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General information

This action initiates an alarm in the system and starts recording to the archive.

Configuring an action

To configure this action, do the following:

1. Go to the Programming tab.
2. In the Event rules or Cycle rules list, click Create... (see Configuring macros).
3. Select a start condition that triggers a macro (see Configuring start conditions).
4. Click the Image Added button below start conditions.
5. From the drop-down list, select Camera: Initiate alarm.
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6. In the Working mode parameter, select the alarm initiation mode:
   1. Initiate always,
   2. Initiate if no active (only if there is no active alarm on the specified camera in the system at the moment).

This starts recording and an alarm.

Most of the parameters are from the Record to archive command settings (see Record to archive). Other than that, there are following settings:

1. Select Alarm mode (1, always or only when there are no other active alarms for the camera).
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Selecting a camera or group of cameras (2).  An implicit selection of a video camera is also allowed –
2. In the Camera parameter, select from the list a camera or group of cameras on which you want to initiate an alarm. In addition, an implicit camera selection is allowed—
3. Camera that initiated command execution.
   

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   title Attention!
   If

the start of the macro was triggered by the activation of

4. a macro is initiated by an event from an input or output (see Configuring

filters for event-driven macros

5. start conditions) that is not connected to any camera, you need to select a specific camera

here

6. for this action. If you select a group of cameras or a camera that

triggered

7. initiated the

command

8. macro, the action

will not

9. doesn't start.

If you selected
10. Set the Random checkbox if you select a group of cameras or
an Axxon-
11. domain
at the previous step, you can select the Random (3) checkbox
12. to initiate an alarm on a random camera from
this
13. the specified group/domain.
Select
14. In the Record to parameter, select an archive to
write to (4).      
15. record to.
16. If necessary, click the Image Added button and add additional parameters.
17. In the Alarm flag position
field
18. parameter, enter the
number of seconds by which the alarm flag will be shifted back from the event time that started the macro (5)
19. time in seconds to offset the alarm flag in the past relative to the actual occurrance time of the event that triggered the macro.
    

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    If the alarm flag position is set, the event

footage plays

20. that was just taken into processing is played back from the moment corresponding to the flag

's

21. position in the past, and not from the alarm start.

If necessary, configure one or more response scenarios (6). A response scenario automatically triggers the selected macro to start upon the specified alarm status. 
The following statuses are available:

22. Alarm initiated. In this case, the reaction follows immediately after the alarm is triggered.

23. Alarm being processed by user. Here, the reaction will follow after the operator accepts the alarm for processing.

24. Alarm skipped. In this case, the reaction launches when the user missed the alarm or skipped its classification.

25. Alarm processed. Here, the reaction launches when the alarm is classified with any status.

26. Alarm processed – confirmed alarm. Here, the reaction launches when the alarm is classified with the Confirmed status.

27. Alarm processed – suspicious situation. Here, the reaction launches when the alarm is classified with the Suspicious status.

The alarm has been processed – a false alarm. Here, the reaction launches when the alarm is classified with the False status.
28. In the Alarm priority parameter, select the priority of the alarm. When an alarm is displayed on the Alert panel, the higher the alarm priority, the higher it is positioned in the alarm list.
29. In the Scope parameter, specify the scope of visibility for the roles, the users of which can see an alarm generated by the macro. If you don't specify any role in the scope of visibility, an alarm is displayed for all users.
30. In the Mandatory comment parameter, select an alarm assessment, after receiving which the operator must enter a comment.
31. In the Time period of operator reaction to alarm parameter, specify the time within which an alarm must be taken into processing, otherwise it will be assigned the Skipped status. The minimum value is 2 minutes.
    

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    You can configure the Mandatory comment and Time period of operator reaction to alarm parameters in the system settings (see Configuring Alarm processing). If you specify these parameters in the macro settings, the system settings are ignored only by the alarms initiated by this macro.

32. Click the Apply Image Added button.

Configuration of the Initiate alarm action is complete.

Example use

When smoke is detected, the fire detector generates an event that triggers a macro. The maximum priority alarm is initiated and an audio notification is played.

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