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CAUTIONS
In order to ensure your rights and interests, please read the manual carefully before installation
of your DVR.
Use the appropriate power adapter for the DVR.
To protect the main chipset from thunder damage, please make sure the ground wire is correctly
connected before using DVR.
Do not expose DVR to rain or moisture.
The DVR cannot be installed at the placed with dust. And avoid potential mechanical vibration
or impact.
Install the DVR under good air circulation conditions. Do not place it near to heater or under
direct sunlight.
Please choose high quality hard disk which could meet the working demand of DVR.
Before connecting to other facilities, please disconnect the power supply and pull the power
plug out from the power socket.

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In case of any solid or liquid coming into the case, please disconnect the power supply
immediately. And the DVR can be restarted only after being checked by qualified person.
If the DVR is not in use for a long time, please disconnect the power supply and pull the
power plug out from the power socket.
This is pre cise inst rument. N O internal part can be repaired by the users. If default occurs,
it is necessary to ask qualified person to repair it or contact the dealer for the solution.

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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Panel Introduction

1.1 Description of front panel

1.2 Description of rear panel

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1.3 Instruction of installation

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1.4 Instruction of alarm connection

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1.5 Instruction of remote control

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Chapter 2 Instruction of GUI

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2.1 Power on

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2.2 Power off

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2.3 Live preview

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2.4 Menu

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2.5 System setup

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2.6 Recording setup

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2.7 Recording start and stop

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2.8 Recording search, playback and backup

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2.9 Motion setup

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2.10 Alarm setup

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2.11 Network setup

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2.12 Email setup

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2.13 HDD management

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2.14 PTZ setup

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2.15 User setup

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2.16 User shift

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2.17 Instruction of CMS

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Chapter 1 Panel Introduction

1.1 Description of front panel
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Type A front panel:

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Type B front panel:

Type C front panel:

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Type D front panel:

Type E front panel:

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Type F front panel:

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Name

Symbol
POWER

Status
indicator

It is red in running mode, it is green in standby mode. It is off in power off mode.

HDD

Hard drive LED indicator light. It will flash when the HDD is being used.

LOCK

Lock LED indicator light. It is on in locking mode.

REC

Record LED indicator light. It is on in recording mode.

PLAY

Play indicator light. It is on in playback mode.

IR

Remote signal receiver LED indicator light. It is on in remote control usable mode.

SEQ

Channel sequence LED indicator light. It is on in channel sequence mode.

PTZ

PTZ control LED indicator light. It is on in PTZ control mode.

NET

Network LED indicator light. It is on in network connection mode.

ALARM
IR Receiver

Number key

Description

16

0/10

Alarm LED indicator light. It is on when alarm happens.

Receive signal from remote control.
a) Press 1-16 to select channel.
b) Press it once to input"0". Press it twice to input "10". Press it and other number
to input number 10 plus.
d) Press 1-9 to input password.

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Recording key

Start recording.

Playback/

Enter into "SEARCH" menu, select the time schedule and press it to play thevideo,
Press it once again to stop playback.

pause

Press it to stop recording ,when it's under recording;

press it to stop playback when it's under playback. Then it will go to "search menu";
Press it to view preset operation when it's under PTZ status.

Stop
Search

Press it to enter into SEARCH menu.

PTZ

PTZ

Backup

BAK(COPY)

Information

INFO

Press it one time to display the status bar on the top right of screen. Press it twice to
check the systems' information. Press it three times to check the log list.

Exit

ESC

Press it to cancel the operation or turn back to previous menu.

SEQ

SEQ

Press it to shift the channel automatically.

Audio

AUDIO

Press it to make PTZ control.

Press it to enter into SEARCH menu.

Press it to enter into audio setup.

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Main menu

MENU

Press it to enter into main menu.

Spot output

SPOT

Press it to enter into spot setup.

LOCK

LOCK

Press it to lock the system or shift user.

a)
are dire ction keys. In menu mode, select the listed options
upward/downward/leftward/rightward; in PTZ control mode, control the dome
to rotate upward/downward/leftward/rightward.
confirm the selection and
operatio n. b)
could be Q uad, nine-split-screen and16-split-screen
key in live mode. c)
rewind and forward in p layback m ode. Cha nge
the parameters value in menu mode.

