Swann DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER - Recording: Schedule; Advanced Configuration

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Advanced Conguration
Important Guidelines
The schedule presented on-screen applies to one channel on
one specic day of the week only.
Use the Copy To functions to quickly assign identical schedule
layouts to multiple days/channels at once.
Be careful when programming your schedule. It’s one of the
most important aspects of setting up your DVR, and if it’s
wrong in any way, it could lead to disastrous complications
later.
Copy To: There are two Copy To buttons on the Schedule
Menu screen.
Copy To (Week/Day): This is located above the schedule itself,
next to the Week drop down menu where you can select a day
of the week to edit the schedule for.
This button will allow you to copy your settings from one day
to other days. It won’t aect any other channels.
Copy To (Channel): Located at the base of the screen, with
Default on one side and Apply on the other. This will allow
you to copy the schedule from the channel you’re editing to
another channel or channels.
Note: The Action Options for Motion Detection and the
External Sensors will aect the way the schedule works.
By default, all channels are armed to use Motion
Detection as their recording mode, but not to use
external sensors (not included).
Any adjustments in the Alarm -> Action menus will
change the DVRs behavior, even if it is set to Motion or
Sensor Recording mode (see Advanced Conguration:
“Alarm: Motion Detection - Action” on page 45 and
“Alarm: Sensor” on page 46).
Recording Modes:
There are four types of recording to choose from.
Normal: The DVR will constantly record for any period where
Normal is selected. You won’t miss anything, but constant
recording will ll your hard drive very quickly. (The DVR does
record the equivalent of a DVD lm every two hours on every
channel, so that’s rather a lot of data!) Typically, we suggest
Motion as a better recording mode for most users.
Motion: The recommended recording setting for most
applications. The DVR will only record when it detects
something moving in front of a camera, and will then only
record footage from the camera(s) that do detect motion
unless you alter your Action settings “Alarm: Motion Detection
- Action” on page 45 to include other channels.
Before setting any of your schedule to Motion, ensure that
Motion Detection is properly congured for the channel(s)
you want to associate with it. See “Alarm: Motion” on page
42 for more information about setting up and conguring
Motion Detection.
Alarm: The DVR is armed to record if it detects an alarm
event. This is the setting you’ll want to use if you’ve connected
external sensors to the DVR’s alarm block.
Motion / Alarm (M / A): Will trigger the DVR to record on
either an alarm event or motion being detected.
None: As the name suggests, the DVR will not record
anything.
This example image shows
some of the DVR’s recording
modes. If the DVR was
started with this shedule, the
selected channel (in this case
CH1) would:
• Not record anything from
midnight (00:00) to 6am
(06:00).
• Record based on Motion
or Alarm signals from
6am (06:00) until midday
(12:00).
• Record based on Motion
(but not Alarm inputs)
from midday (12:00)
until 6pm (18:00).
• Record constantly
from 6pm (18:00) until
midnight (00:00).
Recording: Schedule