Convision M1600 User manual

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1st Edition (Mar 17, 2009)
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................1
1-1 PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS ...........................................................................................................................1
1-2 MAIN FEATURES...............................................................................................................................................3
2. THE FIRST TIME START............................................................................................................................6
3. MAIN SCREEN............................................................................................................................................12
3-1 DISPLAY SCREEN STYLE.................................................................................................................................13
3-1-1 Split Styles ............................................................................................................................................14
3-1-2 Sequencer..............................................................................................................................................15
3-1-3 Event to Zoom.......................................................................................................................................15
3-1-4 Full Screen............................................................................................................................................17
3-2 PTZ CONTROL ...............................................................................................................................................18
3-3 COLOR ADJUSTMENT .....................................................................................................................................19
3-4 LIVE AUDIO VOLUME ADJUSTMENT...............................................................................................................20
3-5 CAMERA STATUS ............................................................................................................................................20
3-6ALARM INPUT STATUS ....................................................................................................................................21
3-7ALARM OUTPUT STATUS ................................................................................................................................22
3-8 HDD STATUS .................................................................................................................................................22
4. PLAYBACK..................................................................................................................................................24
4-1 SEARCH RECORDED DATA BY TIME................................................................................................................27
4-2 SEARCH RECORDED DATA BY EVENT .............................................................................................................31
4-2-1 Event Search by Time...........................................................................................................................32
4-2-2 Event Search by System........................................................................................................................35
4-2-3 Event Search by Device........................................................................................................................37
4-2-4 Event Search by POS............................................................................................................................38
4-3 PLAYBACK SCREEN STYLES ...........................................................................................................................40
4-4 PLAYBACK COLOR SETTING...........................................................................................................................43
4-5 PLAYBACK AUDIO SETTING............................................................................................................................43
4-6 PLAYBACK ACCESS MENU .............................................................................................................................44
4-6-1 Snapshot................................................................................................................................................44
4-6-2 Export Log............................................................................................................................................45
4-6-3 Backing up Video Files.........................................................................................................................47

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4-6-4 Playback Setting....................................................................................................................................53
5. SYSTEM SETTINGS...................................................................................................................................54
5-1 CAMERA SETUP..............................................................................................................................................56
5-1-1 Camera Properties.................................................................................................................................56
5-1-2 Detection...............................................................................................................................................58
5-1-3 OSD ......................................................................................................................................................60
5-1-4 Camera Color........................................................................................................................................61
5-1-5 Recording Schedule ..............................................................................................................................62
5-1-6 PTZ .......................................................................................................................................................68
5-2 DISPLAY .........................................................................................................................................................72
5-2-1 Sequencer..............................................................................................................................................72
5-2-2 Split.......................................................................................................................................................73
5-2-3 Multiplexer (Optional)..........................................................................................................................74
5-3 USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT .....................................................................................................................76
5-4ALARM...........................................................................................................................................................79
5-4-1 Add/Modify/Delete Alarm Rule............................................................................................................79
5-4-2 Alarm Device Configuration.................................................................................................................90
5-5 NETWORK ......................................................................................................................................................94
5-5-1 General..................................................................................................................................................94
5-5-2 DDNS....................................................................................................................................................97
5-5-3 Remote Control.....................................................................................................................................98
5-5-4 Network Share ......................................................................................................................................99
5-6 STORAGE......................................................................................................................................................101
5-6-1 Disk.....................................................................................................................................................101
5-6-2 Disk Recycle.......................................................................................................................................102
5-6-3 RAID Box...........................................................................................................................................102
5-7 POS .............................................................................................................................................................104
5-7-1 POS Setting.........................................................................................................................................105
5-8 SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................111
5-8-1 Time Setting........................................................................................................................................111
5-8-2 Security...............................................................................................................................................114
5-8-3 COM ...................................................................................................................................................114
5-8-4 Others-Watchdog.................................................................................................................................115
5-8-5 About...................................................................................................................................................115
6. REMOTE OPERATION............................................................................................................................116

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6-1 DOWNLOAD DVR CLIENT (DVRSETUP)........................................................................................................117
6-2 REMOTE OPERATION ....................................................................................................................................117
6-2-1 Remote Display Mode ........................................................................................................................118
6-2-2 Remote Setup......................................................................................................................................119
6-2-3 Snapshot..............................................................................................................................................121
6-2-4 Full Screen..........................................................................................................................................121
6-2-5 Remote Playback.................................................................................................................................123
6-3 REMOTE DVR LOG QUERY..........................................................................................................................126
6-4 REMOTE OPERATION LANGUAGE .................................................................................................................127
6-5 DVR PLAYER...............................................................................................................................................128
6-6 DVR REMOTE BACKUP................................................................................................................................131
6-7 REMOTE REBOOT DVR................................................................................................................................132
6-8 REMOTE UPGRADE DVR FIRMWARE............................................................................................................133
6-9 REMOTE MONITOR VIA 3G/GPRS/WI-FI MOBILE HANDSETS......................................................................135
6-9-1 Window Smartphone and Handsets.....................................................................................................135
6-9-2 Java Smartphone and Handsets...........................................................................................................140
7. APPENDIX .................................................................................................................................................150
A. HARDWARE COMPATIBLE LIST.................................................... FEHLER!TEXTMARKE NICHT DEFINIERT.
B. FAQ..........................................................................................................................................................151
C. INTERNET CONNECTION............................................................................................................................154
D. MAINTENANCE .........................................................................................................................................155
E. CUSTOMER SERVICE ................................................................... FEHLER!TEXTMARKE NICHT DEFINIERT.

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1.Introduction
1-1 Product Characteristics
Optimum Replacement for Time-lapse Recorder
Traditional Time-lapse Recorder is a mechanical device. It is very easy to break down after
long-term operation and it causes many problems such as: the overly used magnetic heads
which cause blurred image; tapes need to be changed often and manually; the recording time is
not long enough; the management of recorded tapes is complicated; inefficient when trying to
locate the needed data; recording a huge amount of useless images, etc.
This DVR system adopts digital recording technology. The quality of images will not
deteriorate with time. With its high compression rate, the storage time can last for months under
normal applications. The overwrite operation mode will overwrite the earliest data, and no more
tape change is required. Motion detection function will enable the recording only when there is
motion of the objective, and makes the system and data retrieval more efficient.
High Reliability
Normal PC digital surveillance system adopts the MS-Windows OS (Operating Systems). Such
kind of system is so often to crash. It usually makes a negative impression which digital
surveillance system is unreliable.
This DVR system adopts Embedded-Linux OS. Our advanced embedded technology condenses
the entire system into a tiny flash module, which makes the system more reliable. Even when
the power fails, the system will re-boot and return to normal operation in less than one minute.
Longer Recording Days
This DVR system adopts the advanced MPEG-4 compression to store the video images. It
allows you to record more data on the same capacity of hard disks.
Ease of Operation
Mouse clicking on the Graphical User Interface controls all the operations. No keyboard is
needed so that it is most suitable for the security guards and normal non-IT based users to use.
Multi-Function

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Function of one set of DVR system = Time-lapse Video Cassette Recorder + Multiplexer
processor + Motion Detection Processor
You can backup the data to CD-R/RW, remotely monitor the images and still recording the
current video data at the same time.
IP Surveillance
Instead of only analog camera, from V5.03, this DVR system also supports IP camera
connections to build IP surveillance systems to enjoy higher scalability, lower deployment cost,
and greater intelligence of IP surveillance compared to CCTV.
High Resolution Display and Wide Screen Support
To provide better screen quality, DVR supports 1024*768 and above high resolution and
supports 16:9 wide screen display without picture distortion. User can select best DVR display
resolution according to the monitor he uses.
64 High Channel DVR Solution
From V6.00, DVR supports max 64-channel camera connections with 32 channel analog
cameras and 32 channel IP cameras to build up 64 ch hybrid DVR system or pure 64 channel IP
cameras to build up 64 ch NVR system. With this 64 high channel camera connection capability,
customer can considerably save DVR construction cost.

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1-2 Main Features
Items Description
OS Embedded Linux
Video Inputs 8/16/24/32 channels in BNC jack
Video Outputs D type 15 Pins VGA and TV-Out (Optional)
Video Format NTSC/PAL
Audio Input/Output 8/16/24/32 channel inputs and 1 channel output
PC Interface PCI Slot
System
Multi-Tasking Yes
Frame rate Real time display
Resolution 1024*768 and above resolutions
Display Splits 4:3 monitor: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64
16:9 monitor: 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 17, 24, 36, 48, 65
Sequencer 1, 4, 16
HDD Usage Display Yes
Hidden Camera Yes
Video Loss Detection Yes
Display Password Protection Yes
Display
Color Adjustment Brightness/Contrast/Hue/Saturation for each camera
Compression MPEG 4 like Compression
Resolution NTSC: 720*480; 320*240
PAL: 720*576; 320*240
Frame rate per channel NTSC: 15fps@720*480; 30fps@320*240;
PAL: 12.5fps@720*576, 25fps@320*240
Pre-Schedule Recording By 7days x 24hours, set each hour as:
recording by events, continuously recording, non-recording
Motion detection area Define any 8x8 cell for motion detection. Free combinations of detected
areas. No limitation on the number of detection areas.
Motion detection sensitivity 10 ranges per camera
Smart Motion Recording
Automatically adjust recording frame rate according to motion
occurring to save HDD space. (Low frame rate recording w/o motion
occurring and high frame rate recording with motion occurring)
Recording
Pre-Recording 0~20 sec

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Post-Recording 0~600 sec
Watermark Yes
Date Code Recording includes time/date information.
To prevent date code from being modified
Playback channels Max 16 channel Sync playback
Playback mode Play, Pause, frame by frame play, fast forward, fast backward
Video Enhancement De-interlace, Sharpen
Search Search by time, date and event.
Playback
Image Adjustment Brightness/Contrast
Internet/PSTN/LAN by Ethernet/ Modem
Networking Static IP, PPPoE, DDNS, DHCP
3G/GPRS/Wi-Fi Remote monitoring
Remote monitoring via JPEG or MPEG 4 streaming.
Max. 16 clients access simultaneously
Max. 16 ch sync playback
Remote playback
Web Viewer
Remote backup
Max. 64 DVR connections with 1024 Ch
Remote monitoring
Remote playback
Remote backup (One time backup or periodical backup)
Central Management System
E-MAP
Max 200 DVR connections
Remote DVR Health Check
Control Center
Remote Time Sync.
Remote
Functions
Remote Backup by Windows Network Neighborhood
Inputs 4/8/12/16/24/32 NC/NO inputs
Outputs 4/8/12/16/24/32 NC/NO relay outputs
IO & Camera Relations 1-1, 1-many, many-1, many-many
Alarm Behavior Alarm to Zoom, Alarm to recording, Alarm to Notice (
b
y Email / FTP /
SMS), Alarm to DO output
Alarm
Tamper Protection Camera covering/spray detection
Storage & HDD Interface Support IDE & SATA HDDs with Max 24TB

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RAID support *Support IDE/SCSI RAID
*Support RAID 0~5, RAID event notification & RAID configuration
Backup USB/ IDE burning device (CD-R/RW, DVD±R/RW); USB storage (Pen
Drive, HDD)
Backup
HDD SMART Diagnostics Yes
128 user accounts
Multiple levels user authority (Admin/Supervisor/User)
Password protection
Password expiry management
PTZ camera support Yes
Power Down Management Yes. Auto-recovery when power back
Watchdog Yes Hardware Watchdog.
Time Zone/Daylight Saving Yes
AVI Format Export Yes
Time Sync Support Time Server, FM and RTC Time Sync
POS Support POS integration.
Other
UI Language
9 languages in single software: English, French, German, Japanese,
Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Traditional Chinese and Simplified
Chinese.
* Specifications subject to change without notice

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2.The First Time Start
When starting DVR for the first time, you should have following configurations,
Function Description
1 Start DVR Quick access to DVR main screen. If you don’t click this button,
DVR will automatically go into Main screen after 5 seconds
2 Play Recorded Video Playback only. Quick access to playback mode.
3 Disk Tool
Tools for HDD storage device including Scan Disk, S.M.A.R.T
Diagnostic, Disk manager to assign camera to HDD and RAID
configuration.
4 System Tool Reset Configuration
5 Select Language Select preferred language (Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese,
French, German, Portuguese, Dutch and Spanish)
6 Camera Signal Switch DVR to NTSC or PAL mode according to camera signal type
7 Display Resolution Select the best display resolution among the resolutions that monitor
supports
8 Power Off To turn off the DVR

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zSelect Language
This DVR system supports eight kinds of languages that including Traditional Chinese, English,
Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch and Spanish. You can select your preferred
display language before starting DVR system.
zSelect Camera Signal
Before you enter DVR monitor screen, you should select correct camera signal, NTSC or PAL
according to the cameras connected to the DVR. Please be noted that incorrect camera signal
will cause abnormal image format.
zSelect Display Resolution
To provide better display screen quality, this DVR system supports multiple display resolutions.
DVR will automatically detect the resolutions that monitor supports and list them in the menu.
We suggest to select the highest resolution listed in the menu.
zDisk Tool-Format HDD
If DVR is not equipped with an install ARECA internal RAID Box, wait 5 seconds for time out
and then the system will detect new hard disks and ask if you want to format hard disk.
Click “OK” to start formatting. Follow the on-screen instruction to continue.

