NVR Setup 8 - Alarm and Alert

In this episode of In the Trenches, SCW’s expert discusses the Alarm and Alert setup menu.

Our speaker today is:

Andrew

Andrew:

Alarm and alert for alarm section, we're going to have some options for wired inputs on the back of the NVR itself. So the use case for this would be if you had a driveway sensor or a motion detector, you could wire it into the NVR and trigger something to happen when that device gets triggered. So you would need a physical third party device to be wired in. You're able to specify which alarm input you're using, what scheduled days of the week it's running, and then what happens when that alarm actually gets triggered. Are we recording? Which channel are we recording it on? We can also in turn, trigger another alarm output. So if you have a light outdoor flood lamp that's getting triggered with some wires, you can trigger that as well. From here, you can also issue the Pazo buzzer on the MBR itself.

Send an email or activate presets. All the standard things we would expect under normal motion detection, alarm output. This is a pre-configuration for your alarm outputs. You're able to set if it's a normally open or normally closed type of relay manual alarm. Once your input and output alarms are triggered, you're able to physically trigger them from here, activate and toggle them on and off for testing audio alarm duration. This is talking about the pazo buzzer on the NVR itself. The alarm warning. If that is active, we're able to tell it how many seconds it's active. So how long that's going to be. Doorbell call, that's not going to be applying to us at this point with some future products. Temperature alarm, similar. We have some upcoming products for that. And one key disarming, we're going to leave this as well. Now. Alert. This is a particular system setting where you're able to tell a particular alarm to go off or something to happen based on a system error. So in our alert type, we have all of our available system-wide errors such as IP conflict, network, disconnected disc, offline, all things you may want to know about if they come up.

Now we can select the error message that we want and we can trigger an alarm output to fire off. Have a buzzer beep on the MVR or send an email, which could be useful if we had a disco down. Just make sure you save before you leave that screen.