Hunt Electronic HDR-16EP User Manual

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HDR-16EP

16-Cameras

Digital Surveillance System

USER MANUAL

Date of Revision：Nov. 18, 2002

Hunt Electronic USA, Inc.

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Page 1: User Manual
HDR-16EP 16-Cameras Digital Surveillance System USER MANUAL Date of Revision：Nov. 18, 2002 Hunt Electronic USA, Inc.
Page 2: Declaration
Product The HDR-16EP, 16-Camera Digital Surveillance System is protected by patent and related laws. Reproduction or imitation of any form is in violation of the patent and related laws. If you have any questions or requests regarding this product, please contact us, and we will try our best to provide assistance.
Page 3: Table Of Contents
DECLARATION ...2 INDEX...3 I. LIST OF CONTENTS ...4 II. PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS...5 III. INSTALLATION ...6 Hard Disk Installation...6 Connect to Monitor ...6 Connect to Camera...6 Other Connections...6 OPERATION ...7 Booting Up...7 Main Screen ...8 Display Mode...9 Hard Disk Free Space ...10 Playback ...11 System Settings ...14 Remote Functions ...27...
Page 4: List Of Contents
6. Warranty Card Please keep the original packaging in case parts need to be shipped back for service. Reminder: HDR-16EP package does not include a VGA surveillance monitor. The monitor (XVGA, 1024*768) can be purchased separately at various computer stores. HDR-16EP...
Page 5: Product Characteristics
+ Motion Detection Processor EASY FOR OPERATION With such high reliable structure, HDR-16EP will meet your requirements as a multi-function device. Moreover, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) is also user-friendly. Customers will find this qualified security system is very easy for...
Page 6: Installation
Please refer to other books/manuals or ask your camera supplier. 2. Connect the camera to the HDR-16EP with a 5C2V coaxial cable. Video input connectors for HDR-16EP are BNC female type. If cable with F connector to be used, a “BNC to Female”...
Page 7: Iv. Operation
The operation procedures are as follows: 4-1 Booting Up 1. Push the Power Button (Open the front panel, then press the button). HDR-16EP 2. If all the installation procedures are correct, the system will boot up and show the main screen as follows.
Page 8: Main Screen
4-2 Main Screen Display Mode The above picture is an example of the main screen. On the right of the screen is the “status display”. From top to bottom is Date/Time, Hard Disk Free Space, then followed by 3 columns and 16 rows, which are Recording Status (1 column), DI Receiving Status (2 column).
Page 9: Display Mode
4-3 Display Mode The 7 icons on the bottom of the Main Screen are Display Mode selections. The 7 icons are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, and 16 splits. The default display mode is 16 splits. The camera displayed on each split mode could be modified through the system setting menu.
Page 10: Hard Disk Free Space
4-4 Hard Disk Free Space On the right of the Main Screen, there are two Hard Disk pictures(HDR-16EP supports two Hard Disks). On the right of the hard disk picture, there is the number in color with a “%” sign, which means the available hard disk space.
Page 11: Playback
4-5 Playback 4-5-1 Enter Playback Mode When you click this icon, 4-5-2 Select Playback Period You can use the mouse to select the “Time-segment Directory” in the upper left corner of the screen. Time-segment Directory only shows “Playback” when it is not opened.
Page 12 quality.
Page 13: Playback Control Buttons
4-5-4 Playback Control Buttons In addition to “Brightness” and “Contrast” controls, there are more option buttons on the playback mode as follows: PLAY PAUSE STEP PLAY INVERT FIT TO WINDOW RESET TO DEFAULT : To cancel all special effects and reset to original COPY TO FLOPPY RETURN TO MAIN SCREEN: Return to main screen display CD/RW Backup: Click to enter CD/RW backup Screen...
Page 14: System Settings
4-6 System Settings 4-6-1、Enter System Settings Screen 1. Click the System Setting icon. System will show a screen as follows for user to key in the username and password. 2. Use mouse to click the “keyboard” icon on the right of the “User Name” column.
Page 15 4. If the username and password are correct, click the “OK” button on the “User Login” screen, then the system will enter the system setting screen. 5. When you enter the system setting screen, there are 6 icons on top of the screen.
Page 16: Camera Setup
4-6-2 Camera Setup 1. Please select the camera you would like to do the setting. 2. Camera Name: You could use the “keyboard figure” icon on the right of “Camera Name” column to key in the description for the camera. 3.
Page 17 Please remember: the total frame rate of the entire system is limited. For HDR-16EP, the system recording frame rate is depended on the CPU that system uses. If it uses the Intel P4-2.4G, the system recording frame rate is around 100fps(Frame per Second) for NTSC.
Page 18 It is used to set the Motion Sensor Area 。 7.1 Motion Sensor Area: for the Detection Area ， then use mouse to drag the Click motion detection windows on the screen. 7.2 No-Detection Area: for the No-Detection Area ， then use mouse to Click drag the area which do not use motion detection.
