I guess I'm not grasping profiles and how they are used. Can someone please give me a brief explanation of what this feature provides and how to use it? Thanks
Generally, one profile is active at a time (you can independently set a schedule per camera but this is not needed for 99 percent of the cases)...
For each profile, you can set each camera to have different motion, record, and alert settings...so for example, you can have independent settings for day vs night (based on sunrise sunset if you wish), home vs away, etc...
So when you are home you can have your indoor cameras turn off...