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  • Page 1 Network Video Recorder Protect Series User Manual...
  • Page 2 Legal Information © 2022 InVid Technology Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. About this Manual The Manual includes instructions for using and managing the Product. Pictures, charts, images and all other information hereinafter are for description and explanation only. The information contained in the Manual is subject to change, without notice, due to firmware updates or other reasons.
  • Page 3 Publicity, Intellectual Property Rights, or Data Protection and Other Privacy Rights. You Shall Not Use This Product For Any Prohibited End-Uses, Including The Development Or Production Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction, The Development Or Production Of Chemical Or Biological Weapons, Any Activities In The Context Related To Any Nuclear Explosive Or Unsafe Nuclear Fuel- Cycle, Or In Support Of Human Rights Abuses.
  • Page 4 Regulatory Information FCC Information Please take attention that changes or modification not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. FCC compliance: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
  • Page 5 2006/66/EC (battery directive): This product contains a battery that cannot be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste in the European Union. See the product documentation for specific battery information. The battery is marked with this symbol, which may include lettering to indicate cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), or mercury (Hg).
  • Page 6 Applicable Model This manual is applicable to the following models. Series Model PRTN-8X8 Protect PRTN-16X16...
  • Page 7 Symbol Conventions The symbols that may be found in this document are defined as follows. Symbol Description Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will or could Danger result in death or serious injury. Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, Caution could result in equipment damage, data loss, performance degradation, or unexpected results.
  • Page 8 Safety Instruction ● Proper configuration of all passwords and other security settings is the responsibility of the installer and/or end-user. ● In the use of the product, you must be in strict compliance with the electrical safety regulations of the nation and region. ●...
  • Page 9 Preventive and Cautionary Tips Before connecting and operating your device, please be advised of the following tips: ● The device is designed for indoor use only. Install it in a well-ventilated, dust-free environment without liquids. ● Ensure recorder is properly secured to a rack or shelf. Major shocks or jolts to the recorder as a result of dropping it may cause damage to the sensitive electronics within the recorder.

  • Page 10: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1 Overview of NVR ..................1 1.1 Front Panel ..........................1 1.2 Rear Panel ........................... 2 1.3 HDD Installation .......................... 3 1.4 IP Camera and Monitor Connection ................... 3 1.5 Power Supply Connection ......................4 1.6 USB Mouse Operation ......................... 5 1.7 Input Method Description ......................
  • Page 11 6.2 Network Configuration ......................36 6.2.1 TCP/IP ..........................36 6.2.2 P2P ............................37 6.2.3 Email ........................... 38 6.3 Camera Management ....................... 40 6.3.1 Network Camera ......................... 40 6.3.2 OSD Settings ........................44 6.3.3 Smart Event ........................45 6.4 Recording Management ......................52 6.4.1 Storage ..........................
  • Page 12 10.3.2 Video/Audio ........................90 10.3.3 Image ..........................90 10.3.4 PTZ ............................ 94 10.4 Normal Event ........................... 96 10.4.1 Motion detection ......................96 10.4.2 Video Diagnosis ........................ 96 10.4.3 Audio detection ........................ 99 10.4.4 Alarm ..........................101 10.4.5 System Alert ........................104 10.5 Smart Event ...........................

  • Page 13: Chapter 1 Overview Of Nvr

    Chapter 1 Overview of NVR 1.1 Front Panel NVR Front Panel, as shown in figure 1-1-1 Figure 1-1-1 Front panel of M1 case Function Description Network status light Hard disk status light Power status light USB interface Table 1-1-1 Description of front panel ●...

  • Page 14: Rear Panel

    1.2 Rear Panel NVR Rear Panel, as shown in figure 1-2-1. Figure 1-2-1 Rear panel of MX8 case Description Power Input Interface Power switch POE network port VGA interface Alarm in/out Interface HDMI interface Audio in/out Interface RJ45 interface USB 3.0 interface Caution Information Table 1-2-1 Description of Rear Panel ●...

  • Page 15: Hdd Installation

    1.3 HDD Installation Before installing Hard Disk (HDD), please make sure the power is disconnected with the NVR. Each capacity of Hard Disk please refer to NVR’s specifications. NVR without Hard Disk still support monitoring, but no recording or playback. If you correctly install the Hard Disk, the HDD indicator will blink regularly when the NVR is on work.

  • Page 16: Power Supply Connection

    Figure 1-4-1 Device connection 1.5 Power Supply Connection Please use attached power adapter to connect NVR. Before power on, make sure the cables on the audio I/O ports and network port are well connected. Figure 1-5-1 Power Supply Connection...

  • Page 17: Usb Mouse Operation

    1.6 USB Mouse Operation A regular 3-button (Left/Right/Scroll-wheel) USB mouse can also be used with this NVR. To use a USB mouse: 1. Plug USB mouse into one of the USB interfaces on the front panel of the NVR. 2. The mouse should automatically be detected. If in a rare case that the mouse is not detected, the possible reason may be that the two devices are not compatible, please refer to the recommended the device list from your provider.
  • Page 18 Figure 1-7-2 Soft key board (2) Icon Description Symbols …… Number Enter Space ..English letter Backspace Figure 1-7-3 Soft key board (3) Lowercase/Uppercase Table 1-7-1 Description of the Soft Keyboard Icons...

  • Page 19: Chapter 2 Startup

    Chapter 2 Startup 2.1 Starting Up and Shutting Down the NVR Purpose: Proper startup and shutdown procedures are crucial to expanding the life of the NVR. Before you start: Check that the voltage of the extra power supply is the same with the NVR’s requirement, and the ground connection is working properly.

  • Page 20: Activate Your Device

    Figure 2-1-2 Shutdown Menu 2. Select shutdown in the drop-down box. 3. Click the OK button. Figure 2-1-3 Shutdown Attention Rebooting the NVR In the Shutdown menu, you can also reboot the NVR. Steps: 1. Go to the bottom of the interface → Quick Menu → Shutdown. 2.
  • Page 21 Steps: 1. Input the same password in Password and Confirm Password. Figure 2-2-1 Activation 2. Optional: You can also set the Pattern Lock by click “setting the Pattern Lock”. Figure 2-2-2 3. Click ok. 4. Message "Save successful", the password setting is complete. Figure 2-2-3 ●...

  • Page 22: Using The Startup Wizard

    2.3 Using the Startup Wizard Steps: 1. By default, the Startup Wizard starts once the NVR has loaded, as shown in Figure 2-3-1. Figure 2-3-1 Startup Wizard ● Operating the Startup Wizard: The Startup Wizard can walk you through some important settings of the NVR.
  • Page 23 Figure 2-3-3 4. After the record control settings, click Next Step button which takes you to the HDD Manage Setup Wizard window, as shown in figure 2-3-4. Figure 2-3-4 5. Click Next step button. You enter the Network Setup Wizard window, as shown in figure 2-3-5. Figure 2-3-5...

  • Page 24: Login And Logout

    6. Click Next button after you configured the network parameters, you enter the cloud service Setup Wizard window, as shown in figure 2-3-6. Figure 2-3-6 7. Click finished button to complete the startup Setup Wizard. 2.4 Login and Logout 2.4.1 Set Unlock Pattern Admin user can use the unlock pattern to login.

  • Page 25: Log In Via Unlock Pattern

    ● The pattern shall have 4 dots at least. ● Each dot can be connected for once only. 2.4.2 Log in via Unlock Pattern Steps: 1. Right click the mouse → Seven Grid Menu on live view interface. 2. Click the menu you want. 3.

  • Page 26: User Logout

    ● When you forget the password of the admin, you can click Forgot Password to reset the password. ● If you enter the wrong password 6 times, the current user account will be locked for 15 min. 2.4.4 User Logout After logging out, the monitor turns to the live view mode and if you want to do some operation, you need to enter user name and password tog in again.
  • Page 27 Adding the IP Cameras OPTION 1: Steps: 1. Select the Camera Management from the Seven Grid Menu or Move the mouse to the bottom of the interface then enter camera management interface. Figure 2-5-1 2. Click the 'Search' button below, the online cameras with same network segment will be detected and displayed in the camera list.

  • Page 28: Editing The Connected Ip Cameras And Configuring

    ● If the camera does not load in the selected position after double clicking, try deleting the information of the connection by clicking the red ‘X’ then double clicking the IP address to add here. ● Explanation of the icons: Get the live view of the Edit basic parameters of Upgrade the camera...

  • Page 29: Editing Ip Cameras Connected To The Poe Interfaces

    1. Click the icon to edit the parameters; you can edit the IP address, User name, Password, Port and other parameters. Figure 2-6-1 2. Click the drop down box of Protocol, You can choose three protocols: InVid-1, ONVIF-1,ONVIF-2 RTSP; InVid-1 is a private protocol, ONVIF and RTSP protocols are mainly connected to third- party cameras.
  • Page 30 Figure 2-7-1 3. Change the connection type buy click the drop-down box of Type and change it to UPNP and ok. Figure 2-7-2 ● The factory default is Type is UPNP, if not, please refer to the above method to modify, if you want to quickly modify each channel, please use the Copy to function.
  • Page 31 Figure 2-7-3 Edit the Parameters ● This page you can check all PoE channels power and connection status. ● EPoE (Extended Power Over Ethernet) extends the usual PoE distance limit of 100M to an improved 250M. Turning EPoE on allows even greater capacity for installations on larger sites without expensive additional power infrastructure.

  • Page 32: Chapter 3 Live View

    Chapter 3 Live View 3.1 Introduction of Live View Live view shows you the video image getting from each camera in real time. The NVR automatically enters Live View mode when powered on. It is also at the very top of the menu hierarchy, thus pressing the right click many times (depending on which menu you’re on) brings you to the Live View mode, as shown in figure 3-1-1.

  • Page 33: Operations In Live View Mode

    3.2 Operations in Live View Mode In live view mode, there are many functions provided. The functions are listed below. ● Single Screen: showing only one screen on the monitor. ● Multi-screen: showing multiple screens on the monitor simultaneously. ● Tour: the screen is auto switched to the next one. And you must set the dwell time for each screen on the configuration menu before enabling the tour.

  • Page 34: Quick Menu

    3.4 Quick menu Menu name Function description. In preview mode you can Go Main Menu Seven Grid Menu to the bottom of the interface → Main Menu or Quick Menu , Startup wizard Please refer to the chapter 2.3 Using the Startup as shown in figure 4-4.
  • Page 35 Supplementary function description ● Record Control: You can check current channel status: “○” means it is not selected, “●”means it is selected. Items Description Schedule Record according to the configuration. Manual Click the button and the according channel will record immediately regardless of the current state.

  • Page 36: Chapter 4 Playback

    Chapter 4 Playback 4.1 GUI Introduction Go to Playback.  Move the mouse to the bottom of the interface and select the “Playback” to enter the playback interface as shown in the figure 4-1-1. Figure 4-1-1 Playback ● The functions of each block in the above figure are described as follows Items Function Playback...
  • Page 37 1. Position the cursor on the timeline, drag the timeline to position to a certain time. 2. Period marked with blue bar contains video. Red bar indicates the video in the period is event video. Scroll the mouse wheel up/down to fast forward and rewind. 3.

