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Camera Web Page & Access Protocols

USER MANUAL

June 30, 2017

AV200 AND AV IP UTILITY SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED ON AS-IS BASIS. ARECONT VISION, LLC
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ARECONT VISION BE
LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTUOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents.......................................................................................................... 2
Chapter I - Introduction.................................................................................................. 5
Product Contents ........................................................................................5
Camera Reference ......................................................................................5
Connectors..................................................................................................9
Power 9
Network PoE Switch or PoE Router .......................................................... 10
Network Cabling ........................................................................................ 10
Housing and Mounting .............................................................................. 10
Manual, Auto-Iris, and P-iris Lenses ......................................................... 11
Manual Iris Lenses .................................................................................... 11
Using Manual Iris Lenses .......................................................................... 11
Auto-Iris Lenses ........................................................................................ 11
Using Auto-Iris Lenses .............................................................................. 12
P-Iris Lenses ............................................................................................. 12
Accessing Arecont Vision cameras ........................................................... 12
Arecont Vision Camera Discovery ............................................................ 13
Chapter II - Camera Web Page ................................................................................... 15
SurroundVideo Camera User Interface ..................................................... 15
Single Sensor Camera User Interface ...................................................... 39
MicroDome Duo Camera User Interface ................................................... 65
Chapter III - HTTP Access........................................................................................... 85
HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual JPEG Frames................. 85
HTTP Request Format for Continuous MJPEG Video Streaming ............. 86
HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual H.264 Frames ................ 88
HTTP Request Format for Continuous H.264 Video Streaming ................ 90
HTTP Request and Response Format for Continuous H.264 SEI motion
Data and Status Information ........................................................................... 92

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Basic Camera Control Parameters ........................................................... 94

Parameters Specific to AV3130/35 and DAY/NIGHT Cameras ................ 96
Motion Detection Control Parameters ....................................................... 96
Access Control .......................................................................................... 98
Access Control for Panoramic Cameras ................................................... 99
HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/1.0 ........................................................................... 100
HTTP Access of Panoramic Cameras .................................................... 100
Requesting Images from Panoramic Cameras
AV8180/AV8185/AV8185DN & AV8360/AV8365/AV8365DN ...................... 101
AV20365/AV20185DN vs. AV8365/AV8365DN ...................................... 104
Dual-Sensor AV3236 vs. Single-sensor AV3116DN ............................... 105
Getting and Setting Camera Parameters ................................................ 105
Panoramic specific setting: ..................................................................... 121
HTTP Request Format for Transmitting Audio Data to Camera Line-out 122
Down-Scaling .......................................................................................... 122
SD Card ................................................................................................. 123
Quality of Service (QoS) ......................................................................... 125
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) ........................................................... 125
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version 6 (DHCPv6) .................... 126
Chapter IV - Alternative Access Protocols.................................................................. 127
RTSP Request Format for Continuous H.264 Video Streaming .............. 127
PSIA Protocol.......................................................................................... 132
Chapter V – 802.1x ................................................................................................... 134
Authentication Methods........................................................................... 134
EAP-MD5 ................................................................................................ 134
EAP-TLS 135
Chapter VI – HTTPS ................................................................................................. 137
Self-Signed Certificate ............................................................................ 137
Download Certificate ............................................................................... 138
Chapter VII – PTZ (OMNI3) ....................................................................................... 141
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Pan command ......................................................................................... 142

Tilt command .......................................................................................... 143
Zoom command ...................................................................................... 143
Home command ...................................................................................... 143
Preset 180............................................................................................... 143
Preset 270.............................................................................................. 143
Preset 360.............................................................................................. 143
User Preset ............................................................................................. 144
Collision sensor status ............................................................................ 145
Chapter VIII - Troubleshooting and Useful Tips .......................................................... 145
Connecting Directly to a Laptop or PC .................................................... 145
Switches and Routers ............................................................................. 145
Low Sharpness ....................................................................................... 146
4K Full Frame Rate ................................................................................. 146
Single Sensor Camera Sensor Cropping and Image Request ................ 146
Frequently Asked Questions ................................................................... 147
Firmware Upgrade .................................................................................. 154
Chapter IX - Regulatory Compliance ......................................................................... 156
FCC Compliance Statement ................................................................... 156
Terms and Conditions of Sale ................................................................. 156

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Chapter I - Introduction

Product Contents
The Arecont Vision Megapixel Camera system packaging consists of the following:
 Arecont Vision camera(s)
 CD with AV200, AV IP Utility software and manuals
Inspect the package and its contents for visible damage. If any components are damaged or missing, do
not use the unit; contact the supplier immediately. If you need to return the unit, you must ship it in the
original box.

Camera Reference
AV1115/1125/1255/1145/1455/1555/1215/1225/1245/1195/1300/1305/1310/1355,AV2100/2105/2115
/2255/2125/2145/2455/2116/2215/2216/2225/2226/2255/2256/2245/2246/2146/2456/2555/2556/219
5/2196/2105/2110/2155/2805/2815,AV3100/3110/3115/3116/3215/3216/3125/3225/3226/3255/3256/
3245/3246/3145/3146/3455/3456/3555/3556/3195/3196/3105/3110/3155/3130/3135,AV5100/5115/52
15/5125/5225/5255/5245/5145/5455/5555/5195/5105/5110/5155,AV10005/10115/10215/10225/1025
5,AV5585PM,AV8180/8365/8185/AV8365,AV12186DN/AV12366DN/AV12176DN,AV12585PM/AV12
586PM/AV12275PM/AV12276PM, AV20185DN/AV20365DN/AV20175DN, AV20585PM/20275PM,
AV40185DN, AV4655DN/AV4656DN/AV6655DN/AV6656DN/AV10655DN are megapixel resolution
IP cameras capable of delivering crisp, low-noise images at video frame rate.

AV1115/1125/1255/1145/1455/1555/1225/1245/1195/1300/1305/1310/1355 is a 1.3-megapixel
resolution camera with a maximum resolution of 1280 by 1024, achieving a maximum frame rate of
32 fps (AV1300/1310/1305/1315/1325/1355), and 42fps (AV1115/1125/1255/1145/1455).
AV1215/1555/1225/1245 is a 1.2-megapixel resolution camera with a maximum resolution of 1280 by
960, achieving a maximum frame rate of 37 fps (AV1215/1555/1225/1245/1195) and 42fps (AV1555).
AV1300 and AV1310 support MJPEG compression only. Other models support both MJPEG and
H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.
AV2100/2110/2105/2155 is a 2-megapixel resolution camera with a maximum resolution of 1600 by
1200, achieving a maximum frame rate of 24 fps. AV2100 and AV2110 support MJPEG compression

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only. AV2105/2155 supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression. AV2110 is
compact box cameras. AV2155 is a dome camera.

AV2805/2815/2825/2115/2125/2255/2145/2455/2116/2215/2216/2225/2226/2255/2256/2245/2246/21
46/2456/2555/2556/2195/2196 is a 1080p resolution camera with a maximum resolution of 1920 by
1080, achieving a maximum frame rate of 32 fps in AV2115 and AV2255, 31 fps in AV2125, av2145
and AV2455, 30 fps in AV2805/2116/2215/2216/2225/2226/2255/2256/2245/2246/2146/2456/2555
/2556/2195/2196 and 24 fps in AV2815 and AV2825.

AV3100/3105/3110/3155/3115/3116/3215/3216/3125/3225/3226/3255/3256/3245/3246/3145/3146/34
55/3456/3555/3556/3195/3196 is a 3-megapixel resolution camera with a maximum resolution is
2048 by 1536, achieving a maximum frame rate of 15 fps in AV3100/3110/3105/3155, 21 fps in
AV3115/3116/3215/3216/3125/3225/3226/3255/3256/3245/3246/3145/3146/3455/3456/3555/3556/31
95/3196. AV3100 and AV3110 support MJPEG compression only and other models support both
MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

AV3130/3135 is a dual-sensor, day-night camera featuring a 3-megapixel color sensor paired with a
1.3-megapixel monochrome sensor sensitive to near infrared illumination. When the scene is well
illuminated the 3-megapixel sensor is selected to deliver color images of up to 2048x1536 pixels. In
low-light conditions AV3130/3135 can automatically switch to the 1.3-megapixel (1280x1024)
monochrome sensor, enabling the delivery of clear imagery at illumination levels as low as 0.00 lux
(infrared only). AV3130/3135 typically delivers 20 fps in day mode at 1920x1200 and over 30 fps in
night mode. AV3135 supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

AV5100/5105/5110/5155/5115/5215/5125/5225/5255/5245/5145/5455/5555/5195 is a 5-megapixel
resolution camera. Its maximum resolution is 2592 by 1944, achieving a maximum frame rate of 9 fps
in AV5100/5110/5105/5155, 14 fps in AV 5115/5215/5125/5225/5255/5245/5145/5455/5555/5195.
AV5100 and AV5110 support MJPEG compression only and other models support both MJPEG and
H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

AV5585PM is a quad-sensor 5-megapixel camera consisting of four 1.3-megapixel sensors operating

at 12 fps at 5120 by 960 resolution. It is capable of providing 180 degree field of view. It supports both
MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

AV8180/8185/AV8185DN is a quad-sensor 8-megapixel camera consisting of four 2-megapixel

sensors operating at up to 22 fps at 1600 by 1200 resolution and 6 fps at 6400 by 1200 resolution. It

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is capable of providing 180 degree field of view. AV8185 and AV8185DN support both MJPEG and
H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression. AV8180 supports MJPEG only.

AV12186DN/AV12366DN/12176DN is a quad-sensor 12-megapixel camera consisting of four 3-

megapixel sensor operating at up to 5.2 fps at 8192 by 1536 resolution. It is capable of providing 180
degree (AV12186DN and 12176DN) or 360 degree (AV12366DN) field of view. It supports both
MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

AV12585PM/AV12586PM/AV12275DN/AV12276DN is a quad-sensor 12-megapixel camera

consisting of four 3-megapixel sensors operating at up to 10 fps at 8192 by 1536 resolution. It is
capable of providing 180 degree field of view. It supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10)
compression.

AV20185DN/AV20365DN/AV20175DN is a quad-sensor 20-megapixel camera consisting of four 5-

megapixel sensors operating at up to 3.5 fps at 10240 by 1920 resolution and 11 fps @ 2560 by 1920.
It is capable of providing 180 degree (AV20185DN and AV20175DN) or 360 degree (AV20365DN)
field of view. It supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

AV20585PM/AV20275DN is a quad-sensor 20-megapixel camera consisting of four 5-megapixel

sensors operating at up to 7 fps at 10240 by 1920 resolution. It is capable of providing 180 degree
field of view. It supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

AV8360/8365/AV8365DN is a quad-sensor 8-megapixel panoramic camera consisting of four 2-

megapixel sensors and operating at up to 22 fps at 1600 by 1200 resolution and 5.5 fps at 6400 by
1200 resolution. It is capable of providing 360 degree field of view. AV8365 and AV8185DN support
both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression. AV8360 supports MJPEG only.

AV20365DN is a quad-sensor 20-megapixel camera consisting of four 5-megapixel sensors operating

at up to 3.5 fps at 10240 by 1920 resolution and 11 fps @ 2560 by 1920. It is capable of providing
360 degree field of view. AV20185 supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.
AV20365 is fully compatible with PSIA industry standard and passes PSIA conformance tests.

AV40185DN is a quad-sensor 40-megapixel camera consisting of four 10-megapixel sensors

operating at up to 1.5 fps at 14592 by 2752 resolution. It is capable of providing 180 degree field of
view. It supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression

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AV10005/10115 is the first 10Megapixel / 1080P dual mode camera in the world and supports both
MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression. AV10005/10115 in 10Megapixel mode is viewed
at 3648x2752 with the frame rate up to 6fps (AV10015) and 7 fps (AV10115); AV10005/AV10115 in
1080p mode is viewed at 1920x1080 with frame rate up to 30fps (AV10005) and 32fps (AV10115) .
AV10005/AV10115 has binning technique to improve low light performance, increase sensitivity and
produce better SNR by combining and averaging pixels. AV10005 and AV10115 are compact box
cameras. AV10005/10115 is fully compatible with PSIA industry standard and passes PSIA
conformance tests.

AV08ZMD-400 is a 4K dual mode network camera that provides full 3840 x 2160 megapixel
resolution at full video frame rates of 30 frames per second (fps) at 8-megapixel and 60fps in 1080p
binning mode.

AV4655DN/AV4656DN is a dual-sensor 4-megapixel camera consisting of two 2-megapixel sensor

operating at up to 15 fps at 3840 by 1080 resolution. It supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4
Part 10) compression.

AV6655DN/AV6656DN is a dual-sensor 6-megapixel camera consisting of two 3-megapixel sensors

operating at up to 10 fps at 4096 by 1536 resolution. It supports both MJPEG and H.264 (MPEG4
Part 10) compression.

AV10655DN is a dual-sensor 10-megapixel camera consisting of two 5-megapixel sensors operating

at up to 7 fps at 5120 by 1920 resolution and 10 fps @ 2560 by 960. It supports both MJPEG and
H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) compression.

All cameras are equipped with a LAN connector and can deliver image data at a maximum data rate
of up to 55 Mbps and 70Mbps (AV10005/AV10015). Images are sent over the network using TFTP,
HTTP and RTSP/RTP (available for H.264 camera models only) protocols.

All cameras feature:

 Privacy mask:
 Automatic Exposure (AE) and Gain (AGC) control
 Automatic backlight compensation
 Automatic multi-matrix white balance
 50/60Hz selectable flicker control
 Electronic Zoom, Pan and Tilt (PTZ)

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 Programmable brightness, saturation, gamma, sharpness, windowing and decimation

 Simultaneous delivery of full-field view and zoomed images at video frame rate
 Multi-streaming: 8 non-identical streams
 Electronic image rotation by 180 degrees
 Regions of interest windowing down to 32x32 pixel window
 Regions of interest windowing down to 1x1 pixel window for jpeg and 2x2 pixels for H.264
 Programmable motion blur control for low-light mode
 Moonlight mode – extended exposure and noise cancellation
 Up to four regions of interest simultaneously for panoramic and digital PTZ view
 On board motion detection with 64 detection zones
 On board motion detection with 1024 detection zones
 Optional auto iris
 Optional day/night IR switching filter

Connectors
All Arecont Vision Megapixel cameras have the following connectors located on the rear panel of the
camera housing:
 LAN connector, accepting a network UTP or STP cable carrying 100 Base-T. The LAN connector
also accepts Power-over-Ethernet (PoE).
 Power terminals: please refer to enclosed documentation and product labeling for specific power
options:
o PoE : All Arecont Vision cameras
o Auxiliary Power: 15V-48V DC supply: AVXX00M, AV3130, AV8180 and AV8360
o Auxiliary Power: 12V-48V DC and 24V AC supply: AVXX05, AVXX55, AV3135,
AV8180/5, AV8185DN, AV8360/5, AV8365DN and AV10005, AV1115, AV2115, AV3115,
AV5115, AV10015, AV20185DN, AV20365DN
 Optionally, a DC auto-iris connector. AV3130, AV3135, AVXX55, AVXX10, AVXX15, AVXX25
and AV10005 do not support auto-iris and does not have this connector.
 Auxiliary input and output connector

Power
Power for all Arecont Vision cameras can be supplied as follows:
 Via LAN connector according to IEEE 802.3af (PoE). For a list of recommended PoE switches,
see “Network PoE Switch or Router PoE” on page 7.
 Via an auxiliary power jack.

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Power consumption will vary depending on the mode of operation. The maximum power consumption
takes place when the camera is streaming video at a maximum frame rate and at full resolution.

Network PoE Switch or PoE Router

Using a 100 Mbps Ethernet Switch with PoE ports or a Router with PoE ports is recommended. A gigabit
Ethernet Switch with PoE ports for multiple camera connections is highly recommended, especially in the
case of a multi-camera installation. Simple hubs do not provide collision management and are not
suitable for a multi-camera Arecont Vision system.

