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.
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 Caution degradation, or unexpected results.
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.
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.
1. Overview of NVR 1.1 Front Panel NVR Front Panel, as shown in figure 1-1 to figure 1-8. Figure 1-1 Front panel of M1 case Figure 1-2 Front panel of N1 case Figure 1-3 Front panel of W1 case Function Description Power switch Network status light Hard disk status light...
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Figure 1-4 Front panel of D1&G1 case Figure 1-5 Front panel of D3 case Figure 1-6 Front panel of D5 case Figure 1-7 Front panel of D6 case Figure 1-8 Front panel of G3 case Function Description Power status light Alarm status light Record status light Backspace...
USB Interface Table 1-2 Description of front panel Note All above drawings are for reference only. 1.2 Rear Panel NVR Rear Panel, as shown in figure 1-9 to figure 1-15. Figure 1-9 Rear panel of MX8 case Figure 1-10 Rear panel of NX3 case Figure 1-11 Rear panel of WX1 case Description Power Input Interface...
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Figure 1-12 Rear panel of AXP case Figure 1-13 Rear panel of BXK case Figure 1-14 Rear panel of BXL case Description Power Switch Ground Hole Power Input Alarm Input USB Interface HDMI Interface VGA Interface Audio in/out Interface RJ45 Interface Table 1-4 Description of Rear Panel Figure 1-15 Rear panel of 7CL series...
Figure 1-16 Rear panel of 6RA64P-W18 NVR Description Power Switch Power Input Ground Alarm Input Network port e SATA port Audio IN/OUT RCA VGA port RS232 port HDMI port USB port Table 1-5 Description of Rear Panel Note All above drawings are for reference only. 1.3 IR Remote Control Operations The NVR may also be controlled with the included IR remote control, as shown bellow.Batteries (2×AAA) must be installed before operation.
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Figure 1-17 Remote Controller Note The remote control can only be adapted to 6 series NVR.
Item Description Enter the Playback Interface Backward One Frame Control Step-Frame Backward Playback Control Button Control Playback Status Quick Control All Channels Record Type Control Playback Speed Slow Down Playback Back to Preview Set Address to Match of NVR Back to Preview Choose Function Area On the Menu/Switch Preview Channels 12/16/ Choose Function Area On the Menu/Switch Preview Channels...
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reference. 1 or 2 HDD(s) Series Remove the cover Fix the HDD Figure 1-18 Figure 1-19 Connect the power and data cables Install the cover and screws Figure 1-190 Figure 1-21 4 or 8 HDD(s) Series Figure 1-20 Remove the cover Figure 1-21 Connect the power and data cables...
Figure 1-22 Fix the HDD Figure 1-23 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! 1.5 SSD Installation Before installing Hard Disk (SSD), please make sure the power is disconnected with the NVR.
Connect the power and data cables Install the cover and screws Figure 1-28 Figure 1-29 Note 7CL series NVR are compatible with SSD hard drive. 1.6 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. Note This may not be applicable to all installation environments.
Figure 1-31 Power Supply Connection 1.8 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.
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.
2.2 Using the Startup Wizard Steps: 1. By default, the Startup Wizard starts once the NVR has loaded, as shown bellow. Figure 2-4 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.
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Figure 2-6 General 4. After the general settings, click Next Step button which takes you back to the record control Setup Wizard window, as shown bellow. Figure 2-7 Record 5. After the record control settings, click Next Step button which takes you to the HDD Manage Setup Wizard window, as shown bellow.
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Figure 2-8 HDD Manage 6. Click Next Step button. You enter the Network Setup Wizard window, as shown bellow. Figure 2-9 Network Click Next Step button after you configured the network parameters, you enter the cloud service Setup Wizard window, as shown bellow.
Figure 2-10 Cloud 8. Click finished button to complete the startup Setup Wizard. 2.3 Login and Logout 2.3.1Log in via Password If your video recorder has logged out, you must login before operating the menu and other functions. Steps: 1. Select User Name. Figure 2-11Login Interface 2.
