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Alert Settings

Alert Settings allows you to control how iCatcher Console alerts you when motion is detected. By default, all feeds use these settings, although this can be overridden on a per-feed basis under the Feed Settings dialog

Audio Alerts

Audio Alert allow you to choose a .wav file to play when motion is detected. To use this feature check Enable, and select the audio file to play

Windows Messages

Windows Messages allow you to send a Windows NET SEND message to a user, a machine, or group of machines. To use this feature, check Enable and enter the name of the users or machines in Recipients and the message to be sent in Message. This text may contain macros.

SMS Alerts

SMS allows you to send an SMS text message to a person or persons. To use this feature, check Enable and enter a list of numbers separated by commas in the To box, and the text you wish to sent in the Text box. This text may contain macros.

Email Alerts

Email alerts allows you to email a person, or groups of person when motion occurs. You can optionally attach a number of images to the email

To use the feature check Enable. Enter the list of recipients, comma separated, in the To box, and complete the Subject and Message boxes. You can use Macros in these boxes.

Minimum time between emails is used to ensure that during periods of continuous motion, emails are not being sent continually.

FTP/Web

FTP Web Page / Generation

The FTP / Web Page generation allow iCatcher Console to save or upload a web page containing the images captured upon a trigger. To use this functionality click the Enable button. If you want to FTP the files to a web server then click Use FTP and enter the server and username / password. In the Directory field enter either a local path if you want to save the web page, including the HTML and images, to a local drive, or a directory on the FTP/Web server if you wish to upload.

Miscellaneous

In this section you can control the maximum number of images to be held on the server. If more images need to be uploaded then the oldest images will be removed.

You can create a page with the images for each feed in summary form and a page for each camera, allowing you to drill down from the image into the camera. Alternatively, you can save only a single image with the last motion.

The Minimum time between uploads allows to to set a buffer between uploads, even if triggers are being generated.

Admin alerts

Admin Alerts allows you to configure the emails that iCatcher Console sends when certain events occur. These are administrative events, and not motion detection events.

Send Admin alert emails turns on this feature

On loss of feed allows you to send an email if the feed disappears for more than a certain number of seconds.

Send the admin alert to the email address for the feed will send the email to the address configured in the feed. If you deselect this option you can enter an email address to send to.