Optiview VR Quick Start Manual

1. After unpacking the DVR, set it up on a sturdy shelf free from vibrations, dust, high humidity and
moisture.

2. Connect the following at the back of the computer:
a. PC USB mouse and keyboard – plug in the USB mouse at the USB ports

located at the back of the PC shown here below

b. PC power cable – plug it in at the back of the PC as shown here.
c. PC monitor – plug your PC monitor cable at the “VGA Out” as shown above.

3. Connect the Video cables from your cameras to the video pigtail connectors of the DVR system located at

the back panel of the DVR computer. Note that every pigtails are color coded, red colors are used for video
input and white (or white stripes) are for audio input. Every DVR pigtail cables are labeled as VID or AID

followed by a number, for example, VID1 or AID1 etc…. See the illustration below.

I. Get to know your connectors and back panel

Pigtail
label is
indicated
here

Video and
Audio 1-4

Video and
Audio 5-8

8 channel DVR

16 channel DVR

24/36 channel DVR 48/64 channel DVR

Video and
Audio 1-8

Video and
Audio 9-16

II. Starting your DVR System

1. After power cable, USB mouse, keyboard, monitor and all your camera cables have

been connected to the DVR system, you are now ready to turn ON your DVR
system.

Turn ON the main black color power
switch at the back of the computer,
the DVR will start to load the
software in a few moments.

2. The DVR settings was all preconfigured

at our facility to meet the optimum level

of performance. It is already set to

automatically record security video as
soon as the software finished loading on
your screen. It will record based on
motion detection to allow the system to
store more days of recorded video on
your hard drive at optimum level.

Top: Front power switch
Bottom: Reset power switch

3. Things you might want to customize or change on your DVR system:

a. setup up personalized username and password

b. setup the DVR on your private network

c. change the date/time of the DVR clock, including time zone.

Note: The DVR Serial number is located at the top right corner of the software or at the back
panel of the DVR box. You need to have this ready before you call for technical support at

904-855-1121. Your DVR CD copy will contain DVR manuals, software and training video to

learn more about your DVR.

III. Customize your DVR System: Create DVR User Accounts

A. Setup Personalized Username and Password

This task involves two way process.

First, we need to activate the DVR lock options, secondly, we will create the user
account with their username, password and assign user access rights which will limit
what they can do at the DVR system.

1. Activate the DVR Software Lock. Starting from the LIVE menu screen:

a. Click “Settings” button

b. Click “Password” button

c. Enable the DVR lock options as shown below:

Three most common things customized on a VR Enterprise DVR system:

A. setup up personalized username and password

B. setup the DVR on your private network

C. Change date and time clock of the DVR system