How to trigger external alarm devices using the Viewtron security camera system?
Good afternoon, everyone. Mike from CCTV Camera Pros here. And in this video, I'm
going to show you how you can set up a Viewtron IP camera to trigger an external alarm device,
like this strobe light right here. This is the IP camera that we have installed at our front door.
This is a view, a live view of that camera. It basically monitors our entrance. And I have
this strobe light hardwired to the back of the Viewtron NVR, that that camera's connected to.
Basically, there's four alarm outputs, four alarm output ports on the back of Viewtron NVRs.
I'm using the 8 channel, and I believe the 16 channel and the 32 channel also have four ports,
but you can check our website for the specification to confirm.
Basically, you can hook up any low voltage alarm device to these alarm outputs, and then use one
of the alarm events that the DVR supports. In particular, I'm going to set up a trip wire
right here so that when people come through this zone entering, not exiting, because with the
trip wire, you can choose the direction. When a human is detected coming into our building,
it's going to trigger an alarm event and it's going to trigger the alarm output that this strobe
light is connected to. First, I'm going to walk you through the setup on the NVR, and then I'll
walk you through a demo to show you how it works. To set up the trip wire alarm, access the
main menu by clicking down here and selecting Settings, then select AI/Event from this main
menu and then More under the AI/Event section. Select the camera that you're working with,
in this case, we're using our front door, and then select Line Crossing for the type of event.
Check off this Enable Detection by IP camera, and then draw your trip wire where you want it to be.
Notice the direction going from A to B, and click Apply. Next, on the Target Detection screen,
select Human, and then on the Trigger Mode screen, select the alarm output that you want to trigger.
In this case, I'm using AlarmOut1, click OK and then Apply,
and then close out that screen when you're done.
I'm going to show the full screen view of the front door camera, and then I'm going to enable
the AI visualization. You could see our trip wire and you could see the A to B traffic flow
that we're going to use to trigger. Next, you're going to see me walk up to the trip wire. You
could see that the software's detecting me as a human object. And when I crossed that threshold,
it triggers the alarm and you could see the snapshots that were captured in the upper right.
I'm going to run through that again this time with a second camera showing the strobe light
in the bottom. You'll see, when I crossed the trip wire again, it captures the event
and it triggers the strobe light.
I hope this video has been helpful in showing you how to use the alarm relay outputs of
these Viewtron security camera systems to trigger external devices, such as a burglar alarm strobe
light like we did in this video. Let me mention, I used the trip wire type of alarm in this video,
but you can use all the other alarms that these DVRs and NVRs support to trigger external
alarms like this one. For example, if you want to set up facial detection or facial recognition, or
you want to set up an intrusion zone, that if it gets penetrated it triggers the alarm output. And
it's not limited to the NVRs and the IP cameras. This also works on our BNC DVRs and BNC cameras.
If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to reach out to me anytime. I can be reached
at mike@cctvcamerapros.net. If you want to learn more about these Viewtron security camera systems,
IP based or Coax BNC based, we have recorders and we have a whole bunch of camera choices. Please
visit www.cctvcamerapros.com/Viewtron. Thank you for watching.