Introduction

The TV-NVR1508 NVR is network video recorders that offer a standalone solution for managing IP cameras and systems. The built-in high-quality decoder can deliver 4K/ 5MP/ 3MP/ 1080p/ 720p/ D1/ VGA/ CIF IP camera streams. Each channel can be individually configured to record in SD or HD resolution to suit your needs.

The internal HDMI and VGA engine supports adaptive motion refinement technology, which provides HDMI output with maximum resolution of 4K and VGA output with 1080p resolution. The NVR can be easily installed in all environments through the TCP/IP network, and the support of Camera Search Tool and Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery) protocol allows for locating all the cameras on the network and can generate a preview thumbnail of each channel. The self-diagnostic feature can estimate remaining recording time and monitor

S.M.A.R.T status, network status, and other information.

Files recorded by the NVR can be exported to USB flash drive, or the files can be downloaded via Backup Manager, Remote Player, FTP client software, or Network Places. Mobile support for iOS, and Android allows for remote viewing of connected cameras at high frame rates. Browser-based live monitoring and video playback features are also supported.

The NVR also supports external METADATA device, such as POS, ATM, GPS, etc. METADATA can be embedded within videos and saved as a database where you can search for METADATA history according to content, date, and time.

TRENDnet Poe NVR Installation Guide

Release Links

• TRENDnet Cloud Recording, Remote Monitoring and Playback
• Tiandy NVR Full Installation Guide
• 2M DVRs installation guide

Features

• Standalone NVR

• Supports up to 4K UHD, and 1080p 120 FPS IP cameras
• Each channel up to 12 Mbps incoming network throughput
• 4K HDMI and 1080P VGA output
• Compatible with iOS and Android devices
• Metadata can be embedded into videos
• Supports Setup Wizard
• HTML5 streaming multiple browser supported
• P2P easy remote access supported

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Chapter 1 Stream

You will see the following screen through HDMI or VGA connection once you power on the NVR:

The information shown on the top of the screen is described as follows:

• Division/Sequential Name: Click to select a camera division to display.
• System Date/Time
• HDD: The top shows the current number of hard drives being used for recording. And on the bottom shows the storage capacity used.
• Network Status (Mbps): The top side Rx is received throughput in Mbps and the bottom side Tx is transmission throughput in Mbps. Circle color represents:

Green: Giga Orange: 100Mbps Red: Error Status

Note: This information is available depending on models.

Move mouse cursor slightly to display the NVR controls (as shown in the image below):

Below controls can be seen at the bottom of the screen:

Note: This information is available depending on models.

Below are NVR controls that are at the upper-left corner of the screen:

Chapter 1-1 Live

Live video will display on this page.

Chapter1-2 Play / Backup

Click calendar icon to enter the PLAYBACK page as shown below:

1.

2.

3.

Recorded Period: Recorded data duration

Month Picker: Select the month by clicking on the left/right arrow

Date Picker: Select a date by clicking on it

No recording

The date has recorded data

Current date

Selected data

1. Time Picker: Select hours/minutes/seconds by clicking on up/down arrow
2. Play Time: selected date/time for playback
3. Playback: Click to play the selected video recording
4. Cancel: Click to go back to playback page

Chapter 1-2-1 Playback

Please select a date and time from the calendar and time picker respectively, to start playing desired recorded video or alarm video to enter the Playback as following screen:

Details of the controls at the bottom of the PLAYBACK screen are described as follows:

Note: This information is available depending on models.

Chapter 1-2-2 Backup

If you need to back up recorded files, click the E] backup icon to enter the BACKUP page as shown below and select the backup range, channel number and the file format as desired.

Record Period 2019/12/15 01:00:00-2019/12/25 20:43:11 ^{1 2} Not Installed:

⁷ HD AVI & Estimate File Size

File Fur mot

⁹ Backup 10

Cancel

Click to enter NVR SETTINGS and click General on the top panel, where you are allowed to adjust system configurations of the NVR. The details of the tabs are described as follows:

Chapter 2-1 General

• Device ID: Assign an ID for the NVR to be controlled by the remote controller.
• Audio Out Volume: Adjust the volume of the NVR.
• Sound On Button Press: Switch on/off the sound when pressing remote control buttons.
• Last Boot Time: Shows the last time the system is rebooted.
• Automatic Logout: Log out automatically after 30 minutes of inactivity.
• Automatic Login: Specify user account to log on automatically when the system power on.

Chapter 2-2 Time

• Date/Time: Set the date/time of the NVR.
• Date Format: Modify the date display format.
• Time OSD: Switch on/off the time to be displayed on the screen.
• Time Zone: Change the time zone of the location where the NVR is installed.
• Time Sync Mode: Choose how you would like the time to be synced.
• NTP Server: Enter the NTP server you want to use.
• Time Sync Interval: Choose the interval for the time to be synced.
• NTP Status: The status of connection to selected NTP server will appear here.

Chapter 2-3 User

The NVR supports up to 15 sets of individual user settings (including default user administrator, operator, and guest), to which you can assign different access privileges.

• User: Enter the name of the user (applicable only to User01-12).
• Old Password, New Password, and Confirm Password: If you would like to change the password, enter your previous password and enter the new password and confirm the password. Press Show to reveal the password.
• User Permission: Set the access privileges of the user to administrator, operator, or guest.
• Load Default: Restore to the default settings.

Chapter 2-4 Storage

Chapter 2-4-1 HDD MGT

In HDD MGT, there are HDD format, file system defrag, check HDD malfunctioned blocks, and HDD periodic inspection. Select a desired HDD and click Format, File System Defrag, Bad Block Check, or Regular Check.

Regular Check:

Allows you to set the interval between system checks: Parameters: Click each device to enter the screen below.

System Reserve Ratio allows you to allocate the percentage of HDD space that will not be occupied by recorded files. In Mount Option, choose the writing mode for the hard drive.

Chapter 2-4-2 S.M.A.R.T.

The S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard drive is displayed in S.M.A.R.T., where you can run analysis (either short or extended) on the HDD. Choose between Short or Extended analysis and click Analysis to start the process. You will see HDD status, information, attributes, and event history under HDD S.M.A.R.T. Information.

Chapter 2-4-3 USB MGT.

Connect a USB device (flash drive or hard drive) to the NVR, and check the one you want to format under this page, and then click Format.

Chapter 2-5 Event

Chapter 2-5-1 System

The search field in this page allows you to search for specific event reports at different time and of different content. Press Download to export the event report, Reload to update.

Chapter 2-5-2 Operating

You can examine the operating status of different users under this page. Press Download to export the event report, Reload to update.

Chapter 2-5-3 Alarm

The event history is displayed in alarm log.

• Event Period: Recorded event duration.
• Search Time: Display search duration.
• Calendar: Select date to search
• Channel: Select channel number to search

Chapter 2-6 Maintenance

• Firmware Update: Choose a firmware file and click Update to proceed firmware update.
• Export Settings: Click Export to copy system settings to a USB flash drive.
• Import Settings: Click Import to apply a system setting that is stored in the plugged USB flash drive.
• Factory Reset: Click Reset to restore the system to the factory settings.
• Soft Reboot: Click to soft reset the system.
• Watchdog Test: Click to test the system watchdog function. This will reboot the NVR.
• Kernel Version: The kernel version of the system.
• Support: Click to open server execution log options dialog, record system execution details.

Chapter 3 Network

Chapter 3-1 General

Enter the required information in the fields:

• IP Mode: Select the connection type of the NVR from Static, DHCP, and PPPoE.
• IP Address: Enter the IP address you want to use, and press IP Test if necessary.
• Subnet Mask: Enter the desired subnet mask.
• Default Gateway: Enter the desired default gateway.
• Primary DNS: Enter the first priority DNS server.
• Secondary DNS: Enter the secondary DNS server in case the primary DNS is not available.
• Video Port: Specify a desired video port.
• HTTP Port: Specify a desired HTTP port.
• HTTPS Port: Specify a desired HTTPS port and configure HTTPS.
• FTP Port: Specify the desired FTP port.
• MAC: This is the MAC address of your NVR.
• PPPoE Account: If you choose to connect through PPPoE, enter the account name here.
• PPPoE Password: Enter the required password for PPPoE connection.
• PPPoE IP: Your PPPoE IP will be displayed here.
• Hotspot IP: Your hotspot IP will be displayed here.

Chapter 3-1-1 Configuring HTTPs Port

The DHD DVR series support HTTPs (Hypertext Secure Transmission Protocol) service. HTTPs is an Internet protocol that ensures the integrity and confidentiality of data as it travels between users’ computers and websites. When users visit any website, they want a secure and private online experience.

HTTPs can be regarded as the advanced security version of HTTP. The SSL protocol is added as a security certificate. Therefore, the website can prevent data thief from directly seeing the transmitted data even if they intercept the transmitted information by using the encryption on the agreement.

There are two options to set HTTPs service:

1. The first option is to create a free self-signed certificate by filling-in the blank field below. Then, click Create Self-signed Certificate.
2. The second option is to purchase an SSL certificate by filling-in the blank field below and click on Create Certificate Request. Then, click on the Export Certificate Request to download the request into a PC and use to apply for official certification. After purchasing the SSL certificate from a third party company, click on the Import Signed Certificate.

Import Signed Certificate

Chapter 3-2 Advanced

Chapter 3-2-1 TCP/IP

NVR supports three sets of virtual IP addresses. When TCP/IP is switched On, the NVR can access the camera or another NVR using the specific IP.

Chapter 3-2-2 P2P

1. When activated successfully, a QR code will appear on the screen, and you can access the NVR with Sentinel app by scanning the QR code.

• Enable: Choose On to activate the service.

Chapter 3-3 E-Mail

When an alarm is triggered, the NVR can automatically send e-mail notifications to the recipients you designated.

The setting options are described below:

• Send E-Mail: Check the box to enable sending e-mail notifications when an alarm is triggered.
• E-Mail List: The list shows all saved e-mail addresses.
• Edit Contact: Enter the email address you want to save as contacts and click Modify.
• Authorization: Check if your e-mail account requires login authorization.
• SSL/TLS: Check if your e-mail sever requires encryption.
• E-Mail Account: Enter the account name of your e-mail.
• E-Mail Password: Enter the password of your e-mail.
• Sender: Enter the name you would like to display in the e-mail.
• E-Mail Host: Enter the IP address of your e-mail server.
• Port: Enter the port of your e-mail server.
• JPEG File: Check to also attach JPEG photos when an alarm is triggered.
• Candidate: Choose an email address and press Down or Up arrows to add contacts as recipients.
• Receiver: The list of recipient(s).
• Annotation: Content of the email notification.
• Trigger Conditions: Designate when to send the notification email by Channel Events and System Events.
• Channel Events: Click to open the dialog below.

• Motion: Check to send e-mail when movements are detected.
• Alarm: Check to send e-mail when external alarms are set off.
• Video Loss: Check to send e-mail when connection with IP Camera is lost.

• System Events: Click to open the dialog below.

E-MAIL – System Events-.

• HDD S.MAR.T. abnormal
• HDD track error
• HDD Temperature high

• HDD S.M.A.R.T. abnormal: Check to send E-Mail when an S.M.A.R.T. error is detected.

• HDD track error: Check to send E-Mail when an HDD error is detected.

• E-Mail Test: Click to send the testing email to verify out the settings.

Chapter 3-4 FTP

When an alarm is triggered, the NVR can automatically send snapshots to the FTP server you designated. The setting options are described below:

• FTP Server: Enter the IP address of the FTP server.
• Port: Enter the port of the FTP server.
• Account: Enter the account name of the FTP server.
• Password: Enter the password of the FTP server
• Prefix & Postfix: Specify the prefix and postfix of snapshot files.
• File Name Format: Change the file name format to suit your need.

Check the cameras that you want to send notifications to the FTP when an alarm is triggered, and specify the folder name where the images are saved.

For details about Trigger Conditions and Channel Events, please refer to the descriptions above.

Chapter 3-5 DDNS

With DDNS, you can access an NVR connected to the Internet through the DDNS URL, whatever the actual IP is. The setting options are described below:

• Server: Choose the DDNS server you want to use.
• Hostname: Enter the hostname of the DDNS server.
• User: Enter the username to log in to the DDNS server.
• Password: Enter the password to log in to the DDNS server.
• WAN IP: Enter your WAN IP if the NVR cannot automatically get the correct address.
• Check Interval: Choose the time interval you want the system to check theDDNS connection.

