Release notes: Aware 2.2.2

For your Avigilon Ava cameras, you can now create privacy masks so that areas in the view of your device do not show or record any video, or have any analytics running in the defined areas.

See How to: Define privacy areas for Ava cameras

You can now configure the Roles for your users to include permissions for using Counts.

See How to: Create and edit Roles

When they are installed, it is often difficult to see the serial numbers for your Avigilon Alta or third-party cameras. Aware now reports the camera serial numbers in the Devices tool.

See How to: Find camera information

To gather feedback on the gunshot detection, this feature has been released for beta testing only.

You can now use the GET HTTP method when configuring webhooks to send notifications to third-party applications.

See How to: Create webhooks to send Aware notifications

You can now choose to record short snippets of audio at the point of each sound detection, and to download and listen to these snippets.

See:
Cameras for Alta Aware
How to: Set Alta camera settings locally
How to: Create rules for sound detection

The default view in Video view and Map view now features improved dewarping and the ability to zoom in and pan around the field of view of panoramic cameras.

See How to: Set your preferred panoramic view

When third-party cameras do not give the correct stream configurations as requested by Aware, you can now manually specify stream requirements.

See How to: Improve video streams from problematic cameras

When setting up a loitering rule, you can now configure the time an object has to be present before the rule triggers.

See How to: Create rules for loitering

This release gives more visibility and control over the anomaly detections from each camera.

See How to: Configure anomaly settings for your cameras

For Ava Appliances that use multiple network interfaces, you can now define which interfaces to use for packet routing.

You can now lock and unlock user accounts, and have new options for enforcing password changes using different methods.

See How to: Manage Aware user access

Augmenting the existing glass break detections, you can now configure rules to detect unspecified loud noises.

See How to: Create rules for sound detection

When you have Avigilon Ava cameras connected to your Aware video management system, you are notified when a new version of the Avigilon Ava cameras software is released. Clicking the notification banner opens a dialog that enables you to select the Avigilon Ava cameras to upgrade.

See How to: Upgrade your Ava cameras from Aware

Software upgrade packages for Aware are now encrypted by Avigilon Alta, to ensure that they cannot be altered before being installed.

Aware already lets you export video clips from the Video view and Map view tools; now you can export video from the Devices, the Alarms and from the Search preview tools.

See How to: Export video clips from Aware

This release incorporates support for the Avigilon Ava cameras HDR and IR settings, embedded in the Aware user interface.

See How to: Adjust camera video parameters from Aware

Create rules that trigger on Count areas, to gain intelligence about the physical areas you monitor, and to receive notifications when your pre-defined criteria are met.Aware

See How to: Create rules for Counts

Bookmark video that needs further analysis, or that needs to be brought to the attention of your colleagues. You can also edit any links that you have shared with others, and Administrator users can monitor and if needed, delete shared links.

See:
About: Saved Clips tool
How to: Bookmark video clips
How to: Edit Saved Clips

Monitor the total storage used across your Server groups, and the storage used by each camera.

When using an encoder or multisensor device, you might want to disable one or more channels.

See How to: Disable inactive channels of encoders or multisource devices

In Map view, the available informational icons have been expanded to include Fire alarm pull stations.

See How to: Link your site maps and add extra information markers

Building on the basic object counting (available from Aware 1.2), Live object counting counts all the people and vehicle objects in the view of a camera, or in the view of selected groups of cameras.

See: How to: Create live counts of objects in view

Configure areas with line crossing rules, to count the number of people entering and leaving areas.

See: How to: Create counts of objects that cross a line

Download the count information from either your Objects in view counts or Line crossing counts as comma separated variable files.

See: How to: Download historic object count information

You can now search for objects directly from the Video view or Map view tools.

See: How to: Quick search from Video view,
How to: Quick search from Map view

To improve the accuracy of object placement in Map view, configure Advanced Field of View for your cameras.

See: How to: Set camera fields of view

Search for audio detections that have been logged by Aware.

See: How to: Search for audio detections from Avigilon Ava cameras

Configure automatic updates for your Aware video management system.

Backup your Aware configurations to vcloud. When needed, select the appropriate backup to restore to Aware.

Choose whether to upgrade a specific Avigilon Ava camera from the Stable upgrade channel, or from the Beta upgrade channel.

See: How to: Select the Ava camera upgrade channel

The Avigilon Ava cameras range of devices include audio analytics and detection. This release adds support in Aware for Audio Rules, showing the audio events on Map view.

See: How to: Create rules for sound detection

The visual design and work-flows for the timelines have been updated.

See: How to: View live video or play back recorded video

You can now link directly from the Aware user interface to the Avigilon Alta docs documentation portal.

You are routed to the correct documentation portal; either the main https://docs.video.ava.uk portal if your Aware is on the stable track, or to https://beta.docs.video.ava.uk if your Aware is on the beta track.

