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Operation Instruction iv Copy Button .......................................................................................................... 11 Play/Stop Button ................................................................................................... 12 Turning on the Power ...............

Operation Instruction vi List of Illustrations Figure 1 ─ Typical DVR installation. ......................................................................................... 2 Figure 2 ─ 8-Channel DVR rear panel. ..................................................................................... 3...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 1 Chapter 1 ─ Introduction Features Your color digital video recorder (DVR) provides recording capabilities for four or eight camera inputs. It provides exceptional picture quality in both live and playback modes, and offers the following features:  4 or 8 ...

4- & 8-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 Re...

Operation Instruction 4 Audio In/Out Your DVR can record audio from up to four sources. Connect the audio sources to Audio In 1 , Audio In 2 , Audio In 3 and Audio In 4 as needed using RCA jacks. Connect Audio Out to your amplifier. NOTE: It is the user’s responsibility to determine if local laws an...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 5 Alarm Input/Output NOTE: To make connections on the Alarm Connector Strip, press and hold the button and insert the wire in the hole below the button. After releasing the button, tug gently on the wire to make certain it is connected. To disconnect a wire,...

Operation Instruction 6 Connector Pin Outs: Master Unit Slave Unit RX → To → TXD TX → To → RXD GND → To → GND NOTE: Refer to the following for pin-out details for the 9-pin connector of the slave unit. Male Female Pin 2 RXD (Receive Data) Pin 3 TXD (Transmit Data) Pin 5 GND (Ground) Power Cord Conne...

4- & 8-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...

Operation Instruction 8 Copy Button Pressing the COPY button allows you to copy video clips. Esc Button During menu setup, pressing the ESC button closes the current menu or setup dialog box. Play/Stop Button Pressing the PLAY/STOP button enters the playback mode, and pressing the button again exits...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 9 Power LED The POWER LED is lit when the unit is On. USB Port A USB port on the front panel is provided to connect external hard disk or flash drives for video clip copying or system upgrades. Position external drives close enough to the DVR so that you can...

Operation Instruction 10 ID Button If a DVR System ID is set to 0, the infrared remote control will control that DVR without any additional operations. (Refer to the System Information setup screen in this chapter for further information on setting the System ID.) If the system ID is 1 to 16, you mu...

Operation Instruction 12 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 button plays back video at regular speed. The screen displays when the DVR is in the...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 13 NOTE: To log the user out of the system, press the MENU button on the front panel or move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen and then select (Logout) in the Live Monitoring menu. The Logout screen displays asking you to confirm whether or not you ...

Operation Instruction 14 System Setup Figure 8 ─ System menu. Information Highlight Information in the System menu and press the button. The Information setup screen appears. Highlight the box beside System ID and press the button. Change the number by highlighting it and using the Up and Down arrow...

Operation Instruction 16 Highlight the box beside File name and press the button. A virtual keyboard allows you to enter the file name. Selecting Export will save the log information in .txt file format on the USB device. NOTE: When opening the saved .txt file, setting to the proper character encodi...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 17 Highlight the Holiday tab, and the Holiday setup screen appears. Highlighting the Time Sync. tab causes the Time Sync. setup screen to display. You can set up time synchronization between the DVR and standard time servers that are available in most time z...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 19 The Temperature column displays the temperature of the storage device.  Good – The temperature does not exceed the user-defined temperature threshold.  Bad – The temperature exceeds the user-defined temperature threshold.  N/A – The DVR cannot read the...

Operation Instruction 20 Highlighting a Group Name and pressing the button allows you to change the authority levels assigned to the group. CAUTION: Write down the new password and save it in a secure place. If the password is forgotten, the unit must be reset using the Factory Reset Button and all ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 21  PTZ Setup – The user can establish all PTZ settings on a local system or a PC running Speco Central.  Alarm-Out Setup – The user can establish all Alarm-Out settings on a local system or a PC running Speco Central.  Covert Camera Setup – The user can ...

