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QSC26404 User’s Manual 9 Chapter 3: Operational Instructions 3.1 Front Panel Fig 3-1 Front Panel Form 3-1 Items on Front Panel Index Type Name Description 1 Light IR receiver for remote control. 2 Status Lights Power STATUS Tx/Rx Green means DVR is working; Red means DVR is powered off; Green means ...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 11 3.2 IR Remote Control Fig 3-2 IR Remote Control Layout Form 3-2 Functions of Remote Control Index Name Description 1 POWER Turnoff device. 2 DEV Enable/Disable IR remote control 3 Numeric Keys Same as numeric keys on front panel. 4 EDIT Same as EDIT key on front panel. 5 A ...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 13 3.3 Menu Description 3.3.1 Menu Items Form 3-3 List of Menu Options Menu Name Function Menu Name Function Display Unit name Device ID Require password Screen saver Video standard Enable scalar Brightness Menu transparency VGA resolution Date and Time Preview Image Select ca...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 15 Fig 3.4 Camera input adjustments Each menu contains different kinds of items. There is a small highlighted frame called the “Active Frame” which is to point to the selected item. This “Active Frame” can be moved by direction keys ( 【↑】 【↓】 【←】 【→】 ) . The different kinds of...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 16 c) Use 【 EDIT 】 key to delete the character in front of cursor; d) Press 【 ENTER 】 to save & exit or 【 ESC 】 to exit without saving. 4. Button: Trigger a specific function or enter into next sub-menu. For example, press “Policy” button to enter into sub-menu. Press 【 Co...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 17 Chapter 4: Basic Operation Guide 4.1 Power On Note: Please make sure the power supply is the correct one for the DVR and the AC adapter is connected correctly. Before switching DVR on, please connect one monitor to VOUT or VGA interface, otherwise you can not see graphic us...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 18 Fig 4.1 Recording status Form 4-1 Camera record status Icon Icon Color Status Description White No video signal Yellow Video input Pink Manual recording Green Real time recording Blue Motion detection recording Red External alarm recording

QSC26404 User’s Manual 20 4.3 User Name and Password Note: When the DVR is delivered from the factory, there is only one default administrator named “admin”, and the password is “12345”. The administrator’s name can not be modified, while the password can be modified. The administrator can create 15...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 22 Step 3: Input new password Use numeric keys to input new password. The password can be blank. It also can be 16 numbers. Press 【 ENTER 】 to exit edit box, and move to “Verify” item to verify password. Note: In edit box, use 【  】 / 【  】 to move cursor and 【 EDIT 】 key to d...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 23 Currently controlled camera’s name is displayed in the position is selected by the user. Select Channel In PTZ control mode, you can press numeric keys to select channel. For example; press 【 2 】 key to select the PTZ camera on channel 2. After you select the PTZ camera, yo...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 25 Description Manual record interface has the following parts: channel number, channel status, start/stop record, start all and stop all buttons. Channel : Lists the channel numbers that the DVR has. Status : Channel work status has 4 status options: means idle. Green means t...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 28 Playback With Mouse Attached If you playback with a mouse attached the interface will be a little different, and you can acquire more functions to operate in the playback menu, shown in fig 4.11: Fig 4.11 Play back control bar There is an additional bar that appears. We cal...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 29 4.7 Backup Recorded Files Note: The user must have “Playback” rights. Please connect backup devices before you start to backup. In the playback interface, you can backup the recorded files. In the preview mode, press 【 PLAY 】 key, in the login dialog box, select username an...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 31 Playback the video segment You can use our file player software to playback the video segment on a PC. You can find the player software on the included CD. Exit playback interface Please refer to Chapter 4.6. 4.8 Shutting Down the DVR Note: You can only turn off the power d...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 32 Chapter 5: Parameters Setup Guide Only the users that have “Parameters Setup” right need to read this chapter. When the following parameters are modified and saved, you must reboot the DVR to make the new parameters effective. Other parameters do not require a reboot.  Any...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 34 In the user name list box, by default only “admin” exists. You can use 【→】 key, to move “Active Frame” to password edit box, and press 【 EDIT 】 key to enter into edit status. Press numeric keys to input a new password. The password is made up of 16 numbers at most. After yo...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 35 Fig 5.4 user management Step 2: Add new user name In the “User Management” menu, move “Active Frame” to “Add” button and press 【 ENTER 】 , in the pop-up dialog box input the new user name (refer to Chapter 3.4), press 【 ENTER 】 and return to “User Management” menu. A total ...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 38 Fig 5.7 Delete user 5.3 Unit Name and Device ID Unit Name In the “Display” menu, shown as fig 5.8: Fig 5.8 Display menu There is an item called “Unit Name”. The default unit name is “Embedded Net DVR”. Move “Active Frame” to unit name edit box, press 【 EDIT 】 key to enter i...