USER’S MANUAL DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER *Please read this manaul carefully for correct use of the product and preserve it for reference purposes
Notes Please read this user manual carefully to ensure that you can use the device correctly and safely. There may be several technically incorrect places or printing errors in this manual. The updates will be added into the new version of this manual. The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice. This device should be operated only from the type of power source indicated on the marking label. The voltage of the power must be verified before using the same.
DVR User Manual Contents Contents Contents ...................................................................................................................................... i 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Features .................................................
DVR User Manual Contents 5.2.2 Quick Sequence View....................................................................................... 29 5.2.3 Scheme View In Sequence ............................................................................... 30 5.2.4 Spot View ......................................................................................................... 31 5.3 Preview Image Configuration ..................................................................................... 32 5.3.
DVR User Manual Contents 8.3.3 Search, Playback & Backup by Event ............................................................ 57 8.3.4 Search & Playback by Tag ............................................................................. 58 8.3.5 Image Management .......................................................................................... 59 8.3.6 View Backup Status .......................................................................................... 59 9 Alarm Management ............
DVR User Manual Contents 11.1.4 DDNS Configuration ...................................................................................... 73 11.1.5 E-mail Configuration ...................................................................................... 76 11.1.6 UPnP Configuration........................................................................................ 77 11.1.7 NAT Configuration ......................................................................................... 78 11.1.
DVR User Manual Introduction 1 Introduction 1.1 Summary Based on the most advanced SOC technology and embedded system in the field, this series of the DVR adopt the new designed human interface and support the smart management of analog cameras and IP cameras and the record search of slice. This series of the DVR which are powerful and easy to use are provided with excellent image quality and stable system.
DVR User Manual Introduction Support single camera image to be zoomed by sliding the scroll wheel of the mouse Support any area of the image to be zoomed in to a maximum of 16 times of the current size Support image and lens adjustment (only available for some cameras) Support quick camera adding in the camera window of the live preview interface The live camera sequence of the web client will keep consistent with that of the DVR after adjusting the live camera sequence of the DVR, but the live
DVR User Manual Introduction Support a maximum of 10 backup tasks in background and backup status viewing Alarm Management Support alarm schedule setting Support enabling or disabling of the motion detection, external sensor alarm input and exception alarms including IP address conflict alarm, disk IO error alarm, disk full alarm, no disk alarm, illegal access alarm, network disconnection alarm, IPC offline alarm and so on, alarm trigger configuration supportable Support IPC offline alarm trigger
DVR User Manual Introduction Support factory restoring, import and export of the system configuration, log view and export and local upgrading by USB mobile device Support auto recognition of the displayer’s resolution You can click the right mouse button at any interface to go back to the upper interface You can click the middle mouse button at any interface to go to the live view interface The display language and video format of the DVR will not be changed and the system logs will be reserved
DVR User Manual Introduction Name Descriptions Multi-Screen Switch Change the screen mode Enter Confirm selection To connect external USB device like USB mouse or USB flash USB 1.4 Rear Panel Descriptions Here we only take a part of real panels for example to introduce their interfaces and connections. The interfaces and locations of the interfaces are only for references. Please take the real object as the standard. No.
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DVR User Manual Introduction No. 1.5 Name Descriptions 1 RS485 2 AUDIO IN 3 AHD VIDEO IN Connect to keyboard or speed dome.
DVR User Manual Introduction Alarm Input: Alarm IN 1~16 are 16 CH alarm input interfaces. There are no type requirements for sensors. NO type and NC type are both available. The way to connect sensor and the device is as shown below: The alarm input is an open/closed relay. If the input is not an open/closed relay, please refer to the following connection diagram: Alarm Output: The way to connect alarm output device: Pull out the green terminal blocks and loosen the screws in the alarm-out port.
DVR User Manual Introduction RS485 Connection There are two types of RS485 interfaces: （Type 1） （Type 2） Type 1: The P/Z interfaces are used to connect speed dome. K/B interfaces are used to connect keyboard. Type 2: The RS485 interfaces are not only used to connect speed dome but also to connect keyboard.
DVR User Manual Basic Operation Guide 2 Basic Operation Guide 2.1 Startup & Shutdown Please make sure all the connections are done properly before you power on the unit. Proper startup and shutdown are crucial to expending the life of your device. 2.1.1 Startup ① Connect the output display device to the VGA/HDMI interface of the DVR. ② Connect with the mouse and power. The device will boot and the power LED would turn blue.
