Hikvision DS-7604HI-ST, DS-7608HI-ST, DS-7616HI-ST User Manual

Digital Video Recorder

User Manual

UD.6L0202D1901A01

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

This user manual is intended for users of NVR (“Product”). It includes instructions on how to use the Product. The software embodied in the Product is governed by the user license agreement covering that Product.

About this Manual

This Manual is subject to domestic and international copyright protection. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (“Hikvision”) reserves all rights to this manual. This manual cannot be reproduced, changed, translated, or distributed, partially or wholly, by any means, without the prior written permission of Hikvision.

Trademarks

and other Hikvision marks are the property of Hikvision and are registered trademarks or the subject of applications for the same by Hikvision and/or its affiliates. Other trademarks mentioned in this manual are the properties of their respective owners. No right of license is given to use such trademarks without express permission.

Disclaimer

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HIKVISION MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, REGARDING THIS MANUAL. HIKVISION DOES NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MANUAL, OR THE CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, OR RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN. YOUR USE OF THIS MANUAL AND ANY RELIANCE ON THIS MANUAL SHALL BE WHOLLY AT YOUR OWN RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL HIKVISION, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES, INCLUDING, AMONG OTHERS, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, SECURITY BREACHES, OR LOSS OF DATA OR DOCUMENTATION, IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THIS MANUAL, EVEN IF HIKVISION HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OR CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Privacy Notice

Surveillance laws vary by jurisdiction. Check all relevant laws in your jurisdiction before using this product for surveillance purposes to ensure that your use of this product conforms.

Support

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your local dealer.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Regulatory information FCC information

FCC compliance: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a digital device,

pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

FCC conditions

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1. This device may not cause harmful interference.

2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

EU Conformity Statement

This product and - if applicable - the supplied accessories too are marked with "CE" and comply therefore with the applicable harmonized European standards listed under the Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC, the EMC Directive 2004/108/EC, the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.

2012/19/EU (WEEE directive): Products marked with this symbol cannot be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste in the European Union. For proper recycling, return this product to your local supplier upon the purchase of equivalent new equipment, or dispose of it at designated collection points. For more information see: www.recyclethis.info.

2006/66/EC (battery directive): This product contains a battery that cannot be disposed of as unsorted municipal waste in the European Union. See the product documentation for specific battery information. The battery is marked with this symbol, which may include lettering to indicate cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), or mercury (Hg). For proper recycling, return the battery to your supplier or to a designated collection point. For more information see: www.recyclethis.info.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Preventive and Cautionary Tips

Before connecting and operating your device, please be advised of the following tips:

• Ensure unit is installed in a well-ventilated, dust-free environment.

• Unit is designed for indoor use only.

• Keep all liquids away from the device.

• Ensure environmental conditions meet factory specifications.

• Ensure unit is properly secured to a rack or shelf. Major shocks or jolts to the unit as a result of dropping

it may cause damage to the sensitive electronics within the unit.

• Use the device in conjunction with an UPS if possible.

• Power down the unit before connecting and disconnecting accessories and peripherals.

• A factory recommended HDD should be used for this device.

• Improper use or replacement of the battery may result in hazard of explosion. Replace with the same or

equivalent type only. Dispose of used batteries according to the instructions provided by the battery manufacturer.

CHANGE THE DEFAULT PASSWORD

The default password (12345) for the Admin account is for first-time log-in purposes only. You must change this default password to

better protect against security risks, such as the unauthorized access by others to the product that may prevent the product from functioning properly and/or lead to other undesirable consequences.

For your privacy, we strongly recommend changing the password to something of your own choosing (using a minimum of 8 characters, including upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters) in order to increase the security of your product.

Proper configuration of all passwords and other security settings is the responsibility of the installer and/or end-user.

iii

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Series

Model

Type

7600HI-ST Series

DS-7604/08/16HI-ST

Network HDVR

Thank you for purchasing our product. If there is any question or request, please do not hesitate to contact dealer. This manual is applicable to following embedded network DVR series.

This manual may contain several technically incorrect places or printing errors, and the content is subject to change without notice. The updates will be added into the new version of this manual. We will readily improve or update the products or procedures described in the manual.

In order to simplify the description, we make the following conventions (unless otherwise stated): We define DS-7600HI-ST series as HDVR (Hybrid DVR) in this manual. The figures shown in this manual are for reference only. The appearance and interface of the device are subject to the actual model.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Product Key Features

General

 Connectable to the network cameras, network dome and encoders.  Connectable to the third-party network cameras like ACTI, Arecont, AXIS, Brickcom, Bosch,

Canon, PANASONIC, Pelco, SAMSUNG and SANYO, SONY, Vivotek and ZAVIO.

 Connectable to the third-party cameras that adopt ONVIF or PSIA protocol.  PAL/NTSC adaptive video inputs.  H.264 video compression with high reliability and superior definition.  Each channel supports dual-stream.  Up to 32 network cameras can be added.  Independent configuration for each channel, including resolution, frame rate, bitrate, image

quality, etc.

 The quality of the input and output video is configurable.  Each channel supports two kinds of compression parameters, the normal continuous and event.

Sub-stream can be configured locally.

 Encoding for both audio/video composite stream and video stream; audio and video

synchronization during composite stream encoding.

 Support CABAC (this feature is supported by analog cameras only).  Watermark technology.

Local Monitoring

 Simultaneous HDMI, VGA and CVBS outputs.  HDMI output and VGA output at up to 1920×1080P resolution.  1/4/6/8/9/16-division live view is supported, and the display sequence of screens is adjustable.  Live view screen can be switched in group, and manual switch and auto-switch review is also

provided, the interval of auto-switch can be adjusted.

 Quick setting menu is provided for live view.  The selected live view channel can be shielded.  Motion detection, video tampering, video exception alarm and video loss alarm functions.  Privacy mask.  Several PTZ protocols supported; PTZ preset, patrol and pattern.  Zooming in by clicking the mouse and PTZ tracing by dragging mouse.

HDD Management

 Up to 2 SATA hard disks can be connected, each disk with a maximum of 4TB storage

capacity.

 8 network disks (8 NAS disks, or 7 NAS disks+1 IP SAN disk) can be connected.  HDD group management.  HDD property: redundancy, read-only, read/write (R/W).  HDD quota management; different capacity can be assigned to different channel.  Support S.M.A.R.T. and bad sector detection.

Recording and Playback

 Provide new playback interface with easy and flexible operation.  Holiday recording schedule configuration.  Normal and event video encoding parameters.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

 Multiple recording types: manual, normal, alarm, motion, motion | alarm, motion & alarm.  8 recording time periods with separated recording types.  Pre-record and post-record for alarm, motion detection recording, and pre-record time for

schedule and manual recording.

 Searching record files by events (alarm input/motion detection).  Customization of tags, searching and playing back by tags.  Locking and unlocking record files.  Local redundant recording.  Searching and playing back record files by camera No., recording type, start time, end time,

etc.

 Smart search for the selected area in the video.  Zooming in when playback.  Reverse playback for multi-channel.  Supports pause, fast forward, slow forward, skip forward, and skip backward when playback,

locating by dragging the mouse.

 Up to 16-ch synchronous playback at WD1 real time.

Backup

 Export video data by USB, or SATA device.  Export video clips when playback.  Management and maintenance of backup devices.  Support NTFS and FAT32 formatted backup devices.

Alarm and Exception

 Configurable arming time of alarm input/output.  Alarm for video loss, motion detection, tampering, abnormal signal, video input/output

standard mismatch, illegal login, network disconnected, IP confliction, abnormal record, HDD error, and HDD full, etc.

 Alarm triggers full screen monitoring, audio alarm, notifying surveillance center, sending

email and alarm output.

 Automatic restore when system is abnormal.

Other Local Functions

 Users can operate by mouse and IR remote control.  Three-level user management; admin user is allowed to create many operating accounts and

define their operating permission, which includes the limit to access any camera.

 Operation, alarm, exceptions and log recording and searching.  Manually triggering and clearing alarms.  Importing and exporting of device configuration file.

Network Functions

 1 self-adaptive 10M/100M/1000M (10M/100M for DS-7604HI-ST) network interface.  IPv6 is supported.  TCP/IP protocol, PPPoE, DHCP, DNS, DDNS, NTP, SADP, SMTP, SNMP, NFS, and iSCSI

are supported.

 TCP, UDP and RTP for unicast.  Auto/Manual port mapping and automatically discovered by UPnP™.  Remote web browser access by HTTPS ensures high security.  Remote reverse playback by RTSP.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

 Support accessing by the platform by ONVIF.  Remote search, playback, download, locking and unlocking the record files, and downloading

files broken transfer resume.

 Remote parameters setup; remote import/export of device parameters.  Remote viewing of the device status, system logs and alarm status.  Remote locking and unlocking of control panel and mouse.  Remote HDD formatting and program upgrading.  Remote system restart.  RS-485 transparent channel transmission.  Alarm and exception information can be sent to the remote host  Remotely start/stop recording.  Remotely start/stop alarm output.  Upgraded by remote FTP server is supported.  Remote PTZ control.  Remote JPEG capture.  Two-way voice talk and voice broadcasting.  Embedded WEB server.

Development Scalability:

 SDK for Windows and Linux system.  Source code of application software for demo.  Development support and training for application system.

vii

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Product Key Features ............................................................................................................ v

Chapter 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 1

1.1 Front Panel ................................................................................................................. 2

1.2 IR Remote Control Operations ................................................................................... 3

1.3 USB Mouse Operation ............................................................................................... 6

1.4 Input Method Description .......................................................................................... 7

1.5 Rear Panel .................................................................................................................. 8

1.6 Starting Up and Shutting Down the Device ............................................................... 9

Chapter 2 Getting Started .................................................................................................. 10

2.1 Using the Wizard for Basic Configuration ............................................................... 11

2.2 Adding and Connecting the IP Cameras................................................................... 15

2.2.1 Adding the Online IP Cameras .................................................................... 15

2.2.2 Configuring the Connected IP Cameras ...................................................... 18

Chapter 3 Live View ............................................................................................................ 22

3.1 Introduction of Live View ........................................................................................ 23

3.2 Operations in Live View Mode ................................................................................ 24

3.2.1 Using the Mouse in Live View .................................................................... 24

3.2.2 Using an Auxiliary Monitor ........................................................................ 25

3.2.3 Quick Setting Toolbar in Live View Mode.................................................. 26

3.3 Adjusting Live View Settings ................................................................................... 28

3.4 User Logout .............................................................................................................. 30

Chapter 4 PTZ Controls ..................................................................................................... 31

4.1 Configuring PTZ Settings ........................................................................................ 32

4.2 Setting PTZ Presets, Patrols & Patterns ................................................................... 34

4.2.1 Customizing Presets .................................................................................... 34

4.2.2 Calling Presets ............................................................................................. 34

4.2.3 Customizing Patrols .................................................................................... 35

4.2.4 Calling Patrols ............................................................................................. 36

4.2.5 Customizing Patterns................................................................................... 37

4.2.6 Calling Patterns ........................................................................................... 37

4.2.7 Customizing Linear Scan Limit .................................................................. 38

4.2.8 Calling Linear Scan ..................................................................................... 39

4.2.9 One-touch Park ............................................................................................ 39

4.3 PTZ Control Panel .................................................................................................... 41

Chapter 5 Recording Settings ............................................................................................ 42

5.1 Configuring Parameters ............................................................................................ 43

5.2 Configuring Recording Schedule ............................................................................. 46

5.3 Configuring Motion Detection Recording ............................................................... 49

5.4 Configuring Alarm Triggered Recording ................................................................. 51

5.5 Configuring VCA Triggered Recording ................................................................... 54

5.6 Configuring Manual Recording ............................................................................... 55

5.7 Configuring Holiday Recording ............................................................................... 56

viii

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.8 Configuring Redundant Recording .......................................................................... 57

5.9 Configuring HDD Group for Recording .................................................................. 59

5.10 Files Protection ......................................................................................................... 60

Chapter 6 Playback ............................................................................................................. 63

6.1 Playing Back Record Files ....................................................................................... 64

6.1.1 Playing Back by Channel ............................................................................ 64

6.1.2 Playing Back by Time ................................................................................. 66

6.1.3 Playing Back by Event Search .................................................................... 68

6.1.4 Playing Back by Tag.................................................................................... 70

6.1.5 Smart Playback ............................................................................................ 73

6.1.6 Playing Back by Searching System Log ..................................................... 76

6.1.7 Playing Back External Files ........................................................................ 77

6.2 Auxiliary Functions of Playback .............................................................................. 79

6.2.1 Playing Back Frame by Frame .................................................................... 79

6.2.2 Digital Zoom ............................................................................................... 79

6.2.3 Reverse Playback of Multi-channel ............................................................ 79

Chapter 7 Backup ................................................................................................................ 81

7.1 Backing up Record Files .......................................................................................... 82

7.1.1 Quick Export ............................................................................................... 82

7.1.2 Backing up by Normal Video Search .......................................................... 84

7.1.3 Backing up by Event Search ....................................................................... 87

7.1.4 Backing up Video Clips ............................................................................... 89

7.2 Managing Backup Devices ....................................................................................... 92

Chapter 8 Alarm Settings ................................................................................................... 96

8.1 Setting Motion Detection ......................................................................................... 97

8.2 Setting Sensor Alarms ............................................................................................ 100

8.3 Detecting Video Loss ............................................................................................. 103

8.4 Detecting Video Tampering .................................................................................... 105

8.5 Detecting VCA Alarm ............................................................................................ 107

8.6 Handling Exceptions .............................................................................................. 109

8.7 Setting Alarm Response Actions ............................................................................ 110

8.8 Triggering or Clearing Alarm Output Manually ..................................................... 113

Chapter 9 Network Settings ............................................................................................. 114

9.1 Configuring General Settings ................................................................................. 115

9.2 Configuring Advanced Settings ............................................................................. 116

9.2.1 Configuring PPPoE Settings ..................................................................... 116

9.2.2 Configuring DDNS Settings ...................................................................... 116

9.2.3 Configuring NTP Server Settings .............................................................. 120

9.2.4 Configuring SNMP Settings ...................................................................... 121

9.2.5 Configuring Remote Alarm Host Settings ................................................. 122

9.2.6 Configuring Multicast Settings ................................................................. 123

9.2.7 Configuring RTSP Settings ....................................................................... 123

9.2.8 Configuring Server and HTTP Ports ......................................................... 123

9.2.9 Configuring Email Settings ....................................................................... 124

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

9.2.10 Configuring NAT ...................................................................................... 126

9.3 Checking Network Traffic ...................................................................................... 129

9.4 Network Detection ................................................................................................. 130

9.4.1 Testing Network Delay and Packet Loss ................................................... 130

9.4.2 Exporting Network Packet ........................................................................ 130

9.4.3 Checking Network Status .......................................................................... 132

9.4.4 Checking Network Statistics ..................................................................... 132

Chapter 10 HDD Management .......................................................................................... 134

10.1 Initializing HDDs ................................................................................................... 135

10.2 Managing Network HDD ....................................................................................... 137

10.3 Managing HDD Group ........................................................................................... 140

10.3.1 Setting HDD Groups ................................................................................. 140

10.3.2 Setting HDD Property ............................................................................... 141

10.4 Configuring Quota Mode ....................................................................................... 143

10.5 Checking HDD Status ............................................................................................ 145

10.6 Checking S.M.A.R.T. Information ......................................................................... 147

10.7 Detecting Bad Sector .............................................................................................. 148

10.8 Configuring HDD Error Alarms ............................................................................. 149

Chapter 11 Camera Settings .............................................................................................. 150

11.1 Configuring OSD Settings ..................................................................................... 151

11.2 Configuring Privacy Mask ..................................................................................... 152

11.3 Configuring Video Parameters ............................................................................... 153

Chapter 12 Device Management and Maintenance .......................................................... 155

12.1 Viewing System Information ................................................................................. 156

12.1.1 Viewing Device Information ..................................................................... 156

12.1.2 Viewing Camera Information .................................................................... 156

12.1.3 Viewing Record Information ..................................................................... 156

12.1.4 Viewing Alarm Information ...................................................................... 157

12.1.5 Viewing Network Information .................................................................. 157

12.1.6 Viewing HDD Information ........................................................................ 158

12.2 Searching & Exporting Log Files ........................................................................... 159

12.3 Importing/Exporting Configuration Files ............................................................... 163

12.4 Upgrading System .................................................................................................. 164

12.4.1 Upgrading by Local Backup Device ......................................................... 164

12.4.2 Upgrading by FTP ..................................................................................... 164

12.5 Restoring Default Settings ..................................................................................... 166

Chapter 13 Others ............................................................................................................... 167

13.1 Configuring General Settings ................................................................................. 168

13.2 Configuring DST Settings ...................................................................................... 169

13.3 Configuring More Settings ..................................................................................... 170

13.4 Managing User Accounts ....................................................................................... 171

13.4.1 Adding a User ........................................................................................... 171

13.4.2 Deleting a User .......................................................................................... 174

13.4.3 Editing a User ............................................................................................ 174

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

13.4.4 Changing Password of Admin ................................................................... 175

13.5 Logging out/Shutting down/Rebooting Device ...................................................... 177

Appendix 178

Glossary 179

Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................ 180

List of IP Cameras Compatible ......................................................................................... 184

List of Hikvision IP Cameras Compatible ........................................................................ 184

List of Third-party IP Cameras Compatible ...................................................................... 187

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Chapter 1 Introduction

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

No.

Name

Function Description

POWER

POWER indicator turns green when device is powered up.

STATUS

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

Tx/Rx

Tx/Rx indictor blinks green when network connection is functioning properly.

IR Receiver

Receiver for IR remote.

USB Interface

Connects USB mouse or USB flash memory devices.

1.1 Front Panel

The front panel of the device is shown in Figure 1.1.

Figure 1. 1 Front Panel

Table 1. 1 Description of Front Panel

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

No.

Name

Description 1 POWER

Power on/off the device.

DEV

Enables/Disables Remote Control.

Alphanumeric Buttons:

Switch to the corresponding channel in Live view or PTZ Control mode.

Input numbers and characters in Edit mode.

Switch channels in Playback mode.

EDIT Button

Edit text fields. When editing text fields, it will also function as a Backspace button to delete the character in front of the cursor.

1.2 IR Remote Control Operations

The device may also be controlled with the included IR remote control, shown in Figure 1.2.

Batteries (2×AAA) must be installed before operation.

Figure 1. 2 Remote Control

The keys on the remote control closely resemble the ones on the front panel. See Table 1.2.

Table 1. 2 Description of the IR Remote Control Buttons

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

On checkbox fields, pressing the button will tick the checkbox.

In PTZ Control mode, the button adjusts the iris of the camera.

In Playback mode, it can be used to generate video clips for backup.

Enter/exit the folder of USB device.

A Button

Adjust focus in the PTZ Control menu.

It is also used to switch input methods (upper and lowercase alphabet, symbols and numeric input).

REC Button

Enter the Manual Record setting menu.

In PTZ control settings, press the button and then you can call a PTZ preset by pressing Numeric button.

It is also used to turn audio on/off in the Playback mode.

PLAY Button

The button is used to enter the Playback mode.

It is also used to auto scan in the PTZ Control menu.

INFO Button

Reserved for future usage.

VOIP/MON Button

Switch main and spot output.

In PTZ Control mode, it can be used to zoom out the image.

MENU Button

Press the button will help you return to the Main menu (after successful login).

Press and hold the button for 5 seconds will turn off audible key beep.

In PTZ Control mode, the MENU/WIPER button will start wiper (if applicable).

In Playback mode, it is used to show/hide the control toolbar.

PREV Button

Switch single screen and multi-screen mode.

In PTZ Control mode, it is used to adjust the focus in conjunction with the A/FOCUS+ button.

DIRECTION/ENTER

Buttons

The DIRECTION buttons are used to navigate between different fields and items in menus.

In the Playback mode, the Up and Down button is used to speed up and slow down recorded video. The Left and Right button will select the next and previous record files.

In Live View mode, these buttons can be used to cycle through channels.

In PTZ control mode, it can control the movement of the PTZ camera.

The ENTER button is used to confirm selection in any of the menu modes.

It can also be used to tick checkbox fields.

In Playback mode, it can be used to play or pause the video.

In single-frame Playback mode, pressing the button will advance the video by a single frame.

In Auto-switch mode, it can be used to stop /start auto switch.

PTZ Button

Enter the PTZ Control mode.

In the PTZ Control mode, it is used to adjust the iris of the PTZ camera.

ESC Button

Back to the previous menu.

Press for arming/disarming the device in Live View mode.

RESERVED

Reserved for future usage.

F1 Button

Select all items on the list when used in a list field.

In PTZ Control mode, it will turn on/off PTZ light (if applicable).

In Playback mode, it is used to switch play and reverse play.

PTZ Control Buttons

Buttons to adjust the iris, focus and zoom of a PTZ camera.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

F2 Button

Cycle through tab pages.

In synchronous playback mode, it is used to switch channels.

Troubleshooting Remote Control:

Make sure you have installed batteries properly in the remote control. And you have to aim the remote control at the IR receiver in the front panel.

If there is no response after you press any button on the remote, follow the procedure below to troubleshoot.

Steps:

1. Go to Menu > Settings > General > More Settings by operating the front control panel or the mouse.

2. Check and remember device No.. The default device No. is 255. This No. is valid for all the IR remote

controls.

3. Press the DEV button on the remote control.

4. Enter the device No. in step 2.

5. Press the ENTER button on the remote.

If the Status indicator on the front panel turns blue, the remote control is operating properly. If the Status indicator does not turn blue and there is still no response from the remote, please check the following:

When the device No. is 255, the Status indicator is off when device is controlled by an IR remote control.

1. Batteries are installed correctly and the polarities of the batteries are not reversed.

2. Batteries are fresh and not out of charge.

3. IR receiver is not obstructed.

If the remote still can’t function properly, please change a remote and try again, or contact the device provider.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Name

Action

Description

Left-Click

Single-Click

Live view: Select channel and show the quick set menu. Menu: Select and enter.

Double-Click

Live view: Switch single-screen and multi-screen.

Click and Drag

PTZ control: pan, tilt and zoom. Tamper-proof, privacy mask and motion detection: Select target area. Digital zoom-in: Drag and select target area. Live view: Drag channel/time bar.

Right-Click

Single-Click

Live view: Show menu. Menu: Exit current menu to upper level menu.

Scroll-Wheel

Scrolling up

Live view: Previous screen. Right-click Menu: Previous item.

Scrolling down

Live view: Next screen. Right-click Menu: Next item.

1.3 USB Mouse Operation

A regular 3-button (Left/Right/Scroll-wheel) USB mouse can also be used with this device. To use a USB mouse:

1. Plug USB mouse into one of the USB interfaces on the front panel of the device.

2. The mouse should automatically be detected. If in a rare case that the mouse is not detected, the possible

reason may be that the two devices are not compatible, please refer to the recommended device list from your provider.

The operation of the mouse:

Table 1. 3 Description of the Mouse Control

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Icons

Description

Icons

Description

English

Capital English

Numbers

Symbols

Lowercase/Uppercase

Backspace

Space

Enter Exit

1.4 Input Method Description

Figure 1. 3 Soft Keyboard

Description of the buttons on the soft keyboard:

Table 1. 4 Description of the Soft Keyboard Icons

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

No.

Item

Description

VIDEO IN

BNC connector for analog video input.

VIDEO OUT

BNC connector for video output.

AUDIO IN

RCA connector for audio input.

USB Interface

Connects USB mouse or USB flash memory devices.

HDMI

HDMI video output.

VGA

DB15 connector for VGA output. Display local video output and menu.

AUDIO OUT

RCA connector for audio output.

LAN Interface

Network interface.

RS-485 Interface

Connector for RS-485 devices. Connect the D+ and D- terminals to R+ and R- of PTZ receiver respectively.

12V

12 VDC power supply.

POWER

Switch for turning on/off the device.

GND

Ground (needs to be connected when device starts up).

1.5 Rear Panel

Table 1. 5 Description of Rear Panel

Figure 1. 4 Rear Panel

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

1.6 Starting Up and Shutting Down the Device

Purpose:

Proper startup and shutdown procedures are crucial to expanding the life of the device.

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:

1. Check the power supply is plugged into an electrical outlet. It is HIGHLY recommended that an

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) be used in conjunction with the device.

2. Press the POWER button on the rear panel. The Power indicator LED should turn green indicating that the

device begins to start up.

Shutting down the device:

Steps:

1. Enter the Shutdown menu.

Menu > Shutdown

Figure 1. 5 Shutdown Menu

2. Click the Shutdown button.

3. Click the Yes button.

4. Press the POWER button on the rear panel when the hint “Please power off” pops up to shut down the

device properly.

Rebooting the device

In the Shutdown menu (Figure 1.5), you can also reboot the device.

Steps:

1. Enter the Shutdown menu by clicking Menu > Shutdown.

2. Click the Logout button to logout the device or the Reboot button to reboot the device.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Chapter 2 Getting Started

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

2.1 Using the Wizard for Basic Configuration

By default, the Setup Wizard starts once the device has loaded, as shown in Figure 2.1.

Figure 2. 1 Start Wizard Interface

Operating the Setup Wizard:

1. The Start Wizard can walk you through some important settings of the device. If you don’t want to use the

Start Wizard at that moment, click . You can also choose to use the Start Wizard next time by leaving the “Start wizard when device starts?” checkbox checked.

2. Click on the Wizard window to enter the Login window, as shown in Figure 2.2.

Figure 2. 2 Login Window

3. Enter the admin password. By default, the password is 12345.

The default password (12345) for the Admin account is for first-time log-in purposes only. You must

change this default password to better protect against security risks, such as the unauthorized access by others to the product that may prevent the product from functioning properly and/or lead to other undesirable consequences.

4. To change the admin password, check the New Admin Password checkbox. Enter the new password and

confirm the password in the given fields.

5. Click to enter the date and time settings window, as shown in Figure 2.3.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 2. 3 Date and Time Settings

6. After the time settings, click which takes you to the Network Start Wizard window, as shown in

Figure 2.4.

DS-7604HI-ST only supports 10M/100Mbps NIC type.

Figure 2. 4 Network Configuration

7. Click to enter the HDD Management window.

Figure 2. 5 HDD Management

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

8. To initialize the HDD, select the HDD and click . Initialization removes all the data saved in the

HDD.

9. Click to enter the IP Camera Management window, as shown in Figure 2.6.

Figure 2. 6 IP Camera Management

10. Click to search IP Camera. Click to add IP Camera.

11. After finishing IP Camera settings, click to enter the Record Settings window.

Figure 2. 7 Record Settings

12. Click to copy the settings to other channels, as shown in Figure 2.8.

Figure 2. 8 Copy Record Settings

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

13. Click to complete the start wizard settings.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

2.2 Adding and Connecting the IP Cameras

2.2.1 Adding the Online IP Cameras

Purpose:

HDVR can connect the network cameras and record the video got from them. So before you can get a live view or record of the video, you should add the network cameras to the connection list of the device.

Before you start:

Ensure the network connection is valid and correct. For detailed network configuration and checking, please see

9.1 Configuring General Settings, 9.3 Checking Network Traffic and 9.4 Network Detection.

Option 1:

Steps:

1. Right-click the mouse in the live view mode to show the right-click menu.

2. Select Add IP Camera.

Figure 2. 9 Right-click Menu of Adding IP Camera

3. To add the online cameras with same network segment:

1) The detected online camera will be listed in the camera list, as shown in the figure below.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Icon

Explanation

Icon

Explanation

Edit basic parameters of the camera

Add the detected IP camera.

Delete the IP camera

The camera is disconnected; you can click the icon to get the exception information of camera.

The camera is connected.

Advanced settings of the camera.

Figure 2. 10 Manual Adding IP Camera Interface

2) Click the button to add the camera.

4. To add other IP cameras:

1) Click the Custom Adding button to pop up the Add IP Camera (Custom) interface.

Table 2. 1 Explanation of the icons:

2) You can edit the IP address, protocol, management port, and other information of the IP camera

3) Click Add to add the camera.

