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Advanced security made easy
DVR8-2500™
8 Channel H.264 Digital Video Recorder
Operating Instructions
Operating Instructions
SW342-2DE
www.swannsecurity.com
SR342-2DE-60010-230709
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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 de- signed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residen- tial 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 receptio
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Contents Before you Begin 2 Table of Contents 3 Package Contents 4 DVR Layout 5 Layout of Remote Control 6 Connecting Cameras to the DVR 7 Starting the DVR 8 Navigating the Menus 9 The Main Menu 9 Hard Drive Setup 10 Setting the Time 11 Configuring the Camera Display 12 Recording 14 Search and Playback 17 Backing up Footage 19 Motion Detection 19 Password Control 21 Language 21 System Menu
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Package Contents DVR4-2500™ Unit Remote Control Operating Instructions Easy Setup Guide Power Adapter with Cable Software CD Network cable USB cable RCA Video Cable RCA to BNC adapters X 4 Security Stickers (4 Pack) If you are missing any of the components above, contact Swann Communications for assistance. 4
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DVR Layout Front Panel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 1. Power Indicator - Lights on 8. All - Press to view all channels in 14. Record - Press to begin record- when DVR powered split-screen mode. ing. 2. Infra red sensor 9. Rewind - Press to rewind a Note: will not function if the cameras 3. Hard drive indicator - Lights recording / press to move cursor left. are not activated in CAMERA SETUP when hard drive is active (flashes 10. Pause - Press to pause a record- AND RECORD
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Layout of Remote Control 1 6 2 7 8 3 9 10 11 12 4 13 14 5 15 1. 0-9 (digit key pad) 8. SELECT/SEL - Buttons 1-4 can be used to view channels 1-4 in indi- -Press to select an option/enter a sub menu. vidual display mode during recording and playback. - 0-9 can be used to input a password. 9. RIGHT arrow - 0-9 cannot be used for any other numeric field with a - Press to move cursor right. yellow pop up keypad 10. DOWN arrow 2. ALL -Press to move cursor down. - Press to activate the entire screen f
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Connecting Cameras to the DVR Cameras and accessories optional 1 2 3 4 6 5 1. Connect the power and BNC ends of the security camera to an extension cable. 2. Connect the DC end on the extension cables to the 4 way power splitter plugs. 3. Connect the camera power supply to the other end of the power splitter. 4. Connect the BNC end of the extension cables to the camera connections on the back of the DVR unit (CH1, CH2, CH3 & CH4) 5. Connect the DVR power supply plug into the power supply
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Starting the DVR Once you have connected the DVR and switched the power on it will begin to boot up. During boot up you will see the following screen. The DVR is basically a small, dedicated computer and thus needs about 45 seconds to boot up. Whilst booting, the DVR will show this screen: Once the DVR has booted (up and you have a camera connected to each channel) the DVR will take you straight to the ‘ALL’ view screen, showing all eight displays (below). 1 4 3 1. Displays showing cameras 1
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Navigating the Menus This DVR comes with a USB mouse and also a remote control, and also has a full compliment of control buttons on the front panel. So, basically, you have options! Note: The USB mouse must be attached to the upper USB port! The mouse functions just like any PC mouse for easy navigation of the menus. In a nutshell, the left mouse button selects and confirms choices, the right mouse button will take you back towards the main menu. Most users find that attaching a USB mouse to
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Hard drive Setup What’s this? Unlike a VCR which records to a tape, your DVR records footage to the internal hard drive. Therefore, it’s an important first step when configuring your DVR to make sure that the HDD Status (status of the currently installed hard drive) hard drive (HDD) options are correctly set. Think If the hard drive is not installed properly you will see a message of it like inserting a really, really long tape that saying NO DISK FOUND. Hopefully, though, it will say OK.
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Setting the Time Setting the Time & Date It’s important to set the Time & Date before recording footage. That way, when you search for events, they’ll be listed in the right order, and display when they were recorded. To set the Time and Date: 1. Go to the TIME AND DATE submenu. 2. Highlight the current numeric field, and press select or left click. 3. Use left and right (or the mouse) to select the digit(s) you want to change. 4. Using the up and down arrows/buttons, change the date and time
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Setting the Time (continued) Configuring custom DST MODE As the standards for daylight savings differ from country to coun- try, and often state to state, you might need to manually tell the DVR exactly when it commences and ends in your locality. To do this, we need to configure the settings in the DST MODE CUSTOM submenu. First, select the appropriate week from the drop-down menu which lists the 1ST WEEK, 2ND WEEK (and so on) that DST commecnces in your region. Then, select the appropriate
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Camera Setup Color Setup You can fine tune the look of each channel individually by adjusting the HUE, BRIGHT (brightness), CONTRAST and SATURATION values for each channel. This is useful if peculiar lighting conditions, a non-standard camera or a conspicuously colored object in the frame cause the display to be inconveniently tinted, or over or under exposed. HUE: Changes the color mix of the frame (this can have very dramatic results). BRIGHT: Changes how light all tones in the image appea
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Recording In the RECORD SETUP submenu you can choose which channels will be active during recording, change the recording quality, enable & disable audio, select record more and Chunk Size (the maximum size of each recorded file). This submenu contains many of the most important settings on the DVR, and correctly configuring them is important to the ongoing smooth operation of the unit. We’ve made a quick list of what you can do here, and will try to explain quickly what they all do - and how
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Record (continued) Schedule If you choose the TIME SCHEDULE recording option, then a SCHEDULE button will appear on the screen giving you access to set the schedule. Highlight and select this to set the schedule. When using the mouse, you’ll need to left click the schedule button to access the SCHEDULE screen. After clicking the SCHEDULE button a new screen will open showing: • A CHANNEL drop-down list which contains channels 1 through 8. • A weekly timeline with each box number 0-23 each re
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Record (continued) Schedule (continued) Want Monday through Thursday to run on the same schedule, but don’t want to set it all individually? Too easy. The COPY button in the SCHEDULE screen allows you to copy the schedule for a certain day (that you may have already set) to all of or one of the other days. This saves you time having to set each day separately. To copy the schedule settings from day to day, select the day you’d like to copy from on the first drop down menu. Then, select the d
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Record (continued) Search and Playback 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 useful for hunting a specific recording of an incident if you know the time and date it ocured. To search you need to input the date of the video then select the hour of the recording. Note that if you don’t know the exact day you want to search input just the MONTH & YEAR then click the SEARCH button. If you want to be really v
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Search and Playback (continued) FIle List In the FILE LIST screen you can view each video pack, listed in chronological order. You can set a filter to view files for a specific channel or record mode. Here you can also back up files to a USB flash drive. To filter by the channel on which the recording came from: • Using the mouse or the arrow buttons, highlight the SWITCH CHN drop-down menu, and left click or press select. • Choose from channels 1 through 8, or ALL if you wish to see all
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Backing up Footage Backing up a file • First, insert a USB flash drive into the USB port on the back of the DVR. Note that inserting a flash drive into the mouse port will not work correctly. • Make sure there are no files on the USB flash drive that you wish to keep, as data already on the drive may be lost. • Highlight the BAK check-boxes which correspond to the recordings that you wish to backup, and left click or press select. • You can backup multiple recordings at once, as long as
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Motion Detection (continued) Motion Detection Area Say, for example, you are trying to monitor your front yard, whilst in the background there is a busy street, and the cars driving past continually set off the motion detection. What can you do about it? Setting only part of the camera’s view to be motion sensitive might be the answer. This is useful in a number of circumstances, such as monitoring one particular door at the end of busy hallway, or a backyard with a tree that keeps blowing in
