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User Manual

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Contents

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Camera Overview

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Series Features

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Preparation

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HDD Installation

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Power on the NVR

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Connect to the NVR

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Connect IP Cameras

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Live View

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Settings

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Network Settings

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Time and Date

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Storage

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Users & Privileges

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Border Settings

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Channel

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Video Parameters

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Recording

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Scheduling

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OSD

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System Information

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Log Viewer

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System Event

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Maintenance

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Backup & Restore

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USB Backup

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Summary of Contents for AV NVR Series

Page 1: ...AV NVR TM PoE Network Video Recorder User Manual Models 8 Channel with PoE Switch AV800 0T2 AV800 2T1 AV800 4T0 16 Channel with PoE Switch AV1600 0T2 AV1600 4T1 AV1600 8T0 ...

Page 2: ...eatures 7 Preparation 10 HDD Installation 11 Power on the NVR 12 Connect to the NVR 13 Connect IP Cameras 15 Live View 16 Settings 21 Network Settings 22 Time and Date 26 Storage 28 Users Privileges 30 Border Settings 31 Channel 32 Video Parameters 37 Recording 39 Scheduling 40 OSD 42 System Information 43 Log Viewer 44 System Event 44 Maintenance 48 Backup Restore 49 USB Backup 50 ...

Page 3: ...User Manual Page 3 support arecontvision com 1 818 937 0700 877 CAMERA 8 www arecontvision com avsales arecontvision com AV NVR Power Status Utility 51 Synchronized Playback View 52 Support 55 ...

Page 4: ... etc which are compatible with mounting surface and of sufficient length and construction to insure a secure mount 4 Power cord shall be connected into a grounded outlet 5 This product is for indoor use only 6 This products is not meant for mobile surveillance applications 7 This product shall be installed in a well ventilated and dust free environment 8 Only use Arecont Vision recommended HDDs fo...

Page 5: ...eturning the unit for service The package contains Reference Description 1 1x AV NVR PoE Network Video Recorder 2 SATA Data cable 2pcs for AVXXX 0T2 models 1pcs for AVXXX XT1 models 0pcs for AVXXX XT0 models 3 SATA Power cable 1pcs for AVXXX 0T2 and models 0pcs for AVXXX XT1 and AVXXX XT2 models 4 1x Power cord cable 5 Screws for installed HDDs 8pcs for AVXXX 0T2 models 4pcs for AVXXX XT1 models 0...

Page 6: ...unusual stress neglect misuse abuse improper storage testing or connection or unauthorized repair or iv is no longer covered under the Warranty Period ARECONT VISION MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS EXPRESS IMPLIED STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE OTHER THAN THE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTIES MADE BY ARECONT VISION ABOVE AND ARECONT VISION HEREBY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER EXPRESS STATUTORY AND IMPLIED WA...

Page 7: ...annels on the NVR Example AV800 4x Arecont Vision 5MP MicroDome Single Sensor Cameras 4 Channels 1x Arecont Vision 12MP SurroundVideo Omni 4 Channels 8 Channels 6x Arecont Vision 3MP MegaDome 2 Cameras 6 Channels 2x Arecont Vision 5MP MegaView 2 2 Channels 8 Channels Example AV1600 4x Arecont Vision 5MP MicroDome Single Sensor Cameras 4 Channels 3x Arecont Vision 12MP SurroundVideo Omni 12 Channel...

Page 8: ...tions 1 Power Solid Light Power on Disk Solid Light HDD functioning properly Blinking Failed HDD Off No HDD HDD is offline Status Solid Light Operating properly Blinking 100ms On Off Restore factory default process Firmware update Continuous Blinking 1000ms On Off Failed firmware update Alarm Blinking System Camera event Blinking lasts 10 seconds for each event Off No event ...

Page 9: ...ons Beep Beep once System is fully initiated Restart process has begun Long Beep An event occurred Reference Interfaces Definitions 6 USB 2x USB 2 0 7 PoE 8 independent 100 Mbps PoE network interfaces Max 20W for single port Max 200W in total Up to IEEE 802 3at 20W per channel AV800 Models 16 independent 100 Mbps PoE network interfaces Max 20W for single port Max 200W in total Up to IEEE 802 3at 2...

Page 10: ...se refer to the HDD installation section of this manual NOTE AV800 4T0 and AV1600 8T0 do not have a spare interface for additional HDDs 2 Connect supplied AC power cord to the power input 15 on the NVR 3 Connect a Cat 5e cable to the LAN 1 port 8 on the NVR 4 Optional Connect a monitor to the HDMI 12 or VGA 11 interface on the NVR NOTE You can refer to Connect to the NVR section for more details 5...