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Click “Setup” to see the figure below.
Click “Finish” to complete the setting and the system will restart automatically.
zDisk Tool-RAID Box Configuration
If DVR is equipped with ARECA RAID Box, you should have RAID configuration before you
start to assign camera to disk in “ DISK Manger” of “ Main Menu”.
(1) Step 1: Go to Main Menu>Disk Tool>RAID Box Configure

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(2) Step 2: Select RAID Model & COM Port
Please Select “ARECA AREC5030” as RAID Model and select “USB COM 1” as COM
Port interface to sent RAID alarm message to DVR.
(3) Step 3: Authentication
The default password is “0000”.
(4) Step 4: Select RAID/JBOD mode
Because ARECA 5030 RAID Box is SATA interface with host, please select RAID mode.
JBOD is for IDE interface.
(5) Step 5: Select RAID mode
Please assign each disk (Channel) as “ Hot Spare” or “RAID” disk.

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!
Note
1. RAID and Hot spare can’t be selected in the same channel (HDD).
2. Only one hot spare HDD can be selected.
3. It’s meaningless to select Hot spare in RAID Level 0
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(6) Step 6: Select RAID Level
New M-series support RAID 0~5 levels. Below please see the comparison between RAID
0, 0+1, 3 and 5. With properly configured, the RAID can provide non-stop service with
high degree of fault tolerance. The RAID function allows two HDD failures without
impact on the existing data stored in the HDD and failed drive data can be reconstructed
from the remaining data and parity drives. Please have the proper configuration according
to your requirement.
RAID
Level
Description Min
Drives
Max.
Drives
Data Reliability
0
zAlso known as stripping.
zData distributed across multiple drives in
the array.
zThere is no data protection
1 5
No data protection
1
zAlso known as mirroring
zAll data replicated on N separated disk. N
is always 2.
zThere is a high availability solution but
due to the 100% duplication, it is also a
costly solution.
2 2
High than RAID 3, 5.
3
zAlso known Bit-Interleaved parity.
zData and parity information is subdivided
and distributed across all disk.
3 5
*Lower than RAID 1.
*High than a single
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zParity must be the equal to the smallest
disk capacity in the array.
zParity information normally stored on a
dedicated parity disk.
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zAlso known Block-Interleaved Distributed
Parity.
zData and parity information is subdivided
and distributed across all disk. Parity must
b
e the equal to the smallest disk capacity
in the array.
zParity information normally stored on a
dedicated parity disk.
3 5
*Lower than RAID 1
*Higher than a signal
drive.
(7) Step 7: Select capacity and stripe size
“ Available Capacity” means the max capacity that can be used in the RAID disk. You can
select how much disk space that you want to use. The RAID box provides the options of
Strip size that you use.
(8) Step 8: Initialization
The final step is initializing the RAID Box. There are two modes for selection-Foreground
and Background. Foreground means disk can be used after finishing the RAID
configuration. Background means disk can be used during executing RAID configuration.

