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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"...
User’s Manual 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 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 ...
User’s Manual 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 16-camera model.
Digital Video Recorder Chapter 2 — Installation Package Contents The package contains the following: Digital Video Recorder Power Adaptor and Power Cord User’s Manual (This Document) RAS Software CD and User’s Manual Infrared Remote Control Required Installation Tools No special tools are required to install the DVR.
User’s Manual Alarm In 1 to 8: You can use external devices to signal the DVR to react to events. Mechanical or electrical switches can be wired to the Alarm In and GND (Ground) connectors. The threshold voltage of electrical switches for NC (Normally Closed) is above 2.4V and for NO (Normally Open) is below 0.3V, and should be stable at least 0.5 seconds to be detected.
Digital Video Recorder Video Out A VGA connector is provided so that you can use a standard, multi-sync computer monitor as your main monitor. Use the cable supplied with your monitor to connect it to the DVR. An HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) connector is provided so that you can use an HDMI monitor as your main monitor.
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. Camera Buttons HDD LED Alarm Out LED Arrow Buttons Play/Pause Button Menu Button PTZ/Zoom Button...
User’s Manual 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. These buttons are also used to control Pan and Tilt when in the PTZ mode.
Digital Video Recorder Search Button Pressing the button enters the search mode, and pressing the button again exits the search mode. When SEARCH entering the search 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.
User’s Manual ID Button If a DVR System ID is set to 0, the infrared remote control will control that DVR without any additional operations. (Refer to the System – General setup screen in this chapter for further information on setting the System ID.) If the system ID is 1 to 16, you must to press the button and then press the number button (1 to 16 (+10 &...
Digital Video Recorder Layout Button Pressing the button toggles between different display formats. The available formats are: 3x3, 1+7, 1+5, LAYOUT 2x2 and PIP. Zoom Button Pressing the button zooms the current image on the screen. A PIP with a rectangle temporarily displays showing ZOOM what area of the screen has been enlarged.
User’s Manual After you are finished with any setup screen, you can highlight Save and press the button to save the changes and exit the screen. If you do not wish to save the changes, highlight Cancel and press the button to exit the screen.
Digital Video Recorder Use the arrow keys to highlight the character you want in the name or title and press button. That character appears in the title bar and the cursor moves to the next position. Pressing toggles between the upper and lower case keyboards, backspaces, and deletes entered characters.
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User’s Manual Select the desired file and press the button. Highlighting the Install button and pressing the button will install the selected software package. Highlighting the Cancel button and pressing the button will close the window without upgrading the software. If the upgrade package file is not installed on the DVR properly, you will get an error message.
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Digital Video Recorder To export the system log information, connect the USB device to the DVR. Highlight Export… and press the button. Highlight the box beside File name and press the button. A virtual keyboard allows you to enter the file name. Selecting Export will save the log information in .txt file format on the USB device.
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User’s Manual 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 when selecting High Video Quality Priority Profile, High when selecting Standard Recording Profile, and Standard when selecting Longer Recording Time Priority Profile.
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User’s Manual If you selected the Go to Network Setup, select the Next button to start the Network Setup Wizard. 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).
User’s Manual 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. Date/Time Figure 9: System –...
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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.
User’s Manual User Figure 10: System – User setup screen. The +/– column is used to collapse and expand user groups. If there is a + or – in this column, it indicates the item is a Group Name. If there is a – in front of the Group Name, it indicates that the group has been “expanded” and all of the User Names within that group are displayed below the Group Name.
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Digital Video Recorder Highlighting the Authority box and pressing the button will toggle between all authority levels being turned On and Off. Highlighting the individual authority level boxes and pressing the button will toggle between that authority level being turned On and Off. The authority levels that can be turned On and Off are: ...
User’s Manual 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 System Event Figure 12: System – System Event setup screen. The DVR can be configured to run self-diagnostics and report the results. Highlight the Settings box beside the desired event (System, Check Recording, Check Alarm-In, Disk Almost Full, Disk Bad, or Disk Temperature), and press the button.
User’s Manual Highlight the Settings box beside Disk Temperature, and press the button. Select the temperature of hard disk drive at which you want the DVR to trigger an alert if the temperature exceeds the defined threshold. Refer to the hard disk drive manufacturer’s documentation for the correct temperature setting.
Digital Video Recorder NOTE: When the storage device does not have enough space to record video data longer than the preset Limit Time-Lapse Recording period, the DVR records over the oldest video data (time-lapse or event video) as it would in the Recycle mode even if this feature is turned On. The maximum storage time is only an estimate because the amount of space required to store video varies depending on many factors such as motion and image complexity.
