====================== Products affected: AXIS 233D Network Dome Camera Release date: 2008-07-15 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.48 File name: 233D_448.bin Preceding release: 4.42 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 4.48 ============ New features ============ 4.48:F01 Added Auto Tracking capability. Allows the product to automatically pan and tilt to follow detected movement in the video stream. 4.48:F02 Added Return to Home functionality. Allows to setup the product to go to a preset PTZ position after configurable time of inactivity. 4.48:F03 Added Access Logging. This log gathers information on accesses to the product and can be listed anytime from the log pages. 4.48:F04 Added Connection list. It gives an overview of the connections made to the product specifying which IP is connected, the user and protocol used. 4.48:F05 Added HTTP Digest Authentication. 4.48:F06 Added Secure Initial Configuration. This makes it possible to enable HTTPS the first time the user accesses the product, i.e. on the same page where the root password is defined. 4.48:F07 Added a Event monitor function to VAPIX. By using this interface, an application can get information about all trigger information available in the product. 4.48:F08 Added Advanced MJPEG settings (Video&Image -> Advanced). Using these settings, you can easily control the frame size of the JPEG images. The compression level is then adjusted automatically if the images for some reason become too large (e.g. sensor noise at night, complex motive). Modifications ============= 4.48:M01 The motion detection algorithm has been improved to work better under low light conditions and to be less sensitive for exposure changes. The number of false triggers should be lower with this improvement. Motion detection settings might need to be modified after firmware upgrade to assure the desired function. 4.48:M02 The Server Report has been reformatted, in order to let the most important information come first. In order to avoid incomplete reports, the report is not displayed before its generating is finished. 4.48:M03 The product will perform DST time adjustment according to the new rules valid in the USA. Re-apply and save the time zone and DST setting on the product for changes to take effect. 4.48:M04 New timezone for Venezuela has been added. 4.48:M05 The AXIS Media Control installation will now work on Windows Vista. 4.48:M06 Improved event handling with regards to stability. 4.48:M07 It is now possible to send TCP Notifications continuously. 4.48:M08 Improved network driver with regards to stability due to high load. Corrections in 4.48 since 4.42 ============================== 4.48:C01 Corrected an issue in the Axis Internet Dynamic DNS functionality. The complete server list is now used if the first host name in the list cannot be resolved. 4.48:C02 It is now possible to add more than 12 users with usernames and passwords that have maximum length. 4.48:C03 The embedded HTTP client fills in the Host field in the HTTP header. 4.48:C04 When video stream is stopped don't start motion data stream when adding, removing and saving motion windows. 4.48:C05 Only print nc's output if it returns an error code. Otherwise the web page will report that connection failed if the tcp server sends any reply. 4.48:C06 When creating a self signed certificate, if the validity time entered is more than the maximal validity (defined on the web page), then set it to the maximum, and not to 30. 4.48:C07 Corrected an issue in the Web server so that it now handles manually created certificate files where LF at the end of the file may be missing. 4.48:C08 Corrected an issue regarding time limits for camera connections. The connection closed at the right time, but then it immediately reconnected. 4.48:C09 Restart_stream.cgi work as expected, i.e. a new I-frame is sent immediately. 4.48:C10 Removes duplicate HTTP header from response to call to /axis-cgi/view/imagesize.cgi. 4.48:C11 Corrected the guard tour handling to avoid some occasional lockups. 4.48:C12 Fixed the error reported as 'Proxy POST size error' by IE/AMC client. The error was triggered by using a proxy server between the client and AXIS 233D. 4.48:C13 Corrected an issue that made the camera to not register it's address in DNS when IPV6/DHCP was activated. Known limitations ================= 4.48:L01 Pan/tilt coordinate directions presented in the text overlay (#x #y) will not be rotated along with the image when rotation is 180. 4.48:L04 Some combinations of slow setting on manual shutter speed or max exposure time together with low max gain settings will cause exposure errors. 4.48:L03 On "Image Settings", when entering a overlay text string comprising of "#x" and "#Z" and pressing the "Test" button, the Browser window may hang/crash on some systems. 4.48:L04 If you have more than one IE window open running the AXIS Media Control and audio enabled, you may experience a delay that increases over time in all but the topmost window. 4.48:L05 If you choose to rotate the image in the Video & Image setup, be aware that the coordinates for motion detection windows created in the Motion Detection setup will not be rotated. Workaround: When defining motion detection windows, temporarily configure the image for 0 degrees of rotation. Change back to the desired rotation again after having defined the motion windows. 4.48:L06 If you set compression to 0% the frame rate may decrease substantially for Motion JPEG for certain scenes. This is because the image size may not exceed 128 KB. Workaround: Set the compression to 5% instead. The image quality will not suffer noticeably, but the image size will be much smaller. 4.48:L07 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. 4.48:L08 Viewing full screen and sequencing through different external video sources with different video streams in a sequence will switch the full screen mode off. 4.48:L09 The AXIS Media Control may stop displaying the MPEG-4 stream after the screen saver has been active, or when the computer has been locked. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 4.48:L10 Using dual screens and moving the AXIS Media Control window from one screen to the other can result in unexpected behavior. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 4.48:L11 If viewing the image stream on Mac OS X with Mozilla Firefox using the AXIS Media Java Applet, a third party plug-in may be needed to get the browser to use the correct Java version. The Java Embedding Plug-in can be found at http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/. 4.48:L12 When saving a snapshot image, some Web browsers (e.g. Mozilla) will fetch a new picture and the saved picture will not match the displayed snapshot. 4.48:L13 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. 4.48:L14 If the RTSP port is changed when the RTSP server is disabled, then "Unicast RTP" and "RTP over RTSP" will not work in AMC when the RTSP server is enabled again ("RTP over RTSP over HTTP" will however work). Workaround: Disable the RTSP server and then re-enable it again. 4.48:L15 Storing multiple parameters simultaneously (with ACM) can trigger unexpected behavior. The workaround in most cases is to restart the camera. 4.48:L16 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. 4.48:L17 The number of configurable privacy masks is limited to 8. 4.48:L18 No more that 4 privacy masks can be placed so close together that they are in the same view at any given time. 4.48:L19 IP change notification over HTTP, FTP and SMTP does not always work correctly if IPv6 is enabled. 4.48:L20 If the audio is sent to the product at the same time as listening to the audio stream from the product, the received audio may get distorted. 4.48:L21 When audio is enabled without physical input source connected to the product, the received audio stream will contain random noise. The workaround is to disable audio if no input source is plugged in. 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 3) 176x144 1) 3) 176x120 2) 3) 1) Only available for PAL cameras 2) Only available for NTSC cameras 90/270 degress rotation is not supported. The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface - found at www.axis.com is supported by the AXIS 233D. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 233D. 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 Image and Video PTZ PTZ driver update (ptzupdate.cgi), PTZ administration (ptzadmin.cgi), set PTZ parameters (ptzparam.cgi) Motion Detection I/O IP filter Audio Auto Tracking Built in templates for dynamic parameters are: Template Group ======== ===== 'event' Event 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'guardtouraction' 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 'guardtour' GuardTour 'tour' GuardTour.G#.Tour 'sequnce' Sequence 'source' Sequence.S#.Source 'motion' Motion 'ptzlocator' PTZ.Locator.L#.Zone 'user_ctlqueue' PTZ.UserCtlQueue 'exclude_area' AutoTracking.A0.ExcludeArea