DVR User Manual Basic Operation Guide Button Power Button Function Switch off—to stop the device Record Button To start recording -/-- /0-9 Input number or choose camera Fn1 Button Unavailable temporarily Multi Button To choose multi screen display mode Next Button To switch the live image SEQ To go to sequence view mode Audio To enable audio output in live mode Switch No function temporarily Direction button To move cursor in setup or pan/title PTZ Enter Button To confirm the choice o
DVR User Manual Basic Operation Guide Button Function REC Record manually Search To enter search mode MEUN To enter menu Exit To exit the current interface ENTER To confirm the choice or setup Direction button To move cursor in setup ZOOM To zoom in PIP No function temporarily To control playback. Play(Pause)/Next Frame/Speed Up/Stop/Previous Frame/Speed Down 2.
DVR User Manual Basic Operation Guide The system includes two input boxes. Refer to the above pictures. The left box is the number input box and the right box is the input box which provides inputs of numbers, letters and punctuation characters. The introductions of keys on the input boxes are shown below. Button Meaning Button Meaning Backspace key Switch key of punctuation character Delete Key Enter key Switch key between upper and lower letter Space key Switch key of language 2.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface 3 Wizard & Main Interface 3.1 Startup Wizard The disk icons will be shown on the top of the startup interface. You can view the number and status of each disk quickly and conveniently through these icons ( : no disk; : unavailable disk; : RW available disk). You can quickly configure the DVR by wizard setup to make the DVR work normally. You must configure the wizard if you start the DVR for the first time (or click “Skip” to cancel the wizard next time).
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface ② Date and Time Configuration. The date and time of the system need to be set up if you use the wizard for the first time. Refer to the following figure. Set the time zone, system time, date format and time format. The DST will be enabled by default if the time zone selected includes DST. Click “Next” to continue. ③ Network Settings.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface ④ QRCode. Enable the NAT function in the interface or set it in the network configuration after exiting the wizard (please refer to 11.1.7 NAT Configuration for details). You can scan the QRCode through mobile client which is installed in the mobile phone or PAD to log in the mobile client instantly. Please refer to 12.1 Mobile Client Surveillance for details. ⑤ Add Camera.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface Click to edit the added camera as shown on the above right. Input the new camera name, IP address, port, username and the password of the camera. You can click “Test” to test the effectiveness of the input information. Click “OK” to save the settings. You can change the camera name only if it’s an analog camera or the added IPC is online. Click “Next” to continue. ⑥ Disk Settings.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface 3.2 Main Interface 3.2.1 Main Interface Introduction The buttons in area ① are introduced in the table below. Button Meaning Start button. Click it to pop up area ③. Full screen button. Click it to show full screen; click it again to exit the full screen. Screen mode button.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface Button Meaning Dwell button (see 5.2.2 Quick Sequence View and 5.2.3 Scheme View In Sequence for details). Click it to enable OSD; click to disable OSD. Click to set the default playback time before starting instant playback (8.1 Instant Playback) or going to the playback interface for playback operations (8.2 Playback Interface Introduction); click to go to the playback interface.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface Icon / Button Meaning Click it and then select “Logout”, “Reboot” or “Shutdown” in the popup window. 3.2.2 Setup Panel Click StartSettings to pop up the setup panel as shown below. The setup panel includes seven modules. Each module provides some function entries with links for convenient operation. Here we take Camera module as an example. The Camera module provides convenient links such as “Add Camera”, “Edit Camera”, “Image Settings”, “Motion” and “PTZ”.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface There are some function items on the left side of the camera management interface. Click each item to go to corresponding interface or window. For instance, click “Add Camera” to pop up the window as shown below. Click the main menus on the top of the camera management interface to go to corresponding interfaces. Refer to the picture below. For instance, you can go to system setup interface by clicking “System” tag.
DVR User Manual Wizard & Main Interface 3.2.3 Main Functions Camera The module covers the functions such as Camera Management (see Chapter 4 Camera Management for details), Image Settings (see 5.3 Preview Image Configuration for details), Motion (see 9.2.1 Motion Configuration for details) and PTZ (see Chapter 6 PTZ for details) and so on. Record The module covers the functions such as Encode Parameters and Record Schedule and so on. Please see Chapter 7 Record & Disk Management for details.
