HIK VISION DS-1000KI User manual

DS-1000KI Network Keyboard
User Manual
(Version 1.2.2)

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Index
Chapter1 Features of DS-1000KI ..................................................... 3
1.1 Main Features.................................................................................................................3
1.2 Sketch of DS-1000KI .....................................................................................................5
1.3 Rear Board Description ..................................................................................................7
1.4 Keyboard Connection.....................................................................................................8
Chapter2 Keyboard Operation......................................................... 9
2.1 Enter into keyboard system.............................................................................................9
2.2 Keyboard Configuration ...............................................................................................11
2.2.1 System Configuration................................................................................................................. 11
2.2.2 User Configuration..................................................................................................................... 14
2.2.3 Defense Configuration............................................................................................................. 20
2.3 Control DVR................................................................................................................22
2.3.1 Login DVR................................................................................................................................ 22
2.3.2 DVR Configuration.................................................................................................................... 24
2.3.2 Video playback .......................................................................................................................... 25
2.3.3 Manual Video Recording............................................................................................................ 27
2.3.4 PTZ control................................................................................................................................ 28
2.3.5 Preview...................................................................................................................................... 30
2.3.6 Alarm handling.......................................................................................................................... 31
2.4 Other Information.........................................................................................................33
2.4.1 Keyboard lock............................................................................................................................ 33
2.5 Upgrade Keyboard Firmware........................................................................................34
2.5.1 FTP Server Setup ....................................................................................................................... 34
2.5.2 Upgrade Firmware ..................................................................................................................... 37
Appendix A: Specification................................................................. 38
Appendix B: Troubleshooting .......................................................... 39
Appendix C: Notes.............................................................................. 40

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Chapter1 Features of DS-1000KI
1.1 Main Features
Support DVR cascade. One DS-1000KI keyboard can maximum control 99
DVR units via network. If you use RS485 bus mode, one keyboard can
maximum control 32 DVR units.
DS-1000KI Keyboard has two liquid crystal screens with the left one showing
the controlling and configuring menu respectively. Press the key 【Menu】for
less than 2 seconds and enter into the controlling menu, while press【Menu】for
more than 2 seconds and enter into the keyboard configuring menu. The right
one shows the information including the user information, the present login
state, alarm information etc.
DS-1000KI has two communication modes: Network mode and RS485 bus
mode. You can use either of them to control DVR.
DS-1000KI keyboard users are divided into administrator and operator.
Administrator can operate both the controlling and configuring menu while the
operator can only operate the controlling menu.
DS-1000KI has the function to lock keyboard. Press【 】key to lock the
keyboard, and only input the correct password to unlock it.
DS-1000KI controlling menu can carry out DVR configuration, video playback,
manual record, PTZ control, DVR local preview and other functions. Both the
administrator and operator can control them.
DS-1000KI configuring menu can set up keyboard IP address, user ID number,
keyboard communication mode, keyboard password management etc. This part
is only controlled by the administrator.
DS-1000KI can control the different DVR units. Before operating DVR, enter
the configuring menu, in the “SysCfg”menu, select the keyboard control mode
(either network mode or RS485 bus mode). In the “UserCfg”menu, create one
new user, input the user ID, then input the information of the DVR including
DVR user name, password, DEV ID, DVR IP etc. After setting up the user
information, press the key【ID】and input the correct user ID, you can login and
operate the corresponding DVR.
DS-1000KI network keyboard is equipped with the joystick. You can use it to
control PTZ easily.
DS-1000KI network keyboard could receive the alarm information of DVR.
Before being permitted, it should set up to receive the alarm. In the alarm
configuration of the keyboard configuring menu, set up the information on
permitting to receive the alarm. Then, by choosing the alarm handling in the
keyboard controlling menu: set “Arm”to receive the alarm; set “Disarm”not to
receive the alarm. Meanwhile, the keyboard can receive the alarm information

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of 10 DVR at most.
DS-1000KI network keyboard has four alarm outputs and can set up or clear the alarm
output by operating the alarm handling in the controlling menu.
Note: If you use DS-1000KI network keyboard to control DS-8000 series DVR, the
firmware of DVR must be version1.4 above.

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1.2 Sketch of DS-1000KI
Fig 1.1.1
1------ Menu area: Show the keyboard menu;
2------【Menu】: Menu key. Press it more than 2 seconds, the menu area will display the
keyboard menu, otherwise the menu area will display the controlling menu;
3------ Information Display area: Display the input information, communication mode, DVR
information, alarm information, etc.
4------【ID】: The user code name. Use it to select DVR to control.
5------【Zoom】: Zoom function in PTZ control mode.
6------【Focus】: Focus function in PTZ control mode.
7------【Iris】: Iris function in PTZ control mode.
8------ Joystick: Control Pan/Tilt in PTZ control mode.
9------【】: The key to choose the left keyboard menu.
10-----【】: The key to choose the right keyboard menu.
11----【Cam】: Camera ID number (Corresponding the DVR channel number).
12----【0】~【9】: Number and character keys.
13----【Enter】: Confirmation key.
14----【Mon】: Monitor ID key (Reserved).
15---- Lamps: Ready，Status，Link，Tx/Rx，Com，Alarm，Power.
16----【Del】: Delete key.
17----【*】: Input key to choose uppercase character, lowercase character or number.

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18----【Shot】: The key to adjust the PTZ preset.
19----【Freeze】: Reserved.
20----【▲】: Page Up key in the information display area. When you input IP address, you can
use it as delete key.
21----【▼】: Page Down key in the information area. When you input IP address, you can use it
as space key.
22----【 】: Keyboard lock key.

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1.3 Rear Board Description
Fig 1.2.1
1------ Dial Switches. The factory default values are “on on off off off off off off
(11000000)”.
From the picture we can see the dial switch consists of 8 sub-switches. Now the function of
each sub-switch is following:
Switch 1: When in “on”, PORT A full-duplex 485 is changed into half-duplex 485. It
must be used together with Switch 2.
Switch 2: When in “on”, PORT A full-duplex 485 is changed into half-duplex 485. It
must be uses together with Switch 1.
Switch 3: When in “on”, PORTA R+, R- add the matching resistance of 120Ω.
Switch 4: When in “on”, PORTA T+, T- add the matching resistance of 120Ω.
Switch 5: When in “on”, PORT B D+, D- add the matching resistance of 120Ω
Switch 6: “off”. Reserved.
Switch 7: “off”. Reserved.
Switch 8: “off”. Reserved.
2------ RS485 BUS PORT A ( full-duplex mode SW = 00000000, half-duplex mode SW =
11000000), connecting with KEYBOARD port of DVR.
3------ RS485 BUS PORT B.
4------ RS232 Interface (RJ45).
5------ Network Interface (RJ45).
6------ Alarm output interface.
4 kinds of switches (dry nodes) will output the alarm information. With A and B as a group,
they will turn off when there is an alarm. Otherwise, they will turn on.
7------ 5V DC Socket.

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1.4 Keyboard Connection
1.4.1 Network connection
If you use keyboard network work mode, just use one network cable to connect keyboard UTP
port with network switch or hub. In keyboard “SysCfg”menu, setup one IP address for the keyboard
and select “Net”mode. Please refer to chapter2.2 for detail configuration.
1.4.2 RS-485 connection
If you use keyboard RS-485 bus work bus. On the keyboard rear panel, Port A has R+, R- pins.
On DVR rear panel, there are two RJ45 keyboard interface. You can select one to connect keyboard,
and the other one for DVR cascade. The DVR RJ45 pin definition is following:
DVR keyboard RJ45 interface
Pin definition
To make the connect cable according the follows. As to left point of RJ45 head, 1st and 2nd
cables are the anode and cathode line for sending, 3rd and 4th cables are the anode and cathode line
for receiving, 7 is the shared grounding line:
You can connect DS-1000KI Port A R+ R- pins with DVR keyboard interface Pin3 and Pin4,
shown as following:
DS-1000KI
DVR KB
In keyboard “SysCfg”menu, select “Bus”control mode.
R+
R-
Port A
T+ (Pin1)
T- (Pin2)
R+ (Pin3)
R- (Pin4)

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Chapter2 Keyboard Operation
2.1 Enter into keyboard system
When DS-1000KI network keyboard is in power, the menu screen will show the
following information:
Fig 2.1.1
When “Password”appears on the information screen, input the password (The
default administrator password of DS-1000KI keyboard is 111 and the common
password is 222) and enter into the system operation by pressing the key【Enter】, as
shown following:

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Fig 2.1.2
Note: DS-1000KI keyboard can control DVR by either network mode or RS485 bus
mode. Here we just describe the usage of network mode. It is the same for RS485 bus
mode.

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2.2 Keyboard Configuration
Before controlling DVR, you should first configure DS-1000KI net keyboard
including system configuration, user configuration and defense configuration. Press the
key【Menu】for more than 2 seconds, you will enter into the keyboard configuration (the
administrator password is needed to login), as shown in Fig 2.1.1
Fig 2.2.1 Keyboard Configuration
2.2.1 System Configuration
After entering into the configuration interface, we could see three corresponding
menu items named “SysCfg”(Keyboard System Configuration), “UserCfg”(User
Configuration) and “ArmCfg”(Defense Configuration) on the menu screen. Press
“SysCfg”and enter into the system configuration interface, as shown in Fig 2.2.2. In
this configuration menu, you can setup all detail keyboard parameters such as Keyboard
IP, Keyboard ID, port number, super password, operator password and controlling
modes. Each parameter setting is shown below:

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Fig 2.2.2 Keyboard System Configuration
Prev.: Previous menu.
IP Addr: IP address of DS-1000KI network keyboard. Press【1】to modify it
while press【2】to confirm it as shown in Fig 2.2.3-1.
KBD ID: Keyboard number. Input the keyboard number with the numeral keys
and press【Enter】to confirm it as shown in Fig 2.2.3-2
MaskIP: The sub net IP of DS-1000KI network keyboard. The default factory
value is 255.255.255.0. Press【2】to confirm it. Press【1】to modify it and press
【Enter】to confirm the new mask IP as shown in Fig 2.2.3-3
Port: The network port. Default factory value is 8000. Press【2】to confirm it.
Press【1】to modify it and press【Enter】to confirm the new port number as
shown in Fig 2.2.3-4.
Gateway: The gateway IP address of the keyboard.
SupPwd: The password of the administrator. The default factory value is 111.
Input the new password with the numeral keys and press【Enter】to confirm it as
shown in Fig 2.2.3-5 and Fig 2.2.3-6.
Password: The password of the operator. The default factory value is 222. The
setup usage is the same as the super password.
CtrlMod: You can select either RS485 BUS mode or network mode to control
DVR. Press【1】to choose the bus mode and press【2】to choose the net mode
as shown in Fig.2.2.3-7.
Reboot: Reboot keyboard.
Upgrade: You can upgrade the firmware of DS-1000KI keyboard via network.
In the upgrade menu, input the FTP server IP. Then keyboard will connect with
the FTP server and download the firmware via network. Please refer to FTP
server user manual.

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Fig 2.2.3 Parameter Settings

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2.2.2 User Configuration
In the “User Configuration”menu, you can setup many users. Each user can only
control one DVR. After you create the relationship between the user and DVR, you can
input the username to login the corresponding DVR and control DVR using the
keyboard. In the “User Configuration”menu, you can add, delete, modify and query the
users and related DVRs.
Fig 2.2.4 User Configuration
New User
For example, if you want to control DVR with IP address of 192.0.1.99 by DS-1000KI
network keyboard. First, you should create one new user. Choose “New”item in the
user configuration menu, you will enter into new user input menu as shown in Fig 2.2.5.
You can input the new user name. Press【*】to shift the input method as shown in Fig
2.2.5.

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Fig 2.2.5 Input Methods of DS-1000KI
For example, here I input “01”as the user name and press【Enter】to confirm it as
shown in Fig 2.2.6-1.
Fig 2.2.6
Then, choose the device type (“1.DVR”as shown in Fig 2.2.6-2), press【1】to

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choose “DVR”and input the user name, password of the DVR. The keyboard must use
this username and password to login the DVR. For example, the default user name of
DVR 192.0.1.99 is “admin”and the default password of the DVR is “12345”. Here we
also input the same username and password as shown in Fig 2.2.6-3, 2.2.6-4.
For Dev ID and Dev Port as shown in Fig 2.2.6-5, Fig 2.2.6-7, you must input the
same Dev ID and port number as DVR has. In the “Display”menu of DVR, you can
find out the Dev ID. The default ID of DVR is “88”. Here we input “01”because the
Dev ID of DVR (192.0.1.99) is 01.
Note: If you use RS485 Bus control mode, please make sure that each DVR has
different Dev ID so that the user can login the corresponding DVR.
Finally, input DVR IP address of “192.0.1.99”, then save the configuration. You
can create other new users with the above steps.
Modify
In case of revising some users, here we use the above example to explain the
operation. We know that the user of “01”can control DVR with “192.0.1.99”IP address.
Now, we will change it into controlling DVR with “192.0.1.9”IP address. The detailed
operation is following:
1. Input user name: In the user configuration menu as shown in Fig 2.2.4, choose
the “Modify”menu item. In the information display area screen, input the user name of
“01”and press【Enter】to confirm it as shown in Fig 2.2.7.
Fig 2.2.7 Input User Name
2. Modify Device Type: In the information display screen as shown in Fig 2.2.8,
we could see the original configuration of user “01”is DVR. If the new configuration is
also DVR, press【2】; If you want to change into other device type, press【1】to choose
new device type (At present, only DVR device type can be selected).
Fig 2.2.8 Change device type
3. Modify Device Username: Modify device username according to the indication.

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If there is no need to revise, press【2】to confirm it and enter the next operation as shown
in Fig 2.2.9.
Fig 2.2.9 Modify Device Username
4. Modify Device Password: See Fig 2.2.10.
Fig 2.2.10 Modify Device Password
5. Modify Device ID: See Fig 2.2.11.
Fig 2.2.11 Modify Device ID
6. Modify Device IP address: See Fig 2.2.12
Fig 2.2.12 Modify Device IPAddress
7. Modify Device Port: See Fig 2.2.13.

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Fig 2.2.13 Modify Device Port
8. Save modification: Press 【1】to save the revise of user “01”as shown in Fig
2.2.14.
Fig 2.2.14 Save Revised Configuration
Delete User
Input the user name to be deleted according to the indication, press【Enter】to
confirm it, press【1】to delete or press【2】to exit. In the network control mode, Device
IP address is displayed. In RS485 bus mode, device ID is displayed as shown in Fig
2.2.15.
Fig 2.2.15 Delete User
Query
Choose “Query”item to show the user information, press【▲】to show the previous
information and press【▼】to show the next information. In network mode, device IP is
display. In RS485 bus mode, device ID is displayed, as shown in Fig 2.2.16. In the case
of no user configuration in the keyboard, press “Query”item and system will give the

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suggestion of “Not Existing User”.
Fig 2.2.16 Query User Information
Delete all
If we need to delete all the users, press “DelAll”item and press【1】to confirm it so
that all the built users will be deleted. Press【2】to exit and return to the previous menu.
It’s interface is shown in Fig 2.2.17.
Fig 2.2.17 Delete All Users