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Mace DVR0404 Operation Manual

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Operation precautions

1. Installation condition
1.1 Put away from extreme hot places
1.2 Avoid direct sunshine
1.3 Put away from humid places
1.4 Be horizontally installed
1.5 Avoid violent vibrating
1.6 Do not place other devices upon
1.7 Put in well ventilation places, not to block in the radiator fan setting in the back of the recorder
2. Installation precautions
2.1 At the first use, assure the installation of hard disk, and the master-slave jumper wire should be set
2.2 Recommend to use MAXTOR hard disk
2.3 After confirming the connection of power lines, open the power
3. Open Cabinet And Check Accessories
Check the following accessories after open the case:
3.1 One power line
3.2 One hard disc connection line
3.3 One package of installation fittings
3.4 One operation manual
3.5 One CD for installation
3.6 Certification of the product
3.7 Product warranty card
DVR0404/DVR0804/DVR0404RW/DVR0804RW Digital Video Recorder*
*This manual takes DVR0804RW as an example＊
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*Operation manual for MPEG4 series

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  • Page 1: Operation Precautions

    *Operation manual for MPEG4 series DVR0404/DVR0804/DVR0404RW/DVR0804RW Digital Video Recorder* *This manual takes DVR0804RW as an example＊ Operation precautions 1. Installation condition 1.1 Put away from extreme hot places 1.2 Avoid direct sunshine 1.3 Put away from humid places 1.4 Be horizontally installed 1.5 Avoid violent vibrating...

  • Page 2: Chapter 1 Product Features And Specifications

    Chapter 1 Product Features And Specifications 1. Product Specifications Parameter 4 Channel 8 Channel Processor AMD ELANSC520/133 embedded microprocessor Operation system Real-time operation system（ RTOS） Model DH-DVR0404RW DH-DVR0804RW Video input 4 Channel (NTSC/PAL) BNC（ 1.0V 75Ω ） 8 Channel (NTSC/PAL) BNC（ 1.0V 75Ω...

  • Page 3: Product Features

    2. Product Features Real-time Monitor Video output and VGA port, able to realize monitoring on the display or the monitor Single window/4 windows/9 windows monitor Compression Method Multiple video compression modes: MPEG4 fixed frame、 MPEG4 adjustable frame 8-channel audio/video real-time compression, independent hardware compression for each channel, stable synchronization of sound and image Storage 1-8 IDE-connected large capacity HDD inside...
  • Page 4 Fast search for timing recording and alarm recording Multiple play-back modes: X2、 X4、 X8 fast play, pause, 15F/S, 5F/S slow play and frame by frame playback Display the event happening time when playback Alarm relay 8 channel external alarm input, video lost alarm and motion detection alarm Multi channel relay switch alarm output in order to realize quick alarm relay and on-spot light control Protection circuit for Alarm input and output to assure the intactness of the device Pan-tilt Control...
  • Page 5 Reference form The recording length is due to the capacity of the installed HDDs and the selected image level. The following storage time is based on the average used HDD space for single channel real-time recording（ 25f/s） (Audio part not included) Average used Coding...

  • Page 6: Chapter 2 Installation

    Chapter 2 Installation 1.Hard disk installation Because there is no built-in hard disc in the machine, check the hard disc equipment for the first installation. Max extension of eight 10G-infinite capacity hard discs inside the machine. User can decide the number of hard disks according to required image quality, recording time and HD capacity.

  • Page 7: Front Panel Introduction

    Note: f the backup It is not necessary to dismantle the HD bracket when less than 4 HDDs are going to be installed .I device is removable HD, it should be installed on the fourth IDE port and set to the master disk working mode 2.

  • Page 8: Keys Functions

    Note: outer circle of the flying shuttle turning clockwise equal to right direction, turning anti -clockwise equal to left direction; inner circle turning clockwise equal to down direction, otherwise equal to up direction. Keys functions Order Key name Logo Function Remark Power switch...
  • Page 9 Single window display Shift the window to single window □ In the state of single window monitor Press the key to display the menu of the pan-tilt moving Function assistant 1 and camera lens control When setting Motion Detection areas, help to complete the setting During playback, display the playback status bar Function assistant 2...

