Release notes: Alta Video 1.5 Beta

Create rules that trigger on Count areas, to gain intelligence about the physical areas you monitor, and to receive notifications when your pre-defined criteria are met.

See Create rules for Counts

Bookmark video that needs further analysis, or that needs to be brought to the attention of your colleagues. You can also edit any links that you have shared with others, and Administrator users can monitor and if needed, delete shared links.

See:
Saved clips tool
Bookmark video clips
Edit Saved Clips

When using an encoder or multisensor device, you might want to disable one or more channels.

See Enable or disable channels for encoders or multisource devices

In Map view, the available informational icons have been expanded to include Fire alarm pull stations.

See Link your site maps and add extra information markers

Building on the basic object counting (available from Alta Video 1.2), Live object counting counts all the people and vehicle objects in the view of a camera, or in the view of selected groups of cameras.

See: Create live counts of objects in view

Configure areas with line crossing rules, to count the number of people entering and leaving areas.

See: Create counts of objects that cross a line

Download the count information from either your Objects in view counts or Line crossing counts as comma separated variable files.

See: Download historic object count information

You can now search for objects directly from the Video view or Map view tools.

See: How to: Quick search from Video view,
Quick search from Map view

To improve the accuracy of object placement in Map view, configure Advanced Field of View for your cameras.

See: Set camera fields of view

Search for audio detections that have been logged by Alta Video.

See: Search for audio detections from Avigilon Ava cameras

Configure automatic updates for your Alta Video video management system.

Backup your Alta Video configurations to vcloud. When needed, select the appropriate backup to restore to Alta Video.

Choose whether to upgrade a specific Avigilon Ava camera from the Stable upgrade channel, or from the Beta upgrade channel.

See: Select the Ava camera upgrade channel

The Avigilon Ava cameras range of devices include audio analytics and detection. This release adds support in Alta Video for Audio Rules, showing the audio events on Map view.

See: Create rules for sound detection

The visual design and work-flows for the timelines have been updated.

See: View live video or play back recorded video

You can now link directly from the Alta Video user interface to the Avigilon Alta docs documentation portal.

You are routed to the correct documentation portal; either the main https://docs.video.ava.uk portal if your Alta Video is on the stable track, or to https://beta.docs.video.ava.uk if your Alta Video is on the beta track.

To improve the accuracy of the line-crossing detection, changes have been made to the algorithm used for these detections.

See: How Alta Video detects line-crossing events
Create rules for line-crossing, and
Search for line-crossing

This release combines the live and playback features into a single pane.

You can also now choose to view bounding boxes on objects (people, and/or vehicles) detected by the Avigilon Alta analytics, and display a count of people and vehicles.

See: View live video or play back recorded video,
Enable additional information in Video view, and
Enable basic object counting in Video view

The ability to delete the data from a specific camera, perhaps in response to a privacy compromise or a breach of regulations, has been added into the Alta Video software.

See Delete recordings from a camera

The way that the Alarms tool handles long lists has been improved. Additionally, you can now use advanced search to more easily find specific alarms.

See:Alarms tool
How to: Review Alarms created by Alta Video

Alta Video 1.2 introduces the ability to configure webhooks to enable Alta Video to sent alerts using the communication or messaging tools of your choice.

See: Create webhooks to send Alta Video notifications

In the event of a camera failing, Alta Video now includes options to replace the camera, synchronize the video from the original camera, and to add the new camera on the Video view and Map view.

See: Swap out a broken camera in Alta Video

You can now define areas of a view where analytics should not be run.

See: Define areas without analytics

This release introduces fine-grained access permissions, so that you can define roles and decide which permissions are assigned to each role.

Using this feature, you can now define access on a per-site basis.

See: Users tool

From this release, you can apply a specific role to a group of users for specific sites or camera groups. This enables you, for example, to create an administrator role just for devices within a single office or region.

See: Users tool

Error logging has been improved so that more information useful in diagnosing issues is captured in the log files.

See: Download log bundles from your Alta Video deployments

You can now configure multiple NTP servers for use by your Avigilon Alta clusters, server groups, and servers.

You can now use Map view to track vehicles in the field of view of your cameras.

The choices of icons you want displayed on Map view has also improved.

See: View additional information on your Map view

This release includes improvements to the search bar used in the Devices tool, and Video view. These search bars now include a filter option enabling you to search for detailed information, for example, the Manufacturer, or the IP address of a camera.

See: Devices tool

If Alta Video does not receive suitable video streams from the cameras connected to it, the analytics might be degraded or not available. This release provides better feedback to users in this situation.

See: Alta Video Video stream requirements

To maintain compatibility with the widest possible number of third-party cameras, Alta Video can now rotate the video being supplied from the camera, to ensure the correct image orientation when displayed in Video view.

See: Adjust camera video parameters from Alta Video

This Alta Video release includes features to upgrade the camera software from Alta Video. You can also use the manual and auto-focus controls in Alta Video to change the Avigilon Ava camera focus.

See: Devices tool

Create clusters of Alta Cloud Connectors that work together to provide multi-site coverage.

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Issue: The count summary for vehicles, displayed in the 123 Counts | Line crossing side pane in the Cameras area always displays 0|0|0.

Workaround: Use the count information displayed in the main Line crossing table.

Issue: After carrying out a factory reset, Alta Video incorrectly calculates the available storage, and erroneously labels disk space overhead and reserved space as being used by recordings. All recordings from before the factory reset are deleted and cannot be viewed.

Issue: If, whilst in Map view, you open the video thumbnail in the side panel, you can access the External link options, even if you do not have permissions to share video.

Issue: If you only have one Alta Video user set up, and you move that user into a new User group that has no permissions, you will be signed out of Alta Video, and then will be unable to make any changes to users or permissions.

Workaround: Ensure that you always have at least one Administrator user that has full permissions.

Issue: When you have configured several Alta Cloud Connectors as a cluster, any pop-up notifications that should appear for each cluster node are only shown on the master appliance.

Workaround: All alarms and events are correctly listed in the Alarms & Events dialog.

Issue: In certain testing environments, especially in smaller rooms where low lighting levels, shelving, rack-systems, cables, and other hard edges are in close proximity to the cameras, the Avigilon Alta software might display false vehicle detections.

Issue: If third-party cameras do not support the multiple streams or the GOP profiles required by the Avigilon Alta Alta Video video management system, these incompatibilities might impact the accuracy of the Avigilon Alta analytics.