NVR Configure tab

You can customize your NVR by clicking on the NVR under the Devices page and navigating to the Configure tab.

IP Settings

Here you can change the NVR’s IP address between DHCP and static. We recommend keeping your gear set to DHCP and handling all IP addresses through the router.

Time Settings

In this section you choose the time zone for your NVR. This affects the time as it appears on your channel feeds.

Channel Settings

This page displays all of the NVR’s channels. You can directly edit the channel name here. This changes the camera name that shows on the OSD. It does not change the name of the camera as shown in OvrC’s device list.

Disk Management

This lists details of each hard drive in your NVR. If you have installed a new hard drive, you can format it for use by clicking Format Disk.

NVR Credentials

The passwords for SupportAdmin and SystemConnect are found here. You cannot change these usernames or passwords. Icons are available to copy the username and password to your clipboard.

Enable Recording

This toggle turns recording off or on.

Overwrite Hard Drive

This toggle determines whether the NVR can overwrite old surveillance data when the hard drive gets full.

Camera Configure tab

You can customize a given camera by clicking on the camera under the Devices page and navigating to the Configure tab.

IP Settings

Click this to open a subpage where you can change the NVR’s IP address between DHCP and static. We recommend keeping your gear set to DHCP and handling all IP addresses through the router.

Click Save if you made changes here.

Time Settings

In the menu at right, you choose the time zone for your camera, which affects the time that appears on your channel feeds. Changes to this setting are saved automatically.

Pro Tip: Do not change the time from an x20 camera; if you change the time from the NVR, the change propagates across all x20 cameras connected to the NVR, saving you time and trouble.

Image Settings

Here you adjust the appearance of the video image.

Preview area

Video Adjustment

• Frequency: 

• Antiflicker: 

• Illumination Mode: 

  • Choosing Night Vision mode enables an additional Smart IR option.

  • Choosing Color at Night mode enables an additional Overexposure Control option .

• Overexposure Mode: 

• White Light Mode: 

Shutter Speed

Image Quality

• BLC is backlight compensation. It adjusts for areas where the backlight is strong, making areas that are too dark brighter. When BLC is selected, a new option appears below: Backlight Compensation. Here you select which area of the screen has the backlight. To preserve a natural look, BLC affects the look of the whole screen.
  
  

• HLC is high light compensation. It adjusts for areas where the light is too strong, making areas that are too bright darker. It is most commonly used to compensate for IR light that is too close to the subject. When HLC is selected, two new options appear below: Set start time and Set end time. Here you select when HLC is active.
  
  

• HWDR stands for hardware wide dynamic range (that is, WDR that happens immediately, not in post-processing). If your image usually contains both bright and dim areas, this brings everything toward the middle. When HWDR is selected, a new option appears below: Wide Dynamic Range Levels. Here you choose how much HWDR adjusts your camera image.
  

Smart IR uses the camera’s AI to ensure the IR image does not wash everything out.

Day/Night Mode lets you (or the camera) decide how to deal with the ambient light.

IR Mode sets the method the camera uses to add IR light to boost the image visibility.

White Balance customizes the way that colors appear in the image.

Video Mask

Documentation forthcoming.

Audio Settings

Audio Alarm (select cameras only)

Note: This feature is only available on cameras with active deterrence capabilities.

Light Alarm (select cameras only)

Note: This feature is only available on cameras with active deterrence capabilities.

Scheduled Reboot

Use this toggle to set a time for your camera and reboot. Use the dropdown to choose a day of the week (or all days). You can directly edit the time. Changes to this setting are saved automatically.

On Screen Display Settings

Here you set what additional information appears on the camera’s channel, and where on the screen it appears.

Click the refresh icon below the camera view image to reset the display to the current specs.

PTZ Settings

If this is a PTZ camera, click here to see the options available.

SD Card Settings

If you installed an SD card in your camera, you can customize its use here. The SD card is used only for scheduled recording only; it does not record motion or AI events.

Changes to these settings are saved automatically.

Enable Recording: This toggle determines whether or not you use the SD card.

Overwrite SD Card: Here you decide whether your camera will overwrite old data on the SD card when it gets full.

Recording Stream: Choose which stream you want to use. The main stream is the full resolution feed. The sub stream is a lower-resolution stream used when viewing multiple cameras simultaneously on your NVR or through LumaView. The third stream is optimized for use with control systems, and is typically the stream with the lowest bandwidth.

Pre-recording Time: Your camera always has several seconds of current video in memory; it uses this to analyze for motion. When motion is detected, the camera can add a few seconds of this video to the start of the motion recording to provide some context.

Format SD Card: Click Format to prepare a new SD card for use.

Schedule: Here you choose when you want the video feed to be recorded to the SD card.

Camera Credentials

The passwords for SupportAdmin (your technicians) and SystemConnect (used by control systems and non-Luma NVRs) are found here. You cannot change these usernames or passwords. Icons are also available to copy the username and password to your clipboard. For additional explanation on users, roles, etc., see this article in Tech Community.

Video Quality

Use the dropdown to adjust your video quality to your network capacity. Changes to this setting are saved automatically. The Custom option activates if you make changes to the stream in the camera’s or NVR’s web interface.

Microphone / Audio Input

OvrC detects your camera model. If your camera has a built-in microphone or a microphone jack in its tail, this section is labeled Microphone. Otherwise, it’s labeled Audio Input.

You can toggle audio operation on and off here, as well as adjust sound sensitivity. Changes to these settings are saved automatically.

Apply Video Quality Settings

This applies the Video Quality setting (above) to all x20 cameras that you select.

Camera Details tab

You can customize the operations of a given camera by clicking on the camera under the Devices page and navigating to the Configure tab.

The left side of this page shows a (reasonably) current view from the camera.

To the center and right, control boxes allow you to manage the following:

Activity zones

These are where the camera checks for basic motion events.

Click the toggle on the right to activate or deactivate the use of activity zones. Click the eyeball icon to display all zones currently defined (the eyeball icon does not appear if no zones are configured).

Click the pencil icon to create or edit zones. This opens the Create Activity Zone window.

The camera divides its view into a grid of squares, 9 rows tall and 16 columns wide. The activity zone is the collection of these squares that the camera uses when detecting motion.

Under Zone Controls, select whether you are adding squares or removing squares from the activity zone. Click and drag in the camera view image to add or remove squares from being analyzed. Click Select All to use the entire view, or Clear All to use none of the camera’s field of view.

Sensitivity determines how readily the camera decides if something is motion. You can have multiple activity zones each using different motion sensitivities. To create such zones, first set the sensitivity level (note that the color of the sensitivity slider likewise changes as you adjust it), then draw your box. The color of the box matches that of the sensitivity level.

Note: When you open this window, the slider is always set to 4. This is because you can have multiple zones set to different sensitivities. Instead of checking the slider position, look at the color of the boxes in the camera to see determine how sensitive an area is.

Choose your schedule preference from the dropdown.

Under Detection Controls, adjust the SD settings as desired to cover for low hard disk space, or to ensure against a network outage.

Click Save before exiting.

Intrusion areas

The camera can use AI to determine whether someone enters the marked area. Intrusion cannot be used if line crossing (below) is being used.

Once you have created an intrusion zone, click the toggle on the right to activate or deactivate the use of intrusion zones. Click the eyeball icon to display all zones currently defined (the eyeball icon does not appear if no zones are configured).

Click the pencil icon to create or edit zones. This opens the Create Intrusion Area window.

Zone Controls

Under Zone Controls, select which of the 4 zones you want to modify. Each zone has six corners; click in the camera view image to add each corner one at a time. If you want fewer than six corners, make the corners you want, then click Stop Draw. The camera will complete your shape when you click Save.

You cannot edit a zone; you must instead click Clear and start a new one.

If you don’t want to use the default of 24/7 recording, choose your schedule preference from the dropdown. Click Clear to delete the selected zone.

Detection Controls

Under Detection Controls, choose whether to analyze for people, vehicles, or non-motor vehicles like bikes. Set the sensitivity levels, then test your settings for efficacy.

Adjust the SD settings as desired to cover for low hard disk space, or to ensure against a network outage.

• Save Original Picture: This saves the complete image of the moment that the event was triggered.

• Save Target Picture: This saves just a cutout of the target object that triggered the event.

