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E&J Fire and Security - Digital Video Recording System DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM DVR (Model: COP 15-DVR16RT-600) User & Engineer Manual (Ver 1 – 3.21) DVR SYSTEM...
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Revised Edition November 2004 LINUX DVR USER MANUAL All rights reserved. This material, information and instructions for use contained herein are the Version 3.21 property nsmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any English languages in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission ofberVision Inc.
Contents PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS.......................1 MAIN SCREEN..............................3 2-1 D ..............................4 ISPLAY 2-2 H ..........................5 PACE 2-3 R & DI/DO S .........................6 ECORDING TATUS PLAYBACK ..............................7 3-1 S .........................8 EARCH FOR ECORDED 3-2 S ..............................8 AVE TO LOPPY 3-2 S ..............................9 AVE TO LOPPY 3-3 S CD-R/RW............................10...
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5-5 DVR P ..............................42 LAYER 5-6 DVR R .............................43 EMOTE ETUP 5-7 DVR R ..........................44 EMOTE ACKUP APPENDIX ..............................45 PC H ........................45 OMPATIBLE ARDWARE ...............................47 FAQ................................48 ..........................50 NTERNET ONNECTION ............................52 AINTENANCE ..............................53 ARRANTY ...........................54 USTOMER ERVICE...
1. Product Characteristics Optimum Replacement for Time-lapse Recorder Traditional Time-lapse Recorder is a mechanical device. It is very easy to break down after long-term operation and it causes many problems such as: the overly used magnetic heads which cause blurred image; tapes need to be changed often and manually; the recording time is not long enough;...
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Ease of Operation Mouse clicking on the Graphical User Interface controls all the operations. No keyboard is needed so that it is most suitable for the security guards and normal non-IT based users to use. Multi-Function Function of one set of SuperVision = Time-lapse Video Cassette Recorder + Multiplexer processor + Motion Detection Processor You can backup the data to CD-R/RW, remotely monitor the images and still recording the current video data at the same time.
2. Main Screen HD Free Space Status Recording & DI/DO Status Date/Time System Settings Sequencer Display Mode Full Screen Monitoring Playback On the right of the screen is the “status display”. From top to bottom you can see , Hard Disk Free Space, followed by 3 columns and 16 rows, which signify Recording Status (1 column), DI Receiving Status (2...
2-1 Display Mode The 7 icons on the bottom of the Main Screen are Display Mode selections. There are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, and 16 splits. The default display mode is 16 splits. The cameras displayed on each split mode can be modified in the system setting menu.
2-2 Hard Disk Free Space On the right side of the main screen, you can find the free space of hard disks. If there are more than one hard disk is connected, it will display the status of each HD every 5 seconds. When you start using a new hard disk (for example, a hard disk with capacity 80GB), the percentage of free space will be very close to 100% (e.g.
2-3 Recording & DI/DO Status The first column indicates the recording status of each camera: Color Recording Mode Status Orange ( ) Full recording Green ( ) Motion-sensor Motion not detected Red ( ) Motion-sensor Motion detected & recording Gray ( ) No recording The second and third column shows the status of each DI and DO device.
3. Playback Click the playback icon on the main screen to enter playback mode as follows: Browse Calendar Status Search by hour Search by minute Exit Camera Save to Save to Selection Play Full Screen Floppy CD-R/RW ✍ If “Playback Password Protection” function is enabled, you need to enter administrator user name and password for authentication.
3-1 Search for Recorded Data Click on the date of the calendar in the upper right corner of the screen and then select the “hour” and “minute” using the two bars on the l ower right corner. Hour bar Minute bar Next select the cameras for playback using the buttons at the bottom of the screen.
3-2 Save to Floppy It is possible to save the selected single image to a floppy. Save Click the floppy icon . The following dialog will appear: Choose the screens you would like to save to the floppy. If you would like to save single images of all the 4 screens as JPEGs, select all numbers and click “OK”.
