Swann SW243-8N8 manual

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    DVR8-NET -8000 8 Camera Digital V ideo Recorder Multi Function Monitoring & Recording Solution U U s s e e r r M M a a n n u u a a l l SW243-8N8 V er 2.0[...]

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    8 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Security Notice z Power supply This Digital V ideo Recorder uses D C 12 volt age indoor power su pply . The voltage of the power must be v erified before using. When the DVR is n ot in use for a lo ng time, pull out the plug from the socket and disconnect the power . z Security This DVR is for indoor use only; in o[...]

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    8 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder T able of Contents SYSTEM SETUP ..................................................................... 1 1. U SING THE S ETUP MENU ................................................................................................................. 1 2. A CCESSING TH E M ENU .............................................[...]

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    8 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 2.T URN OFF THE DVR ......................................................................................................................25 3.N ORMAL R ECOR DING .................................................................................................................... 25 4.A LARM R ECORDING .............[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder S S y y s s t t e e m m S S e e t t u u p p Before using the DVR, please set up the syst em according to your nee ds and location; otherwise the DVR will run in the default settings which may be unsuitab le for you. 1. Using the Setup Menu When in setup m ode, press UP and DOWN button to move the cursor through the[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder window will appear , which is illustrated as bel ow . LANGUAGE SET : language set of the DVR, pre ss “RIGHT” or ”LEFT” to change language. PLA Y REPEA T : continuously play the re cord list in HDD, if set to” YE S". VIDEO SYSTEM: switc h the video format to s uit the TV standard of your country , NTS[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder . Please press up, down, left, and right buttons to move the cursor , pre ss "LEFT" and "RIGHT" buttons to m odify the value. FORMA T : the date display format, which can be differ ent for USA, EURO and Australian users. DISPLA Y : if set to “OFF”, the time will not disp lay no the screen. 5[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 6. Factory Reset When the cursor m oves to F ACTOR Y RESET , press the enter button, and the Factory Reset window will appear . If you select “Y ES” and press the enter but ton, all the DVR settings will reset to default, if you do not w ant to reset to defaul t settings, please sele ct “NO”. 7. Change Pass[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder will display as bel ow: Please enter the curre nt password, then input new p assword and confirm the passwor d. 8. Firmwar e Update When the cursor m oves to FIRMW ARE UPDA TE, please press ent er button, and the firmware update window will appear . Update Metho d: There are two methods t o update the DVR firm ware[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 9. Display Set When the cursor m oves to Display Set, please press the Enter button, the Display Set w indow will appear . 10. Camera Name When the cursor m oves to Camera Nam e, please press the Enter button, th e Camera Name Setup window will appear . 6[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Press the up or dow n button to select c hannels, press the Enter bu tton to change the ch annel name. Each channel’ s name is a combination of eight ch aracters. Press left or right butt on to select each character , press LEFT or RIGHT button to modify each characte r , and then press enter button to save this [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Press LEFT or RIGHT button to select CON/ BRI/HUE/SA T , press UP or DOWN button to change the val ue, if setup over , press UP or DOWN button to change channel. 12. Autoseq Set When the curs or moves to Autoseq Set, ple ase press enter button, t he Auto Sequence Setup window will appear . Press the UP or D OWN but[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder you cannot access t his menu unless you stop record or play first. OVER WRITE: if set to “YES”, the DVR w ill automatically overwrite the HDD from the beginning when the HDD is full. If set to “NO”, the DVR will auto matically stop recording when the HDD is full. If there are two HDD in the DVR, when the MA[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 15. Audio CH Set When the cursor m oves to Audio CH Set, press the En ter button, the Audio CH Set window will appear , as illustrated bel ow . There are four audio inpu t channels, for each cha nnel you can select anyone of the 8 channels. Although there are fo ur audio input channel s, you can only record from o [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 17. Network Set When the cur sor moves to Network Set, press the Enter button, and the network s etup window will appear . Please note if the Netviewer s oftware is connected to the DVR. Y ou cannot access this menu unless you close the Netviewer softw