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DVR4C
Installation manual
EN Digital Video Recorder
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Table of Contents EN | 3 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ..............................................................................................................................5 1. INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................................................................7 1.1 DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER FOR SECURITY APPLICATIONS ......................................................7 1.
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Table of Contents EN | 4 5.3 STARTING THE CONFIGURATION TOOL .......................................................................................... 22 5.4 HOW TO LOG IN ........................................................................................................................................ 22 6. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................................................................
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | EN | 5 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 10. Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point where they exit from the apparatus. Danger 11. Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, 12. Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of an uninsulated bracket, or table specif
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | EN | 6 U.S.A. models only--Section 810 of the National Electrical FCC INFORMATION Code, ANSI/NFPA No.70-1981, provides information with This equipment has been tested and found to comply with respect to proper grounding of the mount and supporting the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of structure, grounding of the coax to a discharge unit, size of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide grounding conductors, location of disc
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Introduction EN | 7 1 Introduction 1.3 Unpacking Check the package for visible damage. If any items appear to have been damaged in shipment, notify the shipping 1.1 Digital video recorder for security company. Unpack carefully. This is electronic equipment applications and should be handled with care to prevent damage to the The DVR4C is a video recording system that can record up unit. Do not attempt to use the unit if any components are to four camera signa
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Installation EN | 8 2 Installation 6. Connect up to four alarm output relays via the terminal connector. > Relay 1 responds to an input alarm, Relay 2 responds to a To install the DVR make the connections described below and then enter the relevant data in the quick install menu. system failure and the other relays are assigned to the remote software. Configure the alarm outputs as N/O or N/C in the menu system. 2.1 Connections 7. Connect to your network via t
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Installation EN | 9 2.2 First-time use >>> DAYLIGHT SAVING • Select if DST is used (On) or not (Off). To open the quick install menu, press the MENU key on the front panel and select the Quick install submenu. Fill >>> DATE FORMAT in the basic settings to get the unit operational. The unit • Select from three date formats which show either the begins recording automatically. Press the ESC key to close month (MM), the day (DD) or the year (YYYY) first. the menu
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Installation EN | 10 >>> SPEED (IPS) >>> AUDIO RECORDING • Select the recording speed to be used for all cameras. • Select On or Off to record Audio or not to record • The Images Per Second (IPS) rates available for PAL Audio. range from 0, 0.75 (one image every 1.3 seconds), up >>> APPLY to 25 IPS. • Select this item to save your settings. • The IPS rates available for NTSC range from 0, 1 Refer to the table below for recording time capacity. (one image every se
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Operating instructions EN | 11 3 Operating instructions In zoom mode, press to move the zoomed area to the left. The purpose of the front panel keys is explained here. The 8 Pause key: functions available can be limited by setting passwords. An In live mode, press to freeze a camera picture. administrator has access to many more functions in the In playback mode press to pause playback. menu. Refer to Menu System for a full list of available In menu mode, press
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Operating instructions EN | 12 In playback mode, press to stop playback and to go 3.2 Viewing pictures back to live mode. The unit has one monitor output. The monitor picture In pause mode, press to go back to live mode. display depends on how the system has been set up. It shows If the beeper sounds, press ESC to silence it. full screen or quad live or playback camera pictures. Alarms, motion, and video loss warnings are also displayed 12 Stop key: on the monit
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Operating instructions EN | 13 3.3 Live, playback, copy and search 4. If you selected the .dv4 format, you can now select the modes channel to copy. (For AVI or JPEG the active playback channel is automatically selected.) 3.3.1 Live mode 5. If you have more than one memory stick connected, select disk. The available free space and the approximate The live mode is the normal operating mode of the unit space required are shown. where you watch live pictures from
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Menu system EN | 14 4 Menu system 4.3 Camera Setup > Use the Camera Setup menu to access the submenus for You access all the parameters used to set up the unit via the setting the camera names, for locking cameras and for menu system using the keys on the front of the unit itself. controlling cameras. The PC-based Configuration Tool application allows you to access the menu system from a remote computer. 4.1 Overview of the menu system The main menu gives acce
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Menu system EN | 15 4.4 Recording > 4.5 Event Setup > • The sensitivity of the motion detection has three levels, The overall schedule consists of 4 periods: Weekday Day, Low, Medium and High or set to Off for no detection. Weekday Night, Weekend Day and Weekend Night. The • To setup the motion detect area for the whole screen, start and end time of each period is set in the Profiles select Select All. menu. Recording conditions can be configured for each of
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Menu system EN | 16 4.6 System Settings > >>> MONITORING • Set On to display live text data on a monitor. Text is Use the System Settings menu to get access to those items overlayed on the live image. that are used to configure the system. >>> SYNC TEXT WITH >>LANGUAGE • Select All to display (and record) text data on all • A language is selectable from the list with the up/down channels (in a quad screen display, text appears in the scroll keys. Press the play
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Menu system EN | 17 • Fill in the IP, subnet mask and default gateway • Select the number of images to be sent attached to addresses when DHCP is set to Off. the e-mail (3 JPEG images by default). The DVR • Fill in the DNS in order to use an e-mail address. At attaches 1 image per second. With a videoloss the least one DNS should be specified. images just before the videoloss are attached. No • Set Auto-Detect to On to allow the Remote viewer images are attached
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Menu system EN | 18 >>MONITOR SETUP >>SECURITY >>> LOCAL PASSWORDS >>> DISPLAY CAMERA WITH MOTION • Set a local user password to allow a user limited • Select if the DVR switches automatically to a full access rights only for monitoring, monitoring control screen image of the camera when motion is detected (Auto Seq., digital zoom), copy and playback on that camera. control. Configuration is not allowed. • With multiple motion detections shortly after each •
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Menu system EN | 19 >>> REMOTE USERS • Login names and passwords for the remote users (4) >>> NETWORK TIME SERVER and administrator can be specified here. • Select On to allow the DVR to synchronize time • The administrator login name is always "admin" and either as a client or as a master. cannot be changed. >>> SERVICE MODE • The remote user login name can be upto 16 • Select Client to allow the DVR time setting to be characters long. The remote user password
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DVR4C | Installation Manual | Menu system EN | 20 >>MISCELLANEOUS >>> CURRENT PROFILE • Shows the profile (Weekday - Day, Weekday - Night, The DVR firmware version is shown here. Select Factory Weekend - Day, Weekend - Night) that is currently defaults to set all parameters, except IP address, subnet active. mask, default gateway and disk setup, to their default values. >>> WEEK START AND WEEK END • Any day from Monday to Sunday can be used as a start date or end date of a week. >>> DAY ST
