Hello friends and good day. This is Fred with Tech Talk and I'm coming at you today
with a video on how to employ tripwire technology with your Dahua IP camera,
NVR or DVR. This is a very cool technology. In my personal opinion, it is more effective
than motion detection. What you can do is set up predefined zones indicated by these blue
rectangles. When an object passes through this zone it will trigger a tripwire alarm event
that will be sent to your phone or laptop through email. It's very cool technology. When the alert
comes through to your email it will just say IPC message like this. When you double click it,
you will get a snapshot of what caused the tripwire alert okay you see a truck passing here
Here we see a fella walking. It could be a variety of things. We find this very effective because
often times with motion detection, unless you have an SDM (Smart Motion Detection) camera,
weather, trees moving in the wind, stuff like that in the environment will set off false
alarms with motion detection. With tripwire, we found it only activates when a vehicle or person
actually goes through that zone, it's a very cool tool we're going to cover it right now.
Alright, let's get into the meat and potatoes. Before we do,
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videos are based on subscriber questions and comments. So, yes, these IP cameras,
as you can see, are already networked to the Smart PSS app by Dahua. There is a link going
across the top of your screen right now that will walk you through the steps of
attaching or connecting a IP camera to Smart PSS. For an NVR or DVR, it is the same process.
This video really is not about that. It is about the tripwire technology. To get caught up to this
point if you need to connect your devices to Smart PSS go ahead and do that now. You
can also pull them up to a browser. Okay, so what we are going to do, we are going to pull
up one of these cameras in a browser and i will show you how to set up this tripwire zone. Okay,
using Smart PSS it is very simple. We are just going to go to the device config tab
right here. We are going to pick our camera okay so we can pick entrance here
and we're going to pick link to web okay and what that's going to do
is open my camera in a browser as you can see right here
and I'll put in my password
okay there is the picture. What we want to do is define our tripwire zone. So,
we are going to go to settings, if you look right here you will see a tab marked settings.
We are going to go to event okay just click on event and one of your options is IVS.
Before we click IVS, we want to click on smart plan and make sure that is enabled okay by default
it will be off we want to click on it, it will turn yellow and that will enable smart planning
which is part of IVS so now we can click on IVS and we can create that tripwire alarm.
As you can see on this camera, I have already done that. When you log into a camera yourself
for the first time there'll be nothing here. There will be no predefined rule. So,
you are going to hit this green plus okay. it is very simple, and you can see you've created rule
one which is a tripwire. We are just going to draw that rectangle okay. You do so with your mouse.
I am eft clicking right now and I'm just dragging to this area now I'm going to come over here
just drawing a rectangle, right?
When you are done and you made your rectangle you just right click with your mouse and you'll see
the arrows okay. So anything passing through this now is going to cause a tripwire alarm that is
emailed to me okay. We need to enable send email right here. If you want the camera to pre-record
the event you can hit here okay, we just want the snapshot emailed to us so we're going to do that.
The reason I just do the snapshot if it's something I'm interested in
through the snapshot I can do playback and see the whole entirety of the event.
10 seconds before 10 seconds post delay that really doesn't do anything for me. I just want
to be alerted what's going on and if that is of interest to me again, then I can go
and do playback. So, we have enabled email and we've enabled snapshot and we are going to save.
Obviously for this to work, you will have to have the SMTP settings set up in the camera,
so it knows who to email. If we go to the network tab right here you will see smtp email okay there
is a link going across the top of this screen that will teach you how to enable smtp outgoing emails
with a Dahua recorder using Gmail . Again, we are not going to cover all of that in this
video but basically you just put your outgoing smtp server information here the port it uses
and your credentials your username and password for that account a sending address that the emails
from the camera will be coming from and in the recipient email okay just like that. Once you have
these in place you can do a test and it will tell you if your account has been set up successfully.
There we see succeed and it has been. Okay, so again please refer to that video for setting up
the smtp email notification portions of this okay but that's it. Works beautiful. I don't know if
there is anybody on site now that may trip a trip wire so you can see what that looks like
all right here we go here we have a truck approaching the tripwire and right there you
will see it's green as it approaches the tripwire when it hits the trip wire it activates the alarm
which is red and that is when the email will be notified you'll see the time stamp here 10 11 when
we are finished this demonstration we'll go into our email and actually find this tripwire alert
okay this is playback when he gets out of the zone you'll see the truck again will turn green
there it goes so that's how this works very cool again it eliminates the false alarms
caused by motion detection unless you have a more expensive smd smart motion detection cam
camera that detects only humans and vehicles when it's a windy day these trees would set off it
also heavy storms in the northeast you see we have snow here if it's a blizzard and we have lots of
snow with motion detection the snow can actually set off the alarm here it needs to be a person
or vehicle going across the trip wire so let me show you that email from 1011 1011 right here
there's that truck approaching the other camera
see if it's this one yep that's what we saw right there at 10 11 11. so this would be the
email alert that you get your phone okay just as i ip a message alarm event tripwire channel one
okay 10 11. perfect hopefully you enjoyed the video again very useful
tool hopefully this stuff is helping you out we'll see you in the field