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PACOM PDR960H-4E User Manual
Summary of PDR960H-4E
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Pdr960h-4e (s84678) 4 channel digital video recorder user manual digital video recorder pdr960h-8e (s84679) 8 channel digital video recorder.
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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...
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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 feature .....................................................................................................................
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User’s manual iv setup screen ..................................................................................................................... 12 system setup ..................................................................................................................... 13 general ..........
Page 7: List of Illustrations
Digital video recorder v panic recording ............................................................................................................ 59 recording audio ................................................................................................................ 60 playing recorde...
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User’s manual vi figure 21: event – text-in setup screen. ................................................................................................ 33 figure 22: camera – general setup screen. ........................................................................................... 35 figur...
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Digital video recorder 1 chapter 1 — introduction feature your color digital video recorder (dvr) provides recording capabilities for four or eight camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features: 4 or 8 composite video input ...
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User’s manual 2 figure 1: typical dvr installation. Note: this manual covers the 4- and 8-channel digital video recorders. The dvrs are identical except for the number of cameras and alarms that can be connected and the number of cameras that can be displayed. For simplicity, the illustrations and d...
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Digital video recorder 3 chapter 2 — installation package contents the package contains the following: digital video recorder power adaptor and power cord user’s manual (this document) ras software cd and user’s manual infrared remote control required installation tools no special tools are required...
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User’s manual 4 audio in/out note: it is the user’s responsibility to determine if local laws and regulations permit recording audio. The dvr does not have amplified audio output, so you will need a speaker with an amplifier. The dvr does not have a pre-amplifier for audio input, so the audio input ...
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Digital video recorder 5 connector pin outs: master unit slave unit rx → to → txd tx → to → rxd gnd → to → gnd note: refer to the following for pin-out details for the 9-pin connector of the slave unit. Male female pin 2 rxd (receive data) pin 3 txd (transmit data) pin 5 gnd (ground) network port ca...
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User’s manual 6 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 power cords under rugs or carpet. The power cord has a grounding pin. If your power outlet does not have a grounding pin receptac...
Page 15: Chapter 3 — Configuration
Digital video recorder 7 chapter 3 — configuration note: your dvr should be completely installed before proceeding. Refer to chapter 2 — installation. Front panel controls figure 3: 8-channel dvr front panel. Camera buttons hdd led alarm out led arrow buttons play/pause button menu button ptz/zoom b...
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User’s manual 8 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. These buttons are also used to control pan and tilt...
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Digital video recorder 9 search button pressing the search button enters the search mode, and pressing the button again exits the search mode. When entering the search mode, video is paused. Pressing the (play/pause) button plays back video at regular speed. The screen displays when the dvr is in th...
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User’s manual 10 id button 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 – general setup screen in this chapter for further information on setting the system id.) if the system id is 1 to 16, you must to pres...
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Digital video recorder 11 layout button pressing the layout button toggles between different display formats. The available formats are: 3x3, 1+7, 1+5, 2x2 and pip. Zoom button pressing the zoom button zooms the current image on the screen. A pip with a rectangle temporarily displays showing what ar...
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User’s manual 12 after you are finished with any setup screen, you can highlight save and press the button to save the changes and exit the screen. If you do not wish to save the changes, highlight cancel and press the button to exit the screen. Press the menu button or move the mouse pointer on the...
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Digital video recorder 13 use the arrow keys to highlight the character you want in the name or title and press the button. That character appears in the title bar and the cursor moves to the next position. Pressing toggles between the upper and lower case keyboards, backspaces, and deletes entered ...
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User’s manual 14 select the desired file and press the button. Highlighting the install button and pressing the button will install the selected software package. Highlighting the cancel button and pressing the button will close the window without upgrading the software. If the upgrade package file ...
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Digital video recorder 15 to export the system log information, connect the usb device to the dvr. Highlight export… and press the button. Highlight the box beside file name and press the button. A virtual keyboard allows you to enter the file name. Selecting export will save the log information in ...
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User’s manual 16 date/time setup date: set the system date and select the date format. Time: set the system time and select the time format. Time zone: select your time zone. The time zone can be selected on the map. Use daylight saving time: selecting the box sets the system to use daylight saving ...
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Digital video recorder 17 record video quality setup select the desired video quality profile from: – higher video quality priority profile – standard recording profile – longer recording time priority profile note: the higher quality setting requires more storage space. The recording resolution wil...
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User’s manual 18 if you selected the go to network setup, select the next button to start the network setup wizard. Internet connection select whether or not your dvr is connected to the internet..
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Digital video recorder 19 lan setup select between auto configuration and manual configuration for network configuration, and then select the test button to test the network configuration you selected. Note: selecting auto configuration allows the dvr to automatically obtain lan parameters (ip addre...
