TABLE OF CONTENTS
- REC200 Front panel
- How to record on the REC200
- How to Play Back on the REC200
- How to reset the REC200
- How to upgrade the firmware of the REC200
- How to upload REC200 recordings by FTP on Filezilla
REC200 Front panel
Front Panel Operation
The front panel can be accessed by pushing the [MENU] Button on the REC200.
1. Use the arrow buttons to move the cursor to the item to be set.
2. Press the [OK] button to enter the corresponding sub-menu, or save the configuration. Press [Menu] to go back.
Front Panel Menu
If you have pushed the [MENU] button, you will open the Root Menu on the REC200. Its structure is displayed
below:
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How to record on the REC200
(Video in English, French and Spanish)
The Record Settings page are shown in the pictures below. Here you can select which way and where a stream is recorded.
1. USB states whether or not a USB device is inserted
2. SD states whether or not a SD card is inserted
3. Storage Device Select either USB or SD to record
4. Record File Format *.ts, *.mp4, *.mov
5. Record Name name the recorded file
6. Record Mode Loop, Size, Time (see pics below)
7. Record Time/ Size Determine maximum recording Time or Size of the file (kilobytes)
8. Loop enable/ disable loop recording when the recording device is full
9. Apply click to save the settings if you changed them
10. Start Recording click on the green button
• MAKE SURE TO SAFELY REMOVE THE USB/SD BEFORE TAKING IT OUT OF THE REC200, IF YOU DO NOT, IT MAY CORRUPT THE LAST RECORDING
• YOU CAN ONLY USE FAT32 USB/SD DRIVES, WITH A MAX OF 128 GB, AND RECORD A MAX OF 4 GB FILE SIZE. AFTER THAT THE REC200 WILL RECORD A NEW FILE WITH A GAP OF 1 OR 2 SECONDS BETWEEN THE TWO FILES.
• You can see how much space is left on the USB/ SD device at the green bar that is slowly turning full.
• Click always on apply when you change some settings! This will save the settings.
• You can start recording (green button) after you clicked on apply.
LOOP record mode enables the possibility to enable continuous recording a file with a max of 4GB :
Take note of the following:
• When the 4G is reached, the REC200 will start a new file with a gap of 1 or 2 seconds in between with the old file.
• When the USB and/or SD card is full, the recorder will start to overwrite the old files!
SIZE record mode enables the possibility to set a specific file size for the record file:
• Maximum recording file is 4 GB.
TIME record mode to select a specific time how long the recording should take:
• You can select a specific time, but you should know that the REC200 can record a file of max 4 GB.
Check always the Recording time table below before you start to record!
• The REC200 starts to continuously record a file when the loop option is enabled.
*** The table below shows how long you can record for different file formats.
• Note that the times are a rough estimation and can possibly deviate a few minutes.
How to Play Back on the REC200
(Video in English, French and Spanish)
In the Play Back tab (REC200 Web Gui) you can configure the settings in order to play back video as a stream. It works the same as streaming and recording, but in this case you can choose the files to be played back.
Playlist (See pic below)
1. Current Playlist : Select default or your own playlist (to add, see below)
2. Add Playlist :
Add your own playlist
Delete Playlist : Delete the Playlist if you want to do that
Modifying Playlist : Add new recorded files or delete files
3. Delete Individual files : Delete Individual files from the playlist if required
4. Add Files : Add individual recorded files
*Note that if no USB/SD device is connected or there aren't any files on them, the pop-up window won't show any file to add (REC200 itself does not store any files):
5. Font Color :
The file will turn red if the file do not exist
The file will turn orange if the file contains an error or cannot be read.
Once you have all the files and/or a playlist to play back, go to the Output Settings section and "Authorize your device" if you wish to link the REC200 with your Google/Youtube account, or you can use a manual mode (UDP, RTMP, HLS, RTSP):
6. Mode : Youtube or manual (UDP, RTMP, HLS, RTSP)
7. Authorize your device (refer to page 18 of REC200 User Manual)
8. Privacy Status : Public or Private (Change it to public to play back the file to your audience)
9. Apply and Start Playback :
Click on APPLY to save the settings and make them effective.
After that click on Start Play Back
*** At the bottom of the STATUS webpage you can find the Play Back section with confirmation of the different settings, as an example:
How to reset the REC200
There are 3 ways to reset the REC200 back to default settings
1- The most recommended method is from the RESET button on the front left side of the REC200 (press it for 10s and the device will reboot with the default Factory Settings):
2- from the web GUI (all will be restored excepted the REC200 ethernet configuration):
Open the device's web GUI (instructions below) and go to SYSTEM SETTINGS tab to click the Factory Settings button at the bottom of the page:
A pop-up window will ask you to reboot, click OK
The reset will make the device reboot and be restored back to its default settings (with the exception of the ethernet configuration which has to be modified directly in the Network section in the System Setting tab)
* Web Gui
- Open a webbrowser and enter the default ip address of the REC200 (see below). The browser will connect to the unit. (Make sure that the ip address of your computer has been put in the same subnet range of the REC200, otherwise the REC200 is not able to connect to your local network or computer. For a detailed guide how to set up your PC to access a device in another subnet, have a look here)
- A login page will appear. Fill in the default Username and Password (Default IP address is 192.168.1.100. Default Username and Password are admin / admin
3-Another way would be from the buttons available on the REC200 front panel: System > Recovery > Yes as confirmed below :
Note that the device needs a hard reboot (unplugging it for several seconds) if you wish to open its web GUI on his default IP address 192.168.1.100 (if previously to the reset it had another IP address)
How to upgrade the firmware of the REC200
(Video in English, French and Spanish)
These instructions below are from the ReleaseNotes_REC200.pdf included in the firmware package (visit the REC200 product page to download the firmware).
Please follow them to upgrade the firmware:
1. Open the file you downloaded from the product page of the REC-200.
2. In the WebGui go to the System Settings page and open the System Operation tab.
3. Click on “upload” under “Upgrade”.
4. Select the firmware file ending on .WVupgrade and upload it to your REC-200.
5. Click on “System Operation” tab on “Reboot” and reboot the REC-200 to make the new firmware active.
How to upload REC200 recordings by FTP on Filezilla
In this example below we are going to upload by FTP a recording stored in the REC200 to the Filezilla server installed on a PC (placed in the same network and IP range than the REC200)
FILEZILLA SERVER
First of all, download and install the Filezilla server from https://filezilla-project.org/
Open it (by default it will take the 127.0.0.1 loopback IP address and its administration port 14148, leave them like this and click OK):
From the interface menu, click on Server > Configure and in the Settings windows go to Users tab to create a user (with/without password, under or not of a group) with Read and Write permissions as in this example:
Don't forget to specify the virtual path (/) and a native path (e.g. C:/FTP as above) of the ftp folder that will receive the uploads.
* As test, you can also install Filezilla Client to send some files (e.g. a text file as below) to your Filezilla Server using the same loopback IP address above or your PC IP address and your FTP user credentials, as example:
REC200
Below in the REC200 web GUI (Record/FTP Upload Setting tab) we are simply following the FTP instructions available in the user manual (Page 26):
- Upload path (FTP://IP-ADDRESS on standard port 21, If you prefer to use another port use the following format: FTP://IP-Address:PORT)
- FTP Username
- FTP Password. Don't forget to click on APPLY everytime you make a change in the settings.
(Note that the 192.168.1.199 is the IP address of my PC when runs the Filezilla server)
Select the file(s) that you want to upload and click START UPLOADING
(If the REC200 keeps trying to upload the file, be sure that the Filezilla server is enabled -click the "Start FileZilla Server" shortcut on the Desktop for instance-)
If successful you get that confirmation pop-up window :
You can also recheck that the file has been correctly uploaded into your FTP folder, as example:
Many issues can arise like related with configuration, communication ("ftp fail:ftpput: can't connect to remote host"), permissions ("ftp fail:ftpput: unexpected server response to STOR: 550 Permission denied"), etc .. the type/number of error received may give a clue about what's wrong
In some cases it may be also useful to disable temporarly the firewall to see if it can cause some issues (FTP port not open etc)