D-Link DCS-2100G Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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This is the directory where backup data will be saved. You can

select the location by clicking on the folder icon.

You can set the size limit of the data that will be backed up. The

default size limit is 10MB. The maximum value for this setting

depends on the amount of Free Space available on your hard

drive. This value can be found under the “Record Disk space

Usage Settings” section of the global settings window.

Select the locations to backup by clicking the checkbox next to

the location/camera name. To delete a location, select the

location and click the “Delete” button to the right of the Backup

Location Select window.

Backup Settings

Using Backup Settings in the global settings window, you can backup recorded data

from selected cameras to a specified location.

Directory:

After you have set your backup settings in the global settings window, you can backup

recorded data by clicking “Backup” in the Configuration Menu, as seen below:

Size:

Backup Location

Select::

This section depicts, in detail, how to manipulate the monitor tool.

Using the Monitor Program

Connection of the DCS-2100

Once you have the privilege to connect to the

DCS-2100

, the cameras will automatically

appear in the video area in the order they are connected. Once you have set up the

camera in the video channel, the color of the channel number will turn blue, indicating

that the camera has been added to IP surveillance. If you do not set up the camera for

the video channel, the color of the channel number will be gray.

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There is a unique light signal associated with each channel number. It indicates the

status of the dedicated video channel, which is depicted as follows:

Off:

Green:

Red:

Blink:

If you do not want to monitor one video, you can drag and drop the video (in the video

area) to the trashcan in the common control area of the monitor program. The following

section will demonstrate the procedures for “drag and drop” step-by-step.

The video channel is not connected with any

DCS-2100

yet.

The green light means the

DCS-2100

associated with this

channel number is connected, and the video is monitored in

the video area.

The red light indicates the video from this channel is recording

into the video database. In this mode, you don’t have to drag

and drop the channel to the video area. This means that this

application software supports real-time recording with and

without real-time monitoring for the dedicated video channel.

With the motion detection mechanism set in the

DCS-2100

,

the light of the corresponding channel will blink once the motion

event is triggered.

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Show the video of a specified channel

This section depicts the method of how to show the video of a specific channel in a

display window.

Step 1:

Move the mouse cursor to the camera you would like display in the window.

Video 1

Step 2:

Press and hold the left mouse button, and then move the cursor to a display

window in the video area on the right side of the screen. Note that the cursor will change

according to the area in order to indicate whether the area is droppable or not.

Step 3:

Release the left mouse button while on top of a display window. The video will

appear in the display window as shown below. In each display layout, only one window

can be assigned to a camera. Also, each camera must have its own separate window

when displayed. Once the video is in a display window, it can be dragged and dropped

to other windows. If you drag one camera’s video to a window that already has its own

camera’s video, the two cameras will trade display windows. Dragging and dropping is

a very convenient way to manipulate the video channels in the IP surveillance Software.

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Removing video from a display window

Step 1:

Move the mouse cursor to the display window that contains the video channel

you wish to remove.

Step 2:

Note that the cursor will change to the hand-shape when it has been moved

onto the displaying frame. After that, press the left mouse button and hold it.

Step 3:

Move the cursor, while still holding the left mouse button, to the trashcan in the

common area of the monitor program.

Step 4:

When the cursor shape changes to an arrow-shape over the trashcan, release

the left mouse button. The video in the corresponding display window will disappear.

All operations above are shown in the figure on the following page.

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The Layout

There are six different layouts available, as shown below, for the display windows in

the monitor program. You can select between 1 camera, 4 camera, 6, camera, 9 camera,

13 camera, and 16 camera layout. You can select one of them by clicking on a layout

icon. In each layout, you can drag and drop the “channel number” to any display window

in the video area. Following the procedures described in the section titled “Show the

video of a specified channel”, you can add the video channels to display windows

within the selected layout in the video area one by one. You can also exchange the

video between different display windows by dragging and dropping. Double clicking

on a display window will switch to single channel layout.

When you choose the one-channel layout or four-channel layout, the “Page up” and

“Page down” buttons will be shown in the left-bottom corner of the video area. You can

use these two buttons to switch the pages, as shown in the figure below.

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