Motion Detection; Viewing Live Images - Swann REDALERT SW242-WDV Operating Instructions Manual

Motion Detection

If the RedAlert recorded everything it saw all the time, you'd wind up with hundreds
of images (or hours of video) where nothing is happening! That's not very useful
for anyone, as it would fi ll up the SD card too fast, and leave you searching through
hundreds (or more) fi les to try and fi nd the incident you are after!
Thus, to save storage space – not to mention your time and sanity – the RedAlert
is designed to record short videos (10 seconds in length) or take a series of still
images whenever something happens in view of the camera. We call this MOTION
DETECTION.
To turn MOTION DETECTION ON or OFF:
1. Press MENU.
2. Use LEFT and RIGHT to navigate to the
MOTION DETECTION icon.
3. Press OK to toggle MOTION DETECTION
to ON or OFF, depending on your
preference.
4. The MOTION DETECTION icon will be
displayed in the top left of the screen
whilst enabled.

Viewing Live Images

By default, the RedAlert will boot up straight into LIVE VIEWING MODE. The DISP
button will cycle between displaying a WIRED and a WIRELESS camera connected
to the RedAlert.
The RedAlert is capable of displaying images from two cameras at a time. To
achieve this, one of the cameras must be wired, the other wireless. As the picture
from one camera is displayed in miniature within the other camera's picture, this is
referred to as Picture In Picture mode (PIP MODE) .
1. Press DISP once to switch between the WIRED and WIRELESS camera.
2. Press DISP again to activate PIP MODE.
3. Press DISP a third time if you wish to swap the positions of the main and
miniature images.
4. Note that whilst the
record one at a time.
RedAlert can display two images at once, it can only
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