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Table of Contents Hardware Installation and Connection..........3 Check Unpacked DVR................3 About Front Panel and Real Panel .............3 After Remove the Chassis ..............4 HDD Installation..................6 Front Panel ..................8 Rear Panel..................9 1.6.1 MVR-SQ-80 ..................10 1.6.2 MVR-SQ-40 ..................11 Overview of Navigation and Controls ..........12 Login, Logout &...
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WELCOME Thank you for purchasing a MaceView SQ Series Digital Video Recorder. This quick start guide will help you become familiar with this DVR. This guide contains information on hardware installation, cable connection and general operations such as system setup, record, search, backup, alarm setup, PTZ operation, as well as web operation instructions.
The model in the front panel is important; please check according to your purchase order. The label in the rear panel is very important. Mace will need you to provide the serial number for the DVR should we provide any service after sales.
Please refer to the following sheet for front panel button information. Name Icon Function Power Button Press this button for three seconds to boot up or shut down DVR. Shift Shift In textbox, click this button to switch between Numeral, English (Small/Capitalized), Donation and other.
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Multiple slow play speeds or normal playback. Slow play/8 In text mode, input number 8 (English character T/U/V). One-window monitor mode, click this button to display assistant function: PTZ control and image color. Backspace function: in numeral control or text control, press it for 1.5 seconds to delete the previous character before the cursor.
REAR PANEL 1.4.1 MVR-SQ-80 MVR-SQ-80 product rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 1-2. Figure 1-2 Video input Audio input Video CVBS output Audio output Network port USB port HDMI port RS232 port Video VGA output Alarm input/alarm output/RS485 port Power input port Power button...
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1.4.2 MVR-SQ-40 MVR-SQ-40 rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 1-3. Figure 1-3 Please refer to the following chart for detailed information Video input Audio input Video CVBS output Audio output Network port USB port Video VGA output RS232 port Alarm input/alarm output/RS485 port Power input port Power button...
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CONNECTION SAMPLE 1.5.1 MVR-SQ-80 Please refer to Figure 1-4 for MVR-SQ-80 series product connection sample. Figure 1-4...
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1.5.2 MVR-SQ-40 Please refer to Figure 1-5 for MVR-SQ-40 product connection sample series product connection sample. Figure 1-5 ALARM INPUT AND OUTPUT CONNECTION This series product has three types of alarm ports. Please refer to the following three figures for detailed information. There are two alarm input types for you to select: normal open (NO) and normal close (NC).
1.6.1 ALARM INPUT AND OUTPUT DETAILS One type of the alarm port is shown as in Figure 1-6. AB Connection port Figure 1 6 You can refer to the following sheet for alarm input and output information. Parameter Grounding Alarm Ground line Alarm Input 1, 2, …, 8.
You can refer to the following sheet for alarm input and output information. Parameter Grounding Alarm Ground line Alarm Input 1, 2, …, 16.. It becomes valid in low voltage. 1-NO C, 2-NO C, Three NO activation outputs. 3-NO C 485 A/B 485 communication port.
1.6.3 ALARM OUTPUT PORT • Provide external power to external alarm device. • To avoid overloading, please read relay parameters sheet in the User’s Manual carefully. • RS485 A/B cable is for the A/B cable of the PTZ decoder. 2 OVERVIEW OF NAVIGATION AND CONTROLS Before operation, please make sure you have properly installed the HDD and connected all of the appropriate cables.
2.1.2 MAIN MENU After you are logged in, the system main menu is shown as below. See Figure 2-2. There are 6 icons: search, information, setting, backup, advanced and shutdown. You can move the cursor to highlight the icon, and then double click mouse to enter the sub-menu.
2.1.4 AUTO RESUME AFTER POWER FAILURE The system can automatically backup video and resume previous working status after power failure. LIVE VIEWING After you logged in, the system is in live viewing mode by default. You can see system date, time and channel name. If you want to change system date and time, you can refer to general settings (Main Menu->Setting->General).
MANUAL RECORD Note: Please make sure you have the record operation set to desired configuration and you have properly installed the formatted HDD. You can right click the mouse, or in the main menu, from Advanced->Manual Record to go to record interface.
Please check icon to select the corresponding function. Figure 2-7 2.5.1 SNAPSHOT 2.5.1.1 SCHEDULE SNAPSHOT In the Encode interface, click snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency. In the General interface please input upload interval. In the Schedule interface, please enable snapshot function. Please refer to the following diagram for detail information.
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2.5.1.2 Snapshot Activation Please follow the steps listed below to activate the snapshot function. After you enabled this function, the system can snapshot when the corresponding alarm occurred. • In the Encode interface, click the snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency.
2.5.2 IMAGE FTP In Network interface, you can set FTP server information. Please enable FTP function and then click save button. See Figure 2-10.Please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resource CD for detailed information. Please boot up corresponding FTP server. Please enable schedule snapshot or activation snapshot (Chapter 2.3.3) and then system can upload the image file to the FTP server.
SEARCH AND PLAYBACK Click the search button in the main menu, search interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-11. There are three file types: • R: Regular recording file.- • A: External alarm recording file. • M: Motion detection recording file File List Playback Window Playback Control...
2.6.1 BASIC OPERATION 2.6.1.1 Playback Operation There are various search modes: video type, channel number or time. The system can max display 128 files in one screen. You can use page up/down button to view if there is more than one page. Select the file name and double click mouse (or click enter button), you can view file content.
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2.6.1.8 Slow playback and fast playback Please refer to the following sheet for slow play and fast playback function. Button Illustration Remarks In playback mode, click this button to switch between various ▶▶ Fast play button fast play modes such as fast play 1,fast play 2 and more.
NETWORK SETUP This panel is for the input network information. See Figure 2-13. • IP address: For entry of IP address. Default IP Address 192.168.1.108 USER: 888888 PASS: 888888 • DHCP: For auto search IP function. When DHCP function is enabled, you can not modify IP/Subnet mask /Gateway.
2.8.1 PTZ SETUP The pan/tilt/zoom setup includes the following items. Please select channel first. See Figure 2-14. • Protocol: Select corresponding PTZ protocol such as MSP-SD. • Address: Input corresponding PTZ address. • Baud rate: Select baud rate. • Data bit: Select data bit. Default value is 8. •...
Figure 2-16 In Figure 2-16, please click the direction arrows (See Figure 2-17) to adjust PTZ position. There are a total of 8 directional arrows. Please note if you use a remote control, you can use only four directions (Up/down/left/right). The speed value ranges from 1 to 8. Figure 2-17 2.8.3 3D INTELLIGENT POSITIONING KEY...
WEB OPERATION Please note all the operations here are based on our MVR-SQ-40 DVR. The MVR-SQ-40 product does not support the RS232 function. There may be slight difference in the interface due to series model differences. NETWORK CONNECTION Before web operation, please check the following items: •...
• This quick start guide is for reference only. Slight difference may be found in the user interface. • All the designs and software here are subject to change without prior written notice. • Please visit our website at www.mace.com, or contact your local service engineer for more information.
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