Release notes: Ava Aware 3.2.3 beta
Last modified: Wednesday December 02, 2020.
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About this release
(back to top)The Ava Aware software provides the features for your Ava video security systems.
| Release label | Release date | Software build number |
|---|---|---|
| Ava Aware software version 3.2.3 (Released to the | December 02, 2020 | Ava Aware: 3_2_201202_08269 |
What's new
(back to top)As part of the rebranding to Ava Aware, all outbound connections from your video management system to the Ava Cloud are now made to https://aware.ava.uk and its subdomains.
In this release, Ava Aware provides the following features:
| Feature | Description | Added in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava Security Aware Camera Proxy | Use the Aware Camera Proxy to access the user interfaces of your third-party cameras. See Alta Video Camera Proxy | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| New audio detection - screaming | This releases includes new audio detections. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Ability to stop all recordings at certain times | You can now define Configuration profiles for your devices so that they only record during specified time periods. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Reboot Ava cameras from Ava Aware | Reboot your on-premise or cloud-connected Ava cameras from the | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Improvements to the Devices tool user interface | In the | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Improvements to Line crossing | Line crossing has several improvements, including improved analytics to detect Line crossing, and the ability to configure Line crossing counts for one direction only. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Rules now include the option to send push notifications to mobile devices | When defining the required See: | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| You can now create Rules without actions | To create Rules that, when triggered, show up in the list of Alarms, but that do not have any other actions (Pop-up, push notifications to the Aware mobile app, Email, Shareable link, or Webhooks), deselect all actions. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Send webhooks directly from Ava cloud-native cameras | When configuring webhooks from Ava Aware cloud, you can now choose whether the webhook is sent from Ava Aware cloud, or sent directly from your Ava cloud-native camera. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Improvements for webhook creation | The Webhook definition dialog has been updated to simplify the process to create webhooks. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Configure RTSP streaming directly from your Ava cloud-native cameras | From Ava Aware cloud, you can now configure RTSP streaming either via the Ava Cloud, or directly from your Ava cloud-native cameras. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Improvements to the | In the Devices tool, when setting the any option with a slider bar, you now see a bubble indicating the outcome value for the current slider position as you move the slider. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Improvements to the Alarms user interface | In the Alarms tool, you are now provided with visual information about the alarm, for example what type of system rule triggered, or the attributes of the alarm that triggered. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Define the Maximum Streaming Quality for Ava cloud-native cameras | Define the Maximum Streaming Quality for your Ava cloud-native cameras cameras to use over your local and external connections. | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Choose to automatically update your Ava cameras when you update Ava Aware | Configure | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| Generate Heatmaps from recorded video | Ava Aware now includes the ability to view heatmaps. These heatmaps show where people or vehicles have clustered together over the previous hour. Heatmaps are available in Video view and Map view. See: Enable heatmaps in Video view and Enable heatmaps in Map view | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Create a snapshot image from a video stream | You can now create a snapshot image from a video stream being displayed in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| When creating Appearance rules, you can now exclude stationary objects. | By selecting | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Show when a rule is impacted by camera issues | From the Rules tool, if one or more cameras that are linked to a rule experience issues (for example, the connection drops, or the GOP length is too long), the rules show a warning icon, and the Devices side bar gives details of the issue. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Add devices using a .csv file | You can now add devices by importing a comma separated values (.csv) file containing details of your devices. You can also export the details of cameras connected to Ava Aware. See: | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Configure multiple webhooks | You can now configure rules with multiple different webhooks as the actions when the rule is triggered. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Use space bar to pause/play video | When using Video view or when viewing video from Alarms, pressing the space bar now pauses or restarts the video. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| New appliance/connection issue options added | New options for setting rules to detect appliance and connections issues have been added in this release. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Create email notifications from templates | When creating email notifications for rules, you can now create email templates to add information relevant to the notification. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Create Shared links for notifications | In Rules, you can now define Shared links so that relevant people can see video of the event that triggered the rule. See Create an External link to use with an Alta Video notification | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| New User permission for Upgrade | With the new permissions, only personal that have permission to upgrade Ava Aware see the Upgrade banners. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Exiting digital zoom | If you have used the digital zoom feature to zoom in on some displayed video, you can now click | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Webhook certificate checks | You can now define if you want Ava Aware to ignore any HTTPS certificate errors when sending webhook notifications. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Smoke alarm detection | When using Ava cameras, you can now detect | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| Ava Aware | Ava Aware is now available as both an on-premise solution running on Ava Cloud Connectors, or as Ava Aware, a virtual system running on the Ava Security cloud. | Ava Aware 3.0.0 |