Tested models:
 Avaya 4826GTS-PWR+ 24-Port PoE+ Switch (www.avaya.com)
 Cisco Catalyst 3560 48-Port PoE Switch (www.cisco.com)
 Cisco Catalyst 3650 48-Port PoE Switch (www.cisco.com)
 Cisco Linksys SRW224P 24-Port PoE Switch (www.cisco.com)
 Cisco SSG220 24-Port PoE Switch (www.cisco.com)
 D-Link DES-1316 8-Port PoE Switch/Hub (www.dlink.com)
 D-Link DGS-1500-28P 24-Port PoE Switch/Hub (www.dlink.com)
 HP Aruba 2530 48-Port PoE+ Switch (www.hpe.com)
 Netgear ProSAFE FS728TP 24-Port PoE Smart Switch (www.netgear.com)
 Netgear ProSAFE FS752TPS 48-Port PoE Smart Switch (www.netgear.com)
 TRENDnet TPE-S88 POE Switch/Hub (www.trendnet.com)

PoE network equipment must be CE marked for use in European Community. Note that the cameras are
designed for use with indoor network cabling only.

Network Cabling
Category 5e cabling or better is recommended. All network cabling must be installed according to
applicable codes and regulations.

Housing and Mounting

All Arecont Vision camera models feature a durable aluminum housing that minimizes fire hazards. The
housing is not hermetically sealed. The ambient temperature should be maintained between 0ºC and
50ºC (32ºF to 122ºF). Cameras used outdoors require appropriate protective enclosures.

MegaVideo Cameras are mounted using a ¼” x 20 threaded hole on the bottom of the housing. When
mounting the camera, make sure that the mounting screw is no longer than ¼”. The cameras are to be

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installed according to the applicable code and regulations. The mounting hardware should be able to
support 1 lb camera (except AV8360 that weights 4lbs).
Model AV3130 and AV3135 require a 3” enclosure window; all other cameras can use most any outdoor
housing.

Manual, Auto-Iris, and P-iris Lenses

Manual Iris Lenses

A wide variety of C/CS mount lenses with megapixel resolution may be used with Arecont Vision
MegaVideo cameras. Note that all C-mount lenses require a 5mm adaptor ring. Additionally, some lenses
may also require 0.4mm-0.8mm adjustment spacers.
Arecont Vision lens suggestions include:
 MPL1.55 (1.55mm), MPL3.5 (3.5mm), MPL4.0 (4.0mm), MPL6.0 (6.0mm), MPL6.2 (6.2mm),
MPL8.0 (7.8mm), MPL33-12A (3.3mm-10.5mm), MPL4-10 (4.5mm-10mm), MPL8-16 (8mm-
16mm), MPL4-12 (4mm-12mm), MPL12-40 (12mm- 40mm), UHD7.2 (7.2mm), UHD45-10
(4.5mm-10mm)
 SpaceCom JHF25M (25mm), JHF35M (35mm)
 Tamron M118FM08 (8mm), M118FM16 (16mm)

Using Manual Iris Lenses

Choosing the lens correctly is very important for megapixel cameras. Poorly selected lenses may cause
the image to appear blurry when the lens iris is fully open or closed too much.
To deliver sharp megapixel resolution images, it is recommended to:
 Use megapixel-resolution lenses
 Obtain best resolution and depth of focus by having the iris slightly closed
When setting up the camera, direct the camera at the scene, fully open the iris, and then try closing the
iris slightly. At some point the image will look its sharpest. However, do not close down the iris too much
to the point where the image becomes too noisy due to insufficient light.

Auto-Iris Lenses
Standard DC auto-iris lenses can be used with AV1115DNAIv1, AV2115DNAIv1, AV3115DNAIv1,
AV5115DNAIv1, AV10115DNAIv1 (cameras equipped with the auto-iris feature).
Arecont Vision recommends the following high-resolution optics:
 Arecont Vision MPL33-11AI (3.3mm-10.5mm), MPL12-40AI (12mm- 40mm), UHD45-10AI
(4.5mm-10mm)

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Using Auto-Iris Lenses

To use the DC auto-iris lens:
 Attach the lens to the Arecont Vision camera.
 Plug in the lens cable into the connector on the back of the camera. Make sure that the lens cable
is long enough. Many DC lenses are available with short and long cable options.
The camera will automatically detect the presence of an auto-iris DC lens and start using it.
An auto-iris lens typically operates as follows:
 If illumination is sufficient, the camera will partially close the iris within half a minute.
 When the iris is partially closed, the image should become visibly sharper. As the iris is gradually
closed, the image brightness may fluctuate slightly.

P-Iris Lenses
To have P-iris feature for precise, optimal image quality, only Arecont Vision P-iris lenses can be used
with AV1215PM-S, AV2215PM-S, AV2216PM-S, AV3215PM-S, AV3216PM-S, AV5215PM-S,
AV10215PM-S (cameras equipped with the P-iris feature).
Arecont Vision recommends the following high-resolution optics:
 Arecont Vision MPL2.8-8.5MPI (2.8mm-8.5mm), MPL3.3-8.5MPI (3.3mm-8.5mm)

Using P-Iris Lenses

To use the P-iris lens:
 Attach the lens to the Arecont Vision camera.
 Plug in the lens cable into the connector on the back of the camera.
The camera will automatically detect the presence of an P-iris DC lens and start using it.
An auto-iris lens typically operates as follows:
 If illumination is sufficient, the camera will partially close the iris within half a minute.
 When the iris is partially closed, the image should become visibly sharper. As the iris is gradually
closed, the image brightness may fluctuate slightly.

Accessing Arecont Vision cameras

Arecont Vision cameras can be accessed and controlled by:
 AV200 Video System software
 Third-party software utilizing Arecont Vision SDK (Software Development Kit). A list of
compatible third-party software is available at our website www.arecontvision.com.

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 HTTP requests issued from MS Internet Explorer, MS Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome,
Apple Safari and other web browsers and third party HTTP software
 RTSP/RTP-capable media players, such as Apple QuickTime, VLC or other third party
RTSP/RTP software (for camera models supporting H.264 compression).
 Arecont Vision on-camera web page.

Arecont Vision Camera Discovery

Arecont cameras can be discovered via either broadcast or multicast requests from client.
Broadcast Discovery:
Broadcast discovery request - Cameras respond to the request UDP broadcast request sent at port 69.
The broadcast requests need to contain camera identification string – ‘Arecont_Vision-AV2000’ followed
by a byte containing value of ‘0x01’. The trailing byte indicates that the incoming packet is a discovery
packet. Broadcast discovery packet structure is as follows –
FROM TO BYTES
0 20 21 camera id: "Arecont_Vision-AV2000"
21 21 1 0x01: discovery

Broadcast Discovery response:

The response to the broadcast discovery message from client is an unicast response. This response UDP
packet payload starts with camera identification string, ‘Arecont_Vision-AV2000’, followed by camera
details. The basic response packet structure is as follows –
FROM TO BYTES
0 20 21 Camera_ID
21 21 1 requested command
22 27 6 MAC
28 31 4 IP
32 33 2 Firmware Version
34 35 2 Base Model
36 36 1 IP lock
37 68 32 Camera Name

This basic data is followed by extended bytes.

Multicast Discovery:

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Arecont Vision cameras are also be discoverable via multicast DNS packets.
The camera discovery request can be of two types: Generic and MAC specific

Generic multicast discovery request:

Camera responds to generic PTR type of domain name request ‘_arec._tcp.local’ sent at 224.0.0.251 at
port 5353. The query can of QU and QM type. There is a top bit defined in protocol standard indicating if
discovery requests want unicast response or multicast response. The questions requesting unicast
response are “QU” type requests and questions requesting multicast response are “QM” type response.
Only initial query from the client should have unicast response bit set in the question.

Multicast Discovery Response:

Camera responds with PTR type answer RR and three additional RRs including SRV, TXT and
type A record.

The answer field will have camera model name, last three bytes of MAC followed by the domain
name. For example:
The answer section of response from 2MP MD2 will have following domain name response:
“ARECONT AV 2255-AV112233._arec._tcp.local”
AV 2255 – camera base model
AV112233 – MAC address of the camera. Note that since first three bytes of any
Arecont camera
._arec._tcp.local – domain name

Following is the single sensor camera TXT response which has all camera specific revisions,

features support information.

“MAC=AVXXXXXX --last 3 bytes of camera mac followed by AV

-FWXXXXX.YY -- 5 digit fw rev.2 digit beta rev (beta rev .00 for production

Firmware rev)

-XXXX -- 2 bytes jpeg engine rev

-XXXX -- 2 bytes net version

-XXXXXXXX -- 4 bytes cam features

-XXXX --2 bytes network configuration

/releasename” --camera release name

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For example:
The TXT record from 2MP MD2 will have following response:
“MAC=AV112233-FW65232.03-3D9B17BB-F35B0001-0100/2255PMIR-SH”
The type A record will indicate the IP address of the camera.

Notes:
1. No two consecutive discovery requests from software should be generated within less than

250msec time interval.

2. Camera, when powered up, sends a self-announcement packet of PTR type explaining all the

fields as mentioned in item#1 above. This packet can be used by listening clients to dynamically

add newly discovered cameras to the discovered cameras list.

3. For inter-VLAN or inter-subnet discovery of the cameras some Cisco routers are setup to acts as

an mDNS service discovery gateway. When configured, router actively sends the queries

periodically to force learning of services and keeping them refreshed in the cache. This

configurable periodicity can go to minimum 60sec. Users using the network setup in the manner

can get maximum of 60sec delay to get the mDNS responses traversed over the router.

Chapter II - Camera Web Page

SurroundVideo Camera User Interface
Arecont Vision cameras can be accessed from a web browser via the on-camera web page. The web
page allows changing camera settings and to view live video by means of JavaScript stored in camera’s
non-volatile memory. The web page is accessed by typing in any web browser:
http://ip_address or http://ip_address/index.html

Figure 1. On-camera web page user interface for SurroundVideo cameras

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Flip is an option for flipping the image vertically and horizontally to rotate it 180 degrees.

Figure 2. Flipping the four channel images

In addition to viewing all four channels, users can also view only one channel by clicking the specific
channel image. Clicking the image again will return to viewing four channels. CWB Window will enable
custom white balance window for a given channel.

Figure 3. Single channel viewing

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Settings Menu
Settings menu is available to adjust imaging parameters like brightness, resolution, exposure mode, etc.
Figure 4 shows an example of settings menu while different camera models may offer a slightly different
menu with different controls and functions specific to the model and firmware version.

Figure 4. Settings menu

Channel Settings

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Select channel allows user to change settings of each channel. All the parameter settings in Settings
menu only apply to the selected channel.

Picture Settings

Brightness adjusts image brightness.

Sharpness adjusts image sharpness or the crispness of an image.
Saturation adjusts image color saturation or the amount of color in an image. Lower saturation gives a
duller, faded image.
Red/Blue adjusts the red/blue tint. This setting changes the target for camera’s automatic white balance
computation. The effect is gradual and takes several seconds for the camera to fully adjust to the new
setting.

Illumination Settings

Illumination adjusts the camera’s white balance computation based on the scene’s illumination.
“Automatic” enables the camera to adjust for illumination automatically while indoor/outdoor settings use
presets assuming the camera is indoors or outdoors.

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Exposure Mode Settings

Exposure Mode adjusts exposure settings. Exposure time refers to the amount of time the sensor is
exposed to light. Short exposures result in less light, giving darker images whereas longer exposures can
flood an image with light, giving washed out images in the presence of a lot of light. Additionally, motion
blur is reduced under short exposures and increased under long exposures.
Highspeed enables a fixed exposure time, selectable from the “Short Exposure” menu with values
between 1 and 80ms. Low values will reduce motion blur but may result in a noisier video. Ample
illumination is required to improve quality under very short exposures due to the lack of captured light.
Speed enables short exposures ranging from 10-80ms. The exposure time will increase with low light
conditions.
Balanced enables medium exposures ranging from 20-80ms with low light conditions resulting in a higher
exposure time. For AV5585PM camera, STELLAR feature works in balance mode.
Quality enables longer exposures ranging from 40-200ms. Motion blur may increase, but video will
contain less noise under low light conditions.
MoonlightTM enables exposures of up to 500ms if necessary. This mode will result in more motion blur for
fast moving objects.
Low light noise filter set special noise filter strength from 0..100%. The default is set to 50% for
SurroundVideo cameras.

Miscellaneous Settings

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Rotate flips the image of selected channel vertically and horizontally to rotate it 180 degrees.
Auto Exposure is an option to enable/disable the on-camera automatic exposure control. Auto exposure
maintains the user-set image brightness under changing lighting conditions. This must be enabled to
ensure the ‘Low Light Mode’ settings function.
Equalize Brightness adjusts the brightness of selected channel to similar level of the other channels
Equalize Color adjusts the color of selected channel to be similar with the other channels
Custom White Balance enables customized white balance window control.
Auto White Balance enables automatic white balance control

DayNight Settings

Day/Night settings apply to dual-sensor cameras other camera models equipped with a switching IR filter.
Automatic enables the camera to automatically switch from day mode to night mode based on the
Switching Gain settings and night mode to day mode based on Toggle Guard settings.
Day forces day mode and disables night mode.
Night forces night mode and disables day mode.
Switching Gain adjusts the level of darkness to switch from day to night mode when switching is set to
"Automatic" mode. Smaller values will cause the camera to switch to night mode when there is still much
light in the scene. Larger values will cause the camera to stay in day mode much longer, requiring near
darkness in order to switch.

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Toggle Guard adjusts the level of brightness required to switch from nighttime to daylight mode. Setting
this to 0% corresponds to “Switch At” set to 100%. Toggle Guard should be adjusted to prevent the mode
from toggling during transitional lighting.

Note: For dual-sensor camera models, the values displayed are in F-Stops.

Binning Settings

Binning could improve camera performance in low light condition

Binning in day mode enables/disables binning in day mode. This mode is disabled by default.
Binning in night mode enables/disables binning in night mode. This mode is disabled by default.

Lighting Settings

Lighting prevents flicker caused by the power line frequency of lighting. Choose 50Hz for Europe and
China and 60Hz for US and Japan. This parameter would have no effect when the dominate light is
sunlight. This parameter will also lose effect if camera exposure mode is set to "Highspeed" and the
chosen "Short exposure" value does not match the power line frequency. A "Short exposure" value is set
to match the power line frequency when it is close to a multiple of 8.3/10ms for 60/50Hz respectively.

P-Iris Settings

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P-Iris settings are only visible on SurroundVideo G5 cameras.

P-Iris Reference Channel allows user to select reference channel of P-Iris control. Brightness of reference
channel will decide which position P-Iris will move to. The selection of reference channel doesn’t make a
difference when “Equalize Brightness” is enabled.
Enable P-Iris enables or disables P-Iris functionality. When enabled, P-Iris could optimize the iris opening
position under all lighting conditions to improve the image sharpness and usability.
Iris Position allows user to adjust iris position manually when P-Iris is disabled.

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Resolution Menu

Figure 5. Resolution menu

JPEG Quality adjusts the compression level for JPEG images

Resolution selects from "half" or "full" resolution options that are supported by the camera
Left/Top/Right/Bottom adjusts the image cropping relative to the current sensor cropping

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Network Menu
Network menu is where networking parameters such as IP address and port numbers are configured.

Figure 7. Network menu

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IP Settings

IP Address will set the current IP address of the camera.

DHCP if checked, camera will attempt to obtain its IP address from the DHCP server available on the
network
Subnet Mask once set, camera will use these mask bits to determine if a destination is from a different
network
Autoback routing sets subnet mask to 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway once set, camera will use send traffic to the specified gateway if the destination is on a
different network

MTU Settings

Enable or disable a customized MTU size.

MTU setting is for advanced users only. If your network has some type of restriction such that standard
Ethernet MTU size (1500 bytes) is not appropriate for the network, you can enable this option and specify
a different MTU size.

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Port Settings

Second HTTP port set an alternative HTTP port. This port can be useful when the standard HTTP port
(80) is not appropriate for this camera.

Ethernet Settings

Link Speed allows setting transmission speed and duplex mode appropriate for this camera.
Autonegotiation allows connected devices to share transmission capabilities and choose the highest
performance parameters they both support. Fixed 100MBaseT/Full Duplex setting will set fixed
transmission speed of 100Mb and duplex mode of full duplex.
Multicast Reception allows for enabling or disabling multicast packet reception.

