15.5.2 Alarms Overview
The Alarms tab shows the following system information:
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Alarm Set State - shows whether the system was partial or fullset at the time the alarm was
triggered.
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Alarm Status - shows the type of alarm (alarm, confirmed alarm, etc.).
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Bells active - shows if the alarm activated the bells. Click the Silence Bells button to cancel.
For each area, the Alarm Set State, Alarm Status, Alarm Activations and Alarm log displays.
The Alarm Activations show a list of zones in alarm state ordered by activation. Click the Restore
button to clear.
The Alarm log shows up to 20 events.
15.5.3 Viewing Video
The Video tab displays images from up to 4 IP cameras.
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In Full Engineer, Soft Engineer and User mode, select SPC Home > Video.
All the configured and operational cameras (up to the maximum of four) are displayed in the
Video Cameras page.
The images are automatically refreshed as per the interval settings for the camera. (See Configuring
Video on page205.)
Click the Pause Refresh button to retain the current image on the screen and pause refreshing.
Click the Resume Refresh button to enable the panel to resume refreshing the images.
Note: Ensure that a resolution of 320 x 240 is selected for the cameras that will be displayed in the
browser otherwise images may not be displayed correctly. The higher resolution of 640 x 480 can be
used for operation with SPC Com XT or equivalent FlexC supporting CMS software.
Video Fault Reporting
A video fault report is displayed above the camera image. The following table lists the possible
messages:
Message Description
OK The camera is behaving normally
Timeout Camera connection timed out.
Socket Invalid Internal socket handling error
Image too small Received image too small
Buffer too small Received image is too large. Lower the resolution in the Camera configuration.
Format incorrect Invalid format received.
Abort TCP connection disconnected
Internal Alarm panel has insufficient memory to complete the request.
Bad request A badly formed request was sent to the camera. Check your camera configuration
settings.
Client error The camera returned a client error. Check your camera configuration.
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