16 Pelco Manual C680M-G (7/01)
FUNCTION KEY LIST
0 : Setup
1 : Camera 1 recording/stop
2 : Camera 2 recording/stop
3 : Camera 3 recording/stop
4 : Camera 4 recording/stop
5 : All the cameras recording
6 : All the cameras stop
: Alarm On
: Alarm Off
OPERATIONThe Record LED on the front panel indicates what the DVR is doing.
Recording: Red (blinking)
Playback: Green (steady)
Fast Playback: Green (blinking)
Alarm Event Recording Enabled: Yellow (steady)
Stop: Off
VIEWING CAMERAS
If the Preview feature in the Camera menu is On, you can view live video on the monitor.
Video is displayed full-screen only if one camera is turned on. If more than one camera is
turned on, video is shown in a quad view.
If the Preview feature in the Camera menu is Off, you cannot view live video on the monitor.
RECORDING
MANUAL RECORDING
1. Press and hold the Function button. The Function Key list appears. Keep holding the
Function button.
2. Press buttons 1-6 to start or stop recording. Buttons 1-4 are toggle switches: if a cam-
era is recording, pressing a button will stop recording; if a camera is not recording;
pressing a button will start recording.
3. Release the Function button. Cameras set to record will record continuously until you
repeat steps 1 and 2 and stop recording.
AUTOMATIC SCHEDULED RECORDING
Scheduled recording allows you to program the DVR to turn on and off at specified times
each day. This way you record only when you need to and can conserve hard disk drive
space. When the hard disk drive is full, the DVR starts to overwrite the oldest data. Refer to
Table C to determine approximately how much data can be stored on the hard disk drive
and when you should back up your data.
Refer to
Camera Menu
in the
Programming
section to set the start and stop times for recording.
If you need to stop recording a camera before the programmed end time, you must go back
into the programming menus and turn off the automatic recording for that camera.
AUTOMATIC EVENT RECORDING
Event recording allows you to program the DVR to record only when an alarm input is acti-
vated. The DVR will record for as long as the alarm input is active. After the alarm goes
away, the DVR will continue to record for the programmed time. Event recording allows you
to conserve even more hard disk drive space than scheduled recording. When the hard
disk drive is full, the DVR starts to overwrite the oldest data. Refer to Table C to determine
approximately how much data can be stored on the hard disk drive and when you should
back up your data.
Refer to
Camera Menu
in the
Programming
section to set the start and stop times for recording.
If you need to stop recording a camera before the programmed end time, you must go back
into the programming menus and turn off the automatic recording for that camera.
NOTE:
Turning off
cameras does not save
video for those cameras. All
that does is provide more
disk space to record other
cameras. When the hard
disk drive is full, the DVR
will start overwriting the
oldest video recorded.
NOTE: