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PACOM 16-Channel User Manual
Summary of 16-Channel
Page 3: Warning
Digital video recorder i warning risk of electric shock do not open warning: to reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove cover (or back). No user-serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing to qualified service personnel. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangl...
Page 4: Important Safeguards
User’s manual ii important safeguards 1. Read instructions all the safety and operating instructions should be read before the appliance is operated. 2. Retain instructions the safety and operating instructions should be retained for future reference. 3. Cleaning unplug this equipment from the wall ...
Page 5: Table of Contents
Digital video recorder iii table of contents chapter 1 — introduction.............................................................................. 1 features ...................................................................................................... 1 technical overview.....................
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User’s manual iv sequence button ................................................................................ 14 freeze button ...................................................................................... 14 ptz button........................................................................
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Digital video recorder v system event screen ............................................................................. 65 event status screen ............................................................................... 67 chapter 4 — operation.....................................................
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User’s manual vi appendix c — troubleshooting ................................................................. 98 appendix d — connector pin outs............................................................ 99 i/o connector pin outs.......................................................................
Page 9: List of Illustrations
Digital video recorder vii list of illustrations figure 1 — typical dvr installation. ......................................................................................... 2 figure 2 — 16-channel dvr rear panel.................................................................................... 3...
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User’s manual viii figure 49 — notification mail setup screen. ............................................................................ 37 figure 50 — authentication setup screen................................................................................ 37 figure 51 — notification callback ...
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Digital video recorder ix figure 100 — calendar search screen. .................................................................................. 82 figure 101 — event log search screen.................................................................................. 83 figure 102 — event log search...
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Page 13: Chapter 1 — Introduction
Digital video recorder 1 chapter 1 — introduction features your color digital video recorder (dvr) provides recording capabilities for nine or 16 camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features: y 9 or 16 composite video input...
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User’s manual 2 digitally recorded video has several advantages over analog video recorded on tape. There is no need to adjust tracking. You can freeze frames, fast forward, fast reverse, slow forward and slow reverse without image streaking or tearing. Digital video can be indexed by time or events...
Page 15: Chapter 2 — Installation
Digital video recorder 3 chapter 2 — installation package contents the package contains the following: y digital video recorder y power cord y user’s manual (this document) y ras software cd and user’s manual y rack-mount kit y assembly screws guide rails for adding hard disk drives y infrared remot...
Page 16: Connecting The Video Input
User’s manual 4 connecting the video input figure 3 — video input connectors. Connect the coaxial cables from the video sources to the bnc video in connectors. Connecting the loop-through video figure 4 — video loop-through connectors. If you would like to connect your video source to another device...
Page 17: Connecting Audio
Digital video recorder 5 connecting a computer vga monitor figure 6 — vga connector a vga connector is provided so that you can use a standard, multi-sync computer monitor as your main monitor. Use the cable supplied with your monitor to connect it to the dvr. Note: pressing and holding the display ...
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User’s manual 6 note: to make connections on the alarm connector strip, press and hold the button and insert the wire in the hole below the button. After releasing the button, tug gently on the wire to make certain it is connected. To disconnect a wire, press and hold the button above the wire and p...
Page 19: Connecting Rs485
Digital video recorder 7 connecting rs485 figure 11 — rs485 connector. The dvr can be controlled remotely by an external device or control system, such as a control keyboard, using rs485 half-duplex serial communications signals. The rs485 connector can also be used to control ptz (pan, tilt, zoom) ...
Page 20: Connecting to The Rs232 Port
User’s manual 8 connecting to the rs232 port figure 14 — rs232 connector. An rs232 port is provided to connect an external modem for remote monitoring, configuration and software upgrades, and to connect a remote control keyboard. Use a modem cable with a db-9s (female) connector to connect to the d...
Page 21: Factory Reset
Digital video recorder 9 connecting to the network port figure 16 — network connector. The dvr can be networked using the 10/100mb ethernet connector. Connect a cat5 cable with an rj-45 jack to the dvr connector. The dvr can be networked with a computer for remote monitoring, searching, configuratio...
