Table of Contents FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS..............1 Overview ..............................1 Features ..............................1 Specifications ............................2 1.3.1 1.5U Series ............................2 1.3.2 2U & 3U Series..........................5 OVERVIEW AND CONTROLS ................. 10 Front Panel ............................10 2.1.1 1.5U series............................10 2.1.2 2U series ............................
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Check Unpacked DVR ........................22 About Front Panel and Real Panel ....................22 HDD Installation ........................... 22 Rack Installation ..........................23 Connecting Power Supply ........................23 Connecting Video Input and Output Devices .................. 23 3.6.1 Connecting Video Input........................24 3.6.2 Connecting Video Output.......................
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4.9.7 Auto Scan Setup ..........................59 4.9.8 Activate Auto Scan..........................59 4.11 Flip ................................. 59 UNDERSTANDING OF MENU OPERATIONS AND CONTROLS ....61 Menu Tree ............................61 Main Menu ............................61 Setting ..............................62 5.3.1 General............................. 62 5.3.2 Encode ............................. 64 5.3.3 Schedule ............................
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5.6.3 Log ..............................97 5.6.4 Version ............................. 98 5.6.5 Online Users ............................ 98 Shutdown .............................. 99 ABOUT AUXILIARY MENU ................100 Go to Pan/Tilt/Zoom Menu ....................... 100 6.1.1 3D Intelligent Positioning Key ..................... 101 Preset /Patrol / Pattern /Border Function..................101 6.2.1 Preset Setup ..........................
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7.5.2 System Configuration ........................119 7.5.3 Advanced ............................140 7.5.4 Additional Function ........................147 Search ..............................150 Alarm ..............................153 About ..............................154 Log out ..............................154 7.10 Un-install Web Control........................154 PROFESSIONAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ..........155 FAQ......................... 156 APPENDIX A HDD CAPACITY CALCULATION ..........161 APPENDIX B COMPATIBLE BACKUP DEVICE LIST........
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APPENDIX H TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS OR ELEMENTS ....176...
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Welcome Thank you for purchasing our DVR! This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your system. Here you can find information about this series DVR features and functions, as well as a detailed menu tree.
Important Safeguards and Warnings 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper handling or installation. 2.Transportation security Heavy stress, violent vibration or water splash are not allowed during transportation, storage and installation.
1 FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS 1.1 Overview This series product is an excellent digital monitor product designed for security field. It adopts embedded Linux OS to maintain reliable operation. Popular H.264 compression algorithm and G.711 audio compression technology realize high quality, low bit stream. Unique frame by frame play function is suitable for detail analysis.
Support network remote real-time monitor, remote record search and remote PTZ control. Alarm activation function Several relay alarm outputs to realize alarm activation and on-site light control. The alarm input port and output has the protection circuit to guarantee device safety. Communication port RS485 port can realize alarm input and PTZ control.
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Audio Compressio G.711A 24-CH composite video input: 32-CH composite video input: Video Input (NTSC/PAL) BNC (1.0V 7 5Ω) (NTSC/PAL) BNC (1.0V 7 5Ω) P- P, P- P, 1-ch PAL/NTSC, BNC (1.0VP- P, 75Ω) composite video signal output. 1-ch VGA output. Video 1-ch HDMI output.
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Manual recording, motion detection recording, schedule recording and Recording alarm recording Mode Priority: Manual recording> alarm recording>motion detection Record and recording>schedule recording. playback Recording 1 to 120 minutes single record duration (Default setup is 60 minutes) Length Playback Repeat When hard disk is full, system can overwrite previous video file. Record Various search engines such as time, type and channel.
2 USB 2.0 ports. Interface Interface Network RJ45 10M/100M/1000M self-adaptable Ethernet port connection PTZ control port RS485 Support various PTZ control protocols. Ordinary COM (Debug),keyboard connection and transparent serial RS232 port(COM input and output via network ) System Hard Disk Display HDD current status Information Information...
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System Multiplex operations: Multiple-channel record, multiple-channel playback Resources and network operation simultaneously User-friendly graphical user interface Interface Input Front panel, USB mouse, remote control Devices Input Arabic number, English character, donation and extension Chinese Method (optional) Shortcut Copy/paste operation, USB mouse right-key shortcut menu, double click Function USB mouse to switch screen.
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Color Hue, brightness, contrast, saturation and gain setup for each channel. Configuratio Audio 16-ch 200-2000mv 10KΩ(BNC) Audio Input 1-ch audio output 200-3000mv 5KΩ(BNC) Audio Output 1-ch audio talk input 200-3000mv 10KΩ(BNC) Bidirectional Audio 1-ch audio talk output 200-3000mv 5KΩ(BNC) Hard disk 8 built-in SATA port.
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Motion Zone setup: support 396/330((PAL 22×18, NTSC 22×15)) detection Motion Detection zones. Detection and Various sensitivity levels. Alarm Alarm can activate record or external alarm or screen message prompt. Video Loss Alarm can activate external alarm or screen message prompt. External Support record activation function or activate external alarm or screen Alarm...
2 Overview and Controls This section provides information about front panel and rear panel. When you install this series DVR for the first time, please refer to this part first. 2.1 Front Panel 2.1.1 1.5U series The front panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1 Please refer to the following sheet for front panel button information.
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 1.5seconds to delete the previous character before the cursor.
Figure 2-2 2.1.3 3U series The front panel of the 64-channel is shown as below. See Figure 2-3. Figure 2-3 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 Power button shut down DVR.
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When playback, click it to restore real-time monitor mode. Confirm current operation Enter ENTER Go to default button Go to menu Manually stop/start recording, working with direction keys Record or numeral keys to select the recording channel. Slow play Multiple slow play speeds or normal playback. One-window monitor mode, click this button to display assistant function: PTZ control and image color.
