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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 Mobile Digital Video Recorder...
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. NOTICE The information in this manual was current when published. The manufacturer reserves the right to revise and improve its products. All specifications are therefore subject to change without any notice.
1 PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS AND OVERVIEW 1.1 PRODUCT OVERVIEW The Ness IQ-MDVR-4 is a cost-effective and functional Mobile Digital Video Recorder specially designed for vehicle surveillance and remote monitoring, combined with high-speed processor and embedded operating system. The advanced H.264 video compression and decompression, GPS location make it to be a very powerful and perfect solution for vehicles.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 2 HANDHELD IR REMOTE CONTROL Numeric Input Keys Use the numbers to input Values in the system setup Screen or switch through the channels in live view. Navigation Arrows Use the ARROW keys to move between selections, input fields and icons.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 2.1 NUMERIC KEYPAD [0-9] keys: During setup, number keys are used to input number values. In live view window, you can press 1, 2, 3 and 4 to switch to full screen, and press 0 to switch to quad view.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. GOTO button and input the desired time, and the select SURE to jump to the specific time you want to playback. Increase volume while playback (if audio is recorded). NEXT Decrease volume while playback (if audio is recorded).
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. SYSTEM START UP Install the HDD/SD card first and then lock it in front panel. (Refer to HDD Installation Instructions of how to install the HDD into the HDD Caddy) For testing, just connect the red wire and yellow wires together to Power + (8~36V DC) and connect the black wire to GND.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. When Password is set to ‘disable’, press the SETUP key on the handheld controller to access the setup menu directly; When Password is set to ‘enable’, press LOGIN/LOCK OR ENTER key on the handheld controller for the setup menu to appear: UNIT ID: The unit ID of MDVR.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 5 SEARCH and PLAYBACK VIDEO FILE This section is for the search and playback functions of the video file on the MDVR directly. 5.1 ALL FILES You can search all the video files including normal files, alarm files by record time and file type. Highlight the option ‘ALL FILES’...
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. START TIME: The default setting is 00:00:00; this time is for the start time for recording. END TIME: The default setting is 23:59:59; this time is for the end time for recording.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. TOTAL: is the total quantity for the files that you selected for back up. No.: is the file No. that is backing up now. Once complete, the following screen will pop up.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. If the HDD has been used in an 8-CH IQ-MDVR, it can’t then be used to playback the video files in a 4 channel IQ-MDVR. 5.2 EVENT FILES In the Event Files menu, it allows you to search for all the event file LOG and not the video file.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. SEL: To select the LOG for backup, use the arrow key on the remote control to select the LOG file that you wish to back up and then √ will display. Please press 【 【 【 【 REV.】 】 】 】 to select all the files to be backed-up.
Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6 SETUP This section will provide details on how to setup the Ness IQ-MDVR and how to check the working status. Once a setting is made press SAVE to make all the setting valid. Once saved you will be provided with confirmation the setting has been applied.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.1.1 DATE/TIME DATE FORMAT: Press 【ENTER】to select different format MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY, or YYYY-MM-DD TIME FORMAT: 12H or 24H, Press【ENTER】to select different formats. TIME SYNC SOURCE: The system allows you to have the time synchronized via by either “GPS” or “NTP”.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.1.2 GENERAL ON/OFF TYPE: The options for the MDVR to turn on are IGNITION, TIMER and IGNITION OR TIMER three options. A) IGNITION: If set to Ignition, you can also program a shut down delay function. For example: If you setup the SHUT DOWN DELAY as 5 min, then MDVR will shut down after 5 min after the ignition is turned off.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. BOOT UP TIME: At the specified time for MDVR will start up at the same time every day. SHUT DOWN TIME: At the specified time for MDVR will turn off at the same time every day.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.1.3 REGISTER INFO UNIT S/N: The serial Number of the MDVR. UNIT ID: Device ID. Use the NUMERIC keypad to enter the system ID from 00000 to 99999. This ID is used when logging in to the unit (if security is enabled).
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.1.4 FORMAT Any newly fitted HDD (and SD Card) must be formatted before it can be successfully used. Select the device you want to format, Video Storage, SD card or USB.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. HOW TO UPGRADE THE FIRMWARE: Create a folder named dvrupgrade in thumb (USB) drive then copy the firmware upgrade file into this folder. Insert the thumb drive into the USB port in the front panel of MDVR.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. If the firmware of the MDVR is the latest, then you cannot upgrade the firmware again. And MDVR system will pop up one screen as following: MCU UPGRADE: Upgrading the MCU is the same as upgrading the firmware.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. The password must be entered twice to confirm before it can be set. If the password does not match a password error will be displayed. Scroll to【SAVE】to make the setting valid.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.1.7 CONFIG Restore the default setting and export and import the MDVR configuration. EXPORT: Exports the entire configuration for the MDVR to allow it to be imported into another MDVR to make sure that two MDVR have the same setting.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.1.9 GEO-FENCING EXPORT THE GEO-FENCING CONFIG FILE: Export all the GEO-Fencing configuration for the MDVR to another MDVR to make sure that two MDVRs have the same settings. Please insert the external storage device to the USB port and then press 【EXPORT】, then the configuration file will backup to the...
