Swann NVR16-7200 User Manual

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Video Recorder

NVR16-7200

M16720H020513E

Introduction

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Before You Begin

FCC Verication

NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the

FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment o and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

• Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit dierent from that to which the receiver is connected

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help

These devices comply with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

These devices may not cause harmful interference, and

These devices must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

All jurisdictions have specic laws and regulations relating to the use of cameras. Before using any camera for any purpose, it is the buyer’s responsibility to be aware of all applicable laws and regulations that prohibit or limit the use of cameras and to comply with the applicable laws and regulations.

FCC Regulation (for USA): Prohibition against eavesdropping

Except for the operations of law enforcement ocers conducted under lawful authority, no person shall use, either directly or indirectly, a device operated pursuant to the provisions of this Part for the purpose of overhearing or recording the private conversations of others unless such use is authorized by all of the parties engaging in the conversation.

WARNING

Modications not approved by the party responsible for compliance could void user’s authority to operate the equipment.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

• Make sure product is xed correctly and stable if fastened in place

• Do not operate if wires and terminals are exposed

• Do not cover vents on the side or back of the NVR and allow adequate space for ventilation

DEFAULT PASSWORD INFORMATION

To ensure your privacy, this NVR supports password protection.

The default, all-access username is “admin”, the default password is “12345”.

To ensure your ongoing privacy, we strongly recommend setting a password as soon as possible. Choose something that you’ll remember, but that others would be unlikely to guess.

IMPORTANT NOTICE - Do not lose or forget your password. To ensure that your NVR has the best

security possible, password recovery has been designed to be a complicated and time consuming

process. Only a select number of sta at the Swann Technical Support Telephone Helpdesk can

assist. Password retrieval can take several days, which means you will not be able to access your

NVR during this time.

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Contents

Introduction

Before You Begin 2

Contents 3

Introduction 4

Installation Guidelines 4

Connecting the NVR

Front Panel of the NVR 5

Rear Panel of the NVR 6

Connection Diagram 7

Connecting Additional Devices 8

The Alarm & Sensor I/O Block 9

Basic Setup

Basic NVR Operation 10

The Setup Wizard 11

The Quick Menu  14

The Quick Camera Menu 14

Operating the NVR locally 15

Camera Management: Tamper Proof 32

Camera Management: Video Loss 33

Conguration: General 34

Conguration: General: DST Settings 35

Conguration: General: More Settings 36

Conguration: Network: General 37

Conguration: Network: PPPOE 38

Conguration: Network: DDNS/NTP 39

Conguration: Network: Email 40

Conguration: Network: SNMP/UPnP 41

Conguration: Network: More Settings 42

Conguration: Alarm: Alarm Status  43

Conguration: Alarm Input  44

Conguration: Alarm Output 44

Conguration: RS-232 45

Conguration: Live View 45

Conguration: Live View: View 46

Introduction

Menu Layout 16

Advanced Conguration

Playback  17

Export: Normal/Event 18

Export: Picture 18

Manual: Record 19

Manual: Continuous Capture 19

Manual: Alarm  19

HDD: General 20

HDD: Advanced 20

Record: Schedule 21

Record: Encoding 22

Record: Advanced 23

Record: Holiday 24

Camera Management: IP Camera 25

Camera Management: OSD (On-screen Display) 26

Camera Management: Image 27

Conguration: Exceptions 47

Conguration: User 48

System Maintenance: System Info 49

System Maintenance: Log Information 50

System Maintenance: Import/Export 51

System Maintenance: Upgrade 52

System Maintenance: Default 53

System Maintenance: Net Detect 54

System Maintenance: HDD Detect 55

System Maintenance: HDD Detect:

Bad Sector Detection 55

Reference

Troubleshooting 56

Addendum: Third Party Hardware 57

Warranty Information 58

Notes 59

Helpdesk/Technical Support Details 60

Camera Management: Motion 28

Camera Management: Privacy Mask 31

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Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of this Swann NVR. You’ve made a ne choice for keeping a watchful eye over your home or business. Let’s take a moment to talk about some of the features this NVR oers, and how to get the most out of them.

Oh my, this is a big manual. How long will this take?

Yes, but you won’t have to read all of it - you should be up and

running by page 15!

It can take a few hours to connect everything and run through the setup procedure.

The latter part of this manual is for advanced users only - the NVR is seriously congurable - the out-of-the-box settings do a great job in 90% of situations, but some users will want to get into the nitty-gritty detail, so that information is presented for those who need it.

The Basic Setup

The default settings will cover most basic installation requirements of the NVR.

To get the most out of your hard drive, we’ve congured the NVR to record only when it detects motion - that way, you won’t ll the hard drive with video of nothing happening.

Getting the NVR Setup

There are three stages to getting your NVR set up. If you want to use the default settings, you’ll only need to complete steps one and two.

Stage 1. Connecting the NVR (page 5 to page 9)

This section details what you can connect to the dierent inputs/ outputs of the NVR.

Everyone’s setup will vary a little bit - it depends on which cameras came with the NVR (if any) and what device(s) you’ve already got.

Stage 2. Basic NVR Setup

The NVR needs a few things to be set properly before it can do its thing. Follow the instructions from page 10 to page 15 to get everything working.

3. Optional: Advanced NVR Conguration

The latter part of this manual covers advanced NVR operations.

This NVR comes with all the professional-grade capabilities you’d expect from a quality Swann product, but many advanced capabilities require detailed setup to function correctly.

Before installing anything, connect the NVR and cameras and test

your system.

We ensure everything is working properly when we ship them

out, but sometimes things can be damaged in transport, and

occasionally components can fail. Better to nd out now, before

everything is xed in place!

Installation Guidelines

• Do not expose the NVR to moisture. Water is the arch-

enemy of electrical components and also poses a high risk of electric shock.

• Avoid dusty locations. Dust has a tendency to build up

inside the NVR case, leading to a high risk of failure or even re.

• Only install the NVR in a well ventilated space. Like all electronics, the circuitry and hard drive in the NVR produce heat, and this heat needs a way out.

• Do not open the NVR case except to install/swap the hard drive inside. There are no user serviceable parts

inside.

If you’re not an advanced user, don’t worry. The out-of-the-box settings really do work well, and we’d only suggest changing them if you’ve got a really specic plan in mind.

You’ll need to read a page or two of this section if:

• you’re connecting external sensors (page 44).

• you want to alter the motion detection sensitivity or the areas it applies to (page 28).

• Do not cut or modify any cable for any reason. Doing so will void your warranty, as well as pose a great risk of re or electrical shock.

• Do not expose the NVR to sudden bumps or shocks (for example, being dropped). The NVR is as robust as possible, but many of the internal components are quite fragile.

• Remember that the NVR is, in all likelihood, going to be left on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Keep this in mind when choosing a location for installation.

• Never open the case whilst the NVR is plugged in, and never turn the NVR on whilst the case is open.

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Front Panel of the NVR

Connecting the NVR

1) Power Button: Press this button to turn on the NVR. The LED will be blue when the NVR is on and red when the device has been shut down.

2) Infrared Sensor: Monitors signals coming from the infra-red remote control. If this sensor is blocked or obstructed, then the functionality of the remote will be impaired.

3) USB 2.0 Ports: For connecting USB external storage for backup, or for applying new rmware.

4) Alarm LED: Will be lit when a sensor alarm is detected.

5) Ready LED: Indicates that the NVR is ready and functioning

correctly.

6) Status LED: This will be lit if you are using the supplied remote control and the device ID is set to 254. It will not be lit if the device ID is set to 255 (default setting). The LED will turn red when using a RS485 keyboard.

7) HDD LED: Will ash whenever the NVR is writing to/reading from the installed hard drive.

8) Tx/Rx (LAN) LED: Flashes rapidly when the NVR’s network port is sending or receiving information.

9) Guard LED: Will be lit when the NVR has been armed. The LED will turn o when the NVR is unarmed. The arm/disarmed status can be changed by pressing and holding the ESC button for more than three seconds in live view mode.

10) DVD Eject Button: If you have a DVD-ROM/Writer installed, this button will open/close the DVD tray.

11) D-Pad: For navigating around menus when you are not using the mouse. The enter button is used to conrm your selection. It is also used to tick checkbox elds and to play/pause video in Playback mode.

12) These buttons have multiple functions depending on which mode you are currently in. The text and symbols in blue are the secondary function:

ESC/Guard: Primary function > Go back to the previous menu, Secondary function > Press this to arm/disarm the NVR. Press and hold for more than three seconds in live view mode to arm or disarm.

REC/Shot: Primary function > Enters the Manual: Record menu, Secondary function > In PTZ mode, you can recall a preset by pressing this and then one of the alphanumeric numbers. It is also used to turn the audio on/o in Playback mode.

Play/Auto: Primary function > Enters Playback mode, Secondary function > Is used to auto scan in PTZ mode.

Zoom+: Is used to increase zoom for a PTZ camera in PTZ mode.

A/Focus+: Primary function > Adjust focus in PTZ mode, Secondary

function > Is used to switch between lowercase and uppercase text input and for symbols and numeric input.

Edit/Iris+: Primary function > Allows you to edit text elds. It will also function as a backspace button to delete characters in front of the cursor, Secondary function > Adjusts the iris of the camera in PTZ mode.

Menu/Wiper: Primary function > Allows you to enter the main menu, Secondary function > Enables the camera wiper in PTZ mode. In Playback mode, it is used to show/hide the control toolbar.

F1/Light: Primary function > Is used to select all items on a list when used in a list eld, Secondary function > In PTZ mode, it is used to turn on/o the PTZ light (if applicable). In Playback mode, it is used to switch between play and reverse play.

F2/Aux: Primary function > Cycles through the various tabs in the main menu, Secondary function > In synchronous Playback mode, it is used to switch channels.

Main/Spot/Zoom-: Primary function > Switch between main and spot output, Secondary function > Is used to decrease zoom for a PTZ camera in PTZ mode.

Prev/Focus-: Primary function > Switch between single view and multi view mode, Secondary function > Adjust focus in PTZ mode in conjunction with the A/Focus+ button.

PTZ/Iris-: Allows you to enter the PTZ menu, Secondary function > Adjusts the iris of the camera in PTZ mode.

13) Alphanumeric Buttons: These buttons will allow you to switch

to the corresponding channel in live view and Playback modes. The buttons will have a dierent LED status depending on what is happening:

Blue > The camera is currently recording. The button will not be lit when the camera is not recording.

Red > When streaming a live image across the network. The camera is currently not recording.

Pink > When streaming a live image across the network while the camera is recording.

14) Jog Shuttle Control: In Playback mode, the outer control is used

to speed up or slow down playback and can be used as left/right control when navigating menus. In live view mode, it can be used to cycle through the available channels. The inner control is used to jump ahead or behind 30 seconds in Playback mode and can be used as up/down control when navigating menus. In PTZ mode, it can be used to control the movement of a PTZ camera.

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Connecting the NVR

Rear Panel of the NVR

1) Video Inputs 1 - 16: These are your primary video inputs. The channels are labelled by number in the same order as they will appear on your NVR’s interface. Each accepts an Ethernet (RJ45) plug, which is the same type plug as the Network Port.

2) eSATA Port: An external hard drive with an eSATA port can be connected to the eSATA port on the NVR. It can be used to record live footage in the same way as the internal hard drives(s).

3) RS-232 Port: To connect the NVR to the serial port on your computer. It is mainly used for low level testing and is not required for day to day use.

4) VGA Output: For connecting a television or PC monitor with a VGA input.

5) Audio Input/Output: As the cameras supplied with the NVR do not support audio capture, the Audio Input/Output is not required for normal operation.

6) HDMI Output: The primary output of the NVR. For the

highest possible video output quality, we suggest using this output.

7) RS485 Port: Connector for RS485 devices.

8) USB 2.0 Port: The supplied mouse connects here. You can

also connect USB external storage devices for backup or for applying new rmware.

9) Alarm & Sensor I/O Block: For connecting external alarm

sensors and/or alarm output devices (such as sirens or lighting) to the NVR.

10) Network Port: Where you can connect the NVR to a

network, typically directly into the router or network switch.

11) Power Switch: Master ON/OFF switch.

12) Power Input: Where you connect the included power

cable.

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Using the specialized Ethernet cables, connect the camera outputs to the video inputs on the NVR. Power adapters are not required as the NVR will provide power through the Ethernet cables.

Connection Diagram

Connect an Ethernet cable from the LAN port on the NVR to a spare port on your router.

Connecting the NVR

Connect the NVR to power using the supplied power cable.

If you’ve got a monitor with VGA but not HDMI, connect it to the VGA output on the NVR.

Connect the mouse to the USB 2.0 Port.

If you’ve got a TV or monitor with HDMI in, connect to the HDMI port on the NVR.

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Connecting the NVR

Connecting Additional Devices

An external hard drive with an eSATA port can be connected to the eSATA port on the NVR. It can be used to record live footage in the same way as the internal hard drives(s).

The front USB 2.0 port can be used for backing up footage to a USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive (HDD).

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Alarm & Sensor I/O Block

The NVR has 16 alarm inputs and 4 alarm outputs, for connecting external sensors.

Connecting the NVR

Alarm In 1 - 16: Connect the output from external sensors here. Only one of the two should be connected here, the other should be connected to the Ground terminal (consult the documentation for the sensor).

The Alarm In number does not directly correspond with a channel number - these can be set later (page 44).

Alarm Out 1 - 4: The outputs for connecting an external alarm device, such as a siren or security lights, to the NVR.

Please note, the alarm & sensor I/O block does not provide power to alarms and sensors. Please make sure that a power supply was included with your device.

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Basic NVR Operation

Basic Setup

Starting the NVR for the rst time:

When you rst boot the NVR, it will automatically start the Setup Wizard which will guide you through the various setup options available.

The USB Mouse (Recommended)

The easiest way to operate the NVR is to use the included USB optical mouse - we put together the look and feel of the menu system specically for mouse-friendly navigation.

The controls are pretty easy to remember - heck, there are only two buttons. It couldn’t be simpler.

Left click:

• Selects an item or conrms a choice.

Right click:

• Opens the menu bar from the live viewing screen.

• Returns one “step” from a submenu.

• Opens a context menu in some settings screens.

The Scroll Wheel:

• Can be used to adjust the values of sliders and scales when highlighted by the mouse.

Shutting Down & Rebooting

If you want to shut down or reboot the NVR, or simply log out of the user account you’re logged in as, access the Shutdown menu, accessible via the main menu.

To ensure the integrity of your data and recordings, always select Shut Down when powering o the NVR.

Note: Wireless Mice and Bluetooth devices

Note that Wireless Mice and Bluetooth devices are NOT compatible with the NVR. Please use the USB optical mouse supplied.

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The Setup Wizard

The wizard contains six quick setup screens which will allow you to choose how you want the NVR to behave. Please be patient as it can take up to 60

seconds for the wizard to appear after the NVR is turned on.

You’ll be asked to:

• Select a language.

• Set a password for the ADMIN account.

• Congure the time, date and time zone for your location.

• Congure the NVR so it can operate on your network and access (and be accessed from) the Internet.

• Initialize and format your hard drive(s), if required.

Setup Wizard: Language

System Language: Choose the language you’d like

the menu system to be displayed in.

Setup Wizard: Wizard

Basic Setup

When this check-box is left ticked, the setup wizard will run again the next time the NVR is rebooted or powered on. If you don’t want the wizard to start next time the NVR is turned on, uncheck this box.

To access the wizard once it’s been disabled, open

Main Menu > Conguration > General and select Enable Wizard.

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The Setup Wizard

Setup Wizard: Admin Password

For your on-going security and peace of mind, we strongly suggest setting a password for your Admin account. A password can be any combination of numbers (no letters) up to 16 numerals long.

Admin Password: Enter the existing Admin password here. The default password for the Admin account is

12345. Don’t enter what you’d like the password to be

- that goes in the elds below this one.

New Admin Password (check-box): When checked, the NVR will accept a new password for the Admin account.

New Password / Conrm: Enter what you’d like the new password to be in the upper eld, and then conrm it in the lower eld.

Basic Setup

Default Password Information

To ensure your privacy, this NVR supports password protection.

The default, all-access username is “admin”, the default password is “12345”.

To ensure your on-going privacy, we strongly recommend setting a password as soon as possible.

Choose something that you’ll remember, but that others would be unlikely to guess.

IMPORTANT NOTICE - Do not lose or forget your password. To ensure that your NVR has the best

security possible, password recovery has been designed to be a complicated and time consuming process. Only a select number of sta at the Swann Technical Support Telephone Helpdesk can assist. Password retrieval can take several days, which means you will not be able to access your NVR during

this time.

Wizard: Time, Date, Location, Live View

It’s important to ensure that your NVR has the correct time and date, as well as the correct time zone set. This is particularly true in a legal context when a mistaken time or date can mean the dierence between your security footage being regarded as legitimate evidence or not!

Time Zone: Select your location from the list. The East Coast of the United States is GMT -05:00 and the West Coast is GMT -08:00. The UK is at GMT+ 00:00 and the East Coast of Australia is at GMT +10:00.

Remember that these values will be displaced by an hour during DST (daylight savings time) if that applies in your locale. However, don’t set that here - the NVR supports automatically adjusting the time during DST

- see page 35.

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The Setup Wizard

Wizard: Time, Date, Location, Live View (ctd)

Date Format: How you’d like the date to be displayed. For best results, use the standard format for your

location (MM-DD-YYYY for the USA, DD-MM-YYYY for the UK and Australia).

System Date: The current date setting on the NVR. To alter this value, select the small calendar icon. System Time: The current time setting on the NVR. To alter this value, select the small clock icon. Note for NTP Users: Setting the date and time is less important if you’re using NTP (Network Time Proto-

col) but we still recommend you set it here, rst. Just in case. Live View Mode: 4 x 4 is the default mode for live video mode. This will display up to 16 video channels

on-screen at a single time. Selecting 1 x 1 will display the rst video channel full-screen - see page 45.

Wizard: Network Settings

NIC Type: What sort of network you’re using. There

are a few to choose from. The vast majority of users will use the default option of 10M/100M/1000M Self-adaptive. If you’re using a network other than this type, chances are you know about that.

Enable DHCP (check-box): Ensure that this is checked unless you’re specically running a manually addressed network (sometimes called static IP addressing) or your router doesn’t support DHCP.

IPv4 Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway: When you’re using DHCP, these values will self-populate. If you’re using a manually addressed network, you’ll need to set these to match the other devices on your network.

To learn more about the Network settings of the NVR see page 37.

Wizard: HDD Management

Here, you can view and initialize the hard drive(s) in the NVR. Typically, there will be only one entry here, the HDD which came with the NVR (if one was included). Each drive will be identied and be listed along with statistics such as Capacity, Status and Free Space. If you’re booting the NVR for the rst time, the HDD should already be initialized or if you’ve just installed a new HDD, then you’ll need to initialize the drive.

Basic Setup

Init: Initializes the HDD so that it’s ready to accept data.

Warning: Don’t initialize a drive that already has data on it, as the initialization process will erase any information on the drive.

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The Quick Menu

Basic Setup

To access the Quick Menu, right click the USB mouse once.

Menu: Opens the Main Menu (see page 16).

Single Screen: Opens a single channel for viewing in full-

screen mode. The slide-out menu contains a list of channels to choose from.

Multi-Screen: Select a multi-screen viewing option, where you’ll be able to see multiple video feeds at once.

Previous Screen: Moves to the previous channel.

Next Screen: Moves to the next channel.

The Quick Camera Menu

To access the Quick Camera Menu, left click the USB mouse once on one of the live video inputs available.

Recording: Start or stop live recording.

Instant Playback: Playback the last 5 minutes of recorded

video.

Audio On: As the cameras supplied with the NVR do not support audio capture, the Audio On option is disabled.

Capture: Allows you take a snapshot which is saved in JPEG format.

Start Auto-switch: Will periodically display a dierent video feed from each channel available.

Start Recording: Begins recording on all channels immediately, regardless of the current recording schedule.

Playback: Allows you to playback recordings from a single channel for the current day. Move the cursor over one of the live video inputs that you would like to playback, right click the USB mouse, then select Playback.

Output Mode: Allows you to change the contrast level of the video display.

button on the USB mouse to zoom, and press the right click button to exit. Use the PIP (Picture-in-Picture) screen on the bottom right to select a dierent area to zoom to.

Image Settings: Change the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue of the live video feed.

Live View Strategy: Allows you to change how you view the live video feed. You can select a higher quality video feed with a lower frame rate or you can decrease the quality and have a higher frame rate. Please note, this does not aect the quality of recorded video.

PTZ: To control a PTZ camera if you have one connected to the NVR.

Digital Zoom: Enter Digital Zoom mode. Press the left click

Close: Close the menu.

Hovering the mouse cursor over each button or icon will display a description of what it does.

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Operating the NVR Locally

If you’re reading this page, it means that either:

• You’ve got the NVR setup, but its standard recording program isn’t for you. Fair enough - we cater to all

requirements here.

• You’re interested in what other options and capabilities the NVR has. Excellent - the answer is “a lot”.

• Everything works except just that one thing that isn’t right but you don’t know where the option is. Darn.

We’ll try and get you xed up by the end of this page.

There are some sections of Advanced Conguration that we think are of benet for most NVR owners to know about - in particular, the Alarm settings and the Email Conguration of the NVR.

By Default...

• The NVR has motion recording enabled on every channel, congured to operate at an average level of sensitivity.

• To be a little more likely to record a border-line motion event than not (we think it’s better to get a false trigger than miss an event).

• To record video each time it detects a motion event, but not notify you via email (all events will be listed in the log).

Quick Reference

Some of the more common reasons to have a look in the

Advanced Conguration include:

Altering the Recording Schedule

The recording schedule is one of the most important things to get right when conguring the NVR. More information about the schedule can be found at:

• “Record: Schedule” on page 21

Conguring the Auto-Email Functions

If you want the NVR to notify you via email when it detects a motion event, then you’ll need to congure:

• “Conguration: Network: Email” on page 40

• “Camera Management: Motion” on page 28

Altering the Motion Detection Settings

If you want to change the way the NVR handles motion, then you’ll need to look at:

• “Camera Management: Motion” on page 28

Basic Setup

To alter the NVR’s default behaviour, you’ll need to change some of the advanced settings.

You can do this on the NVR directly or by using the SwannView Plus client software located on the included CD, there is a fairly comprehensive manual also included. You can also access the NVR’s built-in web interface using your Internet browser.

• “Camera Management: Image” on page 27

Connecting External Sensors to the NVR

To congure external sensors, pair them to video channels and change the associated action for each, see:

• “The Alarm & Sensor I/O Block” on page 9

• “Conguration: Alarm: Input / Output” on page 44

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Menu Layout

Basic Setup

Playback: To access recorded images, use the Playback menu. There are several playback modes to choose from, such as standard chronological playback mode, or event playback mode.

Export: To copy or backup footage from the NVR, use the Export menu. You’ll need a compatible USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive (HDD) to store the data.

Manual: Access manual controls for the recording and alarm functions of the NVR.

HDD: Where you’ll be able to access information about and adjust the settings of your hard drive(s).

Record: Access recording options, such as quality, resolution, bitrate and the recording schedule.

Camera: Adjusts and congures how the NVR looks for cameras via the video inputs. Access to Motion Detection conguration is located here.

Conguration: Access and congure many settings of the NVR, including your network settings, adjusting the time and date, creating or altering user accounts and adjusting the behaviour of the alarm inputs/outputs.

Maintenance: For changing how the NVR performs its automatic maintenance and for upgrading the NVR’s rmware.

Shut Down: To safely lock, shut down or reboot the NVR.

Hovering the mouse cursor over each button or icon will display a description of what it does.

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Playback

Camera: Select the camera that you’d like to playback. Up to sixteen cameras can be selected.

For Normal event playback, you will see a calender display underneath the camera selection. When you have selected one or more cameras, you will see the dates highlighted in blue that contain video footage from those cameras:

You can select a particular date, month and year. The dates highlighted in blue contain video footage from one or more cameras connected.

You can also select the type of event that you would like to playback. The options are Normal, Event (Alarm Input, Motion), Tag, External File and Picture. When you select Alarm Input, you can select up to sixteen alarm inputs to playback from.

Normal: Press the play button to play video. If you have selected multiple cameras, double click a camera to view it full screen. Double click again to exit full screen display. Blue sections on the timeline indicate an alarm or motion event.

Event (Alarm Input, Motion): Select your start date and time and end date and time, then press the Search button. A list of events will be displayed on the right hand side. To initiate playback, select the Play button on each event. Press the Back button to select a dierent time period.

Tag: Gives you the option of searching for a particular tag. Tagging allows you to record information such as location or people at a certain point within the video. You can add tags in Normal and Event playback.

External File: Allows you to play video les from an external source such as a USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive (HDD).

Picture: This NVR has the ability to enable a schedule if you want to save a series of still pictures in JPEG format. This option allows you to search for a particular still picture. See “Record: Schedule” on page 21 for details.

When playing your video, there are a number of options and controls available:

Mute: Mutes audio playback.

Start clipping: This button allows you to set mark in and mark out points

on your video which you can then export to a USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive. It’s a basic way to edit a video le that you have selected to play. When you have selected to play a video le, press the Start clipping button at the mark in point and press it again at the mark out point. To save the le, press the Exit button. You will then be prompted if you would like to save the le; click Yes to save. If you have made a mistake, click the Exit button and click No. Repeat the above process. Multiple mark in and mark out points can be applied.

Add default tag: Tagging allows you to record information such as location or people at a certain point within the video. The default tag name is TAG. Multiple tags can be added.

Add customized tag: Same as above but you can choose your own tag name.

Tag management: This button allows you to edit or delete tags that you have added to the video.

Zoom In: Enter Digital Zoom mode. Press the left click button on the USB mouse to zoom, and press the right click button to exit. Use the PIP (Picture-in-Picture) screen on the bottom right to select a dierent area to zoom to.

Play controls: These are your play, pause, rewind and forward controls.

Zoom In/Zoom Out: Allows you to zoom in and out of the time line.

Zooming into the time line will allow you to have more precise control for navigation.

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Export: Normal/Event

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The Export: Normal menu (above) will show you all recordings that you can export to a USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive (HDD).

From the Record Type menu, select the type(s) of video you’d like to playback. The options are Normal, Motion, Alarm,

Motion | Alarm, Motion & Alarm, Command Triggered, Manual and All. Set your Start Date/Time and your End Date/Time and click the Search button.

The Export: Event menu (below) will show you recordings that were triggered by the NVR detecting motion or by the alarm sensor being triggered.

Export: Picture

The Export: Picture option allows you to export a series of still pictures in JPEG format, that were triggered by the NVR detecting motion or by the alarm sensor being triggered.

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Manual: Record

The Manual: Record menu allows you to override any default recording schedules in place. The recording schedule for each camera connected, can be changed. Pressing the button next to IP Camera will stop recording on all cameras. You can also control each camera by pressing the button next to each of the camera names. You can select normal recording (Recording by manual operation) or motion detection recording (Recording by schedule).

Normal: The NVR will constantly record for any period where Normal is selected. You won’t miss anything, but constant

Manual: Continuous Capture

recording will ll your hard drive very quickly. (The NVR does record the equivalent of a DVD lm every two hours on every channel, so that’s rather a lot of data!) Typically, we suggest Motion Detection as a better recording mode for most users.

Motion Detection: The recommended recording setting for most applications. The NVR will only record when it detects something moving in front of a camera, and will then only record footage from the camera(s) that do detect motion unless you alter your Action settings “Camera Management: Motion” on page 28 to include other channels.

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The Manual: Continuous Capture option is used to save a series of still pictures instead of recording video.

Manual: Alarm

The Manual: Alarm menu allows you to send a trigger to the alarm output(s) to see that it is working correctly.

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HDD: General

Advanced Conguration

The HDD: General menu allows you to initialize the hard drive(s) in the NVR. Don’t initialize a drive that already has data on it, as the initialization process will erase any information on the drive. You also have the option of adding a Networkattached storage device (NAS) that you can record to.

Add: Create a folder on your NAS device, then input the IP address of your NAS device and the folder name that you created earlier.

HDD: Advanced

Init: Initializes the HDD so that it’s ready to accept data.

To nd out which NAS devices are compatible with our NVR,

please visit our website www.swann.com or contact Swann

Technical Support Telephone Helpdesk.

The HDD: Advanced menu allows you to congure a quota on the HDD for each camera that is connected to the NVR. Each camera can be allocated a certain amount of space that is available on the HDD. If you have multiple HDDs installed, you can also instruct the NVR on which HDD each camera can record to.

To do this, for Mode select Group and click the Apply button, you will then be asked to restart the NVR for this selection to take eect. When the NVR has rebooted, go to HDD: General. You will see an Edit option; click this to select a dierent property and group for that particular hard drive installed. Click the Advanced menu, for Record on HDD Group; you can select a dierent group and which cameras are assigned to that group.

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Record: Schedule

Important Guidelines

The schedule presented on-screen applies to one channel only.

Use the Copy function to quickly assign identical schedule layouts to multiple channels at once.

Be careful when programming your schedule. It’s one of the most important aspects of setting up your NVR, and if it’s wrong in any way, it could lead to disastrous complications later.

Camera: Select a camera that you would like to add a schedule to.

Enable Schedule: Select this to enable the schedule.

