ESV4 User’s Manual 4CH Network Video Recorder with Local Display Version 1.0.
ESV4 User’s Manual Table of Contents System Overview...................................................................... 5 Front View ..................................................................................... Rear View ...................................................................................... Part names .................................................................................... LED Definition ..............................................................................
ESV4 User’s Manual 3 Export Playback Videos to AVI Files ................................................. 57 Play Exported Playback Videos with NVR Media Player ........................ 61 Open Event Snapshot images with NVR Media Player ......................... 63 NVR Setup -- System Configurations (Web Interface) ............ 63 Network Setup ............................................................................. 63 Network Settings ...............................................................
ESV4 User’s Manual Through the web interface ............................................................ 112 Upgrade through USB thumb drive ................................................ 114 Reset the NVR to Factory Default .................................................. 115 Disk Status ................................................................................. 116 USB Backup ................................................................................
ESV4 User’s Manual 5 System Overview Front View
ESV4 User’s Manual Rear View
ESV4 User’s Manual 7 Part names Audio Lineout NTSC LED Definition
ESV4 User’s Manual Installation HDD Installation Locate the screws highlighted above on the back of the NVR. Use a Philips screwdriver to release the screws.
ESV4 User’s Manual 9 Slide open the case as shown above. One side of the housing can be detached as shown above.
ESV4 User’s Manual Install the top HDD by attaching it to the corresponding SATA cable first. Make sure the HDD is securely attached.
ESV4 User’s Manual 11 Place the HDD to the tray and make sure the screw holes on the HDD are aligned with the ones on the tray. Secure the HDD with the screws provided in the accessory box with a Philips screwdriver. There are four for each HDD; two for each side of the tray.
ESV4 User’s Manual Slide the side housing back to the unit. Secure the housing with the screws highlighted above. NOTE: Maximum capacity of each hard disk drive is 3TB. Do not use hard disk drives with power saving functions such as Intellipower. For a list of compatible hard disk drives, visit www.toshibasecurity.com.
ESV4 User’s Manual 13 Connect to the NVR There are various ways you can connect to the NVR and below are the suggested methods for different network setup: Through the browser from another PC on the network: • The NVR is placed in a network with a DHCP server: Connect to the NVR by using “NVR Device Search” Utility • The NVR is placed in a network without DHCP server (or you are connecting to it directly): Access the NVR with its default IP Use Device Search Utility If the NVR is placed in a corporate net
ESV4 User’s Manual To begin, launch the “NVR Device Search” utility from the CD and proceed with the installation:
ESV4 User’s Manual 15 Once the installation is complete, check the “Launch the Search AP” option and click “Finish”. The search should start automatically and its status should be displayed. The NVR should be located and its IP address should be displayed.
ESV4 User’s Manual Double-click on an NVR and the search program should automatically access the NVR’s web administration page from your default browser. You will be prompted for the NVR’s username and password. Enter its default username “admin” and password “admin” and then click “OK” to enter the system. • • Please make sure you are using Internet Explorer 7 or above (IE 10 is NOT yet supported).
ESV4 User’s Manual 17 Access the NVR with its default IP address The NVR comes with a pre-configured static IP “192.168.101.50”. However, it is only used when there is no DHCP server presented in the network. The NVR will turn on its DHCP server function and act as the DHCP server in the network. To connect to the NVR, use a PC that is on the same network over a switch or hub, or connect the PC directly to the NVR using a crossover CAT5 Ethernet cable.
ESV4 User’s Manual Again, you should be prompted for the username and password. Enter its default username “admin” and password “admin” and then click “OK” to enter the system Set up Password The default login username and password is admin/admin. To change the password of the admin account, go to “Setup” --> “System Configurations” --> “User Account”, click on the “admin” account in the account list then press the “edit” button to change its password. Finally, click “Apply” to save the change.
ESV4 User’s Manual 19 Camera Installation Add a Camera -- Automatic Search Click the “Search” button to perform the camera search. You should be prompted to install Active Control component in order for the search to function properly.
ESV4 User’s Manual Found cameras should be listed and simply select a camera from the list and press “Configure” Its corresponding information should be displayed in the “Camera Information” section. Enter its username and password and select the channel ID and name the camera.
ESV4 User’s Manual 21 Click on “Detect” to establish connection between the recorder and the camera. If a connection is established successfully, the camera’s detailed information will be displayed as below. Adjust its video format, frame rate, resolution or bit rate...
ESV4 User’s Manual Live View (Web Interface) Live View The “Live View” page provides the following functions: • • • • • • • • • • Retrieve camera’s video stream Retrieve camera’s status Perform Live Sequence Viewing PTZ Control Perform PTZ Preset Sequence viewing Perform manual recording Take snapshot Receive audio of a video stream Send audio Change web UI display language Retrieve camera’s video stream The camera list is expanded and displayed on the Live View page: • Click “All” to display videos
ESV4 User’s Manual 23 Retrieve camera’s status The camera list can show each camera’s current status.
ESV4 User’s Manual Sequence view is a function that allows you to view multiple video streams from certain cameras in sequence automatically without having to select them one by one.
ESV4 User’s Manual 25 PTZ Control PTZ control provides functions to pan, tilt, and zoom a PTZ camera as well as the ability to adjust camera focus and iris.
ESV4 User’s Manual The bar highlighted above controls the moving angle. Larger number means bigger movement angle.
ESV4 User’s Manual 27 Preset Point Viewing Start by selecting a PTZ camera from the drop-down list Its available PTZ preset points will be listed in the drop-down list shown below. Click "Go to" to move to the selected position.
ESV4 User’s Manual Use the Auto Pan control buttons to pan right, left and stop auto pan * Certain cameras do not support bi-directional pan movements. Use the “Auto pan” button for such cameras Preset Point Sequence Viewing This function allows you to view multiple preset points from a video of a camera without having to select them one by one.
ESV4 User’s Manual 29 Display ratio and full screen By default, the videos are set to fill the whole video window, to display its original size or ratio, use the button in the upper-right hand corner. Take a snapshot of a live video To take a snapshot of a live video, right-click on the video and select "Take Snapshot". You are given with options to take 1 snapshot or 3 continuous snapshots.
ESV4 User’s Manual The new window displays the snapshot.
ESV4 User’s Manual 31 If the "3 continuous snapshots" option is chosen, the new window displays snapshots and lets you view them individually by using the "Prev", "Next" buttons shown above.
ESV4 User’s Manual However, as soon as a snapshot selection is made, the snapshots are automatically saved to x:\SnapshotFolder ("x" represents the partition where Windows is installed, e.g.: C:\) You can right-click anywhere on the image and select "Save Picture As..." to save the images somewhere else if you wish.
ESV4 User’s Manual 33 A dialog should be displayed that allows you to choose a directory/folder of where the snapshot will be saved to.
ESV4 User’s Manual To perform digital PTZ on a particular channel, right-click anywhere on its video and select "Digital PTZ".
ESV4 User’s Manual 35 Once the image is digitally zoomed in, use the mouse scroll button to further zoom on or zoom out the image. Hold and left-click on the image and move the mouse to move the zoomed in video. Adjust Brightness for the Live Video You are able to adjust brightness of the live video from the right-click menu.
ESV4 User’s Manual Adjust Contrast for the Live Video Same thing as the brightness, you can set the contrast for the live video from the right-click menu as well.
ESV4 User’s Manual 37 Change Web UI Display Language You can change the web UI display language from the current login username link located at the upper-right hand corner. Click on the link opens up a new window which displays detail information about the user as well as a drop-down menu which lets you change the display language.
ESV4 User’s Manual Live View through iPhone Safari Browser You can use iPhone and perform single channel live view to the NVR by using its Safari browser.
ESV4 User’s Manual 39 Type in the IP address of the NVR in the address bar You should be prompted to enter the username and password to access the NVR
ESV4 User’s Manual Upon successful login, you should see the live view video of the first channel Click on the “Channel” drop-down menu to select other cameras
ESV4 User’s Manual 41 If a PTZ camera is selected, the corresponding control buttons will display (control PT only) * Please note that this function is camera dependent and is not available to all cameras. Certain cameras do not allow adjusting image size and the se- lection “Auto” will be used. Live View through Blackberry Phones You can use Blackberry and perform single channel live view to the NVR by using its Safari browser.
ESV4 User’s Manual Enable the “Support Javascript” option and click the menu button and click “Save Options” Go to “General Properties Make sure two options illustrated above are enabled
ESV4 User’s Manual 43 Press the menu button and click the “Save Options” to save settings Press the button highlighted above to go back to the browser
ESV4 User’s Manual Type in the IP address of the NVR in the address bar You should be prompted to enter its username and password for access
ESV4 User’s Manual 45 Playback (Web Interface) Playback Playback is a function that allows you to play one or more videos that were previously recorded by a chosen recording method or due to an event trigger. The NVR offers synchronized playback from up to 4 channels and various types of search methods are provided to help you find the footage you need quickly. You can turn on or off the audio of a recorded video at your choice if audio was also recorded during the recording of the video.
ESV4 User’s Manual Search by time chart 1. Start by selecting which channel(s) you would like to perform a search on. 2. Select “Search by time chart” from the “Search Method” drop-down list and click “Go” to start the search * Selected channels will be marked in red Results will then be displayed in a new dialog with a “Month/Channel” table and boxes marked in dark gray represent videos found in those dates.
ESV4 User’s Manual 47 Clicking on a cell box marked with gray will take you to the "day" view of the selected month. Repeating the same step will eventually take you to the "second" view (5sec per cell box). Right-click anywhere or the "Back" button on the table will take you back to the previous view. Click on the play button at anytime will start playing videos from the beginning of the current time view (ex.
ESV4 User’s Manual Results will then be listed like what is shown below (displays the oldest record top down). Click on a particular result to start the playback. (* You can click “Next Search” to display the next 15 results.
