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Please read this user manual carefully to ensure that you can use the device correctly and
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There may be several technically incorrect places or printing errors in this manual. The
updates will be added into the new version of this manual. The contents of this manual are
subject to change without notice.
This device should be operated only from the type of power source indicated on the marking
label. The voltage of the power must be verified before using the same. Kindly remove the
cables from the power source if the device is not to be used for a long period of time.
Do not install this device near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves or
other devices that produce heat.
Do not install this device near water. Clean only with a dry cloth.
Do not block any ventilation openings and ensure proper ventilation around the machine.
Do not power off the device at normal recording condition.
This machine is for indoor use only. Do not expose the machine in rain or moist environment.
In case any solid or liquid get inside the machine’s case, please turn off the device immediately
and get it checked by a qualified technician.
Do not try to repair the device by yourself without technical aid or approval.
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This manual is suitable for many models. All examples and pictures used in the manual are
Appendix A FAQ ................................................................................................................. 66
Appendix B Calculate Recording Capacity ...................................................................... 70
Appendix C Compatible Devices ................................................................ ....................... 71
Appendix D DVD Writer Installation ............................................................................... 72
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1 Introduction
1.1 Features
Live Surveillance
Support VGA/HDMI output
*Support AHD video input, the adjacent odd and even channels (such as Channel 1 and
Channel 2, Channel 3 and Channel 4, etc.) must be connected to the same video source( WD1
or AHD signal may be optional)
*The models have no above requirement which support 1080P
Support channel security by hiding live display
Display the local record state and basic information
Support USB to make full control
Compression Format
Standard H.264 compression with low bit rate and better image quality
Storage
Support to install the SATA HDD with high capacity (up to 6 TB)
Backup
Support USB 2.0 devices to backup
Support saving recorded files with AVI standard format to a remote computer through
internet
Record and Playback
Record modes: Manual, Schedule and Motion detection recording
Support recycle after HDD full
Resolution, frame rate and picture quality are adjustable
Support remote playback in Network Client through LAN or internet
Security
Customize user right: log search, system setup, two way audio, file management, disk
management, remote login, live view, manual record, and playback
Support event log recording and checking, events unlimited
Network
Support TCP/IP, DHCP, PPPoE, DDNS protocol
Support NAT Access and QRCODE Scanning
Support dual stream. Network stream is adjustable independently to fit the network
bandwidth and environment
Support picture snap and color adjustment in remote live
Support remote time and event search, and channel playback
Support remote full menu setup
Support mobile surveillance by phones with iPhone & Android OS
Support CMS/NVMS to manage multi devices on internet
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1.2 Front Panel Descriptions
Name
Descriptions
REC
When recording, the light is blue
Net
When access to network , the light is blue
Power
Power indicator, when connection , the light is blue
Fn ( Some models may
not have this button)
Switch the resolution of the VGA/HDMI output
Name
Descriptions
Power
Power Indicator, when connected, the light is blue
HDD
The light turns blue when reading/writing HDD
Net
The light turns blue when it is able to access the network
Backup
The light turns blue when backing up files and data
Play
The light turns blue when playing video
REC
Power Indicator, when connected, the light is blue
AUDIO /+
1. Adjust audio 2. Increase the value in setup
P.T.Z / -
1. Enter PTZ mode 2. Decrease the value in setup
MENU
Enter Menu in live
INFO
Check the information of the device
BACKUP
Enter backup mode in live
SEARCH
Enter search mode in live
Exit
Exit the current interface
Manually record
Play/Pause
Rewind key
Fast forward
1-9
Input digital number and select camera
0/--
Input number 0, the number above 10
Direction Key
Change direction
Multi-Screen Switch
Change the screen mode
Enter
Confirm selection
USB
To connect external USB device like USB mouse or USB
flash
The following descriptions are for reference only.
Type I:
Type II:
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No.
