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 5: Advanced setup
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• If you set your record type to Motion or other related types, you must define the
Motion Detection alarm in order to trigger motion recording. See “Motion
detection alarm” on page 56 for more information.
• If record type is Alarm or other related types, you must define alarms to trigger
alarm recording. See “
Alarm settings” below for more information.
Alarm settings
Use the Alarms screen to define how the TVR 10 handles alarms. You can select how
the alarm settings should be handled such as:
• An external alarm input
• An internal alarm input
• Notification settings
Click Alarms on the main menu to display the Alarms screen as shown in Figure 25
below.
Figure 25: Alarms screen
To set up an external alarm input:
1. Select an alarm input in the Alarm Input box.
2. Select an input type in the Input Type box.
Alarm input type refers to the sensor type. You can select Normal Open or Normal
Close according to the sensor type.
3. Enable the alarm input.