ESV4 User’s Manual 49 You may also specify a new start time to search and display results from then on. You can restrict the number of results to be displayed at once (max. 30) and perform the search again Play by specific time If you know when a recording was taken place, you may choose the “Play by start time” from the “Search Method” drop-down list Then you will be prompted to enter a specific time and date for the recorded video.
ESV4 User’s Manual Search by event (Most Recent) This function quickly displays the most recent event recordings from the selected channels, displaying the most recent result top down. You may click “Update” to update the list to display the most recent results.
ESV4 User’s Manual 51 Certain functions you can perform to the playback video You can do the followings by right clicking on the playback video: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
ESV4 User’s Manual Take a snapshot of a playback video To take a snapshot, right-click on the video and select "Take Snapshot". You are given with options to take 1 snapshot or 3 continuous snapshots. A new window should display and load the snapshot image.
ESV4 User’s Manual 53 The new window displays the snapshot.
ESV4 User’s Manual If the "3 continuous snapshots" option is chosen, the new window displays snapshots and lets you view them individually by using the "Prev", "Next" buttons shown above.
ESV4 User’s Manual 55 However, as soon as a snapshot selection is made, the snapshots are automatically saved to x:\SnapshotFolder ("x" represents the partition where Windows is installed, e.g.: C:\) You can right-click anywhere on the image and select "Save Picture As..." to save the images somewhere else if you wish.
ESV4 User’s Manual Adjust Brightness for the Playback Video You are able to adjust brightness of the playback video from the rightclick menu.
ESV4 User’s Manual 57 Adjust Contrast for the Playback Video Same thing as the brightness, you can set the contrast for the playback video from the right-click menu as well. Export Playback Videos to AVI Files User can export the recorded playback videos stored on the NVR to a local computer and save them in AVI file format.
ESV4 User’s Manual played on the PC by a 3rd party media player such as VLC player or Windows Media player.
ESV4 User’s Manual 59 You can alternatively choose to export the recorded video to JPEG images by choosing the "Export as JPEG images" option. Specify the Start time/End time (or export length) and click "Start" to begin exporting.
ESV4 User’s Manual The best way to view the exported video or JPEG images is to use the NVR media player, which can be obtained from the same dialog window. Simply click on the icon at the bottom (highlighted above), and a message box should appear to let you open the media player directly, or save it to the local hard drive for later use.
ESV4 User’s Manual 61 The exported AVI files (or JPEG images) will be saved under the C partition (or the partition where Windows is installed) * ffdshow is required in order to play the exported AVI file with Windows Media Player. You can get it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ Play Exported Playback Videos with NVR Media Player You can also use the NVR Media Player to play the exported AVI files.
ESV4 User’s Manual Locate the exported AVI file, and click “open”.
ESV4 User’s Manual 63 Open Event Snapshot images with NVR Media Player The NVR sends snapshots that are taken when an event occurs to a destined FTP server or mail recipient. These types of snapshot images are saved in a proprietary image file format, h4i or p4i, and can only be opened by the NVR media player. To do so, Select “Open” from the top menu then select “Image File”. A new dialog should be displayed which lets you locate the image file.
ESV4 User’s Manual Network Settings You need to adjust settings in this page for the device to work properly in your network. It is critical that settings here are configured correctly based on your network configurations so that the recorder can be administered through the local area network and cameras can be connected from it.
ESV4 User’s Manual 65 If you wish to set the recorder to use a static IP address in your local area network, 1. Choose “Static IP” from the “Connection Type” drop-down menu 2. Enter the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway address and DNS server address for the recorder 3. Enable “DHCP Server” under “DHCP Server” if you wish to use the recorder as a DHCP server, or leave it disabled if there is already a DHCP server in the network 4.
ESV4 User’s Manual 1. If the connection type is "Auto Mode", the DHCP server function is NOT configurable. It will be ON if the NVR doesn't obtain an IP from a DHCP server in the local network and uses its own default static IP 192.168.101.50 2. If the connection type is "Auto Mode", the DHCP server function is NOT configurable. It will be OFF if the NVR obtains an IP from a DHCP server in the local network. 3. If the connection type is "DHCP Client", the DHCP server function is NOT configurable.
ESV4 User’s Manual 67 This is useful if the NVR is placed on the Internet with a dynamic public IP, which once the DDNS is properly setup, users can access the NVR remotely with the DDNS domain name without worrying if the IP has changed or not. *Please make sure a valid DNS server has been configured under the “Network Setting” page in order for this function to work properly. *The NVR currently only works with free DDNS service provided by “DynDNS”. For more information, please go to www.dyndns.
ESV4 User’s Manual In order to properly configure the DDNS service function, please register a free DDNS domain name and account from DynDNS first. Go to http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-free/ from the browser to do so.
ESV4 User’s Manual 69 Fill in the necessary fields as illustrated above The page will check whether another user has used the hostname you entered or not as soon as you click the “Add to Cart” button.
ESV4 User’s Manual Once you get to the next page, fill in the necessary fields as illustrated above
ESV4 User’s Manual 71 Go back to the NVR’s DDNS service configuration page under “Setup” >> “System Configuration” >> “DDNS Service”. Fill in the domain name you picked during the registration in the “Domain Name” field and the username/password you created in the “User ID” and “Password” field and click “Apply” to finish You can click the “Check DDNS Status” button to check the DynDNS service status.
