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Record to Storage on Alarm/ Record to Storage Continuously
With the larger Micro SD cards it is practical to use the camera as a continuously recording DVR (Digital Video
Recorder) with the right settings.
A 2 GB Micro SD card has about 1872 usable megabytes of storage space after formatting. At the very highest
settings of video quality with the highest picture size, this is only about 2 hours worth of storage.
However, if you setup the “secondary stream” in the camera’s “ stream setup” menu with 320 x 240 resolution, a
frame rate of 10 fps, and bit rate of 120K, this will be reduced to about 12Megabytes per 10 minutes clip or 75
Megabytes per hour, which allows 24 hours of total recording time. Then with 32 GB Micro SD card this can be
extended to approximately 16 days. Or you can increase video quality via increasing bit rate, which improves
image sharpness and makes motion appear smoother.
After finishing the setting on “Storage” menu, and Micro-SD card or NAS is ready.
You can use motion detection to initiate the recording of video to Micro SD card or NAS (Snapshot to storage on
Alarm). Click on “Recording to storage on alarm” tab under “Task management” menu.
Instead of using motion detection (Snapshot to Storage on Alarm), you can also use the “Snapshot to storage
periodically” menu to take snapshots at regular time intervals (Snapshot to Storage Periodically)
