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  • Page 1 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder NVR-E6480...
  • Page 2 NVR-E6480 Copyright Copyright © 2016 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
  • Page 3 In the view of Saving the Energy and reduce the unnecessary power consuming, it is strongly suggested to switch off or remove the DC-plug for the device if this device is not intended to be active. Revision User’s Manual of PLANET 64-ch Network Video Recorder Model: NVR-E6480 Rev: 1.0 (May, 2016) Part No. EM-NVR-E6480_v1.0...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    TART     CHAPTER 3. LOG IN TO THE SYSTEM....................20   ................20   CCESS VIA NTERNET XPLORER ROWSER   NVR-E6480 W ..................23   CCESS VIA ORKSTATION   ......................25   HANGE ROFILE     CHAPTER 4. NVR USER INTERFACE OVERVIEW ................26  ...
  • Page 5 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.2.6   Manual Recording .......................51   6.2.7   Take a Snapshot of Live Image ..................52   6.2.8   Digital PTZ Operation......................53   6.2.9   Optical PTZ Operation ......................53   6.2.10  ...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1. Product Description

    The NVR-E6480 features Gigabit Ethernet ports, eMap, video motion detection, automatic camera registration, and mobile apps for smart phone and tablet connectivity. The NVR-E6480, capable of recording 300Mbps of video bandwidth, supports a wide range of resolutions in H.264, MPEG-4 and M-JPEG formats.
  • Page 7 NVR-E6480 Instant Playback On the Live View page of the NVR-E6480’s management interface, whenever you want to look back to check suspicious events of a camera channel you just missed, just hit the ‘Instant Playback’ button to bring up the window to review recent feeds. While you don’t have to switch to the Playback page to do so, you can still have full live views of other channels simultaneously.
  • Page 8 The NVR-E6480 is suitable for various network environments. Besides applications in retail stores and SMBs, the NVR-E6480 offers 8 SATA HDDs supporting RAID 0/1 function and is able to be applied in large scale surveillance facilities, such as banks, enterprises,...

  • Page 9: Product Features

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 transportations, campuses, etc. Product Features Hardware Windows-based standalone NVR 2U rack-mount design Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports E-SATA, VGA and USB interface supported Audio line-in, line-out and mic-in jacks Video & Audio Simultaneous recording and live video streaming Supports M-JPEG, MPEG-4 and H.264 compressions...

  • Page 10: Remote Access

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Easy Installation & Management ONVIF compliant for interoperability Supports multiple languages Dual stream management Location-based management with eMap Up to max. 64 channels with the central management software Supports USB keyboard and mouse Remote access via mobile app viewer and Web browser Cam Viewer E-series software supported –...

  • Page 11: Product Specifications

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Product Specifications NVR-E6480 Product Hardware Intel Processor Operating System Windows 7 Standard Embedded Ethernet 2 x RJ45, 10/100/1000BASE-T USB Interface 6 x USB 2.0 for backup device and firmware upgrade...
  • Page 12 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Audio Audio Type 2-way Live View Local: 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16 Display Layout Mode Remote: 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 18, 24, 25, 35, 36, 48, 49, 64...
  • Page 13 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Monitor Max. Local Display 1920 x 1200 Resolution Network and Configuration IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, DHCP, RTP, RTSP, DNS, NTP Network Service (SNTP), ICMP, ARP, SMTP, FTP, UPnP, LDAP, ONVIF...

  • Page 14: Physical Specifications

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Physical Specifications Front Panel Rear Panel...

  • Page 15: Chapter 2. Hardware Installation

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Chapter 2. Hardware Install ation Make sure this unit is turned off, and insert the hard disks into the disk bays following the sequence of tray numbers. 1. Slide the lock tab aside, and the hinge tab will pop out by itself.
  • Page 16 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 3. Loosen the two screws on the tray to remove the dummy disk. Secure the hard disk on the tray with the provided disk screws. Make sure the disk connector faces towards the SATA...
  • Page 17 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 4. Place your thumb on the lock to push the tray into position in the chassis. 5. Press the hinge tab until it clicks into place. 6. Align the left end hooks to the holes on the unit’s left handle.

  • Page 18: Rack Mounting

    Step 1: Allow a minimum of 5 cm clearance at the front and the rear for front-to-back airflow of the unit. Step 2: Prepare a rack shelf rated for the unit’s weight or purchase the rail kit from PLANET, and install that to support the entire unit.

