Release notes: Ava Aware 3.5.0 beta
Last modified: Tuesday February 23, 2021.
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 3.5.0 (Released to the | February 23, 2021 | Alta Video: 3_5_210222_09227 |
What's new
(back to top)In this release, Alta Video provides the following features:
| Feature | Description | Added in |
|---|---|---|
| Add RTSP cameras | You can now add a camera by specifying its RTSP URL. This provides a single stream to Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Detections of unusual velocities | The Alta Video anomaly detections have been updated to add Unusual velocity as a trigger. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| New Vehicle type detections | When creating Rules or configuring a Search for vehicles, you can now choose from See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Add ability to ignore a selected color in Rules and Search | You can now choose to ignore a color when setting up Rules and Search. This is useful, for example, if you want to exclude all staff that are wearing a uniform from your rules or searches. See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Ability to multi-select attributes in Rules and Search | You can now select more than one vehicle type, or multiple sound detection types when configuring Rules or Search. See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Alta Video API Explorer added | Use the API Explorer to provide information regarding API calls you can use when creating custom integrations between Alta Video and other systems. See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Audit logs | View the Alta Video Audit logs to see information about key system changes. | |
| Apply manual stream settings to multiple cameras | If you have several similar cameras that need to have manual streams configured, you can now apply those settings to multiple cameras. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Counting rule improvements | For line-crossing count Rules, you can now trigger each time a predefined number of crossings occurs. To send an alert to notify the cleaners that 25 people have visited the restroom since it was last cleaned, set | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| New layout option in Video view | When setting your preferred Video view, you can now use a single pane (1x1) layout. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Improvements to Avigilon Ava camera integration | From Alta Video and from the Avigilon Ava camera user interfaces, you can now rotate the video from the Avigilon Ava camera in 90° steps. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—401 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.4.4 |
| 8079 | An issue where some users were unable to connect Alta Video and their Openpath systems has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.4 |
| 7955 | An issue where, if DMP access was enabled in a deployment and was being used, you could change permissions to remove the last local administrator has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.4 |
| 7902 | An issue where, when an Alta Video component restarted, it did not tidy up its log files, which could have led to the disks filling up and the component failing to restart correctly has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.4 |
| 7741 | An issue where, in some circumstances, Alta Video failed to subscribe to streams from third-party cameras has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.4 |
| 7885 | An issue where Alta Video Openpath integrations were sending excessive amounts of API calls has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.3 |
| Ava—390 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video, Avigilon Ava cameras, and Alta Cloud. | Alta Video 3.4.2 |
| 7852 | An issue where the Counts for the counting area from a single camera and the counts shown in Video view for that same camera were inconsistent has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.2 |
| 7837 | An issue where it was possible to create a Sound rule without selecting any of the available audio detections has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.2 |
| 7766 | An issue where, when configuring an anomaly rule for a camera during an ongoing alarm resulted in that rule not triggering for that, or any future anomalies on the selected camera has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.2 |
| 7820 | An issue where Users with Operator permissions might not be able to see any devices in the Devices list has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.1 |
| 7789 | An issue where Alta Video correctly triggered on Car Alarm audio detections but incorrectly displayed them as Scream detections has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.1 |
| 7784 | An issue where a memory leak in the anomaly detectors caused the management component to restart has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.1 |
| 7768 | An issue where the Avigilon Ava camera orientation dialog was erroneously displayed on Map view when setting up Compact Dome cameras has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.1 |
| 7552 | An issue with Alta Video access control integrations across multiple sites, where you were unable to view access control events in the Alarms page has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.1 |
| 6367 | An issue where, when adding a node to a single server-group cluster, the secondary node reported having no free disk space has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.1 |
| 7577 | An issue where, when Alta Video Cloud sent email alerts, the thumbnail images were not always attached to the email notification has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.0 |
| 7365 | An issue when performing a search from a maximized view in the Devices or the Map view tool, where returning to the usual view resulted in a spinner being displayed has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.4.0 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 8018 | Issue: In some circumstances on a clustered deployment, if you set up a line-crossing rule on one site, and enable it from another site, when the rule triggers and you acknowledge the alarm as False, the alarm is seen on the first site, but not on the site from where it was enabled. |
| 7983 | Issue: When using Alta Video Cloud to configure webhooks from Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, the $url value is not being included in the webhook. |
| 7887 | Issue: It was possible to create an audio rule for Workaround: If you have Sound rules for |
| 7756 | Issue: When connecting to an Access Control System after making a change (for example, updating a password), you might momentarily see an |
| 7628 | Issue: When using Alta Video access control integrations on a clustered server group, attempting to add access control to a different node in the cluster fails. |
| 7599 | Issue: When using Compact Dome cameras, you might notice the camera switching between IR and non-IR mode in low light conditions. |
| 7581 | Issue: On Alta Video Cloud, sometimes, after Alta Video prunes old data in line with your retention settings, old Alarms might remain, but be unable to be viewed, as the video and other information about the alarm due to the data having been removed. |
| 7549 | Issue: When searching from the Video view timeline on Alta Video Cloud, when you click the forward or back 1 second icons, the video pauses and the bounding boxes disappear. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