Name
Descriptions
1
AHD VIDEO IN
4CH AHD Video Inputs
2
AUDIO IN
Audio input; connect to audio input device, like microphone, pickup, etc
3
DC12V
DC12V power input
4
USB
Connect USB storage device or USB mouse
5
LAN
Network port
6
HDMI
Connect to high definition display device
7
VGA
Connect to monitor
8
AUDIO OUT
Audio output; connect to sound box
9
RS485
Connect to keyboard or speed dome. A is TX+; B is TX-
1.3 Rear Panel Descriptions
Here we only take a part of real panels for example to introduce their interfaces and
connections. The interfaces and locations of the interfaces are only for references. Please take
the real object as the standard.
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No.
Name
Descriptions
1
AUDIO IN
Audio input; connect to audio input device, like microphone, pickup, etc
2
AHD VIDEO IN
16CH AHD Video Inputs
3
AUDIO OUT
Audio output; connect to sound box
4
RS485
Connect to keyboard or speed dome. A is TX+; B is TX-
5
HDMI
Connect to high definition display device
6
VGA
Connect to monitor
7
LAN
Network port
8
USB
Connect USB storage device or USB mouse
9
DC12V
DC12V power input
No.
Name
Descriptions
1
AUDIO IN
Audio input; connect to audio input device, like microphone, pickup, etc
2
AHD VIDEO IN
16CH AHD Video Inputs
3
AUDIO OUT
Audio output; connect to sound box
4
GND
Grounding
5
RS485
Connect to keyboard or speed dome. A is TX+; B is TX-
6
ALARM OUT
Relay output; connect to external alarm
7
ALARM IN
Alarm inputs for connecting sensors
8
HDMI
Connect to high definition display device
9
VGA
Connect to monitor
10
LAN
Network port
11
USB
Connect USB storage device or USB mouse
12
DC12V
DC12V power input
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No.
Name
Descriptions
1
AHD VIDEO IN
8CH AHD Video Inputs
2
AUDIO OUT
Audio output; connect to sound box
3
CVBS
CVBS video output; connect to monitor
4
AUDIO IN
Audio input; connect to audio input device, like microphone, pickup, etc
5
GND
Grounding
6
ALARM OUT
Relay output; connect to external alarm
7
ALARM IN
Alarm inputs for connecting sensors
8
VGA
Connect to monitor
9
HDMI
Connect to high definition display device
10
LAN
Network port
11
USB
Connect USB storage device or USB mouse
12
DC12V
DC12V power input
13
RS485
Connect to keyboard or speed dome. A is TX+; B is TX-
1.4 Connections
Video Connections
Video Input: The interfaces of video inputs are BNC interfaces. The input signal is PAL/NTSC
(1.0Vp-P,75Ω).
Video Output: Supports VGA/HDMI/BNC video output. You can connect to monitor through
these video output interfaces simultaneously or independently.
Audio Connections
Audio Input: Connect to microphone, pickup, etc.
Audio Output: Connect to headphone, sound box or other audio output devices.
Alarm Connections
Some models may support this function. Take 16 CH alarm inputs and 1 CH alarm output for
example.
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Alarm Input:
Alarm IN 1~16 are 16 CH alarm input interfaces. There are no type requirements for sensors.
NO type and NC type are both available.
The way to connect sensor and the device is as shown below:
The alarm input is an open/closed relay. If the input is not an open/closed relay, please refer to
the following connection diagram:
Alarm Output:
The way to connect alarm output device:
Pull out the pluggable blocks and loosen the screws in the alarm out port. Then insert the
signal wires of the alarm output devices into the port of NO and COM separately. Finally,
tighten the screws and connect pluggable blocks back into terminal blocks. Provided that the
external alarm output devices need power supply, you can connect the power supply as per the
following figures.
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PTZ Connection
There are two types of RS485 interfaces:
(Type 1)(Type 2)
Type 1: The P/Z interfaces are used to connect speed dome. K/B interfaces are used to connect
keyboard.
Type 2: The RS485 interfaces are not only used to connect speed dome but also to connect
keyboard.
The way to connect speed dome to the AHD Hybrid DVR:
Type 1: Disconnect pluggable block from the RS-485 terminal block and then loosen the fixed
screws from the pluggable block, insert signal cables into Y and Z port separately (Y is TX+;
Z is TX-) and tighten the fixed screws. Next, connect pluggable block back into terminal block.