Direction /
split/
confirm key

+/-

+/-

Increase or decrease the data value.

Press it in live/record/playback mode to change the screen into four-split screen.
Press it in live/record/playback mode to change the screen into nine-split screen.

Split key

Press it in live/record/playback mode to change the screen into sixteen-split screen.

-

Shuttle
USB port

Turn the shuttle to select the menu or control the speed of playback. For example
2x, 4x, 8x .
For USB mouse or connect to USB disk to upgrade or backup.

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1.2 Description of rear panel

Type A 4ch rear panel

Type A 8ch rear panel

8 6
1

10

11

10

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Type B/C/D /E 4ch rear panel

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Type B/C/D/E 8ch rear panel

Type B/C/D 16ch rear panel

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1

10

11

10

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Type F 4ch rear panel

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Type F 8ch rear panel

1

8 5 6

10

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Type F 16ch rear panel

1

Video input

Network port
VGA output

10

12

Video CVBS output

USB port
11 Power port

6 7 8

10

11

RS-485, alarm and IR receiver port

YPbPr port

Audio output

4
9

Spot output

Audio input

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1.3 Instruction of installation

Type F 16ch DVR as example to show how to connect:

Camera01

CH5

CH7

CH9

CH11

Camera16
Video output

Alarm port

Audio input

YPbPr output
(1920 1080)

Video input

Power port

USB port

IR receiver port

Audio output

PTZ

SPOT

Network user

Network user

VGA output

Network user

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1.4 Instruction of alarm connection

1) 1-4 is alarm input. "NC/NO/COM" is relay output.

NC: OFF, NO: ON, COM: common port
2) "

" : Is ground cable.

alarm input
PTZ

alarm output

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1.5 Instruction of remote control

Before using it, please make sure that batteries have been installed correctly. When using it, please aim IR
transmitter of the remote cont rol at IR reception of the DVR. Then the I R light in t he fr ont o f pan el po wer
on and the icon on the top right of the screen turns to blue .
You could enter into SYSTEM SETUP to select REMOTE ID to be off. Then the remote control cannot work
and the status bar of IR will turn to red .

No. Symbol

Name

Description

Power key

Press it to power off the DVR.

IR ID key

Press it to control the DVR which have been set the remote ID.

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No. Symbol

Name
Info key

4ch split
9ch split
16ch split
SEQ
SPOT
PTZ
4

AUTO
Z+/ZF+/FI+/I-

SEQ key
Spot key
PTZ key
AUTO key
Zoom+/Focus+/Iris+/-

CRUISE
5

FOPEN
FCLOSE

16

Standby key

Description
Press it one time to display the status bar on the top right of screen. Press it twice.
to check the systems' information. Press it three times to check the log list.
Press it to 4ch split.
Press it to 9ch split.
Press it to 16ch split.
Press it to shift channels automatically.
Press it to make Spot setup.
Press it to control the speed dome.
Press it to make speed dome rotate automatically.
Press it to make zoom+/-.
Press it to make focus+/-.
Press it to make iris+/-.

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Chapter 2 Instruction of GUI

2.1 Power on

Please make sure that if the system connection is correct.

Please make sure the system format of DVR is the same as monitor's format.
Please plug the power cable in DVR.
When DVR power on, the power indicator light will turn to red.
2.2 Power off

Power off normally: Stop all the operation and back to preview status. Press the Power key "

"on remote

control It will show the bar to confirm the operation. Press CONFIRM to finish it.
Un-normal power off: Please avoid all the un-normal power off. Such as cutting the power by removing the
power plug from DVR.
Recover after power failure: If the DVR is under recording status, and then there is a power failure. It will sa ve
all the recorded file when you restart the DVR. Also the DVR will start recording automatically.
2.3 Live preview

When you start DVR normally, you will enter live preview interface. And then t here are some icons disp layed
in the pictures. Please learn their meaning from the following table.
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Symbol Color

icon Descriptions

Symbol Color

Red M

Under motion recording

Red S

Under alarm recording

L
S

Red L

Video loss during recording

Red T

Under timing recording

Green I

Waiting for event to activate

recording

Green L Video loss during waiting recording

Yellow L No video input and recording

Yellow ? Have video input but no recording

2.4 Menu

Press the[MENU] key in front panel or click the mouse tool bar
"

" to enter into main menu. And press [ESC] to exit fro m

main menu.
If you want to modify the information in submenu, you could use
remote control or mouse change it. When you modified the
information, please click "SAVE" to save the operation and exit
sub-menu.
Press the right key of mouse to display mouse tool bar.

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2.5 System setup

Select "SYSTEM" in main menu to enter into SYSTEM SETUP interface.

SYSTEM SETUP

1) Time setup: To change system time.

2) Video format: To select PAL or NTSC format After the
operation finished, the DVR will restart automatically.
3) IR ID: To set the remote ID NO. for the relevant DVR.
4) Call monitor alarm popup: If set it on, it will popup the

SYSTEM SETUP

2010/09/07 10:19

TIME FORMAT

U.S.(MM_DD_YYYY)

TIME DISP POS

TO P M I D

BORDER DISP

GREEN

VIDEO FORMAT

PA L

REMOTE ID

ON

ALARM SPOT POPUP

OFF

picture in call monitor once there is alarm signal in any

ALARM MAIN POPUP

OFF

OSD TRANSPARENCY

channel.

HD OUTPUT

VGA(1280 1024)

MOUSE DISPLAY

HD SCREEN

OSD LANGUAGE

ENGLISH

5) Main monitor alarm popup: If set it on, it will popup

the picture in main monitor once there is alarm signal

DEFAULT LOAD

SAVE

EXIT

in any channel.
6) HD output: To select HD output mode: VGA(1280*1024). YPbPr,HDMI(1920*1080).
7) Mouse display: To select CVBS or HD monitor.
8) Default load: To restore the DVR to factory default. Once finish this operation, DVR will restart automatically.

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2.6 Recording setup

Before recording, please make sure all the devices power on and there must ha ve vi deo i nput. Also please t est
the audio input.
Press the [INFO] key in front panel twice to enter into the interface of system information. Please check the HDD
remaining capacity. If the remaining capacity is not enough, please change a new one or set the HDDoverwrite function.
If it is possible, you could enter MAIN MENU and select RECORDING SETUP to modify its setup.
RECORD SETUP

RECORD SETUP

RESOLUTION

QUALITY

FRAME

01

352 288

HIGH

25

09

02

352 288

HIGH

25

10

352 288

HIGH

25

03

352 288

HIGH

25

11

352 288

HIGH

25

HIGH

25

12

352 288

HIGH

25

CAMERA

04

352 288

AUDIO

CAMERA

RESOLUTION

QUALITY

FRAME

352 288

HIGH

25

05

352 288

HIGH

25

13

352 288

HIGH

25

06

352 288

HIGH

25

14

352 288

HIGH

25

07

352 288

HIGH

25

15

352 288

HIGH

25

08

352 288

HIGH

25

16

352 288

HIGH

25

SAVE

EXIT

SAVE

AUDIO

EXIT

1) Resolution: CIF resolution:352 288(PAL) 352 240(NTSC) D1 resolution: 720 576(PAL) 720 480(NTSC).
When change the resolution between CIF and D1, DVR will restart automatically.
2) Image quality: To set the image quality at high, middle and low.
3) Frame rate: To modify the frame rate per second.
4) Audio: To set audio recording on and off. It only support 4ch audio maximum
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Please enter DISK MANAGEMENT to check the HDD information. Enter SCHEDULE SETUP to set recor din g
mode and time segment.

SCHEDULE SETUP

1) Channel: To select the channel to set schedule.

CAMERA

ALL

DAY

ALL

2) Date: To set time schedule for recording. There are 4

time segments you could set in 1 day.
3) Time segment: To set recording time from beginning
to end.

START TIME

ALL CAM
ALL DAY
END TIME

ALARM TYPE

SEGMENT1

00 0 0

04
2
8 00

TIME

SEGMENT2

00
8 00

10
0
8 00

TIME

SEGMENT3

10
0
8 00

20
0
4 00

TIME

SEGMENT4

00 0 0

00 0 0

TIME

SAVE

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2.7 Recording start and stop

Start recording: Press the [

]key in front panel or use mouse to click the icon"

"in mouse tool bar to start

recording. Once start recording or HDD begin to write, the HDD indicate light will turn on.
Press the[

] key in front panel or use mouse to click the icon"

"to stop recording.

