Table of Contents FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS..............1 Overview ..............................1 Features ..............................1 Specifications ............................2 1.3.4 Federal Mini Series..........................12 OVERVIEW AND CONTROLS ................. 62 Front Panel ............................62 2.1.3 Federal Mini Series........................64 Rear Panel............................71 2.2.3 Federal Mini Series..........................73 Connection Sample ..........................
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INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS............102 Check Unpacked DVR ........................102 About Front Panel and Real Panel ....................102 HDD Installation ..........................102 3.3.2 Federal Mini Series ..........................103 Rack Installation ..........................106 Connecting Power Supply ........................ 106 Connecting Video Input and Output Devices ................106 3.6.1...
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INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS............102 Check Unpacked DVR ........................102 About Front Panel and Real Panel ....................102 HDD Installation ..........................102 3.3.2 Federal Mini Series ..........................103 Rack Installation ..........................106 Connecting Power Supply ........................ 106 Connecting Video Input and Output Devices ................106 3.6.1...
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Login, Logout & Main Menu ......................120 4.1.1 Login ............................... 120 4.1.2 Main Menu ............................. 121 4.1.3 Logout............................. 121 4.1.4 Auto Resume after Power Failure ....................122 4.1.5 Replace Button Battery ........................ 122 Live Viewing ............................122 Manual Record........................... 123 4.3.1 Manual record menu ........................
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APPENDIX A HDD CAPACITY CALCULATION ..........271 APPENDIX B COMPATIBLE BACKUP DEVICE LIST........272 APPENDIX C COMPATIBLE CD/DVD DEVICE LIST ........... 278 APPENDIX D COMPATIBLE DISPLAYER LIST ..........279 APPENDIX E COMPATIBLE SWITCHER LIST ..........280 APPENDIX F COMPATIBLE WIRELESS MOUSE LIST ........281 APPENDIX G EARTHING..................
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Welcome Thank you for purchasing our DVR! 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 this series DVR features and functions, as well as a detailed menu tree.
Important Safeguards and Warnings 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper handling or installation. 2.Transportation security Heavy stress, violent vibration or water splash are not allowed during transportation, storage and installation.
1 FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS 1.1 Overview This series product is an excellent digital monitor product designed for security field. It adopts embedded Linux OS to maintain reliable operation. Popular H.264 compression algorithm and G.711 audio compression technology realize high quality, low bit stream. Unique frame by frame play function is suitable for detail analysis.
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Support network remote real-time monitor, remote record search and remote PTZ control. Alarm activation function Several relay alarm outputs to realize alarm activation and on-site light control. The alarm input port and output has the protection circuit to guarantee device safety. Communication port RS485 port can realize alarm input and PTZ control.
1.3.4 Federal Mini Series 4-ch 8-ch 16-ch Parameter High-performance industrial embedded micro controller Main System Processor Embedded LINUX System Multiplex operations: Multiple-channel record, multiple-channel Resources playback and network operation simultaneously User-friendly graphical user interface Interface Front panel, USB mouse, remote control...
2.1.3 Federal Mini Series The front panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-3. Power button, press this button for three seconds to boot up Power button or shut down DVR. In textbox, click this button to switch between numeral,...
Multiple slow play speeds or normal playback. Slow play/8 In text mode, input number 8 (English character T/U/V). One-window monitor mode, click this button to display assistant function: PTZ control and image color. Backspace function: in numeral control or text control, press it for 1.5seconds to delete the previous character before the cursor.
2.2.3 Federal Mini Series The 8-channel series DVR rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-12. Figure 2-12 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Video input Video output Audio input Audio output RS232 port Alarm input/alarm output...
Figure 2-29 2.3.3 Federal Mini Series Please refer to Figure 2-30 for connection sample. The following figure is based on the 8-channel series product.
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Figure 2-42 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Serial Number Name Function Power button Click it to boot up or shut down the device. Address Click it to input device number, so that you can control it. Forward Various forward speeds and normal speed playback.
Cancel Go back to previous menu or cancel current operation (close upper interface or control) Record Start or stop record manually In record interface, working with the direction buttons to select the record channel. Click this button for at least 1.5 seconds, system can go to the Manual Record interface.
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In input box, you can select input methods. Left click the corresponding button on the panel you can input numeral/English character (small/capitalized). Here ← stands for backspace button. _ stands for space button. In English input mode: _stands for input a backspace icon and ← stands for deleting the previous character.
2.6 Virtual Keyboard & Front Panel 2.6.1 Virtual Keyboard The system supports two input methods: numeral input and English character (small and capitalized) input. Move the cursor to the text column, the text is shown as blue, input button pops up on the right. Click that button to switch between numeral input and English input (capitalized and small), Use >...
The label in the rear panel is very important too. Usually we need you to represent the serial number when we provide the service after sales. 3.3 HDD Installation Before the installation, you can refer to the sheet to know the max HDD amount your product supports. Product Series Max HDD No. Federal Mini...
3.3.2 Federal Mini Series This series DVR has two SATA HDDs. Please use HDD of 7200rpm or higher. 1. Loosen the screws of the 2. Fix four screws in the HDD 3. Place the HDD in accordance with upper cover and side panel.
3.4 Rack Installation Please note this installation mode is for 1.5U/2U series product. Please follow the steps listed below. Use twelve screws to fix the unit Please make sure the indoor temperature is below 35℃ (95°f). Please make sure there is 15cm (6 inches) space around the device to guarantee sound ventilation.
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When you are using pc-type monitor to replace the monitor, please pay attention to the following points: To defer aging, do not allow the pc monitor to run for a long time. Regular demagnetization will keep device maintain proper status. Keep it away from strong electromagnetic interference devices.
a. Ensure the decoder has the same grounding with DVR, otherwise you may not control the PTZ. Shielded twisted wire is recommended and the shielded layer is used to connect to the grounding. b. Avoid high voltage. Ensure proper wiring and some thunder protection measures. c.
