- DL manuals
- PACOM
- DVR
- PDRH-16-RT
- User Manual
PACOM PDRH-16-RT User Manual
Summary of PDRH-16-RT
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
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 ...................................................................................................................
Page 6
User’s manual iv network ............................................................................................................................ 18 notification ....................................................................................................................... 21 devices set...
Page 7: List of Illustrations
Digital video recorder v search example i ............................................................................................................ 60 search example ii ........................................................................................................... 60 webguard ...........
Page 8
User’s manual vi figure 34 — remote control setup screen. ............................................................................................. 27 figure 35 — record menu. ...................................................................................................................... 2...
Page 9: Chapter 1 — Introduction
Digital video recorder 1 chapter 1 — introduction feature your color digital video recorder (dvr) provides recording capabilities for eight or 16 camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features: 8 or 16 composite video input...
Page 10
User’s manual 2 figure 1 — typical dvr installation. Note: this manual covers the 8- and 16-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...
Page 11: Chapter 2 — Installation
Digital video recorder 3 chapter 2 — installation package contents the package contains the following: digital video recorder power cord user’s manual (this document) ras software cd and user’s manual rack-mount kit assembly screws and guide rails for adding hard disk drives infrared r...
Page 12
User’s manual 4 if you would like to connect your video source to another device, you can use the loop bnc connectors. Note: the loop bnc connectors are auto terminated. Do not connect a cable to the loop bnc unless it is connected to a terminated device because it will cause poor quality video. Rs4...
Page 13
Digital video recorder 5 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 aud...
Page 14
User’s manual 6.
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 — 16-channel dvr front panel. Camera buttons hdd led alarm out led network led clip copy led power led panic button ala...
Page 16
User’s manual 8 figure 4 — infrared remote control. Note: for simplicity, the button descriptions in this manual refer to the front panel buttons. Camera buttons (1 to 16) pressing the individual camera buttons will cause the selected camera to display full screen. Buttons 1 to 9 are also used to en...
Page 17
Digital video recorder 9 power led the power led is lit when the unit is on. 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, i...
Page 18
User’s manual 10 menu/cameo button pressing the menu/cameo button enters the setup screen. You will need to enter the authorized user and password to access setup. Pressing the button also closes the current menu or setup dialog box. In the playback mode, pressing the button displays the search menu...
Page 19
Digital video recorder 11 turning on the power connecting the power cord to the dvr turns on the unit. The unit takes approximately 60 seconds to initialize. Initial unit setup before using your dvr for the first time, you will want to establish the initial settings. This includes items such as time...
Page 20
User’s manual 12 press the menu button or move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen and then select (setup) in the live monitoring menu 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...
Page 21
Digital video recorder 13 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...
Page 22
User’s manual 14 highlighting clear all data… and pressing the button will clear all video data. You will be asked to verify that you wish to clear all data before the dvr erases the video data. Clear all data… will not clear the system log. Date/time highlight date/time in the system menu and press...
Page 23
Digital video recorder 15 figure 12 — time sync. Screen. 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 th...
Page 24
User’s manual 16 if you want to erase recorded data on the selected device, highlight clear and press the button. You will be asked whether or not you want to delete the data. If you want to use a usb hard disk drive, highlight use and press the button after connecting the device. Highlight don’t us...
Page 25
Digital video recorder 17 caution: write down the new password and save it in a secure place. If the password is forgotten, the unit must be reset using the factory reset button and all data settings will be lost. Highlighting a user name and pressing the button allows you to add or change the passw...
Page 26
User’s manual 18 after selecting shutdown and pressing the button, a screen will appear telling you when it is safe to disconnect power. Figure 16 — shutdown screen. Network setup figure 17 — network menu. Network highlight network in the network menu and press the button. The network setup screen d...
Page 27
Digital video recorder 19 highlight the lan tab, and the lan screen displays. Figure 19 — 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 and press the bu...
Page 28
User’s manual 20 selecting adsl (with pppoe) allows you to set up the adsl network. Highlight the box beside id and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter the id for adsl connection. Highlight the box beside password and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowi...
Page 29
Digital video recorder 21 highlight the webguard tab, and the webguard screen displays. 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...
Page 30
User’s manual 22 highlight the callback tab, and the callback screen displays. Highlight lan and press the button to toggle between on and off. When lan is turned on you can change the ip addresses. Highlight the ip address box that you want to change and press the button. Use the arrow buttons to e...
Page 31
Digital video recorder 23 note: you will only be able to set up ptz devices if the ptz port is set to rs232 or rs485. Figure 26 — camera ptz setup screen. 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...
Page 32
User’s manual 24 alarm-out screen highlight alarm-out in the devices menu and press the button. The alarm-out screen allows you to change the settings and establish a schedule for each alarm output from the dvr. Each alarm output can be given its own title by highlighting the box under the title hea...
Page 33
Digital video recorder 25 figure 30 — display osd screen. Highlighting an item and pressing the button toggles that item on and off. When an item is on, there is a checkmark in the box beside it. The following items can be turned on or off: remote control – the icon displays when the dvr can be co...
