Setting An Alarm Based On The Digital Input - FLIR AX8 User Manual

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7. In the Capture list box, select if an image or a video sequence will be captured and
saved when an alarm is triggered. The image/video can later be viewed and man-
aged under the Storage tab.
• Select Image to capture the image frame that triggered the alarm.
• Select Video to capture a 5 second video sequence when the alarm is triggered.
• If you select None, no image/video will be captured.
8. Under Alarm action, use the check boxes to select which actions the camera will per-
form when an alarm is triggered:
• Disable calib.: Temporarily disables the periodic calibration while the image/video
is being captured.
• E-mail: Automatically sends the captured image/video to the recipients defined in
Settings > Alarm recipients.
• Digital out: Outputs a digital pulse.
• FTP: Automatically sends the captured image/video to the FTP site defined in Set-
tings > Alarm recipients.
9. If you have selected the alarm action Digital out, enter the pulse length (in millisec-
onds) in the Pulse time text box.
10. When completed, click anywhere outside the dialog box.

14.3.7.3 Setting an alarm based on the digital input

It is possible to set an alarm based on the digital input.
To configure an alarm based on the digital input, follow this procedure:
1. In the Measurements & alarms section, click the Alarm icon
put result. This displays a dialog box where you can configure the alarm parameters
and actions.
2. In the Activate alarm list box, select Yes to activate the alarm.
3. In the Trigg on text box, enter 0 to trigger the alarm on a low signal or 1 to trigger on a
high signal.
4. In the Threshold time text box, enter the duration that must be matched or exceeded
in order for the alarm to be triggered.
The duration specifies the amount of time that has to pass before an alarm is trig-
gered. This can be used as a powerful tool to avoid false alarms.
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