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

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Using IP Surveillance Software

Each time you click on the “Zoom In” button in the searching

range adjustment toolbox, the displayed time period will be half

in the center of the original time period until the period is equal

to 10 seconds. You can see the new interval in more details.

The scale of pull bar and alert histogram window change. The

period start and end time change as well. The period selector

will show the new start and end time. The display area will

restart and display the new period from the newly defined start

time.

Each time you click on the “Zoom Out” button in the searching

range adjustment toolbox, the displayed time period will be

double in the center of the original time period unless the start

time or end time exceeds the whole database time-boundary.

The scale of the pull bar and alert histogram window change.

The period start and end time change as well. The period

selector will show the new start and end time. And the display

area will restart and display the new period from the newly

defined start time.

When you click on the “Full Range” button, you will get the

same functionality as when you change the playback method

selector to “Full Range.”

Searching Range Adjustment Toolbox

When you move the mouse cursor to the alert histogram area, the display adjustment

toolbox will change to a range adjustment toolbox. The range adjustment toolbox

provides a faster way to change the range of the displayed time period. By using this

toolbox, you can browse the database of one location from any 10-second interval of

the entire range. The figure below shows the searching range adjustment toolbox

composed of its own three elements, i.e. “Zoom In”, “Zoom Out”, and “Full Range.”

Zoom In:

Zoom Out:

Full Range:

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If you are away from your computer, for security reasons, we

recommend that you to close the playback program or you can

just click on the “Lock Window” button to lock the main window.

Once you click this button, the main window will be hidden and

the login dialog will appear. To return to the main window, you

need to re-enter the admin’s password again.

The settings dialog will pop up when you click the “Settings”

button. For more information about setting this program, please

refer to the section titled "Settings.”

Click this button in order to minimize the playback program

window.

The playback program will be closed immediately when you

click on the “Exit” button.

Lock Window:

System Control Toolbox

The system control toolbox provides some basic operations for the playback program.

The figure below shows the three elements of the system control toolbox, i.e. “Lock

Window”, “Settings”, “Minimize”, and “Exit.”

Settings:

Minimize:

Exit:

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Schedule Video Recording with Motion Detection

Schedule Video Recording with

Motion Detection

1

Check “Enable motion detection.”

2

Click on “New” to have a new window to monitor video.

3

Enter in a window name.

4

Adjust the “Sensitivity” and “Percentage” levels according to the local environment.

The highest sensitivity and lowest percentage provides the most sensitive setting.

5

After adding the motion window, click on save to enable the activity display. You

can add up to 3 motion windows to trigger recording.

To schedule video recording with motion detection, you must first enable motion

detection on the Internet Camera. Click the

Motion Detection

button under the

Advanced

tab from the

Configuration

screen to access settings that affect how the

DCS-2100

Internet Camera can serve as a security device by recording only when

motion is detected. Note: These settings can be configured in your Web browser and

while logged into the

IP surveillance

Program.

In this window, follow the steps below to ensure that motion detection is correctly enabled:

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Schedule Video Recording with Motion Detection

For detailed information about each setting, please refer to

Configuration > Advanced

> Motion Detection

in the section titled “Using the DCS-2100 With an Internet Browser”

(page 55).

Next, run the

IP surveillance

program. Click on the

Configurations

button and select

Scheduler

.

In the

Primary Schedule

you can choose either

Once

(for one time recording) or

Every

Day

(for scheduled recording). For example, if you would like to record events every

day during a certain time frame, click on the beginning time and drag your mouse to the

ending time. Schedule recording can be configured by minutes, hours, days, weeks, or

months.

The

Secondary Schedule

allows you to set a schedule outside the

Primary Schedule

.

The

Secondary Schedule

provides two options to record without a specified date or

time. You can select

Event Mode

, which will record whenever an event is triggered, or

Continuous Mode

, which will begin continuously after scheduling settings are saved.

You do not need to set the

Secondary Schedule

with the

Primary Schedule

. To

schedule video recording with motion detection, you can use either the

Primary

Schedule

or

Secondary Schedule

, or both.

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Schedule Video Recording with Motion Detection

Click the

Save

button when finished. You have now set a schedule to record video

when motion detection is triggered. If you would like to save this configuration, click

Save As

to save this configuration to a folder in your hard drive. This configuration can

be used on another system running IP surveillance or can be used as a backup if you

need to re-install the IP surveillance software program.

1

Check if you want the recording schedule to occur

Once

or

Every day

.

2

Set the date, time-line, and begin and end times for recording.

3

Check

Event Mode

.

4

Select the motion detection window that will be used to trigger motion detection.

Note: You must first create motion detection windows in the Web configuration

page of the camera. Remember the names of the windows and the order in which

you created them, as they are not displayed inside the scheduler. Instead, they

are listed in the order they were added. For example, the first window created is

labeled “Window1.”

5

Click on “Disable” under the

Secondary Schedule

.

In this window, follow the steps below to schedule video recording with motion detection

in the

Primary Schedule

:

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