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DVR4-Alert™ Plus
4CH Digital Video Recorder
SW242-DAL / SW244-DAO
User Manual
User Manual
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Table of Contents 1. DVR Features .......................................................................................... 1 2. Overview 2.1 Front Panel .......................................................................................... 1 2.2 Rear Panel ........................................................................................... 2 2.3 Remote Control ................................................................................... 2 3. Installation 3.1 Installin
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6. Recording 6.1 Start Recording.................................................................................. 12 6.2 Stop Recording .................................................................................. 13 6.3 Recording Time on Hard Drive ......................................................... 13 7. Playback................................................................................................. 14 8. USB Programming................................................
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User Manual Chapter 1: DVR Features 4 Channel BNC Camera Inputs 1 Channel BNC Video Output Video Format: NTSC / PAL Motion Detection with Sensitivity and Area Settings Time Schedule Recording / Motion Triggered Recording One ATA-100 (IDE) Hard Disk Interface USB 2.0 Back up to computer Remote Control & Removable Hard Drive Tray Chapter 2: Overview IR Receiver 2.1 Front Panel Finger Hole Removable HDD Tray HDD Lock Stop CH1
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User Manual 2.2 Rear Panel 1 BNC video output 4 BNC Video Inputs Power Supply Input USB Fan Grounding Terminal 2.3 Remote Control CH1 Select or enlarge Channel #1 CH2 Select or enlarge Channel #2 CH3 Select or enlarge Channel #3 CH4 Select or enlarge Channel #4 Quad Quad View (4 Camera View) Rewind Playback Recording Forward Record Pause Stop recording / playback Menu Enter or exit setup menu Move up / left cursor SEL Select
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User Manual 3.1 Installing Hard Drive 1. Unplug the power supply. Never install or uninstall HDD when DVR is on. 2. Pull the HDD tray from the unit using the finger hole. 3. Connect the power cord and data cable to hard disk drive. Make sure the HDD is set to be MASTER according to the hard drive manual. The 4 pin connection is the DC power cable for HDD, and the wider cable is the standard hard drive IDE type connection. 4. Firmly insert the HDD tray into DVR body. 5. Lock
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User Manual Chapter 4: Starting the DVR 4.1 Detecting Installed Hard Drive After connecting the power, the system will boot-up and detect the installed hard Checking HDD …… drive. MASTER… On the screen it will show the hard drive information. If no hard drive is detected, check that the HDD is set to master and the tray is locked. 4.2 Recovering Lost Data RECOVER HDD? A power failure can cause data to be lost, 04811-101735 (SELECT)YES/(MENU)N
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User Manual 4.4 Main Screen When the DVR is turned on the following display will appear with your connected cameras: Upper left: Percentage of hard drive space used Middle: Channel number (CH1 through CH4) Bottom right: Date and Time Bottom left: System/recording status. (Refer to 6.1 Start Recording) Chapter 5: DVR Setup 5.1 Setup Menu Menu Directory CAMERA SELECT RECORD SELECT RESOLUTION RECORD FRAME MAIN VIDEO QUALITY MENU AUTO RECORD SCHE
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User Manual MAIN MENU CAMERA SELECT 1234 [ Menu]: Push to enter system menu RECORD SELECT 1234 RESOLUTION EACH RECORD FRAME 25 RECORD QUALITY HIGH [ Up] and [ Down]: Move the cursor SCHEDULE SET MISCELLANEOUS MENU HARD DISK SET [ SEL]: Select/modify settings VIDEO MODE PAL MOTION SET FACTORY RESET [ Menu]: Press exit/previous menu PRESS (UP DOWN), ENTER (SELECT
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User Manual 5.4 Resolution There are two modes of resolution for video recording: EACH Mode: The DVR compresses and records each video channel separately so you can enlarge a single channel to full screen display and still be recording on all channels. You can also record on specific channels, for example, you can turn off the record function of CH1 and CH2 and then the system will only record video on CH3 and CH4. Press [CH1], [CH2], [CH3], and [CH4] enlarge relative channel to full
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User Manual 5.6 Record Quality There are three levels of recording quality: High, Normal, and Low. Higher quality records the best images but uses more hard drive space. Record frame rate, record quality and available hard drive space will affect the total recording time of the DVR system. 5.7 Schedule Set You can preset video recording modes by Time and Motion Detection Recording. “-” No Recording SCHEDULE SET “T” Time (or manual recording: Default) TTTMMMTTTTTTMMTTTT
