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  • Page 1 DVR User’s Manual V 1.02...
  • Page 2 Welcome Thank you for purchasing our Cosmic DVR! This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your system. Here you can find information about this series hybrid standalone DVR features and functions, as well as a detailed menu tree.
  • Page 3 Important Safeguards and Warnings 1．Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper handling or installation. Transportation security Heavy stress, violent vibration or water splash are not allowed during transportation, storage and installation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents FEATURES ....................4 Overview ..........................4 Features ..........................4 OVERVIEW OF NAVIGATION AND CONTROLS ........6 Boot up and Shutdown ......................6 2.1.1 Boot up 6 2.1.2 Shutdown ........................6 2.1.3 Auto Resume after Power Failure ................... 6 2.1.4 Replace Button Battery ....................
  • Page 5 2.7.8 PTZ ..........................33 2.7.9 Color ..........................33 2.7.10 Search ........................34 2.7.11 Alarm Status ......................34 2.7.12 Channel Info ......................34 2.7.13 Remote Device ......................34 2.7.14 Network ........................34 2.7.15 HDD Manager ......................35 2.7.16 USB Manager ......................35 USB Device Auto Pop-up ....................
  • Page 6 Login ..........................134 LAN Mode .......................... 136 FAQ ........................137 APPENDIX A HDD CAPACITY CALCULATION ........145 APPENDIX B COMPATIBLE BACKUP DEVICES ........147 Appendix B-1 Compatible USB list .................. 147 Appendix B-2 Compatible SD Card list ................148 Appendix B-3 Compatible Portable HDD list ..............148 Appendix B-4 Compatible USB DVD List ...............

  • Page 7: Features

    1 FEATURES 1.1 Overview The hybrid standalone series DVR is an excellent digital monitor product designed for security field. It adopts embedded Linux OS to maintain reliable operation. Popular H.264 compression algorithm and G.711 audio compression technology realizes high quality, low bit stream. Unique frame by frame play function is suitable for detailed analysis.
  • Page 8 play, fast play, backward play and frame by frame play. Support time title overlay so that you can view event accurate occurred time Support customized zoom function during the preview. Network operation Support network remote real-time monitor, remote record search and remote PTZ control. Alarm activation function Several relay alarm outputs to realize alarm activation and on-site light control.

  • Page 9: Overview Of Navigation And Controls

    2 Overview of Navigation and Controls 2.1 Boot up and Shutdown 2.1.1 Boot up Before the boot up, please make sure: The rated input voltage matches the device power on-off button. Please make sure the power wire connection is OK. Then click the power on-off button. Always use the stable current, if necessary UPS is a best alternative measure.
  • Page 10 If it is your first time to use the device, please set a login password of admin (system default user). Note For your device safety, please keep your login password of admin well after the initialization steps and change the password regularly. Steps: Boot up device.
  • Page 11 Click Next. Device goes to unlock pattern interface. See Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2 Set unlock pattern. After set unlock pattern, device goes to password protection interface. See Figure 2-3. Note • The unlock pattern shall at least contain 4 grids. •...

  • Page 12: Reset Password

    Figure 2-3 Set security questions. Note • After setting the security questions here, you can use the email you input here or answer the security questions to reset admin password. Refer to chapter 4.1.3 Reset password for detailed information. • Cancel the email or security questions box and then click Next button to skip this step.
  • Page 13 Steps: a. Go to the device login interface. See Figure 2-4 or Figure 2-5. • If you have set unlock pattern, device displays unlock pattern login interface. See Figure 2-4. • Click “Forgot unlock pattern”, device goes to Figure 2-5. •...
  • Page 14 b. Click • If you have not input email address information when you are initializing the device, the interface is shown as in Figure 2-6. Please input an email address and then click Next button, devices go to Figure 2-7. •...
  • Page 15 c. Reset login password. There are two ways to reset the password: Scan QR code and reset by email/security questions (local menu only). • Email In Figure 2-7, follow the prompts on the interface to scan the QR code, and then input the security code you get via the assigned email.
  • Page 16 Figure 2-9 e. Input new password and then confirm. WARNING STRONG PASSWORD RECOMMENDED-For your device own safety, please create a strong password of your own choosing. The password shall be at least 8-digit containing at least two types of the following categories: letters, numbers and symbols.

  • Page 17: Startup Wizard

    Figure 2-10 Figure 2-11 2.4 Startup Wizard After device successfully booted up, it goes to startup wizard. Click Cancel/Next button, you can see system goes to login interface. Tips Check the box Startup button here, system goes to startup wizard again when it boots up the next time.
  • Page 18 Figure 2-12 Click Cancel button or Next Step button, system goes to login interface. See Figure 2-13. System consists of two accounts: Username: admin. Password: admin. (administrator, local and network) Username: default. Password: default (hidden user). Hidden user “default” is for system interior use only and cannot be deleted.
  • Page 19 startup wizard. When there are all analog channels, the startup wizard includes general, encode, schedule, record control, network, INSTAON. When there is an IP channel, the startup wizard includes general, network, INSTAON, remote device and schedule. Click OK button, you can go to General interface. See Figure 2-14. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 2.12.4.1.
  • Page 20 Figure 2-15 Click Next button, you can set INSTAON function. Scan the QR code, download the App to the cell phone, you can use the smart phone to add the device. See Figure 2-16.
  • Page 21 Figure 2-16 Click Next button, you can go to Encode interface. See Figure 2-17. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 2.10.3.3. Figure 2-17...
  • Page 22 Click Next button, you can go to Basic setup. See Figure 2-18. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 2.12.3.1. Figure 2-18 Click Next button, you can go to Schedule interface. See Figure 2-19. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 2.12.3.1. Figure 2-19...