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2.8 Recording search, playback and backup

Press the[

]key in front panel to enter recording search interface. You could search for the recording file and backup

the file into another devices. Also you could search for a video file to playback.
SEARCH MENU
VALID TIME
BACKUP DEVICE

2010/09/30

CH 0 1
DATE

CH 0022

09 : 55

CH 0 3

2010/10/10

START TIME

TO 2 0 1 0 / 1 0 / 1 0

USB

SIZE

CH 0 4
M

END TIME 1 0 5 5

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

1
2
3
4

CALCULATE

BACKUP

PLAY

EXIT

1) Valid time: From beginning to end of recording.

2) Select the channels to playback. There are s ome choi ce fo r play back. You could sele ct 1 channel, 2 channels,3
channels,4channels to playback here. And if you want playback 8ch and 16ch together, you could press the
"

""

" key in front panel.

3) Backup devices: Our DVR support DVD-RW and USB disk backup. And the DVD disk's capacity should not
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4) Playback: Select the time segment you want to playback. Modify the beginning time and end time. Then clic k
the "PLAY" to playback. Or you could use mouse to move the icon "
"

" to select beginning time and move icon

" to select ending time. Finally click "PLAY" for playback.

5) Calculate: To calculate the video file's capacity which you want to backup. Before your backup, please try to
proceed this operation.
6) Backup: Before backup, please make sure if the backup devices are ready, for example, USB disk and DVD-RW.
According to your need, you could select the channel name you want to backup Then select the time segment in
this channel. Finally please click BACKUP to confirm the operation. It will take several minutes. When it finished,
it will show you a message to confirm it and then move backup devices from DVR.
7) During backup, it will display some icons to show you

MOTION SETUP

playback status.

CAMERA

CAMERA 01

SENSITIVITY

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2.9 Motion setup

DETECT AREA SETUP

Enter Motion setup to proceed this operation.

LEFT
RIGHT
TOP
BOTTOM

1) Channel: Select the channels you need to set motion.

2) Sensitivity: Select number 1-10 for motion sensitivity.
Generally speaking, numerical value higher, the

SAVE

015
335
015
230

EXIT

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3) Detection area: Select the motion detect area. Use the mouse to select the area. When it detect there is movement
in this area, the boarder color will turn red.
2.10 Alarm setup

Enter alarm setup to proceed this operation.

The type of alarm popup: video loss alarm, motion detection alarm, external alarm.
Alarm mode: buzzer, relay, email
ALARM SETUP
BUZZER
CAMERA

RELAY
LOSS

ALARM SETUP
BUZZER

E-MAIL
MOTION

SENSOR

CAMERA

01

09

02

10

03

11

04

12

05

13

06

14

07

RELAY
LOSS

E-MAIL
MOTION

SENSOR

15

08

16

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SAVE

EXIT

SAVE

EXIT

2.11 Network setup

Enter Network setup to proceed the operation.

1) IP distribution: There are two type of IP, fixed IP and dynamic IP. When yo u cli ck D HCP/ DDNS , it wi ll get IP

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automatically. Gateway and subnet mask cannot be changed.

NETWORK SETTING

If the IP is 0, it means it failed to get IP automatically.

Then you should check if you set the network and rou ter
correctly.
2) DVR port: The default port is 6802 and it's changeable for
users.

IP ALLOCATION

DHCP/DDNS

IP ADDRESS

192

168

001

108

GATEWAY

192

168

001

001

SUBNET MASK

255

255

255

000

DNS1

202

096

134

133

096

128

166

DNS2

202

DVR PORT

6802

IE PORT

0080

3) IE port: The default port is 0080 and it's changeable for users.

EMAIL

SAVE

EXIT

2.12 Email setup

Enter Network setup and click Email to proceed this operation.

1) Time interval: To set the time interval for sending email. It
should be in denomination of minutes.
2) Email server name: To set the email server for sending email.

E-MAIL SETUP
TIME INTERVAL

10

E-MAIL SERVER ADDRESS

smtp.163.com

Min

E-MAIL SERVER PORT

0025

USERNAME

dvrmail

PASSWORD

**********

PASSWORD CONFIRMATION **********

3) Email server port: To set the email server port.

RECIPIENT ADDRESS

******@163.com

4) User name: It's the email user name.

5) User password: It's the email password.
TEST

SAVE

EXIT

6) Password confirmation: To confirm your email password.

7) Receiving address: It's the email address.
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2.13 HDD management

Enter Disk management to proceed this operation.

1) Overwrite: Select it to overwrite recorded video automatically when the HDD is full. If you didn't select it, it will
stop recording when HDD is full. And system will remind you to select this function or format HDD if you want
to continue recording.

DISK MANAGEMENT

2) Disk name: To check the disk information when you

connect several HDD or USB disk.
3) Disk capacity: To show capacity of the HDD.
4) Remaining capacity: To show the remaining capacity
of the HDD.
5) Bad area: To show the bad area capacity of the HDD.

OVERWRITE
DISK NAME

D I S KAA

DISK CAPACITY

G
931%

REMAIN CAPACITY

073%

BAD AREA

000G

FORMAT

6) Format: To delete all the recorded files.

2.14 PTZ setup

Set the ID of speed dome correctly.

Make sure if the A B connector of speed dome is connected well with DVR's
Enter PTZ setup to proceed this operation:

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1) Channel: To select the channel connected with speed dome.

PTZ SETUP

2) Baud rate: To select the baud rate of the speed dome, 1200,
2400,4800 and 9600.

CAMERA

01
CAMERA01

BAUDRATE

99600
600

3) Device ID: Default ID is the channel name.

DEVICE ID

001
1

4) Protocol: To select the communication protocol of speed

PROTOCOL

PPELCO_D2
ELCO_D2

dome, PELCO_P, PELCO_D1 and PELCO_D2.

SAVE

EXIT

After speed dome setup, please enter PTZ setup. Press the [PTZ] key to enter it. Then it will display "PTZ:CAM01
SPEED:16 DATA:00" in the screen. It means DVR is under PTZ status now. Press [PTZ] or [ESC] again to exit
PTZ interface. When DVR is under PTZ status, it will display the mouse tool bar as below:

Icon

Descriptions

Icon

Descriptions

Direction key, to move speed dome

up,down, right and left

To make speed dome rotate automatically.

Press it again to stop rotating.

Zoom key

To check the preset data already saved.

To make preset setup

Shut off PTZ and exit PTZ interface

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Modify parameters:
You could use mouse or remote control the modify the preset data. Select the item which you want to modify by
press [SPOT] key on remote control or click the item directly by mouse. Then modify the data by pressing [

[SEQ]on remote control or left/right click by mouse.

Preset setup:
1) Select image point in selected camera by [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] key. Set a number for the image point in DATA,
such as 01. then press [

] key on remote control or click"

" icon to finish the setup.

2) To view of image point which has been saved, you could select the corresponding number in DATA. Then press
[

]key on remote control or click"

"icon by mouse.

2.15 User setup

Before enter USER SETUP interface, you should enter USER LOGIN interface and type the correct password first.
1) User name: To select administrator and users. There are 4 user name , ADMIN0, USER01, USER02 and USER03.
ADMIN0 is default one.
2) Password: To set user's password. The default password is 000000 for ADMIN0, 111111 for USER01, 222222 for
USER02 and 333333 for USER03. And password is changeable by users.
3) Authority setup: As administrator, you could enter USER SETUP to grant normal user authority to make setup.

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Unlock setup: If the DVR was locked, please click the "

" on right top of screen. Then it will popup t he inter face

of USER LOGIN. Type the user name and password to unlock the DVR. Then the icon "

OK

ADMIN0
_ _ _ _ _ _
6

7 8 9

3 4 5

EXIT

".

USER SETUP

USER LOGIN
USER NAME
PASSWORD

" will turn to blue "

USER NAME
PASSWORD

ADMIN0
000000

MENU
PTZ
RECORD
RECORD STOP

SAVE

SEQ
SPOT
PLAY
AUDIO

EXIT

2.16 User shift

Please enter USER LOGIN interface to shift the user and type correspond password.
2.17 Instruction of CMS

You could control the DVR via CMS. If you want learn det ails, ple ase re fer to " Client software in struction"
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NOTE
The operation manual is for reference only. Products may vary.
Products are subject to update without further notice.
Please contact the customer service department for latest program and
supplimentary informaton.
Any disputes or doubts in products description are subject to our final explanation.

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