3VR VisionPoint Privacy Scheduling

Overview

Privacy scheduling feature in 3VR System Manager disables camera monitoring or surveillance during specific office or store working hours. The camera is scheduled to halt for specific hours. The camera automatically starts monitoring during the holidays after the scheduled weekday.

Remember that if the date and time is set at the channel level in 3VR System Manager, the channel takes the precedence. The channels and all associated cameras go idle during the scheduled time and the camera is automatically online after the schedule time.

The following sections and the steps describe the different privacy scheduling features.

Disabling Privacy Schedule in 3VR System Manager

Log in to 3VR System Manager.
Select a Channel.
Go to General Settings.
Select Appliance Privacy Schedule for Disabling video and select Edit as shown in the below Figure.
In Edit Disabling Video Schedule window, click Add Weekday and Add Holiday.
Specify the Start Time and End Time for the weekday and specify the holiday with description.
Click OK.

Overwriting Weekday Schedule to Enable Video Recording

The overwriting feature in privacy scheduling allows to define exceptions to overwrite the weekday schedule. If the holiday is a weekday, overwriting enables video recording and viewing.

Follow the steps to overwrite weekday schedule to enable video.

Log in to 3VR System Manager.
Select a Channel.
Go to General Settings.
Select Appliance Privacy Schedule for Disabling video
Click Edit Schedule.
Select Add Weekday.
The Add Weekday window displays.
Enter the date and Time in the Weekday window.
Select Add Holiday.
Enter the holiday with description.
Switch to 3VR OpCenter from 3VR System Manager and check if the recording happens during the scheduled holiday.

Editing Privacy Schedule during Weekday

Log in to 3VR System Manager.
Select a Channel.
Go to General Settings.
Select Appliance Privacy Schedule for Disabling video.
Click Edit Schedule.
Select Add Weekday.
The Add Weekday window displays.
Enter the date and Time in the Weekday window.
Select Add Holiday.
Enter the holiday with description.
Click Ok.
Switch to OpCenter to confirm that the video recording is paused during the scheduled weekday.

The 3VR System Manger displays the channel as PAUSED and the video recording stops. The Server time syncs with the schedule time in the channel

Editing Privacy Schedule during Holiday

Log in to 3VR System Manager.
Select a channel.
Go to General Settings.
Select Channel Privacy Schedule for Disabling video.
Select Edit Schedule.
Click Add Holiday Schedule.
The Add Holiday window displays.
Enter the Date and Time in the Add Holiday window.
Click Ok.
Go to OpCenter to confirm that the video recording happens during the holiday.

Deleting Privacy Schedule

The 3VR privacy scheduling feature allows the user to delete any scheduled weekday or holiday. To delete the schedule:

Log in to 3VR System Manager.
Select a channel.
Go to General Settings.
Select Channel Privacy Schedule for Disabling video.
Select Edit Schedule.
Select an existing weekday and click Delete Weekday as shown in the Figure below.
Select an existing holiday and click Delete Holiday as shown in the Figure below.

Adding Multiple Schedule on a Weekday

The 3VR privacy scheduling feature allows the user can edit multiple schedules given on any weekday on the same channel.

Log into 3VR System Manager.
Select Channel->General Settings->Privacy Schedule for Disabling video in Edit Schedule.
Edit a weekday schedule to start recording for 30 minutes in between the schedule office hours as shown in Figure below.

In the Figure below, on Monday, the camera is scheduled to record from 17:00 to 17:30 in between 8:00 AM to 23:30 PM.
Switch to 3VR OpCenter from 3VR System Manager to confirm the recording of camera from 17:00 PM to 17:30 PM.
The Privacy Settings is applied after 17:30 PM and continues till the schedule time @23:30 PM.
In Figure below the recording of video take place from 17:00 PM to 17:30 PM.

After the schedule time the Channel is paused, and no video recording happens. The user can go back to OpCenter to make sure the recording does not happen during the scheduled time.

Determining Privacy Scheduling Precedence

The Table below describes the precedence order in privacy scheduling at the Channel level and Appliance level in order to record video after the schedule time.

	Appliance	Channels	Weekday	Holiday	Precedence
1	Privacy settings enabled at Appliance level	Privacy settings enabled at all Channel levels below Appliance	Adding a Weekday Schedule on Monday at Appliance Level	Adding a Holiday Schedule on Monday at Channel level	The Holiday Schedule at Channel level takes the Precedence
2	Privacy settings enabled/disabled at Appliance level	If all channels, have their own privacy settings that are different from the Appliance	Adding Weekday Schedule	Adding Holiday Schedule	The Channels take the Precedence
3	Privacy scheduling disabled during Holiday on Weekday Monday	Privacy settings on Channel have Monday as Weekday	Adding Weekday Schedule	Adding Weekday Schedule	Channel Privacy Settings take Precedence and Video is not recorded
4	X	Disabling/Enabling /Removing paused channels	Adding Weekday Schedule	Adding Weekday Schedule	The channel privacy setting takes precedence based on the status of the paused channels

Appliance Template

Appliance templates save user time and get the job done quickly by applying the existing settings. The template is saved in .3cf format.

Saving Appliance Template

To create appliance template:

Log in to 3VR System manager.
Right click VMS Server and select Save Template as shown in the Figure below.
In the Create Template dialog window, select the settings that are required as shown in the Figure below. Click to Save to File.
The Save Template window displays. Enter the file name and click Save. The file is saved in .3cf extension to the destination.

Applying Camera Settings at Channel Level

Applying Camera Settings saves the user time at channel level when multiple cameras need to configure at Appliance level. To copy camera settings:

Log in to 3VR System Manager.
Select a Channel.
Go to Common Operations -> select Copy Camera Settings
Select the Source Camera drop-down from where the settings must be copied to the Destination Camera.