all right this is part two of the lorex camera system the final part we have three
issues that we haven't um three um parts we haven't shown yet playback events and camera
this is for the dvr output and some of these syst some of these settings you have to do for the
dvr outfit they're not available for the app or through the url so let's go to put playback this
is the part that i really don't use all that much because you can get all your playback information
from your camera or for your phone and all that's pretty much but this is like it keeps like
six or seven days of um camera information right now we're on today and it defaults to showing four
cameras only which is all right and when you open it it's automatically playing so let's say you
move this little cursor here you can see that it's recording and um it's playing back in real time
all four cameras and to change it to a different camera you actually have to physically stop the um
the playback then you could select a camera
and you could also change the date at that time too like yesterday or the day before
and then you start playing it and as soon as you start playing it that's when you can move the
cursor and see different times of the day and you could save it to um you could cut out a section
and save it to um a usb stick so that's how you would do that right now it's it's playing back
from hdd you can re play back from a usb you could stop it and then play back from an i o device like
a usb stick or something so that that feature is there i don't really use it all that much
um you can actually make a snapshot of an image that's playing back and save it to your usb too
but i don't really use this all that much but it's available
all right then you got advanced vents you're gonna use um smart search
facial detection you can have it so that you have make you create a database of
your family's faces and stuff and this thing will detect who it is
and then you can send alert alerts and events to your phone and stuff if somebody you know
is there it's kind of useless to me i don't know but it will keep track of people i guess
that facial really recognizes i don't know how good the system is i don't really put too much
credence into like the actual ability for that to do that it uses space on your drive and and
uses cpu time so i i really don't have any interest for this but it's available face
detection face recognition you can actually save your database that you create a face database
and then go over here and upload it when you want to um change it or come you know add a backup file
um and you can search the camera for events here where the um events occur smart motion
that just shows smart motion actually but event settings
motion detection for each camera you can set up um events for each camera
um it sends you an email and a snapshot if you want of an event if it does a a video it
takes a few seconds before the event occurs and then it goes for 10 seconds and sends you a 10
second video to your phone or your android device um if you select the camera you enable it and you
could go into setup and you can actually block out certain areas that the motion detection won't
find so that if you have a squirrel in a certain area every day you can block that out and he won't
trigger the events to be recorded um schedule i have a 24 7 as you can see you can take parts out
and then save it and then it won't record on those hours or days or whatever but i have 24 7.
um sequence allows you when an event occurs like on camera one you can actually enable this and
have all the cameras start recording um because of that one hit on one camera but i record 24 7 don't
need it buzzer a buzzer if some event occurs it actually buzzes a buzzer in the in the camera so
that the person knows it's like a deterrence kind of thing video loss if your camera gets disabled
or or turns off or something this will let you ha know by an email or pitch and send you a snapshot
of the problem it'll buzz this system the dvr system that you have a camera failure
and um there's some other things here i guess you could do a sequence and then it'll buzz the kick
every camera on the system that you had a camera failure or something it's more of a
deterrent here's the deterrence actually and you can set up a warning light it could be a strobe
the light is an led if they look they can see it but if you're not paying attention you can almost
just ignore it if you strobe it it most likely would be more of a deterrent i guess
because then you'll notice something blinking actually i might want to do that sometime and
you could block out certain areas again that you don't want the um event to occur um
face settings you could set up a schedule for
when it determines when it when you want to record face recognition the face database
is there you have to enable all this and stuff which i'm not going to do
there's your face database you can add a face database you give it a name and whatever
um you could create them here i guess modeling
you gotta create one first um warning this is if your hard drive is offline well yeah there it is
it'll if it's this carrot is full anything it'll buzz the system it'll send you an email that your
hard drive is failing or turned off or something if you have it so that it erases the last 30
minutes every time it runs out of space you don't even have to worry about this pretty much
i don't have it set up really network the same thing if the cable gets unplugged or um if there's
a network outage or something you could set an alert and a buzzer i don't like setting the buzzer
on this because then you have to get in here with the password and then and disable it event log it
shows you all the events that occurred over time you could select the starting time and end time
and you could play that event um no results motion detection that's funny i guess you can't play it
well i guess you can mess around with that you get back up an event
um i think i just erased mine that's why they're not showing up
and then finally camera this is the part that you're going to be using a lot
more than any of the other stuff because there's some features in here that aren't available on
the app and on the url so the first one you want to do is you can adjust the saturation
brightness contrast chromer sharpness and all that noise reduction is like if you don't want
if there's some kind of um noise in there you could um block some of the noise
um and i usually go with the defaults except for in dark areas like that's pretty dark
this is usually dark and i usually brought the brightness up but you can select the
defaults and to change for each camera the camera settings uh i think that was it for that recording
this is where you set up how you much you want to record a camera like these are all mostly 4k
resolution and i have the highest near high yeah the highest bit rate which if you drop either
of those or the frame rate per second you'll get less quality video but you'll be able to
record more days like right now i can record like six or seven days but if you drop these things
as it's recording it will um cut back on space like if i went instead of 4096
bit rate i go to 2048 it'll probably cut the videos in half as far as the size it requires
um substream i think that's another camera too i'm not sure what that actually does
um snapshot allows you to create snapshots right now it's a one second snapshot scheduled and
you could adjust that as you need one snapshot and that's like when you're going to send it
a clip to your phone and you want to have a snapshot like a thumbnail this is where you go
overview is like if you want to put your time and date and the camera name on your videos
and superimpose it on every video the only place you can change the camera
name is here and that they there's no other wear in the application
and in the url you can't do that so you really need to get to the dvr to do this
and then you could adjust where you want it on the screen to be superimposed and apply and that'll
always record the date and time in the name of the camera whenever you're recording
privacy masking i think lets you block out a certain area of the picture so that you can um not
record it at least like a fuzzy pattern on there but i have no interest in playing around with that
pan and tilt if you have better cameras you can actually zoom in and have it
applied and it only record a small section of the video you can do that with the um
motion detector this actually adjusts the actual camera focus and stuff like that these cameras
aren't that good they can't do some of these features so i'm not even going to go over that
camera cable set to auto i guess you could have different kinds of cables that you can set up but
also seems to work fine cvi upgrade if you have a usb stick with the latest firmware for the camera
you can add it in here and then you could start an upgrade on those cameras firmware
i haven't done it yet i don't see what a camera firmware upgrade is going to give me
unless it allows me to pan and tilt and all that then maybe i'll think about it but
um voice assistance this is where you can um enable voices assistance you can do that from
the dvr i think but mostly it's for like google and amazon like the the the dot um alexa and all
that stuff one of it supports one of those i don't know which one right off but you can set that up
in here too but i think that's a security risk and i would never use like any of those products
so that's the full overview of the entire lorex system i have part one and the original review on
my channel if you want to look at those but this is the part two and the final review thank you
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