Remote Arming/Disarming a DVR

DVR's and attached cameras which have alarm event reporting enabled are not normally configured with Set/Unset schedules. For this reason Patriot includes a remote Arming/Disarming feature which is designed to work in both Dual Monitoring and stand-alone DVR monitoring scenarios.

• Dual Monitoring:

  In this scenario recommended practice is to configure Patriot to remotely arm/disarm your DVR automatically when the associated alarm panel is set/unset.

• Stand-alone DVR monitoring:

  In this scenario, the recommended practice is to configure Remote Control buttons to manually set/unset the Patriot client and arm/disarm the remote DVR.

Setup Procedure

Patriot remote Arming/Disarming of the DVR is provided in the form of an Assignable Task Command.

Replace the number '5' in the following examples with the Task Number used to receive events from the DVR (Task no. of the Hikvision Task, Dahua Task, Dowshu Task, etc).

1. Add an instance of the Assignable Commands task to your system.

   

2. On the Event Type tab of your DVR client browse for all event type signals which should trigger a remote arming of your DVR. Insert the following commands into the Type Instructions field:

   <TaskNo>5</TaskNo>
   <TypeSettings>
       <Action>Arm</Action>
   </TypeSettings> 

   

   Remote DVR Arming setup step 2: all of the Contact ID open events (401 shown) are configured to automatically disarm the associated HikVision DVR.

3. On the Event Type tab of your DVR client, browse for all event type signals which should trigger a remote disarming of your DVR insert the following commands into the Type Instructions field:

   <TaskNo>5</TaskNo>
   <TypeSettings>
       <Action>Disarm</Action>
   </TypeSettings> 

4. On the Response Tab of your DVR client, browse for the Response Plan(s) associated with two Event Types chosen in steps 2 & 3. Double click on any member user of the response plan and then assign the Assignable Task Command task that you inserted in step 1. Refer to Assignable Tasks for a full explanation of Response Plan Task assignments.