Axxon One enables you to work with virtual inputs, which can change their states (Closed/Open) and generate a corresponding event upon receiving an HTTP request.

Creating and configuring virtual inputs

To create and configure a virtual input, complete the following steps:

1. Run IP Device Discovery Wizard (see Searching, adding, configuring, and removing IP devices).
2. In the form for manually adding an IP device, select HttpListener in the Vendor drop-down list (1).
   
3. In the Port field, specify the port number that will be used Input status queries (2).
4. Click the  button.

The IP Server object is automatically created to host four virtual inputs.

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.

Switching virtual inputs

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 Execute web query). Create two macros for each virtual input: to switch to Closed state and to switch to Open state.

You can run macros and requests from Dialog board (see Configuring a Dialog Board).

Virtual inputs' status on map

You can add virtual inputs to maps just as you do with real ones (see Adding inputs and outputs).

The color of the virtual input on the map changes depending on its state (see Displaying device status).