AXIS P1224–E Network Camera
Events
Setting Up an Action Rule
An action rule defines the conditions that must be met for the product to perform an action, for example record video or send an
email notification. If multiple conditions are defined, all of them must be met to trigger the action.
The following example describes how to set up an action rule to record video to a network share if there is movement in the
camera’s field of view.
Set up motion detection and add a network share:
1. Go to
Detectors > Motion Detection
and configure a motion detection window. See
page 23
2. Go to
System Options > Storage
and set up the network share. See
page 40
.
Set up the action rule:
1. Go to
Events
>
Action Rules
and click
Add
.
2. Select
Enable rule
and enter a descriptive name for the rule.
3. Select
Detectors
from the
Trigger
drop-down list.
4. Select
Motion Detection
from the drop-down list. Select the motion detection window to use.
5. Optionally, select a
Schedule
and
Additional conditions
. See below.
6. Under
Actions
, select
Record Video
from the
Type
drop-down list.
7. Select a
Stream profile
and configure the
Duration
settings as described below.
8. Select Network Share from the
Storage
drop-down list.
To add additional criteria, select the
Additional conditions
option and add additional triggers. To prevent an action from being
triggered repeatedly, a
Wait at least
time can be set. Enter the time in hours, minutes and seconds, during which the trigger
should be ignored before the action rule can be activated again.
The recording
Duration
of some actions can be set to include time immediately before and after the event. Select
Pre-trigger time
and/or
Post-trigger time
and enter the number of seconds. When
While the rule is active
is enabled and the action is triggered
again during the post-trigger time, the recording time will be extended with another post-trigger time period.
For more information, see the online help
.
Recipients
Recipients receive media files and notification messages. The following recipients are available:
Recipient
Use with action
1
Send Images
Send Notification
FTP
Send Images
HTTP
Send Images
Send Notification
Network Share
2
Send Images
TCP
Send Notification
1.
See
Setting Up an Email Recipient on page 29
.
2.
A network share can also be used as a storage device for recorded video. Go
System Options > Storage
to configure a network share before
setting up a continuous recording or an action rule to record video. See
Storage on page 39
for more information about storage devices.
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