Deterrence Controls (select cameras only)

Note: This feature is only available on cameras with active deterrence capabilities.

This gives a summary view of the active deterrence settings. Use the sliders to activate or deactivate the light and audio alarms. The two Edit buttons take you to the Configure / Audio Alarm or Configure / Light Alarm page to edit these settings.

Pro Tip: The Mini PTZ has one button that takes you to a combined editing page; this will be phased out in a future firmware release to have two buttons. For information on the settings provided, use the above links.

Click Save before exiting.

Line crossings

The camera can use AI to determine whether something crosses a line. Line crossing cannot be used if area intrusion (above) is being used.

Click the toggle on the right to activate or deactivate the use of lines. Click the eyeball icon to display all lines currently defined (the eyeball icon does not appear if no lines are configured).

Click the pencil icon to create or edit lines. This opens the Create Line Crossing window.

Under Zone Controls, select which of the 4 lines you want to modify. Click and drag in the camera view image to create the line. You cannot edit a line; as soon as you click in the camera view, it erases any old line and starts a new one.

If you don’t want to use the default of 24/7 recording, choose your schedule preference from the dropdown. Click Clear to delete the selected line.

Under Detection Controls, choose whether to analyze for people, vehicles, and/or non-motor vehicles like bikes. Set the sensitivity levels, then test your settings for efficacy.

Adjust the SD settings as desired to cover for low hard disk space, or to ensure against a network outage.

• Save Original Picture: This saves the complete image of the moment that the event was triggered.

• Save Target Picture: This saves just a cutout of the target object that triggered the event.

Click Save before exiting.

PTZ Settings tab

To the left on this page are six tabs that cover various capabilities. The contents vary based on the tab selected.

The right side of the page shows the camera image and PTZ controls. This portion of the page remains constant no matter which tab you are on.

Camera image and controls

The top displays the PTZ's current view. This view does not support 3D zoom; you must use the live view for that.

The lower left features the standard PTZ control rosette; the button in the center stops the PTZ if it is moving.

At the lower right, you can set the PTZ's zoom scale, as well as adjust the camera's depth of field.

At the bottom is the speed control for the PTZ.

Preset

This shows the presets currently saved to your PTZ.

You can adjust a preset by maneuvering the camera using the control rosette, then clicking Save next to the preset name.

Click the play icon to move the PTZ to that preset.

Click the menu icon to open a pop-up that lets you edit the preset name, or delete the preset.

Trace

Here you create and adjust the presets your PTZ moves through. In the list, click play and stop to review each trace. Click Create Trace to generate a new one, or click the menu icon in the trace list to edit an existing one. The pop-ups are very similar.

At the top, name your trace. In each row, select a trace and how long the camera lingers at that position. Click Add Preset to add to the list, or click the trashcan icon to remove a preset. Click Create Trace or Edit Trace to save your changes.

Group

Here you edit the individual traces that make up your PTZ's group. Traces are listed in order. Click the menu icon to add a trace to an empty slot, or to delete a trace from that slot on the list.

At the top are buttons to play the group, stop playing, or to delete all traces and start over.

Patrol

To create a patrol, click the menu icon and select Add Patrol. The PTZ immediately begins logging all actions you use, including pausing, zooming, etc. Use the control rosette to move the camera as desired. When finished click Save next to the patrol's name.

The play button plays that patrol on an infinite loop until you press the stop button.

Task

Here you edit the individual camera functions that make up your PTZ's task. Functions are listed in order. Click the Edit Task button to open a pop-up.

Here you customize each function, choosing a specific preset, trace, or patrol; or choosing random scanning or boundary scanning. You can also click Add Function to append something to the task, or the trash icon beside a task to remove it (you cannot delete the first task). Click in the text boxes next to each function to adjust the times that the PTZ spends on each task. Click the Edit Task button to save your changes.

At the bottom, you can set that task as active.

Home Position

Here you set the camera's default activity; what it does when it has nothing else to do. At the top, choose from a specific preset, trace, or patrol, or choose random scanning or boundary scanning. Set the time the camera should wait for commands before moving into its default mode.

Fisheye Special Features

The Luma™ x20 12MP IP fisheye camera shares many general settings and features with existing Luma x20 cameras. Use this page to learn about fisheye special features.