Operating instructions

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6.3 Alarm Setup
In Setup Menu display, press ▲▼ to change the highlighted option to Alarm and then press
ENTER to call up Alarm Setup display as shown. The Alarm Setup allows the administrator to
define the attributes for each alarm input and the actions if it’s triggered. There are up to 4 alarm
inputs which can be connected to the system.
The general operations are as below:
▲▼◄►
Press these buttons to select the items.
Numeric
Press these buttons to select the alarm input.
COPY
( )
Press this button to copy the settings of the focus alarm input to all the following alarm inputs.
(i.e. focus alarm input is 1, its settings will be copied to those of alarm inputs 2-4.)
ESC
Press this button to escape from this screen and return to Setup Menu display. If the Save dialog
is shown, press
ENTER
to exit and save,
ESC
to exit without saving.
Following is a brief description for each item and its specific operations:
Normal State press +/- buttons to select N/A, Close or Open. Please check the signal type,
normally close or normally open, connected to the alarm input terminal on the rear panel of the
system. If there’s no signal connected, please select N/A – Not Available and the following items
will not be settable. The default setting is Open.
Focus Camera – the camera corresponding to this alarm input.
Duration
response duration to define at most how long (in seconds) the Alarm Out relay and
the Buzzer will keep being triggered after this alarm input is triggered. However, the Alarm Out
relay and the Buzzer will be reset immediately once this alarm input returns to normal. Press +/-
buttons to adjust the value (3-60 seconds, discrete).