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Digital Video Recorder Operation Manual TR-4208 TR-4216 TR-4208R TR-4216R...
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Before reading this manual This operation manual contains basic instructions on installing and using Digital Video Recorder, an IDIS product. Users who are using this product for the first time, as well as users with experience using comparable products, must read this operation manual carefully before use and heed to the warnings and precautions contained herein while using the product.
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Before reading this manual Important Safeguards 1. Read Instructions 14. Damage requiring Service All the safety and operating instructions should be read before the appliance Unplug this equipment from the wall outlet and refer servicing to qualified is operated. service personnel under the following conditions: 2.
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Before reading this manual In-Text Symbol Type Description Caution Important information concerning a specific function. Note Useful information concerning a specific function. User’s Caution Statement Caution: Any changes or modifications to the equipment not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void your authority to operate the equipment.
Part 1 - Getting Started Enter the verification code you receive by e-mail and This document covers the 8- and 16-channel digital click OK. video recorders. The DVRs are identical except for the number of cameras and alarms that can be connected and the number of cameras that can be displayed.
Part 1 - Getting Started Live Mode Placing the mouse pointer near the right edge of the screen also displays the Live menu. • Login/Logout Log into and out from accounts. If in the logged in Live Menu state, the account ID is shown. If in the logged out state, the login icon is shown.
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Part 1 - Getting Started – Edit Group: Enter to the Edit Group mode in the Full Sequence split screen layout. Displays all channels in sequence while in Live mode • Search (single and PIP split screen settings). In order to use the –...
Part 1 - Getting Started Video Display Area 2 Status Indication: Displays system status icons. Indicates remote control receptivity. Left-click on the video display area to toggle between Indicates connection to the DVR from a split screen and single screen modes. remote program.
Part 1 - Getting Started Edit Group Camera Menu Right-click on the video display area to bring up the camera menu. Edit Group lets you customize split screen pages in both Live and Search modes. While displaying a split screen page, select the Edit Group option from the context menu.
Part 1 - Getting Started Zoom PTZ Control Press the ZOOM button on the remote control and select While in Live mode, right-click and select PTZ from the context menu or press the PTZ button on the DVR’s a channel you wish to zoom in on. A zoom frame will appear on the selected channel.
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Part 1 - Getting Started Setting Up a PTZ Preset Advanced Settings While in PTZ mode, select the PRESET SET button on the In PTZ mode, select a camera. Clicking Menu button and remote control to display the Set Preset window and selecting Advanced PTZ loads the Advanced PTZ screen assign the current position as a preset.
Part 1 - Getting Started Event Monitoring While in PTZ mode, place the mouse pointer close to the bottom edge of the screen to display the PTZ Tools window. When an event occurs, the DVR automatically displays the channel linked to the event and shows the icon on the system status area on the bottom of the screen.
Part 1 - Getting Started Status • Fan Error: Event is indicated when the cooling fan cannot reach a certain RPM or fails for longer than 50 seconds. Refer to the Menu Use on page 21 for basic • No Storage Found: It will be highlighted when no information on using the Setup menus.
Part 1 - Getting Started Context Menu Access A disk that has never Formatted been used before. You can display the ContextMenu window by pressing • Disk performing the MENU button and then PLAY/PAUSE button on the normally. front panel. Alternatively, right-click on the mouse to • If the HDD is partially Good access the Context menu.
Part 1 - Getting Started Video Recording Audio Recording Video recording will only take place if all the connections If the Record Audio option under Record Setup > General has been enabled the camera will record audio are made correctly as per information contained in Part 2 of this operation manual.
Part 1 - Getting Started Triplex Playback Context Menu While in Search mode, right-click on the mouse to access the Context Menu. Press the Menu button while in Live mode. • Zoom: Zoom in. • Edit Group: Enter to the Edit Group mode in the split Select the Search Mode icon and then select screen layout.
Part 2 - Configuration Menu Use Use the remote control’s arrow buttons to select an option and then press the remote control’s $ button or left-click on the option using the mouse. Information contained in this section (Menu Use) applies to all other instructions found throughout Part Change the setting and then select Save to save the 3 - Configuration.
Part 2 - Configuration System Setup Batch Assignment Refer to the Menu Use on page 21 for basic Certain table-format menus such as the shown in the information on using the Setup menus. Camera Setup on page 44 allow you to change the title value.
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Part 2 - Configuration • Upgrade: Upgrade the system. If NetFS feature is • Show System Log: Displays a searchable list of 5,000 in use, click Upgrade. You can select the USB Port or most recent system log entries. For more information on types of system log entries, refer to the System NetFS.
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Part 2 - Configuration • Clear All Data: Erases all recording data. Selecting Quick Wizard Clear All Data displays a confirmation window. Select Clear to proceed. Select Quick Wizard. • Before you perform Clear All Data, make sure you are not accidentally deleting important data. Erased data cannot be recovered.
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Part 2 - Configuration Choose the desired Recording Method and click – Recording ips, quality, resolutions used under each recording method and record video quality setting are as Next. follows: High Video Standard Longer Recording Quality Priority Recording Profile Time Priority Profile Profile Motion...
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Part 2 - Configuration Select Network Configuration and then click Network Wizard Next. Select either Auto Configuration or Manual Configuration and then click Test to test the system’s After exiting from Quick Wizard, you can click Go to current network configuration. Network Setup and set up the network with Network Wizard.
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DVR. Once registered, the name can be used to access the DVR directly from clients such as the IDIS Center. Check the name's availability to complete the registration process. The Finish button will then become activated.
Part 2 - Configuration Date/Time Specify the server synchronization Interval. Select OK to apply and exit. • If you have configured the DNS Server setting under Network - IP Address, you can enter the time server's domain name instead of its IP address. •...
Part 2 - Configuration User Select + User and then enter a user name. Use this option to register users and assign permissions. Select a group for the user and then enter a password and e-mail address. The password can be 8~16 characters in length and may include numbers.
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Part 2 - Configuration Group Permissions System May change the system's date Time and time settings. May shutdown the system Change System Shutdown from the system menu. Data May clear data stored in the May upgrade the system from Clear system.
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Part 2 - Configuration Storage Use this option to configure storage settings. <ODD supported models> • Information: Indicates if the disk is being used for recording purposes. Disks that were used in different systems will show up as Other. Select Information to check the saved data’s time information or select Delete to erase the data.
Part 2 - Configuration System Event Use this option to configure Monitoring settings. Once you start mirroring, all existing data on the two disks will be erased. – Stop: Once mirroring starts, you can stop it by selecting Stop option. • Settings: Configure when and what the system should monitor for.
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Part 2 - Configuration Monitoring Options Generates an event when the specified percentage of the Disk Bad disk becomes damaged. Set to Define monitoring times. If self- between 10% and 90% in 10% diagnosis is not performed on System intervals. a regular basis, the system will assume an error.
Part 2 - Configuration Record Setup • Auto Deletion: Configure this option to delete recording data automatically after the specified number of days has elapsed. Select between 1 day Refer to the Menu Use on page 21 for basic and 999 days. information on using the Setup menus.
Part 2 - Configuration Schedule Simple Mode Options • Mode: Select No Record, Time, Event, or Time & Event. Unless the Panic Record button is pressed, no recording will take place Record during the scheduled time frames on the scheduled days. icon appears on the upper left corner of the screen.
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Part 2 - Configuration Advanced Mode Options • Upper-tier schedule's settings apply to unconfigured channels. Select to configure event types. • If multiple events take place on a specific channel • Type: Event-specific and time recording icons are as and different ips, Quality, Resolution, and Dwell follows: Time settings apply, highest settings apply to all Time Lapse...
Part 2 - Configuration Pre-Event Intelligent Codec When an event occurs, enabling this option includes Enabling this option lowers bitrate. the specified duration prior to the event in the event- triggered recording. • No.: Select which cameras to apply Intelligent Codec • No.: Select which cameras to apply Pre-Event to.
Part 2 - Configuration Event Setup Use the remote control’s arrow buttons to move the block selection window up, down, left, and right. The selection window consists of 16 blocks per row. Select/ Refer to the Menu Use on page 21 for basic deselect individual blocks using the Camera buttons.
Part 2 - Configuration • Min. Blocks: Motion needs to be detected in more • Daytime Setup: Specify when daytime starts and than the specified number of blocks in order to ends. Adjust the time frame in 15-minute increments. trigger a Motion Detection event. You may select a Times outside the specified range will be assumed as value between 1 and the number of blocks selected nighttime by the system.
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Part 2 - Configuration – Cancel: Exit the menu without saving the changes. • Zone View: Allow you to observe how the DVR is reacting to the detected inward motion from outside the selection area. When in the motion viewing mode, the detection zone of video will be displayed.
Part 2 - Configuration Alarm-In Video Loss • No.: Enable / disable alarm-ins. • Video Loss Interval: The system does not produce event log entries or issues remote notifications • Title: Use the virtual keyboard to enter titles. regarding video loss detected during the specified • Type: Change the alarm-in type.
Part 2 - Configuration Video Blind • Actions: Specify which actions to take when video blind events occur. – Record: Specify which cameras to begin linked recording on when an event occurs. If the schedule is set to Event or Time & Event mode, the selected cameras will begin linked recording when an event occurs.
Part 2 - Configuration Text-In • Transaction Start: Once Transaction Start has been designated, the system will recognize the specified string as the beginning of a transaction. You can choose the Any Character setting. Under this setting, any character will trigger the system into recognizing the start of a new transaction.
Part 2 - Configuration Camera Setup Selecting RS-232, RS-485, USB-Serial 1 through 8, or LAN 1 through 16 as the port activates the Port Setup button. Select Setup and configure the Baud Rate, Data Bit, Refer to the Menu Use on page 21 for basic Stop Bit, and Parity settings.
Part 2 - Configuration Image • 2D Noise Filter, 3D Noise Filter, Sharpness: You can • Product: You can select the PTZ camera you wish to set up 2D, 3D Noise Filter and Sharpness functions configure. for each channel. Each function can be applied • ID: You can assign IDs to each camera by highlighting between 1 (Weak) ~ 5 (Strong) according to Daytime/ the box under the ID heading.
Part 2 - Configuration Privacy Masking Configure privacy masking zone for Live and Recording screen. Configure the port’s setting based on the PTZ camera manufacturer’s instructions. Clip Privacy Configure privacy masking zone for CLIP COPY. • No.: Turn on/off the camera number. • Privacy Zone: Display the full screen live mode of the channel, and you can configure the privacy zone area by dragging on the area with the mouse (The privacy...
Part 2 - Configuration Device Setup Alarm-Out Refer to the Menu Use on page 21 for basic information on using the Setup menus. Audio Select the + icon at the bottom left corner of the screen to add a schedule. You can apply different schedules for different Days of the week.
Configure to use different streams in layout mode or port such as PTZ control, networking or text input. channels in IDIS Center Client. The message says that you cannot use other device because the ports are overlapped.
Admin), 8201(Remote Callback), 8016(Remote Watch), and 10019(Remote Search). You will need to get the appropriate Port Numbers for each IDIS Center and IDIS Web related program (Admin, Callback, Watch and Search) from your network administrator. To use the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) feature, select Use UPnP.
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Part 2 - Configuration • Status: Indicates the number of the port forwarded DHCP by the IP router (or NAT) to the DVR via UPnP service. • Test: Select to test the current LAN settings you made. Select DHCP and then Save to retrieve IP address and other network settings automatically from the DHCP server.
• If the FEN name contains the #, \, and/or % symbol, it might not be able to connect to the DVR from the IDIS Web program. • Status: Used to check the status of the device being registered to the FEN server.
RTSP IDIS Web RTSP service allows you to monitor real-time using the IDIS Web service allows you to monitor and search video Real-Time Streaming Protocol. remotely without setting specific on-line programs. • RTSP Port: Set the port number of the RTSP server • Use IDIS Web Service: Enable/disable IDIS Web.
Part 2 - Configuration Function Pressing the ← or h key moves to VNC service allows you to access the DVR and control it the left in the menu. It is the same as ← or h remotely using a PC or mobile devices via Ethernet. pressing the Left arrow button on the front panel.
Part 2 - Configuration NetFS It allows you to register NetFS sites for the following functions: • Upload or download of files for upgrade, import/ export of a setup file, log export, or file print on a FTP site. Related settings are as follows: (Setup) in the live monitoring mode - System menu - General tab - Upgrade, Import, Export (Export) in the search mode - Print...
Part 2 - Configuration Notification Setup • Site: Enter NetFS site information. • When you delete a FTP site in the NetFS setup screen on the Network menu, the FTP site in the FTP setup screen on the Eventupload will be deleted, Callback too.
Part 2 - Configuration Mail SMTP Setup Select SMTP Setup at the bottom right corner of the Configure Mail settings. screen to configure an SMTP server. Enter the SMTP Server’s IP address or domain name and then configure the Port and Sender settings. Default SMTP server port number is 25.
Part 2 - Configuration • Uploade File: Select among CBF, JPG, and MP4. When selecting CBF, the DVR will upload an event detected video clip on the FTP site. When selecting JPG, the DVR will attach the event detected image file (JPEG format) on the FTP site.
Ethernet. The icon displays on each camera when audio communication is available between the DVR and a PC running IDIS Center via Ethernet. The icon displays when VNC service is running.
