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  • Page 1 Network Video Recorder User Manual...

  • Page 2: Legal Information

    To The Maximum Extent Permitted By Applicable Law, This Manual And The Product Described, With Its Hardware, Software And Firmware, Are Provided ‘As Is’ And ‘With All Faults And Errors’. Homaxi Makes No Warranties, Express Or Implied, Including Without Limitation, Merchantability, Satisfactory Quality, Or Fitness For a Particular Purpose.

  • Page 3: Regulatory Information

    Regulatory Information FCC Information Please take attention that changes or modifications 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 4: Applicable Model

    Applicable Model This manual applies to the following models. Series Model NVR808E-32 X Series NVR808H-64 NVR602S-8P8 NVR602S-16P16 NVR604E-16P16 I Series NVR604E-32P16 NVR604E-32 NVR401S-8P8 S Series NVR401L-4P4...

  • Page 5: Symbol Conventions

    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, could result in equipment damage, data loss, performance degradation, or Caution unexpected results.

  • Page 6: Safety Instruction

    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. ●Firmly connect the plug to the power socket.

  • Page 7: Preventive And Cautionary Tips

    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 the 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 8: Table Of Contents

    Contents 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 ..........................5 1.5 Power Supply Connection ............................5 1.6 USB Mouse Operation ..............................6 1.7 Input Method Description ............................7 2.
  • Page 9 6.3 Camera Management ..............................41 6.3.1 Network Camera ..............................41 6.3.2 Event ..................................45 6.3.3 Configure Arming Schedule ............................ 51 6.3.4 Configure Alarm Trigger Process ..........................51 6.3.5 Configure Advanced Setting ........................... 53 6.4 Recording Management .............................53 6.4.1 Storage ..................................53 6.4.2 Configure Recording Schedule ..........................55 7.
  • Page 10 9.5.3 Face Detection ..............................100 9.5.4 Exception Detection & Statistics ...........................101 9.6 Storage ..................................103 9.6.1 Schedule ................................103 9.6.2 HDD Management ..............................104 9.6.3 Cloud Storage ................................108 9.6.4 FTP ..................................110 9.6.5 RAID ..................................111 9.6.6 Hot Standby ................................116 9.7 Backup and Analysis ..............................118 9.7.1 Backup ...................................118 9.7.2 Retrieval ................................118 9.7.3 Statistic Analysis ..............................

  • Page 11: Overview Of Nvr

    1. Overview of NVR 1.1 Front Panel POE NVR Front Panel, as shown in Figure 1-1, 1-2. Figure 1-1 Front panel of POE NVR Figure 1-2 Front panel of POE NVR Function Description Hard disk status light Network status light Power status light USB interface Table 1-1 Description of the front panel...

  • Page 12: Rear Panel

    Hard disk status light Network status light Power switch USB interface Operation panel Table 1-2 Description of the front panel Note All the drawings above are for reference only. 1.2 Rear Panel POE NVR Rear Panel, as shown in Figure 1-5 , 1-6. Figure 1-5 Rear panel of POE NVR Description Ground...

  • Page 13: Hdd Installation

    Power Switch Power Input POE Network port VGA port HD port Audio IN/OUT RCA USB port Network port Ground Table 1-4 Description of Rear Panel NO-POE NVR Rear Panel, as shown in Figure 1-7. Figure 1-7 Rear panel of NO-POE NVR Description Power Switch Power Input...
  • Page 14 capacity limit of the HDDs, please refer to NVR’s specifications. NVR without Hard Disk still supports 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. Please turn off the power before the installation of HDDs.

  • Page 15: Ip Camera And Monitor Connection

    Figure 1-14 Fix the HDD Figure 1-15 Install the cover and screws Note If user requires higher performance HDD, it is strongly recommended to use special hard drive for security and protection. Please do not take out hard drive when NVR is running! 1.4 IP Camera and Monitor Connection Transmit signals of IP camera to NVR by the network cable, and connect VGA port and HDMI port for output.

  • Page 16: Usb Mouse Operation

    Power Supply Connection Figure 1-17 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 the USB mouse into one of the USB interfaces on the front panel of the NVR. 2.

  • Page 17: Input Method Description

    1.7 Input Method Description Figure 1-18 Soft keyboard (1) Figure 1-19 Soft keyboard (2) Button Description Symbols ..Number Enter Space ..Figure 1-16 Soft keyboard (3) English letter Backspace Lowercase/Uppercase Table 1-7 Description of the Soft Keyboard Icons...

  • Page 18: Startup

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

  • Page 19: Activate Your Device

    2. .Equipment shutdown. Figure 2-2 Shutdown Attention Restart the NVR In the Shutdown menu, you can also restart the NVR. Steps: 1. Go to Power → Restart. 2. Wait for the device to restart successfully. Figure 2-3 Restart Menu 2.2 Activate Your Device For the first-time access, you need to activate the video recorder by setting the admin password.
  • Page 20 Figure 2-5 Set Unlock Pattern 3. Click OK. 4. Message ‘Save successful’, the password setting is complete. Figure 2-6 Message 5. Configure at least one password reset method: add a reserved email or set security questions. Figure 2-7 Reset Password...

  • Page 21: Using The Startup Wizard

    Figure 2-8 Reset Password 6. Click OK. 2.3Using the Startup Wizard Steps: 1. By default, the Startup Wizard starts once the NVR has loaded. Figure 2-9 Startup Wizard Note The Startup Wizard can guide you through some important settings of the NVR. If you don’t want to use the Startup Wizard at that moment, click the exit button.
  • Page 22 Figure 2-10 Set Administrator Password window 3. Click Next Step button to enter the general settings window. Figure 2-11 General 4. After the general settings, click Next step button which takes you to the Record setup wizard window.
  • Page 23 Figure 2-12 Record 5. After the Record settings, click Next Step which takes you to the HDD Management Setup window. Figure 2-13 HDD Management 6. Click Next step. You will enter the Network setup wizard window.
  • Page 24 Figure 2-14 Network Note NVR with dual Ethernet port can select Lan1 or Lan2 to configure the network parameters individual. Default Route recommend use the port connect to the router. Figure 2-15 Dual Ethernet Port NVR 7. Click Next step after you configured the network parameters, you then enter the cloud service setup wizard window.

  • Page 25: Login And Logout

    Figure 2-16 Cloud 8. Click OK. 2.4Login and Logout 2.4.1 Set Unlock Pattern Admin users can use the unlock pattern to login. You can set the unlock pattern when the device is activated, another method go to Setting → System settings → Account to modify password. Steps: 1.

  • Page 26: Log In Via Password

    If you set a pattern password, you can use it to log in when you enter any menu operation (it will also be used in the first step when you use the boot wizard after reboot). Steps: 1. Click the menu you want. 2.

  • Page 27: Adding The Online Ip Cameras

    Steps: 1. Move the mouse to the bottom of the live view interface, go to Power → Logout. Logout Figure 2-20 Note After you have logged out of the system, the menu operation buttons on the screen would become invalid. It is required to log in again to unlock the system.
  • Page 28 displayed in the camera list. 3. Select the IP camera from the list and click the Add button or double click to add the camera.(If your IPC is Not activated, it will be automatically activated after adding and changed to the IP address of the local network and the default password is the same password for the NVR.) 4.

  • Page 29: Editing The Connected Ip Cameras And Configuring

    After you have logged out of the system, the menu operation buttons on the screen would become invalid. It is required to log in again to unlock the system. 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’...

  • Page 30: Editing Ip Cameras Connected To The Poe Interfaces

    Figure 2-25 Edit the parameters 2. Click the drop-down box of Protocol, You can choose three protocols: QUVII, ONVIF,RTSP; QUVII is a private protocol, ONVIF and RTSP protocols are generally adapted by third-party cameras. 3. Click OK. 2.7 Editing IP Cameras Connected to the PoE Interfaces The PoE interfaces enable the NVR system to pass electrical power safely, along with data, on Ethernet cabling to the connected network cameras.
  • Page 31 3. Change the connection type by clicking the drop-down box of Type and change it to UPNP. Figure 2-27 UPNP Type 4. Click OK. 5. Connect your IPC to the POE port, the IPC will be automatically activated and the automatic connection will be completed.
  • Page 32 Figure 2-28 Edit the Parameters Note On this page you can check all PoE channels’s power and connection status. Select between EPoE and PoE by pressing the ON/OFF button beneath the individual channels or selecting ‘All‘. ON is long, OFF is short. EPoE (Extended Power Over Ethernet) extends the usual PoE distance limit of 100M to an improved 250M.

  • Page 33: Live View

    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 Figure 3-1 Live view In the Live view mode, there are icons at the bottom left corner of the screen for each channel, showing the...

  • Page 34: Operations In Live View Mode

    2.5 Adding the Online IP Cameras. The number of IP camera channels may differ by its type. 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. ●...
  • Page 35 Figure 3-3 Power Power ●Logout: After you have logged out of the system, the menu operation buttons on the screen would become invalid. It is required to log in again to unlock the system. ●Restart: The device will restart. ●Shutdown: Shutdown the device. Supplementary function description ●...
  • Page 36 Figure 3-5 Smart ● Maintain: This part is system maintenance. Refer to Chapter 7 Maintain for details. ● Lock: Lock the floating bar at the bottom of the screen. Right click menu in Preview screen ● PTZ control: Operation interface is as shown in picture below. The functions include: PTZ direction control, speed, zoom, focus, iris, setup operation, patrol between spots, pattern, border, tour.