Figure 2. 11 Custom Adding IP Camera Interface

to be added.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Option 2:

Steps:

1. Enter the Camera Management interface.

Menu> Camera> Camera

Figure 2. 12 Main Menu

In Analog Camera Management interface, the status of analog cameras display. Disabling the analog camera can be realized by clearing the checkbox before the analog camera No.. One more network camera can be added by disabling one analog camera. 16 /8 /4 network cameras can be added to 7616HI-ST/7608HI-ST/7604HI-ST series at most when all the analog cameras are enabled. 32 /16 /8 network cameras can be added to 7616HI-ST /7608HI-ST /7604HI-ST series at most when all the analog cameras are disabled.

Figure 2. 13 Analog Camera Management

2. Choose IP Camera tab and perform step 1 and 2 of adding IP cameras (Option 1) to add the camera.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

The icon indicates the camera is connected and you can click the icon to get the live view of the camera.

Figure 2. 14 IP Camera Management

3. For the encoders with multiple channels, check checkbox in the pop-up window to select the channels

and click to finish adding.

Figure 2. 15 Selecting Multiple Channels

2.2.2 Configuring the Connected IP Cameras

Editing the Connected IP Cameras

Purpose:

After the adding of the IP cameras, the basic information of the camera lists in the page, and you can configure the basic settings of the IP cameras.

Steps:

1. Click to edit the parameters; you can edit the IP address, protocol and other parameters.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 2. 16 Edit IP Camera

2. Click to save the settings and exit the editing interface.

To edit more parameters:

1. Drag the horizontal scroll bar to the right side and click the icon.

Figure 2. 17 Advance Set-Network

2. You can edit the network information and the password of the camera.

Figure 2. 18 Advance Set-Password

3. Click to save the settings and click to exit the interface.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Get the latest status of the IP cameras.

Delete the IP camera.

Add all the detected IP cameras.

Explanation of the buttons:

Configuring the customized protocols

Purpose:

To connect the network cameras which are not configured with the standard protocols, you can configure the customized protocols for them.

Steps:

1. Click and then click to enter the protocol management interface.

Figure 2. 19 Protocol Management Interface

2. There are 16 customized protocols provided in the system. You can select a Custom Protocol and

configure its corresponding parameters.

Before customizing the protocol for the network camera, you have to contact the manufacturer of the network camera to consult about the URL (uniform resource locator) for getting main stream and sub-stream. The format of the URL is: [Type]://[IP Address of the network camera]:[Port]/[Path]. Example: rtsp://192.168.1.55:554/ch1/main/av_stream.

 Protocol Name: Edit the name for the custom protocol.  Enable Substream: If the network camera does not support sub-stream or the sub-stream is not needed,

leave the checkbox empty.

 Type: The network camera adopting custom protocol must support getting stream through standard

RTSP.

 Transfer Protocol: Select the transfer protocol for the custom protocol.  Port: Set the port No. for the custom protocol.  Path: Set the resource path for the custom protocol. E.g., ch1/main/av_stream.

3. Click to save the settings and click to finish customizing the protocol.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

4. After successfully adding the custom protocols, you can see the protocol name listed in the dropdown list,

see the figure below.

Figure 2. 20 Configure Custom Protocol

5. Select the custom protocol and enter the IP address, user name and password of the camera.

6. Click to add the network camera.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Chapter 3 Live View

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Icons

Description

Alarm (video loss, tampering, motion detection or sensor alarm)

Record (manual recording, continuous recording, motion detection or sensor alarm triggered recording)

Alarm & Record

3.1 Introduction of Live View

Live view shows you the video image getting from each camera in real time. The device automatically enters Live View mode when powered on. It is also at the very top of the menu hierarchy, thus right-clicking the mouse many times (depending on which menu you’re on) brings you to the Live View mode.

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 know whether the channel is recorded, or whether there are alarms occur as soon as possible.

Table 3. 1 Description of Live View Icons

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

HDMI/VGA

CVBS

Main output

Auxiliary

output

√

HDMI/VGA

CVBS

√

HDMI/VGA

√

CVBS

Name

Description

Enter the main menu of the system by right clicking the mouse.

Single Screen

Switch to the single full screen by choosing channel number from the dropdown list.

Multi-screen

Adjust the screen layout by choosing from the dropdown list.

Previous Screen

Switch to the previous screen.

Next Screen

Switch to the next screen.

Start/Stop Auto-switch

Enable/disable the auto-switch of the screens.

Start Recording

Start all-day continuous recording or motion detection recording for all cameras.

Add IP Camera

Automatically or manually add the online network camera(s).

Playback

Play back the video of the selected channel.

PTZ Control

Control the PTZ camera and configure the parameters for PTZ.

3.2 Operations in Live View Mode

In live view mode, there are many functions provided. Some of the functions are listed below.

• Single Screen: showing only one screen on the monitor.

• Multi-screen: showing multiple screens on the monitor simultaneously.

• Auto-switch: the screen is auto switched to the next one. And you must set the dwell time for each screen

on the configuration menu before enabling the auto-switch. Menu>Configuration>Live View>Dwell Time.

• Start Recording: start all-day normal recording or motion detection recording for all channels.

• Add IP Camera: automatically or manually add the online network camera(s).

• Playback: play back the recorded videos for current day.

• PTZ Control: control the PTZ camera in the live view interface.

• Output Mode: set the video output mode to Standard, Bright, Gentle or Vivid.

• Aux Monitor: the device checks the connection of the output interfaces to define the main and auxiliary

output interfaces. See the table below for the priority level of the main and aux outputs.

Table 3. 2 Priorities of Outputs

 √ means the interface is in use, × means the interface is out of use or the connection is invalid. And the

HDMI, VGA and CVBS can be used at the same time.

When the aux output is enabled, you can do some basic operations in the live view mode for the Aux output, while no operation is allowed for the main output.

3.2.1 Using the Mouse in Live View

Table 3. 3 Mouse Operation in Live View

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Output Mode

Set the video output mode to Standard, Bright, Gentle or Vivid.

Aux Monitor

Switch to the auxiliary output mode.

The dwell time of the live view configuration must be set before using Start Auto-switch. Refer to 3.3 Adjusting Live View Settings for dwell time settings.

If you enter Aux monitor mode and the Aux monitor is not connected, the mouse operation is disabled; you need to switch back to the Main output with the MAIN/AUX button and Enter button on remote control.

Figure 3. 1 Right-click Menu

3.2.2 Using an Auxiliary Monitor

Certain features of the Live View are also available while in an Aux monitor. These features include:

• Single Screen: Switch to a full screen display of the selected camera. Camera can be selected from a

dropdown list.

• Multi-screen: Switch different display layout options. Layout options can be selected from a

dropdown list.

• Next Screen: When displaying less than the maximum number of cameras in Live View, clicking this

feature will switch to the next set of displays.

• Playback: Enter into Playback mode.

• Output Mode: Set the video output mode to Standard, Bright, Gentle or Vivid.

• Main Monitor: Enter Main operation mode.

In the live view mode of the main output monitor, the menu operation is not available while Aux output mode is enabled.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Icons

Description

Icons

Description

Icons

Description

Enable/Disable

Record

Instant Playback

Mute/Audio on

PTZ Control

Digital Zoom

Image Settings

Live View

Strategy

3.2.3 Quick Setting Toolbar in Live View Mode

On the screen of each channel, there is a quick setting toolbar which shows when you click mouse on the camera.

Live View Strategy icon is only available for network cameras.

Figure 3. 2 Quick Setting Toolbar

Table 3. 4 Description of Quick Setting Toolbar Icons

Instant Playback only shows the record in last five minutes. If no record is found, it means there is no

record during the last five minutes.

Digital Zoom can zoom in the selected area to the full screen. You can left-click and draw to select the area

for zooming in, as shown in Figure 3.3.

Figure 3. 3 Digital Zoom

Image Settings icon can be selected to enter the Image Settings menu.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

There are four preset modes for selection according to the real situation. Below is the explanation for each mode.

 Standard: for general lighting conditions (default).  Indoor: the image is relatively smoother.  Dim Light: the image is smoother than the other two modes.  Outdoor: the image is relatively clearer and sharper. The degree of contrast and saturation is high.

Figure 3. 4 Image Settings for Analog Camera

You can adjust the image parameters, including brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, sharpness and denoising. You can also click to restore the default settings and click to copy the image settings to other analog channels.

Live View Strategy icon can be selected to enter the Live View Strategy menu. You can set the live view

performance to real-time, balanced or fluency.

This feature is only available for network cameras.

Figure 3. 5 Live View Strategy

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

3.3 Adjusting Live View Settings

Purpose:

Live View settings can be customized according to different needs. You can configure the output interface, dwell time for screen to be shown, mute or turning on the audio, the screen number for each channel, etc.

Steps:

1. Enter the Live View Settings interface.

Menu> Configuration> Live View

Figure 3. 6 Live View-General

The settings available in this menu include:

• Video Output Interface: Designates the output to configure the settings for. Outputs include

HDMI / VGA and Main CVBS.

• Live View Mode: Designates the window-division mode to be used for Live View.

• Dwell Time: The time in seconds to dwell between switching of channels when enabling

auto-switch in Live View.

• Enable Audio Output: Enables/disables audio output for the selected video output.

• Event Output: Designates the output to show event video.

• Full Screen Monitoring Dwell Time: The time in seconds to show alarm event screen.

2. Setting Camera Order

Figure 3. 7 Live View- Camera Order

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

To set the camera order:

1) Select View tab.

2) Select a Video Output Interface and select a screen layout .

3) Click to select a screen in the right region and double-click to select a channel in the left region.

