User`s guide

The Trooper™ Basic Installation and User’s Guide 15
3.8 Alarm Recording
The Trooper™ DVR has the ability to interface to an external device that can
trigger an Alarm event. If an Alarm occurs, the event is marked in the
recording for easy searching during playback. Also, the recording Speed and
Picture Quality can be changed during an external Alarm event. The menu
below shows the options available:
Changing the Alarm Recording to ‘OFF’ will disable the Alarm Input.
The Recording Speed can be set from 0.1 ips to 60 ips. The default is set to
30 ips, which is 3x greater than the default recording speed of 10 ips. This will
allow for greater image continuity when reviewing an Alarm Event on
playback. See section 3.1 for more information on Recording Speed.
The Recording Quality can also be set for the duration of the Alarm Event.
For example, changing the Quality to 6 – HIGH would provide a clearer
picture during the Alarm. Because the Alarm Events are typically short in
duration, increasing the Quality will not have a significant impact on the
overall recording time available on the hard-drive.
The Alarm Duration Time sets the length of time that the Recording Speed
and Recording Quality settings from above are active. The choices are 5
seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30
minutes, 60 minutes, or NON-STOP. This last option means that once an
Alarm Event has been triggered, the DVR will not exit Alarm Mode until the
DVR has been turned off, or the user has pressed the ‘STOP’ button on the
front panel (or remote control).
During an alarm event, all of the cameras are recorded according to the
settings in the Alarm Recording menu.
ALARM RECORDING
ALARM OPERATION : ON
RECORDING SPEED : 30 IPS
RECORDING QUALITY : 4
ALARM DURATION TIME: 30 SEC