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BASIC SETUP
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The Setup Wizard
Wizard: Time, Date, Location, Live View
It’s important to ensure that your DVR has the correct time
and date, as well as the correct time zone set. This is particu-
larly true in a legal context when a mistaken time or date can
mean the difference 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 Aus-
tralia 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 lo-
cale. However, don’t set that here - the DVR supports auto-
matically adjusting the time during DST - see “Configuration:
General: DST Settings” on page 26.
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 DVR. To alter this value, select the small calendar icon.
System Time: The current time setting on the DVR. 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 Protocol) but we still
recommend you set it here first.
Live View Mode: 4 x 4 is the default display format in live view mode. This will display up to 16 video channels on-screen
at a single time. Selecting 1 x 1 will display the first video channel full-screen.
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
fields below this one.
New Admin Password (checkbox): When checked, the DVR
will accept a new password for the Admin account.
New Password/Confirm: Enter what you’d like the new
password to be in the upper field, and then confirm it in the
lower field.
Default Password Information
To ensure your privacy, this DVR 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
DVR has the best security possible, password recovery has been designed to be a
complicated and time consuming process. Only a select number of staff 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 DVR during this time.