Category: exacqVision Webservice

Feature – Amazon S3 Archiving

• Archive directly to an S3 Bucket similar to our current capabilities with SMB/NFS.
  • The address is built using the ‘…’ button.  Customers will need to know the ‘Bucket Name’ and ‘Region’.
  • This will result in a full address as follows:
    • https://<BUCKET_NAME>.s3.<REGION>.amazonaws.com
  • Only one Server can write to a bucket, but any Server can archive to multiple locations.

Feature – Temperature Metadata

• Client – Enhancement – Added support for temperature analytics. – #21241
• Client – Enhancement – Added OSD’s for temperature readings. – #21241
• Server – Enhancement – illustra3pi – Support temperature metadata. – #22102
• Enhancement – Added client setting to specify temperature units. – #21241

Client

• Enhancement – Added client auditing for system add, update, delete, import, etc. – #22076
• Enhancement – Added log rotation for client logs. – #22076
  • Now included in Support Diagnostics
• Enhancement – Grouped web views together in trees so they can be expanded/collapsed. – #21998
• Enhancement – Hotspare updates on the Storage->Hardware tab and implemented Refresh button for rescanning drives during session. – #21844
• Enhancement – Performance improvements of event parsing.
• Enhancement – Performance improvements to report search mode.
• Enhancement – Performance improvements to bolding view items in live tree.
• Bug Fix – Prevent system disconnect if taking too long during creating or editing soft triggers, time triggers,

Server

• Feature – SysmgmtPI – Support prepping RAID data volume (create, partition, format, mount). – #13326
  • LSI Only
  • BBE Only – no RAID customization
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Add support for Northern cameras – #22146
  • Was handled by the HikVision, now Onvif
  • Now supports Motion and I/O
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Improve Profile-T support, eliminate some unnecessary warning log messages, and decrease time needed to connect to many cameras. – #21931
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Add support for Verint cameras. – #22105
• Enhancement – core – Performance improvements for events processing
• Enhancement – psfpi – Performance improvements for frames processing, better stats logging
• Enhancement – cloud-drive – Performance improvements with parallel uploads – #21890
  • Now supports 4 parallel uploads
• Enhancement – SysmgmtPI – Show hotspares in evClient’s graphical storage layout. – #21581
  • If it’s a BBE system with “OS-on-RAID”, the hotspare is dedicated to the storage array

Web Service

• Bug Fix – Prevent multiple relay clients and socket exhaustion

Mobile

• Enhancement – Added the option for providing usage statistics. – #21855
  • Similar to what the exacqVision Client has collected since v5.10 (2013)
  • Statistics are sent:
    • On enable of statistics collection
    • On app update (immediately after initialization)
• Bug Fix – Applied view layout size would sometimes be incorrectly limited to 8 on tablets. – #22081
• Bug Fix – Video push layout size would sometimes be incorrectly limited to 8 on tablets. – #21823
  • New banner to indicate that the view is not showing all streams available
  • If a tour, banner only shows once.

Enterprise Manager

• Enhancement – Auto save server configuration every week – #22122 #22123
  • Configs saved 1 time per week
  • No longer opt-in, happens automatically
  • Will keep a default amount, but it is configurable
  • Can still save on demand
• Enhancement – Migrate user pages to React – #21374
  • Slight change in looks, but all the content remains the same
  • The “Add User” button has moved again
• Enhancement – Allow setting session cookie timeout – #21901
  • _ESM_SESSION_COOKIE_AGE
  • Value is set in number of days.

Client

• Enhancement – Support for custom categories and confidence levels. #21037
• Enhancement – Add link to Facial Matching in the Automations Engines panel.
• Enhancement – Add Unmerge command in Facial Matching panel.
• Enhancement – Support GPU decoding with multiple GPUs. #17520
  – https://trac.exacq.com/DVR/wiki/HardwareDecoding#MultipleGPUDecoding
• Enhancement – Several improvements to performance of copy-back rendering from a GPU decoder.
• Enhancement – Improve performance of GPU decoding in conjunction with dewarping.
• Enhancement – Minor performance improvements to rendering and colorspace conversion.
• Enhancement – Improve GPU decoding calibration performance estimates.
• Enhancement – Improved handling of exacqReplay when Search Permissions are disabled #20931
• Enhancement – Replaced wodim burning software with evburn on Windows and libburn on Linux #8585
• Bug Fix – Delete cached config files when deleting server #20877
• Bug Fix – If a user on an offline searchable system and gets disabled, disallow any further offline searching. #21161

