Replaying alarm video (Alarm Console)
- In the Nav tree, expand the nodes: and double-click on the ConsoleRecipient component. The Alarm Console view opens a tabular list of alarms.
The screen capture shows events routed from a video surveillance system to the alarm console. Video alarms are indicated by the filmstrip with green arrow icon (
). Only video alarms have this icon.
The video surveillance system sends these types of alarms to the station. For example, a video surveillance system that is configured to detect motion, sends the current status of the event to the station when the camera detects a motion event. Depending on the capabilities of the surveillance system and driver, the system may send a camera failure and other specific video conditions to the station as status events.
- To play back an alarm with an attached video, select the alarm and click the Show Video button at the bottom of the view.
- To view alarm sources, double-click the alarm row in the table.This action opens the Open Alarm Sources window, displaying all open alarms associated with the selected alarm source.
- Select the desired alarm record and click the Show Video button at the bottom of the window.This action opens the Alarm Video window (Video Playback view) and plays the alarm video. The standard Video Playback controls are available at the bottom of the window.
- To view detailed information about the alarm, double-click the alarm record in Open Alarm Sources window and click Review Video at the bottom of the window.This action opens the Alarm Video window (Video Playback view) and plays back the alarm video. The standard Video Playback controls are available at the bottom of the window.
- When you finish viewing, close all windows.