Finally, connect the video cable of the speed dome to the video input interface of the AHD
Hybrid DVR.
Type 2: Disconnect pluggable block from the RS-485 terminal block and then loosen the fixed
screws from the pluggable block, insert signal cables into A and B port separately (A is TX+;
B is TX-) and tighten the fixed screws. Next, connect pluggable block back into terminal
block. Finally, connect the video cable of the speed dome to the video input interface of the
AHD Hybrid DVR.
Note: The pluggable block of some models may not be connected into the terminal block and
you shall obtain it from the accessories.
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2 Basic Operation
2.1 Startup and Shutdown
Please make sure all the connections are done properly before you power on the unit. Proper
startup and shutdown are crucial to expending the life of your device.
2.1.1 Startup
① Connect with the power.
② The device will boot and the power LED would turn blue.
③ A WIZARD window will pop up and show some information about time zone, time
setup, network configuration, record configuration and disk management. You can set up
here and refer to the concrete setup steps from the corresponding chapters. If users don’t
want to setup Wizard, please click Exit button to exit.
Note: Press and hold ESC/Exit/FN (Some models may not have this button.) key to
switch the resolution of the VGA/HDMI output.
2.1.2 Shutdown
You can power off the device by using remote controller, keyboard or mouse.
By remote controller:
① Press Power button. This will take you to a Shut down window. The unit will power off
after a while by clicking OK button.
② Disconnect the power.
By keyboard and mouse:
① Click Main MenuShutdown to pop up the Shutdown window. The unit will power off
after a while by clicking OK button.
② Disconnect the power.
2.2 Remote Controller
① It uses two AAA size batteries.
② Open the battery cover of the remote controller.
③ Place batteries. Please take care the polarity (+ and -).
④ Replace the battery cover.
Key points to check in case the remote doesn’t work.
1. Check batteries polarity.
2. Check the remaining charge in the batteries.
3. Check IR controller sensor for any masking.
4. Check the ID of the remote with respect to the AHD Hybrid DVR.
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Button
Function
Power Button
Switch off—to stop the device
Record Button
To start recording
-/-- /0-9
Input number or choose camera
Fn1 Button
Unavailable temporarily
Multi Button
To choose multi screen display mode
Next Button
To switch the live image
SEQ
To enter into auto dwell mode
Audio
To enable audio output in live mode
Switch
To switch the video output
Direction button
To move cursor in setup or pan/title PTZ
Enter Button
To confirm the choice or setup
Menu Button
To go to menu
Exit Button
To exit the current interface
Focus/IRIS/Zoom/PTZ
To control PTZ camera
Preset Button
To enter into preset setting in PTZ mode
Cruise Button
To go to cruise setting in PTZ mode
Track Button
To go to track setting in PTZ mode
Wiper Button
To enable wiper function in PTZ mode
Light Button
To enable light function in PTZ mode
Clear Button
To return to the previous interface
Fn2 Button
Unavailable temporarily
Info Button
Get information about the device.
To control playback.Play/Pause/Stop/ Previous
Section/ Next Section/Backward/ Forward
Snap Button
To take snapshots manually
Search Button
To go to search mode
Cut Button
To set the start/end time for backup
Backup Button
To go to backup mode
Zoom Button
To zoom in the images
PIP Button
To go to picture in picture setting mode
* You shall press P.T.Z button to enter PTZ setting mode, choose a channel and press P.T.Z button again
to hide the P.T.Z control panel. Then you can press preset, cruise, track, wiper or light button to enable
the relevant function.
If it still doesn’t work, please change a new remote controller to try, or contact your dealers.
There are two kinds of remote controller. The interface of remote controller is shown as below.
