HISCO DVR series User manual

Hisco® DVR Series User’s Manual

HISCO

DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER

USER’S MANUAL

DVR VERSION 5

Hisco® DVR Series User’s Manual

The contents of this manual may not be copied or reproduced in any manner or form without the

prior written consent of Hisco International Co., Ltd.

Trademarks

Hisco®is a Hisco International Co., Ltd.

Important Information

Before proceeding, please read and observe all instructions and warnings contained in this

manual. Retain this manual with the original bill of sale for future reference and, if necessary,

warranty service.

When unpacking your digital recorder, check for missing or damaged items. If any item is missing,

or if damage is evident, DO NOT INSTALL OR OPERATE THIS PRODUCT. Contact your dealer

for assistance.

Warnings

WARNING

TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT EXPOSE THIS PRODUCT

TO RAIN OR MOISTURE.

DO NOT INSERTANY METALLIC OBJECT THROUGH VENTILATION GRILLS.

Explanation of Graphical Symbols

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to

alert the user to the presence of un-insulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s

enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to

persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the

presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instruction in the

literature accompanying the product.

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Installation and Proactive Steps

PRE-CAUTIONS

•Should any liquid or solid object fall into the cabinet, unplug the unit, and have it checked

by the qualified personnel before operating it any further.

•Unplug the unit from the wall outlet if it is not going to be used for several days or more.

•To disconnect the cord, pull it out by the plug. Never pull the cord itself.

•Allow adequate air circulation to prevent internal heat build-up.

•Do not place the unit on surfaces (rugs, blankets, etc.) or near materials (curtains,

•draperies) that may block the ventilation holes.

Location conditions to avoid for installing Hisco DVRs:

•Excessive heat, such as direct sunlight or heating appliances

•Surfaces (rugs, blankets, etc.) or near materials (curtains, draperies) that may block the

ventilation holes.

•Moisture, dust, and smoke

•Magnetic fields or electrical waves

•Below freezing temperatures

Installation:

Before installing the system, please ensure that

•The power is switched off

•The unit has adequate air circulation to prevent internal heat build-up

•There is enough room for the unit and its connecting cables

•The unit is placed on an even surface

•The unit is not placed near any electronic equipment (e.g. microwave, radio, or any

wireless equipment such as cell phones)

•The unit is not expose to rain or water. The unit is not designed to be waterproof

•AUPS is used with the Hisco DVR unit to protects DVR from surges, spikes, lightning and

other power disturbances

e: A UPS must be used to comply with our warranty

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Installation and Proactive Steps

Installing the DVR:

e: Do not plug in power until all the cables have been connected

1. Once a location has decided. Carefully remove the DVR, Keyboard, mouse and BNC

connectors from the box and place the DVR on an even surface

2. Plug in the purple cable from the keyboard into the purple terminal found at the back of

the DVR

3. Plug in the green cable from the mouse into the green terminal found at the back of the

DVR

4. Plug in the blue cable from the monitor into the blue terminal found at the back of the

DVR. Don’t forget to plug in the power cord for the monitor

5. Plug in the BNC camera connector terminal found at the back of the DVR

6. Once all the connections are done. Plug in the power cord to the back of the DVR power

supply. There is a small switch at the back turn it ON (I). Now plug the power cord into the

outlet. This will start the Hisco’s DVR security software

Cleaning:

•Clean the unit with a slightly damp soft cloth.

•Use a mild household detergent. Never use strong solvents such as thinner or benzene

as they might damage the finish of the unit.

Recovering System DVR:

All Hisco’s DVR comes with a System Recovery Floppy if for any reasons the DVR is infectedwith

virus or Windows files system corruption you could recover the DVR using the System Recovery

Floppy provided.

Warning

•This System Recovery Disk would recovery the Windows O/S leaving the camera videos

data intact.

•Anything that is saved in C:\ would be erased.

oExample: DVR Settings, DVR log files etc..

e:Do not interrupt the process once it has started.

Instructions

1. Insert the recovery floppy into the floppy slot.

2. When the recovery is done please remove the floppy from the floppy slot.

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IMPORTANT SAFEGUARD

1. READ INSTRUCTIONS – All the safety and operating instructions should be read

before the appliance is operated.

2. RETAIN INSTRUCTIONS – The safety and operating instructions should be

retained for future reference.

3. CLEANING – Unplug video monitor or equipment from the wall outlet before

cleaning. Do not use liquid cleaners or aerosol cleaners. Use a damp cloth for

cleaning.

4. ATTACHMENTS – Do not use attachments not recommended by the video

monitor or equipment manufacturer as they may result in the risk of fire, electric

shock or injury to persons.

5. WATER AND MOISTURE – Do not use video monitor or equipment near water –

for example, near a bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sink, laundry tub, in a wet

basement, or near a swimming pool, or the like.

6. POWER SOURCES – Video monitor or equipment should be operated only from

the type of power source indicated on the marking label. If you are not sure of the

type of power supplied to your home, consult your video monitor or equipment

dealer or local power company. For video monitor or equipment designed to

operate from battery power refer to the operating instructions.

7. POWER CORDS – Do not allow anything to rest on the power cord. Do not locate

video monitor or equipment where persons walking on it will abuse the cord.

8. OBJECT AND LIQUID ENTRY -- Never push objects of any kind into video monitor

or equipment through openings as they may touch dangerous voltage points or

short-out parts that could result in a fire or electric shock. Never spill liquid of any

kind on the product.

9. SERVICING – Do not attempt to service video monitor or equipment yourself as

opening or removing covers may expose you to dangerous voltage or other

hazards. Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel.

10. DAMAGE REQUIRING SERVICE – Unplug video monitor or 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 has spilled, or objects have fallen into the video product.

C. If the video product has been exposed to rain or water.

D. If the video product does not operate normally by following the operating

instructions, adjust only those controls that are covered by the operating

instructions as an improper adjustment of other controls may result in

damage and will often require extensive work by a qualified technician to

restore the video product to its normal operation.

E. If the video product has been dropped, or the cabinet damaged.

F. When the video product exhibits a distinct change in performance – this

indicates a need for service.

11. REPLACEMENT PARTS – When replacement parts are required, be sure the

service technician has used replacement parts specified by the manufacturer or

that have the same characteristics as the original part. Unauthorized substitutions

may result in fire, electric shock or other hazards.

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•You can disable the All Power management program (Green PC features) on the

BIOS setup in your unit before run the program.

•You cannot use the screen saver program in your unit.

•System Display mode: “1024x768 dot, 24 or 32 bit Color”

•(Recommended Video card ATI AGP series, ATI Radon 7000 64MB or higher).

e: By default all of Hisco DVR System HDD are partition as follows

•C :\ : Drive C: contains DVR Operating S/W and O/S – Windows XP Pro only. About

4GB for the space of C: Drive is enough.

•D :\ : Drive D: is use for backing up images from cameras (JPG/BMP or AVI file

format.) About 650MB of space is allocated to Drive D:

•By default D:\Backup is created so that users can save backed up images on that

folder.

•By default Drive E: space is being use for capturing image data from cameras in

native file format.

•Disk Drive can be made from E:\ to X:\ (about 20 different drives). Input image data

from camera is automatically recorded from E:\Eyedat by DVR S/W.

•When E:\ is full, it automatically starts to write next Drive E:\, F:\....

•Please refer to the next two pages (Example of HDD partition) to learn about how to

make HDD partition.

•When you want to use certain Drive for backing up Windows or DVR S/W etc,

oMake a Folder named “BACKUP” or “MAIN”. The DVR S/W will find those

two names of the folder and skip the Drive. It will record to the next Drive.

IMPORTANT NOTICES

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Table of Contents

WARNINGS ............................................................................................................ 2

INSTALLATION AND PROACTIVE STEPS ..................................................................... 3

IMPORTANT SAFEGUARD......................................................................................... 5

IMPORTANT NOTICES.............................................................................................. 6

TABLE OF CONTENTS.............................................................................................. 7

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO HISCO DVR SYSTEM.................................. 9

DVR SYSTEM FEATURES................................................................................. 10

DVR SYSTEM SPECIFICATION .......................................................................... 11

SUPPLIED ACCESSORIES................................................................................ 12

CHAPTER 2. DVR SYSTEM SETUP................................................................. 13

SYSTEM SETTING........................................................................................... 14

CAMERA SETTING.......................................................................................... 17

MOTION DETECTION SETTING.......................................................................... 19

SENSOR AND DIGITAL OUTPUT SETTING . ......................................................... 20

USER SETTING............................................................................................... 22

ALARM SETTING. ........................................................................................... 24

BASIC CONFIGURATION SETTING..................................................................... 26

BUILDING FILE SYSTEM. ................................................................................. 28

CHAPTER 3. USING DVR SYSTEM................................................................. 30

OPERATIONAL MODES.................................................................................... 31

SCREEN MODES. ........................................................................................... 34

COLOR AND PAN/TILT FUNCTIONS. .................................................................. 37

USING ALARM NOTIFICATION........................................................................... 38

USING THE EYELOGVIEWER. ........................................................................... 39

OTHER FUNCTIONS. ....................................................................................... 40

SEARCH AND RETRIEVE RECORDED DATA........................................................ 42

ADDITIONAL SEARCH FUNCTIONS.................................................................... 46

ADVANCED SEARCH ...................................................................................... 51

USING THE DVR IMAGE VIEWER ....................................................................... 53

CHAPTER 4. USING BACKUP PROGRAM ..................................................... 55

MANUAL BACKUP .......................................................................................... 56

USING A BACKUP VIEWER .............................................................................. 59

SCHEDULE BACKUP....................................................................................... 62

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CHAPTER 5. USING EYECLIENT PROGRAM................................................. 65

CLIENT PROGRAM SETTING............................................................................. 67

REMOTE MONITORING .................................................................................... 71

CLIENT PROGRAM BASIC OPERATION .............................................................. 72

SEARCH ON THE CLIENT................................................................................. 77

REMOTE CONTROL......................................................................................... 79

CLIENT BACKUP ............................................................................................ 81

ALAM RECEPTION FUNCTION........................................................................... 86

SYSTEM LOGVIEWER FROM CLIENT SYSTEM ..................................................... 87

CHAPTER 6. TROUBLE SHOOTING............................................................... 89

CHAPTER 7. CD BURNING INSTRUCTION .................................................... 94

CHAPTER 8. SECURING HISCO DVR............................................................. 99

CONNECTING UNINTERUPT POWER SUPPLY................................................. 102

CONNECTING DVR TO NETWORK.................................................................. 112

APPENDIX ..................................................................................................... 118

DVR MAIN SYSTEM SETUP MENU MAP ........................................................... 119

CLIENT SYSTEM SETUP MENU MAP................................................................ 123

2000 AND 3000 SERIES REAR VIEW ............................................................... 124

1000 SERIES REAR VIEW.............................................................................. 125

WARRANTY INFORMATION.......................................................................... 126

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Hisco® DVR Series User’s Manual

Introduction

to DVR

System

Hisco® DVR Series User’s Manual

Chap1.

DVR System Introduction

This system is PC Architecture Digital Video Security System digitizing, compressively saving,

retrieving and generating output image information from cameras. Also, this system is Digital

Video Security System of Next Generation improving strong points and significantly

complementing defects of existing analog CCTV.

1-1.DIGITAL VIDEO SECURITY SYSTEM FEATURES

•VideoCapture and MPEG4 base Wavelet or MPEG4, Motion-JPEG compression and recording

directly on to Hard Drive.

•Display Screen: Full screen, 4, 6, 9, 10, 16 split screen.

•Easy selectable for recording image resolution: 320x240, 640x240, and 640x480

•Color Quality control: brightness, contrast, saturation, Hue, sharpness.

•Multiple recording:

Mounting maximum 16 cameras, the system can record images onto HDD in the PC

GUI VCR style playback control. You can quickly retrieve images in files.

•Easy to set up the DVR system configuration:

On screen setup dialog allows you to set functions easily.

Examples: the amount of Camera to operate, select camera position onto Screen in the PC.

• Printing images: You can reproduce the selected images as BMP file, which can be printed out

with the PC printer.

•Archived Images can be backed up on to CD-RW, DVD-RAM for long-term storage.

•Image recording directory managing (specify the recording directory on the HDD and check

function of the minimum capacity disk storage ).

•Sensor/Motion Detector functions:

When a sensor signal is received by the system or Motion detection is triggered, the system

immediately starts recording images onto the HDD. Sensor recording interval and frame rate

control can be adjusted.

•Optimized File System for image saving:

File System is to minimize the access time of the Disk and allows the maximum capacity of

the Disk to be utilized preventing the occurrence of Disk fragments.

Because of optimized file system for image saving was self-developed and applied by

the DVR s/w,

Damaged files can be recovered easily, and increased security is assured.

•Pre/post alarm recording function:

Preservation function for spot situation is strengthened because pre/post images are

selected optionally.

0 ~ 60 copies can be recorded in case alarm by sensor or camera (motion detection) is

triggered.

•Image retrieval:

Recorded images of each camera can be confirmed (within the same time zone) after the

simultaneous retrieval of recorded images on multiple cameras (partitioned 1, 4, 6, 9, 10 or

16). Also a specific event can be traced easily.

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