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 6 Record Before recording, please format your disk first. Go to Main MenuDisk Management to access disk management settings. In this interface, you can format your disk. 6.1 Record Settings Go to Main MenuSetupRecordRecord to do record settings.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Set up rate, resolution, quality, encode and max bit stream according to the actual situation. Then apply the settings. Resolution: The higher the resolution is, the clearer the image is. FPS: The higher the frame rate is, the more fluency the video is. However, more storage room will be taken up.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Checkmark camera name and time stamp. Click “Setting” button to set the position of the stamp. You can drag the camera name and time stamp at random positions. Refer to below figures: Before drag After drag ⑤...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ② Select channel and click button to add a certain day schedule. Click button to delete the selected schedule. If you want to apply the schedule setting of a certain channel to other or all channels, you need to select channel and click “Copy”...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ③ Go to alarm handling setting by click “Setting” button under Trigger. Then go to “To Record” tab. You can select the recording channel and click “OK” button to confirm the settings. ④ Set schedule for motion alarm. The setting steps are similar to normal schedule recording (See Chapter 6.3 Schedule Recording for details).
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ③ Go to Alarm Handling tab. Then click “Setting” button under Trigger. An alarm trigger box will pop up. Select “To Record” tab to choose the recording channel and click “OK” button to confirm the settings.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 7 Playback You can playback the record by time, picture, event, file and bookmark search. 7.1 Playback Right click the mouse in the live view mode to pop up the menu toolbar. Then click the little triangle button beside button to set the playback time (eg.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS clipped record files in a box. Then click “Start” to back up the record files into the storage device (see Chapter 8 Backup for more details). 【Exit】: Exit the current interface. 【Move tool】: Click and hold this button. Then drag the mouse to move this toolbar.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ② Select date and channels on the right hand side. A data with highlighted borderline indicates presence of data. ③ Checkmark Motion, Sensor or All accordingly. ④ Click Search button to display the searched event information in the event list box.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Unlock: Select a locked file and click “Lock” button to unlock this file. Delete: Select an unlocked file and click “Delete” button to delete this file. 7.5 Snap Setting and Playback by Picture Search You need to capture pictures first and then play back by picture search.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ② Go to Alarm Handling tab. Then click “Setting” button under Trigger. An alarm trigger box will pop up. Then select the snapshot channel and click “OK” button to confirm the settings. ③ Set schedule for sensor alarm. The setting steps are similar to normal schedule recording (See Chapter 6.3 Schedule Recording for details).
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 8 Backup You can use the USB storage device (like U-disk, removable HDD, USB DVD writer) to do backup. There are two types of backup--Backup and Clip Backup. 8.1 Backup ① Go to Main MenuBackup.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS files, such as, storage type, save file type, etc. Then click “Start” button to start backup. Note: If the backup files are saved in DVR format, please check backup player. Only this player can play these files in DVR format. If the backup files are saved in AVI format, you can play these files with common media player.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 9 Alarm Alarm settings include sensor alarm, motion alarm, other alarm and alarm out setting. 9.1 Sensor Alarm The sensor alarm is not the NVR local alarm. The settings here are suitable for IPC which supports this function.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Buzzer: If selected, the local buzzer would be activated on an alarm. Show Full Screen: If selected, there will pop up the chosen channel on the monitor on an alarm trigger. Email: If selected, the NVR will send an email alert to the preconfigured email address in case of a sensor based alarm from the particular input.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS considered as a single motion. The setup steps of motion trigger are similar to “Alarm Handling” (See Sensor Alarm ③ Handling setting for more details). ④ After clicking Area button, a dialog box will pop up as below.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 9.3 Other Alarm ① Go to Main MenuSetupAlarmOther Alarm. ② Use the dropdown menu and select the event or the alarm. ③ Check the required trigger options. If the selected event is “Disk Full”, then use the drop down box for “Disk Shortage Alarm”...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 10 P.T.Z Before you control the speed dome, please make sure the connected cameras are IP speed domes or IP cameras which support P.T.Z function. P.T.Z configuration includes two submenus: serial port and advanced. Serial port settings are as follows: ①...
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS To set up preset: In the Advanced interface, click preset “Setting” button to see a dialog box. ① ② In the preset setting tab, enable preset, set the preset name and then click preset “Setting” button.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS available when selecting PELCOP or PELCOD. ⑤ Click Save button to save the setting. Click icon to hide the tool bar. Right click to view this bar again. Click icon to exit the current interface.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS right and adjust the rotate speed and the value of zoom, focus and iris of the dome. ③ Click Start Record button to record the move track of PTZ. Click it again to stop record.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 11 Network Settings Network Settings includes six submenus: network, sub stream, email, network server, NAT and other settings. Network settings must be configured if the device is used for monitoring over network. 11.1 Network To set up network: ①...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 11.2 Sub Stream To set up sub stream: ① Go to Main MenuSetupNetworkSub Stream interface. ② Select fps, resolution, quality, encode and max bit rate. Select “All” to set the same settings for all channels.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 11.4 Network Server This function is mainly used for connecting through TBK VMS-3000 software. The setting steps are as follows: In the server interface, select “Enable” as shown in the Fig 5-25. ① Fig 5-25 Network Configuration-Network Server ②...
