Configuring motion-detected alarms
This procedure uses
Prerequisites: The xprotect driver and all video hardware is installed, discovered, configured and reporting a status of {ok}.
- Expand the video network down to the camera, double-click the Events node in the Nav tree and click the Discover button.
- To add the motion-detected event, select the discovered Motion Detected event type in the Discovered pane, click Add and OK.The Motion Detected binary point moves to the Database pane.
- Open the alarm palette, expand the Extensions node, drag a BooleanChangeOfStateAlarmExt to the Motion Detected Boolean Point’s Property Sheet, drop it on the component name and click OK.
- Expand the extension, open the videoDriver palette, expand the Alarm node, drag a VideoAlarmExtParameters component to the BooleanChangeOfStateAlarmExt in the Property Sheet, drop it on the extension name and click OK.
- Scroll down to
Meta Dataand confirm that the Camera Ord has already been set. - Scroll back up, double-click the Recording Servers node in the Nav tree, click Discover, add the recording server and ping it to ensure that it is connected and its
Statusreports {ok}. - Create motion in front of the camera and confirm that the
Outproperty changes to true {alarm, unackedAlarm}.You may need to switch to the camera and ping the recording server again. The motion-detection recording may take some time. - To confirm that the Alarm Console reports a motion-detected alarm, navigate to and expand the AlarmService in the Nav tree,
double-click the ConsoleRecipient and confirm the alarm.
- To confirm the alarm in the browser, log in to the system, click Monitoring.The video icon (
) identifies the recorded clip associated with the motion-detection alarm.
- To view the clip, use the check box to the left of the alarm row to select this alarm and click .The HTML5 video clip plays back.