VIVOTEK - Built with Reliability
168 - User's Manual
Auto pan/patrol controller
: These buttons provides pan and patrol functions provided that
preset locations have been configured on the camera. For a speed dome camera, the pan
command tells the camera to continuously pan 360 degrees until it is stopped by a user
command. For PZ or PT series cameras, the pan action only takes place once to cover
reachable areas.
The
Stop
button ends a pan or patrol tour.
4-2-7. Alarm panel
To receive alarms from cameras, you need to configure alarm triggers in the
). Network cameras' digital inputs, digital outputs, or motion
detection can all be used to detect conditions in external environments. When the alarms are
triggered, you can configure certain kind of actions to take place in response to the alarms, such
as:
1.
recording
the immediate image,
2. sending an
,
3. sounding the
buzzer
,
4, sending snapshots to an
FTP
server,
5. sending event messages to
web server
,
6. moving camera lens to a
preset
location,
7. triggering a camera
digital output
.
The alarm panel displays the latest 10 alarm
entries with the latest alarm on top of the list.
The alarm list keeps up to 200 events. Older
events will be erased if the number exceeds
200.
The alarm panel is polled every 10 seconds. A mouse hover on an alarm entry displays full
information of the event.
Note that multiple alarms can be triggered by one incident. See page 102 for how to configure
