Synology DiskStation User's Guide
Based on DSM 3.1
179 Chapter 14: Safeguard Your Environment with Surveillance Station
Edit Camera and Recording Settings
To edit camera settings:
1 Choose the camera you want to change settings, and click Edit > Settings. Or you can double-click the
camera to change its settings.
2 Edit the settings in Device In fo, Video, Recording, Storage Settings, and Recording Schedule to
preference.
3 Click OK to save the changes.
Note: If you edit the camera settings while recording, Surveillance Station will stop recording the current video,
and generate a new video according to the new settings.
To set the recording schedule:
1 Choose the camera you want to set the recording schedule, and click Edit > Settings.
2 Click Recording Schedule in the camera settings.
3 Click the Continuous Recording button, Motion Detection Recording button, Alarm Recording (A) button,
or Motion Detection and Alarm Recording buttons, then click the grid. To select the entire day or hour in
each day, click the day grid or the hour grid.
4 If you want to cancel selection, click the eraser icon (Delete) and click the grid you want to cancel selection.
5 Click OK to save the changes.
To edit motion detection settings:
1 Select the camera you want to change settings, and click Edit.
2 Select Motion Detection from the drop down menu.
3 You can live view the camera from the screen on the Motion Detection window. The bar next to the screen
shows motion detection status. Green means normal and Red means an event is triggered.
4 Choose either Motion detection by the camera or Motion detection by Surveillance Station (MJPEG only).
5 If you select Motion detection by the camera, enter the value of Detection sensitivity, Threshold, Object
size, and Trigger percentage (subject to camera's capability). The value percentage range is 1 to 99(%)1.
6 If you select Motion detection by Surveillance Station, enter the value of Detection sensitivity value and
Threshold. The value percentage range is 1 to 99(%)1.
7 Click Detection Area to define the detection area.