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8/16 camera digital video recorder for network & web monitoring with usb backup
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  • Page 1 8/16 Camera Digital Video Recorder For Network & Web Monitoring with USB backup Ver 2.0...
  • Page 2 This DVR is precise instrument; do not attempt to repair any component of the DVR by yourself as this will void your warranty. If your DVR malfunctions in any way, please contact a dealer in your area or Swann Technical Support directly. Installation Please choose appropriate site to install the DVR, to ensure well adequate ventilation around the DVR to avoid excessive heat.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Table of Contents SYSTEM SETUP ..............1 1. U .........................1 SING THE SETUP MENU 2. A ........................1 CCESSING THE 3. S ..........................2 YSTEM ETUP 4. T ..........................2 5. HDD F ..........................3 ORMAT 6. F ..........................4 ACTORY ESET 7.
  • Page 4 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder QUICK USER GUIDELINE ..........27 DVR ..........................27 TART THE DVR ........................27 URN OFF THE ........................27 ORMAL ECORDING ........................27 LARM ECORDING ..........................27 ECORDING .............................28 LAYBACK ..........................28 EARCH 8. T ..........................30 EARCH 9. E ..........................30 VENT EARCH 10.

  • Page 5: System Setup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Before using the DVR, you must first set up the setup the system according to your needs and location; otherwise the DVR will run in the default settings which may be unsuitable for you. 1. Using the Setup Menu When in setup mode, pressing the up or down button, will move the cursor will through the various settings, continuous pushing will make the cursor move among the options one by one.

  • Page 6: System Setup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 3. System Setup When the cursor moves to System Setup, please push the enter button and the System Setup window will appear, which is illustrated as below. MENU LANGUAGE: language set of the DVR, push “Add” or ”Dec” to change language. VIDEO SOURCE: switch the video format to suit the TV standard of your country, NTSC or BUZZER SOUND: buzzer switcher, if set to “OFF”, the buzzer will not work..

  • Page 7: Hdd Format Set

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Please push up, down, left, and right buttons to move the cursor, press ADD and DEC button to modify the value. FORMAT: the date display format, which can be different for USA, EURO and Australian users.

  • Page 8: Factory Reset

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 6. Factory Reset When the cursor moves to System Setup, push the enter button, and the Factory Setup window will appear. If you select “YES” and push the enter button, all the DVR settings will reset to default, if you do not want to reset to default settings, please select “NO”.

  • Page 9: Firmware Update

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder If you select the Password Change and push the Enter button, the Password change window will display as below: Please enter the current password, then input new password and confirm the password. 8. Firmware Update When the cursor moves to Firmware update, please press enter button, and the update window will appear.

  • Page 10: Display Setup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 9. Display Setup When the cursor moves to Display Setup, please push the Enter button, the Display Setup window will appear. 10. Camera Name When the cursor moves to Camera Name, please push the Enter button, the Camera Name Setup window will appear.

  • Page 11: Color Setup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Press the up or down button to select channels, press the Enter button to change the channel name. Each channel’s name is the combination of eight characters. Press left or right button to select each character, press ADD or DEC button to modify each character, and then press enter button to save this name.

  • Page 12: Autoseq Setup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Press left or right button to select CON/BRI/HUE/SAT, press ADD or DEC to change the value, if setup over, press ADD or DEC to change channel. 12. Autoseq Setup When the cursor moves to Autoseq Set, please press enter button, the Auto Sequence Setup window will appear.

  • Page 13: Audio Ch Setup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder you cannot access this menu unless you stop record or play first. OVER WRITE: if set to “YES”, the DVR will automatically overwrite the HDD from the beginning when the HDD is full. If set to “NO”, the DVR will automatically stop recording when the HDD is full.

  • Page 14: Rec Ch Setup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 15. REC ch Setup When the cursor moves to REC ch Set, please press enter button, the REC ch setup window will appear. This screen is different for 720 size and 360 size. In 720 size, the window is illustrated as below, press upward and downward buttons to select channel and press ADD or DEC button to change the setting, If the channel is set “OFF”, this channel will not record when in recording mode.

  • Page 15: N/W Enable Set

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder IP MODE: the DVR has 2 IP mode, STATIC IP and DHCP, if you select STATIC IP, you can set the IP address manually, if you select DHCP mode, the DVR will automatically get the IP address. For STATIC IP, press upward, downward, leftward or rightward button to move the cursor among the digits, you can press ADD and DEC button to modify the digits, also, when selecting a digit, you can press enter button then press left or right button to select each digit, and then press ADD...