Note: The DDNS feature requires Internet connection.

Chapter 3-6 Other

The NVR also supports other protocols such as UPnP and SDDP, and related configurations can be modified in the OTHER tab. The setting options are described below:

• UPnP Device Name: The device name shown on the UPnP network.

• UPnP Service: Switch on/off the UPnP service.

• IE Default Live View: Select the default streaming type (H.264 or MJPEG) when streaming using Internet Explorer.
• Reset on Ethernet Error: Reset the PHY when an Ethernet error is detected, and leave a record entry in the event table
• Browser Auto Logout (30 Minutes): Log out automatically after 30 minutes of inactivity.
• SDDP Device Name: The device name shown on the SDDP network.
• SDDP Service: Switch on/off the SDDP service.
• IP Address Filtering: Switch on/off the IP filtering function, press Setup to open the filtering IP address setting dialog.
• Over Bitrate Protection: Switch on/off protection function that when network input throughput over the limitation reducing live video decode to protect recording data.
• ONVIF Service: Turn on ONVIF support when using with other ONVIF equipments.
• IPScan Service: Turn on to work with Camera Search Tool

Chapter 4 Camera

Chapter 4-1 General

• Camera Name: Enter the camera name to be displayed on the streaming screen.
• Camera Source: Allocate a NVR channel for the camera. Select Off, IP camera, or Auto.
• IP Address: Enter the IP address of the camera you want to connect.
• HTTP Port: Enter the port for HTTP connection.
• RTSP Port: Enter the port for RTSP connection.
• User: Enter the username required for camera authorization.
• Password: Enter the password required for camera authorization.
• Stream Type: Choose whether to stream only the primary video or dual (primary & secondary) videos.
• Primary Stream: Select the FPS and GOP for the primary stream.
• Primary Stream Bitrate: Select the bitrate for the primary stream.
• Secondary Stream: Select the FPS and GOP for the secondary stream (available only if Dual Stream is activated in Stream Type).
• Sec. Stream Bitrate: Select the bitrate for the secondary stream.
• Decode Ref. : Select the number of reference frame for the decoder, and choose Immediate for lower latency or Smooth for smoother but higher latency video.
• Display: Disable the video function (live feeds and playback) of the selected camera.
• Sync Time with NVR: Turn On for the camera to sync time with the NVR.
• Security Protocol: Check box to allow HTTPS connections to the IP camera. The recommended HTTP port setting is 443.
• Test: Press to check ONVIF device information including manufacturer, model #, firmware version, serial # and hardware ID.
• Assign RTSP URL: Assign required RTSP URL, NVR will connect to camera via required RTSP URL but not Onvif.
• RTSP Multicast Setting: Assign required RTSP multicast port.
• IPScan: Click IPScan to scan for connected devices on the network.
• Cancel: Click Cancel to stop scanning.
• Auto Adjust IP: Automatically assign IP for connected cameras.
• Snap: Show snapshot thumbnails for all the cameras.
• Set IP: Assign an IP address to the camera.

Chapter 4-2 Video

In this page, you can adjust several camera parameters including Contrast, Brightness, Saturation, and Sharpness.

Click Default to restore the NVR to its factory settings. Click Refresh to update the preview image.

Chapter 5 Record

Chapter 5-1 General

• Record Mode: Switch on/off scheduled recording.
• Audio: Switch on/off audio recording.
• Post-alarm Record: Enable to record after an event takes place. Set the time (second) for the NVR to record after the alarm is triggered.
• Weighted Record: If any alarm is triggered when Weighted Record is turned on, the recording frame rate will be adjusted to the pre-determined value (which can be set in CAMERA SETUP). Otherwise, the NVR will record at a lower frame rate (approximately 4-5 FPS).

Note: System Recording Mode must set to Schedule and Recording schedule set to Always.

Chapter 5-2 Schedule

To modify the recording schedule, switch the recording type from Always (continuous recording), Alarm (record only when an alarm is triggered), or No Record (disable recording), and highlight the desired date and time accordingly. Click Apply All to apply your selection of recording type to all dates and time.

Chapter 5-3 Advanced

• System Recording Mode: Choose between Manual or Scheduled recording.

• Overwritten: Switch on to overwrite old files when the storage is full.
• Pre-alarm Record: Switch on to start recording for a period before an alarm occurs.
• Limited Recording: Set the number of days to record (from now to the designated day).
• Protected Recording: Set how many days of video the NVR will preserve.
• Estimate Recording Time: The estimate number of days that can be recorded based on the hard disk size
• Average Recording Bitrate: The average video stream size based on the current bandwidth received by the NVR.
• Average Recording Size: The available recording space according to the current installed hard disk.
• Average Recording Time: The estimate number of days that can be recorded based on the hard disk size.

Chapter 6 Alarm

Chapter 6-1 General

• Alarm Input Type: Set the alarm sensor to Normally Open (NO), Normally Closed (NC), or IP Camera. The last option will trigger the alarm only when receiving a signal from IP cameras.
• Motion Enable: Switch on/off motion detection. Remember also to set the motion detection area in the tab MOTION AREA.
• Motion Sensitivity: Adjust the sensitivity of motion detection. Higher sensitivity indicates that the alarm can be more easily triggered.
• Save Event Snapshot: Enable to store a snapshot on the hard drive when an alarm is triggered.
• Motion Popup: The display view pops up when the motion is triggered.
• Specify Alarm Text: The alarm text displays on the channel when the alarm is triggered
• Display View: Turn on/off the display view when the alarm is triggered.
• Display Type: Switching display view to camera/view when alarm is triggered.
• Alarm Popup: The display view pops up when the alarm input is triggered
• Metadata Popup: The display view pops up when the metadata event is triggered
• Display Content: Camera: Switch display to the selected channel. View: Switch display to the selected split view group.

Chapter 6-2 Motion Area

Click and drag across the grid to highlight motion detection areas. Click Apply All Channels to apply the areas to all camera channels.

Chapter 6-3 Output

Chapter 6-3-1 Buzzer

• Enable: Turn On to activate the buzzer.
• Trigger Conditions: See Channel Events and System Events above for more details.
• Alarm Send Interval: Set the frequency of buzzer beeping when an alarm is triggered.

Note: SYSTEM SETUP > GENERAL > Buzzer must be enabled.

Chapter 6-3-2 E-Mail

Channel Events | System Events | Schedule

30

(S—100 Seconds]

BUZZER

E-MAIL

FTP

NOTIFICATION

Trigger Conditions

Alarm Send Interval

• Enable: Turn On to activate e-mail sending.
• Trigger Conditions: See Channel Events and System Events above for more details.
• Alarm Send Interval: Set the frequency of sending alarm notification e-mail.

Chapter 6-3-3 FTP

BUZZER

E-MAIL

FTP

NOTIFICATION

Enable Off

Trigger Conditions

Alarm Send Interval 10

[5-1 CO Seconds]

Channel Events

Schedule

• Enable: Turn On to activate FTP sending.
• Trigger Conditions: See Channel Events and System Events above for more details.
• Alarm Send Interval: Set the frequency of sending image files to an FTP server when an alarm is triggered.

Chapter 6-3-4 Notification

• Enable: Turn On to activate app push notification sending.
• Trigger Conditions: See Channel Events above for more details.
• Alarm Send Interval: Set the frequency of sending the app push notification when an alarm is triggered.

Chapter 7 Display

Chapter 7-1 General

• HDMI Mode: Switch the output mode between DVI and HDMI.
• HDMI Resolution: Select a screen resolution that fits your screen.
• VGA Mode: Choose HDMI Sync to synchronize the videos for VGA and HDMI outputs. Choose SPOT to display an HDMI/VGA switch button in the real-time view. Click the switch button to switch control of split views between HDMI/VGA.
• VGA Resolution: Select a screen resolution that fits your screen
• OLED IP Address: Turn on/off IP address display on front panel OLED.
• Camera Name: Adjust the channel name OSD position on local live view display. Opposite field is to select channel name text color for on-screen display.
• Status Area: Adjust the status OSD position on local live view display. Opposite field is to select status text color for on-screen display.
• Date / Time: Enable or disable the date and time OSD from the local live view screen.
• View/SEQ Name: Turn on/off View/Sequence OSD on split screen view
• Alarm Text Color: Select alarm text color for on-screen display.
• Error Message: Turn on/off error message in live view.
• Split Border Line: Select borderline size/color on split screen view
• Startup Display: Specify video to display after the DVR startup is completed.

Chapter 7-2 Advanced

SEQUENCE

Split 1 Interval

Split 4 Interval

Split 6 Interval

In this page, you can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and hue of the NVR output. Click Load Default to restore to the factory settings.

Note: Availability depends on model.

Chapter 7-3 Sequence

5

(5 ~ 30 Seconds)

5

(5-30 Seconds)

5

(5 ~ 30 Seconds)

You are allowed to view videos of multiple cameras in sequence. Specify the Sequence Interval for the NVR to switch to the next camera or camera group for monitoring.

Chapter 8 PTZ

Chapter 8-1 General (For PTZ cameras only)

• Transfer Mode: Choose a PTZ communication protocol from HTTP, ONVIF, or Fish Eye. Otherwise use RS­485.
• RS-485 Protocol: Choose a RS-485 control protocol for your RS-485 PTZ device.

Note: Transfer Mode must be set to RS-485. Availability depends on models.

• Control ID: Choose the corresponding device ID to control the camera.
• Control Panel: The type of PTZ control panel.
• Baud Rate: The baud rate of RS-485 communication.

Chapter 8-2 NVR Cascade

This tab allows you to cascade multiple NVRs or adjust relevant settings. For detailed instructions on how to use the NVR cascade function, visit our official website. Enter Support > SDK, and download the document named DVR/NVR IR/keyboard serial commands over HTTP. The settings listed in this tab are described in details as follows:

• Show/Hide: Reveal or hide the password.

• Modify: Apply the changes you’ve made.
• Default: Restore to factory settings.
• Search: Find all other NVR(s) connected to your network.
• Export: Export the settings to the USB flash drive connected to the NVR.
• Import: Load the settings from the USB flash drive connected to the NVR.

Chapter 9 Metadata

Chapter 9-1 General

The NVR supports various external devices such as GPS or POS, and in this page you are allowed the change the settings for these devices. The setting options are described as follows:

• Serial Input: Select the USB port to which your external device is connected.
• Metadata Service: Turn On to enable using external devices.
• Serial Device Server: Enter the server IP for your serial device.
• Server Data Port: Enter the port of your serial device.
• Server Command Port: Enter the command port of the device.
• Emulated Mode: Choose an emulation type from the drop-down menu (see image below).

ESC/POS

ATM NIXDORF

POS BETTERSOFT

V1VIPOS

BJ SUBWAY LINE 1 INTERCOM

• Encoding Mode: Choose between ASCII and UTF-8.
• Baud Rate: Select an option suitable for your device.
• Data Size: Select an option suitable for your device.
• Parity: Select an option suitable for your device.
• Stop Bit: Select an option suitable for your device.
• Flow Control: Select an option suitable for your device.
• OSD Font Color: Choose a color for the OSD font from the spectrum (see image below).

Event Metadata: Enable/disable recording of events triggered by Metadata in the event log.

Chapter 9-2 Event

This tab displays a history of received metadata. You are allowed to search for events based on time, channel, or content.

Chapter 10 Other

Chapter 10-1 Smartphone

This tab provides settings for sending alarm notifications to your smartphone that is paired with the NVR. You can download Sentinel in App Store or Google Play for your iPhone, iPad, and other Android devices.

• Trigger Conditions: See Channel Events and System Events above for more details.
• Push Device List: Click Show to open a dialog, display all registered mobile devices that required push notification.

Sentinel App Download

iOS Android

1. Recorded Period: Recorded data duration ↑
2. USB Status: USB flash drive status detection, click for server to re-detect the USB device. ↑
3. Start Time Picker: Select start time to backup ↑
4. End Time Picker: Select end time to backup ↑
5. Backup Period: Selected backup duration ↑
6. Channel Number: Select channel number to backup ↑
7. Backup File Format: Select backup file format ↑
8. Estimate File Size: Estimate file size of selected period ↑
9. Backup: Click to start backup ↑
10. Cancel: Click to go back to previous page ↑

1. Overview of Product Functions

Describes the main features that users need to know when using the NVR.

