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DVR Server (ver. 6.05)

User Manual

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Contents

Chapter1 Start up and Main Interface ······················· 3

1.1 Installing ································································ 3

1.2 Disk management ······················································ 3

1.3 Start up ·································································· 5

1.4 Main Interface ·························································· 6

1.4.1 Show tips ···························································································· 6

1.4.2 Screen menu ······················································································· 6

1.4.3 Interface description ········································································ 10

1.4.4 System Menu ···················································································· 13

1.4.5 Network panel ·················································································· 22

1.4.6 PTZ Control panel ··········································································· 22

1.4.7 Color and Audio adjustment ···························································· 27

1.4.8 Matrix & display ·············································································· 27

1.4.9 DI/DO Control ················································································· 28

Chapter2 Local setup ············································ 30

2.1 System setup ··························································· 31

2.1.1 System setup ····················································································· 31

2.1.2 Network setup··················································································· 33

2.1.3 Boot setup ························································································· 35

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2.2 Camera setup ·························································· 35

2.2.1 Camera setup ··················································································· 35

2.2.2 Group setup ······················································································ 39

2.3 Sensor setup ··························································· 41

2.3.1 Sensor setup ····················································································· 41

2.3.2 Group setup ······················································································ 41

2.4 PTZ & Linkage setup ················································· 43

2.4.1 PTZ protocol setup ··········································································· 43

2.4.2 Motion detection relay & remote client alert ·································· 44

2.5 E-mail setup ··························································· 45

2.5.1 SMTP setup ······················································································ 46

2.5.2 E-Mail setup ····················································································· 46

2.6 Digital matrix setup ··················································· 47

2.6.1 Matrix setup ····················································································· 47

2.6.2 Display setup ···················································································· 48

2.7 User setup ······························································ 49

2.7.1 User information ·············································································· 49

2.7.2 User right setup ··············································································· 50

Chapter3 IP Camera Setup ···································· 52

3.1 Functional buttons ···················································· 52

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3.2 Server setup ···························································· 53

3.3 Channel setup·························································· 54

3.4 PTZ control ···························································· 56

3.5 Sensor setup ··························································· 59

3.6 Alarm setup ···························································· 60

Chapter4 Local playback ······································· 62

4.1 Main interface ························································· 62

4.2 Select playback channel ·············································· 63

4.2.1 Select date ························································································ 63

4.2.2 Select camera ··················································································· 63

4.2.3 Select file ·························································································· 64

4.3 Play file and related operations ····································· 65

4.4 Capture picture ························································ 66

4.5 Create clip file ························································· 67

4.5.1 Create file clip ·················································································· 67

4.5.2 Backup by time: ··············································································· 68

4.5.3 View Backup file ··············································································· 71

4.6 Search captured picture ·············································· 73

4.7 Fast search ····························································· 74

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4.8 Camera status ·························································· 75

4.9 Show files ······························································ 76

Chapter5 IE client ·················································· 78

5.1 Functions of IE Client ················································ 78

5.2 Main interface ························································· 78

5.2.1 Connection operations ····································································· 79

5.2.2 Connection/Record status ································································ 79

5.2.3 Partition mode ················································································· 79

5.2.4 PTZ Control ····················································································· 80

5.2.5 Quit program ···················································································· 80

5.3 Local search ··························································· 80

5.4 Remote search ························································· 81

5.4.1 Fast download record data ······························································ 82

Chapter6 Mobile Client ·········································· 84

6.2 Download software ··················································· 84

6.3 Install and connect ···················································· 85

6.3.1 Installation ······················································································· 85

6.3.2 Connection ······················································································· 85

6.4 Login Interface ························································ 85

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6.5 Camera List ···························································· 86

6.6 PTZ control ···························································· 87

Chapter7 Appendixes ··········································· 88

7.1 Appendix A: Fast key reference ····································· 88

7.2 Appendix B: Audio preview ········································· 89

7.3 Appendix C: Update drivers of compressed card ················· 90

7.4 Appendix D: How to use “Copy File” folder. ····················· 92

Refer to the Tutorial video for other selected topic illustrated in video format.