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3.Main Screen

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The controls in the main screen including:
3-1 Display Screen Style
If “Monitor Password Protection” function is enabled (Please refer to Chapter 5-3 User
Account Management and Chapter 5-8-2 Security), the system will request you to enter User
name and Password before seeing the live monitor. Click the Access button on the bottom
right of main screen and it will show the DVR Access Menu as below,
Function Description
1 Display Screen Style List “Full Screen”, “Event to Zoom”, “Sequencer” and
multiple “Display Split” styles.
2 PTZ Control List PTZ Control Menu
3 Color Adjustment List four color parameters including Contrast, Brightness,
Chroma and Saturation
4 Audio Volume Setting Adjust live audio volume
5 Control Window Control Window for “Display Screen Style”, “PTZ Control,
“Color Adjustment” & “Audio Volume” function
6 Camera List List all of DVR channels and each camera status
7 Alarm Input List all of alarm input devices and status of each alarm
device.
8 Alarm Output List all of alarm output devices and status of each alarm
device.
9 HDD Status Display HDD status
10 Status Window Camera, Alarm Input, Alarm Output HDD Status Window
11 Date/Time Display current date and time
12 Access Menu List Access functions including “ Playback”, “ Setup” and
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Click “Login” tab and enter username and password to login to DVR monitor screen.
When you click “Display Screen” , it will show four major screen styles including “ Full
Screen”, “Event to Zoom”, “Sequencer” and “Split Style” in the Control window. You just click
any screen option in the Control Window to switch to the screen style you want.
3-1-1 Split Styles
This DVR system supports two types of split styles according to the monitor you install. For the
4:3 monitor, it will support 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 25, 36, 49 and 64-split styles. For the 16:9
wide screen, it will support 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 17, 24, 33, 36, 48 and 65-split styles. The split styles
that DVR supports will be listed in the Control Window. You just need to click on any split style
in the Control Window and the screen will switch to the split style you select. You can also click
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any channel to enlarge the screen picture by two steps and click it again to back to the original
split style. The order of cameras displayed on each split style can be configured in the system
setting menu.
3-1-2 Sequencer
This DVR provides three types of sequencer styles including 1, 4 and 16. Just click one of the
Sequence styles and it will display camera screen in sequence. You can set up the “Sequencer
Order” and the “Sequencer Duration” in the “Display Setting” menu. Please refer to the Chapter
5-2-1 Sequencer.
3-1-3 Event to Zoom
There are two types of Events to trigger camera zooming. One is Motion event and the other
one is Alarm event.
If you want to enable this function, firstly you should go to Setup> “Alarm” menu to set up
“Motion to Zoom” or “Alarm (DI) to Zoom” Rule. Please refer to “Chapter 5-4 Alarm”.
Click Event to Zoom icon in the Control Window to switch to “Event to Zoom” display
style.
3-1-3-1 Rule of Event Zooming
(1). When the DVR detects motion or alarm on the channel set with Motion to Zoom or Event to
Zoom, it will immediately pop up this channel picture to the “Zoom-in Window” and the
original position of that channel will be replaced with a “ Motion/Alarm” legend and marked
with a red frame.
Any channel without set with “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function will not be popped up to the
“Zoom-in Window” or marked in red frame even DVR detects motion or alarm in this channel.
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continually displayed in “Zoom-in Window”. If yes, the zooming channel will keep displaying
in “Zoom-in Window” for three seconds and then, will be replaced by any channel waiting for
zooming. If DVR detects more than one motion or alarm channels simultaneously, the zooming
rule will be as below,
zThe current zooming channel will be the first priority for zooming in again for another
three seconds and others will stay in their positions and be marked in red frames to wait for
zooming in after three seconds. However, the max zooming time for the same channel is
nine seconds. After nine seconds, even DVR detects motion or alarm on this channel, it
will not be popped up to the Zoom-in Window again until there are no other concurrent
motion/alarm channels and other channels with motion/alarm will replace it to be popped
up in Zoom-in Window according this rule.
zIf the channel stayed in it’s position waits for popping up but motion/alarm on this channel
disappears during the waiting time, it will not be zoomed in and the red frame marked in
this channel will disappear.
zIf DVR doesn’t detect the current zooming channel with motion or alarm again, the first
priority of the zooming-in channel in waiting list is the one of which channel number is the
smallest. For example, if DVR detects concurrent motions or alarms on channel #3 and
channel #4, the channel #3 will be zoomed in to the Zoom-in Window firstly for three
seconds and the channel #7 marked in red frame will keep to stay in it’s position waiting
for zooming in after three seconds.
3-1-3-2 Zoom in a Specific Channel
If you want to focus on a specific channel, you can set up just to zoom in that channel. In the
Event-to-Zoom mode, click any channel you only want to zoom in and this channel will be
popped up to the Zoom-in Window immediately marked in yellow color frame and the original
position of this channel will be replaced by a “locked picture” legend. In this configuration,
even DVR detects other channels with motions or alarms, these channels will not be popped up
to the Zoom-in Window but just stay in their positions marked in red color frames. You can
click the Zoom-in Window to cancel the configuration of “Zooming in a Specific Channel”.