System Menu; General System Options - Swann M16 Instruction Manual

16-channel digital video recorder
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System Menu

General System Options

These options allow you to configure general DVR settings.
Option
Language
Select the language that the DVR's menus, alerts and other
communications will use.
Video
Select between PAL and NTSC. PAL is used in Western Europe and
Standard
Australia, NTSC is used in the US, Canada and Japan.
Time Zone
Set this to the time zone where you happen to be. For example,
people in eastern Australia (Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne)
choose GMT+10:00, whilst the Eastern Time zone in the USA and
Canada is GMT-05:00. (GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time - it's
the baseline that keeps all the different time zones in sync.)
Menu Date
Select the format of the date.
Format
System Time
Enter the current date and time manually, or it can set to update
automatically by using NTP (see "NTP" on page 18).
Description
Option
Enable
When enabled, the DVR will require a password to access, even for
Password
local users. It's advisable to enable password protection
Auto Lock
When the password protection is enabled, the DVR will
Time
automatically time-out, where after it will ask for a password
before returning to normal functioning. The Auto Lock Time
determines how long a period of inactivity will cause the DVR to
lock itself again.
Device ID
Differentiate your DVR from other devices. If you don't have any
other DVRs or similar devices, then you can leave this as-is. If you
have multiple DVRs running on the same network, then it's a great
idea to give each a unique ID.
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