The C-Werk software package enables you to work with virtual inputs. This involves triggering a virtual input and producing a virtual input event/alarm in the VMS. When triggered, the virtual input status switches − Closed/Open.
To create and configure a virtual input, complete the following steps:
The IP Server object is automatically created to host 4 virtual inputs.
Attention!
For a virtual Input to work correctly, please do as follows: use the Open circuit.
You can configure virtual inputs in the same way as real ones. Also you can specify the time-out when virtual inputs reset their status in the Alarm Expiration Time field of the IP Server object. It ranges from 0 to 100.
This setting is applied only after you disable and enable the input again.
To switch virtual inputs, the HTTP request is used (see Switch between virtual IP-device states (HttpListener)).
The requests can be handled by macros (see Executing a web query). Create 2 macros for each virtual input: to switch to Closed and to switch to Opened.
You can run macros and requests from Dialog board (see Configuring a Dialog Board).
You can add virtual inputs to maps just as you do with real ones (see Adding inputs and outputs).
Virtual inputs status is color-coded (see Displaying device status).