User manual

1) Manual Record

Please enter <Tool Bar>→<Manual Record> to enable or disable manual record on specific channels.

Press the 【●】 button to start/stop recording manually.

Note1: The video type shown in the playback menu for “Manual Record” will appear as “Common Record”

Note2: When Manual Record is enabled it takes precedence over any Record Schedule settings.

2) Record Schedule

Please enter<Tool Bar>→<System>→<Record Setting> to set record schedule. The setting screen is shown

as the figure below:

① The current recording channel

number

② The record schedule

③ Description of record type

FigIV 2Record Schedule

The grid based recording schedule allows users to customize a schedule by inputting different record types

for days of the week on horizontal columns and hours of the day on vertical columns as matches the users

needs.

① Move highlight icon to a time grid using 【Direction】 buttons.

② Specify the recording type by repeat pressing 【OK】 button or double left clicking mouse,(the color of the

grid will change relevantly). Alternatively with the mouse you may click on a record type selection at the bottom

and then click and drag across the grid to change large grid portions at once.

③ Select 【OK】 to confirm settings. The settings will take effect after being saved.

Note1: User can copy the current Record type onto the neighboring grid by pressing 【Fn】 button first ,

【Direction】 buttons secondly, and then the 【Fn】 button again to exit.

Note2: When motion detection recording is selected, the motion detection sensitivity and area should be

set to match your needs. Please refer to 4.4.2 Motion Detection Settings for details. When alarm recording

is selected, the alarm triggering settings should be set to match your needs. Please refer to 4.7.2 Event

Handling for details.

4 Camera Control

1) PTZ Control

*PTZ Settings

Enter <Tool Bar>→<System>→<Video> to set camera channel, protocol, baud rate and ID.

Note: The different PTZ controlled by one PCI should have the corresponding PTZ ID. There are 256PTZ ID

supported currently: 0-255.

*PTZ Operations

In preview mode, select a camera first (in 4/9/16 splits view mode, the selected tile is has a green highlighted

border) using mouse or 【Numbers】 buttons, and then enter <Tool Bar>→<PTZ Control> to bring up the

PTZ control menu as shown below: