FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 215 PTZ Network Camera Release date: 2007-04-26 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.40 File name: 215PTZ_440.bin Preceding release: n/a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management 2.0, 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. RELEASE 4.40 ============ 4.40 is the first official production release for the AXIS 215 PTZ. Known limitations in 4.40 ========================= 4.40:L01 The PTZ Control Panel has some foreground and background issues. The PTZ Control stays above the drop-down list but still disappears behind the AMC. 4.40:L02 If using IE/AMC and there is a proxy server between the client and the AXIS 215 PTZ, a yellow balloon with a Proxy POST size error occurs sometimes when audio is enabled. 4.40:L03 When uploading overlay images via the HTTP interface, the browser will under some circumstances display a page error and the upload will fail. To avoid this, first display the server report in the same browser before uploading overlay images. 4.40:L04 It is only possible to add 19 preset positions. 4.40:L05 Under some circumstances MPEG-4 latency will be introduced for CIF resolution. 4.40:L06 Sending audio to the AXIS 215 PTZ does not work properly. A yellow balloon with a Proxy POST size error will appear in AMC because of authentication problem. To avoid this, choose video format MJPEG and enable full duplex audio. 4.40:L07 The frame rate drops when the AXIS 215 PTZ receives audio. The audio connection to the client will eventually be dropped. 4.40:L08 Full screen when using MPEG-4 will be turned off when selecting snapshot. The AXIS 215 PTZ will now move incorrectly. Right-click in the image and select 'Normal view' to make the PTZ movement correct. 4.40:L09 Viewing full screen and sequencing through different external video sources with different video streams in a sequence will switch the full screen mode off. 4.40:L10 When activating IPV6/DHCP, the camera doesn't register it's address in the DNS. 4.40:L11 Custom Firmware doesn't work. 4.40:L12 Rotated video streams are not rotated in Motion Detection setup. 4.40:L13 Including format field #r, #R, #b or #B in the text overlay will show an incorrect frame rate and bandwidth usage when the frame rate is limited for Motion JPEG. 4.40:L14 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. 4.40:L15 Pan/tilt coordinate directions presented in the text overlay (#x #y) will not be rotated along with the image when rotation is 180. Application Developer Information ================================= Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 4CIF 704x576 1) 704x480 2) 2CIFEXP 704x288x2 1) 704x480x2 2) 2CIF 704x288 1) 704x240 2) CIF 352x288 1) 352x240 2) QCIF 176x144 1) 176x120 2) 1) Only available for PAL cameras 2) Only available for NTSC cameras 90/270 degrees rotation is not supported. The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface - found at www.axis.com is supported by the AXIS 215 PTZ. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 215 PTZ. For more information please refer to the AXIS VAPIX HTTP API specification version 2, part of the AXIS VAPIX API, available at www.axis.com. Group Exceptions ===== ========== General JPEG/MJPEG/MPEG 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Sequence PTZ 6) 7) 8) 9) Motion Detection I/O Events Event servers Notification HTTPS SNMP Properties Web interface Audio 1) Not supported: ImageSource.I#.DCIris ImageSource.I#.DayNight (use PTZ.Various.V1.IrCutFilter) ImageSource.I#.Sensor.BacklightCompensation (use PTZ.Various.V1.BackLight) 2) Supported ImageSource parameters: ImageSource.I0.Sensor.AutoSlowShutter ImageSource.I0.Sensor.Brightness ImageSource.I0.Sensor.Exposure ImageSource.I0.Sensor.ExposurePriority ImageSource.I0.Sensor.MaxGain ImageSource.I0.Sensor.MaxExposureTime ImageSource.I0.Sensor.Sharpness ImageSource.I0.Sensor.Shutter ImageSource.I0.Sensor.WhiteBalance 3) Accepted values of ImageSource.I0.Sensor.MaxGain are: 0 (0 dB), 17 (4 dB), 34 (8 dB), 51 (12 dB), 68 (16 dB), 85 (20 dB), 100 (24 dB) 4) Accepted values of ImageSource.I0.Sensor.MaxExposureTime are: PAL: -2 (1/25 s), -3 (3/50 s), -4 (1/12 s), -5 (3/25 s), -6 (4/25 s), -8 (1/6 s), -12 (6/25 s), -20 (2/5 s), -40 (4/5 s), -80 (8/5 s). NTSC: -2 (1/30 s), -3 (1/20 s), -4 (1/15 s), -5 (1/10 s), -6 (2/25 s), -8 (1/8 s), -12 (1/5 s), -20 (1/3 s), -40 (2/3 s), -80 (4/3 s). 5) Accepted values of ImageSource.I0.Sensor.Shutter are: PAL: 100 (1/50000 s), 89 (1/20000 s), 78 (1/10000 s), 67 (1/4000 s), 56 (1/2000 s), 45 (1/1000 s), 34 (1/500 s), 23 (1/250 s), 12 (1/120 s), 0 (1/50 s). NTSC: 100 (1/50000 s), 89 (1/20000 s), 78 (1/10000 s), 67 (1/4000 s), 56 (1/2000 s), 45 (1/1000 s), 34 (1/500 s), 23 (1/250 s), 12 (1/100 s), 0 (1/60 s). 6) Disregarded or write protected parameters: PTZ.Limit.L1.MinFieldAngle PTZ.Limit.L1.MaxFieldAngle PTZ.Limit.L1.MaxFocus 7) Accepted values of PTZ.Limit.L1.MaxZoom are: 9999 (12x zoom), 9090 (11x zoom), 8181 (10x zoom), 7272 (9x zoom), 6363 (8x zoom), 5454 (7x zoom), 4545 (6x zoom), 3636 (5x zoom), 2727 (4x zoom), 1818 (3x zoom), 909 (2x zoom), 1 (1x zoom), 13333 (24x zoom (2x digital zoom)), 16667 (36x zoom (3x digital zoom)), 19999 (48x zoom (4x digital zoom)). 8) Accepted values of PTZ.UserAdv.U1.MoveSpeed are: 1 (1.8 deg/s), 3 (5.4 deg/s), 5 (9 deg/s), 7 (12.6 deg/s), 10 (18 deg/s), 15 (27 deg/s), 20 (36 deg/s), 25 (45 deg/s), 35 (63 deg/s), 50 (90 deg/s), 65 (117 deg/s), 77 (140 deg/s), 100 (180 deg/s). 9) PTZ.PresetPos is not supported (use PTZ.Preset.P# instead) Built in templates for dynamic parameters are: Template Group ======== ===== 'event' Event 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'httpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'hwaction' Event.E#.Actions 'ptzaction' Event.E#.Actions 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'ftp_config' EventServers.FTP 'http_config' EventServers.HTTP 'tcp_config' Eventservers.TCP 'external_video' ExternalVideo 'source' Sequence.S#.Source 'motion' Motion 'ptzlocator' PTZ.Locator.L#.Zone