Instruction manual

4- & 8-Channel Digital Video Recorder

Video Blind

Highlight Video Blind in the Event menu and press the button. The Video Blind setup screen

appears.

Highlighting the box under the Activation Time heading allow you to set the duration before the

DVR will report a Video Blind. The DVR will not consider any blindness on camera video to be

Video Blind if the blindness does not last during the preset Activation Time after detected.

Highlight Use Ignoring Time and press the button to toggle between On and Off. When set

to On, the DVR will ignore video blind events occurred during the preset period. Highlighting

Time Setup and press the

button allows you to set up event ignoring time.

Highlight the Actions tab, and the Video Blind Actions setup screen appears.

NOTE: For the Record action, the camera you select should be set to the Event or Time

& Event recording mode in the Record Schedule setup screen.

Highlight the box under the Alarm-Out heading and press the button. Select between Alarm

Output and Beep (DVR’s internal buzzer) that you would like to activate and to sound whenever

the DVR detects video blind on the selected camera.

Figure 51  Video Blind Settings setup screen.

The DVR checks to see if anything is blinding

the camera. Highlighting the box under the

Sensitivity heading allows you to adjust the

DVR’s sensitivity to video blind from 1 (least

sensitive) to 15 (most sensitive).

NOTE: The DVR supports both Black Blind

and White Blind detection.

NOTE: Video blind might NOT be detected

for a camera with a very noisy image

especially when set for low sensitivity

values.

Figure 52  Video Blind Actions setup screen.

The DVR can be set to react to video blind

differently for each camera. Each camera can

be associated with another camera, trigger an

Alarm-Out connector, sound the DVR’s internal

buzzer, notify a number of different devices,

and/or move PTZ cameras to preset positions.

Highlight the box under the Record heading

and press the

button. A list of cameras

appears. You can associate as many cameras

with that camera as you wish. If the DVR

detects video blind on the selected camera, it

starts recording video from all the associated

cameras.