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Medusa series 4/8/16 channel full realtime 960h dvr
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4/8/16 Channel Full Realtime 960H DVR
User's Manual
V1.0 12 / 2013

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  • Page 1 4/8/16 Channel Full Realtime 960H DVR User’s Manual V1.0 12 / 2013...
  • Page 2 © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    2.3 The Video Inquiry .......................... 11 2.4 Configuration ..........................14 2.4.1 System ............................. 14 2.4.2 Record ............................. 15 2.4.3 Network ............................ 17 2.4.4 Alarm ............................20 2.4.5 Account ............................ 20 2.4.6 Abnormity ..........................22 © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 4 4.2.2 Manual port mapping ....................... 40 4.3 NTP function ..........................40 4.3.1 Internet configuration ....................... 40 4.3.2 Intranet Configuration ......................41 4.4 Voice Intercom ..........................41 4.4.1 Summarise ..........................41 4.4.2 Configuration ........................... 42 © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 5 4.5 HDD Redundancy .......................... 42 4.6 HDD S.M.A.R.T ..........................43 5 COMMON FAULTS ....................45 © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 6 This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your system. Here you can find information about the corresponding DVR’s features and functions, as well as a detailed menu tree. Before installation and operation please read the following safeguards and warnings carefully! ©...
  • Page 7  We are not liable for any problems caused by unauthorized modifications or attempted repair. 5．Environment  The DVR should be installed in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight, inflammable, explosive substances and etc.  This series product shall be transported, storage and used in the environment ranging from 0℃...

  • Page 8: Features And Specifications

    Equiped with USB 2.0 high-speed interface and an ESATA interface to allow for external video backup devices. There is also an option to store data on a remote server (cloud storage location) by connected the DVR to a local or wide area network by using the standard Ethernet interface port (plug and play).
  • Page 9 The built-in WEB Server will allow you to directly access the DVR through a web browser. Mode of operation You can operate by the DVR’s front panel or using a mouse. A simple, intuitive graphical interface is provided for intuitive operation. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 10: Installation

    Prepare a camera, a display, video lines, network cables, a mouse, and kinds of power cord. Installation Steps: 1. Place the DVR on a flat horizontal position and connect the camera to the video input interface in the rear panel. 2. Connect the displayer to the video output.

  • Page 11: The Input Method

    “represents a space. 1.6 Power On/Off 1.6.1 Power On Install the DVR correctly and the connect power. When the light comes on, the DVR will boot automatically. DVRs will detect the hardware when power on and the process will last about 20 Seconds.
  • Page 12 If the hard disk boot is not connected, the following interface will pop up. The real-time multi-screen mode view: NOTE: Power supply has to match with DVR, any other substitutes are not allowed. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 13: Power Off

    【Main Menu】→【shutdown】 NOTE: Change HDD after close the device. 1.6.3 Power recovery Reboot after an unexpected power shortage or forceful shutdown, the DVR will save the recorded footage before outage and return to the normal operation mode. 1.7 Icon 1.7.1 The Screen Icons ：The channel is recording.

  • Page 14: Operation Icons

    Switch screens by the front panel, a remote control or a mouse. If screen prompts of external alarm, video loss, occlusion detection, dynamic detection, network connection and IP conflict is set, the following interface will pop up when the relevant alarm occurs. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 15: Operations Guide

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  • Page 16: The Video Inquiry

    【Schedule】Alarm output is in control of alarm configuration. 【Manual】Alarm output is on and the status is active. 【Stop】Alarm output is off and the status is inactive. 【Status】The current status of alarm output. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 17: The Main Menu

    2.2 The Introduction of the Main Menu 【Search】Search records by types, channels, time and playback records. 【Configuration】Include system, record, network, abnormity, alarm, account. 【Storage】HDD management and backup 【Output】PTZ, alarm output, serial and display. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 18: The Video Inquiry

    【Shutdown】Log off from the user menu, turn off the machine, restart the system, and switch user and other operations. 2.3 The Video Inquiry In real-time monitoring screen, right click and select【search】to enter the searching interface. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 19 Displays status information of the function keys, Status which includes the fast-forward speed, slow speed and so on. List Display the list of recorded files. Time inquiries Search the records based on the starting time. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 20 ►/ to enter the normal playback . NOTE: The player playback control bar shows file playback speed, channel, time, playback progress and other information. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 21: Configuration