USB port To connect USB storage device, USB mouse. Remote control Remote control indication light indication light Status indication Status If there is Fn indication light, current status indication light is null. light Power indication Power indication light. light It becomes on when system is recording. For 32-channel series When the light flashes slowly, it means the corresponding Record light...
Bidirectional talk input port Power on/off button GND port 2.2.2 2U series This series DVR rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-5. Please note the following figure is based on the 24/32-channel series product. Figure 2-5 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. GND port Power input port Power button...
Figure 2-6 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. GND port to 4 -channel audio input DB25 port ( 5 to 16 -channel audio input port ) Audio output Bidirectional talk input port Bidirectional talk output port Alarm input/Alarm output/RS485 port Network port HDMI port RS232 port...
Figure 2-7 2.4 Remote Control The remote control interface is shown as in Figure 2-8. Please note remote control is not our standard accessory and it is not included in the accessory bag.
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Figure 2-8 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Serial Number Name Function Power button Click it to boot up or shut down the device. Address Click it to input device number, so that you can control it. Forward Various forward speeds and normal speed playback.
Cancel Go back to previous menu or cancel current operation (close upper interface or control) Record Start or stop record manually In record interface, working with the direction buttons to select the record channel. Click this button for at least 1.5 seconds, system can go to the Manual Record interface.
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In input box, you can select input methods. Left click the corresponding button on the panel you can input numeral/English character (small/capitalized). Here ← stands for backspace button. _ stands for space button. In English input mode: _stands for input a backspace icon and ← stands for deleting the previous character.
2.6 Virtual Keyboard & Front Panel 2.6.1 Virtual Keyboard The system supports two input methods: numeral input and English character (small and capitalized) input. Move the cursor to the text column, the text is shown as blue, input button pops up on the right. Click that button to switch between numeral input and English input (capitalized and small), Use >...
3 Installation and Connections Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local electric safety rules. 3.1 Check Unpacked DVR When you receive the DVR from the forwarding agent, please check whether there is any visible damage. The protective materials used for the package of the DVR can protect most accidental clashes during transportation.
4. Line up the HDD to the 5. Use screws to fix HDD. 6. Install the upper bracket and then four holes Use screws to fix HDD in the bracket. bracket. 7. Unfasten the HDD power Insert the HDD power Use the special data cable to cable.
3.6.1 Connecting Video Input The video input interface is BNC. The input video format includes: PAL/NTSC BNC(1.0V P- P , 7 5Ω.). The video signal should comply with your national standards. The input video signal shall have high SNR, low distortion; low interference, natural color and suitable lightness.
If the sound box and the pick-up cannot be separated spatially, it is easy to arouse squeaking. In this case you can adopt the following measures: Use better sound pick-up with better directing property. Reduce the volume of the sound box. Using more sound-absorbing materials in decoration can reduce voice echo and improve acoustics environment.
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AB cable connection Figure 3-1 Please refer to the following sheet and Figure 3-1 for detailed information. ALARM 1 to ALARM 16. The alarm becomes active in low voltage. 1,2,3,4,5, 6,7,8.and the first line from the left to the right : 9,10, 11,12,13,14,...
485 A/B 485 communication port. They are used to control devices such as PTZ. Please parallel connect 120TΩ between A/B cables if there are too many PTZ decoders. 3.8.2 Alarm Input Port Please refer to the following sheet for more information. Normal open or Normal close type.
Longevity Mechanical 50×106 times (3Hz) Electrical 200×103 times (0.5Hz) Temperature -40℃ ~+70℃ 3.9 RS232 You can connect the DVR with POS or Keyboard through RS232. With POS system, the DVR can communicate through RS232 and network. For the POS system, the DVR can integrate the text content and even search the record through the info.
4 Overview of Navigation and Controls Note: All the operations listed below are based on the 24-channel 2U series product. 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 AC90~264V 50+2% Hz.
Figure 4-2 4.1.2 Main Menu After you logged in, the system main menu is shown as below. See Figure 4-3. 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.
The other ways is to press power button on the front panel for at least 3 seconds, system will stop all operations. Then you can click the power button in the rear panel to turn off the DVR. 4.1.4 Auto Resume after Power Failure The system can automatically backup video and resume previous working status after power failure.
You can refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Name Function 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.
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There are three statuses: schedule/manual/stop. Please highlight icon“○” to select corresponding channel. Manual: The highest priority. After manual setup, all selected channels will begin ordinary recording. Schedule: Channel records as you have set in recording setup (Main Menu->Setting- >Schedule) Stop: All channels stop recording. Figure 4-7 4.3.1.3 Enable/disable record Please check current channel status: “○”...
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Figure 4-9 All channel manual record Please highlight “ALL” after “Manual.” See Figure 4-10. 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 4-10 4.3.1.5 Stop all channel recording Please highlight “ALL”...
The interface of 64-channel series product is shown as below. See Figure 4-12 and Figure 4-13. Figure 4-12 Figure 4-13 4.4 Search & Playback Click search button in the main menu, search interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-14. Usually there are three file types: R: Regular recording file.
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Figure 4-14 Please refer to the following sheet for more information. Name Function Display Here is to display the searched picture or file. window Support 1/4/9/16-window playback. Here you can select to search the picture or the recorded file. Search You can select to play from the read-write HDD or the connected external type device.
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Double click it, you can view the picture/record file list of current day. The file list is to display the first channel of the record file. The system can display max 128 files in one time. Use the or the mouse to view the file.
