IBM EDR1600 - Manuals

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 2 1.2 Technical Overview 1.2.1 Video Input and Output The digital video recorder is designed to support either NTSC/EIA or PAL/CCIR standard. To make the auto detection of video standard work, at least one camera must be connected to the video input. ...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 3 disk, ZIP disk, etc. in .MPG format for MPEG-1 encoded video or .MOV format for JPEG encoded video. For Time-Lapse Mode Recording Time, please refer to Appendix B. 1.2.4 Motion Detection The digital video recorder continuously monitors all camera in...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 4 1.2.7 Expandable IDE Hard Disk Architecture All the other HDD-based digital video recorders support only 1-4 hard disks. If those recorders do support more hard disks, they usually use RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) or SCSI disks, whic...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 5 2. Front & Rear Panels The following is a brief overview of the front panel and rear panel of EDR1600. Rear Panel 0. Power Switch From Rear Panel 1. Power Selector Switch: 115V AC or 230V AC selector switch. Warning: To avoid damaging the system...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 7 Front Panel 25. Hard Disk Trays: Hard disk holders for HDD#1 (upper tray) and HDD#2 (lower tray). Note: Please make sure to set HDD#1 as master and HDD#2 as slave. The settings should be described on the hard disk itself or in the manual come with t...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 8 3. System Installation The installations described below should be made by qualified service personnel or system installers. 3.1 Before Installation Please make sure to set the Power Selector Switch before plugging in the power plug to avoid damagin...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 9 3.2 Basic Connections Cameras Connect each of the camera video input connector to the video output from a camera or other composite video source. At least one camera must be connected before the system is running for the auto detection of video stan...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 11 4. Main Screen The diagram above is the main screen display. The icons on the lower corner of the screen are mainly for control and configuration, those on the right corner for status indication. If any icon is grayed, it means that the specific fu...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 12 Alarm Event Log – To view the event log. Config – To configure (setup) the behaviors of the system. TV Overscan/Underscan – To change the display size of the Main TV Monitor. Login – To login the system as Administrator, Supervisor or Operator. Seq...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 13 There are 4 kinds of devices in the status indication. The displaying order is Camera, Alarm Output, Hard Disk, Alarm Input, then back to Camera. Each status bar stands for the status of one device, the bottommost for ID#1. There are 5 different co...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 14 There are 4 kinds of event logs: Alarm, Motion, Video Loss, and Power On/Off. To view the event Log display, please click on the Log icon. The screen will be shown as below: If you logged in as Administrator, the Delete button and Delete All button...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 15 6. Setup (Administrator) To login as an Administrator, please click on the Login icon, and enter the appropriate Administrator’s Login name and Password (the factory default value for both of them is admin ). To setup the behaviors of the system, p...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 19 6.4 Alarm Action Setup The Alarm Actions allow the administrator to define how the digital video recorder responds to the triggered alarm from the Alarm Inputs.There are up to 16 Alarm Actions that correspond to 16 (Focus) Cameras for most applicat...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 20 Focus Camera – To define the camera that will respond to this Alarm Action. The default settings are Camera 1 for Alarm Action 1, Camera 2 for Alarm Action 2, and so on. Pre-record – Pre-record time to define how long (in seconds) before the Alarm ...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 22 6.5 Motion Action Setup The Motion Actions allow the administrator to define how the digital video recorder responds to the detected motion for the cameras.There are up to 8 Motion Actions that correspond to 8 Alarm Outputs for most applications. T...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 23 6.6 Video Loss Action Setup The Video Loss Actions allow the administrator to define how the digital video recorder responds to the detected video loss for the cameras. There are up to 8 Video Loss Actions that correspond to 8 Alarm Outputs for mos...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 24 6.7 Hard Disks Full Action Setup The Hard Disks Full Actions allow the administrator to define how the digital video recorder responds when the hard disk drives reach the maximum storage capacity. Operations: After the HDDs Full Action menu item is...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 26 6.8 Camera Setup The Camera Setup allows the administrator to define the behaviors for each Camera at each Time Type. There are up to 16 Cameras connected to the system. For each Camera and each Time Type, you may configure the behaviors as shown o...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 27 Recording Quality For All Cameras – The range is 0-10, with 0 the lowest (rough) quality, 10 the highest (fine) quality. The default value is 5 . Use the Up/Down arrow buttons to adjust the value. Compression Method For All Cameras – MPEG (MPEG-1) ...