How to: Listen to Alta Video audio alarm snippets

Last modified: Tuesday August 30, 2022.

You can configure Alta Video or Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras to record a snippet of sound when an audio event occurs.

Once recorded, you can listen to the audio snippets from the Alta Video user interface. You can also download the audio snippets to listen using an external system.

Prerequisites

For audio events to be available from the Alarms tab, you must have some audio rules configured, and suitable audio events must have occurred to trigger those rules.

Listen to audio snippets

You can listen to the audio snippets from ongoing or historic alarms from the Alta Video user interface.

Task — Listen to audio from the Alarm popup

1. Log in to your Alta Video deployment.
2. When a rule triggers, click View.
   If the rule that triggered the alarm is a sound rule, the Sound level meter is shown to the right of the video pane.
3. Click audio.
   The audio snippet is played.

Task — Listen to audio from the Alarms tool

1. Log in to your Alta Video deployment.
2. Click New tool from the tool ribbon, then select Alarms.

   If the Alarms tab is already open, click the tab to view the page.

   When the number of alarms exceeds multiples of 100, a new page is created.

   For deployments with multiple Sites, only Alarms for the currently expanded Site are displayed.

   Use the search to find the alarm or event of interest. Use the Advanced search options button to filter your search results by your selected category (for example, Alarm name, Type, Time triggered, or Camera, or other information that can be used to identify the specific Alarm).

3. Click on the audio alarm of interest.
4. To listen to the audio snippet from the side pane, click audio.
   You can also expand the Alarm; click the Maximize button, and then click the audio muted button.

   You can download the short audio snippet of the alarm.

Task — Listen to audio from Video view

1. Log in to your Alta Video deployment.
2. Click New tool from the tool ribbon, then select Video view.

   If Video view is already open, click the tab to view the page, or open a new tab for another instance of the Video view.

3. Hover over the camera view and click the Enter playback mode button.
4. Navigate to the required audio alarm.
   As the alarm starts, the Audio level meter appears on the right-hand side of the video pane.
5. To listen to the audio snippet, click the audio button.

Task — Listen to audio from Bookmarked clips

1. Log in to your Alta Video deployment.
2. Click New tool from the tool ribbon, then select Saved clips.
3. Select the clip of interest that includes the recorded audio snippet.
   As the alarm starts, the Audio level meter appears on the right-hand side of the video pane.
4. To listen to the audio snippet, click the audio button.

Task — Listen to audio from a shared link

If you have externally shared a link that includes an audio alarm, the recipient of that link can also listen to the audio snippet.

1. Open the link you have been sent in your browser.
2. To listen to the audio snippet, click the audio button located to the right of the accompanying video.
3. If the video has paused and the sound is not playing, click the Play button/