Page 19: View Setup
4-6-3 View Setup Click “Split” icon, it will display the view setup screen as follows. For the 7 display modes mentioned in the section 4-3, the display content is setup through the “Split” icon on the screen above. For the table above, there are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, 16 splits setting screen.
Page 20: User Account Management
4-6-4 User Account Management This section describes the “remote access privilege” setup procedures for the user account. Click “User” icon, it will display the screen for user account management as follows. [Add User Account] Click “Add” icon to add user account as screen below.
Page 21 1. There are 2 system pre-set accounts. The usernames and passwords for these two accounts are as follows. 1-1 Username: “admin”; Password: “1111” is for system management account. This account could not be deleted. 1-2 Username: “net”; Password: “1111” is for normal user account. This account could be deleted.
Page 22 [Delete User Account] Click “Delete” icon to delete user account. A screen will display as follows. Click “OK” if you would like to delete this user account.
Page 23: Network Configuration
4-6-5 Setting Date and Time Use mouse to modify the date/time. After that, please click the “Set!!”. System will pop up the warning window as follows. Please click the “OK” to reboot the system. 4-6-6 Network Configuration Select Enable or Disable to enable/disable remote monitoring function. Click Up &...
Page 24 After click the “Set!!” icon. System will show the warning window as follows. Please click the “OK” to reboot the system. 4-6-7、DI/DO (digital control signal input and output) DI/DO digital control provides the three configurations as follows. (1). One IO-0404B module, which includes 1 board (for internal connection), and 1 cable (for internal connection).
Page 25 (3) One IO-1616 module, which includes 1 board (for internal connection), 4 cables (for internal connection), 1 board (for external connection), and 1 cable (for external connection).. DI control options: Disable: Disable the “control signal input”. NC (normal close): signal loop is normally closed; if loop becomes opened, then starts recording.
Page 26 4. No matter it’s DI status change or image motion, it all counts as Event happening, so it will start the recording, If the DO is enabled, the DO status will also be changed if the event happens. Please refer to the graph below. DI Status Change Event Happen Start Recording...
Page 27: Remote Functions
4-7 Remote Functions...
Page 28 4-7-1、Remote Monitoring through Local Area Network [Administrator] Decide an IP address in the local area network. Follow the instruction in 4-6-6 “Network Configuration” to set up HDR-16EP, then connect HDR-16EP to the local area network. Inform user the IP address, username, and password. [User] 1.
Page 29 [Administrator] To allow users to do the remote monitoring through Internet, Administrator of HDR-16EP needs to apply for a fixed line (leased line or ADSL), and get the fixed IP address from the ISP (Internet Service Provider). Please follow the instructions in section 4-6-6 “Network Configuration” to setup HDR-16EP, then connect HDR-16EP to the fixed line.
Page 30 After successful connect, the user’s PC will be assigned an IP Address from the RAS (Remote Access Server) of ISP. Users can open the Web Browser now, enter HDR-16EP IP Address (Refer to 4-6-6), and wait for several seconds (time for loading program) to start the remote monitoring function.
Page 31 1. Decide an IP Address, and follow section 4-6-6 “Network Configuration” to set up HDR-16EP. 2. When booting up HDR-16EP, press “Del” key on the keyboard to enter BIOS setting screen. Under the “Integrated Peripherals” menu option, set “Onboard Serial Port 1” (Port A) to “Enabled” (or Auto,, or 3F8).
Page 32 Users can open the Web Browser now, enter HDR-16EP IP address, and wait for several seconds (time for loading program) to start remote monitoring function. Additional Information: After successful connecting to modem, the PC will be assigned an IP Address, which is the number next to HDR-16EP’s IP Address.
Page 33 “Finish” on the last window as figure below to finish the installation of Remote Playback function. After the successful installation, user can start to use the Playback function on the HDR-16EP web page. Also, a Local Playback icon will appear on the window desktop as the figure below.
Page 34 Notice: If there is a previous installed Remote Playback program on your machine, you will need to process the same installation twice – the first time for removing the original program, and the second time for installing the new version of the remote playback program.
Page 35 4-7.5 How to use Remote Monitoring and Remote Playback After the installation, you can start using Remote Monitoring and Remote Playback functions by clicking on the icons on the HDR-16EP web page. The following screen will be displayed: [Remote Monitoring Function]: There are three kinds of display modes for remote monitoring, which are, Single View, 4 Split, and 16 Split.
