Enabling Onboard Storage - Motorola Avigilon H5A-FE Series User Manual

Important: SD card failures can cause the camera to continuously reboot. To prevent this, the SD
card will be disabled if persistent failures are detected. For more information, see
on page 28.
If you are using a CryptR micro card in the camera's SD slot for FIPS level 3 encryption, you will not be able to
use onboard storage in the SD card slot. For camera's with 2 microSD slots you can only use the slots for
either storage or the CryptR micro card, both options cannot be used at the same time.
Note: For cameras with 2 microSD card slots, you will only be able to configure the microSD card
that is inserted first, in either card slot. The second microSD card slot is reserved for future features.

Enabling Onboard Storage

To use the camera's onboard storage feature, you must first insert an SD card into the camera. Refer to the
camera's installation manual for the location of the SD card slot.
Tip: The SD card will record from the camera's highest resolution, non-tiled stream. In most cases,
this will be the primary stream.
Note: For cameras with 2 microSD card slots, you will only be able to configure the microSD card
that is inserted first, in either card slot. The second microSD card slot is reserved for future features.
1. On the Storage page, select the Enable Onboard Storage check box.
2. By default, the camera is set to only record to the SD card when it is unable to communicate with the
network video management server. If you prefer to have the camera record video to both the network
video management server and to the SD card, clear the Record only when server connection is
interrupted check box to disable the setting.
3. Select one of the following recording modes:
Continuous: the camera never stops recording to the SD card.
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On Motion: the camera only records when there is motion in the scene.
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If you are configuring an Avigilon video analytics camera, the On Motion setting will record
either pixel change in the scene or analytics motion events depending on how the camera is
configured in the Avigilon Control Center Client software.
The recorded video will be divided into files no more than five minutes in length or 100 MB in size.
4. On the Compression and Image Rate page, make sure the format is set to H.264 or H.265 to
maximize the SD card recording capacity and performance.
Enabling Onboard Storage
SD Card Failures
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