Remote Monitoring Guide

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1. Make sure the DVR firmware version is 090716 or newer
2. Make sure your DVR has been set for network and can be seen from internet.
3. On the DVR, we need to setup the motion recording first :
A. Go to MENU - DEVICES - MOTION. Turn on all the cameras and set to 2 or 3. Click
APPLY and EXIT
B. Go to MENU - RECORD and RECORD SET - TIME SCHEDULE and click on
SCHEDULE, then click on ALARM at the bottom (check mark), then make the box
red color all across the Sunday. Click on COPY. Now all the “day” will be red. CLick
APPLY and EXIT.
This will record on Motion now.
4. Go to MENU - NETWORK, and on DNS, you need to put your public DNS. Public
DNS can be found in your Router status. Usually there are 2 DNS (dns1 and DNS2).
Use DNS 1 only. If for some reason there is no DNS address here, see (NOTE 1*)
5. Go to MENU - DEVICE - ALARM - EMAIL SETUP: (IMAGE 36) Example here for GMAIL
account (recommended), if you don’t have Gmail account, go www.gmail.com and sign up:
A. Turn ON email (IMAGE 37)
B. SSL : ON
C. Port : 00465
D. smtp: smtp.gmail.com
E. Send email: [e-mail]
F. Password: your password with gmail account
G. Recv email: [e-mail] (do not use gmail email)
H. Click APPLY - OK - EXIT
I. You should be back to Alarm setting screen, click APPLY - OK - EXIT.
IMAGE 36 IMAGE 37
It will take a while before the DVR sending email. (sometimes takes up to 1 hour)
If you still not receive email, login to your GMAIL account and go to Sent folder and look if
there are email being sent out. If you see there are email being sent out, but you still don’t
receive email, check your Junk folder, it might go to this junk folder.
EMAIL NOTIFICATION SET-UP
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