are. IP MODE: the DVR has 2 IP modes, ST A TIC IP and DHCP , if[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder If one channel h ere set OFF , this channel will not transmit to the network, so if you want to see a channel from network, you must to s et this channel ON. 19. Mac Set When the cursor moves t o Mac Set then press the Enter but ton, the Mac Set window will appear . If you have more than one DVR in a local are a ne[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder ALARM ENABLE: alarm trigger switch, can be se t to off, N.C(norm al closed) or N.O(norm al open). If users set it to off, the DVR w ill ignore the alarm input. MOTION ENABLE: Motion alarm switch, can be set to ON or OFF . If set to off, the DVR will ignore the m otion alarm. MOTION LEVEL: motion sensitiv ity level,[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder When in night as below , please set to normal leve l. Note: the above suggestions ar e a guide only based on testing in a gener al environment. Y ou will need to select the best parameters according to the actual operation envir onment you are covering. T ry different settings until you get the desir ed motion dete[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder If the area marker icon is set to yellow , this area is monitored for m otion detection, and if the icon is blue, motion sensing is disa bled for that area. 23. Schedule Set When the cursor m oves to Schedule Set, press the Enter but ton, and the schedule setup window will appear . Y ou can change a recordi ng sche[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder select manual rec ord mo de, schedule record mode will be disabled. 24. Backup Set When the cur sor moves to Backup Set, p ress the Enter button, an d the backup setu p window will appear . There are two ty pes of backup modes, U SB and CD_R W . If you select U SB backup, plug in th e USB device, and press the Ente[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 25. S torage Info When the cursor m oves to Storage Info, press the Enter button, and the st orage info window will appear . 26. Protocol Set When the curs or moves to Protocol Set, press t he Enter button, and the Protocol Set window w ill appear . Y ou must set the correct prot ocol so you can contr ol a Pan T il[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder DOME ADDR: The address of the spee d dome camera, changeable from 0x00 to 0xff. PROTOCOL: The protocol of speed dome camera: PELCO-D,PELCO-P ,NEON,SAMSUNG B B u u t t t t o o n n s s o o n n t t h h e e F F r r o o n n t t P P a a n n e e l l The front view of the video-reco rder is illustrate d as belo w . 1. Reco[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder press the button, t he play speed will increas e from slow to fast and then back to slow . 5. MODE: Mode change key , press this key to switch to shift m ode, re-press to change to normal m ode. 2. Function Control Area 1. 1/Auto : Au to key , in shift mode, press this button, the DVR will be in a uto-dwell state, [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder will be a waterm ark symbol in each pictur e, press watermark key again t o clear the display . If not in playing m ode, press this button to c all PTZ function. 7. 6/Schedule: schedule key , in shift m ode, press this button to enter s chedule state, if the D VR is in schedule state, there will be a “S ” symbo[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder While selecting m enu items, press this button to move up the cursor . 2. Big pictur e /down: Press this butt on to see full screen, re-press th is button to see the preview channel.. While selecting m enu items, press this b utton to move down the cursor . 3. Four pictures/left: Press this button t o see four pict[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Each part of the back panel is illustrated as below: 1. V ideo input 1-8 2. main output 3. assistant monitor 4. S-video 5. audio input 6. a udio output 7. net interface 8. USB port 9. alarm and RS485 port(see below) 10. debug port 11. power Alarm and RS485 port define: 1---12: sensor 1---sensor 12 13,20,24,25: GND [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 3. Alarm Connection The DVR can support 8 alarm input and 1 alarm output. Alarm input: There are two types of alarm input. A: N.O. Normal open, close when triggered. DVR must set as N.O B: N.C. Normal close , open when tr ig gered , DVR must set as N.C. Please refer to the picture be low, channel 2 to channe l [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 4. Hard Disk Connection 1. Open the c over of the hard disk enc losure and unlock it using the su pplied key . When u nlocked, the key will b e vertical as shown. 2. Carefully lift the handl e on the front of the caddy and remove it from the housing. 3. Slide the to p cover of the caddy towards the back (the end wi[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Note: If the DVR comes with a CD-R W , please follow the steps below . Open the DVR cover , fix the HDD to the DVR HDD shelf of so leplate, then conn ect th e power and digit cable. If you have another HDD, please jump the first one to MASTER and the other to SLA VE, put that HDD on the other HDD shelf, and then co[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder and the system is set to automatic overwrite, t he recording will not be in terrupted but the DVR will automatically begin to overwrite recorded vide o from the earliest (oldest) recorded area. If th e system is set to overwrite disabled, it will stop recording once the HDD is full. 4. Alarm Recording Alarm recordi[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder recording is playi ng to see faster playback. Press the PLA Y button to return to norm al speed playing from the current pla ce. Continuous pressing of the FWD button will chang e the fast-forward between four levels of speed (X2, X4, X8, X16,) i n sequence. Continuously pressing the REW button will change the f as[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder · 8. T ime Search Move the cursor to T ime Search, then press the Enter butto n and the T ime search window w ill appear , as illustrated as below . The red block below the num ber means th ere is recorded video at that time. Press the LEFT and RIGHT buttons to move t he cursor along the year , month, day , hour a[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder If you want to search fro m MASTER HDD to SLA VE HDD, press the SERACH button, and then press Enter bu tton. Press the Menu butto n to exit. 10. Record Search Move the cursor to the R ecord Search, press the Enter butto n, and the record search win dow will appear . All recorded segm ents are displayed here, press [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder If you want to change the between the MASTER HDD and SLA VE HDD, press the mode button, then press Enter bu tton. Press the Menu butto n to exit. 10. USB Backup If you want to use this function, the first step is to format USB device with “F A T” system on your computer . NOTE: the D VR doesn’t supp ort “F [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 12. CD_R W Backup This function is only selectable, if your DVR comes with a CD_R W . If you enter CD_R W backup menu, y ou will see the screen belo w: Start T ime Set: you can set the backup start tim e: ST AR T : backup start time. END: backup end time. Backup S tart: start backing up with CD_R W . If you select [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder If backup finish, y ou can use the netview er soft’ s Scan disk function to see the video on CD. If the CD has been wr itten, press USB button t o format the CD 32[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 13. USB Update Using your PC, create a fol der ca lled “firmware” in the root dire ctory of your USB m emory stick, copy the up date files to the folder . Plug the USB device into the DVR, go to the m enu of Backup set, check that whether the USB dev ice was detected, g o to the Firmware Update menu and select [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 15. Information Display In shift mode, press dis play button, the m ain information of the DVR will display on screen. HDD SIZE: the size of the hard disk HDD USED: the used space of the hard disk. HDD READ: current HDD address for playback OVER WRITE: overwrite time of the HDD NETWORK IP: IP address of the DVR. RE[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 16. PTZ Operation This DVR can control all s peed domes which are connected to the DVR. T o cont rol the speed dome, make sure al l the line s are co rrectly connected, fi rst you must set the right protocol, baud rate, and spee d dome’ s address for each speed dome, please refer to protocol set. For example, you[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Press the PTZ button one more t ime to exit from PTZ control. 17. REMOTE CONTROLLER REC: S tart or stop recording SCHEDULE: S tart Schedule recording function 0~9: Select channel or input password 2x2 : Display Quad mode on screen 3x3 : Display all 8-channel cameras on screen AUTO: Same with “ Auto ” button on [...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 18. USING THE NET VIEWER Use the PC view software, you can view the DVR through Internet or intranet, also, you can view and backup the video data on the HDD through a computer . Open the software; you will see the window belo w: 18.1 Setting Please click button, you w ill see the window be low: Enter the IP addres[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 18.2 Login Netviewer Press bottom, you can see the login box . Enter the correct password and click ok to login DVR. < C o n n e c t s u c c e s s > < C o n n e c t f a i l > 18.3 Liveplay Click play but ton to see live pic ture, 38[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 18.4 Playback After clickin g “Playback” tab, net search wi ndow will display . First, you have to select th e HDD of the DVR. Click the “Get reco rd list” or “Get event list”, if th e DVR has record list, you can see th e window below: Double click the record list; y ou can see the pl ayback video. The[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 18.7 Save to A VI T o record the video to your PC’ s HDD with “.avi” file system, just click" A V I" button, and the following win dow will pop-up Here, select the record channel and click "+" icon to define the file name and save path and click "ok" to start the A VI save. Re-pr[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder 18.7 Save to DVR T o record the video stream to your PC’ s HDD , just click" DVR" bu tton and the video stream will be saved in th e directory that you s et (the default directo ry is c:DVR) Note: to play the fi le saved to DVR, just c lick "FilePlay" tab t o open it. 18.8 PTZ Contr ol T o c[...]

