1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PREODUCT INTRODUCE DVR-8304/8308 is developed base on HI3511 hardware platform. 8304 is 4channel CIF resolution digital video recorder and 8308 is 8channnel DVR. Both of them have local recording, playback, support trible code remote network surveillance, data backup, parameter setting, motion detection, I/O alarm setting, PTZ and USB mouse.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Record style Audio video recorded simultanously Audio ADPCM compression Picture H.264, compression (VBR)/(CBR) Picture resolution CIF/HD1/D1 Streaming style ISO14496-10 Audio style ADPCM Picture CIF: 384Kbps ~ 768Kbps,8 leavel optional, 1 is proceeding highest,8 is lowest and store...
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 1.2.2 BASIC WORKING PARAMETER item parameter remark Voltage input DC 19V. Voltage outputfor 12V(+/-0.2) 12V, 1A. camera Video impedance 75Ω 75Ωeach channel. input Video output 1Vp-p 1Vp-p CVBS signal 0—2V Low voltage alarm 5V-30v Hight voltage alarm...
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 2 DEVICE OPERATION In device operation, the enter key on remote control has the same function with mouse left click. 2.1 REMOTE KEY INSTRUCTION 2.1.1 REMOTE CONTROL Handheld IR Controller Key Functions: 【0-9】keys: During setup, number keys are used to input values.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 ▲, : Up, Down directional keys: Move selection up and down in setup menu. : Left, Right directional keys: Move cusor left or right in setup menu. 【OK】: During setup, select and save entry During Playback and preview, displays the channel name, text number, driver name, event sensor item and time, year/month/date, time, GPRS/GPS info on the screen.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 1. Volume adjustment, color adjustment, PTZ setting and VGA border operation.It is for setting the single channel for volume adjustment, PTZ control and color adjustment.If it is multi-window, please use the left key to select the single window.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 2.1.3 MENU TREE You can control the DVR by a lot of menu operation.This tree will show you the menu structure and it will be in details in after chapter.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 SYSTEM OPERSTION 2.2.1 USER LOGIN 1. START-UP Connect the DC19V/3A adapter to DVR. When start up the DVR, 【POW】LED will be on and 4 images will be display on the screen. If it has setup ignition recording or time recording, the system will record automatically and the corresponding LED will be on, the system work normally.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 2.2.2 GUI OPERATION The main menu include “SEARCH”,”RECORD”,”HDD”,”BASIC”,“ADVANCE”,and“EXIT”. Remark: You must after pressing “APPLY”to make the setting for submenu valid.It will no use when exit directly.This DVR have a special feature is: when you move the mouse to everwhere, there will have the explanation information showed autoly.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Red means alarm recording, Grounding means no recording. Click any date in this frame can search the recording status of that day, the searching result will be showed in the below date frame. 2. DAY: It will show all the recording status in this day, you can playback the record file in this period via click the corresponding period.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 2. BACKUP You can use USB for backup, should insert USB device into the USB2.0 port before backup files. And it is support USB OTG. You can select the recording file by direction keys or 【 + 】 、 【 - 】...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 CHANNEL: ON: Means the channel enable for recording. RESOLUTION:Setup resolution and code rate for recording, there are HIGEST, HIGH, NORMAL three options, corresponding to D1、HD1、CIF resolution. QUALITY: There are BEST, FINE ANDNORMAL three option, corresponding HIGHEST,...