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User Manual 5.8 Miscellaneous Menu-Auto Record When this option is set to “ON”, the DVR will automatically continue with the current Record Schedule if no actions occur for 5 minutes. If you choose “OFF”, the DVR will not record until you press the [ REC] button. 5.9 Miscellaneous Menu-Password Enable This DVR is equipped with password protection features. Set this feature to “ON” to enable password protection. When this option is set to “ON”, you will be required to enter a passwo
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User Manual 5.12 Miscellaneous Menu-Time Set TIME SET Configure system date and time: 2008/08/08 20:08:08 [ Up] and [ Down]: move the cursor [ SEL]: modify the value PRESS (UP,DOWN), ENTER (SELECT) PRESS (MENU) TO EXIT [ Menu]: exit and save 5.13 Hard Disk Set HARD DISK SET OVERWRITE ENABLED: OVERWRITE ENABLED [YES] If you choose “YES”, recording MASTER HDD SIZ 120042MB MASTER HDD USED 80865MB 77% continues
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User Manual 5.14 Motion Set MOTION RECORD TIME: This number indicates how many seconds the motion detection recording lasts after the DVR has detected motion. MOTION SET MOTION RECORD TIME: 10 MOTION ALARM TIME: OFF MOTION ALARM TIME: This number indicates how many MOTION SET seconds the buzzer/alarm inside the DVR PRESS (UP, DOWN), ENTER will sound after the DVR has detected (SELECT) motion. PRESS (MENU) TO EXIT CONT: Continu
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User Manual 5.15 Video Mode Select NTSC (North America) or PAL (Europe/Australia) video system. 5.16 Factory Reset Press [ SEL] button to reset the DVR to factory defaults. The DVR will reboot and all custom settings (including password) will be restored to default. Caution: There is no confirmation dialog box for this selection after you press [ SEL] button. If you have forgotten your password and would like to reset, press [Pause] button 10 times to reset DVR to factory default. T
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User Manual 1. Hard Drive Usage (Displayed as a percentage) 2. Recording symbol (channel is currently recording) 3. Camera Number 4. Record Mode (QUAD or EACH) 5. Status (REC, Play, FF1, FF2, FF3, REW, PAUSE) 6. HDD Info. ([M] Master Hard disk) 7. Record Schedule: (T) Time or Manual Record (M) Motion Detection (-) No Recording 8. The date and time on the DVR 6.2 Stop Recording Press [ Stop] button to stop recording. If you have already activated the password protection, you will
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User Manual Chapter 7: Playback Press [ Play] button to play the last recording. During playback, press the [ Menu] button to list all recorded video clips from the hard drive. Newest video will be listed at the top. Press [ Up] and [ Down] to move the cursor and select an event, press [ Play] button to start playback. 1. Starting time of the event 2. TIME: continuous record 3. MOTION: Motion Triggered event 4. FORCE: Force Record event 5. “*”
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User Manual Chapter 8: USB Programming Using the provided DVR PC Viewer software, you can connect the DVR Alert to your PC to playback or backup footage. 8.1 PC Viewer Program 1. Insert the CD into your CD-ROM Drive 2. Open CD directory 3. Double click on the “PCViewerInstall.exe” file to install the PC Viewer software 4. Run the installed PC Viewer program PC Viewer will detect the hard drive installed in the DVR automatically when you connect the USB cable from DVR to PC.
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User Manual Item Remark 1. DVR event list Open event list recorded in DVR 2. Capture picture Save an image of current frame 3. Save video clip Save DVR’s video clip to PC in .mys/.avi file 5. Load video file saved in PC Load .mys file saved in PC 6. DVR Mode* To switch working mode between PC viewer 7. PC Mode* mode and DVR viewer mode 8. Channel selection keys CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, QUAD 9. Playing scroll bar Video progress 10. Fast backward Play backward with fast speed 11. Previous
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User Manual Chapter 9: Specifications ITEM DESCRIPTION NOTE Video Format NTSC / PAL Operation System None Stand-alone Camera Input Channel 4 channel Composite BNC Video Output Channel 1 channel Composite BNC NTSC 120 frames/second 4×30 frames/second Display Frame Rate PAL 100 frames /second 4×25 frames/second NTSC Max.30 fps (Quad) Quad Mode Recording Frame Rate PAL Max.25 fps (Quad) Quad Mode Each Channel = NTSC Max. 30 frames/s (Total) Recording Frame Rate 30 fps ÷ Numbe
