
CP-2160RD Deluxe DVR Board Hardware Manual (V1.4)
This section details the installation of your CP-2160RD Deluxe DVR board and how to make the necessary
connections. You may install up to 2 cards into a PC to reach 32 Video and 32 Audio input. The primary one is
referred as CP-2160RD Deluxe 0, the other one will be called CP-2160RD Deluxe 1. Before you start, please
make sure that your PC is off, and the power cable is unplugged.
(Fig 1)
The DVR system is called CP-2320RD Deluxe when combine the CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 and CP-2160RD
Deluxe 1 card onto a PC together.
The description of CP-2160RD Deluxe (as Fig 1) pins and sockets:
1: Video input –DB25 pin to connect the D-Sub BNC cable for video input.
2: TV out – S connector for single and split video output.
3: Video looping- Connect to a video looping board for video loop-out.
4 & 5: Transmit video signal – Link the S_TV_IN (5) socket of CP-2160RD Deluxe 1 into the S_TV_OUT (4)
socket of CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 DVR board to get 1-32 video signal output via a TV output port.
6: RESET- System failure socket, connect to the “ Reset “ socket of PC Motherboard. (CP-2160RD Deluxe 0)
7: EM_B – Panic button socket (CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 only)
8: LED – The indicator of auto reboots function. (CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 only)
9: 4 Pin power socket – The socket for power input from power supply of the PC. You must connect the power;
otherwise the CP-2160RD Deluxe DVR Bard cannot work properly.
10: Sensor connector-Connect to the sensor cable of the remote controller. (CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 only)
11: J11 – Connect the “Linking cable “between CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 and 1 to control 1-32 single and split
video out via a Remote Controller.
12: Audio in - Connect to an audio board for audio input.
13: J_USB – Connect to USB cable to the USB port of PC Motherboard.
14: PCI Express Bus – Plug PCI Express slot of Motherboard.
15: Jump – For DVR card number selection.
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(A) System Failure Connections cable as shown in “Fig 2”:
(Fig 2) (Fig 3) (Fig 4) (Fig 5)
The DVR system will reboot and restore to the original status
automatically when system crush occurs. Please follow the steps below to
connect these cables properly:
Connect the “3” connector of the “Fig 2” cable to the RST socket of DVR board.
Connect the “1” connector of the “Fig 2” cable to the Motherboard reset pin.
Connect the “2” connector of the “Fig 2” cable to the PC’s reset switch properly to complete.
(B) USB linking cable as shown in “Fig 3”:
Please follow the below steps to connect the USB cable to the CP-2160RD
Deluxe DVR Board and motherboard properly.
Plug the number “2 “connector of the “Fig 3” cable into the J_USB
socket of each CP-2160RD Deluxe Board
Connect the number “1 “connector of the “Fig 3” cable to the USB
port of the motherboard.
The pins assignment of the “Fig 3” cable is:
Red: Vcc 5V White: Data- Green: Data+ Black: Ground
There is a two ports internal USB cables (refer to Fig 3.1) on the package
of CP-2160RD Deluxe DVR Board. You can use Fig 3.1 USB cable to
connect 2 pcs DVR board and the internal USB port of PC when the
Motherboard does not have enough internal USB port.
1. The USB cable must be connected between DVR board and Motherboard; otherwise you cannot run the
Witness Pro program properly.
2. You can request the external USB cable from your supply to connect the USB port of PC when the
Motherboard does not have enough internal USB port. (Option
(C) Panic Button as shown in “Fig 4”:
Connect the number “1” connector to the J 8 (EM_B) of the CP-2160RD
Deluxe 0 DVR Board.
And then connect the number “2” connector to the panic button.
(D) Sensor cable as shown in “Fig 5”
To install the sensor, simply plug the end of the sensor device
(“1” connector of the “Fig 5 ”) into the Sensor connector
(Fig 3-1)
Sensor
of CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 DVR Board.
1. Please shut down the power of PC when you plug in the sensor cable into the DVR board, otherwise
it will cause the sensor damage.
2. Make sure that the sensor itself is not covered and is facing the place from where you will be using the
remote controller.
3. Make sure that the sensor itself plug into the phone jack completely.
4. The system allows to extent sensor cable (Fig 6) for control the TV out from far away site via Remote
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Controller. Please follow the process as below to achieve this function:
a. Please use the shading cable such as 28#2C+S type.
b. The sensor cable includes 3-wire cable: Red (DC 5V), Shading cable (Ground), White (Signal).
c. f the extension sensor cable too far away DVR and needs extra DC5 V power for the sensor,
(E) Power Cable (Fig 6)
Plugged “ 1 “ port to the power supply of PC, the “2” should be connected
to CP-2160RD.
Must provide the power for the CP-4800DX Pro, otherwise cannot work properly.
(F) Video Out Cable (Fig 7)
Plugged “ 3 “ port into the S Video connector of CP-2160RD Deluxe DVR card.
The other two ends should be connected to a TV, “ 1 “ (Yellow) for split video
out, “ 2 “ (Red) for single video out.
(G) Linking cable (Fig 8) (CP-2160RD Deluxe 1 only)
There are 2 pcs Linking cable on the package CP-2160RD Deluxe 1.
One connects between the S_TV_OUT of CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 and S_TV_IN of CP-2160RD Deluxe 1.
The other connects for the CP-2160RD Deluxe 0 and 1’s J11 socket.
(H) Audio Board (Optional) as shown in “Fig 9 ”
Connector the “1 “of the Fig 9 with a DB-25 pins audio connector
3
2
(Fig 7)
1
(Fig 6)
(as shown in Fig 10) for the audio inputs.
Plug the “2” of the Fig 9 into the “12” Audio-in socket of the DVR card.
(I) Audio Cable (Option) as shown in “Fig 9”.
Connect the DB-25 Pin connector to the Audio Board (As Fig 9).
Connect the 16 BNC audio connectors for the audio inputs.
The mark “A” on the BNC connector’s means “ Audio input”
The mark “A1” on the BNC video connector means “Audio 1”, “A2” means
“Audio 2” etc.
(J) Video Looping Board and cable (Optional) as shown in “Fig 10 ”
Using flat cable to connect the video looping board and CP-2160RD DVR card.
Plug DP-25 pin BNC cable to Video looping board
Connector the “1 “of the Fig 10 with a DB-25 pins audio connector
(as Fig 10).
The BNC connector will provide 16 video output signal.
The mark “V” on the BNC connector’s means is the mark “V1” on
The BNC video connector means “Video1”, “V2” means “Video 2”
DB-25 Pin
BNC Audio
Connectors
etc.
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Fig 10

1. Completing Setup
Complete setup by following three steps:
1. Run Witness XP program, login, and press the System configuration button. In the system
configuration window, enable both “Watch dog timer” and “Auto-run”.
2. Disable the Windows login password; let your PC proceeds directly into Windows, otherwise the system can
not work properly when Power Failure or System Failure reboot, because of the halt by the login Windows.
3. After everything is connected and the prior two steps are completed, turn on your PC, run Witness Pro and
make sure that CP-2160RD Deluxe 0’s LED display the following behavior: Light is on for 20 seconds,
then off for 20 seconds, then on for 20 seconds, etc to confirm that the system is working properly.
2. Using the Remote controller
On your remote controller, there should be buttons labeled with numbers representing camera numbers. Points
the remote controller at the sensor/receiver, press the number of the camera you wish you to on the TV and it
would appear.
Number key: For the video channels selections.
Simply press the number key from the “Display”
section to display the selected video channel on the
connected monitor.
Return (Single video out): To return back to the channels scrolling display mode while in the signal video
display mode.
F1: The split video out of CP-3160RD Deluxe 0 Card (Default).
F2: The single video out of CP-3160RD Deluxe 0 Card.
F3: The split video out of CP-2160RD Deluxe 1 Card.
F4: The single video out of CP-2160RD Deluxe 1 Card.
Split Section: Push the splitter key on “ Split ” section, and then you will watch the splitter video on TV.
(Click the ● icon to change 6, 10, 13 split screen sequence)
Return (Split video out): After you use Display function, then you will return to all channels scroll. You
need to push F1, F2, F3 or F4 to go back the TV display when you click the “ Return “ Key while in the
split video display mode.
For example:
1. If you want to view the video of camera 22 on TV; click “ F4 “ key and then entry “ 6 “ number key, you
will watch the camera 22 single video on TV.
2. If you want to view the 4 split video (Camera 17-20) on TV; click “ F3 “ key and then entry “
“key, then
you will watch the 4 split video (Camera 17-20) on TV.
The “ 1-16 “ number key of Display section, “ 1 “ number represent camera 1 and 17, “2” represent camera 2 and
18.
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