User manual

Configuration
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Siemens Building Technologies
Fire Safety & Security Products 01.2009
Highlighting Recycle and pressing the button toggles between On and Off. In the
Recycle mode, the DVR records over the oldest video data once all available
storage space has been used. When Recycle is turned off, the DVR stops
recording once all available storage space has been used.
1. Highlight the Resolution box and select from “Very High”, "High" and
"Standard".
NOTE
The total ips of all camera channels will be limited to 50 ips (60 ips for NTSC) when set to High
resolution and 25 ips (30 ips for NTSC) when set to Very High resolution.
NOTE
When set to High or Very High resolution, the maximum recording speed of each camera channel
decreases by half. However the maximum recording speed of 25 ips (30 ips for NTSC) will maintain if
the number of cameras that are turned On is two or less.
No. of cameras set to On and High or Very High resolution
0 1 2 3 4
─ 25 ips 25 ips 12.5 ips 12.5 ips
2. Highlight the Event Record Dwell box and set the length of time you would
like to record for the associated event.
Î You can set the dwell from 5 seconds to 15 minutes.
Refer to the System Event - Actions screen in Section 8.7.5 for information
rega
rding event recording.
3. Highlight the slide bar beside Auto Deletion, and use the Left and Right
arrow buttons to adjust the length of time recorded data will be kept from 1 to
99 days.
Î The DVR automatically deletes video recorded earlier than the user-defined
period under three conditions: at midnight, whenever the system reboots or
whenever the user changes the Auto Deletion settings. Selecting "Never" will
disable the Auto Deletion function.
4. Highlighting Use Panic Recording and pressing the
button toggles
between On and Off.
Î Highlight the Panic Recording – Duration box and set the duration of panic
recording.
Î Panic recording will stop automatically after the preset duration as long as the
Panic button is not pressed to stop the panic recording. You can set the dwell
from 5 minutes to 1 hour. Select "No Limit" if you want to stop panic recording
manually.
Highlighting the Panic Recording – ips box and pressing the
button allows
you to set the images per second for Panic recording. You can select from
0.10 to 25.0 (30.0 for NTSC) images per second.
Highlighting the Panic Recording – Quality box and pressing the
button
allows you to set the recorded image quality for Panic recording. You can
select from: Very High, High, Standard and Low.
Î You can save your Record settings by highlighting Save and pressing the
button.
Î Selecting Cancel exits the screen without saving the changes.