Event Actions
For 15 seconds after being triggered any additional individual input changes on that alarm source are only be
logged and not generate any other action. This is to reduce the effect that any oscillating alarm source, e.g. if a
door is simply vibrating in the wind, causing a series of alarms to be generated.
Input alarms are triggered upon change of state. Either from opened to closed or from closed to open. The camera
reports the current state of each input alarms (open or closed) as well as an active or inactive status in the alarm
configuration page. Active alarms are also be visible in the current faults page.
The triggering of any input alarm affects scheduled tasks and delay them until at least 30 seconds has passed
since the last digital alarm input was triggered.
Alarm Actions
Upon triggering each alarm input can be configured to trigger a faulty action:
• Activate the digital output contact. This stays active until the alarm is acknowledged and cleared by
an operator.
• Send an external alarm WS-Event that includes alarm details
• Send an external alarm via email that includes alarm detail, where to retrieve the AVI video file and
one JPEG picture of the event if recording MJPEG to local storage. If MJPEG is not being recorded
on local storage, then no JPEG picture is sent.
• Send an audio file via the dome. If a speaker has been connected to the audio output on the dome
the file can be played as the alarm is triggered.
• Send an AVI video file to a pre-configured external FTP server. The video file will contain pre and
post alarm video buffer and audio if enabled and supported, as outlined above.
Note:
1. An active internal alarm only resets when the input state changes to “normal.” A manual reset is not
available.
2. A microSD Card must be inserted to send an SMTP email, video files, audio and images from triggered
alarms.
Procedure 5-8 Creating an Alarm
Step Action
1
Select
Alarm I/O
from the
Event and Actions
menu.
2
Enter the alarm name in the
Name
text box.
3
Select the
Enabled
checkbox to enable the alarm
OR
De-select the
Enabled
checkbox to disable to alarm.
4
Select when the alarm is required to be activated from the
Normal
drop down menu. i.e. when the dry
contact is open or closed.
5
Select the
Output
check box to enable alarm output.
OR
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