Operation Instruction 22 Figure 17 ─ EZ Record screen. If you selected the EZ Record , selecting the Next button starts the EZ Record. Date/Time Setup  Date: Set the system date and select the date format.  Time: Set the system time and select the time format.  Time Zone: Select your time zone. T...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 23 NOTE: The recording resolution will be set to Very High when selecting High Video Quality Priority Profile , High when selecting Standard Recording Profile , and Standard when selecting Longer Recording Time Priority Profile . NOTE: The recording quality ...

Operation Instruction 24 LAN Setup Select between Auto Configuration and Manual Configuration for network configuration, and then select the Test button to test the network configuration you selected. NOTE: Selecting Auto Configuration allows the DVR to automatically obtain LAN parameters (IP addres...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 25 Select the Finish button to finish the EZ Setup. Shutdown Highlight Shutdown in the System menu and press the button. The Shutdown screen displays asking you to confirm whether or not you want to shut the system down. Figure 19 ─ Shutdown screen. Recordin...

Operation Instruction 26 NOTE: The total ips of all camera channels will be limited to 120 ips (60 ips for 4-ch Model) when set to High resolution and 60 ips (30 ips for 4-ch Model) when set to Very High resolution. NOTE: When set to High or Very High resolution, the maximum recording speed of each ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 27 Highlighting the Panic Recording – ips and pressing the button allows you to set the images per second for Panic recording. You can select from 0.10 to 30.00 ips (25.00 ips PAL). Highlighting the Panic Recording – Quality and pressing the button allows yo...

Operation Instruction 28 Highlight the Schedule Mode box and press the button. You can select between Simple Mode and Advanced Mode . Selecting Advanced Mode allows you to set up individual recording schedule for each event. Highlight the + and press the button to add a schedule item. Highlight the ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 29 NOTE: Day , Range and Channels that are not defined will use the setting values of the previous schedule item. NOTE: When more than two schedule items are registered in the same day and time range, the DVR will follow the latest registered schedule item. ...

Operation Instruction 30 NOTE: When the DVR is in the Time or Time & Event mode, it ignores the pre-event settings and follows the time settings. Event Setup Figure 26 ─ Event menu. Alarm -In Highlight Alarm-In in the Event menu and press the button. The Alarm-In setup screen appears. You can se...

Operation Instruction 32 Motion Detection Highlight Motion Detection in the Event menu and press the button. The Motion Detection setup screen appears. You can define the area of the image where you want to detect motion; e.g., a doorway. Highlight the box under the Zone heading, and press the butto...

Operation Instruction 34 NOTE: For the Alarm-Out action, the alarm output and beep you select should be set to the Event mode in the Alarm-Out setup screen (Schedule tab). Highlight the box under the Notify heading and press the button. You can toggle the entire list On and Off by highlighting Notif...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 35 NOTE: For the Record action, the camera you select should be set to the Event or Time & Event recording mode in the Record Schedule setup screen. Highlight the box under the Alarm-Out heading and press the button. Select between Alarm Output and Beep ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 37 Highlight the box under the Alarm-Out heading and press the button. Select between Alarm Output and Beep (DVR’s internal buzzer) that you would like to activate and to sound whenever the DVR detects video blind on the selected camera. NOTE: For the Alarm-...

Operation Instruction 38 Highlight Setup… , and press the button. Use the ATM or POS manufacturer’s recommended settings when configuring the RS232, RS485, USB-Serial or LAN ports. Highlight the box beside Text-In Product , and press the button. Select your device from the list. NOTE: The following ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 39 NOTE: For the Record action, the camera you select should be set to the Event or Time & Event recording mode in the Record Schedule setup screen. Highlight the box under the Alarm-Out heading and press the button. Select between Alarm Output and Beep ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 41 Highlight the second box beside Disk Temperature , and press the button. Select either ºF (Fahrenheit) or ºC (Celsius), and press the button. Highlight the Actions tab and the System Event Actions setup screen displays. NOTE: Alarm-Out action cannot be se...

Operation Instruction 42 Check Alarm-In and Check Recording will be highlighted when each event is detected based on the settings you made in the System Event setup screen on the Event menu. Panic Record will be highlighted while the DVR is in the panic recording mode. Disk Almost Full will be highl...

Operation Instruction 44 NOTE: You will need to get the appropriate IP Address, Gateway and Subnet Mask from your network administrator. Highlight the box beside DNS Server . Press the Up and Down arrow buttons to set the IP address of the DNS server. Highlight Use UPnP and press the button to toggl...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 45 CAUTION: When changing the port settings, you must change the port settings on the PC running Speco Central as well. Refer to the Speco Central Operation Instruction for details. NOTE: Entering the ID and Password and highlighting OK reads the current IP ...

Operation Instruction 46 NOTE: You will need to get the IP Address or domain name of the DVRNS Server from your network administrator. NOTE: You can use the domain name instead of IP address if you already set up the DNS Server when setting up the LAN. Highlight the box beside Port and press the but...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 47 NOTE: Selecting Use Mobile sets the recorded image resolution to Standard automatically regardless of your Record settings. NOTE: Selecting Use Mobile sets the remote watch quality to Basic automatically regardless of your Network – Remote Watch settings....

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 49 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 Enable SSL/TLS and press the button to toggle between On and O...

Operation Instruction 50 Highlight the Schedule tab, and the Schedule setup screen displays. The Range box allows you to set the time that the notification schedule will be active in 15- minute increments from 00:00 to 24:00. Highlight the desired box under the Notify heading, and press the button. ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 51 NOTE: A user who does not have Covert Camera View authority cannot view video from cameras set to Covert 1 or Covert 2 in both the live monitoring and playback modes. Highlight the PTZ tab, and the PTZ setup screen displays. You can assign IDs to each cam...

Operation Instruction 52 Audio Highlight Audio in the Devices menu and press the button. The Audio setup screen appears. Alarm -Out Highlight Alarm-Out in the Devices menu and press the button. The Alarm-Out screen allows you to change the settings and establish a schedule for the alarm output from ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 53 The Range box allows you to set the time that the alarm schedule will be active in 15-minute increments from 00:00 to 24:00. 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...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 55 NOTE: Any audio file used for Digital Deterrent should be named “Sound_1” to “Sound 16.” (Not Case Sensitive) Display Highlight Display in the Devices menu and press the button. The Display screen allows you to select what information will be displayed on...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 57 Remote Control Highlight Remote Control in the Devices menu and press the button. The Remote Control setup screen allows you to select a port and make correct settings for a remote keyboard. Highlighting OK and pressing the button applies resolution chang...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 59 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. ...

Operation Instruction 60 NOTE: The Live Monitoring menu also can be displayed by moving the mouse pointer to the top of the screen. Live Monitoring Menu Display Selecting (Display Menu) in the Live Monitoring menu displays the following Display Menu.  Screen: Selecting Screen and choosing the scree...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 61 Sequence Selecting (Sequence) in the Live Monitoring menu causes the cameras to display sequentially. When in one of the multiview formats, selecting Sequence will cause the DVR to go through predefined screen layouts (Full Sequence). Or, the bottom, righ...

Operation Instruction 62 Digital Deterrent Selecting (Digital Deterrent) in the Live Monitoring menu displays the following setup screen and allows the DVR to play manually. Highlight the box beside Source name and press the button to select the source file to play. Highlighting Trigger plays the se...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 63 Zoom Mode You can enlarge an area of the video by selecting (Camera Menu)  Zoom in the Live Monitoring menu. For a few seconds after selecting (Camera Menu)  Zoom from the Camera, a rectangle displays on the screen. A rectangle shows the area that will ...

Operation Instruction 64 Figure 66 ─ PTZ Select Camera menu. < Set Preset > < Move to Preset > 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 on the remote cont...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 65 Recording Video Once you have installed the DVR following the instructions in Chapter 2 ─ Installation , it is ready to record. The DVR will start recording based on the settings you made in the Record setup screen. See Chapter3 ─ Configuration. Recycle O...

Operation Instruction 66 Camera Buttons: Pressing the individual camera buttons will cause the selected camera to display full screen. Arrow Buttons: Pressing the button plays video backward at high speed. Pressing the button again toggles the playback speed from , and . Pressing the button plays vi...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 67 NOTE: The Search menu also can be displayed by moving the mouse pointer to the top of the screen. Search Menu Display Selecting (Display Menu) in the Search menu displays the following Display Menu.  Screen: Selecting Screen and choosing the screen mode ...

Operation Instruction 68 Export Selecting (Export) in the Search menu displays the following Export menu. See the following Clip Copy section for details.  EZ Copy: Selecting EZ Copy will set the starting point of the video to be clip copied, and the icon displays at the bottom-left corner of the s...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 71 Record Table Search NOTE: The recorded data in the time range located after the yellow vertical line is the latest. There are three view modes. Standard view, Expanded view and Compact view. Standard view (default) displays combined recording information ...

Operation Instruction 72 Selecting located at the bottom displays the Search menu.  Go to: Displays the first or last recorded image, or searches by date and time (see the previous Searching Video – Go To section of this chapter for more details).  Clip-Copy: Clips a video segment and saves it (se...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 73 Highlight the box beside To and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When set to Off, you can enter a specific Date and Time. When set to On, the search will be to the last recorded image. Highlight the box beside Type and press the button. You ...

Operation Instruction 74 Text-In Search NOTE: It is possible that no recorded image displays on the current screen. Change the screen mode to 3x3, for the 8-channel DVR and 2x2 for the 4-channel DVR, and you will be able to easily see the cameras that have recorded video during target time. NOTE: Te...

Operation Instruction 76 Highlight the box beside Password and press the button. A virtual keyboard appears allowing you to enter the password for reviewing the video clips. Highlight the box beside Dest. and press the button. You can select the storage device on which you would like to record the v...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 77 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, Windows Vista and Windows 7 is almost identical to Windows 2000. 1. Connect the USB hard disk drive to your ...

Operation Instruction 78 12. Right click the newly created hard disk drive icon and select “Format” . 13. In the Format Screen, select “Full” as the “Format type” and click “Start” . 14. After formatting is complete, connect the USB hard disk drive to the DVR. Text-In Search Examples Search Example ...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 79 Search Example II 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) $ 10.5...

Operation Instruction 80 Computer system requirements for using the Speco Remote program are:  Operating System: Microsoft ® Windows ® XP x86 (32 Bit) (Service Pack 3), Microsoft ® Windows ® Vista x86 (32 Bit) (Service Pack 1), Microsoft ® Windows ® 7 x86 (32 Bit)  CPU: Intel Pentium III (Celeron)...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 81 NOTE: There might be a problem with screen display or screen update due to low image transmission speed when using the Microsoft Windows Vista or higher operating system. In this situation, it is recommended you disable the Auto Tuning capability of your ...

Operation Instruction 82 ⑨ Click the to control alarm out devices at the remote site. ⑩ Click the to set up the image drawing mode and OSD display. You can adjust the display speed by changing the image drawing mode, and select OSD information to be displayed on the screen. ⑪ Click the to save the c...

Operation Instruction 84 ⑪ Click the to save any video clip of recorded data as an executable file, or click the to save the current image in a bitmap or JPEG file format. Click the to print the current image on a printer connected to your computer. ⑫ Click the to reload the recording data. ⑬ The ti...

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 85 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- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder 87 Specifications VIDEO Signal Format NTSC or PAL (Auto Detect) Video Input Composite: 4 or 8 inputs, 1 Vp-p, auto-terminating, 75 Ohms Monitor Outputs Composite: 1 BNC, 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohms VGA: 1 (Auto Detect) Video Resolution Composite: 720x480 (NTSC), 720x576...

Operation Instruction V1.0 88 GENERAL Dimensions (W x H x D) 10.4" x 2.0" x 7.5" (265mm x 52mm x 191mm) Unit Weight 3.7 lbs. (1.7kg) Shipping Weight 7.3 lbs. (3.3kg) Shipping Dimensions (W x H x D) 14.0" x 4.1" x 13.4" (355mm x 103mm x 340mm) Operating Temperature 41°F to 104...