How to Edit Recording Groups

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By default setting, all devices are assigned to the default recording group. You can manually remove a device from the default recording group. However, only those devices which belong to a recording group can produce recorded media data.

Another purpose of setting recording group is that you can distribute the recording loads to a number of hard-disks on the server side. The live media data will be stored in the first assigned hard-disk initially, and when the available free space of the first hard-disk approaches to the preset reserved space, the media data will be stored in the second disk, and so on. If the available spaces of that last disk approaches to the reserved spaces, the recorded data in the first disk will be erased for recording new media data. This procedure is called "Cyclic Recording".

Recording Groups Settings

Please follow the steps below to set up recording groups for a station:

a. Click the station on the device tree.

b. Click Configuration > Recording Group Settings on the menu bar (or right-clickthe station on the device tree, and then select Recording Group Settings).

c. The Recording Group Settings window will pop up. By default, all devices are assigned to the Default Recording Group. So you also can right-click DefaultGroup on the device tree, and then click Recording Group Settings.

d. Click << to delete devices from the DefaultGroup. Note that a Delete Camera dialog will pop up. Click Yes to delete the device along with recorded data; click No to delete the device but remain the recorded data; click Cancel to cancel the delete action. Please note that only those devices which belong to a recording group can produce recording videos.

e. Click >> to add devices to the DefaultGroup.

f. For dual-stream device, select a desired source of recording stream.

g. The default Recording path is C:\Recording. The total space and free space of the disk shows below for reference. To modify the Reserved space of a path, select the path in Recording path for DefaultGroup, and then click Change settings to modify its value.

h. To add other recording path in your local computer, click Add local path to open a Local Path dialog to select a desired path. The total space and free space of the selected disk will be shown in the dialog for reference. Then click OK to enable the settings, or click Cancel to discard the settings.

To delete devices from the DefaultGroup, you can also right-clickthe device on the device tree, and then click Delete to delete it.

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