User Manual (V2.0) Thank you for purchasing Unisight Embedded DVR. This manual applies to TZHEF04 Series Net DVR. Please read it carefully for the better use of the product. The contents in this manual are subject to change without notice. Unisight assumes no responsibility for inaccuracies or omissions and specifically disclaims any losses, or risks incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use of any of the contents of this manual.
Camera name and OSD Setup ...................38 View Tampering Alarm....................42 5.10 Motion Detection.......................45 5.11 Preview ........................48 5.12 Recording Setup ......................50 5.13 External Alarm Input and Relay Output ..............53 5.14 Network Parameters ....................59 5.15 PTZ..........................61 Chapter6 Utilities........................66 Restore Parameters ....................66 Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc.
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Stop Alarm Out......................69 Reboot........................69 Power off ........................69 View Log ........................69 System Information ....................71 Appendix A Mouse Control Function .....................73 Appendix B HDD Capacity Calculation ..................76 Appendix C DVR Connect Cable Definition ..................77 Appendix D Troubleshooting ......................79 Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
TCP/IP. The firmware is burned into the flash, making it more stable and reliable. TZHEF04 series device has the features of both digital video recorder (DVR) and digital video server (DVS). It can be used as a standalone device but also to build a powerful surveillance network which is widely used in the fields of banking, telecommunications, transportation sectors, manufacturing, warehouse, irrigation, etc.
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& Playback: Support one composite video output and one spot video output TZHEF04 can support one VGA output with 1204*768 resolution. Support VGA and VOUT output, VGA has precedence over VOUT, and can not output at the same time. Support play forward, backward, pause, frame-by-frame, etc.
There is a list in the package. If any of the goods is missing, please contact your dealer. 2.2 Rear Panel Description Fig. 2-1 TZHEF04 Rear panel Note: Please refer to real product for different models. TZHEF04 1 Video in...
[ZOOM+] in PTZ control. Cancel and back to the menu. EDIT 1. In edit state, delete the current cursor character; 2. [IRIS+] in PTZ control; 3. Select or × to enable or disable. PLAY Local playback; Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Composed of [ ], [ ], [ ] and [ ]. Keys Keys 1. Menu mode, use[ ]/[ ] select,[ ]/[ ] to edit; 2. PTZ direction control; 3. Playback speed control. Menu confirmation; ENTER Select or × to enable or disable; Pause playback. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Same as A key of front panel. Same as REC key of front panel. PLAY Same as PLAY key of front panel. Reserved - Reserved - MENU Same as MENU key of front panel. PREV Same as PREV key of front panel. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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[Confirm] and switch off the power on the rear panel manually. When IR remote control can not work normally Check batteries poles. Check the remaining charge in the batteries. Check IR remote control sensor is masked. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Stop Bits & Protocol Alarm out & time PTZ Add. & Preset Exceptions Sequence No. & Cruise Default parameters Firmware Add/Delete Hard Disk Password/Verify Utilities Alarm output User Default Privileges Reboot Set Privileges Power off View log Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
([↑][↓]). When the “Active Frame” is located on one icon, you can press [ENTER] key to enter the sub menu. For example, move the “Active Frame” to “Camera” icon, press [ENTER] to enter the sub menu as follows Fig.3.4 below: Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Press [Cancel] button to cancel and return to main menu. The button in grey means it can be operated only after being enabled. How to exit menu Press [PREV] key to exit menu and return to preview mode. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Press [A] key to change input ways. You can select “number”, “Uppercase”, “Lowercase” or “Symbol”. Uppercase Lowercase Symbol There are 24 symbols in all. They are divided into 4 pages, and you can press [0] key to turn over pages. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
On the screen, you will see record and alarm status of each camera. Shown as Fig.4.1 below, these two kinds of status will alternate automatically. Press [A] key to display or hide the camera status bar. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Digital Video Network Surveillance System Fig. 4.1 Recording Status Table 4.1 Camera record Status Icon Icon Color Status Description White No video signal Yellow Video input Pink Manual recording Green Real time recording Blue Motion detect recording External alarm recording Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Press [EDIT] key to manual cycle preview. You can set the auto preview mode in “Preview” menu, referring to 5.11. Press [PREV] key to switch multi-screens preview. Video Spot Output [shift] Make sure that the numeric button is in “function” mode (the status lamp is off) Press Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Frame” will move to “Confirm” button. You can press [ENTER] key to enter main menu. If there is no response, it means the user name and password are not matched. After three error times, DVR will enter the preview mode. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
As shown below. Fig. 4.4 Input passwords Fig. 4.5 Main menu Step 2: Select the target user name by using [↑],[↓] then move the “Active Frame” to “Password” icon by using[ ]/[ ]keys. As shown in Fig.4.6 below. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
In menu mode, press [PTZ] key, you can enter the PTZ control interface directly. In preview mode, press [PTZ] key, in the login dialog, select one user name and input the correct password, you can enter PTZ control interface. As shown in Fig.4.7 below. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
DVR will adjust the corresponding preset number. Repeat pressing [REC/SHOT] key, and press the preset number, DVR will adjust that preset number. When you exit PTZ control mode, the camera will stay at the current position. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
In preview mode, press [REC] key, in the pop-up login dialog, select the name and input the correct password, you can enter the “Manual Record” interface. In menu mode, press [REC] key to enter the “Manual Record” interface directly. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Press [PLAY] key to enter the playback menu. Press [PTZ] key to enter the PTZ control mode. Playback Note: The user must have “Playback” right. Playback interface In preview mode, press [PLAY] key, in the pop-up login dialog, select user name Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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You can use [↑] [↓] keys to move the scroll bar to select file. Backup Devices: You can select USB flash, USB HDD to backup the files or clips. Copy: Start to backup. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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In playback interface, press [ESC] key to enter the preview mode. In playback interface, press [MENU] key to enter main menu, press [REC] key to enter the manual record, and press [PTZ] key to enter the PTZ control mode. Playback with mouse plugged Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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: Click this button to hide the control bar, right click your mouse and select display, then the control bar will turn up again. : Click this button will trigger a rectangle area on the screen ,draw the rectangle with left key of your mouse Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
[EDIT] key to select it. The symbol “ ” is the selection tag. You can use the same method to select other files you want to backup. After finish, you can follow the next step. Shown as Fig.4.12 below Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
You can use our file player software to playback the video segment in PC. You can find the player software in attached CD. Exit playback interface Please refer to chapter 4.6. Shut down DVR Note: You can only turn off the power directly Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Press[MENU]key, in the login dialog, select the username as “admin”, use[→]key, move cursor to password edit box, input “12345”, press “Confirm” to enter the administrator menu. Fig. 5.1 Enter user menu Move “Active Frame” to “User” icon, press [ENTER] key to enter “User Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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If password and verify password are not same, a warning message box will be appeared. Shown as Fig.5.3 below Fig. 5.3 Error In this case, press [ENTER] to return password edit box, and input new password again. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
In the “User Management” menu, move “Active Frame” to “Add” button and press [ENTER], in the pop-up dialog, input the new user name (refer to chapter 3.4), press [ENTER]and return “User Management” menu. Totally 15 users can be added. Shown as Fig.5.5 below Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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The default rights include local playback, remote playback and view log. If you want to define the detail rights, move “Active Frame” to “Setup Privileges” button and press [ENTER] to enter rights setup menu as follows: Shown as Fig. 5.6 Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Log: Locally view the log on DVR; Utilities: Locally upgrade firmware, format HDD, reboot DVR and shut down DVR, etc. “Remote”: PTZ Control: Remote control PTZ; Record: Remote manual start/stop recording; Set parameters Setup: Remote setup the DVR parameters; Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
