FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 211A Network Camera Release date: 2005-02-18 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.13 File name: 211A_413.bin Preceding release: 4.12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using HTTP or FTP. HTTP ==== 1. Download the upgrade file to a directory that is accessible from your local computer. 2. Go to the product's start page (e.g. http://192.168.0.90). 3. Click the Setup link and log in as root (or any other user with Administrator privileges) if you are prompted for a user name and password. You must be logged in as an Administrator to upgrade the unit. 4. Click System Options in the menu to the left. 5. Click Maintenance. 6. Click the Browse button in the Upgrade Server section. 7. Select the upgrade file you downloaded (and maybe decompressed) from our site.This file is typically named 211A_413.bin or axis211A. 8. Click the Open button. 9. Click the Upgrade button in the Upgrade Server section. 10. Wait for the flash load to complete, which may take 1-10 minutes. The upgrade procedure is in four steps: Step 1, Shut down: Running applications are shut down and active connections are terminated. Step 2, Uploading firmware: The old firmware will be erased and the new firmware will be saved. During this step, the Power LED will blink green/amber. After a while the progress of the upgrade will be displayed in the web browser. Step 3, Reboot: The system restarts automatically. During this step, all LEDs will be off. Step 4, Reconfiguration: The new firmware settings are configured to match the previous settings. The Status LED will be amber during this step. 11. After the upgrade has completed, the unit will automatically initiate the system, during which the Status LED blinks amber. When initiation is complete and the system is ready for use, the Status LED will be green. FTP === 1. You must be at the command prompt and in the directory that contains the upgrade file. Example: C:\Axis\211A\4_13> 2. From the command prompt, open an FTP connection to the unit you wish to upgrade. (Do not use a "Windows" based FTP-program to do this, use only command line FTP programs!) 3. Log in as root. The default password for the root user is "pass", unless this has been changed by the user. You must be logged in as the root user to upgrade the unit. 4. Change to binary transfer mode by typing "bin" and press enter. 5. Type "hash" and press enter. (This will allow you to see how the upgrade progresses) 6. Type the command "put XXX.bin flash" where XXX.bin is the name of the upgrade file you downloaded (and maybe decompressed) from our site. This file is typically named 211A_413.bin or axis211A. 7. Wait for the flash load to complete, which may take 1-10 minutes. The upgrade procedure is in four steps: Step 1, Shut down: Running applications are shut down and active connections are terminated. Step 2, Uploading firmware: The old firmware will be erased and the new firmware will be saved. During this step, the Power LED will blink green/amber. Step 3, Reboot: The FTP session terminates and the system restarts automatically. During this step, all LEDs will be off. Step 4, Reconfiguration: The new firmware settings are configured to match the previous settings. The Status LED will be amber during this step. 8. After the upgrade has completed, the unit will automatically initiate the system, during which the Status LED blinks amber. When initiation is complete and the system is ready for use, the Status LED will be green. RELEASE 4.13 ============ Improvements in 4.13 ==================== 4.13:01 More efficient G711 compression has been introduced. Corrections in 4.13 =================== 4.13:02 In rare circumstances, clicking on Setup link from the Live View page made an error message regarding Audio.dll to show up and Internet Explorer crashed. This problem is now corrected. Known limitations in 4.13 ========================= 4.13:03 After changing the "Log Level for email" setting you may have to restart the unit for the setting to take effect. 4.13:04 When starting a new live view stream or when getting a still image, running live view streams and events will be stopped for a short while. 4.13:05 Copying an event configuration does not work properly. Some parameters may not be copied correctly. Please verify each parameter value in the cloned event configuration. 4.13:06 Adding a new event or modifying an existing event will restart all active events. 4.13:07 Motion detection windows are adjusted so that their width and height are divisible by 8 (pixels). 4.13:08 When saving a snapshot image, some browsers (e.g. Mozilla) will fetch a new picture and the saved picture will not match the displayed snapshot. 4.13:09 The Mozilla web browser does not always close the image stream properly when leaving the live view page. Restarting the stream can sometimes fail as well. Restarting Mozilla solves these two problems. 4.13:10 Motion detection setup only works in Internet Explorer for Windows. 4.13:11 The Axis Media Control toolbar is not available when using the Mozilla and Netscape web browsers. This is because images are viewed with server push instead of Active X (AXIS Media Control). 4.13:12 Viewing full screen and rotating through different external video sources with different video streams in a sequence will switch the full screen mode off. 4.13:13 The MPEG-4 stream cannot be uploaded by events. 4.13:14 The AXIS Media Control may stop displaying the MPEG-4 stream after the the screen saver has been active or the computer has been locked. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 4.13:15 If using dual screens and moving the AXIS Media Control window from one screen to the other, the MPEG-4 stream may stop updating. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. Application Developer Information ================================= Supported HTTP API Image Resolutions Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 768x576 1) 704x576 1) 2) 704x480 2) 704x288 2) 704x240 2) 640x480 480x360 384x288 352x288 2) 3) 352x240 2) 3) 320x240 240x180 4) 192x144 176x144 2) 3) 176x120 2) 3) 160x120 1) Not available as bitmap (bmp) image 2) Not equally scaled 3) No support for 90/270 degrees rotation 4) 176x240 when rotated 90/270 degrees The following HTTP API groups are supported by the AXIS 211A. For more information please refer to the HTTP API specification version 2, available at www.axis.com. Group Exceptions ===== ========== General Image and Video Video status Motion Detection I/O IP filter Audio Built in templates for dynamic parameters are: Template Group ======== ===== 'event' Event 'external_video' ExternalVideo 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'ftp_config' EventServers.FTP 'httpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'http_config' EventServers.HTTP 'hwaction' Event.E#.Actions 'motion' Motion 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'source' Sequence.S0.Source 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' EventServers