Remote Monitoring Guide

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E-MAIL
Several DVR functions allow you to send out e-mail alerts when specific events occur.
Configuring this feature lets you set the DVR up to send out alerts via e-mail to a single
recipient. You may need to contact your e-mail provider or IT department for some required
information.
NOTE! Depending upon your settings, the system can generate a lot of e-mail
alerts. For that reason, we recommend setting up a dedicated e-mail address
specifically for the system to send alert notices. If you do not have your own
e-mail system (such as a corporate mail server) you should consider using a
free e-mail provider. However, because many free e-mail services allow only a
limited amount of e-mail traffic we specifically recommend using Google’s Gmail service with
its higher limit. Similarly, you will want the alert e-mails to go to a different account than the
one sending them. This will ease your management of these alerts.
EMAIL
SMTP Server
Anonymous
User Name
Receiver
Sender
Title
Attachment
Encrypt Type
Event Interval
Health Enable
Interval
Min.
Min.
Port
Password
DVR ALERT
smtp.gmail.com 465
3
60
NONE
TestOK Cancel
SMTP Server – This the SMTP server IP
name
Port – This is the port your mail provider uses
User Name and Password – These are for
the sending e-mail address and were
set up when you created the e-mail
account.
Title – This is the subject line of e-mails
generated by this DVR.
Receiver – This is the recipient e-mail
account.
Attachment – This allows the e-mail to
include one or more snapshots as
attachments
SSL Enable – The system supports SSL
encryption when this is enabled.
Interval – This adjusts the amount of time
that will pass before the DVR sends
out another e-mail. The interval
can be set from 0 seconds to ten
hours (3600 seconds). If you are
getting too many e-mails, you may
wish to increase the length of the
interval. Using this feature also helps
overloading your outgoing e-mail
server.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows you to securely share, manage, and distribute files over the
internet. You will need to already have a server and FTP service tool to utilize this feature on
the DVR.
Follow the software’s instructions to set up your service, password and FTP folder. You will
need to grant Write privileges to the FTP upload user.
Enter the FTP server address, port and
remote directory. If the remote directory is left
blank, the system will automatically create
folders according to the IP, time and channel.
User Name and Password – This is the
account information created when
you set up your FTP and is used to
allow the DVR to log into the server.
File Length – This is the maximum length (in
minutes). Files under the maximum
will upload completely. Files longer
than the maximum limit will only
upload to that limit and not continue.
If the value is left at 0, there is no limit
and the system will upload all files
completely.
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The lower portion of this window allows you to set up to two upload periods for each channel.
Recordings made during the time(s) selected will be uploaded to the server. You can specify
which type of incidents will be uploaded as well.