Page 3 - WARNING; RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK; COMPLIANCE NOTICE OF FCC:
16-Channel Digital Video Recorder i WARNING RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN WARNING: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilate...
Page 4 - Important Safeguards; Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
Operation Instruction ii Important Safeguards 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 this equipment from t...
Page 5 - Table of Contents
16-Channel Digital Video Recorder iii Table of Contents Chapter 1 — Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 Feature ........................................................................................................
Page 7 - List of Illustrations
16-Channel Digital Video Recorder v Bookmarks ....................................................................................................................... 63 Clip-Copy ............................................................................................................................
Page 9 - Chapter 1 — Introduction; Feature
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...
Page 11 - Chapter 2 — Installation; Package Contents; Video Input
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...
Page 12 - VGA; Power Cord Connector; Chapter 3
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...
Page 13 - NOTE: All the connectors marked GND are common.; Network Port; intended for outdoor use.; Factory Reset Switch; CAUTION: When using the; Factory Reset; , you will lose any settings you have saved.
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...
Page 15 - Chapter 3 — Configuration; Front Panel Controls; Menu Button
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...
Page 16 - Camera Buttons
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...
Page 17 - Remote Control; ID Button; System Information; When in the Live Monitoring mode, pressing the; button displays live channels sequentially.
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...
Page 19 - Turning on the Power; Save; If you cannot use the front panel buttons, click the; button or move the mouse pointer to the top of the
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...
Page 20 - Setup Screen; Press the; Monitoring menu to enter the setup screen.; System Setup; Information; Highlight
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....
Page 21 - Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time) will NOT be changed.; CAUTION: The USB device must be FAT16 or FAT32 format.
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...
Page 22 - will be required to read the file properly.; and pressed the button.
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 ...
Page 23 - NOTE: Holidays that do not fall on the same date each; Storage
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 ...
Page 24 - and; User
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 ...
Page 25 - the unit must be reset using the; Factory Reset Button; and all data settings will be lost.; Authority
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...
Page 26 - button using the mouse; screen can only be accessed when logged on as the; NOTE: Selecting the; button throughout the screens
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...
Page 29 - NOTE: The DVR name you entered should be checked by selecting; , otherwise the DVRNS changes will; Shutdown; Recording Setup; Record
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...
Page 30 - Event
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...
Page 31 - Schedule
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...
Page 32 - Descriptions of the Record icons in the; column are as follows:
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...
Page 33 - Event Setup
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...
Page 34 - NOTE: For the Record action, the camera you select should; Motion Detection
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...
Page 35 - NOTE: You can set up motion zones one block at a time in groups of
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...
Page 36 - NOTE: You can associate multiple cameras with a camera; in the Record Schedule setup screen.; Video Loss
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...
Page 37 - NOTE: For the Record action, the camera you select; Video Blind
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 ...
Page 38 - especially when set for low sensitivity values.
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...
Page 40 - System Event
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...
Page 42 - action cannot be set to; Event Status
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...
Page 43 - Network Setup; Network; Remote might not be displayed properly.
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...
Page 44 - the function should be set to enabled.; with the PC running Speco Central or Speco Remote.
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...
Page 46 - Appendix – Speco; Notification
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...
Page 47 - NOTE: You will need to get the IP Address or domain name of the
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...
Page 48 - NOTE: Posting a tweet might fail because of Twitter limitations.
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 ...
Page 49 - Devices; Camera
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...
Page 51 - Audio
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...
Page 52 - Digital Deterrent
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...
Page 53 - Display
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...
Page 54 - NOTE: Any cameras that are Off, have lost video or are set
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 ...
Page 57 - Chapter 4 — Operation; The front panel controls are described in; Once you have installed the DVR following the instructions in; Live Monitoring; While in the live monitoring mode, pressing the; Live Monitoring Menu
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,...
Page 58 - Active Cameo Mode; Freeze; Sequence; for the full sequence monitoring and the; for the cameo sequence; Camera Menu
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 ...
Page 59 - adjustments using the DVR’s controls.; live monitoring mode.; Alarm; Search Mode; PTZ Mode
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...
Page 61 - Set Preset; Move to; Event Monitoring; Event Monitoring On
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 ...
Page 62 - Covert Camera; NOTE: When a camera is set up as; , the DVR displays the camera title and status icons on the covert; , the DVR displays only the camera title on the covert video.; Recording Video; Panic Recording; Recording Audio
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...
Page 63 - NOTE: Only the administrator and users with; authority can view video from covert cameras.; Searching Video
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 ...
Page 64 - Search Menu; Event Log Search; Go To
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...
Page 65 - Bookmarks
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...
Page 66 - Data Source; in
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...
Page 67 - Record Table Search
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....
Page 68 - Searching Video – Go To; Calendar Search; Appendix – Time Overlap; in the
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...
Page 69 - Motion Search; the DVR for Motion Detection. Please refer to; for
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...
Page 70 - Appendix – Text-In Search Examples
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...
Page 71 - NOTE: Up to 64 bookmarks can be registered.; Appendix – USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation
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 ...
Page 72 - CAUTION: The USB device for clip copy must be FAT 16 or FAT32 format.; site information will be converted to “_”.
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....
Page 73 - Appendix; USB Hard Disk Drive Preparation; Preparing the USB hard disk drive in Windows 2000
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...
Page 74 - Text-In Search Examples; Search Example I; “28” and “40” in each Column box.; Search Example II
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)...
Page 75 - Speco Remote; port number from your network administrator.; Remote Watch; Internet Options
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...
Page 76 - Web Monitoring Mode
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...
Page 77 - Change Camera Title; The; Web Search; no activity for 30 minutes.
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...
Page 78 - Remote Search; NOTE: Image processing works only in the pause mode.
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...
Page 79 - : Enhances image display quality by eliminating stair stepping; Time Overlap; segment you want to search.
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...
Page 80 - Map of Screens
Page 81 - Troubleshooting; Problem; System Log Notices
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...
Page 82 - Error Code Notices; System Upgrade Related; Description; Specifications; VIDEO
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...
Page 83 - CONNECTORS
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...