  • Page 16: Mac Set

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder If one channel here set OFF, this channel will not transmit to the network, so if you want to see a channel from network, you must to set this channel ON. 18. Mac Set When the cursor moves to Mac Set then push the Enter button, the Mac Set window will appear. If you have more than one DVR in a local area network, you have to set each DVR to have an exclusive MAC address, but remember that you have only one chance to modify the MAC address, once you have changed the MAC address, this menu will not appear again.

  • Page 17: Motion Detection Settings

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder ALARM ENABLE: alarm trigger switch, can be set to off, low lever or high lever. If users set it to off, the DVR will ignore the alarm input. MOTION ENABLE: Motion alarm switch, can be set to ON or OFF. If set to off, the motion alarm.

  • Page 18: Area Set

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder When in night as below, please set to normal level. Note: the above suggestions are a guide only based on testing in a general environment. You will need to select the best parameters according to the actual operation environment you are covering.

  • Page 19: Schedule Set

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder If the area marker icon is set to yellow, this area is monitored for motion detection, and if the icon is grey, motion sensing is disabled for that area. 22. Schedule Set When the cursor moves to Schedule Set, push the Enter button, and the schedule setup window will appear.

  • Page 20: Backup Set

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 23. Backup Set When the cursor moves to Backup Set, push the Enter button, and the backup setup window will appear. There are two types of backup modes, USB and CD_RW(not included in this model). If you select USB backup, plug in the USB device, and push the Enter button, you should see the screen below.

  • Page 21: Protocol Set

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 25. Protocol Set You must set the correct protocol so you can control a Pan Tilt camera (Speed Dome) via the DVR. Move the cursor to Protocol Set, then push the Enter button, and the protocol set window will appear.

  • Page 22: Buttons On The Front Panel

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder The front view of the video-recorder is illustrated as below. 1. Recording/Playing Control Buttons Area 1. Record: This is the manual recording button. Push this button to record, Re-push this button or push the stop button to stop recording (enter your password to confirm). Recording and stop will work simultaneously on all 16 channels.
  • Page 23 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1. Auto/1: Auto key, in shift mode, press this button, The DVR will be in auto dwell state, it dwells according to the time set in auto sequence set menu, you can set the dwell time of each channel.

  • Page 24: Function Control Area(8 Ch)

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder press this button to see big picture of channel 9.While inputting numbers, this button is used as number key of “9”. 10. SF/0/10: Single frame forward button, in shift mode, while in playback state, long press this button can see single frame forward, press play button to play normally.

  • Page 25: Channel Choosing Control Area (16Ch)

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder not in shift mode, press this button to see big picture of channel 4. While inputting numbers, this button is used as number key of “4”. 5. Stop/5: Stop key, in shift mode, press this button, the DVR will stop record and play. If not in shift mode, press this button to see big picture of channel 5.

  • Page 26: Channel Choosing Control Area (8Ch)

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1. Big picture/up: Press this button to see full screen, re-press this button to see the next channel. While selecting menu items, press this button to move up the cursor. 2. Four pictures/down: Press this button to see four pictures display, re-press this button will display next four pictures.

  • Page 27: System Connection

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1. Back Panel and Connection Terminals The power cable and input, output signal terminals are all at the back of the machine, the connections to monitor, camera etc equipments are all carried out through the terminals and sockets on the back panel.

  • Page 28: Video And Audio Connection

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 2. Video and Audio Connection The DVR can support up to 16 cameras video input at the same time. There are two steps for camera installation. I. Connect the Video Signal Line to the DVR channel input. II.

  • Page 29: Alarm Connection

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 3. Alarm Connection The DVR can support 16 alarm input and 3 alarm output. Alarm input: There are two types of alarm input. 1. Voltage output（5V and 0V） A: In case sensor output high voltage (5V) normally and output low voltage when triggered (0V), then users must set DVR as low voltage alarm.

  • Page 30: Hard Disk Connection

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 4. Hard Disk Connection 1. Open the cover of the hard disk enclosure and unlock 2. Carefully lift the handle on the front of the caddy it using the supplied key. When unlocked the key will be and remove it from the housing.