Basic Features

• Support for network device access, including network cameras, IP domes and network video servers, as well as third-party network cameras.
• Support for the standard Onvif protocol.
• Each channel supports the preview of primary and secondary code streams.
• Each channel supports adjustable encoding parameters, including resolution, frame rate, code rate, image quality.
• Each channel supports regular functioning and alarming, custom 1, custom 2 and other intelligent video template parameters.
• Support for fast addition of IP channels.

Local Monitoring

• Support for VGA and HDMI displays.
• Support for multi-screen video preview.
• Support for the preview of up to 1/3/4/6/8/9/10/13/16/20A/20B/25/32/36/40/64 screens.
• Support for the preview of shortcut menu operations.
• Support for front-end intelligent analysis.
• Support for video motion detection, video loss detection, video occlusion detection and port alarm detection.
• Support for a variety of mainstream PTZ control protocols, and also setting and recalling of preset position, cruise path and trajectory.

Hard Disk File Management

• Support for hard disk SMART information display.
• Support for bad track detection.
• Support for setting of hard disk property: redundant, read-only, read-write and backup.
• Support for hard disk sleep.
• Support for hard disk pack quota, which can be divided into disk pack or different channels to allocate different video storage space.
• TC-R58(20/40/80) configuration: I/B/N _s TC-R38(40/80) configuration: I/B/N(/Z) and TC-R31680 configuration: E/B/N(/Z) series devices support disk array.

Video Recording and Playback

• The video trigger mode includes: timer and port alarm, motion detection alarm, detection or port alarm, detection and port alarm, video loss alarm, video occlusion alarm, intelligent analysis alarm and other alarm situations.
• Support for pre-recording and delay of linkage videos of all alarm types.
• Support for querying of video files by general conditions/events.
• Support for local redundant recording.
• Support for locking/unlocking of video files.
• Up to 4 video recording periods can be set a day, and the recording trigger mode in different periods can be set independently.
• Support for holiday plans.
• Support for querying of videos by channel number, video type, start and end time and file type.
• Support for several playback modes including regular playback, event playback, label playback, intelligent playback, video summary playback, time-phased playback, picture playback and external file playback.
• Support for video snapshot function. Different types of videos are distinguished with different colors.
• Support for pause, fast forward, slow, forward 30S, reverse 30S, step, step back, stop, one day before, one day after, as well as dragging your mouse for locating.
• Support for rolling your mouse wheel to zoom in and out the playback timeline.
• Support for digital zooming of any area.
• Support for video file playback function.
• Synchronous playback of up to 16 channels is possible for devices with 16 channels and above.

Data Backup

• Support for backup of videos, pictures and other data via USB devices.
• Support for bulk backup by file range and type.
• Support for playback, clipping and backup of videos.
• Support for fast backup by channel and time.
• Support for management and maintenance of backup devices.

Alarm and Abnormality Management

• Support for setting of the arming time of alarm inputs/outputs.
• Support for video loss, motion detection, video occlusion, port, intelligent analysis, detection or port, detection and port and other alarm detections. All the alarms can be linked to single-screen display, text plan, sound alert, email and alarm output, and can trigger the recording of any channel.
• Support for disk full, no disk, disk read/write error, illegal access, IP address conflict, MAC address conflict, no redundant disk available, network disconnection, abnormal hot standby, abnormal array, disk overloaded, abnormal recording, disk SMART abnormality, disk temperature abnormality and other abnormality detections. In addition, the POE equipment also supports the POE overload detection. Various exceptions can trigger screen prompt, sound alert, upload center, email alarm and port alarm.
• When the system runs abnormally, the software watchdog can restart.

Other Local Features

• Five-level user permission management allows an administrator to create more than one operation user and allocate them with proper permissions, which can be accurate to a certain channel.
• Complete logging and retrieval of operation, alarm, exception and information logs.
• Support for manual triggering and clearing of alarms.
• Support for import/export of device configuration information.

Network Features

• Support for TCP/IP protocol cluster, and also PPPoE, DHCP, DNS, DDNS, NTP, SADP, NFS, HTTPS and other protocols.
• Embedded WEB server.
• Support for unicast and multicast. For unicast, TCP, UDP, and RTP protocols are supported.
• Support for remote search, playback, download, locking and unlocking of video files.
• Support for remote fetching and configuration of parameters, as well as remote export and import of device parameters.
• Support for remote fetching of equipment running state, system log and alarm state.
• Support for system maintenance operations such as remote formatting, updating and rebooting of hard disk.
• Support for alarm port expansion through alarm host.
• Support for remote manual triggering and stopping of video recording.
• Support for remote manual triggering and stopping of alarm outputs.
• Support for remote PTZ control.
• Support for voice intercom or voice broadcast.

Development Support

• Provides SDK software development kits under Windows and Linux-based systems.
• Provides application software source code for demonstration.
• Provides development support and development training

services for application systems.

Notes:

• Product features list the main features available from our company’s NVR. Features depend on model specifications, intended purposes and configurations. The real product shall prevail.

1. Need-to-Know

Describe the parts and accessories that users must know before using NVR: front and rear panels, mouse, and how to operate the device through these parts and accessories.

• 1. Introduction to Front panel

Keys and indicator lights on the front panel are introduced.

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The front panel of PSE series NVR, TC-R14(20/40) configuration: I/B/N, TC-R54(20/40) configuration: I/B/N, TC-R3440 configuration: I/B/N,

TC-R5110 configuration: I/B/N, TC-R5220 configuration: I/B/N standard

series NVR is shown as below:

The functions of the front panel are shown in the following table:

The front panel of TC-R11(05/10/20) configuration: I/B/V2.0, TC-R31(05/10/20) configuration: I/B standard series NVR, TCR1120 configuration: I/B/V2.0 multimedia NVR is shown as below:

The functions of Status indicators on the front panel are shown in the

following table:

The front panel of TC-R58(20/40/80) configuration: I/B/N, TC-R38(40/80)

configuration: I/B/N, TC-R58(20/40/80) configuration: I/F,

TC-R38(20/40/80) configuration: I/F/N series NVR is shown as below:

The functions of Status indicators on the front panel are shown in the following table:

The front panel of TC-R516(40/80/160) configuration: E/B/N, TC-R31680

configuration: E/B/N series NVR is shown as below:

The functions of Status indicators on the front panel are shown in the following table:

• 1. Introduction to Rear Panel

The rear panel and interfaces of the equipment are introduced.

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R3105 configuration: I/B/P(/Z) series PSE NVR are shown as below:

Voice intercom input LAN Ethernet port

Alarm output

Power input

Earthing terminal

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R3210 configuration: I/B/P(/Z) series PSE NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R3220 configuration: I/B/P(/Z) series PSE NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R3220 configuration: I/B/P/H(/Z) series PSE NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R11(05/10/20) configuration: I/B

TC-R31(05/10/20) configuration: I/B(/Z) series NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R1230 configuration: I/B, TC-R12(10/20) configuration: I/B, TC-R32(10/20) configuration: I/B(/Z), TC-R5210 configuration: I/F, TC-R3210 configuration: I/F(/Z) series NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R3105 configuration: I/F(/Z) series

NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R14(20/40) configuration: I/B/N, TC-R54(20/40) configuration: I/B/N, TC-R3440 configuration: I/B/N(/Z) series NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-R58(20/40/80) configuration: I/B/N, TC-R38(40/80) configuration: I/B/N(/Z), TC-R58(20/40/80) configuration: I/F, TC-R38(20/40/80) configuration: I/F/N(/Z) series NVR are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TC-NR2x enhanced series NVR (80 channels, 160 channels, 16 disk position) are shown as below:

The interfaces on the rear panel of TCR1120 configuration: I/B/V2.0 multi-media NVR are shown as below:

Note:

• The schematic diagram illustrates the functions of interfaces on the front and rear panels only, and the specific chassis size shall be subject to the real product.

• 1. Instructions to Mouse Operations

After your mouse is connected to the USB interface, you can use your mouse to operate the device. For information about available operations, refer to the following table:

1. Installation and Connection
   1. Precautions for Installation

Wr Warning:

Improper battery replacement is at the risk of explosion. The replacement operation is not recommended for users. To replace the battery, use the battery of the same type or equivalent type.

NVR is a special monitoring device which shall be installed by paying attention to the followings:

• Do not place containers containing (such as water glasses) liquid on the NVR.
• Install the NVR in a well-ventilated location. Install multiple devices such that they are spaced greater than 2cm.
• Operate the NVR under allowable temperature (-10°C ~ +55°C) and humidity (10% ~ 90%). (The H.265 series NVR with RAID mode enabled operates under 0°C ~ +55°C; the H.265 series NVR E16 with redundancy mode enabled operates under +20°C ~ + 55 ^).
• Please remove the power cord to cut off the mains power before cleaning the device.
• Dust on the circuit board within the NVR, when dampened, may result in short circuit. Please regularly brush out dust on the circuit board, connectors, chassis and fan. If dirt is hard to be cleaned, use water-diluted neutral cleaner to remove it and then dry it.
• Do not use volatile solvents such as alcohol, benzene or diluent to clean the device, neither strong or abrasive cleaners, which may damage the surface coating.
• Please purchase monitoring-level SATA HDD from regular channels to ensure the quality and use requirements of the HDD. Seagate monitoring-level HDD is recommended.
• Please ensure that there is no danger due to uneven mechanical loads.
• Please make sure that the video cable and audio cable have enough space for installation, and the bending radius of the cable should not be less than 5 times the outer diameter of the cable.
• Please ensure that the NVR is reliably grounded.

Note:

• When you receive this product, please check against the ” packing list” in the packing box. In case of any damage or missing accessories, please contact your vendor immediately.
  1. . Installing HDD

Our NVR device is not supplied with hard disk. A hard disk needs to be configured and installed according to your recording plan. Disassembly of the chassis and installation of the hard disk must be completed by professionals.

• Notes:

• Please use the NVR dedicated monitoring-level hard disk recommended by the hard disk manufacturer.
• For the maximum number of hard disks installed on the device, refers to the instructions in the hard disk document.
• Make sure that the power supply is cut off before installation commences.
  • 1. Calculation Method of HDD Capacity

Calculate the total capacity required for a hard disk video recorder according to the requirements of video recording (video type, video storage time), as detailed in the Appendix of this Manual.

Example:

8192 Kbps

3600 M

16384 Kbps

7200 M

Note:

The data provided in the table above is for reference only. The estimation of “file size” in the table may deviate from the actual value, and any loss caused thereby shall be borne by the user.

• • 1. HDD Installation Procedure

Installation tools

A cross screwdriver.

Installation diagrams (1) :

1 Remove the screws on the rear and sides of the chassis and then

remove the top cover.

2_S Connect one end of the HDD data cable to the SATA interface of the NVR master board Up, and the other end to the HDD.

3_S Connect one end of the HDD power cable to the SATA interface of the NVR master board, and the other end to the HDD.

4_S Fix the HDD screws on the bottom of the NVR chassis, attach the top

cover of the chassis and fix it with screws.

Installation diagrams (2) :

1 Remove the screws on the back of the chassis, remove the top cover,

and fix the hard disk to the chassis HDD holder.

2_S Connect one end of the HDD data cable to the SATA interface of the

NVR master board, and the other end to the HDD.

3_S Connect the power cable to the hard disk, attach the top cover of the chassis and fix it with screws.

Installation diagrams (3): (installation of the front HDD) 1 Attach the HDD mounting screws and insert it into the HDD slot on

the front panel.

1. Local Configuration and Operation
   1. Switch ON/OFF
      1. Switch ON

Note:

• Make sure to use the power supply required by NVR before

startup, and ensure that the NVR is well grounded.

• Make sure the NVR video output is properly connected to the monitor before startup.
• Abnormal power supply will result in malfunctioning of NVR or even damage. It is recommended to use stabilized power supply for power supply.

1. Connect the power supply and turn on the power switch on the rear panel. The device starts with a “beep” sound.
2. NVR displays the following screen at startup:

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• * • •

4.1.2. Switch OFF

1. Select “Main Menu ->

” to enter the logoff interface, as shown in

the figure below.

Logout

Reboot

Shutdown

1. Users can click logoff to restart or shut down system.

Notes:

• Please do not cut off the power supply when the system is displaying “The system is shutting down…”
• Do not cut the power supply off when the device is running.
  1. Equipment Activation

After the device is started, the device can be configured with password and secret protection through device activation to ensure the normal login and password security of the device.

1. First, on the password setting interface, enter the password twice, and click Next to enter the next interface.

2_S On the graphic password setting interface, set an unlock pattern, and then automatically enter the password setting interface. ClickPrevious to return to the password setting interface, or click Skip not to set the graphic password.

3_S On the security question setting interface, set the mailbox and security question. You can skip this step directly into the boot wizard. The mailbox and security questions are used for password resetting.

• 1. Boot Wizard

After the device is started, the device can be simply configured through the boot wizard to ensure the normal operation of the device.

1. First, on the Setup Wizard interface, set the current language and resolution of output device. Click “Next” to enter the next interface.

1. On the Setup Wizard interface , select whether to run the boot wizard. Click “Yes” to enter the next interface, “No” to skip the boot wizard, or “Never” to close the boot wizard. In the third case, the boot wizard will be skipped at the next startup.

1. On the Authentication interface, a user shall log in as administrator

“admin” for authentication. Click “OK” to confirm the account. After

authentication is successful, the boot wizard appears. The device will be locked for 5 minutes if you input the wrong password for 5 consecutive times. Click Cancel to skip the boot wizard.

Permission Identification

Login as Administrator

ID

Password

Confirm

Cancel

Note:

• Administrator: admin, password: (boot password set in Section 4.2 Device Activation).

1. On the time and time zone setting interface, click “Apply” to set the time zone, time format and time; click “Next” to enter the next interface; and click “Exit” to exit the boot wizard.

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1. On the network setting interface, click “Back” to return to the previous interface; click “Next” to set network parameters and enter the next interface; and click “Exit” to exit the boot wizard.

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1. On the server searching interface, you can configure digital channels.

Click “Search” to search digital channels; click “Back” to return to the

previous interface; click “Next” to enter the next interface; and click “Exit” to exit the boot wizard.

IP Address

Modify IP

Activated

Protocol

Channel

MAC Address

Display

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“Next” to enter the next interface; and click “Exit” to exit the boot wizard.

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1. On the formatting disk interface, click “Initialize” to format the selected disk; click “Previous” to return to the previous interface; click

ote:

• The disk must be initialized before recording properly.

1. On the mobile monitoring interface, you can configure control devices on the mobile side. Click “Back” to return to the previous interface; click “Next” to enter the next interface; and click “Exit” to exit the boot wizard.

• Some device models use QQ for mobile monitoring. The real product shall prevail.

1. If there is still a hard disk in the system that has not been formatted, the following message as shown in the figure below will appear. Click “Execute” to automatically format the unformatted disks in the system one by one; and click “Back” to enter the preview screen directly.

Format Disk

Format disk will erase all the data, continue?

Cancel

Confirm

• 1. Cameras
     1. Adding Channels from the Shortcut Bar

Users can easily add an IP channel to the device with one click. If no channel is added, the preview status is shown as below.

1_X On the preview interface, click a channel to display the “+” sign, and the server search form appears, as shown in the figure below.

Note:

• A channel is added with default port, username and password; if not, you can choose “Custom Add”.

1. After the search is completed, double-click the search list or select the channel and click “Add” to complete the addition.
2. Users itself can also configure parameters to add digital channels. Click “Customized Adding” to display the “Customized Adding” form, as shown in the figure below.

1. Enter the IP address, port number, user name, password and other information of the front end.

Note:

• If it is the local channel of PSE-NVR and there is no connection, the add method of the PSE channel will automatically be changed to manual add after fast addition. The plug&play function is enabled by default for the POE port of the PSE series NVR. Please do not connect it to the LAN; otherwise, IP addressed of other devices in the LAN will be automatically modified.

4.4.2 Adding Digital Channels Using Regular Methods

1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Channels -> Basic Configuration” to

enter the channel configuration interface, as shown in the figure below.

Notes:

• This page displays different tabs for different device models.
• After addition is complete, you can check the results in the added device list.
• Click connect status O to directly preview the video of this channel.
• When the connection status displays an exclamation point, move

the mouse over the * icon to show the cause of the

connection failure.

1. Click “search” to begin searching. Search results are automatically sorted by IP address. You can modify the IP front end in the search results list. Click f to display the modify IP interface, as shown in the figure below.

1. Select the IP channel to add from the search list, click “Add” or double-click the mouse, and the IP device will be added to the idle

channel of NVR. You can add multiple IP channels. The channel search is shown as below.

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1. When adding an inactive IPC, an activation pop-up window will

appear as shown in the figure below. Check the “Synchronize

information retained for retrieving the password”, the retained

information will be synchronized to the front end and activated.

For the non-actlvated IPC, the NVR pas…

Sync password to get re…

• If the add method for PSE-NVR’s digital channel is plug and play,

then this channel is busy.

Customized Adding

1 On the Channel Config -> Basic Configuration interface, click

“Custom Add” to enter the digital channel interface; when device type

is private protocol, proceed as shown in the figure below.

2_S Select the channel number to add, check Enable, and select the connection mode according to the device type. When device type is RTSP, proceed as shown in the figure below.

When device type is ONVIF, proceed as shown in the figure below.

1. After entering the IP address or URL address and username and password of the front-end device, click “OK” to add a digital channel. Repeat this operation to add other digital channels.

Notes:

• If the device to add is a multi-channel NVR, you can select the channel number to add from “Channels”, and also can add multiple channels for one NVR at a time.
• Continue adding, batch adding, adding according to the add rule and target channel, and skipping the current channel if the

current channel is included in the target channel. If the IP address

is ascending, the last bit of IP, after 255, will not be incremented.

• When device type is ONVIF, the port number defaults to 80, and the username and password default to admin. The login account and password may vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, which needs to be modified according to the actual situations.

4.4.3 Adding POE Camera 1 On the Channel Config -> Basic Configuration interface, click f in

the added device list or double-click a PSE channel to enter the digital

channel interface.

2_S A PSE channel can be added by means of “Plug & Play” and “Manual Add”:

1. If “Manual Add” is selected, the device shall be connected to the network interconnected with IP channels. Other configuration methods are the same as adding ordinary digital channels.
2. If “Plug & Play” is selected, the front end to add shall be connected to the device’s independent POE-powered Ethernet port. The device will

complete the connection automatically.

• • 1. Quick Add

In order to allow users to quickly add devices, users can choose to enable the “Quick Add” function to add channels. In this mode, the device will be automatically searched and added to the digital channel.

^Notes:

• The “Quick Add” function will automatically search for IPC and add it to the idle channel. Please pay due attention when using it.
• The PSE device channel list cannot be removed manually.
  • 1. Configuration Management

Users can import and export all channel parameter configurations through configuration management.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras->Channels -> Config” to enter the configuration management interface. If a mobile storage device is connected, clicking Export can export all channel configuration parameters, which are saved as .xls format file. Users can manually edit exported parameters on the computer and use them as input parameters, as shown in the figure below.

1. Importing contents contained in the exported .xls file shall meet the following formats.

Wherein:

1. In “Enable “, 0: channel not enabled, 1: channel enabled;
2. In “Chn Type “, 0: main stream, 1: secondary stream, 2: picture stream;
3. In “Net Mode “, 1: TCP, 2: UDP, 3: multicast;
4. In “Connect Mode “, 0: IP, 1: domain name, 2: active mode;
5. In “Preview Mode “, 0: tiled on the display area, 1: wide-screen proportional display is maintained.
6. Exported .xls files can be edited with Office 2003 and above and imported into the device.
   • 1. IPC Central Management

The centralized management function of IPC allows users to import and export parameters of the added front-end devices, upgrade them remotely, and restart IPC.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Channels ->IPC Central

Management” to enter the IPC centralized management interface, as shown in the figure below.

• The interface can display the channel number, property, version

number and connection status of the added front-end device,and allow perform cloud upgrade, parameter import and export, remote upgrade, IPC restart and other operations.

1. Configuration Import/Export
2. Select the front end to operate from the added device list.

(2) Click “B”

to display the configuration import prompt box, as

shown in the figure below.

Configuration Import

Import parameters can lead to reboot of front terminal IPC, whether to continue?

Cancel

Confirm

(3) Click “ok” to enter the configuration import interface, as shown in the figure below.

(4) Select the configuration file and click “Import” to quickly import

the configuration into the front-end device.

(5) Export the front-end configuration parameters, and click

“B” to

display the configuration export interface, as shown in the figure below.

Configuration Export

Export to

File name

USB1-1

Export

Cancel

1. Select the storage device, fill in the name of the export file and click “Export” to export the front-end configuration. The prompt form pops up after export is successful, as shown in the figure below.

Export Successed

Config file exported.

Confirm

1. Remote Upgrade and IPC Restart
2. Select the channel to upgrade or restart from the added device

list.

(2) Click ”

” to display the IPC Upgrade interface, as shown in the

figure below.

IPC Upgrade

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Refresh

Upgrade

Back

(5) Click ”

(4) Click ”

1. Select the configuration file to upgrade, and click “Upgrade” to complete the IPC upgrade.

” to remotely restart the selected device.

” to display the Restore Defaults prompt box, as shown in the figure below.

(6) Clicking “OK” and selecting IPC will restore defaults and restart

IPC.

(7) Click “D”

to display the Cloud Upgrade prompt box, as shown in

the picture below.

1. Import Broadcast/Start Broadcast
2. Click Import Broadcast to display the IPC Upgrade interface, as

shown in the figure below.

1. Select the configuration file to upgrade, and click “Upgrade” to complete the IPC upgrade.
2. After the upgrade is completed, click the Start Broadcast button to the Start Broadcast prompt box, as shown in the figure below.

Start broadcasting

This operation will activate all the IPC alarm sound, continue or not?

Cancel

Confirm

1. Click OK, and all IPCs will begin to play the imported audio.
   • 1. POE Power Information

This function is available in the PSE series NVRs while unavailable in other models.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Channels ->POE Power Infomation” to enter the POE power information display interface, as shown in the figure below.

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Stream Setting

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Video Setting

OSD

Motion

Mask Alarm

Alarm Input

Video Loss

PTZ Setting

Basic Configuration Config IPC Central Management POE power information

Instruction: check the check box of corresponding channel to use long-distance network cable, while uncheck it to use short-distanc…

Notice:

1. Device POE rated power is200.0W.
2. Each POE port power range:0~30W.
3. When actual power exceed rated power, system will close POE port by port number by descending, till the actual power go lower than rated power.

Note:

” /!” means that the POE port is normally powered, and ” ■ ” means that the port is not connected to a camera or powered normally.

• Above the “?” port is the real time power information of the POE port.

Please refer to the interface for POE power notes.

• • 1. Code Setting

Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Stream Setting” to enter the code setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

Audio/Video Parameter

Select the channel to set and set audio and video parameters:

• Channel: select the channel where you want to set parameters. There are four types of video compression parameters: main stream (normal), main stream (alarm), custom 1, and custom 2.
• Encoding: The system supports H.264 and H.265 encoding, and high profile, main profile and baseline encoding methods are available.
• S+: S+ will display and distinguish the main and secondary streams according to whether it is supported by the front end. After S+ is turned on, compression mode, video quality, I frame rate and key areas will not be available. Some front ends also support mutual exclusion of S+ and intelligent analysis. When S+ is turned on, the intelligent analysis will be turned off.
• Resolution: Sets the resolution of the front-end device.
• Corridor Mode: Enables the corridor mode when resolution is 16:9 (for example, 1080P). When corridor mode is enabled, the resolution of the video is adjusted to 9:16.
• FrameRate: Video frame rate refers to the number of video frames per second that can be selected or edited from a drop-down list.
• BitRate Type: variable bitrate and fixed bitrate. The variable bitrate will change according to the scenario, and the fixed bitrate will be coded according to the set bitrate as far as possible.
• BitRate: Can be selected or edited from the drop-down box, range: 32-16384Kbps.
• Stream type: The composite type provides two options: “Pure Video” and “Audio Video”. “Audio Video” means containing video and audio information, while “Pure Video” contains only video information.
• Click “More” to display the image quality, I frame rate, audio encoding, audio control type, and input volume setting options.
• Quality: 5 options including best, better, good, average, poor. Image quality is proportional to the bitrate. The better the image quality is, the higher the bitrate is.
• I-Frame Interval: I frame, also known as key frame, One I frame is contained in several video frames. If I frame rate is 100, there is one I frame in every 100 frames of video. I frame rate inversely proportional to the bitrate. The higher the I frame rate is, the smaller the bit rate is. It is recommended that the I frame rate be the same as frame rate.
• Audio: The system provides 3 audio encoding modes: ADPCM_D(ADPCM_DIV4), G.711A and G.711U. Three audio sampling rates of 8K, 32K and 48K are also provided.
• Audio Type: Audio control type used by the front end: Lineln and MicIn.
• Input volume: The input volume of the corresponding channel, ranging from 0 to 100.
• Audio output type: Laser-enabled devices also support the selection of audio output type, including built-in speaker, external audio source and off. When a built-in speaker is selected, you can adjust the output volume.
• The secondary stream can be set separately. For setting methods, refer to the main stream.