1. Right-click the preview screen interface Shutdown menu, or enter the ‘shutdown’ menu button in the upper right corner of the settings interface. 2. Select Logout in the drop-down box. 3. Click OK. Figure 2-12 Logout Note ● After you have logged out the system, menu operation on the screen is invalid. It is required to input a user name and password to unlock the system.
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Figure 2-13 IP Camera Management 3. Select the IP camera from the list and click the ‘Add’ button to add the camera. Figure 2-14 Add Camera 4. Check the status of the camera, 'Connected' means connected, 'Connecting' means connecting, 'identifying error' means the password is incorrect, except 'Connected', all others need to check the connection information to ensure that the camera can be connected normally.
Note 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’ and then double click the IP address to add here. Explanation of the icons: Get the live view of the Edit basic parameters of Upgrade the camera Delete the IP camera...
Figure 2-16 Edit 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 mainly connected to third-party cameras. 3. Click ‘OK’ to save and exit the editing interface. 2.6 Editing IP Cameras Connected to the PoE Interfaces The PoE interfaces enables the NVR system to pass electrical power safely, along with data, on Ethernet cabling to the connected network cameras.
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Figure 2-17 Edit 3. Change the connection type buy click the drop-down box of Type and change it to UPNP and click OK. Figure 2-18 Upnp Note ● 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.
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Figure 2-19 Edit the Parameters Note ● 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.
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 bellow.
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.
Icon Items Description Main menu The main menu includes playback, setting, maintain, backup and shutdown. Startup wizard Please refer to the chapter 2.3 Using the Startup Wizard for more information. When you right click mouse and choose Auto Channel Config, it means that NVR will Auto channel config auto add the IP cameras which in the same LAN.
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Items Description Schedule Record according to the configuration. Manual Click the button and the according channel will record immediately regardless of the current state. Stop Click the stop button and the according channel will stop recording regardless of the current state. Record Figure 3-3 Record Control Table 3-4...
4. Playback 4.1 GUI Introduction Go to Playback. ● Right click and select the “Record Playback” to enter the playback interface and you can also click on the playback button in the main menu to enter the playback interface, as shown in the figure bellow. Figure 4-1 Playback ●...
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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. Click the buttons and buttons at the bottom right of the timeline to zoom in/out of the timeline. Note ●...
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. Note The blue square at the calendar date indicates there are available videos. For example, means video is available.
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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 Zoom, Zoom the playing channel cut file/locked file/labeled file Switch of playback channel...
Figure 4-6 Lock File ● 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 4-7 File Manage 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.
1. Go to Playback. 2. Click Event play. 3. Select a camera. 4. Set time period,then Click Search. Figure 4-8 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.
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Before You Start: Connect a backup device to your video recorder. Steps: 1. Start playback. Refer to Chapter 4 Playback for details. 2. Click at the start time you want. 3. Click again at the end time you want. 4. You can check the files you cut in the “File Manage”. 5.
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 Main Menu → Backup → General → Video/Picture/Event. Figure 5-1 Search 2.
6. Configuration (Common Mode) 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 Main Menu → System → Base. Figure 6-1 2. Configure the parameters as your desire. Time format The form of time display.
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 Main Menu → System → Security → Account. 2.
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: You can also set the Pattern Lock by click “setting the Pattern Lock”. 6.1.3 Alarm events & Trigger process You can receive alarm events hint in Alarm Status and set exception linkage actions in the ‘Set’...
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Figure 6-4 Alarm Information 2. When the set events occur, you will receive hints in Alarm Status. Note You can also Click the button to view the video with the alarm events hint. Step2:Enable the Trigger process 1. Go to Main Menu → Event → Detect, Intelligent Detection or VQD → Trigger process. Figure 6-5 Event Process...
