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9300S-HDS Series User Manual For 8/16-channel digital video recorder All rights reserved...
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CAUTION Please read this user manual carefully to ensure that you can use the device correctly and safely. There may be several technically incorrect places or printing errors in this manual. The updates will be added into the new version of this manual. The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice.
Introduction 1.1 DVR Introduction This model is standard 8/16 CH real time real time 1080P high resolution DVRs, which adopts high performance video processing chips and embedded Linux system. Meanwhile, it utilizes many most advanced technologies, such as standard H.264 with low bit rate, Dual stream, SATA interface, VGA output mouse supported, IE browser supported with full remote control, mobile view(by phones), etc., which ensure its powerful functions and high stability.
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Supports pre-recording and post recording PTZ CONTROL Supports various PTZ protocols Supports 128 PTZ presets and 8 auto cruise tracks Supports remote PTZ control through internet SECURITY Customize user right: log search, system setup, two way audio, file management, disk management, remote login, live view, manual record, playback, PTZ control and remote live view ...
Notice: 1. This series support two SATA hard drives. Please use the hard drive XTS Corp recommend specially for security and safe field. 2. Please calculate HDD capacity according to the recording setting. Please refer to “Appendix B Calculate Recording Capacity”.
Notice: The front panel descriptions are only for reference, final product may vary. Front panel I Name Description Power indicator Power Indicator, when connected, the light is blue. HDD indicator The light turns blue when reading/writing HDD. Net indicator The light turns blue when it is able to access the network. Backup indicator The light turns blue when backing up files and data.
Rear Panel for 8 CH Rear Panel for 16 CH Name Descriptions DC12V DC12V Power Input To connect external USB devices like USB mouse or USB storage device Network Port HDMI HDMI Port. Connect to high-definition display device VGA Port. Connect to monitor HD HDS VIDEO IN 8/16 CH HD HDS Video Inputs AUDIO OUT...
Button Function Record manually Search To enter search mode. MEUN To enter menu. To exit the current interface. Exit To confirm the choice or setup. ENTER Direction To move cursor in setup button To zoom in ZOOM To set picture in picture control playback.
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menu. In order to input a value in a particular screen, move cursor to the input box and click. An input window will appear as below. It supports digits, alphabets and symbols input. Click Shift button to input Capital letters and symbols; click Shift button again to return. It supports mouse drag.
Basic Function Instruction 3.1 Power On/Off Before you power on the unit, please make sure all the connection is good. 3.1.1 Power On ① Connect with the power. ② The device will boot and the power LED would turn blue. ③...
3.3 Live Preview Fig 3-2 Live Preview Interface Symbol Meaning Green Manual record Yellow Motion detection record Blue Schedule record 3.4 Live Playback Click Playback button to playback the record. Refer to Fig 3-3. User can do complete operation by clicking the buttons on screen. Fig 3-3 Live Playback...
Main Menu Setup Guide Click right mouse or press FN/ESC button on the front panel and then the control bar will display at the bottom of the screen. Refer to Fig 4-1: Fig 4-1 Main Menu Toolbar Screen Mode: Click to choose screen mode. Dwell: Dwell means to display live images from different cameras in a sequence.
4.1.1 System Go to MenuSetupBasic System interface. Refer to Fig 4-3: Fig 4-3 Basic Configuration-System In this interface you can set up the device name, device ID, video format, max network users, VGA resolution, language and so on. The definitions for every parameters display as below: Device Name: The name of the device.
Fig 4-4 Basic Configuration-Date & Time Set the date format, time format, time zone in this interface; checkmark “sync time with ② NTP server” to refresh NTP server date. You can also adjust system date manually. ③ Click “Apply” button to save the setting. 4.1.3 DST Go to MenuSetupBasic DST interface.
① Go to MenuSetupLive. Refer to Fig 4-6: Fig 4-6 Live Configuration-Live ② A software keyboard will pop up by clicking camera name area. Click the letters and (or) digital numbers on the keyboard to input the name you want to display in live image. ③...
4.2.3 Mask If there is something you don‟t want to display in the live image. You can set mask. For a given channel a maximum of three areas can be masked. To set up mask area: Go to MenuSetupLive Mask interface. ①...
Before Configuration, please make sure your DVR has been installed with HDD and has completed its initialization. 4.3.1 Enable ① Go to MenuSetupRecordEnable interface. Refer to Fig 4-10: Fig 4-10 Record Configuration-Enable Parameter Meaning Record To enable/disable recording for the channel Audio To enable/disable audio recording for the channel ②...
④ Click “Apply” button to save the setting. Parameter Meaning 720P: 1-30(NTSC)1-25(PAL); 1080P: 1-15(NTSC)1-12(PAL) Rate Resolution This series supports 720P, 1080P The higher the value is, the clearer the recorded image is. Six options: Quality lowest, lower, low, medium, higher and highest. Encode VBR and CBR Max bit stream...
Fig 4-13 Record Configuration-Stamp ② Checkmark camera name and time stamp. Click “Setting” button to set up the position of the stamp. You can drag the camera name and time stamp at random positions. Refer to below Figures: Before drag After drag Select “All”...
