Vivotek ND8301 Quick Installation Guide

ND8301

Network Video Recorder

Quick Installation Guide

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Warning Before Installation

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Power off the Network Video
Recorder if you detect abnormal
smell or smoke coming from it.

Do not place the Network Video
Recorder around the heat sources,
such as television or oven.

Keep the Network Video Recorder
away from direct sunlight.

Do not attempt to remove or uninstall

the software on the mounted IDE ash.

Nor should you open the chassis. Doing
so will void our warranty.

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Package Contents

ND8301

Software CD

Keep the Network Video Recorder
away from water. If the Video Recorder
is wet, power off immediately.

Refer to your user's manual for the
operating temperature.

Do not place the Network Video
Recorder in high humidity
environments.

Power Cord & Adaptor

Quick Installation Guide

Warranty Card

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Physical Description

Front View

Disk 1

Disk 2

Rear View

RS-232 (reserved) LAN

VGA

IMPORTANT:

USB2
combo

WAN

USB1
combo

eS ATA

MIC-In

Line In

Line Out

DC Power

HDD LED

Power
button & LED

Reset button

Fan exhaust
outlet

It is important to leave a clearance of
15cm to the rear side of the chassis.
The clearance is required to ensure an

adequate airow through the chassis to

ventilate heat. A 5cm clearance is also
required on both sides of the chassis.

To ensure normal operation, maintain

ambient airow. Do not block the airow

around chassis such as placing the sys­tem in a closed cabinet.

15cm

5cm

5cm

5cm

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Hardware Installation

SATA hard disk(s) are user-supplied. The network video recorder can readily accommodate
most of the off-the-shelf SATA hard drives.

1. Use a at-blade screwdriver to unlock the rotary bezel lock. Open the drive bay bezel by

pulling the lever on it.

Bezel Lock

Bezel Lever

2. Install your hard disk to the drive bay. Gently put the hard disk into drive bay with its
label side facing up and the connector side towards the inside of the chassis. Push the
hard disk in. Stop pushing it when you feel the contact resistance.

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3. Close the drive bay bezel.

HDD

Bezel Lever

4. 4-1. Press on the left edge of the drive bay bezel to snap it into place.
4-2. Use a at-blade screwdriver to turn the bezel lock to the “locked” position.

You should always lock the drive bezel when the drive bay is populated. This en-

sures the hard drive is securely installed.

Bezel Lock

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Interface Connections

1 & 2. Connect CAT5 or better-quality Ethernet cables to cameras via a local, switched

network, or clients through the Internet. Refer to next page for more information.

3. Connect the DB15 VGA port to a monitor (with resolutions up to 1920x1080).

4. Connect USB devices such as keyboard and mouse.

5. If an external eSATA storage enclosure is available, connect it to the eSATA port.

6. Connect speakers or microphone to the phone-jack connectors.

7. Connect the supplied 100-240V DC power adaptor. (50~60Hz, 5A)

LAN WAN

Router

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LAN

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VGA

USB devices

External enclosure

Internet

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Audio devices

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DC power adaptor

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Network Deployment

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1. Connect the supplied power adapter to a power outlet.

2.

Connect network cameras to the NVR’s LAN ports.

3. If you want to access NVR over the Internet, connect the NVR to the Internet via the
WAN port. A web console can be established from a remote PC by keying http://<public

IP>:3454 in a browser’s URL address eld. However, port forwarding on the router for

the TCP port will be necessary.

4. Push the power button to run the NVR.

Clients

Router

Internet

Switch

Default Fixed IP:

192.168.1.10

LAN WAN

Default: DHCP

Wireless AP / Router

NOTE:

The LAN and WAN ports can be congured into the same or different subnets.

If you have cameras connected via the WAN port, make sure the WAN port
acquires an IP address from a DHCP server on router or AP. If not, the cameras
detected through the WAN port will use the default IPs, e.g., 169.254.xx.xx, and the
LiveClient software will not be able to detect their presence.

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Initial Conguration

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1. Once your NVR is started, you will be prompted by the Setup Wizard. You should then

begin the initial setup. The system is booted from an embedded IDE ash. No software

installation is required.

2. Enter the default User name and Password as admin & admin. It is recommended you

change the password later to prevent unauthorized access.

3. Click Next to proceed with conguration and follow the onscreen instructions to nish the
conguration process.

4. Note the following when you move to the Network page:

4-1. If your local network has a DHCP server, you can select the "Get IP address

automatically (DHCP)."

4-2. If your LAN port connects to an isolated switch with cameras attached to it, you can

manually assign IP addresses to cameras, and the address for the LAN port itself.

The default static IP for the LAN port is

192.168.1.10.

4-3. Connect your WAN port to a router or

AP with the routing capability and then
to a DSL or Cable modem.

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5. On the Disk page, Select disk drives by
clicking the checkboxes in front of disk
drives.Select Build single disk, Build
RAID0, RAID1, or other option from the
Disk conguration pull-down menu. Click
Apply and wait for a few minutes for the

conguration to take effect.

Refer to the description available with

every disk volume type on the screen, such
as those for RAID0 and RAID1.

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6. On the Camera page, all cameras connected through the local network should appear on

a Camera list after a brief search. You can manually assign IP addresses by clicking on

the cameras' address eld. You can also select the "Assign IP addresses to all cameras"

checkbox and let NVR assign IPs to cameras.

Click Next to end the initial setup.
Make sure you have the cameras'
access credentials in order to
make individual changes.

Ready to Use

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1. You will then be at the Control Center screen. Double-click on the LiveClient or
Playback buttons to congure live viewing and recording settings.

2. Open the LiveClient utility to change live view layout, camera streaming frame rate,
and other options.

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3. 3-1. By default, the Batch Insert Cameras window will prompt for you to recruit

cameras into your conguration. If it does not, you can enter the Conguration
menu, select Camera Management > Batch Insert Cameras.

3-3. Select cameras by clicking their

checkboxes.

3-4. Click OK, return to the previous

window, and click the Insert button.

3-2. Click on the Search button.

4. It is important to ensure that the live vie wing and recording conguration does not
exceed the system's limits:

In terms of local display, the default stream 1 for live view can be congured with a
resolution up to Full HD 30fps. Stream 1 is also a source for continuous recording.
Make sure your cameras' stream 1 resolution does not exceed 1080P at 30fps.

Compression MJPEG H.264
Resolution 1080P 720P VGA CIF 1080P 720P VGA CIF
Frame rate 15fps 30fps
by bit rate / video quality Good 6Mbps 6Mbps 1Mbps 512kbps
No. of streams - - 9 16 1 1 3 7

Compression MPEG-4
Resolution 1080P 720P VGA CIF
Frame rate 30fps
by bit rate / video quality 6Mbps 6Mbps 1Mbps 512kbps
No. of streams 2 2 5 16

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The NVR supports Auto Stream Size, which automatically adjusts streaming display

for efcient leverage of system resources. If you disable the Auto Stream Size
function and manually congure your stream settings, you must comply with the

limitations listed above.

5. After inserting your cameras, you can start dragging cameras into view cells and

proceeding with the rest of the conguration. Refer to your User Manual for more

information.

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P/N:625017301G Rev. 1.1

All specications are subject to change without notice.

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