Table of Contents FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS ..............1 Overview ........................1 Features ........................1 Specifications ....................... 2 1.3.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 ..................2 OVERVIEW AND CONTROLS ................4 Front Panel ........................4 2.1.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 ..................4 Rear Panel........................5 2.2.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 ..................
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Connecting Power Supply ..................10 Connecting Video Input and Output Devices ............10 3.5.1 Connecting Video Input ..................10 3.5.2 Connecting Video Output ..................11 Connecting Audio Input & Output, Bidirectional Audio ........11 3.6.1 Audio Input ......................11 3.6.2 Audio Output ......................11 RS485 .........................
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4.5.3 Tour ......................... 27 4.5.4 Favorites ......................... 27 4.5.5 Channel ........................28 4.5.6 PTZ .......................... 28 4.5.7 Color ........................28 4.5.8 Playback ......................... 28 4.5.9 Alarm Status ......................28 4.5.10 Channel Info ......................28 4.5.11 Network ........................29 4.5.12 HDD Manager ......................29 4.5.13 USB Manager ......................
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LAN Mode ......................... 100 Live ..........................102 PTZ ..........................102 Image ........................104 5.6.1 Image ........................104 WAN Login ....................... 104 Setup ......................... 105 5.8.1 Camera ......................... 105 5.8.2 Network ......................... 111 5.8.3 Event ........................123 5.8.4 Storage........................128 5.8.5 General ......................... 131 Info ..........................
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FAQ ........................150 APPENDIX A HDD CAPACITY CALCULATION ..........155...
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Welcome Thank you for purchasing our HD Analog Recorder (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 DVR features and functions, as well as a detailed menu tree.
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Important Safeguards and Warnings 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes. The product must be grounded to reduce the risk of electric shock. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper handling or installation.
1 FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS 1.1 Overview This series product is an excellent digital monitor product designed for security field. It adopts embedded Linux OS to maintain reliable operation. It is easy to use and can realize surveillance function after some simple setups.
UPnP It is to establish the mapping relationship between the LAN and the WAN via the UPnP protocol. Slight function differences may be found due to different series. 1.3 Specifications 1.3.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 Model CJ-HDR104 CJ-HDR108 Video / Audio IF...
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Video / Audio Format Video/Audio Compression H.264/G.711 Main Stream 1080P (1~12/15fps)/ 720P/ 960H/ D1 (1~25/30fps) Record Rate* Extra Stream CIF/ QCIF (1~25/30fps), D1 (1~12/15fps) Bit Rate 96~4096Kb/s Record Mode Manual, Schedule(Regular(Continuous), MD), Stop 1~60 min (default: 60 min), Pre-record: 1~30 sec, Post- Record Interval record: 10~300 sec Alarm /Event...
This section provides information about front panel and rear panel. When you install this series DVR for the first time, please refer to this part first. 2.1 Front Panel 2.1.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 The front panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1 Please refer to the following sheet for front panel button information.
The light turns on to alert you, please check HDD status at the GUI. 2.2 Rear Panel 2.2.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 The 4-channel series rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2 The 8-channel series rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-3.
Connect to video output device such as sound AUDIO OUT Audio output port box. 2.3 Connection Sample 2.3.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 Please refer to Figure 2-4 for connection sample. The following figure is based on the 4-channel series product. Figure 2-4...
2.4 Mouse Control System pops up password input dialogue box if you have not logged in. In real-time monitor mode, you can go to the main menu. When you have selected one menu item, left click mouse to view menu content.
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Move mouse Select current control or move control Select motion detection zone Drag mouse Select privacy mask zone. Normal mouse rolling operation in live view Rolling forward and backward for Channel or Window switching. Mouse Click on Enlarge button in the Live View menu bar for digital zoom. rolling ...
You can refer to the Appendix for recommended HDD brand. Please use HDD of 7200rpm or higher. Please follow the instructions below to install hard disk. 3.3.1 CJ-HDR104 / CJ-HDR108 The series DVR has one SATA HDD. ① Loosen the screws of the upper ②...
④ ⑤ ⑥ Turn the device upside down and Fix the HDD firmly. Connect the HDD cable and then turn the screws in firmly. power cable. ⑦ ⑧ Put the cover in accordance with the Secure the screws in the rear panel clip and then place the upper cover and the side panel.
Guarantee stability and reliability of the transmission line BTTTB Please use high quality, sound shielded BNC. Please select suitable BNC model according to the transmission distance. If the distance is too long, you should use twisted pair cable, and you can add video compensation devices or use optical fiber to ensure video quality.