Copy (Channel): Located at the base of the screen, this will

allow you to copy the schedule from the channel you’re editing to another channel or channels.

Note: The Action Options for Motion Detection and the

External Sensors will aect the way the schedule works.

By default, all channels are armed to use Motion

Detection as their recording mode, but not to use

external sensors (not included).

Recording Modes:

There are four types of recording to choose from.

Normal: The NVR will constantly record for any period where Normal is selected. You won’t miss anything, but constant

Motion: The recommended recording setting for most applications. The NVR will only record when it detects something moving in front of a camera, and will then only record footage from the camera(s) that do detect motion.

It is recommended that Motion Detection is properly congured for the channel(s) you want to associate with it. See “Camera Management: Motion” on page 28 for more information about setting up and conguring Motion Detection.

Alarm: The NVR is armed to record if it detects an alarm event. This is the setting you’ll want to use if you’ve connected external sensors to the NVR’s alarm block.

Motion / Alarm (M / A): Will trigger the NVR to record on either an alarm event or motion being detected.

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Motion & Alarm (M & A): Will trigger the NVR to record when there is an alarm event and motion being detected.

None: As the name suggests, the NVR will not record anything.

Capture: This option is used to save a series of still pictures

in JPEG format instead of recording video. By default, the schedule has not been enabled for all channels for this option.

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Record: Encoding

Advanced Conguration

Encoding Parameters: Each video feed of the NVR is comprised of two components, the Main Stream and the SubStream.

Both the Main Stream and the SubStream are always active you don’t have to choose one for the NVR to use as it’s always using both. You can, however, change the quality, size and types of compression used for either.

Camera: Select a camera that you would like to alter.

Main Stream (Normal & Event): The images you’ll see in the

live-view interface of the NVR. This is the higher quality of the two streams, and is what you’ll see on the NVR itself or via a local network. When you alter settings for Normal, the same settings will also apply to Event automatically.

Stream Type: What kind of data you want the stream to contain. The cameras included with the NVR stream video only.

Resolution: Select a resolution, up to the native resolution of your camera. The higher the resolution, the more potential detail there will be in your images. The higher your resolution, the higher the bitrate will need to be to maintain a level of detail per-pixel.

Frame Rate: The number of frames per second (fps) that the NVR will record. The default (and maximum) is referred to as

“Full Frame” and is 30fps (NTSC) or 25fps (PAL).

Video Quality: The actual amount of data the NVR will use to

record video.

Pre-record: While Pre-record is enabled, the NVR will record between X and Y seconds before an event occurs. It’s a little like making the NVR psychic (but not really - it’s actually just caching a few seconds of video which it adds to event recordings as they occur).

If you’re using Motion Detection (recommended) and/or Alarm based recording as your primary recording method(s), then it’s a really good idea to use Pre-record - sometimes, if an event is fast enough, it might have left view before the NVR can trigger a recording. With Pre-record, there’s almost no chance you’ll miss it.

Post-record: How long after an event occurs that the NVR will continue to record. It can be very useful - for example, if an intruder or potential target triggers the motion detection but pauses in view; having Post-record enabled will get a much better look at them. 30 seconds is the recommended length for the Post-record setting, but it can be set higher (the options are 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 120 seconds, 300 seconds, 600 seconds) depending on your unique circumstances.

Expired Time (day): Determines how long the video footage will remain on the hard drive without it being overwritten.

Record Audio (check-box): Whether the NVR will record audio from this camera. The camera must contain a compatible audio device for this option to be selectable. As the cameras included with the NVR stream video only, this option is not selectable.

Substream: A fraction of the Main Stream, and what you’ll see over the Internet or via a mobile device. Typically, the Substream will be of signicantly lower quality and bitrate than the main stream.

Capture: Select a resolution, quality type and interval for pictures to be saved in JPEG format.

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Record: Advanced

Overwrite: When enabled, the NVR will record over the les already stored on the hard drive. The NVR will always record over the oldest les on your hard drive rst.

Using the overwrite option is advisable, as the NVR will always be able to record events as they happen. However, it does mean that you’ll need to get important events o the HDD before they’re overwritten.

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Record: Holiday

Advanced Conguration

There are times when you won’t want the NVR to record using its normal programming. Perhaps you require it to record more, or less, or just at dierent times.

The Record: Holiday screen allows you to dene periods of time where the NVR will employ an alternate recording mode (perhaps at a dierent quality and on a dierent schedule as well).

You can dene up to 32 holiday periods. These periods can be delineated by date, by weeks or by the month.

Holiday Name: Choose a title for the holiday period in question.

Enable: Whether the selected holiday period is enabled or not.

Mode: Select mode by date, week or month.

Start Date: Select a start date.

End Date: Select an end date.

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Camera Management: IP Camera

The Camera Management: IP Camera screen is where you can congure how and where the NVR will look for cameras, and what networking protocols and settings you want to use for them.

We are unable to provide direct support for cameras other than those that came with the NVR.

Note: Depending on the type of camera(s) connected and their method of connection, the NVR is able to self-populate many of the elds on this screen. If you nd a value you can’t edit, this is because the NVR automatically detects and sets the appropriate value.

Protocol: Provides you with the option of changing the port number for the Main Stream and SubStream video feed. We recommend leaving the default settings as the NVR has been congured to work with port 554 for RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol).

Camera No: Displays the number of the currently selected camera (see the list of cameras displayed below).

Edit: Provides you with the option of changing the network settings of the camera. We recommend leaving the default settings as the NVR will automatically detect each camera that is connected.

Delete: As the NVR is designed to work with the network cameras provided, the delete function has been disabled.

Camera Name: Displays the name of the currently selected camera.

IP Camera Address: The address of the camera currently selected.

Manage Port: The port number the selected camera is using to communicate over the network to which it is attached.

Protocol: The way that the selected camera communicates with the NVR. The cameras included with your NVR will be set to SWANN.

Device Model: Displays the model number of the currently selected camera.

Status: Displays the status of the currently selected camera.

Serial No.: Displays the serial number of the currently select-

ed camera.

Firmware: Displays the rmware version of the currently selected camera.

Note: You will see a window on the top left-hand side of the screen with a Quick Add and Search buttons. As the NVR is designed to work with the supplied cameras only, you cannot add additional network cameras; therefore this feature has been disabled.

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Live View: Press the play button to display a live view of the camera that you have selected. A small preview screen will appear displaying a live view from the camera.

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Camera Management: OSD (On-screen Display)

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Camera Name: Select a name for the camera you’ve selected. By default, all channels are named as the Camera No. eld, but this can be set to anything you’d like up to 32 characters.

Display Name: Whether the name of the camera will be part of the OSD information. This is entirely optional, and depends on your preference.

Display Date: Whether the current date will be part of the OSD information. We strongly recommend leaving this box

checked, and ensuring that the date is correct! For best results, use NTP (see Conguration: Network: NTP - page 39).

Display Week: Whether the current day will be part of the OSD information. We strongly recommend leaving this box checked,

and ensuring that the date is correct! For best results, use NTP (see Conguration: Network: NTP - page 39).

Date Format: How you’d like the date to be displayed. We strongly suggest setting this to the default standard for your locale. For example: MM-DD-YYYY for the USA or DD-MMYYYY for the UK or Australia.

Time Format: Choose between 12-hour and 24-hour time. Display Mode: How you would like the OSD to be displayed.

Bear in mind that some OSD settings (such as Transparent and/ or Flashing) are harder for a video forger to impersonate or modify than other settings - on the other hand, they’re harder to read. Select the best setting for your circumstances - it’s worth having a look at a few settings to see what options are available.

OSD Display Position: The inset OSD position window allows you to set the exact positions of any overlaid text, such as the camera name and the date and time.

Simply select any item you want to move (such as the Channel Name and/or the Date and Time) and click and drag it to the position you’d like it to be.

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Camera Management: Image

Mode: If you’re using only the cameras which came with the NVR (recommended) or additional Swann cameras of the same type, then the only option here will be Customize.

Future Swann IP Cameras may support additional image adjustment modes, and if they do, they will be adjustable here.

Brightness: Changes how light the image appears to be. However, it can’t make the camera see further in the dark, or increase the clarity of an ill-lit image.

Contrast: Increases the dierence between the blackest black and the whitest white in the image. Useful if sections of the image “grey out” but setting the contrast too high will degrade image quality.

Saturation: Alters how much color is displayed in the image. The higher the saturation, the more bright and vivid colors will appear to be. Again, setting this too high can degrade image quality.

Hue: Changes the color mix of the image (this can have very dramatic results). It’s somewhat like moving through a rainbow.

Remember: Your image settings will aect your recordings!

You can use the Image Settings to help ne-tune your Motion Detection sensitivity. At night, the images that you see from the camera may seem to icker slightly, or to have increased “noise”. In video, “noise” is random uctuations of pixels, a little like an old television that is not set to a station, often called “static”.

By tweaking the Brightness and the Contrast you can eliminate much of this video noise, increasing the quality of your images and the accuracy of the Motion Detection.

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Camera Management: Motion

Advanced Conguration

As Motion Detection is the default recording mode for the NVR, it’s worth taking a moment to ensure it is properly congured.

If the motion detection sensitivity is too sensitive, then the NVR will record frequently or continually - any benet of motion detection will be lost.

If the motion detection sensitivity is not sensitive enough, then the NVR will not record when it should and may not record anything at all.

We think that motion detection is the best way to get your NVR to operate almost autonomously for long periods of time (typically weeks to months) without you having to worry about losing old footage.

However, it can be important that it’s congured correctly!

How Motion Detection Works

The way that the NVR looks for motion is quite straight forward

- it’s a process where it compares one frame (that is, a single image taken approximately a 25th/30th of a second from the previous image) with the next. A certain amount of “dierence” between these two “frames” is interpreted as motion.

As a result, the NVR is able to detect when there is a change in the picture. However, this does not necessarily need to be something moving in the frame. For example, a light being turned on or o, a lightning ash or even the sun coming out momentarily on a cloudy day might be enough to trigger the motion detection on the NVR. However, as these events last only a moment (and are relatively rare) they will only create a few very short redundant clips, which will not take up too much space or pose a problem with scanning through footage.

