Panasonic k-nl304k User manual

Network Disk Recorder
Quick Start Guide
Model No. K-NL304K
K-NL308K
Version 1.0.5

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Table of Contents
1Hardware Installation and Connection ................................................................. 1
1.1 Check Unpacked NVR................................................................................ 1
1.2 About Front Panel and Rear Panel............................................................. 1
1.3 After Remove the Chassis.......................................................................... 1
1.4 HDD Installation.......................................................................................... 1
1.5 Front Panel................................................................................................. 2
1.6 Rear Panel.................................................................................................. 4
2Connection Sample.............................................................................................. 6
3GUI Operation...................................................................................................... 7
3.1 Login........................................................................................................... 7
3.2 Remote Device ........................................................................................... 8
3.3 Schedule..................................................................................................... 9
3.4 Realtime Playback.................................................................................... 12
4Web Operation................................................................................................... 13
4.1 Network Connection ................................................................................. 13
4.2 Login......................................................................................................... 14
4.3 Main Window ............................................................................................ 15
4.3.1 LAN Login ....................................................................................... 15
4.3.2 WAN Login ...................................................................................... 15

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Welcome
Thank you for purchasing our network video recorder!
This quick start guide is designed to be a reference tool for your system.
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Important Safeguards and Warnings
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Electrical safety
All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes.
The product must be grounded to reduce the risk of electric shock.
We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper
handling or installation.
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Transportation security
Heavy stress, violent vibration or water splash are not allowed during transportation, storage and
installation.
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Installation
Keep upwards. Handle with care.
Do not apply power to the NVR before completing installation.
Do not place objects on the NVR
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Qualified engineers needed
All the examination and repair work should be done by the qualified service engineers.
We are not liable for any problems caused by unauthorized modifications or attempted repair.
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Environment
The NVR should be installed in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight, inflammable,
explosive substances and etc.
This series product shall be transported, storage and used in the specified environments.
6. Accessories
Be sure to use all the accessories recommended by manufacturer.
Before installation, please open the package and check all the components are included.
7. Lithium battery
Improper battery use may result in fire, explosion, or personal injury!
When replace the battery, please make sure you are using the same model!
Before your operation please read the following instructions carefully.
Installation environment
Keep away from extreme hot places and sources；
Avoid direct sunlight；
Keep away from extreme humid places；
Avoid violent vibration；
Do not put other devices on the top of the NVR；
Be installed in well ventilated place; do not block the vent.

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1
Hardware Installation and Connection
Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local
electric safety rules.
1.1
Check Unpacked NVR
When you receive the NVR from the forwarding agent, please check whether there is any visible
damage. The protective materials used for the package of the NVR can protect most accidental
clashes during transportation. Then you can open the box to check the accessories.
Please check the items in accordance with the list (Remote control is optional). Finally you can
remove the protective film of the NVR.
1.2
About Front Panel and Rear Panel
For detailed information of the function keys in the front panel and the ports in the rear panel,
please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resource CD.
The model label in the front panel is very important; please check according to your purchase order.
The label in the rear panel is very important too. Usually we need you to represent the serial number
when we provide the service after sales.
1.3
After Remove the Chassis
Please check the data cable, power cable, COM cable and main boar cable connection is secure
or not.
1.4
HDD Installation
Important
：
Please turn off the power before you replace the HDD.
The pictures listed below for reference only
Please use HDD of 7200rpm or higher. Usually we do not recommend the PC HDD.
1. Loosen the screws of the
upper cover and side panel.
2. Fix four screws in the HDD
(Turn just three rounds).
3. Place the HDD in accordance with
the four holes in the bottom.
HDD2HDD1

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1.5 Front Panel
For detailed operation instruction, please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resources CD.
The front panel is shown as in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1
Please refer to the following sheet for front panel button information.
Name Icon Function
Power button
Power
button, press this button for three seconds to boot up
or shut down NVR.
Shift Shift In textbox, click this button to switch between numeral,
English(Small/Capitalized),donation and etc.
4. Turn the device upside down
and then turn the screws in
firmly.
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Fix the HDD firmly.
6. Connect the HDD cable and
power cable.
Note: Be careful so that the
cables are not in contact with
the edge of the HDD.
7. Put the cover in accordance
with the clip and then place the
upper cover back.
8. Secure the screws in the rear
panel and the side panel.

