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Page 1 Cube DVR User Manual...
Page 2 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Precautions Please observe the following precautions, in order to avoid damaging or losing data caused by improper operation.  DVR should work at proper temperature and humidity.  Do not install DVR in humid, dusty or smoky environment. ...
Page 3 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Note This user manual is for reference only, subject to available products.  This user manual may contain inaccurate data or printing error.  Updates to the manual or products themselves will occur without further notification. ...
Page 4: Table Of Contents
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Content Chapter 1 Product introduction ........................ 4 1.1. Summary ............................. 5 1.2. Features ............................5 1.3. Installation ..........................6 1.4. Mouse ............................7 1.5. Put Method ..........................8 1.6. Power ON/OFF ........................... 9 1.7. Icon ............................
Page 5: Chapter 1 Product Introduction
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Chapter 1 Product introduction...
Page 6: Summary
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 1.1. Summary Our Embedded Digital Video Recorder is an excellent digital surveillance product which adopts H.264 video compression, hard disk recording, TCP/IP transmission, and a Linux based OS in addition to some of the more advanced technologies in the information technology industry.
Page 7: Installation
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 1.3. Installation 1.3.1. Check DVR and Accessories Please carefully check the contents as packing list. If any of the items are missing, please contact with your dealer. 1.3.2. HDD Installation Preparation Prepare a Cross Screwdriver. Steps Caution Only use HDD specified by the manufacturer.
Page 8: Mouse
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 1.3.3. Wiring Installation Preparing for Installation Camera, displayer, AV cable, cable, mouse, other kind‟s cables. Steps DVR in a horizontal position, connect camera to video input interface in back panel. Connect video output to the displayer. Connect cable to RJ45 interface when access network.
Page 9: Put Method
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Exit without saving under menu interface. Turning Wheel Increase or decrease value when fill digital box Switch combo box options. Flip up and down for list box. Mouse Move Select controls in current coordinates to move. Mouse Drag Select motion detection area.
Page 10: Power On/Off
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 1.6. Power ON/OFF 1.6.1. Power On DVR installed correctly, switch on with power light is on, DVR will boot up automatically. Different model have different boot up status, please refer to the Front-panel Introduction. DVR will detect the hardware when power on, the process will last 20 seconds more or less.
Page 11: Icon
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Shutdown Figure1.4 Note: turn off device and switch off power when changing HDD. 1.6.3. Outage Recovery Reboot after an outage or forceful shutdown, DVR will save the record before outage and return to normal operation mode. 1.7.
Page 12: Live View
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 1.7.2. Operation Icon Description of the operation Icon as below Table 1.2 Description of the Soft Keyboard Icons Icons Description Icons Description Not Selected; Save parameters Restore factory settings, return to the last set Selected of parameters after the modified parameters Down Menu...
Page 13: Chapter 2 Getting Started
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Chapter 2 Getting Started...
Page 14: Wizard
By default, the Setup Wizard starts once the device has loaded, as shown in Figure 2.1. Steps: Help: Laview app QR code and cloud server address are list as below. For more information please visit www.laviewcloud.com Figure 2. 1 Start Wizard Interface After the step 1, click which takes you to the Network Start Wizard window, as shown in Figure 2.2.
Page 15: Chapter 3 Operation Guide
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Chapter 3 Operation guide...
Page 16: Right Button Menu
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.1. Right Button Menu Click the right mouse button after booting into the real-time browser interface, action menu pop-up, shows as Figure 3.1 Right Button Menu 3.1.1. Screen Switching Max 16 channel in one screen, user can choose single, four, nine and sixteen channel. 3.1.3.
Page 17: Recording Search
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 【Period】 two periods can be set according to ambient light during the day and night; device will automatically switch configuration time. Need to select the Enable box. 【Hue】 Adjust according to image color cast 【Brightness】...
Page 18: Alarm Output
User Manual of Cube DVR Series To change record status of one channel, firstly check the recording status of the channel is selected non-selected (non-selected indicates that the channel is not recording; selected indicates the channel in recording mode).Then use mouse to click, or use【←】or 【→】arrow keys move the active box to the channel, then use 【↑】or【↓】arrow keys or corresponding number key to switch the channel recording status.
Page 19: Main Menu Introduction
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.2. Main Menu Introduction The main menu as shown, there are search, configuration, storage, output, maintain and shutdown. Figure 3.5 Main Menu 【Search】 Search recoding by type, channel, time and playback. 【Configuration】 recording, motion detection, abnormal, alarm, system, network and user management configurations. 【Storage】...
Page 20: Search
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.3. Search In real-time monitoring screen, click the right mouse button, click 【search】, or enter video playback via main menu interface, as shown in. Figure 3.6 Search Figure 3.7 Search...
Page 21 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Table 3.2 Description of Search Index Name Description Record Record and Picture to choice. Calendar Select record search day Channel Choose searched channel Play Playback control: stop/play, pause, fast, slow, previous/next frame in pause. Choose searched recording mode, including whole, outside alarm, motive detection, whole alarm Recoding mode recording.
Page 22: Configuration
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.4. Configuration User can get into configuration through main menu; Function of system , record, network, alarm, account and abnormity as shown in. Figure 3.8 Configuration 3.4.1. System Figure 3.9 System Configuration Item Description Set the current time.
Page 23 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Push function of form a complete set of network configuration, display iphone equipment received alarm 【Device Name】 information device name Number more than one DVR, click “Ad” button on remote control and input a number to select the 【DVR No.】...
Page 24 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.11 More Setting Item Description 【Channel Name 】 show channel name in screen or not 【Date Display】 show date or not Display】 drag channel title, save instantly, after quitting by right button, position of channel title would not vary in 【Channel Display】...
Page 25 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Item Description To select channel. Green, yellow and red refer to the normal, MD and alarm recording type. Modify it in 【Set】【Channel】 Form a complete set of screenshots function use regularly, used in the timing capture function of the 【Snapshot】...
Page 26 User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.4.3. Network Set the DVR network parameters in “Network” interface. The default IP address is 192.168.1.88 Base setting Figure 3.14 Base setting interface Item Description Enable the DVR to obtain an IP address automatically. If this is enabled, the DVR will reboot and search for a DHCP server, and then assign a dynamic IP address.
Page 27 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Advanced Figure 3.15 Advance interface Item Description enable PPPOE, Input PPPOE username and password provided by ISP. Operation: Using this 【PPPOE】 feature, the DVR will automatically obtain a public IP address from your ISP. You can then visit the web interface of the DVR by typing this IP into Internet Explorer.
Page 28 User Manual of Cube DVR Series 【Max Connect】 range: 0-10, 0 indicates that no connections are allowed 0-32 should be proper. Need Check first then browse real time video on the network, the number Network Connection 【【Transfer Capability Set】 NUM】...
Page 29 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Network status: Display the current DHCP PPPoE and IP. Figure 3.16 Push Figure 3.17 Network Item Description [Enable] Enable P2P by clicking OPEN, and click OK to finish the device configuration [Transfer Mode] Fluency/Latency/None [Device ID] Each serial number Of devices are different, this cannot be modified [Password]...
Page 30: Alarm Configuration
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.4.4. Alarm Configuration Local alarm Figure 3.18 Local Alarm interface Item Description 【Alarm Input Channel No.】 select the alarm input channel 【Enable】 the specified alarm in /out select the alarm circuit type 【Type】【Process Mode】 enter alarm linkage interface Figure 3.19 Alarm Period...
Page 31 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.20 Linkage Set 【Linkage】 on/off 【Record Channel】, 【PTZ】, 【Tour】, 【Snapshot】 linkage and select channel. Figure 3.21 Local Alarm Process 【Abnormity】: enable or disable 【Alarm Out】, 【Show Message】, 【Send Email】 and 【Buzzing】 Time delay for alarm cancel is 10-300s Notice: some models have no LOCAL ALARM Function;...
