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Adding, Editing and Deleting Users
If you wish to allow someone else to use your system, it is recommended that you give them
their own user account. You can have a total of five user accounts, including the admin
account - which is the only administrator-level account permitted. The admin account may not
be edited or deleted, but you can limit other user accounts to what they can or cannot see,
control or change on the DVR. You may only change user permissions while logged into the
admin account.
To add an account, click on Add user.
PICTURE 5-6
PICTURE 5-7
PICTURE 5-8
PICTURE 5-9
PICTURE 5-10
Enter the user name and password for your
new account.
Binding Mac Client is used to limit remote
access by a user to a specific computer. This
is generally reserved for advanced users. You
will need to determine the MAC address of
the computer that will be used, and enter that
address in the field provided.
Once you’ve created a new user account,
you can restrict what options that user is able
to access. For instance, you can allow one
user the ability to only view live feeds from
specific cameras, while giving another user
authority to view all the cameras and play
recorded video, but not allowing either the
permission to change the recording mode or
schedule.
Click Apply to save your new account and permissions.
To edit an account, simply double-click on its name in the list of users while logged in as
admin and make your settings. Be certain to click Apply in order to save your changes.
To delete an account, check the box next to it in the list and then click on Delete.
5.2 ADVANCE MENU
The settings within this menu cover how your camera interacts with the world around it - what
events are triggered when it detects motion, or how you can access it remotely.
ALARM
Your system considers events such as motion detection, drive failure and video signal loss to
be alarms.
Motion
This is the default method used by the
DVR to record events and these settings
do not need to be altered in most cases.
However, certain situations will require
some modification to avoid issues such as
excessive alarms.
A camera will record when the Enable box
next to it is checked.
Sensitivity can be adjusted to determine how much motion will cause recording to begin. The
sensitivity ranges from 1 (most sensitive) to 8 (least sensitive). Reducing sensitivity can lower
the number of false alarms caused by swarming insects, for example.
You are also able to turn off motion detection in certain areas of a camera’s view using the
Area setting.
Clicking on Settings will bring up a live view
from the chosen camera overlaid by a grid of
green boxes. Clicking and dragging will turn
boxes gray, disabling motion detection.
Clicking a gray box will return it to green.
Right-Click to exit.
In the case of Picture 5-10, recording will not be triggered when someone walks down the
hall at the bottom of the stairs, but recording will be triggered if someone climbs them.
You can also use masking to block out items such as flags or busy roads to prevent false
alarms.