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Calipsa® Vivotek Integration

User Guide

Document number:C6746M

Publication date:03/23

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Calipsa® Vivotek Integration User Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Vivotek 3

Adding a Vivotek Camera to Calipsa 3

Creating a Site 3
Adding a Camera 3
Configuring the Device 4
Editing Camera DNS Settings 6
Adjusting Camera Video Settings 7
Enabling Camera Motion Detection 8
Creating an Event 9
Editing Camera Email Settings 10
Adding a Camera Event Schedule 11
Creating a Camera Event Trigger 12

Troubleshooting Questions 14

Adding your Monitoring Station SMTP Details 16

Accessing Calipsa Account Settings 16
Editing Global Configuration 16
Inputting Your Credentials 17

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Introduction

This guide covers the steps required to integrate your Vivotek cameras with the Calipsa platform. Other
common integration steps, such as configuring your system to send alarms to your gmail account are
also covered.

Vivotek

This guide outlines the manual process of configuring aVivotek camerato send email alerts to Calipsa

Adding a Vivotek Camera to Calipsa

Creating a Site

1. Under Add sites, enter the Site Name.

2. When asked is this a DVR/NVR site, select No.

3. Click Add site.

Adding a Camera

1. Once the site has been created, click add camera in the left-hand tree.

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2. Under Camera name, enter the camera's name.

3. Under Notification email,enter theemail address where you would like these alarms to be sent

to e.g., Immix S-number, Gmail address, etc.

4. Click Add camera.

Configuring the Device

1. Under Configuration, click Edit.

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2. Under Configure, click on the blue icon to the right of Configuration email. The email address is
now copied to your clipboard.

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Editing Camera DNS Settings

1. Log in to your Uniview camera.

2. Under Setup, navigate to Network, and select DNS.

3. For Preferred DNS Server, enter 8.8.8.8.

4. For Alternate DNS Server, enter 8.8.4.4.

5. ClickSave.

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