[ ] to move “Active Frame” to “Del” button, press [ENTER], in the pop-up confirmation dialog, press “Confirm” button to delete the selected user and return. Press “Cancel” or [ESC] to abort deleting. Shown as Fig.5.7 below Fig. 5.7 Delete user 5.3 Unit Name and Device ID Unit name Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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You can press [ENTER] key to finish modification. Select “Confirm” button and press [ENTER]; you can save the new unit name and make it into effect. Press “Cancel” button or [ESC] key to abort modification. Device ID: Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
In “Display” menu: There is a list box named “Video Standard”, you can use [ ] [ ] key to select PAL or NTSC video output. Press “Confirm” button to save or “Cancel” to abort. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
“Active Frame” to “Position” button, press[ENTER]to enter camera name position setup interface, as picture below in that interface, you can use[ ][ ][ ][ ]keys to move camera name position. When the position is fixed, press [ENTER] and return Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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“Position” item on the right side of “Date OSD” item and press enter button. Then you will see the picture below. Use [↑] [↓] [←] [→] to adjust the position of date. As Shown: Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Step 1: Enter “Camera”, select a camera then enter “Color setup” menu. Shown as Fig.5.13 below Fig. 5.13 Color setup Step 2: Select camera: Please use [ ] [ ] keys to select one camera. Step 3: Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and hue: Move “Active Frame” to Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
“Area” button. Move “Active Frame” to “Area” button on the right side of mask check box, press[ENTER]key to enter mask area setup interface. Shown as Fig.5.14 below Fig. 5.14 Mask area setup Step 4: Setup mask area: In the mask area setup interface, there is one small Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Disable the mask check box means cancel the mask area. 5.8 View Tampering Alarm If you enable this function, when someone blocks the camera spitefully, DVR will display warning alarm in the status bar on the screen. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Step 6: Alarm schedule setup: When there is view tampering alarm happened, DVR will handle the alarm based on the schedule. You can set 4 periods for each day one week. Also you can copy the schedule of one day to other days. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
“Signal Loss” item, use [ ] key to select “Handle” option and move “Active Frame” to the “Policy” button on right side. Press [ENTER] to enter “Signal Loss” interface: Shown as Fig.5.17 below Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
6. In “Camera” menu, press “Confirm” key to save all cameras parameters. Press “Cancel” button or [ESC] key to abort. 5.10 Motion Detection If you enable this function, when there is motion being detected, DVR will display alarm in the status bar on the screen. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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[PTZ] key to set the whole screen as motion area, and multi motion areas can be defined. Press [A] key to clear all motion areas. Setup multi areas: After you setup one motion area, press [EDIT] key, the yellow pane will appear again, and then you can setup another motion area. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Alarm Handle” menu: Shown as Fig.5.19 below Fig. 5.19 Motion alarm handle setup Step 6: Motion alarm record channel setup: When there is motion alarm happened, you can trigger related camera to start to record. In “Motion Alarm Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
“EDIT”; or in “SHIFT” mode you can press numeric keys to switch to the screen no. you want. In “Preview” menu, you can setup preview mode, screen switch time, enable or Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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You can move “Active Frame” among the windows. There is one bar under the square to display the preview order of all cameras. First select the biggest screen preview mode, for example, for 4-channel DVR, Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
HDDs are all full, DVR will handle it as “Hard Disk Full” exception, please refer to chapter 5.17 for exception menu. Select Camera: Here all channels are listed. You can use [↑] [↓] keys to select one. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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DVR to make it become effective. All day recording setup: Step 1: Enter recording schedule menu In recording menu, use [ENTER] or [EDIT] key to enable record function (“ ” flag), press “Schedule” button to enter recording schedule menu. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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You can repeat step2 and step3 to setup for other days. Also you can copy the current day to other days. Step 5: Save Press “Confirm” back to “Recording” menu. Press “Confirm” again to save the parameters and return main menu. Part time recording setup Step 1: Enter recording schedule menu Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
3) The time periods are between 00:00 and 24:00. 5.13 External Alarm Input and Relay Output For TZHEF04 series DVR, there are 4 alarms in and 1 relay out. In “Alarms” menu, you can setup for each external alarm input.
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“Ignore”, and the other is “Handle”. If you select “Handle” option, you can active “Policy” and “PTZ Linkage” buttons on right side. Move “Active Frame” to “Policy” button and press [ENTER] key, you will enter “Alarm in Handling” sub menu: Shown as Fig.5.24 below Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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DVR is in preview mode, DVR will pop-up the related camera. If you trigger more than one camera, DVR will pop-up them one by one every 10 seconds. When the external alarm is disappeared, DVR will restore preview mode. Step 7: Save setup Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Step 9: Copy the parameters to other external alarm input, you can copy the parameters of current alarm input to other external input. Step 10: Save setup In “Alarms” menu, press “Confirm” button to save the parameters. Press “Cancel” button or [ESC] key to abort. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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When you finish setup, press “Confirm” button to return “Alarms” menu. Step 5: Copy one alarm output parameters to other alarm output In “Alarms” menu, you can copy parameters of current alarm output to other alarm output. Step 6: Save setup Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Upload to Center: Send exception information to center host PC. Trigger Alarm Output: trigger local relay output. You can select more than one handle methods. After you finish setup, press “Confirm” button to save parameters. Press “Cancel” button or [ESC] key to abort. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Http Port: The port is for IE browser. The default value is 80. It can be modified. Advanced settings: Move “Active frame” to “Advanced settings” then press “enter” to enter the configure interface. Shown as Fig.5.29 below Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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DVR will send information to that host IP. The center with this IP can receive alarm and exception information from DVR. You can use SDK to develop this center software. PPPoE: DVR support PPPoE dial-up function. As Fig.5.30 shown below: Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
IP address in “Network” menu. 5.15 PTZ There is one RS-485 port at DVR rear panel used for PTZ control. You can setup RS-485 parameters to match your PTZ protocol. In main menu, you can move Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Preset setup: Preset is using one number to represent the camera’s position, zoom, focus and iris. Move “Active Frame” to “Setup” button on the right side of “Preset” item, press[ENTER]key to enter preset setup menu. You can save 128 preset Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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You can repeat this step to setup other preset numbers. After you setup all preset numbers, press “Return” button to return “PTZ” menu. In “PTZ” menu, press “Confirm” button to save all parameters. Delete preset number: In “Preset” setup menu, input one preset number, press Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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After you finish sequence setup, press “Return” button back to “PTZ” menu. In “PTZ” menu, press “Confirm” button to save the modification. Please make sure the PTZ you are using can support sequence function. Cruise setup Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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“Cruise” setup menu. Press “StartCru” button to repeat the PTZ track until you press “Stop” button. Press “Return” button back to “PTZ” menu. In “PTZ” menu, press “Confirm” button to save this cruise. Please make sure the PTZ you are using can support cruise function. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
“Firmware”, “Hard Disk”, “Alarm Out”, “Reboot”, “Power Off”, “View Log” and “System Information”. Enter “Utilities” menu: Shown as Fig.6.1 below Fig. 6.1 Utilities Restore Parameters Restore factory parameters for DVR. The IP address, gateway and port number will not be restored. Shown as Fig.6.2 below Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Press “Upgrade” icon, in the pop-up dialog, you can select either “FTP” or “USB” upgrade mode. Shown as Fig.6.3 below Fig. 6.3 Upgrade If you select “FTP” mode, you will enter “FTP Upgrade” menu: Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
If you select “USB” mode, please make sure you connect one USB flash memory with DVR and the firmware file is in its root directory. Reboot after successfully upgrading, the system will use the new firmware. Hard Disk Management Fig. 6.5 Hard Disk setup Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Reboot Reboot DVR. Power off Shut down DVR. View Log To view the log recorded in DVR HDD. In “Utilities” menu, press “View Log” to enter “Log” menu: Shown as Fig.6.6 below Fig. 6.6 View log Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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In the list box, the information includes: Index, Occur Time, Major Type, Minor Type, Panel User, Net User, Host Address, Parameters Type, Channel No, HDD No, Alarm In and Alarm Out. You can press “More Info” button for more information, also select page number to view more information. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Step 5: After finish searching, DVR will list the matched log information. Step 6: Press “Return” button back to “Utilities” menu. System Information Press “System Info” icon in “Utilities” menu, you can get DVR system Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Digital Video Network Surveillance System information: Shown as Fig.6.7 below Fig. 6.7 System information Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
3. Channel name or OSD position configure interface Drag the left key A rectangle frame will be following with the cursor Single click the right key Pop-up menu including Confirm, Cancel (and Style for OSD only). Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Signal-click the right key Cancel and return back to the preview interface. Double-click the left key Play the selected file 7. User interface Double-click the left key Enter the selected user’s privileges setting interface Single-click the right key Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Digital Video Network Surveillance System Cancel the operations you did and back to previous interface Scroll wheel forward Select previous user Scroll wheel backward Select next user Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
Step 4: According to Formula (4) to calculate total capacity (accumulation) q that is needed for all channels in DVR during alarm video recording (including motion detection) . ∑ × a% In the formula :a% means alarm occurrence rate Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
(1) Use the following method to make the network cable when DVR is connected with network hub or switch. The corresponding relationship of the direct cable (2) Use the following method to make the cross network cable when DVR is directly connected with client-end PC. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
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Digital Video Network Surveillance System The corresponding relationship of cross cable Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...
If the circuit board is wet, dust on circuit board can cause a short circuit. The circuit board, plug and socket, housing fan and housing should be cleaned by brushing regularly. Unisight Digital Technologies, Inc...