Page 11: ...HDD Installation NOTE Only use Arecont Vision recommended HDDs for this product 1 Unscrew the two screws from the NVR cover 2 Connect SATA Power cable and SATA Data cable on the NVR s main board and install HDDs on the NVR by securely fastening the four screws on each HDD 3 Connect SATA Power cable and SATA Data cable to the HDD ...

Page 12: ...s NOTE Before beginning to record you must format the HDDs Please refer to Storage section for instructions Power on the NVR NOTE The power cord shall be connected into a grounded outlet NOTE Verify the power supply voltage before using this product 1 Plug AC power cord into 100 to 240V AC outlet 2 Turn power switch 15 on 3 Click power button 5 4 Power indicator 1 will show a solid light ...

Page 13: ...V NVR only no PC i You should see the local user interface with login screen ii Use the keyboard or mouse with a virtual keyboard to enter the default username admin and password admin to login to the AV NVR NOTE You can find the virtual keyboard by clicking the icon NOTE It s highly recommended that you change the password during initial setup NOTE You can have 4 to 31 characters including upper ...

Page 14: ...ghly recommended that you change the password during initial setup NOTE You can have 4 to 31 characters including upper and lower case letters digits for both User Name and Password and only allow four symbols _ 3 PC connected to the AV NVR with a DHCP You must use the AV NVR Utility to discover the NVR i Find the AV NVR Utility from the supplied CD or at http www arecontvision com softwares php i...

Page 15: ...r both User Name and Password and only allow four symbols _ Connect IP Cameras 1 Plug cameras into PoE ports 7 NOTE This product supports Smart Plug and Play so cameras will be set up and configured automatically in few minutes 2 SurroundVideo and MicroDome Duo cameras will take four and two channels so please make sure plug the next camera into the following PoE ports For example if one SurroundV...

Page 16: ... Main 2 Camera Tree 3 Saved Views 4 Quick Status Box 5 Instant Playback and 6 Channel Setting Icon Function Description 1 Live View Main User Configuration Displays the name of the current user Configure Language Settings User Settings Locking the screen Logout Please refer to Users Privileges section for more details Settings Visit Settings page Please refer to Setting chapter for more details ...

Page 17: ...sh when cameras receive Motion Detection Digital Input Camera Disconnect notifications The notification will have channel date time event type information Click to play the Event Recorded video Click to delete the event notification NVR Event Notification Receive notifications if a warning sound is triggered or the HDD of the NVR failed to record data Channel Status Check the channel status Camera...

Page 18: ...Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology It will show Warning if the HDD status is unhealthy Please refer to Storage section for more details Days of recording available Current temperature of the HDD 5 Instant Playback Instant Playback time bar Different colors on the time bar reflect different recorded data types Please refer to Border Settings section for more details Click to move to ...

Page 19: ...rward 2x 4x 8x 16x 32x Click to start playback Click to stop playback Click to pause playback 6 Channel Setting Channel Settings Visit the Channel Settings page Please refer to Channel section for more details Instant Playback Start instant playback Snapshot Take a snapshot Manual Record Start manual recording NOTE all manual recording will be stopped once you leave or close the live view page Aud...

Page 20: ...trol Preset point control function can be activated if the camera supports this function Change Channel Web User Interface Users can select the video stream they would like to show on this channel grid or can duplicate the channels Local User Interface Users can select the non displayed video stream to show on this channel grid NOTE Local display does not support channel duplication Multi Stream U...

Page 21: ...User Manual Page 21 support arecontvision com 1 818 937 0700 877 CAMERA 8 www arecontvision com avsales arecontvision com AV NVR Settings There are two modes Basic Options and Advance Options ...

Page 22: ...nfigure network settings automatically a When no other DHCP server is in the network the AV NVR will use the default IP address 192 168 101 50 and turn on the built in DHCP servers The AV NVR will become a DHCP server b When a DHCP server is on the network the AV NVR will get the IP address from the external DHCP server and turn off the built in DHCP server c Users will not be able to change IP se...

Page 23: ...settings when this mode is selected c Users cannot turn on off built in DHCP server 3 Manual Configure This option sets the AV NVR to use a static IP address a Users can edit the IP settings subnet mask default gateway address and DNS server address for the AV NVR b Users can turn on or off the built in DHCP server via the DHCP Sever section 4 User can also configure the network settings of the Po...

Page 24: ...warding is enabled in both the AV NVR and the router DDNS Remote users must use a DDNS service to access the AV NVR This is useful if the AV NVR is placed on the Internet with a dynamic public IP address Once the DDNS service is properly setup users can access the AV NVR remotely with the DDNS domain name 1 Service Provider The AV NVR supports DynDNS or No IP DDNS services For more information ple...

Page 25: ...sword you registered with the DDNS service NOTE Once you have the DDNS function successfully up and running please configure port forwarding for the AV NVR HTTP port default 80 and the streaming port default 9877 on your router gateway for remote viewing You can then type in http yourddnsdomain in the browser to access the AV NVR remotely for live view ...

Page 26: ...s for recorded video and or inconsistent display time of the event logs please ensure you have set the time and date correctly per your local time zone 1 Time Zone select the correct time zone for your location and check Daylight Saving Time if necessary 2 NTP Settings select one of the following options for synchronize time and date Sync with NTP Server Configure Manually or Sync with PC ...

Page 27: ... with NTP Server enter the hostname or the IP address of a valid NTP server and select how often the AV NVR should synchronize the time with this NTP server b Configure Manually use the drop down list and configure the time manually c Sync with PC synchronize the time with the computer that you are currently using to access the AV NVR ...

Page 28: ...k you must format prior to use NOTE The HDD will be formatted in EXT4 file system NOTE USB HDDs must be formatted in advance in a FAT32 file system NOTE Please plug in the USB HDD only after the AV NVR is fully started The internal HDDs will NOT be properly detected if the AV NVR is powered on with USB HDD plugged in during start up Disk SMART Using Disk SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reportin...

Page 29: ... 2 Select Short Test or Long Test With Short Test the tool will check key attributes such as how long the drive has run and how many times the drive has moved data out of damaged areas With Long Test the tool will run full S M A R T test with each attribute NOTE Click More Information for more detailed statistics on the SMART test 3 Click Start to begin the process ...

Page 30: ...uations if you need the AV NVR to be accessed by users other than the administrator The AV NVR comes with seven built in groups and five built in privilege profiles except for the admin and the guest accounts the other five groups are fully customizable or you can simply assign a group with one of the default privilege profiles You can however assign more than one user to the admin account if you ...

Page 31: ...vision com 1 818 937 0700 877 CAMERA 8 www arecontvision com avsales arecontvision com AV NVR Border Settings In the section you can assign different colors to the various functions if you are not satisfied with the default color choices ...

Page 32: ...tvision com avsales arecontvision com AV NVR Channel Channel List In the section you can add cameras by Auto Search or Manually Auto Search After clicking Auto Search you will see the results displayed Double clicking the camera in the list will redirect you to the Stream Settings page ...

Page 33: ...NVR Adding Cameras Manually After clicking Manually enter the camera s IP address and credentials NOTE Auto Search is to execute a new camera search and you can add camera from the list NOTE Auto Search by History is to show the search history from the database saving time for user Stream Settings After entering the username and password of the camera click Detect and you can start to configure th...

Page 34: ...me Rate Select the streaming frame rate from the dropdown list Bitrate Mode Select the bitrate control mode VBR Variable Bitrate Control CBR Constant Bitrate Control NOTE Only available when selecting H 264 video format Quality Select video quality from the dropdown list 1 is the lowest quality and 5 is the highest quality NOTE Only available when selecting VBR mode Rate Limit kbps Specify the bit...

Page 35: ...orts multi streaming If you enable this function you must setup at least two streams for the camera Some cameras are capable of four streaming profiles After finishing all stream settings click Apply to finish adding the camera Enable Dynamic Streaming Live View to automatically display the best stream during live viewing NOTE The higher value of the Quality the higher image quality you will get ...

Page 36: ...tvision com AV NVR Event Setting In this section you can setup the Motion Detection Zone on the AV NVR side default is full motion If the camera supports Digital Input you can also setup the input event here NOTE Event Duration will take you to the Scheduling settings page for pre alarm post alarm configuration ...

Page 37: ...ode Force to Night mode will manually place the camera in black and white mode Auto mode is the default setting enabling the camera to automatically change from color Day mode to black and white Night mode as illumination levels drop off Color Brightness adjusts image brightness Saturation adjusts image color saturation or the amount of color in an image Lower saturation gives a duller faded image...

Page 38: ...ight Additionally motion blur is reduced under short exposures and increased under long exposures High speed mode has shortest exposure time and Moonlight mode has longest exposure time Flicker Control Prevent flicker caused by the power line frequency of lighting This parameter would have no effect when the dominate light is sunlight Illumination Mode Adjusts the camera s white balance computatio...

Page 39: ... recording when remaining disk space less than 20GB Video keep days allows users to set a specified number of days to retain recorded video Channel Setting This section allows users to set I frame only or Full frames I P frames recording Recording only I frames will require less storage as it is more lossy Users also can disable audio recording record video only for particular channels ...

Page 40: ...nt Schedule Record 3 You can use the schedule table to set the time range by clicking the cell or you can also use the Quick Configuration to define recording time ranges one by one on the timetable by simply checking what days you would like to perform recording and specifying the recording duration by either choosing All Day or enter a start and end time for specific recording duration Preview b...

Page 41: ...on Event Trigger Interval allows you to set a time interval to create logs For example if the event trigger interval is set at 10 seconds and you have a 1 minute event the result will be 6 logs Event Recording Buffer allows you to set the recoding interval before the event trigger Pre Alarm Buffer or after the event trigger Post Alarm Buffer ...

Page 42: ...User Manual Page 42 support arecontvision com 1 818 937 0700 877 CAMERA 8 www arecontvision com avsales arecontvision com AV NVR OSD NOTE Customized Text is only available on Web UI ...

Page 43: ...age 43 support arecontvision com 1 818 937 0700 877 CAMERA 8 www arecontvision com avsales arecontvision com AV NVR System Information NOTE Device IP MAC address DHCP Sever mentioned here are for this AV NVR device ...

Page 44: ...iewer In this section you will find all of the log information for the cameras and AV NVR device such as camera connected disconnected User login logout Device restarted Start recycling disk Event log recycle and so on Also you can click Export Log button to export all logs or logs from a specific time range System Event System Event ...

Page 45: ...rk Address hostname or the IP address of the SMTP server 2 Enter Port of the SMTP server 3 Specify Sender s name in the Sender s name field 4 Enter the sender s email address in Send from field 5 Enter the receiver s email address in Send to field 6 Check Authentication and enter Username and Password of the SMTP server if it requires authentication 7 Click Test to verify all information is correc...

Page 46: ...r name in the Sever name field 2 Enter Nextwork Address hostname or the IP address of the FTP server 3 Enter the communication Port of the FTP server Default port is 21 4 Enter Username and Password of the FTP server if it s required 5 Check Use Passive Mode if it s required or leaves it unchecked to use active mode 6 Click Test to verify all information is correct and the connection to the FTP se...

Page 47: ... define how the notifications will be sent NOTE Event trigger may not work for cameras that are placed outside of your local network or on the Internet until the UPnP Port Forwarding is enabled in both the AV NVR and the router To enable UPnP Port Forwarding in the AV NVR please visit Connection Ports section and enable UPnP Port Forwarding as shown in the image below ...

Page 48: ...ckup configuration 2 Click Browse to locate the firmware file 3 After selecting the firmware file click Upgrade NOTE Upgrade Firmware UI is only availiable through Web Interface NOTE The firmware file comes with a bin file extension NOTE If you would like to upgrade firmware on the local AV NVR directly instead of Web UI here s the procedure 1 Rename the firmware file as firmware bin all lower cas...

Page 49: ... like to reboot directly from the AV NVR Reset to Factory Default click Reset to Default to reset the AV NVR s settings to the factory default values Change Logo select the logo you would like to display on the AV NVR Backup Restore In this section user can use Backup Configuration to save the AV NVR s settings to a local hard drive and also can use Restore Configuration to restore the AV NVR s se...

Page 50: ...ot supported NOTE Only one backup process can be performed at a time NOTE Maximum 4 channels can be selected for backup NOTE Only FAT32 USB disk is supported for backup NOTE The USB disk needs to have more than 100MB remaining space NOTE If multiple partitions are present on the disk only the first partition will be detected and used for backup NOTE A folder will be automatically created in the US...

Page 51: ...tility In this section user can monitor the power usage of each camera and which PoE ports have been connected For example in the image above Port 1 5 6 7 8 have been connected and their power usage are 9W 9W 4W 6W and 5W Also user can remotely cycle each PoE port by simply clicking the bulb icons Below is an example of a power cycle on Port 1 ...

Page 52: ...les arecontvision com AV NVR Synchronized Playback View The AV NVR offers up to 4 channels of synchronized playback There are three different search methods 1 Search by Time 2 Events or 3 Bookmarks Search by Time With Search by Time users can search videos by specific time and date Here are the steps ...

Page 53: ... playback time bar NOTE Refer to Instant Playback in Live View Section for the further instructions on playback features Search by Event With Search by Time users can search videos by specific date Here are the steps 1 Select channels you would like to search up to 4 channels 2 Select which types of event trigger you would like to search on All Motion Detected DI event and or Camera Disconnected 3...

Page 54: ... are the steps 1 Select channels you would like to search up to 4 channels 2 Specify the time period 3 Click Search Again 4 You can view or export videos from the video list directly or you can use the playback time bar to perform playback NOTE Refer to Instant Playback in Live View Section for the further instructions on playback features NOTE You must bookmark recorded videos before using the Se...

Page 55: ...ed camera with a known good camera to see if the problem follows the camera or stays at the location 3 Contact Arecont Vision Technical Support one of three ways 1 Online Portal Support ArecontVision com 2 Phone 1 818 937 0700 option 1 3 Email support arecontvision com 4 Use the Arecont Vision software and AV NVR Utility located on the CD or available for download at our website www arecontvision ...

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