How to use Mirasys VMS Text Channel

First, you need to copy the UDD4Demo.xml file under DVR-folder

The default location is C:\Program Files\DVMS\DVR
You can find this file end of this guide

After that, you need to configure the text channel

Open System Manager
Go to the second tab
Open Text channels
Create there example text channel and save these details
Example configuration
After this, you can create a wanted alarm using this text channel.
After this, you can use Putty to send these ASCII commands to Mirasys VMS port.
Open Putty and make a normal raw connection to Mirasys VMS port 40000.

Example Putty configuration

When the Putty window is open you can use these commands to trigger the alarm.
start low
start normal
start high
stop low
stop normal
stop high

UUD4Demo.xml file

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<logging>
  <level value="2"/> 
  <additionalDebug value="no"/>
</logging>
  <channelConfig>
    <linefeed value="0x0d0a"/>
    <ignored value="0x00,0x0B"/>
    <clearscreen value="-----"/>
  </channelConfig>
  <validation>
    <regex value=".*"/>
  </validation>
  <uddXmlMapper version="2">
    <messageType value="text" parsing="regex">
      <message number="1" value="alarm">
		<param number="1" value="([a-zA-Z]+) (.+)" group="1"/>
		<param number="2" value="([a-zA-Z]+) (.+)" group="2"/>
	  </message>
    </messageType>
	<constants>
		<array name="Rules" params="AT">
            <value>start</value>
            <value>stop</value>
        </array>
		<array name="AlarmType" params="AT">
            <value>temp</value>
			<value>normal</value>
            <value>low</value>
        </array>
    </constants>
    <rules>
		<message number="1" value="alarm" alwaysShowText="yes">
            <param number="1" reference="1" value="$Rules" operator="eq" id="AT">
				<and number="1" reference="2" value="$AlarmType" operator="eq"/>
				    <action number="1" type="event" value="$Rules $AlarmType alarm" />
            </param>
		</message>
  </rules>
  </uddXmlMapper>
</root>