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.2.1 OPTIONS Setup the basic parameters. VIDEO TYPE: PAL and NTSC optional. The default setting is NTSC. RECORD MODE: Record mode, three modes as following: GENERAL: When MDVR is power on and start up, the MDVR will start to record automatically.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. MEDADATA CAPTURE: metadata information, it will create a black box metadata file in HDD when you enable this option. RECORD FILE TIME( ( ( ( MIN) ) ) ) : Sets the Record file pack size, 15, 30, 45, 60 minutes optional.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.2.2 OSD OVERLAY During Live view, press 【Enter】 on remote control to show MDVR working status during the live view. The following options select what you wish to see during this ‘live’ view OSD.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. SPEED: Display vehicle speed info. If all the options are ON, Then the following screen will pop up after you press 【Enter】during live view.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.2.3 CAMERA SETTING Camera Setting Setup enables the record function and live view for each channel. ENABLE: Enables the record function for the camera. NAME: The name of the channel. For example, if you setup the name of CH1 is ‘Front Door’, you will see ‘Front Door’...
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. FPS: Frame rate, frames per second, 1~25 can adjust. (NOTE: when selecting D1 resolution for more than 2 channels the maximum FPS is 15. QUANLITY: Image quality, 8 levels optional, Level 1 is the best.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. When you selected MODE2, and then press SURE, you will enter into the interface as follow: BAND WIDTH: Setup the band width for video transmission, for 3G it can be 500~800.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. Type: Press ENTER to change the type of the recording mode: Normal: Continuous recording Alarm: Alarm recording B.D.: Blind detection recording M.D.: Motion detection recording Schedule 1 / 2: Press the RIGHT ARROW button the remote control and then enter values using the NUMERIC keypad into any time field;...
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. C) EXPORT MINIPLAYER: Press ENTER to enable the exporting of the MINIPLAYER to the USB thumb drive. This allows video to be played back using this mini player when played on other PC’s.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. MESSAGE SERVER: When using the CMS (Center Management System) software you must assign the IP address to allow IQ-MDVR to send the video and data to this destination. This server IP must be the same as the server IP of the PC running the CMS software.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. CLIENT PORT: can't be 0 for IE login WEB PORT: This is the port for IE login. That is the MDVR's WIFI or Local IP port that will be used in the IE address bar to access the MDVR for live view/playback/setup or upgrade.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.3.4 MOBILE NETWORK This interface is the network setup for wireless modules and in the event of 3G is the SIM card. Select the corresponding mode for your SIM card, when you connect in LAN, please select NONE.
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User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. DIAL PARAMETER Check the setup as per the following form, but the parameters should be different in different countries, so please check with your network carrier for the 4 parameters. INTERCOM FUNCTION...
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. FTP SETTING The MDVR can work as a FTP server, so user can type the MDVR's IP address in IE address bar to login the MDVR and copy the video files out.
Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.4.1 SENSOR The Ness IQ-MDVR-4 can support 8 sensor inputs. ENABLE: Enables the input to be active on the sensor NAME: Press ENTER to move to the Name field to display the soft keyboard. Enter the text name to identify the source of each Sensor connected to the unit.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.4.2 SENSOR OUTPUT Our MDVR support 2 sensor outputs, two sensor outputs are on the I/O HUB. All the alarm inputs can trigger the three sensor output, such as sensor1~8, over speed, temperature, video loss and so on, please enter into...
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. ON means this input can trigger this out put, OFF means can’t. 6.4.3 SPEED Setup the alarm for over speed and some other parameters. SOURCE: MDVR is capable of capturing vehicle speed via GPS antenna or Vehicle--speedometer.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 30 seconds, then press the “Check” to make the system calibrate the second area (HZ) set as first area data (80); OVER SPEED: If the vehicle exceeds the SPEED the MDVR will trigger the alarm signal (providing the option ‘ALARM’...
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.4.5 TEMPERATURE The MDVR will check for both high and low temperatures. If the MDVR working temperature is higher than the threshold for HIGH TEMP, MDVR will alarm. If the MDVR working temperature is lower than the threshold for LOW TEMP, MDVR will alarm HDD heating is to enable the heating function so that MDVR could work normally under the temperature below 0 Deg C.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.4.7 VOLTAGE LOW VOLTAGE PROTECTION: means when the voltage is to low the MDVR will disconnect from CMS or shut down automatically. ENABLE: Enables or disables this function. LOW VOLTAGE: setup the low Voltage limit value for MDVR to shut down.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.5 PERIPHERAL 6.5.1 PTZ CHANNEL: The channel of PTZ connected. PROTOCOL: select the protocol of different PTZ, there are two protocols to switch, and the default is Pelco-D BAUD RATE: select the different baud rate for your PTZ, there are 1200, 2400, 4800, and 9600 DATA BIT: select how many data bits the system will use.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 6.5.2 EXT.COM SETUP The external RS232/485 communications module (Sold separately) is an external accessory connection used for connecting PTZ, Inertia sensor, LED screen, station announcement and so on. MODE: There are two options being, STANDARD and BUS MODE. When select as standard mode, you can select each external port for each COM, when select Bus mode, COM1 is station announcement, COM2 is amplifier board, COM3 and COM4 is changeable.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 7 INFORMATION 7.1.1 SYSTEM Displays the MCU version, firmware version, hard disk information. 1, NONE - HDD means No HDD is installed or the HDD is defective and isn’t working. 2, NO FORMAT means HDD installed but not formatted.
User Manual Ness IQ-MDVR-4 – Mobile Black Box Recorder. 7.1.3 MODULES Display the module information (GPS and WIFI) Ness Corporation www.nesscorporation.com...
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