Unifore 4CH Mini NVR Instruction manual

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Mini NVR
Quick Start Manual
Product Description
The mini NVR was specially designed for network video surveillance system. It has embedded Linux
operating system which makes the system operation more stable; it has standard H.264 video
compression algorithms which achieve high definition, low bitrate and single-frame play video function.
The mini NVR is small, dimension 88mm*88mm*32mm, but with complete ports and function. It
supports Onvif, 4CH/ 8CH 720P or 1080P IP cameras input, preview and playback; P2P and mobile
phone controller; Mobile HDD, E-SATA hard disk cartridge and E-SATA HDD expansion. HDMI and
VGA output simultaneously. The power supply was made of standard 5V2A micro-mini USB port,
energy saving and environmental protection.
1.1 Declaration：
Thank you for purchasing our NVR. If you need any help, please feel free to contact us.
The manual apply to 8CH mini NVR and 4CH mini NVR
The manual will be updated according to the enhancement of product function. Description of
product or program will be improved or updated periodically. The updated stuff will be added in
new manual without prior notice. If any product description in manual not in conformity with the
real object, subject to the real object.
2 .1 Attentions:
The IP address of all devices in LAN can’t conflict with each other.
The gate way should match with IP address, and setting up correctly.
The product supports external HDD only, including mobile HDD, hard-disk cartridge with E-SATAport.
We have tested following HDD brands and model numbers work with the mini NVR:
Seagate Backup Plus 1TB 2.5’’ USB3.0 mobile HDD, Model No.: STBU1000300
Seagate Expansion 1TB 2.5’’ USB3.0 mobile HDD, Model No.: STBX1000301
Seagate Expansion 2TB 3.5’’ USB3.0 external HDD, Model No.: STBV2000300
Western Digital (WD) Elements 1TB 2.5’’ USB3.0 mobile HDD, Model No.: WDBUZG0010BBK

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3.1 Technical Parameters
3.1.1 8CH mini NVR
Model Number
8CH Mini NVR
Operating System
Embedded LINUX operating system
Image Code Control
Adjustable; variable bitstream and constant bitstream optional
Dual Stream
Each channel can set main stream and sub stream
Video Standard
1080P(1920×1080)30fps/ 960P/(1280×960)/ 720P(1280×720)30fps
Monitoring Image Quality
1080P(1920×1080)/ 960P/(1280×960)/ 720P(1280×720)
Image Motion Detection
Each screen can set multiple detection areas and set 6-level sensitivity(if IPC
support it)
Recording Playback
4CH playback simultaneously in 8CH 720P/960P mode;
1CH 1080P playback in 8CH 1080P mode
Region Cover
Every channel can set 4 cover regions(if IPC support it)
Recording Mode
Support manual, auto, dynamic detection, alarm trigger record mode(Partly
needs IPC support it)
Backup Way
Support HDD, U disk, USB mobile HDD, USB DVR-RW, network storage and
backup
Operation Way
Mouse
Local Login
User name and password
Recording Storage
Local HDD, network
①  8×(1280*720)+sub[640*360]+1Ref.+4Play 8CH 720P IP Camera
②8×(1280*960)+sub[640*480]+4Ref.+1Play 8CH 960P IP Camera
③8×(1920*1080)+sub[640*480]+2Ref.+1Play 8CH 1080P IP
Camera
Video Input
④8×(720*576)+sub[352*288]+2Ref.+8Play 8CH D1 IP Cameras
Audio Input
8CH network audio input
Video
Output
1CH VGA + 1CH HDMI
External
Ports
Network
Port
1 RJ45,10M/100M self-adaptive LAN port

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USB Port
2 x USB 2.0 ports
Wireless Port
3G，WIFI
HDD Port
E-SATA/ Mobile HDD/ U-Disk
Capacity
Maximum 4TB HDD/ port
HDD
Mobile View
Support(iPhone，Windows Mobile，BlackBerry，Symbian，Android) smart
phones
Power Supply
5V2A
Power Consumption
≤10(without HDD）
Working Temperature
-10℃～＋55℃
Working Humidity
10％-90％
Dimension
Equipment: 88mm×88mm×32mm, With Packing: 185.5mm×115.5mm×36mm
Weight(without HDD)
N.W.: 105g; With packing: 250g
Outside Carton
30pcs/ carton; Dimension: 365mm×350mm×188mm; Weight: 8 Kg。
Installation Way
Desktop Installation
3.1.2 4CH mini NVR
Model Number
4CH Mini NVR
Operating System
Embedded LINUX operating system
Image Code Control
Adjustable; variable bit stream and constant bit stream optional
Dual Stream
Each channel can set main stream and sub stream
Video Standard
1080P(1920×1080)30fps/ 960P/(1280×960)/ 720P(1280×720)30fps
Monitoring Image Quality
1080P(1920×1080)/ 960P/(1280×960)/ 720P(1280×720)
Image Motion Detection
Each screen can set multiple detection areas and set 6-level sensitivity(if IPC
support it)
Recording Playback
4CH playback simultaneously in 4CH 720P/ 960P mode
1CH 1080P playback in 1/4CH 1080P mode
Region Cover
Every channel can set 4 cover regions(if IPC support it)
Recording Mode
Support manual, auto, dynamic detection, alarm trigger record mode(Partly
needs IPC support it)
Backup Way
Support HDD, U disk, USB mobile HDD, USB DVR-RW, network storage and
backup
Operation Way
Mouse
Local Login
User name and password
Recording Storage
Local HDD, network
External
Video Input
①  4×(1280*720) +sub[960*576]+4Ref.+4Play 4CH 720P IP Cameras

