8-Channel IP Surveillance Kit User Manual C8CHIPSKIT V1.0...
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Introduction: This manual is for the users who attempt to use H.264 Network Video Recorder (NVR). It expresses installation guide, connecting to peripherals, and GUI operations. Please familiarize yourself with the contents in this manual before using the NVR. Make sure that you have referred to an expert when operating the outer case for repair or installing HDD.
Product Overview Package contents Remote control USB mouse Flex IR extender Power adapter Screws pack Product CD Quick Connection Guide *The actual items maybe different from the picture shown Front Panel Real Panel Power: DC12V LAN: RJ-45 HDMI: Video output VGA: Video output USB port: For USB mouse control/ USB backup/ Firmware update Audio out : RCA x2...
HDD Installation HDD new installation Step 1: Remove the Screws from the real panel and side panel of the housing. Step2. Gently slide the cover away from the rear panel and lift it.
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Step 3 Carefully place the HDD at the upper right side and slide it to plug into the connector properly. HDD Connector Step 4 With your hand supporting the HDD and turn the unit upside down and secure the HDD from the bottom of case with 4 screws.
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Step 5 Screw the cover back, replacing the screws on the side panel(x4) and rear panel(x1) Note: The new HDD must be formatted in order to work properly in system. For the detail about the “Format HDD”, please refer to 4.3.5. The HDD will be started in 5~30 seconds after NVR is powered on.
Replacing the Hard drive Make sure the NVR power is off and power cable has been disconnected before changing the hard drive. Step 1 Remove the screws from the rear panel and side panels of the housing. Step2 Gently slide the cover away from the rear panel and lift off Step3 With your hand supporting the HDD when turn unit upside down, remove 4 screws from the bottom of case.
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Step4 Gently slide the hard drive from the connector properly. HDD Connector Step5 Install new HDD. Step6 Screw the cover back on the side panel (x4) and rear panel (x1). NOTE: After replacing the HDD, the new HDD must be formatted in order to work properly in system.
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HDD Status: displays the percentage of recording space consumed on the hard disk and the size of the installed hard drive. 2. Camera Status: 4/8 channel: displays channels on the system. The red light will flash to indicate recording is in progress. Tool Bar: primary control input for the user interface.
Flexible Camera Assignment You can re-assign the channels to different camera. For example, you can duplicate the video feed from channel 1 onto channel 2. This is useful if you wish to re-arrange the position of each channel. For Example: Re-assigned channel 1 to channel 8.
Playback Click the icon to enter playback mode. You will see a The timestamp appears in the bottom-right corner of the screen indicates the playback time. Split mode Arrow keys: day/time selector Playback / Pause Event List Show / hide OSD Screenshot Click the numerals to select date / hour / minute / second or frame and adjust them by rolling up and down the mouse.
Playback Mark Click the bar to mark the timing of important video when searching playback data, the orange cursor will be shown in the center of the bar. Auxiliary Search Cursors: This smart search design allows you to search data quicker and easier, meanwhile, the colorful cursors are helpful to diagnose the happened events.
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Click the icon to play / pause the selected events. Click the icon to delete the selected events. Click the icon or right click the mouse to exit and go back to the previous page. Event Filter To search events by channel or event filters. 1.
In the column of filter, it will show the filter icons in different colors, you can easily search the events. When the cursor is moved to one of the events, the background will be changed to the beginning of the event. Screenshot Function Format the USB flash drive by NVR before using it for backup video, upgrade firmware or take screenshots.
Main Menu If you set “Password Enable” as , the NVR will request at least ID:2, default password 2222 to enter the menu. Click this icon to enter main menu. IP Camera Setup Main Menu →IP cam Setup Select certain IP cam and enter, it can set follow items:...
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1. Connect Type: Disable, Local LAN, and Internet. 2. Title: Key in IP cam title via virtual keyboard 3. Host name: Key in IP cam title via virtual keyboard 4. Port 5. ID 6. Password: Key in IP cam title via virtual keyboard...
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7. IP cam Menu: It can setup--Camera, Record, Alarm, LAN 8. IP cam Information: This allows you view all your IP cam information here, such as: OS version, S/N, IP address, DHCP, Http….. 9. IP cam firmware update...
Camera Click and roll the mouse to adjust Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation. Video Orientation: Roll the mouse to select mirror function:--Disable/Flip/Mirror/Flip+Mirror. Advanced Setup: Light sources and Day/Night switching configurations. It includes AC Frequency: Shutter Speed: Gain: Day/Night Threshold (Lux) Day/Night Mode Record The video frame rate can be configured here.
Alarm/Motion Rate: set the frame rate when an alarm or motion event is triggered. Working Rate: set the frame rate for normal working hours Non-working Rate: set the frame rate for the time period other than working hours Quality: set video quality. It refers to the bit rate generated Schedule: configure the working / non-working time periods.
Motion Setup: Setup IP cam motion field. Privacy Mask: configure the mask (hidden) areas on the image. Note: click the split mode button can select/deselect all the image area in Motion and Privacy Mask setting. Setup the IP camera’s IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS Server, DHCP and Http port.