The tutorials are small video file that can be played from the local DVR system.

It will illustrate many of the common task involved in working with your DVR system.

Please follow the link from the desktop ―Click here for Technical Support and Serial number‖.

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Introduction and Overview:

Thank you for purchasing the VR Enterprise DVR system. This user manual is designed
to introduce you the system and explain each function of DVR system for you to set up the
system to use effectively, stably, and professionally to meet your security recording needs.

Note: Please set the resolution of the display monitor to 1024*768 pixels before using
this system.

IMPORTANT! Operators should go through this manual thoroughly before
installing/utilizing the DVR system.

Cost Efficient – Uses IP infrastructure. There is no need for costly dedicated cables
between sites and servers to efficiently manage data, video, audio, and other files. The DVR
software uses H.264 technology which maximizes the use of the space on your HDD.
Leverage - Centralized control of setup parameters, scheduled alerts and maintenance of
those individual digital image devices like DVR, VR, etc.
Straightforward Application and Management - Supports centralized network recording
management, flexible storage and HDD coverage and usage. Password-protected application
with multi-level user rights assignment per user.

System features:

-Hardware support for H.264 compression, therefore giving you low HDD cost and excellent
video quality

-Web access through LAN or WAN

-Real time full-motion video-capture & display (Up to 64 channel video input)

-Real time high-speed recording: Up to 30 fps per channel

-Synchronous audio recording (optional)

-Motion detection (Whole area or up to 12 detection zones per channel)

-Normal recording (continuous) and event recording (Motion detection or external sensor)

-Electron Map pop-up when an alarm occurs

-System operating and alarm logging

-Alarm-before recording

-Remote recording

-Sending alarm messages automatically

-Sending alarm image to email box as attachment automatically

-Matrix display and group display

-Duplex mode (Recording while playback)

-Network support (Remote access via LAN, Ethernet, PSTN, ISDN, ADSL)

-Pan, tilt, zoom, focus & speed dome control from within the software

-Search/playback by date/time directory (random-access) and via Smart Search

-Backup & burn CD directly

-Remote talking between server and client or server and server

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Chapter1 Start up and Main Interface

1.1 Installing

1) Before you run DVR server, please check all connectors are firmly
connected.

2) By default, the operating system will identify the compressed cards
automatically as the new hardware.

First, you should install the compressed card and its driver: Appendix C: Update drivers of

compressed card Error! Bookmark not defined.

1.2 Disk management

When you installed the software, you will see this interface:

Notice: If you don‘t create the file management system at first, the Dvr

server will not record.

Disk Drives: Display the disk and its format. Total Size (M):Display the
disk total size. Free Space (M): Display the free space of the disk. Allotted
Data Package: Display the number of the allotted data package. Residual

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Data Package: Display the residual data package. New Data Package: Select
the number of the new data package.

You can select the number of the new data package in the drop-down list.
The software could calculate the rest space automatically.

Notice: the space of the package is 256M as the default, you cannot be

changed.

The Disk Manage utility calculates the space of the new data package and

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allows three free packages as default; however it is recommended that at
least 40 packages are left free. Click the to create the

data and index file system.

Note: You can‟t delete some files of the _RECORD_DATA_ file folder if the space is not enough,
you should delete the whole _RECORD_DATA_ file folder and run the disk manage utility
again.

1.3 Start up

Left-Double-Click shortcut icon to start the server software.
The main interface is as follows:

Note:

When you run the system for the first time and you do not have a valid registration key for
the cards, the system will pop up a dialog box to show that you will be working in test mode
until a valid key is installed. After you confirm it, the system will work in test mode normally.

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1.4 Main Interface

1.4.1 Show tips

1. When the mouse moves closely or stops above a button, a text tip will

be shown to interpret the function of it immediately.

