FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS P5534 PTZ Dome Network Camera Release date: 2012-05-14 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.40.9.2 File name: P5534_5_40_9_2.bin Preceding release: 5.15.1 AMC version: 6.0.6.7-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ============ 5.40.9.2:F01 Edge storage with support for CIFS/SMB (Microsoft Network share). 5.40.9.2:F02 ext4 file system support for SD Card. Axis recommends SD Card users to use the camera to format the SD Card with ext4 instead of the default vFAT. ext4 will increase recording reliability compared to vFAT. Note that SD Cards formatted with ext4 cannot be read by a Microsoft PC without installing additional ext4 drivers on the PC. 5.40.9.2:F03 The internal Event Management system has been redesigned and VAPIX has been extended with a new Event-API based on Web-Services. Utask has been removed and with that the possibility to start scripts and applications from user.task.list. The legacy user action rules in the camera will continue to work but will not be visible in the camera user interface unless converted to the new design. Event Management user interface (GUI) has been redesigned. For more information please see User's manual. 5.40.9.2:F04 Always Multicast. Provides the ability to multicast video regardless of whether clients access the streams or not. 5.40.9.2:F05 ONVIF 1.02 support. 5.40.9.2:F06 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. 5.40.9.2:F07 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 is in the Plain Config and default is set at approximately 90% of the storage device capacity. 3. The start time of a recording is updated when data is removed due to clean up policy. 5.40.9.2:F08 Audio Detection history graph (GUI). The audio history level graph simplifies configuration of audio detection. 5.40.9.2:F09 Port status is now located under System Options -> Ports & Devices -> I/O Ports. 5.40.9.2:F10 Added LLDP support. 5.40.9.2:F11 Axis Camera Application Platform (ACAP) enabling third party developers (ADP partners) to develop, download and run their applications on Axis products is included. Corrections in 5.40.9.2 since 5.15.1 ================================== 5.40.9.2:C01 Web services parameter is removed and thus status from the System Overview as well. ONVIF is enabled by specifying an ONVIF administrator in the Security -> ONVIF settings. 5.40.9.2:C02 RTP over RTSP over HTTP with other than default http port works as expected. 5.40.9.2:C03 It is no longer necessary to restart the camera after configuring default router parameter via VAPIX. 5.40.9.2:C04 Improved camera responsiveness. 5.40.9.2:C05 Configuration of time zone for Australia appears correctly in the web interface. 5.40.9.2:C06 It is possible to use HTTPS and port forwarding. 5.40.9.2:C07 Up to 127 characters can be used in the 'From email address' field. 5.40.9.2:C08 Corrected the SMTP authentication issue with IPv6. 5.40.9.2:C09 Improved handling of Image freeze after a pan/tilt/zoom movement is completed to shorten time before "unfreeze" 5.40.9.2:C10 The critical message, "Failed to write to file. Broken pipe" due to short time between unregistering and registering to Axis Internet Dynamic DNS will not be shown in the log. 5.40.9.2:C11 Pan/tilt coordinate directions presented in the text overlay (#x #y) will not be rotated along with the image when rotation is 180. 5.40.9.2:C12 When limiting the gain to 0dB, the picture can appear darker than on e.g. Q6032-E. Problem not visible when allowing a little gain, ~5-10dB. 5.40.9.2:C13 Bitmap images have the same contrast as the corresponding JPEG images. 5.40.9.2:C14 When the camera is in RFL-mode (after a failed upgrade), flash loading it with Firefox may sometimes not work. Use Internet Explorer instead. 5.40.9.2:C15 Double & are no longer present in HTTP notification. The Action rule gives a valid URI. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.40.9.2:L01 In Internet Explorer 6, the live view may stop when pressing buttons in the live view interface. 5.40.9.2:L02 Live view may not work with QuickTime. Try disabling direct3d. 5.40.9.2:L03 Events triggered by multiple input ports may not always work. 5.40.9.2:L04 Recording streams to SD Card with a total bit rate above 12Mbit/sec may cause missing frames/sequences. 5.40.9.2:L05 The camera can not play an audio clip while a viewer is sending/ receiving audio from the camera. 5.40.9.2:L06 When the automatic IR cut filter enables/disables the IR cut filter, it may trigger motion detection. 5.40.9.2:L07 An uploaded audio clip must be less than 1.5MB. 5.40.9.2:L08 An uploaded bitmap overlay is made partially transparent unconditionally. 5.40.9.2:L09 To playback Matroska files generated by the camera on a computer, you need to have the configuration file ('.conf') in the same folder as the Matroska file ('.mkv'). For more information see: http://www.axis.com/techsup/software/matroska/files/readme.txt 5.40.9.2:L10 With audio enabled, the initial connection latency may increase. 5.40.9.2:L11 No more than 4 privacy masks can be placed so close together that they are in the same view at any given time. 5.40.9.2:L12 The image is always showed with zero rotation at the OSDI Zone Setup. 5.40.9.2:L13 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.40.9.2:L14 If RTSP authentication is switched off, streaming H.264 with QuickTime and other Apple compatible clients will not work as they require authentication of the RTSP, but do not allow HTTP authentication. 5.40.9.2:L15 A few black pixels can be seen in right edge of the picture in NTSC cameras. 5.40.9.2:L16 The color setting does not go as high as on Q6032-E. It is not possible to get much color in the image. 5.40.9.2:L17 Color parameter has no effect when pulling RTSP stream with color=0. 5.40.9.2:L18 Frame Size Control does not affect size of the snapshot taken with the upper right control that can be added to the Live View. 5.40.9.2:L19 Constant bit rate might fluctuate more than 10%. 5.40.9.2:L20 Events triggered at the same time, will by default settings share the same filename. That might result in upload of corrupted image. 5.40.9.2:L21 It is recommended to unmount the SD Card before ejecting it. 5.40.9.2:L22 Recordings made with firmware earlier than 5.20 will not be readable on the SD Card from the 5.40 firmware. Backup important recordings and reformat the SD Card after the firmware upgrade. 5.40.9.2:L23 Check and repair is only available if the file system is ext4. 5.40.9.2:L24 When using action rule resulting in short recordings, it is recommended to extend post-event time. 5.40.9.2:L25 Date modifiers "%m-%d-%Y" are not formatted correctly when used with folder name, SMTP subject and message. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX Application Programming Interface version 3 is supported by the AXIS P5534. 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. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS P5534. Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x720 800x450 480x270 320x180 1024x768 1) 1024x576 1) 800x600 1) 768x576 1) 720x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 640x480 1) 640x360 1) 480x360 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 320x240 1) 240x180 1) 192x144 1) 176x144 1) 176x120 1) 160x120 1) 160x90 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface 90/270 degress rotation is not supported.