You can find events related to selected cameras that were recorded by an Archiver,
using the Camera events
report.
What you should know
This report is helpful if you already know the name of the camera that you are
looking for. You can see what events have been triggered from that camera. You can also
investigate specific events. For example, recording that was started due to an
alarm.To receive results in your report, the video and analytic metadata must be
recorded by an Archiver.
To search the video archives for camera events:
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From the home page, open the Camera events
task.
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Set up the query filters for the report. Choose from one or more of the
following filters:
Cameras:
Select the camera to investigate.
Custom fields:
Restrict the search to a predefined custom
field for the entity. This filter only appears if custom fields are
defined for the entity, and if the custom field was made visible to you
when it was created or last configured.
Events:
Select the events of interest. The event types
available depend on the task you are using.
Event
timestamp:
Define the time range for the query. The
range can be defined for a specific period or for global time units,
such as the previous week or the previous month.
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Click Generate report.
The camera events are listed in the report pane.
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To show the corresponding video of an event in a tile, double-click or drag the
item from the report pane to the canvas.
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To control the video recording, use the camera widget.