  • Page 38: Normal Playback

    4.2 Normal Playback Play back normal videos. Steps: 1. Go to Playback. 2. Select a camera from the camera list. 3. Select a date on the calendar. ● The blue square at the calendar date indicates there are available videos. For example, means video is available.
  • Page 39 7. The video playback can be controlled by the following buttons. Button Description Button Description Cut the interest video of Snap a picture of playing channel playing channel Lock the file in case over Default label, Label the file written in HDD File manager, Mange the cut Zoom, Zoom the playing channel file/locked file/labeled file...

  • Page 40: Event Playback

    ● Click the “Default Label” button will mark the video as a default label, you can edit the label and check in the “File Manage”. Figure 4-2-5 4.3 Event Playback When you select the event playback mode, the system will analyze and mark videos that contain the motion detection, line crossing detection, or intrusion detection information,etc.
  • Page 41 Figure 4-3-1 Event Playback 5. Search results as shown in the figure, “Source” means alarm channel and “Chan” means record channel of linkage operations, “Time” means when the alarm happened. 6. The next area shows all the alarm items and you can change the page to find the alarm item you want.

  • Page 42: Back Up Clip

    4.4 Back up Clip You can clip videos during playback. Video clips can be exported to the backup device (USB flash drive, etc.). Before You Start Connect a backup device to your video recorder. Steps: 1. Start playback. Refer to Chapter 4 Playback for details. 2.

  • Page 43: Chapter 5 Backup

    Chapter 5 Backup You can Backup the video recording .It can be exported to the backup device (USB flash drive, etc.). Before You Start Connect a backup device to your video recorder. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Any Menu→ Smart Search → Normal Search → Video/Picture/Event Figure 5-1-1 Search 2.

  • Page 44: Chapter 6 Configuration (Common Mode)

    Chapter 6 Configuration (Common Mode) Easy mode contains basic configurations. 6.1 System Configuration 6.1.1 System - Base You can configure the language, Time zone, System time, Device No, Host name etc. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → System → Base Settings→ Base Settings. Figure 6-1-1-1 General Settings 2.

  • Page 45: User

    6.1.2 User Add User There is a default account: Admin. The admin user name is admin. Admin has the permission to add, delete, and edit user. Guest user only has live view, playback, and download. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Account →Account. 2.

  • Page 46: Alarm Events & Trigger Process

    Modify Password You can modify your password when your password has been compromised. Steps: 1. Click at the Account interface. Figure 6-1-2-2 2. Enter the Old Password. 3. Enter the same new password in NEW Password and Confirm. 4. Click OK. 6.
  • Page 47 2. When the set events occur, you will receive hints in Alarm Status. Step2 Enable the Trigger process 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Normal Event or Smart event → Motion Detection, Perimeter Protection or Video Diagnosis → Trigger process → Set. Figure 6-1-3-2 Show message Video preview popup prompt.

  • Page 48: Network Configuration

    6.2 Network Configuration 6.2.1 General - TCP/IP You shall properly configure the network settings before operating the device over network. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Network → Basic Settings → TCP/IP. Figure 6-2-1-1 Network 2. Set network parameters. DHCP If the DHCP server is available, you can enable DHCP to automatically obtain an IP address and other network settings from that server.

  • Page 49: P2P

    6.2.2 P2P We provide mobile apps and cloud services to access and manage your connected devices, allowing you to conveniently access your surveillance system remotely. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Network → P2P → P2P. 2. Turn on Enable, your device will automatically perform P2P cloud registration connection. Figure 6-2-2-1 3.

  • Page 50: Email

    4. Tap ‘Devices’ then the ‘+’ in the top right to add device. 5. Allow the app access to the devices camera, now scan the QR code. From the start up wizard labeled ‘Cloud ID’. This will enter the connection information to the device to the app. 6.
  • Page 51 SMTP server Address of server providing SMTP service: smtp.163.com. Port The port used for the SMTP server, which can be obtained from the service provider. User Name User account of the email sender for SMTP server authentication. Password Email sender password for SMTP server authentication. Sender The sender name or the sender's email address.

  • Page 52: Camera Management

    6.3 Camera Management 6.3.1 Network Camera Add Network Camera by Quick Set Add InVid Protect IP camera with default password or the package camera for this device; Before You Start ● Ensure your network camera is on the same network segment with your video recorder. ●...
  • Page 53 Add Network Camera Manually Before You Start ● Ensure your network camera is on the same network segment with your video recorder. ● Ensure the network connection is valid and correct. ● Ensure the network camera is activated. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu →Camera → Camera Management. 2.
  • Page 54 Previewing Video The camera can be previewed directly through the preview button. Before You Start ● Ensure your network camera is on the same network segment with your video recorder. ● Ensure the network connection is valid and correct. ● Ensure the camera’s status is ‘conneted’ and like this ‘ In brackets not ’...
  • Page 55 Figure 6-3-1-4 Delete Camera The camera can be deleted through the delete button. Before You Start Ensure your network camera is needs to be deleted. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Camera → Camera Management. 2. Click or Select the camera and click the Delete button. 3.

  • Page 56: Osd Settings

    6.3.2 OSD Settings Configure OSD (On-Screen Display) settings for the camera, including date format, camera name, etc. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Camera → Image → OSD. 2. Select a camera. Figure 6-3-2-1 OSD 3. Set parameters as your desire. 4.

  • Page 57: Smart Event

    6.3.3 Smart Event Motion Detection Motion detection enables the video recorder to detect the moving objects in the monitored area and trigger alarms. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Normal Event → Motion Detection →Motion Detection. Figure 6-3-3-1 Motion Detection 2.
  • Page 58 Line Crossing Line crossing detection detects people, vehicles, and objects crossing a set virtual line. The detection direction can be set as bidirectional, from A to B or from B to A. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Smart Event → Perimeter Protection → Line Crossing. Figure 6-3-3-2 Line Crossing Detection 2.
  • Page 59 Area Intrusion Area Intrusion detects people, vehicles, or objects that enter and loiter in a pre-defined virtual region. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Smart Event → Perimeter Protection → Area Intrusion. Figure 6-3-3-3 Intrusion Detection 2. Select a camera. 3.
  • Page 60 Region Entrance Region entrance detection detects objects that enter a predefined virtual region. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Smart Event → Perimeter Protection → Region Entrance. Figure 6-3-3-4 Region Entrance Detection 2. Select a camera. 3. Turn on Enable. 4.
  • Page 61 Region Exiting Region exiting detection detects objects that exit from a predefined virtual region. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Smart Event → Perimeter Protection → Region Exiting. Figure 6-3-3-5 Region Exiting Detection 2. Select a camera. 3. Turn on Enable. 4.
  • Page 62 Configure Arming Schedule Steps: 1. Click Arming Schedule. 2. Choose one day of a week and set the time segment. Up to six time periods can be set within each day. ● Time periods shall not be repeated or overlapped. Figure 6-3-3-6 Set Arming Schedule 3.
  • Page 63 Configure Alarm Trigger process Alarm Trigger process will be activated when an alarm or exception occurs. Steps: 1. Click Trigger Process. Figure 6-3-3-7 Trigger process 2. Set normal Trigger process, alarm output Trigger process, trigger channel, etc. Alarm out The local monitor will pop up the alarming channel image when an alarm is triggered. It requires to select the alarming channel(s) in Trigger Channel.

  • Page 64: Recording Management

    Tour When the alarm is triggered, it will patrol the screen you choose. Snapshot It triggers the alarm picture for that channel when an alarm is triggered. Interval The interval time of picture capture when the alarm lasts. 3. Click OK. ●...
  • Page 65 2. Select an HDD. 3. Click Format. 4. Click OK to continue. ● Repair an HDD that with error in database. Please operate it with the help of professional technical support. HDD SETTING This page displays your device is plugged into the hard disk status, hard drive serial number, name, attributes, the type of hard drive, the total capacity / Remaining capacity, as well as belonging to a group, edit button and uninstall / Loaded button.

  • Page 66: Configure Recording Schedule

    Figure 6-4-1-2 6.4.2 Configure Recording Schedule Configure the schedule for the record by configuring the related parameters, Video recorder will automatically start/stop recording according to the configured schedule. And before these operations, please make sure that the HDD has already been installed and formatted. If not, please install the HDD and initialize it.
  • Page 67 5. Set recording schedule. Refer to Edit Schedule below for details. 6. Click Apply. ● ANR: When IPC disconnected with NVR and IPC has its own record in its TF-card, NVR will supplement the record from IPC’s TF card when IPC re-connects with NVR. ●...
  • Page 68 Steps: 1. Click the Edit button into the editing interface. 2. Select the Week Day which from Sunday to Saturday. 3. Set the time period you want to record. 4. Check Alarm, MD or Norm for the type of recording you want. 5.
  • Page 69 Figure 6-4-2-4 ● By clicking the button Default, you can reset all the settings. Configure MD Recording You can configure the recording triggered by the Motion Detection, Perimeter Protection, Behavior Analysis, Video Diagnosis, Audio Detection. Steps: 1. Select any MD in the upper left corner 2.

  • Page 70: Configuring Video Encoding

    6.4.3 Configuring video encoding By configuring the encode parameters you can define the parameters which affect the image quality, such as the Compression type, Resolution, Frame Rate, Bit Rate Type, Quality, etc. The NVR support Dual Stream Encode, we can set the main stream encode and sub stream encode on this screen.
  • Page 71 Resolution Image resolution is a measure of how much detail a digital image can hold: the greater the resolution, the greater the level of detail. Resolution can be specified as the number of pixel- columns (width) by the number of pixel-rows (height), e.g., 1024×768. Frame Rate Frame rate refers to how many frames are captured each second.

  • Page 72: Chapter 7 Maintenance

    Chapter 7 Maintenance 7.1 Restore Default Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → System → Maintenance → Default Settings. Figure 7-1-1 2. Select the restoring type. Simple Restore  Choose the function item, General/Channel name/Control/Network/Motion Detect/Alarm/Abnormality/PTZ/Display/IP Channel/Smart settings/Cloud Authentication Code.
  • Page 73 Figure 7-2-1 2. Select the Type of Log. 3. Select the time period of the log you want. 4. Click Search. Type Search type include “System”, “Config”, “Storage”, “Alarm”, “Record”, “Account”, “Clear”, “Playback”. Start time/End time Set the period you want to search. Search After you set the period and search type, click the search button, and device can save 4096 logs tops.

  • Page 74: Upgrade

    7.3 Upgrade ● Warning: Do not shutdown or turn off the power during upgrade. 7.3.1 Local Upgrade Before You Start Store the upgrade firmware to a backup device (USB flash drive), and connect it to your device. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → System → Maintenance → Upgrade. Figure 7-3-1 2.
  • Page 75 Figure 7-3-2 2. The system will automatically detect whether there is the latest firmware. 3. If there is a new firmware, Click Upgrade. 4. Click OK. Your device will reboot automatically after the upgrade is complete completed. 5. Optional: in this page, you can see the version information of the device. Type Number of channels supported by the device.

  • Page 76: Chapter 8 Alarm Status & Show Message

    Chapter 8 Alarm Status & Show Message 8.1 Alarm Status Every alarm event occurs, you will see it here. Steps: “ at the upper right corner of the setting interface to show the 1. Click “ Alarm Information Figure 8-1-1 Alarm Center 8.2 View Alarm in Show Message If The Show message is configured in the Trigger process, please refer to the configuration of 6.1.3 Alarm events &...

  • Page 77: Chapter 9 Web Operation

    Chapter 9 Web Operation 9.1 Introduction You can get access to the video recorder via web browser. You may use one of the following listed web browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0 to 11.0, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. The supported resolutions include 1024×768 and above. 9.2 Login You shall acknowledge that the use of the product with Internet access might be under network security risks.

  • Page 78: Preview

    9.3 Preview After your login successfully, you will enter the preview interface, as show below. Figure 9-3-1 Live View 9.4 Playback Click Playback to enter playback interface, as show below. Figure 9-4-1 Playback...

  • Page 79: Set

    9.5 Set Click Setup Menu to enter configuration interface. Figure 9-5-1 Configuration 9.6 Log Steps: 1. Go to Setup Menu → System→ Maintenance → Log. 2. Set the search conditions. 3. Click Search. Figure 9-6-1 Log...

  • Page 80: Chapter 10 Configuration (Advanced Mode)

    Chapter 10 Configuration (Advanced Mode) 10.1 System Configuration 10.1.1 Basic Settings Configure Basic Settings You can configure the Language, Time zone, System time, Time format, DST, Auto logout, Startup Wizard, Smart display, Smart tracking display, Preview strategy. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → System → Basic Settings → Basic Settings. 2.
  • Page 81 Time format The form of time display. Device No When you are using one remote control to control several NVRs, you can give a number to each NVR as address for your management. Host Name NVR’s name. Smart display It will display smart alarm line or area after you enable this function, you can see the blue box in the picture as below.

  • Page 82: Display Settings

    Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Network →Basic Settings → NTP. 2. Turn on Enable. 3. Enter the parameters. Figure 10-1-1-5 Server IP The NTP Server IP address or host name. Support two built-in server IPs and custom way. Port Port of NTP server.
  • Page 83 Set the color tone of the display. Brightness Set the brightness of the display. Contrast Set the contrast of the display. Saturation Set the saturation of the display. Top & Bottom & Left & Right Set the distance between the top, bottom, left, and right borders of the display. Figure 10-1-2-1 For 6B series NVR, they support show different things on two monitors, and their display mode includes.
  • Page 84 Dwell Time The time in seconds to dwell between switching of channels when enabling auto-switch in Live View. Figure 10-1-2-2 3. And if you choose advanced tour in ‘Dwell time’, the setting method is shown as following picture: Figure 10-1-2-3 Interval Interval time setting, the range of values is from 5s to 120s.

  • Page 85: Reminder

    4. You can also click to display the configured channels corresponding to each screen and click to cancel the display of configured channels on the screen. Click to go to the previous or next page. 5. Click Apply after the setting is complete. Figure 10-1-2-4 10.1.3 Reminder When patrol detection occurs, the system will jump out of the Inspection information.

  • Page 86: Basic Info

    Figure 10-1-3-2 10.1.4 Basic info The Version Please refer to 7.3.2 Online Upgrade & The Version. 10.1.5 Maintenance Upgrade Please refer to 7.3.1 Local Upgrade &7.3.2 Online Upgrade Auto reboot In this interface, you can set the automatic maintenance time of the device. Automatic maintenance on time can clear unnecessary caches and improve device performance.
  • Page 87 Import/Export On this page you can backup device parameters into USB flash disk, Of course, you can also import the device parameters you backed up before. 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → System →Maintenance→ Import/Export. 2. Click Detect. 3. Click Import or Export. Figure 10-1-6-2 Detect Detect the USB device.

  • Page 88: Account

    3. Click Execute. Figure 10-1-6-3 ● You can also click Restore factory settings button to quickly restore factory settings, It is necessary to be cautious when restoring the factory settings, and it is recommended to back up before operation. This is the operation log of the system, Please refer to 7.2 Log 10.1.6 Account Account There are three default accounts in the NVR: admin/guest/default, their default passwords are...
  • Page 89 Figure 10-1-7-1 Add Group Add a user group and set the permission. There are many different permissions: control panel, shutdown the device, backup, local replay, monitor and so on. Figure 10-1-7-2 Modify Group Modify the existing groups’ attribute, configure the parameters as your desire, as shown below.
  • Page 90 Figure 10-1-7-3 Add user & Modify User & Modify password Please refer to 6.1.2 User. ● The character length of name is 64 bytes at most for the users and users’ group. Legal characters include: letter and number, other characters are forbidden. ●...
  • Page 91 Blocked Sites The IP Addresses which are added to blocked sites are not allowed to login NVR. Trusted Sites Only the IP Addresses which are added to trusted sites are allowed to login NVR. 1. Add IP or delete IP by clicking Add IP and Delete IP buttons. 2.

