PANASONIC Quick Start Guide

Network Video Recorder | Version 1.0.1

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Welcome
Thank you for purchasing our network video Recorder (Without Harddisk)!
This quick start guide is designed to be a reference tool for your system.
Please open the accessory bag to check the items one by one in accordance with the list below.
Contact your local retailer ASAP if something is missing or damaged in the bag.

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Important Safeguards and Warnings
1．Electrical safety
All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes.
The product must be grounded to reduce the risk of electric shock.
We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper
handling or installation.

2．Transportation security
Heavy stress, violent vibration or water splash are not allowed during transportation, storage and
installation.

3．Installation
Keep upwards. Handle with care.
Do not apply power to the NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) before completing installation.
Do not place objects on the NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK).

4．Qualified engineers needed

All the examination and repair work should be done by the qualified service engineers.
We are not liable for any problems caused by unauthorized modifications or attempted repair.

5．Environment
The NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) should be installed in a cool, dry place away from direct
sunlight, inflammable, explosive substances and etc.
This series product shall be transported, storage and used in the specified environments.

6. Accessories
Be sure to use all the accessories recommended by manufacturer.
Before installation, please open the package and check all the components are included.
Contact your local retailer ASAP if something is broken in your package.

7. Lithium battery
Improper battery use may result in fire, explosion, or personal injury!
When replace the battery, please make sure you are using the same model!
CAUTION
RISK OF EXPLOSION IF BATTERY IS REPLACED BY AN INCORRECT TYPE.
DISPOSE OF USED BATTERIES ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS.

Before your operation please read the following instructions carefully.

 Installation environment
 Keep away from extreme hot places and sources；
 Avoid direct sunlight；
 Keep away from extreme humid places；
 Avoid violent vibration；

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  Do not put other devices on the top of the NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK)；
 Be installed in well ventilated place; do not block the vent.

 Accessories
Check the accessories after opening the box：
 Please refer to the packing list in the box *

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 Table of Contents

1 Hardware Installation and Connection .......................................................................... 1

1.1 Check Unpacked NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) ............................................. 1

1.2 About Front Panel and Rear Panel .................................................................... 1

1.3 After Remove the Chassis ................................................................................... 1

1.4 HDD Installation .................................................................................................... 2

1.5 Front Panel............................................................................................................. 3

1.6 Rear Panel ............................................................................................................. 5

2 Connection Sample.......................................................................................................... 6

3 GUI Operation ................................................................................................................... 7

3.1 Boot up ................................................................................................................... 7

3.2 Remote Device......................................................................................................... 8
4 Web Operation ................................................................................................................. 10
4.1 Network Connection.............................................................................................. 10
4.2 Login....................................................................................................................... 10
4.3 Main Window ........................................................................................................ 11
4.3.1 LAN Login ................................................................................................ 11
4.3.2 WAN Login .............................................................................................. 12

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1 Hardware Installation and Connection
Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local electric
safety rules.

1.1 Check Unpacked NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK)

When you receive the NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) from the forwarding agent, please check whether
there is any visible damage. The protective materials used for the package of the NVR (WITHOUT
HARDDISK) can protect most accidental clashes during transportation. Then you can open the box to
check the accessories.
Please check the items in accordance with the list (Remote control is optional). Finally you can remove the
protective film of the NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK).

1.2 About Front Panel and Rear Panel

For detailed information of the function keys in the front panel and the ports in the rear panel, please refer
to the User’s Manual included in the resource CD.
The model number in the stick on the bottom of NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) is very important; please
check according to your purchase order.
The label in the rear panel is very important too. Usually we need you to represent the serial number when
we provide the service after sales.

1.3 After Remove the Chassis

Please check the data cable, power cable, COM cable and main boar cable connection is secure or not.

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1.4 HDD Installation
Important：
Please turn off the power before you replace the HDD.
The pictures listed below for reference only
You can refer to the User’s Manual for recommended HDD brand. Please use HDD of 7200rpm or higher.
Usually we do not recommend the PC HDD.
For detailed operation instruction, please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resources CD.

1. Loosen the screws of the upper 2. Fix four screws in the HDD 3. Place the HDD in
cover and side panel. (Turn just three rounds). accordance with the four
holes in the bottom.

4. Turn the device upside down and 5. Fix the HDD firmly. 6. Connect the HDD cable
then turn the screws in firmly. and power cable.

7. Put the cover in accordance with 8. Secure the screws in the rear
the clip and then place the upper panel and the side panel.
cover back.

④After connect the cable, put the front cover back to the device and then fix screws of the rear panel.

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1.5 Front Panel
For detailed operation instruction, please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resources CD.
The front panel is shown as in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1
Please refer to the following sheet for front panel button information.

Name Icon Function

Power button, press this button for three seconds to boot up or
Power button shut down NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK).

In textbox, click this button to switch between numeral,

Shift Shift
English(Small/Capitalized),donation and etc.

Activate current control, modify setup, and then move up and

down.
Up/1 Increase/decrease numeral.
、
Down/4
Assistant function such as PTZ menu.
In text mode, input number 1/4 (English character G/H/I)

Shift current activated control,

Left/2 When playback, click these buttons to control playback bar.

 
Right/3 In text mode, input number 2(English character A/B/C)
/3(English character D/E/F)
.

Go to previous menu, or cancel current operation.

ESC ESC
When playback, click it to restore real-time monitor mode.

Confirm current operation

Enter ENTER Go to default button
Go to menu

Manually stop/start recording, working with direction keys

Record REC
or numeral keys to select the recording channel.

Multiple slow play speeds or normal playback.

Slow play/8
In text mode, input number 8 (English character T/U/V).
One-window monitor mode, click this button to display assistant
Assistant Fn function: PTZ control and image color.

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 Backspace function: in numeral control or text control, press it for
1.5seconds to delete the previous character before the cursor.

In motion detection setup, working with Fn and direction keys to

realize setup.

In text mode, click it to switch between numeral, English

character(small/capitalized) and etc.

Realize other special functions.

Various fast speeds and normal playback.
Fast play/7 
In text mode, input number 7 (English character P/Q/R/S).

In playback mode, playback the previous video

Play previous/0 |
In text mode, input number 0.

In normal playback or pause mode, click this button to reverse

playback
Reverse/Pause
|| In reverse playback, click this button to pause playback.
/6
In text mode, input number 6 (English character M/N/O)
.
In playback mode, playback the next video
In menu setup, go to down ward of the dropdown list.
Play Next/9 |
In text mode, input number 9 (English character W/X/Y/Z)
.
In normal playback click this button to pause playback
Play/Pause /5 || In pause mode, click this button to resume playback.
In text mode, input number 5(English character J/K/L).

USB port To connect USB storage device, USB mouse.

Network
Network error occurs or there is no network connection, the light
abnormal Net
becomes red to alert you.
indicator light

HDD abnormal HDD error occurs or HDD capacity is below specified threshold
HDD
indicator light value, the light becomes red to alert you.

System is recording or not. It becomes on when system is

Record light 1-16
recording.

IR Receiver IR It is to receive the signal from the remote control.

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1.6 Rear Panel
The PI-NL2208K series rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 1-10.

Figure 1-10

Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.

Port Name Connection Function

Power socket.
 For NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK)22-S2, input DC
12V/4A.
Power input port  For NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK)22-P-S2, input
DC 48V/1.5A.
 For NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK)22-8P-S2, input
DC 53V 120W.
10M/100Mbps self-adaptive Ethernet port.
Network port
Connect to the network cable.
USB port. Connect to mouse, USB storage device
USB port
and etc.
High definition audio and video signal output port. It
High Definition transmits uncompressed high definition video and
HDMI Media Interface multiple-channel data to the HDMI port of the display
device. HDMI version is 1.4.
VGA video output VGA video output port. Output analog video signal. It can
VGA port connect to the monitor to view analog video.
MIC IN Audio input port Bidirectional talk input port. It is to receive the
analog audio signal output from the devices such
as microphone, pickup.
MIC OUT Audio output Audio output port. It is to output the analog audio signal
port to the devices such as the sound box.
 Bidirectional talk output.
 Audio output on 1-window video monitor.
 Audio output on 1-window video playback.
GND Ground end

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2 Connection Sample
Please refer to Figure 2 for connection sample. The following figure is based on our PI-NL2208CK product.

Figure 2

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3 GUI Operation
3.1 Boot up

Caution
Before the boot up, please make sure:
 For device security, please connect the NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) to the power adapter first
and then connect the device to the power socket.
 The rated input voltage matches the device power on-off button. Please make sure the power
wire connection is OK. Then click the power on-off button.
 Always use the stable current, if necessary UPS is a best alternative measure.

Please follow the steps listed below to boot up the device.

 Connect the device to the monitor and then connect a mouse.
 Connect power cable.
 Click the power button at the front or rear panel and then boot up the device. After device booted up,
the system is in multiple-channel display mode by default.

After device booted up, the system goes to startup wizard interface. See Figure 3-1. Click Cancel or Next Step
button, you can see system goes to login interface.

Tips

 Check the box Startup button here, system goes to startup wizard again when it boots up the next time.
 Cancel the Startup button, system goes to the login interface directly when it boots up the next time.

Figure 3-1
Click Cancel button or Next Step, you can see the login interface. Please input user name and password. See Figure
3-2.

System consists of four accounts:

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 Username: ADMIN. Password: 12345.

You can use USB mouse to input. Click to switch between numeral, English character (small/capitalized) and

denotation.

Figure 3-2
Important:

 For security reason, please modify password after you first login.
 Within 30 minutes, three times login failure will result in system alarm and five times login failure will
result in account lock!

3.2 Remote Device

From Main menu  Setting  Camera  Remote device or right click mouse on the preview interface and then
select remote device item, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-3.

Figure 3-3
Tips
In the preview interface, for the channel of no IPC connection, you can click the icon “+” in the centre of the
interface to quickly go to the Remote Device interface. See Figure 3-4.

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 Figure 3-4
Click Device Search button, you can view the searched IP addresses at the top pane of the interface. Double click an
IP address or check one IP address and then click Add button, you can add current device to the bottom pane of the
interface. System supports batch add function.

Click Manual Add button, you can add a device directly. See Figure 3-5.

Important

Please note the manual add function is for Panasonic, CPPlus, Dahua, Sony, Dynacolor, Samsung, Axis, Arecont,
ONVIF and custom. When the type is the custom, you can just input URL address, user name and password connect
to the network camera without considering network camera manufacture. Please contact your network camera
manufacturer for the URL address.

Figure 3-5

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4 Web Operation

Important

 Slightly difference may be found in the interface due to different series.

 The following operation is based on 32-channel series product.

This series NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) product support the Web access and management via PC.
Web includes several modules: Monitor channel preview, record search, alarm setup, system configuration, PTZ
control, monitor window and etc.

4.1 Network Connection

Before web client operation, please check the following items:

 Network connection is right

 NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup (Main Menu 
Setting  Network)
 Use order ping ***. ***. ***. *** (* NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) IP address) to check connection is OK or not.
Usually the return TTL value should be less than 255.
 Open the IE and then input NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) IP address.
 System can automatically download latest web control and the new version can overwrite the previous one.
 If you want to un-install the web control, please run uninstall webrec2.0.bat. Or you can go to C:\Program
Files\Webrec to remove single folder. Please note, before you un-install, please close all web pages, otherwise
the un-installation might result in error.
 Current series product supports various browsers such as Safari, firebox browser, Google browser. Device only
support 1-channel monitor on the Apple PC.

4.2 Login

Open IE and input NVR (WITHOUT HARDDISK) address in the address column. For example, if your NVR (WITHOUT
HARDDISK) IP is 10.10.3.16, then please input http:// 10.10.3.16 in IE address column.

System pops up warning information to ask you whether install Web plug-in or not. Please click yes button.

If you can’t download the ActiveX file, please modify your IE security setup. After installation, the interface is shown
as below. See Figure 4-1.

Please input your user name and password. Default factory name is ADMIN and password is 12345.

Note: For security reasons, please modify your password after you first login.

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 Figure 4-1

4.3 Main Window

4.3.1 LAN Login

For the LAN mode, after you logged in, you can see the main window. See Figure 4-2.
Click the channel name on the left side; you can view the real-time video.

Figure 4-2

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4.3.2 WAN Login

In WAN mode, after you logged in, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-3.

Figure 4-3
For detailed operation information, please refer to the User’s Manual included in the resources CD.

Note
 For detailed operation introduction, please refer to our resource CD included in your package for electronic
version of the User’s Manual.
 Slight difference may be found in user interface.
 All the designs and software here are subject to change without prior written notice.
 All trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
 If there is any uncertainty or controversy, please refer to the final explanation of us.
 Please visit our website or contact your local service engineer for more information.

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