Show message Video preview popup prompt. Buzzer Buzzer prompt, you can set the buzzer time. Send email An email will be sent to your mailbox when an alarm occurs, if your mailbox is configured. Record Channel Enable alarm recording when there is an alarm event in this channel. Snapshot Enable to capture pictures when there is an alarm event in this channel, you can also set the snapshot interval.
Only NVR with dual Ethernet port have Lan parameters, please refer to the actual page. 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. Auto Obtain DNS If DHCP is enabled.
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Figure 6-7 P2P 3. Your device will change from connected to connected, which means your device has successfully registered with the P2P cloud. 4. Bind your device to the cloud account. 1) Scan the QR code with your smartphone to download the vEye Pro APP. You can also download from http://www.LegendNXtech.com or the QR code below.
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 labelled ‘Cloud ID’. This will enter the connection information to the device to the app. 6.
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Figure 6-9 Email 2. Set email parameters Enable Check it to enable the server authentication feature. 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.
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. Week day Select the date to send the alarm by EMAIL. Schedule Select the schedule that needs to be pushed by EMAIL. 3.
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4. Select multiple desired cameras you want to add, or select all cameras. 5. Click the ‘Quick Set’ button to add the cameras (with the default login password) from the list. Figure 6-11 IP Camera Management 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.
Figure 6-12 Edit the Parameters 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.
Figure 6-13 Preview Upgrade Network Camera The Network camera can be remotely upgraded through the device. 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. ●...
Before You Start Ensure your network camera is needs to be deleted. Steps: 1. Go to Main Menu → Channel → IP Channel → Channel Setting. 2. Click or Select the camera and click the Delete button. 3. Optional1: Check the device to be deleted and click the ‘Delete’ button. 4.
3. Set parameters as your desire. 4. The name and time can be chose to display or not, and can also be customized. 5. Click Apply. 6.3.3 Event Motion Detection Motion detection enables the video recorder to detect the moving objects in the monitored area and trigger alarms.
Line Crossing Line Crossing can be understood as a warning line, which is drawn in the real-time monitoring screen area of the camera . When a target crosses the warning line in the set direction, the system generates an alarm and performs alarm linkage actions .
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11. Select Direction as A<->B, A->B, or B->A. A<->B The arrow on the A and B side shows. An object crossing a configured line in both directions can be detected and trigger alarms. A->B Only an object crossing the configured line from the A side to the B side can be detected. B->A Only an object crossing the configured line from the B side to the A side can be detected.
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. 4.
Figure 6-40 Region Entrance Detection 4. Click Plot Area, click 4 points by using the left mouse button to draw area directly in the video window. Max Size: When the size of objects in the scene is larger than the drawing max size, the alarm will not be triggered.
Figure 6-51 Region Exiting Detection 4. Click Plot Area, click 4 points by using the left mouse button to draw area directly in the video window. Max Size: When the size of objects in the scene is larger than the drawing max size, the alarm will not be triggered.
Note Time periods shall not be repeated or overlapped Figure 6-6 Set Arming Schedule 3. Edit the time period 1-6 that you want to trigger the alarm and check it, as shown bellow, edit the three time periods and check it. 4.
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Figure 6-73 Set 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. Show Message The local monitor will pop up the alarming channel image when an alarm is triggered.
Note ● For certain network cameras, you can set the alarm linkage action as audio alarm or light alarm. ● Ensure your camera supports audio and light alarm linkage. ● Ensure the audio output and volume are properly configured. ● If you require to set audio and light parameters, please log into the network camera via web browser to configure them.
Initialize HDD A newly installed hard disk drive (HDD) must be initialized before it can be used to save videos and information. Before You Start Install at least an HDD to your video recorder. For detailed steps, refer to 1.4 HDD Installation. Steps: 1.
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video and query playback business. Read only, in this mode, hard drive support read operation, you can carry out hard drive data query playback but can not write data. Redundant, in this mode, the NVR is configured with two hard discs, one of which is a read/write disc ...
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.
Edit Schedule OPTION 1: You can click the button Edit to enter the edit screen and set the schedule of the record. Figure 6-118 Edit Week Day The day to set the schedule, from Sunday to Saturday. Schedule 1-6 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.
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You can also edit the schedule on the configuration graph screen, as shown below. Figure 6-129 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.
1. Select any MD in the upper left corner 2. Hold down the left mouse button and move on the yellow corresponding bar, check or clear. 3. Optional: Click the icon eraser to clear the setting of the bar at once. 4.
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Figure 6-131 Encode Channel Select the channel to configure. Refresh Click it to refresh IP channel’s encode parameters. Main Stream Main stream refers to the primary stream that affects data recorded to the hard disk drive and will directly determine your video quality and image size. Comparing with the sub- stream, the main stream provides a higher quality video with higher resolution and frame rate.
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Enable smart encode technology, all the record file can reduce the HDD space maximum 80%- 90% in static view. Audio Set the audio encode for this channel, as shown below. Figure 6-142 Audio Note Higher resolution, frame rate, and bitrate provide you better video quality, but it also requires more internet bandwidth and uses more storage space on the hard disk drive.
7. Maintenance 7.1 Restore Default Steps: 1. Go to Main Menu → System → Config → Default. Figure 7-1 Default 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. ● Click ‘execute’ button, the item what you chosen restore defaults. ●...
Figure 7-1 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”, “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.
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 Main Menu → System → Maintain - Upgrade. Figure 7-2 Upgrade 2. Select your USB flash drive from the drop down box of Device name. 3.
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Figure 7-3 Version 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.
8. Alarm Status & Show Message When events occur, you can view their details in Alarm Status. 8.1 Alarm Log Every alarm event occurs, you will see it here. Steps: 1. Click at the upper-right corner or Go to Main Menu → Event → Alarm Log → Alarm Information. Figure 8-1 Alarm Center 2.
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.
9.3 Preview After your login successfully, you will enter the preview interface, as show below. Figure 9-2 Live View 9.4 Playback Click Playback to enter playback interface, as show below. Figure 9-3 Playback 9.5 Set...
Click Set to enter configuration interface. Figure 9-4 Configuration 9.6 Log Steps: 1. Go to Set → Maintain → Log. 2. Set the search conditions. 3. Click Search. Figure 9-5 Log...
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 Main Menu → System → Basic Settings. 2.
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. Figure 10-3 Smart Display Smart tracking display It will track the moving objects from the specified intelligent alarm type, you can see the blue tracking box in the picture as below.
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Steps: 1. Go to Main Menu → System → Security → Account. Figure 10-5 Account Add Group Add a user group and set the permission. There are many different permissions: control panel, real time surveillance, playback, recording setup, video file backup and so on. Figure 10-6 Add Group...
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Modify Group Modify the existing groups’ attribute, configure the parameters as your desire, as shown below. Figure 10-7 Modify Group Add user & Modify User & Modify password Please refer to 6.1.2 User. 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.
Figure 10-8 Access 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.
Figure 10-9 Online Users User Name Remote device login this NVR device account. User remote access devices IP Address. Login Type Remote connection type. 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. 10.1.3 Maintenance The Version &...
Figure 10-10 Audio Maintain 10.1.4 Display setting Display In this pare you can adjust video output parameters. 1. Go to Main Menu → System → Display settings → Display. 2. Click Apply after the setting is complete. Resolution Select the appropriate resolution of menu output. Set the color tone of the display.
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Figure 10-11 Display Note For 6B series NVR, they support show different things on two monitors, and their display mode includes. ● Homologous: All monitors will display the same thing. ● VGA/HDMI1, HDMI2: VGA/HDMI1 port will display the different thing with HDMI2 port. ●...
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Figure 10-12 Dwell Time 3. And if you choose advanced tour in ‘Dwell time’, the setting method is shown as following picture: Figure 10-13 Advanced Tour Interval Interval time setting, the range of values is from 5s to 120s. It determines the time period switch to the next screen in the tour.
View setting In this pare you can set the patrol screen of the monitor. 1. Go to Main Menu → System → Display settings → View setting. 2. Select the Channel from the drop-down list. 3. Click a window to select it, and then double-click a camera name in the channel list you would like to display.
Figure 10-15 System-Reminder 1. Go to Main Menu → System → Reminder. 2. Set the time interval between two patrol checks and the time period for cloth removal. 3. Click Apply after the setting is complete. Figure 10-16 Reminder 10.1.6 Config 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.
Figure 10-17 Import/Export Detect Detect the USB devicer. Name (type) File name and file type, and the backup file is “.coi” type. ATTR Shows the file type. Export Export the parameters backup file into USB disk. Import Choose the backup file and click import button, your device parameters will change into the new one. Default On this page you can choose the function item, General/Channel name/Control/Network/Motion Detect/Alarm/Abnormality/PTZ/Display/IP Channel/Smart settings/Cloud Authentication Code, and after...
Figure 10-18 Default Note 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. 10.1.7 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.
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Figure 10-19 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.
After the hot standby mode takes effect, some of the parameters of the device change, such as: IP channels are all deleted (preview configuration is cleared at the same time). 5. After restart, go to Setting menu → Storage → Hot Standby. Figure 10-21 Hot Standby Mode 6.
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Figure 10-22 TCP/IP DHCP If the DHCP server is available, you can check Enable DHCP to automatically obtain an IP address and other network settings from that server. The physical address of NVR. DNS setup Domain Name Server, it translates the domain name into IP address, it contains primary DNS and secondary DNS.
POE function. 10.2.2 NTP Your device can connect to a network time protocol (NTP) server to ensure that the system time is accurate. Steps: 1. Go to Main Menu → Network → Base → NTP. 2. Turn on Enable. 3. Enter the parameters. Figure 10-23 NTP Server IP The NTP Server IP address or host name.
10.2.4 Network State Base In this interface, you can see the network parameters and DHCP enable status of the device. 3. Go to Main Menu → Network → Network State → Base. Figure 10-24 Base Flow In this interface, you can check transmission and receive status by LAN Port. 1.
Figure 10-25 Flow Receive Shows the byte rate that NVR device received in real-time. Transmit Shows the byte rate that NVR device transmit in real-timer. 10.2.5 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.
Figure 10-26 FTP Note ● After finishing the setting, you can click the button FTP Test to try to verify the FTP service is available, and Copy To button is used to copy the configuration of current channel to other channels. Click the button Apply to activate the configuration.
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Figure 10-27 Cloud Storage 2. Turn on Enable. 3. Select cloud type. 4. Click the “BIND” button. 5. A window will open and load a Verification Code as well as a QR Scan box. Figure 10-28 Bind 6. Use your mobile phone to scan the QR code, or use your computer to log in to the address in the prompt box.
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Figure 10-29 Configuration steps 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.” Figure 10-30 Status 10.
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. You can set which kind of file you want to upload as you followed by the steps below.
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. Support automatically handles port forwarding. 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.
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.
Use the Wireless that allows your device to connect network wiressly. 3G/4G Allow your device to connect via 3G/4G wireless mobile network. Before You Start Please confirm that your device model has wireless capabilities, and You need to prepare a 3G/4G network Data Card and connect to the USB connector of the NVR.
Go to Main Menu → Network → Wireless → WIFI. Figure 10-36 WIFI 2. Click Search, find the Wi-Fi network. 3. Select the Wi-Fi network as your desire. 4. Turn on Enable. 5. Turn on DHCP. 6. Check the Status, if ‘Connected’ that Wireless WIFI is connected. 10.3 Camera Management 10.3.1 IP channel Channel Setting...
