background image

Digital

Video

Recorder

Operation Manual

TR-1204

TR-1208

Summary of Contents for TR-1204

Page 1: ...Digital Video Recorder Operation Manual TR 1204 TR 1208 ...

Page 2: ...ividuals who are not familiar with its use seek technical assistance from their retailer regarding product installation and use If you need to disassemble the product for functionality expansion or repair purposes you must contact your retailer and seek professional assistance Both retailers and users should be aware that this product has been certified as being electromagnetically compatible for ...

Page 3: ...ug this equipment from the wall outlet and refer servicing to qualified service personnel under the following conditions A When the power supply cord or the plug has been damaged B If liquid is spilled or objects have fallen into the equipment C If the equipment has been exposed to rain or water D If the equipment does not operate normally by following the operating instructions adjust only those ...

Page 4: ...NCE AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE WARNING CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS NOT EXPRESSLY APPROVED BY THE PARTY RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE COULD VOID THE USER S AUTHORITY TO OPERATE THE EQUIPMENT THIS CLASS OF DIGITAL APPARATUS MEETS ALL REQUIREMENTS OF THE CANADIAN INTERFERENCE CAUSING EQUIPMENT REGULATIONS WEEE Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment Correct Disposal of This Product Applicable in the European Union...

Page 5: ...d We are not responsible for any problems resulting from the use thereof The information contained herein is subject to change without notice Revisions or new editions to this publication may be issued to incorporate such changes The software included in this product contains some Open Sources You may obtain the complete corresponding source code depending on whether or not the source is publicly ...

Page 6: ...5 Covert Camera 15 Status 16 Context Menu Access 17 Video Recording 18 Panic Recording 18 Video Recording Playback 18 All Channel Playback 18 Triplex Playback 19 Context Menu 19 Part 2 Configuration 20 Menu Use 20 Text Input via Virtual Keyboard 20 Batch Assignment 21 Mouse 21 System Setup 21 General 21 Date Time 27 User 28 Storage 29 System Event 30 About 31 ...

Page 7: ... Tripzone 36 Video Loss 38 Video Blind 38 Camera Setup 39 General 39 PTZ 39 Clip Privacy 40 Privacy Masking 40 Status Setup 41 Status 41 Network Setup 41 General 41 LAN 42 FEN 44 RTSP 45 Notification Setup 45 Callback 45 Mail 46 Schedule 47 Display Setup 47 OSD 47 Main Monitor 48 ...

Page 8: ... Search 49 Searching Video 49 Search Menu 49 Context Menu 50 Event Log Search 50 Record Table Search 52 Motion Search 53 Bookmarks 54 Clip Copy 54 Overlapped Recording Search 55 Part 4 Appendix 56 Index 56 3 4 ...

Page 9: ...enter the E mail address and click Get Verification Code 4 Enter the verification code you receive by e mail and click OK There is no default password for the admin account Select admin and then OK without entering a password to log in Leaving the admin account unassigned with a password poses a security risk Please assign a password at your earliest convenience A warning message will continue to ...

Page 10: ...SD On and Off Previous Next Group Loads the previous next screen group Freeze Freezes the screen Select Freeze again to unfreeze Panic Recording Activates deactivates Panic Recording Sequence Initiates Sequence by putting the mouse pointer on the right side of the screen while in Live mode The icon is displayed at the bottom of the screen while Sequence is in progress Full Sequence Displays all ch...

Page 11: ...Control is supported only for the cameras that use Pelco C H C ACP Protocol and support UTC Up The Coax function Edit Group Enter to the Edit Group mode in the split screen layout Information Displays currently connected camera information and recording status Search All Channels Exits the live monitoring mode and enters the search mode Triplex Enters the Triplex mode Selecting the camera number p...

Page 12: ...splay area to bring up the camera menu PTZ Allows you to control the selected camera as long as it has Pan Tilt and Zoom capabilities Zoom Zooms the current image of the selected camera on the screen Color Control Adjusts the camera s color settings Menu Control Adjusts the camera s self settings Menu Control is supported only for the cameras that use Pelco C H C ACP Protocol and support UTC Up Th...

Page 13: ...tivated icon is on the status bar located on the bottom of the system In Full Screen mode activating Zoom automatically selects the current channel To restore the channel to normal size press the Exit icon from the Menu The available enlargement ratio is different from camera mode PTZ Control While in Live mode right click and select PTZ from the context menu to display the PTZ camera selection wi...

Page 14: ... a camera Putting the mouse pointer on the right side of the screen and selecting Advanced PTZ loads the Advanced PTZ screen as shown below You can load the Advanced PTZ screen also by pressing the MENU button and then Play Pause button on the front panel This menu lists Speed Auto Pan and other advanced PTZ camera control options available for the camera Options that are not available for the sel...

Page 15: ...ure navigate to Menu Display Main Monitor and enable Event Monitoring Event Monitoring remains in effect throughout the entire Linked Recording Time After that the DVR will return to the previous screen if a new event does not take place Pressing the Layout or a Camera button before the end of the Linked Recording Time reverts the system to Live mode Covert Camera Use this feature to assign Covert...

Page 16: ...ore information refer to the System Event on page 30 No Storage Found It will be highlighted when no recordable storage device has been found Disk Almost Full Disk Full If the storage device is not in Recycle status event status is displayed when the amount of disk space specified under System Monitoring is reached and when the disk becomes 100 full For more information refer to the System Event o...

Page 17: ... A R T status Possibility of damage within 24 hours Context Menu Access You can display the ContextMenu window by pressing the MENU button and then PLAY PAUSE button on the front panel Alternatively right click on the mouse to access the Context menu PTZ Access PTZ controls Zoom Zoom in Color Control Select a channel to display its Color Control window Adjust the selected camera s brightness contr...

Page 18: ...cording schedule set up by the user Panic Recording ips Quality Resolution from Record Setup General applies to all Panic Recording videos Panic Recording will not take place if recording mode is not set to Recycle and the HDD has reached 100 of its capacity Video Recording Playback You can play back video recordings by using mouse or remote control Login with an account that has search permission...

Page 19: ...3 The DVR supports the Triplex function monitoring recording and playing back at the same time For more information on data search refer to the Part 3 Search on page 49 Context Menu While in Search mode right click on the mouse to access the Context Menu Zoom Zoom in Edit Group Enter to the Edit Group mode in the split screen layout ...

Page 20: ...up 2 Record Setup 3 Event Setup 4 Camera Setup 5 Status Setup 6 Network Setup 7 Notification Setup 8 Display Setup 2 Left click on the option using the mouse 3 Change the setting and then select Save to save the change To apply default settings select the Default button located on the left bottom corner of the setup window Text Input via Virtual Keyboard Click on the key using the mouse Toggle cas...

Page 21: ...use lets you make selections faster and use its wheel to scroll through long menus You can also use the mouse wheel to increase decrease numerical values System Setup Refer to the Menu Use on page 20 for basic information on using the Setup menus General This Setup menu contains general system options Site Used to enter a description about the system s installation site no description by default Y...

Page 22: ...one and Use Daylight Saving Time Export Exports the current system settings to a storage device connected to the system s USB port You can designate a File Name for the export file For USB flash memory devices the DVR supports the FAT16 and FAT32 files format Show System Log Displays a searchable list of 5 000 most recent system log entries For more information on types of system log entries refer...

Page 23: ...ou configure basic settings required for operating the system Troubleshooting Reporting Generates a report to troubleshoot any issues and exports the report 1 Select the desired Setup Wizard option and click Next Select Cancel from any of the Wizard screen to cancel the setup process and return to the main setup menu Quick Wizard 1 Select Quick Wizard 2 Specify the current date and time and then c...

Page 24: ...ows High Video Quality Priority Profile Standard Recording Profile Longer Recording Time Priority Profile Motion Event Record Very high Very high 30 ips High Very High 15 ips Standard High 5 ips Continuous Motion Event Record Very high Very high 30 ips Time Event Time High Very High 15 ips Event Very High Very High 30 ips Time Standard High 5 ips Event High Very High 15 ips Continuous Very high Ve...

Page 25: ...figuration and then click Test to test the system s current network configuration This test must be performed before proceeding to the next step If the DVR is on a network connected to a network that has a DHCP server selecting Auto Configuration retrieves LAN settings such as IP and DNS addresses automatically Selecting Manual Configuration on the other hand lets you specify the settings manually...

Page 26: ... the registration process The Finish button will then become activated You will be prompted with an error message if you do not enter a name for the DVR or enter a name already registered on the FEN server Depending on the network environment FEN services may not be active and therefore prevent the DVR from connecting to the network In this case you will need to manually configure the ports For mo...

Page 27: ...rver s IP address or domain name or select and then choose a server from the list of registered time servers 3 Specify the server synchronization Interval 4 Select OK to apply and exit If you have configured the DNS Server setting under Network IP Address you can enter the time server s domain name instead of its IP address Selecting Run as Server sets the current DVR as a time server for other DV...

Page 28: ...the virtual keyboard For more information on using the virtual keyboard refer to the Text Input via Virtual Keyboard on page 20 To delete a registered user or group select the icon on the right of the corresponding user group Group Administrator and User admin cannot be deleted Select the icon next to Group User on the top of the screen to delete all groups and users except Group Administrator and...

Page 29: ...gure convert camera settings Privacy Masking Setup May configure privacy masking settings Record Setup May configure recording settings Setup Import May import previously saved DVR settings Setup Export May export current DVR settings Storage Use this option to configure storage settings Type Indicates the type of the installed disk Capacity Indicates the disk s capacity Format If the disk has bee...

Page 30: ...recording actions Check Recording The system will assume an error if the system has been scheduled to record normally but recording does not take place during scheduled intervals Select Schedule On and then configure the days of the week times and monitoring interval Select the button on the bottom left of the screen to add a schedule Select icon to delete the schedule Disk Almost Full Generates a...

Page 31: ...ing the Setup menus General Configure general recording settings Recycle When the recording disks become full the system overwrites existing data with new data starting with the oldest first If Recycle is disabled recording will simply stop when the recording disks reach their maximum capacity Event Record Dwell If linked recording is designated as an event triggered action recording takes place f...

Page 32: ...m is played in real time During dual recording the recording icon is displayed as Use Panic Recording Enable disable Panic Recording Panic Recording Duration Disable Panic Recording automatically Select between 5 mins and 1 hr If you do not wish to disable the feature automatically select No Limit ips Allow you to set the images per second for Panic recording Quality Allow you to set the recorded ...

Page 33: ...ences as per the ips Quality Resolution selected for time under Setup When an event occurs the icon changes into icon and recording commences as per the ips Quality Resolution selected for events under Setup Channel Select which cameras to apply the schedule to Settings Select to configure default values for Time Lapse and Event Recording modes Advanced Mode Options Select to configure event types...

Page 34: ...lution will be applied When setting up separately for each channel of an event you can select any resolution supported by the camera mode 720 960 HD or Full HD Event 720 Mode 960 Mode HD Mode Full HD Mode Pre Event When an event occurs enabling this option includes the specified duration prior to the event in the event triggered recording No Select which cameras to apply Pre Event to ips Quality R...

Page 35: ...he block selection in the selection window Reverse Clear the blocks selected within the selection window and select all unselected blocks within the selection window Select All Select all blocks Clear All Clear all block selections Reverse All Clear all selected blocks within the screen and select all unselected blocks within the screen Zone View Display any detected motion within the zone OK Save...

Page 36: ...nt or Time Event mode the selected cameras will begin linked recording when an event occurs Notify Configure to be notified of events by Mail LAN1 through 5 Push and or Alert Window PTZ Moves the PTZ camera to a specific preset position when an event occurs In order to use the Callback feature the DVR must be registered on the remote program Daytime Setup Specify when daytime starts and ends Adjus...

Page 37: ...produce event log entries or issues remote notifications regarding Tripzone detected during the specified time following the initial Tripzone detection Set a value between 1 sec and 10 secs or choose Never Tripzone Ignoring Time does not affect Tripzone detection recording Actions Specify which actions to take when motion is detected Record Specify which cameras to begin linked recording on when a...

Page 38: ...sitivity Allow you to adjust the DVR s sensitivity to video blind for Black and White independently from 0 Never and 1 least sensitive to 15 most sensitive Video blind might NOT be detected for a camera with a very noisy image especially when set for low sensitivity values Activation Time Allow you to set the duration before the DVR will report a Video Blind The DVR will not consider any blinded c...

Page 39: ...DVR to automatically detect the type supported by the camera Mode Select the width resolution supported by the camera among Auto 720 960 HD and Full HD Selecting Auto allows the DVR to automatically detect the width resolution supported by the camera When selecting Auto the 720 HD and Full HD mode are supported The input resolution is applied without rebooting the system If the camera s width reso...

Page 40: ...ea options without saving the changes SD images can have restrictions when configuring the masking area Privacy Masking Configure privacy masking zone for Live and Recording screen No Turn on off the camera number Privacy Zone Display the full screen live mode of the channel and you can configure the privacy zone area by dragging on the area with the mouse The privacy masking zone can be configure...

Page 41: ...layed when the amount of disk space specified under System Monitoring is reached and when the disk becomes 100 full For more information refer to the System Event on page 30 Disk Config Change It will be highlighted when the DVR reboots after the hard disk drive has been replaced Network Setup Refer to the Menu Use on page 20 for basic information on using the Setup menus General Multi Stream Supp...

Page 42: ...address type as Manual or DHCP Manual Set Type to Manual Manual lets you configure related settings manually Configure IP Address Gateway and Subnet Mask settings manually using the remote control s arrow buttons or the mouse wheel DNS Server Enter the DNS server s IP address The IP address can also be entered using the mouse wheel Port Number Setup Change the numbers by highlighting them and usin...

Page 43: ... s remote connection Remote point IP and port settings on the remote program must also be changed in order for it to connect to the DVR DHCP Select DHCP and then Save to retrieve IP address and other network settings automatically from the DHCP server Once the network settings have been retrieved the DVR s current IP address is displayed in the IP Address field It may not be possible to retrieve t...

Page 44: ...DVR name you wish to register on the FEN server check and register the entered name This is a unique DVR name that will be registered on the FEN server You will not be able to save FEN settings unless you click on the Check button next to the DVR Name field and check the entered name s availability You will be prompted with an error message if you do not enter DVR name or enter a name already regi...

Page 45: ...edia player on your local PC and enter rtsp ID Password IP address RTSP port number trackID channel number streamID stream number Some media players might not play video properly depending on network conditions RTSP service might not be supported depending on the type of media player Notification Setup Callback Configure Callback settings LAN Enter the IP address of the receiving server and set Re...

Page 46: ...ng mails Select the icon to remove the account SMTP Setup Select SMTP Setup at the bottom right corner of the screen to configure an SMTP server 1 Enter the SMTP Server s IP address or domain name and then configure the Port and Sender settings Default SMTP server port number is 25 Select Test to send out a test mail using the current settings Select SSL TLS or STARTTLS to use an SMTP server that ...

Page 47: ...s OSD Show OSD On Screen Display information on the bottom of the screen Status Zoom The icon displays on the enlarged video Network The icon displays when the unit is connected to a network via Ethernet The icon displays on each camera when audio communication is available between the DVR and a PC running IDIS Center via Ethernet The icon displays when VNC service is running Freeze Sequence The i...

Page 48: ...DVR sequences through the cameras and displays them full screen In the cameo sequence mode the bottom right window in a multi screen format sequences through the cameras Interval Select between 1 secs and 1 mins For more information on Sequence refer to the Sequence on page 10 Event Monitoring On With Event Monitoring enabled video feed from the camera configured to start recording when an event o...

Page 49: ...Go to the Date Time Displays the Go to the Date Time screen 3 Bookmarks Add the current playback point to the bookmark list The maximum number of bookmarks that can be saved is 64 4 Display Used to change the screen layout to single screen PIP 2x2 1x5 1x7 and 3x3 OSD On Off Enables disables the OSD feature 5 6 Previous Next Group Loads the previous next screen group 7 Alarm Pressing this button wh...

Page 50: ... to check the status of the DVR s system event status and storage Selecting Status will only be enabled for a user who has System Check authority Data Source Record Search recording data contained in the main recording device Exit Exit the search mode and enter the live monitoring mode Context Menu Right click on the Camera screen to access the context menu Zoom Zoom in Edit Group Enter to the Edi...

Page 51: ...om and To points will be searched If Check Time Overlap has not been selected events from the entire From and To range will be searched Camera Filter Motion Select which channels to search motion detection events in Tripzone Select which channels to search Tripzone detection events in Video Loss Select which channels to search video loss events in Video Blind Select which channels to search video ...

Page 52: ...ing Data Bar Colors Blue Time Lapse Recording Purple Event Recording Yellow Pre Event Recording Red Panic Recording 2 Zoom Select zoom in to compose recording data in 1 minute segments and select zoom out to compose recording data in 3 minute segments Selecting zoom out displays more time in one screen than zoom in screen If recording from points in time prior or after the time frame displayed on ...

Page 53: ...een mode Select Option to configure Motion Search options Select First under From and Last under To to search the recording from start to finish Alternatively you can uncheck the First and Last options and specify the search time frame manually Type Motion Search looks for motion in the selected area by comparing individual frames against their preceding frames This means slow and gradual movement...

Page 54: ...lip Copy Designate a start point and an end point and copy the data in between Select Clip Copy A B Clip Copy from the Search menu to set point A The icon will appear on the status indicator area on the upper right corner of the screen Select Clip Copy A B Clip Copy once again to set point B The Clip Copy Setup window will appear Select A and B points are automatically applied as From and To value...

Page 55: ...ge when trying to back up on the device If so you will need to restart the DVR If the USB hard disk s file system has been damaged restarting the DVR will not solve the problem and the aforementioned error message will continue to be displayed each time you attempt a backup If this is the case you will need to format the HDD or use a recovery program to repair the damage to the drive s file system...

Page 56: ...arm Out 41 Audio Recording 18 E Event Monitoring 15 L LAN 42 M Motion Search 50 52 Mouse 21 O OSD 47 P Panic Recording 18 Pre Event 34 R Recording 18 S Search 49 Storage 29 V Video Analytics 35 Part 4 Appendix V2 1 ...

Page 57: ...IDIS Co Ltd For more information please visit at www idisglobal com ...

Reviews: