# User Alarm Settings

## User Alarms

Set up your own alarms to display on the dashboard and optionally send you emails / perform custom actions

#### Notes

Name:

A descriptive name for the alarm, this will appear in emails and the diagnostic log.
- The name should be unique and short.

Web Tag:

Enter a single valid numeric or boolean web tag to be tested.
- If the tag is a decimal value and your locale uses comma decimals, you must use the rc=y web tag option.
- You can use boolean web tags, they are treated as numeric values 0 (false) or 1 (true).

Type:

Determines if the alarm is triggered if the web tag value is above or below the alarm value.

Value:

The alarm threshold value to be tested against the web tag value.

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Email

Controls if the alarm sends an email when triggered. The email values from the standard alarms are used.

Email Msg

Text to send in the email, you can use the parameter {0} to represent the current web tag value.

Latch:

Controls if the alarm is latched. If latched, the alarm will not be triggered again until the latch hours expire.

Latch Hours:

The number of hours the alarm is latched for.

Action:

If non-blank, a program or script that is executed when the alarm is triggered.

Action Params:

Parameters to be passed to the action program or script, the parameters can contain web tags.