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1. Go to Main Menu → Camera → Fisheye Set. Figure 10-37 Fisheye Set 2. Click Edit button. 3. Configure the parameters as your desire. 4. There are three mount mode optional: Desktop, Top, Wall. 5. There are six preview modes optional: Fisheye This mode will just show a fisheye picture.
Figure 10-38 Fisheye modes Note Each time changing the preview mode, fisheye camera will reboot. 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.
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Figure 10-39 Protocol Password 2. Click Edit button. Figure 10-40 Edit Protocol Password 3. Select the Protocol you need to modify. 4. Set common password. 5. Click OK.
6. Click Apply. Note 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. 10.3.2 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.
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Figure 10-42 Encode Config 3. 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.
Stream range The bitrate range of this channel. 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.
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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. Some high-end IP Cameras support advanced Settings such as Image adjust, Exposure, Backlight, White balance, Day/Night setting, etc.
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Brightness: 0-100 Contrast: 0-100 Image: Close/Updown/Left right/Centre Image adjust Saturation: 0-100 Video adjust Rotate: Off/90/180/270 Hue: 0-100 Sharpness: 0-100 Only certain device models support the Auto: Set exposure time function. automatically Close: function disable Exposure Defog Manual: Set exposure time by Auto: defog automatically selecting exact value Manual: adjust the effect manually...
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The camera can be set to day, night, or auto switch mode according to the surrounding illumination conditions. uminator Note Only certain device models support the function. Fill light: There are four options: IR Mode, Warm Light Mode, Smart illumination and Schedule. Schedule and Setting buttons are only displayed when Schedule mode is selected, click the Setting button to pop up the Lighting Plan schedule, as shown in the figure below.
Close: Close the warm light of the camera; Note When you need to use the camera’s warm light function, please do not set Fill Light Mode to Close. Manual: When switching to manual mode, the Brightness Upper Limit item appears, with an adjustment range of 0-100 and the default of 50;...
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Figure 10-47 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. Click Apply. The settings are divided into two parts: channel settings and general settings. The channel setting is to configure the IPC, and the general setting is to set the NVR local display.
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 Main Menu → Camera → OSD → Privacy Mask. 2.
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2. Select the channel to configure. 3. Configure the parameters as your desire. Figure 10-49 PTZ Preset This feature enables the camera to point to a specified position such as a window when an event takes place. You can set up to 255 preset points. Patrol 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.
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...
Figure 10-51 Masking 2. Set Channel. 3. Turn on Enable. 4. Adjust Sensitivity as your desire. The higher the value is, the more easily the video Masking can be triggered. 5. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to for 6.3.4 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 6.
Figure 10-52 Video Lost 2. Set Channel. 3. Turn on Enable. 4. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to 6.3.4 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 5. Set the Trigger process. Refer to 6.3.5 Configure Alarm Trigger process for details. 6. Click Apply. 10.4.2 Alarm Port Alarm In Set linkage actions for an external sensor alarm.
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Figure 10-393 Alarm Input Note 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.
7. Click to set the Trigger process. Refer to 6.3.5 Configure Alarm Trigger process for details. 8. Click Apply. 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.
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.
Show which IP channel’s alarm input it is. 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.
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Figure 10-58 Smart Motion Detection 4. Click Plot Area, drag the cursor in the preview area to specify the detection area (Red marked areas are selected). Max Size:When the size of objects in the scene is larger than the drawing max size,the alarm will not be triggered.
Perimeter Protection Line Crossing & Area Intrusion & Region Entrance & Region Exiting. They are the 4 most commonly used Intelligent detection, 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.
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14. Set Sensitivity, 1-5 is optional, sensitivity value represent percentage of targets entering the alarm area. The higher the sensitivity, the higher the face detection rate. 15. Click Apply. 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.
