need scheduling help

[Carollarso]

I just bought this and am trying to figure out how to schedule multiple times without having to go in and arm and disarm my cameras. I want the system to be programed to watch for motion while I am at work. Turn off motion at 5 pm and then go back on at 1030 pm while I am sleeping. Is this possible?

[Schorschi]

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Carollarso wrote:

I just bought this and am trying to figure out how to schedule multiple times without having to go in and arm and disarm my cameras. I want the system to be programed to watch for motion while I am at work. Turn off motion at 5 pm and then go back on at 1030 pm while I am sleeping. Is this possible?

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Here are some basic points that should help in understanding the system:

1. Your system comes with the default modes Armed and Disarmed. You cannot rename or delete those. You can edit the Armed mode to adjust it to your preferred sensitivities and recording lengths per motion event.
2. Only one mode can be active at any given time, whether programmed in the Schedule or manually selected by you.
3. Inside a mode you create rules, typically one for each camera that you want to be active (i.e. detect motion) while that mode is active.
4. You use the Schedule to program when what mode is to be active.
5. Any time period in the Schedule where no mode is active is equivalent to your system being Disarmed, i.e. no cameras are set to detect motion.

So, for your specific case, let's suppose you were ok with utilizing the Armed mode, i.e. all cameras are in motion detection mode.

You go into the Schedule and press the +Add button. You select the Armed mode and program the days of the week and Start and Stop Times during which you want the Armed mode to be active. Let's say you wanted it to be active all day until 5 p.m. You can't define time frames that cross midnight, so you would have to program a Start Time of 12:00 AM and an End Time of 5:00 PM.

Save that schedule item and create another one, again by pressing the +Add button, this time you select 10:30 PM as your Start Time and 12:00 AM as your Stop Time for the Armed mode. Remember to check the weekdays on which you want this mode to be active; you may not want it to be active during the weekend, for instance.

Since you didn't define any mode to be active between 5 PM and 10:30 PM, motion detection will be off for all cameras between those times.

Finally, in order for that schedule to be active, make sure to select Schedule as your active mode on your Mode page.

If you wanted to not have all cameras set to detect motion at a certain time, you would have to create a custom mode, creating rules only for the cameras you would want to detect motion and then schedule that mode during your desired time frame, in the same way as described above with the Armed mode.