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16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 1 Chapter 1 — Introduction Feature Your color digital video recorder (DVR) provides recording capabilities for 16 camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features:  16 Composite Video Input Co...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 3 Chapter 2 — Installation Package Contents The package contains the following:  Digital Video Recorder  Power Adaptor and Power Cord  Operation Instruction (This Document)  Speco Central Software CD and Operation Instruction  Infrared Remote Control Required I...

Operation Instruction 4 Video Out NOTE: The VGA and Video Out (BNC) connectors may be connected to individual monitors for simultaneous operation. Audio In/Out NOTE: It is the user’s responsibility to determine if local laws and regulations permit recording audio. The DVR does not have amplified aud...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 5 RS485 Port Connector Pin Outs: Master Unit Slave Unit P → To → TX+/RX+ N → To → TX-/RX- GND → To → GND Alarm Input/Output AI 1 to 16 (Alarm-In) : You can use external devices to signal the DVR to react to events. Mechanical or electrical switches can be wired to t...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 7 Chapter 3 — Configuration NOTE: Your DVR should be completely installed before proceeding. Refer to Chapter 2 — Installation . Front Panel Controls Figure 3 — DVR front panel. Menu Button Copy Button Esc Button Play/Stop Button Camera Buttons Arrow Buttons Play/Pa...

Operation Instruction 8 Play/Stop Button Pressing the PLAY/STOP button enters the playback mode, and pressing the button again exits the playback mode. When entering the playback mode, video is paused. Pressing the (Play/Pause) button plays back video at regular speed. The screen displays when the D...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 9 Remote Control Buttons ID Button Camera Buttons Sequence Button Login/Logout Button Arrow Buttons Menu Button Playback Buttons Alarm Button Layout Button Zoom Button PTZ Button Enter Button Esc Button PTZ Control Buttons Copy Button Play/Stop Button Figure 4 — Inf...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 11 PTZ Control Buttons While in the PTZ mode, the PRESET buttons are used to save Presets and load a Preset View, the ZOOM buttons are used to Zoom In and Zoom Out, and the FOCUS buttons are used for Near Focus and Far Focus. Copy Button Pressing the COPY button all...

Operation Instruction 12 Setup Screen Figure 7 — Setup screen. Press the MENU button or move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen and then select (Setup) in the Live Monitoring menu to enter the setup screen. While setting up the DVR, there will be many opportunities to enter names and titles....

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 13 Figure 9 — Information setup screen . In the Information screen, you can name the site location, assign a System ID number, select the language the screens are displayed in, display software version number, upgrade the software, show the System Log, display recor...

Operation Instruction 14 Highlight Show System Log… and press the button to display the System Log. The System Log screen lists system activities (up to 5,000 from the latest) that have occurred along with the time and date. The icon will be displayed in the last column for system activities of the ...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 15 You can set up holidays by highlighting + and pressing the button. The current date appears. Highlight the month and day and change them by using the Up and Down arrow buttons. Press the button to add the date. Dates can be deleted by highlighting the beside the ...

Operation Instruction 16 Highlight the box in the Format column for the desired storage device and press the button. You will be able to format the device for recording. When selecting Not Using from Use As and highlighting the Format button, the device will not be used for recording. NOTE: The DVR ...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 17 Figure 15 — User setup screen. The +/- column is used to collapse and expand user groups. If there is a + or – in this column, it indicates the item is a Group Name. If there is a – in front of the Group Name, it indicates that the group has been “expanded” and a...

Operation Instruction 18 To add a User, highlight the + User… box and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter the User Name. Enter the name and assign the User to a Group and password. You can use camera buttons 1 to 9 on the front panel to assign the password. The passwor...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 21 DVRNS Setup  Use DVR Name Service: Select the box to use the DVR Name Service.  DVRNS Server: Enter the IP address or domain name of the DVRNS server.  Port: Set the port number of the DVRNS server.  Use NAT: Select the box to use the NAT (Network Address Tra...

Operation Instruction 22 Figure 21 — Record Settings screen. Highlighting Recycle and pressing the button toggles between On and Off. In the Recycle mode, the DVR records over the oldest video data once all available storage space has been used. When Recycle is turned off, the DVR stops recording on...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 23 Highlighting the Panic Recording – Quality and pressing the button allows you to set the recorded image quality for Panic recording. You can select from: Very High , High , Standard and Basic . Highlighting the Panic Recording – Resolution and pressing the button...

Operation Instruction 24 When the DVR is in the Time & Event mode, the DVR will follow the Time settings and the icon displays at the top-left corner of the screen. The DVR follows the Event settings and the icon displays. Highlight the box under the Channels heading and press the button to sele...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 25 Figure 25 — Pre-Event setup screen. When the DVR is in the Event Record mode it is possible to have it record images before the event occurs. The Pre-Event screen allows you to define how to handle pre-event recording. You can turn individual cameras On or Off fo...