  • Page 37: Playback

    4. Playback 4.1 GUI Introduction Go to Playback. Figure 4-1 Playback ●The functions of each block in the above figure are described as follows Items Description Playback NVR support six types playback mode ‘Normal play’, ‘Event play’, Type ‘Label play’, ‘Smart play’, ‘Time division play’ and ‘Normal play (Picture)’. Display The windows display videos.

  • Page 38: Normal Playback

    3. Click the buttons at the bottom right of the timeline to zoom in/out of the timeline. Note The second line shows all the files of the channels you selected. And the first line shows the files of the channel you chose by mouse on the display area. The event files are marked red, normal files are marked blue, and the smart files are marked green.
  • Page 39 Pause Stop play. Next frame. Speed up. Synchronous playback or Main and sub stream switching asynchronous playback switching Backward 30S. Forward 30S. Full screen. Multi-speed playback. Table 4-3 Playback Interface Description 6. For a recording of a time period, select the recording start time and recording end time you want under the calendar.
  • Page 40 Figure 4-5 File Management ●Click will lock the file in case this file be covered by new file. You can check and backup the locked files in . And you can unlock the locked files in the Lock files. Figure 4-6 Lock files ●Click will mark the video as a default label, you can edit the label and check in the Label.

  • Page 41: Event Playback

    Figure 4-7 Label 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. Before You Start your video recorder has enabled the Motion detection, the Perimeter Protection, or the Diagnosis. Ensure You can enable it via the Event or Intelligent →...

  • Page 42: Back Up Clip

    Figure 4-8 Event Playback 6. Click Next will shows all the alarm items, you can change the page to find the alarm item you want. And then you can set the play period before/after of the alarm time. 7. You can change the alarm types and channels by click Return back to the last interface. As for the operations of these buttons you can refer to the below table.
  • Page 43 6. Click Backup into Record backup interface. 7. Select the backup device and folder. 8. Click Start to export the clip to backup device. Figure 4-9 Record Backup...

  • Page 44: Backup

    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 Backup and Analysis → Backup →Backup/Event Picture.

  • Page 45: Configuration (Common Mode)

    6. Configuration (Common Mode) Easy mode contains basic configurations. 6.1 System Settings 6.1.1 General Configuration You can configure the language, Time Zone, System Time, Startup wizard, Device No., Host Name etc. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu → System Settings → General Configuration → Basic Setting. Figure 6-1 Basic Setting 2.

  • Page 46: Account

    3. Click Apply. 6.1.2 Account Add User There is a default account: Admin. The admin user name is admin. Admin has the permission to add, delete, and edit user. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu → System Settings → Account → Account. 2.

  • Page 47: Network Configuration

    Figure 6-3 Modify Password 2. Enter the Old Password. 3. Enter the same new password in New Password and Confirm. 4. Click OK. 5. Optional: Admin can also set the Pattern Lock by click Set the Unlock Pattern. Password Recovery Settings You can reset the Password Recovery Settings in this interface.

  • Page 48: General - Tcp/Ip

    6.2.1 General - TCP/IP You shall properly configure the network settings before operating the device over network. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu → Network → IP Address → TCP/IP. Figure 6-5 Network Note Only NVR with dual Ethernet port have Lan parameters, please refer to the actual page. 2.
  • Page 49 P2P cloud. 4. Bind your device to the cloud account. 1) Scan the QR code with your smartphone to download the Homaxi View APP . You can also download from https://cloud.homaxi.com or the QR code below.. Figure 6-7 Download 2) Use Homaxi View APP to scan the device QR code and bind the device.

  • Page 50: Email

    6. Set a name for the device so the user can easily identify it from a list; the location of the installed device is a popular way to name connections. 7. Tap ‘Save’, then you will be able to ‘Start Live View’. 8.

  • Page 51: Camera Management

    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. Title Title of the pushed message. Receiver1-3 Fill in the receiver’s email address. Up to 3 receivers are available. Channel Select the channel that needs to be pushed through the Email alarm.
  • Page 52 Figure 6-9 Channel Set Interface 6. The device you selected will be added quickly. Note If the camera is not added successfully, you can manually modify the user name, password, port, protocol or other. Add Network Camera Manually Before You Start ●Ensure your network camera is on the same network segment with your video recorder.

  • Page 53: Previewing Video

    Edit the Parameters Figure 6-10 5. Click the drop down box of Protocol, you can choose three protocols: QUVII, ONVIF, RTSP; QUVII is a private protocol, ONVIF and RTSP protocols are mainly connected to third-party cameras. 6. Edit the ChnId, Default is 1. 7.

  • Page 54: Delete Camera

    Figure 6-11 Preview Upgrade Network Camera The Network camera can be remotely upgraded through the NVR. Before You Start ●Ensure you have inserted the USB flash drive to the device, and it contains the network camera upgrade firmware. ●Ensure your network camera is on the same network segment with your video recorder. ●Ensure the network connection is valid and correct.

  • Page 55: Event

    3. Optional1: Check the device to be deleted and click the ‘Delete’ button. 4. Optional2: Click 'Clear all', you can delete all the channels you want to delete. 5. As shown in the figure below, click OK. Figure 6-13 Message Configure OSD (On-Screen Display) settings for the camera, including date format, camera name, etc.

  • Page 56: Line Crossing

    Figure 6-15 Motion Detection 2. Select a camera. 3. Turn on Enable. 4. Set the motion detection area. Click Clear or Hold down the left mouse button to clear or draw areas. The first area is set as full screen by default.
  • Page 57 Figure 6-16 Line Crossing 4. Set line crossing detection rules and detection line. You can adjust the Line Crossing warning line by dragging the anchor points at both ends of the default tripwire with the cursor on the screen. Max Size：When the size of objects in the scene is larger than the drawing max size, the alarm will not be triggered.
  • Page 58 14. Click Apply. Area Intrusion Area Intrusion is to draw one or more detection areas in the monitoring area,when an object enters the detection area and reaches the set proportion and intrusion duration, an alarm will be triggered and the set alarm action will be linked.

  • Page 59: Region Entrance

    11. Set Threshold: Alarm occurs if target enter arming areas and stay longer than the time threshold you set, 0-10s settable. 12. Sensitivity value represent percentage of targets intrusion the area. A sensitivity value of 0 indicates the alarm will be triggered only if the target intrusion the area completely. A sensitivity value of 100 indicates the alarm will be triggered the target has just intrusion the area.

  • Page 60: Region Exiting

    6. Set the Interval for the event. It determines the minimal time period between two consecutive alarms. Turn it up to filter frequent alarms, and turn it down to prevent missing alarms. 7. Set the Trigger process. Refer to 6.3.4 Configure Alarm Trigger Process for details. 8.

  • Page 61: Configure Arming Schedule

    Min Size: When the size of objects in the scene is smaller than the drawing Min Size, the alarm will not be triggered. Clear Area: Removes area on the current alert area. Clear All: Removes all areas on all alert areas. 5.
  • Page 62 2. Click Set of Trigger Process. Figure 6-21 Trigger process 3. Set Buzzer, Send Email, Record Channel etc. Buzzer & Buzz time It will trigger a buzzer beep when an alarm is triggered. Send Email It will send an email with alarm information when an alarm is triggered. Record Channel It triggers the alarm recording for that channel when an alarm is triggered, and associate the recording for viewing...

  • Page 63: Configure Advanced Setting

    6.3.5 Configure Advanced Setting Advanced Setting will also be activated when an alarm or exception occurs. It includes the red and blue lights, sirens, white lights related to the configuration of parameters. Red and Blue Lights You can set the red and blue lights to flash red and blue when the event is triggered. Schedule In this screen you can set the lighting time schedule.
  • Page 64 Figure 6-23 HDD Management 2. Select an HDD. 3. Click Format. 4. Click OK to continue. Note To repair an HDD that fails to function as a database. Please operate under the help of professional technical support. HDD Management This page displays your device’s installed hard drive number, the hard disk status, the hard disk Attributes, the type of hard drive, the total/free capacity, as well as belonging to a group, edit button and delete button.

  • Page 65: Configure Recording Schedule

    Add the HDD from uninstall state. Format Format the HDD manually. Steps 1. Click HDD the Edit button, interface shows as below. Figure 6-24 Edit 2. Configure the other parameters as your desire. 3. Click OK. 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.

  • Page 66: Edit Schedule

    Figure 6-25 Schedule 2. Select the channel. 3. Set the Pre-Record. The time to be pre-record on the created videos. Range from 0-30 seconds. 4. Select main stream recording or sub stream recording. Some devices with less than 16 channels can support dual stream recording. 5.
  • Page 67 Figure 6-26 Edit Schedule Week Day The day to set the schedule, from Sunday to Saturday. Schedule The time slot for the record, you can set 6 time slots during one day. Norm The type of the record, record as normal video. The type of the record, record as motion detection video.
  • Page 68 Figure 6-27 Edit Schedule Steps 1. Select any one of Norm, MD, and Alarm in the upper left corner 2. Hold down the left mouse button and move on the corresponding bar. 3. If we check the Norm, and Hold down the left mouse button to move on the corresponding bar, we will be able to edit the green part of the bar.
  • Page 69 2. Hold down the left mouse button and move on the yellow corresponding bar, check or clear. 3. Optional: Click to clear the setting of the bar at once. 4. After all the settings finished, click Apply to activate all the settings. 5.

  • Page 70: Maintain

    7. Maintain 7.1 System 1. Go to Maintain → System. Figure 7-1 System 2. In this page, you can see the version information of the device. Type Number of channel supported by the device. Version Version Information. Release Date The release date of firmware. The MAC address of the device.

  • Page 71: Hard Disk Operation

    Please make sure whether you have configured the recording Schedule. Steps: 1. Go to Maintain → Record. Record Figure 7-2 7.3 Hard Disk Operation The device provides the HDD detection function such as the adopting of the S.M.A.R.T. and the Bad Sector Detection technique.

  • Page 72: Network

    Figure 7-3 Hard Disk Operation Click Start Selftest 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 7-4 Check Status 7.4 Network You can view the current status parameters of all your LANs in this screen.

  • Page 73: Management

    7.5 Management Steps 1. Go to Maintain → Management. Figure 7-6 Management 2. Select the restoring type. Simple Restore ●Choose the function item, General/Channel Name/Record/Network/Motion Detection/Abnormality/PTZ/Display/IP Channel/Smart Settings/Restore Inactivated Status/Cloud Authentication Code. ● Click Execute, the items you have chosen will restore to defaults. ●...

  • Page 74: User

    Figure 7-7 Log 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’ and ‘Playback. Start time/End time Set the time you want to search. Search After you set the period and search type, click Searh, and device can save maximum 4096 logs tops.
  • Page 75 Figure 7-8 User User Name Remote device login this NVR device account. User remote access devices IP Address. Login Type Remote connection type. Time The login time of online user. Disconnect Disconnect the connected user, and disconnected users will reconnect automatically in a while. Block Shielding the connected user in a time that you set, and remote user will reconnect in that time.

  • Page 76: Alarm Center

    8. Alarm Center When events occur, you can view their details in Alarm Center. 8.1 Alarm Center Every alarm event occurs, you will see it here. Steps 1. Go to Alarm Center. Figure 8-1 Alarm Center Alert System type abnormal alarm message. Basic Event General Event Alarm Messages.
  • Page 77 Basic Event Motion Detection, Video Cover, Video Lost, Camera I/O, Blurred Detection, Scene Change Detection, Audio Exception Detection Smart Event Line Crossing, Area Intrusion, Region Entrance, Region Exiting, Fast Moving, Unattended Object, Object Missing, Face Detection, Loitering Detection, Parking Detection, People Gather Table 8-1 Event classification...

  • Page 78: Configuration (Advanced Mode)

    9. Configuration (Advanced Mode) 9.1 System Settings 9.1.1 General Configuration Basic Setting You can configure the Language, Time Zone, System Time, Time Format, DST, Auto logout, Startup wizard, Device No., Host Name and Preview Strategy. Steps 1. Go to Setting Menu → System Settings → General Configuration. 2.

  • Page 79: Dst Setting

    The time synchronization interval can be set from 1 to 65535min, and the default value is 10 min. If the NVR is connected to a public network, you should use a NTP server that has a time synchronization function, such as the server at the National Time Center. 4.
  • Page 80 Channel Title Enable/disable the display of the time tile and channel title on the monitor screen. Record Status Enable/disable the display of the record status on the screen. Alarm Status Enable/disable the display of the alarm status on the screen. 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 81 Display Mode Note Only some models have Display Mode parameters, please refer to the actual page.  After switching modes, the function will take effect only after the device is restart.  Homologous: The connected monitors will display the exact same interface. Heterologous The connected monitors support display different interface, the mouse pointer will be displayed on the main port display, the auxiliary port can only display the preview screen.
  • Page 82 Figure 9-7 View Settings 3. Click a window to select it, and then double-click a camera name in the channel list you would like to display. 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.

  • Page 83: Account

    5. Click Apply. 9.1.3 Account Steps 1. Go to Setting Menu → System Settings → Account → Account. Figure 9-8 Account 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.

  • Page 84: Modify Group

    Figure 9-9 Add Group Modify Group Modify the existing groups’ attribute, configure the parameters as your desire. Figure 9-10 Modify Group Add user & Modify User & Modify password & Password Recovery Settings. Please refer to 6.1.2 Account.

  • Page 85: Network

    Note ● 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. ● The user management includes: group/user. One user should belong to one group. 9.2 Network 9.2.1 IP Address TCP/IP must be properly configured before you can operate video recorder over network.

  • Page 86: Platform Access

    Duplex, 100Mbps/Full Duplex and Auto Negotiation. Max Users The maximum number of simultaneously accessing users to the NVR is 32 by default. 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 87 Figure 9-12 DDNS DDNS Type ISP of DDNS, including Oray DDNS, CN99 DDNS, DynDNS DDNS and NO-IP DDNS. This option can be customized according to the requirement of users. Domain Name Fill in the domain name provided by ISP. User Name/Password Fill in the username and password input correspond to the domain name.
  • Page 88 Figure 9-13 UPNP 2. Turn on UPNP. 3. Set up Media Port, HTTP Port, Handset Port, HTTPS and SNMP as your desire. (If you are not sure, do not modify it, it may conflict with other ports of the system). Note ●...
  • Page 89 Figure 9-14 Port Note As shown in the figure above, you can use the RTSP address for RTSP streaming. SNMP SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) 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 90: Camera

    Figure 9-15 V1/V2 Version Figure 9-16 V3 Version 3. Tick the protocol as your desire. 4. Click Apply to save. Camera...