DVR User Manual Camera Management 4 Camera Management 4.1 Camera Signal Click StartSettingsCameraManage CameraCamera Signal to go to the interface as shown below. The DVR device supports hybrid access of TVI, AHD and CVI high definition cameras. If the TVI high definition camera is accessed to the DVR, you should select TVI in the following interface to show the camera image normally; if you select AHD, then there will be no image or the image has no color.
DVR User Manual Camera Management Refer to the pictures below. Click Add Camera in the setup panel or in the top right corner of the preview window to pop up the “Add Camera” window as shown below. You can quickly add or add the IP camera manually. Quickly Add Check the cameras and then click “Add” to add cameras. Click to edit the camera’s IP address, username and password and so on. Click “Default Password” to set the default username and password of each camera.
DVR User Manual Camera Management Add Manually Input the IP address or domain name (click in the IP address column to pop up the domain name input window, input the domain name of the IPC in the window and then click “OK” button), port, username and password of the camera and then select the protocol.
DVR User Manual Camera Management 4.3 Add/Edit Camera Group 4.3.1 Add Camera Group Click “Edit Camera Group” in the above interface to go to the interface as shown below. Click to pop up the window as shown below. Set the group name and dwell time in the window. Check the cameras and then click “Add” to add group. Click to view the cameras in the group after adding group. 4.3.2 Edit Camera Group Click to modify the group information such as group name and dwell time. Click to delete the group.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction 5 Live Preview Introduction 5.1 Preview Interface Introduction The connected analog camera will be added automatically in the live preview interface for previewing. You should add IP camera manually for previewing (see 4.2.1 Add Camera for details). Refer to the interface as shown below, drag one camera in the preview window to another window for camera window exchanging.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction Button -- Menu List Meaning -- Click it to go to image adjustment interface. Refer to 5.3.4 Image Adjustment for details. Camera Info Click it to view the IP camera information. The single channel amplification interface is as shown below. Press and drag the blue box to select the zoom in area. Click / to zoom the image. Click the camera selection box to select other cameras for amplification. Click “Back” to return to the live preview interface. 5.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction Add Display Mode Method One: ① Click “Customize Display Modes” in the above interface and then set the screen mode. ② Add the cameras and adjust the cameras’ display sequence as required. ③ Click “Save” button under the display mode list and then enter the display mode name in the popup window, click “OK” button to save the current display mode.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction Go to the live preview interface and then click to pop up a little window. Set the dwell time in the window and then click to view the live group by group according to the camera number of the current screen mode. Double click the sequence view interface to pause the view; double click again to restore the view. Click to stop the view. 5.2.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction Add Scheme Click in area ① to create a new scheme. Click scheme to delete it. on the top right corner of the Configure Scheme a) Select a scheme in area ① and then click the screen mode button on the tool bar to set the screen mode of the scheme. b) Select a camera window in area ② and then double click the camera or group in area ③. The camera or group will be added into the selected window. One camera in the same scheme cannot repeat.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction 5.3 Preview Image Configuration 5.3.1 OSD Settings Click StartSettingsCameraImageOSD Settings to go to the interface as shown below. Select the camera, input the camera name (or double click the camera name in the camera list to change the camera name), enable or disable the name and time OSDs (if enabled, drag the red name and time OSDs directly in the image view area to change the OSDs’ display position) and select the date and time formats.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction Select the camera and then set the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue of the camera. You can click “Default” button to restore the image settings to the default factory settings. 5.3.3 Mask Settings Some areas of the image can be masked for privacy. Up to four mask areas can be set for each camera. Click StartSettingsCameraImageMask Settings to go to the interface as shown below. Select the camera and enable the mask.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction 5.3.4 Image Adjustment Go to live preview interface and then click window to go to the image adjustment interface. button on the tool bar under the camera Image Adjustment Select the camera and then click “Image Adjustment” to go to image adjustment tab. Refer to the above picture. Drag the slider to set the camera’s brightness, contrast, saturation and hue value. Check sharpen, wide dynamic and denoise and then drag the slider to set the value.
DVR User Manual Live Preview Introduction Parameter Meaning White Balance White balance is the white rendition function of the camera to adjust the color temperature according to the environment automatically. Image Mirror Reverse the current video image right and left. Image Flip Turn the current video image upside down. Lens Control Select the camera and then click “Lens Control” to go to lens control tab. Click or to adjust the zoom and focus parameters of the camera’s lens.
DVR User Manual PTZ 6 PTZ 6.1 PTZ Control Interface Introduction You can control the dome or PTZ which connects to the camera for PTZ control. Click on the tool bar at the bottom of the live preview window to go to the PTZ control interface as shown below. You can select another dome or PTZ which connects to the camera on the top right of the interface for PTZ control. Introductions of the buttons on the bottom right of the interface: Button Meaning Click / / / to rotate the dome.
DVR User Manual PTZ Analog Joystick Control The analog joystick on the left side of the interface provides quick PTZ control. The dome or PTZ will rotate when you drag the analog joystick. The farther you drag the analog joystick from the middle of the image, the faster the dome or PTZ rotates. The dome or PTZ will stop rotating when you stop dragging the analog joystick. 3D Control Click the camera image on any area and then the image will be centered on the clicked point.
DVR User Manual PTZ Advanced 3D Control Double click the left button of the mouse on any area of the camera image and then the image size will be doubled and centered on the clicked point. Press and hold the left button of the mouse on any area of the camera image to zoom in the image; press and hold the right button to zoom out the image.
DVR User Manual PTZ Preset Setting Click “Preset” to go to preset operation tab and then click “Add” button to pop up a window as shown below. Select the preset and then input the preset name in the window; finally click “OK” button to save the settings. You can add 255 presets for each dome at most.
DVR User Manual PTZ Click to start the cruise and click to stop the cruise in the cruise list of the cruise operation tab; click “Delete” button to delete the selected cruise. You can also go to cruise setting interface for cruise setting, see 6.3 Cruise Setting for details. 6.2 Preset Setting Click StartSettingsCameraPTZPreset to go to the interface as shown below.
DVR User Manual PTZ 6.3 Cruise Setting Click StartSettingsCameraPTZCruise to go to the interface as shown below. Add Cruise Click in the camera list on the right side of the interface to display the cruise information of the dome and then click to add cruise. The operations of the “Add Cruise” window are similar to that of the PTZ control interface; please see 6.1 PTZ Control Interface Introduction for details. Edit Cruise Select the camera and cruise in the “Cruise” interface.
DVR User Manual PTZ 6.4 PTZ Protocol Setting Click StartSettingsCameraPTZProtocol to go to the interface as shown below. You can set the protocol, baud rate and address of the analog dome in the interface. Please make sure the analog speed dome camera is well connected to the DVR before you control it. Select the camera and then set the protocol, baud rate and address of the dome according to the settings of the dome. Protocol: The default communication protocol of the DVR is COC.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management 7 Record & Disk Management 7.1 Record Configuration 7.1.1 Mode Configuration Please format the HDDs before recording (refer to 7.5 Disk Management for details). Click StartSettingsRecordMode Settings to go to the mode settings interface. You can set the record time under the “Manual Record Settings” and then click “Apply” button to save the settings. There are two record modes: auto mode and manual mode.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management Video Encode: the video encode format of the camera. Resolution: the higher the resolution is, the clearer the image is. FPS: the higher the frame rate is, the more fluency the video is. However, more storage room will be taken up. Bitrate Type: CBR and VBR are optional. CBR means that no matter how changeable the video resources are, the compression bitrate keeps constant.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management Pre-alarm Record Time: set the time to record before the actual recording begins. Post-alarm Record Time: set the time to record after the actual recording is finished. Expiration Time: set the expiration time for recorded video. If the set date is overdue, the recorded data will be deleted automatically. 7.2 Encode Parameters Setting Click StartSettingsRecordEncode Parameters to go to the interface as shown below.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management Click to add a new schedule. Refer to the picture below.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management Set the schedule name and schedule time and then click “Add” to save the schedule. You can set day schedule or week schedule. : add button; : delete button. Set Day Schedule Click and then drag the cursor on the time scale to set record time; click and then drag the cursor on the time scale to delete the selected area. You can manually set the record start time and end time. Click or and then click “Manual” on each day to pop up a window as shown below.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management Click “All” to set all week recording; click “Reverse” to swap the selected and unselected time in a week; click “Clear All” to clear all the selected area in a week. 7.3.2 Record Schedule Configuration Click StartSettingsRecordRecord ScheduleSchedule Configuration to go to the interface as shown below. Set the schedule of sensor record, motion record and timed record. Click “None” in the drop-down menu to clear the schedule.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management 7.4.2 Timing Recording Timing Recording: the system will record automatically according to the schedule. Set the timing record schedule of each camera. See 7.3 Schedule Setting for details. 7.4.3 Motion Based Recording Motion Based Recording: the system will start motion based recording when the motion object appears in the setup schedule. The setup steps are as follows: ① Set the motion based recording schedule of each camera. See 7.
