Manage manual recording

Stop manual recording after is enabled by default with a recording time of five minutes. This is to ensure that the system automatically stops all recordings started by the XProtect Smart Client users.

Example of manual recording stop set after five minutes.

  1. In the Site Navigation pane, select Devices.
  2. Select the relevant device in the Overview pane.
  3. On the Record tab, select or clear the Stop manual recording after check box.

When you enable it, specify a recording time. The number of minutes you specify must be sufficiently large to accommodate the requirements of the various manual recordings without overloading the system.

Add to roles:

You must grant the permission to start and stop manual recording to the client users on each camera in Roles on the Device tab.

Use in rules:

The events you can use when you create rules related to manual recording are:

  • Manual Recording Started
  • Manual Recording Stopped