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The volume of the playback Click the snapshot button in the full-screen mode, the system can snapshot 1 picture per second. It is to display the record type and its period in current search criteria. In 4-window playback mode, there are corresponding four time bars. In other playback mode, there is only one time bar.
detect. Click the motion detect button to begin play. Once the motion detect play has begun, click button again will terminate current motion detect file play. The system will take the whole play zone as the motion detect region by default.
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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.
4.5.1.2 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. You can use this function to maintain data reliability and safety. In the main menu, from Setting to Schedule, you can highlight redundancy button to enable this function.
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In Encode interface, click snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency. See the interface on the left of Figure 4-19. In FTP (Main Menu->Network->Network Setting) interface, please input upload interval. See the interface in the middle of Figure 4-19. In Schedule interface, please enable snapshot function.
Figure 4-20 4.5.2.3 Priority Please note the activation snapshot has the higher priority than schedule snapshot. If you have enabled these two types at the same time, system can activate the activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot. 4.5.3 Image FTP In Network interface, you can set FTP server information.
Please input the corresponding information here, if you just upload the image FTP. Figure 4-21 4.6 Detect 4.5.1 Go to Detect Menu In the main menu, from Setting to Detect, you can see motion detect interface. See Figure 4-22.There is three detection types: motion detection, video loss, camera masking. The video loss has no detection region and sensitivity setup and camera masking has no detection region setup.
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Latch: when motion detection complete, system auto delays detecting for a specified time. The value ranges from 1-300(Unit: second) Show message: System can pop up a message to alarm you in the local host screen if you enabled this function. Alarm upload: System can upload the alarm signal to the network (including alarm centre) if you enabled current function.
Figure 4-28 4.5.3 Video Loss In Figure 4-22, select video loss from the type list. You can see the interface is shown as in Figure 4-29.This function allows you to be informed when video loss phenomenon occurred. You can enable alarm output channel and then enable show message function. Tips: You can enable preset/tour/pattern activation operation when video loss occurs.
masking interface is shown as in Figure 4-30. You can enable “Alarm output “or “Show message” function when camera masking alarm occurs. Tips: You can enable preset/tour/pattern activation operation when video loss occurs. Please refer to chapter 4.5.2 motion detection for detailed information. Note: In Detect interface, copy/paste function is only valid for the same type, which means you can not copy a channel setup in video loss mode to camera masking mode.
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PTZ activation: When an alarm occurred, system can activate the PTZ operation. The PTZ activation lasts an anti-dither period. In the Pan/Tilt/Zoom interface (Main menu->Setting-> Pan/Tilt/Zoom), please set video channel, speed dome protocol and etc. Select the channel of current speed dome as current monitor video and the right click mouse to select Pan/Tilt/Zoom item.
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Tour: Here you can enable tour function when alarm occurs. System supports one-window tour. Please go to chapter 5.3.9 Display for tour interval setup. Snapshot: You can enable this function to snapshoot image when alarm occurs. Video matrix: Check the box to enable this function. The video matrix output can display the alarm video of current channel when there is an alarm signal.
Figure 4-32 Figure 4-33 Figure 4-34 4.8 Backup DVR support USB device backup and network download. Here we introduce USB backup. You can refer to Chapter 7 Web Client Operation for network download backup operation. 4.7.1 Detect Device Click backup button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-35. Here is for you to view devices information.
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Figure 4-36 Select backup device and then set channel, file start time and end time. Click add button, system begins search. All matched files are listed below. System automatically calculates the capacity needed and remained. See Figure 4-37. system only backup files with a √ before channel name. You can use Fn or cancel button to delete √...
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Click backup button, system begins burning. At the same time, the start button becomes stop button. You can view the remaining time and process bar at the left bottom. See Figure 4-38. You can see the corresponding dialogue box if the backup succeeded or failed. Figure 4-38 File format: Click the file format;...
4.9 PTZ Control and Color Setup Note: All the operations here are based on PELCOD protocol. For other protocols, there might be a little difference. 4.8.1 Cable Connection Please follow the procedures below to go on cable connection Connect the dome RS485 port to DVR 485 port. Connect dome video output cable to DVR video input port.
Figure 4-41 Click Pan/Tilt/Zoom, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-42. Here you can set the following items: Step: value ranges fro 1 to 8. Zoom Focus Iris Please click icon to adjust zoom, focus and iris. Figure 4-42 In Figure 4-42, please click direction arrows (See Figure 4-43) to adjust PTZ position.
In the middle of the eight direction arrows, there is a 3D intelligent positioning key. SeeFigure 4-44. Please make sure your protocol supports this function and you need to use mouse to control. Click this key, system goes back to the single screen mode. Drag the mouse in the screen to adjust section size.
Figure 4-46 Note: Preset, tour and pattern all need the value to be the control parameter. You can define it as you require. You need to refer to your speed dome user’s manual for Aux definition. In some cases, it can be used for special process.
4.9.4 Activate Patrol (tour) Figure 4-45, input patrol (tour) number in the No. blank and click patrol button X 3 4 1 H 3 4 1 H 3 4 1 H 4.9.5 Pattern Setup In Figure 4-45, click pattern button and then click “begin” button. The interface is shown as in Figure 4-49.
5 Understanding of Menu Operations and Controls 5.1 Menu Tree This series DVR menu tree is shown as below. Backup Information HDD Info Version Online Users Setting General Encode Schedule RS232 Menu Network Alarm Detect Pan/ Tilt/Zoom Display Default Search Advanced HDD Management Alarm Output...
Figure 5-1 5.3 Setting In main menu, highlight setting icon and double click mouse. System setting interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-2. Figure 5-2 5.3.1 General General setting includes the following items. See F igure 5-3 X 3 5 7 H 3 5 7 H 3 5 7 H System time: Here is for you to set system time Date format: There are three types: YYYYY-MM-DD: MM-DD-YYYYY or DD-MM-YYYY.