  • Page 91: Channel

    9.3.1 Channel Channel Set Please refer to 6.3.1 Network Camera 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. Steps 1.
  • Page 92 Please make sure you already have an IPC whose connection status is Connected. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu → Camera → Channel → Encode. 2. You can also go to Setting Menu → Camera → Encode. Figure 9-18 Channel Figure 9-19 Encode config 3.
  • Page 93 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. Resolution The resolution of the encoding record. Frame Rate (FPS) The number of frames per second in the encoding video. Bit Rate Type CBR/VBR.

  • Page 94: Poe Power

    Note If you want to use the Copy to function, it is recommended to use it under the same model of cameras. Click OK. POE Power please refer to 2.7 Editing IP Cameras Connected to the PoE Interfaces for details. This chapter is to show you how to set the actions which you want the PTZ Camera to respond when corresponding alarm occurred.
  • Page 95 Patrols can be set to move the PTZ to different key points and have it stay there for a set duration before moving on to the next key point. The key points are corresponding to the presets. You can set up 4 cruise lines, each cruise line includes preset points and the time stayed in the preset point and cruising speed.

  • Page 96: Encode

    movement, tracking time: [0s -300s]. Focus Type It is the autofocus adapted to IPC. PTZ Config Mainly through the RS485 port to control the head. Items Function Description Direction button and the auto-cycle button Zoom+, Zoom- Focus+, Focus- Iris+, Iris- The speed of the PTZ movement Table 9-1 PTZ Config 9.3.2 Encode...
  • Page 97 Figure 9-25 Image 2. Configure the parameters as your desire. Channel Select the channel to configure. Image Mode The image mode for specific period of the configuration, there are Auto/Manual for options. Auto mode keeps the image settings for 24h, and Manual mode supports 2 period settings (Day period & Night period). You can set independent image settings for different period.
  • Page 98 Auto: Set white balance NR Level: 0-6 automatically White Enhancement Defog: Close/Auto/Manual Manual: Set white balance by balance selecting exact value of Red Gain Smart light: close/manual/auto and Blue Gain Auto/Color On/Color Off Switch Type: IR Synchronous Day/Night Switch Filter Time: from 0-120 seconds Table 9-2 Set IP Camera parameters Image adjust...
  • Page 99 Figure 9-26 Illumination Plan  IR Setting: Fill Light Mode: It is used to control the camera’s infrared lighting physical switch , independent of Fill Light selection. There are three options:Close, Manual and Auto, default is Manual. Close: Close the infrared light of the camera; Note When you need to use the camera’s infrared light function, please do not set Fill Light Mode to Close.
  • Page 100 For optimized image contrast enhancement You can configure the OSD (On-screen Display) settings for the camera, including Channel Name, Date/Time format, Record status, Alarm status, etc. You can also refer to 6.3.1 Network Camera-OSD. Before You Start Please make sure you already have an IPC whose connection status is Connected. Steps: 1.

  • Page 101: Privacy Mask

    Record Status, Alarm Status Enable/disable the display of the record status and alarm status on the screen. 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.

  • Page 102: Video Lost

    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. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu → Event → Video Detection → Video Lost. Figure 9-29 Video lost 2.

  • Page 103: Alarm I/O

    Figure 9-30 Video lost 2. Set Channel. 3. Turn on Enable. 4. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to 6.3.4 Configure Arming Schedule fordetails. 5. Set the Trigger Process. Refer to 6.3.5 Configure Alarm Trigger Process for details. 6. Adjust Sensitivity as your desire. The higher the value is, the more easily the video Masking can be triggered.
  • Page 104 Figure 9-31 Alarm I/O Alarm input device is a kind of device which 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. Alarm output device is a kind of device which can output warning signal such as sound or light, to remind the user that there´s alarm being triggered.
  • Page 105 Alarm Output Name Set the name of the Alarm output device. Type Three types: Schedule/Manual/Stop. 'Schedule’ means the alarm output device will be 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.

  • Page 106: Operation

    Name Set the name of the Alarm input device. Alarm channel Show which IP channel’s alarm input it is. Port Show which alarm input port of IP channel it is. Operation It includes four kinds of operations: Edit/Schedule/Trigger Process and Delete. Type Normal Open/Normal Close.

  • Page 107: Disarming

    Figure 9-33 Alert 2. Select Type. 3. Turn on Enable. 4. Configure the other parameters as your desire. When the set events occur, you will receive hints in Alarm Status. 5. Click Apply. 9.4.4 Disarming This function is disarms the alarm linkage action, default is ALL. There are four options : Buzzer, Tour, Send Email and Alarm Output.

