OnSSI NetDVMS Rev 6.5
Administration
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... Add a VMD Event
Note: Access to features in the Administrator application, including those described in the following, may
require administrator rights.
Events can be used for automatically triggering actions in NetDVMS, such as starting or stopping
recording on cameras, triggering e-mail or SMS notifications, making PTZ cameras move to specific
preset positions, activating output, etc. An event may also trigger several actions simultaneously.
Tip:
If you are specifically looking for information about how to configure motion detection-triggered
activation of an output device only (such as a siren, a strobe light, etc.), see
How to Add a Motion-Triggered
Output
.
Several types of events exist (see
About Input, Events & Output ...
). In the following, you will see how to
define an event based on NetDVMS detecting motion on a particular camera (VMD simply means Video
Motion Detection). Once the VMD event is defined, you will be able to select it when further configuring
NetDVMS.
Note: In addition to NetDVMS's motion detection, some devices also have their own capabilities for
detecting motion (configured in the devices' own software; typically by accessing a browser-based
configuration interface on the device's IP address). Events based on motion detected on a device itself
are not VMD Events; they are input events, since they are based on input from the device.
Note: Your motion detection settings for the camera in question will entirely determine when motion is
detected, and thus when the VMD event will occur. See the description of the
Adjust Motion Detection
window
for more information. Also note that in order not to generate an excessively high number of VMD
events during periods with lots of motion, a VMD event cannot occur more frequently than every five
seconds.
To add a VMD event, do the following:
1.
In the
Administrator window
, click the I/O Setup button.
This will open the
I/O Setup window
.
2.
In the I/O Setup window, first select the device on which motion must be detected in order for
the event to occur, then click the Add VMD Event (Motion Detection) button:
This will automatically add a VMD event to the selected device (unless the selected device is a
video encoder, see below).
