Test your subscriptions to analytics topics

When you have subscribed to analytics topics you should test that you receive the expected events, metadata, or video when something is found during the video analysis.

It is a good idea to test your first subscriptions to analytics topics with different analytics data types in cooperation with your IVA app integrator to verify that the integration works as intended.

Analytics events

To test if you receive analytics events from an analytics topic, in XProtect Smart Client, view the live video from a camera that the analytics topic is analyzing and monitor the triggered events or alarms on the Alarm Manager tab in XProtect Smart Client.

Prerequisite for alarms: You have created an alarm definition with the analytics event you want to test. See Add alarms with analytics events.

Metadata from analytics topics

To test if you receive metadata from an analytics topic, in XProtect Smart Client view live video from the camera that an analytics topic is analyzing. Ensure that the bounding boxes are displayed around the objects that the analytics topic is analyzing for.

In XProtect Management Client, you can also select the analytics device representing the stream of metadata from the IVA application. If you can see the following illustration, the XProtect VMS is receiving metadata.

Video from analytics topics

To test if you receive video from an analytics topic, view live video from the analytics camera in XProtect Smart Client.

For video from analytics topics, you have to give operators of XProtect Smart Client permission to view the video and in some cases restrict XProtect VMS administrators from viewing the video in XProtect Management Client.