Here, you’ll be able to set the motion detection features of the NVR for each channel. We suggest that motion detection is, under most circumstances, the most practical recording method for the NVR to employ.

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Camera Management: Motion (ctd)

False Triggers

Setting the motion detection at high sensitivity levels increases the frequency of false alarms. On the other hand, low sensitivity levels increase the risk that a signicant motion event (such as an intruder) will not trigger the motion detection to record.

Check the Motion Detection settings both during the day and at night. In low-light conditions (or when your cameras

are using infrared night vision) the NVR may be more or less sensitive to motion, depending on your unique circumstances. The dierence might be very dramatic!

Weather

The weather conditions are going to aect your motion detection. Dramatic weather phenomenon such as heavy rain, strong winds, lightning and so on, may trigger the motion detection with surprising frequency.

On the other hand, things like fog, mist and other obscuring kinds of weather might mask or obscure something moving to the point that the NVR fails to detect them.

• Limit the motion sensitive area to only the areas in view that a target could be. In particular, large featureless areas in the camera’s view are the ones most likely to give false triggers - turning o the motion sensitivity to any area a target cannot move in front of will help reduce false triggers - see page 30.

Note: The motion detection feature will seem more sensitive

at night. We recommend that you test your motion detection sensitivity both during the day and at night to ensure your sensitivity setting is suitable for either lighting condition.

Some tips to customizing your motion detection sensitivity and actions:

• Consider how important it is to be notied of motion events as they happen.

Using the email alerts is a great way to be kept up-to-speed on what’s happening, but may quickly become annoying if something occurs which will generate a number of false triggers. As a rule, we suggest employing the email alert only on interior cameras during times that no one should be moving about in front of them.

Which is the bigger problem - a dozen false triggers per day, or missing one critical event?

There’s no magic setting which will make motion detection work perfectly. There will always be some events that it’s not sensitive enough to catch, or minor happenings that will trigger an overly sensitive camera to record. Typically, the best motion detection settings are one’s that give few false triggers but don’t miss anything.

Even motion detection which false triggers a few times per hour will still save a signicant amount of hard drive space compared with a constant recording schedule for the same duration.

You can also use the Privacy Mask option to minimize false triggers by obscuring dierent parts of your image - see page 31.

How it Works: Once motion detection has been enabled for a channel, it will register to the NVR as a Motion Event. Thus, you can use the Motion recording mode in the schedule to trigger the NVR to record when motion detection triggers an alarm signal.

Enable Motion Detection: Whether or not motion detection is enabled on a specic channel. Each channel can be congured independently of one another.

Say, for example, you are trying to monitor your front yard, whilst in the background there is a busy street, and the cars driving past continually set o the motion detection. What can you do about it? Setting only part of the camera’s view to be motion sensitive might be the answer. This is useful in a number of circumstances, such as monitoring one particular door at the end of a busy hallway, or a backyard with a tree that keeps blowing in the wind.

Handling: Here you can dene what will happen when the camera you’ve selected detects motion. You can trigger additional cameras to start recording, you can adjust your arming schedule, send alerts to the SwannView Plus software or to email or trigger the alarm output.

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• It can be important to have a complete record of a subject’s movements and actions for legal reasons.

If your cameras capture an illegal event (typically an intruder, but we’re continually surprised by stories from our users) it is important to have as much information as possible. For example, images of someone in your home may not actually prove that they broke in - but footage of them breaking a window does. If you use a camera inside the home to trigger all exterior cameras with pre-record enabled, then you will have a record of how they entered in addition to what they did.

• Always consider what’s really important.

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Camera Management: Motion (ctd)

Advanced Conguration

To set the MOTION DETECTION AREA

In the MOTION DETECTION menu, select the AREA SETUP (shown above) for the channel you wish to setup the MOTION DETECTION AREA for.

• You will see a grid of red boxes. The outlined boxes mark the area that is sensitive to motion. The area without the red outlines is not sensitive to motion.

• Use the mouse to move the cursor around the screen.

• By left clicking an area in the grid, you can toggle motion detection ON or OFF in that location.

• Click and drag to select the area you want to select or deselect.

In the sample image above, a person entering the room through the window would trigger the motion detection. However, a person entering from the right of screen should avoid the motion sensitive area. This is a good solution to monitor the windows (left of image) without getting false triggers every time someone enters the room from the right.

Sensitivity: The Sensitivity setting is controlled by a slider, allowing you to set a value between L (low) and H (high). The closer to H the slider is set, the more sensitive the motion detection will be.

Full Screen: Will select the entire area for motion detection.

Clear: Will clear the entire area.

Get an able-bodied volunteer to move about in front of the cameras you’d like to tune the sensitivity for. The ideal sensitivity level is when your volunteer moving about always triggers the motion detection, but there are no false triggers (or very few) when your volunteer isn’t moving about.

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Camera Management: Privacy Mask

A Privacy Mask can be used if you want to obscure part of your image. You can also use this option to minimize false triggers for motion detection. You can dene up to four areas per channel to mask. Click and drag to select the area you want to select or de-select.

Remember: Anything obscured by a privacy mask won’t be shown in Live View and will not be recorded.

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Camera Management: Tamper Proof

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Tamper Proong can be used in scenarios where someone may cover up the camera’s eld of view or if they are attempting to tamper with the video signal.

Camera: Select the channel that you want to enable for tamper proong.

Enable Tamper-proof: Select this to enable.

Handling: Here you can dene what will happen when the

camera you’ve selected detects tampering. You can adjust your arming schedule, send alerts to the SwannView Plus software or to email or trigger the alarm output.

Sensitivity: Increase or decrease the level of sensitivity.

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Camera Management: Video Loss

Video Loss is regarded as a potential alarm event, and is

considered to occur any time that the NVR doesn’t receive an active video signal on any of its inputs.

The default behaviour of the NVR, when a channel has no incoming video signal, is simply to display “No Video” in white text on a black background over the associated channel. If you’re not using all the inputs on your NVR, then some channels will be in “permanent” video loss state. Just be sure that you don’t enable a video loss action for these channels.

Camera: Which channel/camera you’d like to set the video loss behaviour for.

Enable Video Loss Alarm: Whether the selected channel has video loss monitoring active or not.

Camera Management: Video Loss - Handling

Full Screen Monitoring: When the video signal has re-

established connection, the camera will display a full screen image momentarily.

Audible Warning: The NVR will use its internal buzzer to emit an alarm tone. It sounds like an old computer indicating an error, or a large truck backing up.

Alert CMS Software: A warning message is sent to the SwannView Plus client software installed on the computer.

Send Email: The NVR will send an auto-email alert when the event type you’ve selected occurs. To congure your email settings - see “Conguration: Network: Email” on page 40 for details.

Trigger Alarm Output: Instructs the NVR to output an alarm signal from the alarm output terminal(s). The alarm output(s) must be correctly connected and congured.

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Conguration: General

Advanced Conguration

Language: The language that the NVR’s menus, alerts and other communications will use. English is the only language available.

Resolution: The number of “little dots” that make up an image. This should be set as high as possible, but equal to or lower than the maximum resolution your screen/monitor can display. Things change a little depending on what kind of monitor you’re using, and how it’s connected.

The NVR has ve formats available, in two dierent aspect ratios:

Square (4:3) - 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024 or 1600 x 1200

Widescreen (16:9) - 1280 x 720 (720p) or 1920 x 1080 (1080p)

Square Monitor via VGA: Use one of the 4:3 formats to correctly align the NVR’s output on your screen. Using a widescreen format will “stretch” the image vertically.

Widescreen Monitor via VGA: If possible, use the widescreen (16:9) format. If your monitor can’t display that resolution, you might need to enable letter-boxing on your monitor and use a 4:3 format.

PC Monitor via HMDI: Choose a format appropriate for your monitor. If it’s a widescreen, use a widescreen format. Set to the highest option that is equal to or less than the screen’s maximum resolution.

Widescreen Plasma/LCD HDTV via HDMI: The resolution should be set to the maximum your television can process not display. Typically, this will be 1080p, as even screens

which don’t have that many pixels can still display the image, just with less detail. Check your television’s documentation to learn this value. If your television can’t display 1080p, then use 720p instead.

Time Zone: Particularly important if you’ve enabled NTP - set this to the time zone where you happen to be. For example, people in eastern Australia (Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne) choose GMT+10:00, whilst the Eastern Time zone in the USA and Canada is GMT-05:00. (GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time - it’s the baseline that keeps all the dierent time zones in sync.)

Date Format: The format of the date (DD/MM/YYYY or MM DD/YYYY and so on).

System Date: This can be edited manually, or set to update automatically by using NTP (see “Conguration: Network: DDNS/NTP” on page 39).

System Time: This can be edited manually, or set to update automatically by using NTP (see “Conguration: Network: DDNS/NTP” on page 39).

Mouse Pointer Speed: Move the slider to increase or decrease the mouse pointer speed.

Enable Wizard: When checked, the NVR will automatically run the setup wizard when the NVR is switched on. The wizard itself contains the option to disable it.

Enable ID Authentication: When enabled, the NVR will require a username and password to access, even for local users.

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Conguration: General: DST Settings

Enable DST (check-box): Enable this setting if you’d like the NVR to adjust the time when daylight savings time begins.

From / To: Here you can dene when daylight savings applies to your location. There are many dierent standards for DST which can vary dramatically even in the same time zone, so you’ll need to tell the NVR when it applies to you.

DST Bias: This refers to the dierence in minutes, between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the local time. Select the time that DST has increased by in your time zone.

NOTE: Some NTP servers are NOT fully compatible with DST (Daylight Savings Time). This may cause your system to doublecount adding one or removing one more hour than they should, or cancel each other out. You may need to intentionally change your time zone to compensate, or simply not use NTP and DST simultaneously.