Quality of Service (QoS) Settings

QoS Enable will enable or disable quality of service.

QoS Video allows setting DSCP value for video traffic.
QoS Default allows setting DSCP value for non-video traffic.

Note: It is not recommended for user to change the DSCP value.

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System Menu

Figure 8. System menu

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Camera Information

Camera information lists camera information such as model, MAC address, firmware version, etc. if you
are experiencing an issue with a camera and need technical support, you will be asked to provide
information displayed on this menu together with a detailed description of the issue. You are also
encouraged to provide a screen shot of this page if it can show any image artifacts that you are
experiencing.
Note: Internal P/N (Part Number) is not available on all cameras.

Administration Setting

Administration section is available for setting up passwords. Arecont Vision cameras support two levels of
password-protected access control. Camera authentication is compatible with RFC-2068 HTTP 1.1 and
supported by all standard browsers and video surveillance software.

There are two types of users with the following reserved names:

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admin – full access to all camera settings and live video.

viewer –viewing access only to live video.

Setting and removing the passwords is the privilege of the admin user, while the viewer can only use the
existing password, but not change it. Factory defaults erase all current passwords for both the admin and
the viewer. A newly shipped camera has no password protection and allows full anonymous access from
the network. In case the admin password has not been set, the camera has full anonymous access from
the network, even if the viewer password has been set.

Access control setup consists of three steps:

1. Set admin password (using http commands or using the camera’s web page, see below).
2. Login using the admin password and set the viewer password.
3. Communicate the viewer password to the users.
Note: Password cannot contain white space or following illegal symbols: # % & ` “ ‘ < >.
In order to delete viewer password, login as admin and change the viewer password to a reserved
password empty – this would restore the full anonymous access to the camera. The admin user can
change the viewer password at any time, even without knowing the current viewer password.

Note: If admin password was set but has been lost, it can only be erased by AV IP Utility using
the key file. Please contact Arecont Vision technical support to obtain the key file required to
perform this function.

Firmware Upgrade

Users can upgrade firmware via the web browser.

To upgrade the firmware:
Choose the firmware upgrade file and click “Upgrade ”. The firmware upgrade will start automatically.
Do not disconnect the Arecont Vision camera at any point during the upgrade process.

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Save Settings

Save all - clicking this button will save all settings to on-camera flash memory. If the camera
configuration has changed and you want to make these changes permanent, use this button.
Restore to factory default - clicking this button will reset the camera to the factory default state. If
changes in the configuration are unsatisfactory, and you want a quick way to reset the camera settings to
the original factory defaults, use this button. (Note: this does not change the IP address setting).

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Motion Detector Menu

Arecont Vision cameras support highly sensitive motion detection based on pixel brightness analysis.
There are 64 motion detection zones arranged as an 8x8 array. Each zone is comprised of certain
number of cells, where each cell is a block of 32x32 pixels. By choosing a proper "Zone size" parameter,
the total area covered by 64 zones can be large enough to cover area of interest (normally the entire
picture).

Figure 9. Motion Detector menu

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Enable motion detector enables/disables on-camera motion detection. On-camera motion detection done
by hardware and does not affect frame rate.

Enable extended motion detection enables/disables the extended motion detection. Motion detection
zones increase from default 64 to 1024 for enhanced motion detection sensitivity.

Zone size adjusts the size of motion detection zones. The total area covered by motion detection zones is
(N*32*8)x(N*32*8) pixels, where N is the chosen zone size, 32 is hard-coded cell size and 8 is hard-
coded number of zones in each direction. For example, N=8 results in a detection area of 2048x2048
pixels which is good for 2MP and 3MP resolution. For 5MP resolution, N>=11 is appropriate.

Detail adjusts the size of the detectable objects within each motion detection zone. For example, when
Zone size=8, there are total 64 cells in each zone. If Detail=2, motion detection will be triggered when 2
out of 64 cells are found positive. Lower settings may cause false motion detection due to noise. Higher
settings will require larger objects for motion detection. This is useful when motion detection should only
detect something of the size of a car and ignore smaller objects like an animal.

Level threshold adjusts the inter-frame brightness change threshold that triggers motion detection. Lower
settings result in higher detection sensitivity but may cause false triggers due to noise. Higher settings will
require a larger brightness change on the moving object to trigger motion detection.

Sensitivity serves as a guard against false triggering due to a sudden overall change in lighting that would
trigger motion detection in a large number of zones simultaneously. For example, a bright flash in the
scene would not trigger motion detection when Sensitivity value is significantly lower than the maximum.
Note that the maximum number depends on image resolution and is usually less than the total zone size
(64). For example, when Zone size=8 and image resolution is 1600x1200, there are only 7x5=35 active
zones since 7*8*32=1792 covers the width and 5*8*32=1280 covers the height. Other zones will always
read zero.

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Privacy Mask Menu

When enabled, a blocked out region in the video can be set up using the mouse. The masked area
shown in gray as illustrated in Figure 10.

Figure 10. Privacy Mask menu

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Alignment Menu

Vertical alignment allows the user to adjust the vertical position of each image so that all four images can
align.

Figure 11. Alignment menu

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H.264 Menu
H.264 menu is the place to configure H.264 streaming rate control targeting RTP protocol.

Figure 12. H.264 menu

Variable Bitrate Control when this radio button is selected the camera will maintain the Quality setting
configured. There may be variation in the bit rate output from the camera because this mode ignores bit
rate.
 H.264 Quality this field allows configuration of the H.264 image quality setting for variable
bit rate control. Setting a lower value results in higher image quality, higher value results
in lower image quality.
 Enable Rate Limit this button enables variable bit rate control to function like the constant
bit rate control when bit rate rises above the level set.
 Rate limit allows setting of the rate level.

Constant bit rate control enables constant bitrate control option. The camera will automatically adjust
compression to keep bit rate at the level set.
 Bitrate this numeric field allows setting the bit rate for constant bit rate control.

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Focus Menu
Focus menu is the place to control remote focus. It is only available on SurroundVideo G5 cameras.

Figure 13. Focus menu

Focus menu buttons allow manual focus adjustment of the camera. Options are + or – in stepped
increments of 20, 5, or 1. Smaller values make finer focus adjustment; larger values make coarser focus
adjustment.
Full-range Focus button automatically focuses the camera. Focus process will stop when best focus of
the scene is achieved after searching all focus positions.
Short-range Focus button also automatically focuses the camera. Focus process will stop when best
focus of the scene is achieved after searching a subset of the focus positions.
Stop button will stop the focus procedure in process when pressed.
Focus Aid field cannot be changed and shows an approximate numeric value relevant to the level of
focus achieved. A higher value means a better level of focus throughout the image; a lower value means
the image is less focused.

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Update Focus Aid when pressed this button will update the “Focus Aid:” window (the value displayed in
the window can sometimes lag behind the actual focus value achieved in the image; measured focus is
affected by image noise and illumination change).

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Single Sensor Camera User Interface

Arecont Vision is introducing a new web interface for our cameras. Currently, only single sensor cameras
have this web interface.

Figure 14. On-camera web page user interface for single sensor cameras

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In addition to a newer and cleaner look, this interface offers two different methods of menu navigation and
controls for a number of new features.

Menu Navigation
The new interface allows the same type of tabbed menu browsing as did older model cameras at the top
of the web interface but features a new look and better defined buttons.

Clicking on any one of the buttons will cause left side of the page to jump to the settings section for the
selected button.
Another way to navigate menus is by scrolling the menu window on the left side of the interface that
allows access to the various settings menus sequentially.

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Image Menu
Brightness controls the overall brightness of the camera image and works in conjunction with the
exposure controls to maintain the image brightness.
Sharpness controls sharpness and edge definition of the image. Setting this to higher levels may make
overall image to appear a bit softer while causing lines and edges in the image to look smoother.
Saturation controls the color saturation of the image.
Blue manually controls blue color level.

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Red manually controls red color level.

Contrast manually controls Gamma level (affects the overall luminance of the image).
Rotate Image allows image to be digitally rotated 90° 180° 270°.
Auto Exposure enables or disables the electronic auto exposure function of the camera (it is
recommended to have this option enabled for most applications; unselecting/ disabling will prevent the
camera from adjusting to changing illumination and exposure values in the image).
Auto White Balance checkbox enables the automatic white balance feature of camera, which could
automatically remove unrealistic color cast so that white color is rendered white in the image.
SNAPstream checkbox enables the SNAP stream feature on camera. This feature would make camera
utilize low bitrate while still preserving the camera settings.
Bandwidth Saving Mode optimizes all camera settings to provide the best quality at lowest bitrate
possible.
WDR Motion Compensation enables WDR motion compensation, which could improve rolling issue but
cause image blur.
Casino Mode feature is only available on select 2MP cameras. When enabled, it will override the
configured Exposure mode on the camera to keep frame rate output from dropping below 30 fps.
Check the camera’s datasheet for specific models that support Casino Mode.

Note: In low light there will be increased image noise and degraded image quality since the camera
cannot increase exposure time to compensate when this mode is active.

Lighting Compensation Frequency is used to select local AC power frequency. This can help prevent
flicker caused by oscillation frequency of indoor lighting. Options are 50Hz (Europe), 60Hz (US/Japan) or
Custom.
Frequency (Hz) slider bar setting allows user to select frequency between 5Hz and 255Hz. It will be
enabled when user select “Custom” in Lighting Compensation Frequency.
Illumination controls the auto white balance of the camera. Radio buttons allow selection of one of 4 auto
white balance options.
 Automatic is set by default and works for most situations

 Indoor will compensate for excessive “red” levels of illumination

 Outdoor will compensate for excessive “blue” levels of illumination

 Mix will compensate for excessive “red and blue” levels of illumination

Exposure Mode settings allow radio button selection for one of five low light modes. This setting is
responsible for the camera exposure response to changing illumination levels. The settings automatically

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controlled under these groupings include exposure and gain control, backlight compensation, and noise
reduction.
These functions are grouped together into these preset modes and will automatically adjust at rates
determined by the “Exposure Mode” selected.
 High Speed mode enables manual setting of exposure time between 1 and 80ms. Shorter

exposure times reduce motion blur for applications such as monitoring fast moving objects and

reading license plates. The trade-off is an increased level of noise. Exposure time is user

configurable in this mode using the “Exposure” slider bar on the “Exposure Mode” panel. This is

the only low light mode that allows for user selectable exposure time and this drop menu will be

grayed out when any of the other modes are selected. It is recommended that this mode be used
only when there is constant scene illumination sufficient to provide a quality image. When this

mode is selected, the Exposure (ms) field and slider bar controls will be enabled to allow

selection of base exposure time. This control is only available when high speed mode is selected.

 Speed mode, the first stage of exposure control limits exposure time to 10ms while allowing gain

to go up to 20ms and the second stage is up to 80ms exposure time while maintaining gain as

low as possible. In the second stage, the speed mode will behave the same as balanced mode.

 Balanced mode is the camera default setting. Similar to the Quality setting except the first stage

is limited to 20ms with gain allowed going up to 20, followed by the second stage with exposure

time up to 80ms. This is the default setting for Arecont Vision cameras and will provide the best

exposure settings balance for typical installations assuming good lighting conditions. Exposure

times and motion blur will increase in low light but not as much as with Quality or Moonlight

modes

 Quality mode is similar to MoonLight mode except for a shorter exposure time-- first stage is up to

40ms exposure with the gain limited to 5, second stage is up to 200ms exposure while keeping

the gain as low as possible. This mode is a good compromise between reducing noise and

motion blur under most lighting conditions, but with an increase in motion blur under low light

conditions.

 MoonLight™ mode will produce the best image quality under very low light conditions with the

least amount of image noise. The trade-off is in favor of low noise at the expense of high motion

blur. There are two stages of exposure control: first stage is limited to 40ms exposure time with

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gain limited to 5, followed by a second stage (if the target brightness was not reached) with up to

500ms exposure while maintaining gain as low as possible.

Low Light noise filter (%) slider bar setting allows manual user control of noise reduction intensity.
Increase of the value percentage will reduce image noise to reduce bit rates and false motion events in
low light. Trade-off of increasing noise reduction is an overall softening of the image clarity in low
illumination. For single sensor cameras, default value of 10MP camera is 100% and default value of other
MP cameras is 70%.
Day/Night settings control operation of this functionality in Day/ Night model cameras.
Radio buttons allow selection of one of three mode options.
 Automatic is default setting enabling the camera to automatically change from color (Day) mode

to black and white (Night) mode as illumination levels drop off.

 Day mode will manually place the camera in color mode; no automatic function is available.

 Night mode will manually place the camera in black and white mode; no automatic function is

available.

Switching Level slider bar and numeric field control the switching point when the camera switches from
“Day” (color) to “Night” (black & white) mode. Higher values cause the camera to stay in “Day” mode at
lower illumination levels, lower values will cause the camera to switch to “Night” mode in higher
illumination.
Toggle Guard slider and numeric field control the level of brightness required to switch from “Night” (black
& white) to “Day” (color) mode. Higher values will cause the camera to stay in “Night” (black & white)
mode longer than lower values as illumination levels rise. Toggle Guard should be adjusted to prevent the
mode from toggling between “Night” and “Day” modes in areas where transitional lighting exists in the
scene.
Focus after D/N switching checkbox enables the camera to automatically re-focus after switching
between Day and Night modes.
IR Light radio buttons control operation of the IR light on camera, which could improve image brightness
at night.
 Automatic radio button will turn on the IR light on camera after switching to night mode and

turn off after switching to day mode.

 Off radio button will turn off the IR light on camera all the time.

IR – 1 Light Level and IR – 2 Light Level slider bar settings allow manual user control of IR light intensity
and they are only available in MegaVideo® Flex Series.

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Adjustable IR checkbox enables adjustable IR feature on camera. This feature is only available in
MegaBall® G2 Series.
 IR-Tele Level slider bar setting allows manual user control of tele IR light intensity.

 IR-Wide Level slider bar setting allows manual user control of wide IR light intensity.

Enable P-Iris checkbox enables P-Iris feature on camera, which can give best depth of field.
Iris Status textbox will display iris status, which can be:
 Zoomed in: Iris closed caused by zoom-in

 Too Dark: Too dark for reposition

 Evaluating: Fully open

 Closing: lens closing or closed

 Closed: closed and schedule repositioning

 Opening: wait for lens to open or lens is opening or lens is open

 Disabled: P-Iris is disabled

Binning check boxes control operation of the “noise” function when using a 3, 5, or 10 megapixel camera
models.
 Binning in day mode check box will place the camera in binning mode when the camera is in

“Day” mode. This option is enabled by default.

 Binning in night mode check box will place the camera in binning mode when the camera is in

“Night” mode. By default, this option is enabled for 10MP cameras and is disabled for other

single sensor cameras.

When both selected, camera will be binning in both modes. Binning mode combines 2x2 pixels on sensor
to improve low light performance. Low light sensitivity is improved by 4x as a larger pixel area is available
to collect light. The binning mode also increases Signal to noise ratio (SNR) by 2x. The tradeoff with
binning is between low light performance and resolution as when active binning mode will decrease
available resolution by 4x.
Enable Scaling will enable image scaling but will not display scaled image.
View Scaled Video will display scaled image.
Scaling Size dropdown list provides 22 commonly used resolution for scaling selection.

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Video Menu
This menu allows selection control of the video compression displayed in the web page.

Show Video Type radio buttons control selection of display mode.

 Disable Video radio button will disable live video on the screen

 H.264 over RTP/UDP radio button will display video using H.264. If viewing this way for the

first time you will see the following prompt to download the necessary browser plug –in

allowing display of video in the browser using this compression.

Note: To enable H.264 capability in Internet Explorer and Firefox,

first download the VLC player application from www.videolan.org.
During the installation you must make sure that the “Mozilla”
plugin option is checked to install the required plugin for Firefox
browser. VLC must be installed in default path and ActiveX
plugin option is checked during installation to enable H.264
streaming in Internet Explorer browser.

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 MJPEG over HTTP radio button is the default browser display option. No plug in is required

as most browsers can decode MJPEG images.

