General
1. Activate or deactivate the camera.
2. Enter the name of the network camera.
3. Select the protocol type (http or https), and then change the port number, if necessary.
4. To test the incoming camera signal, click the Browser button.
The browser defined in the system settings ("standard browser") starts up, and the camera image is dis-played in the browser window.
5. The application programming interface (API) is identified automatically. If the API version cannot be retained, askOnSSI Tech Supportfor the correct assignment of the API version to the camera firm-ware.
6. If necessary, change the server for managing the devices (DeviceManager Server).
7. Specify whether separate authentication is to be required for the camera and, if necessary, enter a user name and password.
8. Select Virtual cameras to display and save multiple image details from a camera as a separate cam-era. The image details can then be specified in the virtual cameras.
This function is only available for specific camera models.
After activation of the virtual camera function, multiple virtual cameras are automatically created. The number of virtual cameras depends on the camera model. They are configured similarly to a standard camera.
Digital inputs
1. Select the digital inputs and specify unique names for Name for CLOSED and Name for OPEN.
2. Specify the interval for the idle time (in seconds) after which a signal is analyzed again.
That prevents the event database from becoming unnecessarily large when there are events in rapid succession. This setting may also be used to trigger an alarm (seeAlarms).
3. Apply the set values if you want to make further settings.
4. Save the set values to apply the values and conclude input.
5. Digital outputs
6. Select the digital outputs and specify unique names for Name for CLOSED and Name for OPEN.
7. Specify the hold time for the time (in seconds) within which an output is opened or closed (0 = infinite).
Camera
General
1. Activate or deactivate the camera with the Yes/No drop-down list.
2. If necessary, alter the name of the camera.
3. To change the camera type, click Open Converter (seeConverting a camera).
4. The Display Title field is not supported in this version.
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5. The Show date and time is not supported in this version.
6. If the camera was not mounted upright, you can use the Rotate image function.
You can rotate the image in 90° steps (90°, 180°, 270°).
This function is only available for specific camera models.
7. For PTZ cameras, several options will appear. Select Control camera if you are configuring a PTZ cam-era or a control unit in order to give the user the option of controlling the camcam-era.
8. Specify the PTZ sensitivity of the camera control.
9. The camera position function is not supported in this version.
10. Select Invert PTZ control to correctly control cameras that are mounted upside down.
11. In Pan/tilt mode:
n Continuous control: During continuous control a graphic with cross hairs is shown. The further from the center point the user clicks the faster the camera moves in that direction.
12. Configuring panomorph lenses and cameras is done on Ocularis Base using Ocularis Administrator. If you see options to configure 360 degree lenses, such as 360 lens, Dewarping mode and Positon camera) please ignore these fields.
13. Make a selection for Action in the case of inactivity to specify which action is to be performed if the camera is inactive.
The selected action is displayed.
14. Specify for Timeout the time after which the action is to be performed if the camera is inactive (in seconds).
15. Make entries for Action at start of video stream and Action when the video stream stops.
The selected actions are displayed.
16. The action at the start of the video stream is triggered if a user has the camera in surveillance mode in the foreground, i.e. is viewing the current live image of that camera.
17. The action when the video stream stops is triggered if the current camera is closed or a different layer is moved to the foreground.
18. Make a selection for Action in the case of network error to specify what is to happen if there is a net-work error.
The selected action is displayed.
Image storage - Multimedia database
Images are stored according to the so called "ring buffer" queue. For a brief overview, see the following illus-tration:
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All of the image storage settings (e.g. the size of a camera's storage area on the hard disk) are configured here. To prevent sensitive image data from being overwritten, standard and alarm recordings are configured separately.
1. Select Multimedia database from the Image storage menu.
2. Select whether the image recording has a priority: the oldest recordings will be overwritten at the latest when not enough storage is allocated or the recording interval is too long.
3. Select whether standard recordings are to be carried out with this camera.
4. Select the recording period.
You specify the exact period using a time template that you create in theTime Manager. By default, con-tinuous recording is started ("Always").
5. Select the time limit and enter the maximum storage duration.
If the time limit is exceeded, some of the oldest recordings will be deleted to free storage.
6. You can specify a condition for starting image recording.
7. Select whether alarm recordings are to be carried out with this camera.
8. Select the time limit and enter the maximum storage duration.
If the time limit is exceeded, some of the oldest recordings will be deleted to free memory.