ESV4 User’s Manual Time and Date Set the time and date by selecting the time zone according to your location.
ESV4 User’s Manual 73 User Account Multiple users can access the recorder simultaneously. You can add, remove, and edit users by using options provided in this page to keep user information organized. Each recorder comes with a built-in “admin” account with password “admin”. It’s highly recommended to change the password upon your initial login.
ESV4 User’s Manual Add a new user • Enter a username and password in “User Account Information”. All other fields are optional for your own reference.
ESV4 User’s Manual 75 Change the password of the “admin” account 1. Click and highlight the “admin” account in the account list and click “Edit” 2. Its information should be displayed in “User Account Information” 3.
ESV4 User’s Manual Group Privilege Group Privilege is where you can create multiple customized access policies for situations if you need the recorder to be accessed by users other than the administrator. You can do so by creating a group, and then remove access privileges for certain configuration pages or cameras. Users that are created and assigned to this group will have limited access instead of full administration rights.
ESV4 User’s Manual 77 You can change the group name by clicking the “Change Group Name” button. A text box will be displayed for you to enter the new group. Choose what type of privilege you would like this group to have from the “Privilege Type” drop-down menu. Its access privilege will then be displayed.
ESV4 User’s Manual Disk Setup Once you install a hard disk to the recorder, you would need to initialize it so that it can be ready for recording. You can obtain basic information about the disk you installed in this page. To initialize it, simply click the “Format” button. *This page will list the internal disks only. The HDD will be formatted in EXT3 file system. *Maximum capacity of each internal hard disk drive is 3TB.
ESV4 User’s Manual 79 NVR Setup -- Channel Configurations (Web Interface) Add a camera The NVR provides two options for adding a new camera. Users have the option to let the recorder automatically find the cameras or it is possible to enter camera’s information and add it manually. Automatic Search Click the “Search” button to perform the camera search.
ESV4 User’s Manual You should be prompted to install Active Control component the first time you visit the page in order for the search to function properly.
ESV4 User’s Manual 81 Its corresponding information should be displayed in the “Camera Information” section. Enter its username and password and select the channel ID and name the camera. Click on “Detect” to establish connection between the recorder and the camera. If connection establishes successfully, camera’s detailed information should be polled and displayed as below. Adjust its video format, frame rate, resolution or bit rate...etc if you wish.
ESV4 User’s Manual *If cameras are marked with "*" in the search result, it means those cameras are already configured and connected to the NVR. Once the camera's settings are polled and displayed, you can also enable "continuous" recording and adjust its recording quality settings before adding the camera. Some cameras are capable of multiple streaming profiles, in which different video codecs are used for different purposes.
ESV4 User’s Manual 83 You will be able to use different video format for continuous recording if it's a multi-stream capable camera. There are two types of fps settings here, one is the fps that NVR sets back to the camera, and this is the fps NVR will be receiving from the camera. The other is recording fps, which will be limited by the live fps. (ex. if the live fps is set to 10, choosing "Full" in the recording fps meaning it will only record at 10fps maximum. For MPEG/H.
ESV4 User’s Manual Add a camera manually Simply follow the instruction described above but instead of using the “Search” function, enter the camera’s IP address and credential in the “Camera Information” manually.
ESV4 User’s Manual 85 OSD Settings The OSD (On Screen Display) allows users to add informational text message and embed it onto the video. By default, this function is turned off. To add texts to one or more videos: Select a camera you would like to add text to and choose “Display OSD” Choose one or more display options if you would also like the recorder to automatically embed the system time or the frame rate for you. Or simply choose to display a custom message of your own.
ESV4 User’s Manual Click on the “Preview” button to see the preview of your setting and click “Apply” to save the configuration. The texts can be further adjusted with changes to different size, color or font so they can be more visible on the video.
ESV4 User’s Manual 87 PTZ Setting PTZ Preset Settings The recorder supports PTZ cameras and can set multiple preset points or retrieve and manage preset points that are set in the camera. This is helpful if you need to monitor multiple spots in one area from a particular camera.
ESV4 User’s Manual To set up PTZ preset points: 1. Select a camera from the “Camera” drop-down menu and click “Add”. 2. Select a position number for the preset point from the “Position Number” drop-down menu and fill in a name in the “Position Name” field for easier identification. 3.
ESV4 User’s Manual 89 Once you have multiple preset points defined for a camera, it is convenient for monitoring to set up the sequencing viewing among those preset point and let the recorder automatically switch between them for you. To configure preset sequence for a camera, 1. Select a channel from the “Channel” drop-down menu. The available preset points should be listed in “Camera Presets” section. 2.
ESV4 User’s Manual E-Map Setting Local Map Setting E-Map monitor is a function that alerts users whenever there is an event triggered (e.g. motion detected) from a camera with a geographical perspective. With this function, users can quickly identify which camera has detected an unusual event and where this event is happening.