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 HDD STATUS: There are three status available, normal, un-format, No HDD. If HDD can not run normally(including unformat and no HDD), there is a 【H】display on video live view. OVERWRITE:ENABLE: means when HDD space less than 4G, it will delete HDD earliest recording file, and it will stop deleting when the space is 10G;...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 System language have Chinese and English two options, you can setup the language you want in here. Remark: The device will restart when you setup system language success. 2.2.3.2 TIME SETUP Move cursor to select “date/time” (icon highlighted when selected)and press【ENTER】to enter into the date/time setup interface.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 2.2.3.3 SECURITY Move the cursor to 【SECURITY】 (Icon highlighted when selected) , press 【Enter】 to enter into the setting interface. DEVICE ID:Press【+】/【-】or number key to setup the unite ID PASSWORD:Press【APPLY】 to start or close user password. If it is “ENABLE”, you must input password when log in, otherwise, you can enter into main manu directly.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 COLOR:press【Enter】to enter into setting interface, as following: Press 【Enter】 or 【 +】 【 - 】 key or directly drag the cursor to set colors,including chroma,brightness, contrast and saturation, press【APPLY】to save the parameters. PREVIEW: ON: Means the channel is allowed to view the live mode, OFF means not.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 2.2.3.6 EXIT Move the cursor to【EXIT】(Icon highlighted when selected),press【Enter】to back to main menu. 2.2.4 ADVANCE SETUP Move the cursor to【ADVANCE SETUP】(Icon highlighted when selected),press【Enter】to enter into setting interface. Advanced Features include Alarm settings, system information, Motion detection, mobile phone monitoring, system maintenance, PTZ and network setting.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 N.O: indicate I / O input level from high to low effective N.C: indicate I / O input level from low to high effective HDD LOSS:ON means it will trigger a alarm if there is no HDD, and it will display an 【H】...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 STATUS:Each channel has corresponding channel switch, press 【Enter】 to turn on or turn off the motion detection for each channel.. SNESITIVITY:each channel has corresponding sensitivity setting,including four standards high,higher,medium and low, press【Enter】key to switch MD AREA: each channel has corresponding regional motion detecting setting,move the cursor to corresponding 【setting】...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 CHANNEL: select the channel for mobile view, and press [Enter] to switch different channels. MOBLE NETWORK: Select different mobile network from the options of 3G, 2.5G and 2.75G, and press [Enter] to switch different network. 2.2.3.11 SYSTEM MAINTAIN Move the cursor to 【SYSTEM MAINTAIN】...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 DEFAULT SETTINGS: Restore all the settings as the factory setting. 2.2.3.12 PTZ SETUP Move the cursor to【PTZ SETUP】(Icon highlighted when selected),press【Enter】to enter into setting interface, you can setup the parameters for each channel separately. CHANNEL: The channel of PTZ connected.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 to enter into setting interface . TYPE: There are PPPOE, DHCP & Static three options. ● STATIC Select [Static] in the type, and press [Enter] to enter into the interface as followings MEDIA PORT for future use WEB PORT: setup the port of IE browser via HTTP.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 default network type. If succeed, the IP address will be automatically config as dynamic IP of WAN. ● PPPOE Select the PPPOE, and enter the interface as followings MEDIA PORT: the communicate port between PC and DVR, recommend use default port WEB PORT: setup the port of IE browser via HTTP.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 DDNS: There are [ON/OFF], and if there is a DDNS service, please setup it as ON. SERVICE: There are 3 serviceS to select, 3322, dyndns, perfecteyes. HOST NAME: Input the name of the host server. USERNAME: Input in the name of the user.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 4) Create a mane you need, then press apply; now you have Registered a host name success. For example: 1, Network: ADSL, only one DVR need to connect to internet. Make sure the DVR has connected to ADSL modem success; the LED is flashing means success.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Setup of the ADSL router: DVR Setup: PC network setup: 5. Please check if the PC can access to internet via open a IE web. 6. Type in the IP of DVR in IE address to check if can access to DVR.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 7. Mapping the port in the ADSL router, please open the DVR media port and WEB port for remote IE client in here. 8. Please use a remote PC to ping xxx.xxx.xxx ( the domain name of the DVR) to check if the DDNS setup is ok.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 IE OPERATION 3.1 FEATURE Through the IE browser of OS and install the software, you are able to do the network operation remotely, which is much more convenient. DVR support C/S, B/S, and visit in LAN and WAN, also support IP and domain name visiting.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Remark: If you connect the device in WAN, the IP should be a public IP. 3.3 OPERATION INTERFACE There are Liveview, Playback and Setup options in the main interface, please press them to access it. 3.3.1...