User’s Manual Highlight the box under the Mode heading and press the button to change the recording mode that will be used. Choose from: No Record, Time, Event and Time & Event. (Simple Mode Only) When the DVR is in the No Record mode, it will not record during the preset day and time range as long as the PANIC button is not pressed.
Digital Video Recorder Highlighting boxes under ips and pressing the button allows you to set the images per second for Time and Event recording. You can select from 1.00 to 30.00 ips (25.00 ips PAL). Highlighting boxes under Quality and pressing the button allows you to set the recorded image quality for Time and Event recording.
User’s Manual Event Setup Motion Figure 17: 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.
Digital Video Recorder 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.
User’s Manual Video Loss Figure 19: 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.
Digital Video Recorder 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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User’s Manual 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.
Digital Video Recorder 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.
User’s Manual Figure 23: 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.
Digital Video Recorder Device Setup Alarm-Out Figure 24: Device – Alarm-Out setup screen. Highlighting the box beside Dwell Time and pressing the button allows you to set the dwell time of the alarm output. Dwell times range from 5 seconds to 30 minutes. Each alarm output can be given its own title by highlighting Title…...
User’s Manual Remote Control Figure 25: 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…...
Digital Video Recorder Highlight the second box beside Remote Watch – bps/ips. You can select the unit of measure for the transfer speed between: bps and ips. Press the button to set the transfer speed. Highlight the box beside Remote Watch – Quality and press the button.
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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 NOTE: You will need to get the appropriate IP Address, Gateway and Subnet Mask from your network administrator.
Digital Video Recorder NOTE: Selecting Auto will only be enabled when the DVR is configured for DHCP or an ADSL network. Selecting ADSL (with PPPoE) allows you to set up the ADSL network. Highlight the box beside ID and press the button.
User’s Manual The box beside Status displays the current information of the Rendezvous server and NAT (Network Address Translation) device. RTSP Figure 29: Network – RTSP setup screen. Highlight Enable RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) and press the button to toggle between On and Off. You will be able to change the settings if Enable RTSP is enabled.
Digital Video Recorder WebGuard Figure 30: Network – WebGuard setup screen. Highlight Use WebGuard Service and press the button to toggle between On and Off. See Appendix – WebGuard for detailed descriptions of the WebGuard service. Highlight the box beside Port and press the button.
User’s Manual Highlight the box beside Password and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter the password for VNC connection. NOTE: Up to three users at a time can access a DVR remotely via VNC service. When controlling the DVR remotely using a keyboard, shortcut keys perform the following functions as described below: Function...
Digital Video Recorder 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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User’s Manual 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...
Digital Video Recorder Figure 34: 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.
User’s Manual You can add and edit notification schedules on this screen. Highlight the + and press the button to add a schedule. Highlighting the boxes under the Column heading and pressing the button allows you to edit the information in those boxes.
Digital Video Recorder Screen Group – The number of screen group displays when the DVR is not in the 3x3 and 1+7 display modes of the 8-channel DVR, and 2x2 mode of the 4-channel DVR. Free Space – The icon displays when the DVR is in the Recycle mode, and the percentage of available storage space displays when the DVR is not in the Recycle mode.
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User’s Manual NOTE: Sequence cannot be used in the 3x3 and 1+7 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.
User’s Manual 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.
Digital Video Recorder < Full Sequence > < Cameo Sequence > Selecting again in the Live Monitoring menu exits the Sequence mode. While in the Sequence mode, the icon displays in bottom-left corner if Sequence is selected in the Display setup screen (OSD tab). If all the cameras in a page are Off, or have lost video or are set to Covert (unless the user has authority to view covert cameras), that page will be excluded from the sequence.
User’s Manual Active Cameo Mode You can enter the Active Cameo mode by selecting Edit Group from the Live Monitoring – Camera menu or pressing and holding the (Play/Pause) button for three seconds or longer in any 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 While in the PTZ mode, pressing the button and selecting (Advanced PTZ) in the menu MENU displaying at the top of the screen displays the Advanced PTZ menu. Set the feature you wish to control by selecting it from the menu. Refer to the camera manufacturer’s instructions for the proper settings.
User’s Manual Status Monitoring Selecting (Status) in the Live Monitoring menu or Search menu displays the Event Status screen. Figure 41: Event Status – Event Status screen. The Event Status screen displays the status of the DVR’s systems and inputs. Events will be highlighted, and related channels or events will flicker for five seconds when detected.
Digital Video Recorder Figure 42: 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. The S.M.A.R.T.
