Digital Video Recorder WARNING RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN WARNING: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage"...
Operation Instruction Important Safeguards 1. Read Instructions 10. Overloading All the safety and operating instructions should be read before the Do not overload wall outlets and extension cords as this can result appliance is operated. in the risk of fire or electric shock. 2.
Digital Video Recorder Table of Contents Chapter 1 — Introduction ......................1 Feature ........................... 1 Technical Overview ........................ 1 Chapter 2 — Installation ......................3 Package Contents ........................3 Required Installation Tools ....................3 Video Input......................... 3 Audio In/Out ........................4 Alarm Input/Output ......................
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Remote Control ....................... 41 Network Setup ........................41 General ..........................41 LAN ..........................42 DVRNS ..........................44 RTSP ..........................45 Speco Remote ......................... 46 VNC ..........................46 Notification Setup ......................... 47 Callback ........................... 47 Mail ..........................48 SNS ..........................50 Schedule ..........................
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USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation ..................75 Text-In Search Examples..................... 75 Search Example I ......................75 Search Example II ......................76 Speco Remote ........................77 Web Monitoring Mode ..................... 78 Web Search Mode ......................79 Time Overlap ........................81 Error Code Notices ......................81 System Log Notices ......................
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 1 — Introduction Feature Your color digital video recorder (DVR) provides recording capabilities for four or eight camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features: 4 or 8 Composite Video Input Connectors ...
Operation Instruction Figure 1: Typical DVR installation. NOTE: This manual covers the 4- and 8-channel digital video recorders. The DVRs are identical except for the number of cameras and alarms that can be connected and the number of cameras that can be displayed. For simplicity, the illustrations and descriptions in this manual refer to the 8-camera model.
Digital Video Recorder Power Adaptor and Power Cord Operation Instruction (This Document) Speco Central Software CD and Operation Instruction Infrared Remote Control Required Installation Tools No special tools are required to install the DVR. Refer to the installation manuals for the other items that make up part of your system.
Operation Instruction Audio In/Out Your DVR can record audio from up to four sources. Connect the audio sources to Audio In 1, Audio In 2, Audio In 3 and Audio In 4 as needed using RCA jacks. Connect Audio Out to your amplifier. NOTE: It is the user’s responsibility to determine if local laws and regulations permit recording audio.
Digital Video Recorder Connector Pin Outs: Master Unit Slave Unit → → → → → → NOTE: Refer to the following for pin-out details for the 9-pin connector of the slave unit. Pin 2 RXD (Receive Data) Pin 3 TXD (Transmit Data) Pin 5 GND (Ground) Male...
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Operation Instruction WARNING: ROUTE POWER CORDS SO THAT THEY ARE NOT A TRIPPING HAZARD. MAKE CERTAIN THE POWER CORD WILL NOT BE PINCHED OR ABRADED BY FURNITURE. DO NOT INSTALL POWER CORDS UNDER RUGS OR CARPET. THE POWER CORD HAS A GROUNDING PIN. IF YOUR POWER OUTLET DOES NOT HAVE A GROUNDING PIN RECEPTACLE, DO NOT MODIFY THE PLUG.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 3 — Configuration NOTE: Your DVR should be completely installed before proceeding. Refer to Chapter 2 — Installation. Front Panel Controls Figure 3: 8-Channel DVR front panel. Menu Button Copy Button Esc Button Play/Stop Button Camera Buttons Arrow Buttons Play/Pause Button HDD LED...
Operation Instruction Play/Stop Button Pressing the button enters the playback mode, and pressing the button again exits the playback mode. When PLAY/STOP entering the playback mode, video is paused. Pressing the (Play/Pause) button plays back video at regular speed. The screen displays when the DVR is in the Pause mode and the screen displays when the DVR is playing back video.
Digital Video Recorder Remote Control Buttons ID Button Camera Buttons Sequence Button Button Login/Logout Arrow Buttons Menu Button Playback Buttons Button Alarm Layout Button Zoom Button PTZ Button Enter Button Button PTZ Control Buttons Copy Button Button Play/Stop Figure 4: Infrared remote control. NOTE: For simplicity, the button descriptions in this manual refer to the front panel buttons.
Operation Instruction Arrow Buttons These buttons are used to navigate through menus and GUI. You can also use them to change numbers by highlighting a number in the menu and using the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number’s value. When in the PIP display format, pressing the Up and Down arrow buttons moves the position of the small screen counter-clockwise and clockwise.
Digital Video Recorder Esc Button During menu setup, pressing the button closes the current menu or setup dialog box. PTZ Control Buttons While in the PTZ mode, the buttons are used to save Presets and load a Preset View, the buttons are used PRESET ZOOM...
Operation Instruction NOTE: To assure the secure management of the system, setting up a password is strongly recommended. If you cannot use the front panel buttons, click the button using the mouse to enter a password, and the virtual keyboard displays. See instructions below for using the virtual keyboard. To log the user out of the system, press the button or move the mouse pointer on the right edge MENU...
Digital Video Recorder System Setup General Figure 8: System – General setup screen. Highlight the Site box and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears that you can use to enter a Site Name. Once you have entered your title, highlight OK and press the button.
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Operation Instruction You can import saved DVR settings or export the current DVR settings. To import saved DVR settings, connect the USB device containing the setup file (.dat) to the DVR. Highlight Setup – Import… and press the button. Select the desired setup file and press the Import button to import the selected settings and change the DVR settings accordingly.
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Digital Video Recorder The box beside Recorded Data – From / To displays the time information of recorded data. Highlighting Clear All Data… and pressing the button will clear all video data. You will be asked to verify that you wish to clear all data before the DVR erases the video data. Clear All Data… will not clear the System Log. Highlight EZ Setup and press the button.
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Operation Instruction Date/Time Setup Date: Set the system date and select the date format. Time: Set the system time and select the time format. Time Zone: Select your time zone. The Time Zone can be selected on the map. ...
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Digital Video Recorder Record Video Quality Setup Select the desired video quality profile from: – Higher Video Quality Priority Profile – Standard Recording Profile – Longer Recording Time Priority Profile NOTE: The higher quality setting requires more storage space. The recording resolution will be set to Very High (D1/960H) when selecting High Video Quality Priority Profile, High (2CIF/H960H) when selecting Standard Recording Profile, and Standard (CIF/Q960H) when selecting Longer Recording Time Priority Profile.
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Operation Instruction If you selected the Go to EZ Network, select the Next button to start the EZ Network. Internet Connection Select whether or not your DVR is connected to the Internet.
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Digital Video Recorder LAN Setup Select between Auto Configuration and Manual Configuration for network configuration, and then select the Test button to test the network configuration you selected. NOTE: Selecting Auto Configuration allows the DVR to automatically obtain LAN parameters (IP address, Gateway, Subnet Mask and DNS Server address).
Operation Instruction Highlight System Shutdown and press the button. The Shutdown screen displays asking you to confirm whether or not you want to shut the system down. After selecting Shutdown and pressing the button, a screen will appear telling you when it is safe to disconnect power.
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Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside Automatic Sync. and press the button. This toggles between On and Off. Highlight the box beside Time Server and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears that you can use to enter the IP address or domain name of the time server. Highlighting allows you to select your time server from a list of registered time servers.
You will be asked to confirm that you want to delete the User or Group. To delete the User currently logged into the DVR on a local system or a PC running Speco Central II, log the user out of the system first and then delete the user.
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PC running Speco Central II. System Time Change – The user can change the system date and time on a local system or a PC running Speco Central II. Data Clear – The user can clear all video data or format disks on a local system or a PC running Speco Central II.
Operation Instruction Storage Figure 11: System – Storage setup screen. The information in the Type column describes the storage device. The capacity of the storage device is displayed in the Capacity column. The Format column displays whether the device is used for recording (Record) or not (Not Using). Not formatted indicates the device is not formatted.