DVR User Manual Record & Disk Management There are all four disk groups. By using disk group, you can correspond the camera to disk (the record data of the camera in the group will be stored into the disks in the same group). The DVR with e-SATA interface supports e-SATA recording. The added disks and cameras will be added into group one automatically.
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DVR User Manual Playback & Backup 8 Playback & Backup 8.1 Instant Playback Click on the tool bar at the bottom of the preview camera window to play back the record (click on the tool bar at the bottom of the live preview interface to set the default playback time). Refer to the picture below. Drag the playback progress bar to change the playback time. You can also click the right-click menu “Instant Playback” in the camera window and then set the instant playback time to play back the record. 8.
DVR User Manual Playback & Backup The added cameras will playback their records in the playback interface automatically. You can also add the playback camera manually. Click in the playback window to pop up the “Add Camera” window. Check the cameras in the window and then click “Add” to add playback camera. The buttons on the tool bar (area ①) at the bottom of the playback interface are introduced in the table below. Button Meaning Start button. Click it to pop up area ②. Full screen button.
DVR User Manual Playback & Backup Button Menu List Meaning -- Move tool. Click it to move the tool bar anywhere. Enable Audio Click it to enable audio. You can listen to the camera audio by enabling audio. Snap Click it to snap. Click it to go to the zoom in interface. The zoom in interface is similar to that of the camera window in the live preview interface. Zoom In Click to pause the record playing; click to play the record.
DVR User Manual Playback & Backup 8.3 Record Search, Playback & Backup The record data and the snapped pictures can be backed up through network or USB (U disk or USB mobile HDD). The file system of the backup devices should be FAT32 format. 8.3.1 Search, Playback & Backup by Time-sliced Image ① Click StartSearch and BackupBy Time-sliced Image to go to “By Time-sliced Image” tab. There are two view modes: by time and by camera. In the time view mode, a maximum of 64 camera thumbnails can be showed.
DVR User Manual Playback & Backup Note: If you back up the record in private format, the system will back up a RPAS player to USB device automatically. The private format record can be played by RPAS player only. ⑤ Click “Playback” button to play the record in the playback interface (refer to 8.2 Playback Interface Introduction for details). Click “Close” to close the interface.
DVR User Manual Playback & Backup Time Slice Mode Selecting: Method One: Click “Year”, “Month” or “Day” button under the record time scale to select the time slice mode. In “Day” mode, click / on the left/right side of the time scale to view the record of the last/next day; click “Minute” in the “Picture” option under the time scale to select “Minute” mode (in “Minute” mode, click the time scale to change the time of the 60 display windows) and click “Hour” to select “Hour” mode.
DVR User Manual Playback & Backup ② Check the event type in the interface as required. ③ Click to set the start time and end time on the top left of the interface. ④ Check cameras on the left side of the interface or check “All” to select all the cameras and then click to search the record. The searched record will be displayed in the list. ⑤ Click in the list to play back the record in the popup window.
DVR User Manual Playback & Backup Click in the interface to play the record. Click delete the tag. to edit the tag name. Click to 8.3.5 Image Management Click StartSearch and BackupImage Management to go to “Image Management” tab. The system will display all the snapped images automatically in the list. Click to delete the image. Click to pop up the “Export” window. Select the device name and save path in the window and then click “Save” button. Click to pop up the “View Image” window.
DVR User Manual Alarm Management 9 Alarm Management 9.1 Sensor Alarm To complete the entire sensor alarm settings, you should enable the sensor alarm of each camera and then set up the alarm handling of each camera. ① Click StartSettingsAlarmSensor Alarm to go to the following interface. ② Select the alarm type (NO or NC) according to trigger type of the sensor. ③ Enable the sensor alarm of each camera.
DVR User Manual Alarm Management Pop-up Message Box: if enabled, the system will pop up the corresponding alarm message box automatically when the sensor alarm is triggered. To set the duration time of the message box, please see 9.4.3 Display for details. E-mail: if enabled, the system will send an e-mail when the sensor alarm is triggered. Before you enable the email, please configure the recipient’s e-mail address first (see 11.1.5 E-mail Configuration for details). 9.