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Min Size: When the size of objects in the scene is smaller than the drawing Min Size, the alarm will not be triggered. 5. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to for 6.3.4 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 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.
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Figure10-61 Blurred Detection 4. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to 6.3.4 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 5. 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. 6.
Figure 10-62 Scene Change Detection 4. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to 6.3.4 Configure Arming Schedule for details. 5. Set the alarm 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. 6.
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Figure 63 System Alert 2. Select Exception 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. No writable disk If all HDD are set to only read, this exception will be triggered. It supports these methods to remind the user about the exception: Show Message, Buzzer, Send Email and Alarm Out.
problems and not work under good condition. It supports these methods exception: Show Message and Buzzer. For the configuration detail, please refer to RAID When RAID is enabled on the device, a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) can be implemented. Warning The array function has high requirements for hard disks.
Figure 10-74 Continue 4. Click OK and wait for for restart finish. Figure 10-75 Restart Note The NVR does not record when RAID is turned on, please refer to to configure to record. Create RAID Create RAID There are two ways to create RAID, Quick Set configuration and Manual Create RAID. Quick set configuration creates RAID5 by default, manual create RAID support RAID0, RAID1, RAID5 and RAID10.
3. Click OK. Figure 10-76 Quick Set 4. Go to Setting Menu→ Storage → RAID → RAID to check RAID status. When the initialization is complete, the status is displayed as normal and the disk is ready for normal reading and writing. Figure 10-77 Check Status 5.
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Figure 10-78 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.
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Figure 10-430 Check Status 5. Optional, you can click to delete or click Quick Delete to delete all RAID. 6. Go to Setting Menu → Storage → Base to check array (equivalent to a high-capacity logical disk) recording status information Figure 10-81 HDD Manage 7.
Figure 10-82 Set a Hot Spare Disk Note The global hot spare disk can be used by all created RAID. S.M.A.R.T. 10.4.6 Exception Alarm Audio 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.
Figure 10-64 Audio Exception Detection 2. Select a camera. 3. Set the arming Schedule. Refer to for Configure Arming Schedule for details. 4. Set the Trigger process. Refer to Configure Alarm Trigger process for details. Audio input anomaly: Audio input exception: After Enable is checked, the current input audio can be detected. If the audio volume value is lower than 20db, the audio input exception alarm will be reported.
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1. Go to Main Menu → Event → Alarm Log → Alarm Information. Figure 10-65 Alarm Information 2. You can also click the button to view the video with the alarm events hint. 3. The maximum number of logs supports 1000, there may be differences between different models. Input/Output In this GUI you can check the status of NVR’s alarm input/output ports.
Figure 10-66 Input/Output Name (Type) Contain alarm in and alarm out type and shows alarm name. Type Alarm in contain normal open/normal close type, alarm out contain schedule/manual/stop type. Alarm status Shows alarm status, contain “On” and “Off” type. Record channel Alarm in linkage video record channels.
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HDD group through HDD settings. Multiple HDDs can be managed in groups. Video from specified channels can be recorded onto a particular HDD group through HDD settings. You can also switch the hard disk's storage mode, including the "group", "quotas (Capacity)", and “Quota (Time)”. Before You Start Install at least an HDD to your video recorder.
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10. Click OK. Note You can set 16 groups under group mode, and each channel is independent of each group. 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.
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You can manually set the quota size of channel video. Picture quota You can manually set the quota size of channel picture. Free volumes Shows the free space minus the space you have set on other channels. Note About the operation mechanism of capacity quota (It needs to be set to allow overwriting when the hard disk video is full.
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. Note About the time quota operation mechanism (It needs to be set to allow overwriting when the hard disk video is full.
Figure 10-71 Record 10.5.5 Advanced Settings In this page you can set the full strategy of hard disk, "stop" or "overwrite". Steps: 1. Go to Main menu → Storage → Advanced → Advanced. Figure 10-72 Advanced...
2. Configure the parameters as your desire. 3. Click Apply. 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.
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Figure10-73 Advanced Setting 7. Click OK and continue. Figure 10-74 Continue 8. Click OK and wait for for restart finish. Figure 10-75 Restart Note The NVR does not record when RAID is turned on, please refer to to configure to record. Create RAID Create RAID There are two ways to create RAID, Quick Set configuration and Manual Create RAID.
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≥2 RAID0 RAID1 ≥3 RAID5 RAID10 4 or 8 Table 10-3 Description of Number of Hard Disk 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.
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Figure 10-77 Check Status 11. Optional, you can click to delete or click Quick Delete to delete all RAID. 12. Go to Setting Menu→ Storage → Base to check array (equivalent to a high-capacity logical disk) recording status information Figure 10-78 Check Recording Status Information Manual create RAID With manual creation, users can create different types of arrays depending on the number of hard disks.
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Figure 10-79 Manual Create RAID 10. Check the physical disks for which you need to create an array and click OK to continue. Note If the array creation requirements are not met, it will popup “Available disk are not enough!” 11.
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Figure 10-82 Set a Hot Spare Disk Note The global hot spare disk can be used by all created RAID. 10.5.7 S.M.A.R.T The device provides the HDD detection function such as the adopting of the S.M.A.R.T. and the Bad Sector Detection technique.
Figure 10-83 S.M.A.R.T 4. Click the Start selftest button to start the S.M.A.R.T. HDD self-evaluation. 5. If the HDD is normal you can see the Status is Passed, and you can also pause or cancel the detection. Figure 10-84 Status 10.6 Smart search 10.6.1 Smart Search Face detect...
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3. Set the Start time and End time. Figure 10-85 Status 4. Click Search. 5. You can see the search results as shown below. Figure 10-86 Search Result 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.
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Before You Start Please make sure you have enabled the Motion Detection with Human Shape Filter/Vehicle Shape Filter of the camera through the NVR, and enabled the Record Channel and snapshot in the Trigger process of the Motion Detection, and also enabled the Snapshot in the camera which you can refer to the IPC User Manual.
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Note In this page, you can select the way of SMD’s preview ---chart or list. Then you can choose some recordings and decide whether to back up the pictures or videos. If you don't find pictures in the chart, please check whether your camera has turned on Snapshot, about the setting of camera you can refer to the IPC User Manual.
Figure 10-90 Result 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.
Figure 10-92 Label Play 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. Click the return button back to the last interface to change the search channels. Label The label’s name that you can edit in file manage.
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Draw Line Face search Draw Quadrilateral Human Body search Tabl Motion Draw Rectangle Vehicle search e 10- Motion Full Screen Bike search Icon Desc ription Draw Line Steps: 1. Go to Playback. 2. Select the Smart Play. 3. Select the channel and the record time as your desire. 4.
Figure 10-94 Search Result 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”...
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Figure 10-95 Search Result 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 button or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click the icon of “Motion Draw Rectangle”...
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Figure 10-96 Search Result Motion Full Screen 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 “Motion Full Screen”...
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Figure 10-97 Search Result 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.
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Figure 10-98 Search Result 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 button or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click the icon of “Human Body search”, then the full video interface will be detected by default.
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Figure 10-99 Search Result Vehicle 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 button or Click the blue timeline. 5. Click the icon of “Human Body search”, then the full video interface will be detected by default.
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Figure 10-100 Search Result Note :When you click this button that means clear all the lines and rectangles you have drawn Clear all before. Then you can draw new lines and specify new rules. 10.7.4 Time Division play Select the “Time Division 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.
Figure 10-101 Select Windows number 5. Click Search. 6. Select the corresponding window to quickly play the video period you want. Note 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.
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Figure 10-102 Normal Play 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”. Note You can stop playback by right click and exit the playback interface by keep right click.
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.
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