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Q-See QSNDVR4R Manual

4-channel digital video recorder with networking capability
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  • Page 1 Model QSNDVR4R 4-channel Digital Video Recorder With Networking capability...

  • Page 2: Power Supply

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Security Notice Power supply This Digital-Video-Recorder applies DC 12 voltage indoor power supply. The voltage of the power must be verified before using. When the machine is not in use for a long time, pull out the plug from the socket and disconnect the power.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Table of Contents SYSTEM SETUP ..............4 1. S ......................4 ETUP ETHODS OF MENU 2. A ..........................4 CCESS 3. S ..........................5 YSTEM ETUP 4. T ..........................5 5. HDD F ..........................6 ORMAT 6. F ..........................7 ACTORY ESET 7.

  • Page 4: Trouble Shooting Guide

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder .......................25 URN OFF THE ACHINE ........................25 ORMAL ECORDING ........................26 LARM ECORDING ..........................27 ECORDING .............................27 LAYBACK ..........................27 EARCH 8. T ..........................28 EARCH 9. E ..........................29 VENT EARCH 10. S ........................29 TART EARCH 11.Z ........................30 PERATION 12.PIP O ..........................31 PERATION 13.I...

  • Page 5: System Setup

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Before using the video recorder, the first step is to set up the system according to user’s needs; otherwise the machine will run with the default settings. 1. Setup Methods of menu When in setup mode, push upward button or downward button, the cursor will move among the settable items, continuous pushing will make the cursor move among the options one by one, and it can recur.

  • Page 6: System Setup

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 3. System Setup When the cursor moves to System Setup, please push enter button, the System Setup window will appear, which is illustrated as below. PLAY REPEAT: if you set this to “YES”, when play the video to the end of the HDD, it will automatically play the video from the beginning of the HDD again.

  • Page 7: Hdd Format Set

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Please push up, down, left, and right buttons to move the cursor, push add and DEC button to modify the value. FORMAT: the time display format, different for USA, EURO and Asia users. DISPLAY: if set to “OFF”, time will not display no the screen. LOCAL: time display position.

  • Page 8: Factory Reset

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 6. Factory Reset When the cursor moves to System Setup, please push enter button, the System Setup window will appear, which is illustrated as below. If you select “YES” and push the enter button, all setting of the DVR will reset to default, if you want to give up, please select “NO”.

  • Page 9: Bri/Con Setup

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder will appear, which is illustrated as below. Each channel’s name is the combination of eight characters. Push up or down button to move cursor and push enter button to select which channel’s name, then push left or right button to select each character, push add or DEC button to modify each character, and then push enter button to save this name.

  • Page 10: Record Setup

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 10. Record Setup When the cursor moves to Record Setup, then push enter button, the Record Setup window will appear, which is illustrated as below. Push upward or downward button to move the cursor. Push “+”or “-” button to change the value. While the DVR is in recording or playback mode, you cannot access to this menu unless you stop record or play first.

  • Page 11: N/W Enable Set

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder the DVR. You cannot access this menu unless you disconnect the PC View. Network SPEED: network SPEED switch, if the network condition is well, you can set speed fast, and the network can transmit more quickly, but if the network condition is not very well, please set speed normal.

  • Page 12: Mac Set

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 13. Mac Set When the cursor moves to Mac Set then push enter button, the Mac Set window will appear, which is illustrated as below. If you have more than one DVR in a local area network, you have to set each DVR to have an exclusive mac address, but remember that you have only one chance to modify the mac address, once you have changed the mac address, this menu will not appear again.

  • Page 13: Motion Detection Settings

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder MOTION ENABLE：Motion alarm switch, can be set to on or off, if set to off, the motion alarm will be ignored. MOTION LEVEL: motion sensitivity level, if the figure in the picture is small, please set to high or very high, the default is normal.

  • Page 14: Area Set

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Note: the above suggestions are from many times’ tests. User can select the best parameters according to the actual operation environment. 16. Area Set When the cursor moves to Alarm Set, then push enter button, the alarm setup window will appear, which is illustrated as below.

  • Page 15: Protocol Set

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder You change a recording schedule during a day (24-hour period) using this option. 0-24 stands for 24 hours of a day, each hour is settable to one of three states: T (time), A (alarm), - (normal). (T) This period is time scheduled, in scheduled state (push the schedule button), this period will record automatically.

  • Page 16: Buttons On The Front Panel

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder BAUDRATE: Can change form 2400bps to 38400bps.The default is 2400bps. PROTOCOL: The protocol is computer or keyboard to control the DVR, please refer to appendix A. The default is PTC1. ADDRESS: The address of the DVR for the protocol, can change from 0x00 to 0xff, default is 0x01.

