Preface Version Software version: NVR3.0 Target Readers Operators, Maintenance personnel About This Manual The user manual comprises two parts: the text and the appendix. The text describes interface operations of the NVR, and the appendix presents some information for your consultation. Chapter 1 describes operation methods, interface prompts, use of entry methods and so on;...
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General Operations Delete a User ......................42 Suspend a User ....................... 42 Change Password ....................42 Log Management ......................43 View Log ........................ 43 Delete log ....................... 44 System Management ..................... 45 General Settings ...................... 45 System Information ....................47 Network Test ......................
1 General Operations This document describes the operations on Network Video Recorders (NVR) series, which is applicable to NVR2820, NVR2820E, NVR2860 and KDM201S.The NVR mentioned in this document refers to all kinds of NVR and KDM201S besides declaration specific. Operation Mode...
General Operations 1.1.2 Mouse The NVR supports USB mouse, the following are frequently used: Click to open an interface or a configuration item ♦ Right click to return to the previous interface ♦ Rotate the wheel button to enter the digits ♦...
General Operations Next video 8 Next layout 9 show hotkeys power off Main menu 1.3.2 Video Icon Live video tips icon: input alarm Motion detection alarm lens mask alarm video packet loss Video source loss PU offline playing recording speaking NVR tips icon: NVR alarm input disk error...
General Operations Select on the toolbar , then click Shutdown. ♦ Click shutdown in the main menu. ♦ Notice: The system will save the current configurations before shutdown, so that it will enter the status next time when power on. User Login/Logout The NVR show live video screen automatically after it turn on, enter User and Password in the User Login interface to operate.
General Operations Entering Digits/Characters Indication of input method status Status icon Content Soft keyboard Digits Lower-case letters Upper-case letters Chinese characters Special symbols To Switch input method In the input status, press on your remote control to switch the input ♦...
General Operations To enter digits icon show digits input status. Some input box support input by rotating the wheel button, such as IP address, date, time, and duration. To enter letters icon show lower-case letters while show upper-case. Continuously press the key rapidly to change the order of letters. To enter Chinese characters icon show Chinese input, please type in full spelling method.
Video Surveillance 2 Video Surveillance When power on, the NVR automatically enters the video surveillance screen. NVR2860 support dual display, and the main output resolution is 1920*1080. To open the live video menu: Right-click in the video screen. ♦ Press on your remote control.
Video Surveillance Submenu or Menu To Do Shortcut Picture Adjust the brightness, contrast, and saturation of the adjustment picture,, and click Save to take effect. Snapshot Take snapshots of video sources. Conduct sequence according to the preset sequence Camera sequence scheme or edit the sequence scheme Advanced Scheme sequence...
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Video Surveillance Camera menu, control the camera quickly; Zoom in or zoom out: zoom in (shortcut key 3); zoom out (shortcut key 1); Screen brightness: increase (shortcut key 6); decrease (shortcut key 4); Focus adjustment: increase focal length (shortcut key 9); decrease focal length (shortcut key 7);...
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Video Surveillance Advanced control Click the icon on the PTZ Control interface or press on your remote control to enter the PTZ Control-Advanced interface, as shown in Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2 PTZ Control – Advanced1 Enable camera cruising or set image display mode here. Control Amplitude: The size of control amplitude indicates the PTZ control amplitude, that is, the size of remote control step.
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Video Surveillance Figure 2-3 PTZ Control – Custom Buttons You may select custom buttons and button-related actions, such as enabling rain brush, turning on light, cruising or not. For a camera which can receive control commands, you may enter command strings and specific rules. Please refer to the Camera User Manual. The other 2 pages can configure IPC’...
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Video Surveillance Figure 2-5 PTZ Control – Advanced3...
Video Surveillance Snapshot If the service linkage of the video source (see Section 5.1.3) includes snapshot, when service linkage takes place, automatic snapshot will be taken. The snapshot pictures will be saved in the recording partition. For the same alarm, if multiple video sources (that is, cameras) are set, snapshot will be taken by the principle of “first occupy and first snapshot”.
Video Surveillance Click the live video, to do: Click the on the toolbar, calling the dedicated camera; Right-click or press , select voice control, and then select call or broadcast. voice broadcast broadcast unavailable listen silent speak dumb both call and broadcast are unavailable. Volume: Drag the slide to tune the volume.
Layout setting: Layout interface (Figure 2-8): takes effect immediately after being selected. Different models of NVRs such as NVR2820-4 or NVR2820-9 demonstrate different number of layouts. For details, refer to Chapter 1 of NVR Administrator Guide. Figure 2-8 screen layout...
Video Surveillance Switch the layout: Press the button on the toolbar and switch to the next layout. KDM201S display video in different tabs according layout, select the tab or list to view the live video. Page Sequence KDM201S support page sequence, which refer that the video screen switch automatically. 1) Select the above the screen to open the Page Sequence interface.