  • Page 10: Multi-Window Shifting

    3. Remote controller （ 5） （ 1 ） （ 7） （ 8） （ 9） （ 11） （ 16） ） （ 12） （ 2） （ 3） （ 10） （ 4） （ 6） （ 15） （ 14） （ 13） Address (9) Jump forwards Multi-window shifting (10) Play last sections Number...

  • Page 11: Back Panel Introduction

    4． Back panel introduction 1、 Alarm-RS485 connection 2、 AUDIO OUT audio output 3、 AUDIO IN audio intput 4、 power switch 5、 power plug 6、 RS232 connection 7、 VGA connection 8、 USB connection 9、 NET network connection（ RJ45） 10、 VEDIO OUT vedio output 11、...

  • Page 12: Serial Port Connection And Extension

    4.1 Serial port connection and extension Note: ① The connection for program upgrading or debugging through serial port ② The connection for dial-up login through MODEM ③ The connection for DVR control through keyboard...
  • Page 13 25 Pin Alarm Transfer Box Connect 25 pins of the transfer box directly with the 25 pins alarm input output connection of the DVR Fasten the transfer box on the back panel of DVR with two screws Pull out 6 connection terminals of the transfer box, corresponding connection marks can be clearly noticed. Connect function line according to connection marks ①...

  • Page 14: Rs485 Port Connection

    4.3RS485 port connection If you want to control pan-tilt, lens and process the relay of the alarming signals by the DVR, the 25-pin RS485 connection can realize. RS485 connection can control various pan-tilt decoders, and the specific type of the decoder can be selected from the Control of the System setting in the menu.
  • Page 15 Connection of the alarm input: Please short connect between the alarm input end and the power the connection end of the alarm device +12V ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ◎ ALARMIN connection of ┇ the DVR end ◎ +12V Instruction of the alarm input end: 8 channel alarm inputs and no limit on the input type(normally open or normally close type).
  • Page 16 Module sketch of the alarm input end Module sketch of the alarm output end Relays’ parameter of the alarm output end Model: G6H Material Sliver touch Rated switch capacity 30VDC 1A, 125VAC 0.5A Rating （ resistance load） Maximum switch power 62.5VA 33W Maximum switch voltage 125VAC, 110VDC...

  • Page 17: Chapter 3 System Operation

    Chapter 3 System operation 1. Start/close the recorder Start the recorder Plug in the power line; switch on the power button at the back of the recorder; power indicator light on; DVR starting; default nine windows for the video output; enter the menu mode automatically; If the starting time is within the timing recording time, the system will start the timing recording function automatically.

  • Page 18: Recording Operation

    2. Recording operation The default recording mode after the starting of DVR is 24 continuous recording. User can choose the suitable recording mode due to the necessity. Instructions for the different recording modes as following: a) Schedule recording Enter the menu, and set the timing period for the recording. See details at Menu>System setting>Schedule b) Hand recording Press “Record”...

  • Page 19: Alarm Connection Operation

    3.Alarm connection operation Connect the alarm input according to the device connection and the instructions Connect the related alarm output according the necessity（ Example: light、 beeper） Made the related setting in the menu， See details at Menu>System setting>Alarm setting 4.Pan-tilt control operation Confirm the right connection of pan-tilt and decoder and set the decoder address right Confirm the right connection of decoder’s A、...

  • Page 20: Chapter 4 Front Panel And Remote Controller Operation

    Chapter 4 Front panel and remote controller operation 1. Operation menu introduction *Flashing item is the current selectable one* 1.1 Menu items’ shifting and setting Operation Button-pressing Instruction Screen display step order 1 Confirm Enter During real-time monitor, press to open the Menu password prompt, type in the correct password, Enter main...
  • Page 21 Direction Arrow Return to the last option of the current menu SEARCH>RECORD Exit the current Cancel ESC Exit to the last level menu menu ² You can set the multiple channels before you exit the current menu and save all the settings together.

