Alarm Setup and Activation, Control and Setup

7.3 ALARM SETUP AND ACTIVATION

Once external alarms are properly connected, you can configure the DVR to activate them.

The Alarm interface can be selected from the

Setting menu.

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The upper portion of this window is used to choose an alarm, its configuration and its type.

Alarm In – Select the alarm channel you are configuring.

Event Type – Choose between Local Input and Network Input

Enable – When this is selected the alarm response(s) in the bottom portion of this window are enabled.

Type – Alarms are either Normally Open (NO) or Normally Closed (NC)

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The bottom portion of the window allows you to choose what actions the DVR will initiate when an alarm is activated along with scheduling when the alarms are active.

Anti-dither – This is the hold time you want the system to delay before beginning recording on an alarm.

Latch Time – This is the time that the DVR will before starting a new event (10 seconds to 300 seconds (5 minutes)) after the alarm is ended.

Alarm Out – This will send an alarm signal to up to three connected external alarms when enabled.

Show Message – When this is enabled, an alert message will be displayed on the DVR’s screen.

Alarm Out – To utilize this feature you must connect have at least one external alarm attached to the DVR. You may have up to three separate alarms.

Show Message – When this is enabled, the system will bring up the Alarm Status window whenever an event is detected. You can configure this to display when motion, video loss or masking is detected.

Alarm Upload – The system can upload the alarm to the network including to an alarm monitoring service.

Send E-mail – E-mail notifications can be sent a single e-mail address. Please see the Section 1.2 Advanced Network Setup in the Remote Monitoring Guide for instructions on how to set up the e-mail alerts including recipient address.

Record Channel – When one camera detects an event, you can set the DVR to activate recording on other cameras.

PTZ Activation – If you have Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras connected to the DVR, you can cause them to be activated when an alarm occurs. You can further instruct it to perform one of 255 pre- set activities. You can also allow a delay of 0 to 300 seconds before the PTZ camera(s) activates. Setting

up these pre-programmed functions

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Period – This is for setting the schedule for when alarms are active. Clicking the Set button opens up a new window. Its operation is exactly like the setting window used to schedule motion detection and covered in Section 4.7.

You can set the schedule in up to six blocks of time for specific days of the week or by weekday and weekend.

Clicking the Set button next to the day drop down allows you to specify which days are work days and which are not.

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Control and Setup.

Tour - When enabled, this causes the DVR’s display to cycle through selected Live View channels while maintaining the selected recording functions. Instructions for configuring this feature are found in Section 5.3 Setting Menu.

Snapshot - When this is selected, the DVR will begin recording still images, in addition to whatever video is being recorded, and it will upload or e-mail these images as configured in Section 5.3 Setting Menu.