  • Page 31: Quick User Guideline

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1. Start the DVR Before starting the DVR, please make sure all the items in the “Security Notice” at the beginning of this manual are fulfilled and that the input and output cables are all correctly connected. Also ensure the DVR’s video input format (NTSC/PAL) and the monitor (NTSC/PAL) are both set to the same video standard.

  • Page 32: Time Recording

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Schedule Mode active and that period is set to “A” in Record Schedule setup. You must also set the menu of Alarm Setup for exterior input alarm, and the alarm enable setting of that channel must be set to “ON”.

  • Page 33: Search Play

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder During playback mode, press the Single Frame Forward button to play a frame at a time, and hold the button in to continually play one frame at time while the button is held. During playback mode, press the Single Frame Rewind button to play back a frame at a time, and hold the button in to continually play one frame at time while the button is held.

  • Page 34: Time Search

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 8. Time Search Move the cursor to Time Search, then push the Enter button and the Time search window will appear, as illustrated as below. The red block below the number means there is recorded video at that time. Push the left and right buttons to move the cursor along the year, month, day, hour and minutes.

  • Page 35: Start Stop Search

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder If you want to change the between the MASTER HDD and SLAVE HDD, push the mode button, then press Enter button. Push the Menu button to exit. 10. Start Stop Search Move the cursor to the Start Stop Search, push the Enter button, and the Start stop search window will appear.

  • Page 36: Usb Backup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder If you want to change the between the MASTER HDD and SLAVE HDD, push the mode button, then press Enter button. Push the Menu button to exit. 11. USB Backup Plug in the USB device, go to the menu of Backup set, check whether the USB device was detected, and there is enough free space of the USB device, select the backup mode, then completely exit the menu system.

  • Page 37: Cd_Rw Backup

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 12. CD_RW Backup This function is only selectable, if your DVR came with a CDRW. If you enter CD_RW backup menu, you will see the screen below: Start Time Set: you can set the backup start time: START: backup start time.
  • Page 38 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder If backup finish, you can use the net viewer soft’s DriveScan function to see the video on CD. If the cd has been writed, press usb button to format the cd.

  • Page 39: Usb Update

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 13. USB Update Using your PC, create a folder called “firmware” in the root directory of your USB thumb drive, copy the update files to the folder. Plug the USB device into the DVR, go to the menu of Backup set, check that whether the USB device was detected, go to the Firmware Update menu and select USB method, move to Update Start and press Enter button and the update will start.

  • Page 40: Information Display

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 15. Information Display In shift mode, press display button, the main information of the DVR will display on screen. HDD SIZE: the size of the hard disk HDD USED: the used space of the hard disk. HDD READ: current HDD address for playback OVERWRITE: overwrite time of the HDD NETWORK IP: IP address of the DVR.

  • Page 41: Ptz Operation

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 16. PTZ Operation This DVR can control all speed domes which are connected to the DVR. To control the speed dome, make sure all the lines are correctly connected, first you must set the right protocol, baud rate, and speed dome’s address for each speed dome, please refer to protocol set.

  • Page 42: Default Setting

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Press the PTZ button one more time to exit from PTZ control. 17. Default Setting Default setting for each item is shown in the below chart. “Defaults” is the initial setup by the manufacturer. User can change the setup according to the actual environment and demands.
  • Page 43 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Sub Net 255.255.255.0 Gate Way 192.168.1.1 IP Address 192.168.1.111 Net Work Setting Net Work Speed Fast Fast/Normal N/W Enable ON/OFF Mac Address 0a0b0c0d0e0f Alarm Enable ON/OFF Motion Enable ON/OFF Alarm Very low/Low/ Motion Level Normal setting Normal/High/Very high Buzzer Sound...

  • Page 44: Remote Control

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 18. Remote Control All the function of the DVR can be operated by the remote device.