Server

• Enhancement – tycodlpi – Support user-configurable classifications. #20998
• Enhancement – NetworkStoragePI – Add OS-on-RAID support, fix partitioning of small RAID volumes. #21083
• Enhancement – StreamPI – Support network configuration for GPoE 16-port model. #21130
• Enhancement – SysmgmtPI – Improve graphical storage layout GUI for OS-on-RAID zero-drive models. #21158
• Enhancement – SysmgmtPI – Allow drive prep for restricted BBE systems (LC-Series and G-Series).
• Bug Fix – SysmgmtPI – Fix drive prep of multiple disks to prevent accidentally giving same mount point to multiple disks. #20226
• Enhancement – core – Added debug logging of memory and queue stats. #21156
• Enhancement – Illustr3PI – Support temperature alarms. #21121

Web Service

• Feature – I-frame only mode for video endpoints. #20995
• Enhancement – Allow transcoding parameters to be updated during a websocket video stream. #21122
• Bug Fix – Allow loading of images for Tyco Cloud.

Mobile

• Feature – Add configuration of camera OSD settings. #20722
• Enhancement – Support additional OSD style settings. #20722
• Enhancement – Added ability to modify camera names.
• Enhancement – Enabled cloud archive search in browser environments.
• Enhancement – Stream motion JPEG video over websockets where applicable. #20994
  – Mostly impacts iOS.
• Enhancement – Added camera preview video to camera settings page. #15727
• Enhancement – Camera details option on video context menu. #20725
• Enhancement – Prefer most likely to connect network address on startup. #18971
  – First attempt will be to connect to the most recently used connection type.
  – Then additional connections will be made in the background and will ‘upgrade’ seamlessly.
  – The full connection order is as follows:
  •   original (if https and not relay)
  •   internal (https)
  •   external (if https)
  •   detected (https)
  •   original (if http)
  •   internal (http)
  •   relay (relay is always https)
  •   external (if http)
  •   detected (http)
• Bug Fix – Removed support for web service versions 7.4 and below. #20610

Enterprise Manager

• Feature – Support for system backup and restore #19149
• Enhancement – Improved failover processing #19990

Client

• Feature – Face matching and analytic support. #18516
• Enhancement – Added eject button to the burn dialog. #19827
• Enhancement – Added support for GUI display of OS drive on RAID. #20596 #s3669
• Enhancement – Audit trails included with support exports #20371
• Enhancement – Added the ability to perform offline support diagnostics. #18590
• Enhancement – Added buttons to jump to next and previous search events. #20677
• Enhancement – Added new generic dewarper. #20467
• Enhancement – Added button to the system security tab to release system management. #14589
• Enhancement – Added dewarping support for Samsung QNF-8010 and QNF-9010. #19572
• Enhancement – Default to light theme if not explicitly specified in legacy global ini. #20385
• Enhancement – Windows x64 – Improve software image scaling and colorspace conversion performance. #20741
• Enhancement – Fall back to using generic encryption if machine specific fails to still allow password saving. #18173
• Enhancement – Show a toast and an indicator if the client is using generic encryption to store the encryption key. #18173
• Enhancement – Default to prompt for credentials for the local server in the installer. #20384
• Bug Fix – Various other RTL language tweaks and fixes #20209