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 key in the center of the wheel. 3.3.1.1.1 ZOOM Click to zoom in and out. Click to focus Click to change the size of aperture 3.3.1.1.2 PTZ PRESET Setup preset point. You can control it via the below three buttons: 3.3.1.2...
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 You can open, shut down and start this channel’s record via shortcut menu. 3.Click right key at one live view screen, click” open all windows” or “ close all windows”, will quickly open/close all windows. 3.3.2...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Double click one item of listed recording video, the recording video will playback, meanwhile the file icon will change to , and will occur the below picture play buttons: The above purple progress bar shows download progress, green progress bar shows playback...
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 SOURCE FILE: Click to setup the H.264 file to convert DESTINATION FILE: Click to setup the directory for saving avi file After setting, click , file convert start, the convert progress bar (see below picture) will see the progress of convert.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 3.3.3.3 Click to enter into setup interface; you can check the parameter settings as in GUI of DVR. 3.3.3.4 NETWORK Click to enter into setup interface; you can check the parameter settings as in GUI of DVR.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 BANDWIDTH: Set the amount of bandwidth in kbps (128k、192k、256k、384k、512k、1024k) that you want to allocate for traffic that matches internet,this bandwidth not include audio. Remark: the normal ADSL network is between 256k and 384k FILE SAVE PATH: capture picture and recording video save path.
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 4 DVR INSTALLATION 4.1 PRODUCT OVERVIEW 1. Product Photo 2. The Definition of Bottons and Connectors on Front Panel...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Buttons on Front Panel # Button Name Description Power STANDBY POWER/OFF, boot up DVR or shutdown DVR Navigation During the setting for GUI, use these bottons for choosing differents items on menu. And also control the direction of PTZ.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Item Physical connector Connector description POWER input DC 19V/3A Video output Two video output for connecting TV or monitor (BNC) Video input For connectiong analog video signal input (BNC) Audio Input For connecting aidio signal Alarm Input...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 5. Alarm Input and Output There are 8 sets alarm input connector and 1 set output for this DVR. Alarm input is for connection IR annunciator, fog sensor. The connection diagram of DC alarm inout as...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 The connection diagram of alarm output as following: 220V 6. System Network Diagram...
Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 4.2 HDD INSTALLATION Please installation the HDD as the following steps: 1)Uninstall the DVR and then you will see one HDD plate as following. 2)Take out the anti-vibration mat and screws from the accessories box 3)Take off the HDD plate and then install the anti-vibration mat on the plate and then screw...
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 4)Install the HDD on HDD plate as the following photo indicate and then screws around. 5)Fix the HDD plate on the DVR device and then cover the DVR and screw.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 Remark: Please format the new HDD before record.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 1、 Q:After connect power supply, device can’t start-up normally Power supply is incorrect, “+” and “-” are jumbled. The connection between DVR and power is unstable. Power supply has broken Firmware upgrades error. Main board has broken.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 The power line or date line may have broken. HDD has broken. The SATA interface has broken. 5、 Q: What is the meaning when show a “R”“M”“I”“H” in live view. A: “R” means device is recording now.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 The battery may have something wrong, please replace it. 10、 Q: Can’t control PTZ. A: The PTZ may have something wrong. The setting about decoder, connection, and installation is incorrect. The connection is wrong. The settings for PTZ in DVR is incorrect The protocol between DVR and PTZ is not match.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 13、 Q: Motion detecting function is not working. A: The MD area didn’t setup. Sensitivity is too low. 14、 Q: Copy record files and USB backup error. A: When the file you selected is much larger than the storage of the backup device, which will occur error.
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Tel. 021-411.06.75, 0722.206.683 If you are access to DVR via internet, please select WAN when you login, and select correct bandwidth your network Setup>>System setup>>network. Please try to close the window then open again. 19、 Q: Why there is a box says “Other user is configing” when sutup in IE client? A:...
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