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Advanced-Series
Four Channel H.264
Digital Video Recorder
M12C16031210E
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Before You Begin FCC Verification: NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio or television reception,
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Table of Contents Before You Begin Before You Begin 2 Table of Contents 3 Overview 4 Important Information & Package Contents 5 Front Panel 6 Rear Panel 7 Remote Control 8 Connecting Cameras 9 Navigating the Menus 10 - 11 Starting the DVR 12 The Main Menu 13 The Camera (Display Setup) Menu 14 The Record Setup Menu 15 The Record Schedule 16 The Network Menu 17 Video Search, File List & USB Backup 18 Backup 19 Playback
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Overview Congratulations on your purchase of the DVR! You’ve chosen a versatile, powerful and great value security monitoring and recording solution for your home or business. Let’s just take a moment to talk about some of the great features that the DVR offers and some of the things to think about before installing the system. 4 Channel Monitoring and Recording The DVR can monitor and record four channels simultaneously. You can configure the recording modes for each of the four channels in
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Important Information IMPORTANT GUIDELINES • Do not expose the DVR to moisture. Water is the arch-enemy of electrical components and also poses a high risk of electric shock. • Avoid dusty locations. Dust has a tendency to build up inside the DVR case, leading to a high risk of failure or even fire. • Only install the DVR in a well ventilated space. The circuitry and hard drive in the DVR produces a significant amount of heat, and this heat needs a way out. • Do not open the DVR case exce
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Layout of the Front Panel 9 10 11 12 13 14 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 16 17 19 1) Power Indicator: This LED is illuminated when the DVR is connected to power and switched on. 10) Pause: During playback, will pause the current recording and leave a still-frame on 2) Infrared Sensor: Monitors signals coming screen. In live-viewing mode, this will activate from the infrared remote control. If this sensor is the auto-sequence mode, where the display blocked or obstructed, then the functionality of a
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Layout of the Rear Panel 5 8 7 9 6 2 1 4 3 1) CH1 ~ CH4 (Video Inputs): These are the four footage. camera inputs, labelled as per their channel in the DVR’s interface. Thus, plug the camera you want 7) RS485 Connections: This is the serial to be associated with Channel 1 into the port communication port, used primarily to connect marked CH1 and so on. PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) devices. 2) Video Outputs: This sends a composite video 8) Power Connection: For supplying power to signal out of th
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Layout of Remote Control 1) 0 ~ 9 (Numeric Buttons): Used to input 4) Rewind: During playback, this will reverse numbers. 1 ~ 4 can be used as quick channel the footage. Press multiple times to increase the changing buttons in a similar manner to a speed of the reversing. television, and these will work during either 13) Fast-Forward: During playback, this will live-viewing mode or playback. Additionally, the increase the speed of playback. Press multiple numeric buttons will be used when
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Connecting Cameras 1 2 (Optional) Note: Cameras and accessories are optional, and may not be included. 3 4 1. Connect the power and BNC ends of the 6. If your camera has a microphone, connect security camera to an extension cable. the audio out to one of the audio input Ensure these connections are secure, and channels. shielded from weather, moisture or other hazards. Though Swann cameras use low 7. Connect the DVR power supply plug into voltage DC power supplies, there is still the th
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Navigating the Menus IMPORTANT: Camera Color Setup The DVR displays the menu on only one output at a time. If the DVR is not displaying the menu on Record the screen you have connected, press and hold the REWIND button to swap displays. Network Search Search PlayBack File Details Backup HDD Management Main Menu Alarm Config Auto Email Device PTZ Settings Mobile Motion Area Setup Date & Time Set User Password Video Settings System Language System Information System Maintenance There are two m
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Navigating the Menus IMPORTANT - Remembering to Apply Your Changes When you’re using the menus to change settings or values, none of your changes will be saved until you choose the “Apply” option, which is usually located in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Always select the APPLY button before leaving a menu if you want to save the changes that you have made. There are two reasons why the “Apply” button needs to be expressly selected. For one, it helps prevent accidental modificati
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Starting the DVR Once the DVR has been connected to power it will switch itself on automatically. The DVR takes approximately 45 seconds to boot up, during which time the image to the right will be displayed. The default mode of the DVR is live-viewing mode. This is the mode which monitors the images coming from your cameras in real-time, and allows you to configure your recording and channel options. The DVR automatically starts in live-viewing mode, with multi-view enabled. The first thin
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The Main Menu The MAIN MENU of the DVR. In this picture, the mouse cursor is currently highlighting the CAMERA icon. Camera (Display Setup): The camera menu HDD: The hard drive, where you store your contains all the options for setting up how the footage. DVR interfaces with and displays the images ALARM: The circumstances which will trigger the from the cameras connected to it. This is where DVR to record or issue an alert of some kind (such channels are enabled or disabled in live vie
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The Camera (Display Setup) Menu The DISPLAY SETUP MENU of the DVR. In this picture, the mouse cursor is currently highlighting the CH1 title field. Naming Channels You can change the name of any channel from the default (and rather drab) “CHx” to anything that you would like (provided it’s short enough to fit in the box). A descriptive name on each channel often makes it easier to remember what camera is where, and which channel would have captured an event you might be looking for. Channel
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The Record Setup Menu In the RECORD SETUP menu you can choose which channels will be active during recording, change the recording quality, enable & disable audio, select record mode and pack time (the maximum size of each recorded file). This menu contains many of the most important settings on the DVR, and correctly configuring them is important to its ongoing smooth operation. Enabling / Disabling Recording Choose whether the channel you’ve selected will be recorded or not here. A chann
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The Recording Schedule The SCHEDULE screen. In this image, the schedule is configured to record constantly between 0:00 (12:00AM) Friday morning until midnight Monday, except between 12:00 and 19:00 (7:00PM) on Saturday afternoon, when it will record when triggered by the alarm settings. At all other times, the DVR is configured not to record anything at all. The first step in setting the schedule is choosing which channel you’d like to set the schedule for. You can do this using the drop-
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The Network Menu This is the NETWORK SETUP screen. This is the most technically complex aspect to setting up the DVR, and does require a working knowledge of network technologies. If you are unfamiliar with networking, then we suggest talking with a professional - ideally, the same person who installed your network, as they’ll know exactly how it’s configured and how best to setup the DVR. Configuring your DVR and your home network can be a tricky process - and these two pages are not near
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Video Search, File List & USB Backup The VIDEO SEARCH screen. This is your first stop when you want to locate, playback or back up a recording. There are a couple of ways to search. You can either search by date and time, and then locate your event on an exported list of files, or you can jump straight into the event log and search manually through all incidents. Video Search In the VIDEO SEARCH screen you can search for a specific day for a recording and view it in playback mode. This is u
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Backup Preparing a USB Flash Drive Most, but not all, USB flash drives are compatible with the DVR. The flash drive will have to be formatted with the correct file structure, which is FAT32. This can be done via a compatible computer, or you can have the DVR itself format the USB flash drive. To do this: • Insert the flash drive into the USB slot on the rear of the DVR. • Open the Main Menu, and select Device Management. • From the Device Management menu, select HDD Management. • Choos
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PlayBack This is an example of the PLAYBACK interface, currently playing back four channels simultaneously in quad view. Channels 1, 3 and 4 were actively recording. Channel 2 was not recording at this time - hence the display appears blank. (The image content has been intentionally blurred.) The playback controls are displayed across the bottom of the screen. They are as follows: Playback Controls The playback controls work in a similar manner to those you’ll find on a DVD player or VCR.