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Button
Function
REC
Record manually
Search
To enter search mode
MEUN
To enter menu
Exit
To exit the current interface
ENTER
To confirm the choice or setup
Direction button
To move cursor in setup
ZOOM
To zoom in
PIP
To set picture in picture
To control playback. Play/ Pause/ Stop/ Previous
Section/Next Section/Backward/ Forward
Multi
To choose multi screen display mode
Next
To switch between single picture and picture group
SEQ
To go to auto dwell mode
INFO
Get information about the device like firmware version,
HDD information
Entering password by remote controller
If you want to enter “123456” by IR remote controller, you shall follow the following steps.
① Move the cursor to password box and then press “Enter” button on the remote controller
to pop up a little soft keyboard.
② Move the cursor to “1” on the little soft keyboard and then press “Enter” button on the
③ Move the cursor to “Enter” button on the little soft keyboard and then press “Enter”
button on the remote controller.
Controlling Multiple Devices by remote controller
The default device ID of the AHD Hybrid DVR is 0. It’s not necessary to reset the device ID
when a remote is to be used to control a single device. However when controlling multiple
devices with multiple remote controllers, you would need to configure the device ID, please
refer to below steps:
① Activate remote controller to control the device: Turn the IR sensor of the remote
controller towards the IR receiver on the front panel, press the number key 8 twice on the
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* Mouse is the default tool for all operations unless an exception as indicated.
remote, input device ID of the AHD Hybrid DVR to be controlled (Range from: 0-65535;
the default device ID is 0) and press ENTER to confirm.
② You can check the device ID of a AHD Hybrid DVR from SetupBasicSystem
interface. You can also set multiple devices with the same device ID, however this can
cause interference if the devices are kept close to each other.
2.3 Using a Mouse
During live:
① Double-click on any camera window to see the full screen. Double-click again to return to
the previous screen.
② Right click to reveal the control menu on the screen. Right click again to hide the menu.
In Configuration:
① Click to enter a particular option. Right click to cancel the option or return to the previous
menu.
② In order to input a value in a particular screen, move cursor to the input box and click.
③ It supports mouse drag. Take setting up motion detection area for example: Click
customized, hold down the left button and drag to set motion detection area.
In Playback:
Click to choose the options. Right click to return to live mode.
In Backup:
Click to choose the options. Right click to return to previous picture.
2.4 Using the Soft Keyboard
1~0:Digital number.
Enter: Confirm to enter.
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Backspace: Delete the previous letter.
Shift: Switch between lower case and upper case.
ESC: Exit.
2.5 Common Buttons
【Default】: Restore the settings to the factory default setting.
【Apply】: Apply and save the settings.
【Copy】: Copy button. Click this button to copy the settings of one channel to other channels
quickly.
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3 Wizard Setup
The wizard will start once the device has loaded, which will guide you through some
important settings of your device. You can follow its instructions to set. However, you can
skip this wizard by clicking “Exit” button and then go to the setup interface to do detailed
setup. To set up the wizard, follow the steps as below:
① Set device name, language, date format, time format, time zone, system date, etc. Then
click “Next” button to continue.
② Set network. Please set the network according to the actual network situation. Then click
“Next” button to continue.
③ Set the disk management. You can format the HDDs and set their properties. Then click
“Next” button to continue.
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④ Click “Next” button to complete the wizard setup.
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Symbol
Meaning
Symbol
Meaning
Green
Manual record
Red
Sensor Alarm record
Yellow
Motion detection record
Blue
Schedule record
4 Live View
4.1 Login
You can login or log off the AHD Hybrid DVR system. Once logged off the user cannot do
any other operation except changing the multi-screen display.
The default username is “admin” and the default password is “123456”.
Please input the default username and password for the first time to log in.
4.2 Live View
Click right mouse or press ESC button on the front panel and then the control bar will display
at the bottom of the screen.
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Click the icon beside the screen display mode to display a channel select dialog. 6/8/13
channels can realize single channel big screen. Images can drag to any place to display in the
live interface. Click Main Menu button to go to main menu interface.
Screen Mode: You can choose a screen display mode to show the live images.
Dwell: Dwell means to display live images from different cameras in a sequence. The images
may be displayed as a single channel or in a grid fashion from different cameras. Dwell mode
is enabled only when the chosen display mode is not able to display all the available cameras.
Color: If this button is enabled, you can adjust the color of live pictures.
IPC: Click this button to set the parameters of the IP cameras. Please refer to 5.2 IP Camera
Settings for more details.
E-Zoom: Single channel large screen electronic amplification. Choose a channel and click this
button. Scroll up or down with your mouse scroll wheel to enlarge or restore the image. Right
click to exit.
Audio: Enable sound.
OSD: Call up the main menu of AHD camera.
PTZ: Click the PTZ button to control rotation position, speed and auto scan of the PTZ.
* Select COC protocol in P.T.Z configuration interface and then call 95 Preset or click “Iris+”
here to enable the menu of the AHD camera. Please refer to the user manual of AHD camera
for more details.
Snap: Click this button to snap the live pictures. These pictures will automatically be saved in
the SATA disk.
Record: Click this button to start/stop recording.
Playback: Click this button to playback the record files.
Live View Setup
To set up camera name:
① Go to Main MenuSetupLiveLive interface.
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② A software keyboard will pop up by clicking camera name area. Click the letters and (or)
digital numbers on the keyboard to input the name you want to display in live image.
③ Checkmark the camera name in the show name area. All channels will show the camera
name by checking “All” checkbox.
④Click “Apply” to save the settings.
To set up color:
① Click “Setting” button for a particular camera/channel to see a window as below:
② In this interface, you can adjust brightness, hue, saturation and contrast in live. Click
“OK” button to save the settings.
4.3 Sequence View
You can view channel or channel group in sequence.
① Go to Main MenuSetupLiveMain Monitor interface.
② Select display mode and channel.
③ Select dwell time. Click button to set up the previous channel groups of dwell
picture. Click button to set the latter channel groups of dwell picture.
④Click “Apply” to save the setting.
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⑤ Return to the live view interface. Right click to show the menu toolbar. Then enable
Dwell button.
If your device supports spot output and the spot ouput device has already been connected to
the device , you should set spot ouput. Spot output setup is similar to the main output setup.
If there is something you don’t want to display in the live image. You can set mask. For a
given channel a maximum of three areas can be masked.
4.4 Mask View
To set up mask area:
① Go to Main MenuSetupLiveMask interface.
② Click “Setting” button to go to live image.
③ Press and drag the left mouse button to set mask area.
④ Right click to exit the mask setting interface.
⑤ Click “Apply” button to save the settings.
To delete mask area:
① Click “Setting” button in the mask interface.
② Select a certain masked area and double click to delete that masked area.
③ Then click “Apply” button to save the settings.
4.5 ROI
You can set ROI areas. The ROI area you selected is clear than other areas especially in low
bitrate condition. You can use this function after adding IP cameras.
① Go to Main MenuSetupLiveROI interface.
② Clicking Setting button, a dialog box will pop up as below.
③ Check “enable”. Drag the mouse to set the ROI area. You may set 3 ROI areas at most.
④ Drag slide bar to set the sensitivity value (0-9). The higher the value is the more
sensitive it is to motion. Since the sensitivity is influenced by color and time (day or
night), you can adjust its value according to the practical conditions.
⑤ Click icon to save the settings. Click icon to exit the current interface.
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5 Add IP Cameras
This chapter mainly introduces how to connect multiple IP cameras through AHD Hybrid DVR.
Once you finish adding IP cameras, you can see the live images through the monitor of the
AHD Hybrid DVR.
5.1 Add IP Cameras
To add IP cameras via LAN:
① Please go to Main MenuIP Camera tab. Click “Search” button to search the devices in
the same local network. (The IPC which supports the Onvif protocol may be added
manually.)
② Go to the search tab. Click “Refresh” to refresh the searched devices.
If the IPC is not in the same local network, you can select the device and click “Setup”
to modify the IP address of the searched device.
Note: If the network of IP cameras and AHD Hybrid DVR are in LAN, their IP
address must be in the same network segment. For example: If the IP address of AHD
Hybrid DVR is 192.168.1.2, the IP address of IP camera must be 192.168.1.XXX.
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