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Before reading this document 1. This document is intended fo r both the administrator and us ers of this stand alone DVR Model. 2.This manual contains inform ation for configuring, managing and using this stand alone DVR Model. 3. To prevent fire or electrical shock, d o not expose the product to heat or moisture. 4. Be sure to read this manual bef[...]

CONTENTS 1. FEA TURES AND FUNC TIONS………………….………………………………….…..6 2. DESCRIPTION OF FRONT P ANEL.…………………………………..……….7 2.1. RECORD/PLA YBACK CO NTROL BUTT ONS.………………..…….……………7 2.2. FUNCTION CONTROL BUTT ONS.………………..……………………?[...]

6. QUICK USER GUIDELINES……………………………………………………………31 6.1. ST AR TING THE DVR………………………………………………………………31 6.2. TURNING OFF THE DVR…………………………………………………………32 6.3. MANUAL RECORDING……………………………………[...]

1. FEA TURES AND FUNCTIONS z Video input: 16channels; Video output: 3channels. z Audio input: 4channels; Audio output: 2channels. z 16 alarm input and 1 relay alarm output. z Compression mode: MJPEG . z Supports network view . z Supports USB backup. z Compatible with NTSC and P AL format. z Supports zoom, auto function, watermark security . z Four [...]

2. DESCRIPTION OF FRONT P ANEL 2.1 Record/Playing Control Buttons 1. REC : this is the manual recording button. Press this button to record video to hard drive, press this button again, it will stop recording. Recording and stop will work simultaneously on 16 channels. This button doesn’t work in schedule mode. 2. PLA Y : Press this button to sta[...]

2.2 Function Control Buttons 1. Auto/1 : Auto key , in shift mode, press this butt on and the DVR will be in auto dwell st ate, it dwells according to the time set in auto sequence set menu, and y ou can set the dwell time of each channel. Press this button to quit this mode. If not in shif t mode press this button to see channel 1 full screen. Whe[...]

8. ADD/7: Add key , press this button to see channel 7 full screen. When in system setup menu, this is an increase button. When inputting numbers this button is used to enter the number “7”. 9. DEC/8: Decrease key , press this button to see c hannel 8 full screen. When in system setup menu this is a decrease button. When inputting numbers this [...]

3. REAR PANEL AND SYSTEM CONNECTIONS 3.1 Back Panel Connections The power cable and input, output signal termi nals are all on the back of the DVR, including connections to monitor , cameras, etc. The te rminals and sockets on the back p anel of the DVR are shown on the illustration below . 1. Video input CH1-CH16 2. Main Video output 3. Assistant [...]

3.3 Alarm Connections The DVR can support up to 16-alarm inputs and 1 alarm output. Alarm input: there are two types of alarm input. 1. V oltage output (5V and 0V) A: If the sensor output s high voltage (5V) normally and outputs low voltage when triggered (0V), then users must se t the DVR as low volt age alarm. B: If the sensor output s low voltag[...]

Alarm output: There are three alarm output pins, the st atus of these pin are illustrated below: B e f o r e A l a r m A f t e r A l a r m There is an example fo r alarm output connection 3.4 Hard Drive Inst allation Here are instructions to install the hard drive. Notice: If the DVR comes with a HDD pre-in stalled then skip the following steps. 5 [...]

4. REMOTE CONTROL REC: S tart or stop recording SCHEDULE: S tart Schedule recording function 0~9: Select channel or input password 2x2 : Display Quad mode on screen 3x3 : Display 9-channel cameras on screen 4x4 : Display all 16-channel cameras on screen AUTO: Same with “ Auto ” button on DVR keyboard DISPLA Y : Same with “ Display ” button [...]

Hold dow n the menu/search button on the keyboard or press the remote control to enter the Setup Main Menu. This will show the password input box. If you enter the wrong p assword 3 times, then you can’t enter the set up menu. Default password is “0000”, If you enter the correct password, the main menu will display as shown below: 14[...]

5.2 SYSTEM SETUP Press “ENTER” button to enter sub menu PLA Y REPEA T : Set the Playback Repeat option VIDEO SYSTEM: Set video format of the DVR as NTSC or P AL BUZZER SOUND: Set the Buzzer On/Off 5 . 2.1 TIME/DA T A SETUP Set the date and time. DA TE: Set the date TIME: Set the time (24 hour format) FORMA T : Set the time display format (USA, [...]

5.2.2 HDD FORMA T SETUP Use to format the hard drive . Select “YES”, to format the hard dr ive and all video on the HDD will be erased. 5.2.3 FACTOR Y RESET If you select Factory Reset; the DVR w ill reset to factory default settings. 16[...]

5.2.4 Change Password Move the cursor to CHANGE P ASSWORD and press the Enter button, the Change Password window will appear . Password Level: There are different levels of p assword security SETUP: If set to “YES” you have to input p assword to enter menu. SYSTEM: If set to “YES” y ou have to input password to boot the DVR. AL W A YS: If s[...]

5.2.5 Firmware Up date Move the cursor moves to FIRMW ARE UPDA TE and press the Enter button, the firmware updat e window will appear . Update Method: There are two methods to upd at e the DVR’s firmware, USB (for USB flash drives) and Network (not supported on this model) USB update: create a new folder called “firmware” in the USB flash dri[...]

5.3 DISPLA Y SETUP BOUND COLOR: Set the Color of V ide o Boundary (BLACK / WHITE / GRA Y). BLANK COLOR: Set the Background Color of Lost V ideo screen (BLACK / WHITE). 5.3.1 CAMERA NAME SETUP Move the cursor to Camera Name and press the Enter button, the Came ra Name Setup window will appear as shown below: Press the up or down buttons to select c [...]

Each channel’s name is a combination of six to eight characters. Press UP or DOWN buttons to select each character , press LEFT or RIGHT buttons to modify eac h character , and then press the Enter button to save this name. DISPLA Y : if Display is set to “OFF” the channel’s name will not display on the screen. 5.3.2 COLOR SETUP Move the cu[...]

5.3.3. AUTO SEQUENCE SETUP Set the Display T ime of Auto Sequenc e. Press “ENTER” button, the auto sequence setup window will appear , which is illustrated below: Set the time of the selected channel. T ime c an be set in a range from 0 to 99 seconds. 5.4 RECORD SETUP OVER WRITE: if set to “YES” the DVR will automatic ally overwrite the HDD[...]

REC QUALITY : There are four video quality settings: VERY LOW , LOW , NORMAL, HIGH and VERY HIGH. The higher the video quality , the cl earer the images when you playback. The lower the video quality the more space you can save on the hard drive. RESOLUTION: The record picture size of the DVR. There are two modes: CIF (360) and Field (720), default[...]

5.4.2 RECORD CHANNEL SETUP Move the cursor to REC CH Set and press the “ENTER” button. The REC CH setup window will appear . This option is only available in Field m ode. Press the up and down buttons to select a channel, then press left or right buttons to change the setting. If the channel setting is OFF this channel will not be recorded in r[...]

NETWORK ENV : the DVR has three types of diff erent network environments: LOCAL, EXTER_LAN, EXTER_W AN. If on a local network se lect LOCAL. For internet access choose EXTER_LAN If the internet condition is not very good select EXTER_W AN. VIDEO PORT : the port the DVR uses to transmit video. COMMAND PORT : the port the DVR uses to transmit command[...]

5.5.2. MAC ADDRESS SETUP Move the cursor to MAC set then press the “ENTER” button. The MAC set window will appear which is illustrated below: If you have more than one DVR in a local area network you have to set each DVR to have an exclusive MAC address, but remember that y ou have only one chance to modify the MAC address, once you have c hang[...]

5.5.4 ACCESSING THE DVR FROM A REMOTE COMPUTER T o access from a remote computer , after you complete the above steps you need to forward ports 5000 and 5001 o n the router the DVR is attached to, to the IP a ddress of the DVR. How yo u would do this d epends on the br and and model number of your router . Y ou can go to www .portforward.com to get[...]

MOTION ENABLE: motion alarm switch, it can be set to on or of f. If users set it to of f the DVR’s motion alarm will be ignored. If it is set to on then the DVR’s motion detection will be enabled. MOTION LEVEL: motion detection sensitiv ity level, if the figure in the picture is small plea se set to high or very high, the default is normal. BUZ[...]

Notice: The above suggestions are a guide b ased on testin g in a general environment. Y ou will need to select the best sett ings acco rding to the actual operation environment you are covering. T ry different settings until you get the desired motion detection result. 5.6.2 MOTION AREA SET Move the cursor to Motion Area Set, then press the Enter [...]

5.7 SCHEDULE SETUP Move the cursor moves to Schedule Set and press the Enter button. The schedule setup window will appear listing the days of the week. Select a day and press the Enter button and the below window will be displayed. Y ou can setup a recording schedule for each day by using this setup windo w . Please note: Military time must be use[...]

There are two types of backup mode: STILL and MO VIE, in STILL mode you can backup Pictures and in MOVIE mode you can backup video files. 5.9 STORAGE INFO S torage infor mation shows the status inform ation on the hard drive as shown below: CAP ACITY : Model Number of the Hard Drive HDD SIZE: T otal cap acity of Hard Drive USED SIZE: Amount of spac[...]

5.10 PTZ SETUP Set the right protocol, baud rate, and ID and you can control SPEED DOME cameras through the DVR. Move the cursor to Protocol Set, then press the “ENTER” button, the protocol set window will appear which is illustrated below . Press up or down buttons to move the cursor and press right or left buttons to change the value. CHANNEL[...]

6.2 TURNING OFF THE DVR Y ou normally only turn off the machine when yo u want to shut the system down. Do not turn off the machine while playing or setting the syst em up. Especially do not to turn of f the DVR while recording. Press the recording button to stop recording or press the play button to stop playing, or exit from system setup menu, th[...]

6.5 SCHEDULED RECORDING Scheduled recording starts and stop s recording autom atically according to the pre-arranged time period. T o start scheduled recording, after setting up the record schedule you must press down the schedule button on the front panel to turn the schedule on. While pressing down this button the schedule symbol “S” will dis[...]

6.8 TIME SEARCH Move the cursor to T ime Search, then press “E NTER” button. The time search window will appear as illustrated below: A red block during a time period means there is video at that time Press left and right buttons to move the curs or among year , month, day , hour and minute. If you select the year and press the “ENTER” butt[...]

time recording, NETWORK means network recording Press up and down buttons to move the cursor among the event lists, press left and right buttons to see previous or next page, press the “ENTER” bu tton to play the file y ou select. Press search button to return to Search Play menu. If you want to change the search from MASTER HDD to SLA VE HDD j[...]

6.1 1 USB BACKUP T o use this function the first step is to format the USB device with “F A T” system on your c omputer , the DVR doesn’t support “F A T32” file system. Plug in the USB flash drive, go to the Backup set menu, check to verify if the flash drive was detected or not, and if there is enough free space on the flash drive for t [...]

6.13 ZOOM FEA TURE (For use with PTZ speed dome cameras) In shift mode press the zoom button or press the zoom button on the remote control, the DVR will be in zoom mode which is illustrated below: Press up, down, left or righ t buttons to move the zoom area and then press the “ENTER” button to zoom. Press the zoom button agai n to cancel zoom [...]

6.15 INFORMA TION DISPLA Y In shift mode press the display button, the main information of the DVR will display on screen. HDD SIZE: the size of the hard drive HDD USED: the amount of used space on the hard drive. HDD READ: current HDD address for playback OVERWRITE: overwrite time of the H DD NETWORK IP: IP address of the DVR. REC LIST : number of[...]

7. Using the PC VIEWER SOFTW ARE Using the PC Viewer sof tware you can view the DVR over a network or the Internet. Y ou can also view and backup the video info rmation on the HDD to a computer . When you open the software you will see the window below: 7.1 SETTINGS When you click button you will see the window below : enter the IP address of the D[...]

7.2 CONNECTING TO DVR Pressing the button will display the login box. < S u c c e s s f u l c o n n e c t i o n > < C o n n e c t f a i l e d > 7.3 LIVE PLA Y Once you have connected start t he video by clicking on the play button. 40[...]

7.4 PLA YBACK Click the “Playback” button and the net search wi ndow will display . First you have to select the HDD of the DVR (first picture below). Clic k the “Get record list” or “Get event list”. If the DVR has record list you can see the second window below: Double click a file on the record list and you will playback the video. T[...]

7.6 FILE PLA Y Press the “File Play” button; you will see the pi cture below . Press the “open” button to play the video file on the computer . < F i l e p l a y M e n u > 1. By pressing this button you can record the video from the DVR to the computer . 2. Pressing this button will open the box below to save files as A VI. 3. Y ou pr[...]

7.8 Save to PC Hard Drive T o record the video stream to your PC’ s HDD , just click" DVR" button and the video stream will be saved in the directory that you set (the default directory is c:DVR) Notice: to play the file saved to DVR just click "FilePlay" tab to open it. 43[...]

8. SPECIFICA TIONS 8.1 DVR Item S pecification Compressed picture M-JPEG Video sig nal NTSC/P AL Video input Conposite:1.0Vp-p/75 Ω ,BNC × 8/16 Video output Conposite:1.0Vp-p/75 Ω ,BNC × 2 S-VIDEO Audio input -8Db 22K Ω ,RCA connector × 4 Audio output -8D b 3K Ω ,RCA connector × 2 Alarm input 16 Alarm output 1 Recording time 18-1680 hou[...]

9. TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE Q . What kind of cameraS should I buy for this DVR? A . Any BNC or RCA interface indoor/outdoor/infrare d camera will work with the DVR. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a color or blac k/white camera. Howeve r web cameras that require a USB interfa ce are not compatible with the DVR. Q . What kind of alarm device should[...]

Q. Why can’t I access T ime/Date Set, HDD Format S et, Record Set menu? A. Please stop recording or playing back before you access the se menu. Q. Why can’t I access Network Set men u? A. Please quit the connection of the PC V iewer so ftware from the netwo rk or Internet before you access Netw ork Set menu. Q. I press the record button but the[...]

10. RECORDING TIME T ABLE Rec rate frame/sec Picture Quality Resolution Recording time 60 fp s V ery high 720 47 hours 60 fp s Low 720 125 hours 120 fp s Normal 360 47 hours 1 fp s Normal 720 4500 hours Notice: The abov e figures are from our test s with a 250GB hard disk and are for users’ reference. Q-SEE PRODUC T WARRANTY Thank you for choosin[...]

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