3.7 RS485 When the DVR receives a camera control command, it transmits that command up the coaxial cable to the PTZ device. RS485 is a single-direction protocol; the PTZ device can’t return any data to the unit. To enable the operation, connect the PTZ device to the RS485 (A,B) input on the DVR. Since RS485 is disabled by default for each camera, you must enable the PTZ settings first.
4 Overview of Navigation and Controls 4.1 Boot up and Shutdown 4.1.1 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. ...
4.2 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 Startup checkbox here, system goes to startup wizard again when it boots up the next time. Cancel the Startup button, system goes to the login interface directly when it boots up the next time.
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Click OK button, you can go to General interface. See Figure 4-3. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.10.5.1. Figure 4-3 Click Next button, you can go to Encode interface. See Figure 4-4. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.10.1.2. Figure 4-4...
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Click Next button, you can go to Schedule interface. See Figure 4-75. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.10.4.1. Figure 4-5 Click Next button, you can go to Record interface. See Figure 4-76. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.10.4.3. Figure 4-6...
Click Next button, you can go to Network interface. See Figure 4-7. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.9.3. Figure 4-7 Click Finished button, system pops up a dialogue box. Click the OK button, the startup wizard is complete. See Figure 4-8. Figure 4-8 4.3 Manual Record 4.3.1...
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Recording status Video loss Motion detection Camera lock Tips Preview drag: If you want to change position of channel 1 and channel 2 when you are previewing, you can left click mouse in the channel 1 and then drag to channel 2, release mouse you can switch channel 1 and channel 2 positions.
Figure 4-10 Put the middle button at the centre of the zone you want to zoom in, and move the mouse, you can view an interface shown as in Figure 4-11. Figure 4-11 Right click mouse to cancel zoom and go back to the original interface. Manual record function It is to backup the video of current channel to the USB device.
Figure 4-12 4.4.1 Color Here you can set brightness, contrast, saturation, chroma, color mode and etc. See Figure 4-13. Figure 4-13 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Note There are two periods in one day. You can set different Period sharpness, brightness, and contrast setup for different periods.
Item Note The value here is to adjust the edge of the video. The value ranges from 0 to 100. The larger the value is, the clear the Sharpness edge is and vice versa. Please note there is noise if the value here is too high.
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Here you can control PTZ direction, speed, zoom, focus, iris, preset, tour, scan, pattern aux function, light and wiper, rotation and etc. Speed is to control PTZ movement speed. The value ranges from 1 to 8.The speed 8 is faster than speed 1.
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Please note the above interface may vary due to different protocols. The button is grey and can not be selected once the current function is null. Right click mouse or click the ESC button at the front panel to go back to the Figure 4-14. Icon Function Icon...
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Figure 4-18 Tour Setup In Figure 4-17, click tour button. Input tour value and preset No. Click Add preset button to add current preset to the tour. See Figure 4-19. Tips Repeat the above steps to add more presets to the tour. Click Del preset button to remove it from the tour.
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Figure 4-20 Scan Setup In Figure 4-17, 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.
Auto Scan In Figure 4-16, input Scan value and then click to call a tour. Click again to stop call. Auto Pan In Figure 4-16, click to enable the camera to rotate. System supports preset, tour, pattern, scan, rotate, light and etc function. Note: ...
Figure 4-23 4.5 Navigation Bar You need to go to the Main menu -> Setting -> General -> General to enable navigation bar function; otherwise you can not see the following interface. The navigation bar is shown as below. See Figure 4-24. Figure 4-24 4.5.1 Main Menu Click button...
4.5.5 Channel Click , system goes to the Channel interface. 4.5.6 PTZ Click , system goes to the PTZ control interface. Please refer to chapter 4.4.2. 4.5.7 Color Click button , system goes to the color interface. Please refer to chapter 4.4.1. 4.5.8 Playback Click button , system goes to Playback interface.
4.5.11 Network Click , system goes to the network interface. It is to set network IP address, default gateway and etc. Please refer to chapter 4.10.2. 4.5.12 HDD Manager , system goes to the HDD manager interface. It is to view and manage HDD information. Click Please refer to chapter 4.10.4.2.
Figure 4-28 4.8 Operation 4.8.1 Playback Click Playback button in the main menu, Playback interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-29. Usually there are three file types: R: Regular recording file. A: External alarm recording file. M: Motion detection recording file...
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Figure 4-29 Please refer to the following sheet for more information. Name Function Here is to display the playback picture or file. Display window Support 1/4/9/16-window playback. Playback mode:1/4/9. (It may vary due to different series.) In 1-window playback mode: you can select 1-4 or 1-8 channels. ...
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The card record search interface is shown as below. Here you can view card Card record number/field setup bar. You can implement advanced search. search Click it to go to mark file list interface. You can view all bookmark information of Mark file list current channel by time.
