Our units do not support PAL Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Table of Contents FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS ............1 Overview ..........................1 Features ..........................1 Specifications ........................2 Federal Mini Economy Series ................2 1.3.1 OVERVIEW AND CONTROLS ............... 11 Front Panel ........................
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS ..........21 Check Unpacked DVR ..................... 21 About Front Panel and Real Panel ................. 21 HDD Installation ....................... 21 Connecting Power Supply ....................22 Connecting Video Input and Output Devices ..............23 3.5.1 Connecting Video Input ....................
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Startup Wizard ........................30 Navigation Bar ........................33 4.3.1 Main Menu........................33 4.3.2 Output Screen ......................33 4.3.3 Favorites ........................33 4.3.4 Tour ..........................34 4.3.5 PTZ ..........................34 4.3.6 Color ..........................34 4.3.7 Search ..........................
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.9.1 Search .......................... 65 4.9.2 Face Search ......................... 72 4.9.3 Backup .......................... 73 4.9.4 Shut Down ........................75 4.10 Information ........................76 4.10.1 System Info ......................76 4.10.2 Event ........................79 4.10.3 Network ........................80 4.10.4 Log ...........................
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Setup ..........................165 5.8.1 Camera ........................165 5.8.2 Network ........................171 5.8.3 Event........................... 187 5.8.4 Storage ........................196 5.8.5 System ........................199 Information ........................212 5.9.1 Version ........................212 5.9.2 Log ..........................212 5.9.3 Online User ........................
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix B-4 Compatible USB DVD List ................231 Appendix B-5 Compatible SATA DVD List ................231 Appendix B-6 Compatible SATA HDD List ................232 APPENDIX C COMPATIBLE CD/DVD BURNER LIST ......236 APPENDIX D COMPATIBLE DISPLAYER LIST ........237 APPENDIX E COMPATIBLE SWITCHER ...........
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Welcome Thank you for purchasing our DVR! This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your system. Here you can find information about this series Federal Mini Economy DVR features and functions.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Important Safeguards and Warnings 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes. The product must be grounded to reduce the risk of electric shock. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electric shock caused by improper handling or installation.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS 1.1 Overview The Federal Mini Economy series DVR is an excellent digital monitor product designed for security field. It adopts embedded Linux OS to maintain reliable operation. It is easy to use and can realize surveillance function after some simple setups.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Record & playback function Support each channel real-time record independently, and at the same time it can support search, forward play, network monitor, record search, download and etc. Support various playback modes: slow play, fast play, backward play and frame by frame play.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Input USB mouse Devices Input Arabic number, English character, donation and extension Chinese Method (optional) Shortcut Copy/paste operation, USB mouse right-key shortcut menu, double click Function USB mouse to switch screen. Compression Video Standard Compressio H.264 Audio...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual TV Adjust Adjust TV output zone suitable to anamorphic video. Channel Cover secret channel with black screen though system is encoding Lock normally. Screen-lock function to prevent unauthorized user seeing secret video. Channel Channel name, recording status, screen lock status, video loss status and Information motion detection status are shown on the bottom left of display screen.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Backup HDD backup function Backup Support peripheral USB backup device. (Flash disk, portable disk and Mode etc.) Support network download and save View monitor channel remotely. DVR configuration through client-end and web browser Upgrade via client or browser to realize remote maintenance. Network View alarm information such as external alarm, motion detection and Function...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Backup to 1024 log files. statistics Support various search engines such as time and type. Display version information: channel amount, alarm input and output Version amount, system version and release date. On-line user Display current on-line user User Multi-lever user management;...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Window Switch between self-adaptive screen/full screen when playback Zoom Partial When in one-window full-screen playback mode, you can select any zone Enlargemen to activate partial enlargement function. Backup HDD backup function Backup Support peripheral USB backup device. (Flash disk, portable disk and Mode etc.) Support network download and save...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual System Hard Disk Display HDD current status Information Information Data Data stream statistics for each channel (in wave mode) Stream Statistics Backup to 1024 log files. statistics Support various search engines such as time and type. Display version information: channel amount, alarm input and output Version amount, system version and release date.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 2 Overview and Controls This section provides information about front panel and rear panel. When you install this series DVR for the first time, please refer to this part first. 2.1 Front Panel 2.1.1 Ferderal Mini Economy Series The front panel is shown as below.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 2.2 Rear Panel 2.2.1 Federal Mini Economy Series The 4-channel series rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-3. Figure 2-5 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Video input Video output Audio output Audio input Video VGA output...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 2.3 Connection Sample 2.3.1 Federal Mini Economy mini Series Please refer to Figure 2-9 for connection sample. The following figure is based on 8-channel series product. Figure 2-9...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 2-11 Serial Number Name Function Power button Click it to boot up or shut down the device. Address Click it to input device number, so that you can control it. Forward Various forward speeds normal speed playback.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual click this button to realize normal playback. In reverse playback click this button to pause playback. Esc. Go back to previous menu or cancel current operation (close upper interface or control) Record Start or stop record manually In record interface, working with the direction buttons to select the record channel.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual When you have selected one menu item, left click mouse to view menu content. Implement the control operation. Modify checkbox or motion detection status. Click combo box to pop up drop down list In input box, you can select input methods. Left click the corresponding button on the panel you can input numeral/English character (small/capitalized).