    【Time Format】24 hr or 12 hr mode 【Language】 Select a language. 【Full HDD】When HDD is full, there are two options: “Overwrite” or “Stop recording”. If you select “Overwrite”, the DVR will overwrite the earliest files and continue recording. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 22: Record

    If you select “Stop recording”, the DVR will stop recording. 【Pack Duration】Set a length for each record. Default is 60 minutes. 【DVR No.】The default is 8. 【Video Standard】PAL/NTSC 【Auto Logout】This range is from 0 to 60 minutes. 2.4.2 Record Local channel 【Channel】Select a channel.
  • Page 23 【Preview】Set the masking zone. Masking zone is shown on the screen when displayed (no masking zone in web and record). 【Monitor】Set masking zone. Masking zones are shown in the screen when displaying or recording. Record plan © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 24: Network

    【Time 】Recording time.6 periods can be set every day. 【Normal】Normal record. 【Moving Detection】Moving detection. 2.4.3 Network Set the DVR network parameters in “Network” interface. The default IP address is 192.168.1.88 Base setting © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 25 Input PPPOE’s username and password provided by ISP. Operation: Using this feature, the DVR will automatically obtain a public IP address from your ISP. You can then visit the web interface of the DVR by typing this IP into Internet Explorer.
  • Page 26 Port：The default port is 123. Update cycle: The interval time is between 1 to 65535 min. 【IP Filter】DVR authority management. If you enable the white list, only the filled IPs can be connected. This system supports a max of 64 IPs.

  • Page 27: Alarm

    The device supports the use of a push service and the smart phone mobile client. The interface is mainly used to open the push service. The current mobile client associated with the DVR, local real-time alarm information will also be sent to the phone even in the case that the mobile client is unopened.
  • Page 28  Hidden default: operate in password-less login mode, which you cannot delete. The DVR login name is automatic if no user logs in, user can revise limits of power then operate some without login.  Enter【Add users】to input username, password and select group and reusable options.

  • Page 29: Abnormity

    【No Disk】alarms when HDD is not present or it can’t be detected. 【Process】You can choose【Alarm Output】, 【Display On Screen】 and 【Send Email】 and 【pushed to phone】to show abnormal events occurring. 2.5 Storage 2.5.1 HDD Management © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 30 Base Configuration “Base Configuration” is the status & setup menu, and shows DVR storage capacity, available space and working status. 【Format】it is possible to format an individual HDD. NOTE: Hard disk format operation will result in the loss of video data.

  • Page 31: Backup

    Click【Delete】to clear the file list. Tick the record you want and click【Start】to backup and display time remaining. 【Delete】delete all data in USB backup device NOTE: The 【Delete】operation will cause loss of permanent recorded data. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 32: Output

    The following Error! Reference source not found. shows the peripheral management interface. 2.6.1 Display Display mode can set the unit's display. 【Transparency】4 grades. 【Channel Name】Modify the channel name. Options available to tick: 【Time Display】,【Channel Display】and【Over Info】. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 33 Enable video display touring and interval between rotations. The time is within 5- 120s.The mode includes single screen, four, eight, nine, sixteen screen. 【Motion Tour Type】Set the motion detection tour mode. 【Alarm Tour Type】Set the alarm tour mode. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 34: Maintain

    【Type】System operation, configuration, data management, alarm event, recording, user management, log delete and document operation can be selected. Choose time to filter the log list. Click “Delete” to delete all logs. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 35: Version

    NOTE：Menu transparencies, language, time format, video format, IP, user ID, are not restored. 2.7.4 BPS 【BPS】Show video’s size, data rate of each channel by wave form. NOTE：Estimated value just for reference 2.7.5 Auto Maintain 【Auto Maintain】Set auto maintenance items. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 36: Online User

    2.7.6 Online User 【On-line Users】Display the current online user’s IP. 2.8 Shutdown 【Menu Logout】Log out of the current user. 【Shutdown】Shutdown the DVR 【Restart System】Reboot the DVR © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 37: Web And Client

    3. To view the details of DVR network configuration please navigate to: 【Configuration】→【Network Setting】 4. Ensure the IP is correct and check whether the DVR is on the network by using the Windows command “ping” in the ‘CMD’ window. 3.1.2 The control installation and the user login logout Users can remotely access the DVR via Internet Explorer, assuming you have a working and correct network configuration.

  • Page 38: The Interface Of Web Operations

    Image color: modify brightness, Image color & contrast and other saturation Other: set capture path, record download path and reboot PTZ control PTZ control menu System configuration, record search, Menu alarm setting, exit, etc. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 39: The Real-Time Monitoring

    Click on 2 areas in upper right corner and you can choose to open / close the channel of the main stream or secondary stream. Above the live video window the current DVR's IP and rate information is shown (please see image below). Stream information Lower left corner shows the current video channel name.

  • Page 40: Configuration

    Sound: on/off sound. Off video: off the focus window video. 3.1.5 Configuration Access DVR’s local configuration menu by clicking the “System Setting” option, for further details please refer to:【Local operation guide】 Configuration © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 41: Search Record

    Search record By selecting the record type, start and end times, and click the check button, get a list of files on the DVR. Select the appropriate file and download can be played. Play Double click a search result to play in video window. Control the playing video by the control keys on the bottom.
  • Page 42 Click 【Sound Pop-up】, you can choose a pre-recorded alarm tone on the local hard drive when an alarm occurs, tone file in WAV format. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 43: Functions

    Name server, which can make the outside user connect to the dynamic user’s URL. The DDNS setup window 4.1.2 NO-IP（www.no-ip.com） Register Register new username at no-ip, click 【Create Account】. Create domain name, click 【Add a Host】. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

  • Page 44: Dyndns Ddns（Www.dyndns.com

    4.1.4 Test and verify DDNS After setting up the embedded DVR, please wait for a few minutes and the analysis records will be updated. Click ‘Operation’ in the Menu of computer, input “cmd”, click “OK” to open a window. See ‘cmd’ prompt image on the next page.
  • Page 45 Input “ping+ Domain name” then presses Enter, shown in the image below: The computer will analyse the domain name which is set in the DVR and return to the current IP address, underlined in red in the image above. When the IP address corresponds to the embedded DVR’s IP address in the Public internet, it means the...

  • Page 46: Port Mapping

    In order to get a connection to the Embedded DVR through the Public network, we need to set the Router to cross the NAT of Embedded DVR. UPnP can make the NAT cross automatically by the UPnP agreement of Embedded DVR, and you do not have to set the Router.

  • Page 47: Manual Port Mapping

    Log in to Router, enter into the configuration menu of Router, and set the options in the menu. Then get to port, set the IP distributed by the Embedded DVR, and set port mapping, add HTTP and TCP port into mapping list.

  • Page 48: Intranet Configuration

    Embedded DVR Bidirectional Talk: user can talk to remote client software or Web via the DVR audio input and output ports. User can also listen to the voice from the Client Software and the WEB via the DVR audio output ports.

  • Page 49: Configuration

    HDD redundancy if the main HDD damaged and so preventing lose of data. The hard disk redundancy function is found through the designated channel data double backup in the HDD, so the DVR needs a standalone HDD for the redundancy function.
  • Page 50 Retrieve HDD redundancy The user can retrieve the backup recording data from redundancy HDD when the RW HDD is damaged or data lost. Firstly, shut down DVR and remove damaged HDD, then restart DVR; Secondly, Get into 【Main menu】→【Storage】, set redundancy HDD as a reading and writing HDD, then it can be searched.
  • Page 51 S.M.A.R.T. It is also important information to judge to see if the HDD is healthy or not. There are three statuses: Normal, Alarm and Error----which is closely related with Pre- failure/advisory BIT. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.
  • Page 52 Possible reasons: Please make sure your cameras match your video format selected in the General menu. E.g. camera is NTSC standard but the DVR is PAL standard, the preview would be blurred. Blurred screen in playback mode or failure to playback records...
  • Page 53 When you can’t connect DVR through network 1. Check the physical network connection is correct. 2. Check the DVR network configuration parameters. 3. Check whether IP conflicts exist in network. Download recording can not be played Possible reasons: 1. Player installation error.
  • Page 54 QVIS VIEWER MOBILE APPS To be able to remotely access your Medusa DVR from your mobile smart device please download one of our QVIS Viewer apps from either the Google Play or iTune stores. Scan the QR codes below with you mobile smart device to be directed straight to the...
  • Page 55 & accessories, please visit our website: www.adata.co.uk Alternatively scan this QR code with your smart phone to be directed instantly to our website: Download our mobile apps to remotely operate your DVR on the move. © Copyright Qvis ®. All documentation rights reserved.

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