DVR User Manual Alarm Management ③ Drag the camera image to set the motion area. You can set more than one motion area. Click “All” to set the whole camera image as the motion area. Click “Reverse” to swap the motion area and the non-motion area. Click “Clear” to clear all the motion areas. ④ Click “Apply” to save the settings. Click “Processing Mode” to go to the alarm handling configuration interface of the motion alarm. 9.2.
DVR User Manual Alarm Management ② Enable or disable “Snap”, “Alarm-out”, “Preset”, “Buzzer”, “Pop-up Video”, “Pop-up Message Box” and “E-mail”. The IPC Offline Settings are similar to that of the sensor alarm (see 9.1 Sensor Alarm for details). ③ Click “Apply” to save the settings. 9.3.2 Video Loss Settings ① Click StartSettingsAlarmExceptionVideo Loss Settings to go to the interface as shown below.
DVR User Manual Alarm Management 9.4 Alarm Event Notification 9.4.1 Alarm-out ① Click StartSettingsAlarmEvent Notification to go to the following interface. ② Set the delay time and the schedule of each alarm-out. You can click “Edit Schedules” to edit the schedules (see 7.3.1 Add Schedule for details). ③ Click “Apply” to save the settings. You can click “Test” to test the alarm output. 9.4.2 E-mail Click StartSettingsAlarmEvent NotificationE-mail to go to the e-mail configuration interface.
DVR User Manual Alarm Management 9.4.4 Buzzer Click StartSettingsAlarmEvent NotificationBuzzer to go to the buzzer configuration interface. Set the delay time of the buzzer and then click “Apply” to save the setting. You can click “Test” to test the buzzer. 9.5 Manual Alarm Click on the tool bar at the bottom of the live preview interface to pop up a window. Click “Trigger” to start alarm. Click “Clear” to stop alarm. 9.
DVR User Manual Alarm Management Click “Clear” button to stop the buzzer when the buzzer alarm happens. Click the detail information as shown below. to view If the exception information is more than one page, you can input the number in the box and then click to jump to the specified page. Click / to view the exception alarm information in the previous/next page. Click to play the alarm record.
DVR User Manual Account & Permission Management 10 Account & Permission Management 10.1 Account Management Click StartSettingsAccount and AuthorityAccountEdit User to go to the interface as shown below. Area ① displays the user permissions. Area ② displays the user list. Click the user in the list to display its user permissions in area ①. There are three default permission groups (“Administrator”, “Advanced” and “Common”) available when adding accounts.
DVR User Manual Account & Permission Management ② Set the username, password and group. The e-mail address, MAC address and the remark are optional (input the MAC address after you check it). Click “Add” to add the user. 10.1.2 Edit User Click StartSettingsAccount and AuthorityAccountEdit User and then click in the user list or double click the user to edit the user information. Click to delete the user (the user admin cannot be deleted).
DVR User Manual Account & Permission Management Recover Password Click “Recover Password” to reset the password to 123456. Edit User Click “Edit User” to pop up the window as shown below. The admin is enabled, its permission control is closed and permission group cannot be changed by default.
DVR User Manual Account & Permission Management Click to add permission group. Set the group name, check the permissions as required and then set the “Local” and “Remote” permissions. Click “Add” to save the settings.
DVR User Manual Account & Permission Management 10.3.2 Edit Permission Group Go to “Edit Permission Group” interface and then click in the group list to edit the permission group (the operations of the “Edit Permission Group” are similar to that of the “Add Permission Group”, please see 10.3.1 Add Permission Group for details). Click to save the group as another group. Click to delete the permission group. The three default permission groups (“Administrator”, “Advanced” and “Common”) cannot be deleted.
DVR User Manual Device Management 11 Device Management 11.1 Network Configuration 11.1.1 TCP/IP Configuration Click StartSettingsNetworkTCP/IP to go to the following interface. Check “Obtain an IPv4 address automatically”, “Obtain an IPv6 address automatically” and “Obtain DNS automatically” to get the network addresses automatically, or manually input the network addresses.
DVR User Manual Device Management HTTP Port: the default HTTP port of the DVR is 80. The port number can be changed to others like 81. The port is mainly used to IE remote access. If you want to access the DVR through IE, you should input IP address plus HTTP port in the IE address bar like http://192.168.11.61:81. Server Port: the default server port of the DVR is 6036. The server port number can be changed as required. The port is mainly used in network video management system.