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Right click In real-time monitor mode, pops up shortcut menu: one-window, mouse four-window, nine-window and sixteen-window, Pan/Tilt/Zoom, color setting, search, record, alarm input, alarm output, main menu. Among which, Pan/Tilt/Zoom and color setting applies for current selected channel.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 3 Installation and Connections Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local electric safety rules. 3.1 Check Unpacked DVR When you receive the DVR from the forwarding agent, please check whether there is any visible damage.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4. Turn the device upside down 6. Connect the HDD cable and Fix the HDD firmly. and then turn the screws in power cable. firmly. in the chassis. 7. Put the cover in accordance Secure the screws in the rear panel and the side panel.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 3.5 Connecting Video Input and Output Devices 3.5.1 Connecting Video Input The video input interface is BNC. The input video format includes: PAL/NTSC BNC 75Ω.). (1.0V , P- P The input video format: BNC(0.8VP-P,75Ω). The video signal should comply with your national standards.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual The audio output signal parameter is usually over 200mv 1KΩ (BNC). It can directly connect to low impedance earphone, active sound box or amplifier-drive audio output device. If the sound box and the pick-up cannot be separated spatially, it is easy to arouse squeaking.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual JRC-27F Model: Silver Material of the touch Rating Rated switch capacity 30VDC 2A, 125VAC 1A (Resistance Maximum switch power 125VA 160W Load) Maximum switch voltage 250VAC, 220VDC Maximum switch currency Insulation Between touches with same 1000VAC 1minute polarity 1000VAC 1minute...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4 Overview of Navigation and Controls ALL FUNCTIONS LISTED BELOW FOR REFERENCE ONLY. YOUR PURCHASED PRODUCT MAY NOT SUPPORT ALL THE FUNCTIONS LISTED BELOW. 4.1 Boot up and Shutdown 4.1.1 Boot up Before the boot up, please make sure: ...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.2 Startup Wizard After device successfully booted up, it goes to startup wizard. Click Cancel/Next button, you can see system goes to login interface. Tips Check the box Startup button here, system goes to startup wizard again when it boots up the next time.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Note: For security reason, please modify password after you first login. Within 30 minutes, three times login failure will result in system alarm and five times login failure will result in account lock! Click OK button, you can go to General interface. See Figure 4-3. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.11.5.1.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-4 Click Next button, you can go to Schedule interface. See Figure 4-5. For detailed information, please refer to chapter 4.11.4.1.1. Figure 4-5 Click Finish button, system pops up a dialogue box. Click the OK button, the startup wizard is complete.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-6 4.3 Navigation Bar You need to go to the Main menu->Setting->System->General to enable navigation bar function; otherwise you can not see the following interface. The navigation bar is shown as below. See Figure 4-7. Figure 4-7 4.3.1 Main Menu Click button...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.3.4 Tour Click button to enable tour, the icon becomes , you can see the tour is in process. 4.3.5 PTZ Click , system goes to the PTZ control interface. Please refer to chapter 4.5. 4.3.6 Color Click button , system goes to the color interface.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.3.11 Network Click , system goes to the network interface. It is to set network IP address, default gateway and etc. Please refer to chapter 4.11.2. 4.3.12 HDD Manager , system goes to the HDD manager interface. It is to view and manage HDD Click information.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Recording status Video loss Motion detection Camera lock Tips Preview drag: If you want to change position of channel 1 and channel 2 when you are previewing, you can left click mouse in the channel 1 and then drag to channel 2, release mouse you can switch channel 1 and channel 2 positions.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-13 Put the middle button at the centre of the zone you want to zoom in, and move the mouse, you can view an interface shown as in Figure 4-14. Figure 4-14 Right click mouse to cancel zoom and go back to the original interface.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Remote device (For digital channel only) Shortcut menu. Click it to go to the remote device interface to add/delete remote device or view its corresponding information. Please refer to chapter 4.11.1.1 for detailed information. 4.4.3 Right Click Menu After you logged in the device, right click mouse, you can see the short cut menu.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-16 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Note Period There are two periods in one day. You can set different sharpness, brightness, and contrast setup for different periods. Effective Time Check the box here to enable this function and then set period time.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Item Note 40 to 60. Contrast It is to adjust monitor window contrast. The value ranges from 0 to 100. The default value is 50. The larger the number, the higher the contrast is. You can use this function when the whole video bright is OK but the contrast is not proper.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Connect the dome RS485 port to DVR RS485 port. Connect dome video output cable to DVR video input port. Connect power adapter to the dome. In the main menu, from Setting->System->PTZ, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-17.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-18 4.5.2 PTZ Control After completing all the setting please click save button. Right click mouse (click “Fn” Button in the front panel or click “Fn” key in the remote control). The interface is shown as in Figure 4-19.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Here you can control PTZ direction, speed, zoom, focus, iris, preset, tour, scan, pattern aux function, light and wiper, rotation and etc. Speed is to control PTZ movement speed. The value ranges from 1 to 8.The speed 8 is faster than speed 1.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-22 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Please note the above interface may vary due to different protocols. The button is grey and can not be selected once the current function is null. Right click mouse or click the ESC button at the front panel to go back to the Figure 4-20.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-23 Preset Setup In Figure 4-23, click preset button and use eight direction arrows to adjust camera to the proper position. The interface is shown as in Figure 4-24. Click Set button and then input preset number. Click Set button to save current preset.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual operate zoom/focus/iris/direction operation. In Figure 4-23, click End button. Figure 4-26 Scan Setup In Figure 4-23, click Scan button. Use direction buttons to set camera left limit and then click Left button. Use direction buttons to set camera right limit and then click Right button. Now the scan setup process is complete.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Call Tour In Figure 4-22, input tour value and then click to call a tour. Click again to stop call. Call Scan In Figure 4-22, input Scan value and then click to call a tour. Click again to stop call.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Encode setting is to set encode mode, resolution, bit stream type and etc From Main menu->Setting->System->Encode, you can see the following interface. See Figure 4-29. Channel: Select the channel you want. Type: Please select from the dropdown list. There are three options: regular/motion detect/alarm.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.6.1.2 Snapshot Here you can set snapshot mode, picture size, quality and frequency. See Figure 4-84. Snapshot mode: There are two modes: regular and trigger. If you set regular mode, you need to set snapshot frequency. If you set trigger snapshot, you need to set snapshot activation operation.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Cover area: Here is for you to cover area section. You can drag you mouse to set proper section size. In one channel video, system max supports 4 zones in one channel. You can set with Fn button or direction buttons. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual can be edited or together. Now the icon is shown as : Click it to delete a record type from one period. Record Type: Please check the box to select corresponding record type. There are four types: Regular/MD (motion detect)/Alarm/MD&Alarm.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-35 Please check the box to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. There are color bars for your reference. Green color stands for regular recording, yellow color stands for motion detection and red color stands for alarm recording.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-36 Figure 4-37 Quick Setup Copy function allows you to copy one channel setup to another. After setting in channel 1, click Copy button, you can go to interface Figure 4-38. You can see current channel name is grey such as channel 1.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-39 From Main menu->Setting->Camera->Encode->Snapshot, you can go to snapshot interface. See Figure 4-40. Select the snapshot channel from the dropdown list and then select snapshot mode as Timing (Schedule) from the dropdown list and then set picture size, quality and snapshot frequency.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual In the main menu, from Main menu->Setting->Storage->Schedule, you can go to schedule menu. See Figure 4-131. Here you can set snapshot period. There are total six periods in one day. Please refer to chapter 4.6.2.1 for detailed setup information. The setup steps are general the same.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-42 Select motion detect from the event type dropdown list. Select a channel from the dropdown list and then check the enable button to enable motion detect function. Click Region Select button to set motion detect zone. There are 396(PAL)/330(NTSC) small zones.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual detection (MD), Alarm, MD & alarm. Set sensitivity. Please note the sixth level has the highest sensitivity. Click Save button to complete motion detect setup. From Main menu->Setting->Storage->-Schedule. See Figure 4-131 Set motion detect record channel, period and the record type shall be motion detect (MD).
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual From Main menu->Setting->Camera->Encode->Snapshot, you can go to snapshot interface. See Figure 4-45. In Figure 4-45, select trigger snapshot from the dropdown list and then set picture size, quality and snapshot frequency. Click OK button to save current setup.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual IPC external alarm: It is the on-off alarm signal from the front-end device and can activate the local DVR. IPC offline alarm: Once you select this item, system can generate an alarm when the front-end IPC disconnects with the local DVR.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-47 4.6.5 Manual Record/Snapshot You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDD has been properly installed. 4.6.5.1 Manual Record Right click mouse and select manual record or in the main menu, from Setting->Storage->Manual Record.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-48 Check the box here to select manual record channel(s). You can see the corresponding indicator light on the front panel is on. Channel: It is to display device all channels. Manual: It has the highest priority.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual From Mani menu->Setting->System->General, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 4-49. Figure 4-49 Click Add new holiday button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 4-50. Here you can set holiday date name, repeat mode, start time/end time and etc. Figure 4-50 Click Add button to complete holiday setup.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual From Main menu->setting->Storage->schedule, you can go to schedule interface. See Figure 4-51. Now you can set period and record type of holiday time. Please refer to chapter 4.6.2.1 for detailed setup information. Figure 4-51 Click OK button to set holiday record setup.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual system. See Figure 4-52. Please refer to chapter 4.9.2, chapter 4.10.4, chapter 4.11.5.7, and chapter 4.11.5.9 for detailed information. Figure 4-52 4.8 Main Menu The main menu interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-53. Figure 4-53 4.9 Operation...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.9.1 Search Click search button in the main menu, search interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-54. Usually there are three file types: R: Regular recording file. A: External alarm recording file. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual supports picture playback function. You can select to play from redundancy HDD if there are pictures on the redundancy HDD. The blue highlighted date means there is picture or file. Otherwise, there is no picture or file.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual In slow play mode, click it to switch between play/pause. ■ Stop Backward play In normal play mode, left click the button, the file begins backward play. Click it again to pause current play. In backward play mode, click ►/...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual ●The option includes: 24H, 12H, 1H and 30M. The smaller the unit, the larger the zoom rate. You can accurately set the time in the time bar to playback the record. Time bar The time bar is beginning with 0 o'clock when you are setting the configuration.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual channel period of the corresponding channel to play. synchroni zation switch to play when playback When the system is in full-screen playback mode, left click the mouse in the Digital screen. Drag your mouse in the screen to select a section and then left click zoom mouse to realize digital zoom.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual System does not support motion detect zone setup during the full-screen mode. During the multiple-channel playback, system stops playback of rest channels if you implement one-channel smart search. 4.9.1.2 Accurate playback by time Select records from one day, click the list, you can go to the file list interface.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-57 Playback Mark During 1-window playback mode, click mark file list button in Figure 4-54, you can go to mark file list interface. Double click one mark file, you can begin playback from the mark time.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Modify Double click one mark information item, you can see system pops up a dialogue box for you to change mark information. You can only change mark name here. Delete Here you can check the mark information item you want to delete and then click Delete button, you can remove one mark item.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Name Function Playback Display searched record or image. Double click to begin full-screen play. pane Set seach date and period of the image or record. Search Click Search button, you can view the corresponding file list on the list pane pane.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-61 Select backup device and then set channel, file start time and end time. Click add button, system begins search. All matched files are listed below. System automatically calculates the capacity needed and remained. See Figure 4-62. Figure 4-62 √...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Click Start button, system begins copy. At the same time, the backup button becomes stop button. You can view the remaining time and process bar at the left bottom. See Figure 4-63. Figure 4-63 When the system completes backup, you can see a dialogue box prompting successful backup.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-64 4.10 Information 4.10.1 System Info Here is for you to view system information. There are total four items: HDD (hard disk information), record, BPS (data stream statistics), version. See Figure 4-65. Figure 4-65 4.10.1.1 HDD Information Here is to list hard disk type, total space, free space, video start time and status.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-66. SATA: 1 here means system max supports 1 HDD. ○ means current HDD is normal. X means there is error. - means there is no HDD. If disk is damaged, system shows as “?”.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-67 4.10.1.2 Record Info It is to view record start time and end time. See Figure 4-68. Figure 4-68 4.10.1.3 BPS Here is for you to view current video data stream (KB/s) and occupied hard disk storage...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual (MB/h). See Figure 4-69. Figure 4-69 4.10.1.4 Version Here is for you to view some version information such as version number, built date, serial number and etc. See Figure 4-70. Figure 4-70 4.10.2 Event It is to display device status and channel status.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-71 4.10.3 Network 4.10.3.1 Online Users Here is for you to manage online users. See Figure 4-72. You can disconnect one user or block one user if you have proper system right. Max disconnection setup is 65535 seconds.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-72 4.10.3.2 Network Load Network load is shown as in Figure 4-73. Here you can view the follow statistics of the device network adapter. Here you can view information of all connected network adapters. The connection status is shown as offline if connection is disconnected.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual After Sniffer began, you can exit to implement corresponding network operation such as login WEB, monitor. Please go back to Sniffer interface to click stop Sniffer. System can save the packets to the specified path. The file is named after “Network adapter name+time”.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Details: Click the Details button or double click the log item, you can view the detailed information. See Figure 4-76. Here you can use rolling bar to view information, or you can use Page up/Page down to view other log information. Figure 4-75 Select an item on the list and then click the Details button or double click the log item, you can view the detailed information such as log time, log type, log user, IP address and etc.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.11.1 Camera 4.11.1.1 Remote Device (For digital channel only) 4.11.1.1.1 Remote Device In the main menu, from Camera ->Remote, you can go to an interface shown as in Figure 4-77. Here you can add/delete remote device and view its corresponding information. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-77 Click the Manual Add button; you can go to the following interface. See Figure 4-78. Channel number:The dropdown list here displays unconnected channel number. You can go to Figure 4-77 to set remote channel connection. Please note: ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-78 4.11.1.1.2 Channel Status Here you can view the IPC status of the corresponding channel such as motion detect, video loss, tampering, alarm and etc. See Figure 4-79. IPC status: : Front-end does not support. : Front-end supports.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-80 4.11.1.2 Camera For analog channel, the camera interface is shown as in Figure 4-81. For digital channel, the camera interface is shown as in Figure 4-82. Channel: Select a channel from the dropdown list. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual is noise if the value here is too high. The default value is 50 and the recommended value ranges from 40 to 60. Mirror: It is to switch video up and bottom limit. This function is disabled by default. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-81 Figure 4-82 4.11.1.3 Encode It is to set video bit stream, picture bit stream, video overlay parameter and etc. 4.11.1.3.1 Video Video setting includes the following items. See Figure 4-83.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Channel: Select the channel you want. Type: Please select from the dropdown list. There are three options: regular/motion detect/alarm. You can set the various encode parameters for different record types. Compression: System supports H.264 and MJPEG. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-84 4.11.1.3.3 Overlay Overlay interface is shown as in Figure 4-85. Cover area: Here is for you to set cover area. You can drag you mouse to set proper section size. In one channel video, system max supports 4 zones in one channel. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-85 Figure 4-86 4.11.1.3.4 Channel Name It is to modify channel name. It max supports 31-character. See Figure 4-87.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-87 4.11.1.3.5 Channel Type This function is for some series only. Please refer to Appendix G for detailed information. It is to set channel type. Each channel supports analog standard definition connections/analog HD connection/network camera connection (Slight function difference may be found).
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.11.2 Network 4.11.2.1 TCP/IP The interface is shown as in Figure 4-89. IP Version: There are two options: IPv4 and IPv6. Right now, system supports these two IP address format and you can access via them. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-89 4.11.2.2 Connection The connection setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-90. Max connection: system support maximal 128 users. 0 means there is no connection limit. TCP port: Default value is 37777. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-90 4.11.2.3 WIFI The WIFI interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-91. Auto connect WIFI: Check the box here, system automatically connects to the previous WIFI hotspot. Refresh: You can click it to search the hotspot list again. It can automatically add the information such as the password if you have set it before.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-91 WIFI working status: Here you can view current connection status. Please note: After successful connection, you can see WIFI connection icon at the top right corner of the preview interface. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual APN: It is the wireless connection server. It is to set you access the wireless network via which method. AUTH: It is the authentication mode. It supports PAP/CHAP. Dial number: Please input 3G network dialup number you got from your ISP. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-93 4.11.2.6 DDNS Setup DDNS setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-94. You need a PC of fixed IP in the internet and there is the DDNS software running in this PC. In other words, this PC is a DNS (domain name server). In network DDNS, please select DDNS type and highlight enable item.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-94 Please note DDNS type includes: CN99 DDNS, NO-IP DDNS, Quick DDNS, Dyndns DDNS and sysdns DDNS. All the DDNS can be valid at the same time, you can select as you requirement. Private DDNS function shall work with special DDNS server and special Professional Surveillance Software (PSS).
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Domain name:There are two modes: Default domain name and customized domain name. Except default domain name registration, you can also use customized domain name (You can input your self-defined domain name.) After successful registration, you can use domain name to login installed of the device IP.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Default: Click it to restore default setup. In this case, the trusted sites and blocked sites are both null. Note: If you enabled trusted sites, only the IP in the trusted sites list can access the device. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Title: Please input email subject here. System support English character and Arabic number. Max 32-digit. Receiver: Please input receiver email address here. System max supports 3 email boxes. System automatically filters same addresses if you input one receiver repeatedly.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual need to grant write right to FTP upload user. See Figure 4-98. Figure 4-98 You can use a PC or FTP login tool to test setup is right or not. For example, you can login user ZHY to FTP://10.10.7.7 and then test it can modify H140H140H140 HTU...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual channel. Click the Test button, you can see the corresponding dialogue box to see the FTP connection is OK or not. Figure 4-100 4.11.2.10 Easy Space This function allows you to upload motion detec record or snapshot image to the dropbox and etc.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-101 Note: The uploaded file is for sub stream only. Please go to record control interface (main stream->setting->Storage->Record) and then select sub stream. The easy space function uses upload bandwidth. Usually the recommended upload bandwidth shall be more than 512kbps and please make sure the network is stable.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Delete: Click it to remove one mapping item. Double click one item; you can change the corresponding mapping information. See Figure 4-103. Important: When you are setting the router external port, please use 1024~5000 port. Do not use well-known port 1~255 and the system port 256~1023 to avoid conflict.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual network management frame of the network management system. The SNMP widely used in many environments. It is used in many network device, software and system. You can set in the following interface. See Figure 4-104. Figure 4-104 Please enable the SNMP function.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-105 Here you can set a multiple cast group. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. IP multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255 -“D” address space The higher four-bit of the first byte=”1110” ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Multiple cast PORT: 3666. After you logged in the Web, the Web can automatically get multiple cast address and add it to the multiple cast groups. You can enable real-time monitor function to view the view. Please note multiple cast function applies to special series only.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual The server IP address can also be domain. But you need to register a domain name before you run proxy device server. 4.11.2.15 Alarm Centre This interface is reserved for you to develop. See Figure 4-107. Figure 4-107 4.11.2.16 P2P The P2P interface is shown as in Figure 4-108.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.11.3 Event 4.11.3.1 Detect In the main menu, from Setting->Event->Detect, you can see motion detect interface. See Figure 4-109.There is three detection types: motion detection, video loss, tampering. The video loss has no detection region and sensitivity setup and tampering has no detection region setup.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual specified periods. It is not for video loss or the tampering. There are two ways for you to set periods. Please note system only supports 6 periods in one day. In Figure 4-112, Select icon of several dates, all checked items can be edited together.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual detection. Click Fn to switch between arm/withdraw motion detection. After setting, click enter button to exit. Figure 4-109 Figure 4-110...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-113 Motion detect here only has relationship with the sensitivity and region setup. It has no relationship with other setups. 4.11.3.1.2 Video Loss In Figure 4-109, select video loss from the type list. You can see the interface is shown as in Figure 4-114.This function allows you to be informed when video loss phenomenon occurred.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-114 4.11.3.1.3 Tampering When someone viciously masks the lens, or the output video is in one-color due to the environments light change, the system can alert you to guarantee video continuity. Tampering interface is shown as in Figure 4-115. You can enable “Alarm output “or “Show message”...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-115 4.11.3.2 Alarm Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. In the main menu, from Setting->Event->Alarm, you can see alarm setup interface. For analog channel, there are two alarm types. See Figure 4-116 to Figure 4-117. For digital channel, there are four alarm types.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual PTZ activation: Here you can set PTZ movement when alarm occurs. Such as go to preset, tour& pattern when there is an alarm. Click “select” button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-120. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Snapshot: System can snapshot corresponding channel when an alarm occurs. Please note the activation snapshot has the higher priority than schedule snapshot. If you have enabled these two types at the same time, system can activate the activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-121 Figure 4-122 4.11.3.3 Face Detect System can detect and filter the human face via analyzing the video. When it detects the human face in the specifed zone, it can trigger record, snapshot, alarm operation and etc.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual detect the human face that it is smaller than the min size or is larger than the max size. Enable: Check the box here to enable face detect function. For detailed setup information, please refer to 4.11.3.2. Figure 4-123 4.11.3.4 Abnormality There are two types: HDD/Network.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Buzzer: Highlight the icon to enable this function. The buzzer beeps when alarm occurs. Figure 4-124 Figure 4-125...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-126 4.11.3.5 Alarm Output Important This function is for some series only. Here is for you to set proper alarm output such as schedule, manual. Please highlight icon to select the corresponding alarm output. After all the setups please click OK button, system goes back to the previous menu.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.11.4 Storage 4.11.4.1 Schedule 4.11.4.1.1 Record Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDDs have been properly installed. After the system booted up, it is in default 24-hour regular mode. You can set record type and time in schedule interface.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-129 Please draw manually to set record period. There are six periods in one day. See Figure 4-130. Figure 4-130 Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-131 Figure 4-132 4.11.4.1.1.1 Quick Setup Copy function allows you to copy one channel setup to another. After setting in channel 1, click Copy button, you can go to interface Figure 4-133. You can see current channel name is grey such as channel 1.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-133 4.11.4.1.2 Snapshot 4.11.4.1.2.1 Schedule Snapshot On the preview interface, right click mouse and then select Manual->Record, or in the main menu, from Setting->Storage->Record, check the box to enable snapshot function of corresponding channels. See Figure 4-134. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-135 Figure 4-136 4.11.4.1.2.2 Trigger Snapshot Please follow the steps listed below to enable the activation snapshot function. After you enabled this function, system can snapshot when the corresponding alarm occurred.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual In main menu, from Setting->Camera->Encode->Snapshot interface, here you can input snapshot mode as trigger, size, quality and frequency. See Figure 4-137. In main menu, from Setting->Event->Detect, please enable snapshot function for specified channels (Figure 4-138). Or In main menu, from Setting->Event->Alarm (Figure 4-139) please enable snapshot function for specified channels.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-139 4.11.4.1.2.3 Priority Please note the activation snapshot has the higher priority than schedule snapshot. If you have enabled these two types at the same time, system can activate the activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Please input corresponding information here, if you just upload the image FTP. Figure 4-140 4.11.4.2 HDD Manager Here is for you to view and implement hard disk management. See Figure 4-141. You can see current HDD type, status, capacity and etc. The operation includes format HDD, and change HDD property (read and write/read-only/redundancy).
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.11.4.3 Record 4.11.4.3.1 Record Control Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDD has been properly installed. There are three ways for you to go to manual record menu. ...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-143 Tips You can check All button after the corresponding status to enable/disable all-channel snapshot function. 4.11.4.4 HDD Detect The HDD detect function is to detect HDD current status so that you can clearly understand the HDD performance and replace the malfunction HDD.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-144 Figure 4-145 4.11.4.4.2 Detect Report After the detect operation, you can go to the detect report to view corresponding information.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual The detect report interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-146. Figure 4-146 Click detect item you can see the detailed information such as detect result, backup. See Figure 4-147. Figure 4-147...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.11.5 System 4.11.5.1 General 4.11.5.1.1 Device General setting includes the following items. See Figure 4-148. Device ID: Please input a corresponding device name here. Device No: Here you can set device number. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-148 4.11.5.1.2 Date and Time The interface is shown as in Figure 4-149. Date format: There are three types: YYYYY-MM-DD: MM-DD-YYYYY or DD-MM-YYYY. Date separator: There are three denotations to separate date: dot, beeline and solidus.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-149 4.11.5.1.3 Holiday Holiday setup interface is shown as in Figure 4-150. Click Add new holiday button, you can input new holiday information. See Figure 4-151. Here you can set holiday name, repeat mode and start/end time. Note ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-150 Figure 4-151 4.11.5.2 Display 4.11.5.2.1 Display Display setup interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-152.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Transparency: Here is for you to adjust transparency. The value ranges from 128 to 255. Channel name: Here is for you to modify channel name. System max support 25-digit (The value may vary due to different series). Please note all your modification here only applies to DVR local end.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-153 4.11.5.2.3 Tour Here you can activate tour function. Click Setup button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 4-154 Enable tour: Highlight box here to enable this function. Interval: System supports 1/8/-window tour.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-154 4.11.5.2.4 Zero-channel Encoding Click zero-channel encoding button, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 4-155. Here you can enable and set zero-channel encoding function so that you can view several video sources at one channel. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-155 4.11.5.2.5 Favorites It is for you to set and save favorites preview setup. You can select different window display modes and then select corresponding channel(s). Please note for one mode, one channel can only be selected once. See Figure 4-156. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-156 On the navigation bar, you can see the Favorites shortcut menu. You can select from the dropdown list. Click View 1, you can see the channel(s) you saved on the Favorites folder. See Figure 4-157.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual After completed all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Figure 4-158 For digital channel, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-159. Figure 4-159...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 4.11.5.4 ATM/POS The ATM/POS function is for financial areas. It includes Sniffer, information analysis and title overlay function. 4.11.5.4.1 Network Type The network type interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-160. Here we take the ATM/POS protocol to continue. There are two types: with or without the protocol according to client’s requirements.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-161 Click Data button you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-162. Here you can set offset value, length, title according to your communication protocol and data package. . Figure 4-162 4.11.5.5 Account Here is for you to implement account management.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Modify group Modify password. For account management please note: For the user account name and the user group, the string max length is 6-byte. The backspace in front of or at the back of the string is invalid. There can be backspace in the middle.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-163 Figure 4-164 4.11.5.5.1 Add/Modify Group Click add group button in Figure 4-164 , the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-165.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Here you can input group name and then input some memo information if necessary. There are total 98 rights such as control panel, shut down, real-time monitor, playback, record, record file backup, PTZ, user account, system information view, alarm input/output setup, system setup, log view, clear log, upgrade system, control device and etc.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-166 When you create a new user, you can input the corresponding MAC address of current user. If you leave this item in blank, any MAC address user can share this user account to login.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-167 4.11.5.7 Config Backup The configuration file backup interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-168. This function allows you to import/export system configuration. You can use this function when there are several devices need the same setup. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-168 4.11.5.8 Default Click default icon, system pops up a dialogue box. You can highlight to restore default factory setup. See Figure 4-169. Camera Network Event Storage System Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 4-169 4.11.5.9 Upgrade Here is for you to view hardware features, software version, built date, release SN information and etc. You can also update system here. See Figure 4-170. Start: Please insert the USB device that have the update file to the device and then click the Start button to begin the update.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 5 WEB OPERATION Slightly difference may be found in the interface due to different series. 5.1 Network Connection Before web client operation, please check the following items: Network connection is right DVR and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup(main menu->Setting->Network) ...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-2 5.3 LAN Mode For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 5-3. Figure 5-3 This main window can be divided into the following sections. ...