Axis F41 User Manual

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AXIS F41 Main UnitEventsEventsThe Event pages allow you to configure the Axis product to perform actions when different events occur. For example, the productcan start a recording or send an email notification when motion is detected. The set of conditions that defines how and whenthe action is triggered is called an action rule.Set Up Action RulesAn action rule defines the conditions that must be met for the product to perform an action, for example record video or send anemail notification. If multiple conditions are defined, all of them must be met to trigger the action.For more information about available triggers and actions, see Triggers on page 38 and Actions on page 39.The following example describes how to set up an action rule to record video to a network share if there is movement in thecamera’s field of view.Set up motion detection and add a network share:1. Go to Applications to start and configure AXIS Video Motion Detection 3. See AXIS Video Motion Detection.2. Go to System Options > Storage and set up the network share. See page 56.Set up the action rule:1. Go to Events > Action Rules and click Add.2. Select Enable rule and enter a descriptive name for the rule.3. Select Applications from the Trigger drop-down list and then select VMD34. Optionally, select a Schedule and Additional conditions. See below.5. Under Actions, select Record Video from the Type drop-down list.6. Select a Stream profile and configure the Duration settings as described below.7. Select Network Share from the Storage drop-down list.To use more than one trigger for the action rule, select Additional conditions and click Add to add additional triggers. When usingadditional conditions, all conditions must be met to trigger the action.To prevent an action from being triggered repeatedly, a Wait at least time can be set. Enter the time in hours, minutes and seconds,during which the trigger should be ignored before the action rule can be activated again.The recording Duration of some actions can be set to include time immediately before and after the event. Select Pre-trigger timeand/or Post-trigger time and enter the number of seconds. When While the rule is active is enabled and the action is triggeredagain during the post-trigger time, the recording time will be extended with another post-trigger time period.For more information, see the online help .TriggersAvailable action rule triggers and conditions include:• Applications – Use installed applications to trigger the rule. See Applications on page 31.- VMD3 – Trigger the rule when AXIS Video Motion Detection detects a moving object. See AXIS Video MotionDetection.• Detectors38