Fit Video to Window checkbox will scale the full field of view image to fit the browser window. When in
default unselected images will be displayed in the browser at their native resolution and may not allow
viewing of the full field of view.
Control Video with Mouse radio buttons allow control of various functions using the mouse to select them
on screen.
Whichever function is selected can be controlled by left clicking in the image with the mouse and dragging
to select an image region relevant to the corresponding control function.
 No Control radio button disables mouse control of these functions.

 PTZ radio button will open a zoom window for the selected region. Double click on the image

will restore the image to default.

 ROI Reference radio button will create a custom exposure reference using the selected

region to customize backlight compensation for difficult exposure scenes.

 ROI White Balance radio button will create a custom white balance reference using the

selected region to remove unrealistic color casts so that white color is rendered white in the

image.

Note: Auto White Balance checkbox must be checked.

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Resolution setting controls the image size, JPEG compression level, and image cropping features.
 Half/ Full radio buttons allow selection of image resolution to be half or full.

JPEG Quality slider bar and numeric field control the image compression level for the camera’s JPEG
encoder. Higher levels reduce the compression and result in higher quality images with tradeoff for larger
file sizes. Lower levels increase image compression reducing file sizes with the tradeoff for lower quality
image detail.
Left, Top, Right, and Bottom numeric fields allow setting custom image size cropping and crop area
coordinates in pixels. Supported values are 0 to maximum resolution in pixels (maximum varies based on
the sensor resolution being cropped).
Preview button will not apply the resolution settings to the camera.
Apply button sets the current resolution settings to the camera for the current web page connection. This
button will not save the current settings to camera flash memory. Go to the “Administration” menu and
click the “Save to Flash” button to save the current session settings as default for every session until
settings are changed or the camera is reset.

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H.264

H.264 RTSP/RTP/AVP stream settings control port setting, compression and bit rate limits, frames per
second, and multicast settings for H.264 video streaming from the camera.
RTSP Unicast port numeric field allows configuration of the application port for RTSP Unicast video
streams. Default is 554 and valid values that can be set are 1 – 65535.
Setting up bit rate control for our current generation single sensor cameras:

Note: Constant bitrate control feature automatically adjusts image compression to keep the bit rate output
of the camera at the rate level set by the user. For constant bit rate control, if the bitrate value is
configured to a very low value this would cause the camera to automatically increase compression to
maintain the bit rate at the configured limit. In this situation image quality will be affected as compression
automatically increases or decreases.

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 Variable Bitrate Control radio button will maintain the Quality setting configured. There may be

variation in the bit rate output from the camera using this mode.

- H.264 Quality field allows configuration of the H.264 image quality setting for variable bit

rate control. Setting a lower value results in higher image quality, higher value results in

lower image quality.

- Enable Rate Limit checkbox enables variable bit rate control to function like the constant

bit rate control when bit rate rises above the level set.

- Rate limit numeric field allows setting of the rate level.

 Constant bit rate control will enable constant bitrate control option. Camera will automatically

adjust compression to keep bit rate at the level set.

- Bitrate numeric field allows setting the bit rate for constant bit rate control.

Frames per second slide bar allows setting a frame rate for the camera video stream. Reducing the frame
rate is another way to control bandwidth use from the camera; the tradeoff is obvious reduction of video
frame rate.
Audio Input radio button allows selection of audio source.
Enable Audio in RTSP enables audio in H.264 streaming.
Microphone Volume allows setting audio volume of microphone
Line-in Volume allow setting audio volume of line in.

Note: Line-in option is only available on MegaDome cameras. This slider will not be displayed on non-
MegaDome cameras.

Preview button will not apply the configured settings to the camera. Clicking this button will modify the
H.264 request string based on current settings in the webpage for pasting into a 3rd party media player
like VLC. This button essentially just updates the request string to include any changes made by the user
since they started the current connection to the camera web page.
Apply this button will apply the configured H.264 settings to the camera for the current web page
connection. This button will not save the current settings to camera flash memory. Go to the
“Administration” menu and click the “Save to Flash” button to save the current session settings as default
for every session until settings are changed or the camera is reset.
Link for external media players: once the H.264 settings have been applied to the camera this field will
display a link to the camera and H.264 video stream that can be copied and pasted into 3rd party media
players to view the camera.

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RTP/UDP multicast stream settings enable and configure the multicast feature of the camera for H.264.
 Enable RTP Multicast radio button enables the RTP Multicast streaming from the camera.

 IP Address field is for input of the destination multicast IP address. Valid range is from 224.0.0.0

to 239.255.255.255, default setting is 232.0.0.2.

 RTP Port field is for configuring the destination multicast UDP port number. Valid values are 1 to

65535, default is 1234.

 SAP Destination IP field is for setting the Service Advertising Protocol IP address. Valid range is

from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255, default is 224.2.127.254.

Note: Multicasting will require use of an IGMP capable router or switch and IT personnel familiar with
configuring multicast routing and IGMP for proper implementation. Enabling this feature at the camera
without multicast routing management configured on the network could result in increased load on the
local network segment.

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Zoom & Focus

View Focus Window checkbox will display focus reference window. User can also create a custom focus

reference window.

Zoom buttons allow manual zoom of the remote varifocal zoom lens on the camera. Options are + or – in
stepped increments of 20, 5, or 1. Smaller values make finer zoom increments; larger values make larger
zoom increments.
 Enable Auto Focus after zoom checkbox will activate the camera’s automatic focus process

following any changes made to the lens zoom. The selected or default focus window will flash red

and green as the auto focus process proceeds and will be white when it is complete.

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Focus buttons allow manual focus adjustment of the camera. Options are + or – in stepped increments of
20, 5, or 1. Smaller values make finer focus increments; larger values make coarser focus increments.
Full-range Focus button automatically focuses the camera using selected or default focus window. Focus
process will stop when best focus of the scene area within the selected focus window is achieved after
searching all focus positions.
Short-range Focus button automatically focuses the camera using the selected or default focus window.
Focus process will stop when best focus of the scene area within the selected focus window is achieved
after searching a subset of the focus positions.
Stop button will stop the focus procedure in process when pressed.
Note: Regarding the focus reference window the color will change as the image is automatically or
manually focused. As better focus is achieved you will also see the value of the focus aid increase, as the
image gets less focused this value will fall.
* A GREEN focus window indicates moving toward optimal
* A RED focus window indicates moving away from optimal
* A YELLOW focus window indicates no change
* The focus window will turn GRAY when complete

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Network

DHCP/ Fixed Selection radio buttons allow configuring the camera as either
Fixed IP (manually configured), or DHCP (automatically addressed from local DHCP server).
IP Address field is used to manually configure camera IP address.
Subnet Mask field is used to manually configure subnet of the local network.
Default Gateway field is used to manually configure the gateway IP address for the local network.
Lock IP checkbox will prevent the camera IP address from being changed by the installation tool, HTTP
command or webpage. When selected the IP must be manually unlocked in order to change the camera’s
IP address.
Limit MTU Size checkbox will allow custom setting of the camera Maximum Transmission Unit in the To:
field. MTU size is the limit for largest size frame packet that a given protocol can pass over the network.
Larger MTU size is more bandwidth efficient, but large packets can also bottleneck on slow interfaces
causing increased delivery latency. The default MTU size for the camera is 1500 bytes.

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Apply & Save to Flash button will set the manual changes to IP setting to the camera and save all settings
to flash. When fixed IP change is applied, webpage will reload with new IP address automatically. When
switching from fixed IP to DHCP is applied, user needs to reopen webpage with new IP address.
QoS checkbox and fields allow configuring Quality of Service (QoS) settings. For more information about
quality of service, please refer to Quality of Service section in Chapter III.
 Enable QoS checkbox allows enable or disable quality of service.
 Video DSCP field allows setting Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) value for video
streaming over RTP.
 Management DSCP field allows setting Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) value for non-
video traffic.
Link Speed radio buttons allow setting transmission speed and duplex mode.
 Autonegotiation radio button will allow connected devices to share transmission capabilities and

choose the highest performance parameters they both support.

 Fixed 100MBaseT/ Full Duplex radio button will set fixed transmission speed of 100Mb and

duplex mode of full duplex.

Multicast Reception radio buttons allow enable or disable receiving multicast packets.
Miscellaneous settings allow assignment of a camera name in the Camera Name field, and for creating
an alternative HTTP access port in the Second HTTP port field.

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Motion Detection

Enable checkbox enables the motion detection feature. This checkbox will allow masking the selected
image regions from motion detection. When this checkbox is selected no additional changes can be made
to the other settings in this menu.

Extended checkbox enables the “extended” motion detection from default 64 to 1024 detection zones for
enhanced detection sensitivity.
Zone Size slider bar and numeric field determine the size of the detection zone grid displayed when
motion detection feature is enabled.

Note: if zone size is too small for image sensor pixel resolution, the motion detection grid can be made
smaller than the actual image size. Areas not covered by the grid will not be monitored for motion.

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Detail slider bar and numeric field determines the size of each zone displayed by the motion detection
grid contains sub zones the number of which is determined by the zone size setting up to 32x32 (pixels).
This setting configures the sensitivity of the motion detection to the size of objects in the image moving
through the zone. Higher values will trigger motion only for larger objects moving through the zone, lower
values will cause detection of smaller objects in the zone (increasing sensitivity to smaller size objects
moving through the image).
Level threshold slider bar and numeric field determine the sensitivity to brightness changes between dark
and light objects within each grid zone. As an example “Detail” will set the size of the object detected
within the zone, “level” sets the duration that movement must be maintained to trigger motion detection.
Lower settings can increase false motion alarms caused by image noise, higher settings will require more
movement to trigger a motion event.
Motion Sensitivity, % slider bar and numeric field determine the sensitivity to sudden overall brightness
changes in the image. This setting can be useful to prevent false motion alarms due to sudden exposure
changes such as car headlights from triggering motion detection. Larger values will disregard larger
changes affecting the entire image and smaller values will make motion detection more sensitive to large
changes in the image.

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Privacy

Enable Privacy Mask radio button will create a privacy mask on the image so the selected areas will not
be visible.

Note: Masked areas of an image are transmitted with the mask in place, it is part of the video and cannot
be turned off or removed from video that is being viewed or recorded after transmission.

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Administration

Access Control menu allows setting password security on the camera to restrict access to camera
settings menus and/or access to viewing the video.
 Admin Password field sets an admin password to restrict access to the camera menus and

settings.

 Confirmation field is used to type the admin password for a second time to prevent error.

 Set and Erase buttons will apply or erase the admin password.

Note: If the admin password has been set and forgotten, it can only be erased by AV IP Utility
using key file. Please contact Arecont Vision technical support to obtain the key file required
to perform this function.

 Viewer password field sets a viewer password to restrict access to viewing the camera video.

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 Confirmation field is used to type the viewer password for a second time to prevent error.

 Set and Erase buttons will apply or erase the viewer password.

Note: Password cannot contain white space or following illegal symbols: # % & ` “ ‘ < >.

Save & Restore Settings allow saving the current camera configuration as new default or restoring the
camera to out of box settings.
 Save all settings to flash button will save the current camera configuration as setting default.

 Restore to factory default button will restore all settings to factory default (except the camera

IP address).

 Reboot the Camera button will reboot the camera.

Firmware upgrade allows selection and application of a firmware file to be applied to the camera.
 Browse… button and field allow selection of the firmware file location on the local PC.

 Upgrade button will apply the selected firmware file to the camera.

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SD Card

View SD Recording ROI check box will create a custom SD recording image of the area selected.

Playback textbox displays the starting playback time of SD recording.

 Click to Play button allows to start or stop playing back SD recording.

SD Card Recording radio buttons allow selection of SD recording condition.

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 Continuous Recording allows the user to enable continuously recording.

 Stop Continuous Recording AND Enable Event-triggered Recording will stop any continuous

recording in progress and enable recording under one or more of selected conditions:

Network failure, Motion alarm or I/O alarm.

Recording Framerate slider allows setting of frame rate of SD recording.

SD Card Image Resolution radio buttons allow selection Half or Full resolution of SD recording.
Start and End read-only text fields display starting time and ending time of recordings.

Note: recording may not be continuous between the specified start and end times.

Delete All records button will delete all recordings on the SD card.

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About
This menu displays important information about the camera model being viewed

Camera Type displays model and features.

Firmware displays firmware version installed on the camera.

JPEG Engine displays hardware version installed on the camera.

Net Version displays net version installed on the camera.

MAC Address displays physical address/ Serial number of the camera.

Internal P/N displays an internal production number of the camera.

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MicroDome Duo Camera User Interface

Arecont Vision MicroDome Duo cameras can be accessed from a web browser via the on-camera web page.
The web page allows to change camera settings and to view live video. The web page is accessed by typing
IP address of the camera in a web browser:
http://ip_address or http://ip_address/index.html

Figure 15. On-camera web page user interface for MicroDome Duo cameras

In addition to viewing both channels, users can also view only one channel by clicking on the image. Clicking
image again could return to viewing both channels. Draw CWB Window could enable drawing custom white
balance window once.

Save Settings

Reboot button will initiate the camera reboot process

Save all button will save all settings to on-camera flash memory. Use this option if camera is properly
configured and you want to save the changes over the reboots.

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Restore to factory default Click this button to reset camera to factory default state if you find some changes in
configuration cause unsatisfactory results and you want a quick way to reset camera settings to factory
defaults. This button does not reset network settings. To reset all settings including network settings, push
hard reset button on the camera for more than 10 seconds.

Figure 16. Single channel viewing

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Settings Menu

Settings menu is the place to adjust imaging parameters like brightness, resolution, exposure mode, etc.

Figure 17. Settings menu

Channel Settings

Select channel allows user to change settings of each channel. Sharpness, Saturation, Blue, Red, Rotate and
white balance settings apply to the selected channel.

Picture Settings

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Brightness adjusts image brightness.

Sharpness adjusts image sharpness or the crispness of an image.
Saturation adjusts image color saturation or the amount of color in an image. Lower saturation gives a duller,
faded image.
Red/Blue adjusts the red/blue tint. This setting changes the target for camera’s automatic white balance
computation. The effect is gradual and takes several seconds for the camera to fully adjust to the new setting.
Contrast adjusts image gamma.

Illumination Settings

Illumination adjusts the camera’s white balance computation based on the scene’s illumination. “Automatic”
enables the camera to adjust for illumination automatically while indoor/outdoor settings use presets
assuming the camera is indoors or outdoors.

Exposure Mode Settings

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Exposure Mode adjusts exposure settings. Exposure time refers to the amount of time the sensor is exposed
to light. Short exposures result in less light, giving darker images whereas longer exposures can flood an
image with light, giving washed out images in the presence of a lot of light. Additionally, motion blur is
reduced under short exposures and increased under long exposures.
Highspeed enables a fixed exposure time, selectable from the “Short Exposure” menu with values between 1
and 80ms. Low values will reduce motion blur but may result in a noisier video. Ample illumination is required
to improve quality under very short exposures due to the lack of captured light.
Speed enables short exposures ranging from 10-80ms. The exposure time will increase with low light
conditions.
Balanced enables medium exposures ranging from 20-80ms with low light conditions resulting in a higher
exposure time.
Quality enables longer exposures ranging from 40-200ms. Motion blur may increase, but video will contain
less noise under low light conditions.
MoonlightTM enables exposures of up to 500ms if necessary. This mode will result in more motion blur for fast
moving objects.
Low light noise filter set special noise filter strength from 0..100%. The default is set to 50% for MicroDome
Duo cameras.

Miscellaneous Settings

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Rotate rotates the image of selected channel 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
Auto Exposure is an option to enable/disable the on-camera automatic exposure control. Auto exposure
maintains the user-set image brightness under changing lighting conditions. This must be enabled to ensure
the ‘Low Light Mode’ settings function.
Equalize Brightness adjusts the brightness of selected channel to similar level of the other channels. This
checkbox only exists on non-WDR cameras.
Custom White Balance enables customized white balance window control.
Auto White Balance enables automatic white balance control
SNAPstream enables the SNAP stream feature on camera. This feature would make camera utilize low
bitrate while still preserving the camera settings
Exposure Reference Channel allows adjusting exposure based on the selected channel. This option only
exists on WDR cameras.