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②4×(1280*960)+sub[960*576]+1Ref.+4Play 4CH 960P IP Cameras
③4×(1920*1080)+sub[960*576]+4Ref.+1Play 4CH 1080P IP Cameras
④1×(1920*1080)+sub[960*576]+4Ref.+1Play 1CH 1080P IP Cameras
⑤4×(720*576) +sub[352*288]+4Ref.+4Play 4CH D1 IP Cameras
Audio Input
4CH network audio input
Video
Output
1CH VGA + 1CH HDMI
Network
Port
1 RJ45,10M/100M self-adaptive LAN port
USB Port
2 x USB 2.0 ports
Wireless
Port
3G，WIFI
Ports
HDD Port
E-SATA/ Mobile HDD/ U-Disk
Capacity
Maximum 4TB HDD/ port
HDD
Mobile View
Support(iPhone，Windows Mobile，BlackBerry，Symbian，Android) smart
phones
Power Supply
5V2A
Power Consumption
≤10(without HDD）
Working Temperature
-10℃～＋55℃
Working Humidity
10％-90％
Dimension
Equipment: 88mm×88mm×32mm, With Packing: 185.5mm×115.5mm×36mm
Weight(without HDD)
N.W.: 105g; With packing: 250g
Outside Carton
30pcs/ carton; Dimension: 365mm×350mm×188mm; Weight: 8 Kg。
Installation Way
Desktop Installation
4.1 Ports Instruction

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Connection Diagram
5.1 Device Operation
5.1.1 Power On
Connect power and mobile HDD, and then switch on the power button (on the right side of NVR). The
video output is default multi-screen mode after startup is completed. If the startup time is among the
time of setting record, system will auto start timing video recording.
Notice: Please use the NVR matching power supply instead of any other power supply of any other
type or brand.

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5.1.2 System Login
After normal booting, single-click icon，
1) Power off: Click “Power off” button, the device will shutdown.
2) Reboot: Click “Reboot” button, the device will reboot.
3) Click “Login” button to login the system.
User name: admin, password: blank by default;
4) Lock: Click “[ ] Lock”, the menu will be locked.
5.1.3 IP Channel Setting
After login successfully, system will pop out the host side
IP address setting menu automatically, after setting
successfully click “ OK”, then it will pop out the menu for IP
channel setting, click “ Yes”, the system will save the IP
automatically. If need to manual setting IP address, click
“NO”.
5.1.4 Power Off
Click the power switch at the top panel can shutdown the device
Or【Main Menu】【Power Off】，select 【Yes】
Note: Suggest to shutdown device in this way, it can avoid damaging the device from v electricity
cut-off by accident).
5.2 Display Setting
Click icon，show the menu as the right side:
1 Language：select different language according to the
necessary(eg. Chinese, English), after that need restart
the device
2 Auto Logout：system will logout automatically and
locked according to the setting time
3 TV Adjust：set image display dimension on TV
4 Display：adjust the monitor lightness 、contrast、
saturation and color
5 Resolution：the default setting is 1024×768, please select
the best resolution according to the monitor or the
image clarity will be affected or the image cannot display well as it exceed monitor display range
6 Rotation Interval: Setup the time interval of rotation. Tick “Enable SEQ” to start rotation.

