VIVOTEK - Built with Reliability
User's Manual - 45
Auto pan/patrol controller
: These buttons provides pan and patrol functions provides 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 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.
2-2-7. Alarm panel
To receive alarms from cameras, you need to configure alarm triggers in the
Settings
>
Alarm
configuration window (
see page 99
). Network cameras' digital inputs, digital outputs, or motion
detection, or NVR's digital inputs 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 video,
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 an NVR/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 99 for how to configure the
alarm settings.
