Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 - Manual (Page 106)

Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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Name
The name as it appears in the Management Application as well as
in clients. You can overwrite the existing name with a new one.
Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special
characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ]
On some hardware devices, you can also enable/disable audio on the hardware device itself, typically
through the hardware device's own configuration web page. If audio on a hardware device does not
work after enabling it in the Management Application, you should verify whether the problem may be
due to audio being disabled on the hardware device itself.
Recording settings
Name Description
Always Always record audio on all applicable cameras.
Follow video Record audio only when video is recorded.
Never
Never record audio on any cameras. Note that even though audio is
never recorded, it is still be possible to listen to live audio in the
Smart Client.
Events and output
About input and output
Hardware input, such as door sensors, can be attached to input ports on hardware devices. Input
from such external hardware input units can be used for generating events in your system.
Hardware output units can be attached to output ports on many hardware devices, allowing you to
activate lights, sirens, and more from your system. Such hardware output can be activated
automatically by events, or manually from clients.
Before you specify use of hardware input and hardware output units on a hardware device, verify the
hardware device recognized the sensor operatione. Most hardware devices are capable of showing
this in their configuration interfaces, or via CGI script commands. Also check the XProtect Essential
release notes to verify that the hardware device and firmware used supports input and output-
controlled operations.
You do not have to configure hardware input units separately. Any hardware input units connected to
hardware devices are automatically detected when you add the hardware devices to your system. The
same goes for hardware output, but hardware output does require some simple configuration in your
system.
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 109) and Configure hardware output on event (on page 111).