Digital Video Recorder Capacity Estimator Figure 12: System – Capacity Estimator setup screen. The Capacity Estimator screen allows you to calculate the available record time of the DVR’s storage device. Set up the calculation conditions. Video Format: Select the video format: NTSC or PAL. ...
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Mail notify is the only option available for the System event. Alert Window notify cannot be set to System, Boot Up, Restart and Shutdown events. For the Notify action to work, the DVR should be registered in the Speco Central II (Remote Administration System).
Digital Video Recorder Recording Setup General Figure 14: Record – General setup screen. Highlighting Recycle and pressing the button toggles between On and Off. In the Recycle mode, the DVR records over the oldest video data once all available storage space has been used. When Recycle is turned off, the DVR stops recording once all available storage space has been used.
Operation Instruction Highlighting the Panic Recording – ips and pressing the button allows you to set the images per second for Panic recording. You can select from 1.00 to 30.00 ips (25.00 ips PAL). Highlighting the Panic Recording – Quality and pressing the button allows you to set the recorded image quality for Panic recording.
Digital Video Recorder When the DVR is in the Event mode, the red icon displays at the top-left corner of the screen. The DVR will record icon at the top-left corner of the screen when any event occurs. When the DVR is in the Pre-Event and displays the recoding mode, the yellow icon displays when there is no event, and the DVR is not recording.
Operation Instruction Highlighting boxes under Quality and pressing the button allows you to set the recorded image quality for Time and Event recording. You can select from: Very High, High, Standard and Basic. Highlighting boxes under Resolution and pressing the button allows you to set the recorded image resolution for Time and Event recording.
Digital Video Recorder Event Setup Motion Figure 18: Event – Motion setup screen. Your DVR has built-in video motion detection. Video motion detection can be turned On or Off for each camera. Highlighting the box under the Sensitivity heading and pressing the button allows you to adjust the DVR’s sensitivity to motion for Daytime and Nighttime independently.
Operation Instruction You can adjust the minimum number of detection blocks that must be activated to trigger a motion alarm. Highlighting the box under the Min. Blocks heading and pressing the button allows you to adjust the minimum number of detection blocks for Daytime and Nighttime independently. Smaller numbers provide greater sensitivity because fewer detection blocks must be activated.
Digital Video Recorder Video Loss Figure 20: Event – Video Loss setup screen. Highlighting the box under the Video Loss Interval heading allows you to set the duration of a signal loss before the DVR will report a Video Loss. The DVR will not consider any signal loss from a camera to be a Video Loss if the detected signal loss is shorter than the interval set on this screen.
Operation Instruction The DVR checks to see if anything is blinding a camera. Highlighting the box under the Sensitivity heading allows you to adjust the DVR’s sensitivity to video blind for Black and White independently from 0 (Never) and 1 (least sensitive) to 15 (most sensitive). NOTE: Video blind might NOT be detected for a camera with a very noisy image especially when set for low sensitivity values.
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Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside Port, and press the button. Select from None, RS232, RS485, USB-Serial (1~8) and LAN (1~8). NOTE: If you have set the Port as None, you will not be able to make any changes to the screen. When using the USB to serial text-in device, do NOT remove the USB cable from the port while the system is running.
Operation Instruction Each input can be given a title. Highlight the desired Title box and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter a title name. Highlight the box under the Actions and press the button. The DVR can be set to react to text input. Text input can be associated with cameras, trigger an Alarm-Out connector, sound the DVR’s internal buzzer, notify a number of different devices, and/or move PTZ cameras to preset positions.
Digital Video Recorder Figure 24: Camera – PTZ setup screen. NOTE: You will only be able to set up PTZ devices if the PTZ port is set to RS232 or RS485. Highlight the box in the Product column for the PTZ camera you wish to configure and press the button.
Operation Instruction Device Setup Audio Figure 25: Device – Audio setup screen. The DVR can record up to four audio inputs. Highlight the box beside the input and press the button. A list of cameras appears, and you can select which camera you want associated with that audio input. Highlight Enable Audio-Out and press the button.
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Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box under the Range heading and press the button to change the time range that the scheduled digital deterrent will take place. The smallest time segment you can use is 15 minutes. Highlight the box under the Associated Event heading and press the button to select which events you want associated with each digital deterrent.
Operation Instruction Highlight the box beside To and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When set to Off, you can enter a specific Date and Time. When set to On, the search will be to the last recorded audio . When highlighting and pressing button the bookmark list displays and the bookmark point you selected will be the ending date and time.
Digital Video Recorder Remote Control Figure 28: Device – Remote Control setup screen. Highlight the box beside Port and select from None, RS232 and RS485. If the RS232 port and RS485 port are in use for PTZ control, networking or text input, the remote keyboard cannot be configured. Highlight Setup…...
Remote Audio Channel and pressing the button allows you to select the audio channel that sends audio to the remote site. Selecting Select From Speco Central will send audio of the channel selected from Speco Central II.
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Highlight the Port Number Setup… box and press the button. The Port Number Setup screen appears. NOTE: You will need to get the appropriate Port Numbers for each Speco Central II and Speco Remote related program (Admin, Callback, Watch and Search) from your network administrator.
Operation Instruction Selecting DHCP from the Type and highlighting Save button reads the current IP address of the DVR configured by DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) network. Highlight Auto (Default) and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When it is On, the DVR will obtain the IP address of the DNS server automatically.
On and Off. When set to on, you can access a remote DVR using a Blackberry or other mobile devices. NOTE: Selecting Use Mobile sets the Speco Remote service to be enabled automatically regardless of your Speco Remote settings.
Figure 33: Network – Speco Remote setup screen. Highlight Use Speco Remote Service and press the button to toggle between On and Off. See Appendix – Speco Remote for detailed descriptions of the Speco Remote service. Highlight the box beside Port and press the button.
Callback Figure 35: Notification – Callback setup screen. The DVR can be set up to contact a computer running Speco Central II (Remote Administration System) when an event occurs. Highlight the box under the No. heading and press the button to toggle between On and Off. You will only...
Operation Instruction Highlight the IP Address box that you want to change and press the button. Use the arrow buttons to enter the IP address of the computer you want contacted during an event. You can enter up to five IP addresses. Highlight the box beside Retry and enter the number of times you would like the DVR to try contacting the computer.
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Digital Video Recorder Highlight Use and press the button to toggle between On and Off. Assign the Recipient to a Group and enter the Recipient’s Display Name. Highlight the box beside Address and enter the recipient’s e-mail address and mail server provider. Highlighting allows you to select the mail server provider from a list of registered SMTP mail server...
Operation Instruction Figure 37: Notification – SNS setup screen. The DVR can be set up to post a message via SNS (Social Network Service) when an event occurs. You can add and edit the SNS account on this screen. The SNS account can be turned On or Off by highlighting the boxes under the No.
Ethernet. The icon displays on each camera when audio communication is available between the DVR and a PC running Speco Central II via Ethernet. The icon displays when VNC service is running.
Operation Instruction Freeze & Sequence – The icon displays while in the Freeze mode, and the displays while in the Sequence mode. Screen Group – The number of screen group displays when the DVR is not in the 3x3 and 1P7 display modes of the 8-channel DVR, and 2x2 mode of the 4-channel DVR.
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Digital Video Recorder NOTE: Sequence cannot be used in the 3x3 and 1P7 modes of the 8-channel DVR, and 2x2 mode of the 4-channel DVR. You can adjust the display dwell time by highlighting the box beside Interval and pressing the button.
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. However, you have much greater control over recording and playing back video.
