FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS P5534-E PTZ Dome Network Camera Release date: 2012-04-25 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.40.9 File name: P5534-E_5_40_9.bin Preceding release: 5.20.1 AMC version: 6.0.6.7-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management, HTTP or FTP. Please follow the instructions from the user's manual, the web page at http://www.axis.com/techsup/cam_servers/how_to_upgrade.htm or the file named howtoupgrade.txt. New Features ============ 5.40.9:F01 Edge storage with support for CIFS/SMB (Microsoft Network share). 5.40.9:F02 ext4 file system support for SD Card. Axis recommends SD Card users to use the camera to format the SD Card with ext4 instead of the default vFAT. ext4 will increase recording reliability compared to vFAT. Note that SD Cards formatted with ext4 cannot be read by a Microsoft PC without installing additional ext4 drivers on the PC. 5.40.9:F03 The internal Event Management system has been redesigned and VAPIX has been extended with a new Event-API based on Web-Services. Utask has been removed and with that the possibility to start scripts and applications from user.task.list. The legacy user action rules in the camera will continue to work but will not be visible in the camera user interface unless converted to the new design. Event Management user interface (GUI) has been redesigned. For more information please see User's manual. 5.40.9:F04 Always Multicast. Provides the ability to multicast video regardless of whether clients access the streams or not. 5.40.9:F05 ONVIF 1.02 support. 5.40.9:F06 Storage Management 1. Clean up policy is enabled by default and the default value for the parameter is 1 week. 2. Parameter for clean up level is in the Plain Config and default is set at approximately 90% of the storage device capacity. 3. The start time of a recording is updated when data is removed due to clean up policy. 5.40.9:F07 Added LLDP support. Corrections in 5.40.9 since 5.20.1 ================================== 5.40.9:C01 Web services parameter is removed and thus status from the System Overview as well. ONVIF is enabled by specifying an ONVIF administrator in the Security -> ONVIF settings. 5.40.9:C02 RTP over RTSP over HTTP with other than default http port works as expected. 5.40.9:C03 It is no longer necessary to restart the camera after configuring default router parameter via VAPIX. 5.40.9:C04 Improved camera responsiveness. 5.40.9:C05 Configuration of time zone for Australia appears correctly in the web interface. 5.40.9:C06 It is possible to use HTTPS and port forwarding. 5.40.9:C07 Up to 127 characters can be used in the 'From email address' field. 5.40.9:C08 If PTZ Control Queue settings are changed, the new settings will work correctly without restart. 5.40.9:C09 ISO 8859-1 characters are displayed correctly in motion detection names and OSDI zone names. 5.40.9:C10 When the camera is in RFL-mode (after a failed upgrade), flash loading it with Firefox may sometimes not work. Use Internet Explorer instead. 5.40.9:C11 Improved handling of Image freeze after a pan/tilt/zoom movement 5.40.9:C12 Double & are no longer present in HTTP notification. The Action rule gives a valid URI. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.40.9:L01 Limiting the bandwith to lower than 100kbit/s may lead to losing contact with the camera 5.40.9:L02 An uploaded bitmap overlay is made partially transparent unconditionally (black color). 5.40.9:L03 Maximum brightness will not result in a white image. 5.40.9:L04 No more than 4 privacy masks can be placed so close together that they are in the same view at any given time. 5.40.9:L05 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.40.9:L06 If RTSP authentication is switched off, streaming H.264 with QuickTime and other Apple compatible clients will not work as they require authentication of the RTSP, but do not allow HTTP authentication. 5.40.9:L07 Using ONVIF, the camera declares that is supports the Normalized Digital Zoom spaces but the camera does not and should not support those spaces. 5.40.9:L08 The ONVIF command 'gotoHomePosition' will go to the home position at a very slow speed, it will not use the default speed. 5.40.9:L09 If PTZ limits are changed, the camera must be restarted for the changes to be applied to the ONVIF API. 5.40.9:L10 If a Go to Preset movement includes an AutoFlip, the image will freeze during the whole movement. When the movement is done, the stream will start again. Movement will also be done at full speed, regardles of the current speed configuration. 5.40.9:L11 Automatic IR Cut Filter will not work if Auto Iris is off. 5.40.9:L12 When the automatic IR cut filter enables/disables the IR cut filter, it may trigger motion detection. 5.40.9:L13 Removing a Guard Tour while another Guard Tour is running will stop and restart the ongoing Guard Tour. 5.40.9:L14 Pan/tilt coordinate directions presented in the text overlay (#x #y) will not be rotated along with the image when rotation is 180. 5.40.9:L15 The image is always showed with zero rotation at the OSDI Zone Setup. 5.40.9:L16 Recording streams to SD Card with a total bit rate above 12Mbit/sec may cause missing frames/sequences. 5.40.9:L17 If a customer is trying to upload a very large file instead of a valid language file, a "404 page cannot be displayed" page is shown. 5.40.9:L18 Constant bit rate might fluctuate more than 10%. 5.40.9:L19 Zoom response is very slow when using the mouse scroll wheel in AMC. 5.40.9:L20 Pan/tilt/zoom control does not work using Java Applet if the Control Queue is enabled. 5.40.9:L21 Live view may display screen tearing (horizontal cut-lines) most prominent when panning the camera. 5.40.9:L22 Firefox can sometimes show white image flicker at the bottom of the video stream. This occurs on Windows XP and Windows Vista with Firefox versions 3.6.3-3.6.6 (possibly on later versions aswell). 5.40.9:L23 Color parameter has no effect when pulling RTSP stream with color=0. 5.40.9:L24 Frame Size Control does not affect size of the snapshot taken with the upper right control that can be added to the Live View. 5.40.9:L25 It is recommended to unmount the SD Card before ejecting it. 5.40.9:L26 Recordings made with firmware earlier than 5.20 will not be readable on the SD Card from the 5.40 firmware. Backup important recordings and reformat the SD Card after the firmware upgrade. 5.40.9:L27 Check and repair is only available if the file system is ext4. 5.40.9:L28 When using action rule resulting in short recordings, it is recommended to extend post-event time. 5.40.9:L29 Date modifiers "%m-%d-%Y" are not formatted correctly when used with folder name, SMTP subject and message. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX Application Programming Interface version 3 is supported by the AXIS P5534-E. For more information, please refer to the AXIS VAPIX HTTP API specification version 3, part of the AXIS VAPIX API, available at www.axis.com. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS P5534-E Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x720 800x450 480x270 320x180 1024x768 1) 1024x576 1) 800x600 1) 768x576 1) 720x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 640x480 1) 640x360 1) 480x360 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 320x240 1) 240x180 1) 192x144 1) 176x144 1) 176x120 1) 160x120 1) 160x90 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface 90/270 degress rotation is not supported.