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Page 2: Table Of Contents
User Manual Contents ONLINE HELP CENTER ........................1 SAFETY INSTRUCTION ........................1 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY ....................1 CONTENT OF PACKAGE ........................2 PRODUCT OVERVIEW ........................3 CHAPTER 1: OPERATING THE SYSTEM ..................4 1.1 USING THE MOUSE ......................4 1.2 USING THE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD ................5 1.3 PASSWORD ........................5 CHAPTER 2: LIVE VIEW AND MENUS ...................7...
Page 3 User Manual 3.3.1 Motion Alarm ....................23 3.3.2 Alarm I/O ......................24 3.3.3 Other ......................... 25 3.4 NETWORK ........................26 3.4.1 General ......................26 3.4.1.1 PPPoE ....................27 3.4.1.2 Port Conﬁguration ................27 3.4.2 DDNS ........................28 3.4.3 Email ......................... 29 3.4.3.1 Email Conﬁguration ................29 3.4.3.2 Email Schedule .................30 3.4.4 FTP ........................31...
Page 4 User Manual CHAPTER 4: SEARCH, PLAYBACK & BACKUP ................49 4.1 USING SEARCH FUNCTION ..................49 4.1.1 Search & Play Video in General ..............51 4.1.1.1 Video Clip Backup ................51 4.1.2 Event Search, Playback & Backup ..............53 4.1.2.1 Event Playback Control ..............54 4.1.3 Sub-periods Playback ..................55 4.1.4 Picture Search &...
Page 5: Online Help Center
Declaration of Conformity Bascom hereby declares that the product is in conformity with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of guidelines 2004/108/EC, 2006/95/EC and 2011/65/EU. A copy of the declaration of conformity can be found on our website: www.bascom-cameras.com/conformity/.
Page 6: Content Of Package
User Manual Content of Package Your package contains these items: RECORDER USB MOUSE POWER SUPPLY HDMI CABLE NETWORK CABLE...
Page 7: Product Overview
User Manual Product Overview Front Panel ITEM INDICATOR REMARK FUNCTION & DESCRIPTION Power If the “Green” indicator is on, NVR is getting power normally. USB port Rear Panel (For reference only) ITEM PORT CONNECTION METHOD Power Port Connect power supply Power Switch Switch power on/off Sensor/Alarm...
Page 8: Chapter 1: Operating The System
User Manual Chapter 1: Operating The System 1.1 USING THE MOUSE 1. Left Button: Click to select menu options. During live viewing in split-screen view, double-click on a channel to view it in full-screen. Double-click the channel again to return to split-screen viewing. Click and hold to drag sliders in the split-screen view.
Page 9: Using The Virtual Keyboard
User Manual 1.2 USING THE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD You will see the virtual keyboard automatically on the screen when you need to enter data Click to toggle the keyboard to upper case and more punctuation Click to delete a character Move the cursor to right Click to complete the enter Move the cursor to left 1.3 PASSWORD...
Page 10 User Manual Language: Choose your language. New Admin name: Set your administrator name. New Admin Password: Set your password. The password must be a combination of 8 to 16 characters. Conﬁrm Password: Enter your password again. Click Apply to conﬁrm your settings and go to the login interface. Enter your user name & password to Login.
Page 11: Chapter 2: Live View And Menus
User Manual Chapter 2: Live View and Menus 2.1 LIVE VIEW SCREEN OVERVIEW Status Icons This indicates that the system is recording. This icon appears when the camera has detected motion. The icon indicates that the external I/O alarm device is triggered. This icon indicates an error in the HDD.
Page 12: Camera Quick Toolbar
User Manual 2.1.1 Camera Quick Toolbar In live viewing, click the left button of your mouse on a connected camera to display the Camera Quick Toolbar. Click to manually record the channel immediately. If the manually recording is in process, the icon will be in red color.
