Release notes: Ava Aware 3.5.5

Last modified: Monday March 29, 2021.

Learn about new features, fixes and any issues found in testing for the Alta Video software.

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About this release

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The Alta Video software provides the features for your Alta video security systems.

Table 1 – Software release details

Release labelRelease dateSoftware build number
Alta Video software version 3.5.5
(Released to the Stable Upgrade channel)
March 29, 2021Alta Video: 3_5_210329_09730

What's new

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In this release, Alta Video provides the following features:

Table 2 – New features — Aware video management system software release

FeatureDescription
Detections of unusual velocities

The Alta Video anomaly detections have been updated to add Unusual velocity as a trigger.

Unusual velocity anomalies are a beta feature currently under development, and are not enabled for all deployments. To test Unusual velocity anomalies, please contact your Avigilon Alta Partner or Sales representative.

See:
Create rules for anomaly detections

Add RTSP cameras

You can now add a camera by specifying its RTSP URL. This provides a single stream to Alta Video.

See:
Add cameras using their RTSP stream

New Vehicle type detections

When creating Rules or configuring a Search for vehicles, you can now choose from Any Type, 2 wheeled, Small/Medium vehicle, and Large vehicle.

See:
Create rules for appearance
Create rules for line-crossing
Create rules for loitering
Search by appearance
Search for line-crossing
Search for loitering

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:
Create rules for appearance
Create rules for line-crossing
Create rules for loitering
Search by appearance
Search for line-crossing
Search for loitering

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:
Create rules for appearance
Create rules for line-crossing
Create rules for loitering
Create rules for sound detection
Search by appearance
Search for line-crossing
Search for loitering
Search for audio detections from Avigilon Ava cameras

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:
Introducing: Alta Video API
How to: Get started with the Alta Video API

Audit logs

View the Alta Video Audit logs to see information about key system changes.

See:
View or download Alta Video audit logs

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.

See:
Improve video streams from problematic cameras

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 Every 25 occurrences.

See:
Create rules for Counts

New layout option in Video view

When setting your preferred Video view, you can now use a single pane (1x1) layout.

See:
Create your Video views

Improvements to Avigilon Ava camera integrationFrom Alta Video and from the Avigilon Ava camera user interfaces, you can now rotate the video from the Avigilon Ava camera in 90° steps.

Resolved issues

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These issues have been resolved in this release:

Software releases might include minor bug fixes that are not listed in the Resolved issues table.

Known issues

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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.

Table 3 – Known issues — Alta Video video management system

ReferenceIssue
8549

Issue: From Video view, you cannot export video or create a link from an individual camera.

Workaround: Use the global export or link sharing options.

8018Issue: 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.
7983Issue: When using Alta Video Cloud to configure webhooks from Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, the $url value is not being included in the webhook.
7549Issue: 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.
7135Issue: For Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, alarms and anomalies might remain in the list on the Alarms page after the corresponding video has been deleted.
6911Issue: 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.
6232Issue: 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.
5461Issue: 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.

See:
Allow RTSP traffic for your non-cloud Alta Video deployment

GeneralIssue: 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.