Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 - Manual (Page 126)

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www.milestonesys.com 126 Advanced configuration
Camera-specific scheduling properties
Online period
When you configure scheduling (see "Configure camera-specific schedules" on page 68) for specific
cameras, your Online Period settings are probably the most important, since they determine when
each camera should transfer video to XProtect Essential.
By default, cameras added to XProtect Essential are automatically online, and you only need to modify
the online period settings if you require cameras to be online only at specific times or events. Note,
however, that this default may be changed as part of the general scheduling options (see "Scheduling
options" on page 124), in which case cameras added at a later time are not automatically online.
The fact that a camera transfers video to XProtect Essential does not necessarily mean that video
from the camera is recorded. Recording is configured separately, see Configure video and recording
(see "About video and recording configuration" on page 65).
Name Description
Online
Select the required profile (for example Always on) for the online
schedule (see "Configure camera-specific schedules" on page 68)
for the relevant camera(s).
You specify a camera's online periods by creating schedule profiles
based on:

Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45),
shown in pink:

Events within periods of time (example: from Event A occurs
until Event B occurs Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45),
shown in yellow:
The two options can be combined , but they cannot
overlap in time.
Tip: If you want to view live video as well as record video from a camera outside its online recording
schedule, you can select the
Start cameras on client requests (see " Scheduling options " on page 124)
and, if needed, the Enable recording when started on client request (see " Scheduling options " on
page 124) options to set up your scheduling properties for a relevant camera.
Speedup
Speedup may also take place based on events, but that is configured elsewhere. See Frame rate -
MJPEG (General recording and storage properties) (see "Frame rate - MJPEG" on page 81) and
Video (Camera-specific properties) (see "Video" on page 89).