9. Specify a pre-alarm duration (up to a maximum of 3600 seconds) to record a period before the alarm is triggered. The data recorded in the buffer memory is transferred to the alarm track when manual record-ing is started.
10. Specify a maximum post-alarm duration for manual alarm recording to record a period after the alarm is triggered.
If manual alarm recording is not stopped, the recording will stop automatically at the end of the specified post-alarm duration.
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When the storage capacity reaches 89%, a message is triggered via SNMP, email or as message in the Recorder Manager.
As soon as the storage capacity reaches 90%, the ring buffer system starts deleting the image data. The image data of the prioritized cameras are the last to be deleted.
If a camera is deactivated, the ring buffer stops for the image data of the deactivated camera.
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11. Activate automatic reduction of the frame rate of standard recordings or alarm recordings after a spe-cified period (data-aging standard recording or data-aging alarm recording).
On expiration of the specified period, the frame rate of the stored recordings is reduced to save storage space (data aging).
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12. Specify the time limit after which the recordings are to be compressed and released from the audio track.
13. Specify the frame rate (in fps) at which the recordings are to be stored after the time limit is exceeded.
This reduces the image data to the set frame rate.
14. Motion JPEG recordings will be reduced to the defined frame rate
15. MPEG4 / H.264 recordings will be reduced to i-frames (the p-frames will be deleted)
16. Specify the time and date for the oldest full frame in the buffer. As soon as this limit is reached, a sys-tem message will be displayed.
Image storage - Edge storage
The menu item Edge storage is only displayed if supported by the selected camera.
1. Edge storage uses the camera to store images on an internal SD card.
2. Select Edge storage from the Image storage menu.
3. Select the required type edge storage.
4. Gap filling: Fills gaps in the recording when the connection between the camera and the server has been temporarily interrupted.
5. Edge storage import: Stores the images on the internal storage of the camera. The images can be manually transferred to the archive. This feature is not supported in this version.
6. Select the Recording type of the camera recording (standard recordings or alarms).
For gap filling, the recording type must be set to Standard recording.
7. Specify the execution time and date for the server to look for recordings on the edge storage. If the server finds recording gaps in the archive, they are filled with the recordings from the camera.
Video streams
In the video streams you can specify and configure different profiles for the transmission of image data. The software creates a base profile during installation of the camera.
1. Click New to create a new video stream.
The maximum number of streams depends on the camera type.
2. Select the video stream, and then click Edit to make the required settings.
3. Select the capture mode.
Capture mode can only be selected if it is supported by the camera. With multi-channel devices or vir-tual cameras, a change to the capture mode applies to all devices under this video server. Hence the capture mode can only be defined for the base stream (displayed with a home icon), but affects all sub-sequent streams of the selected camera.
Depending on the setting selected, the camera provides different frame rates and resolutions. The cam-era may restart and then be inaccessible for a few minutes.
4. Select the type of the video stream.
The following video streams are available, depending on the hardware:
1You record 20 images a second with an I-frame interval of a second. Data aging reduces the frame rate to one image a second, because all P-frames are deleted.
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n Motion JPEG (M-JPEG)
n MPEG-4/H.264 (required for audio)
n MxPEG
n RTSP
5. The selected video codec is displayed.
6. Select the transmission mode.
n RTP over UDP Unicast (default setting): Communication between the server and camera is via TCP port 554 (RTSP port). Image transmission from the camera to the server is via a negotiated UDP port.
n RTP over UDP Multicast: Communication between the server and camera is via TCP port 554 (RTSP port). Image transmission is via a multicast address provided by the camera. RTP over UDP Multicast should only be used if third-party systems (e.g. Barco or eyevis) and the server access the camera simultaneously.
n RTP over RTSP over TCP: Communication between the server and camera and image trans-mission is via TCP port 554 (RTSP port). This setting is recommended where there is a poor net-work connection between servers and camera. The disadvantage of this transmission method is the possibility of latency times, because corrupt data must be transmitted again.
n RTP over RTSP over HTTP Unicast: Communication and image transmission is via a HTTP tun-nel (port 80 TCP). This setting is recommended where there is a poor network connection
between servers and camera. The disadvantage of this transmission method is the possibility of latency times, because corrupt data must be transmitted again.
