Configuring camera profiles
Camera profiles define which video profile to use, video storage options, and recording schedules (either continuous or motion
detection) for the cameras that use the profile. If you want to use a factory default profile (for example, DoContinuous), then you can skip this step during initial setup. Otherwise you can configure profiles with your custom settings.
Camera profiles are used by cameras. For details, see Configuring cameras.
To configure camera profiles
- Go to Camera > Configuration > Camera Profile.
- Click New.
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Configure the following settings:
Setting Name
Description
Name
Enter a name (such as
camera-settings1) that can be referenced by other parts of the configuration. Do not use spaces or special characters. The maximum length is 35 characters.From Recording stream profile, select the video profile that defines the quality of the recorded video. See also Configuring video profiles.
From Viewing stream profile, select the video profile that defines the quality of the video when viewing a live stream.
Click Add schedule to select the schedule that defines when to use low or high quality video. See also Schedules. For example, you could improve the camera's performance at night without sacrificing the quality of video during the day.
Better video quality will use more bandwidth and disk space.
Select what triggers the camera to begin recording.
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Continuous: Records video for the entire duration of the schedule, regardless of movement or any other triggers.
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Motion detection: Records a video clip up to about 40 seconds long each time the camera's sensor detects movement.
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Digital input: Records a video clip up to about 40 seconds long each time the camera receives a trigger from the digital input.
This option only takes effect if the camera supports DIDO.
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Audio detection: Records a video clip up to about 40 seconds long each time the camera detects sound. You can define the sound detection sensitivity when configuring camera settings.
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PIR detection: PIR based motion detection senses the movement of people, animals, and other objects that produce heat energy.
These recording storage options are available:
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FortiRecorder: Store your recorded video on the FortiRecorder
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SD card: Store your recorded video on the camera's SD card (also called "edge recording").
Recording types vary by camera model.
If you want to use different recording types at different times, click Add schedule to specify them. For example, you could instruct the camera to start recording for motion detection during the day and PIR detection at night.
Enable to download video recordings from the camera's SD card to FortiRecorder local or remote storage. When the download occurs varies by whether Recording is Continuous or Motion detection.
From Continuous recordings and Detection recordings, select the storage strategy:
- Keep until overwritten: Retain video until all available disk space, both local and remote, is almost full. Then the oldest video will be overwritten.
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Delete: Remove video when it exceeds the specified maximum age, or if the disk is full.
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Move: Move video to external storage when it exceeds the specified maximum age, or if the disk is full. In the After n options that appear, select the age threshold that will cause FortiRecorder to move the video clips to external storage.
This option applies only if you have configured remote storage.
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Use continuous recordings if available: Marks the time ranges of motion detection inside of continuous recordings instead of storing them as separate video files. This reduces CPU load, but does not allow continuous recordings to be deleted and only keeps the section of video that was marked by motion detection for a period of time.
This option is only available in the Detection recordings dropdown list.
Recordings are stored on the hard disk as multiple video files. The oldest part of the recording is deleted or moved first.
If remote storage is configured, video is first stored on the local disk, then transferred to remote storage when the local disk needs space for newer video. When the remote disk is full too, the video will finally be deleted from it.
Select whether or not FortiRecorder compresses continuous recordings.
If you select Compress, then also configure the maximum amount of time to keep the files uncompressed. Files whose start time is older than the specified time will be compressed.
Selecting Compress will reduce disk space usage, but can also reduce video quality.
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- Click Create.