Table of Contents
Advertisement
Quick Links
Advertisement
Table of Contents
Subscribe to Our Youtube Channel
Related Manuals for Amcrest AMDV3M
Summary of Contents for Amcrest AMDV3M
- Page 1 AMDV3M User Manual Version 1.3.3 www.amcrest.com...
-
Page 2: Table Of Contents
6.1. Playback files from a video search 20 6.2. Understanding the Playback Interface 6.3. Backup the recorded file NETWORK SETTINGS 8.1 Configuring General Settings 8.2 Configuring Advanced Settings 8.2.1 DDNS 26 8.2.2 NTP 8.2.3 E-mail Settings 26 8.2.4 FTP Settings www.amcrest.com... - Page 3 11.3 System Information 11.4 Maintenance APP FOR PHONE AND TABLET 40 12.1 Configure the Amcrest Link 12.2 Live view in Amcrest Link 41 12.3 Playback in Amcrest Link 42 SMARTCLIENT/WEB FOR PC 13.1 Login Your Device 44 13.2 Live View 45 13.3 Playback 46...
-
Page 4: Production
1 PRODUCTION Thank you for your purchase of our Amcrest DVR. To get the most out of your device(s), please read through this User Manual thoroughly. This user manual covers all the models of our DVR. 1.1. Product Key Features Compression ⚫... -
Page 5: Front Panel Controls
The controls on the front panel include: 1. USB Ports: Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports for additional devices such as a USB mouse and USB Hard Disk Drive (HDD). 2. POWER: POWER indicator lights on when DVR is powered on. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 6: Usb Mouse
This is used to change the selected item for list control. 1.4. Soft Keyboard When a mouse is used to perform task on the DVR, clicking on a text input field will bring up the Soft Keyboard. The buttons on the soft keyboard represents: www.amcrest.com... -
Page 7: Rear Panel Diagram
HDD for recording or backup HDMI HDMI output, Display local video/Audio output and menu. Connector for LAN (Local Area Network). Connector for USB device. PTZ control port (Some models don’t support this feature)- RS485. DC POWER IN 12V DC power input. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 8: Getting Started
The Reboot button will reboot your DVR. To reboot or lock your DVR: Enter the Shutdown menu by clicking Menu > Shutdown. Select the Lock button to lock the DVR or the Reboot button to reboot the DVR. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 9: Live View
White Bal: Regulates preset color temperatures for the camera. Day & Night: Sets preset day and night delays for the camera. NR: Sets the noise reduction settings for the camera. Special: Menu to set the mirror, DPC, and language for the camera. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 10: Understanding Live Preview Toolbar
3.3. Understanding Home Menu Click the right-button of the mouse and the home menu will be pop up: 1. Home Icon: enter the main menu; 2. Single channel live view; 3. Four channels live view; 4. Eight channels live view; www.amcrest.com... -
Page 11: Using Digital Zoom
Speed: Adjusts the movement speed of the PTZ. Zoom: Used to zoom in and out with the PTZ. Focus: Used to adjust the focus of the PTZ. Iris: Used to open up or close the iris of the camera. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 12: Ptz Context Menu
Control Menu is hidden, the DVR will still be in PTZ mode. The context menu can still be opened via right-clicking the interface. PTZ Settings: Opens the PTZ Settings menu where you can adjust the control method for the camera. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 13: Display Settings
Image Settings: Gives you access to change camera image, including brightness, contrast, ⚫ saturation, and hue Mask: When checked, this allows you to create, place, and shape a “privacy mask” which ⚫ obscures part of the image on the associated channel. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 14: Displays Output Settings
Before setting your DVR up for recording, certain settings should be configured first. The steps to configuring these settings are: You should initialize the HDD through HDD management before proceeding. 2. Navigate to Main Menu > Recording. You will be taken to the Recording Settings menu. www.amcrest.com... - Page 15 Pre-record: Set to pre-record before the actual recording begins. ⚫ Post-record: Sets the time to post-record after the actual recording ended. ⚫ Pack Duration: Sets the time for how long the DVR will be recording before splitting the output file. www.amcrest.com...
