Welcome Thank you for purchasing our DVR! This quick start guide will help you become familiar with our DVR in a very short time. Before installation and operation, please read the following safeguard and warning carefully! Important Safeguard and Warning 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes.
1 Hardware Installation and Connection Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local electric safety rules. 1.1 Check Unpacked DVR When you receive the DVR from the forwarding agent, please check whether there is any visible damage.
4. Line up the HDD to the 5. Use screws to fix HDD. 6. Install the upper bracket and then four holes Use screws to fix HDD in the bracket. bracket. 7. Unfasten the HDD power Insert the HDD power Use the special data cable to cable.
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Please refer to the following sheet for front panel button information. Name Icon Function Power button, press this button for three seconds to boot up or Power button shut down DVR. Input Arabic number Number button Switch channel Input number If you want to input a number more than 10, please click this -/-- more than 10...
Fast play Various fast speeds and normal playback. Play previous In playback mode, playback the previous video In normal playback or pause mode, click this button to reverse Reverse/Pause playback In reverse playback, click this button to pause playback. In playback mode, playback the next video Play Next In menu setup, go to down ward of the dropdown list.
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Figure 1-2 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. GND port Power input port Power button DB25 port ( 5 to 16 -channel audio input port) to 4 -channel audio input Loop video output Video input Video CVBS output Matrix video output Audio output Bidirectional talk input port...
Power button to 4 -channel audio input DB25 port ( 5 to 16 -channel audio input port) Video input Video CVBS output Matrix video output Audio output Bidirectional talk input port Bidirectional talk output port Alarm input/Alarm output/RS485 port Network port HDMI port RS232 port eSATA port...
Figure 1-4 1.9 Alarm Input and Output Connection Important Please refer to the specifications for the alarm input and output channel amount. Do not merely count the alarm input and out channel amount according to the ports on the rear panel.
AB cable Figure 1-5 connection You can refer to the following sheet for alarm input and output information. ALARM 1 to ALARM 16. The alarm becomes active in low voltage. 1,2,3,4,5, 6,7,8,9,10, 11,12,13,14, 15,16 The first four are four groups of normal open activation output NO1 C1,...
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To avoid overloading, please read relay parameters sheet in the User’s Manual carefully. RS485 A/B cable is for the A/B cable of the PTZ decoder.
2 Overview of Navigation and Controls Before operation, please make sure: You have properly installed HDD and all the cable connections. The provided input power and the device power are matched. The external power shall be AC90~264V 50+2% Hz. Always use the stable current, if necessary UPS is a best alternative measure. 2.1 Login, Logout &...
Figure 2-2 2.1.2 Main Menu After you logged in, the system main menu is shown as below. See Figure 2-3. There are total six icons: search, information, setting, backup, advanced and shutdown. You can move the cursor to highlight the icon, and then double click mouse to enter the sub- menu.
Please note, before you replace the HDD, do remember shutting down the device and unplug the power cable. 2.1.4 Auto Resume after Power Failure The system can automatically backup video and resume previous working status after power failure. 2.2 Live Viewing After you logged in, the system is in live viewing mode by default.
Realtime playback It is to playback the previous 5-60 minutes record of current channel. Please go to the Main Menu->General to set real-time playback time. System may pop up a dialogue box if there is no such record in current channel. Digital zoom It is to zoom in specified zone of current channel.
Schedule: Channel records as you have set in recording setup (Main Menu->Setting- >Schedule) Stop: All channels stop recording. Figure 2-7 2.3.3 Enable/disable record Please check current channel status: “○” means it is not in recording status, “●” means it is in recording status.
Figure 2-9 All channel manual record Please highlight “ALL” after “Manual.” See Figure 2-10. When system is in manual recording, all scheduled set up you have set in will be null ((Main menu->Setting->Schedule)). You can see indication light in front panel turns on, system begins manual record now. Figure 2-10 2.3.5 Stop all channel recording Please highlight “ALL”...
2.4 Search & Playback Click search button in the main menu, search interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-12. Usually there are three file types: R: Regular recording file. A: External alarm recording file. M: Motion detection recording file. Figure 2-12 Please refer to the following sheet for more information.
