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User’s Manual Important Safeguards 1. Read Instructions 13. Damage requiring Service All the safety and operating instructions should be read before the Unplug this equipment from the wall outlet and refer servicing to appliance is operated. qualified service personnel under the following conditions: A.
Digital Video Recorder Table of Contents Chapter 1 — Introduction................. 1 Features ....................... 1 Technical Overview ..................2 Chapter 2 — Installation .................. 3 Package Contents ..................3 Required Installation Tools ................3 Setting Unit for NTSC or PAL ............... 3 Connecting the Video Source...............
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Digital Video Recorder Video Loss Event Action (Record) Setup Screen ........48 Video Loss Event Action (Alarm Out) Setup Screen....... 49 Video Loss Event Action (Notify) Setup Screen........50 Display Setup ..................... 51 OSD (On-Screen Display) Setup ............51 Main Monitoring Setup Screen..............52 Spot Monitoring Setup Screen ..............
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User’s Manual Appendix A — USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation .......... 75 Preparing the USB-IDE hard disk drive in Windows 2000......75 Preparing the USB-IDE hard disk drive in Windows 98......75 Appendix B — Reviewing Backup (Clip) Images ........... 77 Appendix C —...
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Digital Video Recorder List of Illustrations Figure 1 — Typical DVR installation......................1 Figure 2 — 16-Channel DVR rear panel. (Others are similar.)..............3 Figure 3 — NTSC/PAL switch........................3 Figure 4 — Video input connectors (1)......................4 Figure 5 — Video input connectors (2)......................4 Figure 6 —...
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 1 — Introduction Features Your color digital video recorder (DVR) provides recording capabilities for four, nine or 16 camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features: •...
User’s Manual Technical Overview Your DVR can replace both a time-lapse VCR and a multiplexer in a security installation. However, it has many features that make it much more powerful and easier to use than even the most advanced VCR. The DVR converts analog NTSC or PAL video to digital images and records them on a hard disk drive.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 2 — Installation Package Contents The package contains the following: • Digital Video Recorder • Power Cord • Adaptor • User’s Manual (This Document) • RAS Software Diskettes and User’s Manual • Rack-mount Kit • Assembly Screws for Adding Hard Disk Drives •...
User’s Manual Your DVR can be used with either NTSC or PAL equipment. Before turning on the DVR, set the switch to NTSC or PAL to match your equipment. NOTE: You cannot mix NTSC and PAL equipment. For example you cannot use a PAL camera and an NTSC monitor.
Digital Video Recorder Connecting the Monitor Figure 7 — Video Out connectors. Connect the monitor to either the Video Out or SVHS Out connector. Connect the spot monitor to the SPOT connector if required. NOTE: If your monitor has an SVHS input, use it because it will give you better quality video display.
User’s Manual Connecting Alarms Figure 9 — Alarm Input connector strips. NOTE: To make connections on the Alarm Connector Strip, press and hold the button and insert the wire in the hole below the button. After releasing the button, tug gently on the wire to make certain it is connected.
Digital Video Recorder An external signal to the Alarm Reset In can be used to reset both the Alarm Out signal and the DVR’s internal buzzer. Mechanical or electrical switches can be wired to the AI (Alarm In) and GND (Ground) connectors. The threshold voltage is 4.3V and should be stable at least 0.5 seconds to be detected.
User’s Manual The DVR can be networked using the telephone line connector. Connect a cable with an RJ-11 jack to the DVR connector. The DVR can be networked with a computer for remote monitoring, searching, configuration and software upgrades. See Chapter 3 — Configuration for configuring the modem connections.
Digital Video Recorder Connecting to the RS232 Port Figure 17 — RS232 connector. An RS232 port is provided to connect an external modem for remote monitoring, configuration and software upgrades, and to connect a remote control keyboard. Use a modem cable with a DB-9S (female) connector to connect to the DVR.
User’s Manual 5. Release the reset switch. All of the DVR’s settings are now at the original settings it had when it left the factory. Connecting the Power Cord Figure 19 — Power cord connector. Connect the DC power cord of the adaptor to the DVR, and connect the AC power cord to the adaptor and then to the wall outlet.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 3 — Configuration NOTE: Your DVR should be completely installed before proceeding. Refer to Chapter 2 — Installation. Front Panel Controls Figure 20 — 16-Channel DVR front panel. (Others are similar.) The front panel looks and operates much like a VCR combined with a multiplexer. Many of the buttons have multiple functions.