Page 22: Connecting The Power Cord
User’s manual 10 connecting the power cord figure 18 — power cord connector. Connect the ac power cord to the dvr and then to the wall outlet. Warning: route power cords so that they are not a tripping hazard. Make certain the power cord will not be pinched or abraded by furniture. Do not install po...
Page 23: Chapter 3 — Configuration
Digital video recorder 11 chapter 3 — configuration note: your dvr should be completely installed before proceeding. Refer to chapter 2 — installation. Front panel controls figure 19 — 16-channel dvr front panel. The front panel looks and operates much like a vcr combined with a multiplexer. Many of...
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User’s manual 12 figure 20 — infrared remote control. Power led the power led is lit when the unit is on. Hdd led the hdd led flickers when the dvr is recording or searching video on the hard disk drive. Network led the network led flickers when the unit is connected to a network via either ethernet...
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Digital video recorder 13 panic button pressing the panic button starts panic recoding of all camera channels, and displays on the screen. Pressing the button again will stop panic recording. Alarm button the alarm button has two functions. First, it will reset the dvr’s outputs including the intern...
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User’s manual 14 forward button pressing the forward button goes to the next image. The button on the front panel is also used to load a preset view in the ptz mode. Display button the display button has two functions. First, it toggles between different display formats. The available formats are: f...
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Digital video recorder 15 up, down, left, right arrow buttons these buttons are used to navigate through menus and gui. You can also use them to change numbers by highlighting a number in the menu and using the up and down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number’s value. The arrow buttons a...
Page 28: Turning On The Power
User’s manual 16 id button on remote control if a dvr system id is set to 0, the infrared remote control will control that dvr without any additional operations. (refer to the system information setup screen in this chapter for further information on setting the system id.) if the system id is 1 to ...
Page 29: Setup Screen
Digital video recorder 17 setup screen figure 22 — setup screen. Press the menu button to enter the setup screen. While setting up the dvr, there will be many opportunities to enter names and titles. When making these entries, a virtual keyboard will appear. Figure 23 — virtual keyboard. Use the arr...
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User’s manual 18 system information highlight information and press the button. The information screen appears. Figure 24 — information screen. In the information screen, you can name the site location, assign a system id number, select the language the screens are displayed in, display software ver...
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Digital video recorder 19 to upgrade the software, connect a usb device containing the upgrade package file to the dvr. Highlight upgrade… and press the button. The upgrade screen appears. The screen displays the upgrade package file names that are available. The “.Rui” indicates that the file is fo...
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User’s manual 20 figure 27 — setup export screen. Note: even after changing the dvr settings by importing saved settings, the time-related settings (date/time, time zone and daylight saving time) will not be changed. Caution: the usb device must be fat16 or fat32 format. Highlight show system log… a...
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Digital video recorder 21 date/time setup highlight date/time in the system menu and press the button. The date/time setup screen appears. Figure 29 — date/time setup screen. Highlight the first box beside date and press the button. The individual sections of the date will highlight. Use the up and ...
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User’s manual 22 highlight the holiday tab, and the holiday setup screen appears figure 30 — holiday setup screen. You can set up holidays by highlighting + and pressing the button. The current date appears. Highlight the month and day and change them by using the up and down arrow buttons. Press th...
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Digital video recorder 23 highlight the box beside automatic sync. And press the button. This toggles between on and off. Highlight the box beside time server and press the button. Change the numbers by highlighting them and using the up and down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number valu...
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User’s manual 24 the format column displays whether the device is used for recording (record) or archiving (archive). Not using indicates the device is not used for either recording or archiving. Unformatted indicates the device is not formatted. Indicates when the device has temporary space set asi...
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Digital video recorder 25 if you want to use a usb hard disk drive, highlight use and press the button after connecting the device. Highlight don’t use and press the button if you want to stop using the device. Note: when disconnecting a usb hard disk drive from the dvr, highlight don’t use first an...