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 11.6 Other Settings (DDNS) The setting steps are as follows: ① Enable DDNS server and then select the DDNS server type, available: www.hommax-ddns.com, www.dyndns.com, www.no-ip.com. ① Enter user name, password and host domain name of the registered website.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 12 Other Settings 12.1 Basic Configuration Basic configuration includes three sub menus: system, date & time and DST. 12.1.1 System ① Go to Main MenuSetupBasicSystem interface. ② In this interface you can set up the device name, device ID, video format, max network users, VGA resolution, language and so on.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS the user to do basic setup. No Image When Logout: If selected, there will be no image showing when logging out. 12.1.2 Time & Date ① Go to Main MenuSetupBasicDate & Time interface. Set the date format, time format, time zone in this interface; checkmark “Sync time with ②...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 12.2.1 Reset Restore the device to factory default settings. 12.2.2 Import/Export You can export the data files into mobile storage devices as backup function, and then import specified data files from mobile storage device to the NVR.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS ② Click Add button to display a dialog box as below. ③ In General tab, input username, password and select user type. You can also check “Binding PC MAC Address” and input this address. Note: When the default value of binding PC MAC Address is 0, the user is not bound with the specified computer.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS To delete user: ① Go to Main MenuSetupUsers interface. Select the added user you want to delete and then click “Delete” button. ② To modify user: ① Go to Main MenuSetupUsers interface. Select the added user you want to modify and then click “Modify” button to do the ②...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 13.1.2 Online Users This function allows you to check how many users are accessing the device and help the administrator to disconnect the online user. Go to Main MenuInformationOnline Users interface. 【Refresh】: Refresh the current online user.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Click “Refresh” button to refresh the disk information in the list box. ② ③ Select a hard disk and click Format button to start format. Note: All recorded files in the hard disk will be lost after formatting.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS 14 Remote Surveillance 14.1 Remote Surveillance via LAN & WAN In order to view the NVR from a network it may be connected to a LAN/WAN or internet. The network setup should be done accordingly.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS input user name and password received from your ISP. Next, click “Apply”. The NVR will connect to the server and would give a confirmation message. ② When accessing the remote interface of the NVR, user can input WAN IP to access directly (user can go to Main MenuInformationNetwork interface to check IP...
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS computer. You can set up the save path for those picture in the Remote Preview interfaceConfigurationLocal configuration. Color adjustment: Drag the slide bar to adjust Brightness, Contrast, Hue, and Saturation. Click Default to reset them to original value.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Track Auto scan Wiper button Light button Click the right mouse on the live interface. This will take you to a pull-down menu. Stream: This device supports master stream and sub stream. Master stream has higher frame rate, max 25FPS(PAL)/30 FPS(NTSC)for every channel, but it needs higher network bandwidth simultaneously.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS This device supports remote time search, event search and file management. By Time Search: Go to SearchTime Search. The highlight date in the area ② indicates recorded data. Select the date in area ② and record channels in area ③.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS By Event Search: Go to SearchEvent Search interface. Click the highlighted date and select record channels. Checkmark the event types: motion and sensor. Click “Search” button. Double-click certain item to play. File Management: Go to SearchFile Management interface.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Select highlighted date and channels. Click “Search” button to search the recorded files. Lock: Select certain file item in the file list box and then click “Lock” button to lock this file that can not be deleted or overlaid.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS configuration, PTZ configuration and user configuration. You should select an option from the menu list on the left and then set up the relative parameters. Only one user can do configuration setup at a given point of time. Click Config tab to go to the below interface: The sub menu list and the options in every menu are similar to that of the NVR.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Appendix A FAQ Q1. Why does the NVR start abnormally even after connecting to the power? a. The power adapter could have gone bad. Please change a new power adapter. b. The power from the adapter may be not enough for operating the NVR. Please use the power adapter supplied along with the NVR.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS c. The mouse may be incompatible or faulty. Please change a mouse. Q8. ActiveX control cannot be downloaded. How can I do? a. IE browser blocks ActiveX control. Please do setup as per the steps mentioned below.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS input (the initial password is 123456), or you can use the digital keys on the front panel, or the digital keys on the remote controller. Q11: A hard disk is being identified as a new device however it was being used with another NVR of same model.
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User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Insert your USB device where the backup files are saved in the USB port of PC. If your files are saved in NVR format, you must have already downloaded the backup player box before doing backup. Then double click to open your USB disk to find your backup files and backup player.
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Appendix B Calculate Recording Capacity You can calculate the size of hard disk according to the storage time and NVR recording settings. The formula is as follows in full frame rate condition. Used space per hour (MB/h) = Bitrate (kbps) ÷...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Appendix C Compatible Devices Compatible USB drive after test Brand Capacity Netac Kingston 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB Aigo Smatter vider SanDisk 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB Compatible HDD list Brand Capacity Western Digital 1TB/2TB/3TB/4TB/6TB Seagate Barracuda 80GB/160GB/250GB/320GB/1.5TB/2TB/3TB Seagate SV35.3 Seagate Pipeline HD.2...
User manual TBK-NVR5004 TBK-VISION PLUS Appendix D 4 CH Specifications Model TBK-NVR5004 System Compression Standard H.264 / MPEG4 Cortex A9 Embedded Linux Video Output VGA x 1 : 1920 x 1080/ HDMI x 1 : 1920 x 1080 IP Input...
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