Remote Monitoring Guide

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Advance
This contains all of the additional settings that govern your recorder’s internal operations
including, hard drive management, recording status, user accounts and firmware upgrades.
HDD Manage - This is where you can review the status of any hard drives installed in your
recorder. In addition to showing the amount of free space available on a drive, you can
also change it’s operation to Read Only from Read/Write. This is done if there are
critical recordings on the drive and downloading them isn’t an option at the present.
However, if your recorder only has a single hard drive, changing it to a Read Only
profile will mean that you will no longer be able to record video until you change it to
Read/Write. In the HDD Setting tab you can add selected hard drives to a group.
This option is only available on systems with multiple internal hard drives, but it allows
you to assign specific channels to record onto a selected hard drive using the HDD
Channel submenu, below.
Record Status - This window shows the current recording mode of each channel - Schedule,
Manual or Off. Additionally it shows the status of that channel’s extra stream (sent over
the Internet) as well as whether it has been set to take snapshots. The status of each
channel can be changed by selecting the appropriate radio button and then selecting
Save. Likewise, factory defaults can be restored by clicking on Default.
HDD Channel - As was mentioned above, in HDD Manage, this area allows you to assign
channels to be recorded on a group of one hard drive or more. Obviously, this feature
will only work in systems with more than one hard drive. Please check your model’s
specifications to see if it will support multiple hard drives. This feature can be used, for
example, when some cameras are recording all of the time while others will only record
in the event of motion detection or another alert. The two groups can be assigned to
record on different drives with that for the constantly-recording cameras being set to
automatically overwrite when filled while the alert-only cameras record to a second
drive making it even easier to locate video of the event.
Error Alert -The options in the six tabs located in this submenu allow you to enable alert
messages, emails, alarm uploads and the internal buzzer on the system for disk error,
missing hard drive, drive full, network disconnect, IP or MAC conflict situations.
Alert -Manage and edit user accounts. Because of the availability of a keyboard connected to
your computer, it may be easier to enter user names and passwords in this window
than on the recorder itself.
Auto Maintain -Like computers, your system benefits from occasional restarts to clear internal
files. You can schedule this activity here. Of course, when the recorder restarts, you
will be logged out of the system.
Config Backup -This offers you a way to back up your preferred configuration settings.
Upgrade-You can download firmware upgrades from our support site at www.Q-See.com/
Support to your computer. You can then upload the file to your DVR through this
window.
INFO
This menu contains the System Information, Log and Online User windows found in the Info
menu.
LOGOUT
This returns you to the Login screen. You will have to enter your user name and password
again to go back to viewing the DVR.