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User’s manual 26 note: temperature and s.M.A.R.T. Information will be available only for ide hard disk drives supporting the smart (self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology) monitoring program. Selecting close and pressing the button exits the screen. User setup screen highlight user in the...
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Digital video recorder 27 the column can be used to delete a user name or an entire group. If the is grayed out, that group or user cannot be deleted. Highlight the and press the button. You will be asked to confirm that you want to delete the user or group. To add a group, highlight the + group… bo...
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User’s manual 28 y covert camera view — the user can view video from cameras set as covert while in the live monitoring or search mode on a local system or the pc running ras. Y system check — the user can view the remote system status or check the remote system status as a batch process on the pc r...
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Digital video recorder 29 shutdown screen highlight shutdown in the system menu and press the button. The shutdown screen displays asking you to confirm whether or not you want to shut the system down. Figure 39 — shutdown screen. After selecting shutdown and pressing the button, a screen will appea...
Page 42: Network & Notification Setup
User’s manual 30 network & notification setup in the main screen, use the left or right arrow buttons to display the network menu. Figure 41 — network menu. Network screen highlight network in the network menu and press the button. The network setup screen displays. You will be able to change the ne...
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Digital video recorder 31 lan setup screen highlight the lan tab, and the lan screen displays. Figure 43 — lan (manual) setup screen. Highlight the box beside type and press the button. You can select the type of network configuration from: manual, dhcp and adsl (with pppoe). Select the desired type...
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User’s manual 32 figure 44 — port numbers setup screen change the numbers by highlighting them and using the up and down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number. The factory default port settings are: remote admin: 8200 remote callback: 8201 remote watch: 8016 remote search: 10019 note: the...
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Digital video recorder 33 selecting adsl (with pppoe) allows you to set up the adsl network. Note: adsl and modem cannot be configured at the same time. If the dvr is configured by modem, the adsl (with pppoe) will not be selected. Figure 46 — lan (adsl) setup screen. Highlight the box beside id and...
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User’s manual 34 modem setup highlight the modem tab, and the modem screen displays. Figure 47 — modem setup screen. Note: if the rs232 port is in use for remote control, networking cannot be configured for a modem. Highlight enable and press the button to toggle between on and off. You will only be...
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Digital video recorder 35 dvrns setup highlight the dvrns tab, and the dvrns screen displays. Figure 48 — dvrns setup screen. Highlight use dvr name service and press the button to toggle between on and off. Note: the dvrns (dvr name service) allows the dvr to use dynamic ip addresses for remote con...
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User’s manual 36 highlight the check box and press the button to check whether or not the name you entered can be used. Note: the dvr name you entered should be checked by selecting check, otherwise the dvrns changes will not be saved. Note: when entering no name or a name already registered on the ...
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Digital video recorder 37 notification setup the dvr can be set up to send an email or to contact a computer running ras (remote administration system) when an event occurs. Highlight notification in the network menu and press the button. The notification screen displays. You will be able to change ...
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User’s manual 38 highlight the box beside sender and enter the sender’s e-mail address. Use the virtual keyboard to enter the e-mail address. Note: the e-mail address must include the “@” character to be a valid address. Highlight the box beside recipient and enter the recipient’s e-mail address. Us...
Page 51: Configuring Devices
Digital video recorder 39 highlight the box beside callback phone number and enter the telephone number of the dvr. You can save your notification changes by highlighting save and pressing the button. Selecting cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. Configuring devices you can configure...
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User’s manual 40 note: when selecting the covert 1, the dvr displays the camera title and status icons on the covert video. When selecting the covert 2, the dvr displays only camera title on the covert video. Note: if a user who does not have covert camera view authority, the user cannot view video ...
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Digital video recorder 41 you can assign ids to each camera by highlighting the box under the id heading and pressing the button. Change the number by highlighting it and using the up and down arrow buttons to increase and decrease the number. The ptz id number can be set from 0 to 256. Highlight th...
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User’s manual 42 highlight enable audio-out and press the button. This toggles between enabling and disabling audio out. Note: the dvr will not record audio when the recording speed is set to less than 1 ips. You can save your audio changes by highlighting save and pressing the button. Selecting can...