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Federal Mini 3.8.1.6 Federal Mini series product interface is shown as in Figure Figure 3-7 You can refer to the following sheet for alarm input and output information. ALARM 1 to ALARM 16. The alarm becomes active in low voltage.
4 Overview of Navigation and Controls Note: All the operations listed below are based on the 2U series product. Before operation, please make sure: You have properly installed HDD and all the cable connections. The provided input power and the device power are matched. The external power shall be DC 12V or AC90~264V 50+2% Hz.
Figure 4-2 4.1.2 Main Menu After you logged in, the system main menu is shown as below. See Figure 4-3. There are total six icons: search, information, setting, backup, advanced and shutdown. You can move the cursor to highlight the icon, and then double click mouse to enter the sub- menu.
The other ways is to press power button on the front panel for at least 3 seconds, system will stop all operations. Then you can click the power button in the rear panel to turn off the DVR. 4.1.4 Auto Resume after Power Failure The system can automatically backup video and resume previous working status after power failure.
Move you mouse to the top centre of the video of current channel, you can see system pops up the preview control interface. See Figure 4-6. If your mouse stays in this area for more than 6 seconds and has no operation, the control bar automatically hides. Figure 4-6 You can refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the HDD has been properly installed. 4.3.1 Manual record menu There are two ways for you to go to manual record menu. Right click mouse or in the main menu, Advanced->Manual Record. In live viewing mode, click record button in the front panel or record button in the remote control.
4.3.4 Enable all channel recording Highlight ○ below All, you can enable all channel recording. All channel schedule record Please highlight “ALL” after “Schedule”. See Figure 4-9. When system is in schedule recording, all channels will record as you have previously set (Main menu->Setting->Schedule).
Figure 4-11 4.4 Search & Playback Click search button in the main menu, search interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-12. Usually there are three file types: R: Regular recording file. A: External alarm recording file. M: Motion detection recording file. Figure 4-12 Please refer to the following sheet for more information.
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Here you can select to search the picture or the recorded file. You can select to play from the read-write HDD, from peripheral device or from redundancy HDD. Before you select to play from the peripheral device, please connect the corresponding peripheral device.
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Play/Pause There are three ways for you to begin playback. The play button ►/ Double click the valid period of the time bar. Double click the item in the file list. In slow play mode, click it to switch between play/pause. Stop ■...
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Select the file(s) you want to backup from the file list. You can check from the list. Then click the backup button, now you can see the backup menu. System supports customized path setup. After select or create new folder, click the Start button to begin the backup operation.
All the operations here (such as playback speed, channel, time and progress) have relationship with hardware version. Some series DVRs do not support some functions or playback speeds. 4.4.1 Smart Search During the multiple-channel playback mode, double click one channel and then click the button, system begins smart search.
System supports synchronization playback and non-synchronous playback. The synchronization playback supports all channels and non-synchronous playback only supports accurately playback of current select channel. Figure 4-14 4.4.3 Mark Playback Please make sure your purchased device support this function. You can use this function only if you can see the mark playback icon on the Search interface (Figure 4-12).
Note Usually, system can playbacks previous N seconds record if there is such kind of record file. Otherwise, system playbacks from the previous X seconds when there is such as kind of record. Mark Manager Click the mark manager button on the Search interface (Figure 4-12);...
HDD as redundant. (Main menu- >Advanced->HDD Management) Please refer to chapter 4.5.1.2 for detailed information. Please note this function is null if there is only one HDD. The 4/8-channel Federal Mini series product and the 4/8-channel HD-SDI 2U series product do not support redundancy function.
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Please go to the Period interface to set the holiday date record setup. Please note you need to go to Chapter 5.3.1 to enable Holiday function first. Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu.
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the OK button to save current copy setup. Click the OK button in the Record interface, the copy function succeeded. Please note, if you select ALL in Figure 4-20, the record setup of all channels are the same and the Copy button becomes hidden. Figure 4-20 4.5.1.2 Redundancy Redundancy function allows you to memorize record file in several disks.
In Encode interface, click snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency. See the interface on the left of Figure 4-22. Note: Federal Mini series product and the HD-SDI 2U series product support 1080P, 720P, D1, HD1, 2CIF, CIF, QCIF resolution.
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Figure 4-22 4.5.2.2 Activation Snapshot Please follow the steps listed below to enable the activation snapshot function. After you enabled this function, system can snapshot when the corresponding alarm occurred. In Encode interface, click snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency.
Figure 4-23 4.5.2.3 Priority Please note the activation snapshot has the higher priority than schedule snapshot. If you have enabled these two types at the same time, system can activate the activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot. 4.5.3 Image FTP In Network interface, you can set FTP server information.
The video loss has no detection region and sensitivity setup and camera masking has no detection region setup. You can see motion detect icon if current channel has enabled motion detect alarm. You can drag you mouse to set motion detect region without Fn button. Please click OK button to save current region setup.
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Record Delay: System can delay the record for specified time after alarm ended. The value ranges from 10s to 300s. Tour: Here you can enable tour function when alarm occurs. System one-window tour. Please go to chapter 5.3.9 Display for tour interval setup. Snapshot: You can enable this function to snapshoot image when an motion detect alarm occurs.
Figure 4-30 Figure 4-31 4.6.3 Video Loss In Figure 4-25, select video loss from the type list. You can see the interface is shown as in Figure 4-32.This function allows you to be informed when video loss phenomenon occurred. You can enable alarm output channel and then enable show message function. Tips: You can enable preset/tour/pattern activation operation when video loss occurs.
Figure 4-32 4.6.4 Camera Masking When someone viciously masks the lens, or the output video is in one-color due to the environments light change, the system can alert you to guarantee video continuity. Camera masking interface is shown as in Figure 4-33. You can enable “Alarm output “or “Show message”...
Figure 4-33 4.7 Alarm Setup and Alarm Activation Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. 4.7.1 Go to alarm setup interface In the main menu, from Setting to Alarm, you can see alarm setup interface. See Figure 4-34. 4.7.2 Alarm setup Alarm interface is shown as below.
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here does not include the latch time. During the alarm process, the alarm signal can begin an anti-dither time if system detects the local alarm again. The screen prompt, alarm upload, email and etc will not be activated. For example, if you set the anti-dither time as 10 second, you can see the each activation may last 10s if the local alarm is activated.
Figure 4-37 4.8 Backup DVR support USB device backup and network download. Here we introduce USB backup. You can refer to Chapter 7 Web Client Operation for network download backup operation. 4.7.1 Detect Device Click backup button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-38. Here is for you to view devices information.
Figure 4-39 Click backup button, system begins burning. At the same time, the backup button becomes stop button. You can view the remaining time and process bar at the left bottom. File format: Click the file format; you can see there are two options: DAV/ASF. Picture backup: Please set the corresponding time, channel and then select the type as PIC from the dropdown list.
Please follow the procedures below to go on cable connection Connect the dome RS485 port to DVR 485 port. Connect dome video output cable to DVR video input port. Connect power adapter to the dome. 4.8.2 PTZ Setup Note: The camera video should be in the current screen. Before setup, please check the following connections are right: PTZ and decoder connection is right.
Figure 4-42 Click Pan/Tilt/Zoom, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-43. Here you can set the following items: Step: value ranges fro 1 to 8. Zoom Focus Iris Please click icon to adjust zoom, focus and iris. Figure 4-43 In Figure 4-43, please click direction arrows (See Figure 4-44) to adjust PTZ position.
Click this key, system goes back to the single screen mode. Drag the mouse in the screen to adjust section size. The dragged zone supports 4X to 16X speeds. It can realize PTZ automatically. The smaller zone you dragged, the higher the speed. Figure 4-45 Here is a sheet for you reference.
Figure 4-47 Note: Preset, tour and pattern all need the value to be the control parameter. You can define it as you require. You need to refer to your speed dome user’s manual for Aux definition. In some cases, it can be used for special process.
4.9.4 Activate Patrol (tour) Figure 4-46, input patrol (tour) number in the No. blank and click patrol button X 3 4 1 H 3 4 1 H 3 4 1 H 4.9.5 Pattern Setup In Figure 4-46, click pattern button and then click “begin” button. The interface is shown as in Figure 4-50.
5 Understanding of Menu Operations and Controls 5.1 Menu Tree This series DVR menu tree is shown as below. Backup Information HDD Info Version Online Users Network Info Setting General Encode Schedule RS232 Menu Network Alarm Detect Pan/ Tilt/Zoom Display Default Search Advanced...
Figure 5-1 5.3 Setting In main menu, highlight setting icon and double click mouse. System setting interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-2. Figure 5-2 5.3.1 General General setting includes the following items. See F igure 5-3 X 3 5 7 H 3 5 7 H 3 5 7 H System time: Here is for you to set system time Date format: There are three types: YYYYY-MM-DD: MM-DD-YYYYY or DD-MM-YYYY.
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while the next HDD is no empty, then system stops recording, If the current HDD is full and then next HDD is not empty, then system overwrites the previous files. Video standard: There are two formats: NTSC and PAL. Pack duration: Here is for you to specify record duration. The value ranges from 1 to 120 minutes.
Figure 5-7 5.3.2 Encode Encode setting includes the following items. See Figure 5-8. Please note some series do not support extra stream. Channel: Select the channel you want. Type: Please select from the dropdown list. There are three options: regular/motion detect/alarm.
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Time display: You can select system displays time or not when you playback. Please click set button and then drag the title to the corresponding position in the screen. Channel display: You can select system displays channel number or not when you playback. Please click set button and then drag the title to the corresponding position in the screen.
Figure 5-10 Figure 5-11 5.3.3 Schedule Please refer to chapter 4.5 schedule. 5.3.4 RS232 RS232 interface is shown as below. There are five items. See Figure 5-12. Function: There are various devices for you to select. Console is for you to use the COM or mini-end software to upgrade or debug the program.
Stop bit:1 Parity: None After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Figure 5-12 5.3.5 Network Here is for you to input network information. The single network adapter interface is shown as in Figure 5-13 and the dual network adapters interface (for some series product only) is shown as in Figure 5-14.
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MTU: It is to set MTU value of the network adapter. The value ranges from 1280-7200 bytes. The default setup is 1500 bytes. Please note MTU modification may result in network adapter reboot and network becomes off. That is to say, MTU modification can affect current network service.
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Figure 5-13 Figure 5-14 5.3.5.1 Network Setting Network setting interface is shown as in Figure 5-15. Please check the box to enable corresponding function and then double click current item to go to setup interface. Figure 5-15...
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5.3.5.2 IP Filter IP filter interface is shown as in Figure 5-16. You can add IP in the following list. The list supports max 64 IP addresses. System supports valid address of IPv4 and IPv6. Please note system needs to check the validity of all IPv6 addresses. After you enabled trusted sites function, only the IP listed below can access current DVR.
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You need to install SNTP server (Such as Absolute Time Server) in your PC first. In Windows XP OS, you can use command “net start w32time” to boot up NTP service. NTP setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-19. Host IP: Input your PC address.
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Figure 5-20 Here you can set a multiple cast group. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. IP multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255 -“D” address space The higher four-bit of the first byte=”1110” Reserved local multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-224.0.0.255 -TTL=1 When sending out telegraph -For example...