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while the next HDD is no empty, then system stops recording, If the current HDD is full and then next HDD is not empty, then system overwrites the previous files. Pack duration: Here is for you to specify record duration. The value ranges from 60 to 120 minutes.
Figure 5-5 5.3.2 Encode Encode setting includes the following items. See Figure 5-6. Please note some series do not support extra stream. Channel: Select the channel you want. Type: Please select from the dropdown list. There are three options: regular/motion detect/alarm.
Time display: You can select system displays time or not when you playback. Please click set button and then drag the title to the corresponding position in the screen. Channel display: You can select system displays channel number or not when you playback. Please click set button and then drag the title to the corresponding position in the screen.
for you to use the special keyboard to control the device. PTZ matrix is to connect to the peripheral matrix control. Baud rate: You can select proper baud rate. Data bit: You can select proper data bit. The value ranges from 5 to 8. Stop bit: There are three values: 1/1.5/2.
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DHCP: It is to auto search IP. When enable DHCP function, you can not modify IP/Subnet mask /Gateway. These values are from DHCP function. If you have not enabled DHCP function, IP/Subnet mask/Gateway display as zero. You need to disable DHCP function to view current IP information.
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Figure 5-10 5.3.5.2 IP Filter IP filter interface is shown as in Figure 5-11 (IPv4) and Figure 5-12 (IPv6). You can add IP in the following list. The list supports max 64 IP addresses. Please note after you enabled this function, only the IP listed below can access current DVR. If you disable this function, all IP addresses can access current DVR.
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Figure 5-12 5.3.5.3 NTP Setup You need to install SNTP server (Such as Absolute Time Server) in your PC first. In Windows XP OS, you can use command “net start w32time” to boot up NTP service. NTP setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-13. Host IP: Input your PC address.
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Figure 5-13 5.3.5.4 Multiple Cast Setup Multiple-cast setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-14. Figure 5-14 Here you can set a multiple cast group. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. IP multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255 -“D”...
Except the above mentioned addresses of special meaning, you can use other addresses. For example: Multiple cast IP: 235.8.8.36 Multiple cast PORT: 3666. After you logged in the Web, the Web can automatically get multiple cast address and add it to the multiple cast groups.
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Figure 5-16 Please note NNDS type includes: CN99 DDNS, NO-IP DDNS, Private DDNS and Dyndns DDNS. All the DDNS can be valid at the same time, you can select as you requirement. Private DDNS function shall work with special DDNS server and special Professional Surveillance Software (PSS).
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Double click one item; you can change the corresponding mapping information. See Figure 5-18. Important: When you are setting the router external port, please use 1024~5000 port. Do not use well- known port 1~255 and the system port 256~1023 to avoid conflict. For the TCP and UDP, please make sure the internal port and external port are the same to guarantee the proper data transmission.
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Figure 5-19 The WIFI interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-20. Auto connect WIFI: Check the box here, system automatically connects to the previous WIFI hotspot. Refresh: You can click it to search the hotspot list again. It can automatically add the information such as the password if you have set it before.
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Figure 5-21 After successfully connection, you can see the following interface. You can see it is connected now. See Figure 5-21. Figure 5-22 WIFI working status: Here you can view current connection status. Please note: After successful connection, you can see WIFI connection icon at the top right corner of the preview interface.
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Figure 5-23 5.3.5.9 Email The email interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-24. SMTP server: Please input your email SMTP server IP here. Port: Please input corresponding port value here. User name: Please input the user name to login the sender email box. Password: Please input the corresponding password here.
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Figure 5-24 Figure 5-25 5.3.5.10 FTP You need to download or buy FTP service tool (such as Ser-U FTP SERVER) to establish FTP service. Please install Ser-U FTP SERVER first. From “start” -> “program” -> Serv-U FTP Server -> Serv- U Administator.
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Figure 5-26 You can use a PC or FTP login tool to test setup is right or not. For example, you can login user ZHY to F TP://10.10.7.7 and then test it can modify or delete H 1 4 0 H 1 4 0 H 1 4 0 H T U U T H folder or not.
Click the Test button, you can see the corresponding dialogue box to see the FTP connection is OK or not. See Figure 5-29. Figure 5-28 Figure 5-29 5.3.5.11 Alarm Centre This interface is reserved for you to develop. 5.3.5.12 SNMP SNMP is an abbreviation of Simple Network Management Protocol.
Figure 5-30 Please enable the SNMP function. Use the corresponding software tool (MIB Builder and MG- SOFT MIB Browser. You still need two MIB file: DAHUA-BASE-SNMP-MIB, DAHUA-DVR- SNMP-MIB) to connect to the device. You can get the device corresponding configuration information after successfully connection.
After completed all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. For detailed setup, please refer to chapter 4.9 preset/patrol/pattern/scan. Figure 5-31 5.3.9 Display Display setup interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-32. Transparency: Here is for you to adjust transparency. The value ranges from 128 to 255. Channel name: Here is for you to modify channel name.
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Figure 5-32 In Figure 5-32, click modify button after channel. You can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-33. Please note all your modification here applies to local end only. You need to refresh web or client-end to get the latest channel name. System max support 25-digital character. Figure 5-33...
In tour mode, you can see the following interface. On the right corner, right click mouse or click shift button, you can control the tour. There are two icons: stands for enabling window switch stands for disabling window function. See Figure 5-34. Figure 5-34 5.3.10 Default Click default icon, system pops up a dialogue box.