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Conguration: General: More Settings

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Device Name: The name that the NVR considers to be its own and what it will use to register an IP address with your DHCP host.

Device No.: The internal device number of the NVR.

Operation Timeout: Here you can change the time the NVR

will exit the menu screen and return to the camera viewing screen if there is no activity.

Menu Output Mode: The menu output mode is currently set to HDMI / VGA and cannot be changed.

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Conguration: Network

NIC Type: The NVR has the ability to connect to your LAN (Local Area Network) at various speeds and can adjust itself accordingly depending on the network trac. It is recommended to leave the current default setting for the best streaming performance.

Enable DHCP: DHCP (Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol) is a system where one device on your network (usually a router) will automatically assign IP addresses to devices connected to the network. This option is enabled by default and is the recommended way for the NVR to receive an IP address from your router.

If you require the NVR to have a static IP address, you will need to disable this option.

STATIC: Static networks require all devices to have their IP addresses manually dened, as there is no device dedicated to automatically assigning addresses.

IPv4 Address: Just as houses and businesses need to have an address which identies their location on the road network, so too do computers and other devices need addresses (called IP ADDRESSES) to identify their position on the electronic network. The NVR uses IPv4 addressing, which consists of four groups of numbers between 0 and 255, separated by periods. For example, a typical IP address might be “192.168.1.24” or something similar. The most important thing when setting the IP address is that nothing else on your network shares that IP address.

IPv4 Subnet Mask: If the IP address is like a street address, then a subnetwork is like your neighbourhood. This will be formatted in a similar way to the IP address (i.e. four numbers up to 255 separated by periods) but contain very dierent numbers. In the above example, the Subnet Mask might be something like: “255.255.255.0”.

IPv4 Default Gateway: This is the address of the “way to the Internet” - to continue the road analogy, this is like your local access point to the highway. This is an IP address in the same format as the others, and is typically very similar to the IP address of the NVR. To continue the above examples, it might be something such as: “192.168.1.254”.

IPv6 Address 1/2/Default Gateway: IPv6 is the latest revision of the Internet Protocol (IP). It will eventually replace the older IPv4 system for assigning IP addresses to devices on your network. The majority of internet server providers (ISPs) are still using the IPv4 system but will eventually transition to IPv6. As the NVR supports IPv6, you will be able to take advantage of the new system when it arrives.

Mac Address: The Media Access Control address. This is a unique code which nothing else should share. You can’t change this one - it’s hard set when the NVR ships out.

MTU (Bytes): The MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) is the size of the largest datagram that can be sent over a network. It is recommended to leave the default setting.

Preferred DNS Server: “Domain Name System”. Everything on the Internet is located via an IP address - however, for ease of use, we associate domain names (such as “www.

exampledomainname.com”) with those IP addresses. This

index is accessible in many locations online, and we call those locations “DNS servers”.

Alternate DNS Server: A backup DNS server. This is here as a redundancy - your NVR will probably work without one.

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Conguration: Network: PPPOE

Advanced Conguration

PPPOE is an advanced protocol that allows the NVR to be more directly connected via a DSL modem. This is an option for advanced users only.

Username: Enter the username for your DSL account provider.

Password: Enter the password for your DSL account provider.

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Conguration: Network: DDNS/NTP

yourhostname.swanndvr.net

Your USERNAME

Your PASSWORD

Conrm PASSWORD

Static and Dynamic IP Addresses

In much the same way as your home network can use static or dynamic IP addresses, many Internet providers don’t issue (or charge more for) a static IP address for users. The easiest way to nd out is to contact your Internet service provider. Alternately, you can access the www.whatismyip.com service, make a note of your IP, then reboot your router/gateway. This should refresh your Internet connection. If your IP address changes, you have a dynamic IP address. If it stays the same, you may have a static IP - contact your ISP to conrm.

How do I deal with a dynamic IP address?

One option is to contact your ISP and request a static IP address. They’ll usually charge a small fee for doing this. It’s worth noting that not all ISPs oer static IP addresses.

If your ISP does not oer static IP addresses then you can use a dynamic referencing service. We provide one free of charge.

We recommend using SwannDNS as your DNS service.

This is a free service for Swann DVR/NVR owners, which we

directly support.

To create an account with SwannDNS, go to:

http://www.swanndvr.net/

and click the Registration button.

Follow the prompts to create your account.

DDNS Type: SwannDNS is automatically selected as the DNS service (www.swanndvr.net).

Device Domain Name: Enter the host name that you set up in your DDNS service. This is the address you use to access your network. For example: yourhostname.swanndvr.net

Username/Password/Conrm: Enter the username and password you setup with your DDNS server. These do not have to match your username/password combination in either your NVR or router (for the sake of security, we suggest making them dierent). Conrm your password in the eld provided.

For NVR users: Your username is the email address you used to register the account. The password is whatever you selected when you registered.

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NTP: Network Time Protocol. If you’ve got the NVR connected to the Internet, you can have it automatically sync time with an online server.

Important:

If you’re using NTP, then it is essential that your Time Zone

(see page 34) and DST (daylight savings time - see page 35)

be set correctly.

Interval (min): The amount of time in minutes that will elapse between the NVR updating its internal clock to match that of the NTP server. The default period of 60 minutes is recommended.

NTP Server: The server you’d like to use for NTP. There are many available online - the default (pool.ntp.org) works just ne.

NTP Port: The port used by the NTP server of your choice. The default for pool.ntp.org is 123.

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Conguration: Network: Email

Username for email account

Password for email account

smtp.gmail.com

Name for sender account

outgoing@email address

Receiver’s name

receiver@email address

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We suggest using Gmail as your email client - it’s quite easy to set up an account and use it solely for the NVR. We’ve tested the email procedure with Gmail, and it does work.

Other email servers may not work correctly - many interpret the procedurally generated email from the NVR as spam and block the mail from being sent.

For the Auto-Mail function to work correctly, the NVR will need to be correctly congured with the details of the email servers and addresses you want to use.

Enable Server Authentication: If your outgoing mail server requires authentication, ensure this box is checked.

User Name: The username for the outgoing email account.

Password: The password for the outgoing email account.

SMTP Server: The name of the SMTP server of the email provider

that you have selected. Here are the SMTP server names for Gmail (Google), Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail (Hotmail):

Gmail (Google): smtp.gmail.com

Yahoo Mail:

Windows Live Mail (Hotmail):

smtp.mail.yahoo.com

smtp.live.com

You’ll need to setup an account with one of these email providers. All oer free email accounts. To signup, visit the email provider’s website:

Gmail (Google): www.gmail.com

Yahoo Mail:

Windows Live Mail (Hotmail):

www.mail.yahoo.com

www.hotmail.com

SMTP Port: The SMTP port used by the email provider of your choice. The SMTP port for Gmail users is 465.

Enable SSL: Whether the email server you’re using requires a secure link. This should be left on if you’re using any of the preset email servers.

If you want to use your ISP’s outgoing email, then you’ll need to contact your ISP to learn the correct values for the other elds (such as the correct SMTP server, SMTP port, SSL requirements and so on).

Sender’s Address: The address you’re sending the email from. This will be the username you’ve set up for the email server you’re using, followed by “@” and then the email server. For example: “youraddress@gmail.com” or similar.

Select Receivers: You can select up to three dierent receivers to send an email to.

Receiver’s Address: The email address you want the NVR to send emails to. This can be any email address you like, however, bear in mind that the NVR might send a large number of automatic emails under certain conditions.

Enable Attached Picture: When this is selected, the NVR will attach three small images to each email alert (where applicable).

For motion-based email alerts, this will be an image of whatever triggered the motion detection.

Interval: The length of time that must elapse after the NVR sends an email alert before it will send another.

Short Interval settings are likely to lead to huge numbers of alerts being sent by the NVR - perhaps even several emails for one event (if that one event lasts longer than the interval setting). On the other hand, a long interval setting might mean you’ll miss a specic update that you needed. There’s no right answer, and you’ll probably have to ne-tune this setting to get the results you’re after - it’ll be dierent for everyone’s unique circumstances.

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Conguration: Network: SNMP/UPnP

SNMP (Above)

SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol. If your

network is setup to use SNMP (if you’re not sure, your network administrator(s) should be able to tell you if this protocol is in use) then you can congure it here.

Enable SNMP: Whether SNMP is in use. If it’s not in use, then ensure this stays disabled. The SNMP protocol can interfere with normal networking functionality.

SNMP Version: The version of SNMP currently being used. SNMP Port: The SNMP port currently being used. This is

typically port 161, however exceptions exist. Read Community: Who has read-only access to information

on the network (can view, but not change). Write Community: Who has control over information on

the network (can view, modify, change, create or delete information).

Trap Address: The address of the network trap (the asynchronous notication from agent to manager).

Trap Port: The port being used for the trap.

UPnP (Below)

Enable UPnP: UPnP makes conguring your network easier

and faster. To use the UPnP setting on the NVR, you’ll need a router which supports this feature, with UPnP enabled. Note that many routers which do support UPnP do not come with the feature enabled by default. You may need to ask your Internet service provider to turn it on.

When UPnP is enabled on your NVR and your router, the Ports that the NVR requires to be open for access to and from the Internet will automatically be opened and closed as necessary by your router, saving you the trouble of manually forwarding these ports. If UPnP is not enabled, or your router does not support this feature, you’ll need to forward the ports the NVR uses from the router to the NVR - since this is a technically challenging process; we strongly recommend using UPnP if possible. Make sure that the number used for the External

Port and Internal Port match, otherwise the UPnP function will not work.

Edit: Allows you to change the current External Port number. Mapping IP Address: Will display the public IP address of the

router that the NVR is connected to. Status: If UPnP is working correctly, you will see Active

displayed. If UPnP is not enabled or you haven’t forwarded the correct port number, the status will be Inactive.

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Conguration: Network: More Settings

Advanced Conguration

Alarm Host IP: The location on your network where an IPbased alarm system is hosted.

Alarm Host Port: The port associated with the IP-based alarm system.

Server Port: This is the internal port that the NVR will use to send information through. The most important things are:

• You’ll need to enable UPnP on your router so your router can selectively open these ports, allowing the NVR to communicate via the Internet. If your router doesn’t support UPnP, you have two options. You can either get a new router (which we’d actually recommend - UPnP is such a good feature!) or you can manually forward ports from the router to the NVR. Port forwarding is a technical and involved process, recommended only for the technically inclined.

• Nothing else uses this port. The default port number is 8000, which is not used by many other devices/programs. However, particularly if you have another NVR or NVR-like device, something might be using this port already. If this

is the case, change this value to be unique.

• You’ll need to know this port value when logging within your network or remotely - so, if you change it, remember what it is!

• Make sure that the number used for the External Port and Internal Port match, otherwise the UPnP function will not work.

• You’ll need to know this port value when logging within your network or remotely - so, if you change it, remember what it is!

Multicast IP: Multicast IP is a technique for one-to-many

and many-to-many real-time communication over an IP infrastructure in a network. The receiver will receive data from that IP without the need to contact individual devices directly. In most circumstances this option is not required.

RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) Port: This port is used to stream real-time images through, and is the port that will be used to communicate with mobile devices. If you are having issues streaming video to your mobile device or your mobile service provider is blocking access, we recommend to change this value to 5554. Do not change this if everything is working ok.

What port number(s) should I use?

If the default port numbers are in use (85 and/or 8000) then the simplest solution is just to keep “adding one” until you nd a port which is not in use. So, if 85 is already taken, try 86 or 87.

There’s no “right” port number(s) to use - any port number will work provided the NVR is the only device using it. For this reason,

avoid using port numbers 80, 81, 82, 88, 90, and 99 as these are often used by other devices/programs/protocols.

HTTP Port: This is the port through which you will be able to log in to the NVR.

• Like the RTSP port, it will need to be forwarded properly

in order to ensure smooth, latency-free communication. The default value is “85”, as this port is seldom used by other devices or applications. If there is another device on your network using this port, you’ll need to change it to be unique.

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Conguration: Alarm: Alarm Status

The Conguration: Alarm: Alarm Status menu displays the current status and conguration of the Alarm Input and Alarm Output connections.

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Conguration: Alarm Input

Advanced Conguration

The Alarm Input menu will allow you to customize and congure how you’d like the NVR to interpret input from and respond to the sensor input panel on the rear of the NVR.

Alarm Input No.: The connection that corresponds to the input you’ve connected the sensor to. Note that the Alarm Input Number and the Channel Number don’t have to be the same. The <- characters indicate that these are alarm inputs.

Alarm Name: The name you want to associate with the alarm. We suggest something descriptive and useful, such as “Lounge Room PIR Sensor” or “Front Door Sensor”. The NVR will use this name in email alerts and in the event log to let you know where alarms are being generated.

Type: Whether the sensor is a NO (normally open) or NC (normally closed). You’ll need to check your sensor’s documentation to learn the correct value to use. It refers to the way the sensor tells the NVR when it has detected something. If this is set to the wrong value, you’ll get constant “false” alarms, which will stop only when the sensor detects something.

Conguration: Alarm Output

Setting: Tick this check-box to enable the Alarm Input.

Handling:

alarm input has been alerted.

Please note: depending on the conguration and intended purpose of your external alarm device, it may or may not continue to be in an alarmed state once the NVR’s signal has ceased.

If you enabled an action for a sensor input and set the sensor type to NO and don’t have a sensor connected to the NVR, then this will constantly trigger alarm events.

Here you can dene what will happen when the

Here you can control the operation of the NVR’s Alarm Out port. Note that the alarm output(s) on the NVR is Normally Open (NO). If you’ve got an external device, it must be congured to use a NO triggering method; otherwise they’ll be in a permanently alarmed state.

Alarm Output No.: The connection that corresponds to the output you’ve connected an external device to.

Alarm Name: The name you want to associate with the alarm.

Dwell Time: The amount of time you’d like the NVR to maintain

the Alarm Output status. Handling: Here you can dene what will happen when the

alarm output(s) has been alerted.

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Conguration: RS-232

The Conguration: RS-232 menu will allow you to change settings for the RS-232 port. It is mainly used for low level testing and is not required for day to day use.

Conguration: Live View

Video Output Interface: The default output is VGA/HDMI.

Live Video Mode: 4 x 4 is the default mode for live video

mode. This will display up to 16 video channels on-screen at a single time. Selecting 1 x 1 will display the rst video channel full-screen. Other views available are 2 x 2, 3 x 3, 1 + 5 and 1 + 7.

Dwell Time: The time in seconds to dwell on a video channel when enabling Start Auto-switch in Live View. This only works when the Live Video Mode is set 1 x 1.

Enable Audio Output: As the cameras supplied with the NVR do not support audio capture, this option is not required.

Event Output: The default output is VGA/HDMI.

Full Screen Monitoring Dwell Time: The time in seconds to

show an alarm event screen.

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Conguration: Live View: View

Advanced Conguration

In Live View, you can change the display order of each camera connected -

1. Select an available viewing window on the right-hand side.

2. Double click one of the available cameras on the left-hand

side that you would like to place in the viewing window that you have selected.

Play: Pressing the Play button will start the live view of all cameras connected to the NVR.

Stop: Pressing the Stop button will stop the live view of all cameras connected to the NVR.

Please note: Pressing the stop button means that you will

not see a real-time view of all the cameras connected to the

NVR at the main viewing screen. Press the play button to

enable real-time view.

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Conguration: Exceptions

An Exception is any deviation from the NVR’s normal behaviour - phrased another way, it’s like saying the NVR’s been working ne except for these events

Exception Type: What event type you’d like the NVR to react to. By conguring the Action for these events, you can create any combination of audio alerts (see below) or auto-emails to be sent for dierent event types.

HDD Full: As the name suggests, this event occurs when the NVR runs out of space on the hard drive to save new footage. This event is redundant if you’ve got overwrite enabled, as the NVR will automatically delete old footage to ensure it can continue to record.

HDD Error: Occurs when the NVR has trouble accessing its hard drives, or when it cannot detect one at all.

Network Disconnected: Will occur if the NVR has problems connecting to the Internet. This may indicate a problem with the NVR’s conguration, a fault with your network or a problem with your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

IP Conicted: This event will occur if the NVR detects another device on the same network with a conicting IP address. It’s a little like two houses with the same number being on the same street - one house might get the other’s mail, or get woken up at all hours of the night being asked if someone named “Big Bob” lives there.

Illegal Login: This will occur if the NVR detects a login with an incorrect username or password.

Record/Capture Exception: This will occur if there are unexpected errors during capture such as a HDD failure, if the HDD is full or if the HDD quota has been changed.

Audible Warning: The NVR will use its internal buzzer to emit an alarm tone. It sounds like an old computer indicating an error, or a large truck backing up.

Alert CMS Software: A warning message is sent to the SwannView Plus client software installed on the computer.

Send Email: The NVR will send an auto-email alert when the event type you’ve selected occurs.

Trigger Alarm Output: Instructs the NVR to output an alarm signal from the alarm output terminal(s). The alarm output(s) must be correctly connected and congured.

Advanced Conguration

Basically, it indicates that two devices are trying to use the same IP address. This shouldn’t occur if you’re using DHCP addressing, unless one or more devices is set to use a STATIC IP (the static addressing method overrides the automatic assignment process).

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Conguration: User

Advanced Conguration

The Conguration: User menu is where you can dene and congure the dierent levels of access various users have to the NVR.

We suggest that at minimum the admin account be password protected, as it has access to all aspects of the NVR’s operation.

To add additional users, choose Add.

To customize a user’s level of access, choose Edit.

To remove a user, choose Delete.

User’s MAC Address: To restrict remote user access, you can input the MAC address of the remote computer that will be used to access NVR. The NVR will only allow remote access from a computer with this MAC address to gain access.

You cannot modify the access level of the default admin account - they can do everything.

This is to prevent an unfortunate incident where, for example, no user has the permissions required to change another user’s permissions - which could lead to the NVR being, in at least some senses, inoperable.

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System Maintenance: System Info

If you’re looking at the System Information screen, you’ve probably been directed to do so by Swann Technical Support.

If we haven’t told you to come here, you might be wondering what all the information means. On a day-to-day level, the answer is “very little”. However, if you’re still curious:

Device Info: Displays the Device Name, Model, Serial Number, Firmware and Encoding Version of the NVR.

Camera: Displays the cameras connected to the NVR.

Record: Displays the current recording settings.

Alarm: Displays the current alarm status.

Network: Displays the current network settings.

HDD: Displays the current status of the hard drive(s) installed

or connected.

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System Maintenance: Log Information

Advanced Conguration

The System Maintenance: Log Information menu contains information for operation, alarm, exceptions and information of the NVR.

1. Set the log search conditions to rene your search including the Start Time, End Time, Major Type and Minor Type.

2. Click the Search button to start searching the log les.

3. The matched log les will be displayed. Up to 2000 log les

can be displayed each time.

4. Double click each le to view detailed information contained in the log.

5. Click the Play button to view the video that is related to that log le.

6. If you want to export the log le, click the Export button to

enter the Export menu. Click the Search button rst otherwise the Export button will not be active.

7. Select the backup device from the Device Name dropdown

list. Click New Folder to create a new folder or Format to format the backup device. Click Export to export the log les to the backup device.

To export all the log les, click the Log Export option, select the hard drive that you want to export, select the backup device from the Device Name dropdown list, then click the Export button.

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System Maintenance: Import/Export

The System Maintenance: Import / Export menu allows you to import or export your current conguration settings. This will come in handy as it will save you time if you have to reset the NVR back to factory default settings.

To export your current conguration le, select the backup device from the Device Name dropdown list. Click New Folder to create a new folder or Format to format the backup device. Click Export to export the conguration le to the backup device.

To import a previously saved conguration le, select the backup device from the Device Name dropdown list. Select the conguration le - it will be called devCfg_(serial number)_(year/month/time).bin, then click the Import button. After the conguration le has been imported, the NVR will reboot automatically.

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System Maintenance: Upgrade

Advanced Conguration

The System Maintenance: Upgrade menu allows you to upgrade the rmware of the NVR. You’ll only need to use these options if instructed to do so by Swann Technical Support.

Local Upgrade: The rmware will be updated locally using a USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive. Click the Upgrade button to commence the update.

FTP: The rmware will be updated using your computer as a FTP server. Make sure that both your computer and NVR are connected to the same Local Area Network (LAN). You will need to download and install 3rd party TFTP software onto your computer. Place the rmware le into the root directory of the TFTP software and input the IP address of your computer into the NVR. Click the Upgrade button to commence the update.

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System Maintenance: Default

The System Maintenance: Default menu allows you to reset the NVR and load factory default settings. There are two options available - you can select the rst option which will reset all the parameters including network and user settings, or you can select the second option which will do the same but will maintain your network and user settings. The NVR will reboot after pressing the OK button. Please note, all data on the HDD will remain.

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System Maintenance: Net Detect

Advanced Conguration

The System Maintenance: Net Detect menu allows you to check network trac and to obtain real-time information from the NVR such as network detection, network status and sending and receiving network trac.

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System Maintenance: HDD Detect

The System Maintenance: HDD Detect menu will display technical specications of the hard drive(s) installed. If you’re looking at this screen, you’ve probably been directed to do so by Swann Technical Support.

System Maintenance: HDD Detect: Bad Sector Detection

The System Maintenance: HDD Detect: Bad Sector Detection menu allows you to do a test on the hard drive(s) for bad sectors. If you’re looking at this screen, you’ve probably been directed to do so by Swann Technical Support.

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Troubleshooting

Q: I can’t login to or unlock the NVR - it says my password is wrong.

A: The default username/password combination for the NVR is “admin” with the password “12345”. If that doesn’t work (and you haven’t set a password of your own that you’ve forgotten) then something strange has happened - contact Swann technical support (contact details are on the rear cover).

Q: The NVR will boot up and show live images, but there are no menus being displayed. Why?

A: There might be a fault with one (or more) of the hard drives installed in the NVR. Before the menu system is displayed, the NVR attempts to detect what drives are connected. If there is an ambiguous signal preventing the NVR from ascertaining whether there is a drive connected or not, then it will keep looking and waiting for the drive to respond.

If you’ve just installed a new drive, disconnect it and see if that xes the problem. You can also try disconnecting one drive at a time to see if that one is the culprit.

Q: How do I eliminate false-triggers on my motion detection?

A: There’s no guaranteed way to eliminate false triggers, but -

in the majority of cases - you can ne-tune the NVR’s motion detection settings to reduce the number of false triggers you’re likely to get. (See “Camera Management: Motion” on page 28 for more detailed information about setting motion detection.)

Q: I’m getting too many email alerts from the NVR.

A: There are a few things that might help, depending what’s

generating the email alerts. Here are a few possibilities:

• The emails are for real events, however it is telling me about it multiple times.

This indicates that the NVR is functioning properly, but that the Interval setting for your email alerts is too low. Increasing the Interval time will decrease the number of email alerts the NVR sends.

• The NVR sends email alerts when nothing seems to be happening.

This suggests that there might be something amiss with your Motion Detection settings, or with the conguration of your sensors (if used).

The most likely explanation is that there is something in view of your cameras which is moving, or causes the illusion of movement. Have a look at “Camera Management: Motion” on page 28 for some more information.

• The NVR keeps reporting errors (such as Video Loss, HDD Error or similar).

There seems to be a hardware or conguration fault with the NVR. These are most often caused by a faulty (or simply poorly connected) connection or cable. Check the integrity of your cables and connections.

1. Mask any redundant movement. This includes obvious things like trees blowing in the wind, roads with cars passing and so forth. Some less obvious things which might cause false triggers include: the “ickering” of screens, monitors or uorescent lights, reections of movement in windows/ mirrors and so on, lights which are often turned on or o, shadows passing and so on. We can’t possibly imagine what you’re going to nd in your unique circumstances, so we encourage you to experiment.

2. Fine-tune your sensitivity. There’s no substitute for getting a volunteer to play the part of intruder and experimenting. Some cameras are just more “touchy” than others; some lighting conditions are harder to get the settings “right” for.

3. Adjust your image settings (see “Camera Management: Image” on page 27). Unlike many image adjustment options, the NVR pre-processes video, which means that, when the NVR looks

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for motion, it’s looking at your already processed images. By reducing the amount of video noise in your image, you can increase the accuracy of the motion detection dramatically. Typically, the settings that most often require adjustment are Brightness and Contrast.

Video noise is a problem with any video signal. It’s the very slight change in brightness and/or color of pixels between frames, and it’s commonly regarded as being “just one of those things” when dealing with digital imaging. By tweaking the brightness and contrast, you can usually remove a good deal of this noise, as it tends to be most pronounced near the blacks (the really dark bits) and the whites (the really bright bits) of your images.

Q: I would like to use other network connected cameras with the NVR, is this possible?

A: The NVR is guaranteed to work with Swann branded network cameras only.

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Addendum: Third Party Hardware

Due to its nature as a networked device, the NVR is often required to operate with third party hardware. We do everything we can to ensure the NVR is compatible with as many third party devices as possible; there will always be some that require a little extra conguration.

Routers

I’m using a router which doesn’t support DHCP addressing.

Some devices on my network require STATIC addressing.

You’ll need to set the address of the NVR manually. You’ll need to:

• Find Your Network’s IP Address Range

• Create a Unique IP Address

• Assign the IP address information to the NVR.

Finding your Network’s IP Address Range

First, you’ll need to know the IP address, Subnet Mask and DNS Server of at least one other device on your network. It’s

easiest to nd these addresses by using a computer on the same network.

For Windows-based PCs:

• Open the Start Menu, navigate to Accessories and open

Command Prompt.

Assigning the IP Address information to the NVR.

We recommend doing this locally (on the NVR itself) even if you

can access the NVR via the network (using the SwannView Plus

client software) in the meantime.

If you’re connected remotely and the networking information

changes, you might lose the connection to the NVR.

• Open the Conguration: Network menu on your NVR (see page 37).

• Select Static addressing.

• IP Address: Enter the unique IP that you created for the NVR here.

• Subnet Mask: Enter the same value as the computer’s Subnet Mask.

• DNS Server: Enter the same value as the computer’s DNS.

The NVR should now be accessible via your local network.

Before you can access the NVR remotely, you’ll need to Forward Ports (STATIC addressing does not support UPnP, see below).

I’m using a router which doesn’t support UPnP. How do I

“forward ports”?

It depends on what type of router you have. There’s no standard procedure for forwarding ports - each manufacturer has their own user interface and procedure for customising the behaviour of the router.

• Type “ipcong” and press Enter.

• Your IP Address information will be displayed.

For Mac-based systems:

• From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.

• Click on the Network pane.

• Click on the Advanced button and look under the TCP/IP,

DNS, and Ethernet tabs.

Creating a Unique IP Address

The IP Address of your computer will be made up of four groups of numbers, separated by periods: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

The rst three groups of numbers (aaa.bbb.ccc) must be the same as the other device on your network. The last number (ddd) must be changed to something unique that nothing else on your network uses.

For example:

If your computer’s IP address is 192.168.1.10, then a suitable unique IP address for your NVR will be 192.168.1.210

Note: Each number in the IP address cannot exceed 255.

First, check the router’s documentation - the instructions may be there.

If your router’s documentation doesn’t describe the method for port forwarding, then open a web browser and navigate to www.portforward.com - they’ve got instructions on port forwarding for (literally) thousands of dierent routers.

We can’t oer much more information about forwarding ports here, as this is a process totally dependent on third-party hardware. If you do run into trouble, we suggest contacting the manufacturer of the router.

Alternately, if you’re using an older router which doesn’t support UPnP, then it might be time for an upgrade - modern routers are increasingly powerful and are (in most cases) easier than ever to setup. We think that UPnP is a fantastic feature that’s well worth having, not just for NVRs.

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Warranty Information

USA

Swann Communications USA Inc. 12636 Clark Street Santa Fe Springs CA 90670 USA

Swann Communications warrants this product against defects in workmanship and material for a period

of one (1) year from its original purchase date. You must present your receipt as proof of date of purchase

for warranty validation. Any unit which proves defective during the stated period will be repaired without

charge for parts or labour or replaced at the sole discretion of Swann. The end user is responsible for all

freight charges incurred to send the product to Swann’s repair centres. The end user is responsible for all

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Warranty Terms & Conditions

Australia

Swann Communications LTD.

Stag Gates House 63/64 The Avenue SO171XS United Kingdom

United Kingdom

shipping costs incurred when shipping from and to any country other than the country of origin.

The warranty does not cover any incidental, accidental or consequential damages arising from the use of

or the inability to use this product. Any costs associated with the tting or removal of this product by a

tradesman or other person or any other costs associated with its use are the responsibility of the end user.

This warranty applies to the original purchaser of the product only and is not transferable to any third

party. Unauthorized end user or third party modications to any component or evidence of misuse or

abuse of the device will render all warranties void.

By law some countries do not allow limitations on certain exclusions in this warranty. Where applicable by

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local laws, regulations and legal rights will take precedence.

For Australia: Our goods come with guarantees which cannot be excluded under Australian Consumer

Law. You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and for compensation for any other

reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the

goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to major failure.

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Helpdesk / Technical Support Details

Swann Technical Support

All Countries E-mail: tech@swann.com

Telephone Helpdesk

USA toll free

1-800-627-2799

USA Exchange & Repairs

1-800-627-2799 (Option 1)

(M-F, 9am-5pm US PT)

AUSTRALIA toll free

1300 138 324

NEW ZEALAND toll free

0800 479 266

0203 027 0979

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