DVR User Manual Device Management Check “Enable” and then select the DDNS type. Input the server address, domain name, username and password according to the selected DDNS type. Click “Test” to test the effectiveness of the input information. Click “Apply” to save the settings. You will have to input the server address and domain name if some DDNS types are selected. Go to the relative DNS website to register domain name and then input the registered domain information here). Now we take www.dvrdydns.
DVR User Manual Device Management ③ Create domain name and then click Request Domain. ④ After you successfully request your domain name, you will see your domain name information in the list.
DVR User Manual Device Management ⑤ Click StartSettingsNetworkDDNS to go to DDNS setting interface. Enable DDNS and then select the www.dvrdydns.com DDNS type. Input the registered username, password and domain name and then click “Apply”. ⑥ Map the IP address and HTTP port in the router (you can skip this step if UPnP function is enabled). ⑦ Input the registered domain name plus HTTP port like http://www.xxx.dvrdydns.com:81 in the IE address bar and then press Enter key to go to the IE client. 11.1.
DVR User Manual Device Management Click “Edit Recipient” to go to the following interface. Click “Add” and then input the recipient’s e-mail address and select the schedule (if a schedule is selected, the system will send the alarm email and the recipient will receive it only in the selected schedule time) in the popup window. Click “Add” in the window to add the recipient. You can also change the recipient’s receiving schedule by clicking in the “Schedule” column.
DVR User Manual Device Management ① ② ③ ④ Click StartSettingsNetworkUPnP to go to the following interface. Make sure the router supports UPnP function and the UPnP is enabled in the router. Set the DVR’s IP address, subnet mask and gateway and so on corresponding to the router. Check “Enable” in the interface as shown below and then click “Apply” button. Click “Refresh” button to refresh the UPnP status.
DVR User Manual Device Management 11.1.9 View Network Status Click StartSettingsNetworkNetwork Status to view the network status or click on the tool bar at the bottom of the live preview interface to view network status conveniently. 11.2 Basic Configuration 11.2.1 Common Configuration Click StartSettingsSystemBasicGeneral Settings to go to the following interface. Set the device name, device No., language, video format and main output resolution.
DVR User Manual Device Management Device Name: The name of the device. It may display on the client end or CMS that help user to recognize the device remotely. Video Format: Two modes: PAL and NTSC. Select the video format according to the camera. Spot: If the DVR supports spot output, you should enable spot output. Connect the spot output device to the DVR and then set the spot output (see 5.2.4 Spot View for details). 11.2.
DVR User Manual Device Management 11.3 Factory Default Click StartSettingsSystemMaintenanceFactory Default and then click “Reset to factory default” button in the interface to reset to the factory default settings. 11.4 Device Software Upgrade You can click StartSettingsSystemInformationBasic to view MCU, kernel version and firmware version and so on. Before upgrade, please get the upgrade file from your dealer.
DVR User Manual Device Management Insert the USB storage device into the USB interface of the DVR and then click StartSettingsSystemMaintenanceBackup and Restore to go to the interface. Backup Select the USB device in “Device Name” option; go to the path where you want to store the configuration backup file and then click “Backup” button; finally click “OK” button in the popup window.
DVR User Manual Device Management Choose the log file in the list and then click “Export” button to export the log file. Click on the “Content” title bar to pop up a menu list. Check contents in the menu list and then the log list will show the checked log contents only. Click to play the video log. 11.
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance 12 Remote Surveillance 12.1 Mobile Client Surveillance ① Enable NAT in the DVR. Refer to 11.1.7 NAT Configuration for details. ② Download and install the mobile client “SuperLive Plus” into the mobile device with the Android or iOS system. ③ Run the mobile client, go to the “Add Device” interface and then click to scan the QRCode of the DVR (Go to StartSettingsSystemInformationBasic to view the QRCode of the DVR).
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance Notes: 1. Please make sure that the IP address of the DVR and the computer are both in the same local network segment. For example, supposing that the IP address of the computer is 192.168.1.41, the IP address of the DVR shall be set to 192.168.1.XXX. 2. If the HTTP port of the DVR is not 80, but other number instead, you need to input the IP address plus port number in the IE address bar when accessing the DVR over network. For example, the HTTP port is 81.
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance Input the serial number (click on the tool bar at the bottom of the live preview interface to see the serial number of the DVR), user name (the user name of the DVR, admin by default) and password (the password of the DVR, 123456 by default) of the DVR, select the display language on the top right corner of the interface and then click “Login” button to go to the web client interface. PPPoE Access ① Click StartSettingsNetworkPPPoE to go to the “PPPoE” interface.
