42NetBotz Appliance User’s Guide
Click OK to save your changes. Click Cancel to close the Camera Motion Configuration window
without saving any changes.
Block out mask tab. The following controls are available:
• Enable Block Out Mask: Check to enable the Block Out Mask function.
• Block Out Mask: Specify regions of the image that are not visible in the camera image.
Use the Block Out Mask to configure your camera so specified areas of the image cannot be seen. To
mask a portion of the image:
1. Click and drag to draw a box around the region you want to ignore. Click Mask Selection to
mask the selected region. A blue block appears in the region to be blocked.
2. To unmask a region, click and drag to draw a box around the region you want to unmask. Click
Unmask Selection to remove the mask from the selected region. Any portion of the blue block
out mask that you selected is removed.
3. Click OK. Click Cancel to close the Camera Motion Configuration window without saving
any changes.
Masking a Pelco IP camera
When setting up the motion mask on a Pelco IP camera, you must make sure that the primary stream
resolution of the Pelco camera matches the selected resolution of the Camera View.
To set the primary stream resolution for the Pelco camera:
1. Access the web configuration site for the Pelco camera in a web browser. This is usually the IP
address of the camera.
2. In the AV/Streams tab of the interface, select Video Configuration.
3. Go to the primary stream area and select the resolution that matches the resolution shown in
Advanced View.
4. Click Save to save the new settings, and close the website.
Visual mode settings
Use Visual Modes to select the camera imager mode and to select the window of interest used when Pan
and Scan mode is active. This window is not available for Pelco PTZ cameras.
The camera pod imager can capture images at resolutions up to 1280x1024, and supports Wide Screen
mode and Pan and Scan mode. Wide Screen mode captures images using the entire 1280x1024 frame,
while Pan and Scan mode captures a selected portion of the total 1280x1024 field of view.
Use the Mode drop-down list to specify the imager mode used by the camera. If you select Pan and
Scan, use the arrow buttons to select the image view. Click OK.
Motion in pan and scan mode. When the camera pod is in Pan and Scan mode and you enable the
Camera Motion sensor, only motion detected within the 640x480 window causes an alert condition. If
you enabled the Show outline of detected motion functionality and specified a Mode in the Cameras
tab that is 800x600 or greater, outlines appear only in the 640x480 window that you specified.
