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 day’s 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  Status Icons

The system displays different icons in the bottom left–hand corner of the camera image to inform you of motion detection events:
  • Motion detection: Motion has been detected by the camera. Anicon 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 12.2 Configuring Motion Detection to configure settings for motion detection and recording.
  • Motion recording: Motion-triggered video recording. Anicon icon is shown in the bottom left-hand corner of the camera image when a motion event is being recorded.

12.2  Configuring Motion Detection

Set preferences for motion detection per channel.