User manual

AXIS Camera Station

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AXIS Camera Station also supports failover recordings. When enabled, a failover recording starts automatically if the connection

between the camera and AXIS Camera Station is lost during an ongoing recording. See Failover Recordings, on page 30.

For information on how to set up recordings triggered by signal s from I/O ports, system alarms, tampering attempts etc, see

Event Conﬁguration Wizard, on page 43.

Continuous and Scheduled Recordings

To set up a continuous or scheduled recording, follow these steps:

1. From the Conﬁguration menu, select Recording Settings.

2. Select the came ra and click Continuous to open Edit Continuous Recording Settings.

3. Check the Enabled box and choose a Proﬁle from the d rop-down list or click Change to create a new media proﬁle.

4. Under Schedule setting select Always for a continuous recording, or select a schedule from the Custom schedule

drop-down list. Click Edit to revise an existing schedule, or click New to create a new schedule. See Set Up Schedules,

on page 39 for more information.

5. Click OK to save settings and start recording.

Note

• Multiple cameras can be conﬁgured at the same time.

• A continuous recording uses more disk space than a trigger ed recording.

Manual Recordings

A m anual recording can be started and stopped from the Live V ie w worksp ace or the Actions menu:

• Open the Live View workspace and click the

button that appears in the upper right corner when the mouse pointer is

over the camera's live view frame. C

lick the button again to stop recording.

•FromtheActions menu, o

pen the Record Manually dialog. Select one or more cameras and click Start to start recording.

Click Stop to stop recording.

During manual recording, a yellow indicator appears in the upper right hand corner of the live view image.

To conﬁgure m anual recording settings, follow these steps:

1. From the Conﬁguration menu, select Recording Settings.

2. Select the camera and click Manual to open Edit Manual Recording Settings.

3. Choose a Proﬁle from the drop-down list or click Chan ge to create a new media proﬁle.

4. Use the sliders to set the Prebuffer and Postbuffer, that i s, the number of seconds to include before starting (prebuffer) and

after stopping (postbuffer) the manual recording.

5. Click OK to save settings.