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  • Page 1 4-Channel Network Video Recorder NVR-401 User’s Manual Version 1.0...
  • Page 2 Copyright © 2010 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be Copyright reproduc d, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise without the prior written permission of PLANET.
  • Page 3 Saving the Energy and reduce the unnecessary power consuming, it is strongly suggested to switch of f or remove the DC-plug for the device if this device is not intended to be active. Revisio User’s Manual for PLANET 4-ch Network Video Recorder odel: NVR-401 Rev: 1 .0 (March, 2010) Part N...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents . Product Description ......................... 5 1.1 Product Features......................5 1.2 System Requirements..................... 6 1.3 Packet Content ....................... 6 1.4 Specification ........................7 1.5 Front Panel ........................8 1.6 LEDs Definition ......................8 1.7 Buttons ........................... 8 1.8 Connectors ........................8 2.
  • Page 5 6 .5.3 Maintenance ...................... 55 6.5.4 Disk Status ......................

  • Page 6: Product Description

    Smart IP c amera sea Export record video file to AVI format Compliant with majo r brands. Axis, Pan asonic, Sony, Planet, Canon and more Support mobil e phon e remote view wi th WinCE 6.1, Android, Symbian S60, iPhone, Blac...

  • Page 7: System Requirements

    1.2 System Requirements The following are minimum system requirements for the system to operate Network Video Recorder (NVR): Operating System Windows® XP Professional (32 bit), Windows® Server 2003 (32 bit), Windows Vista or Windows 7 Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or above Minimum Intel®...

  • Page 8: Specification

    1.4 Specification Product NVR-401 General Embedded Linux Ethernet 1 x RJ-45, 10/100/1000 Base-TX USB Interface 2 x USB2.0 for backup device and firmware upgrade Storage Device 2 x 3.5” SATA hard disk Button Power, Reset, Restart, Manual Record 1 x Power...

  • Page 9: Front Panel

    1.5 Front Panel 1.6 LEDs Definition LEDs Color Description On: Power on. Power Blue Off: Power off. Blinking: System activity. Green Off: System no activity. Blinking: HDD is accessing. Green Off: HDD is no action. 1.7 Buttons Button Description Manual Press to start/stop record manualy.

  • Page 10: Install Hard Disk

    2. Install Hard Disk 1. Remove the screws on the bottom. 2. Pull out the case inside. 3. Connect the SATA bus cable and power cable to the HDD.
  • Page 11 4. Lock the HDD with bundled HDD screws on both sides. 5. If there is a second HDD, please repeat step 3 and 4. 6. Place the inside housing back and secure it with the screws in step 1. 7. Connect the bundled power adapter to the power connector on the rear panel. 8.

  • Page 12: Connect To The Nvr

    3. Connect to the NVR There are various ways you can connect to the NVR and below are suggested methods for different network setup: The NVR is placed in a network with a DHCP server: Connect to the NVR by using “Device Search”...
  • Page 13 Please click “Next” to continue. Please click “Install” to start the in stallation.
  • Page 14 Once the installation is complete, please check the “Finish”. Please go to Start => Programs => NVR => Search NVR to run the search tool. Then you will see the utility start search the network. NVR should be located and its IP address should be displa yed: Double-click NVR’s on it and the progr...
  • Page 15 You may change NVR’s IP address by click on the button highlighted below. You will be prompted for the NVR’s login information before proceeding to change device’s IP address. You may click on the button highlighted below to perform search aga in.

  • Page 16: Acces S Nvr With Its Default Ip Address

    3.2 Access NVR with its default IP address The NVR comes with a pre-config ed static IP address “192.168.0 .20”. However, it is only used when there is no DHCP server presented in the network. Connect the NVR and PC yo r switch or hub, or connect th e PC directly to the NVR using a crosso...

  • Page 17: L E View

    4. Live View NVR-401 comes with a 4-video split window view with one video disp lays on a larger window. Select a c hannel from the drop-down menu to display its video on the larger split window. You can also double-click...

  • Page 18: Retrieve Camera's Video Stream

    4.1 Retrieve camera’s video stream he camera list is expanded and displayed on the Live View page. . Click “All” to display videos in the 4-video mode. . Click camera displa y video in single-view mode. 4.2 Retrieve camera’ s status The camera list can show each camera’s current status.

  • Page 19: Ptz Control

    4.4 PTZ Control PTZ control provides functions to pan, tilt, zoom a PTZ camera as well as the ability to adju st camera focus and iris. Camera(s) that are currently b eing selected for live viewing will be listed in the PTZ drop-do wn menu.

  • Page 20: Perform Ptz Preset Viewing

    .5 Perform PTZ Preset Viewing There are three functions provided in the “Preset” section: Perform preset point viewing of a particular camera. Auto pan a particular camera. Perform preset point sequence viewing. Preset Point Viewing Start by selecting a PTZ camera from the drop-down list: Its available PTZ preset points will be listed in the drop-down list shown below: Select a preset position from the drop-down list and click...
  • Page 21 uto Pan Viewing Start by selecting a PTZ camera from the drop-down list: Use the Auto-Pan control buttons to pan right, left and stop auto pan. Auto-Pan * Certain cameras do not support bi-directional pan movements. Pan Left Use the “Auto-Pan” button for such cameras.

  • Page 22: Live Video Control Buttons

    4.6 Live Video Control Buttons Each live video window comes with control buttons with functions described below: Take a snapshot of a live video. Turn on/off audio of a live video. Start/stop recording of a live video (manual recording). Audio post function. Full screen view of a live video Display video in its original ratio...
  • Page 23 Take a snapshot of a live video To take a snapshot of a live video, click th button and the snapshot of the video will be displayed in a pop up window shown like below. Right-click anywhere on the image and select “Save Image as” from the pull-down menu.
  • Page 24 Full Screen View of a Live Video To view a video in full screen, click the button. To exit full screen video, double-click anywhere on the video. Turn On/Off Audio of a Live Video You can retrieve audio from a particular camera. Simply click the button to do so.

  • Page 25: Change Web Ui Display Language

    4.7 Change Web UI Display Language You can change the web UI display language from the current login username link located at the upper-right hand corner. Click on the link opens up a new window which displays detail information about the user as well as a drop-down menu which lets you change the display language.

  • Page 26: Playback

    5. Playback yback is a function that allows you to play one or more videos that were reviously recorded by a chosen recording method or due to an event trigger. The NVR offers synchronized playback from up to 4 channels and various types of search methods are provided to help you find the footage you need quickly.
  • Page 27 Selected channels will be ma rked in red Select “Search by time chart ” from the “Search Method” drop- down list and clic k “Go” to start the search: Results will then be displayed in a “Date/Channel” table and boxes marked in blue represent videos found in those dates:...
  • Page 28 Click on any blue cell box should direct you to the hour/channel table if there were multip le videos recorded during that date: * Videos from other came ras that are recorded on the same date will also be dis played.
  • Page 29 Selected channels will be marked in red. Select “Search by ev ent” from the “Search Method” drop-down list and click “Go” to start the search. Results will then be listed lik e what is shown below (displays the oldest record top down). Click on a particula r result to start the playback.
  • Page 30 lay by spec ific time If you know when a recording w as taken place, you may choose the “Play by start time” from t he “Search Method” drop-down list. Then you will be prompted to enter a specific time and date for the recorded video.

  • Page 31: Export Playback Videos To Avi Files

    5.2 Export Playback Videos to AVI Files User can export the recorded playb ack videos stored on NVR-401 to a local computer and save them in AVI file fo rmat. The files can then be played on the PC by a 3rd party media player such as VLC player or Windows Media player.
  • Page 32 Specify the starting and ending hours of the video by entering numbers in the xt boxes. it the “Start” button to start exporting. The file will be au tomatically named and saved under the C:\ partition. You will be notified once the process is completed successfully T he exported AVI file will be saved under the C partition.

  • Page 33: System Setup

    6. System Setup System Configurations The “System Configurations” page provides users options to setup the device quickly and properly. After properly configuring all settings in all the sub-pages, users should expect a fully working network video recorder that is ready to manage cameras on the network.

  • Page 34: Time And Date

    3. Enable “DHCP Server” under “DHCP Server” if you wish to use the recorder as a DHCP server, o r leave it disabled if there is already a DHCP server in the network 4. Click Apply for the settings to take effect. The recorder can detect the presence of a DHCP server upon startup.

  • Page 35: User Account

    6.1.3 User Account The recorder can be accessed by multiple users simultaneously. You can add, remove, and edit users by using options provided in this page to keep user information organized. Each recorder come s with a built-in “admin” account with password “admin”.

  • Page 36: Group Privilege

    6.1.4 Group Privilege roup Privilege is where you can create multiple customized access policies r situations if you need the recorder to be accessed by users other than the ministrator. You can do so by creating a group, and then remove access privileges for certain configuration pages or cameras.

  • Page 37: Disk Setup

    6.1.5 Disk Setup Once you install a hard disk to the recorder, you would need to initialize it so that it can be ready for recording. You can obtain basic information about the disk you installed in this page. To initialize it, simply click t he “Format”...

  • Page 38: Channel Configurations

    6.2 Channel Configurations .2.1 Add a Camera The NVR provides two options for adding a new camera. Users have the option to let the recorder automatically find the camera s or it is possible to nter camera’s information and add it manually. Automatic Search: 1.
  • Page 39 2. After that, the se arch should begin and its status should be displayed. 3. Found cameras should be list ed and simply select a camera from the list and press “Configure”. 4. It’s corresponding information should be displayed in the “Camera Information”...
  • Page 40 If cameras are marked with “*” in the search result, it means those cameras are already configured and connected to NVR. Add a camera manually Simply follow the instruction described above but instead of using the “Search” function, enter the camera’s IP address and credential in the “Camera Information”...

  • Page 41: Osd Settings

    6.2.2 OSD Settings e OSD (On Screen Display) allows users to add informat ional text message and embed it onto the video. By default, this function is turned off. To add texts to one or more videos. 1. Select a camera you would like to add text to and choose “Display OSD”. 2.