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Section 2: There are channel number and one button: Start all. Start all button is to enable/disable all-channel real-time monitor. Click it the button becomes yellow. See Figure 5-4. Figure 5-4 Please refer to Figure 5-5 for main stream and extra stream switch information. Figure 5-5 ...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-8 Section 6: From the left to the right ,you can see video quality/fluency/ full screen/1-window/4-window/6-window/8-window/9-window/13-window/16-window/20- window/25-window/36-window.. You can set video fluency and real-time feature priority. Section 7: PTZ operation panel. Please refer to chapter 5.5 for detailed information. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-10 1: Digital zoom: Click this button and then left drag the mouse in the zone to zoom in. right click mouse system restores original status. 2: Local record. When you click local record button, the system begins recording and this button becomes highlighted.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Parameter Function You can turn on or turn off the light/wiper. Light and wiper 3D Intelligent Positioning You can click this icon to display or hide the PTZ control platform. Figure 5-11 5.6 Image/Relay-out Select one monitor channel video and then click Image button in section 8, the interface is shown as Figure 5-12.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-13 5.7 WAN Login In WAN mode, after you logged in, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-14. Figure 5-14 Please refer to the following contents for LAN and WAN login difference. 1) In the WAN mode, system opens the main stream of the first channel to monitor by default.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual For multiple-channel monitor mode, system adopts extra stream to monitor by default. You can not modify manually. All channels are trying to synchronize. Please note the synchronization effect still depends on your network environments. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Click Device search button, you can view the searched device Device search information on the list. It includes device IP address, port, device name, manufacturer and type.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-17 The digital channel is shown as in Figure 5-18. Figure 5-18 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period It divides one day (24 hours) to two periods.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual input the value here, the bright section and the dark section of the video will be adjusted accordingly. You can use this function when the whole video is too dark or too bright. Please note the video may become hazy if the value is too high.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-19 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Video enable Check the box here to enable extra stream video. This item is enabled by default.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-20 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are two modes: Regular (schedule) and Trigger. Snapshot type Regular snapshot is valid during the specified period you set. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Click Set button, you can privacy mask the specified video in the preview or monitor video. System max supports 4 privacy mask zones. Time Title You can enable this function so that system overlays time information in video window.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-24 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Mode There are two modes: static mode and the DHCP mode. The IP/submask/gateway are null when you select the DHCP mode to auto search the IP. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual System can process the downloaded data first if you enable this LAN load function. The download speed is 1.5X or 2.0X of the normal speed. 5.8.2.2 P2P The P2P interface is shown as in Figure 5-25. You can visit www.easy4ip.com to scan the QR code to login.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual HTTPS The default value is 443. You can input the actual port number if necessary. RTSP port The default value is 554. 5.8.2.4 WIFI Please note this function is for the device of WIFI module. The WIFI interface is shown as in Figure 5-27.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Parameter Function WLAN type Here you can select 3G network type to distinguish the 3G module from different ISP. The types include WCDMA, CDMA1x and etc. APN/Dial No. Here is the important parameter of PPP. Authorization It includes PAP,CHAP,NO_AUTH.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-30 5.8.2.7 DDNS The DDNS interface is shown as in Figure 5-31. The DDNS is to set to connect the various servers so that you can access the system via the server. Please go to the corresponding service website to apply a domain name and then access the system via the domain.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual function. 2) Function Introduction The quick DDNS client has the same function as other DDNS client end. It realizes the bonding of the domain name and the IP address. Right now, current DDNS server is for our own devices only.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 5.8.2.9 Email The email interface is shown as in Figure 5-33. Figure 5-33 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please check the box here to enable email function. Enable Input server address and then enable this function.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Parameter Function email according to the interval you specified here. This function is very useful when there are too many emails activated by the abnormity events, which may result in heavy load for the email server. Please check the box here to enable this function.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-35 Note: The uploaded file is for sub stream only. Please go to record control interface (main stream->setting->Storage->Record) and then select sub stream. The easy space function uses upload bandwidth. Usually the recommended upload bandwidth shall be more than 512kbps and please make sure the network is stable.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-36 5.8.2.13 SNMP The SNMP interface is shown as in Figure 5-37. The SNMP allows the communication between the network management work station software and the proxy of the managed device. It is reserved for the 3 party to develop.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual The multicast interface is shown as in Figure 5-38. Multicast is a transmission mode of data packet. When there is multiple-host to receive the same data packet, multiple-cast is the best option to reduce the broad width and the CPU load.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-40 5.8.2.17 HTTPS In this interface, you can set to make sure the PC can successfully login via the HTTPS. It is to guarantee communication data security. The reliable and stable technology can secure the user information security and device safety.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-43 5.8.2.17.2 Download root certificate In Figure 5-41, click button, system pops up a dialogue box. See Figure 5-44. Figure 5-44 Click Open button, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 5-45. Figure 5-45 Click Install certificate button, you can go to certificate wizard.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-46 Click Next button to continue. Now you can select a location for the certificate. See Figure 5-47. Figure 5-47 Click Next button, you can see the certificate import process is complete. See Figure 5-48.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-48 Click Finish button, you can see system pops up a security warning dialogue box. See Figure 5-49. Figure 5-49 Click Yes button, system pops up the following dialogue box, you can see the certificate download is complete.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual You can see HTTPS default value is 443. Figure 5-51 5.8.2.17.4 Login Open the browser and then input https://xx.xx.xx.xx:port. xx.xx.xx.xx: is your device IP or domain mane. Port is your HTTPS port. If you are using default HTTPS value 443, you do not need to add port information here.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-55 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable motion detection function. Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period Motion detection function becomes activated in the specified periods.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Parameter Function system will not save your zone setup. Record System auto activates motion detection channel(s) to record once channel an alarm occurs. Please note you need to set motion detect record period and go to Storage-> Schedule to set current channel as schedule record.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-56 5.8.3.1.3 Tampering The tampering interface is shown as in Figure 5-57. After analysis video, system can generate a tampering alarm when the detected moving signal reached the sensitivity you set here. For detailed setups, please refer to chapter 5.8.3.1.1 motion detect for detailed information.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-58 5.8.3.3 Alarm Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. The input mode includes local alarm and network alarm. 5.8.3.3.1 Local Alarm The local alarm interface is shown as in Figure 5-59. It refers to alarm from the local device.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-60 Figure 5-61 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable this function. Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period This function becomes activated in the specified periods.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Parameter Function whole week. Click OK button, system goes back to local alarm interface, please click save button to exit. System only memorizes one event during the anti-dither Anti-dither period. The value ranges from 5s to 600s. There are two options: NO/NC.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-62 5.8.3.4 Alarm Output It is to set alarm output mode. See Figure 5-63. Figure 5-63 5.8.3.5 Abnormality It includes two types: No disk, disk error, disk no space, net disconnection, IP conflict and MAC conflict.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-65 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event The abnormal events include: No disk, disk error, disk no space, net Type disconnection, IP conflict and MAC conflict. You can set one or more items here. Less than: You can set the minimum percentage value here (For disk not space only).