Thus the selected channel will be displayed in the corresponding screen.

means the channel will not be displayed.

You can also click to start live view of all channels in order and click to stop live view of all channels. Click or to go to the previous or next page.

4) Click to save the setting.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

3.4 User Logout

Purpose:

After logging out, the monitor turns to the live view mode and if you want to do some operation, you need to enter user name and password to log in again.

Steps:

1. Enter the Shutdown menu.

Menu>Shutdown

Figure 3. 8 Shutdown

2. Click Logout.

After you have logged out the system, menu operation on the screen is invalid. It is required a user name

and password to log into the system.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Chapter 4 PTZ Controls

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

4.1 Configuring PTZ Settings

Purpose:

Follow the procedure to set the parameters for PTZ. The configuring of the PTZ parameters should be done before you control the PTZ camera.

Steps:

1. Enter the PTZ Settings interface.

Menu >Camera> PTZ

Figure 4. 1 PTZ Settings

2. Click the RS-485 Settings button to set the RS-485 parameters.

Figure 4. 2 PTZ- General

3. Choose the camera for PTZ setting in the Camera dropdown list.

4. Enter the parameters of the PTZ camera.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

All the parameters should be exactly the same as the PTZ camera parameters.

5. Click Apply button to save the settings.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

4.2 Setting PTZ Presets, Patrols & Patterns

Before you start:

Please make sure that the presets, patrols and patterns should be supported by PTZ protocols.

4.2.1 Customizing Presets

Purpose:

Follow the steps to set the Preset location which you want the PTZ camera to point to when an event takes place.

Steps:

1. Enter the PTZ Control interface.

Menu>Camera>PTZ

Figure 4. 3 PTZ Settings

2. Use the directional button to wheel the camera to the location where you want to set preset; and the zoom

and focus operations can be recorded in the preset as well.

3. Enter the preset No. (1~255) in the preset text field, and click the Set button to link the location to the

preset.

Repeat the steps2-3 to save more presets. You can click the Clear button to clear the location information of the preset, or click the Clear All button to clear the location information of all the presets.

4.2.2 Calling Presets

Purpose:

This feature enables the camera to point to a specified position such as a window when an event takes place.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Steps:

1. Click the button PTZ in the lower-right corner of the PTZ setting interface;

Or press the PTZ button on the front panel or click the PTZ Control icon in the quick setting bar, or

select the PTZ option in the right-click menu to show the PTZ control panel.

2. Choose Camera in the dropdown list.

3. Click the button to show the general settings of the PTZ control.

Figure 4. 4 PTZ Panel - General

4. Click to enter the preset No. in the corresponding text field.

5. Click the Call Preset button to call it.

4.2.3 Customizing Patrols

Purpose:

Patrols can be set to move the PTZ to different key points and have it stay there for a set duration before moving on to the next key point. The key points are corresponding to the presets. The presets can be set following the steps above in Customizing Presets.

Steps:

1. Enter the PTZ Control interface.

Menu>Camera>PTZ

Figure 4. 5 PTZ Settings

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

2. Select patrol No. in the drop-down list of patrol.

3. Click the Set button to add key points for the patrol.

Figure 4. 6 Key point Configuration

4. Configure key point parameters, such as the key point No., duration of staying for one key point and speed

of patrol. The key point is corresponding to the preset. The Key Point No. determines the order at which

the PTZ will follow while cycling through the patrol. The Duration refers to the time span to stay at the

corresponding key point. The Speed defines the speed at which the PTZ will move from one key point to

the next.

5. Click the Add button to add the next key point to the patrol, and you can click the OK button to save the

key point to the patrol.

You can delete all the key points by clicking the Clear button for the selected patrol, or click the Clear

All button to delete all the key pints for all patrols.

4.2.4 Calling Patrols

Purpose:

Calling a patrol makes the PTZ to move according the predefined patrol path.

Steps:

1. Click the button PTZ in the lower-right corner of the PTZ setting interface;

Or press the PTZ button on the front panel or click the PTZ Control icon in the quick setting bar, or

select the PTZ option in the right-click menu to show the PTZ control panel.

2. Click the button to show the general settings of the PTZ control.

Figure 4. 7 PTZ Panel - General

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

3. Select a patrol in the dropdown list and click the Call Patrol button to call it.

4. You can click the Stop Patrol button to stop calling it.

4.2.5 Customizing Patterns

Purpose:

Patterns can be set by recording the movement of the PTZ. You can call the pattern to make the PTZ movement according to the predefined path.

Steps:

1. Enter the PTZ Control interface.

Menu > Camera > PTZ

Figure 4. 8 PTZ Settings

2. Choose pattern number in the dropdown list.

3. Click the Start button and click corresponding buttons in the control panel to move the PTZ camera, and

click the Stop button to stop it.

The movement of the PTZ is recorded as the pattern.

4.2.6 Calling Patterns

Purpose:

Follow the procedure to move the PTZ camera according to the predefined patterns.

Steps:

1. Click the button PTZ in the lower-right corner of the PTZ setting interface;

Or press the PTZ button on the front panel or click the PTZ Control icon in the quick setting bar, or

select the PTZ option in the right-click menu to show the PTZ control panel.

2. Click the button to show the general settings of the PTZ control.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 4. 9 PTZ Panel - General

3. Click the Call Pattern button to call it.

4. Click the Stop Pattern button to stop calling it.

4.2.7 Customizing Linear Scan Limit

Purpose:

The Linear Scan can be enabled to trigger the scan in the horizantal direction in the predefined range.

This function is supported by some certain models.

Steps:

1. Enter the PTZ Control interface.

Menu > Camera > PTZ

Figure 4. 10 PTZ Settings

2. Use the directional button to wheel the camera to the location where you want to set the limit, and click

the Left Limit or Right Limit button to link the location to the corresponding limit.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

The speed dome starts linear scan from the left limit to the right limit, and you must set the left limit on the left side of the right limit, as well the angle from the left limit to the right limit should be no more than 180º.

4.2.8 Calling Linear Scan

Purpose:

Follow the procedure to call the linear scan in the predefined scan range.

Steps:

1. Click the button PTZ in the lower-right corner of the PTZ setting interface;

Or press the PTZ button on the front panel or click the PTZ Control icon in the quick setting bar to

enter the PTZ setting menu in live view mode.

2. Click the button to show the one-touch function of the PTZ control.

Figure 4. 11 PTZ Panel - One-touch

3. Click Linear Scan button to start the linear scan and click the Linear Scan button again to stop it.

You can click the Restore button to clear the defined left limit and right limit data and the dome needs to reboot to make settings take effect.

4.2.9 One-touch Park

Purpose:

For some certain model of the speed dome, it can be configured to start a predefined park action (scan, preset, patrol and etc.) automatically after a period of inactivity (park time).

Steps:

1. Click the button PTZ in the lower-right corner of the PTZ setting interface;

Or press the PTZ button on the front panel or click the PTZ Control icon in the quick setting bar to

enter the PTZ setting menu in live view mode.

2. Click the button to show the one-touch function of the PTZ control.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 4. 12 PTZ Panel - One-touch

3. There are 3 one-touch park types selectable, click the corresponding button to activate the park action.

Park (Quick Patrol): The dome starts patrol from the predefined preset 1 to preset 32 in order after the

park time. The undefined preset will be skipped.

Park (Patrol 1): The dome starts move according to the predefined patrol 1 path after the park time.

Park (Preset 1): The dome moves to the predefined preset 1 location after the park time.

The park time can only be set through the speed dome configuration interface, by default the value is 5s.

4. Click the button again to inactivate it.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Icon

Description

Icon

Description

Icon

Description

Direction button and

the auto-cycle button

Zoom+, Focus+,

Iris+

Zoom-, Focus-, Iris-

The speed of the

PTZ movement

Light on/off

Wiper on/off

3D-Zoom

Image Centralization

Switch to the PTZ

control interface

Switch to the

one-touch control

interface

Switch to the general

settings interface

Previous item

Next item

Start pattern / patrol

Stop the patrol /

pattern movement

Exit

Minimize windows

4.3 PTZ Control Panel

To enter the PTZ control panel, there are two ways supported.

OPTION 1: In the PTZ settings interface, click the PTZ button on the lower-right corner which is next to the Back button. OPTION 2:

In the Live View mode, you can press the PTZ Control button on the front panel or on the remote control, or choose the PTZ Control icon , or select the PTZ option in the right-click menu.

Click the Configuration button on the control panel, and you can enter the PTZ Settings interface.

In PTZ control mode, the PTZ panel will be displayed when a mouse is connected with the device. If no mouse is connected, the icon appears in the lower-left corner of the window, indicating that this

camera is in PTZ control mode.

Figure 4. 13 PTZ Panel

Table 4. 1 Description of the PTZ panel icons

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Chapter 5 Recording Settings

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

The interfaces of the device are subject to the actual model.

5.1 Configuring Parameters

Purpose:

By configuring the parameters you can define the parameters which affect the image quality, such as the transmission stream type, the resolution and so on. Before you start:

1. Make sure that the HDD has already been installed. If not, please install a HDD and initialize it.

(Menu>HDD>General)

Figure 5. 1 HDD- General

2. Check the storage mode of the HDD.

1. Click Advanced to check the storage mode of the HDD.

2. If the HDD mode is Quota, please set the maximum record capacity. For detailed information, see

10.4 Configuring Quota Mode.

3. If the HDD mode is Group, you should set the HDD group. For detailed information, see 10.3

Managing HDD Group.