Video Surveillance Figure 2-9 Layout Scheme Editing layout scheme: 1) Select a scenario from the scenario list; 2) Select a screen from the layout list; 3) On the selected screen, right click or press the key . A menu appears. Select a video source. 4) To name the scenario, select Rename and enter a name.
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Video Surveillance Select Scheme Sequence from the shortcut menu of the video camera. The Scheme Sequence Edit interface appears (Figure 2-10). Figure 2-10 Scheme Sequence Edit Editing scheme sequence scenario: 1) Select a sequence scenario; 2) Select a scenario participating into the sequence from the scenario list; 3) Select a residence time for a scenario (5S, 10S, 20S, 30S, 50S, 1min);...
Playing Records 3 Playing Records The NVR supports replay and backup of the records as well as setting of recording parameters. The path for related recording operations is as follows: Main Menu Record. You may conduct the following operations in the Records menu: Record control ♦...
Playing Records Figure 3-1 Record Control Apply to All: Select a camera, and copy the record control policy of this camera to all the other cameras. Schedule When the record mode of a camera is set to Auto, the scheduled recording function takes effect. Path for Schedule: Main menu Record...
Playing Records Figure 3-2 Schedule Copy: This function is used to copy selected camera recording time. The settings of a camera can be copied to other days of the Day settings of the camera or all the days of the Week of all cameras, as shown in Figure 3-3: Figure 3-3 Copy To Record Policy...
Playing Records Figure 3-4 Record Policy If there is not enough recording space, two policies are available, that is to stop recording or overwrite the oldest files. Continue record after alarm for: continuous recording time after alarm generation and recovery (300 seconds at maximum).
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Playing Records Display time: the time span axis showed in the playback interface. Event display: set the event records showed in the playback interface, such as alarm in, motion detect, video lost or other. Play option: control to play the next or previous time slice during replay. Figure 3-5 Replay Video play control:...
Playing Records Next/previous time slice, move to play in Next/previous time slice, which set in the option Label Records Recorded files are labeled for the convenience of memory or to query sections of recorded files, such as, front door, back door, fire, and so on. User-defined labels should not be the same as system labels.
Playing Records Notice: the layout automatically switches to 2*2 during multi-replay and sync-replay, and it recovers to the previous layout when the replay finished. Synchronous Replay Synchronous replay means that two or more records overlapped in time are played at the same time Enter Main menu Record...
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Playing Records Play the backup records by NVR or play on windows with special player. Play by NVR: Enter Main menu Record Backup Query 1) Select the volume (USB interface); 2) Select the records in the list; 3) Click Play to play the records. Play on Windows: A special player which is localrecplayer.exe is provide with attached CD, double click to run: 1) Click the...
Snapshot 4 Snapshot The NVR supports snapshot and provides snapshot management function: Query snapshots and browse pictures; ♦ Set snapshot interval, number of pictures and space. ♦ In case of service linkage set for video sources, if the service linkage includes snapshot, when an service linkage occurs, the system will take snapshot automatically, and the snapshot pictures will be automatically saved in the recording partition.
Snapshot Snapshot Query/Browse Path for Picture Query: Main Menu Snapshot Picture Query The Picture Query interface is as shown in Figure 4-1: Figure 4-1 Picture Query Operating Procedure: Enter query conditions: Start Time, Duration, Source and Type (Motion Detection, Signal Loss, Lens Mask, Level Alarm, PU Offline, Manual Snapshot or All.
Snapshot Figure 4-2 Browse Click Next to browse the next picture. Click Delete to delete the currently browsed picture. For selected pictures, you may click Delete to delete all searched pictures. Snapshot Settings Path for Snapshot Settings: Main Menu Snapshot Snapshot Settings set the following parameters: Total snapshot space size...
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Snapshot space is 5G. Notice:Please be sure there is a system partition in the device as the snapshots is saved automatically in this partition.
Alarm Management 5 Alarm Management You may enter the Alarm Management interface from the main menu, including ALM IN, Service ALM, System ALM, ALM Status and History ALM. Many conditions may trigger alarm, such as IO Input, service alarm or system error. IO Input is alarm by detector, such as an entrance guard or a smoke sensor etc.
Alarm Management Alarm output is normal open by default and un-settable, please set your output device in normal open. 5.1.2 Name the alarm Name the alarm to help remember different alarm triggered by all kinds of type, refer to Figure Select alarm type and source;...
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Alarm Management 2) Select Source; 3) Select Day (day of the week); 4) Set service linkage period (totally four periods); 5) Select Linkage Edit and set linkage mode. IO Output IN the Linkage Edit interface, select the Linkage Device which is NVR, and check out the linkage actions available (Figure 5-3): Alarm: There are alarm outputs O1 and O2 on the rear panel of ♦...
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Alarm Management Record/ Snapshot/ Caption/Switch To live/Camera preset: If the linkage device is a video camera, the following linkage modes are available (Figure 5-4): Record: Recording upon alarm ♦ Snapshot: Take snapshots upon alarm ♦ Caption: display captions on the surveillance screen and ♦...