DayNight Settings

Automatic enables the camera to automatically switch from day mode to night mode based on the Switching
Gain settings and night mode to day mode based on Toggle Guard settings.
Day forces day mode and disables night mode.
Night forces night mode and disables day mode.
Switching Gain adjusts the level of darkness to switch from day to night mode when switching is set to
"Automatic" mode. Smaller values will cause the camera to switch to night mode when there is still much light
in the scene. Larger values will cause the camera to stay in day mode much longer, requiring near darkness
in order to switch.

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Toggle Guard adjusts the level of brightness required to switch from nighttime to daylight mode. Setting this
to 0% corresponds to “Switch At” set to 100%. Toggle Guard should be adjusted to prevent the mode from
toggling during transitional lighting.

Binning Settings

Binning could improve camera performance in low light condition. Binning only exists on 6MP and 10MP
models.

Binning in day mode enables/disables binning in day mode. This mode is disabled by default.
Binning in night mode enables/disables binning in night mode. This mode is disabled by default.

Lighting Settings

Lighting prevents flicker caused by the power line frequency of lighting. Choose 50Hz for Europe and China
and 60Hz for US and Japan. This parameter would have no effect when the dominate light is sunlight. This
parameter will also lose effect if camera exposure mode is set to "Highspeed" and the chosen "Short
exposure" value does not match the power line frequency. A "Short exposure" value is set to match the power
line frequency when it is close to a multiple of 8.3/10ms for 60/50Hz respectively.

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Resolution Menu

Figure 18. Resolution menu

JPEG Quality adjusts the compression level for JPEG images

Resolution selects from "half" or "full" resolution options that supported by the camera
Left/Top/Right/Bottom adjusts the image cropping relative to current image cropping. Due to hardware
limitation, left and right settings will be truncated to multiple of 128 in half resolution and multiple of 64 in full
resolution. Top and bottom settings do not have such restriction.

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H.264 Menu
H.264 menu is used to configure H.264 streaming rate control targeting RTP protocol.

Figure 19. H.264 menu

Variable Bitrate Control when this radio button is selected the camera will maintain the Quality setting
configured. There may be variation in the bit rate output from the camera because this mode ignores bit rate.
 H.264 Quality this field allows configuration of the H.264 image quality setting for variable bit
rate control. Setting a lower value results in higher image quality, higher value results in lower
image quality.
 Enable Rate Limit this button enables variable bit rate control to function like the constant bit
rate control when bit rate rises above the level set.
 Rate limit allows setting of the rate level.

Constant bit rate control enables constant bitrate control option. The camera will automatically adjust
compression to keep bit rate at the level set.
 Bitrate this numeric field allows setting the bit rate for constant bit rate control.

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Focus Menu
Focus menu options are used to control remote focus.

Figure 20. Focus menu

Select channel allows user to adjust focus of each channel.

Focus buttons allow manual focus adjustment of the camera. Options are + or – in stepped increments of 20,
5, or 1. Smaller values make finer focus adjustment; larger values make coarser focus adjustment.
Full-range Focus button automatically focuses the camera. Focus process will stop when best focus of the
scene is achieved after searching all focus positions.
Short-range Focus button automatically focuses the camera. Focus process will stop when best focus of the
scene is achieved after searching some of the focus positions.
Stop button will stop the focus procedure in process when pressed.
Focus Aid field cannot be changed and shows an approximate numeric value relevant to the level of focus
achieved. A higher value means a better level of focus throughout the image; a lower value means the image
is less focused.

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Update Focus Aid when pressed this button will update the “Focus Aid:” window (the value displayed in the
window can sometimes lag behind the actual focus value achieved in the image; measured focus is affected
by image noise and illumination change).
Note: Regarding the focus reference window the color will change as the image is automatically or manually
focused. As better focus is achieved you will also see the value of the focus aid increase, as the image gets
less focused this value will fall.
* A GREEN focus window indicates moving toward optimal
* A RED focus window indicates moving away from optimal
* A YELLOW focus window indicates no change
* Focus window will turn GRAY when complete

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Network Menu
Network menu is where networking parameters such as IP address and port numbers are configured.

Figure 21. Network menu

IP Settings

IP Address set the current IP address of the camera.

DHCP if checked, camera will attempt to obtain its IP address from the DHCP server available on the network.
DHCP is enabled by default.

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Subnet Mask once set, camera will use these mask bits to determine if a destination is from a different
network
Autoback routing sets subnet mask to 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway once set, camera will use send traffic to the specified gateway if the destination is on a
different network

MTU Settings

Enable or disable customized MTU size

MTU setting is for advanced users only. If your network has some type of restriction such that standard
Ethernet MTU size (1500 bytes) is not appropriate for the network, you can enable this option and specify a
different MTU size.

Port Settings

Second HTTP port set an alternative HTTP port. This port can be useful when the standard HTTP port (80) is
not appropriate for this camera.

Ethernet Settings

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Link Speed allows setting transmission speed and duplex mode appropriate for this camera. Autonegotiation
allows connected devices to share transmission capabilities and choose the highest performance parameters
they both support. Fixed 100MBaseT/Full Duplex setting will set fixed transmission speed of 100Mb and
duplex mode of full duplex.
Multicast Reception allows enable or disable receiving multicast packets.

Quality of Service (QoS) Settings

QoS Enable will enable or disable quality of service.

QoS Video allows setting DSCP value for video traffic.
QoS Default allows setting DSCP value for non-video traffic.

Note: It is not recommended for user to change the DSCP value.

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System Menu

Figure 22. System menu

Camera Information

Camera information lists camera information like model, MAC address, firmware version, etc. if you are
experiencing an issue with a camera and need technical support, you will be asked to provide information
displayed on this menu together with a detailed description of the issue. You are also encouraged to provide
a screen shot of this page if it can show any image artifacts that you are experiencing.

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Administration Setting

Administration menu is used to set a password protection. Arecont Vision cameras support two levels of
password-protected access control. Camera authentication is compatible with RFC-2068 HTTP 1.1 and
supported by all standard browsers and video surveillance software.

There are two types of users with the following reserved names:
admin – full access to all camera settings and live video.
viewer –viewing access only to live video.

Setting and removing the passwords is the privilege of the admin user, while the viewer can only use the
existing password, but not change it. Factory defaults erase all current passwords for both the admin and the
viewer. A newly shipped camera has no password protection and allows full anonymous access from the
network. In case the admin password has not been set, the camera has full anonymous access from the
network, even if the viewer password has been set.

Access control setup consists of three steps:

4. Set admin password (using http commands or using the camera’s web page, see below).
5. Login using the admin password and set the viewer password.
6. Communicate the viewer password to the users.
Note: Password cannot contain white space or following illegal symbols: # % & ` “ ‘ < >.
In order to delete viewer password, login as admin and change the viewer password to a reserved password
empty – this would restore the full anonymous access to the camera. The admin user can change the viewer
password at any time, even without knowing the current viewer password.

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Note: If admin password was set but has been lost, it can only be erased by AV IP Utility using the
key file. Please contact Arecont Vision technical support to obtain the key file required to perform this
function.

Firmware Upgrade

Users can also upgrade firmware by Internet Explorer and Firefox web browser.
To upgrade the firmware:
Choose the firmware upgrade file and click “Upgrade ”. The firmware upgrade will start automatically. Do
not disconnect the Arecont Vision camera at any point during the upgrade process.

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Motion Detector Menu

MicroDome Duo cameras support highly sensitive motion detection based on pixel brightness analysis. There
are 64 motion detection zones arranged as an 8x8 array. Each zone is comprised of certain number of cells,
where each cell is a block of 32x32 pixels. By choosing a proper "Zone size" parameter, the total area
covered by 64 zones can be large enough to cover area of interest (normally the entire picture).

Figure 23. Motion Detector menu

Enable motion detector turns on and off on-camera motion detection. On-camera motion detection done by
hardware and does not affect frame rate.

Enable extended motion detection enables the extended motion detection and motion detection zones
increase from default 64 to 1024 for enhanced motion detection sensitivity.

Zone size adjusts the size of motion detection zones. The total area covered by motion detection zones is
(N*32*8)x(N*32*8) pixels, where N is the chosen zone size, 32 is hard-coded cell size and 8 is hard-coded

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number of zones in each direction. For example, N=8 results in a detection area of 2048x2048 pixels which
is good for 2MP and 3MP resolution. For 5MP resolution, N>=11 is appropriate.

Detail adjusts the size of the detectable objects within each motion detection zone. For example, when Zone
size=8, there are total 64 cells in each zone. If Detail=2, motion detection will be triggered when 2 out of 64
cells are found positive. Lower settings may cause false motion detection due to noise. Higher settings will
require larger objects for motion detection. This is useful when motion detection should only detect something
of the size of a car and ignore smaller objects like an animal.

Level threshold adjusts the inter-frame brightness change threshold that triggers motion detection. Lower
settings result in higher detection sensitivity but may cause false triggers due to noise. Higher settings will
require a larger brightness change on the moving object to trigger motion detection.

Sensitivity serves as a guard against false triggering due to a sudden overall change in lighting that would
trigger motion detection in a large number of zones simultaneously. For example, a bright flash in the scene
would not trigger motion detection when Sensitivity value is significantly lower than the maximum. Note that
the maximum number depends on image resolution and is usually less than the total zone size (64). For
example, when Zone size=8 and image resolution is 1600x1200, there are only 7x5=35 active zones since
7*8*32=1792 covers the width and 5*8*32=1280 covers the height. Other zones will always read zero.

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Privacy Mask Menu

MicroDome Duo cameras support video privacy mask feature. When enabled, a blocked out region in the
video can be set up using the mouse. The masked area shown in gray as illustrated in Figure 24.

Figure 24. Privacy Mask menu

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Chapter III - HTTP Access

Arecont Vision cameras support three protocols: TFTP, HTTP, and RTSP/RTP. TFTP protocol is the first
protocol available on Arecont cameras and is very efficient in delivering high quality video at full frame rate in
a LAN environment. The drawback is that the TFTP port is often disabled by default on complex corporate
networks, thus it could be difficult for TFTP traffic to penetrate subnets. Secondly, the implementation of
TFTP protocols requires custom software application development based on Arecont Vision’s SDK and can
take a long time to go through the administrative process before the SDK can be released.

HTTP protocol is supported by all Arecont Vision cameras and is supported by almost all third party software
systems or plug-ins that support standard IP video over HTTP. Developers would find it easy and quick to
locate technical resources to help integrate Arecont cameras using HTTP protocol. Camera performance in
terms of frame rate is somewhat slower via HTTP than via TFTP but is comparable to other multi-megapixel
products available on the market.

RTSP/RTP protocol support is only in camera models that are equipped with an h.264 encoder, as described
at the end of this chapter.

Notational conventions:
 camera_ip or ip_address : IP address of the camera;
 | : means one or another, but not both i.e. logical OR;
 () : allowable values;
 .. : a range of values which can be incremented by 1;
 +/- : positive values do not need the “+” sign, while the negative values do need the “-
“ sign in front of the value;
 [] : non-mandatory value that can be omitted.

HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual JPEG Frames

An individual image can be requested from Arecont Vision cameras by using the following HTTP request
format:

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http://ip_address/image?res=resolution_value&x0=X0&y0=Y0&x1=X1&y1=Y1&quality=quality_value&
doublescan=doublescan_value&id=id_value

where
 res can have value of either “half” or “full” and specifies whether camera should decimate the image
by a factor of 2 in each direction or display the full resolution.
 x0, y0, x1, y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera
and should be divisible by 16, if “res=full” and 32, if “res=half”. These parameters allow for a particular
image to be cropped to a selected size.
 quality is the compressed JPEG image quality with a range from 1 to 21.
 doublescan allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output until a new
image is available (doublescan = 0) or the image request should be serviced by outputting the
content of the image buffer that was already once output (useful for picture-in-picture display).
 ID is an optional field that is ignored by the camera but may be set by the user to a random value to
force some browsers to display a new image. Some browsers may display a cached image if a
previous URL is reused without modifying the ID field.

The following example illustrates the request to camera with IP address 192.168.0.36 for a new full resolution
1600x1200 image with compression quality 12:

http://192.168.0.36/image?res=full&x0=0&y0=0&x1=1600&y1=1200&quality=12&doublescan=0

The user also has the option of specifying default image parameters via parameter “set” requests and then
obtaining the image by using a simple request without additional parameters: http://ip_address/img.jpg

HTTP Request Format for Continuous MJPEG Video Streaming

Continuous sequence of JPEG images (MJPEG) separated by the boundary separator can be requested from
Arecont Vision cameras by using the following GET method request format:
GET /mjpeg?res=resolution_value&x0=X0&y0=Y0&x1=X1&y1=Y1&quality=quality_value&double
scan=doublescan_value&fps=fps_value&id=id_value HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: ip_address\r\n
\r\n

where

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 res can have value of either full or half and specifies whether camera should decimate the image by a
factor of 2 in each direction or display the full resolution.
 x0, y0, x1, y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera
and should be divisible by 16, if “res=full” and 32, if “res=half”. These parameters allow the video to
be cropped to a specific size.
 quality is the compression quality of the jpeg image with a range from 1 to 21;
 doublescan allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output until a new
image is available (doublescan = 0) or if the image request should be serviced by outputting the
content of the image buffer that was already once output (useful for picture-in-picture display).
 FPS specifies the requested frame rate; values from 1 to the maximum camera frame rate result in
the specified frame rate, while omitting fps parameter as well as fps values of 0 and all values above
16 will result in maximum frame rate that is model dependent.

The following example illustrates the request to camera with IP address 192.168.0.36 for the new full
resolution 1600x1200 video stream with compression quality 12 at a maximum frame rate:

GET /mjpeg?res=half&x0=0&y0=0&x1=1600&y1=1200&quality=12&doublescan=0 HTTP/1.1\r\n

Host: 192.168.1.11\r\n\r\n

In response to the above request the camera sends a continuous stream of images separated by the
boundary separator “fbdr” in accordance with MIME multipart/x-mixed-replace format. Please note that MIME
multipart/x-mixed-replace format is not directly supported by Internet Explorer. For video viewing based on IE
only, the users should use on-camera script that can be accessed via http://ip_address/index.html request.

HTTP/1.0 200 Ok\r\n

Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=fbdr\r\n
\r\n
--fbdr\r\n
Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n
\r\n
<JPEG image 1 data>
\r\n
--fbdr\r\n
Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n
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<JPEG image 2 data>

\r\n
--fbdr\r\n
...
Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n
\r\n
<JPEG image n data>
\r\n
--fbdr\r\n

HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual H.264 Frames

Note: The h.264 http requests described below are supported only by camera models AVxxx5.

To maintain a continuous H.264 stream, the requests for individual video frames should be sent one after
another. If the delay between requests exceeds 5 sec, the camera will initiate a new stream by sending an
Intra coded frame first in response to the next frame request. Individual H.264 video frames are requested
from Arecont Vision cameras by using the following HTTP request format:

http://camera_ip/h264f?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..2596)&y0=(0..1944)&x1=(32..2596)&y1=(32..1944)&qp
=(16..36)&doublescan=(0|1)&ssn=(1..65535)[&iframe=(0|1)][&bitrate=(1..51200)][&
intra_period=(0..255)]

Where
 res can have a value of either “half” or “full” to specify whether the camera should decimate the image
by a factor of 2 in each dimension or produce the full resolution image.
 x0, y0, x1, y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera
model and should be divisible by 32, if res = full and 64, if res = half.
 qp is the quantization parameter for H.264 encoder. To achieve a higher quality image, a lower qp is
needed. Recommended to use values in the range (16..36);
 doublescan is the parameter that allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the
frame output until a new frame is available from the sensor (doublescan = 0) or the request should be
serviced by outputting the content of the memory buffer that has been already once output
(doublescan=1, useful for picture-in-picture display).

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 ssn specifies stream identifier. MPEG codecs including H.264 codecs are context dependent
(decoding of the current frame depends on the previous frame(s)). The stream is a sequence of
frames of the same resolution which can be decoded sequentially by one instance of an MPEG
decoder. Accordingly, ssn is a means to distinguish multiple streams from one another. Use a unique
ssn for each stream with a unique image size, quality and/or frame rate. Each camera supports up to
eight simultaneous non-identical streams. Each client must have a unique (ip:ssn)
 iframe set to 1 will force the camera to return an Intra frame (I-frame) with a corresponding SPS and
PPS as an IDR slice, so that the stream is decodable from this point. When opening a new stream
(for example when changing the image size and/or frame rate) the I-frame will be sent automatically
regardless of the input value of iframe. To reduce the stream size, reduce the frequency of iframe =
1 in the requests. The number of P-frames for any of the streams sent by the camera is set using
one of the following HTTP commands :

http://camera_ip/setreg?page=3&reg=21&val=(0..100)

http://camera_ip/set?keyframeinterval=(0..100)

When the on-camera counter of P-frames fills up, the camera will return an I-frame even if iframe in
the request is set to 0. To find out whether an I-frame was received, check the HTTP Content Type.
 bitrate is used to set up a constant bitrate of the H.264 stream in kilobits per second. If this parameter
is present in the request string and is larger than zero then the QP parameter is ignored, and the
camera adjusts quantization parameters automatically to maintain the specified bitrate.
 intra_period is valid only in bitrate control when a non-zero bitrate is present in the request string and
iframe=1 is periodically requested by the user. In this case, the user must specify the intra-frame
period at which the user is sending requests with iframe=1. If the user does not specify intra_period,
then bitrate control will not function correctly, unless the actual period of sending iframe=1 requests is
the same as the number of P-frames specified in register 3:21 of the camera via one of the
commands described above. If there are no iframe=1 requests, then intra_period parameter is not
required and the bitrate control will rely on the number of P-frames set in register 3:21.

The following example illustrates a request to a camera with IP address 192.168.0.36 for a full resolution
1600x1200 image as a part of the stream with a constant bitrate set to 2 Mbits/sec:
http://192.168.0.36/h264f?res=full&x0=0&y0=0&x1=1600&y1=1200&quality=12&doublescan=0&bitrat
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Each frame sent by the camera may contain multiple zero bytes at the end – there is no Unit Delimiter (UD).
Although this does not contradict ITU-T H.264 standard (ISO/IEC 14496-10), some decoders may delay
decoded frames by one due to the absence of the UD. If this presents a problem, replace all zero bytes at
the end with the UD, a sequence of the following five bytes: 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x09 0x10. In addition, the
number of zero bytes at the end of a frame may be significant, up to a few hundred bytes. Replacing them
with the UD will also reduce the stream size.

HTTP Request Format for Continuous H.264 Video Streaming

Note: The h.264 http requests described below are supported only by camera models AVxxx5.

A continuous h.264 video stream with frames separated by the boundary separator can be requested from
Arecont Vision cameras by using the following GET method request format:
GET /h264stream?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..2596)&y0=(0..1944)&x1=(32..2596)&y1=(32..1944)
&qp=(16..36)&doublescan=(0|1)&ssn=(1..65535)[&fps=value][&bitrate=(1..51200)] HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: ip_address\r\n
\r\n

Where:
 res can have value of either “half” or “full” and specifies whether the camera should decimate the
image by a factor of 2 in each dimension or produce the full resolution image.
 x0, y0, x1, y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera
model and should be divisible by 32 if res = full and 64 if res = half.
 qp is the quantization parameter for H.264 encoder. To achieve a higher quality video, a low qp is
needed. Recommended to use values in the range (16..36);
 doublescan allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output until a new
image is available from the sensor (doublescan = 0) or the image request should be serviced by
outputting the content of the image buffer that has been already once output (useful for picture-in-
picture display).
 ssn specifies the stream identifier. MPEG codecs including H.264 codecs are context dependent
(decoding of the current frame depends on the previous frame(s)). The stream is a sequence of
frames of the same resolution, which can be decoded sequentially by one instance of an MPEG
decoder. Accordingly, ssn is a means to distinguish different streams from one another. Use a unique
ssn for each stream with a unique image size, quality, and/or frame rate. Each camera supports up to
eight simultaneous non-identical streams. Each individual client must have a unique (ip:ssn).

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 bitrate is used to set up a constant bitrate of the H.264 stream in kilobits per second. If this parameter
is present in the request string and is larger than zero then the qp parameter is ignored and the
camera adjusts quantization parameters automatically to maintain the specified bitrate.
 fps specifies the requested frame rate. Values 1 to 15 result in the specified frame rate. Omitting the
fps parameter or using fps values of 0 or any values above 16 will result in maximum frame rate
which is model dependent.

The first frame or the stream is always an IDR (Intra) frame followed by multiple P (Inter) frames. The default
number of P-frames is 50, and can be modified via register 3:21 using one of the following HTTP commands:

http://camera_ip/set?keyframeinterval=(0..100)

or

http://camera_ip/setreg?page=3&reg=21&val=(number of P-frames)

For the 8185/8365 cameras, P-frame interval can be modified using the following HTTP command:
http://camera_ip/setreg?page=3&reg=100&val=(number of P-frames)

The current P-frames setting can be checked using the following HTTP command:
http://camera_ip/getreg?page=3&reg=21

Each frame sent by the camera may contain multiple zero bytes at the end. There is no Unit Delimiter (UD)
used. Although this does not contradict the ITU-T H.264 standard (ISO/IEC 14496-10), some decoders may
delay decoded frames by one due to the absence of the UD. If this presents a problem, replace all zero bytes
at the end with the UD, a sequence of the following five bytes: 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x09 0x10. In addition, the
number of zero bytes at the end of a frame may be significant, up to a few hundred bytes. Replacing them
with the UD will also reduce the stream size.

The following example illustrates a request to a camera with IP address 192.168.1.11 for full resolution
1600x1200 images as a part of the stream with a constant bitrate set to 2 Mbits/sec with maximum frame rate:

GET /h264stream?res=full&x0=0&y0=0&x1=1600&y1=1200&qp=26&ssn=1&doublescan=0
&bitrate=2048 HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: 192.168.1.11\r\n
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In response to the above request the camera sends a continuous stream of images separated by the
boundary separator “fbdr” in accordance with MIME multipart/x-mixed-replace format.

HTTP Request and Response Format for Continuous H.264 SEI motion Data
and Status Information
Enable the on-camera motion detection via

http://ip_address/set?motiondetect=on

The HTTP SEI motion data can be retrieved for H.264 or JPEG for receiving either single image frames or
continuous image streaming. To achieve this, above image requests need to have ‘&sei=on’ parameter added
to them.
The following example illustrates the single image frame request to camera with IP address 192.168.0.36 for
a new full resolution 1600x1200 image with sei enabled:

http://192.168.0.36/image?res=full&x0=0&y0=0&x1=1600&y1=1200&quality=12&doublescan=0&sei=
on

The following example illustrates the continuous images streaming request to camera with IP address
192.168.0.36 for a new half resolution 1600x1200 image with sei enabled:

GET /mjpeg?res=half&x0=0&y0=0&x1=1600&y1=1200&quality=12&doublescan=0&sei=on
HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: 192.168.0.36\r\n\r\n

HTTP SEI motion data format for H.264(for both Single Sensor and Panoramic cameras):

0x00000001 0x66 0x01 0x00 md_data_bytes 0x02 0x04 status_bytes

start_bytes SEI_start md_id 0x08 (8/128) status_id length (4)
(4) (1) (1) 0x80 (1) (1)
md_length
(1)

The camera response format for H.264 is as below:

4 bytes: start_bytes (0x00000001)

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1 byte: SEI_start(0x66)
1 byte: md_id(0x01)
1 byte: md_length (Value of 8 for 8x8-zone or value of 128 for 32x32-zone motion detection mode; Value of 0
indicates no motion)
8 or 128 bytes: motion data bit map (each bit indicates the corresponding motion zone)
1 byte: status_id(0x02)
1 byte: status bytes length(0x04)
4 bytes: Status_bytes(bit0: AUXIN; bit1: AUXOUT; bit2: D/N; bit3: binning)

HTTP SEI motion data format for JPEG(for both Single Sensor and Panoramic cameras):

0xFFE2 0x09/ 0x66 0x01 0x00 md_data_bytes 0x02 0x04 status_bytes

Custom 0x11/ SEI md_id 0x08 (8/128) status_id length (4)
application 0x89 Start (1) 0x80 (1) (1)
data Length of (1) md_length
marker marker (1)
(2) (2)

The camera response format for JPEG is as below:

2 bytes: Custom Application Data Marker (0xFFE2)
2 bytes: Length of marker (Value of 17 for 8x8-zone or value of 137 for 32x32-zone motion detection mode;
Value of 9 for no motion)
1 byte: SEI_start(0x66)
1 byte: md_id(0x01)
1 byte: md_length (Value of 8 for 8x8-zone or value of 128 for 32x32-zone motion detection mode; Value of 0
indicates no motion)
8 or 128 bytes: motion data bit map (each bit indicates the corresponding motion zone)
1 byte: status_id(0x02)
1 byte: status bytes length(0x04)
4 bytes: Status_bytes(bit0: AUXIN; bit1: AUXOUT; bit2: D/N; bit3: binning)

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Basic Camera Control Parameters

The camera parameters can be accessed via the HTTP requests of the following format:
http://ip_address/set?parameter=value
http://ip_address/get?parameter

Examples:
http://192.168.0.36/set?brightness=15
http://192.168.0.36/get?brightness

The following parameter requests are supported via HTTP protocol by Arecont Vision cameras:
 brightness – image brightness (valid values are from -50 to 50)
 sharpness – image sharpening(valid values are from 0 to 4)
 saturation – color saturation (valid values from 0 to 6)
 blue - blue tint adjustment (valid values from -10 to +10)
 red - red tint adjustment (valid values from -10 to +10)
 illum – illumination setting for auto white balance (valid values are auto, indoor, outdoor, mix)
 freq – frequency of AC powered light sources (valid values are 50 and 60)
 lowlight – low light mode of the camera, allows tradeoff between frame rate and image quality (valid
values are balance, speed, quality, highspeed, moonlight). If highspeed is used, an additional
parameter shortexposures can be set with valid values from 1 to 10.
 rotate – image rotation (valid values are 0 and 180)
 autoexp – allows to turn on and off auto exposure (valid values are on and off)
 expwndleft - left coordinate of user-defined auto-exposure measurement window (valid values should
fall within sensor window)
 expwndtop - top coordinate of user-defined auto-exposure measurement window (valid values should
fall within sensor window)
 expwndwidth - width of user-defined auto-exposure measurement window (valid values should fall
within sensor window)
 expwndheight – height of user-defined auto-exposure measurement window (valid values should fall
within sensor window)
 sensorleft - left coordinate of sensor window (valid values defined by sensor size)
 sensortop - top coordinate of sensor window (valid values defined by sensor size)
 sensorwidth - width of sensor window (valid values defined by sensor size; this value affects sensor
frame rate)
 sensorheight - height of sensor window (valid values defined by sensor size; this value affects sensor
frame rate)

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 imgleft - left coordinate of the default image returned in response to the simple request
http://ip_address/img.jpg (valid values should fall within the camera’s sensor window)
imgtop - top coordinate of the default image returned in response to the simple request
http://ip_address/img.jpg (valid values should fall within the camera’s sensor window)
 imgwidth – width of the default image returned in response to the simple request
http://ip_address/img.jpg (valid values should fall within the camera’s sensor window)
 imgheight - height of the default image returned in response to the simple request
http://ip_address/img.jpg (valid values should fall within sensor window)
 imgquality – quality setting of the image returned in response to the simple request
http://ip_address/img.jpg (valid values: 1..21)
 imgres – resolution of the default image returned in response to the simple request
http://ip_address/img.jpg (valid values are full and half, where half is used to request images
decimated by a factor of 2 in both directions)
 auto-iris – allows to enable and disable auto-iris (valid values are on and off)
 irisgain – allows to specify threshold for closing the auto-iris (valid values are from 8 to 255)
 save – saves current camera configuration (all parameter values) in the non-volatile memory
http://ip_address/set?params=save
 mac – retrieves the MAC address of the camera (read-only)
 make – retrieves the manufacturer abbreviation
 model – retrieves a four-digit camera model number (read-only, e.g. AV2100M camera will return
“model=2100”)
 fwversion – retrieves firmware version of the camera
 procversion – retrieves version of the image processor
 netversion – retrieves version of the network processor
 revision – retrieves the revision code of the PCB
 factory – restores camera parameters to factory defaults http://ip_address/set?params=factory
 reboot – reboot the camera http://ip_address/set?params=reboot

The camera registers can be accessed via the HTTP requests of the following format:
http://camera_ip/getreg?page=(0..6)&reg=(0..255)
http://camera_ip/setreg?page=(0..6)&reg=(0..255)&val=(0..65535)

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Parameters Specific to AV3130/35 and DAY/NIGHT Cameras

The AV3130 and AV3135 camera utilizes two distinct sensors for its day and night modes. Specifically, a 3-
Megapixel color sensor with IR-cut filter is used in the day mode, and a 1.3-Megapixel monochrome sensor
without IR-cut filter is used in the night mode.
Single sensor Day/Night cameras use a mechanical IR switcher to switch between day mode (color, with IR-
cut filter) and night mode (monochrome, without IR-cut filter).

By default, the camera automatically switches between day and night channels as illumination changes.
However, it is also possible to force the camera to operate in either day or night channel by using the
daynight request. The switching point between day and night modes is determined based on overall AE/AGC
gain and can be adjusted via the parameter nightgain. To avoid oscillations between day and night modes,
the night-to-day transition is specified via parameter daygain in terms of “hysteresis” relative to day-to-night
transition threshold.
 daynight – if set to “auto” the camera will select between color and monochrome channels
automatically based on daygain and nightgain thresholds (valid values are “auto”, “day” and “night”)
 nightgain – specifies the automatic switching point for day-to-night transition in proportion to overall
exposure*gain value. The user may need to adjust this value if the lenses on day and night channels
have different f-stops. Higher values will cause the transition to night mode at lower illumination levels
(valid values for the AV3130 and AV3135 are 0..18, for -DN models the valid range is 64..512)
 daygain – allows to specify the automatic switching point for night-to-day transition as “hysteresis”
relative to night-to-day transition; Higher values will cause the transition to day mode at higher
illumination level (valid values for AV3130 are 0..6, for –DN models are 1..4)

As AV3130 camera has two sensors with different resolutions it is most convenient to specify the required
image size in terms of percentages of the full image size as shown in the following example:
http://200.168.1.10/image?res=full&x0=0%&y0=0%&x1=100%&y1=100%&quality=12&doublescan=0

Motion Detection Control Parameters

The unique design of Arecont Vision cameras allows for highly accurate 64-zone motion detection (also see
Motion Detection). Motion detection is achieved by analyzing inter-frame brightness changes on a pixel-by-
pixel basis. To provide accurate motion detection in low contrast and low light environments, EACH pixel of
EACH frame is analyzed. The user can set the size of motion detection zones (via mdzonesize), select the
sensitivity to motion (via mdlevelthreshold), select the zones where the motion detection has to be blocked
(via mdprivasymask) and specify the size of the moving objects of interest (via mddetail). Motion detection
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addition to retrieving motion detection information, the camera can also be configured to output images only if
motion is detected (via mdmode).