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User’s manual 20 highlight system shutdown and press the button. The shutdown screen displays asking you to confirm whether or not you want to shut the system down. After selecting shutdown and pressing the button, a screen will appear telling you when it is safe to disconnect power. Date/time figur...
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Digital video recorder 21 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. A virtual keyboard appears that you can use to enter the ip address or domain name of the time server. Highlighting all...
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User’s manual 22 user figure 10: system – user setup screen. The +/– column is used to collapse and expand user groups. If there is a + or – in this column, it indicates the item is a group name. If there is a – in front of the group name, it indicates that the group has been “expanded” and all of t...
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Digital video recorder 23 highlighting the authority box and pressing the button will toggle between all authority levels being turned on and off. Highlighting the individual authority level boxes and pressing the button will toggle between that authority level being turned on and off. The authority...
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User’s manual 24 storage figure 11: system – storage setup screen. The information in the type column describes the storage device. The capacity of the storage device is displayed in the capacity column. The format column displays whether the device is used for recording (record) or not (not using)....
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Digital video recorder 25 system event figure 12: system – system event setup screen. The dvr can be configured to run self-diagnostics and report the results. Highlight the settings box beside the desired event (system, check recording, check alarm-in, disk almost full, disk bad, or disk temperatur...
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User’s manual 26 highlight the settings box beside disk temperature, and press the button. Select the temperature of hard disk drive at which you want the dvr to trigger an alert if the temperature exceeds the defined threshold. Refer to the hard disk drive manufacturer’s documentation for the corre...
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Digital video recorder 27 highlight the slide bar beside limit time-lapse recording, and use the left and right arrow buttons to adjust the length of the maximum storage time for time-lapse recording from 1 to 99 days. The limit time-lapse recording feature will function when the storage device has ...
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User’s manual 28 highlight the box under the day heading and press the button to change the days that the scheduled recording will take place. Choose from: sun, mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, m~f, hol and all. Highlight the box under the range heading and press the button to change the time range tha...
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Digital video recorder 29 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. Highlighting boxes under ips and pressing the b...
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User’s manual 30 event setup motion figure 17: event – motion setup screen. Your dvr has built-in video motion detection. Video motion detection can be turned on or off for each camera. Highlighting the box under the sensitivity heading and pressing the button allows you to adjust the dvr’s sensitiv...
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Digital video recorder 31 you can adjust the minimum number of detection blocks that must be activated to trigger a motion alarm. Highlighting the box under the min. Blocks heading and pressing the button allows you to adjust the minimum number of detection blocks for daytime and nighttime independe...
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User’s manual 32 video loss figure 19: event – video loss setup screen. Highlighting the box under the video loss interval heading allows you to set the duration of a signal loss before the dvr will report a video loss. The dvr will not consider any signal loss from a camera to be a video loss if th...
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Digital video recorder 33 the dvr checks to see if anything is blinding a camera. Highlighting the box under the sensitivity heading allows you to adjust the dvr’s sensitivity to video blind for black and white independently from 0 (never) and 1 (least sensitive) to 15 (most sensitive). Note: video ...
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User’s manual 34 highlight the box beside port, and press the button. Select from none, rs232, rs485, usb-serial (1~8) and lan (1~8). Note: if you have set the port as none, you will not be able to make any changes to the screen. When using the usb to serial text-in device, do not remove the usb cab...
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Digital video recorder 35 each input can be given a title. Highlight the desired title box and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter a title name. Highlight the box under the actions and press the button. The dvr can be set to react to text input. Text input can be assoc...
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User’s manual 36 ptz figure 23: camera – ptz setup screen. Note: you will only be able to set up ptz devices if the ptz port is set to rs232 or rs485. Highlight the box in the product column for the ptz camera you wish to configure and press the button. A list of ptz devices appears. Select your cam...
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Digital video recorder 37 device setup audio figure 24: device – audio setup screen. The dvr can record up to four audio inputs. Highlight the box beside the input and press the button. A list of cameras appears, and you can select which camera you want associated with that audio input. Highlight en...
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User’s manual 38 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 boxes. The day box allows you to select the days th...
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Digital video recorder 39 network setup general figure 27: network – general setup screen. Highlight the first box beside remote watch – bps/ips. You can select the transfer speed from 50kbps to 1gbps. Highlight the second box beside remote watch – bps/ips. You can select the unit of measure for the...
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User’s manual 40 note: while the ssl function is enabled, the network transfer speed you selected may not be achieved. This product includes software developed by the openssl project for use in the openssl toolkit (http://www.Openssl.Org/). Lan figure 28: network – lan setup screen. Highlight the bo...
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Digital video recorder 41 highlight use upnp and press the button to toggle between on and off. When it is on, port forwarding from the nat (network address translation) device to the dvr will be enabled automatically via upnp (universal plug and play) service. This function will be especially usefu...
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User’s manual 42 fen figure 29: network – fen setup screen. Highlight use fen and press the button to toggle between on and off. Note: fen is the technology that automatically sets up your dvr to work seamlessly for remote viewing via your network internet connection. For fen to work, naming your dv...
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Digital video recorder 43 rtsp figure 30: network – rtsp setup screen. Highlight enable rtsp (real-time streaming protocol) and press the button to toggle between on and off. You will be able to change the settings if enable rtsp is enabled. Highlight the box beside rtsp port and press the button. S...
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User’s manual 44 webguard figure 31: network – webguard setup screen. Highlight use webguard service and press the button to toggle between on and off. See appendix – webguard for detailed descriptions of the webguard service. Highlight the box beside port and press the button. Set the port number u...
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Digital video recorder 45 highlight the box beside password and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter the password for vnc connection. Note: up to three users at a time can access a dvr remotely via vnc service. When controlling the dvr remotely using a keyboard, shortcu...
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User’s manual 46 highlight the ip address box that you want to change and press the button. Use the arrow buttons to enter the ip address of the computer you want contacted during an event. You can enter up to five ip addresses. Highlight the box beside retry and enter the number of times you would ...
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Digital video recorder 47 highlight use and press the button to toggle between on and off. Assign the recipient to a group and enter the recipient’s display name. Highlight the box beside address and enter the recipient’s e-mail address and mail server provider. Highlighting allows you to select the...
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User’s manual 48 sns figure 35: notification – sns setup screen. The dvr can be set up to post a message via sns (social network service) when an event occurs. You can add and edit the sns account on this screen. The sns account can be turned on or off by highlighting the boxes under the no. Heading...
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Digital video recorder 49 you can add and edit notification 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 boxes. The day box allows you to select th...
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User’s manual 50 freeze & sequence – the icon displays while in the freeze mode, and the displays while in the sequence mode. Screen group – the number of screen group displays when the dvr is not in the 3x3 and 1+7 display modes of the 8-channel dvr, and 2x2 mode of the 4-channel dvr. Free space – ...
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Digital video recorder 51 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 th...
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Page 61: Chapter 4 — Operation
Digital video recorder 53 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 54 live monitoring menu login/logout selecting (login) in the live monitoring menu accesses the login screen, and you will be asked to select a user and enter the password to log into the system. Selecting (logout) in the live monitoring menu displays the logout screen asking you to co...
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Digital video recorder 55 selecting again in the live monitoring menu exits the sequence mode. While in the sequence mode, the icon displays in bottom-left corner if sequence is selected in the display setup screen (osd tab). If all the cameras in a page are off, or have lost video or are set to cov...
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User’s manual 56 active cameo mode you can enter the active cameo mode by selecting edit group from the live monitoring – camera menu or pressing and holding the (play/pause) button for three seconds or longer in any multi-view format. The yellow outline surrounding the video indicates the active ca...
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Digital video recorder 57 while in the ptz mode, pressing the menu button and selecting (advanced ptz) in the menu displaying at the top of the screen displays the advanced ptz menu. Set the feature you wish to control by selecting it from the menu. Refer to the camera manufacturer’s instructions fo...
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User’s manual 58 status monitoring selecting (status) in the live monitoring menu or search menu displays the event status screen. Figure 42: event status – event status screen. The event status screen displays the status of the dvr’s systems and inputs. Events will be highlighted, and related chann...
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Digital video recorder 59 figure 43: event status – storage screen. The type column displays the type of storage device. The disk bad column displays the percentage of bad sectors. Not formatted indicates the device is not formatted. The temperature column displays the temperature of the storage dev...
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User’s manual 60 recording audio if the dvr was set up to record audio, it will record audio from up to four inputs when video is recording. Note: make certain you comply with all local and federal laws and regulations when recording audio. Playing recorded video if a user who has search authority l...
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Digital video recorder 61 you can use a mouse for convenient playback control. Position the mouse pointer on the playback screen, and the following record table search (compact view mode) screen will display. The individual controls on the toolbar perform the following functions as described below: ...
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User’s manual 62 move the cursor over the date and time and press the (play/pause) 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 date and time you want to search for video. Once y...
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Digital video recorder 63 export a–b clip-copy: selecting (export) → a–b clip-copy will set the starting point of the video to be clip copied, and the icon displays at the bottom-left corner of the screen. Selecting a–b clip-copy again will set the ending point of the video to be clip copied and dis...
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User’s manual 64 note: it is possible that no recorded image displays on the current screen. Change the screen mode to 3x3, for the 8-channel dvr and 2x2 for the 4-channel dvr. You will be able to easily see the camera have recorded video during target time. You can also narrow your event search by ...
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Digital video recorder 65 you can also toggle on and off self-diagnostic system events as part of your search. The choices are: panic record check recording check alarm-in disk almost full disk bad disk temperature disk s.M.A.R.T. Fan error disk config change once you set your desired search conditi...
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User’s manual 66 note: if the dvr has images recorded in more than one recording mode in the same time range, the recording status bar displays recording information in the following priority order: panic pre-event event time. The color of the bar indicates different recording modes: red for p...
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Digital video recorder 67 highlighting close and pressing the button will extract the video associated with the motion event and display the first image of the event. Pressing the button will start playing the “event” video segment. Pressing search returns to live monitoring. You can also narrow you...
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User’s manual 68 text-in search figure 49: 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 (play/pause) button will extract ...
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Digital video recorder 69 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 search will be from the first recorded image. When highlighting and pressing the button the bookmark list displays a...
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User’s manual 70 use the arrow buttons to highlight the bookmark point for which you would like to see video. The selected bookmark will display on the screen by pressing the button. Clip-copy video clips can be copied on an external usb hard disk or flash drive. The copied video clips can be viewed...
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Digital video recorder 71 caution: the usb device for clip copy must be fat 16 or fat32 format. The dvr automatically assigns a file name to the video clip. However, you can give the video clip file a different name. Highlight the box beside file name and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears...
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User’s manual 72 figure 52: print screen. Highlight the box beside printer model and press the button. Selecting postscript printer will print images on a postscript™ printer connected to the dvr. Selecting file printer will save the current image as a pdf file on an external usb hard disk drive or ...
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Digital video recorder 73 appendix usb hard disk drive preparation note: the following description is for preparing a usb hard disk drive under windows 2000. Preparing a usb hard disk drive under windows xp, window vista and window 7 is almost identical to windows 2000. 1. Connect the usb hard disk ...
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Digital video recorder 75 webguard webguard allows you to access a remote dvr, monitor live video images and search recorded video using internet explorer web browser anytime from virtually anywhere. Computer system requirements for using the webguard program are: operating system: microsoft ® windo...
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User’s manual 76 note: there might be a problem with screen display or screen update due to low image transmission speed when using the microsoft windows vista or higher operating system. In this situation, it is recommended that you disable the auto tuning capability of your computer. Run the comma...
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Digital video recorder 77 ⑩ click the to set up the image drawing mode, osd display and beep on/off. You can adjust the display speed by changing the image drawing mode, select osd information to be displayed on the screen, and turn the dvr’s internal buzzer on and off from a remote site. ⑪ click th...
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User’s manual 78 ④ the dvr information window displays the time information of recorded data on the remote dvr and login information of webguard. ⑤ click the to blur, sharpen, equalize and interpolate playback images. Click the to zoom out or zoom in the recorded image. Click the to adjust the brigh...
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Digital video recorder 79 time overlap if the dvr’s time and date have been reset to a time that is earlier than the existing recorded video, it is possible for the dvr to have more than one video stream in the same time range. In this case, you can search overlapping video streams individually by s...
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User’s manual 80 system upgrade related clip copy related no. Description no. Description 301 remote network error. 12 bad sector. 302 remote upgrade is not authorized. 13 no executable file. 303 saving remote package failed. 14 opening executable file failed. 304 remote upgrade is cancelled by the ...
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Digital video recorder 81 map of screens menu system general date/time user storage system event record general schedule pre-event event motion alarm-in video loss video blind text-in camera general ptz device audio alarm-out remote control network general lan fen rtsp webguard vnc notification call...
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User’s manual 82 troubleshooting problem possible solution no power check power cord connections. Confirm that there is power at the outlet. No live video check camera video cable and connections. Check monitor video cable and connections. Confirm that the camera has power. Check camera lens setting...
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Digital video recorder v1.0 83 connectors video input composite: 4 or 8 bnc monitor output hdmi: 1 hdmi vga: 1 vga audio in 4 rca connector audio out 1 rca connector alarm input/output terminal blocks ethernet port rj-45 rs232 serial port two-connector terminal block rs485 serial port two-connector ...
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Warrantyinformation pleasekeepthisdocumentinasafeplace.Donotreturnthisdocumenttopacificcommunications. Equipmentdetails model serialnumber dateofpurchase importantinformation pleaseretainallmanualssuppliedwiththeequipmentandproofofpurchase . Proofofpurchasewillberequiredifyouneedtomakeawarrantyclaim...
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Warrantyterms 1. Pacificcommunicationsprovidesconsumerswiththefollowingwarrantyinrelationtothisequipment,inadditiontocomplyingwiththe requirementsofanyrelevantlegislation,includingthecompetitionandconsumeract2010(cth)inaustraliaandtheconsumerguaranteesact 1993innewzealand(theacts),exceptwhereanewzea...
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V1.0 pacific communications. Keeping it green. At pacific communications, we are deeply committed to safeguarding the environment and avoiding pollution - now and for future generations. Pacific communications. Keeping it green. At pacific communications, we are deeply committed to safeguarding the ...