  • Page 19: Start Up

    Step 3: As this unit starts up, you will enter Windows logon screen, and input the password “admin” to log in as administrator. The NVR-E6480 is strongly recommended to have it installed on the intranet in consideration of network security. It still could be attacked by hackers or malware...

  • Page 20: Chapter 3. Log In To The System

    Access via Internet Explorer Browser The computer where NVR server is installed is called Server Computer. You may access the server directly via Internet Explorer or the NVR-E6480 workstation on any other client computer. Please open your browser, in URL box, type number, e.g.
  • Page 21 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Login Please obtain the Account & Password information from system A. Enter Account & administrator who has previously set up your User account in NVR- Password E6480 system. The default account and password are “admin”.
  • Page 22 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 information after your first login Please note that this procedure is only available when NVR server has accessed to SMTP service. The email address input in Forgot Password window should match...

  • Page 23: Access Via Nvr-E6480 Workstation

    NVR server. It may be installed in NVR server, or in the remote client computer that connects to NVR server via network. For the local client of NVR server, the NVR-E6480 workstation will start automatically after you login to Windows; for the remote client, please double-click the shortcut icon on your desktop to execute this workstation application.
  • Page 24 Please obtain the account & password information from system Enter Account administrator who has previously set up your User account in the & Password NVR-E6480 system. The default account and password are “admin”. The NVR-E6480 user interface consists of Choose the...

  • Page 25: Change User Profile

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Change User Profile You can maintain your own account information on NVR interface without system administrator’s help. On NVR screen, click  " Update Profile". You may change the email address or...

  • Page 26: Chapter 4. Nvr User Interface Overview

    Unlike some NVR system products on the market, whose tree-like structure may easily confuse the user. The NVR-E6480’s easy user interface structure saves you a lot of time and hassle going from one page to another. Once you log in to the system, you may switch to any of the main function modules: Live View, Playback and Setup on any screen.
  • Page 27 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Options are certain useful functions you mostly need. The provided functions vary on different screens.
  • Page 28 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 System Log provides the search module for you to review the records of user’s behavior on this server. This is only available when your User right has permission to access it.

  • Page 29: Nvr Main Screen

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 NVR Main Screen You will enter the live view screen after Setup Wizard. On the right are link buttons to three NVR major functions: (1) Live, (2) Playback and (3) Setup. You can click the orange button to enter the function page.
  • Page 30 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Setup This screen allows you to perform user setup, device setup, event setup, schedule setup and system-wide settings.

  • Page 31: Chapter 5. Live View

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Chapter 5. Live View Live View is the interface where you see the live views from your cameras. It is where most of the security professionals access the surveillance system. Aside from keeping an eye on the...

  • Page 32: Select A View

    NVR-E6480 Select a View In the NVR-E6480 system, a View refers to the layout where the live images of a few cameras are arranged in proper positions to suit the monitoring purpose. This is very similar to a Camera Group, which consists of cameras in the same physical location or with the same camera functions.

  • Page 33: Select A Camera

    NVR-E6480 For details about how to create and edit a View, please refer to Chapter Customize Views in the NVR-E6480 Enterprise Administrator’s Manual. Select a Camera To watch the live view of individual cameras, you need to identify and add this camera video stream to a blank channel in display area.

  • Page 34: Camera List

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Camera List To view the camera information, put the cursor over the camera figure to bring the info box up. In Camera panel, you may also sort the cameras in a different order. Click on the title bar, select “Camera Sort”, and choose “by IP”...

  • Page 35: Remove A Channel

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Remove a Channel To remove a channel from display window, right-click the mouse for the quick menu on the channel, and select “Remove” to remove this video source.

  • Page 36: Remove All Channels

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Remove All Channels To remove all channels, disconnect all cameras by clicking in the title bar and select “Remove All”.

  • Page 37: Add Bookmark

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Add Bookmark During live monitoring, you can create a bookmark of any time on any channel and edit your remarks about it. Select a channel and on the floating command bar, click on the bookmark button.
  • Page 38 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Full Screen On the system title bar, click and then select “Full Screen” to enter full screen mode. Click the icon on the top right corner of the title bar to return to normal mode.

  • Page 39: Enable View Patrol

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Enable View Patrol You may have the saved Views patrol in turn. In this way, the views in different areas in your site may cycle through themselves for you automatically.
  • Page 40 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 below. 2. Choose the Views to display in patrol. If you select the All Cameras group, you will also need to select “All Camera Layout Style” for it. 3. Click “Apply” to save the settings. This patrol will instantly start running until you click...

  • Page 41: Chapter 6. Monitor The System

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Chapter 6. Monitor the Sy stem Read System Alerts and Channel Status On NVR live view screen, it is essential to observe the system status events. As unexpected environmental factors or human behaviors may take place to influence your surveillance system like power failure or internet connection interruption, NVR server may lose the connection with cameras, and hence you might lose the important video evidence.
  • Page 42 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 If this camera is triggered by events such as video motion, PIR motion or digital input device, the channel title bar would turn red for a while to alert you that some movements have been detected.

  • Page 43: Event Panel

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.1.2 Event Panel It is important to check out the messages pushed into Event panel all the time. These messages are arranged in a reverse-time order (newest on top, oldest on bottom).

  • Page 44: Instant Event Playback

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.1.3 Instant Event Playback Among these types of Event messages, you may individually watch the event playback of a motion (video motion, DI or PIR) event or transmission status event (video recovery and loss, or network recovery and loss).

  • Page 45: Pop-Up Event Playback

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.1.4 Pop-up Event Playback Sometimes the instant event playback window would automatically pop up to notify you of events detected on certain camera sites. As the events in certain sensitive spots will have higher priority than other channels, your system administrator would apply this “Pop-up Event...

  • Page 46: Motion Region Indicator

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.1.6 Motion Region Indicator The motion region indicator is a red frame t hat blinks when motion inside this ROI (Region of Interest) is detected. You can turn off the indicators of all channels on Live View screen. On Live View screen, click “Disable Motion Alert”.

  • Page 47: Show Mini Live View Windows On A Map

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.2.1 Show Mini Live View Windows on a Map You may open mini live view windows of all cameras on a map channel to get an overview of what is happening on this map.
  • Page 48 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 bottom right of Live View screen is the audio-in volume control. To mute the channel audio, click To activate the channel audio, click To adjust audio volume, drag on the volume meter.

  • Page 49: Send Audio Signal

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.2.3 Send Audio Signal To talk to the audience through speaker connected to one camera, right-click on a channel to bring up the quick menu, and select “Audio Out”. When this icon appears in orange, your audio-out function is activated, every sound you make through the microphone on your client computer will be sent out to this camera only.
  • Page 50 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 On the channel, right-click to bring up the quick menu, the DO icon will appear available if the corresponding DO device is connected. Click “DO” to trigger it, click again to stop triggering.

  • Page 51: Watch Instant Playback Of A Channel

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6.2.5 Watch Instant Playback of a Channel You may watch the playback of any channel in a pop-up window on Live View without switching to Playback screen. As a channel is focused, click on Live View Control panel.

  • Page 52: Take A Snapshot Of Live Image

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 To manually record all channels in current View, on Live view Control panel, click start; click to stop. 6.2.7 Take a Snapshot of Live Image You may take a snapshot on a channel live image on Live View screen. The snapshot will be saved to default folder on your client computer as .jpg format (The system default location is...

  • Page 53: Digital Ptz Operation

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 As a channel is focused, click on Live view Control panel to take a snapshot. 6.2.8 Digital PTZ Operation Regardless of the camera models, you may perform digital zooming on Live view screen.
  • Page 54 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 PTZ Panel Overview Using Mouse Controls You may also use mouse to perform PTZ negation on a channel view or a mini live view window on a map. Place the mouse over the channel to do the following PTZ operations: To execute optical Panning and Tilting, click anywhere on the live window to allow the camera to move in that direction.

  • Page 55: Navigate A Fisheye Camera Channel

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 scroll the mouse wheel backward to zoom out. 6.2.10 Navigate a Fisheye Camera Channel On a fisheye camera channel, you may change the fisheye view mode and view point at will.
  • Page 56 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 When you click on a channel which is set to such modes: Panorama mode with Wall mounting, Double Panorama mode with Wall mounting, Panorama Focus mode with Wall mounting and Double Panorama mode with Ceiling mounting, a clickable cursor will appear on the view to allow you explore the image.
  • Page 57 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Click the mouse anywhere on the view to pan/tilt; scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in/out. To reset the PTZ navigation area back to default viewing angle, right-click to bring up channel menu, and then click “Reset”.

  • Page 58: Chapter 7. Playback

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Chapter 7. Play back NVR Playback is the NVR module that processes recorded clips, where you may search, play back and export video. Multiple channels can be played synchronizedly, and video clips may also be exported in either RAW or AVI format.
  • Page 59 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 is selected in the beginning, and you have to select your desired channels. Add Video Source There are two ways to pull in video sources: 1. In View area, click on a saved view.
  • Page 60 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 To remove all channels at one time, on the title bar, click to bring up the most used playback-related commands menu, and select “Remove All”.

  • Page 61: Search On Time Bar

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Search on Time Bar You may focus on a certain channel as a search base. Its time bar will be highlighted as well. 1. To adjust the time frame seen on the Time Bar, you can click on any location on the Time...
  • Page 62 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Display Event Types By default, the “Manual” recording will display in orange, while “Schedule” recording displays in gray on the time bar. To highlight specific events, you may enable the “Event” and “DI”...

  • Page 63: Digital Zoom On Channel View

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Digital Zoom on Channel View Regardless of the camera models, you may perform digital zooming while the video is playing. 1. Click and drag a highlight rectangle over any channel, and the area highlighted will be displayed in the full live video window.

  • Page 64: Explore Fisheye View

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Explore Fisheye View You may change to the desired fisheye view mode on Playback screen. To select a fisheye camera channel, right-click to bring up the channel menu Fisheye Mode select one view mode.

  • Page 65: Search By Event Type

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 3. The time bar will immediately locate the target time. Search by Event Type If you are clear about (1) When (2) as which event type (3) Where the incident happened, you will not need to drag on time bar all the way to the spot.

  • Page 66: Search By Video Analytics

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 4. Select an event type of event search, and you can select an unwanted filter and delete it by unchecking the option. 5. Select the desired filter and click “Apply” to start searching.
  • Page 67 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 3. On Search Tool panel, click “Smart Search”. 4. Define the time range. 5. Select the video analytics type 6. Click “+” to create this filter. You can select an unwanted filter and delete it by clicking on the...
  • Page 68 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 7. After this filter is created, draw the regions on the channel view. (You can define a total of six regions for a motion filter, while tamper filter will analyze the whole camera view.)
  • Page 69 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 If the area you want to mark does not fit to the form of a rectangle, you may also want to draw a polygon by selecting the icon. To draw the lines for the sides of your polygon, click your cursor to mark the endpoints of each line.

  • Page 70: View Search Results

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 View Search Results The search results will then start being generated in thumbnails in Search Result Viewer window. However, it might take a few seconds if a large number of results are found. The thumbnails are listed in sequential order, left-to-right and top-to-bottom.
  • Page 71 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 For easy exploring the search results, on Search Result Tool Bar, you can Adjust the size of the snapshots, the smaller the thumbnail’s size is, the more results you can see in the view.

  • Page 72: Take A Snapshot Of The Playback View

    NVR playback offers two choices of video form at for the exported video. The *.raw file, as the original video file format captured from video source, is able to be played on PLANET CV7-VA and CV7-LP software. You may download the software from http://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/product_list.php?id=478...
  • Page 73 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 sites: http://so urceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx Define the Section of Exported Video on Time Bar You may define the video duration on time bar during t he playback. In this way, you don’t spend extra time and effort on finding the specific date and time information.

  • Page 74: Set The Export Video Settings

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 7.12 Set the Export Video Settings You may export video with or without defining the time duration beforehand since you can configure all the settings on Export Video window. On Search Result Tool bar, click enter the window.
  • Page 75 64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 6. Click “Apply” to start file converting and exporting. The export process window will appear. In the Camera column displays the processed/total number of video clips of that camera. You may also observe the remaining processing time of each camera’s video files.

  • Page 76: Appendix A: Default Setting

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Appendix A: Default Setting admin Default Login User Name for Windows admin Default Login Password for Windows admin Default Login User Name for NVR-E6480 Workstation admin Default Login Password for NVR-E6480 Workstation...

  • Page 77: Appendix B: Nvr Performance

    64-Channel Windows-based Network Video Recorder with 8-bay Hard Disks NVR-E6480 Appendix B: NVR Performance NVR-E6480 (Live View) 10MP 1.3MP Camera 6fps 15fps 8fps 15fps 30fps 30fps 30fps 30fps 6fps 15fps 8fps 15fps 30fps 30fps 30fps 30fps 1fps 1fps 1fps 1fps...

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