  • Page 92: Network Configuration

    10.2 Network Configuration 10.2.1 Basic Settings TCP/IP TCP/IP must be properly configured before you operate video recorder over network. This page you can set the device IP Address, gateway, DNS as well as view MAC Address. If the NVR has two Ethernet ports, you can connect with two net segments and set one for default Route.

  • Page 93: P2P

    HS Download Download at a high speed on the network side. Transfer Mode There are three modes: quality preferred, fluency preferred and adaptive. The code stream will adjust itself according to the setup, adaptive is the tradeoff between the image quality preferred and fluency preferred, fluency preferred and adaptive are valid only when the sub-stream is turned on, otherwise, quality preferred is valid.

  • Page 94: Advanced

    10.2.3 Advanced You can upload the record file onto an FTP server by configuring the FTP settings. It allows you to upload the record file by the record type and record time. Before You Start First, you need to confirm that your FTP server is running normally and can upload files. Steps: 1.
  • Page 95 Email Go to Seven Grid Menu → Network →Advanced→ Email. Refer to 6.2.3 Email for details. SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet-standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior.
  • Page 96 UPNP UPnP is a networking standard that uses protocols on the Internet to allow electronic devices connected to a network to detect and identify each other. Before You Start If you want to use UPNP function, Enable the UPnP™ function of your router, when the device network working mode is multi-address, the default device route should be on the same network segment as the LAN IP address of the router.
  • Page 97 DDNS DDNS is a service that can be used to automatically update DNS records if client PCs get their IP settings from a DHCP Server. If DDNS function is enabled on NVR, you can access the NVR by domain name provided by Internet Service Provider (ISP) provider. Before You Start Register Oray DDNS, CN99 DDNS, DynDNS and NO-IP services with your ISP.

  • Page 98: Camera Management

    10.3 Camera Management 10.3.1 Camera Management & POE Power Camera Management & POE Power please refer to 6.3.1 & 2.7 for details Protocol Password It will make NVR use specified password firstly when we add the IPCs found by NVR. Before You Start You need to know the protocol and protocol password used to connect to the camera.
  • Page 99 3. Select the Protocol you need to modify. 4. Set common password. 5. Click OK. 6. Click Apply. ● If the camera connection status shows identifying error, you need to manually change the password again, please refer to 2.6 Editing the connected IP cameras and Configuring. Encode By configuring the encode parameters you can define the parameters which affect the image quality, such as the Compression type, Resolution, Frame Rate, Bit Rate Type, Quality, etc.
  • Page 100 Figure 10-3-1-4 2. Configure the parameters as your desire. Channel Select the channel to configure. Refresh Click it to refresh IP channel’s encode parameters. Stream Type Main Stream/Sub Stream/Event Stream/Mobile Stream. Compression H.265, this is the compression protocol for encoding. It also supports H.264 IP cameras. Complexity level Base Profile/Main Profile/High Profile.
  • Page 101 I-Frame GOP I-frame setting, range from 10-100. Video/Audio To encode the Video and Audio in the record files. The video in mainstream is always enabled. H.264+/H.265+ Enable smart encode technology, all the record file can reduce the HDD space maximum 80%-90% in static view.

  • Page 102: Video/Audio

    10.3.2 Video/Audio Video/Audio please refer to 6.4.3 Configuring video encoding. 10.3.3 Image Image Our camera has completed the default configuration before leaving the factory, which can meet the needs of ordinary applications, if you have higher requirements. IP Cameras support image adjustment such as Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue and Sharpness.
  • Page 103 Functions Description Functions Description Brightness: 0-100 Contrast: 0-100 Auto/Color On/Color Off Image adjust Day/Night Saturation: 0-100 Switch Type: IR Synchronous Switch Filter Time: from 0-120 seconds Hue: 0-100 Sharpness: 0-100 Auto: exposure time automatically Image:Close/Up down/Left right/Centre Exposure Video adjust Manual: Set exposure time by Rotate: Off/90/180/270 selecting exact value...
  • Page 104 Before You Start Please make sure you already have an IPC whose connection status is Connected. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu →Camera→ Image→ OSD. 2. Select a camera. Figure 10-3-3-2 OSD 3. Set parameters as your desire. 4. The name and time can be chose to display or not, and can also be customized. 5.
  • Page 105 Privacy Mask The Cover function can effectively block the sensitive areas in the monitoring screen, it supports covering 4 areas at the same time. Before You Start Please confirm the area you need to cover in advance. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Camera→ Image→ Privacy Mask. 2.

  • Page 106: Ptz

    10.3.4 PTZ This chapter is to show you how to set the actions which you want the PTZ Camera to respond when corresponding alarm occurred. Before You Start Please make sure that the presets, patrols and patterns should be supported by PTZ protocols. Steps: 1.
  • Page 107 Figure 10-3-4-2 Pattern Patterns can be set by recording the movement of the PTZ. You can call the pattern to make the PTZ movement according to the predefined path. Border Linear boundaries Including Left and right boundaries. Speed Set the speed of the PTZ movement. Items Function Description Direction button and the auto-cycle button...

  • Page 108: Normal Event

    10.4 Normal Event 10.4.1 Motion detection Motion Detection Motion detection enables the video recorder to detect the moving objects in the monitored area and trigger alarms. Please Refer to 6.3.3 - Motion Detection. 10.4.2 Video Diagnosis Video Lost Detect video loss of a camera and take alarm response actions. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function.
  • Page 109 Video Cover Detection Trigger alarm when the lens is covered and take alarm response actions. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Normal Event → → Video Diagnosis Video Cover Detection Figure 10-4-2-2 Video Cover Detection 2.
  • Page 110 Figure 10-4-2-3 4. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to for 6.3.3 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 5. Set the Trigger process. Refer to 6.3.3 Configure Alarm Trigger process for details. 6. Adjust the sensitivity. Range from 1-100. The higher the value is, the more easily the detection alarm can be triggered.

