Setup guide

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Events Active
Select whether the alarms and activity are On or Off for day, night and
weekend schedules.
Note: If any of the cameras or zones have been changed so the individual
settings (day, night, weekend) are different to the other cameras within the
group then the Events Active option will display ‘Custom’ to show that the
settings are different.
The Standard Record menu will change if the Schedule Rates option within the
Record Options menu is disabled. The day, night and weekend settings will be
replaced with Rate setting which will allow permanent fixed rates to be set for
the standard record rate and the event record rate.
Note: This also applies to the Variable Record Schedule.
Event Mode
This allows exclusive or interleave recording to be selected within any of the
operating modes (Day, Night, Weekend) and used to adjust the record
sequence when an alarm is received. The options for event recording are:
• Unchanged – This sets the record sequence to remain the same whether
an alarm is present or not.
• Exclusive – The Digital Sprite 2 will only record the alarm cameras.
Standard and Event PPS
Select a record rate in pictures per second (PPS) to be recorded across all
enabled cameras. The Standard Record rate will be the number of PPS
recorded when the unit is in non-alarm mode. The unit will switch to the Alarm
rate when an alarm is triggered.
Note: The maximum record rate is 25PPS/30PPS (PAL/NTSC) for a single
camera.
The default record rate is 6PPS (00167 ms), which is equivalent to a VCR in
24-hour time lapse mode. For ease of use the following table demonstrates the
equivalent record rates of a typical VCR time-lapse mode.
Note: Figures in brackets are for NTSC systems.
Tip: To work out the update rate per camera (the number of seconds before
the camera is updated) divide the number of cameras included in the standard
record setting by the selected record rate (PPS). For example, 16 cameras
with a standard record setting of 6PPS will be:
Update Rate (seconds) = Number of cameras
=16= 2.67 Secs
PPS 6
To reduce the time between the camera being updated you will need to
increase the record rate (PPS), or switch to milliseconds where you will specify
the time between each image. This will result in an increase in the number of
recorded images, however this will reduce the recording time available on the
internal hard drive.
VCR time-lapse mode (hours) Digital Sprite record rate (PPS) ms
3(2)
12
24
48
72
168
25(30)
12
6
3
2
1
40(33)
83
167
333
500
1000
Standard Recording
Units PPS
Maximum Record Time - - Days - - Hours
Record cameras
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Maximum Storage (Protected %) 0300 GB (00%)
Earliest unprotected recording 31/May/2005 23:55
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Standard
Rate
Events
Rate
Event
Active
Disabled, Alarms,
Activity, Both
Rate
Image size 18KB
6
Both
6
Event
Mode
Unchanged, Interleave
Exclusive
Unchanged