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Digital video recorder 43 figure 59 — alarm-out schedule screen. You can add and edit alarm output schedules on this screen. Highlight the + and press the button to add a schedule. Highlighting the boxes under the column heading and pressing the button allows you to edit the information in those box...
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User’s manual 44 display screen highlight display in the devices menu and press the button. The display screen allows you to select what information will be displayed on the monitor. Figure 60 — display osd screen. Highlighting an item and pressing the button toggles that item on and off. When an it...
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Digital video recorder 45 you can adjust the transparency of the setup screens by highlighting transparency and using the left and right arrow buttons. Highlighting osd margin… and pressing the button displays how osd text will be displayed on the monitor. You can adjust the horizontal and vertical ...
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User’s manual 46 you can define the screen layout in a variety of formats and set the dvr to sequence through the different screen layouts (pages) so that all the cameras will be displayed. You can also set up the dvr to display one camera or a group of cameras all the time while cycling through the...
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Digital video recorder 47 remote control screen highlight remote control in the devices menu and press the button. The remote control setup screen allows you to select a port and make correct settings for a remote keyboard. Figure 64 — remote control setup screen. Highlight the box beside port and s...
Page 60: Recording Settings
User’s manual 48 recording settings your dvr offers a variety of flexible recording modes. You can set it up to record all the time or to only record events. It can be set up to continue recording once the hard disk drive is full by recording over the oldest video, or you can set it up to alert you ...
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Digital video recorder 49 highlight the event record dwell box and set the length of time you would like to record for the associated event. You can set the dwell from 5 seconds to 15 minutes. Refer to event actions screen in this chapter for the information of event recording. Highlight the slide b...
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User’s manual 50 you can program the dvr to record only during certain times based on time, day of the week, and holidays. The smallest time segment you can use is 30 minutes. Highlighting schedule on and pressing the button toggles between on and off. In the schedule on mode, the dvr records video ...
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Digital video recorder 51 highlight the box under the heading and press the button to delete the recording settings. You will be asked to confirm that you want to delete the settings. Highlight default… and press the button. The default screen appears. Figure 68 — default setup screen. Highlighting ...
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User’s manual 52 when the dvr is in the event record mode it is possible to have it record images before the event occurs. The pre-event screen allows you to define how to handle pre-event recording. You can turn individual cameras on or off for pre-event recording. The image speed can be set from 0...
Page 65: Event Settings
Digital video recorder 53 you can accept the archive data range by leaving the default checkmarks in the last archived and continue boxes. If you wish to enter specific times and dates in from and to, toggle the checkmarks off and then enter the time and date. Highlight recycle and press the button ...
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User’s manual 54 alarm-in screen highlight alarm-in in the event menu and press the button. The alarm-in setup screen appears. Figure 72 — alarm-in settings screen. The alarm terminal strip on the back of the dvr has inputs associated with each alarm. You can set up each input on the alarm-in screen...
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Digital video recorder 55 you can set the actions the dvr will take whenever it senses an input on one of its alarm input connectors. Highlight the desired box under the record heading, and press the button. A list of cameras appears. Select the cameras that you want the dvr to record whenever it de...
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User’s manual 56 you can save your alarm-in changes by highlighting save and pressing the button. Selecting cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. Motion detection screen highlight motion detection in the event menu and press the button. The motion detection setup screen appears. Figure...
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Digital video recorder 57 figure 76 — motion detection zone screen. The motion detection zone screen is laid over the video for the selected camera. You can set up motion detection zones by selecting or clearing blocks. Note: you can set up motion zones one block at a time in groups of 8 or 16 indiv...
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User’s manual 58 highlight the actions tab and the motion detection actions screen displays. Figure 78 — motion detection actions screen. The dvr can be set to react to motion detection differently for each camera. Each camera can be associated with another camera, trigger an alarm-out connector, so...
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Digital video recorder 59 note: for the notify action, the notify item you select should be enabled in the notification setup screen and the dvr should be registered in the ras (remote administration system). Highlight the desired box under the ptz heading, and press the button. A list of ptz preset...
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User’s manual 60 figure 80 — video loss actions screen. The dvr can be set to react to video loss differently for each camera. Each camera can be associated with another camera, trigger an alarm-out connector, sound the dvr’s internal buzzer, notify a number of different devices, and/or move ptz cam...
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Digital video recorder 61 highlight the desired box under the ptz heading, and press the button. A list of ptz presets appear. Select the preset position for each ptz camera, where you want ptz cameras to move to when the dvr detects video loss on the selected camera’s input. You can save your video...
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User’s manual 62 figure 82 — text-in device settings screen. Highlight the box beside port, and press the button. Select from none, rs232, rs485 and usb-serial (1~8). Note: if you have set the port as none, you will not be able to make any changes to the screen. Note: when using the usb to serial te...
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Digital video recorder 63 highlight the box beside transaction end, and press the button. Use the virtual keyboard to enter the transaction end string. Refer to the device manufacturer’s documentation for the text string that the device sends when a transaction ends. Highlight the more line(s) box, ...
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User’s manual 64 highlight the box beside record and press the button. A list of cameras appears. You can associate as many cameras with the text input as you wish. If the dvr detects text input, it starts recording video from all the associated cameras. Note: for the record action, the camera you s...
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Digital video recorder 65 system event screen highlight system event in the event menu and press the button. The system event setup screen appears. Figure 84 — system event settings screen. The dvr can be configured to run self-diagnostics and report the results. Highlight the box under the interval...
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User’s manual 66 highlight enable, and press the button to toggle between on and off. Note: if enable is turned off, you will not be able to make changes to any of the boxes. Highlight the box beside check time, and press the button. You can select from monthly, weekly and daily. If you select month...
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Digital video recorder 67 highlight the alarm-out box beside the desired event (check recording, check alarm-in, disk full, disk bad, disk temperature, or disk s.M.A.R.T.), and press the button. A list of alarm outputs appears. You can associate as many alarm-outs with the event as you wish. If the ...
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User’s manual 68 alarm-in, motion, video loss and text-in will be highlighted when each event is detected based on the settings you made in the alarm-in, motion detection and text-in setup screen on the event menu. Check alarm-in and check recording will be highlighted when each event is detected ba...
Page 81: Chapter 4 — Operation
Digital video recorder 69 chapter 4 — operation note: this chapter assumes your dvr has been installed and configured. If it has not, please refer to chapters 2 and 3. The dvr’s controls are similar to a vcr. As with a vcr, the main functions are recording and playing back video. However, you have m...
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User’s manual 70 pressing the sequence button causes the cameras to display sequentially. When in one of the multi-view formats, pressing this button will cause the dvr to go through predefined screen layouts (full sequence). Or, the bottom, right screen will display live cameras sequentially (cameo...
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Digital video recorder 71 zoom mode you can enlarge an area of the video by pressing the zoom button. For a few seconds after pressing the zoom button, a pip displays. Inside the pip, a rectangle shows the area that is enlarged. You can move the rectangle around using the arrow buttons. While in the...
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User’s manual 72 figure 89 — ptz preset screen. You can quickly move ptz cameras to preset positions. Press the to view an establish camera preset position. Figure 90 — preset view screen. You can save camera position settings as “presets” so that you can go directly to desired views. Once you have ...
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Digital video recorder 73 figure 91 — ptz menu. You can use a mouse for convenient ptz control. Position the mouse point at the bottom of the screen, and the following ptz toolbar will display. Figure 92 — ptz controls clicking on the left side exits the toolbar. If you want to display the toolbar a...
Page 86: Event Monitoring
User’s manual 74 note: any image adjustments you make will be applied to both the live video on the monitors and the recorded video. Event monitoring when an event occurs, the dvr will display the camera associated with the event if event monitoring on is selected in the display setup screen (osd ta...
Page 87: Spot Monitoring
Digital video recorder 75 spot monitoring you can select the camera you want to display on a spot monitor. Press the spot button on the front panel or remote control, and select one of four spot monitors. Then, select the camera to be displayed on the spot monitor. Figure 93 — spot monitor menu. If ...
Page 88: Using A Mouse
User’s manual 76 using a mouse you can use a mouse instead of the front panel buttons to perform many of the dvr functions. The following operations are supported when using a mouse during live monitoring. When in one of the multi-view formats (e.G., pip, 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4), clicking the mouse button ...
Page 89: Recording Video
Digital video recorder 77 figure 96 — mouse display menu. Selecting previous format is the same as scrolling the mouse wheel up; switching from 4x4 to 3x3 to 2x2 to pip. Selecting next format is the same as scrolling the mouse wheel down or pressing the display button; switching from pip to 2x2 to 3...
Page 90: Recording Audio
User’s manual 78 note: when the dvr is not in the recycle mode and all available storage space has been used, panic recording will not operate. Although you will be able to record without changing the unit from its original factory settings, you will want to take advantages of the dvr’s many tools. ...
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Digital video recorder 79 ff (fast forward) button pressing the ff button plays video forward at high speed. Pressing the button again toggles the playback speed between , and . The screen displays , and respectively. Entering fast playback mode from live monitoring mode can be password protected. B...
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User’s manual 80 jog dial the jog dial only functions when playback video has been paused. By turning the jog dial clockwise, you can play video forward image-by-image. By turning the jog dial counterclockwise, you play video backward image-by-image. You can use a mouse for convenient playback contr...
Page 93: Searching Video
Digital video recorder 81 searching video pressing the menu button or clicking the right mouse button while in the search mode displays the search menu. Note: while searching video, the recording speed might decrease. Figure 98 — search menu. Y go to the first — displays the first recorded image y g...
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User’s manual 82 go to the date/time figure 99 — go to the date/time screen. Move the cursor over the date and time and press the button. You can use the left and right arrow buttons to highlight the year, month, day, hours, minutes and seconds. Use the up and down arrow buttons to change to the dat...
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Digital video recorder 83 note: the time bar is in one-hour segments. If a segment is highlighted, it means that some video was recorded during that hour. However, it does not mean video was recorded for the entire hour. If the dvr’s time and date have been reset to a time that is earlier than some ...
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User’s manual 84 pressing the button will extract the event video and display the first image of the event. Pressing the play/pause button will start playing the “event” video segment. Pressing search/stop returns to live monitoring. Note: it is possible that no recorded image displays on the curren...
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Digital video recorder 85 note: the lower the number, the more current recorded video is. Highlight the box beside alarm-in and press the button. You can select the alarm inputs that you want to include in your search. Highlight the box beside motion and press the button. You can select the cameras ...
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User’s manual 86 text-in search figure 103 — text-in search screen. The dvr maintains a log of each time there is text input. The text-in search screen displays this list. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for which you would like to see video. Pressing the button will extract the video a...
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Digital video recorder 87 figure 104 — text-in search option screen. You can search video from the first to last recorded images, or you can set the start and stop times and dates. Highlight the box beside from and press the button to toggle between on and off. When set to off, you can enter a speci...
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User’s manual 88 once you set your desired search conditions, highlight search and press the button to display the search results in the event log screen. Selecting cancel exits the screen without saving the changes. Motion search figure 105 — motion search screen. The motion search… can be selected...
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Digital video recorder 89 you can search video from the first to last recorded images, or you can set the start and stop times and dates. Highlight the box beside from and press the button to toggle between on and off. When set to off, you can enter a specific date and time. When set to on, the sear...
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User’s manual 90 clip-copy screen the clip-copy screen can be used to copy video clips to an internal cd-rw drive or dvd rw, or external usb hard disk drive, cd-rw drive or flash drive. The copied video clips can be viewed on computers running microsoft windows 98, me, 2000 or xp. Refer to the appen...
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Digital video recorder 91 highlight the box beside to and press the button to toggle between on and off. When set to off, you can enter a specific date and time. When set to on, the search will be from the last recorded image. Highlight the box beside channels and press the button. You can select th...
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User’s manual 92 note: only 4.7gb dvd media is available. To clip copy video on the dvd media using remaining space, the size of previously recorded data on the dvd media should be less than 4gb. Note: the file size for clip copy is limited to 2gb. You can use other functions on the dvr while video ...
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Digital video recorder 93 appendix a — usb hard disk drive preparation preparing the usb-ide hard disk drive in windows 2000 note: preparing a usb-ide hard disk drive under windows xp is almost identical to windows 2000. 1. Connect the usb-ide hard disk drive to your computer using the usb cable. 2....
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User’s manual 94 preparing the usb-ide hard disk drive in windows 98 note: preparing a usb-ide hard disk drive under windows me is almost identical to windows 98. 1. Connect the usb-ide hard disk drive to your computer using the usb cable. 2. Turn on your computer. The add new hardware wizard window...
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Digital video recorder 95 appendix b — reviewing video clips you do not need to install any special software on your personal computer to review the video clips. The copied video clip contains the clipplayer program. If you used a usb device, disconnect either the external usb-ide hard disk drive or...
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User’s manual 96 note: proper image display depends on the display settings of your pc. If you are experiencing display problems, click the right mouse button on the background screen and select properties Æ settings then set the color quality to “32 bit”. And then select advanced Æ troubleshoot the...
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Digital video recorder 97 note: if you are not sure about the appropriate video format option, try each option until proper image display is being set. Click the to select from normal and double screen views. Clicking the left mouse button on the enlarged image moves its position. Click the to displ...
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User’s manual 98 appendix c — troubleshooting problem possible solution no power y check power cord connections. Y confirm that there is power at the outlet. No live video y check camera video cable and connections. Y check monitor video cable and connections. Y confirm that the camera has power. Y ...
Page 111: I/o Connector Pin Outs
Digital video recorder 99 appendix d — connector pin outs i/o connector pin outs ai (1 to 16) alarm inputs 1 to 16 gnd chassis ground (9 connectors) ao (1 to 16) alarm outputs 1 to 16 ari alarm reset in rs485 connector pin outs master unit slave unit + j to j tx+ − j to j tx- + j to j rx+ − j to j r...
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User’s manual 100 appendix e — map of screens.
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Digital video recorder 101 appendix f — system log notices boot up shutdown restart upgrade upgrade fail power failure time change time zone change time sync time sync fail disk bad login logout setup begin setup end remote setup change remote setup fail setup imported setup import failure setup exp...
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User’s manual 102 appendix g — error code notices system upgrade related number description 0 unknown error. 1 file version error. 2 operating system version error. 3 software version error. 4 kernel version error. 100 upgrade device mounting failed. 101 package is not found. 102 extracting package ...
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Digital video recorder 103 clip copy related number description 0 unknown error. 1 device error. 2 mounting failed. 3 no media. 4 invalid media. 5 file already existed. 6 not enough space. 7 creating temporary file failed. 8 opening disk failed. 9 formatting disk failed. 10 database has been changed...
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User’s manual 104 appendix h — specifications video signal format ntsc or pal (auto detect) video input composite: 9 or 16 looping inputs, 1 vp-p, auto-terminating, 75 ohms monitor outputs composite: 1 bnc, 1 vp-p, 75 ohms svhs: 1 spot: 4 bnc, 1 vp-p, 75 ohms vga: 1 − ntsc: 30.8khz (horizontal frequ...
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Digital video recorder v1.3 105 storage primary storage eide hard disk drive (up to 4) (up to 3 with an internal cd-rw drive or dvd rw) secondary storage** ultrawide scsi hard disk drive (raid) built-in cd-rw drive usb hard disk drive, cd-rw drive or flash drive ** when installing an internal cd-rw ...
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Weee (waste electrical & electronic equipment) correct disposal of this product (applicable in the european union and other european countries with separate collection systems) this marking shown on the product or its literature, indicates that it should not be disposed with other household wastes a...