CAM-M25-WEBCAM Help

The Event Overview dialog provides a summary of the events triggered by the camera. This dialog allows activating, deactivating, renaming, and deleting existing events. It provides a portal to the detailed configuration of events.

An event is triggered by the camera whenever a certain condition is met. These conditions can be of very different nature, e.g. an environment measurement surpassing a certain threshold, a key being pressed, a certain point in time, the end of an action, etc. These events can then be used to execute actions or control image recording.

There are different groups of these events, named in the first column. For a complete list of possible events by group, refer to the section List of Events.

For each group a list of currently defined events by name is displayed. If no events are defined, an explanation appears.

For each event, the third column shows the configured sensor type. If this type is not currently available (usually because of missing expansion hardware), a note appears instead.

A check box displays the activation status of the event. An inactive event never triggers. You can still select it wherever events can be selected, but it is displayed in grey, not processed, and not displayed in the status row in the live image.

Each available group has an Edit button in the rightmost column, which leads to the respective detailed configuration dialog. That dialog allows editing or deleting all events of this group as well as creating them.

Modifying Existing Events

In order to modify one or more events, you can change them as described in the following. Next, click on the Set button at the bottom of the dialog to store the new settings. These settings can also be changed in the respective detailed configuration dialogs.

Activating an event: Remove the check mark next to Inactive.
Deactivating an event: Set the check mark next to Inactive.
Renaming an event: Overwrite the name of the event to be renamed. Only use letters, digits, hyphens, dots and underscores for the name (A-Za-z0-9-._). Names have to be unique among all events of one group.

Note

Please note that renamed events are deselected in the action group and recording dialogs and possibly needs to be selected anew.
Editing an event: Click on the Edit button in the last column to configure the events of one group (also refer to the Online Help under Environment, Image Analysis, Internal, Meta, Message, Signal, and Time Events).

Note

Please note that changes to the configuration are only stored temporarily in the camera's active configuration. In order to store the changes permanently, you should always store the settings in the camera's permanent memory (see Storing the Configuration).

For each group a list of currently defined events by name is displayed. If no events are defined, an explanation appears. You can rename or delete existing events and change their activation status. An inactive event can not be used. You can still select it wherever events can be selected, but it is displayed in grey and not processed. Deleted events vanish completely and can not be restored.

Deleting Events

Activate the Delete box of the events you want to delete and click on Set at the bottom of the dialog.

Caution

When clicking on the Set button, the camera will immediately delete all events with a checked Delete box from the camera's active configuration. In order to store the configuration permanently, click on the Close button at the bottom of the dialog (see Storing the Configuration).

Click on the Restore button at the bottom of the dialog load the action groups that are stored in the camera's permanent memory.

List of Events

Note

Depending on the camera model and expansion hardware, some of the listed event sensor types may not be available. Not available sensor types are not displayed in the dialogs. If there are no sensor types available in a given group, this group will be hidden completely.

Click on the group names to access the respective help pages providing more in-depth explanations of the events.

Environment Events	Shock Detector	Can trigger events if the camera is subjected to shocks (e.g. by vandalism).
	Brightness	Can trigger events based on the illumination measured in the camera images.
	Microphone	Can trigger events based on the volume of the microphone recordings.
	PIR	Passive infrared detector, can trigger events if it detects movements.
	Temperature	Can trigger events based on the measured temperature.
	GPS Position	Can trigger events if the camera leaves the specified position.
	GPS Velocity	Can trigger events if the camera moves at speeds higher or lower than the specified speed.
	Thermal Spotmeter	Can trigger events if the camera measures temperatures that are higher or lower than the specified value. Note This feature is only available, if a suitable thermal image sensor has been attached and is running properly.
	Thermal Reference Window	Can trigger events if the camera measures temperatures in a reference window that are higher or lower than the specified value. Note This feature is only available, if a suitable thermal image sensor has been attached and is running properly.
	Thermal Radiometry	Can trigger events if the camera measures temperatures that are higher or lower than the specified value. Note This feature is only available, if a suitable thermal image sensor has been attached and is running properly.
Image Analysis Events	Video Motion Detection	Can trigger events based on simple image-based motion detection.
	MxActivitySensor	Can trigger events based on image-based detection of continuous movements.
	Behavioral Detection	Can trigger events based on image-based object detection according to behavior profiles.
Internal Events	Action Group Termination	Can trigger events whenever a certain action group terminates either successfully or with an error.
	Signal States	Can trigger events based on status changes of the custom signals.
	Bus	Can trigger events based on internal communication of camera components.
	Recording	Can trigger events based on state changes of the recording module (begin, end, etc.).
	GPS Status	Can trigger events if the camera detects changes in the reception quality of an attached MX-GPS-Box.
Meta Events	Event Counter	Can trigger events based on quantitative analysis of other events.
	Logical AND Event	Can trigger events if several other events happen at the same time.
	Event Logic	Can trigger events based on the order of occurrence of other events.
Message Events	IP Messages	Can trigger events based on simple TCP (network) messages received by the camera.
Message Events	Serial	Can trigger events based on messages received by the camera via the serial interface (RS-232/USB).
Signal Events	User Click	Can trigger events when the User Click softbutton is pressed.
	Signal Input	Can trigger events based on signal input states or state changes. This group also contains the Key and IP Remote Control events.
	Signal Output	Can trigger events based on signal output states or state changes.
Timer Events	Periodic Event	Can trigger events regularly at the specified interval.
	Time Task	Can trigger events at fixed points in time.
	Random Event	Can trigger events randomly based on a fixed expected frequency.

Storing the Configuration

Click on the Set button to activate your settings and to save them until the next reboot of the camera.

Click on the Factory button to load the factory defaults for this dialog (this button may not be present in all dialogs).

Click on the Restore button to undo your most recent changes that have not been stored in the camera permanently.

Click on the Close button to close the dialog. While closing the dialog, the system checks the entire configuration for changes. If changes are detected, you will be asked if you would like to store the entire configuration permanently.