7. Select the transmission of audio signals in the Activate audio drop-down.
This function is available only if the camera can process audio signals. Selection of the camera is neces-sary only for multi-channel devices.
8. Specify the Frame rate (fps) and Quality (compression) separately for standard and alarm recording.
When there are differences in the settings for standard and alarm recording in MPEG-4/H.264 stream-ing, it can take several seconds to switch from standard to alarm recording. The length of time taken depends on the camera. There may be no recording available during this period.
9. Select a suitable resolution for the camera image.
10. Select the required video classification (refer toVideo classification).
11. Select multicast streaming to display one video stream simultaneously on multiple clients.
Multicast should only be used if there is low bandwidth between the Device Manager and clients.
Multicast-capable network hardware is required for multicast streaming.
12. Enter the network address and port number of the multicast server.
13. Specify the validity period (TTL) after which the client has to log in to the multicast server again.A short TTL results in a higher network load.
Audio
If the camera supports transmission of audio signals, the audio codec can be configured. To use the trans-mission of audio signals, the transtrans-mission has to be activated in the video streamsettings.
1. Select the MPEG-4/H.264 mode for video streams in thevideo stream settings.
2. Select the associated camera.
3. Select the correspondingaudio codec.
Camera positions
Camera positions can be created and deleted as presets by the administrator in configuration mode.
1. Use the PTZ controller or an external controller deviceto move the camera to the required position.
2. Click New.
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3. Enter the name of the new preset position, and then click OK.
The name is displayed in the column, and the preset position is assigned the next free position number.
If there are not enough position numbers, the additional positions are added in a drop-down list.
4. To remove a preset position, select the name from the list and click the Delete button.
Server side operation
There are several options you can configure for server side operation.
Reference image comparison
The live camera image is compared to a defined reference image of the same camera view (seeManual ref-erence image comparison). An alarm will be triggered if the images do not match and triggers a second alarm when the original camera view is restored.
1. Select Reference image comparison in the server side operation menu.
2. To activate the automatic image reference comparison, select Yes from the drop-down menu.
3. Click Create reference image to select an image from the camera that serves as a backdrop for the motion detection.
4. Specify the values for the Execution time point by defining the time interval (in minutes, at a certain day time or on certain days per week at a specific time) for the comparison between the reference image and the live image.
Tampering detection
The tampering detection recognizes manipulation of the camera orientation but uses edge detection for com-parison. The reference images are generated automatically from every image and compared to the following.
Specific tampering events can be used as triggers for an alarm scenario. After an alarm, the reference image will be recreated.
1. To activate the tampering detection, select Yes from the drop-down menu.
2. Set the Minimum allowable deviation for the live image (in percent) to specify the threshold value that triggers the motion detection. The higher the value, the less sensitive the image detection will be.
3. To trigger an alarm, an alarm scenario has to be configured for the camera (seeCreating a new Alarm scenario).
4. Select the alarm by opening the camera module in the camera control and selecting the alarm scenario.
1. Apply the set values if you want to make further settings.
2. Save the set values to apply the values and conclude input.
Camera side operation Motion detection
1. Choose Motion detection in the Camera side operation menu.
2. Activate the appropriate number of windows, and enter a name and interval for the idle ('Dead') time (in seconds) after which a signal is analyzed again. This setting may also be used to trigger an alarm (see Alarms).
Make sure that motion detection is configured in the camera manufacturer's configuration inter-face for the camera.
Tampering detection
Depending on the camera model used, specific events can be used as triggers for an alarm scenario (see the respective camera manual for more information about the camera specific tampering features).
1. Specify if a notification is to be sent to the server automatically, if there is tampering with the camera or the video signal is lost.
An action can be started once notification is received. This setting may also be used to trigger an alarm
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(seeAlarms).
2. Select Yes to activate camera side tampering detection.
3. Select Yes for sending notifications if the video signal is lost. This will trigger a notification in the alarm list if the video signal drops out.
Record on motion
1. Make a selection in the drop-down list to specify whether alarm recording is to be triggered in the event of motion detection.
If applicable, the camera control then automatically follows the recorded object.
n No: If motion detection is not activated, the camera-specific record on motion function is activ-ated (if available).
n Yes: If motion detection is activated either by using the server settings or the camera settings, the function will be used and the camera-specific setting takes priority.