Velleman DVR-4LCD, User Manual

Page 1: ... installation 8 2 6 Power plugging 8 CHAPTER 3 Basic Operation 9 3 1 Display configuration 9 3 2 Mouse control 9 3 3 Display setup menu 9 3 4 Recording icons and status 10 3 5 Playback 11 CHAPTER 4 Set Up Menu 14 4 1 Log In 14 4 2 DISPLAY SETUP 15 4 3 RECORD 16 4 4 CONFIGURATION 17 4 5 EXTRNAL DEVICE 21 4 6 BACK UP 24 4 7 FIRMWARE UPGRADE 25 4 8 FACTORY DEFAULT 25 4 9 LANGUAGE 25 CHAPTER 5 PTZ cam...

Page 2: ... System configuration 40 Appendix 2 Network setting 40 A2 1 Network installation and setup 41 A2 2 Router setup 43 Disclaimer The product names mentioned in this manual are used as identifications only while the copyright of these names might belong to other companies The product specs and information are for reference only and may be updated from time to time without notification ...

Page 3: ...midity Keep the DVR in a temperature ranging from 5 40 Keep the DVR in a well ventilated place and away from any heat generating objects Do not block the DVR s fan and vent Do not expose this unit to the sun directly If you are not sure of the installation and setup please consult the technicians If there s any damage to this unit or the power supply don t fix it yourself Consult the technician or...

Page 4: ...ompression H 264 Storage Device LOWEST LOW NORMAL HIGH HIGHEST Record Playback Storage Device SATA HDD 1 Protocol TCP IP Network Remote monitoring Remote live view backup and save backup to AVI Back up Back up method Backup via IE browser USB back up PTZ Control RS485 supports PELCO D and other protocols USB port USB 2 0 for Backup Alarm Enter 4 Alarm Enters Alarm Output 1 Programmable alarm outpu...

Page 5: ...or USB HDD 1 2 Back panel overview Audio Input Output 1 channel Audio Enter and 1 channel Audio output Function RS485 for direct connection to PTZ cameras 4 sensor Inputs and 1 relay output VGA output Connector to a VGA or LCD monitor ETHERNET RJ45 for network connection 1 4 Camera Video Input CAMERA IN video in for channel 1 4 Monitor SPOT Output MONITOR For video monitor SPOT For SPOT video moni...

Page 6: ...O AUDIO On Off 0 9 number Live display channel selection password entering MENU Enter setup menu Exit menu For value adjustment in setup menu OK ENTER Direction keys Select or adjust options in setup menu Navigate the selected item in setup menu Play back Functions SEARCH Open the playback search window PLAY Play the recorded video directly PAUSE Pause playback REW Fast rewind press again to chang...

Page 7: ...ct the camera to CH1 CH4 camera in at back panel of DVR Note Please do not power on the DVR before the camera installation is finished 2 1 2 Monitor installation Connect the video in of monitor to Video out of DVR 2 1 3 PTZ camera installation Note Please connect the Speed dome camera D D to the DVR RS485 D D ...

Page 8: ...rm Input Output D1 D4 for Alarm Input GND 4 alarm input for connecting to external sensors Please refer to the pinout assignment which printed at back panel Relay Output NO NC COM The application of relay output is NO COM NC COM 2 2 2 Sensor installation Alarm will be triggered by one or more than one alarm Input s D1 D4 become short or open circuit with GND ...

Page 9: ...it when alarm is triggered 2 3 Network installation Connect the network RJ45 plug to Ethernet jack at back panel Ethernet Setup between ADSL and Cable is different For details please refer to Appendix 2 Network Setting 2 4 HDD installation Steps 1 Open the top cover 2 Place the SATA type HDD as shown in and make sure the HDD is set to MASTER Note 1 Power off the DVR before HDD installation 2 Sugge...

Page 10: ...installation PS 2 port in back panel 2 6 Power plugging Connect the power cord to the power adapter Then connect the DC power plug to the power jack at back panel of DVR Caution Only the original supplied power adaptor is allowed ...

Page 11: ... left click on icons Increase the setup value in the Menu mode Right button Decrease the setup value in the Menu mode Setup menu On Off Mouse wheel Increase or Decrease the setup value in the Menu mode 3 3 Display setup menu Right click mouse button will display the setup menu Right click mouse button again to hide the setup menu ...

Page 12: ...k to schedule recording mode If the power is cut off unexpectedly the DVR will automatically resume its recording schedule after the power is back on Under the following circumstances the system stops recording 1 No video inputs 2 No motion is detected while the record mode is set to MOTION 3 When the record schedule is set to Not Record 4 Without clearing HDD or running factory defaults after a n...

Page 13: ...DVR User Guide 11 3 5 Playback 3 5 1 Playback and Stop Left click Play icon to start playback Starting from the last playback time Click Stop icon to stop playback ...

Page 14: ...eel on percentage number to change recording percentage of the search bar Click on PLAY icon to confirm and start the playback 3 5 4 DATE TIME SEARCH START The starting date and time of recorded video It shows the starting date and time of the recording data END The ending date and time of recorded video It shows the ending date and time of the recorded video TARGET Enter the assigned date and tim...

Page 15: ... Event list recorded 1000 events Select events left click Change page mouse wheel rolling 3 5 6 Playback speed adjustment While playback click To speed up the playback To slow down the playback 3 5 7 Adjust Playback speed by IR remote controller While playback use remote control to adjust the playback speed Move to the beginning Move to the end Rewind Playback Increase rewind speed Decrease playba...

Page 16: ...ER key directly to enter the setup menu USER ID Default password USER ID Default password ADMIN Empty No password USER04 5 MANAGER 1 USER05 6 USER01 2 USER06 7 USER02 3 USER07 8 USER03 4 USER08 9 Caution 1 It is strongly suggested to change the password after the initial setup Please keep records of your passwords Rebooting the DVR and resetting the factory defaults will not reset the password 2 P...

Page 17: ...P SETUP SPOT MONITOR SETUP PAN TILT SETUP AUDIO SETUP BACK UP Backup the selected video FIRMWARE UPGRADE Upgrade firmware by using USB memory stick FACTORY DEFAULT Reset the DVR to factory defaults LANGUAGE Change the OSD MENU language 4 2 DISPLAY SETUP 4 2 1 VGA SETUP RESLOUTION Change VGA resolution Default Resolution for VGA is 800x600 Options 640X480 60Hz 800X600 60Hz 1024X768 60Hz 1280X1224 6...

Page 18: ...cording picture quality SCHEDULE SETUP Program the recording schedule 4 3 1 RECORD SETUP QUALITY Set up the recording picture quality Quality level Lowest Low Normal High Highest Data size of image in PAL system is a little bigger than NTSC system but the total recording time is same as NTSC system FRAME RATE Adjust recording frame rate REMAIN SIZE Indicates HDD capacity remains by size GB Indicat...

Page 19: ...4 4 CONFIGURATION HDD MANAGEMENT HDD SETUP HDD Clear HDD INFORMATION CAMERA SETUP CAMERA TITLE CAMERA COLOR SETUP MOTION SETUP SENSITIVITY DURATION DETECT CELL NUMBER ALARM SETUP Alarm mode N C or N O setup Alarm Output Duration setup INTERVAL SETUP Switching interval between Full screen and the PIP screen DATE TIME SETUP Date and time setup PASSWORD SETUP Password setup BUZZER SETUP Buzzer ON OFF...

Page 20: ...ONTAL POSITION Adjust camera display horizontal position LIVE DISPLAY Set up the channel to be displayed or not at the LIVE screen 4 4 3 MOTION SETUP CHANNEL Select the channel to be adjusted SENSITIVITY Adjust motion detection sensitivity 1 LOW 7 VERY HIGH DURATION The recording period after last motion detected For example the duration is set to 10 seconds and the motion last for 3 minutes The D...

Page 21: ...on 1 99 seconds 4 4 5 INTERVAL SETUP SEQUENCE SCREEN Interval setup for all channels sequential full screen display Range 1 99 seconds PIP SCREEN Picture in Picture the sub picture s sequence interval setup Range 1 99 seconds EVENT UPDATE In order to avoid the same event alarm motion and video loss recorded from time to time the event happens within the EVENT UPDATE period will not be recorded Ran...

Page 22: ...M PW Enter the new password again for confirmation 4 4 8 BUZZER SETUP KEY TONE Turn on off the beeping for any button is pressed VIDEO LOSS Turn on off the beeping for video loss warning ALARM ACTIVE Turn on off the beeping when alarm is triggered MOTION Turn on off the beeping when motion is detected 1 We strongly suggest completing the following settings at the initial setup 1 Set up the DATE TI...