Notes:

• When bitrate type is selected as “fixed bitrate”, the image quality is unavailable.
• Secondary stream parameters are used for network transmission. When the network environment is not very good, users can use the secondary stream for preview and storage to reduce the bandwidth. In addition, the secondary stream is also suitable for mobile monitoring.
• For corridor mode, this should be supported by the front-end IPC.
• Coding parameter templates vary with different front-end IPCs.
• Click the More button to display or hide the setting options under the button.

ROI

The focus area can be set here after a front-end that supports it is connected. The image displayed in the focus area is of higher quality.

1. Select the property page of the focus area, as shown in the figure

below.

1. Check “Area Setting” to enable this function. Press and hold the left mouse button and drag over the video to set the focus area. Up to four focus areas are supported. Click “Delete Area” to delete all the focus areas that have been set.
2. Click “Apply” to save the settings.

4.4.9 Video Setting

In order to obtain a good visual effect, users can adjust video parameters of the front-end according to the scenario, and the adjusted parameters will apply to local preview, video recording, network preview, etc.

Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Video Setting” to enter the HD parameters interface, as shown in the figure below.

HD parameters

1. Select the channel to set.
2. Set system, video rotation, mode and other parameters.

Notes:

• Brightness, contrast, saturation and chroma can be adjusted between 0-100.
• The shutter speed is adjustable between 1/100000 – 1. The higher the set value is, the faster the response is.
• Auto gain is adjustable between 0 and 100.
• Ultra-wide tendency policy has three options: Off, Auto and Manual. The ultra wide tendency rating is displayed when the Ultra wide tendency policy is not turned off, and the value is adjustable between 0 and 100.
• Image enhancement includes image style, indoor and outdoor modes, digital noise reduction and noise reduction level. Image style includes adaptive, natural, bright, soft and sharp; Indoor and outdoor modes include indoor and outdoor; Digital noise reduction has three options: Off, Normal and Expert. When the normal mode is selected, the noise reduction level option is displayed, and the value is adjustable from 0 to 100. When the expert mode is selected, there will be the space-domain noise reduction level and the time-domain noise reduction level options, and the value is adjustable from 0 to 100.
• White balance has options including automatic, semi-automatic, sunny day, fluorescent lamp, warm light, incandescent lamp, natural light, lock and manual. Manual and semi-automatic can be the value between 0 and 50.
• The Copy to Channel function can be used to copy the set parameters.
• Use the mouse wheel to adjust video input parameters, or you and Q icons to increase or decrease the value.

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1. After setting, click “apply” to save setting parameters.
2. Restore Defaults is to allow the camera directly to restore the defaults of all parameters on this page.

High-definition template

1. Select the channel for the HD template you want to set.
2. HD templates are divided into indoor, outdoor, sports, wide

tendency, low light, high light, bright, custom, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Select the channel where you want to set Color to Black.
2. Color to Black types are divided into color, black and white, timer, inter-sync, exter-sync, day and night and adaptive.
3. Timer is shown in the figure below.

Notes:

• Daylight hours and dark hours can be set to a time range of 00:00-23:59, and the dark hours must be later than dawn time.
• The Color to Black mode depends on the front end.

4_X Exter-sync is shown in the figure below.

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• Daytime and night brightness values can be adjusted from 0 to

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• The Color to Black delay and Black to Color delay can be adjusted

between 0 and 120s.

5_X Inter-sync is shown in the figure below.

Notes:

• Daytime and night brightness values can be adjusted from 0 to

100, or you can click the s or Q icon to increase or decrease

the value.

• The Color to Black delay and Black to Color delay can be adjusted

between 0 and 120s.

6_X The day and night mode is shown in the figure below.

Notes:

• The day and night mode includes automatic, daytime and nighttime.
• The sensitivity is divided into high, medium and low.

7. The adaptive mode is shown in the figure below

Note:

• Day/night brightness values can be adjusted from 1 to 100.
• The effective delay time for Color to Black/Black to Color is 0-120 seconds.

4.4.10. OSD

1. Select “Main Menu ->Cameras ->OSD ” to enter the OSD overlay parameter setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

OSD Overlay

1. Select the channel to be set OSD.
2. Set OSD for the channel.

To change the OSD position of the channel, check the custom position, and directly drag the mouse OSD box to set it.

Notes:

• OSD overlay includes channel name, date, week day, 12-hour system, date format, time format, OSD color, background color, etc.

Video Occlusion

The video occlusion function can occlude some key areas on the video.

1. Select the channel to set video occlusion.

2. Drag the mouse to set the video occlusion area.

PTZ Privacy Mask

1. Select the channel to set dynamic privacy occlusion.

1. Control the PTZ via the shortcut PTZ control panel to switch to the screen you want to occlude.
2. Drag the mouse to set the video occlusion area and click “Add Area”.
3. The added area is shown in the list on the right. Click “Delete Area” to delete areas.

NO Note:

• This section applies to a front-end IPC that supports this

functionality.

4.4.11 Motion 1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras-> Motion” to enter the motion

detection setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

2. Select the channel to set motion detection.

1. Set the motion detection arming time, detection area and sensitivity, as follows:
2. Check “Enable”.
3. Enter the “Deployment Time” to set the motion detection arming time.
4. Draw the area to be detected on the video of the channel with the mouse.
5. Adjust the sensitivity on the sensitivity slider. The higher the sensitivity value is, the more sensitive the motion detection is.
6. Enter the “Linkage Setting” to set the motion detection and alarm linkage.
7. Alarm linkage voice prompt, screen display, sending email, linkage video, linkage output, linkage snapshot, linkage text preplan, linkage single screen and linkage double light are available for setting.
8. After setting, parameters of other channels can be copied.

5_S Click “Apply” to save the settings parameters.

J Note:

• Double lights can be linked after front end devices supporting

double lights are connected.

• • 1. . Mask Alarm

1 Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Mask Alarm” to enter the occlusion

alarm interface, as shown in the figure below.

2_X Select the channel to set video occlusion.

3_X Check “Handle Video Occlusion” to process the occlusion alarm.

4_X Select “Linkage Setting”. When an alarm occurs, you can link voice prompt, screen display, sending email, linkage video, linkage output, linkage snapshot, linkage text preplan, and linkage single screen, etc.

5_X After setting, you can copy the parameters from other channels. Click “Apply” to save the set parameters.

• • 1. Alarm Input

By setting alarm inputs, when input alarm occurs in the front-end IPC, the NVR device can be linked to provide prompt, video, etc.

1. Select “Main Menu ->Cameras -> Alarm Input” to enter the alarm input setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Select the input port number to set.
2. Select Annunciator Type.

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• Normally-open alarm: active when the alarm input port for the

front-end IPC is closed.

• Normally-closed alarm: active when the alarm input port for the front-end IPC is open.

1. Check “Handle Alarm Input” to set the arming time of alarm input.
2. Enter “Linkage Setting” to set alarm linkage.
3. Options include alarm linkage voice prompt, screen display, sending email, linkage video, linkage output, linkage snapshot, linkage PTZ, linkage text preplan, linkage single screen, etc.
4. After setting, parameters of other channels can be copied.
5. Click “Apply” to save the settings.
   • 1. Video Loss

Set the video loss alarm. When video loss occurs in a channel, it is linked to the NVR device for prompt, recording, etc.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Video Loss” to enter the video loss setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Select the channel to set video loss.
2. Check “Handle Video Loss” and set the arming time for video loss.
3. Enter “Linkage Setting” to set alarm linkage.
4. Options include alarm linkage voice prompt, screen display, sending email, linkage video, linkage output, linkage snapshot, linkage PTZ, linkage text preplan, linkage single screen, etc.
5. After setting, parameters of other channels can be copied.
6. Click “Apply” to save the settings.
   • 1. PTZ Setting

Set the PTZ control protocol and serial port property for a channel.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> PTZ Setting” to enter the PTZ

setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

1. Select the channel to set.
2. Select the PTZ control protocol, address and serial port of the channel. Once the setup is complete, parameters of other channels can be copied.
3. Click “Apply” to save the settings.

NO Note:

• Users can customize the serial port properties to set the baud rate, data bit, stop bit and check bit of the serial port, and choose to copy these set parameters to other channels after setting.

• • 1. Three Smarts Setting

For the three smarts camera, the intelligent three smarts setting can be used to carry out motion detection.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Cameras -> Three Smarts Setting” to enter the basic setting page, as shown in the figure below.

1. Select the channel to set motion detection to set the sensitivity, and select to enable intelligent coding, intelligent image and intelligent alarm. Click the Apply button.
2. Set the motion detection area, as shown in the figure below.

1. Set the arming time as shown in the figure below.

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1. Enter the “Linkage Setting” to set the motion detection alarm linkage,

as shown in the figure below.

1. Options include alarm linkage voice prompt, screen display, sending email, linkage video, linkage output, linkage snapshot, linkage text preplan, linkage single screen, etc.
2. After setting, parameters of other channels can be copied.
3. Click “Apply” to save the settings.

4.5 Preview

• • 1. Interface Status

On the preview interface, the video recording and alarm status of each channel can be distinguished by the icon on the upper right of each channel. For description of preview status, please refer to the table below.

4.5.2 Task Bar Menu

In preview state, the task bar allows for preview screen switch, preview setting, output mode, alarm clearing, alarm information viewing, network setting, mobile monitoring, time setting and other operations, as shown in the figure below.

Taskbar diagram of main port

Taskbar diagram of auxiliary port

Descriptions of main port taskbar items

Notes:

• To use the “Custom Preview” action, set the “Custom Preview” configuration in the Preview Setting.
• To use “Start Switching”, set “Cruise Interval” in the Preview Setting.
• Android and IOS clients are available for mobile monitoring, and the status of public network connection can be checked.
• TC-NR1016M7-S8, TC-NR1032M7-S8, TC-NR20xxM7-S8,

TC-NR20xxM7-E8, and TC-NR20xxM7-E16 are set with main and auxiliary ports, while other models have no auxiliary ports.

Description of auxiliary port right-click menu item

Custom Preview

Users arrange some specific channels according to the specific number of screens on the same screen as needed. When you select a configuration from the “Custom Preview” popup menu, the preview becomes this display screen.

Single Screen

Switches the current screen to a specified channel. Select a channel in the “Single Screen” pop-up menu, that is, selecting the channel for preview.

Multi-screen

Modify the display mode of the output device. The system supports 1/3/4/6/8/9/10/13/16/20A/20B/25/32/36/40/64 screen preview. If the multi-screen preview is selected, the preview is done according to this number of screens.

J Note:

• For TC-NR20-S series and TC-NR20-E series NVRs, except for 20-channel devices, VGA1/HDMI1 supports up to 64 screens and VGA2/HDMI2 supports up to 32 screens. The maximum number of supported screen is subject to the specific model.

Page UP/Down

Click the “Previous ” button on the taskbar to switch to the previous screen, and click the “Next” button to switch to the next screen.

Start/Stop Switching

After calling out the taskbar on the main port/auxiliary port, select “Start Switching”, and the main port/auxiliary port will start switching according to the set cruise sequence; Select “Stop Switching” to stop switching.

4.5.3 Shortcut Preview

1. In preview state, select the channel to operate by using the left mouse button. The shortcut bar is shown below the red box, as shown in the figure below.

1. The shortcut menu can be used for PTZ control, instant playback,

manual snapshot, digital zoom, intercom and channel information

Instant Playback

Playback videos within 5 minutes of the channel. If there is no video available in the channel, the “Instant Playback Failed” message will be display.

Digital zoom

1_S Click to enter the digital zoom interface, as shown in the figure

below.

