Setting Up an Action Rule

AXIS Q1604-E Network Camera

Events

•Day/Night Vision Mode – Set day mode (IR cut filter on) or night mode (IR cut filter off).

•Output Port – Activate an I/O port to control an external device.

•Overlay Text – Display an overlay text. See.

•Play Audio Clip – See Audio Clips, on page 28.

•Record Video – Record video to a selected storage.

•Send Images – Send images to a recipient.

•Send Notifications – Send a notification message to a recipient.

•Send Video Clip – Send a video clip to a recipient.

•Status LED – Flash the LED indicator. This can for example be used to validate triggers such as motion detection during product installation and configuration.

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 33

2.Go to System Options > Storage and set up the network share. See page 51.

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 .