Page 23: ... and output volume setup SPOT SETUP SPOT monitor setup 4 5 1 TCP IP SETUP IP SETUP MAC ADDRESS Display the DVR MAC address not editable DHCP MODE Automatic auto setting for IP Port IP Address Gateway and Subnet Manual Manually configure IP Port IP Address Gateway and Subnet IP PORT IP Port setting IP ADDRESS IP address setting GATEWAY GATEWAY setting SUBNET SUBNET MASK setting ...

Page 24: ...Wheel to change the value REGISTER Connect to DDNS server and register the DVR information to the server Click REGISTER to start the registration DDNS STATUS Display the current status of DDNS connection IP ADDRESS Display the current IP address recorded in the server IP PORT Display the current IP port recorded in the server REMAIN TIME Display the remaining time to report to the server LAST REGI...

Page 25: ... delay time to run the command COMMAND Display the COMMAND name Click to change COMMAND LENGTH Display the code length for the selected COMMAND CODE Display the code for the selected COMMAND SPEED SETUP PAN SPEED PAN speed setup TILT SPEED TILT speed setup ZOOM SPEED ZOOM speed setup 4 5 3 MOUSE SETUP SENSITIVITY Mouse sensitivity setup The mouse cursor will move faster if the sensitivity is incre...

Page 26: ...UP DURATION The display will switch to the channel with EVENT triggered Before time up as duration setup the displayed channel will not be changed even there is any other EVENT triggered Range 01 99 sec 4 6 BACK UP HDD START Changeable date and time for the backup start date time END Display the automatically calculated ending date and time for the backup video USB MEDIA PARTITION Display partitio...

Page 27: ...on 4 8 FACTORY DEFAULT Click on ON or OFF to change the setting Click on DEFAULT to reload the Factory Default settings CHANGE FACTORY DEFAULT For ADMIN only Make all settings of USB memory stick as default value LOAD SETUP For ADMIN only Read the settings in USB memory stick SAVE SETUP For ADMIN only Store all DVR settings into the USB memory stick 4 9 LANGUAGE LANGUAGE Change the OSD language 1 ...

Page 28: ...tting may be required for different PTZ camera speed dome camera Please refer to speed dome camera user s manual for proper baud rate setup EXTERNAL DEVICE SYSTEM MENU EXTERNAL DEVICE PANTILT SETUP COMMAND SETUP MODEL Select protocol PTZ ID Enter the device ID BAUD RATE Baud rate setup CMD DELAY The delay time for next command Please refer to the PTZ camera user s manual for the suggested value ...

Page 29: ...era operation Left click PTZ icon to enter the PTZ control mode PAN TILT control Click these arrow keys to control Pain Tilt of connected PTZ camera ZOOM IN ZOOM OUT control ZOOM IN move moue cursor to ZOOM OUT move moue cursor to ...

Page 30: ...1 Insert software CD 2 Click Install Internet Relative Software to start the installation 3 Select a Destination Folder then click on NEXT 4 After installation process is finished The new icon on PC DESKTOP will be added Double click the icon of CD Backup Player from Desktop to run the program ...

Page 31: ...rk BACKUP PLAYER Play the backup video AM4 file in your PC BACKUP Back up the recorded video from DVR to your PC via the network EXIT Exit IRS Integrated Remote Station 6 2 1 IRS SETUP IP LIST List the saved DVR IP addresses REGSTERING SITE To register a new site UPDATE To update the connection information DELETE To delete the saved DVR site SAVE Save the selected IP address OK Select and exit IRS...

Page 32: ...dy registered in DDNS server MEMBER ID NAME Enter member ID which you registered in DDNS server Enter DVR name which you registered in DDNS server TEST CONNECTION DDNS SERVER connection test ADDRESS PORT Enter IP address manually Enter port number manually ID PASSWORD Enter ID and password for DVR same as for DVR login Default ID ADMIN Default password no password ...

Page 33: ...ually PORT NUMBER Enter port number of DVR manually ID Enter DVR ID saved in DVR default ADMIN PASSWORD Enter password saved in DVR default no password CLOSE Click CLOSE to exit CONFIGURATION ALARM CHANNEL NUMBER Select a sensor channel ALARM TYPE Set up the Alarm connection type NC Normal Close NO Normal Open DISABLE DURATION Set up a post alarm recording duration and the alarm output duration Th...

Page 34: ...VAL FULL SCREEN Full screen sequential display Interval setup Range 1 99 SEC PIP SCREEN Picture in Picture the sub picture sequential display interval setup Range 1 99 SEC EVENT UPDATE TIME Within the period of EVENT UPDATE TIME the new event will not be recorded in event list RECORD RECORD SETUP QUALITY Set up the recording quality level OVERWRITE The earliest recorded data will be overwritten wh...

