AlienHybrid ALIEN804 Operator's manual

User Instruction Manual
Models: ALIEN804 / ALIEN808 / ALIEN816
Attention
Email: support@alienDVR. om Last Revised 01/11/2011
Version 1.0.1
Dual IP and Analogue
Hybrid Video Recorder

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Install a manufa turer re ommended HDD
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Contents Page No.
Attention 2
Contents 3
1. Introdu tion 6
1.1 Overview 6
1.2 Produ t Key Features 7
1.3 Operating your DVR 10
1.4 Using the Infra Red ontroller 13
1.4.1 If the remote ontroller does not operate the DVR 14
1.5 Using a USB mouse 14
1.6 Using the Soft Keyboard 15
1.7 Rear Panel Diagram 16
2. Getting Started 17
2.1 Starting and Shutting down the DVR 17
Option 1 : Standard Shutdown 17
Option 2 : Manual Shutdown 17
2.2 Rebooting and Lo king Your DVR 18
2.3 Using the Setup Wizard 18
3. Live Preview 22
3.1 Wat hing a Live Preview 22
3.2 Operating Live Preview 22
3.2.1 Using the Mouse in Live Preview 23
3.2.2 Using Digital Zoom 24
3.2.3 Using an Aux Monitor 24
3.3 Configuring Live Preview Displays 25
3.3.1 Setting Camera Order 26
3.3.2 Channel Zero En oding 27
4. Re ord Settings 28
4.1 Configuring Settings for Re ording 28
4.1.1 Initialising Re ord Settings 28
4.1.2 S heduling a Re ording 29
4.1.3 Starting a Manual Re ording 30
4.2 Prote ting Re orded Files 30
4.2.1 Lo king and Unlo king Re orded Files 30
4.2.2 Setting HDD to Read-Only 31
4.3 Configuring Advan ed HDD Settings 32
4.3.1 Setting up HDD Redundan y 32
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5. Playba k 34
5.1 Playing Ba k a Re ording 34
5.1.1 Understanding the Playba k Interfa e 34
5.2 Playing Ba k from a Video Sear h 35
5.3 Playing Ba k from Event Sear h 36
5.4 Playing Ba k from Live Preview 36
5.5 Playing Ba k from System Log 37
5.6 Playing Ba k Frame by Frame 38
5.7 Smart Sear h 38
5.8 Using Digital Zoom 39
6. Ba kup 40
6.1 Exporting Files 40
6.2 Exporting Event Sear h Files 42
6.3 Exporting Video Clips 42
6.4 Exporting Files via e-SATA (optional) 43
6.5 Managing Ba kup Devi es 44
7. Alarm Settings 45
7.1 Configuring Alarms 45
7.1.1 Setting up Motion Dete tion 45
7.1.2 Setting up Sensor Alarms 47
7.1.3 Triggering Alarm Outputs Manually 49
7.1.4 Dete ting Video Loss 49
7.1.5 Dete t Video Tampering 51
7.2 Setting Ex eption 53
7.2.1 Understanding Ex eption Trigger Options 53
8. Network Settings 54
8.1 Configuring Network Settings 54
8.1.1 Configuring Basi Settings 54
8.1.2 Configuring PPPoE Settings 55
8.1.3 Configuring DDNS 55
8.1.4 Configuring an NTP Server 56
8.1.5 Configuring a Remote Alarm Host 56
8.1.6 Configuring Multi ast 57
8.1.7 Configuring MTU 57
8.1.8 Configuring Server and HTTP Ports 58
8.1.9 Configuring Email Settings 58
9. PTZ Controls 60
9.1 Navigating PTZ Menus 60
9.2 Configuring PTZ Settings 60
9.3 Setting PTZ Presets, Patrols & Patterns 61
9.3.1 Understanding PTZ Controls 61
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9.3.2 Customising Presets 61
9.3.3 Customising Patrols 62
9.3.4 Customising Patterns 63
10. Camera Management 65
10.1 Configuring IP Cameras 65
10.2 Configuring OSD Settings 68
10.3 Setting up Priva y Mask 68
10.4 Adjusting Display Settings 69
11. HDD Management 71
11.1 Initialising HDDs 71
11.2 Setting Network HDD 71
11.3 Setting HDD Groups 72
11.4 Che king HDD Status 74
11.4.1 Setting HDD to Read-Only 74
11.4.2 Setting HDD to Redundan y 74
11.5 Che king HDD Status 75
11.6 Configuring HDD Alarms 76
12. DVR Management 77
12.1 Configuring General Settings 77
12.2 Configuring Advan ed Settings 78
12.3 Configuring RS-232 Port Settings 78
12.4 Managing User A ounts 79
12.4.1 Adding a New User 79
12.4.2 Deleting a User 82
12.4.3 Modifying a User 82
12.5 Importing & Exporting Configuration 83
12.6 Updating System Firmware 83
12.6.1 Updating via a USB devi e 83
12.6.2 Update via an FTP server 84
12.7 Restoring Default Settings 85
12.8 Viewing System Information 85
12.9 Viewing System Logs 86
13. Glossary 88
14. Frequently Asked Questions 89
15. Menu Stru ture 90
16. Re ord Times for 16 hannel DVR 91
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1. Introduction
1.1 Overview
The Alien800 series of digital video re orders omprise of the following models:
ALIEN816
This DVR is the 16 hannel hybrid model and an support the following ameras:
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4
16 x 4CIF analogue 16 x 4CIF analogue 8 x 4CIF analogue 8 x 4CIF analogue
8 x IP 4CIF 4 x IP 720P 16 x IP 4CIF 8 x IP 720P
ALIEN808
This DVR is the 8 hannel hybrid model and an support the following ameras:
Option 1 Option 2
8 x 4CIF analogue 8 x 4CIF analogue
8 x IP 4CIF 4 x IP 720P
ALIEN804
This DVR is the 4 hannel hybrid model and an support the following ameras:
Option 1 Option 2
4 x 4CIF analogue 4 x 4CIF analogue
4 x IP 4CIF 2 x IP 720P
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1.2 Product Key Features
Co pression:
• Supports PAL/NTSC video input.
• Adopts H.264 video ompression standard.
• DSDH digital video re orders support both analogue ameras and IP ameras.
• Ea h analogue hannel supports dual stream. Main stream supports up to 4CIF
resolution and sub stream supports up to CIF resolution.
• Ea h IP hannel of Hybrid unit supports up to UXGA (1600*1200) resolution.
• Video en oding parameters of ea h hannel an be set separately, in luding resolution,
frame rate, bit rate, image quality.
• Ea h hannel supports normal ontinuous and event ompression parameters.
• Supports both omposite stream and video only stream. Audio and video streams are
stri tly simultaneous.
• Supports watermark.
Monitoring:
• Support three independent lo al outputs in luding HDMI, VGA, main and AUX
omposite video output.
• Full HD HDMI supports 1920*1080 resolution.
• Supports 1/4/6/8/9/16 s reen live view, hannel sequen e is adjustable.
• Support live view group swit h, manual swit h and automati y le, the interval of
automati y le an be adjusted. (Automati y ling refers to sequen ing)
• Supports digital zoom on live view.
• Supports shielding the assigned live view hannel.
• Supports motion dete tion, tampering alert, video ex eption alert and video loss alert.
• Supports priva y mask.
• Supports various PTZ proto ols, PTZ preset, patrol and pattern.
• Supports zoom in by li king the mouse and tra e fun tion by dragging mouse.
HDD Manage ent:
• Supports up to 8 x SATA HDDs, 8 x network HDD ( 8 x NAS disks or 7 x NAS disks
plus 1 x iSCSI disk) and ea h disk an support over 2TB apa ity.
• Supports S.M.A.R.T. te hnology.
• Supports HDD standby fun tion.
• Supports hard disk group management.
• HDD file system is ompatible with Windows. Use pre-allo ating hard disk
management te hnology and no disk defragmentation.
Recording and Playback:
• Supports y le and non- y le re ording mode.
• Supports normal and event video en oding parameters.
• Supports multiple re ording types, in luding manual, ontinuous, alarm, motion, motion
| alarm and motion & alarm re ording, and intelligent re ording.
• Supports 8 re ording time periods with separate re ording types.
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• Supports Pre-re ord and Post-re ord time for alarm, motion dete tion and intelligent
alarm, and pre-re ord time for s hedule and manual re ording.
• Supports lo k and unlo k video files.
• Supports lo al redundant re ording.
• Supports setting hard disk to read only.
• Supports video data sear h and playba k by hannel number, re ording type, time, et .
• Supports video data sear h by events su h as alarm input, motion dete tion and
intelligent alarm.
• Supports video smart sear h by motion dete tion event.
• Supports overlay intelligent analysis types on the video.
• Supports digital zoom fun tion in playba k.
• Supports pause, rewind, play fast, play slow, skip forward, and skip ba kward when
playba k, lo ating in progress bar by dragging the mouse.
• The Alien800 series supports up to 16- hannel syn hronous playba k dependent on
whether 4, 8 or 16 hannel and amera resour es used. IP ameras redu e total available.
Backup:
• Supports USB devi e ba kup.
• Supports SATA CD/DVD-R/W ba kup.
• Supports ba kup by file or by time.
• Supports ba kup devi e maintenan e and management.
• Supports video lips ba kup when in playba k mode.
Alar & Exception:
• Unified management of DVR and IP amera alarm in/out.
• Unified management of DVR alarm in/out.
• Unified management of DVR motion dete tion, view tampering and video loss.
• Supports alarm in/out arming s hedule setting.
• Supports various alarm inputs su h as hard disk full, illegal a ess, network failure, IP
onfli ts, hard disk errors, video ex eptions and video output standard mismat hes.
• Supports alarms for amera re ording, relay out, on s reen warning, audible warning,
sending Email and upload to enter, et .
• Supports auto re overy from ex eptions.
Network:
• Supports 10/100/1000M adaptive network interfa e.
• Supports TCP/IP proto ols, PPPoE, DHCP, DNS, DDNS, NTP, NFS, iSCSI and SADP.
• Supports uni ast and multi ast, TCP, UDP, and RTP for uni ast.
• Supports remote sear h, playba k, downloading video files and breakpoint resume.
• Supports remote onfiguration and remote import and export of DVR settings.
• Supports remote a quisition of devi e status, system log and alarm status.
• Supports remote button operation, remote lo king and unlo king of panel buttons.
• Supports remote format of hard disk, upgrade, reboot, shutdown and other system
maintenan e operations.
• Supports RS232 and RS485 transparent hannel transmission.
• Supports event alarm and ex eptions upload to remote management host.
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• Supports remote manual re ording.
• Supports remote manual alarm output ontrol.
• Supports JPEG image apture.
• Supports remote PTZ ontrol.
• Supports voi e talk and broad ast.
• Built-in WEB Server.
Other:
• Supports front panel, mouse, IR ontroller, spe ial keyboard operation.
• Supports multi-level user management, ea h user an have individual DVR a ess
rights.
• Powerful DVR log, in luding operation, alarm and ex eption log.
• Supports remote manual alarm output ontrol.
• Supports onfiguration information for import/export.
Product Application Diagra
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1.3 Operating your DVR
There are various methods for ontrolling your DVR in luding using the front panel
ontrols, the infra-red remote, soft keyboard or the mouse.
The ontrols on the front panel in lude:
1. Power Button: Powers DVR on/off.
2. IR Receiver: Re eiver for IR remote.
3. USB Ports: Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports for additional devi es su h as USB
mouse and USB Hard Disk Drive (HDD).
4. Status Indicators: Status indi ators for different features on the DVR.
• Alar : Alarm indi ator turns red when a sensor alarm is dete ted.
• Ready: Ready indi ator turns blue when DVR is fun tioning properly.
• Status: Status indi ator turns blue when DVR is ontrolled by an IR remote.
Indi ator turns red when ontrolled by a keyboard and purple when IR remote and
keyboard are used at the same time.
• HDD: HDD indi ator blinks red when data is being read from or written to
HDD.
• Mode : Reserved
• TX/RX: TX/RX indi tor blinks blue when network onne tion is fun tioning
properly.
• Guard: Guard indi ator turns blue when the devi e is armed, off when the
devi e is unarmed. The arm/disarm state an be initiated by pressing and holding
on the ESC button for more than 3 se onds in Preview mode.
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