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Up/1
Down/4 
Activate current control, modify setup, and then move up and
down.
Increase/decrease numeral.
Assistant function such as PTZ menu.
In text mode, input number 1/4 (English character G/H/I)
Left/2
Right/3 
Shift current activated control,
When playback, click these buttons to control playback bar.
In text mode, input number 2(English character A/B/C)
/3(English character D/E/F)
ESC ESC
Go to previous menu, or cancel current operation.
When playback, click it to restore real-time monitor mode.
Enter ENTER
Confirm current operation
Go to default button
Go to menu
Record REC Manually stop/start recording, working with direction keys
or numeral keys to select the recording channel.
Slow play/8 Multiple slow play speeds or normal playback.
In text mode, input number 8 (English character T/U/V).
Assistant Fn
One-
window monitor mode, click this button to display
assistant function: PTZ control and image color.
Backspace function: in numeral control or text control, press it
for 1.5 seconds to
delete the previous character before the
cursor.
In motion detection setup, working with Fn and direction keys
to realize setup.
In text mode, click it to switch between numeral, English
character(small/capitalized) and etc.
Realize other special functions.
Fast play/7 Various fast speeds and normal playback.
In text mode, input number 7 (English character P/Q/R/S).
Play previous/0 |In playback mode, playback the previous video
In text mode, input number 0.
Reverse/Pause/
6 ||
In normal playback or pause mode, click this button to reverse
playback
In reverse playback, click this button to pause playback.
In text mode, input number 6 (English character M/N/O).
Play Next/9 |
In playback mode, playback the next video
In menu setup, go to down ward of the dropdown list.
In text mode, input number 9 (English character W/X/Y/Z).

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Play/Pause /5 ||
In normal playback click this button to pause playback
In pause mode, click this button to resume playback.
In text mode, input number 5(English character J/K/L).
USB port To connect USB storage device, USB mouse.
Network
abnormal
indication light
Net
Network error occurs or there is no network connection, the
light becomes red to alert you.
HDD abnormal
indication light HDD HDD error occurs or HDD capacity is below specified threshold value, the light becomes red to alert you.
Record light 1-16 System is recording
or not. It becomes on when system is
recording.
IR Receiver IR It is to receive the signal from the remote control.
1.6
Rear Panel
The K-NL304K rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 1-2.
Figure 1-2
The K-NL308K rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 1-3.
Figure 1-3
Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
Name Function
Power
switch －Power on/off button.
Power input
socket －Input AC 100~240V.
For K- NL308K product only.

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Name Function
Power input port Input DC 12V/4A.
For K- NL304K product only.
Power input port Switch power port. Input DC 48V/1.0A.
For K- NL304K product only.
MIC IN Audio input port
Bidirectional talk input port. It is to receive the analog
audio signal output from the devices such as mike
phone, pickup.
MIC OUT Audio output port Audio output port. It is to output the analog audio
signal to the devices such as the sound box.
Bidirectional talk output.
Audio output on 1-window video monitor.
Audio output on 1-window video playback.
1～4 Alarm input port
1～4
There are two types; N (normal open)/C (normal
close).

When your alarm input device is using external
power, please make sure the device and the NVR
have the same ground.
N1, N2 Alarm output port
1～2

2 groups of alarm output ports. (Group 1
：
port
N1 ～C1,Group 2:port N2～
C2).Output alarm
signal to the alarm device. Please make sure
there is power to the external alarm device.
N：Normal open alarm output port.
C
：
Alarm output public end.
C1, C2
A RS-485
communication
port
RS485_A port. It is the cable A. You can connect to
the control devices such as speed dome PTZ.
B RS485_B.It is the cable B. You can connect to the
control devices such as speed dome PTZ.
Network port 10M/100M/1000Mbps self-
adaptive Ethernet port.
Connect to the network cable.
USB3.0 port USB3
.0 port. Connect to mouse, USB storage device,
USB burner and etc.
RS-232 RS-232 debug
COM.
It is for general COM debug to configure IP address or
transfer transparent COM data.
HDMI High Definition
Media Interface
High
definition audio and video signal output port. It
transmits uncompressed high definition video and
multiple-
channel data to the HDMI port of the display
device. HDMI version is 1.4.
VGA VGA video
output port
VGA video output port. Output analog video signal. It
can connect to the monitor to view analog video.
PoE
PORTS －
Bult-in Switch. Support PoE.
The 4 PoE series product supports total 48V 50W.
The 8 PoE series product supports total 48V 120W.
One PoE port max supports 15W.

