HDR-16EP 16-Cameras Digital Surveillance System USER MANUAL Date of Revision:Nov. 18, 2002 Hunt Electronic USA, Inc.
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INDEX DECLARATION .......................................................................................................................................2 INDEX.........................................................................................................................................................3 I. LIST OF CONTENTS .........................................................................................................................4 II. PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS...........................
I. LIST OF CONTENTS Items list included in the shipment package for customers to verify. HDR-16EP 1. 2. HDR-16EP Mouse 1 Unit 1 pc 3. 4. 5. 6. Key for Removable Hard Drive HDR-16EP User Manual Power Cord Warranty Card 1 pc 1 pc 1 pc 1 pc Please keep the original packaging in case parts need to be shipped back for service. Reminder: HDR-16EP package does not include a VGA surveillance monitor. The monitor (XVGA, 1024*768) can be purchased separately at various computer stores.
II. PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS OPTIMUM REPLACEMENT FOR TIMELAPSE RECORDER The traditional Time-lapse Recorder is the mechanical device. It is very easy to break down after long time operation and causes many problems such as: the over 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; not efficient when trying to locate the data needed; recording a huge amount of useless images, etc.
III. INSTALLATION 3-1 Hard Disk Installation 1. Insert the Removable Hard Disk to the rack, and make sure it is well mounted. Lock the hard disk drive with its key. 3-2 Connect to Monitor 1. 2. 3. Place the monitor that you purchased. Connect the VGA cable (with D-type, High Density, 15 pins plug) to the VGA port on the back of the HDR-16EP. Plug in the power cord of the monitor. 3-3 Connect to Camera 1. 2. 3. 4. Mount and adjust the cameras.
IV. OPERATION The operation procedures are as follows: 4-1 Booting Up 1. Push the Power Button (Open the front panel, then press the button). HDR-16EP 2. If all the installation procedures are correct, the system will boot up and show the main screen as follows.
4-2 Main Screen Date/Time HD Free Space Recording Status IO Status System Settings Display Mode Full Screen Monitoring Playback The above picture is an example of the main screen. On the right of the screen is the “status display”. From top to bottom is Date/Time, Hard Disk Free Space, then followed by 3 columns and 16 rows, which are Recording Status (1st column), DI Receiving Status (2nd column), and DO Output Status (3rd column).
4-3 Display Mode The 7 icons on the bottom of the Main Screen are Display Mode selections. The 7 icons are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, and 16 splits. The default display mode is 16 splits. The camera displayed on each split mode could be modified through the system setting menu. Besides the different kinds of split modes as mentioned above, user could use mouse to click any split screen to show the full screen of that specific camera as the figure below.
4-4 Hard Disk Free Space On the right of the Main Screen, there are two Hard Disk pictures(HDR-16EP supports two Hard Disks). On the right of the hard disk picture, there is the number in color with a “%” sign, which means the available hard disk space. When you start using a new hard disk (e.g.: a hard disk with capacity 80GB), the display will show a number very close to 100%, and the color will be BLUE. However, as recording continues, the available space will diminish.
4-5 Playback 4-5-1 Enter Playback Mode When you click this icon, the system will display the screen as follows: 4-5-2 Select Playback Period You can use the mouse to select the “Time-segment Directory” in the upper left corner of the screen. Time-segment Directory only shows “Playback” when it is not opened. When you click this symbol, + it will shows the listing CAMERA for cameras 1 to 16. Clicking on the desired camera will show Date、Time to select.
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4-5-4 Playback Control Buttons In addition to “Brightness” and “Contrast” controls, there are more option buttons on the playback mode as follows: PLAY : To start viewing the images at normal speed. PAUSE : To freeze an image. You can also pause by clicking the screen. STEP PLAY : Click to view one frame at a time. INVERT : To show picture in complimentary colors. FIT TO WINDOW : To maximize the picture to the size of the screen.
4-6 System Settings 4-6-1、Enter System Settings Screen Click here to enter the system setting screen 1. Click the System Setting icon. System will show a screen as follows for user to key in the username and password. 2. Use mouse to click the “keyboard” icon on the right of the “User Name” column. System will show up a “keyboard figure” as follows for user to key in the username (the pre-set username is “admin”).
4. If the username and password are correct, click the “OK” button on the “User Login” screen, then the system will enter the system setting screen. 5. When you enter the system setting screen, there are 6 icons on top of the 、 screen. Each icon represents one sub-page. They are 『Camera Setup』 、 『User』、 『Date/Time』 、 『Network』 、 and『DI/DO』. 『Split』 6. When you enter the system setting screen,the default sub-page is『Camera Setup』. 7.
4-6-2 Camera Setup 1. Please select the camera you would like to do the setting. 2. Camera Name: You could use the “keyboard figure” icon on the right of “Camera Name” column to key in the description for the camera. 3. Enable/Disable: If the channel is not connected to camera, please set “Disable”. If it’s connected, please set “Enable”. 4. Video Format: The video format of 16 cameras must be the same.
according to the local standard. Taiwan and USA use NTSC format; whereas Europe and Mainland China uses PAL format. 5. For all the 16 cameras, each camera could adjust the “Quality”, “Frame Rate”, and “Sensitivity” individually. 5-1 Quality: Options: 10 、 20 、 30 、 40 、 50 、 60 、 70 、 80 、 90 、 100 User could adjust the quality of recording. The higher the number, the better the quality. However, the higher quality setting will consume more hard disk space. 5-2 Frame Rate: Options: 0.2 、 0.5 、 1.0 、 2.
It is used to set the Motion Sensor Area。 7.1 Motion Sensor Area: Click for the Detection Area,then use mouse to drag the motion detection windows on the screen. 7.2 No-Detection Area: Click for the No-Detection Area,then use mouse to drag the area which do not use motion detection. 7.3 Set All: Click to set all the screen as the motion detection area.。 7.4 Clear All: Click to set all the screen as the non motion detection area.。 8.
4-6-3 View Setup Click “Split” icon, it will display the view setup screen as follows. For the 7 display modes mentioned in the section 4-3, the display content is setup through the “Split” icon on the screen above. For the table above, there are 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, 16 splits setting screen. Please click the “small block” on the split screen, then you could modify the camera showed on each split screen.
4-6-4 User Account Management This section describes the “remote access privilege” setup procedures for the user account. Click “User” icon, it will display the screen for user account management as follows. [Add User Account] Click “Add” icon to add user account as screen below.
1. There are 2 system pre-set accounts. The usernames and passwords for these two accounts are as follows. 1-1 Username: “admin”; Password: “1111” is for system management account. This account could not be deleted. 1-2 Username: “net”; Password: “1111” is for normal user account. This account could be deleted. 2. When login through “admin” account, administrator could operate the function to setup the other administrator account, or the privilege of the normal user account.
[Delete User Account] Click “Delete” icon to delete user account. A screen will display as follows. Click “OK” if you would like to delete this user account.
4-6-5 Setting Date and Time 1 2 Use mouse to modify the date/time. After that, please click the “Set!!”. System will pop up the warning window as follows. Please click the “OK” to reboot the system. 4-6-6 1. 2. Network Configuration Select Enable or Disable to enable/disable remote monitoring function. Click Up & Down buttons to enter IP, NetMask, GateWay; then click “Set!!” icon.
3. After click the “Set!!” icon. System will show the warning window as follows. Please click the “OK” to reboot the system. 4-6-7、DI/DO (digital control signal input and output) 1 DI/DO digital control provides the three configurations as follows. (1). One IO-0404B module, which includes 1 board (for internal connection), and 1 cable (for internal connection). (2) Two IO-0404B modules, which include 2 boards (for internal connection), and 2 cables (for internal connection).
(3) One IO-1616 module, which includes 1 board (for internal connection), 4 cables (for internal connection), 1 board (for external connection), and 1 cable (for external connection).. 2 DI control options: 2.1 Disable: Disable the “control signal input”. 2.2 NC (normal close): signal loop is normally closed; if loop becomes 2.3 3 opened, then starts recording. NO (normal open): signal loop is normally opened; if loop becomes closed, then starts recording DO control options: 3.
4. No matter it’s DI status change or image motion, it all counts as Event happening, so it will start the recording, If the DO is enabled, the DO status will also be changed if the event happens. Please refer to the graph below. DI Status Change Image Motion Event Happen Start Recording DO Status Change 4-6-8、Exit the System Setting Screen After finishing all the necessary settings, please click on the upper right corner of the System Setting Screen. It will show the figure below.