Page 32: User Management
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Video detection Item Description 【motion detection】 motion detection and alarm 【zone setting】 22*18 =396 zones mask 【Sensibility】 6 grades 【management】 as same as local alarm 【preview】 alarm preview 【video lose】 detect video loses and alarm 【management】...
Page 33 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Item Description add group member information and set authorities. 【Add users】 Default users are: “admin”, “user” and hidden “default”, the password of first two username is 123456. “Admin” has advanced authorities; “user” only has surveillance and playback authority. Hidden default: operate in password-less login mode, cannot delete, DVR login in this name automatically if “no user login”...
Page 34: Storage
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.5. Storage 3.5.1. HDD Management Figure 3.24 Maintain and manage local HDD Base Configuration “Base Config” as, shows DVR storage capacity, available space and working status. Figure 3.25 HDD Manage 【Format】it is possible to format an individual HDD. 【Set】to set HDD as read-write, read only or redundancy mode.
Page 35 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.26 HDD S.M.A.R.T intelligent detection Record Record menu, shows start-stop time. Figure 3.27 HDD Record...
Page 36: Cloud Storage
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.5.2. Cloud Storage Device Configuration Select channel and configuration your needs, here we take motion detect, Video Loss, Camera Masking as example to show you how to use cloud storage step by step. Figure 3.28 Configuration interface Motion Detect Upload the snapshot on cloud storage...
Page 37 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.30 Alarm Step 3: Enter Detect tab to choose channel, check Motion Detect checkbox, and then click Process button on the right. Figure 3.31 Detect Step 4: Enter Process interface to set period, linkage set, process as below. Figure 3.32 Period...
Page 38 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.33 Linkage Set Figure 3.34 Process Video loss/ Camera masking Upload new and snapshot on cloud storage Follow the step from 1 to 4 as motion detect to finish the configuration.
Page 39 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Connect Drop box Step 1: select Drop box, Click Bind Figure 3.35 Cloud storage Step 2: open the linking via you browser (scan QR code with your Ipad , phone.) Figure 3.36 Bind Drop box Step 3: The linking will lead to the “dropbox”...
Page 40 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.37 Drop box Sign in Step 4: Authorized the specific DVR to visit your drop box, and get the authorization code. Figure 3.38 Drop box authorization Step 5: Enter the authorization code into your DVR from web pages. And click OK Figure 3.39 Enter authorization code...
Page 41 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.40 Drop box capacity Figure 3.41 Bind Success Step 6: After finish your DVR trigger motion detection, video loss, Camera masking settings. It will upload the information to your drop box automatically. Then you can login drop box and get the information you want.(www.dropbox.com) Figure 3.42 Login drop box...
Page 42 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 3.43 Check information...
Page 43: Record Backup
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.5.3. Record Backup Connect an External USB device with the USB port to backup in the “Record Backup” menu Figure 3.44 Backup 【Detect】: Identify external USB device and display the device information. 【Backup】: tick the external device and click 【Backup】 to enter the backup menu Figure 3.45 Backup Back...
Page 44: Output
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.6. Output Figure 3.46 Output 3.6.1. Display Display Menu Figure 3.47 Item Description total 4 grades 【Transparency】【Channel Name】 to modify channel name, available options are symbols, letters, and numbers 【Time Display】 to choose whether time displays on screen 【Channel Display】...
Page 45 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Output configuration Figure 3.48 Output config Item Description 【VGA Output】 to select VGA resolution and refresh rate, default is 1024×768@60Hz. 【TV Adjust】 to adjust TV output area. Modify the image to the right size for monitor 【VGA/TV Color Set】...
Page 46: Maintain
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.7. Maintain Figure 3.50 Maintain 3.7.1. Log 【LOG】 display system log information. Figure 3.51 Select the type and time press the Find, the system will display the log in tabular form, you can also click the backup button to export the log backup to your computer.
Page 47: Auto Maintain
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.7.2. Version 【Version】: Show features, software version etc. 【upgrade】: Connect a USB flash device which contains the upgrade firmware and click “Upgrade”. Note: upgrade may cause the startup failure. Please operate under professional direction. 3.7.3.
Page 48: Shutdown
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 3.8. Shutdown Figure 3.53 Shutdown Item Description 【Menu Logout】 log out of the current user account shutdown the DVR 【Shutdown】【Restart System】 reboot the DVR...
Page 49: Chapter 4 Web & Client
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Chapter 4 Web & Client...
Page 50: Web Operation
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 4.1. WEB Operation 4.1.1. Network Connection H Series: Check network connection by LCD on front panel, “ “ refers connection error, P Series: Check B-Lamp on front panel, light indicates connection Set IP, subnet mask and gateway for computer and DVR. Please assign the same segment IP address without router, need to set the appropriate subnet mask and gateway with router.
Page 51 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 4.2 Install The following interface will popup when you input your username, password and click “Login”. Interface like Diagram 4-3 Web Interface when user login successfully. Click “Exit” to quit. Figure 4.3 Login If the Win 7 system prompts control is not registered, click Close button in the above page, and click close the Active X filtering, and then click Install button in the bottom of the page.
Page 52 User Manual of Cube DVR Series 4.1.4. Live View Into the WEB interface, select the focus window in live window, the focus window has a light blue border. From the left channel column select channel Figure 4.4 Live View Click on 2 area in upper right corner can choose open / close the channel of the main stream or secondary stream, shows the current DVR's IP and rate information, as shown in.
Page 53: Ptz Control
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 4.6 Function Key 4.1.5. PTZ CONTROL Set protocol(see【Setting】→【PTZ Config】) Control PTZ direction, step size, zoom, IRIS, preset, tour, pattern, border scan, light, wiper, auto pan, etc. Step size controls PTZ direction and speed, e.g. step size 8 is moved faster than step size 1. Eight direction rotations: up, down, right, left, upleft, upright, lower left, lower right.
Page 54 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Preset Operation: modify preset position by direction button and inputting a preset number, then click “Add” to save. Tour Operation: select “Tour”; Point between the first cruise line cruise input box value. And input numbers in “Path” and “preset”. Click 【Add Preset】to adds one preset in the cruise path, and repeat to add additional presets.
Page 55: Search Record
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 4.1.7. Search Record Click “Search record” to open the search interface , can search and operate record, alarm, motion, local record Search record By selecting the record type, start and end times, and click the check button, get a list of files on the DVR. Select the appropriate file and download can be played Play Double click a search result to play in video window.
Page 56: Client Operation
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 4.1.8. Alarm Configuration Click the 【Alarm】 to enter the alarm setup menu, user set up and operate the alarm mode, as. Choose type of alarm on menu, monitor video loss, motion detection, and disk full, disk error, video mask, external alarm. Click 【Video Pop-up】, open the video loss, motion detection, hard disk full, hard disk failure, video block, video encoder alarm pop-up linkage.
Page 57: Chapter 5 Function
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Chapter 5 Function...
Page 58: Ddns Function
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 5.1. DDNS Function 5.1.1. Summary Dynamic DNS is a kind of system which point internet domain name to variable IP. According to the rule of internet domain name, domain name must associate with the fixed IP address. Dynamic DNS provide a fixed Name server for the dynamic domain, and then guide the domain search to the IP address of dynamic user through Name server, which can make the outside user connect to the dynamic user‟s URL.
Page 59 User Manual of Cube DVR Series 5.1.3. NO-IP(www.no-ip.com) Register Register new username at no-ip, click 【Create Account】. Create domain name, click 【Add a Host】. Embedded DVR Setting Open 【Main Menu】→【Management】→【Network】→【Advanced】→【DDNS】→【Enable】 Table 5.1 Explain: Name Configuration DDNS Type NO-IP DDNS Server IP dynupdate.no-ip.com Port Domain Name...
Page 60: Port Mapping
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 5.1.5. Test and Verify DDNS After setting the Embedded DVR, wait for a few minutes, analysis records will update. Click Operation in the Menu of computer, input “cmd”, click “OK” to open a window. As the shows. Figure 5.2 Input “ping+ Domain name”...
