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Operation
NOTE:
This chapter assumes your DVR has been installed and configured. If it has not, please refer to
Chapter 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
.
4.1
Turning on the Power
Once you have installed the DVR following the instructions in
Chapter 2 —
Installation
, it is ready to record.
The unit will take approximately 60 seconds to initialize.
4.2
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 4 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
Quad/Seq
button toggles between quad (2x2) display mode and
sequence mode.
Pressing the
Enter/Pause
button in the Live Monitoring mode will freeze the current
image on the screen until you press the button again. The screen displays
.
The DVR can be set to display the event-detected video in full-screen on the
monitor during the preset dwell time when there is an Event. The video of the
lowest camera number among cameras associated with the event-detected sensor
will be displayed, and the DVR will return to the previous screen format after event
monitoring dwell time. While the event monitoring is activated, the monitoring for
all other subsequent events will be ignored. Pressing the individual camera button
or the
Quad/Seq
button during event monitoring releases the current event
monitoring and displays the selected camera or return to the previous screen
format.
NOTE:
The DVR will not play audio in the Quad mode.
