Advanced Motion Detection Settings - Swann REDALERT SW242-WDV Operating Instructions Manual

Advanced Motion Detection Settings

Say you're monitoring your yard, and right next to the gate you want to watch
there's a tree blowing in the wind, which constantly triggers the motion detection.
Perhaps your watching a hallway, and your pet cat continually sets off the motion
detection, and you only want to record humans. What can you do?
You can fi ne tune your ADVANCED MOTION DETECTION SETTINGS to only trigger
the RedAlert to record when it should! There are several settings you can confi gure,
and we'll go through them one at a time...
Motion Detect Interval
Motion Detect Sensitivity
Motion Detection Area
You can defi ne only part of the cameras view to trigger the MOTION DETECTION.
1. Press MENU, and use the LEFT/RIGHT buttons to navigate to the SETUP
SUBMENU. Press OK.
2. In the SETUP SUBMENU, use LEFT/RIGHT to select MOTION DETECT AREA (M),
and press OK.
3. Choose the size of the area that you would like to detect motion by using the
LEFT/RIGHT buttons. When you're satisfi ed, press OK.
4. Now, you can place the motion detection area in whichever part of the image
you want by using the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT buttons. When you've placed it
in the appropriate place, press OK.
Motion Detect Count
When the RedAlert is in STILL IMAGE MODE, you can select how many images it
captures when triggered by a motion event. You can select between 1, 3 and 5
images captured per event.
1. Press MENU, and use the LEFT/RIGHT buttons to navigate to the SETUP
SUBMENU. Press OK.
2. In the SETUP SUBMENU, highlight MOTION DETECT COUNT.
3. Press OK to toggle the value between 1, 3 or 5.
Motion Detect Interval
You can tell the RedAlert how long to pause after detecting a motion event before
it will be triggered by motion to record again.
1. Press MENU, and use the LEFT/RIGHT buttons to navigate to the SETUP
SUBMENU. Press OK.
2. In the SETUP SUBMENU, highlight MOTION DETECT INTERVAL.
3. Press OK to toggle the value between 1, 3 or 5.
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The Setup Menu
Motion Detection Area
Motion Detect Count