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DVR4-1100™
4CH Digital Video Recorder
SW242-LP4 / SW242-LPN
User Manual
User Manual
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INDEX 1. DVR Features....................................................................... 1 2. Layout 2.1 Front Panel...............................................................................................1 2.2 Rear Panel ................................................................................................2 2.3 Remote Controller ...............................................................................2 3. Installation 3.1 Installing Hard Drive.............
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5.10 Miscellaneous Menu - Password Change ....................... 9 5.11 Miscellaneous Menu - Color Set..................................... 9 5.12 Miscellaneous Menu - Time Set.................................... 10 5.13 Hard Disk Set.......................................................................................10 5.14 Motion Set..............................................................................................11 5.15 Video Mode.........................................
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User’s Manual Chapter 1: DVR Features 4 Channel BNC Camera Input 1 Channel BNC Video Output Video Source Option: NTSC / PAL Motion Detection with Sensitivity and Area Settings Time Schedule Recording / Motion Triggered Recording One ATA-100 Hard Disk Interface USB 2.0 Back up to computer With Remote Control & Removable Hard Drive Tray Chapter 2: Layout 2.1 Front Panel IR Receiver Removable HDD Tray HDD Lock Stop CH1 Channe
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User’s Manual 2.2 Rear Panel 1 BNC video output 4 BNC video inputs Fan Power Supply Input Grounding Terminal USB Port is located on the right side of the case. 2.3 Remote Controller 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 Rewind Play recording list Forward Record Pause Stop recording / playing back Menu Enter or exit setup menu M
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User’s Manual Chapter 3: Installation 3.1 Installing Hard Drive 1. Unplug the power supply. Don’t install or uninstall HDD when DVR is on!! 2. Slide the HDD tray out of DVR body carefully. 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. Insert the HDD tray into D
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User’s Manual Chapter 4: System Boot 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. 4.2 Recovering Lost Data RECOVER HDD? A power error can cause data to be lost, 04811-101735 (SELECT)YES/(MENU)NO and the DVR system will automatically recover lost data after power is reconnected.
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User’s Manual 4.4 Main Screen While the DVR is running, the 10% monitor will display the view from the cameras as following: Upper left: Percentage of used hard drive space 1 2 3 4 Middle: Channel name (CH1 through CH4) Bottom right: Date and Time EACH REC [M] 2008/08/08 Bottom left: System status. (Refer to 6.1 Start Recording) Chapter 5: DVR Setup 5.1 Setup Menu Menu Directory CAMERA SELECT RECORD SELECT RESOLUTION R
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User’s Manual MAIN MENU CAMERA SELECT 1234 [ Menu]: 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 MOTION SET VIDEO MODE PAL FACTORY RESET [ Menu]: press again to exit PRESS (UP DOWN), ENTER (SELECT) PRESS
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User’s 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 ful
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User’s Manual 5.6 Record Quality There are three levels of recording quality: High, Normal, and Low. Higher quality 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 set video recording method by Time and Motion Detection Triggered Recording. “-” No Recording SCHEDULE SET “T” Time (System Default) TTTMMMTTTTTTMMTTTTT--MMT │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
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User’s Manual 5.8 Miscellaneous Menu-Auto Record When the function is set to be “ON”, DVR will be awaked to record automatically by record schedule if DVR is without any manual operations in five (5) minutes. When you choose “OFF”, DVR will not record until you press the [ REC] button. 5.9 Miscellaneous Menu-Password Enable When this option is set to be “ON”, you will be required to enter the password if you want to stop recording or enter menu. System default password: Press [CH1]
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User’s Manual 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 OVERWRITE ENABLED: HARD DISK SET If you choose “YES”, recording OVERWRITE ENABLED [YES] continues and overwrites previous HDD SIZE 120042MB HDD USED 80865MB 77%
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User’s Manual MOTION SET MOTION RECORD TIME: 10 MOTION ALARM TIME: OFF MOTION SET PRESS (UP, DOWN), ENTER (SELECT) PRESS (MENU) TO EXIT MOTION SET: SENSITIVITY: MOTION DETECTION SET Use [ Up] and [ Down] button to >CHANNEL 1 SENSITIVITY 4 CHANNEL 2 SENSITIVITY 4 CHANNEL 3 SENSITIVITY 4 select the channel you want to modify, CHANNEL 4 SENSITIVITY 4 press [ SEL] to adjust sensitivity of CHANNEL 1 AREA SET
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User’s Manual 5.16 Factory Reset Press [ SEL] button to reload factory defaults, then the DVR will reboot, all custom settings (including password) will be restore to default. Caution: There is no confirming dialog box for this selection after you press [ SEL] button, please be prudent! If you forget your password, please keep the system on main screen, and then press [Pause] button for ten (10) times, the DVR will reset the system. Then the default password is: [CH1] button six (6) t
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User’s Manual 2. Recording symbol (channel is currently recording) 3. Channel Name 4. Record Resolution (QUAD or EACH) 5. Status (REC, Play, FF1, FF2, FF3, REW, PAUSE) 6. HDD Info. ([M] Master Hard disk) 7. Record Schedule: (T) Continuous (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 need to input the password. 6.3 Recording Time on Hard D
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User’s Manual Chapter 7: Playback Press [ Play] button to play the latest 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’s Manual Chapter 8: USB Programming Through connecting DVR and PC, you can use PC Viewer software to play back and backup DVR recorded video. 8.1 PC Viewer Program 1. Put the USB Driver Program 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 inside DVR automatically when you connect the USB cable from DVR to
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User’s 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 10. Fast backward Play backward with fast speed 11. Previous frame Move
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User’s 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 ÷ Num
