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.

It is important to note that a client configured with a DVR will only report events from the DVR when the status of the client is Armed. If the status of the client is Disarmed, no events will be received.

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. The alarm panel and the DVR are configured on different areas of the client. When the arm/disarm is received from the panel, this will trigger the DVR task to change the status of the DVR area, and also remotely change the event reporting on the DVR.
Stand-alone DVR monitoring:
In this scenario, the recommended practice is to configure Remote Control buttons to manually set/unset the Patriot client. These events will be configured to remotely arm/disarm the 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).

Add an instance of the Assignable Commands task to your system.
On the Event Type tab of your client which will receive the arm/disarm signals (for Dual Monitoring this will be the panel area) 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.
On the Event Type tab of the same 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> 
```
On the Response Tab of the same 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.
For Dual Monitoring also ensure that for all the event types configured in steps 2 and 3 above, the DVR area has these same event types setup to report as arm/disarms respectively. When the panel reports an arm/disarm event, this will trigger the DVR task to perform the remote arm/disarm of the DVR. It will also log the same event type against the DVR area with the purpose of changing the DVR client's status to match the panel areas status. These signals must be interpreted correctly and be treated as arm/disarm events. For example, if the panel area receives a Contact ID event type 401 to disarm, the DVR task will log a 401 event type against the DVR area as well to change its status to disarmed.