User Guide
Part 6 – Setting up DVR to record
There are 3 modes for recording:
1. Manual recording:
Push Shift button, then hit the RECORD button. Enter name and password (default is admin and 12345) as in Part 5. This will display the
screen below:
In Start/Stop heading use arrow keys & enter After you press the Enter button the screen will
button to put check marks in all cameras you return to camera preview screen and the record line
want to record on, or you can select Start All (REC) on the bottom of the screen will be pink.
option to record on all cameras.
2. Motion Detection Recording:
Follow instructions in part 5 to go to main menu. Go to CAMERA option (red circle in pic 1) and hit Enter, This will display the screen in pic 2.
Select the camera (red square), Go down to MOTION DET LEVEL (green square), set it to 2 or 3 (normal), Go to AREA (blue square) and push
PTZ button to select the entire area and push ENTER to exit. Next go to COPY (yellow square) to copy to all cameras and click CONFIRM. You
have to go back to each camera to setup the AREA for each camera. Return to Main Menu.
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Now go to RECORDING (green square in Pic 1) and hit Enter, this will bring up the screen in Pic 3. Go down to ENABLE REC (green square)
and put a CHECK mark in it. Go to SCHEDULE (orange square) and hit enter. This will display the screen in Pic 4. Select a day and then Select
ALL DAY (red square). REC TYPE select MOT. DET. (green square). COPY to all days (blue square), select CONFIRM and hit Enter.
Restart the DVR. When it records on Motion, the light at the bottom REC line will be Blue (red square on Pic 5).
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