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Smart search The volume of the playback Click the Screenshot button in the full-screen mode, the system can snapshot 1 picture. System supports custom snap picture saved path. Please connect the peripheral device first, click snap button on the full-screen mode, you can select or create path.
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Record type In any play mode, the time bar will change once you modify the playback type. Other Functions When system is playing, you can select a zone in the window to begin smart search. Click the Motion button to begin play. ...
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Figure 4-30 Click the , you can go to the smart search playback. Click it again, system stops smart search playback. Important System does not support motion detect zone setup during the full-screen mode. During the multiple-channel playback, system stops playback of rest channels if you implement one-channel smart search.
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Figure 4-31 4.8.1.3 Mark Playback Please make sure your purchased device support this function. You can use this function only if you can see the mark playback icon on the Playback interface (Figure 4-29). When you are playback record, you can mark the record when there is important information. After playback, you can use time or the mark key words to search corresponding record and then play.
Mark Manager Click the mark manager button on the Playback interface (Figure 4-29); you can go to Mark Manager interface. See Figure 4-33. System can manage all the record mark information of current channel by default. You can view all mark information of current channel by time. Figure 4-33 ...
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Click backup button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-34. Here is for you to view devices information. You can view backup device name and its total space and free space. The device includes CD -RW, DVD burner, USB device, flash disk, eSATA backup.
System only backup files with (√) 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 Start button becomes Stop button. You can view the remaining time and process bar at the left bottom. See Figure 4-36. Figure 4-36 When the system completes backup, you can see a dialogue box prompting successful backup.
Figure 4-37 4.9 Information It is for you to view sysem info, event info, and network info and log info. 4.9.1 System Info Here is for you to view system information. There are total four items: HDD Info (hard disk information), record info, BPS (data stream statistics), version.
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Type: The corresponding HDD properties. Total space: The HDD total capacity. Free space: The HDD free capacity. Status: HDD can work properly or not. SMART: Display HDD information. See Figure 4-39. Figure 4-39 Double click on HDD information; you can see the HDD SMART information. See Figure 4-40. Figure 4-40...
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4.9.1.2 Record Info It is to view record start time and end time. See Figure 4-41. Figure 4-41 4.9.1.3 BPS Here is for you to view current video data stream (KB/s), resolution and etc. See Figure 4-42. Figure 4-42...
4.9.1.4 Version Here is for you to view some version information such as version number, built date, serial number and etc. See Figure 4-43. Figure 4-43 4.9.2 Event It is to display device status and channel status. See Figure 4-44. Figure 4-44...
4.9.3 Network 4.9.3.1 Online Users Here is for you to manage online users. See Figure 4-45. 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 seconds and refresh the list automatically.
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Figure 4-46 4.9.3.3 Network Test Network test interface is shown as in Figure 4-47. Destination IP: Please input valid IPV4 address or domain name. Test: Click it to test the connection with the destination IP address. The test results can display average delay and packet loss rate and you can also view the network status as OK, bad, no connection and etc.
Figure 4-47 4.9.4 Log Here is for you to view system log file. System lists the following information. See Figure 4-48. Log types include system operation, configuration operation, alarm event, record operation, account manager, log clear and etc. It optimized reboot log. There are only three types: normal reboot, abnormal reboot and protection reboot.
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Figure 4-48 Select an item on the list and then double click the log item, you can view the detailed information such as log time, log type, log user, IP address and etc. See Figure 4-49. Figure 4-49...
4.10 Setting It is for you to set general, network, event, storage, camera and etc. 4.10.1 Camera Here you can set audio/video property, camera property and channel name, channel type. 4.10.1.1 Image For analog channel, the camera interface is shown as in Figure 4-50. ...
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Figure 4-50 4.10.1.2 Encode It is to set video bit stream, picture bit stream, video overlay parameter and etc. 4.10.1.2.1 Video Video setting includes the following items. See Figure 4-51. Channel: Select the channel you want. Type: Please select from the dropdown list. There are three options: regular/motion detect/alarm. You can set the various encode parameters for different record types.
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Figure 4-51 4.10.1.2.2 Snapshot Here you can set snapshot mode, image size, quality and snapshot frequency. See Figure 4-52. Mode: There are two modes: timing 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. ...
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4.10.1.2.3 Overlay Overlay interface is shown as in Figure 4-53. Time display: You can select system displays time or not when you playback. Please click set button and then drag the title to the corresponding position in the screen. ...
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Figure 4-54 4.10.1.2.4 Channel Name It is to modify channel name. It max supports 31-character. See Figure 4-55. Figure 4-55 4.10.1.2.5 Channel Type It is to set channel type. It supports coaxial/UTP. See Figure 4-56.