Original video:

Screenshot of the digital zoom effect:

2_S Scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in or out. The zoom-in or -out area is centered around the current position of the mouse.

3_S You can also click “+” in the upper left corner of the screen to zoom in and “-” to zoom out. Zoom-in and -out are done around the center of

the current screen.

4_S When zooming in, the left mouse button can still drag and drop the image to change the zooming area.

1. Click the right mouse button to exit digital zoom.

Note:

• Depending on the processing capacity of the equipment, the

maximum magnification time is 8 times or 16 times.

High Flow/Low Delay:

When High Flow is selected, the NVR devices will ensure fluency based on network traffic. When the Low Delay mode is selected, the video delay is reduced.

• • 1. Preview Parameter Setting

1. Enter “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Preview Setting”, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Description of the Preview Setting -> Basic Configuration interface:

• Output device: select a video output device from the “output device” drop-down list: HDMI2/BNC, VGA/HDMI, VC (VC is shown here when the last channel is set as the virtual composite channel).
• Output resolution: 800*600, 1024*768, 1366*768, 1440*900, 1280*800, 1280*720, 1920*1080, 2560*1440, 2560*1600,

3840*2160, etc. The list items may vary with devices.

• Automatic detection: Adaptive to the best resolution of the monitor.
• Cruise interval: Sets the preview automatic switching time interval. Options include no cruise, 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s, 15s, 30s and 60s.
• Preview mode: set screen number configuration, including 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 12 A, 12 B, 25, 32, 36, 40, 64, etc. The list items may vary with devices.
• Main port setting: This setting is available in TC-NR1016M7-S8, TC-NR1032M7-S8, TC-NR20xxM7-S8, TC-NR20xxM7-E8, and TC-NR20xxM7-E16, while unavailable in other specifications.
• Output mode: Sets VGA output display effect. Options include standard, soft, bright, and highlight.
• Alarm screen switching interval: Sets the time interval of alarm linkage single screen display. Options include 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s and 15s.
• Keep the last frame: With this option configured, the preview will stay on the last frame after the front camera is disconnected. Otherwise, “No Video” is displayed.

1. Description of the Preview Setting -> View Configuration interface

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Customized Preview

Select the screen number on the right, double-click the screen to delete the preview channel, and double-click the channel number in the table on the left to configure the channel number to the specified location. To open or close all preview channels, click Auto Configure and Clear All on the lower right.

Notes:

• The standard series NVRs (16-channel 8-disk position, 32-channel 8- disk position) have two kinds of output devices: HDMI2/BNC and VGA/HDMI1.
• The TC-NR20-S series and TC-NR20-E series NVRs (TC-NR20xxM7-S8, TC-NR20xxM7-E8, TC-NR20xxM7-E16) have two kinds of output devices: VGA1/HDMI1 and VGA2/HDMI2.
• The multimedia NVR series (20-channels 1-disk position) have one kind of output device: HDMI/VGA.
• When the maximum preview performance is switched from the main stream to the secondary stream, as the secondary stream is non-composite audio by default, there may be no sound in the UI preview. Due to the limitation of device performance, when the access stream reaches the upper limit of device performance, it cannot continue to connect to other streams.

1. Description of the Preview Setting -> Customized Preview interface

The left and middle sides of the interface are used the same way as the view configuration interface. When the channel is configured, click the arrow between middle and right to add the configuration to the preview template. The maximum number of supported templates is 8. After configuration is completed, click “Apply” in the lower right corner to make it effective. Selecting the preview template can change the channel and screen number configuration. Double-click can change the template name. Preplan application is used in the right-click menu of preview screen.

• • 1. Preview Interface Message

Limited Decoding Performance

When the decoding performance of the device reaches the upper limit, the device will display the message as below: “Decodingperformance reaches the upper limit, please manually disable part of channels”. You can configure whether to enable the message. For details, see the System Settings -> General Settings. It is not enabled by default.

System Exception Message:

When the options in System Settings -> Route Maintenance ->

Network Exception/Storage Exception are enabled and related exception

events occur, the

icon in the upper right corner of the screen will

become the

icon. Double-click on the icon will open the system

notification interface, as shown in the figure below.

Alarm Information

Abnormal alarm

Time Title Type Content

• Users can choose not to display the message, or click “Next” to

check the next message.

When an anomaly alarm regarding the risk of video loss occurs, a red warning form will appear to alert the user to deal with the abnormal alarm in time, as shown in the figure below.

Abnormal notice

[03-17 11:50:05]No valid disk.

Please handle it timely. Otherwise there is a risk of losing the videotape.

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Alarm Message:

In intelligent analysis, when linkage call is set for the channel and

when an alarm occurs, a single screen of the corresponding

channel appears, and the

icon flashes in the upper right

corner of the screen. Clicking the icon can open the calling, and at

this point, the icon becomes

. Clicking the right mouse

button can exit the alarm.

• • 1. Audio Preview and Intercom

Audio Preview

After selecting a video channel with mouse or remote control, the system will automatically play the audio of that channel.

Voice Intercom

Users can use the voice intercom interface of the device to realize the intercom function between the remote control end and the device. Please connect the pickup and speaker before intercommunication.

• • 1. Right Back to Preview Interface

On the parameter configuration interface, right-click to return directly back to the preview interface.

4.6 PTZ control

• • 1. PTZ Parameter Setting

Notes:

• Before controlling the dome camera or PTZ of the IP channel, please first confirm that the network is normally connected between PTZ decoder and NVR, and configure the parameters of the PTZ decoder in the device.
• For parameter setting of front-end IPC serial port, see section 4.3.15.
• For parameter setting of NVR local serial port, see System Settings.
  • 1. PTZ Control

1. In login state, enter the preview state. Use your mouse to click the channel preview screen that requires PTZ control. Click the “PTZ” button in the preview shortcut menu bar to enter the full-screen screen of the channel, and the PTZ control form appears, as shown in the figure below.

1. Select the channel for PTZ control.
2. Description of PTZ control:
3. PTZ control: Use your mouse to click the DQOU button to control up, down, left and right actions of the PTZ; use your mouse to click the □□□□ button to control the tilt actions of the PTZ; click the s button to start or stop the automatic pan operation of the PTZ.

2) Lens control: click the

button on the left of the “Aperture” to

turn off lens aperture; click the

button on the right to turn

on aperture; click the

button on the left of the “Focus” to

zoom.

enable far focus; click the

button on the right to enable

close focus; click the

button on the left of the “Zoom” to

reduce zoom; and click the

button on the right to increase

1. Speed setting: click the progress bar to select a value or scroll the mouse wheel to change a value, or click the or icon to increase or decrease the value. The higher the value is, the action speed of the PTZ is greater. The value is L2 by default.
2. Click the B icon to set the one-key focus function, click the

icon to enter the 3D positioning function interface, and click the icon to set ON and OFF of the front-end laser.

icons to expand and hide the control menu on

5). Click 0 and H

the right, as shown in the figure below.

6 ) Drag the km icon to drag the PTZ control form.

icon to zoom out the PTZ control form. In PTZ

7 ) Click the

zoom-out state, click the

icon to return to the PTZ control

form. In PTZ zoom-out state, press and hold the left mouse button to control the PTZ direction of the dome camera according to mouse movement direction.

1. 6.3 Preset Position, Cruise, Trajectory Settings and Recalling

Preset Position Setting and Recalling

1 Recall preset position: Selects a preset position number from the “Preset Position” drop-down list, or enter the preset position number directly and click the “Recall” button to recall the selected preset position.

2_S Set preset position: after controlling the PTZ to act to a specific position, select the preset position number from the preset position drop down list or directly input the preset position number, and click “Set” button to complete setting the preset position of this position number.

Trajectory Recording and Demonstration

When you click the “Start Trajectory” button, the button message changes to “End Trajectory”, and the system enters the trajectory recording state. At this point, the system will automatically record all operations on the PTZ before users click the “End Trajectory” button. After pressing the ” End Trajectory” button, the trajectory recording is completed and the system will automatically exit the trajectory recording state. Users can click the “Demo Trajectory” button to demonstrate the trajectory just recorded.

Cruise Path Setting

1. Click the “Cruise Path” button to enter the cruise path setting interface,

as shown in the figure below.

1. Cruise path setting are described as follows:
2. View cruise path information

Select a cruise path number from the “Path Number” drop-down list. After selecting a cruise point, the system automatically displays the preset position corresponding to the cruise point and the

duration of stay in the preset position.

1. Edit cruise path

Select the path number you want to edit from the “Path Number” drop-down list. If the path is disabled at this point, press the “Enable” button to enable the cruise path. Select the preset position number from the “Preset Position” drop-down list, and press “Add” after entering the time, the preset position will be added to the cruise point list of the cruise path. After selecting a cruise point from the cruise point list, click the “Delete” button to remove the cruise point from the cruise point list of the cruise path.

After a cruise point is selected, select a preset position from the preset position dropdown list, and click the “Set” button after the time is entered to modify the configuration information of the selected cruise point.

1. Enable/disable cruise path

Select a cruise path number from the “Path Number” list to enable or disable the path.

1. Recall/stop cruise path:

Click the “Recall” button to cruise according to the set path. Click “Stop” to stop the current path cruise.

1. Exit the cruise path setting interface

Click the “OK” button to save all the path editing operations on the cruise path setting interface into the system, and then exit the path setting interface. When pressing the “Cancel” button, the system will automatically ignore all editing operations and exit the path setting interface.

1. 3D positioning

Users can select any area on the video screen with the mouse, and the system will automatically control the action of the PTZ lens to realize the zoom-in/out function of the display scene (drawing a rectangle from left to right for zooming in from and right to left for zooming out).

4.6.4 USB Keyboard Controlled PTZ

1. In preview mode, select the channel for PTZ control by using [t] [I] keys and press P. At this time, the system will display the selected channel on a single screen. The upper right corner of the screen displays “PTZ ChnXX” to alert users that the system is in the PTZ control state of the XX channel.
2. Controlling PTZ Actions

• PTZ control: In the PTZ control mode, press [t][l][^][^] keys to control the PTZ up, down, left and right; Press the “Enter” button, the PTZ starts automatic pan action and press the “Enter” button again, the PTZ stops automatic pan action.
• Lens control: In the PTZ control mode, press I or G to turn on the lens aperture; press Ctrl+I or Ctrl+G to turn off the lens aperture; press Z or B to zoom in; press Ctrl+Z or Ctrl+B to zoom out. Press F or J to enable far focus; and press Ctrl+F or Ctrl+J to enable close focus.
• Recall preset position: In PTZ control mode, press the [Backspace] key, and then [Number] key, and then [Enter] key, the system will recall the corresponding preset position.
• Speed setting: In PTZ control mode, press the numeric keys [1] – [4] to set the speed of the PTZ.
• Exit the PTZ control mode: Click [ESC] in the PTZ control mode to return to the preview mode.

4.7 Storage Setting

• • 1. Recording

Basic

1. Select “Main Menu -> Storage Setting -> Recording -> Basic ” to enter the recording interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Select the channel to set.
2. Select whether to “Audio Recording”, whether to enable “Redundant “, and whether to enable “I-frame Record”.

• When “Audio Recording” is not checked, only video data is saved in the video file.
• When there are redundant disks in the system and the “Redundant” function is enabled on the selected channel, recordings and captured image files will be saved in both the recording disk and redundant disk.
• If “I-frame Record” is enabled, the system will posterize video files, which can greatly save the hard disk space for the videos of non-key areas.

1. Select video type. Options include “Schedule”, “Port Alarm”, “Motion”, “Video Loss”, “Video Mask”, “Motion/Port”, “Motion&Port”. You can check “Cancel” to delete the set video types.
2. Press and hold the left mouse button and drag over the time zone, and the selected time zone will be updated as the specified video type.
3. Set the pre-recording and delay time of alarm videos.

• PreRecord: Assuming that the pre-recording time set by the user is 5s, the system will automatically save the video information to the video file 5s before alarming.
• PostRecord: The delay time of video is applied to the alarm video. Assuming that the delay time set by the user is 5s, the system will automatically save the video information to the video file 5s after alarming ends.
• The combination of prerecord and postrecord: can facilitate the user to analyze the monitoring information before and after the occurrence of alarms.

1. Dwell : Set the maximum retention time of videos in days. 0 means no restriction, and the maximum retention time of videos is 120.
2. StreamType : Set the stream type of videos, including MainStream and SubStream. Some models also support dual stream recording.
3. Click “Apply” to save the configurations.