Page 35: ...el and define a more suitable motion detection area RECORD SCHEDULE SETUP Set up a recording mode ALARM ALARM recording MOTION MOTION recording CONTINONS CONTINUOUS recording ALM MOT ALARM MOTION recording NONE No schedule recording ALL All blocks set to activated or deactivated 00 24 Hour On Off setup for different hour SUN SAT On Off setup for different weekday EXTRNAL AUDIO AUDIO CHANNEL Select...

Page 36: ...h operation IP PORT ID PW IP Indicate the IP address of DVR PORT Indicate the PORT of DVR ID Default ADMIN PW Enter the password Screen display Signal channel Quad display selection Status Window Shows the current connection status Recorded data display Displays starting time ending time of recorded data Playback function Fast Rewind Rewind Fast Forward Forward Search bar Click to search recorded ...

Page 37: ...tive only when the connection is established Function setup Connect Test Connection test Unlock To get the recording start End time of DVR Set Backup Time Set the start end time size and path of file backup Start Backup Active the backup function The information of DVR Server Recording Start Time Display the recorded starting time Recorded End Time Display the recorded ending time Update Update th...

Page 38: ...ackup 6 6 Backup player operation Function key Go to the beginning of recorded data and play Fast backward playback Backward playback PAUSE Forward playback Fast forward playback Go to the end of recorded data and play Current time display Status Window Display backup starting ending time and status Screen display Signal channel Quad display selection Function keys OPEN Open the backup file EDIT E...

Page 39: ... frame rate SIZE Setup the file size limitation START Start AVI SAVE STOP Stop AVI SAVE 6 6 2 EDIT TOOL Contrast Increase contrast Decrease contrast Brightness Increase brightness Decrease darkness Sharpness Increase sharpness Blur Increase softness SAVE Saves video in JPEG file format It is saved in the folder where player is installed C WEB_BACKUP PRINT Print current video ...

Page 40: ... entering following information Group Add a new user name User Password Add user password Confirm Password Confirm the password E mail Add an Email address for the password reminders Enter group name and password to LOGIN DDNS function This DDNS service is free We constantly maintain the server and its data base Please note that the server may be turned off without notice for maintainence ...

Page 41: ...IP SETUP IP Enter the current IP address for DVR PORT Enter the port number for DVR Note DVR NAME and MAC ADDRESS are required IP address and PORT number can be blank Press OK to save the settings TRANSMITTER H 264 viewer BACKUP Backup record data in the remote site PLAYER Backup player DVR SETUP Setup DVR from remote site Edit and delete DVR information EDIT To edit the DVR information DELETE To ...

Page 42: ...onnection 1 DVR connect to DDNS server automatically and update the IP address 2 The client accesses to DDNS server and requests IP address from DDNS server 3 DDNS server replies the IP address and port number for DVR 4 Client PC connects to DVR 5 Appendix 2 Network setting ...

Page 43: ... the default port number or assign a new one A2 1 2 Connecting to internet through ADSL First identify if you have Static IP or Dynamic IP service If you do not know ask your ISP Internet Service Provider If you have Static IP your ISP should provide you a static IP address which will never change even when you reboot your modem With Static IP SYSTEM MENU EXTERNAL DEVICE TP IP SETUP IP SETUP Enter...

Page 44: ...r s IP address and the Subnet Mask should match the Subnet Mask IP of your router Set up the router to forward the port to the DVR Please refer to 7 3 Router Setup for details After the setup is completed and the DVR can be accessed from Internet proceed to the DDNS setup Since you may get different IP addresses from time to time setting up the DDNS service allows you to log in from the remote by ...

Page 45: ...ead your router s manual First connect a computer to the router for configuration In this example the DVR s IP is set to 192 168 1 53 and its port number is 8000 The router model is PCI BLW 04G Enter the router s setup and select Static IP or PPPoE A2 2 1 WAN connection type Static IP setup Select the mode in WAN connection Type Enter the static IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway DNS provided by your ...

Page 46: ... the IP address of 211 20 82 39 Enter Virtual Server setup Enter DVR s IP 192 168 1 53 and port number 8000 Enable the port and check both protocols of TCP and UDP Save the settings before leaving this page Once the routing table is setup when the client software connects to 211 20 82 39 with PORT 8000 the router will forward the packets to its matching destination 192 168 1 53 and thus connect th...