Figure 4-56 4.10.2 Network 4.10.2.1 TCP/IP The interface is shown as in Figure 4-57. MTU: It is to set MTU value of the network adapter. The value ranges from 1280-7200 bytes. The default setup is 1500 bytes. Please note MTU modification may result in network adapter reboot and network becomes off.
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DHCP: It is to auto search IP. When enable DHCP function, you can not modify IP/Subnet mask /Gateway. These values are from DHCP function. If you have not enabled DHCP function, IP/Subnet mask/Gateway display as zero. You need to disable DHCP function to view current IP information.
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Figure 4-58 4.10.2.3 PPPoE PPPoE interface is shown as in Figure 4-59. Input “PPPoE name” and “PPPoE password” which you get from your ISP (Internet service provider). Click save button, you need to restart to activate your configuration. After rebooting, DVR will connect to internet automatically. The IP in the PPPoE is the DVR dynamic value.
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4.10.2.4 DDNS Setup DDNS setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-60. 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). In network DDNS, please select DDNS type and select the ENABLE checkbox to enable function.
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password or the ID registration on the server. At the same time, each device has a default domain name (Generated by MAC address) for your option. You can also use customized valid domain name (has not registered.). 3) Operation Before you use Quick DDNS, you need to enable this service and set proper server address, port value and domain name.
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Figure 4-61 Figure 4-62 4.10.2.6 IP Filter IP filter interface is shown as in Figure 4-63. You can add IP in the following list. The list supports max 64 IP addresses. System supports valid address of IPv4 and IPv6. Please note system needs to check the validity of all IPv6 addresses and implement optimization.
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For the newly added IP address, it is in enable status by default. Remove the √ before the item, and then current item is not in the list. System max supports 64 items. Address column supports IPv4 or IPv6 format. If it is IPv6 address, system can optimize it. For example, system can optimize aa:0000: 00: 00aa: 00aa: 00aa: 00aa: 00aa as aa:: aa: aa: aa: aa: aa: aa.
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Figure 4-64 4.10.2.7 Email The email interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-65. 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. ...
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Figure 4-65 4.10.2.8 FTP You need to download or buy FTP service tool (such as Ser-U FTP SERVER) to establish FTP service. Please install Ser-U FTP SERVER first. From “start” -> “program” -> Serv-U FTP Server -> Serv-U Administrator. Now you can set user password and FTP folder. Please note you need to grant write right to FTP upload user.
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Figure 4-67 System also supports upload multiple DVRs to one FTP server. You can create multiple folders under this FTP. FTP interface is shown as in Figure 4-68. Please select the checkbox to enable the FTP function. Here you can input FTP server address, port and remote directory. When remote directory is null, system automatically create folders according to the IP, time and channel.
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4.10.2.9 SNMP SNMP is an abbreviation of Simple Network Management Protocol. It provides the basic network management frame of the network management system. The SNMP widely used in many environments. It is used in many network device, software and system. You can set in the following interface.
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4.10.2.10 Multicast Multicast setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-70. Figure 4-70 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 ...
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. 4.10.2.11 EASY REMOTE The EASY REMOTE interface is shown as in Figure 4-71.
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Channel: Select a channel from the dropdown list to set motion detect function. Enable: Select the checkbox to enable motion detect function. Region: Click Setup button, the interface is shown as in Figure 4-73. Here you can set motion detection zone.
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Tour: Here you can enable tour function when alarm occurs. System one-window tour. Snapshot: You can enable this function to snapshoot image when a motion detect alarm occurs. Buzzer: Select the checkbox to enable the function. The buzzer beeps when alarm occurs. Please select the checkbox to select the corresponding function.
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Figure 4-76 Motion detect here only has relationship with the region setup. It has no relationship with other setups. 4.10.3.1.2 Video Loss In Figure 4-72, select video loss from the type list. You can see the interface is shown as in Figure 4-77.This function allows you to be informed when video loss phenomenon occurred.
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Figure 4-77 4.10.3.1.3 Tampering When someone viciously masks the lens, or the output video is in one-color due to the environments light change, the system can alert you to guarantee video continuity. Tampering interface is shown as in Figure 4-78. You can enable “Show message” function when tampering alarm occurs. ...
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Figure 4-78 4.10.3.2 Abnormality There are two types: HDD/Network. HDD: HDD error, no HDD, no space. See Figure 4-79 and Figure 4-80. Network: Disconnect, IP conflict, MAC conflict. See Figure 4-81. Show message: system can pop up the message in the local screen to alert you when alarm occurs.
Figure 4-81 4.10.4 Storage It is to set HDD management, storage parameters, set record plan and record control. 4.10.4.1 Schedule It is for you to set record plan and snapshot plan. 4.10.4.1.1 Record Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDDs have been properly installed.