ESV4 User’s Manual 91 To replace the map, click “Browse” button to locate the new map image file from the local PC and then click “Upload”. * Only JPG, PNG, and GIF file formats are supported with file size under 100KB. Then click and drag the camera icon to move the camera to define its location. Access the Local Map Monitor page from the upper-right hand corner menu.
ESV4 User’s Manual When the NVR receives an event triggered from any of the cameras, their videos will be displayed on the E-Map and you can double-click on the video to enlarge it. Google Map Setting The Google Map monitor is a similar function to the aforementioned EMap monitor. It is useful if you are managing multiple cameras from different locations.
ESV4 User’s Manual 93 To configure locations of each camera, first determine the location you’d like to place the camera to on the map. You can do so by: 1. Zoom in to a smaller area by using the zoom control bar on the map 2.
ESV4 User’s Manual Once the location has been determined, click and drag the camera icon to move it to the desired location * The Google Map Monitor requires active Internet connection and cannot be used in conjunction with the regular E-Map monitor function. NVR Setup -- Event Configurations (Web Interface) Event Configuration The “Event Configurations” section allows users to define conditions that constitute an event, its corresponding trigger action and when it will be triggered.
ESV4 User’s Manual 95 General Settings The general settings section can help you quickly configure when an event is triggered, how often events are triggered and the corresponding actions when events are triggered. Start the event configuration by defining the general settings: Define when an event will be triggered • Choose “Always” or “Only during...” under “Event Trigger Duration” • For the “Only during...
ESV4 User’s Manual have the recorder send out a warning message in e-mail or in txt file format and upload it to an destined FTP server
ESV4 User’s Manual 97 DI Settings This function allows users to manage camera’s digital input and output ports right from the recorder. You can setup the recorder to receive triggers from a particular camera’s input port and trigger a device, such as an alarm that is connected to the camera’s output port. 1. For cameras that come with physical digital input ports, their ports will be listed in the far left drop-down menu. 2.
ESV4 User’s Manual Event Servers Configuring an FTP server Event servers are to be used with event trigger actions. In case of unusual motion detected by the camera or a disk failure, the recorder can send notification with the acceptable format (image/txt) to a destined event server according to the configuration.
ESV4 User’s Manual 99 To add an FTP server, 1. Start by giving a name to the server that you are adding to the recorder 2. Enter the hostname or the IP address of the FTP server 3. Enter the communication port of the FTP server (usually port 21) 4. Enter the username and password of the FTP server if it’s required 5. Check “Use Passive Mode” if it’s required or leave it unchecked to use active mode 6.
ESV4 User’s Manual Configuring an SMTP server 1. Enter the hostname or the IP address of the SMTP server 2. Enter the port of the SMTP server 3. Specify the sender’s name in the “Sender’s name” field 4. Enter the sender’s e-mail address 5. Check “Enable Authentication” and enter the username and password of the SMTP server if it requires authentication 6. Click “Apply” to save the configuration *The NVR supports SMTP servers that use base64 or MD5 authentication methods.
ESV4 User’s Manual 101 Event Triggers We have finished defining how an event will be triggered and which servers will be receiving notifications in the previous two sections, now we can finish up the event configuration by setting: • Which channels will have event trigger function enabled • What is considered to be an event • Where the warnings will be sent to and how they will be sent Use the checkbox to enable event trigger on the desired channels.
ESV4 User’s Manual *Once motion detection is enabled in this page, please configure the motion area and enable motion detection in the corresponding channels (cameras) from camera's own web UI. The NVR only detects the first motion area set in the camera. The NVR recognizes the first motion area by its ID number set in the camera. Define which system events should trigger the recorder to send out notifications. Define how the notifications will be sent and where they will be sent to.
ESV4 User’s Manual 103 General Settings You can define the following in “General Settings”: • • • • • • Pre-Alarm/Post-Alarm recording length Recording frame rate Turn on/off HDD recycle function Define to always keep a number of days of previously recorded data Enable/disable different recording types on different cameras Enable/disable audio recording The “recording buffer” allows user to define “pre-alarm” and “postalarm” time for event recordings.
ESV4 User’s Manual * The “Pre-alarm” function only works when the “Continuous” recording is also activated. Recording frame rate allows you to set different frame rate for different types of recording instead of recording at one frame rate only.
ESV4 User’s Manual 105 The HDD space recycle function is turned on by default. You can alternatively turn it off and set a system event in "NVR Setup">>"Event Configurations">>"Event Trigger">>"Event Handling Settings">>"When NVR is triggered by", and set a desired disk remaining space for event trigger condition. You'd have to take action manually after you get the system event notification, such as replacing disk, turn on HDD recycle function, or backup recording data.
ESV4 User’s Manual The section at the bottom of the page allows you to disable audio recording (record video only) of particular channels.
ESV4 User’s Manual 107 Schedule Recording You can define the time range of the schedule recording for all channels in this page. To configure a schedule recording Use the “Channel” drop-down menu and select a camera first. You can use the schedule table to set the time range.
ESV4 User’s Manual recording during a day. Click and move vertically lets you set what days to perform recording at a specific time. * Each cell box represents 15 minutes of time. Click one or more boxes to omit consecutive recording. You can also use the “Quick Configuration” to define recording time range instead of clicking cell boxes one by one on the time table.
ESV4 User’s Manual 109 Device Information The “Device Information” provides the general information of the device such as firmware version and system time. It also provides information of the current network settings and status.
ESV4 User’s Manual Logs and Reports “Logs and Reports” keeps a record of what’s been happening to the device and provides basic information for troubleshooting.
ESV4 User’s Manual 111 Maintenance “Maintenance” provides functions for users to: • • • • • • Reboot the NVR when necessary Reboot cameras directly from the NVR Perform Firmware Upgrade Backup the NVR’s settings to a local hard drive Restore the NVR’s settings from a previously saved configuration file Reset the NVR’s settings to their factory default values
ESV4 User’s Manual Reboot the NVR at a specific time automatically You can configure the NVR to restart automatically by using the options given in the web UI. You can set the NVR to restart at a particular hour of a specific day during a week or a month. Firmware Upgrade The firmware can be upgraded through web UI or USB. Before upgrading firmware, please backup configuration in advance. Through the web interface Login into NVR’s web management UI.
ESV4 User’s Manual 113 On "Upgrade NVR's Firmware" section, click "Browse" and select new firmware file A new dialog should display and let you choose the location of the firmware file. When done, click “Upgrade”.
ESV4 User’s Manual Follow the on screen instruction and wait for the process to finish (After upgrade, the system will reboot automatically) Upgrade through USB thumb drive 1. Prepare a USB flash disk and format with FAT or FAT32 format 2. Place the firmware in the USB flash disk and make sure it’s placed at the top-level directory. Please do not place the file in a folder. (Make sure to change the firmware file name to “firmware” and leave its file extension “.
ESV4 User’s Manual 115 Reset the NVR to Factory Default To reset the recorder back to its factory default, click “Restore Factory Default” button and begin the process. The process should be displayed and you should be prompted back to the “Live View” page after it is complete. To perform hardware reset to default, follow the instructions below: - Power-off the device Press and Hold reset button at the back of the device. Power-on the device Wait till all the LED’s are solid green.
ESV4 User’s Manual Disk Status “Disk Status” gives you more detailed information of the hard drive that is currently installed in the NVR.
ESV4 User’s Manual 117 USB Backup It’s a function that allows users to backup the recording data in its database file format (not AVI) to the externally connected USB hard disk. You can check the “Disk Status” page under “System Options” to see if the USB disk has been detected by the NVR. If it's available, it will also be in the USB HDD drop-down menu in the USB backup page. * It needs a USB disk containing free space larger than 100MB.
ESV4 User’s Manual Once it’s detected, go back to the “USB Backup” page and it should be available for further configuration The USB hard disk(s) will be listed in the drop-down menu displaying the remaining disk space. Make your selection from the drop-down menu if you have more than one disks connected to the NVR. Next, select channels, which you would like to backup the recording data from.
ESV4 User’s Manual 119 • Only one backup process can be performed at a time • Maximum 4 channels can be selected for backup • Only FAT32 USB hard disk is supported for backup • The USB hard disk needs to have more than 100MB remaining space • If multiple partitions are presented in one disk, only the first partition will be detected and used for backup Process: • Progress will be displayed on the UI • If the backup process gets interrupted, which the process stops at a point of time that is before the “END
ESV4 User’s Manual Click “Browse...” to select the file from the USB disk. A new dialog should be prompted for you to select the file location. When done, click “Check” to validate the file.
ESV4 User’s Manual 121 Once the file has been successfully verified, you should be prompted with the message shown below. Select the time zone according to your current location.
ESV4 User’s Manual Finally, click “OK” to begin playing. The player should now play the backed up file.
ESV4 User’s Manual 123 Local UI from HDMI Output Live View Login screen You should be prompted with the login screen first when the NVR is fully started. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
ESV4 User’s Manual By default, the focus should be on the username field.
ESV4 User’s Manual 125 Remote control Simply use the directional buttons on the remote to move between the keys on the virtual keyboard. If you have a USB mouse plugged into the NVR, a mouse cursor will appear on the screen and you can use the mouse to select keys on the virtual keyboard as well. Press the "OK" button on the remote to make the selection.
ESV4 User’s Manual Enter the default username "admin" by using the virtual keyboard. When done, select the "Enter" button on the virtual keyboard and the focus should be moved to the password field.
ESV4 User’s Manual 127 After the default password "admin" is entered as well, select the "Enter" button on the virtual keyboard again and the focus should be moved to the "Log in" icon. Press the "OK" button on the remote to log in.
ESV4 User’s Manual Live View The Local UI basically provides the view functions of both live video and playback video. The Local UI provides viewing video of 1 channel at a time, both live and playback. 1. Top bar (the power, logged in user, system time and dashboard are placed in this area) 2. Video area 3. Functions for live video (From top down: start/stop manual recording, take snapshot, set location of the "Picture-in-picture" live event video coming from other channel) 4. Main menu 5.
ESV4 User’s Manual 129 Side menu By default, the selection focus should be on "Channel 1' on the Channel List. The side bar is basically divided into three sections. At any point, you can use the "Left" or "Right" button on the remote to quickly move to each section.
ESV4 User’s Manual For example, if the selection focus is currently on "Channel 1" (or anywhere in the section "1"), press the "Left" button on the remote will move the focus to the "Manual recording" icon in section "2". Simply use the "Up" and "Down" buttons on the remote to move between icons in one particular section.
ESV4 User’s Manual 131 Use the "Up" and "Down" buttons on the remote to select a channel on the "Channel List" and press the "OK" button on the remote to make the selection. Alternatively, if a USB mouse is connected to the NVR, you can use the mouse and move the cursor to a channel and left-click to make the selection.
ESV4 User’s Manual You can also use the channel selection buttons on the remote to quickly jump to a desired channel.
ESV4 User’s Manual 133 The small dots on the side of the "Channel List" provide the current status of each channel: * * * * White: Disconnected Blue: Connected Green: Recording Dark grey: Not configured
ESV4 User’s Manual Sequence view If the current selection focus is on "Channel 4", press the "Down" button on the remote should move the focus to the "Sequence viewing" icon. Press the "OK" button on the remote will start sequence viewing between all available channels with default 5-second interval. Press the "OK" button on the remote again will stop it.
ESV4 User’s Manual 135 When the focus is on the "Start/stop sequence view" icon, press the "Right" button on the remote will move the focus to the sequence interval drop-down menu. Press the "OK" button on the remote should display all options in the drop-down menu. Use the "Up" and "Down" buttons on the remote to move between selections and press the "OK" button to select the new interval.
ESV4 User’s Manual You can also quickly start/stop sequence viewing by using the "SEQ" button on the remote.
ESV4 User’s Manual 137 If the selection focus is on either the "Sequence view" or the "Sequence interval", press the "Down" button on the remote should move the focus to the "Zoom" icon in the PTZ control area.
ESV4 User’s Manual PTZ Control Once you are in the PTZ control area. Use the directional buttons on the remote to move between icons.
ESV4 User’s Manual 139 Move the selection focus to the "Add preset point" icon and press the "OK" button on the remote will add the current live video as a preset point. Preset point sequence view Once you have multiple preset points added, press the "Down" button on the remote to select the "Preset point sequence view" icon. Press "OK" button on the remote to start sequence view between previously added preset points. Press "OK" again to stop.
ESV4 User’s Manual At any point in Live View, you can enter the PTZ mode by: 1. Pressing the "PTZ" button on the remote 2. Use the directional buttons to simulate pan, tilt, zoom actions as well as jumping through preset points.
ESV4 User’s Manual 141 Manual Recording Recording can be manually started when viewing live video. If the selection focus is somewhere in the green highlighted area shown above, press the "Left" button on the remote will move the focus to the manual recording icon. Press the "OK" button on the remote to start recording right away.
ESV4 User’s Manual You should see an on-screen text notification indicating the recording has been started. Alternatively, you can press the "REC" button on the remote start recording of the current viewing channel right away. Press it again to stop.
ESV4 User’s Manual 143 Take snapshot Before taking a snapshot of the live video, please make sure a FAT32 formatted USB drive is plugged into the NVR. If you had "Manual recording" icon selected, press the "Down" button on the remote to select the "Snapshot" icon. Press the "OK" button on the remote to take a snapshot.
ESV4 User’s Manual You should see an on-screen text notification indicating that a snapshot of the video has been taken.
ESV4 User’s Manual 145 PIP (Picture-in-picture) Event Video The local UI provides live video view of 1 channel at a time. However, you can set a PIP (Picture-in-picture) area on top of the live video, which displays video of another channel when an event occurs. Once you have selected the icon shown above, press the "OK" button to set PIP area on the live video.
ESV4 User’s Manual You should see an area with blue border displayed on the live video area. Use the directional buttons on the remote to select a desired area. You are able to choose from up to 9 different areas. When done, press the "OK" button on the remote to confirm selection. Turn on Audio The local UI is capable of playing audio coming from the camera side, but it is not turned on by default. To turn on audio from the current viewing channel, press the "AUDIO" button on the remote.
ESV4 User’s Manual 147 Full Screen To view video in full screen, press the "Right" button on the remote and move the selection focus to the full screen icon (as shown above). Once selected, press the "ENTER" button on the remote to enter full screen view. Click the "BACK" button on the remote control to exit. Alternatively, you can quickly go into full screen mode by pressing the "FULL SCREEN" button on the remote. Press the "BACK" button to exit.
ESV4 User’s Manual Display video in its original size By default, the video is scaled to fill the entire video area. To view the video in its original size, select the icon shown above and press the "OK" button on the remote to display the video in its original size.
ESV4 User’s Manual 149 Detail channel status Select the icon shown above and press the "OK" button on the remote will give you a detail current status of all four channels.
ESV4 User’s Manual Press the "BACK" button on the remote to dock it away.
ESV4 User’s Manual 151 Dashboard The dashboard provides a detail overview of the system wide information, such as network settings, disk status, and channel status. Press the "BACK" button on the remote to exit. The dashboard is located in the upper-right hand corner and presses the "Up" button on the remote until the selection focus is on the dashboard icon. Press the "OK" button to enter dashboard.
ESV4 User’s Manual Power off To power off the unit, press the "POWER" button on the remote. A dialog will be prompted and the "Power Off" option should be selected. Press the "OK" button on the remote to turn off the unit. There are four options in the prompted dialog and they are (from left to right): 1. 2. 3. 4.
ESV4 User’s Manual 153 Playback To switch to Playback, move the selection focus to the Playback button shown above and press the "OK" button on the remote.
ESV4 User’s Manual The Playback UI provides the similar layout as the live video UI. They also share the same following functions: 1. 2. 3. 4.
ESV4 User’s Manual 155 The NVR is able to play recorded video 1 channel at a time. To search for playback video, select a channel from the "Channel List" first and select a search method from the drop-down menu highlighted in the above picture. There are three different search methods to help you locate the recorded videos. Time Chart Select the "Time Chart" option will display a list in "year".
ESV4 User’s Manual At any point, you can simply press the "PLAY/PAUSE" button on the remote to start playing from the earliest available footage of the current time list on the time chart.
ESV4 User’s Manual 157 Select "Event" from the search method drop-down menu gives you a list of the 15 most recent events. Simply select one from the list and press the "OK" button on the remote to start playing. Export recorded data The recording data can be exported to a USB hard disk. Please connect a USB HDD to the NVR first before exporting the recording video. The export can only be done during the playback of the recorded video.
ESV4 User’s Manual This sets a start time of the exported video. Press "OK" again on the "In/Out" button sets the end time. The video of this time frame will be exported. Next, press the "Right" button on the remote to select the icon highlighted above. Press the "OK" button on the remote to start exporting.
ESV4 User’s Manual 159 The export progress will be displayed. When done, move the USB HDD to a Windows PC and use the NVR media player to playback the exported video. Camera Setup Press the “SETUP” button on the remote to access the setup page.
ESV4 User’s Manual Alternatively, you can use the directional keys on the remote and select the setup icon and press “OK” to go to the setup page. In the setup page, you are able to add, edit, and remove cameras. Select a channel and press the “OK” key to begin.
ESV4 User’s Manual 161 You will be presented with the “Add” action if you press the “OK” key on an empty channel. Click “OK” key again to add a new camera. You will then be given with options to add a new camera with auto search or add one manually.
ESV4 User’s Manual Add camera with Auto Search A list of found cameras will be displayed if you chose to use Auto Search. Use the Up and Down key to select a camera and press the “OK” key to add it.
ESV4 User’s Manual 163 You will then be taken to the next page, which will ask you for the camera’s username and password. Use the directional keys on the remote control to work with the on-screen virtual keyboard to enter them. When done, press the “OK” key to begin detection. With a successful detection, you will be given options to add camera as is, or select “Advance config” to change current video settings before adding it. You can choose to run the detection again if you get a detection error.
ESV4 User’s Manual Advance Config You will be able to change video settings such as video format, resolution, frame rate and video quality if you chose “Advance config”. Choose “Record config” before applying the setting allows you to enable continuous recording and its recording quality as soon as the camera is added. Press the “OK” key on the Apply button to finish.
ESV4 User’s Manual 165 You will be taken back to the Channel List after successfully adding a camera. Press the “OK” key on a channel with a camera already added will give you the option to replace camera on this channel, edit the settings of this channel, or remove the camera. Choose “Replace” will allow you to add a new camera to this channel manually or with Auto Search.
ESV4 User’s Manual Choose “Edit” will take you back to the beginning of the channel configuration page to start over settings again.
ESV4 User’s Manual 167 Add camera manually To add a camera manually, select an empty channel from the list and press the “O” key on the remote control. Press the “OK” key again on the “Add manually” option. Enter camera’s IP address, username and password as well as its HTTP port with the virtual keyboard to finish the process.
ESV4 User’s Manual Specifications Hardware CPU & Memory Ethernet Built- in HDD Internal HDD port (HDD is NOT supplied.) LED indicator Switches Connectors Power Dimensions Weight Operting temperature and Humidity Strage temperature and Humidity Radio Standard Software Camera search Camera setup items Max. Camera number Camera status display Video Compliant codec system Max.
ESV4 User’s Manual 169 Playback Split Screen Search Method Playback Controls Export video format Video Snapshot Recording Recording Mode Type of Scheduling Recording fps Storage period Network Protocols DDNS User Management Management Number of Groups Privileges Trigger & Events Events Event Actions Event Recording Bundle software Central Management SW NVR search SW Log Log Types Systems Minimum Requirements (web) 1 and 4, (local) 1 Time/Date, Event Play/Pause/Stop/Forward/Reverse/Frame by Frame AVI JPEG f
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