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.
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
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To acknowledge a new alarm, right-click on the event image and select Confirm. To acknowledge all new alarms at once, select Confirm All.
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
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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:
You can use the Camera Configuration dialog box or the Alarm bar to deactivate alarms.