Send email notifications for Alta Video rules

Last modified: Monday August 19, 2024.

Alta Video can send email notifications when a rule triggers. When creating a rule, you can choose the recipients and details included in the email.

Task — Create an email template

You can configure email notifications for any of the available rule types in the Actions tab of the Rules creation dialog.

  1. Choose Tools New tool > Rules Rules.
  2. Create or edit a rule. See Alta Video rule types.
  3. In the rule dialog, select the Actions tab and enable Email.
  4. Enter the user names, user groups or email addresses of the recipients.
  5. Create the body of the email message.
    1. You can add dynamic parameters to the email template. Expand Template parameters to see the parameters.
    2. Click a parameter to copy and insert it into your template. For example:
      Attention,
      Something triggered an Alta Video camera rule:
      Rule name: $ruleName
      Camera: $cameraName
      Camera view: $cameraView
      View alarm: $url
  6. Click Done.