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    8-Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Main standard & parameter chart Item Specification V ideo signal NTSC/P AL V ideo input Composite : 1.0V p-p/75 Ω , BNC × 8 V ideo output Composite : 1.0V p-p/75 Ω , BNC×2, S-video Audio input -8Db 22K Ω , RCA connector × 4 Audio output -8Db 3K Ω , RCA connector × 2 Alarm input 8 Alarm outpu[...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder A A p p p p e e n n d d i i x x A A : : T T r r o o u u b b l l e e s s h h o o o o t t i i n n g g g g u u i i d d e e Q . What kind of camera should I buy for this DVR? A . Any BNC or RCA interface indoor /out door/infrared camera will work with the DVR. It does n’t matter whether it’s a col or or black/wh[...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Q. Why cannot I access T im e/Date Set, HDD Format Set, Record Set menu? A. Please stop record or play before you access these menu. Q. Why ca nnot I access Network Set m enu? A. Please stop the connection of the PC V iew so ft from Internet before you access Network Set menu. Q. I press record button, but the D[...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Press the ADD or DEC buttons to change the language and press the ENTER button to select your language. Now fully exit the menu system and rest art your DVR. 45[...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder A A p p p p e e n n d d i i x x B B : : R R e e c c o o r r d d T T i i m m e e T T a a b b l l e e Rec rate field/sec Picture qualit y Resolution Recording time 60 fps V ery high 720 47 hours 60 fps Low 720 125 hours 120 fps Normal 360 47 hours 1 fps Norm al 720 4500 hours Note: The above figur es are fr om our[...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder A A p p p p e e n n d d i i x x C C : : I I n n t t e e r r n n e e t t V V i i e e w w / / P P l l a a y y b b a a c c k k C C o o n n f f i i g g u u r r a a t t i i o o n n s s 1. About Networks Users will generally use the following network types an d hardware: 1): Local Area Netw ork (LAN): An internal netw[...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder MODEM, then the ports have all opened by default. If not, pleas e close fire wall by gu idance of the ADSL MODEM user's manual. 3): In case you connect to I nternet by proxy server , users should u tilize port mapping software and open ports 5000, 5001, and 5002 for the surveillance com puter . 4): In case [...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder As ADSL and CABLE MODEM network users usually use dynamic IP address, so once the MODEM restarts, the IP addresse s will cha nge. For this situation, users shoul d apply for DNS services. T o us e the Swann DVRs with remote vi ewing capabilit ies you may have to “open “ ports on your W indows® Firewall, yo [...]

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    8/16 Channel Digital V ideo Recorder Swann T echnical Support All Countries E-m ail: tech@swann.com.au T e lephone Helpdesk UNITED ST A TES toll free 877-274-3695 (Sun-Thurs, 2 pm-10.30pm PST) USA Exchange & Returns 562-777-2551 (Mon-Fri, 9a m-4pm PST) AUSTRALIA toll fr ee 1300 13 8324 (Mon-Fri, 9am- 5.30pm Aus EST) International +61 3 8412 46 [...]