Release notes: Ava Aware 3.6.0 beta
Last modified: Thursday March 25, 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 3.6.0 (Released to the | March 25, 2021 | Alta Video: 3_6_210325_09693 |
What's new
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Some new features rely on your Avigilon Ava cameras software being in alignment with your Alta Video software versions.
In this release, Alta Video provides the following features:
| Feature | Description | Added in |
|---|---|---|
| Listen to audio alarm snippets from Alta Video | For any audio alarm on your Alta Video deployment, there are now several methods you can use to listen to the audio snippet. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Improved management of streaming users | Alta Video now includes improved, more streamlined methods to add streaming users. See:
| Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Direct integration with Feenics access control systems | Alta Video now directly integrates with your Feenics access control systems. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Improvements to Smart Path | Avigilon Alta Smart Path is the real time communication technology used by Alta Video and Alta Video Cloud for connections between your viewer and the Alta Cloud Connector or cameras. Now, the time taken for the video to be seen has been improved. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Improvements to audit logging | New information is now added to the audit logs, including: | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Use User groups when configuring Rules | In addition to specifying individual users to be notified when a rule triggers, you can now also configure User groups to receive the notifications either by Pop-up, or by email. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| New color options for vehicles in Rules and Search | When defining rules, or creating a search, you now have a new palette of vehicle colors from which to choose. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Ultrasonic alarm detection | You can now configure rules that trigger when an ultrasonic panic alarm is deployed in the vicinity of your Avigilon Ava cameras. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Top cover off alarms for Avigilon Ava Dome and Avigilon Ava 360 cameras | You can now configure rules to alert you if the top covers are removed from your Avigilon Ava Dome or Avigilon Ava 360 cameras. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Video overlays for Avigilon Ava cameras | You can now configure the video streams from Avigilon Ava cameras to include overlay information, such as the camera name, the timestamp, or some custom text. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Area of interest for auto-exposure | For the Avigilon Ava 360 and Avigilon Ava Dome cameras, you can now configure an area of interest for auto-exposure metering. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Automatic rotation of Avigilon Ava camera video streams | For Avigilon Ava Dome and wall-mounted Avigilon Ava 360 cameras, you can now configure auto-rotation to ensure the video stream is correctly oriented. Auto-rotation is not available for ceiling-mounted Avigilon Ava 360 cameras, or for ceiling-mounted Avigilon Ava Dome cameras where the lens is close to pointing directly downwards. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Alta Video user interface reports when DMP access is enabled | If you have granted access to your deployment from the Avigilon Alta Deployment Management Platform (DMP), you are now notified in the Alta Video To learn how to check, enable or disable DMP access, see: | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
| Detections of unusual velocities | The Alta Video anomaly detections have been updated to add Unusual velocity as a trigger. This beta feature from the 3.5 beta releases is now enabled by default. | Alta Video 3.6.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—407 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.5.4 |
| 8274 | An issue where, with Alta Video access control integrations, you had to refresh the browser page when adding or editing a access control system in Alta Video has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.4 |
| 8138 | An issue where the disks could fill up, and old data was not being correctly pruned has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.2 |
| 8112, 8079 | Some issues with the connections between Alta Video and Openpath have been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.2 |
| 8110 | An issue where, in some situations, media traveling between your Alta Cloud Connector and your browser could be routed via the gateway instead of being kept on the local network as been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.2 |
| 8106 | An issue where rotation settings were lost on upgrading has been resolved. If you upgraded via Alta Video 3.5.0 | Alta Video 3.5.1 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 8521 | Issue: If you have several tools that have played video open in the Alta Video user interface, if you open Map view and attempt to view video, the video is very slow to load. |
| 8514 | Issue: When listening to the audio snippets that accompany alarms triggered by sound rules, the audio might sound noisy and clipped on Alta Video Cloud systems. |
| 8512 | Issue: In some circumstances, you might not see the alarm bars for ended alarms in the timeline. |
| 8499 | Issue: In clustered systems, if a rule is defined that includes a camera from another site, no pop up notifications are sent. |
| 8489 | Issue: For Alta Video integrations with Feenics access control platforms, if you click on an Alarms event, you might get errors shown while Alta Video retrieves the event information. |
| 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. |
| 7135 | Issue: 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. |
| 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. |