Operation Instruction Live Monitoring Menu Login/Logout Selecting (Login) in the Live Monitoring menu accesses the Login screen, and you will be asked to select a User and enter the password to log into the system. Selecting (Logout) in the Live Monitoring menu displays the Logout screen asking you to confirm whether or not you want to log out the current user.
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Digital Video Recorder Sequence Selecting (Sequence) in the Live Monitoring menu causes the cameras to display sequentially. When in one of the multi-view formats, selecting will cause the DVR to go through predefined screen layouts (Full Sequence). Or, the bottom, right screen will display live cameras sequentially (Cameo Sequence). For example, if you select the 2x2 format, the DVR changes pages as follows: <...
Operation Instruction Active Cameo Mode (Display) Edit Group in the Live Monitoring menu in any You can enter the Active Cameo mode by selecting multi-view format. The yellow outline surrounding the video indicates the active cameo, and pressing the arrow buttons moves the active cameo.
Digital Video Recorder You can save camera position settings as “presets” so that you can go directly to desired views. Once you have the camera at the desired settings, press the the PRESET SET button, and the Set Preset dialog box will appear. Select the number you want to assign to the preset and press the (Play/Pause) button.
Operation Instruction Covert Camera If a camera is set up as Covert 1 in the Camera setup screen (General tab), that camera will not be displayed unless a user with Covert Camera View authority logs into the system. However the camera title and status icons will be displayed on the monitor.
Digital Video Recorder Highlighting the Storage tab will display the hard disk drive status. Figure 45: Event Status – Storage screen. The Type column displays the type of storage device. The Disk Bad column displays the percentage of bad sectors. Not formatted indicates the device is not formatted. The Temperature column displays the temperature of the storage device.
Operation Instruction NOTE: When the DVR is not in the Recycle mode and all available storage space has been used, panic recording will not operate. Recording Audio If the DVR was set up to record audio, it will record audio from up to four inputs when video is recording. NOTE: Make certain you comply with all local and federal laws and regulations when recording audio.
Digital Video Recorder You can use a mouse for convenient playback control. Position the mouse pointer on the playback screen, and the following Record Table Search (Compact View Mode) screen will display. The individual controls on the toolbar perform the following functions as described below: Go to the previous image Play/Pause Go to the next image...
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Operation Instruction Move the cursor over the date and time and press the (Play/Pause) button. You can use the Left and Right arrow buttons to highlight the year, month, day, hours, minutes and seconds. Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to change to the date and time you want to search for video.
Digital Video Recorder Edit Group: Selecting (Camera Menu) → Edit Group enters to the Active Cameo mode. Refer to the previous Live Monitoring – Active Cameo Mode section for details. NOTE: The Camera Menu also can be displayed by clicking the right mouse button on the screen while in the search mode.
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Operation Instruction The DVR maintains a log of each time the Alarm Input port is activated. The Event Log Search screen displays this list. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for which you would like to see video. There is no determined user authority to display the Event Log Search screen, however, the event video will not be played unless a user with Search authority logs into the system .
Digital Video Recorder You can also toggle On and Off self-diagnostic System Events as part of your search. The choices are: Panic Record Check Recording Check Alarm-In Disk Almost Full Disk Bad Disk Temperature ...
Operation Instruction NOTE: If the DVR has images recorded in more than one recording mode in the same time range, the recording status bar displays recording information in the following priority order: Panic Pre-Event Event Time. The color of the bar indicates different recording modes: Red for Panic, Yellow for Pre-Event, Purple for Event, and Blue for Time.
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Digital Video Recorder The Motion Search… can be selected from the Search menu while the DVR displays the camera full screen. The Motion Search screen displays a list of motion events. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for which you would like to see video and press the (Play/Pause) button to display the video associated with the selected event on the small search screen.
Operation Instruction Text-In Search Figure 51: Text-In Search screen. The DVR maintains a log of each time there is Text Input. The Text-In Search screen displays this list. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for which you would like to see video. Pressing the (Play/Pause) button will extract the video associated with the Text Input and display the first image of the event.
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the box beside To and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When set to Off, you can enter a specific Date and Time. When set to On, the search will be from the last recorded image. When highlighting pressing the button the bookmark list displays and the bookmark point you selected will be the ending date and time.
Operation Instruction NOTE: While in the Day precision mode, “…” after the date information displayed on the camera screen indicates that the DVR has more than one video stream for the same date. Selecting the window and pressing button allows you to select the video stream you want to search and move to the next precision level.
Digital Video Recorder Figure 53: Clip-Copy screen. You can search video from the first to last recorded images, or you can set the start and stop times and dates. Highlight the box beside From and press the (Play/Pause) button to toggle between On and Off. When set to Off, you can enter a specific Date and Time.
You can return to the Clip-Copy screen at any time to check the progress. You do not need to install any special software on your personal computer to review the video clips. Refer to Speco Central II manual for instructions on how to review video clips you have copied.
Digital Video Recorder Appendix USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation NOTE: The following description is for preparing a USB hard disk drive under Windows 2000. Preparing a USB hard disk drive under Windows XP, Window Vista and Window 7 is almost identical to Windows 2000. Connect the USB hard disk drive to your computer using the USB Cable.
Operation Instruction Search Example II 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 Item Unit price amount ================================================== Coke 2.20 | 1(s) 2.20 Fanta 2.20 | 1(s) 2.20 Hotdog 3.50 | 3(s) 10.50 Pepsi 1.95 | 1(s) 1.95 ================================================== total : $ 16.85 Thank you~~ In the above text-in data, you can find that the comparison value is located at 17th (Unit price, $ mark will be ignored automatically), 28 (Qty) and 40 (amount) characters (including spaces) from the left, but the value of amount...
– DVRNS server) NOTE: You will need to get the appropriate IP address for the DVR you want to connect to and the Speco Remote port number from your network administrator. Speco Remote only works with Microsoft Internet Explorer and will NOT work with other browsers.
② Click the to access to the web search mode. ③ Position the mouse pointer on the Remote Watch logo to see the version of the Speco Remote program. ④ The DVR information window displays the login information of Speco Remote.
③ Position the mouse pointer on the Remote Search logo to see the version of the Speco Remote program. ④ The DVR information window displays the time information of recorded data on the remote DVR and login information...
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DVR name registered on the DVRNS server) – When not using the DVRNS: “http://IP address:port number/ClipPlayer.exe” (The DVR IP address and the Speco Remote port number (default: 12088) set in the Network setup screen (Speco Remote tab)) ⑫ Click the to reload the recording data.
Digital Video Recorder Time Overlap If the DVR’s time and date have been reset to a time that is earlier than the existing recorded video, it is possible for the DVR to have more than one video stream in the same time range. In this case, you can search overlapping video streams individually by selecting a specific segment.
Operation Instruction System Upgrade Related Clip Copy Related Description Description Remote upgrade is not authorized. No executable file. Saving remote package failed. Opening executable file failed. Remote upgrade is cancelled by the user. Writing executable file failed. USB device mounting failed. Creating image failed.
User Storage Capacity Estimator System Event RECORD General Schedule Pre-Event EVENT Motion Alarm-In Video Loss Video Blind Text-In CAMERA General DEVICE Audio Digital Deterrent Alarm-Out Remote Control NETWORK General DVRNS RTSP Speco Remote NOTIFICATION Callback Mail Schedule DISPLAY Main Monitor...
Operation Instruction 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. Confirm that the camera has power. No Live Video ...
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Digital Video Recorder CONNECTORS Video Input Composite: 4 or 8 BNC HDMI: 1 HDMI Monitor Output VGA: 1 VGA Audio In 4 RCA connector Audio Out 1 RCA connector Alarm Input/Output Terminal Blocks Ethernet Port RJ-45 RS232 Serial Port Two-connector terminal block RS485 Serial Port Two-connector terminal block IR Port...