Operation Instruction 26 Highlight the Actions 1 and Actions 2 tabs, and the Actions 1 and Actions 2 setup screens appear. You can set the actions the DVR will take whenever it senses an input on one of its alarm input connectors. Highlight the desired box under the Record heading, and press the but...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 27 Your DVR has built-in video motion detection. Video motion detection can be turned On or Off for each camera. Figure 30 — Motion Detection Settings screen. Highlighting the box under the Sensitivity heading and pressing the button allows you to adjust the DVR’s s...

Operation Instruction 28 Highlight the box beside Daytime and press the button. Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to set the Daytime range. The DVR will consider the remaining time range as the Nighttime. Highlight the Actions 1 and Actions 2 tabs, and the Motion Detection Actions 1 and Actions 2 se...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 29 Figure 33 — Video Loss Settings screen. Highlighting the box under the Video Loss Interval heading allows you to set the duration of a signal loss before the DVR will report a Video Loss. The DVR will not consider any signal loss from a camera to be a Video Loss ...

Operation Instruction 30 Figure 35 — Video Blind Settings screen. The DVR checks to see if anything is blinding a camera. Highlighting the box under the Sensitivity heading allows you to adjust the DVR’s sensitivity to video blind for Black and White independently from 0 (Never) and 1 (least sensiti...

Operation Instruction 32 Highlight the more line(s) box, and press the button. Select the number of additional lines of text that you want the DVR to record. You can choose from 0 to 10. Highlight the box beside Line Delimiter , and press the button. Use the virtual keyboard to enter the character(s...

Operation Instruction 34 Figure 42 — System Event Actions screen. The DVR can be set to react to system events. System events can be associated with an Alarm-Out connector, sound the DVR’s internal buzzer, and/or notify a number of different devices. Highlight the Alarm-Out box beside the desired ev...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 35 Network Setup Figure 44 — Network menu. Network Highlight Network in the Network menu and press the button. Highlight the first box beside Remote Watch – bps/ips . Press the Up and Down arrow buttons to set the Transfer Speed from 50Kbps to 100Mbps. Highlight the...

Operation Instruction 36 Highlight the LAN tab, and the LAN screen displays. Figure 46 — LAN (Manual) setup screen. Highlight the box beside Type and press the button. You can select the type of network configuration from: Manual , DHCP and ADSL (with PPPoE) . Select the desired type and press the b...

Operation Instruction 38 Highlight the Check box and press the button to check whether or not the name you entered can be used. NOTE: The DVR name you entered should be checked by selecting Check, otherwise the DVRNS changes will not be saved. When entering no name or a name already registered on th...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 39 The DVR can be set up to contact a computer running Speco Central (Remote Administration System) when an event occurs. Highlight the box under the No. heading and press the button to toggle between On and Off. You will only be able to change the IP addresses if N...

Operation Instruction 40 Highlight the box beside Port and press the button. Use the arrow buttons to enter the SMTP Server port number obtained from your system administrator. The default port number is 25. Highlight Use SSL/TLS and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When it is On, the ...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 41 Figure 53 — Notification Schedule setup screen. You can add and edit notification schedules on this screen. Highlight the + and press the button to add a schedule. Highlighting the boxes under the Column heading and pressing the button allows you to edit the info...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 43 Audio Highlight Audio in the Devices menu and press the button. The Audio setup screen appears. The DVR can record up to four audio inputs. Highlight the box beside the input and press the button. A list of cameras appears, and you can select which camera you wan...

Operation Instruction 44 The Mode box allows you to set how the alarm reacts during the scheduled time. When set to On , the Alarm-Out is active during the scheduled time. When set to Event , the Alarm-Out is only active when there is an Event during the scheduled time. The Channels box allows you t...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 45 Highlight the box beside Channels and press the button. You can select the cameras with recorded audio you want to extract audio files from. Highlight the box beside From and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When set to Off, you can enter a specific...

Operation Instruction 46 Highlighting OSD Margin… and pressing the button displays how OSD text will be displayed on the monitor. You can adjust the horizontal and vertical margins so that text and icons will not be hidden beyond the edges of the monitor. Highlight the Main Monitor tab to switch to ...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 49 Chapter 4 — Operation NOTE: This chapter assumes your DVR has been installed and configured. If it has not, please refer to Chapters 2 and 3. The DVR’s controls are similar to a VCR. As with a VCR, the main functions are recording and playing back video. However,...

Operation Instruction 50 NOTE: The location of camera screen can be changed by using the mouse. When in one of the multiview formats, click the left mouse button on the camera screen and dragging it to where you want it located, and the location of two camera screens will be switched each other. In ...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 51  Audio: Selecting Audio toggles audio output On and Off.  Color Control: Selecting Color Control and choosing the camera number allows you to control brightness, contrast, hue and saturation for each camera for the selected camera if a user who has Color Contro...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 53 You can save camera position settings as “presets” so that you can go directly to desired views. Once you have the camera at the desired settings, press the PRESET SET button, and the Set Preset dialog box will appear. Select the number you want to assign to the ...

Operation Instruction 54 Covert Camera If a camera is set up as Covert 1 in the Camera setup screen (Settings tab), that camera will not be displayed unless a user with Covert Camera View authority logs into the system. However the camera title and status icons will be displayed on the monitor. If a...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 55 Selecting All Channels plays back video of all cameras. The DVR maintains the same display format as it does in the live mode except for the PIP format. You can also change the screen layout in the same way as you do in the live mode. Selecting the camera number ...

Operation Instruction 56 Display Search Go To Bookmark Export Camera Menu Alarm Digital Deterrent Panic Data Source Exit Figure 69 — Search menu. NOTE: The Search menu also can be displayed by moving the mouse pointer to the top of the screen. Search Menu Display Selecting (Display) in the Search me...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 57 Move the cursor over the date and time and press the (Play/Pause) button. You can use the Left and Right arrow buttons to highlight the year, month, day, hours, minutes and seconds. Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to change to the date and time you want to sear...

Operation Instruction 58 Data Source Selecting (Data Source) in the Search menu allows you to select the data source to be searched. Selecting Record searches recorded data on primary storage installed in the DVR, and selecting Other searches recorded data on storage used for another DVR then instal...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 59 Highlight the box beside Video Loss and press the button. You can select the cameras for which you want any reports of lost video. Highlight the box beside Video Blind and press the button. You can select the cameras for which you want any reports of blind video....

Operation Instruction 60 Selecting or located at the bottom zooms the record table. Selecting displays eight hours (1-minute based), and selecting displays 24 hours (3-minute based) at once. To move to earlier or later times that are not shown in the current record table screen, select the arrows lo...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 61 Motion Search Figure 73 — Motion Search screen. The Motion Search… can be selected from the Search menu while the DVR displays the camera full screen. The Motion Search screen displays a list of motion events. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for whic...

Operation Instruction 62 Text-In Search Figure 74 — Text-In Search screen. The DVR maintains a log of each time there is Text Input. The Text-In Search screen displays this list. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the event for which you would like to see video. Pressing the (Play/Pause) button will...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 63 Bookmarks The Bookmarks screen can also be accessed by selecting (Bookmark) in the Search menu when in playback mode. Highlight + and press the (Play/Pause) button to add the current playback point to the bookmark list. Highlight the Title box and enter the name ...

Operation Instruction 64 CAUTION: The USB device for clip copy must be FAT 16 or FAT32 format. The DVR automatically assigns a file name to the video clip. However, you can give the video clip file a different name. Highlight the box beside File Name and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears....

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 65 Appendix USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation Preparing the USB hard disk drive in Windows 2000 NOTE: Preparing a USB hard disk drive under Windows XP, Window Vista and Window 7 is almost identical to Windows 2000. 1. Connect the USB hard disk drive to your computer u...

Operation Instruction 66 Text-In Search Examples Search Example I 1 2 3 4 5 6 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 Item Unit price Qty amount ================================================== Coke | $ 2.20 | 1(s) | $ 2.20 Fanta | $ 2.20 | 1(s) | $ 2.20 Hotdog | $ 3.50 | 3(s)...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 67 For example, if you want to search for Coke with a Qty (Quantity) of more than 1 and Hotdog with an amount totaling over $8, the following search condition can be set. Speco Remote Speco Remote allows you to access a remote DVR, monitor live video images and sear...

Operation Instruction 68 NOTE: There might be a problem that the bottom of Speco Remote page is cropped due to the address or status bars in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0. In this situation, it is recommended that websites open windows without address or status bars by changing the internet settin...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 69 ⑦ Click the to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue of monitoring image. ⑧ Click the to control pan, tilt and zoom of the camera from a remote site. ⑨ Click the to control alarm out devices at the remote site. ⑩ Click the to set up the image drawin...

Operation Instruction 70 ① Click the to log out the Speco Remote program. ② Click the to access to the web monitoring mode. ③ Position the mouse pointer on the Remote Search logo to see the version of the Speco Remote program. ④ The DVR information window displays the time information of recorded da...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 71 ⑭ Selecting a camera on the screen and clicking the right mouse button displays the text menu screen.  Change Camera Title : Changes the camera name.  Enable Audio : Plays audio while playing back recorded video that has recorded audio. (Single-Screen Layout On...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder 73 Troubleshooting Problem Possible Solution No Power  Check power cord connections.  Confirm that there is power at the outlet. No Live Video  Check camera video cable and connections.  Check monitor video cable and connections.  Confirm that the camera has po...

Operation Instruction 74 Error Code Notices System Upgrade Related Clip Copy Related No. Description No. Description 0 Unknown error. 0 Unknown error. 1 File version error. 1 Device error. 2 Operating system version error. 2 Mounting failed. 3 Software version error. 3 No media. 4 Kernel version err...

16-Channel Digital Video Recorder V1.0 75 INPUTS/OUTPUTS Alarm Input 16 terminal, programmable as NC or NO, 2.4V (NC) or 0.3V (NO) threshold, 5VDC Alarm Output 1 relay output, 2A@125VAC, 1A@30VDC (NO) Internal Buzzer 80dB at 10cm Network Connectivity 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45) Audio Input RCA Inpu...