Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 - Manual (Page 68)

Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 68 Advanced configuration
About motion detection and PTZ cameras
Motion detection generally works the same way for pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras as it does for regular
cameras. However, you cannot configure motion detection separately for each of a PTZ camera's
preset positions.
Configure camera-specific schedules
If you base your schedule profile —or parts of it—on events within periods of time, remember to select
Start event and Stop event from the lists below the calendar section.
Use the Configure events list, located below the other fields to define events that suit your needs.
The fact that a camera transfers video to your system 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).
For each camera, you can create schedule profiles based on:
Properties available in all XProtect software versions:
Online periods
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Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in pink:
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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.
Speedup
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Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in olive green:
E-mail notification
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Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in blue:
PTZ patrolling
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Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in red: