1 Specifications 8CH 1080P DVR Operating system Linux System Operating interface Graphical menu operation interface (OSD) Video permission Administrator & user setting Video input 8 x 1080P analog high definition CVBS output 1CH 6pin aviation connector output PAL/NSTC Single/Split/Triple/Quad/8 Cam/9 Cam/13 Cam/Black Video Video display mode Screen display...
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2G / 3G / 4G Optional Wireless Wi-Fi Optional Wi-Fi hotspot / AP Optional Optional G-Sensor 3 axis sensor Available /Gyroscope Windows client Available Software iOS client Available Web portal Available Input 10~32V Output 12V@5A Power Max power consumption Standby power 100mW consumption Operating temp.
2 Precautions 1) Motion detection function is set to OFF by default. Alarm files will be created when the motion detection is set to “On”. 2) G-Sensor recording is recommended to set to “On” during driving for emergency recording use. G-Sensor level is optional.
3 Main Features Controlled by touch screen All settings and operations could be done through a touch-control monitor. Video and Audio 8 x 1080P video inputs. 8 x audio inputs. 2 x audio outputs. 2 video outputs (1 x CVBS -6pin, 1 x VGA-1080P). Recording ...
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Backup Support USB disk or USB hard disk to backup the recording files. Network Support LAN, Wi-Fi, and 2G / 3G / 4G. LAN, Wi-Fi and 2G / 3G / 4G have the sequence priority of connections. They are automatically switched to save the data once LAN, Wi-Fi or 2G/3G/4G is connected.
5.1 Mechanical Lock Close the front cover, lock the buckle, and then lock the device with the key. The device will stop recording and the buzzer will beep when the front cover is open, If the front cover is still open or the electronic lock is not closed after 2 minutes, DVR will resume recording. 5.2 LED ...
5.3 Remote Controller Use the remote controller closer enough to the IR receiver, otherwise it may not work. Description Buttons Useless - reserved POWER Switch to ch1~8 for single channel display 1~8 Switch to an eight-segment display Enter menu MENU Move up Left Move to left...
5.5 SD Card Slot 1x SD (Max. 512GB). Insert,remove the SD card. Step 1: Use the key to unlock the device and open front cover. Step 2: Insert SD card to SD card slot. Step 3: Close the front cover and use the key to lock. 5.6 USB Slot USB 2.0 6 Connection - Back Panel...
Connection Method Connect ignition wire to yellow ACC, battery Positive to V+(Red wire) and Negative to GND (black wire). 6.2 Cameras (AVIN 1~8) Below is the definition of camera input (male). How to Connect Cameras Connect 8 cameras on below cable which connects to the back plate of DVR.
6.4 Buzzer If the device is not connected to a monitor, please check the recording status by the buzzer. The buzzer would alarm if the device is not recording under Normal Mode which is set by default. To stop the buzzer from alarming, please make sure the device is working properly. The buzzer warning functions are as follows: ...
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Pin Definition: 10 PIN Color Pink Blue Grey White Purple Green Yellow Black Black Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Definition out2 out1 _in6 _in5 _in4 _in3 _in2 _in1 Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Alarm Definition Ground Ground output2...
6.6 Panic Button (Optional) Overview The LEDs are used to show the working status of the device. But when the device is installed in the vehicle, it is not easy to check the LED on the front panel. Each LED indicates the corresponding status of the device.
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Pin Definition Connect the 8PIN aviation connector of the above cable to the 8PIN aviation connector on DVR(RS232 and RS485). Color Go to [Setting]-[Record]-[Record Channel] to see if any camera is VLoss Yellow missing. In case any camera is Normal operation chosen but not connected, LED would show yellow...
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If the alarm recording was triggered, there will be an alarm sign on the screen, as shown below: IR Receiver When the remote control aims to the IR on panic button, it has the same effect of aiming to that on the device.
6.7 Four-in-one Antenna (GPS, 2G/3G/4G, Wi-Fi) 7 The Menu 7.1 Menu Introduction Press [MENU] on the remote control or touch the bottom area on a connected LCD screen, the Menu will be shown as below. Please log in before entering the menu. System time display.
Channel name. Menu. Click the position of area 9 to display the menu icons. Video loss. 7.2 Menu Lock The device/recorder supports two kinds of permissions: admin permission and guest permission. Users’ account list. Admin Permission Guest Permission User Name admin guest...
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Only the administrator could change the status of Menu lock. The following picture shows how to change the Menu Lock status from ON to OFF. When the menu lock status is "ON", you need to enter the user name “admin” and password to enter the "recording", "play", "log", "settings", "disk"...
7.3 Keyboard Operation Instruction : Switch letter case. :Exit without saving changes. :Exit with saving changes. :Clear input. :Switch to the numeric interface. :Switch to the English alphabet interface. :Switch to the special character interface. Rear View Safety, 1797 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn NY 11233 800.764.1028 sales@rearviewsafety.com www.rearviewsafety.com...
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Character Switching Introduction Rear View Safety, 1797 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn NY 11233 800.764.1028 sales@rearviewsafety.com www.rearviewsafety.com...
Letter Case Switching Introduction 7.4 Manual Recording Recording icon: This version is mandatory to record, so clicking this button can not close or start recording. 7.5 Playback Video playback button: Touch this icon to enter the calendar menu. Green marked date means it has recording files saved on that day. Select the date to enter the video file list, then select the file and touch Play icon to play video.
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and you can be shift to the next or the previous one. Specific operation as below. Calendar Interface Search by month. : Search by year. Record List Interface (1) Normal: Recording list, including normal recording, boot recording, timing recording, alarm recording 1~6, motion detection alarm recording, G-Sensor alarm recording, overspeed alarm recording, panic button manual recording alarm, FCW alarm, DMS detection Alarm, LANE departure detection alarm, PDS detection Alarm, BSD detection Alarm.
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Type Recording Time Control Mode View Position Normal recording Manual control Normal list Power on recording Manual control Normal list Schedule recording Pre-setup time Normal list Alarm recording 1~6 Event recording setup time Normal list Motion detection recording Event recording setup time Normal list G-Force recording Event recording setup time...
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The abbreviations of recording types are as follows: Normal recording Scheduled recording Speed recording (the speed Motion detection recording source is GPS) Temperature recording Panic button recording Alarm 1 recording Alarm 2 recording Alarm 3 recording Alarm 4 recording Reverse recording Brake recording Pedestrian detection Collision alarm recording...
: Exit Play. 7.6 Log System Log query and export. 7.7 Display Mode Switching Display mode switch: Press the icon to display. Play multiple types of mode. The default mode is automatic view. Display m ode selection. Touch the icon to set up the default. E xit.
7.9 Disk Disk management: Touch the icon, then you can view the status of SSD, SD card and USB storage as below. Disk types. Disk capacity. All: The total capacity of individual disk. Free: The remaining capacity of disk. ...
The green bar shows the size of all video files in the "Normal" list. The yellow bar shows the size of all other files except the above files. Touch to format the disk. A window notice of “Disk data will be deleted! Continue?” will be popped up. Press OK to start formatting the disk.
Function Min. Max. Default Volume 8 Record Setup 8.1 Power On Rec When “Power On Rec” is set to ON, the device will start recording once it’s powered on. Default setting is ON. 8.2 Cyclic Rec Cyclic Rec.:When “Cyclic Rec” is set to ON, new recording files will overwrite the previous ones if the disk is full.
Event Rec.: Event recording refers to the alarm recording triggered by events including motion detection, G-Sensor, alarm 1 ~ 6, panic button and over speed, FCW alarm, DMS detection alarm, LANE departure alarm. If the Event Rec is set to ON and corresponding alarm parameters are set, event recording will be activated when the events above are triggered.
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The default configuration of main stream, sub stream and JPG are as follows: Main stream Sub stream Resolution AUTO None Bitrate AUTO 64Kbps None Framerate 25fps 25fps ① Resolution Here are 5 optional resolutions in the main stream menu, 1080P, 720P, D1 (PAL), D1 (NTSC), and AUTO. The sub-stream menu defaults to CIF and it is not selectable.
Video Quality File Length SSD / SD Capacity ≈149h 8 x 1080P / 4Mbps ≈298h 8 x 720P / 2Mbps ≈596h 8 x D1 / 1Mbps ≈1193h 1 x 1080P / 4Mbps ≈2386h 1 x 720P / 2Mbps ≈4772h 1 x D1 / 1Mbps ≈38h 8 x 1080P / 4Mbps ≈75h...
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The default configuration is shown above. Select the record channel. When recording is turned on (including all types of recording), all channels will be recorded; this version forces recording, Even if the record channel is turned off, correspondingly it will still be recorded. Rear View Safety, 1797 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn NY 11233 800.764.1028 sales@rearviewsafety.com www.rearviewsafety.com...
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AUTO: AUTO is OFF by default. When it is turned on, the detected IPC is automatically connected. When AUTO is set to “On”, Clear, Add, Clear All, and Fast Setup settings all cannot be operated. :Indicate that the IPC has been connected successfully. :Indicate that no IPC is connected.