Figure 5. 2 HDD- Advanced

Steps:

1. Enter the Record settings interface to configure the recording parameters:

Menu>Record>Parameters

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 5. 3 Recording Parameters

2. Parameters Setting for Recording

1) Select Record tab page to configure. You can configure the stream type, the resolution, and other

parameters on your demand.

• Pre-record: The time you set to record before the scheduled time or event. For example, when

an alarm triggered the recording at 10:00, if you set the pre-record time as 5 seconds, the camera records it at 9:59:55.

• Post-record: The time you set to record after the event or the scheduled time. For example,

when an alarm triggered the recording ends at 11:00, if you set the post-record time as 5 seconds, it records till 11:00:05.

• Expired Time: The expired time is the longest time for a record file to be kept in the HDD, if

the deadline is reached, the file will be deleted. You can set the expired time to 0, and then the file will not be deleted. The actual keeping time for the file should be determined by the capacity of the HDD.

• Redundant Record: Enabling redundant record means you save the recording files in the

redundant HDD. See Chapter 5.8 Configuring Redundant Recording.

• Record Audio: Check the checkbox to enable or disable audio recording.

• Video Stream: Main stream and sub-stream are selectable for recording. When you select

sub-stream, you can record for a longer time with the same storage space.

2) Click Apply to save the settings.

 The redundant record is to decide whether you want the camera to save the recording files in the

redundant HDD. You must configure the redundant HDD in HDD settings. For detailed information, see Chapter 5.8 Configuring Redundant Recording.

 The parameters of Main Stream (Event) are read-only.

3. Parameters Settings for Sub-stream

1) Enter the Sub-stream tab page.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 5. 4 Sub-stream Parameters

2) Configure the parameters of the camera.

3) Click Apply to save the settings.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.2 Configuring Recording Schedule

Purpose:

Set the recording schedule, and then the camera automatically starts/stops recording according to the configured schedule.

Steps:

1. Enter the Record Schedule interface.

Menu>Record>Schedule

2. Configure Record Schedule

1) Select Record Schedule.

Figure 5. 5 Record Schedule

The Alarm, Motion & Alarm, Motion | Alarm recording types are not supported by the DS-7100NI-SL(/W) series NVR.

2) Choose the camera you want to configure.

3) Select the check box after the Enable Schedule item.

4) Click Edit button or click on the color icon under the edit button and draw the schedule line on the

panel.

Edit the schedule:

I. In the message box, you can choose the day to which you want to set schedule.

Figure 5. 6 Recording Schedule Interface

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

You can click the button to set the accurate time of the schedule.

II. To schedule an all-day recording, check the checkbox after the All Day item.

III. To arrange other schedule, leave the All Day checkbox blank and set the Start/End time.

Up to 8 periods can be configured for each day. And the time periods cannot be overlapped each other.

IV. Select the record type in the dropdown list.

 To enable Motion, Alarm, M | A (motion or alarm), M & A (motion and alarm) and VCA (Video

Content Analysis) triggered recording and capture, you must configure the motion detection settings, alarm input settings or VCA settings as well. For detailed information, refer to Chapter

8.1, Chapter 8.2 and Chapter 8.5.

 The VCA settings are only available to the smart IP cameras.

Repeat the above edit schedule steps to schedule recording for other days in the week. You can click Copy to enter the Copy to interface to copy the schedule settings to other days V. Click Apply in the Record Schedule interface to save the settings.

Draw the schedule:

I. Click on the color icons, you can choose the schedule type as continuous or event.

Figure 5. 7 Edit Schedule

Figure 5. 8 Draw the Schedule

Descriptions of the color icons are shown in the figure below.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 5. 9 Descriptions of the color icons

II. Click the Apply button to validate the settings.

3. (Optional) If the settings can also be used to other channels, click Copy, and then choose the channel to

which you want to copy.

4. Click Apply to save the settings.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.3 Configuring Motion Detection Recording

Purpose:

Follow the steps to set the motion detection parameters. In the live view mode, once a motion detection event takes place, the NVR can analyze it and do many actions to handle it. Enabling motion detection function can trigger certain channels to start recording, or trigger full screen monitoring, audio warning, notify the surveillance center and so on. In this chapter, you can follow the steps to schedule a record which triggered by the detected motion.

Steps:

1. Enter the Motion Detection interface.

Menu>Camera>Motion

2. Configure Motion Detection

1) Choose camera you want to configure.

2) Check the checkbox after Enable Motion Detection.

3) Drag and draw the area for motion detection by mouse. If you want to set the motion detection for all

the area shot by the camera, click Full Screen. To clear the motion detection area, click Clear.

Figure 5. 10 Motion Detection- Mask

4) Click Settings, and the message box for channel information pop up.

Figure 5. 11 Motion Detection Handling

5) Select the channels which you want the motion detection event to trigger recording.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

6) Click Apply to save the settings.

7) Click OK to back to the upper level menu.

8) Exit the Motion Detection menu.

3. Edit the Motion Detection Record Schedule. For the detailed information of schedule configuration, see

5.2 Configuring Recording Schedule.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.4 Configuring Alarm Triggered Recording

Purpose:

Follow the procedure to configure alarm triggered recording.

Steps:

1. Enter the Alarm setting interface.

Menu> Configuration> Alarm

Figure 5. 12 Alarm Settings

2. Click Alarm Input tab and set the alarm parameters.

Figure 5. 13 Alarm Settings- Alarm Input

1) Select Alarm Input No. and configure alarm parameters.

2) Edit the alarm name as desired and choose N.O (normally open) or N.C (normally closed) for

alarm type.

3) Check checkbox to enable the alarm input.

4) Click to configure the alarm settings.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 5. 14 Alarm Settings

5) Check the checkbox to choose the alarm triggered recording channel.

6) Click to save settings.

7) Click to back to the upper level menu.

8) Click in the Alarm Input interface to save the settings.

Repeat the above steps to configure other alarm input parameters. If the setting can also be applied to other alarm inputs, click and choose the alarm input number.

Figure 5. 15 Copy Alarm Input

3. Enter Record Schedule settings interface (Menu> Record> Schedule>Record). For detailed information

about record schedule settings, refer to step 2 in Chapter 5.2 Configuring Record Schedule.

You need to select the Type as Alarm in record schedule settings.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 5. 16 Record Schedule

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.5 Configuring VCA Triggered Recording

Purpose:

Perform the following steps to set the VCA alarm and trigger recording of related cameras.

Steps:

1. Enter VCA Alarm interface of Camera Management and select a camera you want to detect VCA alarm.

Menu> Camera> VCA

The selected camera must support the VCA function.

Figure 5. 17 VCA Alarm Setting Interface

2. Check the Enable VCA Alarm checkbox and click Settings button to set up its alarm response actions.

Figure 5. 18 VCA Alarm Handling

3. Select the channels which you want the motion detection event to trigger recording.

4. Click Apply to save the settings.

5. Edit the VCA Alarm Record Schedule. For the detailed information of schedule configuration, see 5.2

Configuring Recording Schedule.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.6 Configuring Manual Recording

Purpose:

Follow the steps to set parameters for the manual recording. Using manual recording, you need to manually cancel the recording. The manual recording is prior to the scheduled recording.

Steps:

1. Enter the Manual settings interface.

Menu> Manual

Figure 5. 19 Manual Record

2. Enable manual record

1) Select Record tab on the left bar.

2) Click the status button before camera No. to change to .

3. Disable manual record.

Click the status button to change to .

After rebooting, all the manual records enabled will be canceled.

4. Start all-day normal recording or all-day motion detection recording of all channels.

1) Click for or .

Figure 5. 20 Continuous Recording

Figure 5. 21 Motion Detection Recording

2) Click to enable all-day continuous recording or all-day motion detection recording

of all channels.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.7 Configuring Holiday Recording

Purpose:

Follow the steps to configure the record schedule on holiday for that year. You may want to have different plan for recording on holiday.

Steps:

1. Enter the Record setting interface.

Menu > Record > Holiday

Figure 5. 22 Holiday Settings

2. Enable Edit Holiday schedule.

1) Click to enter the Edit interface.

Figure 5. 23 Edit Holiday Settings

2) Check the checkbox after Enable Holiday.

3) Select Mode from the dropdown list.

There are three different modes for the date format to configure holiday schedule.

4) Set the start and end date.

5) Click Apply to save settings.

6) Click OK to exit the Edit interface.

3. Enter Record Schedule settings interface to edit the holiday recording schedule. See Chapter 6.2

Auxiliary Functions of Playback.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.8 Configuring Redundant Recording

Purpose:

Enabling redundant recording, which means saving the record files not only in the R/W (read/write) HDD but also in the redundant HDD, will effectively enhance the data safety and reliability.

You must set the Storage mode in the HDD advanced settings to Group before you set the HDD property to Redundant. For detailed information, please refer to Chapter 10.3 Managing HDD Group. There should be at least another HDD or network disk which is in R/W mode.

Steps:

1. Enter HDD Information interface.

Menu> HDD

Figure 5. 24 HDD General

2. Select the HDD and click to enter the Local HDD Settings interface.

1) Set the HDD property to Redundancy.

Figure 5. 25 HDD General-Editing

2) Click to save the settings.

3) Click to back to the upper level menu.

3. Enter the Record setting interface.

Menu> Record> Parameters

1) Select Record.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 5. 26 Record Parameters

2) Select Camera you want to configure.

3) Check checkbox to enable redundant recording.

4) Click to save settings.

Repeat the above steps2)-4) for configuring other channels. If the setting can also be applied to other analog channels, click and then choose the channel(s).

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.9 Configuring HDD Group for Recording

Purpose:

You can group the HDDs and save the record files in certain HDD group.