5.4 Search Please refer to chapter 4.3 Search. 5.5 Advanced Double click advanced icon in the main window, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-36.There are total eight function keys: HDD management, alarm output, abnormity, manual record, account, auto maintenance, TV adjust and video matrix. Figure 5-36 5.5.1 HDD Management Here is for you to view and implement hard disk management.
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Figure 5-37 Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. Figure 5-38 For the HDD group setup operation, please note: Each channel’s records can be stored into the specified HDD Group. Each HDD Group is corresponding to several hard disks, while one hard disk is only included in one HDD Group.
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Important: Current series software version can only set the HDD group operation of the read-write HDDs. It is not for the redundancy HDD or read-only HDD. HDD Setting Click the button “HDD Settings” at the top right corner of the Figure 5-37, system will pop up an interface as below.
and channel 3 are both saved in HDD of the group 2. The records from channel 2 and channel 4 to channel 32 are all saved in HDD of the group 1. When you are setting the configurations of the channels setting, please select relevant channels first (such as channel 1 to 16), and then select the HDD Group NO.
Please highlight icon to select the corresponding alarm output. After all the setups please click OK button, system goes back to the previous menu. See Figure 5-43. Figure 5-43 5.5.4 Manual Record Please refer to chapter 4.2.2 manual record. 5.5.5 Account Here is for you to implement account management.
After all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Figure 5-44 5.5.5.1 Modify Password Click password button, the interface is shown as in Figure 5-45. Here you can modify account password. Please select the account from the dropdown list, input the old password and then input the new password twice.
There are total 60 rights such as control panel, shut down, real-time monitor, playback, record, record file backup, PTZ, user account, system information view, alarm input/output setup, system setup, log view, clear log, upgrade system, control device and etc. The modify group interface is similar to the Figure 5-46. Figure 5-46 5.5.5.3 Add/Modify User Click add user button, the interface is shown as in Figure 5-47.
You can select proper setup from dropdown list. After all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Figure 5-48 5.5.7 TV Adjust Here is for you to adjust TV output setup. See Figure 5-49. Please drag slide bar to adjust each item.
Figure 5-50 5.5.9 Card Overlay The card overlay function is for financial areas. It includes Sniffer, information analysis and title overlay function. The Sniffer mode includes COM and network. 5.5.9.1 COM Type The COM interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-51. Protocol: Please select from the dropdown list.
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The network type interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-52. Here we take the ATM/POS protocol to continue. There are two types: with or without the protocol according to client’s requirements. With the protocol For ATM/POS with the protocol, you just need to set the source IP, destination IP (sometimes you need to input corresponding port number).
Figure 5-54 5.5.10 Config File Backup The configuration file backup interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-55. This function allows you to copy current system configuration to other devices. Figure 5-55 5.6 Information Here is for you to view system information. There are total five items: HDD (hard disk information), BPS (data stream statistics), Log and version, and online user.
5.6.1 HDD Information Here is to list hard disk type, total space, free space, video start time and status. See See Figure X 3 9 1 H 3 9 1 H 3 9 1 H 5-57.○ means current HDD is normal. X means there is error. - means there is no HDD. If disk is damaged, system shows as “?”.
Figure 5-58 5.6.3 Log Here is for you to view system log file. System lists the following information. See Figure 5-59. Log types include system operation, configuration operation, data management, alarm event, record operation, log clear and etc. Pleased select start time and end time, then click search button. You can view the log files. System max displays 100 logs in one page.
Figure 5-60 5.6.4 Version Here is for you to view hardware features, software version, built date, release SN information and etc. You can also update system here. See Figure 5-61. Start: Please insert the USB device that have the update file to the device and then click the Start button to begin the update.
Figure 5-62 5.7 Shutdown Double click shutdown button, system pops up a dialogue box for you to select. See Figure 5-63 Logout menu user: log out menu. You need to input password when you login the next time. Restart application: reboot DVR. Shutdown: system shuts down and turns off power.
6 About Auxiliary Menu Go to Pan/Tilt/Zoom Menu In the one-window surveillance mode, right click mouse (click “fn” Button in the front panel or click AUX key in the remote control). The interface is shown as below: See F igure 6-1 X 3 9 7 H 3 9 7 H 3 9 7 H Figure 6-1 Click Pan/Tilt/Zoom, the interface is shown as in...
Figure 6-3 6.1.1 3D Intelligent Positioning Key In the middle of the eight direction arrows, there is a 3D intelligent positioning key. See F igure X 4 0 1 H 4 0 1 H 4 0 1 H . Please make sure your protocol supports this function and you need to use mouse to control.
Figure 6-6 6.2.1 Preset Setup Note: The following setups are usually operated in the F igure 6-2 F igure 6-5 F igure 6-6 X 4 0 5 H 4 0 5 H 4 0 5 H X 4 0 6 H 4 0 6 H 4 0 6 H X 4 0 7 H 4 0 7 H 4 0 7 H F igure 6-2 , use eight direction arrows to adjust camera to the proper position.
You can memorize all these setups as pattern 1. Figure 6-9 6.2.6 Activate Pattern Function F igure 6-6 input mode value in the No. blank, and click pattern button. X 4 1 9 H 4 1 9 H 4 1 9 H 6.2.7 Border Setup F igure 6-5 , click border button.
7 WEB CLIENT OPERATION There might be slightly difference in the interface due to different series. 7.1 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) Use order ping ***.***.***.***(* DVR IP address) to check connection is OK or not.
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Figure 7-2 After installation, the interface is shown as below. See F igure 7-3 X 4 3 0 H 4 3 0 H 4 3 0 H Please input your user name and password. Default factory name is admin and password is admin. Then you can select the login mode: LAN and WAN.