  • Page 22: Menu Option Schedule

    1. 2 Menu option schedule Main menu Menu level 1 Menu level 2 Remarks Use DIRECTION key to perform setting RECORD DATE 24-10-2003 in menu level 2 TIME 2:20 PM See details at 2.3.1 PLAY START SEARCH Use DIRECTION key to perform setting in LIST DATE 24-10-2003 menu level 2.
  • Page 23 Main menu Menu level 1 Menu level 2 Remarks DATE 10-28-2003 FORMAT MM-DD-YYYY TIME 12:22:01 FORMAT AM/PM SAVETIME GENERAL INTERVAL 005 SEC See details at 2.6.3 HDDFULL OVERWRITE RECORDLEN 15 MIN SYSTEM SETTING REMOTEADDR 108 COMMCTRL NONE SAVE CANCEL WEEK S M T W T F S SCHEDULE TIME1...
  • Page 24 Main menu Menu level 1 Menu level 2 Remarks PANTILT CONTROL PROTOCOL NONE See details at 2.6.3 BAUDRATE 4800 ADDRESS SAVE CANCEL 192.168.001.108 SUBNETMASK 255.255.255.000 GATEWAY 192.168.001.001 NETWORK WEB PORT 00080 See details at 2.6.3 SYSTEM SETTING TCP PORT 37777 MONITOR PLAYBACK SAVE...
  • Page 25 Main menu Menu level 1 Menu level 2 Remarks See details at 2.6.5 BACKUP RECORDS DEVICE BACKUP SPEED NORMAL STARTING DATE 2003-3-18 BACKUP STARTING TIME 12:18PM ENDING DATE 2003-3-18 ENDING TIME 5:18PM BACKUP START See details at 2.6.5 DELETE BACKUP DEVICE DELETE CONFIRM...

  • Page 26: Menu Operation

    Menu Operation 2.1 Recording Operation Model Button-pressing order Instruction Diplay 1、 Record Press to enter screen display RECORD： 1 2 3 5 6 7 2、 Direction pq or the Press to shift the recording state on/off. The shadowed DVR0804RW related number key means On.
  • Page 27 2、 Play/Pause Press twice to begin the playback(on the screen shows RECORD SEARCH CH 1 channel, date, time). If it shows no record found, the DATE 03-03-2003 operation will not take effect. After the completion of the TIME 09： 10 PLAY NO RECORD playback, it shows “The End”.

  • Page 28: Control Of Pan-Tilt And Lens

    2.5 Control of Pan-tilt and Lens *The current image must be shifted to the input image of the controlling camera* Button-pressing order Instruction Press Fn to display 1、 Refer to menu operation at In Control setting ， select the related Channel and CONTROL SETTING 2.6.4 Protocol, see the right picture.

  • Page 29: Record Search

    *All the below settings of the menu must be saved before taking effect.* 2.6.1 Record search RECORD SEARCH The menu for record search is pictured at the right. First set the channel#, then date and time you want to search, RECORD SEARCH Record then select START, the playback begins.

  • Page 30: File Info

    2.6.2 Information FILE INFO Menu of Information is pictured at right. Display HDD number、 HDD capacity、 free space. File Info FILE INFO Recording start time(the earliest recording time among all the HDDs) HDD NUM 0 2 and recording end time. The information cannot be changed. HDD CAP 0 1 6 0 0 8 6M FREE SPACE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 M FILE START 2003-04-12 19 00 22...

  • Page 31: System Setting

    2.6.3 System setting SYSTEM SETTING Picture of the System Setting Menu See screen shot at right: General DATE and TIME are used to modify the current system date and time; GENERAL SETTING after the modification reserve the change by selecting SAVETIME; in HDDFULL if selecting OVERWRITE system covers the DATE 10-28-2003...

  • Page 32: Alarm Setting

    Note: 1: If you need to record all day long, set TIME1 as 00:00-24:00 & state is on; set TIME2 as off. 2: When setting time in WEEK, several days can be set at the same time. When Reviewing a certain channel’s timing, only the current day will be highlighted.

  • Page 33: Pan/Tilt Control

    should be later than the setting in TIME1 . ALMSVR IP is used to transmit the alarm signals to the designated IP server. Pan-tilt control Select the corresponding channel in CH, and choose the protocol PANTILT CONTROL of the brand name of corresponding pan-tilt decoder in PROTOCOL. PROTOCOL NONE BAUDRATE...

  • Page 34: Admin Setting

    be divided in 192 sections. Red section means the current cursor position, and green section is the motion detection area. The no color area is no motion detection area. Press Fn to locate the current section, then move the cursor to cover the MD needed area; press Fn again to choose the MD area.

  • Page 35: Backup Records

    During Alarm tip on, when there is alarm input from Others OTHERS outside, the alarm information window will pop up. If ALARM TIP Shutdown pwd is on, you need to input the right manage SHUTDOWN PWD level password before turning off the DVR; if it is off, 4 OUTPUT X/Y POINT 000/000 seconds after pressing on the power button the DVR will turn...

  • Page 36: Delete Backup

    Delete backup Select the backup device you want to delete the records from DELETE BACKUP first, and then confirm the deletion by selecting DEVICE HDD DELETE CONFIRM 2.6.6 LOGOUT Press ENTER to logout . To enter the menu again , password is needed.
  • Page 37 Chapter 5 Operation through Network 1.Setting on the client end This software does not need to be pre-installed. Please check the connection of the network, for example, ping the IP address of the DVR. If you cannot ping through, please check the connection. 2.
  • Page 38 In this interface there are monitor video window, login、 logout、 Video、 search、 search、 config (system setting)、 Assistant(assistant setting) and so on. Login： Please click login, and the following dialogue box will pop up. Input username and password. There are three types of users: Administrator, User, and Guest. For the detailed introduction please refer to User manage in Assistant setting.
  • Page 39 If after the input of the username and password, the following box pops up (5-4). The system warns that the just input username is unauthorized user or the password is wrong, please try again. Log out: if the logged in user need to log out, please click logout button. After the popup of the following dialogue box, please choose Yes.

