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The information applies to:

• LuxRiot 1.1.x, 1.2.x

Summary 

The article provides instructions on configuration recodring for LuxRiot DVR software.

Instructions

LuxRiot records video in a loop, i.e. it first fills up allocated drive space on all selected drives. After that it begins to erase oldest recordings to free up space for the new ones. Therefore, LuxRiot always keeps latest recordings for the time period defined by allocated drive space and recording settings. Each camera should be configured individually for optimal drive space utilization.

All recording settings could be accessed from the “Camera Setup wizard.” You can start this wizard in two ways :

1. Select camera or “Video” icon in Structure pane, right-click on it, select “Camera Setup Wizard” menu item in popup
2. Click on “Wizards” button in standard toolbar and select “Add configure or delete camera device”
   

Now, when you are in the “Camera Setup Wizard”, you should turn on motion detector in motion analysis page (see below), if you would like to record motion detector information or do a motion controlled recording. Otherwise, you can leave this check-box off to free up substantial CPU resources.

On the next page make sure that “Video data” and “Video motion information” (if you had selected motion detector to analyze this video stream) items are checked. Global recording Properties button opens dialog to select disk drives for recording as well as specify space quotas and priority for each drive. After that click on “Advanced properties”.

In “Time lapse” tab you could limit recorded frame rate by the specified maximum FPS value. Please note that values less than 1 mean that single frame will be recorded per several seconds. For example value 0.2 means that 1 frame will be recorded in 5 seconds.

“Motion Control” allows to setup video stream recording based on motion detector information. Check-box (1) enables this feature. Also you could choose time interval for how long to continue recording after motion ceases. Also there is an option to record video at lower frame rate while no motion is detected (2 and 3).