Events
Events are incident notifications triggered by the alarms.
Before you start
Once every Camera is registered and Alarms are created (with or without a Schedule) in U-Alarm, everything is set for receiving Events.
Event notifications
U-Alarm
If U-Alarm is opened in your browser, you can see the following indications of a newly triggered Event:
A notification badge will be displayed on the Events button at the left-side panel: it shows you the number of new detections since you last activated it. Clicking on it will take you to the list of recorded detections.
A notification bar appears at the bottom center of any page. The bar will not disappear until it is closed manually or the incident is investigated by clicking on the More link on it.
A Beeping sound is played (unless the browser tab is muted).
You can mute / unmute a browser tab by right-clicking on the tab and selecting the appropriate function.
New detection Events are recorded in the Events view.
Integrated third-party software
U-Alarm Events can be sent to a third-party software where user notifications are defined by the respective software's custom implementation. Please contact the software provider to learn more about third-party notifications.
Events view
Past or recently reported incidents can be managed in the Events view.
Click the Events menu on the left sidebar for this view.
Event Replay
Triggered Events are listed in reversed time order by default. This can be changed by clicking on the respective column's header. The Alarm which triggered the event can be recognised by its name.
Click on a row in the table to replay the incident. The replay starts from a few seconds before the Event's timestamp.
The playback availability is denoted by the Camera icon on right side of the Event's row. If the icon is missing, the playback of that Event is still loading.
Display features
- If a ROI is associated with an alarm, the ROI is displayed as a green polygon. Negative ROI are displayed as red polygons.
- Detections are displayed as orange rectangles.
- At the triggering moment, a Bell icon will appear in the top right corner of the player.
- The timestamp of the video is at the bottom left of the player (can be different from the one that comes from the camera) in the timezone of the device. The timezone can be modified in the Control Panel.
Note: If multiple cameras are linked to the triggering Alarm, there might be no activity in the record of some of these cameras. In this case, the Event was triggered by the activity of different cameras.
Controls
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toggles between pause and playFlash
button jumps to the triggering moment and pauses the player|<
button rewinds to a few seconds before the Event>|
button switches to live play<<
button jumps backward ten seconds>>
button jumps forward ten seconds- The Eye button shows / hides annotations
- You can go to full screen play with the Rectangle button in the lower right corner of the player
Filter Events
You can filter what type of Events to display by clicking on the Filter events drop-down menu and ticking the respective checkbox. You can filter Events by:
- Detection type (Intrusion, Vehicle and Crowd Detection or any type)
- Alarms, set up by the user, as described in Alarms
- The time frame the detections were triggered within
- Starred or Unread status
Note: You can also identify an Event's detection type by its icon in the Event list.
You can select and mark specific or all displayed Events as Starred, toggle their Read/Unread status, or delete them.
Tick the checkboxes of the respective Events, or tick the checkbox at the top right corner of the Event list to select/unselect all currently displayed Events. You may change their status by clicking the three orange icons. Alternatively, to mark an Event as Starred or toggle their Read/Unread status, click the corresponding icon on the Event's row.