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Pre-record Please input pre-record time here. The value ranges from 0 to 30. Redundancy Check the box here to enable redundancy function. Please note this function is null if there is only one HDD.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-70 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here you can view channel number. Channel The number displayed here is the max channel amount of your device. Status There are three statuses: schedule, manual and stop. System enables auto record function as you set in record schedule Schedule setup (general, motion detect and alarm).
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-71 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function It is to set device name. Device ID Device No. It is device channel number. Language You can select the language from the dropdown list. Please note the device needs to reboot to get the modification activated.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-72 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here you can select date format from the dropdown list. Date format There are two options: 24-H and 12-H. Time Format The time zone of the device.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-73 5.8.5.2 Display Display interface includes GUI, TV adjust, Tour and zero-channel encoding. 5.8.5.2.1 GUI Here you can set background color and transparency level. See Figure 5-74. Figure 5-74 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are four options: 1920×...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-75 5.8.5.2.3 Tour The tour interface is shown as in Figure 5-76. Here you can set tour interval, split mode, motion detect tour and alarm tour mode. Figure 5-76 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Check the box here to enable tour function.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-77 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function This function is disabled by default. Check the box here to enable Enable this function so that you can control the zero-channel encoding function at the WEB.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-78 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Select speed dome connected channel. Channel There are two options: local/remote. Please select remote if you are PTZ type connecting to the network PTZ. Select corresponding PTZ protocol such as PELCOD.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-79 Without the protocol For the ATM/POS without the protocol, the interface is shown as in Figure 5-80. Source IP refers to host IP address that sends out information (usually it is the device host.) Destination IP refers to other systems that receive information.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Note: For the character in the following user name or the user group name, system max supports 6-digits. The space in the front or at the end of the string is null. The valid string includes: character, number, and underline.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-82 Modify user It is to modify the user property, belonging group, password and rights. See Figure 5-83. Modify password It is to modify the user password. You need to input the old password and then input the new password twice to confirm the new setup.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-83 5.8.5.5.2 Group The group management interface can add/remove group, modify group password and etc. The interface is shown as in Figure 5-84. Figure 5-84 Add group: It is to add group and set its corresponding rights. See Figure 5-85. Please input the group name and then check the box to select the corresponding rights.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual includes: shutdown/reboot device, live view, record control, PTZ control and etc. Figure 5-85 Modify group Click the modify group button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-86. Here you can modify group information such as remarks and rights. Figure 5-86...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 5.8.5.6 Auto maintain The auto maintain interface is shown as in Figure 5-87. Here you can select auto reboot and auto delete old files interval from the dropdown list. If you want to use the auto delete old files function, you need to set the file period. Click Manual reboot button, you can restart device manually.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 5.8.5.9 Upgrade The upgrade interface is shown as in Figure 5-90. Please select the upgrade file and then click the update button to begin update. Please note the file name shall be as *.bin. During the upgrade process, do not unplug the power cable, network cable, or shutdown the device.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-92 Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Log types include: system operation, configuration operation, data Type operation, event operation, record operation, user management, log clear. Set the start time of the requested log. Start time Set the end time of the requested log.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-93 5.10 Playback Click Playback button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-94. Please set record type, record date, window display mode and channel name. You can click the date on the right pane to select the date. The green highlighted date is system current date and the blue highlighted date means it has record files.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-95 Select a file you want to play and then click Play button, system can begin playback. You can select to playback in full-screen. Please note for one channel, system can not playback and download at the same time. You can use the playback control bar to implement various operations such as play, pause, stop, slow play, fast play and etc.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual is a process bar for your reference. Please go to you default file saved path to view the files. Figure 5-97 Load more It is for you to search record or picture. You can select record channel, record type and record time to download.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-99 Watermark Watermark interface is shown as In Figure 5-98. Please select a file and then click Verify button to see the file has been tampered with or not Figure 5-100 5.11 Alarm Click alarm function, you can see an interface is shown as Figure 5-101.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-101 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Type Parameter Function Alarm Video loss System alarms when video loss occurs. Type Motion detection System alarms when motion detection alarm occurs. Tampering System alarms when camera is viciously masking.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Figure 5-102 5.13 Un-install Web Control You can use web un-install tool “uninstall web.bat” to un-install web control. Please note, before you un-installation, please close all web pages, otherwise the un-installation might result in error.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 6 Professional Surveillance System Besides Web, you can use our Professional Surveillance Software (PSS) to login the device. For detailed information, please refer to PSS user’s manual.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual 7 FAQ DVR can not boot up properly. There are following possibilities: Input power is not correct. Power connection is not correct. Power switch button is damaged. Program upgrade is wrong. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual DVR and monitor resistance is not compatible. Video transmission is too long or degrading is too huge. DVR color or brightness setup is not correct. I can not search local records. There are following possibilities: ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual PTZ decoder setup, connection or installation is not correct. Cable connection is not correct. PTZ setup is not correct. PTZ decoder and DVR protocol is not compatible. PTZ decoder and DVR address is not compatible. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual MAC address conflict. PC or DVR network card is not good. 16. Burn error /USB back error. There are following possibilities: Burner and DVR are in the same data cable. System uses too much CPU resources.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Camera quality is too low. Lens is dirty. Camera is installed against the light. Camera aperture setup is not correct. HDD capacity is not enough. HDD is damaged. 22. Can not playback the downloaded file. There are following possibilities: ...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual There are following possibilities: Check the camera is online or not. Check IP channel setup is right or not (such as IP address, user name, password, connection protocol, port number.). The camera has set the whitelist (Only the specified devices can connect to the camera).