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Record Type: Please select the checkbox to select corresponding record type. There are four types: Regular/ Motion / Alarm /MD (motion detect) & Alarm. Week day: There are eight options: ranges from Saturday to Sunday and all. Holiday: It is to set holiday setup.
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Please select the checkbox 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. Green color stands for regular recording, yellow color stands for motion detection and red color stands for alarm recording.
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4.10.4.1.1.1 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 4-87. You can see current channel name is grey such as channel 1.
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4.10.4.1.2 Snapshot 4.10.4.1.2.1 Schedule Snapshot On the preview interface, right click mouse and then select Manual->Record, or in the main menu, from Setting -> Storage -> Record, select the checkbox to enable snapshot function of corresponding channels. See Figure 4-88. ...
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4.10.4.1.2.2 Trigger Snapshot Please follow the steps listed below to enable the activation snapshot function. After you enabled this function, system can snapshot when the corresponding alarm occurred. In main menu, from Setting -> Camera -> Encode -> Snapshot interface, here you can input snapshot mode as trigger, image size, quality and snapshot frequency.
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Figure 4-92 4.10.4.1.2.3 Priority Please note the activation snapshot has the higher priority than schedule snapshot. If you have enabled these two types at the same time, system will activate the activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot. 4.10.4.1.2.4 Image FTP In the main menu, from Setting->Network->FTP, you can set FTP server information.
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Please input the corresponding information here, if you just upload the image FTP. Figure 4-93 4.10.4.2 HDD Manage Here is for you to view and implement hard disk management. See Figure 4-94. You can see current HDD type, status, capacity and etc. The operation includes format HDD, and change HDD property (read and write/read-only/redundancy).
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4.10.4.3 Record 4.10.4.3.1 Record Control Caution: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the 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. ...
4.10.4.3.2 Snapshot Operation Select the corresponding box to enable/disable schedule snapshot function. See Figure 4-96. Figure 4-96 Tips You can select All button after the corresponding status to enable/disable all-channel snapshot function. 4.10.5 General 4.10.5.1 General 4.10.5.1.1 General General setting includes the following items. See Figure 4-97. ...
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Auto logout: Here is for you to set auto logout interval once login user remains inactive for a specified time. Value ranges from 0 to 60 minutes. Navigation bar: If you select the checkbox here, system will display the navigation bar on the interface.
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Figure 4-98 4.10.5.1.3 Holiday Holiday setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-99. Click Add new holiday button, you can input new holiday information. See Figure 4-100. Here you can set holiday name, repeat mode and start/end time. Note When you enable Holiday settings and schedule setup at the same time, holiday setting has the priority.
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Figure 4-101 4.10.5.2 Display It is to set display, tour, and zero-channel. 4.10.5.2.1 Display Display setup interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-102. Resolution: There are four options: 1920×1080, 1280×1024(default), 1280×720, 1024×768. Please note the system needs to reboot to activate current setup. ...
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Figure 4-102 4.10.5.2.2 Tour Here you can activate tour function. Click Setup button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 4-103 Monitor tour type: System supports 1/8-window tour. Enable tour: Select the checkbox to enable this function. ...
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Figure 4-103 4.10.5.2.3 Zero-channel Click zero-channel encoding button, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 4-104.Here you can enable and set zero-channel encoding function so that you can view several video sources at one channel. Enable: This function is disabled by default. Select the checkbox to enable this function so that you can control the zero-channel encoding function at the WEB.
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Figure 4-104 4.10.5.3 PTZ The pan/tilt/zoom setup includes the following items. Please select channel first. See Figure 4-105. Control mode: You can select control mode from the dropdown list. There are two options: Serial/HDCVI. For HDCVI series product, please select HDCVI. The control signal is sent to the PTZ via the coaxial cable.
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Figure 4-105 4.10.5.4 ATM/POS The ATM/POS function is for financial areas. It includes Sniffer, information analysis and title overlay function. The Sniffer mode is network. The network type interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-106. Here we take the ATM/POS protocol to continue. There are two types: with or without the protocol according to client’s requirements.
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Without the protocol For the ATM/POS without the protocol, the interface is shown as in Figure 4-107. Source IP refers to host IP address that sends out information (usually it is the device host.) Destination IP refers to other systems that receive information. Usually you do not need to set source port and target port.
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automatically login. You can set some rights such as monitor for this user so that you can view some channel view without login. One user should belong to one group. User right can not exceed group right. About reusable function: this function allows multiple users use the same account to login. ...
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Figure 4-109 4.10.5.5.1 Add/Modify Group Click add group button in Figure 4-109 , the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-110. Here you can input group name and then input some memo information if necessary. There are total 15 rights such as account, system, offline user, default & upgrade, PTZ, info, manual control, backup, color, storage, event, network, camera, clear log and shutdown.
