Release notes: Alta Video 3.1.3 beta

Alta Video 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

You can now create a snapshot image from a video stream being displayed in Alta Video.

See Create a snapshot from the video stream

By selecting Exclude stationary objects from Appearance rules, you can improve rule accuracy.

See Create rules for appearance

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 Alta Video.

See:
Create a camera import CSV file
Add cameras by importing a CSV file
Export configuration reports for devices connected to Alta Video

You can now configure rules with multiple different webhooks as the actions when the rule is triggered.

See Create webhooks to send Alta Video notifications

New options for setting rules to detect appliance and connections issues have been added in this release.

See Create rules for System issues

When creating email notifications for rules, you can now create email templates to add information relevant to the notification.

See Send email notifications for Alta Video rules

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

With the new permissions, only personal that have permission to upgrade Alta Video see the Upgrade banners.

See Create User groups

You can now define if you want Alta Video to ignore any HTTPS certificate errors when sending webhook notifications.

See Create webhooks to send Alta Video notifications

When using Avigilon Ava cameras, you can now detect Smoke alarm audio detections.

See Create rules for sound detection

Alta Video is now available as both an on-premise solution running on Alta Cloud Connectors, or as Alta Video, a virtual system running on the Avigilon Alta cloud.

See Introducing: Alta VideoIntroducing: Alta Video

Configure Rules to alert you about system-level events, such as HDD failures, or running low on disk space.

See:
Create rules for System issues
Create rules for Camera issues

Improvements have been made to the dewarp settings for panoramic cameras, particularly when wall-mounted.

See Set your preferred panoramic view

Configure audio analytics and SSH for an individual Avigilon Ava camera from the side bar in Devices.

See Change camera settings in Alta Video

Configure your Alta Video to check either daily or weekly for updates, and when available, to install them on your Alta Cloud Connectors. You can also configure the time that they are installed.

View the video stream currently being used for the analytics, to help pin-point any issues with the analytics from a camera.

See Improve video streams from problematic cameras

You can now drag a site onto a pane in Video view. The cameras from this site will then rotate based on the most interesting feed. This is particularly useful for clustered deployments where an Operator might only be interested in the camera feeds for one site.

See Create your Video views

Using the Aware Devices tool, select multiple Ava cameras and bulk configure Secure Shell (SSH) access, and the use of the Ava camera microphone arrays for audio analytics.

SeeChange camera settings in Alta Video

Use the improved Video adjustments dialog to tune the video feed from your cameras.

See Adjust camera video parameters from Alta Video

A vulnerability has been resolved in the Alta Video Cloud software.

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.

An issue where the date picker tool sometimes did not retain the dates you selected has been resolved.

An issue where, when Users with the Operator Role used the Alta Video mobile apps (both Android and iOS), they did not receive notifications when rules triggered has been resolved.

Issue: When zooming into a panoramic camera on the Alta Video user interface in Chrome version 84, sometimes the zoomed view and area shown in the thumbnail do not match.

Workaround: Update to the latest version of the Chrome browser.

Issue: When first viewing the Alta Video user interface in Chrome versions 84 or 85, some of the icons might not load correctly. This issue has been filed against the Chrome browser.

Workaround: Update to the latest version of the Chrome browser.

Issue: When requesting an RTSP stream, any camera view rotation that has been configured in Alta Video is ignored, and the stream uses the rotation settings from the camera.

See Local RTSP streams