User’s Manual MENU Button button enters the Normal Setup screen. You will need to enter the Pressing the MENU administrator password to access the Normal Setup. Pressing the button also closes the current menu or setup dialog box. DISPLAY Button Pressing the button toggles between different display formats.
Digital Video Recorder SPOT Button Pressing the SPOT button and pressing the individual camera buttons displays the selected camera on the spot monitor. For the sequence display on the spot monitor, press the SPOT button and then button. SQUENCE PTZ Button Pressing the button opens a Pan/Tilt/Zoom screen which allows you to control properly configured cameras.
User’s Manual FF (Fast Forward) Button Pressing the button plays video forward at high speed. Pressing the button again toggles the a nd a nd playback speed from . The screen displays respectively. Used for far Focus in PTZ mode. Entering Fast Playback mode from Live Monitoring mode can be user password protected.
Digital Video Recorder Turning on the Power Connecting the power cord to the DVR turns on the unit. The unit will take approximately 60 seconds to initialize. Review of Front Panel Display Figure 21 — Front panel display. The key icon displays when the unit is in the Key Lock mode. The circle with the broken line displays whenever the system was not properly shut down such as a power failure.
User’s Manual R-REC displays when the DVR is in the Repeat Record mode. The DVR will continue recording when the hard disk drive is full by recording over the oldest video. The digits display Time, Date and Remaining Capacity. Initial Unit Setup Before using your DVR for the first time, you will want to establish the initial settings.
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Digital Video Recorder The Quick Setup screen allows you to set up the most commonly used features of your DVR. Use the arrow buttons to move through the options. Pressing the button lets you make your selections. Highlight the box beside Quick Setup and press the button to toggle between On and Off.
User’s Manual Normal Setup Screen Figure 24 — Normal Setup screen. Press the button to enter the setup screen. If the Quick Setup screen appears, turn it off MENU as described above. The Normal Setup screen gives you access to all the DVR’s setup screens. System Information Highlight System Information and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder In the System Information screen, you can name the site location, assign a unit ID number and upgrade the software. Highlight Change and press the button. The System Information Change screen appears. Figure 26 — System Information Change screen. Highlight the box beside Site Description and press the button.
User’s Manual After you have created a title and assigned a unit ID number, you can save your changes by highlighting OK and pressing the button. Selecting Cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. The box beside Version displays the software and hardware version of the DVR. The first two digits are the hardware version and the last four digits are the software version.
Digital Video Recorder Date/Time Setup Highlight Date/Time in the Main menu and press the button. The Date/Time setup screen appears. Figure 29 — Date/Time setup screen. CAUTION: If you set a date and time that is older than some of your recorded images, any images with dates and times later than the new setting will be deleted.
User’s Manual Highlight the month and day and change them by using the Up and Down arrow buttons. Press button to add the date. Dates can be deleted by highlighting the X beside the date and pressing the button. NOTE: Holidays that do not fall on the same date each year should be updated once the current year’s holiday has passed.
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Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside Automatic Time Sync and press the button. This toggles between On and Off. Highlight the box beside SNTP Server and press the button. Change the numbers by highlighting them and using the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number value.
User’s Manual To change the time format, highlight the box beside Time Format and press the button. The DVR toggles between 12 Hours (AM/PM) and 24 Hours (military time). You can save your changes by highlighting OK and pressing the button .
Digital Video Recorder Storage Screen Highlight Storage in the Main menu and press the button. The Storage setup screen appears. The DVR displays the storage status when the installed IDE hard disk drives support the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) monitoring program. Figure 33 —...
User’s Manual The °C field displays the temperature of the storage device. The Usage field displays the device usage. NOTE: When the device is an IDE hard disk drive, you can change its usage to either Rec. On or Rec. Off. When the device is a SCSI hard disk drive, you can change its usage to either Extension or Archive.
Digital Video Recorder NOTE: When selecting Weekly or Monthly, the Day of Week or Day of Month field will display under the Period field. Select the check day or date. Highlight the box beside Check Time, and adjust the numbers using arrow buttons. Highlight the box beside Temperature Threshold and adjust the numbers using arrow buttons.
User’s Manual System Shutdown Highlight System Shutdown in the Main menu and press the button. This shuts the DVR down. When shutting down the DVR, you need to confirm that you want to shut down the unit, and you will be asked for an administrator password. Configuring Input Devices You can configure the video, audio and remote control devices connected to the DVR.
Digital Video Recorder Camera Setup Screen Highlight Camera in the Main menu and press the button. The Camera setup screen appears. Figure 37 — Camera setup screen. The Camera setup screen displays the camera inputs in groups of four: 1 to 4, 5 to 8, 9 to 12 and 13 to 16.
User’s Manual Figure 38 — PTZ Device list. You can assign IDs to each camera by highlighting the ID heading and pressing the button. Change the number by highlighting it and using the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase and decrease the number.
Digital Video Recorder Motion Detector Figure 40 — Motion Detector setup screen. Your DVR has built-in video motion detector. Video motion detector can be turned On or Off for each camera. Highlighting the box under the Sensitivity heading allows you to adjust the DVR’s sensitivity to motion.
User’s Manual Figure 41 — Motion Detection Zone screen. The Motion Detection Zone screen is laid over the video for the selected camera. You can set up motion detection zones by selecting or clearing blocks. NOTE: You can set up motion zones one block at a time in groups of 4, 9 or 16 individual block groups (4-, 9- and 16-channel DVR respectively).
Digital Video Recorder Close this menu — Closes the menu so that you can see the entire screen. Select Current Blocks — Activates highlighted blocks to detect motion. Clear Current Blocks — Deactivates highlighted blocks so that they will not detect motion. Select All Blocks —...
User’s Manual Figure 44 — Alarm Out Schedule screen. You can select individual blocks of time, entire days of the week, entire blocks of time or the entire schedule. Select a specific block of time by highlighting it. Select an entire day by highlighting the day of the week or Holiday on the left of the screen.
Digital Video Recorder Audio Setup Screen Highlight Audio in the Main menu and press the button. The Audio Setup screen appears. Figure 45 — Audio Setup screen. Highlight the box beside Audio Recording and press the button. This toggles between On and Off.
User’s Manual RS232/RS485 Setup Screen The RS232/RS485 setup screen allows you to set up the RS232 and RS485 ports to communicate with external devices such as remote controls and dome cameras. Figure 46 — RS232/RS485 setup screen. Highlight the field for the settings you wish to make. Select the correct Baud Rate, Parity, Data Bits and Stop Bits for the device you are connecting to the DVR.
Digital Video Recorder Configuring Recording Settings NOTE: Pressing the button on the front of the DVR will cause the red LED to light and indicates the DVR is ready to record. However, this does not mean the DVR is recording. The DVR records video based on the parameters such as schedule and events defined during configuration.
User’s Manual The DVR provides the Duplex mode, so you can record and play back video at the same time. Highlight the box beside Field Detect. Pressing the button toggles between On and Off. When set to On, the Field Detection helps prevent shaking. It does this by recording odd numbered fields from odd numbered cameras and even numbered fields from even numbered cameras.
Digital Video Recorder You can set the maximum amount of time-lapse video to be stored. Once the DVR reaches this amount, it will start recording over the oldest time-lapse video. The time lapse video is stored separate from Event video. When Keep the continuous pictures is set to On, you can set the time from 1 Hour to the maximum allowed by the storage capacity of your hard disk drive.
User’s Manual NOTE: The Holiday (H) schedule applies to the dates you established as holidays when setting Date/Time. You can save your changes by highlighting OK and pressing the button . Selecting Cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. Pre-Event Recording Setup Screen Figure 50 —...
Digital Video Recorder Event Action Setup Highlight the Alarm In Event Action, Motion Detector Event Action, or Video Loss Event Action in the Event Action menu and press the button. The following Event Action setup screens will appear. NOTE: Program event dwell times to expected event periods. Proper dwell time programming will minimize excessive Event Log entries.
User’s Manual Alarm In Event Action (Record) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to events differently. Each sensor can be assigned a schedule, camera, recording speed, video quality and dwell time. Figure 51 — Alarm In Event Action (Record) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Alarm In Event Action (Alarm Out) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to events differently by activating an internal buzzer or external alarms. Figure 52 — Alarm In Event Action (Alarm Out) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
User’s Manual Alarm In Event Action (Notify) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to notify the remote site when certain events are activated. Figure 53 — Alarm In Event Action (Notify) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Motion Detector Event Action (Record) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to motion detector differently. Each camera can be assigned a schedule, associated camera, recording speed, video quality and dwell time. Figure 54 — Motion Detector Event Action (Record) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
User’s Manual Motion Detector Event Action (Alarm Out) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to motion events differently by activating an internal buzzer or external alarms. Figure 55 — Motion Detector Event Action (Alarm Out) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Motion Detector Event Action (Notify) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to notify the remote site when certain motion events are activated. Figure 56 — Motion Detector Event Action (Notify) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
User’s Manual Video Loss Event Action (Record) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to video loss from a camera differently. Each camera can be assigned a schedule, associated camera, recording speed, video quality and dwell time. Figure 57 — Video Loss Event Action (Record) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Video Loss Event Action (Alarm Out) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to react to video loss differently by activating an internal buzzer or external alarms. Figure 58 — Video Loss Event Action (Alarm Out) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
User’s Manual Video Loss Event Action (Notify) Setup Screen The DVR can be set to notify the remote site in the case of video loss. Figure 59 — Video Loss Event Action (Notify) setup screen. Highlight the Sched box and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Display Setup Highlight the OSD, Main Monitoring, or Spot Monitoring in the Main menu, and press the button to set up the on-screen display, or camera display on the main monitor or spot monitor. OSD (On-Screen Display) Setup The DVR can be set up to display Date, Time, Title and Status on screen.
User’s Manual Main Monitoring Setup Screen You can adjust the display dwell time for each camera displayed on the main monitor. You can also turn camera sequence and event monitoring on and off. Figure 61 — Main Monitoring Setup screen. Highlight the box beside Sequence Dwell Time and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside Event Monitoring and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When On, video from the lowest camera number among those associated with the event-detected sensor will be displayed full-screen on the monitor for the preset dwell time. Highlight the box beside Event Monitoring Dwell Time and press the button.
User’s Manual Network Setup Screen In the Network Setup screen you can set up the DVR for LAN connections. Figure 63 — Network Setup screen. Highlight the box beside Connection. Press the button to toggle between LAN and Modem. Highlight the box beside Admin Password and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside Transfer Speed and press the button. Select the transfer speed from 1 to 30 ips. NOTE: The transfer speed you set is the maximum speed, so this speed cannot be achieved according to the network environment. NOTE: The transfer speed indicates the number of images which transferred to each RAS.
User’s Manual Change the numbers by highlighting them and using the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number. The factory default LAN settings are: IP Address: 192.168.1.129 Gateway: 192.168.1.254 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 The factory default IP Port settings are: Admin: 8200 Watch:...
Digital Video Recorder Highlight Baud Rate and press the button. A list of baud rates ranging from 300 to 115,200 appears. Highlight the box beside Data Bit and press the button. This toggles between 7 bit and 8 bit formats. Highlight the box beside Stop Bit and press the button.
User’s Manual Callback Center Setup by LAN connections Highlight the box beside IP Address and enter the IP address of the computer you want contacted during an event. Highlight the box beside Retry and enter the number of times you would like the DVR to try contacting the computer.
Digital Video Recorder Figure 67 — Password setup screen. Highlight the box beside User and press the button to toggle between On and Off. If the password is set to On, you will be asked to enter the current password so that you can turn it Off. If the password is set to Off, you will be asked to enter the new password and to confirm it before it will be turned on.
User’s Manual Config Screen The Config menu is used to perform functions such as switching between Quick Setup and Normal Setup, archiving and backing up video, loading default setup and clearing all data. Figure 68 — Config screen. Archive The Archive screen can be used to archive video automatically or manually. Figure 69 —...
Digital Video Recorder Selecting Update loads the latest information displayed on the Archive screen. Selecting Clear erases all archived data. Selecting Setup displays a screen where you set up archive parameters. Figure 70 — Archive Setup screen. Highlight the box beside End Of Disk and press the button.
User’s Manual Figure 71 — Manual Archive screen. Highlight the boxes beside From and To and press the button to set up the archive start and stop times and dates. Once you set the archive start and stop times and dates, highlight the Archive Now button and press the button.
Digital Video Recorder Figure 72 — Clip Copy screen. To select the data source to back up, highlight the first box on the top and press the button. A drop-down list of available data source appears. You can select from Local or Archive. To select the type of the drive to use for clip copy, highlight the second box on the top and press button.
User’s Manual You can use other functions on the DVR while video is being backed up. To do this, highlight the Close button and press the button. You can return to the Clip Copy screen at any time to check the progress. NOTE: You can not end the archiving process during CD burning.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 4 — Operation NOTE: This chapter assumes your DVR has been installed and configured. If it has not, please refer to Chapters 2 and 3. The DVR’s controls are similar to a VCR. As with a VCR, the main functions are recording and playing back video.
User’s Manual Pressing the SEQUENCE button will cause the cameras to display sequentially on the monitor. When in one of the multi-view formats, pressing this button will cause the DVR to through user-defined screen layouts (page sequence), or the bottom, right screen to display live cameras sequentially (cameo sequence).
Digital Video Recorder PTZ Mode The DVR will control cameras with Pan, Tilt and Zoom capabilities. Press the button to enter the PTZ mode. You can control the camera using front panel control buttons or by setting up presets. To use the front panel buttons, press the Left and Right arrow buttons to pan left and right.
User’s Manual Recording Video Once you have installed the DVR following the instructions in Chapter 2 — Installation, it is ready to record. Unless you change the setup, the DVR will start recording when you press the button and will continue recording until the hard disk drive is full. The factory default is Stop when the hard disk drive is full.
Digital Video Recorder FF (Fast Forward) Button Pressing the button plays video forward at high speed. Pressing the button again toggles the playback speed from . The screen displays respectively. Entering Fast Playback mode from Live Monitoring mode can be password protected. STOP Button Pressing the STOP...
User’s Manual Searching Video Pressing the SEARCH button displays the Search Menu. Figure 75 — Search Menu. • Change Data Source — Changes the data source to be searched (see below for more details) • Go to First — Displays the first image •...
Digital Video Recorder Date/Time Search Figure 77 — Date/Time Search screen. Move the cursor over the date and press the button. You can use the Left and Right arrow buttons to highlight the year, month and day. Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to change to the date you want to search for video.
User’s Manual Days with recorded video display on the calendar with white numbers. You can highlight the days with recorded video by using the arrow buttons. Once you have highlighted a day, press button to select it. A time bar will display at the bottom of the calendar. Hours in which video was recorded will be highlighted with blue.
Digital Video Recorder You can also narrow your event search by selecting Query… and setting up the new search condition. Figure 80 — Event Search (by Camera) screen. Figure 81 — Event Search (by Event) screen. Highlight the box beside Search by and press the button to toggle between Camera and Event.
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User’s Manual When you select the Search by Camera, select the target cameras and event options. When you select the Search by Event, select event options for each device. Once you set your desired search conditions, highlight Search and press the button to Selecting Cancel exits the screen display the search results in the Event Log screen.
Digital Video Recorder Appendix A — USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation Preparing the USB-IDE hard disk drive in Windows 2000 NOTE: Preparing a USB-IDE hard disk drive under Windows XP is almost identical to Windows 2000. 1. Connect the USB-IDE hard disk drive to your computer using the USB Cable. 2.
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User’s Manual 8. Choose the appropriate letter corresponding to the USB-IDE hard disk drive. 9. In the FDISK Option menu, choose “1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive.” 10. In the Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive menu, choose “1. Create Primary DOS Partition.”...
Digital Video Recorder Appendix B — Reviewing Backup (Clip) Images Disconnect the external USB-IDE hard disk drive from the DVR, and connect it to your PC. You do not need to install any special software on your personal computer to review the video. The backup file contains the Player program.
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User’s Manual The Current Image Information window displays information about the current image. Camera Title displays the camera name of the current image, and Time displays the date and time the image was recorded. The Playback Function Buttons include fast backward, backward, play, pause, fast forward, go to the first image, go to the previous image, go to the next image, and go to the last image buttons.
Digital Video Recorder Appendix C — Troubleshooting Problem Possible Solution • Check power cord connections. No Power • Confirm that there is power at the outlet. • Check camera video cable and connections. • Check monitor video cable and connections. No Live Video •...
User’s Manual Appendix D — Connector Pin Outs I/O Connector Pin Outs AI (1 to 16) Alarm Inputs 1 to 16 Chassis Ground (4 connectors) AO (1 to 4) Alarm Outputs 1 to 4 Alarm Reset In RS485 Connector Pin Outs Master Unit Slave Unit RX-/TX- →...
Digital Video Recorder Appendix F — Specifications VIDEO Signal Format NTSC or PAL (selector switch) Composite: 4, 9 or 16 looping inputs, 1 Vp-p, Video Input auto-terminating, 75 Ohms Composite: One, 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohms Monitor Outputs SVHS: One SPOT: 1 BNC Video Resolution 720x480 (NTSC), 720x576 (PAL) Playback/Record Speed...
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User’s Manual CONNECTORS Video Input Composite: 4, 9 or 16 BNC / 4, 9 or 16 RJ-11 Video Loop Composite: 4, 9 or 16 BNC Composite: 1 BNC Monitor Output SVHS: 1 Y/C SPOT: 1 BNC Audio In RCA connector / RJ-11 Audio Out RCA connector / RJ-11 Alarms...
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