Set Up Sound Features in Client Interface

This tab lets you customize audio settings and event sounds.

Client Settings

 

How to Access

1.      Click the Settings icon and select Settings. The Symphony Client Settings dialog box opens with the Startup tab active.

2.      Click the Sound tab.

 

Audio Settings

 

Default Sound Mode - How Symphony Client plays or mutes audio for live and recorded video.

       Follow focus - keeps setting when panel changed

       Listen to all - all panels

       No sound

Input Device - Can be a microphone from which sound will be captured and played on the (remote) camera's speaker. You must connect the microphone before starting the client. Once you have selected the microphone from the list, click OK and restart the client.

Play audio file if you click Talk while holding Ctrl  - Allows you to play a pre-recorded PCM file on the remote camera's speaker for testing or announcement purposes. (To use sound in the client, you must click the Microphone icon (Talk button) in the Navigation bar while pressing the Ctrl key on the client station keyboard.)

Sound meter - Responds to your voice or audio file ensuring that your client machine is registering sound correctly that will be heard through the remote camera’s speakers.

Audio File Location - Click the ellipses (...) to open the file location for the audio file you want to use. The audio file must be a PCM Wavefile.

 

Event Sounds

Select the Play sound when an alarm occurs check box to set up sounds for rules. Each rule (in addition to the existing sound) may have a continuous sound that plays until all alarms based on the given policy have been acknowledged.