2. Zoom in/out video image: Left-Double-Click a camera window to zoom

in/out of the video image (or press F11 on the keyboard).

3. System will detect cards and read the total number automatically, and

the corresponding number buttons will be displayed dynamically.

4. Recording status:
a. This icon means the system is recording normally.
b. This icon means the system is recording manually.
c. This icon means the system is recording in motion detection.
d. This icon means the system is recording in sensor detection.

1.4.2 Screen menu

Press the TAB key or Page UP (select next camera window) and Page
Down (select previous camera window) key on keyboard to select one live
camera window.

1. Full screen

Single-Right- Click image area, it will popup a menu, then select ―full
screen‖ to change display mode to full screen (or press F12 on the keyboard).
When you want to resume origin mode, you should Single-Right- Click image
area and select ―Restore display‖.

2. Instant playback

Single-Right-Click desired camera window and select ―Instant playback‖
(except IP Camera, it can just play back instantly in the window that is not
used). After that, choose a time from the submenu, and then system will play
back video data of current camera in current window according to your
selection (E.g.: you select 1min, system will play back previous 1 minute
video data of current camera in current window). Also, you can play back
video data of one current live camera in a window that is not used by any
cameras (always black background with no ―Video Loss‖ information, IP

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Camera can only play back instantly in those windows): Select a window, and
then Single-Right-Click it to select ―Instant playback‖. Finally, choose a time
and the camera you want to playback, and then system will play back video
data in current window according to your selection.

The window that is playing back video data will indicate a yellow border
to be different from the live windows.

In the course of the instant playback, you can press the Space bar to
switch the play/pause status or direction key → and ← to play next and
previous frame.

If you want to stop the instant playback, you can Single-Right-Click the
play backing window, and select ―End playback‖.

3. Alarm popup

Single-Right-Click video image area in main interface and select ―Start
alarm popup‖ after you set ―Alarm camera popup interval‖ in system setup,
otherwise, it can‘t be selected. After that when there is a motion detection
alarm (set in PTZ & Linkage setup and Motion detection setup) or an alarm is
triggered by sensor (set in Sensor setup), system will display alarm cameras
in sequence. This function does not include IP cameras, even though an IP
camera can have alarms, their images will not pop up. When you want to end

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this function, you can Single-Right-Click video image area and select ―Pause
alarm popup‖.

4. OSD Adjustment

Single-Right-Click video image area in main interface and select ―OSD
Adjustment‖ to adjust the position of items on the OSD (IP Camera does not
have this function; you can set the OSD position in an IP Camera remotely).

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OSD includes time and channel name. In this screen you can press time
or channel name and drag them to where you want directly, after that you can

press button to save and press button to resume time
and channel name to default position.

5. IP Camera setup

For this function, it is only available when you Right-single-Click image of
IP camera.

It will describe in details in IP Camera Setup.

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1.4.3 Interface description

1. Partition mode

Press button to set the partition mode of the main screen. There
are many partition levels; the default partition is determined by the total

number of channels on the local card, you can select the suitable partition
according to the number of video inputs.

2. Videos-play-in-sequence mode switch

Press button to switch between viewing all cameras in current
window partition to begin sequencing dynamically between the remaining

camera windows, but not when the current partition number is equal to the
total channels of the card.

3. Emergency recording button

Press button to trigger recording of all cameras for 30 seconds
even if they have been set to record by any other modes. This function is

useful to deal with emergency where quick response is required.

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4. Image capture

Press button to save a still image of selected camera to local hard
disk for reviewing or print.

5. Manual record switch

Press button to record manually and press it again to stop manual
recording for selected camera.

6. Information display panel

From the information display panel you can see the current day of the
week, the date, time, CPU percentage being used, the amount of HDD space
with recorded data, and currently selected camera.