Setup Main Menu Setup Maintenance: the NVR settings can be perfromed with the below 3 types of acti. Load Factory Default: restore all NVR settings to the default Backup Settings (to USB): store the current NVR settings, so it can be applied to another unit of NVR.
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HDMI Screen size: Move the adjust bar to make HDMI out to fit the monitor size Video-Out Resolution: HDMI 1920*1080, HDMI 1280*720, VGA 1920*1080, VGA 1680*1050, VGA 1280*1024, VGA 1024*768: Date/Time: Configure Date/Time Display Format: Roll the mouse up or down to adjust as Y/M/D, D/M/Y or M/D/Y. Date Setup: Click and roll the mouse up or down to adjust date.
User of ID:3 is able to manage NVR & LAN password. (Default password:3333) Information You are able to check the NVR information including software, hardware, start / stop recording time of HDD and LAN. Record Main Menu → Record Video Information You can choose one of the cameras to see the video size at each hour.
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Bit rate Information You can choose one of the cameras to see the bit rate size at each hour. HDD Information You can view internal HDD and external HDD info. in this page. Record Mode External HDD Mode Click to select one of the following: Extended REC: NVR recording data into internal HDD first, when it record to 100%, it’ll record to external HDD.
Select Format HDD Choose which HDD (Internal / external) is going to be formatted. Format HDD Cancel HDD format. Format HDD. WARNING: All the recorded data including event list will be deleted once HDD is formatted. Alarm Main MenuAlarm Buzzer Roll the mouse to enable/disable buzzer.
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Start / Stop Time & Select Channel Insert USB flash drive into the NVR. Click and Roll the mouse to set the start / stop time and channel which is going to be saved to USB flash drive NOTE: One USB flash drive can save maximum 16 files. Each file is up to 1GB or 30 minutes. Save To Device Insert USB flash drive into the NVR, it will show “USB Check OK!”...
After backup is finished, check the event list to see if it is successful. Format Device Insert a USB flash drive to format it. WARING: All the data will be deleted once the USB drive is formatted. Firmware Update Before firmware update process, please be sure to save firmware to USB flash and insert it to NVR. Main Menu →...
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LAN Password Only the users of “ID: admin”(default password : 3333) are able to manage LAN passwords Click the numerals to set password. User Password (ID: user): User of ID:user is able to view remote live only. (Default password: 1111) ...
Network Access System Requirements Description Requirement Pentium 4 3.0GHz or above Windows XP/ Vista/ 7 / 8 / 8.1 Operating System 1 GB RAM Memory 256 MB of video memory Video 10/100 Base T Network Network (LAN) Internet Explorer 7 or above Browser Google Chrome / Mozilla Firefox *with the installed IE Tab plug-in...
Discovering devices by search tool The discovery tool is provided for searching Conceptronic network video devices in a network. When NVR device is correctly installed in a network, it can be searched by the tool. The steps of applying this search tool are as below.
Step 3 The selected NVR may have been assigned a valid IP address via DHCP server. It can also be manually given an IP address. To do so, click on “Set IP” button. In the pop-up “Set IP” window, input the IP, Subnet Mask and Gateway.
ActiveX add-on installation The access to the NVR webpage for the first time will be prompted to install the ActiveX. This installation is essential for viewing live video via IE browser. To allow the installation, click “Install” button on the message bar.
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Enter ID and Password to login. The IE browser can then display the web UI of the NVR and the live video of the managed cameras as below.
Web UI Operations Live Viewing Click this button for live mode. Click this button to view in single channel Click this button to view in Quad mode Click this button to view in 9-split mode. Drag & Drop (or tick/untick) the selected camera from the list to the viewer channel.
View in video image as1600*1200. View in video image as 640*400. Switch automatically to HD or SD resolution when viewing in shingle channel or multi channel mode respectively. Press this button to capture current live image. Press this button to record image to PC. Press this button to digital zoom in single channel.
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Playback by Date/Time Select the channel you would like to playback Click to open a pop-up calendar to select the date and time. To use the pop-up calendar: A. Click to change the month. B. Click a date C. Click to set the time.
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Playback by Event You can search events by “Motion” “Sensor’ and “All” Or click to open a pop-up calendar to select the date and time. Press this button to search event list Backup Select a time period that will be exported as a video footage. 1.
Press this button for following setting: Click this button for log mode. Press this button for system info. Press this button for network info. Press this button for online user info.
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Up to 15 Secs Note: NVR Viewer app for iPhone and Android phones Post Recording Up to 10 Minutes is available on the App store and Google Play. For the app user manual, please visit Reliability Auto-recovery after power resuming http://www.conceptronic.net/download.php...
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GPL License Agreement GPL may be included in this product, to view the GPL license agreement goes to http://download.conceptronic.net/GPL/GPL.pdf For GNU General Public License (GPL) related information, please visit http://www.conceptronic.net/download.php Enjoy the use of your Conceptronic 8-Channel IP Surveillance Kit!
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