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6.1 Network Setting
Connect NVR with network cable to the LAN switch,
After power on, click to enter setting menu, set
NVR IP address, subnet mask, and gateway and so on.
Then use PC to run ping command to check NVR IP has
connected with LAN
Notice: IP address might conflict with each other, please
set the gateway correctly, or NVR might fail to work.
Please ensure all the IP addresses in LAN are unique.
Device port setting: the default is 5050, if there are several NVRs in the LAN, need to change this
port is for login NVR by IE, CMS. Login NVR by mobile, the port should be +3 based on the device
port.
HTTP port: the default port is 80, suggest modifying it. This port is for login NVR by IE, input NVR IP
address or domain name; need to add colon and HTTP port number.
Example: show as the above right picture, access NVR by IE in LAN, first add 2 forwarding rules in the
router, the IP address is 192.168.1.188, the forwarding ports are 5050-5053, 80. Please input
http://192.168.1.188:80 at IE browser and download ActiveX, then close the IE before install the
ActiveX, after installing it successfully, then reopen IE with http://192.168.1.188:80, it will show login
menu, input device port:5050, user name: admin, no password, can access NVR.
If access NVR by IE in WAN, please use static IP or dynamic domain name,the operation is same as
LAN.
6. 2 Connect with IP Camera
6.2.1 Manual Search
Right click to select 【IP channelSetting】Manual, click
Search button, NVR will search out all IP cameras in the LAN,it will
take 18-30 seconds, after finishing the configuration, click Save to logout,
then the image will come out.

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A –Area is cameras IP address searching area——click Search to get the camera IP addresses in
LAN
B- Area is camera IP address modification area——double click IP camera in A area, B area will
show camera network data, some cameras can change IP address directly in B area
C- Area is cameras channel setting area——according to the selection sequence in Azone, to
sort the 1-36 channels image order. Select All to add IP cameras to the all channel by one click.
D-Area is camera user name and password filling area——this area is camera network parameter
6.2.2 Automatic Search
Right click to select 【IP channel Setting】Auto
If the IP camera has private protocol with NVR, NVR will assign IP address to the camera automatically,
after finish the searching, will connect the image automatically. Camera IP addresses will be added
automatically in the preview channel area.
6.3 Preview
6.3.1 Drag and Drop the Image
The preview image location can be drag and drop to different place as necessary, but the channel
physical address will keep the same(ATTN: channel number in red circle as below)
Preview image can randomly drag to adjust according to actual management requirement, which
makes surveillance management more systematic and friendly.
6.3.2 Drag to Change Channel Sequence
During real video surveillance, it’s very important to have
preview channel position of IPC image.Simple image dragging
could not meet the need of multi-channel simultaneous playback
and it’s frustrating to match channel position respectively
when searching. Dragging channel sequence can better solve this
problem.

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Right Mouse to click 【IP channel setting】, choose【drag to change channel sequence】.
Operation is same as 6.3.1. After dragging channel sequence, users are unnecessary to fill in
username, password and IPC will reconnect in its new channel position. When dragging, 2 channels
exchanged would lose image for a short while till reconnection. Time for reconnection depends on
different IPC, which costs about 1 to 60 second.
6.3.3 Digital Zooming
During image preview and playback, roll mouse
roller to do digital zooming, it zoom the image as
mouse pointer as the center. The max can do 15X
zooming. Drag the zoomed image by mouse to see
image detail.
The channel is recording. Light flashing means frame lost or recording lost. Please adjust the
code stream, for details, please refer to 6.5.2；
Magnifying glass: digital zooming, the red number in the middle is magnification figures, click this
icon, it can change to PTZ control
Zoom In
Zoom Out

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6.4 Manual Capture
Right click to bring main menu, click 【Capture】, it supports all channels manual
capturing. After capture, there is information to hint capturing is successful or failure or this
channel does not support capture. The image of capture resolution is D1 by JPG
format, and it is saved in special area, the recording file will not overlay it. The capture
image can be viewed or backup in file manage folder
Right click to bring main menu, click 【File Manager】and click Refresh button,
the captured file shows in the file list area, the file are named by channel number& capture time,
double click it to check.
Capture back up: plug flash disk by USB port, click Refresh to check whether flash disk connect well,
then select the capture files that need back up, and click Back Up to begin it.
6.5 System Setting
6.5.1 Device Parameter
Click 【Setting】DeviceDevice info to check
device spec. information and time setting
Notice: Attention: select mode according the connected
IP camera channels and resolution, after change the
model,click save and reboot the device.
When the image is good in 9/16/25/26 screen modes, after
double click the image to zoom, the image is stuck or
become black screen change to 1080 mode can solve it.
Systerm version: check the system version and time, when do software update, need to check
version first to avoid updating failure and damage the device.
6.5.2 Channel Information
Click 【Setting】ChannelVideo Parameters, to
adjust IP camera preview and recording resolution.
1) Encoding Type: Main Stream (Normal), Sub Stream, Main
Stream (Event) for selection
Main Stream：double click to show single image or full
screens image are main stream, also recording playback is
main stream.
Sub Stream：9/16/25/36 screens display are using sub
stream, IE or mobile reviewing are sub stream also.
Main Stream (Event)：motion detection and alarm trigger recording are using this
2) Stream Type：video, video & audio two type for selection. When connect with audio, please select