Digital Video Recorder Declaration Safety Precautions Notice: Please do not place and install equipment directly under the sunlight or near heating device. Please do not install equipment at moist place or place with dust or soot. Please keep equipment installed horizontally, or install equipment in a stable place, avoid the equipment falling down.
Digital Video Recorder Contents Contents Safety Precautions ......................II 1 DVR Function and Feature ..................1 1.1 Outline ........................1 1.2 Function Features: .................... 1 2 DVR Appearance ......................1 2.1 The Front Panel ....................1 2.1.1 The Front Panel(For informational purposes only, subject to object) ..1 2.2 Rear Panel ......................
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Digital Video Recorder Contents 5.3.5.3 Upgrade ....................... 32 5.3.5.4 Live Setup ......................33 5.3.5.5 Auto Maintain ....................34 5.3.6 Shut Down .......................... 35 6 WEB Operation ......................36 6.1 Active X install ....................36 6.2 IE Login ....................... 37 6.3 IE Login Interface .................... 37 6.4 Basic Setup .......................
Function and Feature 1.1 Outline The item is a high-performance DigitalDVR, characterizing local previewing, multi-picture division displaying & local real-time storage of recorded files. It supports shortcut operating of mouse and remote managing and controlling. It has two ways of storage--Front storage & client-side storage.
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Digital Video Recorder Outline and Feature Function Brief Introduction Function Real-time Two video output, VGA & HDMI output. Record H.264 standard compression, timing recording. Support SATA Hard Disk interface, video hard drive Storage storage . Support time query, event query, channel query, log Record Query query Support DVR backup to USB memory sticks, portable...
DVR Appearance 2.1 The Front Panel 2.1.1 The Front Panel(For informational purposes only, subject to object) Button or Main Functions indicator light When working properly, the LED indicator LED Indicators lights up Increase reverse playback speed 1X, 2X, Playback 4X,8X Play Press to start playback Press to freeze playback to one frame, then...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Appearance When working properly, the LED indicator E-ZOOM lights up. Press to switch between quad and windows split-screen displays Press to open the PTZ control window Press to open the PTZ control window MENU Opens the main menu Opens the main menu Move cursor in menus;press to confirm selections...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Appearance 2.3 Mouse Instructions Mouse instruction Operate DVR through mouse left button, right button & scroll wheel. Mouse actions Function Click left 1. Select one of the options; 2. insertion cursor, enter or mouse button modify the value of a parameter. 1.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Appearance 2.4 Remote controls The remote control is the secondary input device. To use the remote control: 1. STANDBY:Press to turn standby mode ON/OFF. 2. LOGIN/LOCK: If "Security" has been enabled in the Setup menu, press to open the user password login screen.
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Digital Video Recorder DVR Appearance Uppercase English input Lowercase English input...
Connecting DVR 3.1 Hard Disk Installation Hard Disk Installation: ⑴ Loosen the fixing screw on the cover, open the cover. ⑵ Align the four holes of hard disk button with hard disk mounting hole at the button of chassis. ⑶ Hold the hard disk with hand, turn over the chassis, fix the hard disk with screw at the indicated position.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Appearance Note: 1. If user requires high performance of hard disk, we recommend the dedicated security hard disk. 2. Before replacing the hard disk, please shut off the power first and then open the case. 3.2 Device Connection Show the DVR signal on the monitor by VGA / BNC / HDMI cable.
DVR Startup 4.1 System Initialization After connecting the device to the display, plug in the mouse, power cable and turn on the power switch on the rear panel, then start up the DVR. The system initialization interface is as shown in Picture 4-1. Picture 4-1 Notes: The insert figures in this user manual may not be the same as what you see on display.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Startup 4.2.1 Login authentication After the normal startup, click mouse button and there will be a login dialogue, as shown in Picture 4-3 Then enters the user name and password in the input box.Choice the system language and login. (In the factory default state, the user name is admin, and the password is 12345) Picture 4-3 4.2.2 Common configuration...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Startup Picture 4-5 4.2.4 Record Setup Digitalconfiguration as Picture 4-6, select back on the Digitalsetting interface, user can set the video program, all settings as Picture 5.3.3.4. If you do not need to video configuration, choose to complete end of boot wizard, enter the preview interface.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Startup 4.3 Preview Interface After the system is fully booted, it will enter into the default preview interface, shown in Picture 4-7. Picture 4-7 After the device normally starts up, the default setting is to preview in multi-screen display mode.
DVR Menu 5.1 Menu Options After login the system and back on the preview interface, click the right mouse button and it will pop up the Menu Options, shown in Picture 5-1. Then you can select options of the Main Menu, Volume Settings,the Main Screen Switching, Playback, PTZ Control and System Shutdown.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-2 Mute:ON/OFF volume. Volume:Volume adjustment bar, drag the slider to adjust the volume. Save:Save the volume settings. Cancel:Back preview interface. 5.2 Main Menu Navigation Record Query Log Info Info Version Common Conf Param Rec Setup...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu 5.3 Main Menu Main Menu includes Record Query,System Info,System Setup,Advance Option,Shutdown five parts, as shown in Picture 5-3. Select one and click the left mouse button to open the corresponding next menu options. Picture 5-3 5.3.1 Record Query After entering the main menu, open the "Record Query"...
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Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Name Function Specification In any play mode, select the recording type and channel number, click on the date you want to Calendar view, the timeline will update the recorded video for that day. Choose the Playback Select the channel number to query.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu In the file list bar, you can see the start time of the video file, video type, select a video file, you can view the video of recording start time, end time and file size, as shown in Figure 5-5. Picture 5-5 In the file list box, click to choose the video file selection box showed icon “...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-6 5.3.2.1 Log Information Under the “Info” menu, please click “Log Info”, and then switch to the interface of “Log Info”. As shown in Picture 5-7. Picture 5-7 Viewing System Logs to access the logs and search for these events on one day a certain period of time.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu found, it will be displayed in a list, To view all logs through PgUp/PgDn button. 5.3.2.2 Version Information Click “Version” icon under “Info”, switch to interface as Picture 5-8 shows. Picture 5-8 Users can find system version, including serial No, model number, system version,Version Date.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-9 5.3.3.1 Common Set Click “Common Config” icon under “Sys Setup”, switch to interface as Picture 5-10 shows. Picture 5-10 System Time : System date and time of DVR. Default Language : the default language of the system boot, which is ...
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Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-11 Channel: Select the channel number Enc Mode: Standard H.264. Resolution: The type of main stream resolution is the encoding parameters of client IPC, generally include D1/720P/1080P etc, the type of sub-stream resolution include D1/VGA/CIF. The resolution is bigger, the better the video quality, and the larger the hard-dish space occupied.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu 图 5-12 Block set:Set the channel preview and playback occlude areas. Time tile:Set the playback channels display position. Channel title:Set the playback channels system time display position. Save:Save preview configuration interface setting parameter values. ...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Cancel: Return to the former interface. 5.3.3.4 Network Click “Network” icon under “Sys Setup”, switch to interface as Picture 5-14 shows. Picture 5-14 DHCP: after selecting the option, set the access mode of the local IP ...
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Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Click the Digitalservices, enter Digitalsettings service interface. Can send you email when alarm occurs,pic 5-15. Open UPNP, all the PC show DVR icon at Digitalplaces, click two times and login with password to view. Notice: Router must support and open Upnp function when you use it, shown in Picture 5-15.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Port: Port number of the mail server. User name: User name of the sender’s mail. Password: Password of the corresponding user name. Receiver: The warning information can be sent to the designated ...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Record channels: ☑ open the trigger video, choice the video channel, system alarm channel when alarm occurs. Default: Recover all the alarm setting parameters to the default values. Save: Save the set parameters of current menu. ...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-20 Picture 5-20 Stay Time: Stay time on the Preset. Cruise speed: Speed for Cruise. Start Cruise: Start Cruise, and patrol in fixed path. Auto Scan: Clear all preset point. Notice: the DVR supports maximum 255 preset point, however, it is also affected by the PTZ Camera itself, for different PTZ Camera, the number of preset point supported could vary a lot.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-22 Time Title/channel title: ☑ After the selected can display system time/ channel name. Channel Name: Click on the name of the channel can be modified to display the name of each channel,as shown in Figure 5-23. Resolution: It means the resolution of video output of DVR.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-24 According to user selection, you can set the parameters of restore default for “Common”, “User”, “Record Setup” and “NetWork”. 5.3.3.9 Image Color Click “Image Color” icon under “Sys Setup”, pop up the video configuration menu, then can configure the video properties of IPC.
