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Digital Video Recorder
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Chapter 4 — Operation
NOTE: This chapter assumes your DVR has been installed and configured. If it has not,
please refer to Chapters 2 and 3.
The DVR’s controls are similar to a VCR. As with a VCR, the main functions are recording and
playing back video. However, you have much greater control over recording and playing back
video. You can establish recording schedules based on time of day and day of the week. The
DVR allows you to search through the recorded video using much more sophisticated tools than
those available with VCRs. Additional DVR features that are not available with VCRs are
remote control and viewing, and recording video at the same time you are watching previously
recorded video.
The front panel controls are described in Chapter 3 — Configuration .
Turning on the Power
Once you have installed the DVR following the instructions in Chapter 2 — Installation , it is
ready to record.
Live Monitoring
As soon as the DVR completes its initialization process, it will begin showing live video on the
attached monitor and playing live audio through the attached speaker. The default mode is to
display all cameras at once. Pressing any camera button will cause that camera to display full
screen. It displays live video and plays live audio until the user enters another mode.
Pressing the
DISPLAY
button cycles the DVR through the different display formats.
The DVR can be set to display full-screen video for a preset dwell time when an Event occurs.
Video from the lowest camera number associated with the event sensor will be displayed, the
DVR will return to the previous screen format after event monitoring dwell time expires. While
the event monitoring is activated, the monitoring for all other subsequent events will be ignored.
Pressing individual camera buttons or the
DISPLAY
button during event monitoring releases the
current event monitoring and displays the selected camera or returns to the previous screen
format.