13 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.
13.1 Status Icons
The system displays different icons in the bottom left–hand corner of the camera image to inform you of motion detection events:
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Motion detection: Motion has been detected by the camera. An
icon is shown in the bottom left-hand corner of the camera image to show that motion was detected, but the system is not
recording a motion event. This is because motion recording is not enabled on the channel, or the movement detected by the
camera was not significant enough to trigger motion recording. See
13.2 Configuring Motion Detection
to configure settings for motion detection and recording.
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Motion recording: Motion-triggered video recording. An
icon is shown in the bottom left-hand corner of the camera image when a motion event is being recorded.
13.2 Configuring Motion Detection
Select channels that you want to enable motion detection on and adjust preferences.
To configure motion detection:
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From the Live View display, right-click to open the Quick Menu, then click Main Menu.
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Click Events, then Event Settings. Click the Motion tab from the side panel.
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Select a channel to configure motion detection.
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Check to enable motion detection on the selected channel.
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Click Set 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.
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Click or click-and-drag to add / remove boxes from the active area. Cells that have been removed from the active area appear
transparent.
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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.
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Right-click when finished.
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Click Set 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.
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Click
beside 2 or more days to link schedules (
). This allows you to quickly change multiple schedules at once.
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To make fine adjustments to a schedule, click
. This will allow you to set exact start and end times for a schedule.
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Click OK when finished.
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Choose how the system will react to motion detection:
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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.
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Send Email: Check to enable email alerts. You must configure email alerts before you will be able to receive them (see
22.6.6 Configuring Email Alerts
).
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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.
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Anti-dither: After an initial motion event, the system will continue to record video if a second motion event occurs within the set Anti-dither period.
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PTZ Activation: Set connected PTZ cameras to start a tour, pattern, or go to a preset location.
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Sequence: Sequence mode will begin. Select the numbered tiles next to this option to include the corresponding channels in the sequence.
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Buzzer: Check to enable the system buzzer.
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Snapshot: Select the numbered tiles next to this option to save a snapshot of the corresponding channels.
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Click Apply to save changes.
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(OPTIONAL) Click Copy to apply the settings for the current channel to one or more other channels.