FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 211W Network Camera Release date: 2009-12-17 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.44.1 File name: 211W_4_44_1.bin Preceding release: 4.44 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 4.44.1 ============== Improvements ============ 4.44.1:I01 Tuned the image sensor settings to improve the image quality in low-light conditions. Known limitations ================= 4.44.1:L01 First image uploaded in case of a FTP event triggered by Motion Detection has a 3 sec delay. Please use pre-buffer option for instant upload image. 4.44.1:L02 If "Server Report" button, from System Option >> Logs&Reports is pressed, the associate page will open in about 4 sec. No busy message will be displayed in this time. 4.44.1:L03 If you disable the IPv4 and restart the camera you will still get warning in the log like: "failed to get eth0 IPv4 address" 4.44.1:L04 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. 4.44.1:L05 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 256 kB. Workaround: Set the compression to 10% instead. The image quality will not suffer noticeably, but the image size will be much smaller. 4.44.1:L06 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. 4.44.1:L07 Viewing full screen and sequencing through different external video sources with different video streams in a sequence will switch the full screen mode off. 4.44.1:L08 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 4.44.1:L09 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/. 4.44.1:L10 Storing multiple parameters simultaneously (with ACM) can trigger unexpected behavior. One case of this is if the RTSP port is changed together with the RTSP server being enabled. The workaround in most cases is to restart the camera. 4.44.1:L11 Simultaneous use of different video formats, e.g. 16:9 and other resolutions or a partial resolution with any other, or simultaneous use of normal and inverted video rotation, will cause the frame rate to drop. Note that motion detection always uses an uncropped video stream with the selected video default rotation. The image formats that can be used with motion detection enabled with no frame rate penalty due to this effect are 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x576, 704x576, 640x480, 480x360, 352x288, 320x240, 240x180, 176x144 and 160x120, when using the configured default rotation. 4.44.1:L12 When using Flicker-free mode 50Hz, the exposure time cannot go below 1/100s despite having set Max Exposure Time to a faster exposure time. The reason is that there are no flicker safe exposure times below 1/100s for this flicker-free mode. The same applies to Flicker-free mode 60 Hz where the exposure time cannot go below 1/120s as this is the fastest flicker safe exposure time. 4.44.1:L13 Setting the AMC microphone volume slider to 0 may still allow some sound to be heard. To completely mute the microphone use the 'Mute microphone' button. 4.44.1:L14 AMC will get a long audio delay after a stream loss and reconnect event, as caused, for example, by losing the network connection. This only affects MJPEG streaming when using the G.711 and G.726 codecs. Stop and start the audio stream to remove the delay. 4.44.1:L15 Using the LiveView AMC downscale feature will reduce the image quality of the image displayed on the client. This is a client side effect and the images delivered from the AXIS 211W are not affected. 4.44.1:L16 If Ipv6 is enabled and you create an event server using Ipv6, when you press the "Test" button you will get a message saying that Ipv6 has to be enabled. 4.44.1:L16 Sometimes on reboot you will get a CRITICAL in the log like: "Failed to write to file. Broken pipe." Everything works fine. 4.44.1:L17 If removing a server that contains an event, no warning is presented. If modifying an event then the event server fields contains the text "T0" 4.44.1:L18 If the WLAN fails to connect a stacktrace is generated into server report. 4.44.1:L19 Even if in java applet you can name a motion window with a title of more then 48 characters, in AMC only 48 will be visible. 4.44.1:L20 If you disable Ipv4 you will still get a warning in the log after restart: "failed to get eth0 IPv4 address" 4.44.1:L21 Wrong SSID is displayed when entering a SSID with exactly 32 characters and establishling a connection. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface (available at www.axis.com) is supported by the AXIS 211W. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 211W. 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 Video status Motion Detection I/O IP filter Audio Built in templates for dynamic parameters: Template Group ======== ===== 'event' Event 'external_video' ExternalVideo 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'ftp_config' EventServers.FTP 'httpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'http_config' EventServers.HTTP 'hwaction' Event.E#.Actions 'motion' Motion 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'source' Sequence.S0.Source 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' EventServers.TCP Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions: Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 640x480 480x360 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 320x240 240x180 176x144 1) 176x120 1) 160x120 1) Not equally scaled