SerVision
Embedded Video Gateway System Guide
Configuring System Settings
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Sensor (Front Door) ON activated on Bus-5478 at 22 Feb 07 00:17:16
The recipient name is set in each message to match the name of the recipient as it appears in the
Recipient
list
below the message template.
You can modify the default message to suit your requirements. For example, you could enter the following
message:
An event was detected: &S at &T
In this case, when the
Front Door
sensor is triggered, all the SMS recipients in the list will receive the following
message from the Video Gateway:
An event was detected: Sensor (Front Door) ON at 22 Feb 07 00:17:16
Testing Notification Settings
Once the event notification settings are configured, and the settings have been implemented on the unit (i.e., the
settings were saved and the unit was reset), you can test the SMS and e-mail settings to ensure that the notifications
are sent to the recipients you intended.
To send a test message to the notification recipients:
In the
System Summary
screen, under
SMS & E-mail
, click the
Test E-mail
button or the
Test SMS
button. A sample message is sent to all of the recipients of the specified type of notification.
Note:
If no recipients are defined for one of the types of notifications, the test button for that type of
notification does not appear.
Note:
Test messages are sent based on the notification configuration settings that are currently defined on the
Video Gateway unit. If you make changes to the configuration, but have not yet saved them on the unit and
reset the unit, they will not be reflected in the test notifications that are sent.
Automatically Uploading Video to an AVV Server
You can configure the system to automatically upload recorded video of events from the Video Gateway unit to an
AVV (Alarm Video Verification) web server. Once the video has been uploaded, you can access the server via the
internet to view the video.
Video of an event can include a few seconds of video from immediately before the event was triggered ("pre-
recording") and a few seconds after the event ended ("post-recording"). You can configure the number of seconds
of pre- and post-recording to include. Note, however, that the pre-recording video may not be available for upload
because it may not have been recorded by the Video Gateway. This can occur if recording from the relevant camera
is by-event, and the pre-recording period defined for the camera is shorter than the pre-recording period specified
for AVV uploading. The recording settings of the camera are set in the
Camera
screen (see
, page 105). For additional information, see
If e-mail connection information is configured (see
, page 61), e-mail notifications are
sent to the specified recipients both when the system begins uploading video to the AVV server and when the
system successfully completes the upload. The initial e-mail notification includes a picture of the first recorded
frame of the event and a link to the relevant video on the AVV server. The second e-mail is a text message that also
includes a link to the video on the AVV server. To access the video, you need only click the link in one of the e-
mails. You can also access the video on the AVV server by navigating to the download site.