Page 36 “4 Split”: User could monitor 4 split screen at the same time as the graph below. The default view is Camera 1,2,3,4, Camera 5,6,7,8, Camera 9,10,11,12, and Camera 13,14,15,16. User could also change the view position of each camera from the “Custom View” column. “16 Split”: It will display all the 16 cameras in the screen.
Page 37 System will start to play the recorded video if recording file found at the selected time. However, if there is no recorded video at the selected time, system will do the forward searching to play the next recorded video. The following selection can be used during the video playing. Enlarge the video image Back to the original image size Pause...
Page 38 4-7.6 How to Use Local Playback From the remote monitoring/remote playback web page listed in the previous section, select to download the current playing record with an image file (*.MP4) and a relative index file (*.CVX) to the selected directory. Note that these two files must be saved in the same directory.
Page 39: Backup Solution: Swap Removable Hard Disk
It is the best available solution for backup purpose. HDR-16EP is very suitable for using removable hard disk as it is very fast to boot up and format disks. In chapter 4-4, we discussed how to change the removable hard disk.
Page 40 The system will re-boot and enter in the normal recording mode. 4-8-1、If the new hard disk is inserted to the system HDR-16EP supports 2 Hard Disk. If you insert the New HD(either 1 HD or 2 HD) into the system, after system booting, it will show the figure as follows.
Page 41 2. Click “ Format” on the right of the screen, then system will start to format the new hard disk. After finishing the format, the “selection icons” will become “available”. Please refer to the figure below. Use the “selection icons” to choose the cameras you would like to be recorded in this new formatted HD.
Page 42 4-8-2、If the old disk is inserted to the system. After system booting, it will show as follows. If you click “Play Only” icon , it will show the figure as follows. Selection Icons Selection Icons...
Page 43 HD Select All Disk Icon Icon Choose the HD you would like to playback through “HD Select Icon”, then click “Playback” Icon, it will show the playback screen as follows. The playback procedures are the same as the Section 4-5(Playback). If there are two old HD(w/ recorded data inside) inserted into the system at the same time and also there is no “overlapped camera”...
Page 44 stored in these two HD, the “All Disk” icon will pop up also. User could click the “All Disk” icon, then click the “Playback” icon to enter playback screen to play the images stored in these two HD. If you click “Disk Management” icon , it will show the figure as follows. “Save”...
Page 45 Please use the “Selection” Icon as above to remove the “overlapped camera” from one of the HD, then the “Save” icon will pop up again. Click the “Save” icon, the system will reboot automatically and start the normal operations and record the data in these two HD Remark : * If the HD is entering the “recycle mode”(the space of HD is full of the recording data), system will delete the recording data from the first date, then record the data on these available space.
Page 46: Backup Solution: Cd-R/Rw Recorder
USB cable to connect the CD-R/RW Recorder with USB interface of DVR, then turn on the DVR to use external CD-R/RW Recorder. Please note that HDR-16EP does not support USB Hot Plug, which means if you connect the CD-R/RW Recorder to DVR while the DVR was already tuned on, the DVR will not recognize the CD-R/RW Recorder.
Page 47 CD-R/RW models to be selected Message Speed of burning Blank CD-RW: If the CD-RW is used, please execute “Blank” procedure first. Input the CD-RW to the CD-R/RW recorder, click on After it is done, the Message area will display “Done”. If the CD-RW is the blank one, you do not need to execute this process.
Page 48 4. You can browse the other directories (dates) to continue the file selection. 5. Click on the button on the bottom left corner to choose the burning speed. The default speed is 6 times burning. Click on CD inside the CD-R/RW recorder. If not, the system will request for the replacement or insert a blank CD.
Page 49: Other Information
V. OTHER INFORMATION 5-1 Specifications Model ： HDR-16EP System: Operation System Embedded Linux Video Input 8/16 BNC connectors Video Output D-type VGA connector Video Format NTSC/PAL/SECAM Compression MPEG-4 User Interface User friendly graphic user interface operated by mouse Security Multiple passwords protection...
Page 50 However, we do recommend the use an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) with the HDR-16EP. This will help to avoid shortening the system life span and partial data loss due to the instability of power supply. Therefore, in order not to miss any important images, we recommend that the power supply of the cameras should also be connected to the UPS.
Page 51: Maintenance
5-4 Warranty Hunt Electronic USA, Inc. provides one year warranty from the date of purchase against defects in materials or workmanship, when the HDR-16EP is installed and operated in accordance with the instructions provided in this user’s manual and is in normal use.