  • Page 23: Live Viewing

    2.5 Live Viewing After you logged in, the system is in live viewing mode. You can see system date, time, channel name and window No. If you want to change system date and time, you can refer to general settings (Main Menu Setting System General).
  • Page 24 Real-time playback It is to playback the previous 5-60 minutes record of current channel. Please go to the Main menu Setting System General to set real-time playback time. System may pop up a dialogue box if there is no such record in current channel. Digital zoom It is to zoom in specified zone of current channel.

  • Page 25: Right-Click Menu

    Manual record function It is to back up the video of current channel to the USB device. System cannot backup the video of multiple-channel at the same time. Click button , system begins recording. Click it again, system stops recoridng. You can find the record file on the flash disk.

  • Page 26: Window Switch

    Figure 2-23 2.6.1 Window Switch System supports 1/4/8/9-window (The options here depend on your product channel amount). You can select from the dropdown list. See Figure 2-24. Window split mode: You can select window amount and then select channels. PTZ: Click it to go to PTZ interface. Auto focus: Please make sure you connected network camera supports this function.

  • Page 27: Previous Screen/Next Screen

    2.6.2 Previous Screen/Next Screen Click it to go to the previous screen/next screen. 2.6.3 PTZ Control The PTZ setup is shown as in See Figure 2-25. Please note the commend name is grey once device does not support this function. The PTZ operation is only valid in one-window mode. Here you can control PTZ direction, speed, zoom, focus, iris, preset, tour, scan, pattern aux function, light and wiper, rotation etc.
  • Page 28 Name Functio function Shortc Functio function Shortcu Zoom Near ► │ │ Focus Near Iris close Open In Figure 2-26, click to open the menu, you can set preset, tour, pattern, scan etc. See Figure 2-27. Figure 2-27 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Please note the above interface may vary due to different protocols.
  • Page 29 2.6.3.1 PTZ Function Setup Click , you can go to the following interface to set preset, tour, pattern, and scan. See Figure 2-28. Figure 2-28 Preset Setup In Figure 2-28, click preset button and use eight direction arrows to adjust camera to the proper position.
  • Page 30 Tips Repeat the above steps to add more presets to the tour. Click Del preset button to remove it from the tour. Please note some protocols do not support delete preset function. Figure 2-30 Pattern Setup In Figure 2-28, click Pattern button and input pattern number. Click Begin button to start direction operation.
  • Page 31 Border Setup In Figure 2-28, click Scan button. Use direction buttons to set camera left limit and then click Left button. Use direction buttons to set camera right limit and then click Right button. Now the scan setup process is complete. Figure 2-32 2.6.3.2 Call PTZ Function...

  • Page 32: Auto Focus

    Note: Preset, tour and pattern all need the value to be the control parameters. You can define it as you require. You need to refer to your camera user’s manual for Aux definition. In some cases, it can be used for special process. Click , system goes to the following interface.
  • Page 33 Figure 2-34 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed Item Note information. Period There are two periods in one day. You can set different sharpness, brightness, and contrast setup for different periods. Effective Time Check the box here to enable this function and then set period time.
  • Page 34 Item Note Contrast It is to adjust monitor window contrast. The value ranges from 0 to 100. The default value is 50. The larger the number, the higher the contrast is. You can use this function when the whole video bright is OK but the contrast is not proper.

  • Page 35: Display

    2.6.6 Display It is to set display output mode. There are two modes: full screen (4:3)/image original rate (16:9). Icon means current display output mode. See Figure 2-35. Figure 2-35 2.6.7 Search Please refer to chapter 2.10.1 for detailed information. 2.6.8 Record Control Please refer to chapter 2.12.3.4 for detailed information.

  • Page 36: Main Menu

    Figure 2-36 2.7.1 Main Menu Click button to go to the main menu interface. 2.7.2 Output Screen Select corresponding window-split mode and output channels. 2.7.3 Previse screen Click it go to the previous screen. 2.7.4 Next Screen Click it to go to the next screen. 2.7.5 Tour Click button to enable tour, the icon becomes...

  • Page 37: Search

    2.7.10 Search Click button system goes to search interface. Please refer to chapter 2.10.1 2.7.11 Alarm Status Click button system goes to alarm status interface. It is to view device status and channel status. Please refer to chapter 2.12.2. 2.7.12 Channel Info Click button , system goes to the channel information setup interface.

  • Page 38: Hdd Manager

    Please refer to chapter 2.12.1. 2.7.15 HDD Manager ， system goes to the HDD manager interface. It is to view and manage HDD Click information. Please refer to chapter 2.12.3.3. 2.7.16 USB Manager ， system goes to the USB Manager interface. It is to view USB information, Click backup and update.

  • Page 39: Main Menu

    2.9 Main Menu The main menu interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-40. Figure 2-40 2.10 Search Click search button in the main menu, search interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-41. Usually there are three file types: R: Regular recording file.
  • Page 40 Figure 2- 41 Please refer to the following sheet for more Name Function information. • Display Here is to display the searched picture or file. • window Support 1/4/9/16-window playback. • Here you can select to search the picture or the recorded file. •...
  • Page 41  mode and In 1-window playback mode: you can select 1-16 channels.  channel In 4-window playback mode: you can select 4 channels according to selection your requirement.  pane. In 9-window playback mode, you can switch between 1-8 and 9-16 channels.
  • Page 42 pane. Backward play In normal play mode, left click the button, the file begins backward play. Click it again to pause current play. In backward play mode, click ►/ to restore normal play.
  • Page 43 In playback mode, click it to play the next or the previous section. You can click continuously when you are watching the files from the │ / same channel. In normal play mode, when you pause current play, │ you can click │ and │...
  • Page 44 • The option includes: 24H, 12H, 1H and 30M. The smaller the unit, the larger the zoom rate. You can accurately set the time in the time bar to playback the record. Time bar • The time bar is beginning with 0 o'clock when you are setting the unit configuration.
  • Page 45 the list. Then click the backup button, now you can see the backup menu. System supports customized path setup. After select or create new folder, click the Start button to begin the backup operation. The record file(s) will be saved in the specified folder. ⚫...

  • Page 46: Smart Search

    playback In pane 13 of Figure 2-42, click Sync button, you can playback the files of Sync different channels occurred at the same time. Digita When the system is in full-screen playback mode, left click the mouse in the screen. Drag your mouse in the screen to select a section and then left click zoom mouse to realize digital zoom.

  • Page 47: Accurate Playback By Time

    During the multiple-channel playback, system stops playback of rest channels if you implement one-channel smart search. 2.10.2 Accurate playback by time Select records from one day, click the list, you can go to the file list interface. You can input time at the top right corner to search records by time.
  • Page 48 very easy for you to get the important video information. Add Mark When system is playback, click Mark button you can go to the following interface. See Figure 2-44 Figure 2-44 Playback Mark During 1-window playback mode, click mark file list button in Figure 2-41, you can go to mark file list interface.

  • Page 49: Customized Playback

    Figure 2-45 Modify Double click one-mark information item, you can see system pops up a dialogue box for you to change mark information. You can only change mark name here. Delete Here you can check the mark information item you want to delete and then click Delete button, you can remove one-mark item.

  • Page 50: Splice Playback

    Figure 2-46 Now you can select one or more channel(s) and then click to search record(s). System supports one or more channels. The window split mode can auto adjust according to the channel amount. System max supports 16-split. Click button to select all channels at the same time. Click system begins playback.

  • Page 51: Backup

    Note The splice playback is for 1-window playback mode. System supports 1/4/8/16-split mode. Slight different may be found here. The min period of each section is 5 minutes. For the record is less than 20 minutes, if you select 4-split mode (or more than 4-split mode), system can auto adjust so that each section period is 5 minutes.
  • Page 52 Figure 2-49 System only backup files with a √ before channel name. You can use Fn or cancel button to delete √ after file serial number. Click Start button, system begins copy. At the same time, the backup button becomes stop button.

  • Page 53: Remote Device (For Digital Channel Only)

    2.12 Camera For camera setting interface, please go to Main Menu Camera, see Figure 2-50. Figure 2-50 2.12.1 Remote Device (For digital channel only) 2.12.1.1 Remote Device In the main menu, from Camera Remote Device, you can go to an interface shown as in Figure 2-51.
  • Page 54 Show filter: You can use it to display the specified devices from the added device. Edit: Click button or double click a device in the list, you can change channel setup. Delete: Please select one device in the Added device list and then click to remove.
  • Page 55 You cannot add two or more devices in the Manual Add interface (Figure 2-52). Click OK button, system connects to the corresponding front-end device of current channel on the interface. Figure 2-52 Show filer: It is to filter the searched device. ◼...
  • Page 56 Figure 2-53  You can check several devices at the same time and then click the edit button .See Figure 2-55. Please check Batch modify button and then input start IP, end IP and default gateway. Figure 2-54 Export System can export the Added device list to your local USB device. Please insert the USB device and then click the Export button;...
  • Page 57 Figure 2-55 Select the directory and then click the OK button. System pops up a dialogue box to remind you successfully exported. Please click OK button to exit. Note The exported file extension name is .CVS. The file information includes IP address, port, remote channel number, manufacturer, user name and password.
  • Page 58 Figure 2-56 Select the import file and then click the OK button. System pops up a dialogue box to remind you successfully exported. Please click OK button to exit. Note: If the imported IP has conflicted with current added device, system pops up a dialogue box to remind you.
  • Page 59 alarm event from current front-end. Connection status: : Connection succeeded. : Connection failed. Refresh: Click it to get latest front-end channel status. Figure 2-57 2.12.1.3 Firmware It is to view channel, IP address, manufacturer, type, system version, SN, video input, audio input, etc.

  • Page 60: Image

    2.12.2 Image For analog channel, the camera interface is shown as in Figure 2-59. For digital channel, the camera interface is shown as in Figure 2-59. Channel: Select a channel from the dropdown list. Saturation: It is to adjust monitor window saturation. The value ranges from 0 to 100. The default value is 50.

  • Page 61: Encode

     Customized: You can set the gain of the red/blue channel. The value reneges from 0 to 100. Day/night. It is to set device color and the B/W mode switch. The default setup is auto.  Color: Device outputs the color video. ...
  • Page 62 SVC: SVC is so called scaled video coding. Check the box to enable this function. During the network transmission process, system discards unimportant frames when the bandwidth is not sufficient or the decode capability is low. It is to guarantee video quality and transmission fluency. Type: Please select from the dropdown list.
  • Page 63 Figure 2-60 2.12.3.2 Snapshot Here you can set snapshot mode, picture size, quality and frequency. See Figure 2-61. Snapshot mode: There are two modes: regular and trigger. If you set timing mode, you need to set snapshot frequency. If you set trigger snapshot, you need to set snapshot activation operation.
  • Page 64 Figure 2-61 2.12.3.3 Overlay Overlay interface is shown as in Figure 2-62. Cover area: Here is for you to set cover area. You can drag you mouse to set proper section size. In one channel video, system max supports 4 zones in one channel.
  • Page 65 Figure 2-62 Figure 2-63 2.12.3.4 Channel Type It is to set channel type. Each channel supports analog standard definition connections/analog HD connection/network camera connection (Slight function difference may be found). For the IP channel, you need to set from the last channel. Please note DVR needs to restart to activate new setup.
  • Page 66 Figure 2-64 Important notice about UNI+ DVR series product: Nowadays, there are mainly two analog signal types on today market: analog standard definition (CVBS) and analog HD (CVI, AHD or Other). For UNI+ DVR series product, each channel supports all types of signal connection (analog signal/IP signal). For analog signal connection, the default setup is AUTO, that is to say, no matter what analog signal (CVBS, CVI, AHD or other analog HD signal) connected;...
  • Page 67 Figure 2-65 Important Add/cancel IP CAM function is for some 4/8/16-channel series product only. Add IP CAM: Click it; you can add corresponding X IP channels. Here X refers to the product channel amount such as 4/8/16. System needs to restart to activate new setup. See Figure 2-66.

  • Page 68: Upgrade

    For example, there is a 4-channel analog device, after the A/D switch, it can max supports 4 analog channels and 4 IP channels. Once it has become the 3+1 mode (3 analog channels+1 IP channel), you click button, system becomes 3+5 mode (3 analog channels+5 IP channel). Cancel IP CAM: Click it, you can cancel IP channel.

  • Page 69: Channel Name

    Figure 2-68 2.12.5 Channel Name It is to modify channel name. It max supports 31-character. See Figure 2-69. Please note for digital channel, you can only modify the channel name of the connected network camera. Figure 2-69...

  • Page 70: Info

    2.13 Info 2.13.1 Info 2.13.1.1 HDD Info Here is to list hard disk type, total space, free space and status. See Figure 2-70. SATA: 1-2 here means system max supports 2 HDDS. ○ means current HDD is normal. X means there is error. - Means there is no HDD. If disk is damaged, system shows as “?”.
  • Page 71 Figure 2-71 2.13.1.2 Record Info It is to view record start time and end time. See Figure 2-72. Figure 2-72...
  • Page 72 2.13.1.3 Version Here is for you to view some version information such as version number, built date, serial number etc. See Figure 2-73. Figure 2-73 2.13.1.4 Channel Info It is to view information of the corresponding channel. See Figure 2-74 Figure 2-74...

  • Page 73: Event

    2.13.2 Event It is to display device status and channel status. See Figure 2-75 Figure 2-75 2.13.3 Network Info 2.13.3.1 Online Users Here is for you to manage online users. See Figure 2-76. You can disconnect one user or block one user if you have proper system right. Max disconnection setup is 65535 seconds. System detects there is any newly added or deleted user in each five second and refresh the list automatically.
  • Page 74 2.13.3.2 Network Load Network load is shown as in Figure 2-77. Here you can view the follow statistics of the device network adapter. Here you can view information of all connected network adapters. The connection status is shown as offline if connection is disconnected. Click one network adapter, you can view the flow statistics such as send rate and receive rate at the top panel.

  • Page 75: Bps

    After Sniffer began, you can exit to implement corresponding network operation such as login WEB, monitor. Please go back to Sniffer interface to click stop Sniffer. System can save the packets to the specified path. The file is named after “Network adapter name + time”. You can use software such as Wireshark to open the packets on the PC for the professional engineer to solve complicated problems.

  • Page 76: Log

    2.13.5 Log 2.13.5.1 Local Log Here is for you to view system log file. System lists the following information. See Figure 2-80. Log types include system operation, configuration operation, data management, alarm event, record operation, account manager, log clear, file operation etc. It optimized reboot log. There are only three types: normal reboot, abnormal reboot and protection reboot.
  • Page 77 Figure 2-81 Note If there is no HDD, system max supports 1024 logs. If you have connected to the unformatted HDD, system max supports 5000 logs. If you have connected to the formatted HDD, system max supports 500,000 logs. System operation logs are saved in system memory. Other types of logs are saved in the HDD.

  • Page 78: Setting

    2.14 Setting 2.14.1 Network 2.14.1.1 TCP/IP The single network adapter interface is shown as in Figure 2-82 and the dual network adapters interface is shown as in Figure 2-82 IP Version: There are two options: IPv4 and IPv6. Right now, system supports these two IP address format and you can access via them.
  • Page 79 Figure 2-82 2.14.1.2 Connection The connection setup interface is shown as in Figure 2-83. Max connection: system support maximal 128 users. 0 means there is no connection limit. TCP port: Default value is 25001. UDP port: Default value is 25002. HTTP port: Default value is 80.
  • Page 80 Figure 2-83 2.14.1.3 WIFI The WIFI interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-84. Auto connect WIFI: Check the box here, system automatically connects to the previous WIFI hotspot. Refresh: You can click it to search the hotspot list again. It can automatically add the information such as the password if you have set it before.
  • Page 81 Figure 2-84 WIFI working status: Here you can view current connection status. Please note: After successful connection, you can see WIFI connection icon at the top right corner of the preview interface. When the hotspot verification type is WEP, system displays as AUTO since the device cannot detect its encryption type.
  • Page 82 3G Enable/Disable: Check the box here to enable 3G module. Network type: There are various network types for different 3G network modules. You can select according to your requirements. APN: It is the wireless connection server. It is to set you access the wireless network via which method.
  • Page 83 2.14.1.5 DDNS Setup DDNS setup interface is shown as in Figure 2-86. You need a PC of fixed IP in the internet and there is the DDNS software running in this PC. In other words, this PC is a DNS (domain name server).
  • Page 84 the validity of all IPv6 addresses and implement optimization. After you enabled trusted sites function, only the IP listed below can access current DVR. If you enable blocked sites function, the following listed IP addresses cannot access current DVR. Enable: Highlight the box here, you can check the trusted site function and blocked sites function.
  • Page 85 Figure 2-87 2.14.1.7 Email The email interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-88. SMTP server: Please input your email SMTP server IP here. Port: Please input corresponding port value here. User name: Please input the user name to login the sender email box. Password: Please input the corresponding password here.
  • Page 86 activated by the abnormity events, which may result in heavy load for the email server. Figure 2-88 2.14.1.8 UPnP The UPNP protocol is to establish a mapping relationship between the LAN and the WAN. Please input the router IP address in the LAN in Figure 2-89. See Figure 2-90 UPNP on/off ：Turn on or off the UPNP function of the device.
  • Page 87 Important: When you are setting the router external port, please use 1024~5000 port. Do not use well- known port 1~255 and the system port 256~1023 to avoid conflict. For the TCP and UDP, please make sure the internal port and external port are the same to guarantee the proper data transmission.
  • Page 88 Figure 2-91 Here you can set a multiple cast group. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. IP multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255 -“D” address space The higher four-bit of the first byte=”1110” ⚫ Reserved local multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-224.0.0.255 -TTL=1 When sending out telegraph -For example...
  • Page 89 Multiple cast 235.8.8.36 Multiple cast PORT: 3666. After you logged in the Web, the Web can automatically get multiple cast address and add it to the multiple cast groups. You can enable real-time monitor function to view the view. Please note multiple cast function applies to special series only. Register 2.14.1.10 This function allows the device to auto register to the proxy you specified.
  • Page 90 4) Now you can boot up the proxy server. When you see the network status is Y, it means your registration is OK. You can view the proxy server when the device is online. Important The server IP address can also be domain. But you need to register a domain name before you run proxy device server.
  • Page 91 Figure 2-94 Androi Open Google Play app in your smart phone. Search GCMOB, download it and install. iOS: Open App Store app in your smart phone. Search ICMOB, download it and install. Please follow the steps listed below. Open App; tap to go to the Liv preview.
  • Page 92 Figure 2-95...

  • Page 93: Event

    2.14.2 Event 2.14.2.1 Detect In the main menu, from Setting Event Detect, you can see motion detect interface. See Figure 2-96 There is three detection types: motion detection, video loss, tampering. The video loss has no detection region and sensitivity setup and tampering has no detection region setup.
  • Page 94 is not for video loss or the tampering. There are two ways for you to set periods. Please note system only supports 6 periods in one day.  In Figure 2-99, Select icon of several dates, all checked items can be edited together. Now the icon is shown as .
  • Page 95 In Figure 2-97, you can left click mouse and then drag it to set a region for motion detection. Click Fn to switch between arm/withdraw motion detection. After setting, click enter button to exit. Figure 2-96 Figure 2-97 Figure 2-98...
  • Page 96 Figure 2-99 Figure 2-100...
  • Page 97 Motion detect here only has relationship with the sensitivity and region setup. It has no relationship with other setups. 2.14.2.1.2 Video Loss In Figure 2-101, select video loss from the type list. You can see the interface is shown as in Figure 2-101.
  • Page 98 IPC offline alarm: Once you select this item, system can generate an alarm when the front-end IPC disconnects with the local HDVR. The alarm can activate record, PTZ, snap and etc. The alarm can last until the IPC and the HDVR connection resumes. Important ⚫...
  • Page 99 Record channel: you can select proper channel to record alarm video (Multiple choices). At the same time, you need to set alarm record in schedule interface (Main Menu Setting Schedule) and select schedule record in manual record interface (Main Menu Advance Manual Record).
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  • Page 103 2.14.2.3 Abnormality There are three types: HDD/Network/user.  HDD: HDD error, no disk, no space. See Figure 2-108 and Figure 2-110.  Network: Disconnection, IP conflict, MAC conflict. See Figure 2-111..  User: Ilegal login. See Figure 2-112 . Alarm output: Please select alarm activation output port (multiple choices). Less than: System can alarm you when the HDD space is less than the threshold you set here (For HDD no space type only).
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  • Page 106: Storage

    2.14.3 Storage 2.14.3.1 Basic Go to Main Menu Storage BASIC. The BASIC interface is displayed. See Figure 2-113. Figure 2-113 Configure the settings for the basic settings parameters, please refer to below table. Parameter Description Configure the settings for the situation all the read/write discs are full, and there is no more free disc.
  • Page 107 2.14.3.2 Schedule 2.14.3.2.1 Recor d Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDDs have been properly installed. After the system booted up, it is in default 24-hour regular mode. You can set record type and time in schedule interface. In the main menu, from Setting Storage Schedule, you can go to schedule menu.
  • Page 108 Please draw manually to set record period. There are six periods in one day. See Figure 2-118 Figure 2-116 Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. There are color bars for your reference.
  • Page 109 Figure 2-117 Figure 2-118 Quick Setup Copy function allows you to copy one channel setup to another. After setting in channel 1, click Copy button, you can go to interface Figure 2-119. You can see current channel name is grey such as...
  • Page 110 channel 1. Now you can select the channel you want to paste such as channel 5/6/7. If you want to save current setup of channel 1 to all channels, you can click the first box “ALL”. Click the OK button to save current copy setup. Click the OK button in the Encode interface, the copy function succeeded.
  • Page 111 Figure 2-120 Figure 2-121...
  • Page 112 Figure 2-122 2.14.3.3 HDD Setting Figure 2-123 Here is for you to view and implement hard disk management. See . You can see current HDD type, status, capacity etc. The operation includes format HDD and change HDD property (read and write/read-only/redundancy). Figure 2-123...
  • Page 113 2.14.3.4 FTP You can store and view the recorded videos and snapshots on the FTP server. Preparation for Configuration Purchase or download a FTP server and install it on your PC. For the created FTP user, you need to set the write permission; otherwise the upload of recorded videos and snapshots will be failed.
  • Page 114 Parameter Description Create folder on FTP server. If you do not enter the name of remote directory, system automatically creates the folders according to the IP and time. Remote Directory If you enter the name of remote directory, the system creates the folder with the entered name under the FTP root directory first, then automatically creates the folders according to the IP and time.
  • Page 115 HDD has been properly installed. There are three ways for you to go to manual record menu. Right click mouse and then select Manual Record.
  • Page 116 In the main menu, from Setting Storage Record. In live viewing mode, click record button in the front panel or record button in the remote control. System supports main stream and sub stream. There are three statuses: schedule/manual/stop. See Figure 2-125. Please highlight icon “○” to select corresponding channel.
  • Page 117 Figure 2-126 Tips You can check all buttons after the corresponding status to enable/disable all-channel snapshot function. 2.14.3.6 HDD Detect The HDD detect function is to detect HDD status so that you can clearly understand the HDD performance and replace the malfunction HDD. There are two detect types: Quick detect is to detect via the universal system files.
  • Page 118 Figure 2-127 Figure 2-128...
  • Page 119 2.14.3.6.2 Detect Report After the detect operation, you can go to the detect report to view corresponding information. The detect report interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-129. Figure 2-129 Click the item you can see the detailed information such as detect result. See Figure 2-130. Figure 2-130...

  • Page 120: Setting

    2.14.4 Setting 2.14.4.1 General 2.14.4.1.1 General General setting includes the following items. See Figure 2-131 Device ID: Please input a corresponding device name here. Device No: Here you can set device number. Language: System supports various languages: Chinese (simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Italian, Japanese, French, Spanish (All languages listed here are optional.
  • Page 121 2.14.4.1.2 Date and Time The interface is shown as in Figure 2-132 Date format: There are three types: YYYYY-MM-DD: MM-DD-YYYYY or DD-MM-YYYY. Date separator: There are three denotations to separate date: dot, beeline and solidus. DST: Here you can set DST time and date. Here you can set start time and end time by setting corresponding week setup or by setting corresponding date setup.
  • Page 122 Figure 2-133 Figure 2-134...
  • Page 123 2.14.4.2 Display 2.14.4.2.1 Display Display setup interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-135. Time display: You can select to display time or not when system is playback. Channel display: You can select to channel name or not when system is playback. Original rate: Check the box here, the video can be displayed at its actual size.
  • Page 124 Figure 2-136 2.14.4.2.3 Tour Here you can activate tour function. Click Setup button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 2-137 Enable tour: Highlight box here to enable this function. Interval: System supports 1/8/-window tour. Input proper interval value here. The value ranges from 5-120 seconds.
  • Page 125 Figure 2-137 2.14.4.2.4 Multi Preview Click zero-channel encoding button, you can go to the following interface. See. Here you can enable and set zero-channel encoding function so that you can view several video sources at one channel. See interface in Figure 2-138. Enable: This function is disabled by default.
  • Page 126 Figure 2-138 2.14.4.3 PTZ The pan/tilt/zoom setup includes the following items. Please select channel first. See Figure 2-139. PTZ type: There are two options: local/remote. Please select remote if connecting to the network PTZ. Control mode: You can select control mode from the dropdown list. There are two options: Serial/HDCVI.
  • Page 127 Figure 2-139 2.14.4.4 Text Overlay The ATM/POS function is for financial areas. It includes Sniffer, information analysis and title overlay function. The Sniffer mode includes COM and network. 2.14.4.4.1 Net The network type interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-140. Please use network type if you are using network to connect to the device.
  • Page 128 need to input start position, length, key and etc according to your communication protocol and data packet contents. Figure 2-140 In Figure 2-32, click data button after frame ID the interface is shown as in Figure 2-141. Here you can set field start position, length, and overlay title. Figure 2-141...
  • Page 129 2.14.4.5 Voice The audio function is to manage audio files and set schedule play function. It is to realize audio broadcast activation function. 2.14.4.5.1 File List Here you can add audio file, listen to the audio file, or rename/delete audio file. Here you can also set audio volume.
  • Page 130 Figure 2-143 2.14.4.6 Account Here is for you to implement account management. See Figure 2-144 Here you can: Add new user Modify user Add group Modify group Modify password. For account management please note: For the user account name and the user group, the string max length is 6-byte. The backspace in front of or at the back of the string is invalid.
  • Page 131 About user account and MAC. When you add a new user, you can input the MAC address of current user. Only the user of the same MAC address can access the device remotely. (MAC address is for the device of the same LAN.) If you leave MAC address item in blank when you add a new user, the user of any MAC address can access the device remotely.
  • Page 132 2.14.4.6.1 Add User Click modify user button in Figure 2-144, the interface is shown as in Figure 2- 145 Please input the user name, password, select the group it belongs to from the dropdown list. Then you can check the corresponding rights for current user. For convenient user management, usually we recommend the general user right is lower than the admin account.
  • Page 133 Figure 2-146 Click Set button, you can set six periods in one day. See Figure 2-147. Check the box after the period, you can enable current setup. Figure 2-147...
  • Page 134 2.14.4.6.2 Modify user Click , you can go to the following interface to change user information. See Figure 2- 148. For admin, 888888, and default (hidden user), you cannot change period setup. Figure 2-148 2.14.4.6.3 Add/Modify Group In Figure 2-148, click Group button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 2-149. Figure 2-149 Click add group button in Figure 2-148 , the interface is shown as below.
  • Page 135 can input group name and then input some memo information if necessary. There are total 98 rights such as control panel, shut down, real-time monitor, playback, record, record file backup, PTZ, user account, system information view, alarm input/output setup, system setup, log view, clear log, upgrade system, control device etc.
  • Page 136 2.14.4.7 Auto Maintain Here you can set auto-reboot time and auto-delete old files setup. You can set to delete the files for the specified days. See Figure 2-151. You can select proper setup from dropdown list. After all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu.
  • Page 137 Note: System cannot open config backup interface again if there is backup operation in the process. System refreshes device when you go to the config backup every time and set current directory as the root directory of the peripheral device. If you go to the configuration backup interface first and then insert the peripheral device, please click Refresh button to view the newly added device.
  • Page 138 Warning! System menu color, language, time display mode, video format, IP address, user account will not maintain previous setup after default operation! Figure 2-153 2.14.4.10 Update Here is for you to view hardware features, software version, built date, release SN information etc.

  • Page 139: Shut Down

    2.15 Shut Down In Figure 2-155, select Shut Down, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 2-155. There are three options: Shutdown/logout/reboot. For the user who does not have the shut down right, please input corresponding password to shut down. Figure 2-155...

  • Page 140: Web Operation

    3 WEB OPERATION Slightly difference may be found in the interface due to different series. 3.1 Network Connection Before web client operation, please check the following items: Network connection is right DVR and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup(main menu->Setting- >Network) Use order ping ***.***.***.***(* DVR IP address) to check connection is OK or not.
  • Page 141 Figure 3-2 System pops up the following dialogue box for you to change default administrator password. See Figure 3-3. Figure 3-3 For you own safety, please change the default password after you first login. Click Cancel button, system pops up the following dialogue box to confirm the exit. See Figure 3-4. Check the box here, system will not pop up the change password interface the next time.

  • Page 142: Lan Mode

    Figure 3-4 3.3 LAN Mode For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 3-5. Figure 3-5...

  • Page 143: Faq

    4 FAQ 1. DVR cannot boot up properly. There are following possibilities: ⚫ Input power is not correct. ⚫ Power connection is not correct. ⚫ Power switch button is damaged. ⚫ Program upgrade is wrong. ⚫ HDD malfunction or something wrong with HDD ribbon. ⚫...
  • Page 144 ⚫ DVR color or brightness setup is not correct. 6. Cannot search local records. There are following possibilities: ⚫ HDD ribbon is damaged. ⚫ HDD is broken. ⚫ Upgraded program is not compatible. ⚫ The recorded file has been overwritten. ⚫...
  • Page 145 ⚫ PTZ decoder and DVR protocol is not compatible. ⚫ PTZ decoder and DVR address is not compatible. ⚫ When there are several decoders, please add 120 Ohm between the PTZ decoder A/B cables furthest end to delete the reverberation or impedance matching. Otherwise the PTZ control is not stable.
  • Page 146 There are following possibilities: ⚫ Burner and DVR are in the same data cable. ⚫ System uses too much CPU resources. Please stop record first and then begin backup. ⚫ Data amount exceeds backup device capacity. It may result in burner error. ⚫...
  • Page 147 ⚫ There is no media player. ⚫ No DXB8.1 or higher graphic acceleration software. ⚫ There is no DivX503Bundle.exe control when you play the file transformed to AVI via media player. ⚫ No DivX503Bundle.exe or ffdshow-2004 1012 .exe in Windows XP OS. 23.
  • Page 148 ⚫ Check the sub stream type of the camera is H.264 or not. ⚫ Check the device supports camera sub stream resolution or not (such as 960H, D1, HD1 and etc.). 31. After I connected to the IP channel, there multiple-window output is OK, but there is no one-window output.
  • Page 149 device INSTAON interface (Main menu->Setting->Network->INSTAON), or you can use the version information of the WEB to confirm. (For some previous series products, the device SN is the main board SN, it may result in error.) 35. I connect the standard definition camera to the device, there is no video output.

  • Page 151: Appendix A Hdd Capacity Calculation

    5 Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation Calculate total capacity needed by each DVR according to video recording (video recording type and video file storage time). Step 1: According to Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity that is the capacity of each channel needed for each hour, unit Mbyte.
  • Page 152 896K 393M 1024K 450M 1280K 562M 1536K 675M 1792K 787M 2048K 900M...

  • Page 153: Appendix B Compatible Backup Devices

    6 Appendix B Compatible backup devices 6.1 Appendix B-1 Compatible USB list Manufactory Model Capacity Sandisk Cruzer Micro 512M Sandisk Cruzer Micro Sandisk Cruzer Micro Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 256M Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 512M Sandisk Cruzer Freedom Sandisk Cruzer Freedom DataTraveler Ⅱ Kingston DataTraveler Ⅱ...