Steps:

1. Enter HDD setting interface.

Menu>HDD

Figure 5. 27 HDD General

2. Select Advanced on the left bar.

Check whether the storage mode of the HDD is Group. If not, set it to Group. For detailed information, please refer to Chapter 10.3 Managing HDD Group.

3. Select General in the left bar.

Click to enter editing interface.

4. Configuring HDD group.

1) Choose a group number for the HDD group.

2) Click and then in the pop-up message box, click to save your settings.

3) Click to back to the upper level menu.

Repeat the above steps3-4 to configure more HDD groups.

5. Choose the Channels which you want to save the record files in the HDD group.

1) Select Advanced on the left bar.

Figure 5. 28 HDD Advanced

2) Choose Group number in the dropdown list of Record on HDD Group

3) Check the channels you want to save in this group.

4) Click to save settings.

After having configured the HDD groups, you can configure the Recording settings following the procedure provided in Chapter 5.2-5.7.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

5.10 Files Protection

Purpose:

You can lock the recorded files or set the HDD property to Read-only to protect the record files from being overwritten.

Protect file by locking the record files:

Steps:

1. Enter Export setting interface.

Menu> Export

Figure 5. 29 Export Interface

2. Check the checkbox to for selecting the channels.

3. Configure the record mode, record type, file type and start/end time.

4. Click to show the results.

5. Protect the record files.

1) Find the record files you want to protect, and then click icon which will turn to ,

indicating that the file is locked.

2) Click to change it to to unlock the file and the file is not protected.

Figure 5. 30 Export- Search Result

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 5. 31 Unlocking Attention

Protect file by setting HDD property to Read-only

To edit HDD property, you need to set the storage mode of the HDD to Group. See Chapter 10.3 Managing HDD Group.

Steps:

1. Enter HDD setting interface.

Menu> HDD

Figure 5. 32 HDD General

2. Click to edit the HDD you want to protect.

Figure 5. 33 HDD General- Editing

3. Set the HDD to Read-only.

4. Click to save settings and back to the upper level menu.

 You can’t save any files in a Read-only HDD. If you want to save files in the HDD, change the property to

R/W.

 If there is only one HDD and is set to Read-only, the device can’t record any files. Only live view mode is

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

available.

 If you set the HDD to Read-only when the device is saving files in it, then the file will be saved in next

R/W HDD. If there is only one HDD, the recording will be stopped.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Chapter 6 Playback

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

6.1 Playing Back Record Files

6.1.1 Playing Back by Channel

Purpose:

Play back the recorded video files of a specific channel in the live view mode. Channel switch is supported.

Instant playback by channel:

Choose a channel in live view mode using the mouse and click the button in the quick setting toolbar.

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

Figure 6. 1 Instant Playback Interface

Playback by channel

Steps:

1. Enter the Playback interface.

Mouse: Right-click a channel in live view mode and select Playback from the menu, as shown in Figure

6.2.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 6. 2 Right-click Menu under Live View

Front Panel: press PLAY button to play back record files of the channel under single-screen live view mode.

Pressing numerical buttons will switch playback to the corresponding channels during playback process.

2. Playback management.

The toolbar in the bottom part of Playback interface can be used to control playing progress, as shown in Figure 6.3.

Figure 6. 3 Playback Interface

Click the channel(s) if you want to execute synchronous playback of multiple channels.

Figure 6. 4 Toolbar of Playback

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Audio on/ Mute

Start/Stop clipping

30s forward

30s reverse

Add default tag

Add customized tag

Tag management

Speed down

Pause reverse play/

Reverse play/

Single-frame

reverse play

Pause play/ Play/

Single-frame play

Scaling up/down the

time line

Speed up

Previous day

Next day

Full Screen

Exit Stop

Digital Zoom

Save the clips

Process bar

Video type

The indicates the start/end time of the record.

Table 6. 1 Detailed Explanation of Playback Interface

Playback progress bar: use the mouse to click any point of the progress bar or drag the progress bar to locate specific frames.

6.1.2 Playing Back by Time

Purpose:

Play back video files recorded in specified time duration. Multi-channel simultaneous playback and channel switch are supported.

Steps:

1. Enter Playback interface.

Menu>Playback

2. Check the checkbox of channel(s) in the channel list and then double-click to select a date on the calendar.

Figure 6. 5 Playback Calendar

If there are record files for that camera in that day, in the calendar, the icon for that day is displayed as .

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Audio on/ Mute

Start/Stop clipping

30s forward

30s reverse

Add default tag

Add customized tag

Tag management

Speed down

Pause reverse play/

Reverse play/

Single-frame

reverse play

Pause play/ Play/

Single-frame play

Scaling up/down the

time line

Speed up

Previous day

Next day

Full Screen

Exit Stop

Digital Zoom

Save the clips

Process bar

Video type

Otherwise it is displayed as . In the Playback interface:

The toolbar in the bottom part of Playback interface can be used to control playing process, as shown in the figure below.

Figure 6. 6 Interface of Playback by Time

Figure 6. 7 Toolbar of Playback by Time

The indicates the start/end time of the record.

Table 6. 2 Detailed Explanation of Playback-by-time Interface

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Playback progress bar: use the mouse to click any point of the progress bar or drag the progress bar to locate specific frames.

6.1.3 Playing Back by Event Search

Purpose:

Play back record files on one or several channels searched out by restricting event type (e.g. alarm input and motion detection).

Steps:

1. Enter the playback interface.

Menu>Playback

2. Select the Event in the drop-down list on the top-left side.

3. Select Alarm Input, Motion or VCA as the event type, edit the Start time and End time.

Here we take playback by motion as the example.

Figure 6. 8 Event Playback Interface-Alarm Input

4. Click to get the search result information listed in the right-side panel.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 6. 9 Search Result Bar

5. Click button to play back the file.

You can click the Back button to back to the search interface.

Pre-play and post-play can be configured.

6. Playback interface.

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

Figure 6. 10 Interface of Playback by Event

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Audio on/ Mute

Start/Stop clipping

30s forward

30s reverse

Add default tag

Add customized tag

Tag management

Speed down

Pause reverse play/

Reverse play/

Single-frame

reverse play

Pause play/ Play/

Single-frame play

Scaling up/down the

time line

Speed up

Previous day

Next day

Full Screen

Exit Stop

Digital Zoom

Save the clips

Process bar

Video type

Figure 6. 11 Toolbar of Playback by Event

Table 6. 3 Detailed Explanation of Playback-by-event Toolbar

Playback progress bar: use the mouse to click any point of the progress bar or drag the progress bar to locate specific frames.

6.1.4 Playing Back by Tag

Purpose:

Video tag allows you to record related information like people and location of a certain time point during playback. You are also allowed to use video tag(s) to search for record files and position time point.

Before playing back by tag:

1. Enter Playback interface.

Menu>Playback

2. Search and play back the record file(s). Refer to Chapter 6.1.2 for the detailed information about searching

and playback of the record files.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 6. 12 Interface of Playback by Time

Click to add default tag. Click to add customized tag and edit tag name.

Max. 64 tags can be added to a single video file.

3. Tag management.

Click to check, edit and delete tag(s).

Figure 6. 13 Tag Management Interface

Steps:

1. Enter Playback interface.

Menu>Playback

2. Click and select to enter the Tag Playback interface.

3. Choose channels, edit the Start and End time, and click to enter Search Result interface.

You can enter keyword in the textbox to search the tag on your command.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 6. 14 Video Search by Tag

4. Click button to play back the file.

You can click the button to back to the search interface.

Pre-play and post-play time can be set accordingly.

Pre-play time and post-play time is added to the time point of the tag.

Figure 6. 15 Interface of Playback by Tag

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Audio on/ Mute

Start/Stop clipping

30s forward

30s reverse

Add default tag

Add customized tag

Tag management

Speed down

Pause reverse play/

Reverse play/

Single-frame

reverse play

Pause play/ Play/

Single-frame play

Scaling up/down the

time line

Speed up

Previous day

Next day

Full Screen

Exit Stop

Digital Zoom

Save the clips

Process bar

Video type

Figure 6. 16 Toolbar of Playback by Tag

Table 6. 4 Detailed Explanation of Playback-by-tag Interface

Playback progress bar: use the mouse to click any point of the progress bar or drag the progress bar to locate specific frames.

6.1.5 Smart Playback

Purpose:

The smart playback function provides an easy way to get through the less effective information. When you select the smart playback mode, the system will analyze the video containing the motion or VCA information, mark it with green color and play it in the normal speed while the video without motion will be played in the 16-time speed. The smart playback rules and areas are configurable.

Before you start:

To get the smart search result, the corresponding event type must be enabled and configured on the IP camera. Here we take the intrusion detection as an example.

1. Log in the IP camera by the web browser, and enable the intrusion detection by checking the checkbox of

it. You may enter the motion detection configuration interface by Configuration> Advanced

Configuration> Events> Intrusion Detection.

Figure 6. 17 Setting Intrusion Detection on IP Camera

2. Configure the required parameters of intrusion detection, including area, arming schedule and linkage

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Button

Operation

Smart search

Stop

Pause play /

Play

Process bar

Scaling

up/down the

time line

Playback type

methods. Refer to the user manual of smart IP camera for detailed instructions.

Steps:

1. Enter Playback interface.

Menu>Playback

2. Select the Smart in the drop-down list on the top-left side.

Figure 6. 18 Smart Playback Interface

Table 6. 5 Detailed Explanation of Smart Playback

3. Select a camera in the camera list and select a date in the calendar.

4. Edit the smart search areas and rules.

1) Click the button to enter the search area editing interface; the smart search area is set as full

screen by default.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 6. 19 Draw Area of Smart Search

2) Set the rules and areas.