Figure 7-3 7.3 LAN Mode For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 7-6. This main window can be divided into the following sections. Section 1: there are five function buttons: configuration (chapter 7.3), search (chapter 7.4), alarm (chapter 7.5), about (chapter 7.6), log out (chapter 7.7).
Preview window switch. System support 1/4/8/9/16-window real-time preview. Please you need to have the proper rights to implement preview operation. You can not preview if you have no right to preview the either channel. See Figure 7-5. Please note this series device does not support this function.
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3 4 5 Figure 7-8 1: Digital zoom: Click this button and then left drag the mouse in the zone to zoom in. right click mouse system restores original status. 2: Change show mode: resize or switch to full screen mode. 3: Local record.
Refresh You can use button to refresh camera list. Start Dialogue You can click this button to enable audio talk. Click 【▼】 to select bidirectional talk mode. There are four options: DEFAULT,G711a,G711u and PCM. Please note, the audio input port from the device to the client-end is using the first channel audio input port.
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3D Intelligent Positioning You can click this icon to display or hide the PTZ control platform. Figure 7-11 7.3.2.1 Direction key and 3D positioning key In Figure 7-10, there are eight direction keys. In the middle of the eight direction keys, there is a 3D intelligent positioning key. Click 3D intelligent positioning key, system goes back to the single screen mode.
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Figure 7-12 7.3.2.4 Auto Scan F igure 7-12 , move the camera to you desired location and then click left limit button. X 4 3 9 H 4 3 9 H 4 3 9 H Then move the camera again and then click right limit button to set a right limit. 7.3.2.5 Pattern F igure 7-12 , you can input pattern value and then click start record button to begin PTZ...
Figure 7-13 7.3.3 Color Click color button in section 3, the interface is shown as F igure 7-14 X 4 4 4 H 4 4 4 H 4 4 4 H Here you can select one channel and then adjust its brightness, contrast, hue and saturation. (Current channel border becomes green).
Click the record item; you can see there are two options: DAV/ASF. Click picture path button, you can see an interface is shown as in F igure 7-16 X 4 4 7 H 4 4 7 H 4 4 7 H Please click choose button to modify path.
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Figure 7-19 Please refer to the following contents for LAN and WAN login difference. 1) In the WAN mode, system opens the main stream of the first channel to monitor by default. The open/close button on the left pane is null. 2) You can select different channel and different monitor mode at the bottom of the interface.
Important The window display mode and the channel number are by default. For example, for the 24- channel, the max window split mode is 25 and for the 36-channel, the max window split mode is 36. 3) Multiple-channel monitor, system adopts extra stream to monitor by default. Double click one channel, system switches to single channel and system uses main stream to monitor.
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Figure 7-22 7.5.1.2 HDD information Here you can view local storage status and network status including, free capacity and total capacity. See Figure 7-23. Figure 7-23 7.5.1.3 Log Here you can view system log. See Figure 7-24.
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Figure 7-24 Click backup button, the interface is shown as in Figure 7-25. Figure 7-25 Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Log types include: system operation, configuration operation, data Type management, alarm event, record operation, user management, log clear and file operation.
Parameter Function You can click this button to backup log files to current PC. Backup 7.5.2 System Configuration Please click save button to save your current setup. General Setup 7.5.2.1 Here you can set system time, record length, video format and etc. See Figure 7-26. Figure 7-26 Figure 7-27 Figure 7-28...
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Parameter Function Here is for you to modify system time. Please click Save button after System your completed modification Time Sync PC You can click this button to save the system time as your PC current time. Here you can select data format from the dropdown list. Data Format Please select separator such as –...
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Figure 7-29 Figure 7-30 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here is for you to select a monitor channel. Channel Here is to display current channel name. You can modify it. Channel Name Compression The main bit stream supports H.264. The extra stream supports H.264, MJPG.
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Parameter Function Audio/Video For the main stream, recorded file only contains video by default. You need to draw a circle here to enable audio function. For extra stream, you need to draw a circle to select the video first and then select the audio if necessary.
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Parameter Function Channel Title You can enable this function so that system overlays channel information in video window. OSD transparent value ranges from 0 to 255. 0 means complete transparent. You can use the mouse to drag the channel tile position. Copy It is a shortcut menu button.
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Figure 7-34 Figure 7-35 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please select a channel first. Channel Pre-record Please input pre-record value here. System can record the three to five seconds video before activating the record operation into the file. (Depends on data size). Setup In Figure 7-32, click set button, you can go to the corresponding setup interface.
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Parameter Function Holiday Click Set button, system pops up a dialogue box shown as in Figure 7-35. Here you can set holiday date. Check the box, it means current chann shall record as your holiday setup. Please go to the Period interface to set the holiday date record setup.
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Parameter Function There are five options: none/odd/even/space/mark. Parity System default setup is: Function: Console. Data bit: 8 Stop bit: 1 Baud bit: 115200 Parity: None. 7.5.2.5 Network Network interface is shown as in F igure 7-37. X 4 6 2 H 4 6 2 H 4 6 2 H Figure 7-37 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
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Parameter Function Default Gateway Here you can input the default gateway. Please note system needs to check the validity of all IPv6 addresses. The IP address and the default gateway shall be in the same IP section. That is to say, the specified length of the subnet prefix shall have the same string.
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Figure 7-39 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Input server address and then enable this function. SMTP Server Port Input port value here. The sender email account user name. User Name The sender email account password. Password Sender email address.
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Figure 7-40 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Server Type You can select DDNS protocol (Multiple-choice) from the dropdown list and then enable DDNS function. Server IP DDNS server IP address Server Port DDNS server port. Domain Name Your self-defined domain name.
