Ver 1.00 NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE ==================== Products involved: AXIS Camera Station Release date: January 3, 2006 Release type: Service Software version: 1.20 Build 59 File name: AXISCameraStationSetup.exe File size: 30 039 688 bytes Supported OS: Microsoft 2000(SP4), 2003 Server and XP Professional (SP1/SP2) Last preceding release: 1.20 Build 56 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Information ==================== Please contact Axis Communications for product information, updates and support at: http://www.axis.com Solutions to new problems and FAQ' s are listed at: http://www.axis.com/techsup/cam_servers/cam_station_software/index.htm Installation ============ - Only upgrade to this version if you need to take advantage of the new features/corrections. - Run the self-extracting AXISCameraStationSetup.exe file. - For upgrade to this version an upgrade license must be valid. See Help/About when current upgrade license expires. Please contact your nearest Axis reseller to buy an upgrade license if needed. - Make sure you have full administrator rights on the computer you install on. - Do NOT install AXIS Camera Station on a computer already running AXIS Camera Station Client. - AXIS Camera Station settings and image database will remain after upgrade. - The background service will be stopped for the upgrade (no recordings). The background service will start automatically after the upgrade. - After upgrade to 1.20 it is not possible to downgrade to the previous version (1.xx) without a complete uninstallation. - If AXIS Camera Station is upgraded any AXIS Camera Station Clients must also be upgraded. Uninstallation ============= - Run 'Uninstall' under Start/Control Panel/Add or Remove programs/ Some files might need to be manually erased under C:\Program Files\Axis Communications\Axis Camera Station\ and under C:\TempACS\. - Recordings are not erased by 'Uninstall' and need to be manually erased under C:\Recordings\ or where located as specified for each camera. Recommendations =============== - Observe the hardware requirements for running AXIS Camera Station. See users documentation at www.axis.com for details. - If the hardware requirements are not fulfilled, a warning message will be opened during installation. If the program is installed in spite of this, performance of the program may be considerable limited. - Install AXIS Camera Station on a dedicated computer mainly running this application. - Make sure the 'Server IP address' under File/Administration/General is set to the IP address of the computer running AXIS Camera Station. - It is recommended to set up recovery options for the background service. This is done under: ControlPanel/AdminTools/Services/AXISCameraStation/Properties/ RecoveryOptions - Defragment the harddisk periodically for optimal performance. - Make sure used AXIS devices run latest available firmware. - When upgrading from 1.00 or 1.01 please note that the recording image size now is defined in AXIS Camera Station. The default value in the AXIS Camera Station might be different from the previous used image sized which was the image size set in the camera. - Check your Motion Detection settings after upgrading to this version. - If password protection is enabled in AXIS Camera Station it is recommended to be logged on as a user with admin rights in AXIS Camera Station when upgrading. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New features ============ - Support for AXIS 207W, AXIS 225FD and AXIS 214PTZ Corrected problems since 1.20.056 ================================= - A problem with PTZ presets has been corrected. - The internal motion detection in AXIS 207 cameras can be used. - Image scaling of AXIS 205/206/207 series cameras in the web interface has been corrected. - Improved handling of PTZ cameras in the web interface. - For best performance, the possibility to select image compression level 0 has been disabled if AXIS Image Enhancer is not used. Known limitations ================= - Recordings and backups to network mapped drive letters don't work. Use the full network path instead, e.g. \\computer\directory - Camera cycling (Guard Tour/Patrolling) with more than 20 cameras does not work. - If DNS names are used for local network resources they must be entered with domain like camera1.mycompany.com. - The built-in search tool (Camera Explorer) for finding cameras on the local network only searches for cameras on port 80 (default) - If Microsoft Internet Explorer uses auto configuration script for proxy settings it can happen occasionally that a blank image is shown instead of the live stream. Use manual proxy settings to bypass this problem. - Web interface only works on MS IE 6.0 or higher. - Overview page in the web interface will not show any images from MPEG-only devices such as AXIS 230 and 250. - AXIS Camera Station does not support the switch to and from daylight saving time. Daylight saving should be disabled on the computer running AXIS Camera Station. - If a Camera is selected in the alarm table in the web interface it will open in the alarm table window. - Sometimes the alarm table does not show correct status for any active (red) I/O after the background service is started. The alarm table in the web interface does not have this problem. - Pop-up calendar when setting specific scheduling dates will be in the default language set on the PC. - If two or more cameras have the same name, configuration and playback mixing is possible. - Camera and I/O name cannot contain any country specific characters. - If several cameras are set to record from the same I/O the Alarm table will only show one a button for one camera. - The alarm table can only show 8 I/O alarms. More I/O alarms can be defined but they are not shown in the alarm table. - When a camera is viewed live in the web interface there is no indication if the camera goes down, image will freeze and will not resume when connection is back. Use Refresh/F5 to continue. - For some non default 'Themes' in Windows XP, the bars in the Schedule tab in Administration do not have correct colors or positions. - If the web interface is enabled it will create a virtual folder called /tempacs in the wwwroot folder pointing to C:\tempacs. This can fail without any message if the AXIS Camera Station administrator does not have full admin rights on the used computer. In this case the web interface will only show blank images for any recording. - Minimum screen resolution is 1024x768. Less resolution will show corrupted windows. - Summary page in configuration show wrong fps for cameras with recording speed over 1 fps. - If an MPEG2/4 camera connection is lost an error message from AXIS AMC is shown which needs to be manually cleared. - Suggested default recording image size for older Axis cameras such as AXIS 2100/2110/2120/2420 is not CIF. This need to be manually changed in the administration/recording tab. - AVI generation of b/w recordings will be larger than color recordings. - AVI generation of recordings smaller than CIF will be playbacked in QCIF format. - AVI playback image size might depend on AVI player used. - 'Save image to disk' in 4-view playback on station does sometimes not save any image(s). - Overall performance is optimized for recording speeds of 1 fps or higher. - Maximum interval between images is 60 seconds. - Received images are not checked for consistency. - A player for saved recordings with the previous ZIP method can be requested from Axis Technical support if needed. - In event playback, an area can be selected and enlarged. The enlarged area does not fully correspond to the area selected. - Domain users require Active Directory. Other ===== - To make a factory default of AXIS Camera Station copy all files from the folder: c:\Program Files\AXIS Communications\AXIS Camera Station\parm to c:\Program Files\AXIS Communications\AXIS Camera Station\ (applicable when installed in the default directory) License information will not be affected. Best Regards, Axis Communications