4.4.1 Schedule This tab allows defining schedule for normal recording for seven days of a week, 24 hours of a day. Every row denotes an hourly timeline for a day. Click the grid to do relevant setup. A highlighted area denotes selected timeline. Operate the following steps to set schedule: ①...
Go to MenuSetupSchedule Motion tab. ① ② The setup steps for schedule for motion based recording are similar to normal schedule setup. You can refer to 4.4.1 Schedule for details. ⅹ Note: The default schedule of motion based recording is 24 7.
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Fig 4-17 Alarm Configuration-Motion Trigger Buzzer: If selected, the local buzzer would be activated on an alarm. Show Full Screen: If selected, there will pop up the chosen channel on the monitor on an alarm trigger. Email: If selected, the DVR will send an email alert to the preconfigured email address in case of a motion based alarm from the particular input.
Note: Prior to setting motion detection field it is recommended that you click icon to clear the existing field and set afresh. ⑦ Select “All” to set the same settings for all channels. Click “Apply” button to save the setting. ⑧...
Fig 4-20 Other Alarm 4.5.4 Alarm Out To set up alarm out: ① Go to MenuSetupAlarmAlarm Out. Refer to Fig 4-21: Fig 4-21 Alarm Out ② Checkmark Buzzer and set buzzer alarm hold time. This would trigger the buzzer when the system is on an alarm.
and IP address is http://192.168.0.25 you should input the following IP address: http://192.168.0.25:82 into IE browser. ③ Set server port. The default server port is 6036. Fig 4-22 Network Configuration-Network ④ Connect internet. There are three ways to connect internet. ...
Fig 4-23 Network Configuration-Sub Stream Parameter Meaning Range from: 1-30 (Locked at 30) Resolution Support CIF The quality of the clients‟ image. The higher the value is, the clearer the Quality record image. Six options: lowest, lower, low, medium, higher and highest. Encode VBR and CBR Range from: 256~1792kbps...
Attaching image: If selected, the system will attach images when sending emails. 4.6.4 Server This function is mainly used for connecting HDS. The setting steps are as follows: In the server interface, select “Enable” as shown in the Fig 4-25. ①...
www.autonat.com ; the default Port number is 8989). ③ Click “Apply” to save the settings. 4.6.6 Other Settings If your DVR is set to use PPPoE as its default network connection, you may set up DDNS to be used in connection. The setting steps are as follows: ①...
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2. Create domain name. 3. After you successfully request your domain name, you will see your domain in the list. DVR Setting Connect DVR to the Network Client. 1. Go to Main menuSetupNetworkOther Settings, checkmark DDNS, select “dvrdydns” at the DDNS Sever pull down list box and input user name and password. 2.
If your IP address is not WAN IP address, you should forward your IP address and port in your router or enable UPnP function both in router and DVR. Then you can use the domain name plus HTTP port to access your DVR. DDNS server Website provided by dynamic domain name supplier.
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② Click “Add” button to display a dialog box as Fig 4-29: Fig 4-29 Add-General ③ In General tab, input username, password and select user type. You can also check “Binding PC MAC Address” and input this address. Click “OK” to save the setting. ④...
① Go to MenuSetupUsers interface. ② Select the added user you want to modify and then click “Modify” button to do the relevant operation. To change user password ① Go to MenuSetupUsers interface. Select the added user you want to change its password and then click “Change ②...
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Fig 4-32 P.T.Z configuration-advanced To set up preset: ① In the Advanced interface, click preset “Setting” button to see a dialog box as Fig 4-33: Fig 4-33 Advanced-Preset Setting ② In the preset setting tab, enable preset, set the preset name and then click preset “Setting”...
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⑤ Click Save button to save the setting. Click icon to hide the tool bar. Right click to view this bar again. Click icon to exit the current interface. ⑥ Return to the Advanced-Preset Setting interface and click OK button to save the setting. To set up cruise: ①...
right and adjust the rotate speed and the value of zoom, focus and iris of the dome. ③ Click Start Record button to record the move track of PTZ. Click this button again to stop record. Click Start track button to play recorded track. ④...
Search, Playback & Backup Search configuration includes four submenus: time search, event search, file management and image. 5.1 Time Search Go to MenuSearch Time Search. Refer to Fig 5-1: ① Fig 5-1 Search Configuration-Time Search Select date and channels on the right hand side and press the „Search‟ button. A date with ②...
5.2 Event Search ① Go to MenuSearchEvent Search button. Refer to Fig 5-2: Fig 5-2 Search Configuration-Event Search ② Select date and channels on the right hand side. A data with highlighted borderline indicates presence of data. ③ Checkmark Motion or All accordingly. ④...
③ Click Search button to display the searched files in the file list box. ④ Use “All” button to lock/unlock or delete all files in the file management column. ⑤ Double click an unlocked item to play. Lock: Select a file and click Lock button to lock this file, after that, that file will not be deleted or covered.
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Fig 5-5 Backup Configuration ③ Select a required file or checkmark “All” to select all data files. Click Backup button to display Backup information window. ④ In the backup information interface, you can check the relevant information of backup files, storage type, save file type, etc. Then click Start button to start backup. Note: If the backup files are saved in DVR format, please check backup player.
