FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: P3346 Release date: 2013-11-27 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.50.3 File name: P3346_5_50_3.bin Preceding release: 5.40.9.3 AMC version: 6.3.10.0 Onvif support: Profile S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ============ 5.50.3:F01 Local Language Support, ability to change the camera's user interface to other languages than English. 5.50.3:F02 32 Privacy masks, ability to configure up to 32 simultaneous privacy masks. 5.50.3:F03 Edge Storage Disruption Detection, ability to be notified when the Edge Storage detects disruptions that may need administrative attention, typically disk unavailable, read/write error, disk full or disk locked. 5.50.3:F04 Text Overlay character set extension, ability to use non-western characters in the video text overlay. Note that Right-to-left languages such as Arabic are not supported. 5.50.3:F05 Text Overlay Font Size, ability to select three different font sizes for the video text overlay in order to increase readability, especially for high resolution video. 5.50.3:F06 ONVIF Profile S conformance. The ONVIF Profile S replaces the ONVIF Version 1.02. 5.50.3:F07 Text Overlay Message Action, a camera action that provides a way to display a user defined message in the image's text overlay upon a detected event. 5.50.3:F08 Email/SSL Recipient, ability for the camera to connect to common email services. The camera includes predefined profiles for example, Gmail and Hotmail. 5.50.3:F09 HTTPS Recipient, systems using HTTP notifications from the camera can now do this in a secure way over HTTPS. 5.50.3:F10 Upload Video Clip Action, ability to upload a video clip to an FTP server or an email recipient upon an event. Note that a media player with support for H.264 and Matroska File Format (MKV) is required to play the clip. 5.50.3:F11 Live Stream Access Detection, it is now possible to notify people that someone is actively monitoring a camera. 5.50.3:F12 Edge Storage Device Redundancy, ability to automatically switch recording device between SD Card and NAS if one device detects disruption. 5.50.3:F13 System Ready Event, ability to get notified when the camera has booted and all services are initialized. 5.50.3:F14 Virtual Inputs, used by clients to initiate Action Rules in the camera. Virtual Inputs extends the existing "Manual Trigger" with 32 additional. 5.50.3:F15 AXIS ACAP Applications, the behavior for AXIS Cross Line Detection 1.x and AXIS Video Motion Detection 2.x has been improved, making it less prone to false detection on small objects. 5.50.3:F16 Centralized Certificate Management, certificates for HTTPS and 802.1x are now managed in one place. The firmware also includes a number of pre-installed CA certificates such as Verisign, Thawt and GeoTrust. 5.50.3:F17 Improved Constant Bitrate Control, the Constant Bit Rate (CBR) will now adjust to target bit rate quicker. 5.50.3:F18 SSH (Secure Shell), a command line interface is added to the camera that may be used for specific support and maintenance activities. Note that, SSH is not enabled by default. Corrections in 5.50.3 since 5.40.9.3 ==================================== 5.50.3:C01 Daylight saving time now works properly for Iran. 5.50.3:C02 ISO 8859-1 characters are displayed correctly in motion detection names. 5.50.3:C03 Up to 127 characters can be used in the 'From email address' field. 5.50.3:C04 It is possible to add IP addresses to the IP filter list in the web interface. 5.50.3:C05 It is now possible to use HTTPS and port forwarding. 5.50.3:C06 It is no longer necessary to restart the camera after configuring default router parameter via VAPIX. 5.50.3:C07 Configuration of time zone for Australia appears correctly in the web interface. 5.50.3:C08 Double & (&&) are no longer present in HTTP notifications. The Action rule gives a valid URI. 5.50.3:C09 ONVIF: The Web Services parameter and consequently the information in System Overview relating to whether Web Services is enabled has been removed. ONVIF is enabled by specifying an ONVIF administrator in Security > ONVIF settings. 5.50.3:C10 Accessing the AVHS portal through a proxy is now working. 5.50.3:C11 The error condition encountered when creating two similar action rules (or by a copied action rule) has been fixed. 5.50.3:C12 While using flicker-free 50Hz or 60Hz exposure control, highlight environments can be overexposed. 5.50.3:C13 Network share size will now be displayed as GB if less than TB in the web interface. 5.50.3:C14 The default resolution has been changed from 720p to 1280x960. 5.50.3:C15 Setting Always multicast TTL (Time To Live) to '0' is now working as expected. 5.50.3:C16 Use of IPs starting with 169.154.x.x is now properly reserved for link-local addresses. 5.50.3:C17 Fixed issue with camera loosing focus after restart. 5.50.3:C18 The #e modifier now displays proper event names. 5.50.3:C19 The Edge Storage disc utilization has been improved, this will also result in increased video retention time especially for larger discs. 5.50.3:C20 The default compression value has been changed, it is tuned more effectively to provide more flexibility for video applications in a wide variety of network environments. To revert to old setting, configure the camera to use compression=26. 5.50.3:C21 Issue where incorrect multicast addresses were used, has been corrected. 5.50.3:C22 It is now possible to use 169.254.x.x as a static IP. 5.50.3:C23 Correct network speed is now displayed when using SNMP network speed check. 5.50.3:C24 The Log message 'RTSP Login Failed' that relates to client RTSP commands after the nonce has expired has been removed, since the behavior is correct. 5.50.3:C25 Fixed an issue with the Axis Name Service and some router models. 5.50.3:C26 Support for Internet Explorer 11 added. 5.50.3:C27 Before creating an event that utilizes audio detection, the audio detection level must be adjusted. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.50.3:L01 The camera can not play an audio clip while a viewer is sending/receiving audio from to/from the camera. 5.50.3:L02 When the automatic IR cut filter enables/disables the IR cut filter, it may trigger motion detection. 5.50.3:L03 Automatic IR Cut Filter will not work if Auto Iris is off. 5.50.3:L04 To be able to use all parts of the image in a View Area use the same Aspect Ratio for the View Area as the configured Capture Mode has. For example, when using 1080p mode, assure your view area has 16:9 aspect ratio to be able to define it starting with upper left corner. When a Capture Mode with 4:3 aspect ratio is used, use 4:3 aspect ratio of the View Area. 5.50.3:L05 Recording streams to SD Card with a total bit rate above 12Mbit/sec may cause missing frames/sequences. 5.50.3:L06 90 and 270 rotation can cause a drop in frame rate. 5.50.3:L07 Multiple simultaneous recordings to SD cards and network shares can degrade the performance of the system. 5.50.3:L08 Windows Network Shares do not handle all modifiers e.g. %c, since modifiers are UNIX standard. 5.50.3:L09 If max gain is set to a low value, e.g. 0, the IR cut filter may not switch back on automatically. 5.50.3:L10 When Guard Tour is active, it is not possible to use PTZ controls with Viewer access rights. 5.50.3:L11 Frame Size Control does not affect the size of the snapshot taken with the upper right control that can be added to the Live View. 5.50.3:L12 If the device has ongoing continuous recordings and the device is restarted using the restart option in web interface, the current part of recordings(block) can not be accessed or downloaded through the web interface. 5.50.3:L13 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.50.3:L14 Recordings made with firmware earlier than 5.20 will not be readable on the SD Card from firmware 5.40 and onward. Backup important recordings and reformat the SD Card after the firmware upgrade. 5.50.3:L15 Check and repair is only available if the file system is ext4. 5.50.3:L16 The AXIS Media Control client may stop displaying the H.264 video stream after the PC has been locked. 5.50.3:L17 Live view does not work with QuickTime player using default settings. Workaround: Disable Direct3D acceleration in Quicktime. 5.50.3:L18 When using an action rule results in short recordings, it is recommended to extend post-event time. 5.50.3:L19 To avoid corrupt recordings, it is recommended to unmount the SD Card before ejecting it. 5.50.3:L20 For actions based on PTZ events, it is not possible to use the #P (PTZ preset name) and #p (PTZ preset number) modifiers in the file names for network share uploads. 5.50.3:L21 It's not recommended to downgrade to previous firmware when having HTTPS enabled. 5.50.3:L22 Video overlay text size is a global setting and can not be set for each stream profile. 5.50.3:L23 Modifying a PTZ view area using API and afterwards clicking save in the web interface, will cause the view area to revert to the old position. 5.50.3:L24 The pan control bar on the Live View page is not 100% accurate when clicking on a position. In order to achieve full accuracy, use the arrows to navigate. 5.50.3:L25 If text overlay is more than 460 characters long, no text will be displayed. 5.50.3:L26 Private keys need to be in a PKCS#1 format in order to function. 5.50.3:L27 A maximum of 100 installed certificates is allowed 5.50.3:L28 For low contrast scenes, false positives or negatives may occur because there is not enough information for the Tampering alarm. 5.50.3:L29 The resolutions of the pre-defined profiles have changed. Quality, Balanced and Bandwidth uses default resolution, which is equal to the highest available resolution. Mobile uses the lowest resolution. 5.50.3:L30 If downgrading to previous firmware version, a factory default is recommended after performing the downgrade. 5.50.3:L31 Using control queue with Java Applet may result in wrong queue positions if switching between admin and viewer users. 5.50.3:L32 GOV values for stream profiles higher than 5000 are not supported. 5.50.3:L33 On Windows shares, upload paths for events needs to be created on the share before use. 5.50.3:L34 Not possible to view live or recorded video in Internet Explorer 10 Modern UI in Microsoft Windows 8. 5.50.3:L35 The Audio tab web page indicates loading until moving to a different tab or page. 5.50.3:L36 Reboot is necessary after enabling SOCKS. 5.50.3:L37 With audio enabled, setting GOV lengths with I-frames more than 20 seconds apart may render the recordings unplayable via the web interface. 5.50.3:L38 When changing active https-certificate, the device needs to be restarted before it becomes active. 5.50.3:L39 Upgrading from firmware 5.40 and prior requires an upgrade of the recordings database. This can take up to five minutes and is conducted on first boot. Make sure to not remove power or SD card during the first five minutes after upgrading the device. 5.50.3:L40 Unclear error message when uploading audio clip with already existing name. 5.50.3:L41 Occasionally, G711 audio can lag when using Java applet. 5.50.3:L42 Before creating an event that utilizes audio detection, the audio detection level must be adjusted. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS P3346 ========================================================= Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 2048x1536 2) 1920x1200 2) 1920x1080 2) 3) 1600x1200 2) 4) 1280x1024 1280x960 1280x720 1024x768 800x600 800x450 640x480 640x360 480x360 480x270 320x240 320x180 240x180 176x144 160x120 160x90 1440x900 1) 768x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 240x135 1) 192x144 1) 176x120 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface 2) 3 MP 2048x1536 (4:3) @ 20fps 3) HDTV 1080p 1920x1080 (16:9) @ 30fps 4) 2 MP 1600x1200 (4:3) @ 30fps