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IP: Indicate the IP of the relevant IPC searched by the DVR. User Name: IPC user name. Password: IPC password. Status: The connection status of the searched IPC; the relevant status is explained as follows: : Indicate that the IP network segment of the IPC is inconsistent with that of the DVR, which means the network segment is incorrect.
interface. When IPC AUTO is the Default setting, the restarted DVR automatically switches to an eight-split display on the main and sub-screen after 1min of being connected to the IPC channel. If the IPC channel is not connected, the DVR automatically switches to a four-division display of CH1~CH4 after 1min;...
8.9 Motion Sensitivity The default configuration is shown above. Motion detection recording and sensitivity level setting: Motion detection recording will be triggered when an object moves and its movement exceeds the preset motion detection sensitivity level. For such kind of event recording, the pre-recording time is fixed as 10s and the post-recording time is configured by the Event Duration above.
Set the recording audio of the channel. When a recording channel is selected, the audio from that channel will be included in the recording file. If a channel is not selected, there will be no audio recorded for the recording file of that particular channel. The default configuration is shown below. 9 Display 9.1 Camera Display Setting Camera parameter setting for each corresponding channel includes brightness, contrast,...
Camera Display Min. Max. Default Brightness Contrast Saturation 9.2 Camera Name Setting Camera names are displayed at the bottom of each channel. Touch the “Display->Camera Name->Cam X” on the menu, a keyboard will pop up to input a new camera name. Note: Maximum 8 characters can be entered and the camera name must NOT be blank.
9.3 System Language Setting Menu languages: English, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French. The default language is English. 9.4 Audio Out Select the audio output channel in multi-display mode. The default configuration is shown below. Rear View Safety, 1797 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn NY 11233 800.764.1028 sales@rearviewsafety.com www.rearviewsafety.com...
9.5 OSD Display Setting Time, camera name, license number and speed can be selected whether to display or not. If it is ON, the information will be shown in the live and the playback video. The default configuration is shown below. 9.6 Menu On Setting of menu display duration.
menu will disappear if there is no operation within 30s, 60s or 120s. When it is set to Always, the menu will always be there. Please note that the recording will stop when the menu is on. It is not suggested to set it to Always in order not to affect the recording.
9.8 GPS When the GPS antenna is properly installed, the latitude, longitude and speed will be recorded. The menu provides the GPS information including latitude, longitude, detectable satellites, and accessible satellites etc. Mode: Indicates the GPS connection status. Used: Indicates the number of available satellites. Visible: Indicates the number of searchable satellites.
Vertical: When it is set to ON, the corresponding recording channel will flip vertically; when it is set to OFF, no vertical flip will be done. The setting steps are shown as follows: 9.10 System Format Setting Rear View Safety, 1797 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn NY 11233 800.764.1028 sales@rearviewsafety.com www.rearviewsafety.com...
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The default configuration is shown above. CVBS: Standard definition display. VGA: HD display. AHD:HD display ( Not available now Note: CVBS/VGA can be displayed together, AHD cannot be displayed together with CVBS/VGA, and only one of them can be displayed. Correct: When the interface of the standard definition display on the screen is not fully displayed, it can be reduced in size.
10 Network 10.1 LAN and Server Setting The default configuration is shown above. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Set On for dynamic IP and Off for static IP. Static IP must be manually input with IP address, mask and gateway. MAC address can be automatically assigned or revised.
LAN connection Step 1: Connect the LAN cable to the DVR. Step 2: Go to “Network - >LAN” page. Step 3: If DHCP is set to ON, a dynamic IP will be automatically matched. If DHCP is set to Off, input the IP, mask, gateway and MAC manually.
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The default configuration is shown above. Wi-Fi: ON/OFF DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Set On for dynamic IP and Off for static IP. Static IP must be manually input with IP address, Mask and Gateway. SSID: Wi-Fi hotspot list. AP Internet: The hotspot of the device can be found on mobile phones when it is On. ...
Step 5: Touch OK to exit. Step 6: Go to “Network -> Server” page to input Wi-Fi Server IP and Port. Touch OK to save the settings. Step 7: Wi-Fi network status and server status can be checked on “Network - >Status”. Wi-Fi Status shows “CONNECT SUCCESS”...
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The default configuration is shown above. Cellular: If Cellular is ON, it means that 2G/3G/4G is ON. Network Standard: The default is WCDMA. APN & Access No.: Normally, the default values for APN, Access number can be used, and the user name and password are not necessary If the connection is not successful under the default settings, please consult your local network carrier.
Step 5: Enter the correct APN and Access number. The latter is optional. Step 6: Touch OK to save the settings and exit. Step 7: Input the 2G/3G/4G Server IP and Port on “Network->Server”. Step 8: Cellular network status and server status can be checked on “Network - >Status”. Wi-Fi Status shows “CONNECT SUCCESS”...