  • Page 111: Audio Detection

    Figure 10-4-2-4 8. Click Apply. 10.4.3 Audio detection Audio exception detection Audio exception detection alarm is triggered when audio around camera is abnormal, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: 1.
  • Page 112 2. Select a camera. 3. Turn on Enable. 4. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to for 6.3.3 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 5. Set the Trigger process. Refer to 6.3.3 Configure Alarm Trigger process for details. 6. Adjust the sensitivity. Range from 1-100. The higher the value is, the more easily the detection alarm can be triggered.

  • Page 113: Alarm

    10.4.4 Alarm Alarm Input Set linkage actions for an external sensor alarm. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu →Normal Event → Alarm → Alarm Input. Figure 10-4-4-1 Alarm Input ● Local alarm input: Local alarm input is triggered by the external device that connected to the video recorder's terminal block.it can detect the surveillance area by some sensors such as infrared sensor or temperature sensor, and when the environment is been changed, the sensor will detect information and alter the status.
  • Page 114 5. Click to set the arming Schedule. Refer to for 6.3.3 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 6. Click to set the Trigger process. Refer to 6.3.3 Configure Alarm Trigger process for details. 7. Click Apply. Type Normal Open/Normal Close. It means the system support those external sensor alarms which have two statuses: Open and Close.
  • Page 115 activated when the NVR detects the alarm. Manual means the alarm output device will be activated after choosing the Manual and press the button Apply. Stop means the alarm output device is not on-guard. Status Show the trigger status of alarm output port. Network Alarm This function can get alarm from IPC’s alarm input port, and then make actions on NVR.

  • Page 116: System Alert

    Port Show which alarm input port of IP channel it is. Operations It includes four kinds of operations: Edit/Schedule/Trigger process/Delete. Type Normal Open/Normal Close. It means the system support those external sensor alarms which have two statuses: Open and Close. When the status switches from Open –> Close, or from Close–>Open, alarm will be triggered.

  • Page 117: Smart Event

    Disk Error If writing HDD error or DHH is unformatted, this exception will be triggered. It supports these methods to remind the user about the exception: Show Message and Buzzer. Disk No Space You can set minimum percentage of hard disk space. The handling actions of this exception are Show Message, Buzzer, Send Email and Alarm Out.

  • Page 118: Behavior Analysis

    10.5.2 Behavior Analysis Fast Moving Fast Moving function detects people, vehicle and some other objects that move with forbidden speed, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: 1.
  • Page 119 Unattended Object Unattended Object function detects articles that left in a certain pre-defined virtual region, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: Go to Seven Grid Menu → Smart Event→ Behavior Analysis→ Unattended Object. Figure 10-5-2-2 Unattended Object 1.
  • Page 120 Object Missing Object Missing function detect articles that missing in a certain pre-defined virtual region, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps Go to Seven Grid Menu →Smart Event→...
  • Page 121 Loitering Detection Loitering Detection alarm is triggered when people, go straight and back at least 3 times, or go not in a straight line in a pre-defined virtual region, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function.
  • Page 122 Parking Detection Parking Detection alarm is triggered when park in a pre-defined virtual region, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu →Smart Ev →...
  • Page 123 People Gathering Detection People Gathering Detection alarm is triggered when there are many people in a pre-defined virtual region, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: 1.

  • Page 124: Face Detection

    10.5.3 Face Detection Face detection function detect peoples’ faces in a certain pre-defined virtual region, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: Go to Seven Grid Menu→Smart Event→Face Detection→...

  • Page 125: Crossing Line

    10.5.4 Crossing Line Crossing line statistics The feature is used to calculate the number of people entered or left a certain configured area and generate daily/weekly/monthly/annual reports for analysis. Before You Start Please make sure whether your IPC supports this function. Steps: 1.

  • Page 126: Storage

    Figure 10-5-4-2 10.6 Storage 10.6.1 Record Record Schedule It is the Recording schedule, Please refer to 6.4.2 Record Status On this page you can check all the channels record status, open or stop; stream type, video or mixture (video and audio); frame/bite rate of channels stream; main/sub resolution of IP channel; and whether open the redundancy function or not.

  • Page 127: Storage

    10.6.2 Storage HDD Management If it is the first time you use your HDD, please initialize it after it is installed. Please refer to 6.4.1 Storage. HDD Setting In this page you can set the full strategy of hard disk, “stop” or “overwrite”. Steps: 1.
  • Page 128 Cloud Storage As a new feature our device support upload video & picture to the Cloud Storage. The Cloud Storage allows our users to take video stored on their hard drives and upload to either Google Drive or Drop Box. Pricing is all based on the costs on which Google Drive or Drop Box charge when signing up.
  • Page 129 7. Follow steps of inputting the verification code, signing into your account, and “Allowing.” Figure 10-6-2-4 8. Once you fill in/Allow your information to your Google Drive or Drop Box you will see a “Bind Success”, at that point you can hit “Logout” to close window. 9.