  • Page 17: Recording/Playing Control Buttons Area

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1.Recording/Playing Control Buttons Area 1.Record: It is manual recording button. Push this button to record video on hard disk, Re-push this button or push stop button, it will stop recording (need password). So, this button is the switch button of manual recording and stopping recording operations.

  • Page 18: Function Control Area

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 2.Function Control Area 10 11 12 1.Auto/1: Auto key, push this button, The DVR will be in auto dwell state, it dwells according to the time set in auto sequence set menu, you can set the dwell time of each channel. Push channel select button to quit this mode.

  • Page 19: Channel Choosing Control Area

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder single frame rewind, press play button to play normally. While inputting numbers, this button is used as number key of “9”. /0: Single frame forward button, while in playback state, long press this button can see single frame forward, press play button to play normally.

  • Page 20: Display Statuses While Running

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1.Screen Display While Running : Means DVR is schedule on. : There is an alarm input. : Channel 1 has an alarm input. : Channel 1 is audio on. : DVR is recording video now. 2.Screen Display While Playing : DVR is playing video.

  • Page 21: Trip Display

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 01/07/2005 13:02:13: live time in white color 01/02/2005 13:14:35: playback time in yellow color 3.TRIP Display In trip mode, there will be eight pictures on screen, PB CH1~ PB CH4 are playback pictures, CAM 1~ CAM4 are live pictures. Push Trip button or channel buttons to exit Trip mode.

  • Page 22: System Connection

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 1.Back Panel and Connection Terminals The power cord and input, output signal terminals are all at the back of the machine, the connections to monitor, camera etc equipments are all carried out through the terminals and sockets on the back panel.

  • Page 23: Video And Audio Connection

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 2.Video and Audio Connection The DVR can support up to 4 cameras video input at the same time. VEDIO IN VEDIO OUT AUDIO IN AUDIO OUT VEDIO IN M i cr ophone There are two steps for camera installation. Ⅰ.Connect the Video Signal Line to the DVR channel input.
  • Page 24 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder triggered (5V), then users must set DVR as high voltage alarm. 2. Open/Close output A: N.O. Normal open，close when triggered. DVR must set as low voltage alarm. B: N.C. Normal close，open when triggered，DVR must set as high voltage alarm. Alarm output There are three alarm output pin, the status of these pin are illustrated as below...

  • Page 25: Hard Disk Connection

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder After alarm Before alarm There is an example for alarm output connection Alarm 4.Hard Disk Connection There are several steps to install the hard disk. Note: If the DVR comes with a HDD, skip the following steps. Pull out the hard drive rack from the DVR side Open the top cover of the drawer.

  • Page 26: User Guideline

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Close the top cover of the drawer put the hard Lock the hard drive draw by turning the key drive drawer back into the DVR. (Make sure the clockwise. cables are firmly pressed onto the HDD interface 1.Start the Machine Before starting the machine, please make sure all the items in the “Security Notice”...

  • Page 27: Alarm Recording

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Check recording parameter setup before recording; select video quality, frame rate. you cannot change record setting during the process of recording. Manual recordings belong to normal recording. Under the manual mode (non-schedule status), here pushing record button will record all channels’ image video. Push the record button to begin recording, four channels will start simultaneously recording.

  • Page 28: Time Recording

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 5.Time Recording Time recording starts and stops recording automatically according to the pre-arranged time period. It is applied to fixed timetable, for example, the periodical work time recording (or off time recording) with fixed start/stop time. To start Time recording function, besides making record schedule setup beforehand, must push down the schedule button on the front panel to set schedule on.

  • Page 29: Time Search

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder TIME SEARCH: search play by input time. EVENT SEARCH: search play by event list. START STOP SEARCH: search play by segment. Push upward and downward button to move cursor, then push enter button to enter sub menu you select, push search button to quit from search menu.

  • Page 30: Event Search

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder modify the time, then push enter button to start play from the time you enter. Push search button back to Search Play menu. If the time you enter has no play video, the DVR will automatically play the video most close to the time you enter.

  • Page 31: Zoom Operation

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder All record segments are displayed here, push upward and downward button to move the cursor among the segment list, push leftward and rightward button to see previous or next page, push enter button to play the segment you select. Push search button back to Search Play menu.

  • Page 32: Pip Operation

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 12.PIP Operation Push PIP button, the DVR will be in PIP mode, which is illustrated as below. You can push again PIP button to change PIP mode, long press PIP button can set each PIP picture.

  • Page 33: Default Setting

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder OVERWRITE: hard disk overwrite enable. 00:HDD full count time REC SPEED: record frame rate speed. QUALITY: record picture quality. RESOLUTION: record resolution. AUDIO: audio enable camera. IP ADDRESS: IP address of the DVR. NET SPEED: Networks transmit speed. VALID REC TIME: the first and the end of recording time 14.Default Setting Default setting for each item is shown in the below chart.
  • Page 34 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Net Work Speed Fast Fast/Normal N/W Enable ON/OFF Mac Address 0a0b0c0d0e0f Alarm Enable ON/OFF Motion Enable ON/OFF Alarm Very low/Low/ Motion Level Normal setting Normal/High/Very high Buzzer Sound No Use 0~99 second Schedule setting A/T/- Baud Rate 2400 2400/4800/9600/19200/38400...

  • Page 35: Remote Control

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 15.Remote Control All the function of the DVR can be operated by the remote device. 16.Serial Port Control To control the DVR through the RS485, you have to make sure the protocol and baud rate is right, please refer to appendix B.

  • Page 36: Pc View Software Operation

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 17. PC View Software Operation Use the PC View software, you can view the DVR from Internet, also, you can view and backup the video information on the HDD through a computer. First, install the PC View software from the CD attached. Open the software, you will see the window below: The default ID and password are both “admin”, click “Setup”...
  • Page 37 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 5 6 7 8 1. Live: if you select this, you can connect to the DVR from Internet and view the live pictures on the DVR. 2.Net Search: if you select this, you can search the video recorded on HDD of the DVR, 3.
  • Page 38 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Net Search operation: if the software is in net search mode (click ), net search window will display, it include event search, start stop search and time search. Event Search: click offside Event List, then click , event list will display as below: Select one event list and click...
  • Page 39 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Local Search operation: if the software is in local search mode (click local search window will display, it can play the video on HDD of you computer. Click , select one video file, the click , it will play the video file HDD Scan: Connect the HDD that used in the DVR to a PC and then select HDDScan, if the software is in HDD scan mode (click...

  • Page 40: Exterior Size

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Main standard & parameter chart Item Specification Video signal NTSC/PAL Video input Composite：1.0V p-p/75Ω，BNC×4 Video output Composite：1.0V p-p/75Ω，BNC×2 Audio input -8Db 22KΩ, RCA connector×4 Audio output -8Db 3KΩ, RCA connector×1 Alarm input Alarm output Compression standard Modified MJPEG Record time 18-1680 hours/40G...
  • Page 41 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder...

  • Page 42: Incase List

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder 432m m AUTO ZOOM TRIP 55m m 70m m STOP SEARCH WM/ +DISPLAY/ - MENU SCHEDULE POWER PLAY PAUSE REW FORWARD 286m m Inca se list Name Qua ity 4-channel hard disk video recorder R emote device Power wire Keys to removable hard disk control lock User guideline...

  • Page 43: Appendix A: Trouble Shooting Guide

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Q. What kind of camera should I buy for this DVR? A. Any BNC or RCA interface indoor/outdoor/infrared camera will work with the DVR. It doe sn’t matter whether it’s a color or black/white cam era.
  • Page 44 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder A. Any PC compatible IDE, ATA hard disk drive will work. Q. Does this DVR kit come with sensors, cameras, or hard disk drive? . No. You have to buy each accessory separately. Q. What is the capacity to record? A.

  • Page 45: Appendix B: Serial Port Protocol

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder Serial port setting: BAUD, n, 8, 1 (BAUD =2400,4800,9600,19200,38400) TC1: (three byte) Comman d (C HAR) Hexadecimal Nu mber Functi on Descripti 0x2F 0x52 0x45 R ecord 0x2F 0x54 0x50 Play 0x2F 0x50 0x45 Pause 0x2F 0x52 0x54 Reward 0x2F 0x46 0x54...
  • Page 46 4 Channel Digital Video Recorder PTC3: (seven by Byte1 Byte2 Byte3 Byt4 Byte5 Byte6 Byte7 0xFF Addr Var1 Var2 Check sum Var1 Var2 Function 0x00 0x08 Ch1/up 0x00 0x10 h2/down 0x00 0x04 Ch3/left Left 0x00 0x02 Ch4/right Right 0x04 0x00 hall/ente Iris close 0x00...

  • Page 47: Appendix C: Record Time

    4 Channel Digital Video Recorder button on the keypa d, then push the number according to Var above, last push enter button. Rec r ate field /sec cture quali Resolution Recording time 50 fps ry hig 7.5 hours 50 fps 20 hours 25 fps Norm...

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