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36NetBotz Appliance User’s Guide
Camera Pods
To configure a camera:
Note: From the Navigation pane, you can right-click a Pelco camera and select Connect to...
to launch the Pelco Web interface for the camera. This will allow access to additional required
configuration settings.
1. For integrated cameras or cameras connected to the appliance, double-click the Camera Pods
icon. The Camera Pod Configuration window appears with a list of cameras.
2. For IP cameras that are shared, for example Pelco cameras, double-click the Shared Cameras
icon. The Shared Camera Configuration window appears listing the IP camera.
For more information on shared cameras, see “Pod, Pelco Camera, and Rack Access
PX-HID Sharing” on page 93.
3. From the window that appeared, select the camera to configure, then configure the camera by
using the buttons described below and in greater detail on the following pages:
– Click Settings to specify labels for the camera, to specify an interactive camera frame rate
limit and interactive camera mode limit.
– Click Capture to configure the camera image capture settings.
– Click Masking to configure the camera motion sensor and to specify motion and block-out
masks, if available.
– Click Visual Modes to specify the imaging mode and to specify the window to use with Pan
and Scan mode. (Not available for Pelco PTZ IP cameras.)
– Click Sensors to configure the sensors associated with the camera and to create thresholds for
those sensors.
Settings
Select a camera from the Camera Pods window and click Settings to open the Camera Pods Settings
window. From this window you can configure the following camera settings.
Note: Fields displayed may vary depending on the features of the camera selected.
Field Description
Pod Label The label that identifies the device. This field does not appear for
integrated cameras. For integrated cameras the Pod Label is set for
the appliance.
For more information, see “Settings” on page 69.
Camera Label An additional label for the camera. If you provide both a Pod Label
and a Camera Label, images and alerts generated by this device are
identified as Pod Label (Camera Label).
Microphone Label An additional label for the microphone on this pod (camera pods
and CCTV adapter pods only).