Intrusion Detection Click the button, and then specify 4 points to set a quadrilateral region for intrusion detection.

Only one region can be set.

Motion Detection

i. Click the to set the search area manually.

ii. Click and drag the mouse to draw target searching area(s), or click the button to set the full

screen as the area.

3) Click the to search, and then the result will be displayed as in the progress bar of the

Smart Playback interface. Or you can click the button to clear all the set areas.

5. Click the button to play.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 6. 20 Smart Search Result

Playback progress bar: use the mouse to click any point of the progress bar to locate specific frames.

6.1.6 Playing Back by Searching System Log

Purpose:

Play back record file(s) associated with channels after searching system logs.

Steps:

1. Enter Log Information interface.

Menu>Maintenance>Log Information>Log Search

Figure 6. 21 Log Search Interface

2. Set search time and type, and click .

3. Choose a log with record file and click button to enter Playback interface.

If there is no record file at the time point of the log, the message box “No result found” will pop up.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 6. 22 Result of System Log Search

4. Playback interface.

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

Figure 6. 23 Interface of Playback by Log

6.1.7 Playing Back External Files

Purpose:

Perform the following steps to search and play back record files stored in the external storage devices, e.g., USB flash drives, USB HDDs.

Before you start:

Please insert the external device(s) with record files into the device.

Steps:

1. Enter the Playback interface.

Menu>Playback

2. Click and select to enter the External File Playback interface.

The files stored in the extrenal device are listed in the right-side list.

You can click the button to refresh the file list.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

3. Select a record file and click to play back it. And you can adjust the playback speed by clicking

and .

Figure 6. 24 Interface of External File Playback

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

6.2 Auxiliary Functions of Playback

6.2.1 Playing Back Frame by Frame

Purpose:

Play video files frame by frame, in order to check image details of the video when abnormal events happen.

Steps:

Go to Playback interface. If you choose playback of the record file: click button and until the speed changes to Single frame and one click on the playback screen represents playback of one frame. If you choose reverse playback of the record file: click button and until the speed changes to Single frame and one

click on the playback screen represents reverse playback of one frame. It is also feasible to use button in toolbar.

6.2.2 Digital Zoom

Steps:

1. Enter the Playback interface and play a record file. Refer to Chapter 6.1.2 for the detailed information

about searching and playback of the record files.

2. Click the on the playback control toolbar to enter Digital Zoom mode.

3. Use the mouse to draw a red rectangle and the image within it will be enlarged up to 16 times.

4. You can right-click to exit the Digital Zoom mode.

Figure 6. 25 Draw Area for Digital Zoom

6.2.3 Reverse Playback of Multi-channel

Purpose:

You can play back record files of multi-channel reversely. Up to 16-ch (with 1280*720 resolution) simultaneous

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

reverse playback is supported; up to 4-ch (with 1920*1080P resolution) simultaneous reverse playback is supported and up to 1-ch (with 2560*1920 resolution) reverse playback is supported.

Steps:

1. Enter the Playback interface.

Menu>Playback

2. Check checkbox to select the channel(s) and double-click to select a date on the calendar.

If more than one channel is optional, the simultaneous playback will be activated.

Figure 6. 26 4-ch Synchronous Playback Interface

3. Click to play back the record files reversely.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Chapter 7 Backup

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

7.1 Backing up Record Files

Before you start:

Please insert the backup device(s) into the device.

7.1.1 Quick Export

Purpose:

Export record files to backup device(s) quickly.

Steps:

1. Enter Video Export interface.

Menu>Export>Normal

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

The time duration of record files on a specified channel cannot exceed one day. Otherwise, the message box “Max. 24 hours are allowed for quick export.” will pop up.

Figure 7. 1 Quick Export Interface

2. Export.

Go to Export interface, choose backup device and click to start exporting.

Here we use USB Flash Drive and please refer to Chapter 7.1.2 Backing up by Normal Video Search for more backup devices supported by the device.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 7. 2 Quick Export using USB1-1

Stay in the Exporting interface until all record files are exported.

Figure 7. 3 Export Finished

3. Check backup result.

Choose the record file in Export interface and click button to check it.

The Player player.exe will be exported automatically during record file export.

Figure 7. 4 Checkup of Quick Export Result Using USB1-1

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

7.1.2 Backing up by Normal Video Search

Purpose:

The record files can be backup to various devices, such as USB devices (USB flash drives, USB HDDs, USB writer) and DVD-R/W.

Backup using USB flash drives, USB HDDs, USB writer and DVD-R/W

Steps:

1. Enter Export interface.

Menu>Export>Normal

2. Set search condition and click to enter the search result interface.

1) Six different Record types are selectable: Continuous, Motion, Alarm, Motion | Alarm, Motion &

Alarm, Command Triggered and Manual. The command triggered record is configured by the platform when the device accessed via the platform.

2) Two different File types are selectable: Unlocked and Locked.

Figure 7. 5 Normal Video Search for Backup

3. Select record files you want to back up.

Click button to play the record file if you want to check it. Check the checkbox before the record files you want to back up.

The size of the currently selected files is displayed in the lower-left corner of the window.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 7. 6 Result of Normal Video Search for Backup

4. Export.

Click and start backup.

If the inserted device is not recognized:

• Click .

• Reconnect device.

• Check for compatibility from vendor.

You can also format USB flash drives or USB HDDs via the device. USB writer and DVD-R/W cannot

be formatted.

Figure 7. 7 Export by Normal Video Search using USB Flash Drive

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 7. 8 Export by Normal Video Search using USB Writer

Stay in the Exporting interface until all record files are exported with pop-up message box “Export finished”.

5. Check backup result.

Choose the record file in Export interface and click button to check it.

The Player player.exe will be exported automatically during record file export.

Figure 7. 9 Checkup of Export Result using USB Flash Drive

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

Figure 7. 10 Checkup of Export Result using USB Writer

7.1.3 Backing up by Event Search

Purpose:

Back up event-related record files using USB devices (USB flash drives, USB HDDs, USB writer), or DVD-R/W. Quick Backup and Normal Backup are supported.

Steps:

1. Enter Export interface.

Menu>Export>Event

1) Select Alarm Input/Motion from the dropdown list of Event Type.

Here we take Alarm Input as an example.

2) Select the alarm input No. and time.

3) Click to enter the Search Result interface.

Figure 7. 11 Event Search for Backup

2. Select record files to export.

User Manual of Digital Video Recorder

1) Select an alarm input in the list and click to enter Export interface.

2) Clicking will take you to the interface with detailed information of all channels

triggered by the selected alarm input. You can view detailed information of the record file, e.g. start time,

end time and file size.

The size of the currently selected files is displayed in the lower-left corner of the window.

Figure 7. 12 Event Details Interface

3. Export.

Click and start backup.

If the inserted USB device is not recognized:

• Click .

• Reconnect device.

• Check for compatibility from vendor.

You can also format USB flash drive or USB HDDs via the device.

Hikvision DS-7604HI-ST, DS-7608HI-ST, DS-7616HI-ST User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Product Key Features

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Front Panel

1.2 IR Remote Control Operations

1.3 USB Mouse Operation

1.4 Input Method Description

1.5 Rear Panel

1.6 Starting Up and Shutting Down the Device

Chapter 2 Getting Started

2.1 Using the Wizard for Basic Configuration

2.2 Adding and Connecting the IP Cameras

2.2.1 Adding the Online IP Cameras

2.2.2 Configuring the Connected IP Cameras

Chapter 3 Live View

3.1 Introduction of Live View

3.2 Operations in Live View Mode

3.2.1 Using the Mouse in Live View

3.2.2 Using an Auxiliary Monitor

3.2.3 Quick Setting Toolbar in Live View Mode

3.3 Adjusting Live View Settings

3.4 User Logout

Chapter 4 PTZ Controls

4.1 Configuring PTZ Settings

4.2 Setting PTZ Presets, Patrols & Patterns

4.2.1 Customizing Presets

4.2.2 Calling Presets

4.2.3 Customizing Patrols

4.2.4 Calling Patrols

4.2.5 Customizing Patterns

4.2.6 Calling Patterns

4.2.7 Customizing Linear Scan Limit

4.2.8 Calling Linear Scan

4.2.9 One-touch Park

4.3 PTZ Control Panel

Chapter 5 Recording Settings

5.1 Configuring Parameters

5.2 Configuring Recording Schedule

5.3 Configuring Motion Detection Recording

5.4 Configuring Alarm Triggered Recording

5.5 Configuring VCA Triggered Recording

5.6 Configuring Manual Recording

5.7 Configuring Holiday Recording

5.8 Configuring Redundant Recording

5.9 Configuring HDD Group for Recording

5.10 Files Protection

Chapter 6 Playback

6.1 Playing Back Record Files

6.1.1 Playing Back by Channel

6.1.2 Playing Back by Time

6.1.3 Playing Back by Event Search

6.1.4 Playing Back by Tag

6.1.5 Smart Playback

6.1.6 Playing Back by Searching System Log

6.1.7 Playing Back External Files

6.2 Auxiliary Functions of Playback

6.2.1 Playing Back Frame by Frame

6.2.2 Digital Zoom

6.2.3 Reverse Playback of Multi-channel

Chapter 7 Backup

7.1 Backing up Record Files

7.1.1 Quick Export

7.1.2 Backing up by Normal Video Search

7.1.3 Backing up by Event Search