The On-camera motion detection unit utilizes up to 64 and 1024 distinct zones. Only AV1315, AV1325,
AV2815, AV2825 and AV10005 support 1024 grid size. All zones are square, have equal size and are
arranged in 8 rows with 8 zones per row. The zones are numbered from 0 to 63 or 0 to 1023 upper leftmost
zone having number 0 and lower rightmost zone having number 63. The zones are broken into sub-zones of
size 32x32 pixels. The size of zones is specified in terms of the square root of the number of sub-zones via
parameter mdzonesize. With 64 grid size, the zones can be defined to be as small as 7x7 sub-zones to as
large as 15x15 sub-zones. With 1024 grid size, the zones can be defined as small as 2x2 sub-zones. By
setting the limit on how many sub-zones should contain the motion for the entire zone to be considered to
contain motion the user can effectively decide on the size of the moving objects that should be detected. This
is done via the parameter mddetail.
 motiondetect – enables on-camera motion detection (valid values are “on” and “off”)
 mdmode – motion detection mode for mjpeg streams (valid values are “on” and “off”); if set to “on” the
camera will only output an image in the presence of motion; If the motion is not detected, the field
following the frame boundary separator --fbdr will be followed by Content-Type: text/plain (instead of
usual -Type: image/jpeg) and the image data will be substituted with the text message “no motion”
 mdtotalzones - number of independent motion detection zones; Currently must be 64 or 1024 if
supported. There are 8 rows of zones, 8 zones per row. Note that depending on zone size and the
camera model (image resolution in terms of the number of pixels)some zones may not correspond to
the active image area (valid value 64)
 mdzonesize – size of motion detection zones measured in number of 32x32 pixel blocks in each zone;
All zones are squares of the same size from 7x7 to 15x15 (valid values are 7 to 15 for AV1300 and
AV2100 and 8 to 15 for AV3100 and AV3130). For 1024 grid, the minimal zone size is 2x2. However,
AV10005 minimal zone size is 4x4.
 mdlevelthreshold – motion detection threshold that determines the sensitivity to local inter-frame
brightness changes (valid values are 2…31). Lower settings may cause false motion detection due to
noise. This parameter corresponds to “Sensitivity Level” under “Motion detection” tab in the AV200
Video System GUI.
 mdsensitivity – sensitivity of the motion detection to sudden overall lighting changes. This prevents
false triggering due to a sudden overall brightness change that triggers motion detection in a large
number of zones simultaneously. If more than this number of zones have motion it is assumed that
the change is due to lighting change and the detected motion is ignored. Recommended values are
40 for AV3100/AV3130, 30 for AV2100 and 20 for AV1300. This parameter corresponds to “Global
change sensitivity” under “Motion detection” tab in the AV200 Video System GUI.

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 mddetail – allows controlling the size of detectable moving objects. The value is the number of 32x32
sub-zones within each zone that should contain motion for the entire zone to be considered to contain
motion. (valid values are 1 through square of mdzonesize). This parameter corresponds to “Minimum
detectable size” under “Motion detection” tab in AV200 Video System GUI.
 mdprivasymask – Privacy matrix. An 8-byte array, where each byte corresponds to one row of motion
detection zones. Each bit in a byte enables motion detection in a corresponding zone, if set to ‘1’.
Leftmost zone is controlled by MSB, rightmost zone by LSB.
Example: set?mdprivasymask=2a8f3d135b71ee04 results in the following enabled zones
relative to camera image:
01010100
11110001
10111100
11001000
11011010
10001110
01110111
00100000
 mdresult – Motion detection information returned by the camera; The return value is “no motion” if
motion has not been detected, otherwise the motion detection information is returned in the following
format:
mdresult=<SP><hexadecimal byte0><SP><hexadecimal byte1>...<SP><hexadecimal byte63>
where <SP> is the SPACE symbol, and the byte value, byteN, indicates the number of sub-zones
(blocks of 32x32 pixels) with motion within zone N. Note: the sub-zone size is fixed to 32x32 and
cannot be changed. Important: the user should keep in mind that the total number of zones is always
64 (8 vertically and 8 horizontally). Therefore, if the zone size is large, some zones may not
correspond to the active pixel array. In that case their motion detection value is not meaningful and
should be ignored. For example, for AV1300 camera: if the image size is 1280x1024, then for zone
size 8x8 there are 5 by 4 active zones (3 zones after every 5 zones must be ignored as well as all
zones after zone 32).
Example:
mdresult= 00 1A 01... means that in zone 0 motion was not detected, in zone 1 there are 26
(32x32) sub-zones with motion, in zone 2 there is one sub-zone 1 with motion ….

Access Control

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HTTP commands for password setting:

1. For admin passwords:

http://camera_IP/get?admin
http://camera_IP/set?admin=(a string of 1..16 ASCII symbols or “empty”) The reserved password
empty is used to erase the existing password.

2. For viewer passwords (Figure 30):

http://camera_IP/get?viewer
http://camera_IP/set?viewer=(a string of 1..16 ASCII symbols or “empty”) The reserved password
empty is used to erase the existing password.

Access Control for Panoramic Cameras

Arecont Vision cameras support dual-level password-protected access control. Camera authentication is
compatible with RFC-2068 HTTP 1.1 and is supported by all standard browsers and video surveillance
software.

There are two types of users with the following reserved names:
admin – has full access to all camera settings and the video.
viewer – has viewing access to the video.

Setting and removing the passwords is the privilege of the admin user. The viewer user can only use a
password set by the admin and has no rights to modify their own password. Resetting to factory default will
erase all current passwords for both admin and viewer. A newly shipped camera will have no password
protection and will allow full anonymous access. Setting the viewer password without an admin password will
still allow full anonymous access to the camera’s live feed.

Access control setup consists of three steps:

1. Set an admin password, using http commands or using the camera’s web page.
2. Login using the admin password and set the viewer password.
3. Convey the viewer password to the users.
In order to delete viewer password, login as admin and change the viewer password to a reserved password
empty – this would restore the full anonymous access to the camera. The admin user can change the viewer
password at any time, without knowing the current viewer password.

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Note: If the admin password has been set and forgotten, it can only be erased by AV IP Utility using
key file. Please contact Arecont Vision technical support to obtain the key file required to perform this
function.

HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/1.0

Arecont Vision cameras support both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 protocols as defined by RFC-1945 and RFC-
2068, respectively. While HTTP/1.0 is simple, it limits the speed of image transmission for cases when the
user requests individual images rather than an mjpeg stream. This is due to the fact that connection is closed
after the transmission of each image, forcing the client to incur round trip delay repeatedly. However,
HTTP/1.0 is supported by all HTTP implementations and can be used reliably, albeit with limited speed. By
default, Arecont Vision cameras are configured to respond using HTTP/1.0 protocol regardless of the HTTP
version used by the client.

Users who desire faster full duplex communication and image delivery may request responses using the
HTTP/1.1 protocol. To do so, the user should append the parameter ver=HTTP/1.1 to the request string as
shown in the following example:

http://192.168.0.36/image?res=full&x0=0&y0=0&x1=1600&y1=1200&quality=12&doublescan=0&ver=HTTP/1.1

It is important to note that Arecont Vision cameras implement “chunked” transfer encoding as defined by
paragraph 14.40 of RFC-2068. While RFC-2068 requires that all HTTP/1.1 implementations support “chunked”
encoding, in reality many older implementations (Indy 9, WinHTTP 5.0, etc) are not fully compliant with the
requirements of the standard. As a result, if the HTTP/1.1 protocol is requested from a non-compliant
implementation, the chunks separators will remain in the data stream and the jpeg image will be corrupted. If
the user receives corrupted images over HTTP/1.1 the user should either remove HTTP/1.1 specification from
the request or upgrade the HTTP implementation to fully compliant (e.g. WinHTTP 5.1)

HTTP Access of Panoramic Cameras

Notational conventions:
camera_ip : IP address of the camera;
get : get a parameter from camera via http;
set : set a parameter on camera via http;
<channel> : panoramic camera channel number from 1 to 4;
"" : a symbol string in ASCII;

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| : means one or another, but not both;

() : allowable values;
.. : a range of values that can be incremented by a value of 1;
+/- : positive values do not need the “+” sign, while the negative values do need the
“- “ sign in front of the value;
[] : non-mandatory value which could be dropped.

In order to access the built-in camera’s web page type either of the two following http commands into the web
browsers’ address field:
http://camera_ip/
http://camera_ip/index.html

Requesting Images from Panoramic Cameras AV8180/AV8185/AV8185DN &

AV8360/AV8365/AV8365DN
The AV8360/AV8180/AV8365/AV8185 camera models support two types of image requests: individual JPEG
image requests (image or img.jpg) and continuous MJPEG stream requests (mjpeg). In addition, models
AV8365/AV8185 support h.264 streaming using RTSP/RTP protocol. The maximum number of supported
simultaneous requests of single images or mjpeg streams is eight for AV8180 and AV8360, and up to twelve
in AV8185 and AV8365.

Note: Even though the camera supports multi-user access, the maximum frame rate is achieved only when
there is a single request arriving to each channel at any given time.

1. Requesting individual JPEG images

1.1 Requesting images using explicit parameter list within the HTTP string:

http://camera_ip/image[<channel>]?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..1600)&y0=(0..1200)&x1=(32..1600)&y1=(3
2..1200)&quality=(1..21)&doublescan=(0|1)&[id=(0..99999999999999)]&[ssn=(0..65535)]

Where:
res can have value of either “half” or “full” and specifies whether the camera should decimate
the image by a factor of 2 in each dimension or display the full resolution.
x0,y0,x1,y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array.
quality – image quality, the inverse of image compression level;

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doublescan allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output
until a new image is available (doublescan = 0) or the image request should be serviced by
outputting the content of the image buffer that was already once output (useful for picture-in-
picture display).
id is an arbitrary number used to control the web browser’s cache;
ssn is a unique HTTP session number which cancels out any earlier sent HTTP request with
the same number which got “hung”.

Note: Image requests without the <channel> parameter specified will cause the camera to
transmit the next available image from any of the currently enabled channels. The channel
number of the transmitted image could then be identified from the HTTP header Etag (see
RFC-2068 HTTP 1.1): ETag: Channel<channel> .

1.2 Requesting images using an implicit parameter list (parameters are loaded on camera in advance
using separate http commands (see section B 16 below):

http://camera_ip/img.jpg?[id=(0..99999999999999)]&[ssn=(0..65535)]

Where:
id – an arbitrary number used to control the web browser’s cache;
ssn – a unique HTTP session number which cancels out any earlier sent HTTP request with
the same number which got “hung”.

2. Requesting a continuous Motion JPEG image stream

http://camera_ip/mjpeg[<channel>]?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..1600)&y0=(0..1200)&x1=(32..1600)&y1=(3
2..1200)&quality=(1..21)&doublescan=(0|1)&[fps=(0..15)]&[id=(0..99999999999999)]&[ssn=(0..65535
)]

Where:
res can have value of either “half” or “full” and specifies whether the camera should decimate
the image by a factor of 2 in each dimension or display the full resolution.
x0,y0,x1,y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array.
quality – image quality, the inverse of image compression level;

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doublescan allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output
until a new image is available (doublescan = 0) or the image request should be serviced by
outputting the content of the image buffer that was already once output (useful for picture-in-
picture display).
fps specifies the desired frame rate.
id is an arbitrary number used to control the web browser’s cache;
ssn is a unique HTTP session number which cancels out any earlier sent HTTP request with
the same number which got “hung”.

Note: MJPEG requests without <channel> parameter specified will cause the camera to transmit next
available image from any of the currently enabled channels. The channel number of the transmitted
image could then be identified from the HTTP header Etag (see RFC-2068 HTTP 1.1):
ETag: Channel<channel> .

3. In addition to JPEG streaming, panoramic camera models AV8185 and AV8365 support h.264
streaming using RTSP/RTP protocol. Any RTSP request sent to camera via UDP will be ignored.
The actual video stream is transmitted by the camera using RTP protocol. Arecont Vision cameras
support two options for RTP transmission: RTP over UDP, and RTP over TCP (RTP/AVP). The
maximum number of simultaneously serviced unicast requests or video streams is up to twelve per
panoramic camera allocated among its enabled channels. For example three video streams per
channel for each of the four channels are supported.

Accessing video stream via RTSP commands in AV8185 and AV8365:

An H.264 video stream is requested via RTSP using the following URL. Please note that this URL will not
work in a typical web browser. A media player such as VLC or Apple QuickTime is required for this to
function properly.
rtsp://camera_ip/h264.sdp<channel>?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..1600)&y0=(0..1200)&x1=(32..1600)&y1=(
32..1200)&qp=(16..36)&ssn=(1..65535)&[bitrate=(0..65536)]&[fps=1..100]

Note: RTSP requests without <channel> parameter specified will cause the camera to transmit next
available image from any of the currently enabled channels. The channel number of the transmitted
image could then be identified from the RTP Payload Type: 96~99 corresponding to channel 1~4. For
details, please refer to chapter IV regarding Panoramic RTSP generic request.

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Where:
 Res can have value of either “half” or “full” and specifies whether the camera should decimate the
image by a factor of 2 in each dimension or produce the full resolution image.
 X0, Y0, X1, Y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera
model and should be divisible by 32 if Res = full and 64 if Res = half.
 QP is the quantization parameter for H.264 encoder. To achieve a higher quality video, a low qp is
needed. Recommended values are in the range (16..37);
 SSN specifies the stream identifier. MPEG codecs including H.264 codecs are context dependent
(decoding of the current frame depends on the previous frame(s)). The stream is a sequence of
frames of the same resolution which can be decoded sequentially by one instance of an MPEG
decoder. Accordingly, SSN is a means to distinguish different streams from one another. Use a
unique SSN for each stream with a unique channel, image size, quality, and/or frame rate. Each
camera supports up to eight simultaneous non-identical streams. Each client must have a unique
(ip:ssn)
 Bitrate is used to set up a constant bitrate of the H.264 stream in kilobits per second. If this parameter
is present in the request string and is larger than zero then the QP parameter is ignored and the
camera adjusts quantization parameters automatically to maintain the specified bitrate.
 FPS specifies the requested frame rate. Values 1 to 15 result in the specified frame rate. Omitting the
fps parameter or using fps values of 0 or any values above 16 will result in maximum frame rate
which is model dependent.

AV20365/AV20185DN vs. AV8365/AV8365DN

AV20365/AV20185DN camera models have binning technique to improve low light performance by
combining adjacent pixels, comparing to AV8365/AV8185DN models. The binning mode can be set
separately as day_binning and night_binning mode using the following HTTP commands:

http://camera_ip/get?day_binning
http://camera_ip/set?day_binning=(on|off)
http://camera_ip/get?night_binning
http://camera_ip/set?night_binning=(on|off)

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Dual-Sensor AV3236 vs. Single-sensor AV3116DN

The single sensor AV3116DN camera has only one 3MP WDR color sensor. The dual sensor AV3236
camera is two cameras in one. It can be programmed to use the 3MP WDR color sensor in daylight
conditions and 1.2MP monochrome sensor in low light, or it can stream video from both sensors
simultaneously. The resolution is 2048x1536 for color sensor and 1280x960 for monochrome sensor. The
monochrome sensor images can be configured to be up-scaled at the same resolution as color sensor
images. The following usages are specific for the dual sensor model AV3236:
1. Day/night mode: the default mode is “auto”, which allows the camera to switch between day and night
modes automatically; the “dual” mode allows the client to pull both color and monochrome images
simultaneously.
http://camera_ip/get?daynight
http://camera_ip/set?daynight=(auto|day|night|dual)

2. Enable upscaling: the monochrome image will be upscaled to the same size as color image.
http://camera_ip/get?upscaling
http://camera_ip/set?upscaling=(off|on)

3. ATTENTION: The image request size is based on color image to maintain the size integrity between
day/night switching or scaling. The camera will automatically convert requested size to the correct
size for monochrome image. Without upscaling, the ratio is 1.6 between color image and
monochrome image.

4. In dual mode, to request specific sensor images, the parameter string “channel=color|mono” should
be added in the image request string, for example:
rtsp://camera_ip/h264.sdp?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..1600)&y0=(0..1200)&x1=(32..1600)&y1=(32..1200)&
qp=(16..36)&ssn=(1..65535)&[bitrate=(0..65536)]&[fps=1..100]&[channel=color|mono]

http://camera_ip/mjpeg?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..1600)&y0=(0..1200)&x1=(32..1600)&y1=(32..1200)&qu
ality=(1..15)&[fps=1..100]&[channel=color|mono]

Getting and Setting Camera Parameters

Note: For Panoramic cameras, all commands listed below that allow parameter setting without explicitly
specifying the channel number apply to all four channels.

Note: The parameter setting is allowed only for the users with the admin access level (see below under
Camera Access Control).

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1. Enabling camera channels:

Parameter channelenable is a 4-bit mask where each bit corresponds to one camera channel.
LSB is channel 1.
http://camera_ip/get?channelenable
http://camera_ip/set?channelenable=(1..15)

2. Rotate:
To rotate images:
http://camera_ip/set?rotate=(0|90|180|270)
Note: 90 and 270 rotations are only supported in the newer single-sensor models. Please refer to
get?features command #55 to identify this feature availability.