Advanced

1. Select “Main Menu -> Storage Setting ->Recording -> Advanced” to enter the video template advanced setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

1. Select the channel to set.
2. Set whether to enable the ANR function of front-end IPC. If enabled, IPC will automatically start the local recording when the IPC is disconnected, and automatically upload the locally saved videos to the NVR when the IPC gets online again.
3. Select the pre-recording time from the “PreRecord” drop-down list.
4. Select the video delay time from the “PostRecord” drop-down list.
5. Set the time period and the video type within the time period. Click the “Time” option box to make it selected. Enter the start and end time of the time period into the time period input box. Select a video type from the “Record Type” drop-down list. Different video types can be specified for different time periods.
6. Copy the parameters of the current template to the channel and date.
7. Click “Apply” to save the configurations.

Holiday Plan:

You can configure holiday video plan of the year. When holiday plan is enabled, the video plan will be implemented first during holiday time.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Storage Setting -> Recording -> Holiday Plan” to enter the “Holiday Plan” interface, as shown in the figure below.

1. Click a holiday in the selected list, and click “Edit” or double click the

left mouse button to enter the “Holiday Setting” interface.

1. Check “Enable Holiday Plan” and choose the setting mode of the holiday “per Date”, “per Month” or “per Week”. Enter the start date and end date of the holiday. Click “OK” to save the configurations.
2. After enabling the holiday plan, you can select the holiday from the “Date” in “Advanced ” and set the corresponding video template for the holiday. Videos will be recorded according to this template for all enabled holiday plans.

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• All configurations by week take Sunday as the first day of the weekday, unless otherwise specified.

• • 1. Parameter

1. Select “Main Menu -> Storage Setting -> Parameter” to enter the video policy setting interface, as shown in the figure

below.

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1. Select the processing method of the system when the disk space is insufficient, such as “Overwrite Files”, “Delete Non-alarm Record” or “Stop Recording”.
2. Click “Apply” to save the configurations.
   • 1. Diskgroup Allocation
3. Select “Main Menu -> Storage Setting -> Diskgroup Allocation” to enter the disk pack configuration interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Set disk group or quota.

Disk Group: Divides hard disks mounted on the NVR multiple disk packs. You can specify the disk pack where the video files are located for each channel.

Quota: Specifies the maximum disk space a channel’s video files can use. Different channels can be configured with different video space.

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• Mode switching can come into effect only after the device is restarted.

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1. Set the disk group.
2. Select “Disk Group” under “Mode Selection”.

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1. Select disk group. There are disk groups 1 – 8 to choose from the drop-down box.
2. Select disks for a disk group. Sets which disks belong to the disk pack. Check “All Disks” to select all available disks. A disk cannot be assigned to more than one disk pack at the same time.
3. Select a channel for a disk group. Select which channels to record in the pack.
4. Click the “Apply” button to save the settings.

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1. The storage bitrate of a single disk pack can be up to 100Mbps; otherwise there is a risk of video loss.
2. When ESATA is a non-backup disk, it appears in the All Disks box.
3. There are 20 channels in one disk pack for NVR by default. The rest can be done in the same manner.
4. Quota Configuration
5. Select “Quota” under “Mode Selection”.

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1. Select the channel to set. Select the channel where you want to set the quota from the “Channel” drop-down box.
2. Set the video quota. Sets the maximum storage space that video files of the channel occupy, in GB. 0 indicates unlimited.
3. Set the image quota. Sets the maximum storage space for the image files of the channel, in GB. 0 indicates unlimited.
4. Save the settings. Click the “Apply” button to save your settings.
5. Quota mode is not recommended for devices with over 40

channels.

• • 1. Images Setting

1. Select “Main Menu -> Storage Setting -> Image Setting” to enter the snapshot setting interface, as shown in the figure below.

1. Select the target channel number for the snapshot setting

operation.

1. Set snapshot type: “Snapshot” and “Alert Snapshot”. When “Alert Snapshot” is selected for snapshot type, the snapshot setting interface is shown in the figure below.

1. Set snapshot mode: “Single Picture” and “Multiple Pictures”.
2. Set the time interval of snapshot, in seconds.
3. Choose whether to upload captured pictures via FTP. Click the “Upload To FTP” button to enter the FTP setting interface. For details about FTP settings, refer to the corresponding section.
4. Choose whether to upload the captured pictures via SNMP. Click the “Upload To Email” button to enter the Email setting interface. For details about settings, refer to the corresponding section. On this interface, Email Setting is unavailable for alarm snapshot.
5. The snapshot setting parameters of the current channel can be copied to the specified channel.
6. Click “Apply” to save the configurations.

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• The system can snapshot at most 2000 pictures per channel within 24 hours. The snapshot count will be cleared after the system is restarted.

• • 1. Reindex

When HDD exception or video loss occurs, lost videos can be retrieved to the maximum extent by rebuilding the index.

1. Select “Main Menu -> Storage Setting -> Reindex” to enter the “Reindex” interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Click the “Continue” button to start the rebuild operation.
2. When rebuilding the index, users can exit the interface for other operations.

4.8 Playback

• • 1. Instant Playback

On the preview screen, play back the video file of the selected channel within 5 minutes.

In preview state, select the channel to played back by using the left

mouse button, and click the

button on the shortcut menu, and

enter the “Playback” interface, as shown in the figure above.

• • 1. Description of Playback Interface

Here, the composition and function modules of the playback interface are introduced.

To enter the menu playback interface: preview and use “Right-Click Menu-> Playback” to enter the playback interface, as shown in the figure below.

Description of playback control bar

• • 1. Normal Playback

Retrieve the corresponding video files by channel and date, and play video files in turn from the generated play bar that meets the criteria. The playback steps are as follows:

1 Select “Main Menu -> Playback” to enter the “Normal” interface, as shown in the figure below.

2_X Select the channel to play back and the calendar automatically displays the recordings of the month.

3_X Use your mouse to click the date you want to play back.

4_X The system automatically plays the video files that meets the criteria.

5_X Other playback operations.

• Use the “Full Screen” key in the upper right corner to enable full screen playback.
• If there is no operation for a period of time during playing, it will automatically enter the full-screen playing mode. You can operate the mouse or keyboard again to exit the full-screen.
• Use “Fast Forward” or “Slow Forward” key to fast or slowly play

back videos.

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• Up to 16 channels can be played back at a time. The playback performance differs depending on the device model and video recording.

4.8.4 Event Playback

Query a video file in a certain time period by event type (port alarm, motion detection, video loss, video occlusion, intelligent analysis), and play the video from the generated list that meets the query criteria. The operation steps are as follows:

1. Enter the playback interface, and select “Event” for the playback mode.

2_S Select event type in the upper right corner of the playback screen.

3_S Select the channel to play back.

4_S Click the date you want to play back.

5_S The system automatically plays the video files that meet criteria.

Note:

• During event playback, the player will skip the time period without alarm video according to the alarm time period of the video.

4.8.5. Tag Playback

The video label function allows users to record the relevant personnel or on-site information at a certain time when the video is played back, so that users can retrieve the information at any time to search and locate the video.

Add/Manage Labels

1 Enter the video playback interface Click El to add the default label.

Click to enter a label name and add a custom label.

2_S Label management

Click

to enter the “File Management” -> “Label Management”

interface, as shown in the figure below, where you can view, edit, and

delete added labels.

Tag Playback

1 Enter the playback interface, select “Tag” for playback mode, and enter the “Tag” interface, as shown in the figure below.

2_S Select a channel.

3_S Enter the label keyword. If no keywords are entered, all labels within
the specified date of the selected channel are retrieved by default.

4_S Select a date.

5_X The playback progress bar shows a label marked with an inverted

green triangle. When the mouse cursor is moved over the position

marked by the inverted triangle, the label name information will be

displayed automatically, as shown in the figure below.

• Video playback begins with the value set in “Pre-Playback” before the time of adding labels, and ends with the value set in “Post-Playback” after the time of adding labels. When finished, the system automatically jump to the next label for playback.
• Playback Advance Time and Playback Delay Time can be set separately.

4.8.6 Smart Search Playback

Smart search playback refers to the intelligent analysis of video files. Options include “Perimeter Search”, “Tripwire Search” and “Face Detection”.

The operation steps are as follows:

1. Enter the playback interface and select “Smart Search” for the playback mode, as shown in the figure below.
2. . The play operation begins after the channel and date are selected.

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progress bar will show the progress and results of the search.

1. .During the search process, the system automatically jumps to the search results to start playing.
2. . Click on another channel or other date during the search process will automatically stop searching. You can also click the Stop button or Exit button to manually stop searching or exit the intelligent search.

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1.

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to enter the “Face Detection” interface of intelligent

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button to start searching. During the search process,

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“VCA SEARCHING…” appears in the top left of the screen. At the same

time, the progress bar will display the search progress, and one the right side is the face detection search results.

3. Click on the Stop search during the search process will stop searching. When you click the search results on the right, the video will be positioned to the corresponding location.

4.8.7 Video Concent Playback

The video summary playback function is to superimpose multiple moving targets at different time points into the same background for simultaneous playback, which can shorten video time and greatly improve the efficiency of video playback. Before playing back video summary, make sure that the front end device connected to the selected channel supports and enables the intelligent analysis function.

The operation steps are as follows:

1. Enter the playback interface, and select “Video Concent” for the playback mode, as shown in the figure below.

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2. Select a channel, set the start and end times, click “Search”,

and play back the video summary video file, as shown in the

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3. Double-click the rectangular box stacked on the left side to

locate the time to play in the small window on the right, and

then play the video of 30s before and after the time point.

Notes:

• Stop and Pause options are available on the large screen on the left, and both the progress bar and percentage can be displayed but dragging over the progress bar is impossible.
• Stop and Pause options are available on the small screen on the right. And both the progress bar and percentage can be displayed, and dragging over the progress bar is possible. In addition, current files can be backed up.
• 4 decoding channels can be superimposed on the target simultaneously. The actual number of superimposing layers depends on the decoding ability. With the real-time playback screen of channel 1 as the background, the targets of other channels are superimposed on channel 1.
• The time period of each decoding channel is generally evenly distributed according to the time length of target information.
• Video summary playback is only available for some models.

4.8.8 Time-phased Playback

The time-phased playback function means that the recording time of a channel in a day is averaged to multiple screens for asynchronousplayback according to the number of split screens, which can effectively improve playback efficiency.

The operation steps are as follows: 1. Enter the playback interface and select “Time-phased Playback”, as

shown in the figure below.

2. Select the playback channel and set the number of split screens. Here,

4 split screens are taken as an example.

3. Select the date on the right side or click the Play button for time-phased playback.

• • 1. . Picture Playback

The picture playback function refers to the playback of the pictures stored in the hard disk, as shown in the figure below.

Notes:

• Users can define a play interval for play pictures automatically.
• You can also pause the playback and click on the left or right side

of a picture to display the previous or the next picture.

• • 1. External File Playback

The external file playback function refers to playback of video files stored in external storage media such as USB flash drive, mobile hard disk or CD-ROM.

The operation steps are as follows:

1. Enter the playback interface and select “External File “, as shown in the figure below.

Device type and file type are optional

1. Select “Refresh” to read external storage media.
2. Click the file to play to play back external video file, as shown in the figure below.

• Before playing back external files, make sure that USB flash drive or mobile hard disk or USB drive has been connected to the device.

• • 1. Log Management

Play the video file corresponding to the log information.

The operation steps are as follows: 1 Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Log Management” to

enter the “Log Management” interface, as shown in the figure below.

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2_X Select “Channel” , “Type” , and “Start/End Time” , and click

“Search”.

3_X Double-click a log in the log list to enter the “Playback” interface, as

shown in the figure below.

Notes:

• The playback progress can be controlled by the playback time bar on the bottom.
• There shall be video files at the channel and time point corresponding to the selected log and these video files can be played.
  • 1. Playback Assist Function

Single-Frame Playback

During video playback, single-frame playback allows checking of the detail change of the screen.

On the playback interface, left-click O or □ or adjust the playback speed to “Single Frame”. Step forward one frame for each click on the □ button, and step back one frame for each click on the d button.

The single-frame playback interface is shown in the figure below.

Digital Zoom

The partial picture of the video is enlarged to the full screen display in the process of playback or playback pause.