Alarm Management Service Alarm Service alarm means alarms arising from change of the video source, such as motion detection and video loss. And we take motion detection as an example. Notice: video loss is detective all along, no special setting for it. 5.2.1 Motion detection Motion detection refers that detect the motion of defined area, when the motion reached the threshold, then trigger alarm.
Alarm Management Figure 5-5 System Alarm Handling Select System Alarm Type and Handling Mode. Click Save to validate the settings. Current Alarm Method for entering the interface for viewing the current alarm status: Main Alarm Alarms Alarm Status Click on the toolbar; ♦...
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Alarm Management Figure 5-6 History Alarm Query Operating Procedure: Select Type and Source of the alarm; 1) Select Time; 2) Click Search; 3) For an alarm with alarm recordings, select and click Playback to replay the recorded file.
TV Wall Management 6 TV Wall Management Please enter the TV Wall interface from the main menu to configure the TV wall. Four layout styles are available and a maximum of 16 videos can be displayed at the same time. You may set, save or delete a TV wall view scheme.
TV Wall Management 3) Edit TV wall video (for details, refer to Section 6.2, “TV Wall Video Edit”) 4) Click Rename to name the TV wall scheme; 5) Click Save Change to save the scheme into the scheme list. Apply/Stop Scheme: 1) Select a scheme from the scheme dropdown list;...
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TV Wall Management Figure 6-3): Figure 6-3 TV Wall Camera Sequence 1) Select a sequence scenario from the sequence scenario list; 2) Select video sources to be sequenced from the Camera list; 3) et residence time for the selected video sources in Waiting Time (please do not check the Unified Waiting Time check box);...
User Management 7 User Management User type includes administrator and user. The administrator can conduct the following user management operations: Adding a new User ♦ Setting right for users (modifying user information) ♦ Deleting a user (the default admin user and the log-in user itself ♦...
User Management login right: limite the users access the NVR throught dedicated ♦ systerm right: operate right on NVR; ♦ Camera right: set the user’s right to operate camera. ♦ Delete a User Enter the User Management interface. Select a user. Click Delete. The user will be deleted after further confirmation.
Log Management 8 Log Management Log type includes login log, backup log, update log, operation log, alarm log and log of all alarms not cleared. Enter system management-> Log Management interface. The following log management can be made: View log ♦...
Log Management 2) Select user; 3) Click Search; 4) From the search result list, select a log. The details of the log will be displayed below the list, as shown in the above figure. Log Content: query responses of the recorded files of the NVR platform. By default, the search result will be arranged in the descending order of time.
System Management 9 System Management Enter the System Management interface from the main menu, and then select general, COM, Disk, Update and so on to conduct related setting and management operations respectively. General Settings Select Main Menu System Management Basic, an interface appears as shown in the follows.
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System Management System Time: sets the system time; Picture Output Mode: Select VGA or a TV system according to the display or monitor of the output device; VGA Mode: adjusts the parameters of the VGA output; Auto System Logout: sets auto logout and logout time; Monitor Mode: choose Free Mode or Page Mode.
System Management System Information The system information function is used to check the current status of the current platform, CPU utilization, network connectivity, harddisk utilization and system version information. Enter the System Management Sys Info interface from the Main Menu, as shown in Figure 9-3.
System Management Figure 9-4 Network Test Detection Request: Select or enter the detection address or detection count, duration, and so on; Start Test: Detect the network situation according to the set detection request; Detection Result: The detection result will be displayed in the list; Statistics: displays the detection conditions, timeout count and destination reaching count.
Operating Multiple NVR 10 Operating Multiple NVR Multiple NVR devices can share the same remote control. A maximum of 8 NVRs can share the same remote control. You may set NVR number to relate the remote control the NVR. By default, the NVR number is 8.
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Operating Multiple NVR 3) Press 4) Start control over the NVR with the related No. Notice:The NVR No. range is 0-7 when use the remote control over NVR.
Question and Answer 11 Question and Answer How to set system time? Select Main Menu System General. Set the system time in the System Time field. By default, the time set here will be synchronized with the time in the synchronous surveillance system. How to set camera id? When the device is accessed to the network, the NVR system will allocates an id to the cameras in a unified manner by default.
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Question and Answer Diversified reasons may be involved. Please make more attempts: End any NVR operation which may affect browse. Browse ♦ videos again after the following operation is ended: Multiple NVR stations are browsing videos at the same ♦ time, so the system is busy;...
Question and Answer Glossary Term Explanations Network Video Recorder MPEG-4 Moving Pictures Experts Group Peripheral Unit, refers to IP Camera, encoder or decoder Network Address Translation DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol SNTP Simple Network Time Protocol DDNS Dynamic Domain Name Server Real-time Transport Protocol RTCP Real-time Control Protocol...
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