Alarm Setting
Transmitter1 supports up to 16 alarm inputs. You can set the type and the status for each alarm source. Each alarm can associate up to 16 video sources2.
Sensors
For security reason, you will be asked to input the Administrator password before you can see the window of Sensors Settings.
1 4 input for 4 CAM transmitter
2 4 video sources for 4 CAM transmitter
Installed
Don’t forget to check this box to activate the alarm sensor after you have made some changes to it.
Name
User can give a meaningful name (max characters space = 10) to the alarm sensor for easier memorisation.
Type
It can be either normal open or normal close.
Associate Camera
Each alarm can associate up to 16 cameras3. The associate camera set acts as the desired camera set to monitor and recorded when the corresponding alarm is triggered.
3 4 cameras for 4 CAM transmitter
Options
When alarm is triggered, siren and video recording will switch on automatically and switch off after a preset period of time.
Alarm Password
You may change the alarm password.
Note that only alphanumeric characters are allowed to use as the passwords.
Alarm Log
All valid alarms will be recorded in the alarm log. User can make use of location, phone number or time to filter out your desired alarm information. Besides, all the alarm information can be printed out for reference.
In preview, you can zoom the alarm log in different proportion (full screen, normal or fit width).
Event Handler
When your VRT/VT/VX is triggered by some events such as alarm triggered, motion detection, video loss, disk full or system failure, you can be alerted through a powerful built-in function of VRT/VT/VX, Event Handler. You can also predefine some actions to deal with different event accordingly. Actions to be taken include recording, switch control, dial back and e-mail notification (in VX model, action includes buzzer as well)
1) Event
All the included events are shown here. The defined options are Alarm, Motion (VRT/VX only), Video loss, Disk Full (VRT/VX only) and System Failure (VRT/VX only).
2) Event Handler Settings
You can find the brief description of each individual event. You may click the description to access the settings page.
3) Reload
Click this button allows you to reload the settings from your VRT/VT/VX if you have made some changes to the settings but want to resume to its original settings.
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4) Default
After this button has been clicked, all the event settings in VT will be cancelled. For VRT/VX, only duration for recording for alarm triggered will be set.
5) Ok
Button for save and exit the settings window.
6) Default
Button for exit the window and leave all the settings unchanged.
7) Apply
Click this button to save the changes made and keep the window opening.
Alarm Event Settings
You can find information about the alarm settings in the front page of Alarm Event Settings, such as number of sensor (No.), the names of the sensors (SensorName), the status whether it is Installed, AssociateCameras, and status of Recording, Switch,
Dialback and E-mail.
You can double click the individual row to enter its setting page.
Sensors Settings
You can modify the alarm sensors settings by clicking this button. Remember to click Apply or OK to save the changes. Please refer to the previous section about Alarm Settings.
Action to be taken
If you click the individual sensor, you can set the action for VRT/VT to take when it is triggered. Actions include recording, switch control, dial back and e-mail notification.
Recording ( VRT/VX only )
After the alarm sensor has been trigger, you can activate the recording either in type of Continuous or Frame Basis. Duration selections for continuous recording are 10sec, 20sec, 30sec, 1min, 5min, 10min, 30min, 45min and 60min. If you choose Frame Basis, then the number you set for recording will be the number of duration in seconds for recording as it is frame per second.
Note that in case all cameras are associated with its sensors (i.e. Camera 1 with Sensor 1, Camera 2 with sensor 2…etc), and the pre-defined recording duration is 1 minute continuously. There are two typical cases:
1) Sensor 2 is triggered to have recording while at the same time that camera is being recorded, as a result there will be an “overlapping” period that both Camera 1 and Camera 2 are recorded. Total time for these two events will equal to or less than 2 minutes, however, individually, there would be 1 minute of recording on Camera 1 and 1 minute of recording on Camera 2.
2) The same sensor is triggered while the associated camera video is being recorded due to the event trigger, the new 1-minute recording will be append to the end of the previous recording time, e.g. there is 30 seconds recording when the second event trigger, so totally there will be 1 minute and 30 seconds recording.
Sensor name
Switch
Switch control is another action VT/VRT/VX can take when event triggered. In this page, you can activate the switch control by checking the box Enable Switch Control and the individual switch check box. You can view the status of the switch settings such as the type of switch and its initial state. The type of switches can either be “Latching” or “Push”. It is advised to configure initial button setting before used. You can do so by clicking the Switches
Settings.
Note: this switch control setting will be set to VRT/VT/VX only but not affect the settings in the Reception Software.
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Don’t forget to check individual cameraDial Back
In this page, you can find the telephone numbers for dial back. You can modify them in the option of Dial Back Settings. When the alarm is triggered, VT/VRT/VX will attempt to dial to the telephone number in the first entry to acknowledge the user. If it fails to inform, it will try the second entry, and third and so on.
Location name of VT/VRT
Phone number or IP address
Four entries for IP address or phone number or direct to COM dial back
Duration time between two attempts
Counter for cyclic retry from 1 time to 10 times or infinite, infinite = keep trying until dial back successfully,
Dialing tone selection
You can enable the function that VRT/VT/VX send you an acknowledge email when alarm sensors are triggered. The first page you see only show you the information and the status of enable or disable. You should enter to its settings page to modify the settings.
Please enter a valid SMTP Server IP or address that VRT/VT is connecting to
All the recipients will receive the notify email
You can verify the function by requesting the VRT/VT to send a testing email.
Note: So as to avoid the flooding of email sending to inform the recipients about the event triggered, VRT/VT/VX bears a 15-minute boundary. Once the event triggered happens, all the defined recipients will receive an acknowledge email. In case that event happens within 15 minutes after the previous event, no duplicate email will be sent to those recipients. However, if the current event happens 15 minutes after the previous event, then notify email will be sent again.
Motion Event Settings (VRT/VX only)
VRT/VX allows you to enable video recording when motion is detected. Maximum 16 cameras are able for motion driven recording. In the front page shown below, you can find the information such as number of camera installed, the names of the cameras, the status whether it is installed and whether Motion Detection is applied to it, the degree of the Sensitivity it uses to detect and status of Recording, Switch, Dial
back and E-mail..
Cameras Settings
You can modify the cameras settings by clicking this button. After you have clicked OK, the selected camera(s) will be installed.
Motion Settings
You can modify the settings for motion detection by clicking this button. After you have clicked OK, the selected camera(s) will be installed.
Enable Cameras
When you see the following page, you can select the camera(s) to have this recording by checking the camera number in “Enabled Cameras”. A fast button “Enable All” and
“Disable All” is for convenient usage.
Select Blocks
“S” refers to “Select” while “D” refers to “Deselect”. For selecting the detect region, you should first click “S”, then use your mouse to drag on the image. You can select the blocks anywhere on the image. The selected blocks will become red for notification. You can also click “Select All” to activate all the blocks on the image to take effect. “Clear All” allows you to clear all the selected blocks and re-select the blocks again.
You can immediately see the change in the selected block when motion triggered.
The cross blocks show motion detection occurred.
Deselect Blocks
You can click “D” to “Deselect” the selected blocks. You should use your mouse to drag on the selected blocks. The selected for cancelling the motion detection will be in green color.
Or you can click “ClearAll” to cancell all the motion detection.
Individual Camera Sensitivity & Recording Duration
There are three preset levels, Low, Medium and High, of sensitivity for convenient use.
Light Sensitivity is a threshold to determines when the block is “changed”. The higher it was set, the more sensitive to the change. Area indicates in how many percentage of the motion in the block triggered will be considered as a “change”. When the percentage is low, that means, a bit change to the image block will be considered as a trigger. In other words, when the Area is set to be high percentage, a small change in the image block will not be considered as a motion trigger.
The user can also define his/her perference value for Light Sensitivity and Area percentage by choosing Custom
Deselected blocks
Recording Duration
It is the length of time for recording after motion detected. It varies from 30sec, 1 min, 5 min to 10 min.
Action to be taken
The actions available for motion detection are as same as Alarm Trigger. Actions include recording, switch control, dial back and e-mail notification. Please refer to the previous pages for details.
Video Loss Event Settings
VRT/VX can be set to take some actions such as Alarm Alert to the administrator or send email to the defined users when the video source is accidentally discontinued if you have enable the video loss detection function. Double click the row to access its setting page.
Cameras Settings
You can modify the cameras settings by clicking this button. After you have clicked OK, the selected camera(s) will be installed.
Video Loss Settings
You can modify the settings for video loss detection by clicking Video Loss Settings…
The number of the camera(s) to be selected for video loss detection will be equal or less than the number of installed camera(s). Check the box in front of the camera to select it.
After clicking OK in the Video Loss Detection Settings window, the settings will be stored in the VT/VRT/VX.
Action to be taken
It is understandable that VRT/VT/VX can perform the actions mentioned in the previous page but no Recording. As a result, you can only apply switch control, dial back and e-mail notification when it is triggered. Note that the setting will be applied to all Cameras. Once either one of the pre-set camera sources has been removed, actions will be taken.
Disk Full Event Settings (VRT/VX only)
If the recording mode has been set to fixed, the user is necessary to know about it for taking actions like stopping recording or replace the hard drive. VRT/VX has a hard drive capacity detection function. When the usage of the hard drive is reached to the defined-warning level, it can give out some indicator to let the user know.
Actions to be taken are switch control, dial back and e-mail notification. Please refer to the alarm alert setting page for details.
Disk Usage Settings…
User can set the warning level that the hard drive reach to get the notification.
The selected range is from 50% to 80%
with every 10% increment.
In this page, the used capacity in percentage of the disk is shown.
System Failure Event Settings (VRT/VX only)
System failure refers to any failure that causes VRT/VX to work improperly. The failure may be hard disk reading error, hard disk writing error, file system error, bad sector…etc.
Actions to be taken are switch control, dial back ande-mail notification. Please refer to the alarm alert setting page for details.
Action to be taken
The actions available for motion detection are as same as Alarm Trigger. Actions include switch control, dial back and e-mail notification. Please refer to the previous pages for details.
Note that you will find a Cameras entry on the left only, since there is only one setting to all the cameras, i.e. if you enable switch control for video loss detection found at Camera 1, Camera 2, and Camera 3, once either video source of Camera 1 or Camera 2 or Camera 3 is lost, switch control will be done.