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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. pane. In 16-window playback mode, you can switch between1-16 and 17-32 channels.
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Fast forward In playback mode, click to realize various fast play modes such as fast play 1,fast play 2 and etc. Note: The actual play speed has relationship with the software version. Smart search The volume of the playback Click the snapshot button in the full-screen mode, the system can snapshot 1 picture.
Please note: System max supports 1024 files backup at the same time. You can not operate clip operation if there is any file has been checked in the file list. Record In any play mode, the time bar will change once you modify the search type. type Other Functions When system is playing, you can select a zone in the window to begin smart...
Figure 2-13 Click the , you can go to the smart search playback. Click it again, system stops smart search playback. Important System does not support motion detect zone setup during the full-screen mode. During the multiple-channel playback, system stops playback of rest channels if you implement one-channel smart search.
Figure 2-14 2.4.3 Mark Playback Please make sure your purchased device support this function. You can use this function only if you can see the mark playback icon on the Search interface (Figure 2-12). When you are playback record, you can mark the record when there is important information. After playback, you can use time or the mark key words to search corresponding record and then play.
Note Usually, system can playback previous N seconds record if there is such a kind of record file. Otherwise, system playbacks from the previous X seconds when there is such a kind of record. Mark Manager Click the mark manager button on the Search interface (Figure 2-12);...
Enable: Check the box here to enable this function. Storage: This function is null right now. Frame rate: PAL:1-25fps.NTSC:30fps. Bit stream value: Default setup is 1024Kb/S. Figure 2-17 2.5 Schedule Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDDs have been properly installed.
Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. At the bottom of the menu, there are color bars for your reference. Green color stands for regular recording, yellow color stands for motion detection and red color stands for alarm recording.
Please note, if you select ALL in Figure 2-20, the record setup of all channels are the same and the Copy button becomes hidden. Figure 2-20 2.5.2 Redundancy Redundancy function allows you to memorize record file in several disks. When there is file damage occurred in one disk, there is a spare one in the other disk.
There are two ways for you to playback or search in the redundant disk. Set redundant disk(s) as read-only disk or read-write disk (Main menu->Advanced->HDD management). See Figure 2-21.System needs to reboot to get setup activated. Now you can search or playback file in redundant disk. Dismantle the disk and play it in another PC.
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. In Encode interface, click snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency. See the interface on the left of Figure 2-23. In FTP interface please input upload interval.
Please enable schedule snapshot (Chapter 2.5) or activation snapshot (Chapter 2.6.2) first, now system can upload the image file to the FTP server. Please input the corresponding information here, if you just upload the image FTP. Figure 2-24 2.7 Network Here is for you to input network information.
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MTU: It is to set MTU value of the network adapter. The value ranges from 1280-7200 bytes. The default setup is 1500 bytes. Please note MTU modification may result in network adapter reboot and network becomes off. That is to say, MTU modification can affect current network service.
Figure 2-25 Figure 2-26 2.7.1 Network Setting Network setting interface is shown as in Figure 2-27. Please check the box to enable corresponding function and then double click current item to go to setup interface. Figure 2-27 2.8 Pan/Tilt/Zoom...
Please note: Slight difference may be found in the user’s interface, due to various protocols. Please make sure the speed domes A/B cables are properly connected to the A/B ports of DVR. You have properly set PTZ information. Please switch camera monitor channel to current window. 2.8.1 PTZ Setup The pan/tilt/zoom setup includes the following items.
Zoom Focus Iris Click icon to adjust zoom, focus and iris. Figure 2-30 Figure 2-31 In Figure 2-30, please click direction arrows (See ) to adjust PTZ position. There are total 8 direction arrows. Please note if you use remote control, you can use just four directions (Up/down/left/right).
3 Web Operation Slightly difference may be found in the interface due to different series. 3.1 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) Use order ping ***.***.***.***(* DVR IP address) to check connection is OK or not.
3.3 Main Window 3.3.1 LAN Login For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 3-2. Click the channel name on the left side; you can view the real-time video. Figure 3-2 3.3.2 WAN Login In WAN mode, after you logged in, the interface is shown as below.
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Figure 3-3 For detailed operation information, please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resources...
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