-
Page 16: Scheduling A Recording
Motion detected and alarm triggered recordings are further explained in Configuring Alarms. Repeat the steps for other cameras or copy settings from one channel to others by Copy To. Click OK to finish and save the schedule settings. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 17: Playback And Backup
6.1. Playback files from a video search To initiate playback: Select the channel you’d like to playback. From the Video Type menu, select the type of video you’d like to playback. The options are Manual, Schedule, Motion, and All. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 18: Understanding The Playback Interface
Fast Forwards : Select to play the recording fil es forward at the speed of x2, x4, x8, x16; Slow Forwards : Select to play the recording files forward at the speed of x1/2, 1/4, 1/8,1/16; Hide: Select to hide the play control panel; Exit: Select to exit playback; Zoom out the time Zoom in the time www.amcrest.com... -
Page 19: Backup The Recorded File
From the Video Type menu, select the type of video you’d like to playback. The options are Manual, Schedule, Motion and All. Set your Start Date/Time and your End Date/Time Select Backup and the backup file list will be shown. www.amcrest.com... - Page 20 Select the file(s) to be backup, and click Next; Click Refresh to look for USB devices to which recorded files can be backed up; Click Start to begin the backup. www.amcrest.com...
-
Page 21: Network Settings
3) PPPoE: An advanced protocol that allows the DVR to be more directly connected via a DSL modem. This is an option for advanced users only. If you select Static in Network Access, you will need to input the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and DNS information. 7.2. Configuring Advanced Settings www.amcrest.com... -
Page 22: Ddns
DVR, you’ll need a router which supports this feature, with UPnP enabled. 10. UID: The DVR’s Unique Identifier code for P2P. For convenience, you can have this code sent to your email account by clicking the Send UID button (provided that you’ve already set up your email account). 7.2.1. DDNS www.amcrest.com... -
Page 23: Ntp
2. Synchronize Every: When you enable Auto Sync, here you can define the time in minutes of how often the synchronization should be. 3. NTP Server and NTP Port: NTP server IP address and port. 7.2.3. E-mail Settings To configure E-mail settings: www.amcrest.com... -
Page 24: Ftp Settings
6. Select Attached Picture if you want to send email with alarm images, the interval of two adjacent pictures is configurable. 7.2.4 FTP Settings FTP is used to upload streams to your FTP server. You can set up an uploading schedule which is triggered by time, motion detection, or/and alarm. To configure FTP settings: www.amcrest.com... -
Page 25: Ip Filter
IP filter is used to manage the remote access to your DVR. The management is based on the IP address of remote visitor. White List: If you select the white list, only the listed IP addresses can connect your DVR. While Black List: If you select black list, the listed IP addresses cannot connect your DVR. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 26: Alarm Settings
Check the checkbox of Enable to enable Motion Detection. Click the applicable Set button of Motion Detection to setup the motion detection area and sensitivity for that channel. Configure the schedule for motion detection. User can define when it’s armed or disarmed during 24x7. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 27: Detecting Video Loss
If you’re not using all the inputs on your DVR, then some channels will be in a“permanent” Video Loss state. Just be sure that you don’t enable a video loss action for these channels. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 28: Detecting Exception
Setting exceptions allows the DVR to alert you when irregular events occur. These events include: HDD Full: All installed HDDs are full. HDD Error: Errors occurred during writing of the HDD, no HDD installed, or HDD had failed to initialize. Net Disconnected: Disconnected network cable. IP Conflict: Conflict in IP address settings. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 29: Device Management
Initializing the HDD will erase all data on it. To initialize a HDD: Select HDD to initialize. Click the Init button. Select OK button to begin initialization. After the HDD has been initialized, the status of the HDD will change from No to Yes. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 30: Configuring Ptz Settings
PTZ and RS-485 of the DVR are connected properly. To configure PTZ settings: Select channel where PTZ camera is installed next to the Camera label. Enter PTZ settings according to the camera. Click OK button to save and exit menu. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 31: System Settings
Device Mode: DVR supports several modes, including 4CH analog mode, 4Ch analog + 4Ch IP mode. Changing the mode will reboot the system. Enable Password: When enabled, the DVR will require a password to access, even for local users. It’s advisable to enable password protection www.amcrest.com... -
Page 32: User
- they can do everything. This is to prevent an unfortunate incident where, for example, no user has the permissions required to change another user’s permissions - which could lead to the DVR being, in at least some senses, inoperable. 10.2.1. Adding a New User www.amcrest.com... - Page 33 (although some combinations would make little sense in practice). 5. Configure privileges for operation under the Operation tab. You can select which channels the user has access to and what they can do with them. For example, you could set a user www.amcrest.com...
-
Page 34: System Information
2 and 4. 10.3. System Information System information is for use by technical support. When you call for technical support, you need to provide the information here. 10.4. Maintenance www.amcrest.com... - Page 35 DVR. You can retain your settings, recording schedule and so on by using the Import/Export Configuration function before upgrading the firmware. Configuration (Export): Creates a file containing all the settings you’ve customized, including your recording preferences, schedule, user-list and so on. To export your settings: www.amcrest.com...
-
Page 36: App For Phone And Tablet
Firmware upgrade: Click the upgrade button to upgrade the firmware version of your DVR. 11 APP FOR PHONE AND TABLET To access your device from a smart phone or tablet, please download and install Amcrest Link. For iPhone and iPad users, please visit the APP store to download the APP. For Andriod user, please install the APP from the CD (Amcrest Link.apk for Andriod smart phone) or Google Play. - Page 37 After you have downloaded and installed Amcrest Link on your smart phone, locate the app and tap the icon to run. Take your smart phone to your device and follow the instructions below. 1. Tap Add New Device to Add device.
-
Page 38: Live View In Amcrest Link
Tap Start Preview to automatically check the number of channels and then you will see your cameras on screen and that’s it, you’re connected! 11.2. Live view in Amcrest Link After you add a device successfully, you will be able to live view and control your device by following buttons. - Page 39 Close/Start: close or start the live view of one channel. Screens: divide screen into 1/4/8/9/16 for video display. Stream: switch between the main stream and sub stream. Recording: record the stream of live view. Sound: enable and disable audio. www.amcrest.com...
-
Page 40: Playback In Amcrest Link
11.3. Playback in Amcrest Link You can playback local and remote recording files. Please tap Playback. All the local recording files will be list and you can choose one file to playback directly. ⚫ For the Remote recording files, please tap to search. -
Page 41: Smartclient/Web For Pc
12 SmartClient/Web for PC SmartClient is designed to access and control single DVR. Compared with CMS, it has less functions and much easier for user. You can also access your DVR by browser. It is similar to SmartClient. 12.1. Login Your Device www.amcrest.com... -
Page 42: Live View
3. Select main stream or sub-stream for live view. If your device is in internet, it’s recommended to select Sub-stream. Sub-stream has much lower bitrate than main stream, but main stream has much better image quality. 4. Click Login, then you will connect the device to live-view. 12.2. Live View www.amcrest.com... - Page 43 Viewing Modes: Choose between single camera viewing, four channels at once (2 x 2) or all eight channels at once (3 x 3). Volume Control: Alters how loud the audio output from the device will be. CPU Loading: How hard your computer is working to decode and display images as they arrive from the device. www.amcrest.com...
-
Page 44: Playback
3. 4. Select the time you want to start playback from area 3, and click icon 5. To download recording file, please click 6. In the file list dialog, select what you want to download. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 45: Playback Control
Single frame forward. Snap shot. Download the recording file. The default directory for the downloaded file is C:\ DownloadFile. You can modify the directory in Setup -> Local Settings page. 6) enable/disable the audio Volume control. 12.4. Local Settings www.amcrest.com... -
Page 46: Device Settings
(H.264) into a format that your computer (indeed, almost any computer) will be able to playback without special software. 12.5. Device Settings You can remote configure the parameters of the device here. The configuration menu is almost the same with device local menu. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 47: Fcc Statement
20 cm from all persons and must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. End-users and installers must be provided with antenna installation instructions and transmitter operating conditions for satisfying RF exposure compliance. www.amcrest.com... -
Page 48: Ic Warning Statement
20cm between the radiator and any part of your body. Pour se conformer aux exigences de conformité CNR 102 RF exposition, une distance de séparation d'au moins 20 cm doit être maintenue entre l'antenne de cet appareil ettoutes les personnes. Copyright © Amcrest 2018 www.amcrest.com...
Need help?
Do you have a question about the AMDV3M and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers