## Alarm Bar

The Alarm bar turns red if events occur that lead to an alarm. This happens only if the Alarms option has been activated in the Camera Configuration dialog box and if the corresponding event types have been activated.
You can filter the displayed alarm images in the bar by event type or by camera and play back the recording of an event directly from the Alarm bar. Click on the frame border to show the Alarm bar. To hide the Alarm bar, pull down the upper frame border.
If you click on the lower frame border with the alarm bar open, the bar changes to show the Export bar. Using drag, the Export bar provides a quick and easy way to collect recordings for subsequent exporting.

### Detecting and Acknowledging New Alarms

You can activate the Alarms option in the Camera Configuration dialog box (right-click on the respective camera in the Device bar) for the corresponding camera and environment if you want events to trigger an alarm in a camera. In addition, you can select the event types that will cause an alarm. If the bar is hidden, new alerts will be indicated by a red frame border . If the bar is open, the info bar of the event image turns red. A ringing at the door bell will color the bar in green .
To acknowledge a new alarm, right-click on the event image and select Confirm. To acknowledge all new alarms at once, select Confirm All.

### Viewing the Live Image of the Triggering Camera

To quickly check the current situation, a single click into the Grid view of the corresponding camera group is sufficient. The live image of the triggering camera is automatically displayed in the focus window. The advantage is that you see not only the live image of the triggering camera, but also the live images of the cameras in the same area, thus giving you a complete overview of the situation. Of course, you will have to combine the cameras into corresponding groups beforehand. To switch to the Grid view, move the mouse pointer over the alarm image. Three icons appear. Click on .

### Filtering the Display of Alarm Images

The alarm images in the Alarm bar are sorted chronologically. You can filter the event images by camera and group, by alarms or by event type. There are three slider bars for this purpose: camera filter, alarm filter and event filter. To set the filter, move the sliders until you see the desired results:

- Camera filter:
  All cameras , cameras from the current group , current camera .
- Alarm filter:
  All events , alarm events , unconfirmed alarms .
- Event filter:
  MxActivitySensor events , video motion events , PIR events , microphone events , signal input events , temperature events , illumination events , bell events , voice mailbox messages , Door Station events , RFID rejected , PIN rejected , all event types .

Note: If background alarm calls have been deactivated in the Camera Configuration dialog box (see Entering and Editing Network Data), the application will only open an connection for the cameras if necessary, such as when live stream of the camera or recordings are played back via the camera. This means that if you set the camera filter to All cameras when background alarm calls are deactivated, only the alarms of the currently connected cameras are displayed.

### Playing Back Recordings

- You can play back the recordings of an alarm directly from the Alarm bar. To do so, move the mouse pointer over the alarm image. Three icons appear. Click on .
- To play back the alarm in the Playback view, move the mouse pointer over the alarm image. Click on to switch to the Playback view.

### Deactivating Alarms

You can use the Camera Configuration dialog box or the Alarm bar to deactivate alarms.

- Deactivating alarms for a specific camera and event type:
  Right-click on the desired alarm image and select Deactivate As Alarm.
- Deactivating alarms for all event types:
  Right-click on an alarm image and select Deactivate All Alarms.