  • Page 108: Intelligent

    2. Select disarming mode. Off: The default mode. Disarm Once: You can customize the duration of disarming by setting the start time and end time, it will automatically cuts to Off mode if the set disarm time has expired. Disarm By Schedule: Click Set to config disarm schedule. Figure 9-35 Set Disarming Time Intelligent Note...

  • Page 109: Smart Motion Detection

    Smart Motion Detection 9.5.1 Smart Motion Detection is a motion detection function that supports human and vehicle filter, which can effectively filter alarms triggered by light changes, tree shadows shaking, small animals, etc. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu → Intelligent → AI Config → Smart Motion Detection. 2.

  • Page 110: Perimeter Protection

    more resemble human/vehicle target will be detected. 12. Click Apply. 9.5.2 Perimeter Protection Line Crossing & Area Intrusion & Region Entrance & Region Exiting Line Crossing & Area Intrusion & Region Entrance & Region Exiting, They are the 4 most commonly used Perimeter Protection, if setting Target Detection as Human Shape Filter or Vehicle Shape Filter to discard alarms which are not triggered by human body or vehicle, They are described as Perimeter Protection, referred to as PP.

  • Page 111: Exception Detection & Statistics

    The higher the sensitivity, the higher the face detection rate. 15. Click Apply. 9.5.4 Exception Detection & Statistics Loitering Detection Loitering detection can detect the moving human body staying in a predefined place for more than a period of time or abnormal movement trajectory, and some certain actions can be taken when the alarm is triggered.
  • Page 112 7. Set the Trigger process. Refer to 6.3.4 Configure Alarm Trigger Process for details. 8. Set the Advanced Setting. Refer to 6.3.5 Configure Advanced Setting fordetails. 9. Duration Threshold: Loitering Detection alarm occurs if target enter arming areas and stay longer than the duration time you set, 1-600s settable.

  • Page 113: Scene Change Detection

    9. Click Apply. Scene Change Detection When the scene taken by the camera changed due to human, external environment and other reasons, the camera detects the scene change event and triggers the corresponding alarm linkage reaction. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu → Intelligent → AI Config → Exception Detection & Statistics → Scene Change Detection.

  • Page 114: Hdd Management

    It is the Recording schedule, Please refer to 6.4.2 Configure Recording Schedule. 9.6.2 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 Mode Settings Multiple HDDs can be managed in groups. Video from specified channels can be recorded into a particular HDD group through HDD settings.
  • Page 115 Figure 9-43 Hdd Set 10. Click OK. Note If the channel does not belong to any group, none video file will be saved, and if the channel belongs to more than one group, the channel will use the space of these group one by one until all the group are full.
  • Page 116 Figure 9-44 Quota 5. Click Apply. 6. Click OK to the video recorder to activate the new settings. Note When the quota capacity is set to 0, all cameras will use the total capacity of HDD for videos and pictures. Every time you change the storage mode, you need to restart the NVR device.
  • Page 117 Figure 9-45 Quota 5. Click Apply. 6. Click OK to the video recorder to activate the new settings. Note When the Record Quota (Day) is set to 0, all cameras will use the total capacity of HDD for videos and pictures.

  • Page 118: Cloud Storage

    Figure 9-46 Advanced HDD Full ● Stop record: When the HDD is full, video recorder will stop writing. ● Overwrite: When hard drive is full, video record will continue to write new files by deleting the oldest files. Auto-Delete Old Files Support two mode of strategy, ‘never’...
  • Page 119 Figure 9-47 Cloud Storage Cloud Type Support two kinds of cloud type ‘Google Drive’ and ‘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. Channel Choose the channel which you want upload files.

  • Page 120: Ftp

    Figure 9-49 Mobile Operation Example 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. The Status line will then read ‘bind Your Login Name’. 10.

  • Page 121: Raid

    Divided into video FTP and pictures FTP, you can set up your server IP, port, user name, password, directory, file length, and there is the Anonymous option, and FTP Setting whether the testing successful. Channel setting You can select the channel to transmit, set up on weekday, as well as the time period. Figure 9-50 FTP Note ●...

  • Page 122: Create Raid

    1. Go to Setting Menu→ Storage → HDD Manage. 2. Turn on Enable RAID. Figure 9-51 Advanced Setting 3. Click OK and continue. Figure 9-52 Continue 4. Click OK and wait for for restart finish. Figure 9-53 Restart Note The NVR does not record when RAID is turned on, please refer to to configure to record.
  • Page 123 Quick Set RAID With Quick Set, the appliance can quickly perform the creation of disk arrays and virtual disks. The default array type created is RAID5. Before You Start NVR has at least 3 physical disks installed. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu→ Storage → RAID. 2.
  • Page 124 Figure 9-56 Check Recording Status Information Manual create RAID With manual creation, users can create different types of arrays depending on the number of hard disks. Before You Start NVR has at least 2 physical disks installed. Steps: 1. Go to Setting Menu→ Storage → RAID → HDD. 2.
  • Page 125 Figure 9-58 Check Status 5. Optional, you can click to delete or click Quick Delete to delete all RAID. 6. Go to Setting Menu → Storage → HDD Manage to check array (equivalent to a high-capacity logical disk) recording status information Figure 9-59 HDD Manage 7.