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2
Connection Sample
Please refer to Figure 2-1 for connection sample.
The following figure is based on K-NL308K.
Figure 2-1

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3
GUI Operation
Connect the device to the monitor and then connect a mouse and power cable. Click the power
button at the rear panel and then boot up the device to view the video output. You can use the
mouse to implement some GUI operation.
3.1
Login
After device booted up, the system goes to startup wizard interface. See Figure 3-1
Click Cancel or Next Step button, you can see system goes to login interface.
Tips
Check the box Startup button here, system goes to startup wizard again when it boots up the
next time.
Cancel the Startup button, system goes to the login interface directly when it boots up the next
time.
Figure 3-1
Click Cancel button or Next Step, you can see the login interface. Please input username and
password. See Figure 3-2.
Username: ADMIN. Password: 12345.
You can use USB mouse to input. Click to switch between numeral, English character
(small/capitalized) and denotation.
Figure 3-2
Important:
For security reason, please modify password after you first login.
Within 30 minutes, three times login failure will result in system alarm and five times login
failure will result in account lock!

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3.2
Remote Device
From Main menu->SETTING->REMOTE->REMOTE device or right click mouse on the preview
interface and then select remote device item, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3
Tips
In the preview interface, for the channel of no IPC connection, you can click the icon “+” in the center of
the interface to quickly go to the Remote Device interface. See Figure 3-4.
Figure 3-4
Click Device Search button, you can view the searched IP addresses at the top pane of the interface.
Double click an IP address or check one IP address and then click Add button, you can add current
device to the bottom pane of the interface. System supports batch add function.
Click Manual Add button, you can add a device directly. See Figure 3-5.

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Important
Please note the manual add function is for Panasonic, the others and custom. When the type is
the custom, you can just input URL address, username and password connect to the network
camera without considering network camera manufacture. Please contact your network camera
manufacturer for the URL address.
Figure 3-5
3.3
Schedule
Note:
You need to have proper rights to implement the following operations. Please make sure the
HDDs have been properly installed.
After the system booted up, it is in default 24-hour regular mode. You can set record type and time
in schedule interface.
In the main menu, from Main menu->SETTING->STORAGE->SCHEDULE, you can go to
schedule menu. See Figure 3-9. There are total six periods.
Please note you need to go to Main menu->SETTING->SYSTEM->GENERAL->Holiday to
set holiday date first, otherwise, there is no holiday setup item.
Channel: Please select the channel number first. You can select “all”if you want to set for
the whole channels.
: Sync connection icon. Select icon of several dates, all checked items can be
edited or together. Now the icon is shown as .
: Click it to delete a record type from one period.
Record Type: Please check the box to select corresponding record type. There are four
types: Regular/MD (motion detect)/Alarm/MD&Alarm.
Week day: There are eight options: ranges from Saturday to Sunday and all.

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Holiday: It is to set holiday setup. Please note you need to go to the General interface
(Main Menu->SETTING->SYSTEM->GENERAL) to add holiday first. Otherwise you can
not see this item.
Pre-record: System can pre-record the video before the event occurs into the file. The
value ranges from 1 to 30 seconds depending on the bit stream.
Redundancy: System supports redundancy backup function. It allows you backup
recorded file in two disks. You can highlight Redundancy button to activate this function.
Please note, before enable this function, please set at least one HDD as redundant.
(Main menu->SETTING->STORAGE->HDD MANAGER). Please note this function is
null if there is only one HDD.
ANR: It is to save video to the SD card of the network camera in case the network
connection fails. The value ranges from 0s～43200s. After the network connection
resumed, the system can get the video from the SD card and there is no risk of record loss.
Period setup: Click button after one date or a holiday, you can see an interface shown
as in Figure 3-10.There are four record types: regular, motion detection (MD), Alarm,
MD & alarm. Please following the steps listed below to draw the period manually.
a) Select a channel you want to set. See Figure 3-6.
Figure 3-6
b) Set record type. See Figure 3-7.
Figure 3-7
c) Please draw manually to set record period. There are six periods in one day.
See Figure 3-8.
Figure 3-8

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Please check the box to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups
please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu.
There are color bars for your reference. Green color stands for regular recording, yellow color
stands for motion detection and red color stands for alarm recording. The white means the MD
and alarm record is valid. Once you have set to record when the MD and alarm occurs, system
will not record neither motion detect occurs nor the alarm occurs.
Figure 3-9
Figure 3-10