  • Page 42: Ptz Preset Settings

    6.2.3 PTZ Preset Settings The recorder supports PTZ cameras and can set multiple preset points or retrieve and manage preset points that are set in the camera. This is helpful if you need to monitor multiple spots in one area from a particular camera. 1.

  • Page 43: Ptz Preset Sequence

    6.2.4 PTZ Preset Sequence Once you have multiple preset points defined for a camera, it is convenient for monitoring to set up the sequencing viewing among those preset point and let the recorder automatically switch between them for you. To configure preset sequence for a camera,” select a camera from the “Camera”...

  • Page 44: Local Map Setting

    .2.5 Local Map Setting E-Map monitor is a function that alerts users whenever there is an event triggered (e.g. motion detected) from a camera with a geographical perspective. With this function, users can quickly identify which camera has etected an unusual ev ent and where this event is happening.
  • Page 45 Then click and drag the camera icon to move the camera to define its location. Access the “Local MAP Monitor” page from the upper-right hand corner menu. When the NVR receives an event triggered from any of the cameras, their videos will be displayed on the E-Map and you can double-click on the video to enlarge it.

  • Page 46: Google Map Setting

    Google Map monitor is a E-Map function that works like Local MAP. Th difference is this function allow user to get the map from Internet Google ma service. So you don’t have to provide a map to the NVR-401. In default, y will see the world map.
  • Page 47 Besides located by search address. You can also roll the central roller of your mouse to zoom-in/zoom-out the map to find out the address manually. Then click and drag the camera icon to move the camera to define its locatio When the configuration finished, please press “Apply”...

  • Page 48: Event Configurations

    6.3 Event Configurations The “Event Configurations” section allows users to define conditions that constitute an event, its corresponding trigger action and when it will be triggered. Such setting can reduce the management overhead and notify the administrator only when it’s nec essary.

  • Page 49: Di Settings

    6.3.2 DI Settings This function allows users to manage camera’s digital input port right from the recorder. You can setup the recorder to receive triggers from a particular camera’s input port. 1. For cameras that come with physical digital input port, their port will be listed in the far left drop-down menu.

  • Page 50: Event Servers

    6.3.3 Event Servers Event servers are to be used with event trigger actions. In case of unusual motion detected by the camera or a disk failure, the recorder can send notification with the acceptable format (image/txt) to a destined event server according to the configuration.

  • Page 51: Event Triggers

    Configuring an SMTP server 1. Enter the hostname or the IP address of the SMTP server. 2. Enter the port of the SMTP server. 3. Specify the sender’s name in the “Sender’s name” field. 4. Enter the sender’s e-mail address. 5.
  • Page 52 elect Channels to Enable Event Trigger and which type of event sh ould be triggered. Use the check box to enable event trigger on the desired channels. Define which system events should trigger the recorder to send out notifications .Define how the notifications will be sent and where they will be sent to. * Event trigger may not work for came ras that are placed outside of your local network or on the Internet until the UPnP Port Forwarding”...

  • Page 53: Recording Configurations

    6.4 Recording Configurations The “recording configurations” gives users the overall control of how and when a recording is performed and the quality of different types of recordings performed on each channels. It can help the recorder to operate with sufficient system resource by performing recording only when it’s necessary with adjustable recording frame rate.

  • Page 54: Schedule Recording

    eep video allows you to set the NVR keep the record video in previous days. The section at the bottom allows you to turn on or off a particular recordin type on any channels. You can check the box the enable NVR audio recording function. 6.4.2 Schedule Recordin Here you can define the time range of the schedule recording for all channe To configure a schedule recording:...
  • Page 55 * Each cell box represents 15 minutes of time. Click one or more boxes to omit consecutive recording. 3. You can also use the “Quick Configuration” to define recording time range instead of clicking cell box one by one on the time table. Simply check what days you would like to perform recording and specify the recording duration by either choosing “All Day”...

  • Page 56: System Options

    6.5 S ystem Options System Options gives users a glance of the overall system status and allows users to perfo rm maintenance tasks such as upgrading firmware, restore/backup device settings or reboot device ….etc. 6.5.1 Device Information The “Device Information” provides the general information of the device such as firmware version and system time.

  • Page 57: Reboot The Nvr

    Reboot the NVR Reboot NVR-401 after you upload a new firmware. You would need to manually reboot the system for the new firmware to take effect. Such process would prevent a recording from getting interrupted because the system would not automatically reboot itself after the new firmware is loaded onto the recorder.

  • Page 58: Reset The Nvr To Factory Default

    Reset the NVR to Factory Default To reset the recorder back to its factory default, click “Default” button and begin the process. The process should be displayed and you should be prompted back to the “Maintenance” page after it is complete. 6 .5.4 Disk Status 5 0 B “Disk Status”...

  • Page 59: Ec Declaration Of Conformity

    *Model Number NVR-401 * Produced by: Manufacturer‘s Name : Planet Technology Corp. Manufacturer‘s Address : 11F, No. 96, Min Chuan Road, Hsin Tien, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directive on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility (89/336/EEC, 92/31/EEC, 93/68/EEC).

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