When the capacity of HDD is not enough or there are read/write errors
while recording, the system will pop up information to inform of the failure of
recording and the corresponding camera will stop recording.

7. Local setup submenu

Press button to enter Local setup submenu.

8. Local playback submenu

Press button to enter Local playback submenu to search local
video/audio data.

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9. System lock

Press button to prevent unauthorized users to operate the DVR
system. Press this button again; the unlock dialog box will be displayed. Input

your User ID and password then press OK to unlock it.

Default User ID is ―admin‖, no password. Password must not be more
than 12 letters or numbers. It is caps sensitive and does not allow the use of
special characters such as !@#$%^&*().

Note: If the DVR system is not configured as User Manage Mode, the lock button will be
unusable and allow anyone to access it (even in client program, user name and password will be
useless)

10. Minimize button

Press button to minimize the main window (or press WIN + Z on
keyboard).

11. Exit program

Press button to exit program.

After clicking this button, a dialog will display. Click ―OK‖ to close the
DVR system.

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1.4.4 System Menu

1. IP Camera Device List

Press this bar to add IP Modules to DVR system.

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(1) Add IP camera device

Press button to add an IP Camera device:

Figure2— 1

【Server Name】Set a name for the new IP camera device.

【IP Address】Input the address of the IP Camera, it is an IP address or

IP alias of an IP camera which is connected through DNS Server.

【Steam Type】Select the main stream or sub stream for the device.

【Connect Port】Port that the system will connect to the IP Camera.

【Login user ID/Login Pass】When the user want to visit IP Camera and

the server has used the function of rights management, login user ID and
password will be checked. If the user has no right to visit that camera, the
connection will be cut down automatically.

【If use DNS to get IP】Select whether use DNS to get IP or not, if the
server end is the dynamic IP address, users need use DNS to get the server‘s
IP.

【DNS Server IP】Set IP address of DNS server host.

【DNS Server Port】DNS server host‘s port, which is provide to connect

DNS software.

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(2) Modify IP camera

Press button to modify IP camera‘s information. The
interface is the same as the Add IP Camera interface.

(3) Delete IP camera device

Click on the IP device that you which to delete and press the
button to delete a connected server. When the system is in processing to add

an IP camera device (―connecting…‖ indicated in connect status column),
user can not delete that IP camera device and must wait until ―connect fail‖ is
displayed.

(4) Decode card work mode

DVR system supports playing video of IP Camera to a TV directly. It uses
the hard decoding function of decoder, so you should set the work mode of
decoder. If you don‘t use hard decoding, you can‘t output video of IP Camera
real-time, user can only play back recording data to TV monitor by selecting

Playback to TV Wall function.

Note:
Each 4002MD card can decode 2 channels D1 or 4channels CIF.
Each 4004MD card can decode 4 channels D1 or 8 channels CIF.

When you select the work mode, system will send out corresponding
channels of IP cameras from the first IP camera. It will not influence soft
decoding for cameras of local board cards.

2. Backup System Parameters

Select this function to export system configurations.

3. Import System Parameters

Select this function to import system configurations.

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4. Burn backup data CD

Select this function to burn video data to CD/DVD. It is the same function
as burning a CD/DVD in Local Playback.

5. Remote chat

Select this function to connect a remote Client or Server for a live chat via
IP address, but first, you should be sure you have installed an audio card and
microphone in each PC.

6. Write working log

This is useful to record events that occur during the operator‘s shift.

7. View System log

Select this function to view all actions of recording as well as operations.
System log keeps a record of system events such as program startup and
shutdown, changing camera setup and all operator or system daily activities
according to time and date. Users can view system log by date. System
parameters include operations, system prompts, alarms and other activities.

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8. Open Explorer

When keyboard is locked, Users can operate window resource via
explorer.

9. Open electron map

Select this function to set E-map,

Click icon and then Right-Single-Click on the map, the
setting picture will appear. You can add or delete sensors and cameras that

pointed by the arrow or change the digital map.

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If it is set to appear automatically, when the sensor is triggered, the map
will appear automatically and the sensor being triggered will be marked. For
triggered camera, user can Left-Double-Click it to view video.

10. Open Screen Keyboard

This function allows a user to use soft keyboard, you can press this bar to
open the screen keyboard. In the setup interface you can Left-Double-Click a
modifiable text based option to open this keyboard. The keyboard can be
closed manually.

11. Play back to TV monitor

In DVR system, the recording data can be transmitted to TV monitor via
Matrix card.

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When system runs ―Playback to TV Wall‖ process, the Matrix card will
output recording data. If this process does not run, matrix decode card will
output real-time video according to your matrix board setup. Otherwise, when
you use matrix card to decode video data from an IP Camera, you can‘t use
this function to play back recording video data to TV Monitor but only output
real-time video of local board and IP Camera to TV Wall according to your
setting in Matrix setup. In this process, you can play back record file by date
and camera, and the record file will be played automatically.

12. Motion detect setup

By default, the entire screen is set as motion detection area which is
indicated with a green border around the entire image. To mask a specific

area, you can click the button to cancel the full screen detection
border; then Left-Single-Click and drag/draw around the desired area. A

green rectangle will mark the area. Also, you can set any other areas. Any
activity in the motion detection areas will trigger recording, depending on the
reaction mode; and alarms may be generated along with electronic map icons

flashing in alert mode. Click button to test the sensitivity of
motion detection. The sensitivity can be adjusted by dragging the slider bar

below the motion detection window.

Notice: motion sensitivity value will affect the accuracy of smart search

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1.Add mask/Delete mask

Press button to set the area to be shielded. If there are some
areas that you don‘t want to show, you can mask those areas with the mouse

until they change to black. You can set several covered areas. Press this
button again to finish adding

Press button to delete all covered areas.

13. DVR board work mode setup

Each DVR system supports maximum 8 PCs 400XHC (total channel is
equal to 64) series board, so user can set its work mode via this GUI.

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For 4004HC, 4008HC, 4016HC series board model, you can set its work
mode. The new DVR board work mode will take effect after rebooting DVR
Server software.

14. Keyboard shortcuts setup

If you don‘t want to use certain shortcut keys, you can disable the
shortcut functions and save the setup.

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Information of network
adapter

IP address of the system

Subnet Mask

Net Gate

When client is linked,
its IP address will be
displayed in this window
(the current IP only). Press
the right mouse button to
disconnect the client.

1.4.5 Network panel

This panel displays the network configuration of DVR system.

1.4.6 PTZ Control panel

In the DVR system, there are three ways to operate PTZ cameras;
a. Panel operate;
b. Operate in video area directly ;
c. Keyboard operate

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Pressing this button initiates the connected PTZ camera to do an
automatic tour of 360°, but for speed dome, many PTZ factory defaults
forbid this command.

By pressing and holding these buttons, the PTZ camera will move up,
down, right and left as well as other directions.

1. Relay (On/Off)

Control the PTZ cameras internal relay (relay1) or the decoder‘s relay

(relay 1). Used to turn on a light or control an access gate.

2. Wiper (On/Off)

If using the PTZ cameras corresponding wiper control relay, this toggles

the relay/wiper on and off.

3. Zoom + / Zoom –

Controls the zoom function of the PTZ camera.

4. Focus + / Focus –

Overrides the auto-focus setup of the PTZ camera, adjust the focus of

the image.

5. Iris + / Iris –

Overrides the PTZ cameras auto-iris and brightens or darkens the image.

6. Speed

Press and drag the slider bar to adjust the speed of PTZ.

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7. Auto tracking (On/Off)

Press button to use the PTZ camera tracking the floating

object automatically.

8. Speed Dome

Press button to operate the speed dome, including

Preset Setup, Preset Call and Preset Tour:

(1) Preset Setup

In this screen you can set the preset position: