Release notes: Alta Video 3.2.1 beta
Last modified: Wednesday November 18, 2020.
Learn about new features, fixes and any issues found in testing for the Alta Video software.
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About this release
(back to top)The Alta Video software provides the features for your Alta video security systems.
| Release label | Release date | Software build number |
|---|---|---|
| Alta Video software version 3.2.1 (Released to the | November 18, 2020 | Alta Video: 3_2_201118_08124 |
What's new
(back to top)As part of the rebranding to Alta Video, all outbound connections from your video management system to the Alta Cloud are now made to https://aware.ava.uk and its subdomains.
In this release, Alta Video provides the following features:
| Feature | Description | Added in |
|---|---|---|
| Avigilon Alta Alta Video Camera Proxy | Use the Alta Video Camera Proxy to access the user interfaces of your third-party cameras. See Alta Video Camera Proxy | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| New audio detection - screaming | This releases includes new audio detections. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Reboot Avigilon Ava cameras from Alta Video | Reboot your on-premise or cloud-connected Avigilon Ava cameras from the | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Improvements to the Devices tool user interface | In the | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Rules now include the option to send push notifications to mobile devices | When defining the required See: | Alta Video 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 Alta Video mobile app, Email, Shareable link, or Webhooks), deselect all actions. | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Send webhooks directly from Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras | When configuring webhooks from Alta Video Cloud, you can now choose whether the webhook is sent from Alta Video Cloud, or sent directly from your Avigilon Ava cloud-native camera. | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Improvements for webhook creation | The Webhook definition dialog has been updated to simplify the process to create webhooks. | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Configure RTSP streaming directly from your Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras | From Alta Video Cloud, you can now configure RSTP streaming either via the Alta Cloud, or directly from your Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Define the Maximum Streaming Quality for Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras | Define the Maximum Streaming Quality for your Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras cameras to use over your local and external connections. | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Choose to automatically update your Avigilon Ava cameras when you update Alta Video | Configure | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Generate Heatmaps from recorded video | 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 | Alta Video 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 Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| When creating Appearance rules, you can now exclude stationary objects. | By selecting | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 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 Alta Video. See: | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| Configure multiple webhooks | You can now configure rules with multiple different webhooks as the actions when the rule is triggered. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 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 | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| New User permission for Upgrade | With the new permissions, only personal that have permission to upgrade Alta Video see the Upgrade banners. | Alta Video 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 | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| Webhook certificate checks | You can now define if you want Alta Video to ignore any HTTPS certificate errors when sending webhook notifications. | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| Smoke alarm detection | When using Avigilon Ava cameras, you can now detect | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| Alta Video | 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. | Alta Video 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: | Alta Video 3.0.0 |
| Improved dewarp settings for panoramic cameras | Improvements have been made to the dewarp settings for panoramic cameras, particularly when wall-mounted. | Alta Video 3.0.0 |
| Improved configuration of Avigilon Ava cameras within Alta Video | Configure audio analytics and SSH for an individual Avigilon Ava camera from the side bar in Devices. | Alta Video 3.0.0 |
| Automatic software update options changed | 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. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 3.0.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—322 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.2.1 |
| Ava—320 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.2.1 |
| 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. | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 3.2.1 |
| 7076 | An issue where, upon upgrade to Alta Video 3.2.0, and then refreshing the screen, the First Time Experience screens were erroneously displayed has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.2.1 |
| 7072 | An issue where you might not have been able to automatically login to your third-party cameras using the Alta Video Camera Proxy has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.2.1 |
| 7071 |
An issue where, when opening or searching for devices in the | Alta Video 3.2.1 |
| 6753 | An issue where you could not manually override the | Alta Video 3.2.0 |
| Ava—318, Ava—319 | Two vulnerabilities have been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.1.4 |
| Ava—317 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.1.4 |
| 7001 | An issue where Microsoft Windows machines were unable to connect to Alta Video using addresses in the format "ava-{SERIAL}.local" has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.1.4 |
| 6854 | An issue where, when viewing an RTSP stream from an external network to an Alta Video deployment on an internal network behind a NAT, the video dropped after 60 seconds has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.1.2 |
| 6776 | An issue where, on some systems, you could not import a CSV file containing camera details has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.1.1 |
| Ava—311 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Cloud 12th October 2020 |
| 6528 | An issue where from Video view in Alta Video, you could not view reverse playback of recorded video has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| 5993 | An issue where, from Alta Video Cloud, Email notifications did not contain the image of the alarm occurrence has been resolved. | Alta Video Cloud 3.1.0 |
| 5954 |
An issue with permissions that led to Users with | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| 5689 | An issue where a clustered deployment might reboot if the connection between nodes failed has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| 5626 | An issue where the Counts retention settings were visible to users with only | Alta Video 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. | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| 4668 | An issue where, when attempting to replace a camera in Alta Video, any attempt to change the device credentials was not correctly actioned has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.1.0 |
| 6147 | An issue where, when changing the layout in Video view, the existing panes were not shown immediately and appeared after a few seconds has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.0.0 |
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 Avigilon 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 Alta Video, you can rotate the view from an Avigilon Ava camera in 90° steps. However, from the Avigilon Ava camera software, you can only rotate the view in 180° steps. Attempting to apply rotations from both the Alta Video software and from the Avigilon 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 Alta Video 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 Avigilon Alta Alta Video video management system, these incompatibilities might impact the accuracy of the Avigilon Alta analytics. |