Page 34
User’s manual 26 note: sequence cannot be used in the 4x4 display mode of the 16-channel, and 3x3 mode of the 8-channel dvr. You can adjust the display dwell time by highlighting the box beside interval and pressing the button. You can select dwell intervals ranging from 1 second to 1 minute. Highli...
Page 35
Digital video recorder 27 remote control 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. Highlight the box beside port and select from none, rs232 and rs485. If the rs232 p...
Page 36
User’s manual 28 the dvr can record up to four audio inputs. Highlighting record audio and pressing the button toggles between on and off. Highlight the slide bar beside auto deletion, and use the left and right arrow buttons or up and down arrow buttons to adjust the length of time recorded data wi...
Page 37
Digital video recorder 29 figure 38 — schedule setup screen. 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 15 minutes. Highlighting schedule on and pressing the button toggles between on and off. In ...
Page 38
User’s manual 30 you can set the ips, quality and resolution (ips, quality, resolution and dwell for advanced mode setup) of the recording for any modes you set up in the mode column. If you do not set the ips, quality, resolution and dwell in the settings column, the dvr will follow the default set...
Page 39
Digital video recorder 31 note: when the dvr is in the time or time & event mode, it ignores the pre-event settings and follows the time settings. Event setup figure 41 — event menu. Alarm-in highlight alarm-in in the event menu and press the button. The alarm-in setup screen appears. The alarm term...
Page 40
User’s manual 32 highlight the desired box under the alarm-out heading, and press the button. A list of alarm outputs and beep appear. Select the alarm output connectors that you would like to activate whenever the dvr detects an input on the associated alarm input. You can also set the dvr’s intern...
Page 41
Digital video recorder 33 you can define the area of the image where you want to detect motion; e.G., a doorway. Highlight the box under the zone heading, and press the button. The motion detection zone screen displays. The motion detection zone screen is laid over the video for the selected camera....
Page 42
User’s manual 34 highlight the box under the record heading and press the button. A list of cameras appears. You can associate as many cameras with that camera as you wish. If the dvr detects motion on the selected camera, it starts recording video from all the associated cameras. Note: for the reco...
Page 43
Digital video recorder 35 highlight the actions 1 and actions 2 tabs and the video loss actions 1 and actions 2 screens display. Figure 49 — video loss actions 1 screen. The dvr can be set to react to video loss differently for each camera. Each camera can be associated with another camera, trigger ...
Page 44
User’s manual 36 figure 51 — video blind settings screen. 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 1...
Page 45
Digital video recorder 37 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). Figure 53 — video blind actions 2 screen. Highlight the desired box under the ptz heading, ...
Page 46
User’s manual 38 if you want the dvr to react to any character sent from the text input device, you will want to turn on any character. Highlight any character, and press the button to toggle between on and off. Note: if any character is turned on, you will not be able to enter any text in the trans...
Page 47
Digital video recorder 39 figure 57 — text-in actions 2 screen. Highlight the desired box under the ptz heading, and press the button. A list of ptz presets appear. Select the preset positions for each ptz camera, where you want ptz cameras to move to when the dvr detects text input. Highlight the b...
Page 48
User’s manual 40 figure 59 — storage screen. Highlight the box beside disk bad notify, and press the button. Select percentage level of bad disk sectors at which you want the dvr to trigger an alert. Percentage levels range from 10% to 90%. Highlight the box beside disk almost full notify, and press...
Page 49
Digital video recorder 41 figure 61 — event status screen. The event status screen displays the status of the dvr’s systems and inputs. Events will be highlighted, and related channels or events will flicker for five seconds when detected. (alarm-in), (motion), (video loss), (video blind) and (text-...
Page 50
User’s manual 42.
Page 51: Chapter 4 — Operation
Digital video recorder 43 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...
Page 52
User’s manual 44 live monitoring menu freeze selecting (freeze) in the live monitoring menu will freeze the current image on the screen until you select again. It is the same as pressing the (play/pause) button. Pressing any button except for the menu , alarm and panic buttons while in the freeze mo...
Page 53
Digital video recorder 45 alarm reset selecting (alarm reset) in the live monitoring menu resets the dvr’s outputs including the internal buzzer during an alarm. It is the same as pressing the alarm button. Panic selecting (panic) in the live monitoring menu starts panic recording of all cameras, an...
Page 54
User’s manual 46 to use the front panel buttons, press the left and right arrow buttons to pan left and right. Press the up and down arrow buttons to tilt the camera up and down. Press the button to zoom in, and press the button to zoom out. You can use the and buttons to focus the image. You can es...
Page 55
Digital video recorder 47 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 tab). How the cameras are displayed depends on the number of cameras associated with the event. If one camera...
Page 56
User’s manual 48 full screen pip 2x2 3x3 4x4 previous group next group osd figure 66 — mouse display menu. Full screen selecting (full screen) in the mouse display menu and choosing the camera number button displays the selected camera full screen. It is the same as pressing the individual camera bu...
Page 57
Digital video recorder 49 panic recording selecting (panic) in the live monitoring menu or pressing the panic button starts panic recording of all cameras, and selecting or pressing the button again stops panic recording. If you set the panic recording duration in the panic record setup screen, pani...
Page 58
User’s manual 50 cameo button: pressing and holding the button for three seconds or longer enters the cameo mode. The yellow outline surrounding the video indicates the active cameo, and pressing the arrow buttons moves the active cameo. Pressing the desired camera button in the active cameo edits t...
Page 59
Digital video recorder 51 search menu search selecting (search) in the search menu displays the following search menu. See the following event log search, record table search, calendar search, motion search and text-in search sections for details. event log search: selecting event log search selec...
Page 60
User’s manual 52 panic selecting (panic) in the search menu starts panic recording of all cameras, and selecting again stops panic recording. It is the same as pressing the panic button. Data source selecting (data source) in the search menu allows you to select the data source to be searched. Selec...
Page 61
Digital video recorder 53 highlight the box beside motion and press the button. You can select the cameras for which you want any reports of motion detection. Highlight the box beside video loss and press the button. You can select the cameras for which you want any reports of lost video. Highlight ...
Page 62
User’s manual 54 there are three view modes. Standard view, expanded view and compact view. Standard view (default) displays combined recording information of all camera channels currently displayed on the screen. In the standard view mode, selecting the icon located at the bottom switches to the ex...
Page 63
Digital video recorder 55 note: it is possible that no recorded image displays on the current screen. Press the display button and change the screen mode to 4x4. You will be able to easily see the camera have recorded video during target time. Motion search figure 72 — motion search screen. The moti...
Page 64
User’s manual 56 text-in search figure 73 — 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...
Page 65
Digital video recorder 57 clip-copy video clips can be copied on an internal dvd rw drive, or external usb hard disk or flash drive. The copied video clips can be viewed on computers running microsoft windows 98, me, 2000, xp or vista. Refer to the appendix – usb hard disk drive preparation for info...
Page 66
User’s manual 58 highlight verify after burning and press the button. This will toggle between on and off. When this feature is on, you can verify that the data is written on the dvd rw properly. Highlight use site name and press the button. This will toggle between on and off. When this feature is ...
Page 67: Appendix
Digital video recorder 59 appendix usb hard disk drive preparation preparing the usb hard disk drive in windows 2000 note: preparing a usb hard disk drive under windows xp and window vista is almost identical to windows 2000. 1. Connect the usb hard disk drive to your computer using the usb cable. 2...
Page 69
Digital video recorder 61 for example, if you want to search for coke with a qty (quantity) of more than 1 and hotdog with an amount totaling over $8, the following search condition can be set. Webguard webguard allows you to access a remote dvr, monitor live video images and search recorded video u...
Page 70
User’s manual 62 note: the port numbers for webwatch, websearch and audio should be the same port numbers used for remote watch, remote search and remote audio set during network setup. When running the updated webguard for the first time, internet explorer might occasionally load the information of...
Page 71
Digital video recorder 63 ⑤ click the screen format to select the desired display mode. When changing the screen format, the selected camera on the current screen will be located in the first cell of the new layout. ⑥ click the camera button (1 to 16) to select the camera to be viewed. ⑦ click the t...
Page 72
User’s manual 64 ① click the to log out the webguard program. ② click the to access to the web monitoring mode. ③ position the mouse pointer on the websearch logo to see the version of the webguard program. ④ the dvr information window displays the time information of recorded data on the remote dvr...
Page 73
Digital video recorder 65 ⑭ selecting a camera on the screen and clicking the right mouse button displays the text menu screen. change camera title: changes the camera name. enable audio: plays audio while playing back recorded video that has recorded audio. (single-screen layout only) aspect ...
Page 74
User’s manual 66 map of screens.
Page 75
Digital video recorder 67 connector pin outs i/o connector pin outs ai (1 to 16) alarm inputs 1 to 16 gnd chassis ground (6 connectors) nc relay alarm output (normally closed) com relay common no relay alarm output (normally open) ari alarm reset in rs485 connector pin outs master unit slave unit + ...
Page 76
User’s manual 68 system log notices boot up panic on shutdown panic off restart clear all data upgrade clear disk upgrade fail format disk power failure disk full time change auto deletion time zone change search begin time sync search end time sync fail clip-copy begin disk bad clip-copy end login ...
Page 77
Digital video recorder 69 system upgrade related clip copy related no. Description no. Description 302 remote upgrade is not authorized. 14 opening executable file failed. 303 saving remote package failed. 15 writing executable file failed. 304 remote upgrade is cancelled by the user. 16 creating im...
Page 78
User’s manual v1.0 70 connectors video input composite: 8 or 16 bnc video loop composite: 8 or 16 bnc (auto terminating) monitor output composite: 1 bnc vga: 1 vga spot (composite): 1 bnc audio in 4 rca connector audio out 1 rca connector alarm input/output terminal blocks ethernet port rj-45 rs232c...