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5. DVR OPERATION
5.1 LIVE MODE
1. Press the “DISP” button to turn the onscreen display ON or OFF. The onscreen
display shows the channel, date, and time.
2. Press the “INFO” button to display system information and conguration.
3. When the hard disk information icon turns to red, this indicates that the hard drive is
full. To avoid this situation, set the DVR recording mode to OVERWRITE.
4. Press the “CH” button to switch between full screen camera views.
(CH1 – CH8).
5. Press the “SPLIT” button to switch between “Full Screen/Quad Screen/
9-Split Screen”.
6. Press the “SEQ” button to turn Sequence Mode on or off. Full screen channel auto
sequence will skip the channels that show video loss (i.e. the cameras that are
unplugged or not powered on).
7. When video loss occurs, a video loss message will be shown on the screen.
8. During an alarm triggered event the corresponding channel name will be changed
to the color red.
9. During a motion triggered event the corresponding channel name will be changed
to the color red and display “M”.
10. When an alarm event occurs, the SPOT monitor (when plugged into the SPOT Out
port) will immediately switch to the full screen view of the channel that has been
triggered by an alarm event, and will then return to previous channel
switching status.
11. Live monitoring operations have no effect on recording functions.