Interlogix xgen Installation & Programming Manual page 105

13. DONE. Your Channels are now set up and ready for use. When an event is
generated by the system or a zone it can now be sent to a Channel for
reporting.
Example
In this example we have multi-path, prioritised/selective event reporting via three
reporting paths – two control rooms and an email address. These are grouped
into "Channel Group 1".
All alarms are reported to Control Room 1 and 2. Control room 1 has a backup
receiver. This requires setting up 3 channels. These channels are labelled on the
diagram.
When Channel 1/4/2 receives an alarm message, xGen checks that the
channel's Event List includes alarm messages and then attempts to deliver the
message via that channel.
When Channel 1/4/2 receives a low battery report, it is not actioned because
Event List 1 does not include the "low battery" event.
Low priority alerts such as opening and closings, low batteries, and autotest
reports, are sent via Channel 3 as an email to a building manager.
When Channel 3 receives the alarm event it takes no further action because
Event List 2 does not include the "alarm" event.
Zone 3 in Alarm
Partition sends
account number
and event to
Channel Group
Menu 18 – Channel Groups
Channel Group 1
Channel 1
Channel 2
Channel 3
Channel Group
sends Event to
every Channel it
contains
Menu 17 – Event Lists
Event List 1
Alarms
Event List 2
Opening &
Closing
Low Battery
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After failing Channel Attempts on the last back up channel,
xGen will go back to the first Channel in the chain
Report Attempts = 2
Menu 5 – Channels
Channel 1
Control Room 1
Format = Dial IP
Phone = 9999 1111
Event List = 1
Channel Attempts = 3
Next Channel = 4
Channel checks to see if the
event is on its Event List, if yes it
will attempt to send, if not then it
stops
Channel 2
Control Room 2
Format = Radio
Phone = 0433 111 111
Event List = 1
Next Channel = 0
Channel 3
Email
Format = Email
Destination = Alex@home.com
Event List = 2
Next Channel = 0
Channel 4
Control Room 1
Format = Dial IP
Phone = 9999 2222
Event List = 1
Channel Attempts = 3
Next Channel = 0
If it does not succeed after
Channel Attempts, it will try
sending on the next Channel
Communicator
Radio
xGen attempts to
send event via
Control room
GSM radio module
settings
Communicator
Email
xGen attempts to
send event via
Server settings
email over
ethernet
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