  • Page 45: Pc View Software Operation

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 19. PC View Software Operation Use the PC View software, you can view the DVR through Internet, also, you can view and backup the video information on the HDD through a computer. Open the software, you will see the window below: Please click “Setting”...
  • Page 46 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Click connect button, enter password, the password is the same as the DVR’ password. then click the OK button, if connect to the DVR, you can see the picture below. Click the “Confirm” button. When users survey by Internet, they should firstly open ports 5000-5002 (default and can be changed on the DVR) on the router side.
  • Page 47 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 7. ScanDisk:.if you select this, you can view the video on the HDD or CD which recorded in the DVR and then connect to the computer. 8. File Play: you can play the video file on the computer. AVI Save: when play video, click “AVI”...
  • Page 48 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder File play: if the software is in File Play mode (click” File Play”), file play window will display, it can play the video on HDD of you computer. Click “Open”, select one video file, the click play, it will play the video file Main standard &...
  • Page 49 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Item Specification Video signal NTSC/PAL Composite：1.0V p-p/75Ω，BNC × 8/16 Video input S video Video output Composite：1.0V p-p/75Ω，BNC×2 -8Db 22KΩ, RCA connector × 4 Audio input -8Db 3KΩ, RCA connector × 1 Audio output Alarm input Alarm output Compression standard Modified MJPEG...

  • Page 50: Exterior Size

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 43 mm 55mm 70mm POWER PLAY REW FORWARD MOD E 400mm Incase list Name Quantity Digital Video Recorder Remote Control BNC Adaptors in bag Power Supply Netviewer software CD User Manual...

  • Page 51: Appendix A: Trouble Shooting Guide

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Q. What kind of camera should I buy for this DVR? A. Any BNC or RCA interface indoor/outdoor/infrared camera will work with the DVR. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a color or black/white camera. However, web cameras that require a USB interface are not compatible with the DVR.
  • Page 52 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Q. What is the capacity to record? A. Up to a year with two 120 GB HDD at the lowest quality setting when set at 1 frame per second. Q. Does this DVR come with a remote control either hardwire or wireless? A.
  • Page 53 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Q. How much HDD size dose this DVR support? A. Any type size of the HDD is OK to the DVR, but if the size is much more then 300G, it may display only 300G on the DVR, and it does not effect the real size use on the DVR. Q.

  • Page 54: Appendix B: Protocol For Dvr Control

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Serial port setting: BAUD, n, 8, 1 (BAUD RATE = 1200,2400,4800,9600,19200) PTC1: (three byte) Command (CHAR) Hexadecimal Number Function Description 0x2F 0x52 0x45 Record 0x2F 0x44 0x50 Display 0x2F 0x53 0x43 Schedule 0x2F 0x55 0x53 0x2F 0x41 0x55 Auto 0x2F 0x5a 0x4d...
  • Page 55 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder PTC2: (seven byte) Transmitting S.N Transmitting worth Instructions Byte1 0x03 Fixed byte Byte2 0xaa DVR identifier word Byte3 0x01 Fixed byte Byte4 Device id DVR device address Byte5~7 Refer to PTC 1 Same command as PTC 1 PTC3: (seven byte) Byte1 Byte2...
  • Page 56 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Function Function 0x01 0x21 Zoom 0x02 0x22 Freeze 0x03 0x24 Ch Minus 0x04 0x25 Ch plus 0x05 0x26 0x06 0x27 0x07 0x28 Menu 0x08 0x33 Water mark 0x09 0x35 Play 0x0A Ch10 0x36 Pause 0x0b Ch11 0x37 Stop...

  • Page 57: Record Time Table

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder Rec rate field/sec Picture quality Resolution Recording time 60 fps Very high 22.5 hours 60 fps 60 hours 120 fps Normal 22.5 hours 1 fps Normal 2160 hours Note: The above figures are from our test with a 120GB hard disk. Just for users’ reference. Different definition and stabilization (objects’...

  • Page 58: Appendix D: Internet View/Playback Configurations

    8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1. About Networks Users will generally use the following network types and hardware: 1): Local Area Network (LAN): This an internal network usually operated via a hub, a switch, or a router and will usually operate within an office or household via wireless or Ethernet cable connections.
  • Page 59 8/16 Channel Digital Video Recorder MODEM, then the ports have all opened by default. If not, please close fire wall by guidance of the ADSL MODEM user's manual. 3): In case you connect to Internet by proxy server, users should utilize port mapping software and open ports 5000, 5001, and 5002 for the surveillance computer.
  • Page 60 (note: you must do this on the server machine to find the correct external IP of the router.) You may also have to place the IP address of the Swann DVR in the “DMZ” of your Firewall to enable the remote viewing interface. Information on how to do this should be detailed in the documentation covering operation of your Firewall.
  • Page 61 Any unit which proves defective during the stated period will be repaired without charge for parts or labour, or replaced at the sole discretion of Swann. The repair or replacement will be warranted for either ninety days or the remainder of the original one year warranty period, whichever is longer.

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