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Figure 5-21 5.3.5.6 DDNS Setup DDNS setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-22. You need a PC of fixed IP in the internet and there is the DDNS software running in this PC. In other words, this PC is a DNS (domain name server). In network DDNS, please select DDNS type and highlight enable item.
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Quick DDNS and Client-end Introduction 1) Background Introduction Device IP is not fixed if you use ADSL to login the network. The DDNS function allows you to access the DVR via the registered domain name. Besides the general DDNS, the Quick DDNS works with the device from the manufacturer so that it can add the extension function.
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External port:Port that has been mapped locally. Default: UPNP default port setting is the HTTP, TCP and UDP of the DVR. Add to the list: Click it to add the mapping relationship. Delete: Click it to remove one mapping item. Double click one item;...
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Figure 5-25 The WIFI interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-26. Auto connect WIFI: Check the box here, system automatically connects to the previous WIFI hotspot. Refresh: You can click it to search the hotspot list again. It can automatically add the information such as the password if you have set it before.
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Figure 5-27 After successfully connection, you can see the following interface. You can see it is connected now. See Figure 5-27. Figure 5-28 WIFI working status: Here you can view current connection status. Please note: After successful connection, you can see WIFI connection icon at the top right corner of the preview interface.
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Figure 5-29 5.3.5.9 Email The email interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-30. SMTP server: Please input your email SMTP server IP here. Port: Please input corresponding port value here. User name: Please input the user name to login the sender email box. Password: Please input the corresponding password here.
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Figure 5-30 Figure 5-31 5.3.5.10 FTP You need to download or buy FTP service tool (such as Ser-U FTP SERVER) to establish FTP service. Please install Ser-U FTP SERVER first. From “start” -> “program” -> Serv-U FTP Server -> Serv- U Administator.
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Figure 5-32 You can use a PC or FTP login tool to test setup is right or not. For example, you can login user ZHY to F TP://10.10.7.7 and then test it can modify or delete H 1 4 0 H 1 4 0 H 1 4 0 H T U U T H folder or not.
Click the Test button, you can see the corresponding dialogue box to see the FTP connection is OK or not. See Figure 5-35. Figure 5-34 Figure 5-35 5.3.5.11 Alarm Centre This interface is reserved for you to develop. 5.3.5.12 SNMP SNMP is an abbreviation of Simple Network Management Protocol.
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Figure 5-36 Please enable the SNMP function. Use the corresponding software tool (MIB Builder and MG- SOFT MIB Browser. You still need two MIB file: BASE-SNMP-MIB, DVR-SNMP-MIB) to connect to the device. You can get the device corresponding configuration information after successfully connection.
Figure 5-37 5.3.5.14 Auto register This function allows the device to auto register to the proxy you specified. In this way, you can use the client-end to access the DVR and etc via the proxy. Here the proxy has a switch function. In the network service, device supports the server address of IPv4 or domain.
4) Now you can boot up the proxy server. When you see the network status is Y, it means your registration is OK. You can view the proxy server when the device is online. Important The server IP address can also be domain. But you need to register a domain name before you run proxy device server.
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Resolution: There are four options: 1920×1080, 1280×1024(default),1280×720,1024×768. Please note the system needs to reboot to activate current setup. Image enhance: Check the box; you can optimize the margin of the preview video. Tour setup: Here you can activate tour function. Click Setup button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 5-42.
Figure 5-41 Figure 5-42 5.3.10 Default Click default icon, system pops up a dialogue box. You can highlight to restore default factory setup. See F igure 5-26. X 3 8 1 H 3 8 1 H 3 8 1 H Select all General Encode...
After all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Warning! System menu color, language, time display mode, video format, IP address, user account will not maintain previous setup after default operation! Figure 5-43 5.4 Search Please refer to chapter 4.4 Search.
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Here is for you to view and implement hard disk management. See Figure 5-45. You can see current HDD type, status, capacity and record time. When HDD is working properly, system is shown as O. When HDD error occurred, system is shown as X. Alarm set: Click alarm set button, the interface is shown as below.
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Each channel is only corresponding with one HDD Group, while one HDD Group can store records from several channels. HDD Group is only available for read-write HDD and self-defined disks, other types of hard disks cannot be set as HDD Group. Important: Current series software version can only set the HDD group operation of the read-write HDDs.
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When you set the channel setup, please select the corresponding channel such as 1 and 2, and then select the HDD group such as 1. Click the Save button, you can complete the setup. In the Figure 5-48, you set channel 1 and channel 3 to the corresponding HDD group2 and set channel 2 and channel 4 to channel 16 to HDD group 1.
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Figure 5-49 Click Quota Setup button, you can go to Figure 5-50. Here you can set the each channel storage capacity in each HDD. Figure 5-50 Click Quota Statistics, you can go to the following interface. You can view HDD capacity you set for each channel.
Figure 5-51 5.5.2 Abnormality Abnormality interface is shown as in Figure 5-52. Event type: There are several options for you such as disk error, no disk, disconnection, IP conflict, MAC conflict and etc. Alarm output: Please select alarm activation output port (multiple choices). Latch: Here you can set corresponding delaying time.
Here is for you to set proper alarm output. Please highlight icon to select the corresponding alarm output. After all the setups please click OK button, system goes back to the previous menu. See Figure 5-53. Figure 5-53 5.5.4 Manual Record Please refer to chapter 4.3 manual record.
Figure 5-54 5.5.5.1 Modify Password Click password button, the interface is shown as in Figure 5-55. Here you can modify account password. Please select the account from the dropdown list, input the old password and then input the new password twice. Click the Save button to confirm current modification. For the users of user account right, it can modify password of other users.
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Figure 5-56 5.5.5.3 Add/Modify User Click add user button, the interface is shown as in Figure 5-57. Please input the user name, password, user MAC address and select the group it belongs to from the dropdown list. Then you can check the corresponding rights for current user. For convenient user management, usually we recommend the general user right is lower than the admin account.
5.5.6 Auto Maintenance Here you can set auto-reboot time and auto-delete old files setup. You can set to delete the files for the specified days. See Figure 5-58. You can select proper setup from dropdown list. After all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Figure 5-58 5.5.7 TV Adjust Here is for you to adjust TV output setup.
Figure 5-60 5.5.9 Card Overlay The card overlay function is for financial areas. It includes Sniffer, information analysis and title overlay function. The Sniffer mode includes COM and network. 5.5.9.1 COM Type The COM interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-61. Protocol: Please select from the dropdown list.
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With the protocol For ATM/POS with the protocol, you just need to set the source IP, destination IP (sometimes you need to input corresponding port number). Figure 5-62 Without the protocol For the ATM/POS without the protocol, the interface is shown as in Figure 5-63. Source IP refers to host IP address that sends out information (usually it is the device host.) Destination IP refers to other systems that receive information.
Figure 5-64 5.5.10 Config Backup The configuration file backup interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-65. This function allows you to import/export system configuration. You can use this function when there are several devices need the same setup. Export: Please connect the peripheral device first and then go to the following interface. Click Export button, you can see there is a corresponding “Config_Time”...
Figure 5-65 5.6 Information Here is for you to view system information. There are total six items: HDD (hard disk information), BPS (data stream statistics), log, version, online user and network information. See Figure 5-66. Figure 5-66 5.6.1 HDD Information Here is to list hard disk type, total space, free space, video start time and status.
After system booted up, if there is any confliction, system goes to HDD information interface directly. Please note, system does not ask you to deal with it forcedly. When HDD confliction occurs, you can check system time and HDD time are identical or not. If they are not identical, please go to General (Chapter 5.3.1) to adjust system time or go to HDD Management (Chapter 5.5.1) to format HDD and then reboot the DVR.
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Log types include system operation, system configuration, data management, alarm event, record operation, log clear, file operation and etc. Start time/end time: Pleased select start time and end time, then click search button. You can view the log files in a list. System max displays 100 logs in one page. It can max save 1024 log files.
Figure 5-70 5.6.4 Version Here is for you to view hardware features, software version, built date, release SN information and etc. You can also update system here. See Figure 5-71. Start: Please insert the USB device that have the update file to the device and then click the Start button to begin the update.
System refreshes current interface every five seconds to detect there is any newly added or deleted user. Figure 5-72 5.6.6 Network Information In this interface, you can see network test and network load information. 5.6.6.1 Network Test Network test interface is shown as in Figure 5-73. Destination IP: Please input valid IPV4 address and domain name.
Figure 5-73 5.6.6.2 Network Load Network load is shown as in Figure 5-74. Here you can view the follow statistics of the device network adapter. Here you can view information of all connected network adapters. The connection status is shown as offline if connection is disconnected. Click one network adapter, you can view the flow statistics such as send rate and receive rate at the top panel Figure 5-74 5.7 Shutdown...
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Shutdown: system shuts down and turns off power. Restart system: system begins rebooting. Switch user: you can use another account to log in. Figure 5-75...
6 About Auxiliary Menu Go to Pan/Tilt/Zoom Menu In the one-window surveillance mode, right click mouse (click “fn” Button in the front panel or click AUX key in the remote control). The interface is shown as below: See F igure 6-1 X 3 9 7 H 3 9 7 H 3 9 7 H Figure 6-1 Click Pan/Tilt/Zoom, the interface is shown as in...
In the middle of the eight direction arrows, there is a 3D intelligent positioning key. See F igure X 4 0 1 H 4 0 1 H 4 0 1 H . Please make sure your protocol supports this function and you need to use mouse to control.
Figure 6-6 6.2.1 Preset Setup Note: The following setups are usually operated in the F igure 6-2 F igure 6-5 F igure 6-6 X 4 0 5 H 4 0 5 H 4 0 5 H X 4 0 6 H 4 0 6 H 4 0 6 H X 4 0 7 H 4 0 7 H 4 0 7 H F igure 6-2 , use eight direction arrows to adjust camera to the proper position.
You can memorize all these setups as pattern 1. Figure 6-9 6.2.6 Activate Pattern Function F igure 6-6 input mode value in the No. blank, and click pattern button. X 4 1 9 H 4 1 9 H 4 1 9 H 6.2.7 Border Setup F igure 6-5 , click border button.
7 WEB OPERATION There might be slightly difference in the interface due to different series. The following interface is on our 8-channel series product. 7.1 Network Connection Before web operation, please check the following items: Network connection is right DVR and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup(Setup ->Network) Use order ping ***.***.***.***(* DVR IP address) to check connection is OK or not.
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Figure 7-2 After installation, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 7-3. Please input your user name and password. Default factory name is admin and password is admin. Then you can select the login mode: LAN and WAN. Note: For security reasons, please modify your password after you first login. Figure 7-3...
7.3 LAN Mode For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 7-9. This main window can be divided into the following sections. Section 1: there are five function buttons: Live(chapter 7.4), setup (chapter 7.8), search (chapter 7.9), alarm (chapter 7.10), and logout (chapter 7.11).
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Section 4: Instant record button. Click it, the button becomes yellow and system begins manual record. See Figure 7-7. Click it again, system restores previous record mode.. Figure 7-7 Section 5: Local play button. The Web can playback the saved (Extension name is dav) files in the PC-end. Click local play button, system pops up the following interface for you to select local play file.
7.4 Real-time Monitor In section 2, left click the channel name you want to view, you can see the corresponding video in current window. On the top left corner, you can view device IP, channel number, network monitor bit stream. See Figure 7-10.
Parameter Function Select Preset from the dropdown list. Preset Turn the camera to the corresponding position and Input the preset value. Click Add button to add a preset,. Select Tour from the dropdown list. Tour Input preset value in the column. Click Add preset button, you have added one preset in the tour.
Figure 7-13 7.6.2 Relay output Here you can select alarm output channel, the select channel alarm mode becomes manual and alarm is enabled. See Figure 7-14. Figure 7-14 7.6.3 Multiple-channel preview System allows you to preview several channels on one channel. It supports 1/4/8/9-window. See Figure 7-15.
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Figure 7-16 Please refer to the following contents for LAN and WAN login difference. 1) In the WAN mode, system opens the main stream of the first channel to monitor by default. The open/close button on the left pane is null. 2) You can select different channel and different monitor mode at the bottom of the interface.
Figure 7-17 Important The window display mode and the channel number are by default. For example, for the 16- channel, the max window split mode is 16. 3) Multiple-channel monitor, system adopts extra stream to monitor by default. Double click one channel, system switches to single channel and system uses main stream to monitor.
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Figure 7-18 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period It divides one day (24 hours) to two periods. You can set different hue, brightness, and contrast for different periods. It is to adjust monitor video brightness and darkness level.
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balance is not accurate. Please note the video may not be attractive if the value is too low. The recommended value ranges from 40 to 60. Gain The gain adjust is to set the gain value. The smaller the value is, the low the noise is.
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Compression The main bit stream supports H.264. The extra stream supports H.264, MJPG. Resolution System supports various resolutions, you can select from the dropdown list. The main stream supports D1/HD1/2CIF/CIF/QCIF and the extra stream supports CIF/QCIF. Please note the option may vary due to different series.
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Figure 7-20 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are two modes: Timing (schedule) and Event Snapshot type (activation). Timing snapshot is valid during the specified period you set. Activation snapshot only is valid when motion detect alarm, camera masking alarm or local activation alarm occurs.
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Parameter Function Cover-area Check Preview or Monitor first. (Privacy mask) Click Set button, you can privacy mask the specified video in the preview or monitor video. System max supports 4 privacy mask zones. Time Title You can enable this function so that system overlays time information in video window.
7.8.2 Network 7.8.2.1 TCP/IP The TCP/IP interface is shown as in Figure 7-24. Figure 7-24 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Mode There are two modes: static mode and the DHCP mode. The IP/submask/gateway are null when you select the DHCP mode to auto search the IP.
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7.8.2.2 Connection The connection interface is shown as in Figure 7-25. Figure 7-25 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Max connection It is the max Web connection for the same device. The value ranges from 1 to 20. The default setup is 10. TCP port The default value is 37777.
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Figure 7-26 Please check the box to enable WIFI function and then click the Search SSID button. Now you can view all the wireless network information in the following list. Double click a name to connect to it. Click Refresh button, you can view latest connection status. 7.8.2.4 3G 7.8.2.4.1 CDMA/GPRS...
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Authorization It includes PAP,CHAP,NO_AUTH. Pulse interval It is to set time to end 3G connection after you close extra stream monitor. For example, if you input 60 here, system ends 3G connection after you close extra stream monitor 60 seconds. Important If the pulse interval is 0, then system does not end 3G connection after you close the extra stream monitor.
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7.8.2.5 PPPoE The PPPoE interface is shown as in Figure 7-30. Input the PPPoE user name and password you get from the IPS (internet service provider) and enable PPPoE function. Please save current setup and then reboot the device to get the setup activated.
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Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Server Type You can select DDNS protocol from the dropdown list and then enable DDNS function. Server IP DDNS server IP address Server Port DDNS server port. Domain Name Your self-defined domain name.
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If you enable blocked sites function, the following listed IP addresses can not access current DVR. Figure 7-32 7.8.2.8 Email The email interface is shown as in Figure 7-33. Figure 7-33 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please check the box here to enable email function.
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Parameter Function Anonymity For the server supports the anonymity function. You can auto login anonymously. You do not need to input the user name. password and the sender information. The user name of the sender email account. User Name The password of sender email account. Password Sender email address.
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Figure 7-34 7.8.2.10 SNMP The SNMP interface is shown as in Figure 7-35. The SNMP allows the communication between the network management work station software and the proxy of the managed device. Figure 7-35 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function SNMP Port...
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Parameter Function The read community will read all the objects the SNMP supported in the specified name. The default setup is public. It is a string. It is a command between the manage process Write Community and the proxy process. It defined the authentication, access control and the management relationship between one proxy and one group of the managers.
The alarm centre interface is shown as below. See Figure 7-37. This interface is reserved for you to develop. System can upload alarm signal to the alarm centre when local alarm occurs. Before you use alarm centre, please set server IP, port and etc. When an alarm occurs, system can send out data as the protocol defined, so the client-end can get the data.
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Figure 7-39 Figure 7-40 Figure 7-41 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable motion detection function. Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period Motion detection function becomes activated in the specified periods. See Figure 7-39. There are six periods in one day. Please draw a circle to enable corresponding period.
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Video Matrix This function is for motion detect only. Check the box here to enable video matrix function. Right now system supports one- channel tour function. System takes “first come and first serve” principle to deal with the activated tour. System will process the new tour when a new alarm occurs after previous alarm ended.
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7.8.3.2 Alarm Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. The input mode includes local alarm and network alarm. 7.8.3.2.1 Local Alarm The local alarm interface is shown as in Figure 7-44. Figure 7-44 Figure 7-45...
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Figure 7-46 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable this function. Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Period This function becomes activated in the specified periods. There are six periods in one day.
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Parameter Function Send Email If you enabled this function, System can send out an email to alert you when an alarm occurs. Tour You need to check the box here to enable this function. System begins 1-wiindow or multiple-window tour display among the channel(s) you set to record when an alarm occurs.
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It includes six statuses: No disk, disk error, net disconnection, IP conflict and MAC conflict. See Figure 7-49 through Figure 7-54. Figure 7-49 Figure 7-50 Figure 7-51 Figure 7-52...
Figure 7-53 Figure 7-54 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event The abnormal events include: No disk, disk error, disk no space, net Type disconnection, IP conflict and MAC conflict. You can set one or more items here. Less than: You can set the minimum percentage value here (For disk not space only).
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In this interfaces, you can add or remove the schedule record setup. See Figure 7-55. There are three record modes: general (auto), motion detect and alarm. There are six periods in one day. Please make sure you have enabled the corresponding record mode in the Setup- >Storage->Conditions.
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Figure 7-57 Figure 7-58 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Pre-record Please input pre-record time here. The value ranges from 0 to 30. Redundancy Check the box here to enable redundancy function. Please note this function is null if there is only one HDD.
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Parameter Function Copy function allows you to copy one channel setup to another. After Copy setting in channel, click Copy button, you can go to interface Figure 7-58. You can see current channel name is grey such as channel 1. Now you can select the channel you wan to paste such as channel 5/6/7.
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Figure 7-61 7.8.4.2.4 The FTP interface is shown as in Figure 7-62. The FTP function is on if you check the Enable box here. When network is offline or malfunction, system can save record or picture to HDD. Figure 7-62 7.8.4.3 Record control The record control interface is shown as in Figure 7-63.
Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here you can view channel number. Channel The number displayed here is the max channel amount of your device. Status There are three statuses: schedule, manual and stop. System enables auto record function as you set in record schedule Schedule setup (general, motion detect and alarm).
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are two options: stop recording or rewrite. If current working HDD is overwritten or the current HDD is full while the next HDD is no empty, then system stops recording, If the current HDD is full and then next HDD is not empty, then system overwrites the previous files.
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Here you can check the box here to enable this function and then set. Figure 7-66 7.8.5.2 Account Note: For the character in the following user name or the user group name, system max supports 6-digits. The space in the front or at the end of the string is null. The valid string includes: character, number, and underline.
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There are four default users: admin/888888/666666 and hidden user “default”. Except user 6666, other users have administrator right. The user 666666 can only have the monitor rights,. Hidden user “default” is for system interior use only and can not be deleted. When there is no login user, hidden user “default”...
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Figure 7-69 7.8.5.2.2 Group The group management interface can add/remove group, modify group password and etc. The interface is shown as in Figure 7-70. Figure 7-70 Add group: It is to add group and set its corresponding rights. See Figure 7-71. Please input the group name and then check the box to select the corresponding rights.
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Figure 7-71 Modify group Click the modify group button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 7-72. Here you can modify group information such as remarks and rights. Figure 7-72 7.8.5.3 Display Display interface includes GUI, TV adjust, Tour and video matrix.
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7.8.5.3.1 Here you can set background color and transparency level. See Figure 7-73. Figure 7-73 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function There are four options: 1280×1024(default),1280×720,1024× Resolution 768,800×600. Please note the system needs to reboot to activate current setup.
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The tour interface is shown as in Figure 7-75. Here you can set tour interval, split mode, motion detect tour and alarm tour mode. Figure 7-75 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Check the box here to enable tour function. Enable tour Here is for you to adjust transparency.
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Figure 7-76 7.8.5.4 Default The default setup interface is shown as in Figure 7-77. Here you can select Channel/Network/Event/Storage/System. Or you can check the All box to select all items. Figure 7-77 7.8.5.5 Import/Export The interface is shown as in Figure 7-78.
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Figure 7-78 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function It is to import the local setup files to the system. Import It is to export the corresponding WEB setup to your local PC. Export 7.8.5.6 Auto maintenance The auto maintenance interface is shown as in Figure 7-79.
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Improper upgrade program may result in device malfunction! Figure 7-80 7.8.5.8 RS232 The RS232 interface is shown as in Figure 7-81. Figure 7-81 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Select the corresponding dome protocol. Protocol Default setup is console.
The PTZ interface is shown as in Figure 7-82. Before setup, please check the following connections are right: PTZ and decoder connection is right. Decoder address setup is right. Decoder A (B) line connects with DVR A (B) line. Click Save button after you complete setup, you can go back to the monitor interface to control speed dome.
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Overlay mode: There are two options: preview and encode. Preview means overlay the card number in the local monitor video. Encode means overlay the card number in the record file. Overlay Position: Here you can select the proper overlay position from the dropdown list. Figure 7-83 7.8.6.1.2 Network Type...
Figure 7-85 Click Data button you can set offset value, length, title according to your communication protocol and data package. . 7.8.7 Information 7.8.7.1 Version The version interface is shown as in Figure 7-86. Here you can view system hardware features, software version, release date and etc. Please note the following information is for reference only.
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Figure 7-87 Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Log types include: system operation, configuration operation, data Type operation, event operation, record operation, user management, log clear. Set the start time of the requested log. Start time Set the end time of the requested log.
Figure 7-88 7.9 Search Click search button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 7-89. Please set record type, record date, window display mode and channel name. You can click the date on the right pane to select the date. The green highlighted date is system current date and the blue highlighted date means it has record files.
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Figure 7-90 Select a file you want to play and then click Play button, system can begin playback. You can select to playback in full-screen. Please note for one channel, system can not playback and download at the same time. The record is automatically saved at the Download folder of the installation directory.
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Figure 7-92 Remote backup In Figure 7-92, there is a remote back pane at the left bottom of the pane. It allows you to backup the record or picture to your local USB storage media via the Web remotely. Click the search button;...
Now you can see system begins backup and the Stop backup button becomes valid. You can click it to terminate current operation. At the bottom of the interface, there is a process bar for your reference. 7.10 Alarm Click alarm function, you can see an interface is shown as Figure 7-94. Here you can set device alarm type and alarm sound setup.