The operation steps are as follows:

1. Enter the playback interface.
2. . Select the B button on the playback control bar to enter the digital

zoom interface.

1. .The drag bar on the top left or your mouse wheel can be used to

adjust the zoom factor.

4.Press and hold and drag the left mouse button to see different areas.

Snapshot

Snapshot in the process of video playback.

The operation steps are as follows:

1.Enter the playback interface.

2.Select a screen and click theEl button on the playback control bar.

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• Images captured during playback need to be saved on a USB flash drive. When carrying out the snapshot operation, make sure the USB flash drive is correctly connected to the device.

Progress Bar Preview

On the playback interface, when playback mode is selected as regular playback, event playback, or label playback, and single screen is selected, the system will automatically display the time point and the images before and after the time point when your mouse slides over the play progress bar. The operation steps are as follows:

1. Select playback mode as one of the above and start playback.
2. Hover your mouse over a section of the progress bar that has video footage, and a preview image will appear, as shown in the figure below.
3. Click any of small screens, and then locate to the time point to play.

Notes:

• The progress bar preview operation is impossible when the decoding performance reaches the upper limit.
• The progress bar preview operation is impossible on the current channel when no video is available at the selected time point.
• No progress bar preview is available for non-single screen.

Quick Drag to Play

When playing on a single screen, you can quickly drag the progress bar. In this case, the progress bar will be dragged to play video quickly to facilitate viewing.

• 1. Backup

Backup allows backing up of video files in the system to the backup disk or USB storage device (USB, mobile hard disk, esata).

1. Select “Main Menu -> Backup” to enter the backup interface, as shown in the figure below.

1. Click “Video Snapshot” to visually display recordings of the specified date. After the date is selected, click “OK” to help the user select the start and end time of video querying according to the date. After returning to the interface in step 1, you can check it from “Start Date”, “Start Time”, “End Date”, and “End Time”.

Note:

• Image files do not support video snapshot.

1. After identifying the query conditions, if “Enable Backup Authentication” is checked, click on “Backup” or “Query Backup” button will display the authentication form. You need to conduct authentication first before proceeding to the next step.

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1. After identifying the query conditions, click the “Backup” button. If the backup destination is a USB storage device, it will enter the backup interface where you can select the destination folder for backup. If the backup destination is a backup disk, then proceed to the backup operation directly.

1. After identifying the query conditions, click the “Query Backup” button for video file querying.

The video query results are presented in a list or a chart manner.

List:

To play the file, click the “Playback” icon or double-click the line where the file is located.

Click the “Lock” icon to lock and unlock the file.

Chart:

Click to select a certain screen to play the 10s video after the time

point. Double-click the preview image to play it back.

1. Select the video file to back up from the list or chart, and click the “Backup” button to enter the backup screen.
   1. . System Maintenance
      1. Information

System Information

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Information -> System Information” to enter the system information interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. The manufacturer, serial number, kernel version, hardware version, SDK version, webpage version, UI version, and system time can be checked under System Info.

Channel Status

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Information -> Channel

Status” to enter the channel status interface, as shown in the figure

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1. Channel number, channel name, connection status, motion detection status, video occlusion status and video loss status can be checked under Channel Status.

Devices not supporting video occlusion alarm function will not

display the video occlusion column on the screen.

Record Status

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Information -> Recording Status” to enter the record status interface, as shown in the figure below.

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5. Channel number, recording status, stream type, real-time frame rate/set frame rate, real-time bitrate/set bitrate, video resolution, video type, compression parameters, redundancy status can be checked under Record Status.

6_X When you click video template, video strategy and disk page setting, the HDD status can jump to the corresponding interface to view the device configuration status.

Alert Status

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Information -> Alert

Status” to enter the alarm status interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Serial number, name, annunciator type, ON/OFF status, channel triggering of the local alarm and alarm host can be checked under Alarm Status.

Network State

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Information -> Network State” to enter the network status interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Network card-related network information can be checked under

Network Status.

Note:

• Devices not supporting dual network cards will not display the

network card 2 column on the screen.

Disk Status

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Information -> Disk

Status” to enter the HDD status interface, as shown in the figure below.

1. HDD number, SMART detection status, size, idle, property, disk pack, total remaining capacity and total capacity of all hard disks can be checked under HDD status.

Online User

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Information -> Online

User” to enter the online users interface, as shown in the figure below.

4.10.2 Log Management

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Log Management” to

enter the log querying interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. After selecting query conditions such as channel, type, start and end times, click “Query” button for log querying.
2. After logs are obtained, you can use the button to select the previous page or next page to view the logs, or input the number of pages. Click OK to jump to the page, select the log and click to check log details. Select alarm logs and click O to preview the video in the alarm time period.
3. Log export operation:
4. To export the current page: After querying the log, click “Export Current Page” to display the following form. Select the path and click “OK” to backup the log on the currently viewed page to the specified path.

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1. To export all pages: Click “Export All Pages” to export all the logs that have been obtained. The backup path operation is the same as above.

4.10.3 Configuration

Configuration Export

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Configuration -> Configuration Export” to enter the config export interface, as shown in the figure below. Performing the “Export” operation on configuration files of the device will facilitate timely backup of configuration file.

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1. Select Config Export and add the export file name and destination to export device configurations.

Configuration Import

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Configuration -> Configuration Import” for import operation. If the same configuration is used for multiple devices, the “Import” operation will allow saving device configuration time.

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1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Reset To Default ” to enter the restore defaults interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. The users can select the module to restore defaults according to their own needs. Click the “Continue” button, and the selected module will be restored to default configurations.

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• • 1. Automatic Maintenance

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Automatic Maintenance -> Device Maintenance” to enter the device maintenance setting interface, as shown in the figure below, where you can set the device name, number and automatic restart time.

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• • 1. . System Upgrade

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> System Upgrade -> Cloud Upgrade” to enter the cloud upgrade interface, as shown in the figure below.

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Click Manual Detection to check whether there is the latest version available. If there is a new version available, click Upgrade to upgrade to the new version.

1 Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> System Upgrade -> Upgrade from local” to enter the local file upgrade interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Click Browse to select the file you want to upgrade, and then upgrade it, as shown in the figure below.

3_X Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> System Upgrade ->

Upgrade from FTP” to enter the FTP upgrade interface, as shown in

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• After the upgrade is successful, the device will automatically restart and the new version comes into effect after restart.
• If it is suggested that the upgrade fails or the equipment cannot operate normally after restart, please contact your vendor for solutions.
  • 1. Network Detect

Network Detect

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Network Detect -> Packet Backup” to enter the packet snapshot backup interface, as shown in the figure below.

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1. In the network testing field, enter the destination address to test whether the address can be pinged through.
2. Click the “Packet Snapshot Backup” button to capture the current network card and save it to the specified storage medium.
3. Click the “Status Detection” button to check whether the gateway and DNS of the current network card are accessible.
4. Select the “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Network Detect ->Network Flow” interface to view and display real-time network data, as shown in the figure below.

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1. Select the “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Network Detect -> Network Resource Statistics” interface to check the usage of network resources, as shown in the figure below.

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• • 1. . Disk Detection

S.M.A.R.T.

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Disk Detection ->

S.M.A.R.T.” to enter the SMART setting interface.

1. Select the disk to detect and check “Enable S.M.A.R.T Detection” to enable the S.M.A.R.T detection function of the disk. S.M.A.R.T detection information is displayed in the corresponding interface.
2. When “Do not use the HDD when it fails self-assessment”, do not use the HDD if there is any problem with the self-assessment after the S.M.A.R.T test.

Bad Track Detection

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Maintenance -> Disk Detection -> Bad

Track Detection” to enter the bad track detection interface.

1. Select the hard disk and detection method and click the Detection button to enter the detection status.

1. Click Pause to suspend the bad track detection; Click Restore to resume the bad track detection;
2. Click Cancel to cancel the bad track detection;
3. Click the Error Message button to check the bad track of the hard disk.

Note:

• The Error Message button is available only if the number of errors on the hard disk is greater than 0.
• When the number of errors on the hard disk is 100, bad trace

detection stops.

“means the corresponding area of the hard disk is in good

condition,”

“means the corresponding area of the hard disk is

damaged,”

“means the corresponding area of the hard disk is

shielded.

• 1. System Setting

For unified management of device attributes in the system.

• • 1. General Setting

Basic Setting

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> General Setting -> Basic Setting” to enter the basic setting interface, as shown in the figure below, where you can set the local output display parameters of the device.

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• Language: Selects the system language.

• Screensaver Time: Selects the interface timeout time.
• Enable Startup Guided: Selects whether to enable boot wizard settings.
• Buzzer when pressing button: Turns on the buzzer.
• Hide icon of video, alarm and facial recognition on preview interface: Selects whether to display video, alarm, face recognition icons on the preview interface.
• Send warning if equipment decording performance reaches up llimit: Selects whether to display the prompt message when the decoding performance reaches the upper limit.
• Mouse Cursor speed: Selects the mouse movement speed, 0-100 adjustable.

Time Setting

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> General Setting -> Time Setting” to enter the time setting interface, as shown in the figure below, where you can set system time, time zone, and NTP timing parameters.

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Plan Setting

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> General Setting -> Plan Setting” to enter the preplan setting interface, as shown in the figure below. When an alarm situation occurs, the linkage preplan is displayed on the preview interface, and the on-duty personnel shall deal with it according to the preplan, such as alarming, notification, asking for helps, etc.
2. Click the preplan name or preplan content to directly edit them, as shown in the figure below.

4.11.2 Network Setting

Network Card

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Network Setting -> Network

Card” to enter the network card setting interface.

1. Choose to automatically obtain or manually set the IP address. If auto obtain is selected, the system will automatically obtain the IP address from the DHCP in the network.
2. When selecting “Automatically obtain IPv4 address”, information including device’s IP address, subnet mask, and gateway should be specified.
3. Aggregated options. There are three modes in the drop-down box: multiple access, load balance and redundancy:

• Network multiple access: In this mode, Network Card 1 and Network Card 2 work independently.
• Load balance: In this mode, the network load is evenly shared by two network cards.
• Network redundancy: In this mode, one network card works and the other is in standby mode. Once the working network card fails, the standby one will be immediately started to complete the seamless connection of network switching.

1. If multiple access mode is enabled, the configuration method of network card 2 is the same as that of network card 1.
2. Click the “Apply” button to make the settings effective.

Notes:

• This interface is displayed only for devices with dual network cards, and aggregated options are unavailable for devices without dual network cards.
• Once the aggregation mode is set, the network parameters of network card 2 will be automatically filled in, with no need of user intervention.

PSE Network Card

Note:

• PSE series NVR models support PSE network card settings. This setting is unavailable for other models.

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Network Setting -> Network Card” to enter the network card setting interface and select the PSE network card.

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1. After setting the network address, the network address of the plug&play camera will be automatically set to the address of the network segment.

Note:

• This interface will not be displayed for non-PSE devices.

PPPOE

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Network Setting -> PPPOE” to enter the PPPOE setting interface.

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1. Set whether to dial automatically on startup.
2. Enter the account and password of PPPOE dial.
3. Click the “Connect” button to immediately start the PPPOE dial operation.
4. Click “Apply” button to save the setting of PPPOE dial into the system. If the “Auto Dial on Startup” is selected, the system will automatically dial in the next startup.

NO Notes:

• This interface is not displayed for devices not supporting PPPOE.
• If you cannot dial properly due to network interruption or change of the modem, please manually click the “Disconnect” button and then try again.

Black and White Name List

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Network Setting -> Black and

White Name List” to enter the black and white list setting interface.

2. Choose the way how IP right is used: “Disable”, “Whitelist” or

“Blacklist”.

1. Enter the IP address that needs to be disabled or enabled in the IP address input box.
2. Click the “Add” button to add the IP address to the list.
3. Click “Apply” to save the configurations.

DDNS

1, Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Network Setting

->DDNS” to enter the DDNS setting interface.

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1. Set whether to enable the DDNS service.
2. Enter the device domain name.
3. Enter the domain name or IP address of the DDNS server.
4. Enter the login account and password of the DDNS server.
5. Click “Apply” button to save the configurations.

FTP

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Network Setting -> FTP” to enter the FTP setting interface.

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1. Enter the server address, port number, account and password of the FTP server.
2. Click “Apply” button to save the configurations.

Email

1. Select “Main Menu -> System Setting -> Network Settings ->Email” to enter the Email setting interface.