How to Trigger the Camera Light on CHeKT
Enable Light Trigger for Speco Cameras - When the camera’s alarm is triggered, the lights activate. You can customize their settings by following the instructions in the manual.
- On the site details, go to Automation Rules configuration and click the add rule button.
- Select the source event as camera triggered
- Then select specific cameras, if you do not select cameras here, it will action if there are any alarms triggered by any cameras.
- Then select specific cameras, if you do not select cameras here, it will action if there are any alarms triggered by any cameras.
- Select the action as HTTP REQUEST as the action that will take after the camera alarm
triggered. Here you can add other actions as a work flow after the camera alarm triggered. - Now you need to configure the exact http request.
For the camera light alarm, select the method as POST and input the URL as:- http://ip address:port/SetWhiteLightAlarmOutConfig
- Replace the IP address as the IP address of the camera that has the light alarm function. Then input the body information as below.
- Below is the body information. You can change the configurations in bold. For
example you can switch the duration type and change the frequency type. - <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>
<config version=”1.7” xmlns=”http://www.ipc.com/
ver10”>
<types>
<lightFrequency>
<enum>low</enum>
<enum>medium</enum>
<enum>high</enum>
</lightFrequency>
</types>
<whiteLightAlarmOut>
<switch type=”boolean”>true</switch>
<manualSwitch type=”boolean”>true</
manualSwitch>
<durationTime type=”uint32” min=”1”
max=”60” default=”20” Always=”false”>20</
durationTime>
<frequency type=”lightFrequency”>low</
frequency>
</whiteLightAlarmOut>
</config> - Input the authentication information and select the content type as Json.
- Select other conditions such as time or arming status. When you select the armed status, the automation rules will follow the arm status after your selection.
- Name and give notes to the rule.
- After your configuration, you will see the whole automation rules listed below.
Initial publish Date: April 3, 2025
Article transcribed by: Christopher Cataldo, Technical Support Tier 1