  • Page 130: Advanced

    Cloud Type Support two kinds of cloud type “Google Drive”& “Dropbox”. Upload directly You can set the path of your account folder on your device. File length Set the video length that will upload to the cloud. Other setting items It’s about how you can enable this cloud storage function.
  • Page 131 4. Select IP channels to record on the HDD group. Figure 10-6-3-1 Group 5. Click Apply. 6. Restart the video recorder to activate the new storage mode settings. 7. After restart, go to Seven Grid Menu → Storage →Storage →HDD Management. 8.
  • Page 132 Configure HDD Quota (Capacity) Each camera can be configured with an allocated Quota (Capacity) for storing videos. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Storage →Advanced→ Group Management. 2. Select Mode as Quota (Capacity). 3. Select a camera to set quota in Channel. 4.
  • Page 133 About the operation mechanism of capacity quota (It needs to be set to allow overwriting when the hard disk video is full. For the setting, please refer to 10.5.5 Advanced Settings/HDD Full). ● The video recording is given priority. If the hard disk capacity is left, the video recording will continue.
  • Page 134 Record used Shows the video files space that the channel you chose has used in real-time. Volumes Total capacity of all hard drives. Record Quota (Day) Set a time for a channel from 0-60 days, and the new video files will not cover the old files in this period.

  • Page 135: Smart Search

    Figure 10-6-3-5 Click the Start selftest button to start the S.M.A.R.T. HDD self-evaluation. If the HDD is normal you can see the Status is Passed, and you can also pause or cancel the detection. Figure 10-6-3-6 10.7 Smart search 10.7.1 Normal Search You can Backup the video recording .It can be exported to the backup device (USB flash drive, etc.), Please refer Chapter 5 Backup.
  • Page 136 Figure 10-7-2-1 4. Click Search. Figure 10-7-2-2 5. You can see the search results as shown below. ● In this page, you can select the way of face detection’s preview ---chart or list. Then you can choose some recordings and decide whether to back up the pictures or videos. ●...
  • Page 137 Trigger process of the Motion Detection, and also enabled the Snapshot in the camera which you can refer to the IPC User Manual. Steps: 1. Go to Seven Grid Menu → Smart search → Smart search → Smart Motion Detection. 2.
  • Page 138 Perimeter Protection This page you can select the record channel which had triggered Line Crossing & Area Intrusion & Region Entrance & Region Exiting with Human Shape Filter/Vehicle Shape Filter and has the alarm videos or alarm pictures. Then you can set the Start time and End time. Before You Start Please make sure you have enabled the Line Crossing &...

  • Page 139: Statistics

    ● In this page, you can select the way of Line Crossing & Area Intrusion & Region Entrance & Region Exiting’s preview ---chart or list. Then you can choose some recordings and decide whether to back up the pictures or videos. ●...

  • Page 140: Playback

    10.8 Playback 10.8.1 Normal Playback & Event Playback Right click and select the “Playback” to enter the playback interface and you can also click on the playback button in the Below the preview screen to enter the playback interface. The Normal Playback &...
  • Page 141 Steps: 1. Go to Playback. 2. Select the Label play. 3. Select the channels as your desire. 4. Set time period, then Click Search. Figure 10-8-2-3 5. The search results as shown in the figure above. 6. Click a label in the label list for label playback as your desire. 7.

  • Page 142: Smart Play

    10.8.3 Smart Play Select the “Smart Play” enters the Smart playback mode. Before You Start Please make sure that your device has enabled Perimeter Protection such as Motion Detection, Line Crossing, Area Intrusion, Region Entrance, Region Exiting, etc., and the alarm videos has been generated.
  • Page 143 Figure 10-8-3-2 Draw Quadrilateral Steps: 1. Go to Playback. 2. Select the Smart Play. 3. Select the channel and the record time as your desire. 4. Click Play button or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click the icon of “Draw Quadrilateral” to draw a quadrilateral on the video interface. 6.
  • Page 144 4. Click Play button or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click the icon of “Motion Draw Rectangle” to draw an area on the video interface. 6. Click ”Setting” button to Configure the parameters as your desire. 7. Click the “Search” button then the result will be shown below, video with Motion will be marked color “green”, and the video will be played by the setting as you made at step 6.
  • Page 145 Face search Steps: 1. Go to Playback. 2. Select the Smart Play. 3. Select the channel and the record time as your desire. 4. Click Play button or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click the icon of “Face search”, then the full video interface will be detected by default. 6.

  • Page 146: Time Division Play

    Figure 10-8-3-7 10.8.4 Time Division play Select the “Label Play” enters the label playback mode, on this page, you can play the recordings by time period, and distribute the 24-hour recordings evenly according to the number of windows you choose, from 1-16 windows. For example, if you chose the windows number is 4, the files of the date you chose will be divided into 4 parts.

  • Page 147: Normal Play (Picture)

    ● If the division windows number you choose is too large, your device will not be able to play back all the windows due to the limitation of the decoding capability of the device. Please try reducing the division windows number. 10.8.5 Normal Play (Picture) On this page, you can play back the video as picture.

  • Page 148: Chapter 11 Appendix

    Chapter 11 Appendix 11.1 Glossary Acronym for Digital Video Recorder. A DVR is device that is able to accept video signals from analog cameras, compress the signal and store it on its hard drives. Acronym for Network Video Recorder. An NVR can be a PC-based or embedded system used for centralized management and storage for IP cameras, IP Domes and other DVRs.

  • Page 149: Communication

    scan lines at 60Hz. Acronym for Phase Alternating Line. PAL is also another video standard used in broadcast televisions systems in large parts of the world. PAL signal contains 625 scan lines at 50Hz. Acronym for Pan, Tilt, Zoom. PTZ cameras are motor driven systems that allow the camera to pan left and right, tilt up and down and zoom in and out.

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