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 39 Device ID: When you use the remote control to operate the DVR, you must use the device ID to select the DVR. The default device ID is “88”. If there is more than one DVR in one place, please setup different device IDs for each DVR, otherwise the remote control will control ...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 40 5.5 Camera name and OSD (On Screen Display) Setup Camera Name In “Camera” menu, you can input a name for each camera. See fig 5.9 Please note that a camera’s name can not be copied. Fig 5.9 Input camera number The steps to setup camera name: Step 1: Select a camera. Step 2:...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 41 Step 1: Enter into “Camera” menu. Step 2: Select a camera. Step 3: Enable the check box on the right side of camera name, then move “Active Frame” to “Position” button, press 【 ENTER 】 to enter into camera name position setup interface, as shown below, in that interface you...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 42 Date OSD Position In “Camera” menu you can adjust the position where you want the Date to display, move active frame to “Position” on the right side of “Date OSD” and press the 【 ENTER 】 button. Then you will see the picture below. Use 【↑】【↓】【←】【→】 to adjust the position of...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 44 5.7 Mask Area Setup In some cases you might want to mask a sensitive area. This area will not be viewed or recorded. The mask area setup steps are as follows: Step 1: Enter into “Camera” menu: Step 2: Select a camera: You can use 【  】【  】 keys to select the camera. Step 3...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 46 5.8 View Tampering Alarm If you enable this function, when someone blocks the camera spitefully, the DVR will send a warning alarm. Step 1: Enter into “Camera” menu: Step 2: Select camera: Please use 【  】【  】 keys to select a camera. Step 3: Select sensitivity: move activ...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 47 Step 6: Alarm schedule setup: When a view tampering alarm occurs, the DVR will handle the alarm based on the schedule. You can set 4 periods for each day of the week. You can also copy the schedule of any one day to other days. Note: Time periods can not be repeated. Please...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 49 5.10 Motion Detection If you enable this function, when there is motion detected by a camera, the DVR will send an alarm. Step 1: Enter into “Camera” menu: Step 2: Select camera: Use 【  】【  】 key to select a camera after pressing 【 edit 】 ke y. Step 3: Select motion detec...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 50 The whole screen is divided into 22*18 panels (NTSC: 22*15). There is one yellow panel on the upper left side. The motion area setup steps are the same as that of mask area setup (refer to Chapter 5.7). The only differences are that you can use the 【 PTZ 】 key to set the wh...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 51 Fig 5.18 Motion alarm handle setup Step 6: Motion alarm record channel setup: When a motion alarm occurs, you can trigger related camera to start to record. In “Motion Alarm Handle” menu, you can select one or more recording channels. Please use 【 ENTER 】 or 【 EDIT 】 key to...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 52 Step 9: Save motion alarm setup: Press “Confirm” button to return to “Image Setup” menu. In the “Image Setup” menu, press “Confirm” button to save the current camera parameters. Step 10: Save all cameras: You can repeat step 2 to step 8 to setup motion detection parameters ...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 53 Step 2: Preview properties: Preview mode: For preview mode item, you can use 【↑】 【↓】 key to select one mode. If DVR has only 1 channel, you can select only “1 Screen” option. If DVR has 4 channels, there are “1 Screen” and “4 Screen” options. If DVR has more than 4 but less...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 54 5.12 Recording Setup In the main menu, there is an icon called “Recording”. You can enter into recording menu as follows: Fig 5.20 Recording channel configuration “Recording” menu description: If HDD is Full: There are two options: “Overwrite” and “Stop recording”. If you s...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 56 Step 3: Record type For “Rec Type”, the options are: All Time, Motion Detect, Alarm, Motion|Alarm, and Motion&Alarm, command. For all day record mode, only one record type can be selected. Step 4: Copy to other days You can repeat step 2 and step 3 to setup for other da...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 57 5.13 External Alarm Input and Relay Output For QSC26404 there are 4 alarm in and 1 relay out ports. In “Alarms” menu, you can setup each external alarm input. In main menu, move the “Active Frame” to “Alarms” icon and press 【 ENTER 】 key to enter into alarms menu as shown i...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 58 Fig 5.23 Alarm in handling setup Step 4: Alarm trigger record channel setup You can select channels to record for each alarm input. In the sub menu, you can use 【 ENTER 】 or 【 EDIT 】 key to enable record channel. “ × ” means disabled and “  means enabled. Note: In order to...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 59 Step 8: PTZ Linkage Move the “Active Frame” to the “PTZ Linkage” button, press 【 ENTER 】 key to enter the “PTZ Linkage” setup menu as shown in fig 5.24 Fig 5.24 PTZ linkage setup First select a camera, then select one of following PTZ linkage options:  Preset: Set the flag...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 61 Exceptions The exceptions that can currently be handled include: hard disk full, hard disk error, illegal access, IP address conflict, network failure, and NTSC/PAL difference. Enter into the “Exceptions” menu as shown in fig 5.26 Fig 5.26 Exceptions setup Includes the foll...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 62 5.14 Network Parameters If you want to access the DVR over a network you must setup network parameters. Note: If any network parameter is modified, you must save and reboot the DVR to make it effective. In main menu, move the “Active Frame” to the “Network” icon and press 【...