  • Page 40: Operation Of The Right Key Menu

    3.Operation of the right key menu After you log in as Administrator, the buttons of login , video, logout, search, config & Assistant are activated. Click the right mouse key and the following interface Display: If the DVR is 8 Channel, the real-time monitor will show 8 channel options; if 4 channel, it will show 4 channel options. The right key menu includes: Real time monitor, Multi-Video Preview, Decode quality, Playback control Bar, Pan-tilt control, Set Volume, Net Data Flux, Full screen, Resize video and Video Windows.
  • Page 41 Real time monitor： Among the displayed channels,(5-7)you may select the channel you want to see. Note: When the recording mode is set to MODE (under Menu/System Setting/Image), over the network, users will only be able to view the channels that are scheduled (or set to be event triggered) to record at the time.
  • Page 42 Set volume： It is for user to control the audio’s volume. User can drag the bar to adjust or tick Mute to cancel the sound. 5-10 Net data flux： Display the statistics of the network transmission data flux. When no network data transmission the statistics shows zero(5-11).
  • Page 43 Resize Video User can select different ratio to show different size of the video picture. 5-12 Video windows User can choose the display windows mode according the needs 5-13 4.Records Search Click on search, then pop up the dialogue box of records search 5-14...
  • Page 44 Input From and To recording time, channel number and searching type（ Record or Alarm） , and the records during the searching time will show in the dialogue box (If only input the From time it only will show the whole day records after the searching time).
  • Page 45 It supports the downloading of several records simultaneously. The default format of the downloaded records’ names is as： file name +Channel N +date +time， extension name is .mp4(Example: a-0120021205071028.mp4, 01 means channel 1, 20021205 means December 5 of 2002, 071028 means 7 o’clock 10 minutes 28 seconds). 5-16 Saved under Download file clip.
  • Page 46 5. Config(System setting) Click Config button， and pop up the dialogue box. There are General、 Timing、 Image、 Alarm、 Motion detection、 Video parameter six setting menus. Note： The gray part of the menus you have to set on the local DVR. General：...
  • Page 47 5-19 Image： This menu can select the image quality and protocols for each channel. 5-20...
  • Page 48 Style: Among the options of the coding styles there are： VBR(variable baud rate)、 CBR(consistent baud rate)、 f/10s、 f/5s、 f/2s、 1f/s、 2f/s、 3f/s、 4f/s、 5f/s、 6f/s、 8f/s、 10f/s、 12f/s、 15f/s、 20f/s. Select one of the styles and save. For VBR and selectable frames there are 1、 2、 3、 4、 5、 6 level of image quality. Please choose due to the actual need. 5-21 Level 1：...
  • Page 49 Alarm When there are alarm input signals, the user can select the recording channel and the output port for the actual need. 5-22...
  • Page 50 Motion detection When the user sets the time period for Motion Detection, the motion detection will take effect. The blue area is the selectable motion detection area. The User can move the dialogue box to choose the correct area and can also set the sensitivity of the area due to the need. Click Full screen or press right key on the area to display the motion detection area in full screen mode.
  • Page 51 Video parameter User can adjust the video Hue, Contrast, Brightness, Saturation and so on. 5-24...
  • Page 52 6. Assistant Assistant Click on Assistant setting, as following, there are User manage , Record control , Apply for control right , Log information , System information, Alarm Prompt, Channel name , Upgrade BIOS, etc. 5-25 User manage: displays the user (Log-In) information of the DVR. The buttons to the right can let an administrator user save, add, modify, delete and cancel the information.
  • Page 53 Add： Click Add to show the following dialogue box(5-27)： 5-27 The Admin User can add user information in this dialogue box, and assign user power level. Note: There is only one administrator allowed. Modify： Select this button to show the following. User can modify the filled-in information(5-28). 5-28...
  • Page 54 Record control： Manually control the recording of each channel. 5-29 Apply for control power： Web client software can supply the login of multiple users. If you want to have the control, you can click this option and confirm to have the control. (5-30). If a new user wants to have the control, the new user has to apply and gain the authorization of the existing user with control.
  • Page 55 The picture below (5-31) is the other user sending request to the existing user with control. 5-31 Log information： The operations on the system are all recorded in log information. If choose Save Log, the Log will be saved automatically in the root directory of your PC’s“ C:\ as a text file (e.g.: C:\ 10.1.27.193-log.txt) 5-32...
  • Page 56 System information： Check the basic information of the system. When sound is not needed, you can turn off the audio. Due to the bandwidth considerations, the user can select the different Video transport modes, Video type PAL or NTSC has to be selected correctly, 110vac, 60hz is normally NTSC, 220vac, 50hz is normally PAL.
  • Page 57 Alarm prompt： Different sound warning for the certain Alarm input can be chosen according the user’s needs(5-34). 5-34 Channel name： Cameras can be named for each channel. No more than 12 Characters. The revised channel names will be displayed on the screen. The default setting of the channel name is Channel No.1 thru Channel No.8.
  • Page 58 5-36 About： Version information – This palette displays information about the DVR and may be vital when contacting your vendor for Support. 5-37...

  • Page 59: Chapter 6 Serial Port Operation

    Chapter 6 Serial port operation 1． System setting of the Terminal The system’s operation can also be done through RS232 port. The specific operation is as following： First, copy “Terminal” and “system upgrade program” to the computer. Connect the computer with the DVR through RS232 port. Run “Terminal” program and create the connection between the computer and the DVR.
  • Page 60 Enter username and press Enter. System hint to enter password as following： ＿ Password： dahua System gets into the DEBUG> state, and input BIOS and press Enter. Click Communication in the menu— — Send file, and open upgrading program file(DVR0804_PAL.BIN— 8 Channel DVR BIOS program, please complete this operation within 20 seconds, otherwise overtime).

  • Page 61: Chapter 8 Frequent Asked Questions

    machine finishes restarting. After Boot software is successfully upgraded, open corresponding bios file *_PAL_Chn*.b in as big as 512K . * stands for different version logo, please confirm before upgrading. Then click “send BOIS” , after completion of sending , DVR will restart .
  • Page 62 When the HD could not be identified, it would burst out a long ring. When communication with the controller panel is abnormal, it would burst out a voice of one long ring and two short in serial. Uncontrollable of the recording time? The recording time unit is one day.

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