Part 2 - Configuration Main Monitor Camera • No.: Displays the camera number on the upper left corner of the camera screen. Configure monitor-related settings. • Title: Displays the camera name on the upper left corner of the camera screen. • Record: Displays recording and schedule icons.
Part 2 - Configuration Spot Monitor Configure spot monitor-related settings. Connect the Spot monitor using the BNC cable. Select the box in the Channels column. You can define which cameras display sequentially on the Spot Monitor when in the single-screen display format.
Part 3 - Search Searching Video 1 Search Search by changing Event Log Search, Record Table Search, Motion Search, Text-In Search and Thumbnail While in the search mode, pressing the MENU button Search. displays the following Search menu on the right edge of the screen.
Part 3 - Search Context Menu 9 Camera Menu • Zoom: Zoom and choosing the camera number zooms the current playback image of the selected Right-click on the Camera screen to access the context camera on the screen. menu. • Audio: Audio toggles audio playback On and • Zoom: Zoom in.
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Part 3 - Search You can also narrow your event search by selecting Camera Filter the Option… button and setting up the new search • Alarm-In: Select which channels to search alarm-in condition. events in. • Motion: Select which channels to search motion detection events in.
Part 3 - Search Record Table Search 2 Zoom Select (zoom-in) to compose recording data in 1-minute segments and select (zoom-out) Select Record Table Search from the Search menu to to compose recording data in 3-minute segments. bring up the Record Table Search Setup window. Selecting zoom-out displays more time in one screen than zoom-in screen.
Part 3 - Search Motion Search 6 Playback Controls Play and scan through video recordings. Playback controls have the same functions as their remote Select Motion Search from the Search menu to bring up control counterparts. the Motion Search Setup window. Skips to the previous screen (while in paused state).
Part 3 - Search • The Zone setting can be configured in the identical Text-In Search manner as the Zone setting under System Setup - Motion Detection. For more information, refer to the Select Text-In Search from the Search menu to bring up Motion on page 38.
Part 3 - Search • Option...: Select whether or not the search will find Bookmarks only text strings in which the case matches, find only exact words that match with the word you entered Select Bookmarks from the Search menu to bring up the during text-in setup, or delete transactions duplicated Bookmarks Setup window.
Part 3 - Search Clip Copy • Password: Enable password protection for the saved video clip and assign a password. • Dest.: Select which storage media to use. If NetFS feature is in use, you can upload video clip to the Clip Copy registered FTP site.
• Clip Copy files can be played back on Windows • Printer Model systems. For more information, refer to the IDIS – File Printer: Save the current frame to the USB Center operation manual. storage device or the NetFS site as a .pdf file that can •...
Part 3 - Search Overlapped Recording Search If the system’s clock is changed to a point in the past, overlapping recordings may be produced. Overlapped recordings have to be searched in segments. For example, making a recording from 1 o’clock to 5 o’clock, changing the system’s clock at 5 o’clock to 3 o’clock, and then continuing to record until 6 o’clock produces two recordings that overlap between 3 o’clock...
Part 4 - IDIS Web IDIS Web is a program that allows you to view and search video from remote locations over the Internet and can be accessed on a regular web browser such as Internet Explorer. System requirements for running IDIS Web are as follows: • OS: Microsoft...
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IDIS Web program. • If running IDIS Web, the bottom section of the screen may get cut off if the address bar or the status bar is shown. In this case, change Internet Options so that the address bar or the status bar is hidden. (Tools → Internet Options →...
Press to terminate IDIS Web. Place the mouse pointer on the logo to check IDIS Web’s version. Displays the current time. Select the desired mode. Changing the mode places the selected camera in the first cell of the layout that will be changed.
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Part 4 - IDIS Web Select the camera you wish to monitor. Use the arrow buttons to navigate to the previous/next camera group. Used to control a PTZ camera at a remote location. Used to adjust live video quality. Controls remote alarm out devices. Use the arrow buttons to navigate to the previous/next alarm group.
& Press to terminate IDIS Web. Place the mouse pointer on the logo to check IDIS Web’s version. Displays time information of the video recording from the remote DVR. Select the desired mode. Click to print the current video screen using a printer connected to the computer.
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Part 4 - IDIS Web Click to switch over to Web Live mode. Shows login information. Select the camera you wish to search. Use the arrow buttons to navigate to the previous/next camera group. Zoom in or out on the video.
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Part 4 - IDIS Web Select a camera from the screen and right-click to bring up the pop-up menu. • Change Camera Title: Used to change the camera's name. Renaming the camera in Web Search mode does not affect the camera's name on the remote system.