External Recording - First Alert SmartBridge DVRAD0405 User Manual

External Recording

You are able to record using the remote software simultaneously to recording on the Smartbridge DVR system. In order to
record using the Smartbridge remote software, you will need an 80 GB minimum external hard drive formatted to FAT32.
1. Plug an external hard drive into your computer. Your operating system should associate
a drive letter to the hard drive. Once the hard drive is connected,
2. Click the settings
external device is visible in the list. Check the drive letter that you want the recordings to be saved to:
4. Select a Channel, Click
view. This image will be saved to the external hard drive.
button and click the storage tab. The drive letter your operating system associated to the
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If your amount of free space is low on the hard drive, select
overwrite previous recorded files to write over prerecorded
files. Select stop recording and make notification to stop
all recordings when disk drive space is full and Smartbridge
will make a notification that the drive is full
3. Select a channel to record, right click
and select start recording or click
to start recording. To
stop recording, right click on the channel and select stop
recording. All recordings will be saved to the external
hard drive.
• You can also set the cameras to record
directly to the DVR system hard drive from the
Smartbridge remote software. This is option is
only available if you are connected to the same
network using the Smartbridge software. Right
click on the channel and select Start Master
Recording. This will start a recording directly
to the Smartbridge DVR and not to the external
hard drive. To stop the recording, right click on
the channel and select Stop Master Recording.
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