Audio settings

Last modified: Tuesday February 18, 2025.

To view and change system settings, you must have the correct permissions. See Alta Video Deployment settings.

You can set the global audio capabilities of your deployment.

Set the global microphone capabilities

  1. Open the System System tool.
  2. From Deployment, select Settings.
  3. Select Audio.
  4. Select your required audio settings from the Globally limit microphone capabilities.
    The options are:
    • Unrestricted — all audio features are available to all suitable devices attached to your deployment (default)
    • Allow recording of audio snippets — you can configure Alta Video to record a few seconds of sound when a rule triggers.
    • Analytics only — the audio rules are available from Alta cameras, but they do not include any recorded sound snippets.
    • Microphones disabled — no audio features are available from your Alta Video deployment.

    This setting overrides all other audio feature settings across your deployment.

  5. Click Done.