Server

• Feature – SysmgmtPI – Support OS-on-RAID graphical storage display. #20585
• Enhancement – installer (Linux) – improve feedback when not accepting license agreement. #10230
• Enhancement – installer – modify list of default and required plugins. #19011
  – Now 2 plugins disabled by default: ArecontTFTP, GanzPI
  – EventPI, GroupsPI, SoftTriggerPI now force enabled
• Enhancement – honeywelllpi – dynamic debug logging for easier troubleshooting
• Enhancement – SysmgmtPI – Add support for dynamic log levels.
• Enhancement – panasonicpi – Support iVMD #5093 #20373
• Enhancement – hikvisionpi – support two-way audio. #19325
• Enhancement – illustra3pi – support timestamp with server option. #18712
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Support for the Illustra Multi-sensor. #19640
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – support events for Sony multi-sensor. #20362
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Support motion for Arecont fisheye camera. #20009
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi.json – support GeoVision_2 events from pull messages. #20426

Web Service

• Enhancement – Support for generic dewarper (evAPI) #20592

Mobile

• Enhancement – Added padding to Analytic Rule Event bounding box. #20044
• Enhancement – Nav menu padding applied in landscape mode. #20137
• Enhancement – Changed search playback controls UI to look and behave more like the rest of the app. #14628
• Enhancement – System alert notification of deprecated web services.  Web service versions 7.4 and below will no longer be supported in a future version of the app. #20610
• Enhancement – Display ingested names for face-matching analytic events where applicable. #20714

Enterprise Manager

• Enhancement – Domain user dialog rework. #20452
• Enhancement – Migrate navigation sidebar to React. #19142
• Enhancement – Unified Launch Client behavior into toolbar. #20698
• Bug Fix – Prevent architecture change unless same EM version #18228

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• Windows LTSC Out of Box Experience
• Language Packs increased from 15 to 23 and include the following – #16106
  – ar-sa, cs-cz, da-dk, de-de, es-es, fi-fi, fr-ca, fr-fr, hu-hu, it-it, ja-jp, ko-kr, nb-no, nl-nl, pl-pl, pt-br, pt-pt, ru-ru, sk-sk, sv-se, tr-tr, zh-cn, zh-tw
• Discontinue creation of shell.exe during image creation (Win10 only, Server never had Kiosk Mode). #20308
    – shell.exe no longer used for Kiosk mode and no longer on system
• Updated Intel drivers (graphics and audio). #19693
• Change Kantech Onboard version to 8.20.38. #20671

Server

• Enhancement – core, LogPI – allow to dynamically control logging level per plugin #19954
• Enhancement – itv2pi – Add more verbose logging and debug logging to help troubleshoot issues in the field
• Enhancement – streampi – Adding logging to help troubleshoot LDAP binding issues
• Enhancement – rtspserverpi – plugin to provide rtsp stream from server. #19100
• Feature – First Illustra Edge Pro Gen3 server release. #18275
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Uniview alias in json. #20099
• Enhancement – hikvisionpi – add Grundig OEM. #19944
• Enhancement – hikvisionpi – support analytics events. #6118
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – support backoff retry connection logic. #19240
• Bug fix – IllustraStandardIN – default to local camera timezone setting. #19911
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Dahua multi-sensor motion support and analytic  in json.
• Bug Fix – onvifnvcpi – support motion event for SightLogic multi-sensor. #19819
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – support motion/input trigger events for   Avigilon multi-sensor. #19966
• Enhancement – SysmgmtPI – Eliminate hwmconfig entries for temperature for non-RAID systems, and generalize rules for RAID systems to minimize updates. #14914
• Enhancement – SysmgmtPI – Add blacklist for disk models that don’t support standardized temperature SMART attributes, to prevent false storage alarms. #19497
• Bug Fix – SysmgmtPI –  Use raw value for SMART temperature attribute 194 (defined as actual celcius value) instead of manufacturer-specific normalized value, which can cause false-positive storage alarms.  #19685

Client

• Enhancement – Added support for webhooks #19304
• Enhancement – Allow changing of IP camera plugin on local server. #18572
• Enhancement – Added startup instance count to client settings. #20304
• Bug Fix – macOS – Resolved several display issues on Mojave and Catalina. #18886
• Bug Fix – macOS – If install path is not writable possibly due to translocation then install to the default path of Applications instead. #19901
• Enhancement – Securely pass EM sync credentials to exacqReplay to avoid re-prompts. #19295
• Enhancement – Securely pass second reviewer credentials to exacqReplay to avoid re-prompts. #19295
• Enhancement – Added client dewarping support for Axis M3067 and M3068. #20280
• Enhancement – Debug Log level option now available for configuration per plugin #19701
• Enhancement – Stream properties accessible when toolbars are hidden. #18513
• Enhancement – Provide a quick link from camera configuration to associations configuration. #20125
• Enhancement – Added support for drag and drop Views/Tours/Event Monitor Profiles operations. #18817
• Enhancement – Move cursor to the start of the bookmark time on search. #19913
• Enhancement – Upgraded wxWidgets version. #17978
• Enhancement – Added translations for Chinese (Taiwan) locale.

