FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS P3301 Network Camera Release date: 2011-10-27 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.40.4 File name: P3301_5_40_4.bin Preceding release: 5.20 AMC version: 6.0.6.3-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management, 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. New Features/Functionality ========================== 5.40.4:F01 Edge storage with support for CIFS/SMB (Microsoft Network share). 5.40.4:F02 VAPIX Edge Storage API 1.0. See VAPIX documentation for further information. 5.40.4:F03 The internal Event Management system has been redesigned. The internal Utask has been removed and VAPIX has been extended with a new Event-API based on Web-Services. You may need to be cautious when upgrading a camera from a previous firmware that has user-defined events/action rules. The legacy user action rules in the camera will continue to work but will not be visible in the camera user interface. The user interface allows you to convert the old events, making them visible and editable in the GUI. This is not recommended when using a VMS with the old event API. However creating new events and keeping old events works fine. 1. Recurrence event: The camera can now execute actions periodically, for example every X minute, hour or day. 2. Additional Conditions: Action rules provide the possibility to use additional conditions that must be valid before an action is executed. Example of an action rule: Record video to SD Card upon Motion Detection but only if the digital input port is high. 3. Storage Available Detection: Possibility to trigger actions when the Storage Device (e.g. SD Card) is connected or disconnected. 4. Schedule profiles: Possibility to create schedules that can be used/reused in action rules. The camera also has some preconfigured schedule profiles. 5. Network Share Recipient: Possibility to upload/store images to a Network Share similar to the FTP upload. 6. Status LED action: Possibility to flash the camera Status LED upon a detected event. 5.40.4:F04 Event Management user interface (GUI) has been redesigned. "Event servers" are now called "Recipients". Motion Detection, Tampering and Audio Detection have been moved to a new menu group called "Detectors". 5.40.4:F05 All triggers except Tampering, Recurrence and some ACAP events are now stateful, meaning that action rules that depend on them will trigger on the state rather than the state change. 5.40.4:F06 Always Multicast. Provides the ability to multicast video regardless of clients accessing the streams or not. 5.40.4:F07 ONVIF 1.02 support. 5.40.4:F08 Server Report download. Possibility to download a ZIP-file server report (with or without camera snapshot). This simplifies the process of attaching the server report when submitting a support ticket. 5.40.4:F09 Audio Detection history graph (GUI). The audio history level graph simplifies configuration of audio detection. 5.40.4:F10 Storage Management 1. Clean up policy is enabled by default and the default value for the parameter is 1 week. 2. Parameter for clean up level has been removed from web UI. The default value is approximately 80%. 5.40.4:F11 Port status is now located under System Options -> Ports & Devices -> I/O Ports. Modifications since 5.20 ======================== 5.40.4:M01 Stream cache is now set to 30MB. Corrections since 5.20 ======================== 5.40.4:C01 Issue with latency/lag in recordings when using pre-buffer is solved. 5.40.4:C02 Improved camera responsiveness. 5.40.4:C03 Issue with occasional Ethernet failures is solved. 5.40.4:C04 Fix included for '$' and '}' in password. 5.40.4:C05 Configuration of time zone for Australia will now appear correctly in the web interface. 5.40.4:C06 JPEGs are no longer influenced by the maxframesize option. 5.40.4:C07 It is now possible to use HTTPS and port forwarding. 5.40.4:C08 Output port can now be activated/inactivated via the web interface properly. 5.40.4:C09 Improved FTP upload function over longer periods. 5.40.4:C10 Improved memory handling when using motion detection. 5.40.4:C11 Corrected date string format in SMTP. 5.40.4:C12 I/O trigger data is now included in the video stream as expected. 5.40.4:C13 The relay output triggering via ONVIF interface now works. 5.40.4:C14 Up to 127 characters can now be used in the 'From email address' field. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.40.4:L01 With audio enabled, the initial connection latency is increased. APPLICATION DEVELOPER Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX Application Programming Interface is supported by the AXIS P3301 The following groups are supported by the AXIS P3301. For more information, please refer to the AXIS VAPIX HTTP API specification version 3, part of the AXIS VAPIX API, available at www.axis.com. Group Exceptions ===== ========== General Image and Video Motion Detection I/O IP filter Audio Built in templates for dynamic parameters are: Template Group ======== ===== 'event' Event 'ftp_config' EventServers.FTP 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'http_config' EventServers.HTTP 'httpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'motion' Motion 'hwaction' Event.E#.Actions 'recordaction' Event.E#.Actions 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' Eventservers.TCP 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'streamprofile' StreamProfile Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS P3301 Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 640x480 480x360 320x240 240x180 176x144 160x120