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu 5.3.3.10 P2P configuration Double click left mouse P2P configuration, enter P2P setting interface, shown in Picture 5-26. P2P including mobile client remote monitoring, can be add mobile client by scanning the QR code. Picture 5-26 5.3.3.11 DDNS Double click left mouse DDNS configuration, enter DDNS setting interface, shown in Picture 5-27., can be set up remote through the domain...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu DDNS refresh time:Setting refresh time, the number in seconds. User name: the account registered in the DNS service provider. Password: the password to the account registered in the DNS service provider. Domain name: the domain name registered in the DNS service ...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-29 If the devices have connected the HDD successfully, the HDD manage list will show the information of HDD.You have to format the HDD if the HDD is the first time to connect; If the system detects that do not need to format the hard disk, the HDD status will displays “normal”;...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-30 User List: List added users. “admin” is super user/administrator, and we cannot change its privilege, but only its password. Other general users have no privilege of adding, modifying or deleting. Privilege: Privilege list of users. It includes PTZ control, playback, ...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-31 If the device have detected upgrade files in the U disk, the related information of upgrade package (number, name, size, date) will be displayed. U disk Upgrade steps: Copy the upgrade file (named should be the format update_dvr.tgz) to the root directory of U disk, connect this U disk to the device's USB port, if did not display the upgrade file in the list ,please refresh the interface ( If the upgrade package still cannot be searched out ,...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu Picture 5-32 Channel list:Set video input type of the channel, set to 720P or 960H. Default:Restoration site parameters, set to default values. Save:Save the parameter values of the current interface settings. Cancel : Do not save the parameter values of the current interface ...
Digital Video Recorder DVR Menu 5.3.6 Shut Down Click “Shut Down” icon in the main menu, move on to shut down the system interface. Therefore, the system can be canceled, restarted, and shut down, as followed picture 5-34 shows.. Picture 5-34 Logout: Logout the current user, switch to user login interface.
WEB Operation 6.1 Active X install To make sure DVR connects to Internet successfully, open IE Browser, input required IP address, the default setting is 192.168.1.168, and then the Active X will be downloaded and installed automatically Notice: 1.For WIN 7, could have problems for backup and recording, if so, please check the Admin setting, procedure as follows: WIN7-1 WIN7-2...
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation 6.2 IE Login After the plug-in is installed, login interface as below Picture 6-2, entering the user name and password. The default user name is admin, and the password is 12345, click the login then can remote login. Picture 6-2 6.3 IE Login Interface After logining the client sucessfully, entering live preview interface and...
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation Picture 6-3 1.System Menu. Including Live Video Record Setting, Local Setting and Logout. 2.Real-time Monitoring Channel. Open/Close Preview, Local Video and Photograph. Mark Specification CH1-CH16 Preview Channel. Open or close corresponding preview channel. Click the button, begin recording, the video saves in computer hard disk.
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation Figure 6-4, setting up the current system time of device, date, system language, display resolution and other information. Parameter Specification System Time Set up the system time of device than saving. Default Set up the device language, you can change the language language as you need.
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation 6.4.1.3 User Picture 6-6 Figure 6-6, you can add or delete user, modify the information and rights of user by the interface; Related parameters setting consistent with DVR client. 6.4.1.4 SMTP Setup Picture 6-7 Figure 6-7, when alarm message appears, mails can be sent to designated mail address through the setup of this page.
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation 6.4.1.5 DDNS Setup Picture 6-8 Figure 6-8, the DVR can be set up remotely via domain name through this interface and the relevant parameters setup should be the same with the DVR port. After determining the date in this interface, videos of associated channels can be checked according to the video types.
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation Picture 6-10 You can get parameters of Main-stream and Sub-stream of IPC device of channel access (coding mode, resolution, frame rate, the value of the stream), also can set the value of stream of Main-stream and Sub-stream of IPC device by the interface.
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation Picture 6-12 You can set up the channel recording as timetable by the interface, relevant parameters are same with DVR setting. 6.4.3.2 Playback Rec Playback interface is shown in Figure 6-13. Picture 6-13 After determining the date in this interface, videos of associated channels can be checked according to the video types.
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation Log and Version. 6.5.1.1 Disk Management You can format the disk (when you use the hard disk to record first time, you need format the disk first), you can find the information of hard disk( Disk Number, State, Total capacity, Residual Capacity and Device Type), as below Picture 6-14.
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation Picture 6-16 6.5.1.4 Log information You can find specific log information by log query. Specific steps: Set up the type and time of the journal you need (as below Picture 6-17, you can recall the calendar to choose the date by clicking the blank frame of start time and begin time), click “query”...
Digital Video Recorder WEB Operation Picture 6-18 6.5.1.6 Storage In Storage configuration, the user can set up the save path of video file (preview video file) in computer, remote file download and capture image. as below Picture 6-19. Picture 6-19 6.6 Logout Click the logout icon , back to the login screen.
Appendix 7.1 Q&A 1. How to do when can’t detect the hard disk? Answer: If the system does not detect the hard disk, kindly please check the data line and the power line of hard disk whether are connected well, whether there is a problem about the interface of hard disk on the motherboard, or kindly please check hard disk whether is supported by the DVR in specification.
DigitalVideo Recorder Appendix Answer: Kindly please check whether the connection of data line of hard disk is good, whether the time of system is changed, whether the query condition that is setted can’t save video files. If also have the question after restarting, kindly please check whether the hard disk is damaged.
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