  • Page 126: Hot Standby

    Figure 9-60 Set a Hot Spare Disk Note The global hot spare disk can be used by all created RAID. 9.6.6 Hot Standby Enable hot standby system, when the working NVR in the system fails, it will automatically switch to the hot standby machine to continue recording, when the working NVR is back to normal, it will automatically cut back to the working NVR, which can reduce video loss and enhance video continuity.
  • Page 127 Figure 9-61 Normal Mode Mode selects normal, the device is set as a working machine. Turn on Enable. Add the IP address of the hot standby. Enter the password of the Hot Standby device. Click Apply. Config hot standby machine Hot standby NVR does not work everyday, when the corresponding working NVR fails, it can automatically take over the working NVR and continue recording.

  • Page 128: Backup And Analysis

    Figure 9-63 Hot Standby Mode 6. Adding Work NVRs. Note ● If the hot standby does not add a working machine or if the working machine is deleted, video backup or video synchronization is not possible. ● If the hot standby is switched to normal operating mode, it can be switched back to the working machine for use.
  • Page 129 Figure 9-64 Face 2. Select the Record Channel you want to search. 3. Set the Start time and End time. 4. Click Search. 5. You can see the search results as shown below. Figure 9-65 Search Results Note ● 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 130 Manual. Steps: 1. Go to Backup and Analysis → Retrieval → SMD. Figure 9-66 SMD 2. Select the Event type as SMD-Human or SMD-Vehicle. 3. Select the Record Channel you want to search. 4. Set the Start time and End time. 5.
  • Page 131 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 132: Statistic Analysis

    Search Results Figure 9-69 Note ● 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 133: Playback

    2. Select Channel. 3. Select Statistic Type, three options are available: People Entered, People Exited and Total. 4. Select Report Type, you can click and go to the popup page to set time. 5. Click Statistics. Heat Map Steps: 1. Go to Backup and Analysis → Statistic Analysis → Heat Map Statistics. Figure 9-71 Heat Map Statics 2.
  • Page 134 records of the label you made in File management as shown below. You can also refer to 4.2 Normal Playback. Figure 9-72 Label Play Figure 9-73 Backup and Retrieval Steps: 1. Go to Playback.

  • Page 135: Smart Play

    Figure 9-74 Playback 2. Select the Label play. 3. Select the channels as your desire, set time period. 4. Click Search. 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 136 Draw Line Face search Draw Quadrilateral Human Body search Motion Draw Rectangle Vehicle search Motion Full Screen Table 9-4 Description Draw Line Steps: 1. Go to Playback. 2. Select the Smart Play. 3. Select the channel and the record time as your desire. 4.
  • Page 137 Figure 9-76 Search Results 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 or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click to draw a quadrilateral on the video interface. 6.
  • Page 138 Motion Draw Rectangle Steps: 1. Go to Playback. 2. Select the Smart Play. 3. Select the channel and the record time as your desire. 4. Click Play or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click to draw an area on the video interface. 6.

  • Page 139: Face Search

    Figure 9-79 Motion Full Screen 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 or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click , then the full video interface will be detected by default. 6.
  • Page 140 Figure 9-80 Face search Human Shape 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 or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click , then the full video interface will be detected by default. 6.

  • Page 141: Time Division Play

    9.8.4 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 142 Figure 9-83 Normal Play (Picture) 3. Select the channel as your desire. 4. Select the time period you want to play back. 5. Click Search. 6. As for the button of control playback including ‘File Manage’, ‘Sync/Async’, ‘Start/Pause’, ‘Backward play’, ‘Stop Playing’, ‘Slow down’, ‘Speed up’, and ‘Time-line Stretch’, ‘Time-line Shorten’.

  • Page 143: Web Operation

    10. Web Operation 10.1 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. 10.2 Login You shall acknowledge that the use of the product with Internet access might be under network security risks.

  • Page 144: Playback

    Figure 10-2 Live View 10.4 Playback Click Playback to enter playback interface. Figure 10-3 Playback...

  • Page 145: Set

    10.5 Set Click Set Menu to enter configuration interface. Figure 10-4 Configuration 10.6 Log Steps: 1. Go to Set Menu → Maintain → Log. 2. Set the search conditions. 3. Click Search. Figure 10-5 Log...

  • Page 146: Appendix

    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 147: Communication

    11.2 Communication FAQs, Additional Documents, Guides, Software, Upgrades, and more can be found on the Protect Series Support Page. Scan the QR code or access the link below. https://www.Homaxi.com Figure 11-1 Communication...

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