  • Page 154: Appendix B-2 Compatible Sd Card List

    Kingston Data Traveler 32GB Aigo L8315 16GB Sandisk 16GB Kingston Data Traveler Locker+ 32GB Netac U228 6.2 Appendix B-2 Compatible SD Card list Brand Standard Capacity Card type Transcend SDHC6 16GB Kingston SDHC4 Kingston Kingston Sandisk SDHC2 Small Sandisk Small 6.3 Appendix B-3 Compatible Portable HDD list Brand Model...

  • Page 155: Appendix B-6 Compatible Sata Hdd List

    Samsung SH-224BB/CHXH SONY DRU-V200S SONY DRU-845S SONY AW-G170S Pioneer DVR-217CH 6.6 Appendix B-6 Compatible SATA HDD List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. Here we recommend HDD of 500G to 4T capacity. Port Manufacturer Series...
  • Page 156 Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST1000VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST1500VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST2000VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST2000VM003 SATA Seagate Seagate Constellation ST3500514NS 500G SATA Seagate Seagate Constellation ST31000524NS SATA Seagate Seagate Constellation ST32000644NS SATA Seagate Seagate Constellation ST2000NM0011...
  • Page 157 Westem Digital WD Caviar RE16 WD3200YS-01PGB0 320G SATA Westem Digital WD Caviar RE2 WD5000YS-01MPB0 500G SATA Westem Digital WD AV—AVJS WD2500AVJS-63WDA0 500G SATA Westem Digital WD AV—AVJS WD3200AVJS-63WDA0 320G SATA Westem Digital WD AV—AVJS WD5000AVJS-63YJA0 500G SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—AVCS WD5000AVCS-63H1B1 500G SATA...
  • Page 158 Westem Digital WDAV-GP—AVCS WD7500AVCS-63ZLB0 750G SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—AVCS WD3200AVCS 320G SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—AVCS WD2500AVCS 250G SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—EVCS WD10EVCS-63ZLB0 SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—EVCS WD20EVCS-63ZLB0 SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—AVVS WD3200AVVS-63L2B0 320G SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—AVVS WD5000AVVS-63ZWB0 500G SATA Westem Digital WDAV-GP—AVVS WD7500AVVS-63E1B1...

  • Page 159: Appendix C Compatible Cd/Dvd Burner List

    7 Appendix C Compatible CD/DVD Burner List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. And you can use the USB cable with the model recommended to set USB burner. Manufacturer Model Port Type Type...

  • Page 160: Appendix D Compatible Displayer List

    8 Appendix D Compatible Displayer List Please refer to the following sheet form compatible displayer list. Brand Model Dimension (Unit: inch) ET-0007-TA 19-inch (wide screen) BENQ（LCD） E178FPc 17-inch DELL（LCD） Q7T4 17-inch BENQ（LCD） Q7T3 17-inch BENQ（LCD） LXB-L17C 17-inch HFNOVO（LCD） 22 寸(wide screen) 225BW SANGSUNG（LCD）...

  • Page 161: Appendix E Compatible Switcher

    9 Appendix E Compatible Switcher Brand Model network working mode D-LinK DES-1016D 10/100M self-adaptive D-LinK DES-1008D 10/100M self-adaptive Five network modes 1. AUTO 2. HALF-10M Ruijie RG-S1926S 3. FULL-10M 4 .HALF- 100M 5. FULL-100M H3C-S1024 10/100M self-adaptive TP-LINK TL-SF1016 10/100M self-adaptive TP-LINK TL-SF1008+ 10/100M self-adaptive...

  • Page 162: Appendix F Compatible Wireless Mouse List

    10 Appendix F Compatible Wireless Mouse List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Model Rapoo 3500 Logitech M215 Shuangfeiyan Tianyao G7-630...

  • Page 163: Appendix G Earthing

    11 Appendix G Earthing 1. What is the surge? Surge is a short current or voltage change during a very short time. In the circuit, it lasts for microsecond. In a 220V circuit, the 5KV or 10KV voltage change during a very short time (about microseconds) can be called a surge.
  • Page 164 it can discharge the current to the ground to guarantee the device proper work. The signal lightning arrester has many specifications, and widely used in many devices such as telephone, network, analog communication, digital communication, cable TV and satellite antenna. For all the input port, especially those from the outdoor, you need to install the signal lightning arrester.
  • Page 165 Mixed ground: The mix ground consists of the feature of the one-point ground and multiple- point ground. For example, the power in the system needs to use the one-point ground mode while the radio frequency signal requires the multiple-point ground. So, you can use the following figure to earth.
  • Page 166 monitor devices, please use the copper resistance soft cable and its section shall be more than 4mm2. The monitor system usually can adopt the one-point ground. Please connect the ground end of 3-pin socket in the monitor system to the ground port of the system (protection ground cable) 4.
  • Page 167 For L (live cable) Turn the digital multimeter to 750V AC, use your one hand to hold the metal end, and then the other hand insert the pen to the L port of the socket. See the following figure. If the multimeter shows 120, then you can see current live cable connection is standard.
  • Page 168 Note: This manual is for reference only. Slight difference may be found in the user interface. All the designs and software here are subject to change without prior written notice. All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned are the properties of their respective owners.
  • Page 169 Thank You for Choosing CP Plus! Website: - www.cpplusworld.com Email id: - sales@cpplusworld.com ; support@cpplusworld.com...

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