To improve the accuracy of the line-crossing detection, changes have been made to the algorithm used for these detections.

See: About: How Aware detects line-crossing events
How to: Create rules for line-crossing, and
How to: Search for line-crossing

This release combines the live and playback features into a single pane.

You can also now choose to view bounding boxes on objects (people, and/or vehicles) detected by the Avigilon Alta analytics, and display a count of people and vehicles.

See: How to: View live video or play back recorded video,
How to: Enable additional information in Video view, and
How to: Enable basic object counting in Video view

The ability to delete the data from a specific camera, perhaps in response to a privacy compromise or a breach of regulations, has been added into the Aware software.

See How to: Delete recordings from a camera

The way that the Alarms tool handles long lists has been improved. Additionally, you can now use advanced search to more easily find specific alarms.

See:About: Alarms tool
How to: Review Alarms created by Aware

Aware 1.2 introduces the ability to configure webhooks to enable Aware to sent alerts using the communication or messaging tools of your choice.

See: How to: Create webhooks to send Aware notifications

In the event of a camera failing, Aware now includes options to replace the camera, synchronize the video from the original camera, and to add the new camera on the Video view and Map view.

See: How to: Swap out a broken camera in Aware

You can now define areas of a view where analytics should not be run.

See: How to: Define areas without analytics

This release introduces fine-grained access permissions, so that you can define roles and decide which permissions are assigned to each role.

Using this feature, you can now define access on a per-site basis.

See: About: Users tool

From this release, you can apply a specific role to a group of users for specific sites or camera groups. This enables you, for example, to create an administrator role just for devices within a single office or region.

See: About: Users tool

Error logging has been improved so that more information useful in diagnosing issues is captured in the log files.

You can now configure multiple NTP servers for use by your Avigilon Alta clusters, server groups, and servers.

You can now use Map view to track vehicles in the field of view of your cameras.

The choices of icons you want displayed on Map view has also improved.

See: How to: View additional information on your Map view

This release includes improvements to the search bar used in the Devices tool, and Video view. These search bars now include a filter option enabling you to search for detailed information, for example, the Manufacturer, or the IP address of a camera.

See: About: Devices tool

If Aware does not receive suitable video streams from the cameras connected to it, the analytics might be degraded or not available. This release provides better feedback to users in this situation.

See: About: Aware Video stream requirements

To maintain compatibility with the widest possible number of third-party cameras, Aware can now rotate the video being supplied from the camera, to ensure the correct image orientation when displayed in Video view.

See: How to: Adjust camera video parameters from Aware

This Aware release includes features to upgrade the camera software from Aware. You can also use the manual and auto-focus controls in Aware to change the Avigilon Ava camera focus.

See: About: Devices tool

Create clusters of Ava Appliances that work together to provide multi-site coverage.

A vulnerability has been resolved in the Avigilon Ava camera software.

An issue where, when using the zoomed dewarp features on panoramic cameras, and then pinning the camera in Video view while in the dewarped state showed the dewarped view incorrectly has been resolved.

A vulnerability has been resolved in the Aware and vcloud software.

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Issue: When exporting from Video view, if you have adjusted the timeline on one of the panes in Video view, an incorrect time-range is selected for the exported video. Also, the first pane is always selected, even if you have disabled it.

Workaround: Disable the Sync export timeframes option, and then re-enable it to resynchronize the time ranges.

Issue: When applying a privacy mask to the view of a Avigilon Ava cameras device, the Avigilon Ava cameras does not take into account the rotation of the camera. This means that if the camera view is rotated from the Avigilon Ava cameras software after a privacy mask is applied, the mask is not reoriented.

Workaround: To rotate the image after applying a privacy mask, use the controls in the AwareDevices tool.

Issue: In a clustered setup, if you edit any device settings from an Ava Appliance other than the one to which the device is connected, you cannot immediately see the changes.

Workaround: Refresh the screen to see the updated information.

Issue: In some circumstances, when viewing the Aware user interface, users are being logged out of the interface.

Workaround: Logging back into the Aware user interface enables the user to continue with their tasks.

Issue: When trying to view too complex a Video view layout on a PC with insufficient hardware specification, a significant delay in live video may be experienced. This situation is exasperated when using cameras that provide fewer than three concurrent video streams, as higher than optimum resolutions and frame rates are then used for the viewing live video.

Workaround: Using PCs with higher hardware specifications (especially with better GPUs) reduces the delay experienced. Also, simplifying the Video view layout, and using a 2nd PC to display some of the Video views will further reduce the delays.

Issue: In clustered Ava Appliance installations, you cannot currently export video from a camera connected to a node other than the one you are currently logged into.

Workaround: Log into the Ava Appliance node that includes the connected camera, before exporting the required video.