Page 13: Zoom Lens Configuration
User Manual 2.1.3 Zoom lens conﬁguration If your camera has a zoom lens, you can use this control panel to zoom in or out. Because the cameras have an autofocus function, please only adjust the zoom to make the viewing angle bigger or smaller. Focus and iris will be set automatically.
Page 14: Start Menu
User Manual ICON ITEM DESCRIPTION Save Save Delete Go to 2.1.4 Start Menu With the start menu, you can switch user, playback recorded videos, adjust settings, lock & unlock the screen, shut down, reboot & logout the system. To switch user. Search in recorded videos.
Page 15: Shutdown
User Manual 2.1.4.2 Shutdown Click the Shutdown button from the Start Menu and the choose the action. Click OK button. The system will require to input the Admin password to authenticate. What do you want to do? If you choose Logout the system, the live viewing screen will disappear. You need to login for further operations.
Page 16: Chapter 3: Settings
User Manual Chapter 3: Settings You are able to conﬁgure the settings for Cameras, Record, Alarm, Network, HDD & System from Start Menu Settings. 3.1. CAMERAS In this section, you are able to conﬁgure the camera settings. 3.1.1. Management...
Page 17: Protocol Management
User Manual Click Search to search cameras in the local network, click Add to add individual cameras, click Add All to add all cameras. Click Search button to search cameras, and then click one of the cameras in the device list. IP Address/Domain: IP address or domain name of the camera Alias: Name of the camera Position: Position to display the camera name on the screen.
Page 18: General Settings
User Manual Custom Protocol: The system support max. 10 custom protocol options. Protocol Name: To give a name to your custom protocol. Enable Substream: Check the box if you want to enable substream. Type: Only RTSP. Port: Input the RTSP port of your camera. Resources Path: Input the RTSP address of your camera.
Page 19: Image Control
User Manual Choose a channel to conﬁgure Give a name to the camera Date format to display for the camera Time format to display for the camera Refresh Rate of the camera Check the box If you want to hide the live image of this channel To show the camera name in live view screen To show the system time in live view screen...
Page 20 User Manual Choose a channel to conﬁgure Select the desired built-in IR cut ﬁlter mode to ensure the camera works properly both in the day and night. Set the delay time of IR-CUT switching Check to enable lens ﬂip and angle ﬂip Set the ﬂip angle To enable or disable Backlight compensation Choose the backlight compensation level...
Page 21: Motion Detection
User Manual 3.1.5 Motion Detection This menu allows you to conﬁgure motion settings. When motion is detected by one or more cameras, the system can alert you by sending an email alert with an attached image and/or send push notiﬁcations to your mobile app. Setup: Click icon to adjust the settings.
Page 22: Privacy
User Manual Enable: Enable or disable motion detection. Sensitivity: Set the sensitivity level. Level 1 the lowest sensitivity level while level 8 is the highest sensitivity level. 3.1.6 Privacy This menu allows you to create privacy zone(s) if you want to partially cover some certain part of the image.
Page 23: Record
User Manual 3.2 RECORD This menu allows you to conﬁgure the recording parameters. 3.2.1 Streams This menu allows you to conﬁgure different video streams. Generally, Mainstream deﬁnes the recording video quality which will be saved in the HDD; Substream deﬁnes the video quality which is being viewed via remote access;...
Page 24: Record Settings
User Manual 3.2.2 Record This menu allows you to conﬁgure the channel recording settings. 3.2.2.1 Record Settings Enable: Check to enable recording this channel. Stream: Choose the recording quality. If you choose Dualstream, the system will record in both Mainstream & Substream. Pre-Record: If this option is enabled, the system starts recording a few seconds before an alarm event (motion detection for example) occurs.
Page 25 User Manual Cameras: Select the channel to set its recording parameters. Normal: When the time slot is marked green, this indicates the channel performs normal recording for that time slot. Motion: When the time slot is marked yellow, this indicates the channel records only when a motion is detected during that time slot.