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4.10.5.5.2 Add/Modify User Click add user button in Figure 4-108 , the interface is shown as in Figure 4-111. Please input the user name, password, select the group it belongs to from the dropdown list. Then you can select the corresponding rights for current user. For convenient user management, usually we recommend the general user right is lower than the admin account.
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Figure 4-112 4.10.5.7 Import/Export The Import/Export interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-113. This function allows you to import/export system configuration. You can use this function when there are several devices need the same setup. Export: Please connect the peripheral device first and then go to the following interface. Click Export button, you can see there is a corresponding “Config_Time”...
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Figure 4-113 4.10.5.8 Default You can restore factory default setup to fix some problems when the device is running slowly. Configuration error occurred. From Main menu -> Setting -> General -> Default, you can go to the default interface. Click Function Default icon, system pops up a dialogue box. You can select the checkbox to restore default factory setup.
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Figure 4-114 4.10.5.9 Upgrade From Main menu -> Setting -> General -> Upgrade, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 4-115. Upgrade: Please insert the USB device that have the update file to the device and then click the Upgrade button to begin the upgrade process.
5 WEB OPERATION Slightly difference may be found in the interface due to different series. 5.1 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) ...
5.3 LAN Mode For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 5-3. Figure 5-3 This main window can be divided into the following sections. Section 1: There are six function buttons: Live(chapter 5.4), Playback (chapter 5.10), Alarm (chapter 5.11), Setup (chapter 5.8), Info (chapter 5.9), and Logout (chapter 5.12).
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Section 4: Start dialogue button. You can click this button to enable audio talk. Click 【▼】 to select bidirectional talk mode. There are four options: DEFAULT,G711a,G711u and PCM. After you enable the bidirectional talk, the Start talk button becomes End Talk button and it becomes green. See Figure 5-6. Please note, if audio input port from the device to the client-end is using the first channel audio input port.
Section 7: PTZ operation panel. Please refer to chapter 5.5 for detailed information. Section 8: Image setup .Please refers to chapter 5.6 for detailed information. Section 9:From the left to the right, you can see video quality/fluency/ full screen/ video latency /1- window/4-window/6-window/8-window.
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Please refer to the following sheet for PTZ setup information. Parameter Function Select Scan from the dropdown list. Click Set button, you can set scan left and right limit. Scan Use direction buttons to move the camera to you desired location and then click left limit button.
5.6 Image Select one monitor channel video and then click Image button in section 8, the interface is shown as Figure 5-12. 5.6.1 Image Here you can adjust its brightness, contrast, saturation and chroma. (Current channel border becomes green). Or you can click Reset button to restore system default setup. Figure 5-12 5.7 WAN Login In WAN mode, after you logged in, the interface is shown as below.
Figure 5-14 Important The window display mode and the channel number are by default. For example, for the 16- channel, the max window split mode is 16. 3) Multiple-channel monitor, system adopts extra stream to monitor by default. Double click one channel, system switches to single channel and system uses main stream to monitor.
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Figure 5-15 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period It divides one day (24 hours) to two periods. You can set different hue, brightness, and contrast for different periods. Sharpness It is to adjust monitor video sharpness level.
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attractive if the value is too low. The recommended value ranges from 40 to 60. Chroma It is to adjust monitor video brightness and darkness level. The default value is 50. The bigger the value is, the large the contrast between the bright and dark section is and vice versa.
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It includes regular stream, motion stream and alarm stream. You can select different encode frame rates from different recorded events. System supports active control frame function (ACF). It allows Code stream you to record in different frame rates. type For example, you can use high frame rate to record important events, record scheduled event in lower frame rate and it allows you to set different frame rates for motion detection record and alarm record.
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Figure 5-17 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are two modes: Timing (schedule) and Trigger. Timing snapshot is valid during the specified period you Snapshot type set. Trigger snapshot only is valid when motion detect alarm, tampering alarm or local activation alarm occurs.
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Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Cover-area Select Preview or Monitor first. Click Set button, you can privacy mask the specified video in the preview or monitor video. System max supports 4 privacy mask zones. Channel Display You can enable this function so that system overlays channel information in video window.
Figure 5-21 5.8.2 Network 5.8.2.1 TCP/IP The TCP/IP interface is shown as in Figure 5-22. Figure 5-22 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are two modes: static mode and the DHCP mode. The IP/submask/gateway are null when you select the DHCP mode to auto search the IP.
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Please use the keyboard to input the corresponding number to IP Address modify the IP address and then set the corresponding subnet mask and the default gateway. Preferred DNS DNS IP address. Alternate DNS Alternate DNS IP address. For the IP address of IPv6 version, default gateway, preferred DNS and alternate DNS, the input value shall be 128-digit.
