Epcom S04, S16, S08 Quick Operation Manual

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Quick Operation Guide

UD.7L0202B1365B01

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This manual is applicable to

S04, S08, S16

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DVR Pre-Installation

The DVR is highly advanced surveillance equipment that should be installed with care. Please take
into consideration the following precautionary steps before installation of the DVR.

1. Keep all liquids away from the DVR.

2. Install the DVR in a well-ventilated and dust-free area.

3. Ensure environmental conditions meet factory specifications.

4. Install a manufacturer recommended HDD.

DVR Installation

During the installation of the DVR:

1. Use brackets for rack mounting.

2. Ensure there is ample room for audio and video cables.

3. When installing cables, ensure that the bend radius of the cables are no less than five times

than its diameter.

4. Allow at least 2cm (≈0.75-inch) of space between racks mounted devices.

5. Ensure the DVR is grounded.

6. Environmental temperature should be within the range of -10ºC ~ 55ºC, 14ºF ~ 131ºF.

7. Environmental humidity should be within the range of 10% ~ 90%.

Hard Disk Installation

Before you start:
Before installing a hard disk drive (HDD), please make surethe power is disconnected from the
DVR. A factoryrecommended HDD should be used for this installation.
Tools Required: Screwdriver.
To install a HDD on your DVR:

1. Remove the cover from theDVR by unfastening the screws on the back and
side.

2. Install the HDD in the HDD rack using the provided screws. Fasten the screws on the
bottom to fix the HDD.

3. Connect the HDD to the motherboard of the DVR with the included data cable, and
connect the power cable to the HDD.

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4. Re-install the cover of the DVR and fasten screws.

Front Panel

S Series DVR

S Series DVR

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Table 1Description of Indicators

Icon Description

1 Indicator turns red when DVR is powered up.

2

3

Indicator lights in red when data is being read from or
written to HDD.

Indicator blinks blue when network connection is
functioning properly.

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Table 2 Description of Control Panel Buttons

Rear Panel

S Series DVR
The rear panel of S08 is shown below:

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Table 3Description of Rear Panel

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1

BNC connector for analog video input.

VIDEO IN

2

BNC connector for video output.

VIDEO

OUT

3

HDMI video output.

HDMI

4

VGA

5

DB15 connector for VGA output. Display local video

output and menu.

RCA connector for audio input.

AUDIO IN

6

RCA connector for audio output.

AUDIO

OUT

7

RJ45 10M / 100M Ethernet interface.

LAN

Interface

8

Connects USB mouse or USB flash memory devices.

USB

9

10

Interface

12VDC power supply.

12V

Ground(needs to be connected when DVR starts up)

GND

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Specifications

Table 1 Specifications for S Series DVR

Model S 04 S 08 S 16

Video/

Audio

input

Video
compression

Video input 4-ch 8-ch 16-ch

Video input
interface

Audio
compression

H.264

BNC (1.0 Vp­p, 75 Ω), PAL
/NTSC self­adaptive

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Audio input

Two-way audio
input

1-ch, RCA (2.0
Vp-p, 1 kΩ)

1-ch, RCA (2.0
Vp-p, 1 kΩ)
(using the audio
input)

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Video/

Audio

output

HDMI/VGA
output

CVBS output

Encoding
resolution

Frame rate

Video bitrate

Audio output

1-ch,
resolution:
1080P:

1-ch, BNC (1.0
Vp-p, 75 Ω),
resolution: PAL:
704 × 576,
NTSC: 704 ×
480

25 fps (P) / 30
fps (N)

32 Kbps ~ 3072
Kbps, or user
defined (Max.
3072 Kbps)

1-ch, RCA
(Linear, 1 kΩ)

Hard disk

External

interface

Audio bitrate 64 Kbps

Support;
Sub-stream:

Dual-stream

CIF/QCIF @ 25
fps (P) / 30 fps
(N)

Stream type

Synchronous
playback

SATA

Capacity

Network
interface

Video, Video &
Audio

4-ch 8-ch 16-ch

1 SATA
interface

Up to 4TB
capacity

1, RJ45 10M /
100M Ethernet
interface

USB interface 2, USB 2.0

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Power supply 12 VDC

Consumption
(without hard

≤ 6 W ≤ 8 W ≤ 10 W

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General

Working
temperature

Working
humidity

Dimensions
(W × D × H)

-10 ºC ~+55 ºC

10% ~ 90%

200 × 200 ×
45 mm

200 × 200 ×
45 mm

285 × 210 ×
45 mm

Weight
(without hard

≤ 0.8 kg ≤ 1 kg ≤ 1.5 kg

disk)

HDD Storage Calculation Chart

The following chart shows an estimation of storage space used based on recording at one channel
for an hour at a fixed bit rate.

Bit Rate Storage Used
96Kbps 42M
128Kbps 56M

160Kbps 70M
192Kbps 84M
224Kbps 98M

256Kbps 112M
320Kbps 140M
384Kbps 168M
448Kbps 196M
512Kbps 225M
640Kbps 281M
768Kbps 337M
896Kbps 393M

1024Kbps 450M
1280Kbps 562M

1536Kbps 675M
1792Kbps 787M
2048Kbps 900M
3072Kbps 1350M

Please note that supplied values for storage space used is just for reference. Storage space

used is estimated by formulas and may have some deviation from actual value.

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Menu Operation

Menu Structure
The menu structureof the S series DVR isshown as below:

Startup and Shutdown
Proper startup and shutdown procedures are crucial to expanding the life of the DVR.

Before you start:
Check that the voltage of the extra power supply is the same with the device’s requirement, and
the ground connection is working properly.
Starting up the device:
Steps:
Check thepower supply is plugged into an electrical outlet. It is HIGHLY recommended that an
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) be used in conjunction with the device. The Power indicator
LED should turn red indicating that the unit begins to start up.
Shuttingdown the device:
Steps:

1. Enter the Shutdown menu.
Menu >Shutdown

2. Click the Shutdown button to enter the following dialog box:

3. Click the Yes button. The following message box pops up:

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4. Disconnect the power supply of the device.

Using the Setup Wizard
The Setup Wizard can walk you through some important settings of thedevice.By default, the
Setup Wizard starts once the device has loaded.
Operating the Setup Wizard:

You can set the system language after the device is started. Click Apply to save the language

settings.

1. Check the checkbox to enable Setup Wizard when device starts. Click Next to continue the
setup wizard.

You can also click Cancel to exit the Setup Wizard, or use the Setup Wizard next time by
leaving the “Start wizard when device starts?” checkbox checked and exit.

2. ClickNextbutton on the Wizard window to enter the Loginwindow.

1) Enter the admin password. By default, the password is 12345.

2) To change the admin password, check the New Admin Password checkbox. Enter the new

password and confirm the password in the given fields.

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3. Click the Next button to enter the Date and Time settingswindow. Set the time zone, date
format, system date and system time.

1. Click Next button which takes you back to the NetworkSetup Wizard window.

Set the network parameters, including the NIC type, IPv4 address, IPv4 subnet mask, default
gateway, etc. You can enable the DHCP to automaticallyobtain an IP address and other
network settings from that server.

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2. Click Next button to enter the HDD Management window.
To initialize the HDD, click theInit button. Initialization removes all the data saved in the HDD.

3. Click Next button to enter the Record Settings window.

1) Select the camera to configure.Check the checkbox to enable Start Recording.

2) Check the checkbox to enable Start Recording.

3) Select the recording mode to Normal or Motion Detection.

4) Click Copy to copy the record settings of the current camera to other camera (s) if needed.

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Alarm (video loss, tampering or motion detectionalarm)

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5) Click OK to return to the Record Settings window

6) Click OK to complete the startup Setup Wizard.

Live View
Some icons are provided on screen in LiveView mode to indicate different camera status. These
icons include:
Live View Icons
In the live view mode, there are icons at the right top of the screen for each channel, showing
the status of the record and alarm in the channel, so that you can fi nd problems as soon as
possible.

Alarm (video loss, tampering or motion detectionalarm)

Record (manual record, schedule record or motion detectionrecord)

Alarm & Record

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Using the Mouse in Live View

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In the live view mode, right click on the screen or move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, the
main menu button andthe live view toolbar appears:

Table 4Mouse Operation in Live View

Icon Name Description

Main Menu Enter the main menu of the system.

Single
Screen

Multi-screen

Normal
Record

Motion
Detection
Record

All-day
Playback

Aux Monitor

Switch to the single full screen live view mode.

Switch to multi-screen live view mode.
The multi-screen icon varies according to the device
models.

Start all-day normal recording for all channels.

Start motion detection recording for all channels.

Play back the record video.

Switch to the auxiliary output mode and the
operation for the main output is disabled.

If you enter Aux monitor mode and the Aux monitor
is not connected, the mouse operation is disabled.
You can use the mouse wheel to double-click for
three times to switch back to the main video output.

Set the video output mode to Standard, Bright,

Output Mode

Previous

Gentle or Vivid.

Switch to the previous screen.

Screen

Next Screen

Switch to the next screen.

Enable/disable the auto-switch of the screens.

Start/Stop

/

/

Auto-switch

Lock/Unlock Lock/unlock the toolbar.

The dwell time of the live view configuration must be
set before using Start Auto-switch.

If the corresponding camera supports intelligent function, the Reboot Intelligence option is

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included when right-clicking mouse on this camera.

Main/Aux Output Switching

When the VGA output is configured as the main output, you can perform the following operation
to switch to CVBS output as the main output.
Steps:

1. In the live view mode, select the Aux Monitor from the toolbar on the bottom or use the
mouse wheel to double-click on the VGA output screen, and the following message box pops
up:

2. Use the mouse wheel to double-click on the screen again to switch to the Aux output, or
click Cancel to cancel the operation.

3. On the aux output monitor, you can do some basic operation on the live view mode for the
Aux output, including recording, live view, image settings, switch to main monitor, and no
operation is allowed for the main output.

4. To switch to the main vide output, click the Main Monitor icon on the toolbar and click Yes on
the pop-up message box.

You can select the Menu Output Mode to Auto, Main CVBS or VGA

underMenu>Configuration>>General>More Settings.

Record

Move the mouse to the bottom of the screen in live view mode, and select the or icon
to configure the normal recording or motion detection recording of all chnanels.
In the pop-up message box, clickYesto start the recording of all channels.

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The full-screen motion detection triggered recording is configured by default in this mode.

Playback
Play back the record files of a specific channel in thelive view menu.

Instant playback by channel

Choose a channel under live view using the mouse and click the button in the shortcut operation
menu.

Only record files recorded during the past five minutes on this channel will be played back.

All-day playback by channel

1. Enter the All-day Playback menu.
Right-click on the live view window and the live view toolbar appears at the bottom of the
screen. Then clickthe icon on the live view toolbar to enter the Playback interface.
Under multi-screen live view, record files of the selected channel will be played back.

2. Playback management.
The toolbar in the bottom part of Playback interface can be used to control playing process.

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The channel and time selection menu will display by moving the mouse to the right of the
playback interface.
Tick the channel or channels if you want to switch playback to another channel or execute
simultaneousplayback of multiple channels.

Backup
Recorded files can be backed up to various devices, such as USB flash drives, or USB HDDs.
To export recorded files:

1. Click Menu>Export to enter Video Export interface.

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Choose the channel(s) you want to back up and click theSearch button.

2. On the Search Resultinterface select record files you want to back up, and then click
Export button.

3. Enter Export interface, choose backup device and click Export button to start exporting.

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4. Check backup result.
Choose the record file in Export interface and click the button to check it.

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