How to: Review Events created by Alta Video

Last modified: Tuesday October 18, 2022.

For rules where you do not want to be alerted each time the rule triggers, you can configure the output as an event. This is useful, for example, when you have integrated your Alta Video deployment with your access control system, and do not need to be alerted each time somebody successfully swipes into an area.

To view detailed information and log files about your Access control points, use the Devices tool.

Prerequisites

  • For Events to be visible, you must have some Rules configured with the Security Event action.

    This is enabled from the Advanced settings buttonAdvanced settings | Trigger as option from Actions when configuring the rule.

  • For Anomalies to be visible, the Alta Video software must have completed its initial machine learning process.
  • For Access events to be visible, you must have created suitable access control rules.
  • For License Plate events to be visible, you must have a license plate recognition feature license and have configured LPR on at least one camera in your Alta Video deployment.

Task — View the Events in Alta Video

  1. Choose Tools Tools > Events Events.
  2. Select either Events, Anomalies, Access, or License Plate.

    When the number of Events exceeds a multiple of 100, a new page is created.

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

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

  3. Click on the event of interest.

    To exclude License Plates that have been detected but that have a low level of confidence:

    1. Click Settings.
    2. Enable Ignore events with low confidence.
    3. Click Close.
      License plates with a confidence level of less than 85% are not shown.
  4. For events that include video:
    Hover over the video to display the additional controls. These include:
    • Maximize video clip button — Maximize the video clip, showing both the video and the map view of this activity.
    • Zoom video slider — Zoom in to see more detail in the video clip.
    • Play video button — Play the video.
    • Drag the timeline, or use the mouse wheel to zoom the timeline to show the information of interest.
  5. View the General info about the activity, for example, information about the Camera, View, Access Control Point, Event, or Action.
  6. Optionally, add an Acknowledgment, marking the activity as Valid or False.
  7. View information about the Logs and comments, and optionally, add a comment to the activity.