User guide

SerVision MVG 400 System Guide

Configuring the MVG 400 86

Code Description Example

&N The recipient’s name Johns

&S The name of the sensor or VMD that

triggered the event

Front Door

&U The name of the MVG 400 unit Bus-5478

&T The time of the event 22 Feb 07 00:17:16

The default message template is:

&N, &S activated on &U at &T

If the Front Door sensor is triggered, John will receive the following SMS message from the

MVG 400:

Johns, Sensor (Front Door) ON activated on Bus-5478 at 22 Feb 07

00:17:16

The recipient name is set in each message to match the name of the recipient as it appears in

the Recipient list below the message template.

You can modify the default message to suit your requirements. For example, you could enter

the following message:

An event was detected: &S at &T

In this case, when the Front Door sensor is triggered, all the SMS recipients in the list will

receive the following message from the MVG 400:

An event was detected: Sensor (Front Door) ON at 22 Feb 07 00:17:16

Testing Notification Settings

Once the event notification settings are configured, and the settings have been implemented

on the unit (i.e., the settings were saved and the unit was reset), you can test the SMS and e-

mail settings to ensure that the notifications are sent to the recipients you intended.

To send a test message to the notification recipients:

• In the System Summary screen, under SMS & E-mail, click the Test E-mail button or

the Test SMS button. A sample message is sent to all of the recipients of the specified

type of notification.

Note: If no recipients are defined for one of the types of notifications, the test button for

that type of notification does not appear.

Note: Test messages are sent based on the notification configuration settings that are

currently defined on the MVG 400 unit. If you make changes to the configuration, but

have not yet saved them on the unit and reset the unit, they will not be reflected in the

test notifications that are sent.