Page 26: Snapshot Settings
User Manual 3.2.3 Snapshot This menu allows to conﬁgure the snapshot function. 3.2.3.1 Snapshot settings Enable: Enable or disable snapshots on the channel. Stream Type: Select the image resolution by mainstream or substream. Normal Interval: Time interval to capture an image in normal recording. Alarm Interval: Time interval to capture an image when motion or IO alarm is triggered Manual Capture: Enable or disable manual capture in the channel 3.2.3.2 Snapshot Schedule...
Page 27: Alarm
User Manual Cameras: Select the channel to set its snapshot schedule. Normal: When the time slot is marked green, this indicates the channel performs normal snapshot for that time slot. Motion: When the time slot is marked yellow, this indicates the channel snapshots are only made when a motion is detected during that time slot.
Page 28: Alarm I/O
User Manual Record: Click icon and choose which channel(s) you want to record when the motion detection is triggered. Post-Record: You can set how long after an event occurs the system will continue to record. The recommended recording length is 30 seconds, it can be up to 5 minutes. Icon: Check the box to display a motion icon on the live view screen when motion is detected.
Page 29: Other
User Manual Post-Record: You can set how long alarm record will last when alarm ends (30s, 1minutes, 2minutes, 5minutes). Icon: Display the alarm icon on the screen when sensor is triggered. Email: Receive an email when the sensor is triggered. Full Screen: When sensor is triggered, the corresponding channel will be switched to the full screen mode.
Page 30: Network
User Manual Icon: Check the box to display a message on the screen when No Space on Disk, Disk Error, or Video Loss events happen. Email: Receive an email when an event occurs. 3.4 NETWORK This menu allows you to conﬁgure network settings. 3.4.1.
Page 31: Pppoe
User Manual 3.4.1.1 PPPoE This is an advanced protocol that allows the system to connect to the network more directly via DSL modem. Only use this function when you are an expert. Check the “Enable PPPOE” box, and then enter the User name &...
Page 32: Ddns
User Manual Web Port: This is the port that you will use to log in remotely to the system (e.g. using the Web Client). If the default port 80 is already taken by other applications, please change it. Client Port: This is the port that the system will use to send information through. If the default port 9000 is already taken by other applications, please change it.
Page 33: Email
User Manual 3.4.3 Email This menu allows you to conﬁgure email settings. Please complete these settings if you want to receive the system notiﬁcations on your email when an alarm is triggered, HDD becomes full, HDD is in error state, or Video Loss occurs. 3.4.3.1 Email Conﬁguration Email: Check to enable.
Page 34: Email Schedule
User Manual Sender: Enter a sender name for the system. Receiver 1~3: Enter the email address where you want to receive the event notiﬁcations. Interval: Conﬁgure the length of the time interval between the notiﬁcation emails. To make sure all settings are correct, click Test Email. The system sends an automated email message to your inbox.
Page 35: Ftp
User Manual 3.4.4 FTP This menu allows you to enable FTP function to view and load snapshots to your storage device over FTP. Enable: Click to enable FTP function. Server IP: Enter your FTP server IP address or domain name. Port: Enter the FTP port for ﬁle exchanges.
Page 36: Hdd
User Manual 3.5 HDD In this section, you can conﬁgure the internal HDD function. 3.5.1 Disk This menu allows you to check & conﬁgure the internal HDD(s). You need to format the HDD only at the ﬁrst startup and if you replace a new HDD. Format HDD: Select the HDD you want to format and then click Format HDD.
Page 37: Disk Group
User Manual If your systems supports to install multiple HDDs, the edit icon appears in your system, you can click it to edit the HDD as below: Disk Type: Read-write, read-only, and redundant. Read-write mode is the normal status for a HDD to save recording or search recording to play. To prevent important video data from being overwritten during cyclic recording, the HDD can be set as Read-only mode.