| Configure Rules for system events | Configure Rules to alert you about system-level events, such as HDD failures, or running low on disk space. See: | Ava Aware 3.0.0 |
| Improved dewarp settings for panoramic cameras | Improvements have been made to the dewarp settings for panoramic cameras, particularly when wall-mounted. | Ava Aware 3.0.0 |
| Improved configuration of Ava cameras within Ava Aware | Configure audio analytics and SSH for an individual Ava camera from the side bar in Devices. | Ava Aware 3.0.0 |
| Automatic software update options changed | Configure your Ava Aware to check either daily or weekly for updates, and when available, to install them on your Ava Cloud Connectors. You can also configure the time that they are installed. | Ava Aware 3.0.0 |
| View analytics stream | View the video stream currently being used for the analytics, to help pin-point any issues with the analytics from a camera. | Ava Aware 3.0.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—335 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.2.3 |
| Ava—327 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.2.3 |
| 6753 | An issue where you could not manually override the | Ava Aware 3.2.0 |
| 7086 | In issue where, if you did not define a name for a new user, the user was named "Default" has been resolved. You now have to define the name for the new user. | Ava Aware 3.2.1 |
| 7077 | An issue where the text {cam} was displayed instead of the camera name when attempting to configure the camera orientation in Map view has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.2.1 |
| 7076 | An issue where, upon upgrade to Ava Aware 3.2.0, and then refreshing the screen, the First Time Experience screens were erroneously displayed has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.2.1 |
| 7072 | An issue where you might not have been able to automatically login to your third-party cameras using the Aware Camera Proxy has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.2.1 |
| 7071 |
An issue where, when opening or searching for devices in the | Ava Aware 3.2.1 |
| Ava—330 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.2.2 |
| Ava—322 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.2.1 |
| Ava—320 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.2.1 |
| Ava—318, Ava—319 | Two vulnerabilities have been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.1.4 |
| Ava—317 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.1.4 |
| 7001 | An issue where Microsoft Windows machines were unable to connect to Ava Aware using addresses in the format "ava-{SERIAL}.local" has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.1.4 |
| 6854 | An issue where, when viewing an RTSP stream from an external network to an Ava Aware deployment on an internal network behind a NAT, the video dropped after 60 seconds has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.1.2 |
| 6776 | An issue where, on some systems, you could not import a CSV file containing camera details has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.1.1 |
| 6528 | An issue where from Video view in Ava Aware, you could not view reverse playback of recorded video has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| 5993 | An issue where, from Ava Aware cloud, Email notifications did not contain the image of the alarm occurrence has been resolved. | Ava Aware cloud 3.1.0 |
| 5954 |
An issue with permissions that led to Users with | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| 5626 | An issue where the Counts retention settings were visible to users with only | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| 5421 | An issue where, when sending an email with a password reset link, you either needed Remote Access to be enabled, or to have correctly configured the External URL has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
| 4668 | An issue where, when attempting to replace a camera in Ava Aware, any attempt to change the device credentials was not correctly actioned has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.1.0 |
Software releases might include minor bug fixes that are not listed in the Resolved issues table.
Known issues
(back to top)During testing, we have found the following issues in this release.
These software versions have been extensively tested on the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system, using the Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.
| Reference | Issue |
|---|---|
| 6911 | Issue: If you set a dewarped panoramic view in Video view, and then move to another Aware tab, occasionally, when you return to Video view, the panoramic view resets to Globe view. |
| 6765 | Issue: When attempting to edit |
| 6735 | Issue: When using Ava cloud-native cameras, any system alarms or 123 Counts rules that are triggered do not include the thumbnail images in the email notifications. |
| 6232 | Issue: When using the delete recordings function to delete all recordings including bookmarks, all the video and metadata are deleted, but the bookmark items themselves are not removed. |
| 5817 | Issue: In Ava Aware, you can rotate the view from an Ava camera in 90° steps. However, from the Ava camera software, you can only rotate the view in 180° steps. Attempting to apply rotations from both the Ava Aware software and from the Ava camera software can cause the camera rotation to become out of sync. |
| 5461 | Issue: When searching for Gender, the results returned from Pano cameras feature a higher than desirable level of false-positive responses. As more test clips are added to the training models, this level of false-positive will improve. |
| 5406 | Issue: When requesting an RTSP stream, any camera view rotation that has been configured in Ava Aware is ignored, and the stream uses the rotation settings from the camera. |
| General | Issue: If third-party cameras do not support the multiple streams or the GOP profiles required by the Ava Security Ava Aware video management system, these incompatibilities might impact the accuracy of the Ava Security analytics. |