Web Service

• Enhancement – Remove default admin account on new deployments. #20245

Mobile

• Feature – Refactored focus page to increase usability. #19494
• Feature – Replaced action menu with client-style associations bar, following associations configuration. #19502
• Feature – Camera details page with basic camera information. #19501
• Enhancement – Performance improvements during startup and server connection.

Enterprise Manager

• Feature – Channel pool that allows users to transfer unused channels to servers #18682
• Enhancement – Migrate server/camera event detail pages to React #19514
• Enhancement – Better license conflict warning messages #20027
• Enhancement – Add utils to save and apply a backup #18521
• Enhancement – Allow setting default admin credentials with administrator access #19331
• Enhancement – Update to ODBC Driver 2017 for SQL Server #19678

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• Linux 18.04 Out of Box Experience (OOBE)

Client

• Enhancement – Added RTSP server configuration page. ›Still requires
  – Server-side work.
• Enhancement – Added AutoGroups to automatically populate groups based on attributes assigned for cameras and/or systems. – #18433
• Enhancement – Advanced filtering for camera and system metadata
• Enhancement – Password fields no longer auto populate.
• Enhancement – Added support for dynamic camera plugin settings
• Enhancement – Added support for dynamic camera plugin settings
  – “Advanced” tab
• Enhancement – Acti B78 model added to Dewarp library
• Enhancement – Enable GPU decoding on 18.04 LC systems.
• Enhancement – macOS – Add support for 10.15 and drop support for 10.8 and below.
• Bug Fix – Include syslogs in support export by default on local systems.
• Bug Fix – Allow microphone when no speakers are connected – #19027

Server

• Enhancement – pospi – support pos database encryption
• Enhancement – illustra3 – support exposure profile configuration.
• Enhancement – Onvif – updated motion/input trigger support for GeoVision.
• Enhancement – kantechpi – enhanced activity logging to aid troubleshooting – #19159
• Enhancement – Illustra3, Onvif, ACTi – Improve initial RTSP connection speed. – #18860
• Enhancement – dahuaippi – support timestamp with server option.
  – https://trac.exacq.com/DVR/wiki/IpPluginOverrideOptions
• Enhancement – PTZPI – AD-MP3200 / AD-MP48 multi prioritize recent PTZ commands when selecting determining which terminator to use.
• Enhancement – PTZPI – AD-MP3200 / AD-MP48 multi don’t send monitor and camera callups with no additional commands.
• Enhancement – PTZPI – AD-MP3200 and AD-MP48 added support for patterns.
• Enhancement – PTZPI – AD-MP3200 and AD-MP48 added support for flip and apple peel commands.
• Enhancement – PTZPI – AD-MP3200 and AD-MP48 added support for auto iris / focus.
• Enhancement – PTZPI – AD-MP3200 and AD-MP48 Multi prevent utilize multiple devices per port when sending PTZ commands and avoid monitor selection overhead with every command.

Web Service

• Feature – Support for analytics push notifications.
• Enhancement – Reduce push notification throttle for triggers from the same source to 30 seconds.
• Enhancement – Add interface to configure HTTP policy. – #15461

Mobile

• Feature – Push notifications for analytic rules
• Enhancement – Improve speed of network address selection when initializing a web service. – #18999
• Enhancement – Removed Event Profile Dialogs, replaced with Event Profile Page

Enterprise Manager

• Feature – Synchronize server licenses with license server – #18684
• Enhancement – Updated Enterprise Manager header bar – #18351
• Enhancement – Added section to download EM log files from EM header info about section, for root admin users
• Enhancement – Migrated to python 3
  – Downgrades are now broken without workarounds. 
  – https://trac.exacq.com/Support/ticket/3628