3-3 Save to CD-R/RW Write CD You can save the selected video clips to a CD-R/RW. Click the CD icon to see the following screen: CD-R/RW model Exit Files to be write to Files of the HD CD-R/RW Message Burning Erase (Blank) Write CD-R/RW Total size of the selected files...
3-3-1 The Burning Procedures 1. Erase (Blank) the CD-RW: Insert a CD-RW to the CD-R/RW recorder. Click on to start the erasing process. After it is done, the Message area will display “Done”. ✍ If CD-R is used, you do not need to execute this process. 2.
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3. Click to move these files to the right side of the screen for burning. The total size of the selected files should not exceed 600MB. 4. You can browse the other directories (dates) to continue the file selection. 5. Click on the button on the bottom left corner to choose the burning speed. The default speed is 6×...
4. System Settings Click the icon on the main screen to go to the system settings page. Click on the keyboard icon to enter the user name and password. To exit the System Settings, click on the upper right corner in the “System Settings” screen.
4-1 Camera Setup 1. Select the desired camera for setup. 2. Camera Name: Use the “keyboard figure” on the right of “Camera Name” field to enter the description for the camera. 3. Camera Status (Disable/Enable/Hide): If the channel is not connected to a camera, set “Disable”.
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6. Quality (10/20/30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100): You can adjust the recording quality. The higher the number, the better the quality. However, the higher quality setting will consume more hard disk space. 7. Sensitivity (10/20/30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100): You can set the sensitivity of motion detection during recording. It is recommended to adjust the setting to 100 in order to prevent any data loss.
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♦ Full recording. ♦ Motion sensor recording ♦ No recording First choose the Recording Mode button located on the left of the schedule table, and then drag with the mouse an area for each recording mode on the table. 16. Copy Camera Setting: After finishing the camera setup for one camera, you can click the “Copy Camera Setting”...
4-2 PTZ To make the PTZ camera function correctly, please follow the instructions below: 1. Connect the PTZ to RS232 port (via RS485-RS232 converter). 2. Refer to Chapter 4-7-2 to assign “PTZ” to the RS232 port you connected. 3. Refer to the user manual of PTZ to setup the protocol, baud rate and ID. 4.
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Preset function: 1. Select preset point 1. 2. Move the PTZ camera to the position 1 using the panel. 3. Click “save”. 4. Select other preset points and follow the same procedure to set up. Auto-Pan function: 1. Click “Set Pan Start” 2.
4-3 View Setup Clicking the “Split” tab will display the view setup screen as follows. 1. The display content for the 7 display modes mentioned in chapter 2-1 is setup through the “Split” tab on the screen above. There are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, 16 splits setting screen. Click the “small block”...
4-4 User Account Management The User Account Management function allows different user to login the system using different user name. To start using this function, click on the User icon. There are 2 system preset accounts. The user names and passwords for these two accounts are as follows.
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[Add User Account]: Click “Add” icon to add new user accounts as screen below. ♦ Enter the name and password for the new user. ♦ Administrator Account/Normal User Account: Only administrator account can enter the system setup menu to change the settings. Normal User accounts are used for remote login only.
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[Delete User Account] Click “Delete” icon to delete the user account. A screen will display as follows. Click “OK” if you would like to delete this user account. ✍ The preset user “admin” cannot be deleted.
4-5 DI/DO Click on the DI/DO icon and select the total number of DI/DO installed on your system to see the following figure: [DI Status] Choose Disable, NC, or NO according to your DI device (e.g., photo sensor). ♦ Disable: Disable the DI function. ♦...
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[DO Status] ♦ Disable: Disable the DO function. ♦ Enable: Enable the output signal when DO is triggered. ♦ Set the duration of DO signal. The available durations are 5, 10, 30, 60, 120, 300, 600, 1800 and 3600 seconds. If DO is triggered, in this time interval, DO will keep on triggering.