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance admin: the current login username. Logout: click it to log out and return to the login interface. Modify Password: click it to change the password of the current login user. Input current password and then set a new password in the popup window. Click “OK” button to save the new password. Local Settings: click it to change the local settings. Set the snapshot number and click “Browse” to set the snapshot path and record path as shown below.
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance Left Panel Introduction Click on the left panel to hide the panel and click all the added cameras and groups on the left panel. to show the panel. You can view View Camera Click to view the cameras. You can view the number of all the added cameras and the online cameras. For instance, the left number 3 in on the left panel stands for the number of online cameras; the right number 4 stands for the number of all the added cameras.
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance Click one camera window in the preview area and then click to set the camera’s live preview stream and record stream to main stream in manual record mode; click to set the camera’s live preview stream and record stream to sub stream. In sub stream tab, set the resolution, FPS and bitrate and then click “Apply” to save the settings. Operation panel introduction: Button Meaning Click it to snap. Click it to start recording; click it again to stop recording.
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance PTZ panel introduction: Button Meaning Click / / / to rotate the dome; click / / / / to stop rotating the dome. Drag the slider to adjust the rotating speed of dome. Click / to zoom in/out camera image. Click / to increase/ decrease the focal length. Click / to increase/decrease the iris of the dome. Click it to view the preset list and then click the button in the list to call the preset.
DVR User Manual Remote Surveillance Button Meaning Backup tasks button. Click it to view the backup status. Event list button. Click it to view the event record of manual/schedule/sensor/motion. 12.4.3 Remote Backup Click “Backup” in the remote interface to go to the backup interface. You can back up the record by event or by time.
DVR User Manual FAQ Appendix A FAQ Q1. Why can’t I find the HDD? a. Please check the power and SATA data cables of the HDD to make sure they are well connected. b. For some DVRs with the 1U or small 1U case, the power of the adapter may be not enough for operating them. Please use the power adaptor supplied along with the DVR. c. Please make sure the HDDs are compatible with the DVR. See Appendix C Compatible Device List for details. d. The HDD could have gone bad. Change a new one. Q2.
DVR User Manual FAQ Q6. The system cannot record, why? a. Make sure the HDD was formatted prior to use. b. The record schedule has not been set in manual record mode. Please refer to 7.3.2 Record Schedule Configuration for details. c. Maybe HDD is full and thus the DVR is not able to record. Check HDD information from Disk Management and if required, please enable the recycle function (please see 7.1.2 Advanced Configuration for details). d.
DVR User Manual FAQ ② ③ ④ b. Select SecurityCustom Level. Refer to Fig 8-1. Enable all the sub options under “ActiveX controls and plug-ins”. Refer to Fig 8-2. Then click “OK” to finish setup. Other plug-ins or anti-virus may block ActiveX. Please disable or do the required settings. Fig 8-1 Fig 8-2 Q9. How to play the backup file? a. Record backed up by DVR: insert the USB device in which the record backup files is saved to the USB interface of the PC and then open the USB device path.
DVR User Manual FAQ If you select the private format when backing up record by DVR, a RPAS compression package will be backed up to the USB device automatically along with the record data. Uncompress the “RPAS.zip” and then click “RPAS.exe” to set up RPAS. After the setup is completed, open RPAS player and then click “Open Folder” button in the middle of the interface to select the record data. Refer to Fig 9-1.
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DVR User Manual Calculate Recording Capacity Appendix B Calculate Recording Capacity The recording capacity is mainly up to the record resolution, record stream and bitrate. Different image quality parameters decide different disk capacity occupation in equal times. The bigger the record resolution, record stream and record bitrate is, the more disk capacity is taken up in equal times. The calculation format of recording capacity is shown as below.
DVR User Manual Compatible Device List Appendix C Compatible Device List Compatible HDD list Brand and Series Seagate Western Digital Capacity Barracuda Series 500GB /1TB /2TB /3TB SV35 Series (recommended) 1TB /2TB /3TB Surveillance HDD Series (recommended) 1TB /2TB /3TB /4TB /6TB Blue Series 500GB /1TB Green Series 2TB /3TB /4TB Purple Series (recommended) 1TB /2TB /3TB /4TB /6TB Compatible USB mobile device Brand Capacity SSK 2GB Netac 4GB Kingston 2GB/8GB/16GB/32GB Aigo 2GB
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