Comelit Smart Series User manual

NVR_XVR
Smart series
User Manual
Please read this manual thoroughly before use and keep it for future
reference

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Photographs, graphics, charts, and illustrations provided in the manual are for explanation and illustration
purposes only, and may differ from specific products.
Safety Precautions
CAUTION
Please do not place and install equipment directly under the sunlight or near heating device.
Please do not install equipment at moist place or place with dust or soot.
Please keep equipment installed horizontally, or install equipment in a stable place, avoid the
equipment falling down.
Please avoid liquid dropping on the equipment, make sure no objects filled (eg cups) with liquid on
the equipment and prevent liquid from leaking.
Please install the device in a well-ventilated place, do not block the vents of the equipment.
Please only use equipment within rated input/output.
Please do not disassemble at liberty.
Please transport, use and reserve the equipment within allowing humidity(10%~90%) and
temperature(-10℃~+55℃).
When cleaning the device, unplug the power cord and completely shut off the power.
The dust on the circuit board inside the NVR may cause a short circuit after being exposed to
moisture. Regularly clean the circuit board, connectors, chassis, and chassis fan with a soft brush.
If dirt is difficult to remove, wipe it off with a neutral detergent diluted in water and wipe it dry.
Do not use volatile solvents such as alcohol, benzene, or thinner when cleaning the device. Do not
use strong or abrasive cleaning agents. This can damage the surface coating.
Please purchase the NVR dedicated hard drive recommended by the equipment manufacturer from
the formal channels to ensure the quality and usage requirements of the hard drive.
Make sure that there is no threat due to uneven mechanical load.
Make sure that the video and audio cables have enough controls to install the cable. The bend
radius of the cable should not be less than 5 times the cable diameter.
Make sure that the alarm cable is firmly installed and the contact is good.
Make sure that the NVR is reliably grounded.
WARNING
Please do use the battery as requested, or it may lead to a battery fire, explosion or risk of burning!
Please use the same type of battery when changing it.
Please do use recommended cord sets (power cords), do use within the rated specifications.
If you connect the product to the Internet at your own risk, including but not limited to products that
may be subject to cyber-attacks, hacking attacks, virus infections, etc., the company will not be
responsible for product abnormality, information leakage, etc., but the company will timely to
provide you with product-related technical support.
NOTE
After receiving the product, please open the packing box, take out the equipment, and confirm the
packing product and accessories according to the packing list in the box.
If you find any damage to the contents of the box or any missing parts, please contact your dealer
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Contents
Chapter 1 Outline and Feature......................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Default................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Function Features................................................................................................................ 3
Chapter 2 Appearance....................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 The Front Panel ................................................................................................................... 6
2.1.1 The Front Panel........................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Rear Panel............................................................................................................................ 6
2.2.1 General equipment rear panel introduction........................................................... 6
2.2.2 Built-in PoE device rear panel introduction........................................................... 7
2.3 Mouse Description............................................................................................................... 8
2.4 Input Method Introduction................................................................................................... 9
Chapter 3 Connection...................................................................................................................... 10
3.1 Hard Disk Installation ........................................................................................................ 10
3.2 Device Connection............................................................................................................. 10
Chapter 4 Start-up............................................................................................................................ 12
4.1 System Initialization........................................................................................................... 12
4.2 Boot wizard......................................................................................................................... 12
4.2.1 Quick Start-up Wizard............................................................................................ 12
4.2.2 Forget Password..................................................................................................... 18
4.3 Preview Interface............................................................................................................... 22
4.4 Quick add device ............................................................................................................... 23
4.5 Channel shortcut menu..................................................................................................... 25
4.5.1 PTZ........................................................................................................................... 26
4.5.2 Image ....................................................................................................................... 28
Chapter 5 NVR Menu ...................................................................................................................... 31
5.1 Shortcut menu.................................................................................................................... 31
5.1.1 Alarm Status............................................................................................................ 32
5.1.2 System Info.............................................................................................................. 33
5.1.3 Poll............................................................................................................................ 34
5.2 Main Menu.......................................................................................................................... 35
5.3 Operation............................................................................................................................ 37
5.3.1Preview...................................................................................................................... 37
5.3.2 Playback .................................................................................................................. 37
5.3.3 File Management.................................................................................................... 45
5.3.4 Channel.................................................................................................................... 49
5.3.5 Storage..................................................................................................................... 70
5.3.7 System..................................................................................................................... 75
5.3.8 Maintenance.......................................................................................................... 119
5.3.9 Alarm Information.................................................................................................. 131
5.3.10 Backup Process.................................................................................................. 133
5.3.11 Shutdown............................................................................................................. 134

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Chapter 1 Outline and Feature
1.1 Default
The factory default administrator User is admin and the password is admin
The factory default for network is DHCP
1.2 Function Features
H.264 videos condense format, support 4K/6M/5M/4M/3M/2M/1080P
/720P/D1 resolution ( depends of the different model)
G.711U, G711a, ADPCM_DVI4, AAC audio condense format.
Support voice call function.
Each channel supports three-stream encoding, including MJPEG stream.
Windows-style user interface embedded real-time Linux3.0 operating system.
Support independent adjustment of coding parameters for each channel, including
coding type, resolution, frame rate, and bit rate.
Support manual capture and image playback.
Support preview, recording, play back, backup.
NVR Support the dual-screen preview, and PoE, Crossover detection, regional
intrusion,people stay detection, people gathering whichever is the case.
USB2.0 or 3.0 support the backup ,software upgrading & mouse operating. The device
only support the FAT32 and NTFS format USB disk.
XVR Support theAHD, TVI, CIV, CVBS , IPC input (Hybrid ,5 in 1)
Local monitoring
The local monitoring features are listed below:
Supports local VGA and HD homologous output, and HD supports up to 4K resolution
output.
4-channel NVR support 1 / 4 screen preview, 8-channel NVR support 1 / 4 / 8 screen
preview, 16 channel NVR support 1 / 4 / 8 / 9 / 16 screen preview, 32-channel NVR
support 1 / 4 / 8 / 9 / 16 / 25 / 32 screen preview.
Support adjust the preview channel order by drag the mouse.
Support preview manually or auto-tour preview, automatic polling cycle can be set.
Supports video motion detection, video loss detection and intelligent detection.
Achieve IP PTZ camera control through the ONVIF protocol.
Hard disk management
Hard disk management features as below:
Each SATA interface support up to 8T hard drive.
Support hard disk formatting.
Supports hard disk loss and hard disk abnormal alarm.
Video Record and Playback
Video record and playback features as below:
Video compression standard is H.264 / H.264+ / H.265 / H.265+, with timed recording
function.
Support for setting up recording schedules using drawing and editing methods.
Support the main, sub-stream recording at the same time.
Support cyclic writing.

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Maximum 6 recording time can be set in each day, and the recording trigger mode can
be set independently for different time periods.
Recording trigger modes include Normal, Motion, Alarm, M&A, Intelligent.
Support video data retrieval and playback through channel, video type, and the date.
Multiple playback modes: Play / Pause, Reverse, Stop, Single Back, Single Forward,
Speed Down, Speed Up, support for mouse drag positioning.
You can select any area of the screen to zoom in locally.
Support multi-channel simultaneous playback of video.
User Management
Three-level authority user management, administrators can create multiple operation
users and set their rights, rights can be refined to the channel.
Data backup
Data backup features as below:
Support backup via USB2.0 or USB3.0 interface.
Support U disk or mobile hard disk in FAT32, NTFS, ex-FAT and other formats.
Support batch backup by file and time.
Support for Smart CMS clip-by-clip backups.
Support web page to clip and download video files by time.
Alarm and exception management
Alarm and exception management features as below:
Some models support multi-channel external alarm input and output.
Support video loss alarm, motion alarm, network disconnection alarm, IP conflict
alarm, hard disk error and no disk alarm.
Support our smart IPC face detection, Crossover, Regional intrusion, people stay,
people gathering and other intelligent detection access and linkage.
Various alarms can trigger buzzing alarm, sending mail and screen display.
Various alarms can trigger pop-up alarm prompts, voice warnings, and send emails to
notify users.
Other Local Functions
Other Local functions features as below:
Users can quickly and easily set the system parameters by NVR buttons frontal, USB
mouse.
Administrator can create multi-user and set permissions, which can be refined to the
channel.
Complete operations, alarms, exceptions, and information logging and retrieval.
Some models support local alarms and upgrade front-end features.
Support gesture password function.
Network Function.
Network function features as below:
support 10M /100M/ 1000M adaptive network interface.( depends different model )
Support remote client privileged access, improve system security.
Support TCP / IP protocol cluster, support DHCP, DNS, HTP, SMTP, RTSP, UPnP,
HTTPS and other protocols.
Embedded WEB SERVER.
Support remote search, playback, download.
Support remote access and configure parameters.
Support remote access to equipment running status, system log and alarm status.