Step 3: Search and connect to the Wi-Fi hotspot of the DVR with other mobile devices. The SSID name of the hotspot is prefixed with “WFD-” and followed by the serial number of the device. The default password of the hotspot is ap12345678. 10.5 Network Status Network Status: LAN IP address, MAC address, Wi-Fi network status, Wi-Fi IP address, Wi-Fi signal strength, cellular network status, cellular signal strength and server status...
Cellular: Status indication. Module: The Cellular module brand. Cellular RSSI: 2G/3G/4G signal strength indication. Cellular Type: 2G, 3G or 4G, indicating the actual signal received. Cellular Status: please refer to the descriptions and indications below. Description Indication Module initialization The cellular module is initializing. Module exception The cellular module is in exception.
RTSP On.: Set RTSP to ON / OFF. Mode: Set MainStream & SubStream to ON / OFF. Mode on/off Instructions: When set RTSP to “On”, make sure the streaming device and DVR are under the same local area network such as simply using DVR’s own hotspot AP, then images can be displayed. Or just connect the DVR and the device to the same route (Note: 192.168.100.140 is the fixed IP address of DVR's AP hotspot).
11.2 License Plate Number Setup License No.: Input license plate number. The default configuration is shown below. 11.3 System Time Setup Format Setup: System time format setting. Rear View Safety, 1797 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn NY 11233 800.764.1028 sales@rearviewsafety.com www.rearviewsafety.com...
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The default configuration of "Format" is shown above. Go to “System – >Date &Time - >Format->Setup” page. Time Zone: Time zone setting. Date Format: Date format setting. 24 Hour: If it is ON, time format will be displayed in the 24-hour system. If OFF, it will be displayed in the 12-hour system.
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The default configuration of "Time Sync" is shown above. Time Snyc Setup: Go to “System -> Date &Time ->Time Sync->Setup” page. GPS: Set GPS to ON/OFF. NTP: Set NTP to ON/OFF. NTP Server: Show the URL of the NTP Server. Application scene Usage GPS: Off &...
The default configuration of “DST” is shown above. Go to “System -> Date &Time -> DST-Setup” page. ① Enable: Set DST setting to ON/OFF. ② Offset: Adjust the offset to one or two hours after enabling DST. ③ Mode: Select the mode of DST (set DST according to week or date). ④...
The default configuration is shown above. Enable: Set scheduled recording to ON/OFF. Start: Set the start time of scheduled recording. End: Set the end time of scheduled recording. Weekday: Set up scheduled recordings by weekday. Select the weekdays to preset. Scheduled Recording: ...
11.6 ACC Settings The default configuration of "Shutdown Voltage" and "ACC Duration" is shown above. Current voltage: Voltage of the working DVR. Shutdown voltage: The DVR automatically shuts down when the voltage of the current is lower than the Shutdown voltage and works properly or restarts only when the voltage is higher than the Shutdown voltage.
11.7 Alarm Information Setting Alarm 1~Alarm 4: Customized alarm recording. Reverse: Reversing alarm recording. Brake: Brake alarm recording. Priority: Set priorities for Alarm1~Alarm4, Reverse, and Brake. When different types of alarm are triggered at the same time, alarms with the highest priority will work first.
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Output Duration: Duration of the "Display", "Cursor", and "Alarm Out". Output Duration can be selected from 0sec, 5sec, 10sec, 30sec, 60sec, 5min, 10min, 30min, 60min, Always. Alarm Out-Buzzer: Switch ON or OFF of the Alarm Out-Buzzer. The buzzer sounds for 5 seconds in alarm by default.
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Camera name of the alarm -triggered channel. Touch this button to turn on/ off the corresponding cursor. Line selecting: There are 5 lines to be selected. Line U (up), Line D (down), Line L (left), Line R (right) and ALL. The button turns green if selected. You can quickly operate with “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” on the remote control.
11.8 Update For Single Device Step 1: Copy the files to the USB disk or the “/upgrade/packet/local” directory of the SD card and insert the USB disk or SD card into the DVR. Step 2: Power off the DVR and reboot it, then it will upgrade automatically. Or go to Menu -> System -> Update->Software, touch OK to confirm the upgrading.
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Step 4: After rebooting, please go to Menu -> System -> Info to check if the version is the same as the one you copy into “upgrade” folder. Note: After the upgrade is completed, the "dvxxx_upgrade_201xxxxxxxxx_Rename" upgrade package in the USB disk or the SD card (upgrade/packet/local) will be deleted ...
11.9 Configuration Configuration Import: Import the configuration information from the flash memory device, and place the configuration file in the sd/export_file/config directory. Configuration Export: Export Log to flash memory devices. Factory Default: Press the Reset button to restore factory settings. Rear View Safety, 1797 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn NY 11233 800.764.1028 sales@rearviewsafety.com www.rearviewsafety.com...
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