User’s Manual Playing Recorded Video If a user who has Search authority logs into the system, the user can view recorded image. Once video has been recorded, you can view it by pressing the button. SEARCH The DVR supports the Triplex function: monitoring, recording and playing back at the same time. Pressing the SEARCH button when in one of the multi-view formats enters the Triplex mode and displays the Select Playback Camera menu.
Digital Video Recorder Searching Video While in the search mode, pressing the button displays the following Search menu on the right edge of the screen. MENU Pressing the button again hides the menu. You can navigate through menus and items by pressing the arrow MENU buttons.
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User’s Manual Bookmark Selecting (Bookmark) in the Search menu adds the current playback point to the bookmark list. See the following Bookmarks section for details. Display Full Screen: Selecting (Display) → (Full Screen) and choosing the camera number button displays the selected camera full screen.
Digital Video Recorder Status Selecting (Status) in the Search menu allows you to check the status of the DVR’s system, inputs and storage. Refer to the previous Live Monitoring – Status Monitoring section for details. NOTE: Selecting Status will only be enabled for a user who has System Check authority. Data Source (Data Source) in the Search menu allows you to select the data source to be searched.
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User’s Manual 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 button to toggle between On and Off. When set to Off, you can enter a specific Date and Time.
Digital Video Recorder Once you set your desired search conditions, highlight Search and press the button to display the search results in the Event Log Search screen. Selecting Cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. Record Table Search < Compact View > <...
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 the (Play/Pause) button to select it. The first recorded image of the selected date will pause on the screen.
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Digital Video Recorder 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 button to toggle between On and Off. When set to Off, you can enter a specific Date and Time.
User’s Manual Text-In Search Figure 48: 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 From 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 first recorded image. When highlighting and pressing the button the bookmark list displays and the bookmark point you selected will be the starting date and time.
User’s Manual Use the arrow buttons to highlight the bookmark point for which you would like to see video. The selected bookmark will display on the screen by pressing the button. Clip-Copy Video clips can be copied on an external USB hard disk or flash drive. The copied video clips can be viewed on computers running Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista or 7.
Digital Video Recorder CAUTION: The USB device for clip copy must be FAT 16 or FAT32 format. The DVR automatically assigns a file name to the video clip. However, you can give the video clip file a different name. Highlight the box beside File Name and press the button.
User’s Manual Highlight the box beside Printer Model and press the button. Selecting PostScript Printer will print images on a PostScript™ printer connected to the DVR. Selecting File Printer will save the current image as a PDF file on an external USB hard disk drive or flash drive. NOTE: Images saved as PDF files can be printed on any printer connected to your PC.
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.
User’s Manual 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...
Digital Video Recorder WebGuard WebGuard allows you to access a remote DVR, monitor live video images and search recorded video using Internet Explorer web browser anytime from virtually anywhere. Computer system requirements for using the WebGuard program are: ® ® ®...
User’s Manual NOTE: There might be a problem with screen display or screen update due to low image transmission speed when using the Microsoft Windows Vista or higher operating system. In this situation, it is recommended that you disable the Auto Tuning capability of your computer. Run the Command Prompt with elevated administrator permissions (Go to the Start Menu ...
Digital Video Recorder ⑩ Click the to set up the image drawing mode, OSD display and beep on/off. You can adjust the display speed by changing the image drawing mode, select OSD information to be displayed on the screen, and turn the DVR’s internal buzzer on and off from a remote site.
User’s Manual ⑦ Click the screen format to select the desired display mode. ⑧ Click the to enter the time-lapse search mode which allows you to search for recorded data by time and then play back images found within the time parameters. The Timetable window located at the bottom displays the time information for the image of the date selected on the calendar.
Digital Video Recorder If you want to search recorded video from four to five o’clock during the overlapping time range using a search menu such as Event Log Search, Text-In Search or Motion Search, it is possible for the DVR to have two overlapping start and stop times.
User’s Manual Error Code Notices System Upgrade Related Clip Copy Related Description Description Unknown error. Unknown error. File version error. Device error. Operating system version error. Mounting failed. Software version error. No media. Kernel version error. Invalid media. Upgrade device mounting failed. File already existed.
Digital Video Recorder Map of Screens MENU SYSTEM General Date/Time User Storage System Event RECORD General Schedule Pre-Event EVENT Motion Alarm-In Video Loss Video Blind Text-In CAMERA General DEVICE Alarm-Out Remote Control NETWORK General RTSP WebGuard NOTIFICATION Callback Mail Schedule DISPLAY Main Monitor...
User’s Manual 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 Confirm that the camera has power. ...
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Digital Video Recorder CONNECTORS Video Input Composite: 4 or 8 BNC HDMI: 1 HDMI Monitor Output VGA: 1 VGA 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 1 Remote Control USB Port 2 (USB 2.0)
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