12  Motion Detection

Use motion detection on your camera to capture activity, trigger alarms, and receive notifications. Setting up your recorder to only record on motion detection can save hard disk drive space and eliminate the need to view a whole entire days worth of recording to see if an incident occurred. You can set motion detection zones to monitor certain areas in the camera’s field-of-view and decrease or increase the motion sensitivity.

12.1  Configuring Motion Detection

Select channels that you want to enable motion detection on and adjust preferences.
    To configure motion detection:
  1. From the Live View display, right-click to open the Quick Menu, then click Main Menu.
  2. Click Events, then Event Settings. Click the Event Settings tab from the side panel, then the Motion Detection tab from the top panel.
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  3. Select a camera to configure motion detection.
  4. Check to enable motion detection on the selected camera.
  5. Click Setup next to Area to configure which areas of the image will be enabled for motion detection. A grid will appear on the monitor.
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    • The camera image appears with a red grid overlay. This means the entire image is enabled for motion detection.
    • Click or click-and-drag to add / remove boxes from the active area. Cells that have been removed from the active area appear transparent.
    • Hover near the top of the image to reveal zone selection. You can set up to 4 different zones with different sensitivity and threshold values.
    • Right-click when finished.
  6. Click Setup next to Schedule to choose which days and times of the week to enable motion detection:
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    • Click or click-and-drag along each of the green timelines to quickly add or remove time from each day’s schedule in 30–minute segments.
    • Click icon beside 2 or more days to link schedules (icon ). This allows you to quickly change multiple schedules at once.
    • To make fine adjustments to a schedule, click icon . This will allow you to set exact start and end times for a schedule.
  7. Choose how the system will react when motion is detected:
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    • Show Message: Check to enable an on-screen pop-up when one of your cameras detects motion. On-screen pop-up shows the channels an event occurred on and the type of event.
    • Send Email: Check to enable email alerts. You must configure email alerts before you will be able to receive them (see 19.6.9 Configuring Email Alerts ).
    • Record Channel: Select the channels that will record when motion is detected on the selected channel. Set the length of recording following a motion detection event in the Post_REC field.
    • PTZ Activation: Set connected PTZ cameras to start a tour, pattern, or go to a preset location.
    • Sequence: Sequence mode will begin. Select the numbered tiles next to this option to include the corresponding channels in the sequence.
    • Snapshot: Select the numbered tiles next to this option to save a snapshot of the corresponding channels.
    • Buzzer: Check to enable the system buzzer.
    • Warning Light: Check to enable the warning light when motion is detected. Click Schedule to set the warning light schedule. To adjust the warning light settings, refer to section 14.1 Configuring Warning Light 14.1 Configuring Warning Light .
    • Dual Warning Light (White/Blue Light): Check to enable the dual warning light when motion is detected. Click Schedule to set the dual warning light schedule. To adjust the dual warning light settings, refer to section 14.2 Configuring Dual Warning Light .
  8. Click Apply to save changes.
  9. (OPTIONAL) Click Copy to apply the settings for the current channel to one or more other channels.