User manual
Table Of Contents
- Product overview
- Features
- Installation environment
- Unpacking the TVR 10 and its accessories
- HDD capacity
- Back panel overview
- Connection diagram
- Control interfaces
- Controlling the TVR 10
- Front panel overview
- Using the mouse
- Using the IR remote control
- Using the Web browser
- Main menu overview
- Turning on the TVR 10
- Live mode
- Connecting the spot monitor
- Logging on
- Controlling a PTZ camera
- Manual recording
- Playing back video
- Archiving recorded files
- Turning off the TVR 10
- User settings
- Camera settings
- Display settings
- Recording settings
- Alarm settings
- Network settings
- PTZ settings
- Modifying the device name
- Restoring to factory defaults
- Managing the hard drive
- Acknowledging an alarm
- Rebooting the TVR 10
- Viewing logs
- Upgrade methods
- Upgrading with a USB flash memory
- Upgrading through the Web browser
- Setting up the wftp32 FTP server
- Upgrading using the FTP server
- Display interface
- PTZ interface
- Camera name position configure interface
- Area configure interface
- Text input interface
- Playlist interface
- User interface
- Menu defaults
- Network defaults
- Warranty information
- Contacting support

Chapter 4: Basic operation
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Figure 13: Manual Record screen
The controls and options available on the Manual Record screen are described in
Table 10 below.
Table 11: Manual Record controls and options
Option Description
Camera Lists the number of cameras the TVR 10 has.
Status Camera work status has four values:
• Gray indicates the camera is idle.
• Green indicates the channel is recording (including real time recording,
alarm recording, motion detection recording).
• Red indicates network transmission.
• Orange indicates both recording and network transmission.
Start/Stop The checkmark indicates you can start recording on the corresponding channel .
The X mark means you can stop recording.
Start All Starts recording on all channels.
Stop All Stops recording on all channels.
Manually starting or stopping a recording
This section describes how to manually start or stop a recording.
To manually start or stop a recording:
1. Right-click and then click Manual Record to display the Manual Record screen.
Alternatively, press the REC button on the front panel or remote control.
2. Enter your user name and password if requested.