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General information

You can create and configure the Camera object on the Hardware tab. The objects object tree of a camera is generated automatically according to its camera functions that are integrated into Axxon One (the presence of alarm inputs, relay outputs, a PTZ device, and so on).

You can configure the camera recording to the archive on the Archive tab (see Аrchive).

Configuring the camera parameters

When After you have added a camera to the configuration via the IP Device Discovery Wizard (see Searching, adding, configuring and removing IP devices), you can edit the camera's parameters. The camera parameters are grouped as follows.

Object identification parameters

In the Object identification group, you can enter a camera name and a short name.
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By default, a short name is a camera's ID. The camera ID cannot be changed , since it is used to maintain the connection with the archive when replacing you replace the camera (see see Saving an archive when replacing a video signal device). You can change a short name, and the added devices will be sorted in the objects object tree in ascending order of this field.

The full name of the camera in the objects object tree is displayed in the <Short name>.<Name> format. You can use the camera's short name in hotkeys keyboard shortcuts (see see Notes regarding hot key actions).

You can also disable a camera by selecting No in the Enable field.

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Every camera enabled in the system (including analog cameras, see The IP Server object) is a video channel in terms of licensing (see Axxon One licensing). Disabled cameras are not subject to licensing. If you run out of camera licenses, disable offline/unused cameras.

Object features parameters

In the Object features group, you can see the following camera propertiesparameters:

  1. The IP address (assigned automatically and can be changed if necessary).

  2. The port used to transmit data between a camera and Axxon One (this value is set to 80 by default
  3. ,
  4. but can be changed if necessary). Initially, the port number is set via the camera's
  5. Web
  6. web interface.
  7. The MAC address.
  8. Manufacturer, model, driver version, and current firmware.
  9. The number of the video channel (for an IP
  10. Server
  11. server).
  12. Device serial number (for Axis devices only, see Axis IP Devices).

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You can also configure a number of parameters shared by all cameras in this group:

  1. If you want to use camera settings without overwriting them with the default settings specified in Axxon One, select Yes in the Use device settings field. This
  2. parameters
  3. parameter is a reverse parameter of the Send settings to device checkbox, that is, when you enable one option, the other is automatically disabled, and vice versa.
  4. If you want to interrupt video streaming from the camera to
  5. the Server whenever it is not needed
  6. the server when the camera isn't used by the system, select Yes in the Break unused connections field.
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    When you enable the Break unused connections parameter, additional time is required for stream initialization (to create a connection, request a stream, and so on) to display, start recording, or process a stream with a detector.

    The following conditions must be met for the video stream transmission to be interrupted:
      the video stream is not
      1. Video stream isn't displayed on either
    1. Client
      1. client or Web-Client layout
    2. ;
      1. .
    3. the
      1. Video stream is currently not being recorded into an archive
    4. ;
      1. .
    5. the
      1. Video stream is currently not being processed by any
    6. detection tool
      1. detector.

    Authentication parameters

    In the Authentication group, you can set the username and password to connect to the camera.

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    If the username and/or password for connecting to the camera are different from the factory settings, select No in the Default field and enter the current credentials.

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    If the camera supports the Digest HTTP authorization, add the " : " character to the last character of the password.

    Video buffering parameters

    If you want to accumulate the data received from a camera to the buffer on the Clients clients and transfer them for processing from the buffer, set the buffer length in milliseconds in the the Video buffering group. This value must be between 50 and 1000 milliseconds. If the 0 value is selected, video buffering is disabled.

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    Video stream parameters

    In the Video stream settings group, you can see video image parameters (contrast, brightness, color saturation, and so on). When configuring these, you can look up their descriptions in Axxon One interface. For more detailed information, refer to the camera manual.

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    You cannot edit these parameters if you added the camera in the Keep current settings mode (that is, with the parameters that were set in the web interface, see Searching, adding, configuring and removing IP devices). To be able to configure these parameters, you need to set the Send settings to device checkbox.

    Once you set a checkbox for a camera, the checkbox is also set on all its channels and child objects.

    Panomorph view parameters

    In the Panomorph group, you can configure fisheye cameras (see Configuring fisheye cameras).

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    Other parameters

    In the Other group, you can configure the parameters for the devices connected via the RTSP protocol (see Configuring connection of devices via RTSP).

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    Alternative view parameters

    In the Alternative camera 1 field, you can specify any camera in the current domain that can replace this camera on the layout when it isn't connected.

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    Geolocation parameters

    In the Geolocation group, you can specify the coordinates (latitude, longitude, azimuth) of the camera location (the coordinates are used when adding the camera to the geomap, see Adding video cameras).

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    When you specify the coordinates, only 6 decimal points are taken into account.

    In a special case, when configuring an alarm layout (see Configuring Alarmed cameras layout), in these fields, you can specify the closest cameras to this one for simultaneous display.

    Camera preview window

    The preview window displays the video image from this camera.

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    If the camera supports multistreaming, then the Main stream, Second stream and other tabs are available in the window, depending on the number of added video streams (see Configuring video stream settings).

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    • The indicator in the upper right corner displays the current time and recording status (see Time display).
    • When a stream is selected in the preview window, the settings for the relevant stream are displayed. The settings for the other stream are hidden.