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 28 6.9 Alarm In Setup The Alarm In Setup allows the administrator to define the behaviors for each Alarm Input at each Time Type. There are up to 24 Alarm Inputs connected to the system. For each Alarm Input and each Time Type, you may enable/disable ...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 31 6.11 Display Sequence Setup The Display Sequence Setup allows the administrator to define the Sequence Mode display. Please refer to Chapter 4 for Sequence Mode display. For the definition of the Display Pages in each Display Sequence, please refer...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 32 6.12 Display Page Setup The Display Page Setup allows the administrator to define the Display Pages in Sequence Mode display and Static Page Mode display (please refer to Chapter 4). Operations: After the Display Pages menu item is selected, the Di...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 35 Camera – Use the Down arrow button to select the camera. Time Type - Use the Down arrow button to select the Time Type. Set – To set the Detection Area – active at down position.Clear – To clear the Detection Area – active at down position. Video W...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 37 6.15 System Configurations The System Configurations Setup allows the administrator to set up the communication, main monitor sharpness-adjusting, daylight saving time, TV system and backup the configurations to floppy diskette or restore the confi...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 42 Select HDD & Range – To select the playback Hard Disk and the playback range in that Hard Disk. Click on it, and the Select HDD & Range dialog box will be shown on the screen as described in the next paragraph. Play Saved Video – To preview...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 43 Archive Video – Toggle button to enable/disable retrieving playback video to floppy disk, ZIP disk, etc. When the video is playing back and Archive is enabled (button at DOWN position), the RetrievalDevice and Camera dialog box will be shown, pleas...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 44 8.1 Select HDD & Range Dialog Box When the user click on the Select HDD & Range icon on the Playback Panel, the Select HDD & Range dialog box will be shownon the screen. The system provides user to search the image either by HDD locatio...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 45 Options to Play – To playback all recorded video images, or to playback only motion or alarm detected video images of the assigned location. Start/End Section No – 32 MB/Section or 32 Slices/Section for the system. Use the Down arrow button to sele...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 46 To search by time, the diagram will be shown as below. Use the Down arrow to select the desired start date and time, click on the Submit button to start searching. The other items are the same as the above description. Search by Time 01 08 10 50 10...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 47 9. Remote Control Through Local Network, Intranet, Internet or dial-in functions, users are able to view the live video, image playback and upload/download the configuration file of EDR 1600 from any PC in anywhere. The remote computer does not nee...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 48 time shown on each window refers to the time on EDR1600 system clock. The following is the brief description of each item above. Upper Panel Upload – To upload the configuration files to EDR1600. After theconfiguration file is uploaded, you must re...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 49 selected playback cameras will be played and displayed on its corresponding video window. – To pause the playback image. Slider Bar – Showing the current playing position for image playback. Click on it and drag the mouse to play thevideo from anyw...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 50 New model for 60FPS(NTSC) / 50FPS(PAL) recording rate The V1.20 (and later version) software can support 60FPS(NTSC) / 50FPS(PAL) recording rate on a high-end EDR1600 model. Thenew model has a “ 2x/fps ” label on its front panel. Please contact you...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 51 HDD#2 if the former “thinks” the later is absent!) We strongly recommend that you use IBM’s hard disks as HDD#1 (master) because they are very consistent and stable for hot-swap.Note 2: If it happens that HDD#2 is not accessible, please power off b...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 52 Video Format NTSC/EIA or PAL/CCIR, auto-sensing Video Input 16 camera inputs with loop through (BNC), 1Vp-p/75ohm Video Output Main Monitor 1 D-SUB 15-pin computer monitor output1 BNC composite video output, 1Vp-p/75ohm (option)1 mini-din S-video o...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 53 Weight 20KG Operating Temperature 0 o C ~ +45 o C

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 54 Appendix B – Time Lapse Mode Recording Time NTSC PAL day hour min. day hour min. day hour min. 30 25 7 5 20 52 2 12 40 15 12.5 14 10 1 17 45 5 1 21 10 8.3 21 16 2 14 38 7 14 3 6 5 1 11 26 4 8 24 12 15 24 3 2.5 2 22 52 8 16 48 25 6 49 2 1.7 4 10 18 ...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 56 Appendix C – Simulated Keyboard There are situations that the user will be asked to enter a numeric or alphanumeric string. So, a Simulated Keyboard is designed for the user to use the mouse for all the operations. Please refer to the following dia...

Administrator’s Guide and Operating Instructions 57 Q: How to setup time-lapse recording?A: Please setup the Normal Recording rates for the Cameras at different Time Types. The normal recording rates are also time-lapse recording rates. Q: How to setup event recording?A: Please setup the Alarm Recor...