Figure 7-95 7.12 Un-install Web Control You can use web un-install tool “uninstall web.bat” to un-install web control. Please note, before you un-installation, please close all web pages, otherwise the un- installation might result in error.
8 Professional Surveillance System Besides Web, you can use our Professional Surveillance Software (PSS) to login the device. For detailed information, please refer to PSS user’s manual.
9 FAQ 1. DVR can not boot up properly. There are following possibilities: Input power is not correct. Power connection is not correct. Power switch button is damaged. Program upgrade is wrong. HDD malfunction or something wrong with HDD ribbon. Seagate DB35.1,DB35.2,SV35 or Maxtor 17-g has compatibility problem.
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DVR color or brightness setup is not correct. 6. Can not search local records. There are following possibilities: HDD ribbon is damaged. HDD is broken. Upgraded program is not compatible. The recorded file has been overwritten. Record function has been disabled. 7.
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PTZ decoder and DVR address is not compatible. When there are several decoders, please add 120 Ohm between the PTZ decoder A/B cables furthest end to delete the reverberation or impedance matching. Otherwise the PTZ control is not stable. The distance is too far. 12.
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System uses too much CPU resources. Please stop record first and then begin backup. Data amount exceeds backup device capacity. It may result in burner error. Backup device is not compatible. Backup device is damaged. 17. Keyboard can not control DVR. There are following possibilities: DVR serial port setup is not correct Address is not correct...
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24. For the HD-SDI 1.5U Mini series product, system loses frames when record local file or the playback is not smooth. There are following possibilities: Close extra stream record function. Close snapshot function. Reduce monitor channel amount of the WEB. Close FTP upload function.
Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation Calculate total capacity needed by each DVR according to video recording (video recording type and video file storage time). Step 1: According to Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity that is the capacity of each channel needed for each hour, unit Mbyte.
Appendix B Compatible Backup Device List Compatible USB drive list NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. If you use the USB drive, please confirm the format FAT or FAT32. Manufacturer Model Capacity...
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Compatible SD Card List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Standard Capacity Card type Transcend SDHC6 16GB Kingston SDHC4 Kingston Kingston Sandisk SDHC2 Micro-SD Sandisk Micro-SD Compatible Portable HDD List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible portable HDD brand. Brand Model Capacity...
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Seagate Seagate SV35.1 ST3250824SV 250G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.1 ST3500641SV 500G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3250820SV 250G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3320620SV 320G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3500630SV 500G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.2 ST3750640SV 750G SATA Seagate Seagate SV35.3 ST3250310SV 250G SATA Seagate...
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Constellation ES Seagate Seagate ST1000NM0031 SATA Constellation ES Seagate Seagate ST500NM0031 500G SATA Constellation ES Seagate Seagate ST2000NM0051 SATA Constellation ES Seagate Seagate ST1000NM0051 SATA Constellation ES Seagate Seagate ST500NM0051 500G SATA Constellation ES Seagate Seagate ST33000650NS SATA Constellation ES.2 Seagate Seagate ST32000645NS...
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Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVCS WD10EVCS-63ZLB0 SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVCS WD20EVCS-63ZLB0 SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—AVVS WD3200AVVS-63L2B0 320G SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—AVVS WD5000AVVS-63ZWB0 500G SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—AVVS WD7500AVVS-63E1B1 750G SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—AVVS WD7500AVVS-63E1B1 750G SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVVS WD10EVVS-63E1B1 SATA Digital Westem WDAV-GP—EVDS WD10EVDS-63N5B1...
APPENDIX C Compatible CD/DVD Device List NOTE: Please upgrade the DVR firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. And you can use the USB cable with the model recommended to set USB burner. Manufacturer Model Port Type Type Sony...
Appendix E Compatible Switcher List Please refer to the following sheet form compatible switcher list. Brand Model Network Working Mode D-LinK DES-1016D 10/100M self-adaptive D-LinK DES-1008D 10/100M self-adaptive There are five network modes: 1、AUTO 2、HALF-10M Ruijie RG-S1926S 3、FULL-10M 4、HALF-100M 5、FULL-100M H3C-S1024 10/100M self-adaptive TP-LINK...
Appendix F Compatible Wireless Mouse List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Model Rapoo 3500 Logitech M215 Shuangfeiyan Tianyao G7-630...
Appendix G Earthing 1. What is the surge? Surge is a short current or voltage change during a very short time. In the circuit, it lasts for microsecond. In a 220V circuit, the 5KV or 10KV voltage change during a very short time (about microseconds) can be called a surge.
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work. The signal lightning arrester has many specifications, and widely used in many devices such as telephone, network, analog communication, digital communication, cable TV and satellite antenna. For all the input port, especially those from the outdoor, you need to install the signal lightning arrester. Antenna feed cable lightning arrester: It is suitable for antenna system of the transmitter or the device system to receive the wireless signal.
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Mixed ground: The mix ground consists of the feature of the one-point ground and multiple-point ground. For example, the power in the system needs to use the one-point ground mode while the radio frequency signal requires the multiple-point ground. So, you can use the following figure to earth.
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The monitor system usually can adopt the one-point ground. Please connect the ground end of 3-pin socket in the monitor system to the ground port of the system (protection ground cable) 4. The shortcut way to check the electric system using the digital multimeter For 220V AC socket, from the top to the bottom, E (ground cable), N (neutral cable), L(live cable).
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For L (live cable) Turn the digital multimeter to 750V AC, use your one hand to hold the metal end, and then the other hand insert the pen to the L port of the socket. See the following figure. If the multimeter shows 120, then you can see current live cable connection is standard.
Appendix H Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Component Name Cr VI PBDE Sheet ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Metal(Case) Plastic Parts ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ (Panel) Circuit Board ○ ○ ○...
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