The Camera object

General information

Creation and configuration of the Camera object is done in the Hardware tab. The objects tree of a camera is generated automatically according to its functions that are integrated into Axxon One (the presence of alarm inputs, relay outputs, PTZ device, etc.).

You can configure the camera recording to the archive in the Archive tab (see Configuring archives).

Configuring the camera settings

When you have added a camera 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.

By default, the 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 the camera (see Saving the archive when replacing the video signal device). The short name can be changed, and the added devices will be sorted in the object tree in ascending order of this field. The full name of the video camera in the objects tree is displayed in the <Short name>.<Name> format. You can use camera's short name in hotkeys (see Notes regarding hot key actions).

Also, you can disable the camera by selecting No in the Enable field.

Object features parameters

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

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

2. The port used to transmit data between the camera and the Axxon One (this value is set to 80 by default, but can be changed if necessary). Initially, the port number is set via the camera's Web interface.
3. The MAC address.
4. Manufacturer, model, driver version and current firmware.
5. The number of the video channel (for an IP Server).

6. Device serial number (for Axis devices only, see Axis IP Devices).

You can also customize a number of options shared by all video cameras in this group:

1. If you want to interrupt video streaming from the camera to the Server whenever it is not needed, select Yes for Break unused connections (1).
   Conditional interruption of video transmission from a camera to the Server, if:
   1. the video stream is not displayed on either Client or Web-Client layout;
   2. the stream is currently not being recorded into archive;
   3. the stream is currently not being processed by any detection tool.
2. After starting the Client, the default setting is to display video only after the first I-frame (key frame) is received. If the stream comes with a relatively long GOP length (Group of Pictures) or GOV length (Group of Video Object Planes), i.e. the number of P- and B-frames between I-frames in the stream, the video may be not available for a minute. In this case, select Yes for the Low GOP keyframe rate setting (2). This will reduce the waiting time for video by pushing the preceding I-frame that can be stored in the memory buffer on the Server. In some cases, the I-frame will not be buffered, but in most cases this means that it will soon be received from the device.

Authentication parameters

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

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.

Video buffering parameters

To enable video buffering on Clients, set the buffer length in milliseconds in the Video buffering group. This value should be between 50 and 1000 milliseconds. If the value 0 is selected, video buffering is disabled.

Video stream parameters

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

Panomorph view parameters

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

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).

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.

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).

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

Camera preview window

The preview window displays the video image from this camera.

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