System: General, English, Advanced Configuration

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English

System: General

The System: General menu contains many of the settings you’ll need to configure to get the most out of your DVR system. Most importantly:

• The time and date can be set here.

• You can select the language you want for the menus/GUI.

• The configuration for automatic adjustment to daylight savings time is here.

• You can easily enable or disable password protection - but will have to create a valid username/password

Advanced Configuration

Language: The language that the DVR’s menus, alerts and other communications will use. This usually defaults to English.

Be careful not to change this setting unintentionally - it might be tricky to find the setting to change it back when the DVR is speaking another language!

Video Standard: Here you can choose between PAL and NTSC. PAL is used in Western Europe and Australia, NTSC is used in the US, Canada and Japan. If the DVR’s picture is black and white, flickering or similar, then this is probably caused by the video system being set incorrectly. Don’t change this setting unless advised to do so by Swann Technical Support. You may not be able to see the DVR’s output on your screen anymore!

Time Zone: Particularly important if you’ve enabled NTP - set this to the time zone where you happen to be. For example, people in eastern Australia (Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne) choose GMT+10:00, whilst the Eastern Time zone in the USA and Canada is GMT-05:00. (GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time - it’s the baseline that keeps all the different time zones in sync.)

Menu Date Format: The format of the date (e.g. DD/MM/ YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY and so on).

System Time: This can be edited manually, or set to update

automatically by using NTP (see “Network: Advanced: NTP” on page 39).

DST Setting: As the standards for daylight savings differ from country to country, and often state to state, you might need to manually tell the DVR exactly when it commences and ends in your locality. First, turn DST on. We suggest setting the Daylight Saving Time Mode to Date, and manually entering the dates and times that daylight savings time applies to and from, in your locality.

Note: Some NTP servers are NOT fully compatible with DST. This may cause your system to double-count adding one or removing one more hour than they should, or cancel each other out. You may need to intentionally change your time zone to compensate, or simply not use NTP and DST simultaneously.

Enable Password: When enabled, the DVR will require a password to access, even for local users. It’s advisable to enable password protection

Auto Lock Time: When the password protection is enabled, the DVR will automatically time-out, where after it will ask for a password before returning to normal functioning. The Auto Lock Time determines how long a period of inactivity will cause the DVR to lock itself again.

Device ID: Differentiates your DVR from other devices. If you don’t have any other DVR’s or similar devices, then you can leave this as-is. If you’ve got multiple DVRs running on the same network, then it’s a great idea to give each a unique ID.