Page 61: Upnp Function
User Manual of Cube DVR Series With the function of port mapping, we can map many ports of a machine‟s IP address to different machines‟ different ports inside web. The port mapping can also have other special agent functions, like POP, SMTP, TELNET, etc. Theoretically, it can provide more than sixty thousand ports.
Page 62: Ntp Function
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 5.2.2. MAMUAL PORT MAPPING The first step Connect the Embedded DVR to the Router, set the static IP. The second step Log in Router, enter into the configuration menu of Router, and set the menu. Then get to port, set the IP distributed by the Embedded DVR, and set the rule of port mapping, add HTTP and TCP port into mapping list.
Page 63: Voice Intercom
User Manual of Cube DVR Series NTP Server Set Up under Windows “Start” menu → “Run” (or Win+R), input “regedit” to get into REGEDIT. Build a new key assignment of WORD Value under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters registry sub key; Change the value to 1, and save. Restart the computer.
Page 64: Hdd S.m.a.r.t
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Hard disk redundancy function is through the designated channel data double backup in HDD, so DVR need a standalone HDD for redundancy function. HDD redundancy configuration Open main menu enter into the storage configuration, choose one HDD as the redundancy HDD, click setting. Redundancy HDD must be an independent HDD, user can set several HDDs as a redundancy HDD group.
Page 65 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Attribute Description: name of detection item. Manufacturer can increase or decrease. As ATA standard update constantly, sometimes different models in same brand maybe different ,but must ensure major test items specified in S.M.A.R.T .(although different manufacturers have specific naming convention ,the essence of monitoring is the same.) 1 Read Error Rate 2 Spin up Time...
Page 66 User Manual of Cube DVR Series the everyday use or error happen. Consequently, larger attribute values mean better quality and higher reliability; smaller values mean more possibility of failure increases. 6 Dates Actual values of HDD‟s detection items, many items are cumulative values. 7 Statuses It is current statues of HDD‟s every attribute after analyzing and comparing above attribute values by S.M.A.R.T, also is important information to judge HDD healthy or not.
Page 67: Chapter 6 Appendix
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Chapter 6 Appendix...
Page 68: Terms
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 6.1. TERMS Dual-stream Dual-stream: one high bit rate stream for the local HD store, QCIF/CIF/2CIF/DCIF/4CIF coding, other low bit rate stream for network transmission, such as QCIF / CIF coding, I Frame I frame: intra frame image, remove redundant information to compress the transmittal data, also called key frames. B Frame B frame: According to time redundant of the source image sequence previously encoded frame and account the source image after the encoded frame to compress transmittal data, also known as bi-directional prediction frame.
Page 69: Hdd Capacity Calculation
User Manual of Cube DVR Series 6.2. HDD Capacity Calculation 6.2.1. Reference of HDD Capacity Calculation The first time install DVR, please check if the HDD has installed. The capacity of the HDD There is no limitation of capacity of single HDD to DVR, please choose the HDD according to the Vedios‟ saving time. The choose of the Capacity Computational formula of HDD Capacity: Whole HDD Capacity = number of the channels ×...
Page 70 User Manual of Cube DVR Series 6.2.2. Hard Disk Problem Use Detection Tool provided by the HDD manufacturer to detect the Function of HDD to solve data problem. We recommend Seagate and Western Digital. How to detect Seagate HDD a) Get into www.seagate.com, Click Support & Downloads choose Sea Tools, download tool, as Figure 6.1 b) Double-click to install downloaded file , click installed file to detect the HDD information on PC.
Page 71: Common Faults
User Manual of Cube DVR Series Figure 6.3 6.3. Common Faults DVR startup failure or continuously reboot Possible reasons: The system has been damaged from a bad DVR update. There is a problem with the DVR main board error, please contact supplier. There is an HDD error.
Page 72 User Manual of Cube DVR Series Parallel connect a 120Ω resistance to resolve signal reflex caused by too many PTZs on the line. The RS-485 port on DVR is defective Blurred screen in preview mode Possible reasons: Please make sure your cameras match your video format selected in the General menu. E.g. camera is NTSC standard but the DVR is PAL standard, the preview would be blurred.
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