Client

• Enhancement – Added option to enable POS database encryption. #18660
• Enhancement – Re-enable GPU decoding on macOS 10.14 and higher
• Enhancement – Added support for newer Bosch fisheye models and firmware. #14843
• Enhancement – Ptz/Digital Ptz presets can now be saved from live mode
• Enhancement – Enable GPU decoding for G-Series and G-Series PoE systems. ›Enhancement – Refactor map / group handling
• Enhancement – Added support for Toast notifications
• Enhancement – Show Archiving config page for Start license systems if supported by the server.
• Enhancement – Add support for dynamic server connections.
• Enhancement – Support for html-based help
• Enhancement – Added support for multiple motion masks
• Enhancement – Added support for double clicking on web panels from maps
• Enhancement – System Info List in Configure System now shows client and server version
• Enhancement – Added configuration of control timeouts for PTZ, 2-way audio, and videoPush.
• Enhancement – Audio Inputs/Outputs panel now shows format, sample rate and bit rate,  also hides Talk column if no audio output devices
• Enhancement – Allow client to stay on live after system disconnect for failover.
• Enhancement – Allow configuration of system heartbeat in settings file. #18321
• Enhancement – Change to ‘User Roles’ in exacqVision Client
• Bug Fix – Map Images larger than 2MB now show a user warning and are resized for storage
• Bug Fix – Systems that don’t support audio can now export audio from cameras in Search

Server

• Enhancement – ccurePI – C·CURE 9000 access control integration.
• Enhancement – SamsungPI – add Tyco HD Encoder OEM
• Enhancement – ArchivePI – Enable archiving with Start license.
• Enhancement – analyticpi – Support Avigilon analytic appliance. #17750
• Enhancement – AxisPI – Add #timestamp=server override capability.
• Enhancement – Illustra3 – Support multiple motion configuration profiles.
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Support backFill(edgeStor) for Bosch.
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Support motion/input trigger event for Ganz multi-sensor camera.
• Enhancement – onvifnvcpi – Support motion/trigger events for Sony SNC-HMX70.
• Bug Fix – All plugins – Fix corruption of XML config files during interrupted  writes, such as after a watchdog or power failure.
• Bug Fix – PSFPI – Fixed issues with indexing and delayed initial indication of  healthy recording drives (not alarmed) that were delaying recording and causing  increased throttling that affected versions 9.6 through 9.8.
• Feature – Provide public relay for facilitating external connections.
• Enhancement – Disallow presence of weak/common phrases in service  administrator password.
• Enhancement – Limit TLS version and cipher suites to enhance security.

Mobile

• Feature – Support web service connections over the Exacq relay.
• Feature – Store and export app log information.
• Feature – Enhanced the look and feel of the web service and server management  interfaces.
• Enhancement – Audio page uses new list layout.
• Enhancement – Refreshed UI for soft triggers.
• Enhancement – Refreshed UI for event monitoring events list.
• Enhancement – Refreshed UI for in-app notifications.
• Enhancement – Replaced text for panels with new icons.

Enterprise Manager

• Feature – Support for failback of video after server failover
  – Triggered when failover falls back to original machine.
  – Server-side actions to “move” the data
  – Handled by UpdatePI
  – Spare still “in use” while moving data
  – Data can be abandoned
• Enhancement – Improve DB install time for postgresql fresh installs
• Enhancement – Support for brute force protection
• Enhancement – Updated icon set
• Reminder – No longer needs to be licensed.

Server-side

1. Versioning scheme changed
2. Additional executables moved to ‘exacqd’ (SCN)
   – ArchivePI, NetworkStoragePI, SysmgmtPI
3. Axis VMD4 configuration
4. Samsung plugin now supports Video Backfill
5. Samsung sound and object IVA analytics now supported (up to 7)
6. Network configuration work for Ubuntu 18.04, networkd
7. Linux core dumps now in logs folder
   – Dumps still disabled by default (Internal KB 16376)
   – Only one dump saved
8. Onvif now supports Profile-T H265 configuration

Client-Side

1. Light Theme now on by default
2. Lip-sync delay now applies for Analytics in addition to audio.
   – Tyco Analytics Appliance could be delayed up to 5 seconds.
3. Cameras, serial, audio and maps now recover after successful failover
4. Maps now allow links to non-child maps
5. Enhanced OSD options
6. Updated Linux drivers to resolve lockups
7. Improved status messages for CloudDrive (SCN)
8. PTZ/Fisheye presets accessible with fewer clicks
9. New map images will be converted to their proper extension
10. Search status now displayed per item
11. Allow xdv export on the Systems page
12. Made ‘locating system’ text yellow
13. GPU decoding disabled on macOS 10.14 – for now
14. Start license now allows separate Live/Search permissions by device
15. Grid columns now cannot disappear
16. File Management can now delete unreferenced files (blob)

Enterprise Manager

1. Yep… name changed from ESM
2. Allow deleting users from Servers
3. Allow configuration of per device specific permissions (live vs. search)
4. Expired SSA machines now monitored for ‘On-Premise’
5. Support a silent installer
6. Per-server configurable timeout to detect unresponsive servers
7. Command line utility to remove noisy events from user rules (KB forthcoming)
8. Allow enabling and disabling live streaming as a per server setting

Web Server / Mobile

1. References to “ESM” are now “Enterprise Manager”
2. iOS 9, Android 4.4 and IE 10 now deprecated
3. Orphaned files removed on startup for Web Service
4. Fixed dewarping in web and mobile for some camera models
5. Appearance of Groups and Event Monitor Profiles list improved
6. Increased page change speed
7. Cloud Drive search segments buffer ahead of playback
8. Updated push notifications plugin for FCM support
   – From ‘Google Cloud Messaging’ to ‘Firebase Cloud Messaging’
9. Odd display times corrected in some conditions
10. Allow digital PTZ, even if user lacks mechanical PTZ permissions

Server 9.6

1. EdgeStor (Network Loss Recording) – NOT RELATED TO “exacqVision EDGE”
   – Requires configuration in the camera’s webpage
   – Requests video stored on Camera’s SD card
   – Video converted to PS file
   – Axis and Illustra so far
   – Not a separate plugin, included as part of the IP Camera plugin.
   – Video may result interleaved in Searches (flipped, rotated, fps)
   – Not restricted by license
2. Split core with privileged exacqd (SCN)
   – Faster startup/shutdown/remote update
   – Restarts core
   – Isolates privileged actions to a process that is not exposed to the network
3. HTTPS RTSP Streaming (SCN)
   – Axis and Samsung to start
4. Enhanced PSFPI Logging (SCN)
5. PSFPI Redesign scan algorithm
   – Recording will now start much sooner (during scan)
6. LogPI now indicating Server version at startup
7. Digital Monitoring Products intrusion integration
8. Block update to un-signed installers (SCN)

Client

1. Reporting search mode
   – Show Count or Duration of events over time
2. Filter for ‘Add Systems’, ‘Add IP Cameras’ and ‘User Permissions’
3. HTTPS RTSP Streaming Indication
   – Green ‘Lock” icon for connection and rtsp secure
4. Status codes for un-signed installer update (SCN)
5. Language Selection for local Client
   – No longer have to install and configure languages of OS
6. Support Diagnostics additions
   – Linux Kernel version
   – exacqVision Linux image version
7. Event Monitor List
   – ‘On Event’ hides the Event Monitor box when no event is occurring
   – New Action Type – Acknowledge
8. GPU Decoding now shared between Client instances

ExacqMobile

1. Improved tour controls and selection
   – Sort ascending/descending
2. Tour Indicator

Web Service

1. Websockets gone after re-arch to ‘Go’
   – ExacqMobile never used WebSockets
   – Web Client automatically falls back if WebSockets aren’t supported.
   – Websockets may return at some point, if needed after the re-arch
2. OpenSSL no longer used.
   – Now TLS
3. Performance/Speed improvements

ESM 5.10

1. Improved Settings Page
2. CyberSecurity – Common password validation and support for passphrases (20 Chars)