User manual

AXIS Q7424–R

Events

- Use Schedule — tr igger the rule according to the selected schedule , see

Schedules, on page 33

Available actions include:

• Output Port — activate an I/O port to control an external device.

• Play Audio Clip —see

Audio Clips, on page 21

• PTZ Control

- Preset Position — go to a preset position.

- Guard Tour — start a guard tour, see

Guard T our, on page 26

• Record Video — record video to a selected storage.

• Send Images —sendimagestoarecipient.

• Send Notiﬁcations —sendanotiﬁ catio n message to a recipient.

• Status LED — ﬂash the LED indicator. This can fo r example be used to validate triggers such as motion detection d uring

product installation a nd conﬁguration.

Setting Up an Action Rule

An action rule deﬁnes the conditions that must be met for the product to perform an action, for example record video or send email

notiﬁcations. If multiple conditions are d eﬁned, all must be met to trigger the action.

The following example describes how to set up an action rule to record video to a network share if there is movement in the

camera’s ﬁeld of view.

Set up motion detection and a dd a network share:

1. Go to Detectors > M otion Detection and conﬁgure a m otion detection window, see

2. Go to System Options > Storage and set up the network share, see

page 44

Set up the action rule:

1. Go to Events > Action Rules and click Add.

2. Select Enable rule and enter a descriptive name for the rule.

3. Select Detectors from the Trigger drop-d own list.

4. Select M otion Detection from the drop-down list. Select the m otion detection window to use.

5. Optionally, select a Schedule and Additional conditions,seebelow.

6. Under Actions, select Record Video from the Type drop-down list.

7. Select a Stream proﬁle and conﬁgure the Duration settings as described below .

8. Select Network Share from the Storage drop-down list.

To add additional criteria, s e lect the Additional conditions option and add additional triggers. To preve nt an action from being

triggered repeatedly, a Wait at least time can b e set. Enter the time in hours, minutes and seconds, during which the trigger

should be ignore d before the action rule ca n be activated again.

The recording Duration of some actions can be set to include time immediately before and after the event. Select Pre-trigger time

and/or Post-trigger time and enter the number of seconds. When W hile the rule is active is enabled and the action is triggered

again during the post-trigger time, the recording time w ill be extended w ith another post-trigger time period.

For m ore information, see the online help