Online period (properties)

When you configure scheduling for specific cameras, you can specify the following:

Online

Select the required profile (for example Always on) for the online schedule 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.

For many users, the Online Period settings may be the most important scheduling settings to set, since the scheduling settings determine when each camera should transfer video to the system.

Cameras added to the system are automatically online by default, and you only need to modify the online period settings if you want cameras to be online only at specific times or events. You can change this default setting as part of the general scheduling options, in which case cameras added at a later time are not automatically online.

The fact that a camera transfers video to the system does not necessarily mean that video from the camera is recorded. You configure recording separately. See Configure video and recording.

If you want to view live video as well as record video from a camera outside its online recording schedule, select the Start cameras on client requests and the Enable recording when started on client request options to set up your scheduling properties for a relevant camera.