Manage DVR 6.1 Check System Information Check system information includes seven submenus: system, event, log, network, online user, record and QRCODE. 6.1.1 System Information In this interface, you can check the hardware version, MCU version, kernel version, device ID, etc. 6.1.2 Event Information In this interface, you can search for events like motion and video loss.
Fig 6-1 Information Configuration In this interface, you can scan the QRCODE through the mobile phone. Refer to Fig 6-2: Fig 6-2 Information Configuration-QRCODE 6.2 Disk Management To format the disk ① Go to disk management interface. Note: please format the hard disk before record. ②...
dielectric material of the disk, analysis the potential problems of the disk and warn so as to protect its data. 6.3 Upgrade At present, it only supports USB update. Get the software from your vendor when there is a new software version. The upgrade steps are as follows: ①...
Remote Surveillance 7.1 IE Remote Surveillance by NAT 7.1.1 NAT Settings ① The DVR shall be powered on and connected to the network. ② Go to MenuSetupNetworkNetwork. You can obtain the IP address, Subnet Mask and Gateway automatically. You can also manually input them according to the configuration of PC.
7.2 IE Remote Surveillance via LAN & WAN In order to view the DVR from a network it may be connected to LAN/WAN or internet. The network setup should be done accordingly. Please refer to 4.6 Network Setup. 7.2.1 Via LAN Go to the DVR‟s Main MenuSetupNetwork interface to input IP address, Subnet ①...
will connect to the server and would give a confirmation message. ② When accessing the remote interface of DVR, user can input WAN IP to access directly (user can Go to Main menuInformationNetwork interface to check IP address). The browser will download Active X control. ③...
After acquiring the IP address, Subnet Mask and so on, please Go to the DVR‟s Main ③ MenuSetupNetwork interface to manually input IP address, Subnet Mask and Gateway according to the configuration of PC. The network segment should be the same as the PC.
① The network setups are the same as step one to step four of point 1 on WAN of IE remote surveillance. ② Enter WAN IP and HTTP port in the Safari browser to install the Active control. The concrete steps are the same as ⑤ and ⑥ of Chapter 7.3.1. 2.
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Click “Snap” icon to automatically capture pictures and save those pictures in the computer. You can set up the save path for those picture in the Remote Preview interface Configuration Local configuration. PTZ control Please connect speed dome to the device via RS485 firstly, make sure the protocol of the speed dome is supported by the device and set the relative parameters manually.
Fig 7-2 Right Key Sub Menu Stream: This DVR supports master stream and sub stream. Master stream has higher frame rate, max 25FPS(PAL)/30 FPS(NTSC)for every channel, but it needs higher network bandwidth simultaneously. Sub stream has low frame rate, max 6FPS (PAL)/7FPS(NTSC) for every channel, it requires low network bandwidth.
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This DVR supports remote time search, event search and file management. By Time Search: ① Go to SearchTime Search. Refer to Fig 7-4: ② The highlight date in the area ② indicates recorded data. Select the date in area ② and record channels in area ③.
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By Event Search: ① Go to SearchEvent Search interface. Refer to Fig 7-6: ② Click the highlight date and select record channels. ③ Checkmark the event type: motion. Click “Search” button. ④ ⑤ Double-click certain item to play. Fig 7-6 Event Search Interface File Management ①...
that ca not be deleted or overlaid. Unlock: Select a locked file and then click “Unlock” button to unlock this file. Delete: Select an unlock file and then click “Delete” button to delete this file from file list. 7.5.2 Remote Backup Click Backup button to go to backup interface.
Fig 7-9 Remote Menu Setup 7.7 Tools Click on the tool‟s tab to access the Disk Management tool. The user can view the status of the hard drive(s), can view/change the read write properties and can also format the hard drive(s).
Appendix A FAQ Q1. Why the DVR doesn’t turn on after connecting to the power? The power adapter could have gone bad. Please change a new power adapter. The power from the adapter may be not enough for operating the DVR. Please use the power adaptor supplied along with the DVR.
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IE browser blocks ActiveX. Please do setup as per the steps mentioned below. ① Open IE browser. Click ToolsInternet Options. ② Select SecurityCustom Level. Refer to Fig 7-1; ③ Enable all the sub options under “ActiveX controls and plug-ins”. Refer to Fig 7-2; ④...
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Q10: A hard disk is being identified as a new device however it was being used with another DVR of same model. Should it be formatted prior use? It is possible to migrate an HDD from one DVR to another provided that the DVRs are of the same model and that the HDD being migrated would be used as the sole disk in the new DVR.
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Q13. How to play the backup file? Insert your USB device where the backup files are saved in the USB port of PC. If your files are saved in DVR format, you must have already downloaded the backup player box before doing backup.
Appendix B Calculate Recording Capacity Users can calculate the size of hard disk according to the saving time and DVR recording settings. The DVR uses fixed video bit rate. The below are the details at different settings. Resolut Frame Rate Bit Rate Used Video Quality...