Table of Contents Hardware Installation and Connection............... 1 1.1 Check Unpacked DVR ..................1 1.2 About Front Panel and Rear Panel ..............1 1.3 After Remove the Chassis ................1 1.4 HDD Installation ....................1 1.5 Front Panel ......................2 1.6 Rear Panel ......................
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Welcome Thank you for purchasing our DVR! This quick start guide will help you become familiar with our DVR in a very short time. Before installation and operation, please read the following safeguard and warning carefully! Important Safeguard and Warning 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes.
1 Hardware Installation and Connection Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local electric safety rules. 1.1 Check Unpacked DVR When you receive the DVR from the forwarding agent, please check whether there is any visible damage.
4. Turn the device upside down 6. Connect the HDD cable and Fix the HDD firmly. and then turn the screws in power cable. firmly. in the chassis. 7. Put the cover in accordance 8. Secure the screws in the with the clip and then place the rear panel and the side panel.
When playback, click it to restore real-time monitor mode. Confirm current operation Enter ENTER Go to default button Go to menu 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 1.5seconds to delete the previous character before the cursor.
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Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Video input Video output Audio output Audio input Video VGA output HDMI port USB port Network port RS-485 port Power socket On/off button GND port The DVR-C5508HMF series rear panel is shown as in Figure 1-3. Figure 1-3 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
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Audio output Audio input Video VGA output HDMI port USB port Network port RS-485 port Power socket On/off button GND port When connect the Ethernet port, please use crossover cable to connect the PC and use the straight cable to connect to the switcher or router.
2 Overview of Navigation and Controls Before operation, please make sure: You have properly installed HDD and all the cable connections. The provided input power and the device power are matched. The external power shall be DC 12 V. ...
Figure 2-2 2.1.2 Main Menu After you logged in, the system main menu is shown as below. See Figure 2-3. There are total six 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.
Please note, before you replace the HDD, do remember shutting down the device and unplug the power cable. 2.1.4 Auto Resume after Power Failure The system can automatically backup video and resume previous working status after power failure. 2.2 Live Viewing After you logged in, the system is in live viewing mode by default.
Realtime playback It is to playback the previous 5-60 minutes record of current channel. Please go to the Main Menu->General to set real-time playback time. System may pop up a dialogue box if there is no such record in current channel. Digital zoom It is to zoom in specified zone of current channel.
Schedule: Channel records as you have set in recording setup (Main Menu->Setting- >Schedule) Stop: All channels stop recording. Figure 2-7 2.3.3 Enable/disable record Please check current channel status: “○” means it is not in recording status, “●” means it is in recording status.
Figure 2-9 All channel manual record Please highlight “ALL” after “Manual.” See Figure 2-10. When system is in manual recording, all scheduled set up you have set in will be null ((Main menu->Setting->Schedule)). You can see indication light in front panel turns on, system begins manual record now. Figure 2-10 2.3.5 Stop all channel recording Please highlight “ALL”...
2.4 Search & Playback Click search button in the main menu, search interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-12. Usually there are three file types: R: Regular recording file. A: External alarm recording file. M: Motion detection recording file. Figure 2-12 Please refer to the following sheet for more information.
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In 4-window playback mode: you can select 4 channels according to your channel requirement. selection In 9-window playback mode, you can switch between 1-8 and 9-16 channels. pane. In 16-window playback mode, you can switch between1-16 and 17-32 channels.
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► Slow play In playback mode, click it to realize various slow play modes such as slow play 1, slow play 2, and etc. Fast forward In playback mode, click to realize various fast play modes such as fast play 1,fast play 2 and etc.
can see the slide bar restore its previous position. Click Backup button after clip, you can save current contents in a new file. You can clip for one channel or multiple-channel. The multiple-channel click operation is similar with the one-channel operation. Please note: ...
Figure 2-13 Click the , you can go to the smart search playback. Click it again, system stops smart search playback. Important System does not support motion detect zone setup during the full-screen mode. During the multiple-channel playback, system stops playback of rest channels if you implement one-channel smart search.
Figure 2-14 2.4.3 Mark Playback Please make sure your purchased device support this function. You can use this function only if you can see the mark playback icon on the Search interface (Figure 2-12). When you are playback record, you can mark the record when there is important information. After playback, you can use time or the mark key words to search corresponding record and then play.
Usually, system can playback previous N seconds record if there is such a kind of record file. Otherwise, system playbacks from the previous X seconds when there is such a kind of record. Mark Manager Click the mark manager button on the Search interface (Figure 2-12);...
Storage: This function is null right now. Frame rate: PAL:1-25fps.NTSC:30fps. Bit stream value: Default setup is 1024Kb/S. Figure 2-17 2.5 Schedule Note: You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDDs have been properly installed.
Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. At the bottom of the menu, there are color bars for your reference. Green color stands for regular recording, yellow color stands for motion detection and red color stands for alarm recording.
Please note, if you select ALL in Figure 2-20, the record setup of all channels are the same and the Copy button becomes hidden. Figure 2-20 2.5.2 Redundancy Redundancy function allows you to memorize record file in several disks. When there is file damage occurred in one disk, there is a spare one in the other disk.
Playback or search in the redundant disk. There are two ways for you to playback or search in the redundant disk. Set redundant disk(s) as read-only disk or read-write disk (Main menu->Advanced->HDD management). See Figure 2-21.System needs to reboot to get setup activated. Now you can search or playback file in redundant disk.
In Encode interface, click snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency. See the interface on the left of Figure 2-23. In FTP interface please input upload interval. See the interface in the middle of Figure 2-22.
Please input the corresponding information here, if you just upload the image FTP. Figure 2-24 2.7 Network Here is for you to input network information. The single network adapter interface is shown as in Figure 2-25 and the dual network adapters interface is shown as in Figure 2-26.
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network service. System may pop up dialog box for you to confirm setup when you want to change MTU setup. Click OK button to confirm current reboot, or you can click Cancel button to terminate current modification. Before the modification, you can check the MTU of the gateway;...
Figure 2-25 Figure 2-26 2.7.1 Network Setting Network setting interface is shown as in Figure 2-27. Please check the box to enable corresponding function and then double click current item to go to setup interface. Figure 2-27...
2.8 Pan/Tilt/Zoom Please note: Slight difference may be found in the user’s interface, due to various protocols. Please make sure the speed domes A/B cables are properly connected to the A/B ports of DVR. You have properly set PTZ information. ...
Here you can set the following items: Step: value ranges from 1 to 8. Zoom Focus Iris Click icon to adjust zoom, focus and iris. Figure 2-30 Figure 2-31 In Figure 2-30, please click direction arrows (See ) to adjust PTZ position.
3 Web Operation Slightly difference may be found in the interface due to different series. 3.1 Network Connection Before web client operation, please check the following items: Network connection is right DVR and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup(main menu->setting- >network) ...
3.3 Main Window 3.3.1 LAN Login For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 3-2. Click the channel name on the left side; you can view the real-time video. Figure 3-2 3.3.2 WAN Login In WAN mode, after you logged in, the interface is shown as below.
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Figure 3-3 For detailed operation information, please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resources CD.
Appendix Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Component Name Cr VI PBDE Sheet ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Metal(Case) Plastic Parts ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ (Panel) ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○...
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