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Do not connect the TV to the local video output port (VOUT).It may result in video output circuit. Always shut down the device properly. Please use the shutdown function in the menu, or you can press the power button in the front pane for at least three seconds to shut down the device.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation Calculate total capacity needed by each DVR according to video recording (video recording type and video file storage time). Step 1: According to Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity that is the capacity of each channel needed for each hour, unit Mbyte.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix B Compatible backup devices Appendix B-1 Compatible USB list Manu factor Model Capacity Sandisk Cruzer Micro 512M Sandisk Cruzer Micro Sandisk Cruzer Micro Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 256M Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 512M Sandisk Cruzer Freedom Sandisk Cruzer Freedom DataTraveler Ⅱ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Kingston Data Traveler 32GB Aigo L8315 16GB Sandisk 16GB Kingston Data Traveler Locker+ 32GB Netac U228 Appendix B-2 Compatible SD Card list Brand Standard Capacity Card type Transcend SDHC6 16GB Kingston SDHC4 Kingston Kingston Sandisk SDHC2 Small...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Samsung TS-H653 Ver.F Samsung SH-224BB/CHXH SONY DRU-V200S SONY DRU-845S SONY AW-G170S Pioneer DVR-217CH Appendix B-6 Compatible SATA HDD List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST31000322CS SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST1000VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST1500VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST2000VM002 SATA Seagate Seagate Pipeline HD2 ST2000VM003 SATA Seagate Seagate Constellation ST3500514NS 500G SATA Seagate...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Westem Digital Cariar SE WD2500JS 250G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD7500KS 750G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD5000KS 500G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD4000KD 400G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16 WD3200KS 320G SATA Westem Digital Cariar SE16...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCP725050GLA380 500G SATA 5K500 Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCT721050SLA360 500G SATA 7K1000.B Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCT721075SLA360 750G SATA 7K1000.B Hitachi HitachiCinemaStar™ HCT721010SLA360 SATA 7K1000.B Maxtor DiamondMax 20 STM3320820AS 320G SATA Maxtor DiamondMax 20 STM3250820AS 250G SATA...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix C Compatible CD/DVD Burner List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. And you can use the USB cable with the model recommended to set USB burner.
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix D Compatible Displayer List Please refer to the following sheet form compatible displayer list. Brand Model Dimension (Unit: inch) BENQ(LCD) ET-0007-TA 19-inch (wide screen) DELL(LCD) E178FPc 17-inch BENQ(LCD) Q7T4 17-inch BENQ(LCD) Q7T3 17-inch HFNOVO(LCD)...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix F Compatible Wireless Mouse List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Model Rapoo 3500 Logitech M215 Shuangfeiyan Tianyao G7-630...
Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix G Channel Settings Info of Hybrid Mode Model Hybrid Mode 5104/5104C/5104H/5104HE/0404HF-A/ 3-channel 960H analog+1-channel 720P 5204A/5204L/5404/5804 2-channel 960H analog+2-channel 720P or 1-channel 1080P 5108/5108C/5108H/5108HE/ 6-channel 960H analog+2-channel 720P or 5208A/5208L/5408/5808 1-channel 1080P ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix H Earthing 1. What is the surge? Surge is a short current or voltage change during a very short time. In the circuit, it lasts for microsecond. In a 220V circuit, the 5KV or 10KV voltage change during a very short time (about microseconds) can be called a surge.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Signal lightning arrester: This device is mainly used in the PC network, communication system. The connection type is serial connection. Once you connected the signal lightning arrestor with the signal port, it can cut the channel of the thunderstorm to the device, and on the other hand, it can discharge the current to the ground to guarantee the device proper work.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual conductance of the ground conductor. In the high-frequency circuit, you need to use the multiple-point ground mode and each cable needs to connect to the ground. The length shall be less than the 1/20 of the signal wavelength. Mixed ground: The mix ground consists of the feature of the one-point ground and multiple-point ground.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual The thunder proof ground shall adopt the special ground cable from the monitor control room to the ground object. The ground cable adopts copper insulation cable or wire and its ground section shall be more than 20mm2. ...
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual For L (live cable) Turn the digital multimeter to 750V AC, use your one hand to hold the metal end, and then the other hand insert the pen to the L port of the socket. See the following figure. If the multimeter shows 120, then you can see current live cable connection is standard.
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Federal Mini Economy DVR User’s Manual Appendix I Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Component Name Cr VI PBDE Sheet ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Metal(Case) Plastic Parts ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○...
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