Change camera settings in Alta Video

Last modified: Wednesday March 27, 2024.

If you make changes to the camera configurations, for example, if you change the login credentials for your cameras, want to change the Configuration settings or camera groups for your cameras, you will need to update the relevant information from Alta Video Devices.

For Avigilon Ava cameras, you can also enable Secure Shell (SSH) access to your cameras and edit network settings. You can also choose whether to use the Avigilon Ava camera Microphones to record audio, to enable operators to listen to live audio, and to record short clips of audio when an audio detection is made.

You can make these changes to an individual camera, or you can make bulk edit changes to several similar cameras.

By selecting the check boxes for several cameras, you can bulk-set these configurations.

Alternatively, you can change the settings for individual cameras by selecting the relevant camera, and making the changes from the side bar.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the correct details to add to the configuration.

Task — Edit camera information for a single camera

Choose Open a tool > Devices.
Select the camera to edit.
Use the search to find the camera in large lists of devices.
From Settings, click Edit settings.
Select the appropriate area:
The options shown in Alta Video depend on the type of camera you selected. Not all of the following are available for all cameras.
- General — information such as the camera name, source, site, device group, labels, configuration, status, and type of camera.
- Video — Make video adjustments, configure License plate recognition (for compatible cameras) and view information about the video and analytics streams. If enabled for your associated network interface, you can also copy RTSP or RTSPS information.
- Connection — information regarding the protocol and media configuration (to improve interoperability, you can now configure tunneling of RTP media over unencrypted RTSP connections between 3rd party cameras and Ava Aware), the credentials, and network settings for the camera.
  In order to tunnel RTP media over unencrypted RTSP for third-party cameras, the camera must have Encryption set to either Off or On (when available).
- Analytics configuration — create areas where you want to mask the analytics, so that there are no detections in your masked areas.
- Privacy area configuration — (Avigilon Ava cameras only) create privacy areas (for example, any public areas where you are legally not allowed to record video or analytics) for your selected camera.
- Anomalies — view and adjust settings related to the anomaly detection for your selected camera.
- Audio settings — enable Alta Video to use the microphones from your Avigilon Alta or Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, or from your Avigilon Alta or third-party cameras attached to your Alta Cloud Connectors.
  If Globally limit microphone capabilities in System | Deployment | Settings | Audio is configured as Microphones disabled, then the Devices | Edit settings | Audio settings option is hidden from the Settings dialog and cannot be configured for any camera.
  See: Configure the global audio settings for your deployment.
  If Use microphone is disabled, you cannot record audio, allow operators to listen to live audio, use audio analytics for rules or anomalies (Avigilon Ava cameras only), or view the microphone sound levels for the selected camera.
  - Microphone connected — Enable or turn off any microphones connected to the selected camera.
  - Use microphone — this must be enabled to allow the use of any audio features available for this camera.
    Depending on the type of camera being configured, choose either Internal or External to select the connected microphone to use for audio recording and analytics.
  - Allow live streaming of audio — if live streaming of audio is allowed for the configuration profile used by this camera, enable live audio streaming.
  - Allow recording of audio — if audio recording is allowed for the configuration profile used by this camera, enable recording.
    An Avigilon Alta Audio recording license is required to enable audio recording or live audio streaming.
  - View Microphone levels — provides visual confirmation that the audio is being detected by the microphone.
- Exclude false detections — Remove falsely identified stationary people or vehicles from future detections..
- Maintenance — view the maintenance options available for your selected camera.
From Detailed information view information about the selected camera.
From Logs and comments, view any logs or comments, or add comments relating to the configuration of the selected camera.

Task — Bulk edit camera information for several cameras

Select the cameras to edit by hovering over each device of interest and selecting the checkbox for each device.
Use search to find the camera in large lists of devices.
Click Edit devices.
As needed, change the settings for the selected devices.
Click Done.