Event notification (properties)

When you configure video and recording for specific cameras, properties include event notification. Event notifications inform XProtect Smart Client users that an event has occurred on your system. Event notifications can be valuable for client users, as they can quickly detect that an event has occurred. Even though you configure event notifications separately for each camera, you can select between all events on your system, regardless whether events are manual, generic or originate on another hardware device than the camera itself.

In XProtect Smart Client, event notification is given by a yellow indicator which lights up when a relevant event has taken place. You can also add an optional sound on event notification in XProtect Smart Client itself.

Three indicators are available for each camera in XProtect Smart Client:

The yellow event indicator. Lights up when a relevant event has taken place.
A red motion indicator. Lights up when motion has been detected.
An optional green video indicator. Lights up when video is received from the camera.

You can turn off the bar in which the indicators are displayed in XProtect Smart Client. Do not turn off if XProtect Smart Client must rely on event notifications.

Select required events

In the Available events list, select the relevant event. You can only select one event at a time.
Click the >> button to copy the selected event to the Selected Events list.
Repeat for each required event.

If you later want to remove an event from the Selected Events list, select the relevant event, and click the << button.