Page 38 User Manual 1. Use the dropdown next to Disk Group Type to select the type of group to conﬁgure. 2. Use the dropdown next to Disk Group to select the speciﬁc group within the selected group type. 3. Click the numbered boxes representing channels to record channels to HDDs in the selected group. 4.
Page 39: System
User Manual 3.6 SYSTEM Change general system information such as date, time and region, edit passwords and permissions, and more. 3.6.1. General Device Name: Enter the desired name for your system. The name can include both letters and numbers. Language: Select a language you would like the system menus to be displayed in. Multiple languages are available.
Page 40: Date And Time
User Manual 3.6.1.1 Date and Time Date: Click the calendar icon to change the date. Time: Click the dialogue box to change the time. Date Format: Select the preferred date format. Time Format: Select the preferred time format. Time Zone: Select a time zone relevant to your region or city. 3.6.1.2 NTP Settings The NTP (Network Time Protocol) function allows your system to automatically sync its clock with a time server.
Page 41: Dst Settings
User Manual Check to enable the NTP, and select a Server Address, click Update Now to manually sync the date & time. Click Apply to save your settings. When NTP function is enabled, system will update the system time at 00:07:50 per day, or every time when the system is starting up.
Page 42: Monitor Settings
User Manual 3.6.2 Monitor Settings This menu allows you to conﬁgure video output settings. Video Output: To choose the output options: LIVE-OUT is used to conﬁgure the main output parameters. 3.6.2.1 LIVE-OUT Choose LIVE-OUT from the Video Output drop-down menu. SEQ Mode: Select how many video channels you would like to display when your system is in sequence mode.
Page 43 User Manual VGA/HDMI Resolution:: Select a display resolution that is suitable for your TV. 1920 x 1080 will suit most TVs. If your system supports 4K output resolution, you can select either 2K (2560 x 1440) or 4K (3840 x 2160) to take advantage of the higher resolution that your 4K TV provides. Scale and Offset: The system supports to adjust the size &...
Page 44: Users
User Manual 3.6.3 Users This menu allows you to conﬁgure the user name, password and user permission. The system supports the following account types: ADMIN — System Administrator: The administrator has full control of the system, and can change both administrator and user passwords and enable/disable password protection. USER —...
Page 45: Add New Users
User Manual Password Enable: It’s strongly recommended to enable the password to protect your privacy. If you want to disable the password protection, please ensure your system is placed in a secure place. 3.6.3.2 Add New Users 1. Select one of the user accounts that is currently disabled, click the User Edit icon 2.
Page 46: Setting User Permissions
User Manual 3.6.3.3 Setting User Permissions The administrator account is the only account that has full control of all system functions. You can enable or disable access to certain menus and functions of each user account. 1. Click the edit icon under Permission tab.
Page 47: Maintenance
User Manual 3.6.4 Maintenance In this section, you will be able to search & view the system log, load default settings, upgrade the system, export & import system parameters and manager system auto reboot. 3.6.4.1 Log The system log shows you important system events, such as motion alarms and system warnings. You can easily create a backup ﬁle of the system log for a set time period to a USB ﬂash drive.
Page 48: Load Default
User Manual 3. Select the type of events you would like to search for from the dropdown next to Log Type, or select All to see the entire system log for the selected time period. 4. Click Search. 5. Browse system log events from your search period: Video events can be played back instantly by clicking in the Playback column.
Page 49: Upgrade
User Manual 3.6.4.3 Upgrade 1. Copy the ﬁrmware ﬁle (.sw ﬁle) to your USB drive, and insert the USB ﬂash drive into the front USB port. 2. Click Select File button to choose the ﬁrmware ﬁle in your USB ﬂash drive, then Click OK. 3.
Page 50: Auto Reboot
User Manual Load Settings: Once you have created a system settings export, you can import the settings on another SYSTEM. Click Load Settings button to navigate to the system settings ﬁle you want to import from your USB ﬂash driver. You will be required to input the Admin password to authenticate. 3.6.4.5 Auto Reboot This menu allows the system to auto reboot regularly.
Page 51: Upgrade Camera
User Manual 3.6.5.1 Upgrade Camera 1. Choose one of the cameras you want to upgrade ﬁrmware. 2. Click Select File to select the update ﬁle from your USB ﬂash drive, then click OK. 3. Click IPC Upgrade button to start upgrading. You will be required to input the Admin password to authenticate.
Page 52: System Information
View system information such as device ID, device model name, IP address, MAC address, ﬁrmware version and more. You will ﬁnd the P2P ID & P2P QR code in the information page. You can scan this QR code with the mobile Bascom app to view your cameras on your smartphone or tablet.
Page 53: Chapter 4: Search, Playback & Backup
User Manual Chapter 4: Search, Playback & Backup The playback function gives you the ability to search for and play previously recorded videos as well as snapshots. You have the choice of playing video that matches your recording schedule, manual recordings or motion events only.
Page 54 User Manual Pause Play frame by frame. Click once to play a frame of the video Stop Fast Forward, x2, x4, x8 and x16 Digital Zoom: Click to zoom in then click-and-drag on a camera image during playback to zoom in on the selected area.
Page 55: Search & Play Video In General
User Manual 4.1.1 Search & Play Video in General This menu gives an option to search & play recording for a selected date. 1. Select a date to search for video recording from the calendar. 2. Choose a search type. 3.
Page 56 User Manual 6. Press and hold the left button of your mouse, and drag the drag the cursor to the timeline where you want to end the video clip. 7. The icon has been changed to icon, click to save the video clip. 8.
Page 57: Event Search, Playback & Backup
User Manual 4.1.2 Event Search, Playback & Backup Event search lets you view a list of video recordings with the channel, start and end time, and recording type conveniently summarized. You can also quickly back up events to a USB ﬂash drive. To search, play &...
Page 58: Event Playback Control
User Manual 8. When you click the left button of your mouse upon one of the pictures, system will show the picture information on the left bottom corner of the screen. 9. Check the box next the number of the event to select ﬁles, or check the box next Select to select all pictures in the page.
Page 59: Sub-Periods Playback
User Manual 4. The event you are playing now will be displayed on the timeline. 5. Use the timeframe options ( ) to view a smaller or larger time period. 4.1.3 Sub-periods Playback Sub-periods playback allows you to play multiple normal recordings and motion events simultaneously from a single channel.
Page 60: Picture Search & View
User Manual 8. Use the timeframe options ( ) to view a smaller or larger time period. 4.1.4 Snapshot Search & View This function can be used to search, play and copy snapshots to a USB ﬂash drive. To search, play & back up pictures: 1.
Page 61: Picture Preview Control
User Manual 1. When you click the left button of your mouse upon one of the pictures, system will show the picture information on the left bottom corner of the screen. 2. Check the box next the number of the event to select ﬁles, or check the box next Select to select all pictures in the page.
Page 62: Chapter 5 Smartphone And Tablet Access
Watch your camera images on your smartphone or tablet, everywhere in the world. Using the Bascom app. The Bascom app is compatible with Android and iOS 7.0 and above. It can support live view, remote playback, local playback, snapshot and push notiﬁcations.
Page 63: Setting Up The App
Step 1: Make sure your system is connected to the internet. Step 2: Download the “Bascom” APP. Use your smartphone or tablet and go to the APP store and search the “Bascom” APP. Download and install the “Bascom” APP on your smartphone or tablet.
Page 64: More Questions
Questions about your camera system? Please visit our online help center. Here you can ﬁnd the most recent articles about how to operate your system. Visit: www.bascom.support Warranty All Bascom products include a 2-year warranty period. Does your product get defective within 2 years? YEAR Then contact your supplier to use this warranty arrangement.
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