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Figure 7-41 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please select network storage protocol and then enable NAS enable NAS function. Server IP Input remote storage server IP address. Input Remote storage server port number. Port Log in user account.
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transmission only and its port shall be 123.The update interval ranges from 1 to 65535. Default value is 10 minutes. Figure 7-42 You can refer to the following sheet for time zone information. City /Region Name Time Zone London GMT+0 Berlin GMT+1 Cairo...
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Figure 7-43 UNPN Go to the UPnP interface, you can see an image is shown as in Figure 7-44. It allows you to establish the mapping relationship between the LAN and the public network. Here you can also add, modify or remove UPnP item. Figure 7-44 UNPN SNMP...
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The SNMP interface is shown as in Figure 7-45. SNMP is an abbreviation of Simple Network Management Protocol. It provides the basic network management frame of the network management system. The SNMP widely used in many environments. It is used in many network device, software and system. Please refer to chapter 5.3.5.12 SNMP for detailed information.
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Figure 7-47 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event It includes local alarm/network alarm. Type Local alarm: Device detects alarm from input port. Network: Device detects alarm from network. Alarm in Select corresponding alarm channel. Enable You need to draw a circle here so that system can detect the alarm signal.
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Parameter Function Capture You need to input capture channel number so that system can backup snapshot file when alarm occurs. Copy It is a shortcut menu button. You can copy current channel setup to one or more (all) channels. Save You can click save button after you complete setup for one channel, or you can complete the whole setups and then click save button.
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Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event There are three types: Motion detection/video loss/Camera Masking. Type Channel Select channel name from the dropdown list. Enable You need to draw a circle to enable motion detection function. There are six levels.
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Parameter Function Tour Display the selected video in local monitor window. Tour interval and tour mode are set in DVR local menu (chapter 5.3.9 Display ) Here you can set PTZ movement when alarm occurs. Such as go to Activation preset x when there is an alarm.
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Parameter Function Select the corresponding dome protocol.(such as PELCOD) Protocol Set corresponding dome address. Default value is 1. Please note your Address setup here shall comply with your dome address; otherwise you can not control the speed dome. Select the dome baud rate. Default setup is 9600. Baud Rate Data Bit...
Parameter Function Export Export system configuration to local PC. Configuration Import Import configuration from PC to the system. Configuration 7.5.3 Advanced 7.5.3.1 HDD Management HDD management includes net storage management and local storage management. Please note, if you want to use local storage function, your storage device need to support current function.
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Here you can search alarm output status. See Figure 7-53. Figure 7-53 Important The alarm output port should not be connected to high power load directly (It shall be less than 1A) to avoid high current which may result in relay damage. Please use the co contactor to realize the connection between the alarm output port and the load.
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Figure 7-54 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function System enables auto record function as you set in record schedule Auto setup. Enable corresponding channel to record no matter what period Manual applied in the record setup. Stop current channel record no matter what period applied in the Stop record setup.
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Figure 7-55 7.5.3.5 Auto Maintenance Here you can select auto reboot and auto delete old files interval from the dropdown list. See Figure 7-56. Figure 7-56 7.5.3.6 Snapshot Snapshot interface is shown as in Figure 7-57.
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Figure 7-57 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel It is the monitor channel. There are two modes: Timing and activation. Snapshot mode Frame rate You can select from the dropdown list. The value ranges from 1f/s to 7f/s.
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Figure 7-58 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event The abnormal events include: disk error, no disk, disconnection, IP Type conflict, MAC conflict and etc You need to draw a circle to enable this function. Normal The corresponding alarm activation output channel when alarm occurs, There are six channels.
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Parameter Function Latch The alarm output can delay for the specified time after alarm stops. Then system disables alarm and corresponding activation output. The value ranges from 10s to 300s. Send If you enable this function, system can send out email to alarm the email specified user.
Figure 7-60 7.5.4 Additional Function 7.5.4.1 Preferred DNS Here you can set server or local operator DNS address. See Figure 7-61. Figure 7-61 7.5.4.2 Card Overlay Tit is the same with the card overlay function (chapter 5.5.9). It is mainly for financial areas to Sniffer, information parse and character overlay.
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Destination IP refers to other systems that receive information. There are total four groups IP. The record channel applies to one group (optional) only. Six frame ID groups verification can guarantee information validity and legal. The start position, length and data can be set according to your protocol and data packet. There are total four fields.
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7.5.4.4 WIFI Config The WIFI interface is shown as in Figure 7-64. Here you can view WIFI connection status. System displays as no connection if there is no connection. You can view connection status and IP address if there is a connection. See Figure 7-65.
WIFI working Here you can view current connection status. information You can view connection status and IP address if there is a connection. Otherwise system shown as there is no hotspot connection. 7.6 Search Click search button, you can see an interface is shown as in F igure 7-60.
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Figure 7-67 Select the file(s) you want to download and then click download button, system pops up a dialogue box shown as in F igure 7-62, then you can specify file name and path to download the X 4 8 0 H 4 8 0 H 4 8 0 H file(s) to your local pc.
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Figure 7-69 In Figure 7-69, there is a remote back pane at the left bottom of the pane. It allows you to backup the record or picture to your local USB storage media via the Web remotely. Click the search button;...
Now you can see system begins download and the download button becomes stop button. You can click it to terminate current operation. At the bottom of the interface, there is a process bar for your reference. 7.7 Alarm Click alarm function, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 7-71. Here you can set device alarm type and alarm sound setup.
7.8 About Click about button, you can view current web client information. See Figure 7-72 Figure 7-72 7.9 Log out Click log out button, system goes back to log in interface. See Figure 7-73. You need to input user name and password to login again. Figure 7-73 7.10 Un-install Web Control You can use web un-install tool “uninstall web.bat”...
8 Professional Surveillance System Besides Web, you can use our Professional Surveillance Software (PSS) to login the device. For detailed information, please refer to PSS user’s manual.
9 FAQ 1. DVR can not boot up properly. There are following possibilities: Input power is not correct. Power connection is not correct. Power switch button is damaged. Program upgrade is wrong. HDD malfunction or something wrong with HDD ribbon. Seagate DB35.1,DB35.2,SV35 or Maxtor 17-g has compatibility problem.
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DVR color or brightness setup is not correct. 6. Can not search local records. There are following possibilities: HDD ribbon is damaged. HDD is broken. Upgraded program is not compatible. The recorded file has been overwritten. Record function has been disabled. 7.
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PTZ decoder and DVR address is not compatible. When there are several decoders, please add 120 Ohm between the PTZ decoder A/B cables furthest end to delete the reverberation or impedance matching. Otherwise the PTZ control is not stable. The distance is too far. 12.
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System uses too much CPU resources. Please stop record first and then begin backup. Data amount exceeds backup device capacity. It may result in burner error. Backup device is not compatible. Backup device is damaged. 17. Keyboard can not control DVR. There are following possibilities: DVR serial port setup is not correct Address is not correct...
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There is no DivX503Bundle.exe control when you play the file transformed to AVI via media player. No DivX503Bundle.exe or ffdshow-2004 1012 .exe in Windows XP OS. 23. Forget local menu operation password or network password Please contact your local service engineer or our sales person for help. We can guide you to solve this problem.
Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation Calculate total capacity needed by each DVR according to video recording (video recording type and video file storage time). Step 1: According to Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity that is the capacity of each channel needed for each hour, unit Mbyte.
Appendix B Compatible Backup Device List Compatible USB drive list NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. If you use the USB drive, please confirm the format FAT or FAT32. Manufacturer Model Capacity...
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Compatible SD Card List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Standard Capacity Card type Transcend SDHC6 16GB Kingston SDHC4 Kingston Kingston Sandisk SDHC2 Micro-SD Sandisk Micro-SD Compatible Portable HDD List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible portable HDD brand. Brand Model Capacity...
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Seagate Seagate SV35.1 ST3500641SV 500G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3250820SV 250G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3320620SV 320G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3500630SV 500G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3750640SV 750G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.3 ST3250310SV 250G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.3 ST3500320SV 500G SATA Seagate...
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Seagate Seagate Constellation ST33000650NS SATA ES.2 Seagate Seagate Constellation ST32000645NS SATA ES.2 Seagate Seagate Constellation ST33000651NS SATA ES.2 Seagate Seagate Constellation ST32000646NS SATA ES.2 Seagate Seagate Constellation ST33000652NS SATA ES.2 Seagate Seagate Constellation ST32000647NS SATA ES.2 Westem Cariar SE WD3200JD 320G SATA Digital...
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Westem WDAV-GP—AVVS WD7500AVVS-63E1B1 750G SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVVS WD10EVVS-63E1B1 SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVDS WD10EVDS-63N5B1 SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVDS WD15EVDS-63V9B0 1.5T SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVDS WD20EVDS-63T3B0 SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—AVDS WD5000AVDS-63U7B0 500G SATA Digital Westem WD AV-GP WD30EURS SATA Digital Westem WD AV-GP WD25EURS 2.5T...
APPENDIX C Compatible CD/DVD Device List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. And you can use the USB cable with the model recommended to set USB burner. Manufacturer Model Port Type Type Sony...
Appendix E Compatible Switcher List Please refer to the following sheet form compatible switcher list. Brand Model Network Working Mode D-LinK DES-1016D 10/100M self-adaptive D-LinK DES-1008D 10/100M self-adaptive There are five network modes: 1、AUTO 2、HALF-10M Ruijie RG-S1926S 3、FULL-10M 4、HALF-100M 5、FULL-100M H3C-S1024 10/100M self-adaptive TP-LINK...
Appendix F Compatible Wireless Mouse List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Model Rapoo 3500 Logitech M215 Shuangfeiyan Tianyao G7-630...
Appendix G Earthing 1. What is the surge? Surge is a short current or voltage change during a very short time. In the circuit, it lasts for microsecond. In a 220V circuit, the 5KV or 10KV voltage change during a very short time (about microseconds) can be called a surge.
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work. The signal lightning arrester has many specifications, and widely used in many devices such as telephone, network, analog communication, digital communication, cable TV and satellite antenna. For all the input port, especially those from the outdoor, you need to install the signal lightning arrester. Antenna feed cable lightning arrester: It is suitable for antenna system of the transmitter or the device system to receive the wireless signal.
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Mixed ground: The mix ground consists of the feature of the one-point ground and multiple-point ground. For example, the power in the system needs to use the one-point ground mode while the radio frequency signal requires the multiple-point ground. So, you can use the following figure to earth.
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The monitor system usually can adopt the one-point ground. Please connect the ground end of 3-pin socket in the monitor system to the ground port of the system (protection ground cable) 4. The shortcut way to check the electric system using the digital multimeter For 220V AC socket, from the top to the bottom, E (ground cable), N (neutral cable), L(live cable).
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For L (live cable) Turn the digital multimeter to 750V AC, use your one hand to hold the metal end, and then the other hand insert the pen to the L port of the socket. See the following figure. If the multimeter shows 120, then you can see current live cable connection is standard.
Appendix H Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Component Name Cr VI PBDE Sheet ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Metal(Case) Plastic Parts ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ (Panel) Circuit Board ○ ○ ○...
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