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 64 PPPoE: DVR supports PPPoE dail-up function. Example: To u se PPPoE function Step 1: Enter into “Network” menu. Step 2: Select NIC type. Step 3: Input port number. In the port edit box, use numeric keys to input port number. The port number must be more than 2000. Step 4: In...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 65 5.15 Accessing the DVR over a network To access the DVR through a computer you need to make sure the default gateway on the DVR is the same IP address as your router, and the first three sets of numbers of the DVR IP address are the same as the first three sets of numbers o...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 66 5.16 Accessing the DVR from a remote computer To access the DVR from a remote computer, in addition to the above steps, you will also need to forward ports 80 and 8000 on the router the DVR is attached to, to the IP address of the DVR. How you would do this depends on the b...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 67 5.17 PTZ (Pan, Tilt, Zoom) There is one RS-485 port on the DVR rear panel used for PTZ camera control. You can setup RS-485 parameters to match your PTZ protocol. In main menu, move the “Active Frame” to PTZ icon and press 【 ENTER 】 key, you will enter into PTZ menu as show...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 68 Note: In the DVR “PTZ” menu, if you select Pelco-P protocol when you setup PTZ address please plus or minus one compared with Camera ID. For example, if camera ID is 2, the DVR PTZ address is set as ID 3. Preset setup: Preset is using one number to represent the camera’s po...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 70 In the “Sequence” setup menu, first input the sequence number. The sequence is from 1 to 16. Each sequence is made up of cruise points, and each cruise point includes a preset number, dwell time and dwell speed. Dwell time is the time staying at that preset number. Dwell sp...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 71 Chapter 6: Utilities There are many tools in the “Utilities” menu. Including “SavePara”, “RestorePara”, “Upgrade”, “Hard Disk”, “Stop Alarm Out”, “Reboot”, “Power Off”, “View Log ” and “System Info”. Enter into “Utilities” menu as shown in fig 6.1 Fig 6.1 Utilities 6.1 Rest...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 73 6.3 Hard Disk Management fig 6.5 Hard Disk setup Check HDD work status Capacity, Free space, Stand by or not, Normal status or not. Format HDD Before formatting stop all recording. After formatting, you must reboot the DVR, otherwise DVR will not work correctly. 6.4 Stop Al...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 74 6.7 View Log To view the log recorded on the DVR HDD. In the “Utilities” menu, press “View Log ” to enter into “Log” menu as shown in fig 6.6 Fig 6.6 View log If you want to view the log based on the default option, just press 【 ENTER 】 key. The DVR will list all matched in...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 76 Step 3: Input start time and stop time. Step 4: Move the “Active Frame” to “Search Log” button and press 【 ENTER 】 key to start searching. Step 5: After finishing search, the DVR will list the matched log information. Step 6: Press “Return” button to return to “Utilities” m...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 77 Chapter 7: Firmware Upgrade The DVR firmware is stored in FLASH ROM. You can use the DVR upgrade function to write the firmware file (digicap) into FLASH. There are two cases where you need to upgrade DVR firmware. One is to update old firmware, the other is when the code i...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 80 Appendix A: Mouse Control Function 1. In the preview interface Double-click the left key 1. Switch to the most pictures when viewing single picture. 2. Switch to full screen mode when viewing multi-pictures. Back to previous multi-pictures when you double click again . Scro...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 81 5. Test input interface Click the left key 1. pop up soft keyboard 2. Input text 3. Save and exit Click the right key Cancel the text and exit the edition Scroll wheel forward Cursor goes to the front character 6. Playlist interface Click the left key Select the file to cop...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 82 Appendix B: HDD Capacity Calculation To calculate total capacity needed by each DVR according to video recording (video recording type and video file storage time). Step 1: Use Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity i q that is the capacity of each channel needed for eve...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 83 Appendix C: DVR Connect Cable Definition 1 How to Make a RS-232 Connect Cable Material and tool One twist cable (8 pins), one standard RJ45 connector and one special tool for RJ45. RJ45 introduction Pin definition Make the connect cable according the following; to left poin...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 85 Appendix D: Specifications Model Name QSC26404 Video compression H.264 Preview resolution PAL: 352*288 (CIF), NTSC: 352*240 (CIF) Playback resolution PAL: 352*288 (CIF), NTSC: 352*240 (CIF) Video input 4-ch BNC (Electrical Level: 1.0Vp- p, resistance: 75Ω) Composite video o...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 86 Appendix E: Troubleshooting Failure Possible reasons After plugging in power, turning on the power switch, “POWER” light in front Panel does not turn on, and fan does not work. 1) Power cable is damaged. 2) Power supply is damaged. After plugging in power, turning on the po...

QSC26404 User’s Manual 88 Appendix G Customer Information Card User’s Name Mr./Mrs. Company Name Post Address Postcode Phone Number E-mail Model Number of Product Serial Number of Product Purchase Date Distributor