4-6 Alarm Notice COP SECURITY SuperVision can send four types of alarm to your pre-defined email addresses, FTP site, or mobile phone number (via SMS). This section gives step-by-step instructions to send different alarms to each destination. We define four types of alarm sources as below. Alarm Source Definition Motion is detected in selected cameras (despite the recording...
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[Alarm to Email] (1) Make sure the DVR system connects to Internet. (2) Key in the IP address or the hostname of the mail server. If the mail server requires user name and password to send emails, please click the icon “Authorization SMTP” to enter the user name and password.
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[Alarm to FTP Site] (1) Make sure the DVR system connects to Internet. (2) Key in the IP address of the FTP site. (3) Enter the directory you would like to store the alarm notice (logs and pictures). (4) Add Alarm Notice: Click the icon Add to see the above figure. (5) Alarm Duration: The duration time can be from 1 minute to 1440 minutes (1 day).
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[Alarm to SMS] This function requires an external GSM modem to send messages to mobile phones via SMS (Short Message Service). (1) Please refer to your GSM modem user manual for the physical connections. (2) Go to Serial Port setting in the System sub-menu. Choose GSM Modem on the COM port that connects to the GSM modem.
4-7-1 Time Server COP SECURITY SuperVision can synchronize its time with Time Server. To do so, enable the “Time Server Status” and enter the IP address or hostname of the Time Server. You can test the Time Server function by clicking “Time Server test”.
4-7-2 Other Functions [RS 232] This setting is for you to configure the RS232 port. Select the correct device that connects to your system to make its function work. [TV Out] COP SECURITY SuperVision supports the VGA card with TV-out function. You can click the icon and choose “Disable”, “NTSC-J”, “NTSC-M”, “PAL-B”, “PAL-D”, “PAL-G”, “PAL-H”, “PAL-I”, “PAL-M”, PAL-N”...
4-8 Network Setup Click “Network Setup” tab to set up the network configurations as follows. Enable the “Static IP ” and enter the IP address, NetMask, and Gateway in the fields. Note: If you use another network port (like port 81) instead of default port 80, when you start the remote viewing, please remember to add the port number followed by the IP address and the “http://”...
[ DHCP ] A protocol for assigning dynamic IP address to devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can have a different IP address every time it connects to the network . 4-8-1 Remote Monitor [JPEG] If you set this function to be JPEG, DVR will encode one JPEG picture per channel per second for remote access.
5. Remote Operation COP SECURITY SuperVision allows you to monitor and control the system via network. Open an IE browser on the remote PC and enter the IP address of the DVR to see the screens below:...
5-1 Download Player The remote PC needs to install the MPEG-4 player in order to monitor, playback, and control the DVR. The player can be downloaded from the DVR directly. Click the “Download” icon and follow the instructions to install the player. 5-2 Remote Monitor via MPEG4 Click the MPEG4 icon to see the following figure.
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♦ You can click the icon (Full Screen) to enlarge the monitoring screen display. If you click it again, it will be back to the normal monitoring screen. ♦ You can select one of the pictures and click the icon (Snapshot) to save as a JPEG file.
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Zoom In Zoom Out PTZ Speed Auto Focus Focus Near Focus Far...
5-3 Remote Monitor via JPEG (1) Click Single View, 4 Split or 16 Split. (2) Select camera(s). (3) Start to monitor. 1. Administrator must enable the JPEG remote monitor function first. ✍ 2. The remote PC must have Java VM installed to see the pictures.
5-4 Remote Playback Click the Playback icon to see the following figure. (1) Select a date on the calendar. (2) Select a Camera. (3) Select a recording duration. (4) Click on the Playback icon to start playback. (5) You can select various playback speeds or drag the time bar directly.
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Speed (-): To reduce the playback speed. Speed (+): To increase the playback speed. Playback Previous 1 min: To rewind 1 minute. Next 1 min: To forward 1 minute. Pause Stop Save video clips Save JPEG files Enlarge to full screen Adjust video size...
5-5 DVR Player The DVR Player is used in three applications: To watch the video clip downloaded from the DVR; To watch the video clip burned on the CD-R/RW; To verify the Digital Signature of the video clip. You can find the DVR Player application in the program files. ♦...
5-6 DVR Remote Setup Click on the Remote Setup to see the screen below. The operation is very similar to the “System Settings” in Chapter 4. Adjust the settings and click “Save To DVR” icon on the upper right to take effect.
5-7 DVR Remote Backup If the Network Share function is enabled, you can copy the video data of the DVR to any Windows PC in the same network. (1) Search computer in the network by the DVR name or IP address. (2) Enter the username: dvrbackup and password you set in chapter 4-8-3.
6. Appendix A. Compatible PC Hardware Motherboard BrandName Model Chipset # of PCI slot on-board LAN ASUS P4P800S Intel848P Support ASUS P4P800-SE Intel865PE Support GIGABYTE GA-8I848P-L Intel848P Support Intel848P Support GIGABYTE GA-8I848P-G Intel865PE Support GIGABYTE GA-8IPE1000-L GIGABYTE GA-8IPE1000-L GT Intel865PE Support GIGABYTE GA-8IPE1000 Pro Intel865PE...
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ATA Extension Card Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Promise Ultra 133 TX2 HighPoint Rocket 133 SCSI Card Adaptec 29160, 39160 Tekram: DC-390U, DC-390U2D, DC-390U2B, DC-390U2WE, DC390 ACARD RAID0/1 support ACS 7500 RAID0/5 support ACS 7630 RAM requirement 512MB for 15-DVR16P-480 series 256MB for all the rest series.
B. Main Menu Every time you start the DVR, you shall see the Main Menu for advanced system functions. ♦ Start DVR: To start the DVR normally. ♦ Play Recorded Video: Playback only. Be sure to enter admin user password first when you want to enter the Play Recorded Video icon.
CD Upgrade: To upgrade the software using upgrading CD. Reset Configuration: To reset all the settings to factory default. C. FAQ 1. Q. I have set the recording mode as motion sensor recording. But why the DVR still records a lot of video that has no motion at all? (1) The digital recording system is very sensitive.
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MPEG4 mode). Check security setting in IE browser is not too restricted. The active X option must be enabled. 4. Q: How to check the log file of the DVR? A: The log file can be seen from remote PC using IE browser. Suppose the DVR IP address is 192.168.123.12, type http://192.168.123.12/log/dvrlog.php on a remote PC to see the log.
D. Internet Connection D-1: IP address is used by one DVR only Assume the static IP address you get from ISP is 211.23.87.163. When (1) The IP address is not used by any other devices, and (2) ISP does not require user name and password to connect, You can connect like the following figure: Ethernet (RJ45) ADSL Modem...
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In this case, you will need an NAT router to connect to the high-speed modem. Please refer to the user manual of your NAT router to translate DVR1 (192.168.123.51 port 80) to a port of 211.23.87.163, for example, port 8001. Similarly, translate DVR2 (192.168.123.52 port 80) to another port of 211.23.87.163, say, port 8002.
Maintenance Avoid placing the system in a high temperature or a high humidity environment and also keep away from the place with frequent vibrations. Operate the system under stable voltage. If possible, operate the system with a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
F. Warranty Cop security system corp. offers one-year warranty from the date of purchase against defects in materials or workmanship, when the SuperVision DVR kits are installed and operated in accordance with the instructions given in this user’s manual and is in normal use. Please note that the warranty is not covered under the following conditions: Damage caused by natural disasters Damage caused by transportation...
G. Customer Service Please contact your supplier for service when you have problems with your goods. Should you have any questions regarding SuperVision kits, welcome to visit our customer service department at: http://www.cop-security.com...
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CCTV Image Duplication Form Complete when duplicating a image / images or non-operator personal are viewing a image / images from the CCTV system Will the image(s) be Person Duplicating Image(s) Person Duplicating Image(s) Date Person(s) Viewing Image(s) Reason for Duplication destroyed or secured PRINT NAME SIGN NAME...
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