Warnings and Alarms
The LiveNoise software has a
Warning
level and an
Alarm
level that can
be configured to suit your application.
The software indicates the warning level on the graph. When the warning
level is exceeded the digital level reading changes colour and the status
bar shows the message “WARNING LEVEL”. No other action is taken on a
warning and nothing additional is stored.
When the level exceeds the alarm level the digital level reading changes
colour and the status bar shows the message “HIGH LEVEL”. If the level
stays above the warning level for the preset time (see
LiveNoise Options
)
then an
Alarm
is generated.
Alarms
Alarms are indicated on the right-hand side of
the LiveNoise display, showing the start time
(the time at which the level first crossed the
threshold) and the maximum sound level
(LAFmax).
Click on any of the alarms to get more infor-
mation, including the date and the alarm duration, which
indicates the amount of time that the level remained above
the threshold.
Alarms Saved to File
If LiveNoise is configured to save alarms to file (see
LiveNoise Options
section) then a Comma Separate Variable (CSV) file is created for each
day that the software runs. By default, these files will be created in
My
Documents / LiveNoise
, although this can be changed if necessary.
The file names are of the format:
ALM-yyyy-mm-dd.CSV
, where
yyyy
is
the year,
mm
is the month and
dd
is the day.
These files can be loaded straight into a text editor as well as directly into
most spreadsheets and word processors.