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3.4
Realtime Playback
Preview control interface
Move you mouse to the top centerof the video of current channel, you can see system pops up
the preview control interface. See Figure 3-11. If your mouse stays in this area for more than 6
seconds and has no operation, the control bar automatically hides.
Figure 3-11
SN
Name
SN
Name
SN
Name
1 Realtime playback 2 Digital zoom 3 Manual record
4 Manual Snapshot 5 Bidirectional talk 6 Remote device
Realtime playback button is to playback the previous 5-60 minutes record of current channel.
Please go to the Main Menu->SETTING->SYSTEM->GENERAL to set real-time playback time.
System may pop up a dialogue box if there is no such record in current channel.
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4
Web Operation
This series NVR product support the Web access and management via PC.
Web includes several modules: Monitor channel preview, record search, alarm setup, system
configuration, PTZ control, monitor window and etc.
4.1
Network Connection
Before web client operation, please check the following items:
Network connection is right
NVR and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup(Main menu->SETTING-
>NETWORK)
Use order ping ***.***.***.***(* NVR IP address) to check connection is OK or not. Usually
the return TTL value should be less than 255.
Open the IE and then input NVR IP address.
System can automatically download latest web control and the new version can overwrite the
previous one.
If you want to un-install the web control, please run uninstall webrec2.0.bat. Or you can go to
C:\Program Files\webrec to remove single folder. Please note, before you un-install, please
close all web pages, otherwise the un-installation might result in error.
Current series product supports various browsers such as Safari, firebox browser, Google
browser. Device only support 1-channel monitor on the Apple PC.
About PoE address setup, operation and allocation.
1) Insert PoE
After you insert PoE, device may try to set a corresponding IP address of the Switch network
adapter. First, system tries to set via arp ping. It then uses DHCP if it finds the DHCP is enabled.
After successfully set IP address, system may use Switch to send out broadcast, system thinks the
connection is OK when there is any response. Now system is trying to login the newly found IPC.
Now please check the interface, you can see the corresponding digital channel is active now.
You can see a small PoE icon at the top left corner. You can see the PoE channel, PoE port
information and etc. from the connection list of the remote device interface. For the IP search list,
you need to click the IP search to display or refresh.
2) Remove PoE
After you removed PoE, you can see the corresponding digital channel becomes idle (disable).
On the remote device interface, it is removed from the connected list. For the IP search list,
you need to click the IP search to refresh.
3) After you insert PoE, system follows the principles listed below to map channel.
a) If it is your first time to insert PoE, system can map it to the first idle channel.
After map, the channel can memorize the MAC address of the IPC. It is a
<Channel>---<IPC mac> map. If current channel does not connect to other device,
system can memorize current MAC address, otherwise it can refresh to the newly
added device and memorize the <PoE port>---<Channel>.

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b) If it is your second time to insert the PoE, system can check the saved MAC address
according to <Channel>---<IPC mac> map to make sure current IPC has connected
or not. If system finds the previous information and the channel is idle, system can
map it to the previously used channel. Otherwise system goes to the next step.
c) Thirdly, according to the <PoE port>---<Channel> map, system can know the
previous mapping channel of current PoE port. System can select current channel
if it is free. Otherwise, it goes to the next step:
d) Fourthly, system goes to find the first idle channel it can get.
Generally speaking, once you insert PoE, system follow the steps listed above to find the channel
available.
4) When you insert PoE, all channels are in use now.
System can pop up a dialogue box for you to select a channel to overwrite. The title of the pop-up
interface is the name of the current operation PoE port. In this interface, All PoE channel become
grey and cannot select.
4.2
Login
Open IE and input NVR address in the address column. For example, if your NVR IP is 192.168.0.250,
then please input http://192.168.0.250 in IE address column.
System pops up warning information to ask you whether install webrec.cab control or not.
Please click yes button.
If you can’t download the ActiveX file, please modify your IE security setup.
After installation, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-1.
Please input your Username and Password.
Default factory Username is ADMIN and Password is 12345.
Note: For security reasons, please modify your password after you first login.
Figure 4-1

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4.3
Main Window
4.3.1 LAN Login
For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 4-2.
Click the channel name on the left side; you can view the real-time video.
Figure 4-2
4.3.2 WAN Login
In WAN mode, after you logged in, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-3.
Figure 4-3
For detailed operation information, please refer to the User’s Manual included
in the resources CD.

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Note
For detailed operation introduction, please refer to our resource CD included in your
package for electronic version of the User’s Manual.
 See support web page below for further details
http://security.panasonic.com/library/e-series
/
Slight difference may be found in user interface.
All the designs and software here are subject to change without prior written notice.
All trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.