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Quick Start Guide

VXH-4 & VXS-8

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For VXH-4 & VXS-8 digital video recorders

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TECHSHELL 4/8 DVR Quick Start Guide

1. Install Hard Drive &DVD Writer

1.1Install Hard Drive

Notice: 1.This series support one SATA hard drive. Please use the hard drive the

manufacturers recommend specially for security and safe field.

2. Please calculate HDD capacity according to the recording setting. Please refer

to “Appendix B Calculate Recording Capacity”.

Step1: Unscrew and Open the top cover
Step2: Connect the power and data cables. Place the HDD onto the bottom
case as below.

Fig 1.1 Connect HDD

Step3: Screw the HDD as below.

Note: For the convenience to install, please connect the power and data
cables firstly, and then screw to fix.

Fig 1.2 Screw HDD

2. Connections

2.1 Rear view for 4-ch DVR

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Fig 2.1 Rear view for 4-ch DVR

Video out

：

Connect to monitor

Connect to monitor as an AUX output
channel by channel. Only video display, no
menu show

Audio output, connect to the
sound box

Video input channels from 1-4

POWER INPUT

VGA output, connect to monitor

Network port

Connect USB mouse or connect external
USB devices

Connect to speed dome

Connect to keyboard

1-ch relay output. Connect to
external alarm

+5 V and Grounding

Connect to external sensor1-4

4 CH Audio input

2.2 Rear view for 8-ch DVR

Fig 2.2 Rear view for 8-ch DVR

Video out

：

Connect to monitor

Connect to monitor as an AUX output
channel by channel. Only video display, no
menu show

Audio output, connect to the
sound box

Video input channels from 1-8

POWER INPUT

VGA output, connect to monitor

Network port

Connect USB mouse or connect external
USB devices

Connect to speed dome

Connect to keyboard

1-ch relay output. Connect to
external alarm

+5 V and Grounding

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Connect to external sensor1-4

4 CH Audio input

3. Power on

Step1:  connect  with  the  source  power;  switch  on  the  power  button  near  the
power port in the rear panel
Step2: the device will be loaded, and the power indicator will display blue
Step3:  before  start,  a  WIZZARD  window  will  be  pop-up  and  show  some
information  about  time  zone

，

time setup

，

network configuration, record

configuration and disk management. User can setup here and refer to the
concrete setup steps from the corresponding chapters. If users don’t want to
setup Wizard, please click Exit button to exit.
After the device power on, if there is no menu or only has live image display,
user can long press ESC button to switch.

Notice: this serial device can only display menu on VGA monitor or BNC monitor at one

time, if there is live image display without menu display, please check up whether other

device has menu display firstly, or long press ESC key to wait for login dialog box to appear.

Long press ESC key can switch the output between BNC and VGA.

4. Basic setup

4.1 Accessing the DVR menus

4.1.1 Login

Press the MENU button which will bring the LOGIN dialogue box and enter
the user name: admin and password: 123456

Fig 4.1 Login

4.1.2 Main menu setup

Click right mouse, or press ENTER button on the front panel can enter into
the main menu. Menu-System refer to Fig 4.2

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Fig 4-2 Main menu setup

Basic configuration: user can set video system, menu language, audio, time
and authorization check.

Live configuration

：

User can set name/time display, picture color and hide

cameras.

Record configuration

：

User can set record quality, frame rate, resolution, time

stamp and recycle.

Schedule configuration: users can set schedule for timer, motion detection,
and sensor alarm respectively.

Alarm configuration: users can set sensor type, alarm trigger and buzzer
alarm.

Network configuration: Users enable network function, and configure IP
address, DDNS, transmission video parameters here.

User configuration: Administrator can add, delete users, and change their
authorization

PTZ configuration: users can set protocol, baud rate, address, presets and
auto cruise track here.

Reset configuration: users can reboot the device.

4.2 DVR recording modes

User need to install and format a HDD, and set all the recording parameters
before recording. There are four kinds of record modes.

4.2.1 Manual Recording

User can press REC button on the front panel after quitting system setup.
Press this button again to stop recording.

Or press REC button on remote controller, click again to stop.

Or click REC button on the tool bar with mouse, click again to stop.

4.2.2 Schedule Recording

Enter into main menu—schedule configuration (refer to Fig 4-3). Users can
set different schedule time for every day in one week. If user wants a special

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schedule for one day can use Holiday function.

The column means the seven days of a week from Monday to Sunday, the
row means 24 hours of a day. Click the grid to do relevant setup. Blue means
checked area, gray means unchecked area.

Fig 4-3 Schedule record setup

4.2.3 Motion Detection Recording

Motion detection recording: when there is a motion event detected, the
camera will be triggered to record and have an alarm out.

Enter into main menu-alarm configuration-motion configuration (refer to Fig
4-4), enable Detection first;

Fig 4-4 Motion detection interface

Enter Motion detection area (refer to Fig 4-5) to set Sensitivity and Detection
area.

Fig 4-5 motion detection area setup

4.2.4 Alarm Recording

Enter into main menu-Alarm configuration-sensor alarm record (refer to Fig
4-6), enable Detection first, setup the device type.

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Fig 4-6 sensor alarm record

Enter into Trigger configuration, select alarm out and recording cameras and
linked PTZ; set Alarm out hold time and Buzzer hold time. Click OK to save
settings.

4.3 Playback

This unit supports live record playback, time search and event search. It
displays full or 4 screens in playback.

4.3.1 Live playback

Click Play

button to playback the record. Refer to Figure4-7. User can do

concrete operation by click the buttons on screen.

Fig 4-7 live playback

4.3.2 Time search

Enter into Search configuration, select Time search. If it recorded in a certain
day, the date will show highlight.

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Select a date, press Search button, click the time grid to set the play start time
or input play record time manually. The selected time match the blue grid.

Click Play button. It will play from the time point where user set.
Click the relative buttons on the screen to do fast forward/rewind, pause, stop,
and change the screen mode and re-search.

Fig 4-8 time search

4.3.3 Event search

Enter into Search configuration, select Event search (refer to Fig 4-9), and
choose a certain day in the event search interface.

Click  Search  button,  the  searched  event  information  will  displayed  in  the
event  list  box,  user  can  select  date,  channel,  tick  off  Motion,  Sensor  or  All
accordingly.
Double click a video file to playback.

Fig 4-9 Event search

4.4 Back up

This unit supports backup by USB Flash and USB HDD.

Enter into Backup interface (refer to Fig 4-10), set the start & end time, select
channels, click Search button; the searched data will be displayed in the data
backup list box.
Press Backup button, it will begin to write video from HDD inside DVR to

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backup device. Click Start button to start backup.

Fig 4-10 Backup setup

5. Remote Surveillance

To making remote access, the DVR should be connecting to LAN or Internet.
There are three kind of method for remote accessing.

5.1 Using DHCP to get IP address automatically

Click the Menu button, enter into System—Network configuration (refer to Fig
5-1), enable DHCP in the both the DVR and the router.

Fig 5-1 Network configuration

Enter Video to set network video parameters like resolution, frame rate etc.
Open an IE browser on computer on the same LAN. Input the IP address of
the DVR in IE address blank and enter.
IE will download ActiveX automatically. Then a window pops up and asks for
user name and password.
Input name and password correctly (the default user name is admin and the
password is 123456), and enter. It will show the remote picture.
Note

：

If the ActiveX cannot be downloaded or installed, please refer to

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Appendix A Q7 in the user manual.

5.2 Access DVR on WAN

Input  IP  address,  Subnet,  Gateway.  If  using  DHCP,  please enable  DHCP  in
both the DVR and router.
Enter Video to set network video parameters like resolution, frame rate etc.
Forward IP address and port number in Virtual Server setup of the router or
virtual server. Close firewall.
If users want to utilize dynamic domain name, need apply for a domain name
in  a  DNS  server  supported  by  the  DVR  or  router.  Then  add  to  the  DVR  or
router.
Open  IE  browser,  input  IP  address,  or  dynamic  domain  name  and  enter.  If
HTTP port is not 80, add the port number after IP address or domain name.
IE will download ActiveX automatically. Then a window pops up and asks for
user name and password.
Input name and password correctly, and enter to view.

5.3  Connect the DVR to Internet through dial-up ADSL

Input  IP  address,  Subnet,  Gateway  gotten  from  your  ISP.  If  using  ADSL,
please input user name and password, and click OK.  The DVR  will connect
the server and show “connection succeeds”.
The following steps are the same as STEP4-7 of the connection way above.
If users want to utilize dynamic domain name, need apply for a domain name
in a DDNS server supported by the DVR or router. Then add to the DVR or
router.
Open  IE  browser,  input  IP  address,  or  dynamic  domain  name  and  enter.  If
HTTP port is not 80, add the port number after IP address or domain name.
IE will download ActiveX automatically. Then a window pops up and asks for
user name and password.
Input name and password correctly, and enter to view.

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