Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 104)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 104 Advanced configuration
If you want to configure hardware output and automatically trigger output when events occur, so
that, for example, lights are switched on when a door is opened or when motion is detected in video,
see Add a hardware output (on page 106) and Configure hardware output on event.
About events and output
You can use events and output of various types to automatically trigger actions in your system.
Examples of actions: starting or stopping recording on cameras, switching to a particular video frame
rate, triggering notifications, making PTZ cameras move to specific preset positions. You can also use
events for activating hardware output. You can also configure events and output to generate alarms.
Events can be divided in to:
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Internal events (system-related): for example, motion, server responding/not responding,
archiving problems and lack of disk space.
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External events (integrated): for example, MIP plug-in events.
Overview of events and output
Types of events:
Name Description
Hardware input events:
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Events based on input from hardware input units attached to
hardware devices are called hardware input events.
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Some hardware devices have their own capabilities for
detecting motion, for detecting moving and/or static objects
and more. You configure such functionality in the hardware
devices' own software, typically by accessing a browser-
based configuration interface on the hardware device's IP
address. In such cases, your system considers such
detections as input from the hardware, and you can use
such detections as input events as well.
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Lastly, hardware input events can be based on your
system's detecting motion in video from a camera, based on
motion detection settings in XProtect Express.
This type of hardware input events is also called system
motion detection events or VMD (Video Motion Detection)
events.