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4-7-1、Remote Monitoring through Local Area Network Ethernet PC SuperVision [Administrator] Decide an IP address in the local area network. Follow the instruction in 4-6-6 “Network Configuration” to set up HDR-16EP, then connect HDR-16EP to the local area network. Inform user the IP address, username, and password. [User] 1. Get HDR-16EP IP Address from administrator. 2. Open Web Browser from a PC in the same local area network. 3. Enter the IP Address of HDR-16EP. 4.
4-7-2、Remote Monitoring through the Internet via Modem Modem ISP A RAS Internet ISP B Router Ethernet Modem PC SuperVision [Administrator] To allow users to do the remote monitoring through Internet, Administrator of HDR-16EP needs to apply for a fixed line (leased line or ADSL), and get the fixed IP address from the ISP (Internet Service Provider). Please follow the instructions in section 4-6-6 “Network Configuration” to setup HDR-16EP, then connect HDR-16EP to the fixed line.
Enter the dialing number provided by ISP. (For example, the number is 03-4121234), Then, click “Next” to finish the setting. After completing the setting, open “Dial-Up Networking” window, you will see the new icon. (“Hinet” icon, in this example) Double click this icon, then enter the ISP account and password as left graph. You can select “save password” to let Windows save the password. Click on “Connect” to start dialing.
4-7-3、Remote Monitoring when HDR-16EP Connects to Modem Modem Modem PC SuperVision Similar to dialing up to ISP (Internet Service Provider) for connecting to internet as the previous section, through modem to connect to HDR-16EP(direct dial-in) is another way to do the remote monitoring. The only difference is that direct dial-in uses HDR-16EP to replace the function provided by ISP RAS (Remote Access Server) originally for setting up the connection. [Administrator] 1.
Enter the phone number of the modem connected to HDR-16EP. Click on “Next” to complete the setup. After completing all the setup procedure, open “Dial-Up Networking” window, you will see the “HDR-16EP” Icon。 Double click the “HDR-16EP” Icon, then enter the dial-up username and password as left graph. The username is “dialup”, and the password is provided by administrator (refer to 4-6-6). You can select “save password” to let Windows save the password. dialing.
4-7.4 Remote Playback Installation Besides the remote monitoring feature mentioned in the previous section, HDR-16EP also provides the Remote Playback function. To be able to run Remote Playback, a “player” program needs to be installed on user’s computer. The “player” program can be downloaded from HDR-16EP web page as follows. Click on “Download Player” option, a “Download Files” dialog window will pop up as the bottom right graph.
Notice: If there is a previous installed Remote Playback program on your machine, you will need to process the same installation twice – the first time for removing the original program, and the second time for installing the new version of the remote playback program.
4-7.5 How to use Remote Monitoring and Remote Playback After the installation, you can start using Remote Monitoring and Remote Playback functions by clicking on the icons on the HDR-16EP web page. following screen will be displayed: The [Remote Monitoring Function]: There are three kinds of display modes for remote monitoring, which are, Single View, 4 Split, and 16 Split. “SingleView”: User could choose one of the 16 cameras for remote monitoring as graph below.
“4 Split”: User could monitor 4 split screen at the same time as the graph below. The default view is Camera 1,2,3,4, Camera 5,6,7,8, Camera 9,10,11,12, and Camera 13,14,15,16. User could also change the view position of each camera from the “Custom View” column. “16 Split”: It will display all the 16 cameras in the screen. [Remote Playback Function] First select a camera, then select the recording date and recording time (hour:minute). Click on button to start searching the recorded video.
System will start to play the recorded video if recording file found at the selected time. However, if there is no recorded video at the selected time, system will do the forward searching to play the next recorded video. The following selection can be used during the video playing. Enlarge the video image Back to the original image size Pause Play Search for video 30 seconds forward Search for video 30 seconds backward Notice: There may be no record found when searching 30 seconds backward.
4-7.6 How to Use Local Playback From the remote monitoring/remote playback web page listed in the previous section, select to download the current playing record with an image file (*.MP4) and a relative index file (*.CVX) to the selected directory. Note that these two files must be saved in the same directory. Normally, a record file contains the recording data no more than 10 minutes.
4-8 Backup Solution: Swap Removable Hard Disk If it is necessary to save all the recorded data, the most economical way will be to store data by swapping the removable hard disk. Normally, DVR uses storage media such as hard disk, tape driver, or recordable optical media (MO, CD-RW, DVD-RAM…etc.). Tape : A tape driver is very complicated to operate. It will take more than 10 minutes to search the specific data. The cost is also very high: a tape driver of 100GB capacity costs thousands of US dollars.
for retrieving purpose in the future. Insert the new removable hard disk (purchased from the dealers authorized by Hung Electronic USA, Inc.) and lock the hard drive with key. Turn on the power switch. The system will recognize the new disk and request to format it. Click “Yes” to accept disk formatting which will take less than one minute. The system will re-boot and enter in the normal recording mode. 4-8-1、If the new hard disk is inserted to the system HDR-16EP supports 2 Hard Disk.
2. Click “Format” on the right of the screen, then system will start to format the new hard disk. After finishing the format, the “selection icons” will become “available”. Please refer to the figure below. Use the “selection icons” to choose the cameras you would like to be recorded in this new formatted HD. Click the “save” icon on the bottom right of the screen, then the system will reboot automatically and enter the monitoring screen. Selection Icons “Save” Icon 3.
Selection Icons Selection Icons 4-8-2、If the old disk is inserted to the system. After system booting, it will show as follows. 1. If you click “Play Only” icon , it will show the figure as follows.
All Disk Icon HD Select Icon Playback Icon Choose the HD you would like to playback through “HD Select Icon”, then click “Playback” Icon, it will show the playback screen as follows. The playback procedures are the same as the Section 4-5(Playback).
stored in these two HD, the “All Disk” icon will pop up also. User could click the “All Disk” icon, then click the “Playback” icon to enter playback screen to play the images stored in these two HD. 2. If you click “Disk Management” icon , it will show the figure as follows. “Save” Icon If there are two old HD inserted into the system at the same time and also there is no “overlapped camera” from the cameras stored in these two HD as the figure above, the “Save” Icon will pop up.
Selection Icons “Save” Icon Please use the “Selection” Icon as above to remove the “overlapped camera” from one of the HD, then the “Save” icon will pop up again. Click the “Save” icon, the system will reboot automatically and start the normal operations and record the data in these two HD Remark: * If the HD is entering the “recycle mode”(the space of HD is full of the recording data), system will delete the recording data from the first date, then record the data on these available space.
4-9 Backup Solution: CD-R/RW Recorder When users try to save part of the video files to be used for evidences or references, the most convenient way is to record to CD-R or CD-RW, since almost every computer has CD-ROM. HDR-16EP provides a friendly user interface to process CD-R/RW recording. The video playback program will also be copied to the CD-R/RW as well as the video files. 4-9-1 CD-R/RW Recorders 1. HDR-16EP supports both internal and external CD-R/RW Recorders. 2.
Selected video files CD-R/RW models to be selected Video files stored in the hard drive Message Total size of the selected files Speed of burning 2. Blank (Clean up) CD-R/RW Execute Burning Process Blank CD-RW: If the CD-RW is used, please execute “Blank” procedure first. Input the CD-RW to the CD-R/RW recorder, click on to start the clean up process. After it is done, the Message area will display “Done”. If the CD-RW is the blank one, you do not need to execute this process. 3.
4. You can browse the other directories (dates) to continue the file selection. 5. Click on the button on the bottom left corner to choose the burning speed. The default speed is 6 times burning. 6. Click on button, the system will first check if there is a blank CD inside the CD-R/RW recorder. If not, the system will request for the replacement or insert a blank CD.
V. OTHER INFORMATION 5-1 Specifications Model: HDR-16EP System: Operation System Video Input Video Output Video Format Compression User Interface Security WatchDog Embedded Linux 8/16 BNC connectors D-type VGA connector NTSC/PAL/SECAM MPEG-4 User friendly graphic user interface operated by mouse Multiple passwords protection Both software and hardware watchdogs Monitoring Mode: Frame Rate 120 fps(max.
5-2 Q & A 1. Q. Why does it still record a lot of images even though the motion detector has been triggered? A: The digital recording system is very sensitive. The system can detect even the tiniest motion that our eyes can't perceive. The problem can be caused by: 1. Flickering fluorescent lights (when traditional 120 Hz ballast are used) 2. TV or computer screen 3. Low quality cameras 4. Poor connection between HDR-16EP and cameras, or interfered with other objects.
5-3 Maintenance 1. 2. Avoid placing the system in a high temperature or a high humidity environment and also away from the place with frequent vibrations. Operate the system under stable voltage. If possible, operate the system with a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply). 5-4 Warranty Hunt Electronic USA, Inc.