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Support remote formatted hard disk, upgrade program, restart and other operations for
system maintenance.
Support remote manual trigger & stop recording.
Support remote manual trigger & stop alarm output.
Support alarm pushes function.
Support remote FTP server configuration.
Support remote PTZ control.
Support for Comelit View Smart App.
Support ONVIF protocol access to platform.

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Chapter 2 Appearance
2.1 The Front Panel
2.1.1 The Front Panel
(For informational purposes only, subject to object)
Figure 2-1
The panel diagram does not reflect the product size and ratio. Please refer to the
actual product for details.
2.2 Rear Panel
2.2.1 General equipment rear panel introduction
The schematic diagram of the rear panel of the common equipment is as follows:
No.
Name
Description
1
Switch
Turn on / off the device
2
Hard disk indicator
Shows whether the hard drive is connected properly
3
Power Indicator
The device is powered on normally
4
Network Indicator
Shows whether the device is properly connected to
the network
5
USB2.0
Connect mouse or USB memory stick backup

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Figure 2-2
The corresponding description of each interface in Figure 2-2 is shown in the following table:
No.
Name
Description
1
Ethernet port 1/2
Connect Network
2
Audio output
Equipment audio output interface
3
Audio Input
Equipment audio input interface
4
HD Video
Output 2
Connect HD display devices such as computer monitors
5
VGA
Connect VGA display devices such as computer monitors
6
HD Video
Output 1
Connect HD display devices such as computer monitors
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USB3.0
Connect the mouse or U disk backup
8
eSATA
External hard drive interface
9
Ground 485
Alarm when equipment is grounded
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Alarm Output
Equipment alarm output interface
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Alarm Input
Equipment alarm input interface
12
Power toggle
switch
115V/230V Switch
13
Power
Connector
Device power connector
14
Switch
Equipment switch
Table 2-1
2.2.2 Built-in PoE device rear panel introduction
The schematic diagram of the rear panel of the built-in PoE device is as follows:
Figure 2-3
The corresponding description of each interface in Figure 2-3 is shown in the following table:
No.
Interface
Connection NOTE
1
HD Video
Output
Connect HD display devices such as computer monitors

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2
VGA
Connect VGA display devices such as computer monitors
3
Audio Input
Equipment audio input interface
4
Audio output
Equipment audio output interface
5
PoE network
port
Connect IP devices and power IP devices and networks
6
Ethernet port
Connect Network
7
USB port
Connect the mouse, U disk or removable hard disk
8
Power
Connector
Device power connector
NOTE
The panel diagram does not reflect the product size and ratio. Please refer to the
actual product for details.
2.3 Mouse Description
Operate NVR through mouse left button, right button & scroll wheel．
Mouse actions
Function
Click left mouse
button
1. Select one of the options
2. Insertion cursor, enter or modify the value of a parameter
3.During playback, click the timeline to switch the playback
progress.
Click right mouse
button
1. When interface not locking, click right mouse button, system
menu pops up
2. When interface locking, click right button on real-time preview
interface, login interface pop up
3.Click the right mouse button on the submenu, return to the
previous menu
Double-click the
mouse left button
In the preview and playback state, switch between single screen
and multi screen.
Mouse drag
1. In the pan/tilt control state, the direction is rotated.
2. In the video occlusion alarm and motion detection alarm area
settings, set the area range.
3. Drag the area of the electronic zoom.
4. In the preview interface, select a channel and press and drag to
switch to other channel locations.
5. When playing back the video, drag the progress bar to switch
the video file to be played.
Slide mouse scroll
wheel
1.Time setting
2.Select the drop-down menu values
3.When previewing, you can switch the preview channel.
4.When zooming in electronically, you can zoom in and out of the
video image.

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2.4 Input Method Introduction
Input method includes lowercase and uppercase English letters. Clicking " " button on
the left can switch the input method and the symbol " " represents deleting incorrect
input, as shown in Figure 2-4 and Figure 2-5.
Figure 2-4 Uppercase English input
Figure 2-5 Lowercase English input

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Chapter 3 Connection
3.1 Hard Disk Installation
CAUTION
Before installation, please confirm that the power has been disconnected.
Please use the NVR dedicated monitor hard drive recommended by the device
manufacturer.
Installation tools
A Phillips screwdriver
Hard disk installation
The hard disk is installed as shown in Figure 3-1.
(1) Loosen the fixing screw on the cover, open the cover.
(2) Connect one end of the hard disk data cable and power cable to the motherboard, and
connect the other end to the hard disk.
(3) Hold the hard disk with hand, turn over the chassis, and fix the hard disk with screw at
the indicated position.
(4) Turn over the chassis, fix the cover with screw.
(1) (2)
(3) (4)
Figure 3-1
3.2 Device Connection

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Use VGA cable or HD cable to transmit the NVR signal to the display. If it is a controllable
PTZ, use wire to connect RS485A cable and RS485 B cable to the corresponding RS485
interface on NVR, as show in Figure3-2.
Figure3-2
CAUTION
Devices with built-in PoE network ports support IPC plug-and-play functionality. When
adding IP devices using the PoE network port plug-and-play method, make sure that
the IP devices also support the PoE standard

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Chapter 4 Start-up
4.1 System Initialization
The steps to turn on the device are as follows:
○
1 Connect the device to the monitor and plug in the mouse and power cord.
○
2 Turn on the power switch on the rear panel to start the device. The system initialization
screen appears, as shown in Figure 4-1.
Figure 4-1
CAUTION
Please confirm that the voltage to be connected matches the NVR requirements and
ensure that the NVR ground is well grounded.
If the power supply is abnormal, the NVR may not work properly or even damage the
NVR. It is recommended to use a regulated power supply for power supply.
NOTE
After the device starts up, it can be simply configured through the boot wizard, which is
the normal operation of the device.
4.2 Boot wizard
4.2.1 Quick Start-up Wizard
Quickly configuration the NVR as shown in Figure 4-2:
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1 Select the system language and click "Apply" .

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Figure 4-2 ○ 1
○
2 Then select a user, enter the password, select the system language and click "Login" to
login the system (the default username is admin, password is admin).
Figure 4-2 ○ 2
○
3 When the login password is too simple, a security password prompt will pop up. Click
"Modify ".

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Figure 4-2 ○ 3
○
4 Click the "New password" box, enter a new password, confirm the new password, select
the security question, enter the corresponding answer, click "Save"; insert a USB flash drive
on the device, and click "Export Key".

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Figure 4-2 ○ 4
Unlock Pattern: Check "Unlock Pattern", draw the unlock pattern of at least 4 points twice
with the mouse to complete the unlock pattern setting.
○
5 Go to the "Date and Time" interface, configure the Device date and time, and click
"Next".

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Figure 4-2 ○ 5
○
6 Go to the "Network" interface, configure the network parameters of the device. Click
"Next".
Figure 4-2 ○ 6
○
7 Go to the "Hard Disk" interface, you can connect the hard disk usage status: When the
status shows "In Use", please click "Next".
When the status shows "not mounted", select the hard disk, click "Format → Confirm", the
device restarts, and the hard disk is formatted.

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Figure 4-2 ○ 7
○
8 Go to the "Camera" interface, you can search for and add devices and click "Next".
Figure 4-2 ○ 8
○
9 Go to the "Change Password" interface, setting system password and security questions
according to your actual needs,, click "Complete", the boot wizard is set up.

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Figure 4-2 ○ 9
NOTE
On the startup wizard screen, click "Exit→Confirm" to exit the startup wizard.
In the Date and Time setting interface, uncheck "Enable Wizard", the system will no
longer display the "Boot Wizard" interface after the next boot.
When the password is too simple, after the login, a password strength security
interface will pop up. You can click "Modify later" to continue using the existing
password.
Any interface of the boot wizard, if you do not need to modify it, please click "Next" to
enter the next interface directly.
Please confirm that the NVR device has been properly connected to the network
before setting up the network parameters.
The hard disk needs to be formatted when it is first installed on the device.
4.2.2 Forget Password
If you forget your password, you can click "Forget password" on the login page to enter the
Forget Password interface to reset the password (as shown in Figure 4-3). There are three
ways to reset the password: "Answer the question", "Import Key" and "Dynamic Password".

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Figure 4-3
Answer The Question: Select the three security questions when setting the password
and enter the answer to the corresponding question, click "Next Step" to enter the new
password setting interface, as shown in Figure 4-4.