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Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Max connection It is the max Web connection for the same device. The value ranges from 1 to 128. The default setup is 128. TCP port The default value is 37777. You can input the actual port number if necessary.
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Figure 5-26 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function DDNS Type You can select DDNS protocol from the dropdown list and then enable DDNS function. Server IP Address DDNS server IP address Domain Mode Two modes: Default Domain or Custom Domain Name. Domain Name Your self-defined domain name.
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Do not register frequently. The interval between two registrations shall be more than 60 seconds. Too many registration requests may result in server attack. System may take back the domain name that is idle for one year. You can get a notification email before the cancel operation if your email address setup is OK.
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Parameter Function SMTP Server Input server address and then enable this function. Port Default value is 25. You can modify it if necessary. For the server supports the anonymity function. You can auto login anonymously. You do not need to input the user name, Anonymous password and the sender information.
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Figure 5-29 5.8.2.9 UPnP It allows you to establish the mapping relationship between the LAN and the public network. Here you can also add, modify or remove UPnP item. See Figure 5-30. In the Windows OS, From Start->Control Panel->Add or remove programs. Click the “Add/Remove Windows Components”...
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Parameter Function Status Display UPnP function status. It is corresponding to the UPnP mapping information on the router. Select the checkbox before the service name to enable current PAT service. Otherwise, the service is null. Service name:Customzied name. Protocol:Protocol type. ...
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Parameter Function It is a string. It is a command between the manage process and the proxy process. It defined the authentication, access control and the management relationship between one proxy and one group of the managers. Please make sure the device Write Community and the proxy are the same.
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5.8.2.12.1 Create Server Certificate If it is your first time to use this function, please follow the steps listed below. In Figure 5-33, click button, input country name, state name and etc. Click Create button. See Figure 5-34. Note Please make sure the IP or domain information is the same as your device IP or domain name. Figure 5-34 You can see the corresponding prompt.
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Click Open button, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 5-37. Figure 5-37 Click Install certificate button, you can go to certificate wizard. See Figure 5-38. Figure 5-38 Click Next button to continue. Now you can select a location for the certificate. See Figure 5-39.
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Figure 5-39 Click Next button, you can see the certificate import process is complete. See Figure 5-40. Figure 5-40 Click Finish button, you can see system pops up a security warning dialogue box. See Figure 5-41. Figure 5-41...
Click Yes button, system pops up the following dialogue box, you can see the certificate download is complete. See Figure 5-42. Figure 5-42 5.8.2.12.3 View and set HTTPS port From Setup->Network->Connection, you can see the following interface. See Figure 5-43. You can see HTTPS default value is 443.
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Figure 5-47 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function You need to select the checkbox to enable motion detection function. Enable Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Motion detection function becomes activated in the specified periods.
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Parameter Function Here you can set PTZ movement when alarm occurs. See Figure Activation 5-47. Tour You need to select the checkbox here to enable this function. System begins 1-wiindow or multiple-window tour display among the channel(s) you set to record when an alarm occurs. Show System can pop up a message to alarm you in the local host message...
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Figure 5-49 5.8.3.2 Abnormality It includes two types: HDD Error and Network Error. See Figure 5-50 and Figure 5-51. Figure 5-50 Figure 5-51 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
Parameter Function Error Type The abnormal events include: No HDD, HDD error, no space, disconnect, IP conflict and MAC conflict. You can set one or more items here. Less than: You can set the minimum percentage value here (For disk not space only).
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Figure 5-52 Figure 5-53 Figure 5-54 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Pre-record Please input pre-record time here. The value ranges from 0 to 30. Select the checkbox here to enable redundancy function. Please note Redundancy this function is null if there is only one HDD.
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Parameter Function Copy function allows you to copy one channel setup to another. After setting in channel, click Copy button, you can go to interface Figure 5-54. You can see current channel name is grey such as channel 1. Now you can select the channel you wan to paste such as channel Copy 5/6/7.
Parameter Function Here you can view channel number. The number displayed here is the max channel amount of your Channel device. Status There are three status: schedule, manual and stop. System enables auto record function as you set in schedule setup Schedule (regular, motion detect, alarm and MD &...
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You can select the language from the dropdown list. Language Please note the device needs to reboot to get the modification activated. Video Standard This is to display video standard such as PAL. Here is for you to select working mode when hard disk is full. There are two options: Stop Record or OverWrite.
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Time There are two options: 24-H and 12-H. Format Time zone The time zone of the device. System It is to set system time. It becomes valid after you set. time You can click this button to save the system time as your PC current Sync PC time.
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Figure 5-60 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are four options: 1920×1080, 1280×1024(default), Resolution 1280×720, 1024×768. Please note the system needs to reboot to activate current setup. Here is for you to adjust transparency. The value ranges Transparency from 0% to 100%.
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Parameter Function Enable tour Select the checkbox here to enable tour function. Here is for you to adjust transparency. The value ranges from 5 to Interval 120s. The default setup is 5s. Here you can set window mode and channel group. System can Window Split support 1/4/8-window according to device channel amount.
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Figure 5-63 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Select speed dome connected channel. Channel You can select control mode from the dropdown list. There are two options: Serial/HDCVI. For HDCVI series product, please select Control HDCVI.
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For ATM/POS with the protocol, you just need to set the source IP, destination IP (sometimes you need to input corresponding port number). Figure 5-64 Without the protocol For the ATM/POS without the protocol, the interface is shown as in Figure 5-65. Source IP refers to host IP address that sends out information (usually it is the device host.) Destination IP refers to other systems that receive information.
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5.8.5.5 Account Note: For the character in the following user name or the user group name, system max supports 6-digits. The space in the front or at the end of the string is null. The valid string includes: character, number, and underline.
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Figure 5-67 Modify user It is to modify the user property, belonging group, password and rights. See Figure 5-68. Modify password It is to modify the user password. You need to input the old password and then input the new password twice to confirm the new setup.
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5.8.5.5.2 Group The group management interface can add/remove group, modify group password and etc. The interface is shown as in Figure 5-69. Figure 5-69 Add group: It is to add group and set its corresponding rights. See Figure 5-70. Please input the group name and then select the checkbox to select the corresponding rights. It includes: shutdown/reboot device, live view, record control, PTZ control and etc.
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Figure 5-71 5.8.5.6 Auto maintain The auto maintain interface is shown as in Figure 5-72. Here you can select auto reboot and auto delete old files interval from the dropdown list. If you want to use the auto delete old files function, you need to set the file period. Click Manual reboot button, you can restart device manually.
Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Import It is to import the local setup files to the system. Export It is to export the corresponding WEB setup to your local PC. 5.8.5.8 Default The default setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-74. Here you can select Camera/Network/Event/Storage/System.
Figure 5-76 5.9.2 Log Here you can view system log. See Figure 5-77. Figure 5-77 Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Start time Set the start time of the requested log. End time Set the end time of the requested log. Log types include: system operation, configuration operation, Type storage operation, alarm operation, record operation, account...
Parameter Function You can click this button to delete all displayed log files. Please note Clear system does not support clear by type. Backup You can click this button to backup log files to current PC. 5.9.3 Online User The online user interface is shown as in Figure 5-78. Figure 5-78 5.10 Playback Click Playback button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-79.
Figure 5-80 Select Channel 1~4 means main stream and A1~A4 means sub stream. Select Record Type Select the corresponding box to select record type. See Figure 5-81. Figure 5-81 5.10.2 File List Click File list button, you can see the corresponding files in the list. See Figure 5-82. Figure 5-82 5.10.3 Playback Select a file you want to play double click on the selected file for system to begin playback.
Figure 5-83 5.10.4 Download Select the file(s) you want to download and then click download button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 5-84. The Download button becomes Stop button and there is a process bar for your reference.
5.10.5 Load more It is for you to search record or picture. You can select record channel, record type and record time to download. Or you can use watermark function to verify file. 5.10.5.1 Download By File Select channel, type, bit stream type and then input start time and end time. Click Search button, the download by file interface is shown as in Figure 5-85.
5.10.5.3 Watermark Watermark interface is shown as In Figure 5-87. Please select a file and then click Verify button to see the file has been tampered with or not. Figure 5-87 5.11 Alarm Click alarm function, you can see an interface is shown as Figure 5-88. Here you can set device alarm type and alarm sound setup (Please make sure you have enabled audio function of corresponding alarm events.).
Type Parameter Function Disk error System alarms when disk error occurs. Video loss System alarms when video loss occurs. Disk full System alarms when disk is full. Select the checkbox here, system can automatically Operation Prompt pops up an alarm icon on the Alarm button in the main interface when there is an alarm.
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6 FAQ 1. DVR can not 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. ...
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6. Can not 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. Record function has been disabled. 7. Video is distorted when searching local records. There are following possibilities: ...
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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. The distance is too far. 12. Motion detection function does not work. There are following possibilities: ...
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Data amount exceeds backup device capacity. It may result in burner error. Backup device is not compatible. Backup device is damaged. Backup device must not have password/encryption protected. 17. Keyboard can not control DVR. There are following possibilities: ...
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23. When I login via HTTPS, a dialogue says the certificate for this website is for other address. Please follow chapter 5.8.2.12.1 to create server certificate. 24. When I login via HTTPS, a dialogue says the certificate is not trusted. Please follow chapter 5.8.2.12.2 to download root certificate.
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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.
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