3. Brightness:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?brightness
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?brightness=(-50..+50)

4. Sharpness:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?sharpness
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?sharpness=(0..4)

5. Saturation:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?saturation
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?saturation=(0..6)

6. Blue balance:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?blue
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?blue=(-10..+10)

7. Red balance:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?red
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?red=(-10..+10)

8. Illumination:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?illum
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?illum=("auto"|"indoor"|"outdoor"|"mix")

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9. Mains frequency, Hz (for indoor lighting compensation):

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?freq
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?freq=(50|60)

10. Exposure mode (low light mode):

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?lowlight
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?lowlight=("highspeed"|"speed"|"balance"|"quality"|"moonlight")

11. Shutter time in high-speed exposure mode (in milliseconds):

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?shortexposures
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?shortexposures=(1..80)

12. Auto exposure control:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?autoexp
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?autoexp=("on"|"off")

13. Auto exposure mode:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?exposure
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?exposure=("auto"|"on"|"off")

14. Exposure window:

http://camera_ip/get?expwndleft
http://camera_ip/set?expwndleft=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?expwndtop
http://camera_ip/set?expwndtop=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?expwndwidth
http://camera_ip/set?expwndwidth=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?expwndheight
http://camera_ip/set?expwndheight=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

15. Sensor cropping:

http://camera_ip/get?sensorleft

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http://camera_ip/set?sensorleft=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?sensortop
http://camera_ip/set?sensortop=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?sensorwidth
http://camera_ip/set?sensorwidth=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get??sensorheight
http://camera_ip/set?sensorheight=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

16. Image settings used as the implicit parameter list in img.jpg image requests:
http://camera_ip/get?imgleft
http://camera_ip/set?imgleft=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?imgtop
http://camera_ip/set?imgtop=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?imgwidth
http://camera_ip/set?imgwidth=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?imgheight
http://camera_ip/set?imgheight=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?imgquality
http://camera_ip/set?imgquality=(1..21)

http://camera_ip/get?imgres
http://camera_ip/set?imgres=("full"|"half")

17. Obtaining MAC address:

http://camera_ip/get?mac

18. Getting camera model:

To get camera’s base model number:
http://camera_ip/get?model

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With parameter “fullname”, the camera returns the base model number plus feature letter.
With parameter “releasename”, the camera returns the manufacture model number plus feature letter,
or the real model number.
http://camera_ip/get?model=[fullname|releasename]

For example, for the model AV2115DN, the base model number is 2805, the fullname is 2805DN and
the releasename is 2115DN. All the models with the same base model have the same format and
functionality except specified features. This benefits NVRs with new model integration. If the NVR has
already integrated AV2805 model earlier, AV2115DN can be easily integrated and treated as an
AV2805 model.

19. Getting camera internal part number:

http://camera_ip/get?model=(“ipn”|“internal”)

20. Getting firmware version:

http://camera_ip/get?fwversion

21. Getting image processor engine version:

http://camera_ip/get?procversion

22. Getting network processor version:

http://camera_ip/get?netversion

23. Getting PCB revision

http://camera_ip/get?revision

24. Store current settings into the flash memory:

http://camera_ip/set?params=save

25. Restore factory default setting:

http://camera_ip/set?params=factory

26. Reboot the camera:

http://camera_ip/set?params=reboot

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27. Custom mode settings:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?kneepoint
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?kneepoint=(1..100)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?analoggain
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?analoggain=(1..10)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?maxkneegain
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?maxkneegain=(2..??)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?maxexptime
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?maxexptime=(0..100)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?maxdigitalgain
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?maxdigitalgain=(32..127)

28. Alternative receiving port of the camera’s web server:

http://camera_ip/get?webserverport
http://camera_ip/set?webserverport=(0..65535)

29. User password with admin level of access:

http://camera_ip/get?admin
http://camera_ip/set?admin=(text string of 1..16 ASCII symbols | “empty”)
Note: to erase the password use the reserved word “empty”.

30. User password with viewer level of access:

http://camera_ip/get?viewer
http://camera_ip/set?viewer=( text string of 1..16 ASCII symbols | “empty”)
Note: To erase the password use the reserved word “empty”.

31. Camera’s register access:

http://camera_ip/getreg?page=(0..6)&reg=(0..255)
http://camera_ip/setreg?page=(0..6)&reg=(0..255)&val=(0..65535)

32. Maximum sensor size:

http://camera_ip/get?maxsensorwidth

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http://camera_ip/get?maxsensorheight

33. Motion detection settings:

To enable/disable motion alarm mode:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?mdmode
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?mdmode=("on"|"off")

To enable/disable motion detection mode:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?motiondetect
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?motiondetect=("on"|"off")

To set regular or extended motion detection mode:

http://camera_ip/get?mdtotalzones
http://camera_ip/set?mdtotalzones =(64|1024)

Note: for 4K models, motion detection is only supported in extended mode.

To set motion detection zone size (32 pixels per zone):

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?mdzonesize
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?mdzonesize=(1..16)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?mdlevelthreshold
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?mdlevelthreshold=(2..31)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?mddetail
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?mddetail=(1..255)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?mdprivacymask
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?mdprivacymask=(...)

To query motion detection result:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?mdresult

34. Auxiliary I/O setting:

http://camera_ip/get?auxin

http://camera_ip/get?auxout

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http://camera_ip/set?auxout=("on"|"off")

35. Enabling flexible cropping:

To get flexible cropping status:
http://camera_ip/get?cropping

To enable/disable flexible cropping:

http://camera_ip/set?cropping =("on"|"off")

Note:
1. With flexible cropping off, the requested image dimension has to be divisible by 32x16 for JPEG
format or by 64x32 for H.264 format.
2. With flexible cropping on, the requested image dimension can be arbitrary (some restriction might
apply). The additional cropping information needs to be dealt with by the decoder or the client
software.
3. Default setting for flexible cropping is off before firmware 65237. Default setting for flexible
cropping is on in firmware 65237 and after.
4. This command does not work for AV08ZMD-400 as flexible cropping is always enabled.
5. Multi-sensor cameras, including Omni, Omni G2, SurroundVideo, SurroundVideo G5/G5 Mini,
MicroDome Duo, do not have flexible cropping feature.

36. Binning mode setting:

http://camera_ip/get?day_binning
http://camera_ip/get?night_binning
http://camera_ip/set?day_binning=("on"|"off")
http://camera_ip/set?night_binning=("on"|"off")

37. 1080p mode setting (10xx5 models only):

http://camera_ip/get?1080p_mode
http://camera_ip/set?1080p_mode=(“on”|”off”)

38. Privacy mask setting:

To enable/disable privacy mask:
http://camera_ip/get?pmask
http://camera_ip/set?pmask=(“on”|”off”)

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To set/erase privacy mask block (32x32 pixels/block):

http://camera_ip/set<channel>?pmaskleft=(0..1023)
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?pmasktop=(0..1023)
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?pmaskright=(0..1023)
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?pmaskbottom=(0..1023)
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?pmaskblock=(“on”|”off”)

Note: for panoramic models, channel number is required.

39. Focus and Zoom setting:

To set focus/zoom moving steps:
http://camera_ip/set?focus=( fullrange | shortrange | -20..20)
http://camera_ip/set?zoom=(-20..20 | reset)

http://camera_ip/get?focus

Note:
1. All above requests return focus value; the bigger value indicates the better focusing
2. After set zoom/focus steps, the focus value becomes valid after the next frame
3. This feature is only enabled in MegaDome2 models, such as AV1255, AV2255, AV5255 and
AV10255

To query if the focusing scan is finished after setting “focus=fullrange/shortrange”. It returns “on” or
“off”.
http://camera_ip/get?focus=status

To set focus window:

http://camera_ip/get?focusleft=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)
http://camera_ip/get?focustop=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)
http://camera_ip/get?focusright=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)
http://camera_ip/get?focusbottom=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

To set four sides of focus window size:

http://camera_ip/get?focuswindow
http://camera_ip/set?focuswindow=(0..max sensor width) , (0..max sensor height), (0..max sensor
width), (0..max sensor height)

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Enabling auto focus after day night switch:

http://camera_ip/get?af_dn
http://camera_ip/set?af_dn=(“on”|”off”)

Enabling auto focus after zoom:

http://camera_ip/get?af_zoom
http://camera_ip/set?af_zoom=(“on”|”off”)

40. Casino mode setting (1080p models only):

http://camera_ip/get?casino_mode
http://camera_ip/set?casino_mode=(“on”|”off”)

41. Network related setting:

http://camera_ip/get?netopt
http://camera_ip/set?netopt=(decimal value of corresponding bits on/off)
Note: bit 0: DHCP IP assignment; bit 1: BOOTP IP assignment; bit 2: RARP IP assignment; bit 3: IP
lock; bit 4: NTP time requester; bit 5: PSIA discovery multicast server; bit 6: RTP multicast server; bit
7: MTU enable/disable; bit 8: PSIA discovery zeroconfig server; bit 9: IPv6 stack enable; bit 10:
DHCPv6 enable

42. Multicast related setting:

Multicast IP address:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?streamip
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?streamip=xx.xx.xx.xx

Multicast Port:
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?rtpport
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?rtpport=(0..65535)

Multicast SAP destination IP:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?sapip
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?sapip=xx.xx.xx.xx

Multicast reception:
http://camera_ip/get?multicast_rec
http://camera_ip/set?multicast_rec=(on | off)

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Enabling multicast announcement:

http://camera_ip/get?en_multicast
http://camera_ip/set?en_multicast=(0..1)
Note:
1. HTTP command en_multicast is available in single sensor firmware 65241.3 (and above) and
SurroundVideo firmware 65192.14 (and above). In order to pass ONVIF conformance test,
firmware does not announce ONVIF multicast by default. User need to use this HTTP command
to enable multicast announcement manually, or VMS may fail to establish multicast streaming.
2. This setting enables or disables support for responding to incoming multicast traffic to the camera.
Disabling this feature will not affect the camera's ability to provide multicast video.
3. For multi-sensor cameras, HTTP commands streamip, sapip and rtpport are channel specific and
not global. Currently SurroundVideo series is the only multi-sensor camera that supports these
multicast HTTP commands, starting from firmware 65192.14.

43. Multicast frame rate setting:

http://camera_ip/get?fps
http://camera_ip/set?fps=(0..30)

44. H.264 bitrate control:

Variable bitrate is controlled by ‘qp’, ’qp_max’ and ‘ratelimit’ parameters. ‘qp’ is used to set the target
quantization parameter while the maximum bitrate is limited by ‘ratelimit’. The quality start reducing to
cap the bitrate when bitrate reaches maximum ratelimit value. For ‘qp’, a lower value equates to
higher quality. The parameter ‘qp_max’ is used to determine the lowest allowed quality, in other
words the maximum allowed qp value.

http://camera_ip/get?qp
http://camera_ip/get?qp_max
http://camera_ip/get?ratelimit_mode
http://camera_ip/get?ratelimit
http://camera_ip/set?qp=(36..16)
http://camera_ip/set?qp_max=(36..16)
http://camera_ip/set?ratelimit_mode=(on | off)
http://camera_ip/set?ratelimit=(0..65535)

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The parameter ‘bitrate’ controls the constant bitrate by automatically adjusting image quality to
maintain the desired bitrate.
http://camera_ip/get?bitrate
http://camera_ip/set?bitrate=(0..65535)

45. H.264 key frame and key frame interval:

http://camera_ip/set?keyframe=”on”
http://camera_ip/get?keyframeinterval
http://camera_ip/set?keyframeinterval=(0..100)
Note:
1. The default value for keyframe (i-frame) interval is 50.
2. For 4K models keyframeinterval=(1..200)
3. Sending the http command http://camera_ip/set?keyframe=”on” will yield an I frame on the next
available frame.
4. The numerical value in “set?keyframeinterval=(0…65535)” represents the P-frame count between
two consecutive key frames (I-frames).

46. RTSP port:

http://camera_ip/get?rtspport
http://camera_ip/set?rtspport=(0..65535)

47. Low light noise filter:

Set special noise filter strength from 0..100%.
http://camera_ip/get?spacialfilter
http://camera_ip/set?spacialfilter=(0..100)

48. Camera name

http://camera_ip/get?name
http://camera_ip/set?name=(up to 32 characters)

49. MTU size

http://camera_ip/get?mtu
http://camera_ip/set?mtu=(512..1500)

50. IP address
http://camera_ip/get?ip

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http://camera_ip/set?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

51. Subnet mask

http://camera_ip/get?subnetmask
http://camera_ip/set?subnetmask=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

52. Default gateway

http://camera_ip/get?gateway
http://camera_ip/set?gateway=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

53. Default gateway

http://camera_ip/get?webserverport
http://camera_ip/set?webserverport=(0..65535)

54. Link speed

When “auto” is set, auto negotiation will be enabled. The connected devices will first share their
transmission capabilities, such as speed and duplex mode, and then choose the highest performance
transmission mode they both support.
When “fixed” is set, a transmission speed of 100Mb and full duplex mode will be used.
http://camera_ip/get?eth_negotiation
http://camera_ip/set?eth_negotiation=(auto | fixed)
Note: When switching between “auto” and “fixed”, you must also change the settings on the switch to
match. Failure to do so may cause unreliable Ethernet connectivity.

55. Camera Features:

To inquire about supported features on a camera:
http://camera_ip/get?features

Note:
1. Command returns a decimal value of corresponding feature bits on/off as follows:
Bit 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Feature Day/Night IR light Auto Iris Privacy Extended Binning Flexible Stellar
Mask Motion Cropping
Detection

Bit 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Feature Remote Focus Focus Aid WDR Audio SD Card P-Iris Heater Down
Scaling

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Bit 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Feature 90/270 Adjustable SNAP WB Rev2 Remote HTTPS Remote Remote
Rotation IR Stream Support Zoom enabled Pan Tilt

2. Remote focus and remote zoom share bit 8 but there are exceptions. MicroDome G2,
SurroundVideo G5 and SurroundVideo Omni G2 cameras have remote focus but don’t have
remote zoom.
3. MicroDome Duo cameras don’t support this HTTP command

56. Audio control:

To select the source of audio input, the user can choose between microphone and line-in:
http://camera_ip/set?audioinput=(mic | linein)

To control the volume of audio, the user can set the volume for microphone or line-in:
http://camera_ip/set?linein_volume=(0..45)
http://camera_ip/set?mic_boost=(0..2)

The user can also retrieve the audio input type and volume:
http://camera_ip/get?audioinput
http://camera_ip/get?linein_volume
http://camera_ip/get?mic_boost

57. P-Iris control

To enable P-Iris:
http://camera_ip/get?piris
http://camera_ip/set?piris=(“on”|”off”)

To set position P-Iris will close to:

http://camera_ip/get?pirispos
http://camera_ip/set?pirispos=(0..255)

58. Infrared lights control

To enable infrared lights in night mode:
http://camera_ip/get?ir
http://camera_ip/set?ir=(“on”|”off”)

To keep infrared lights on all the time:

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http://camera_ip/get?ir
http://camera_ip/set?ir=(“alwayson”|”off”)

59. Getting make of camera

http://camera_ip/get?make

60. Enabling white balance

http://camera_ip/get?white_balance
http://camera_ip/set?white_balance=(“on”|”off”)

61. White balance window :

http://camera_ip/get?wbwndctrl
http://camera_ip/set?wbwndctrl=(“on”|”off”)

http://camera_ip/get?wbwndleft
http://camera_ip/set?wbwndleft=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?wbwndtop
http://camera_ip/set?wbwndtop=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get? wbwndwidth
http://camera_ip/set?wbwndwidth=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

http://camera_ip/get?wbwndheight
http://camera_ip/set?wbwndheight=(0..max of the corresponding sensor size)

62. NTP server IP address

http://camera_ip/get?ntpserver_ip
http://camera_ip/set?ntpserver_ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

63. Getting camera model type:

To get camera’s model type name:
http://camera_ip/get?enclosure

For single sensor cameras, with parameter “code”, the camera returns the model type number
http://camera_ip/get?enclosure =code

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64. Gamma of single sensor and SurroundVideo1 cameras:

http://camera_ip/get?gamma
http://camera_ip/set?gamma=(0..100)
Note: Adjustable gamma/contrast for SurroundVideo1 camera was added in 65200 firmware

65. Gamma of the second sensor: (Dual sensor camera only)

http://camera_ip/get?gamma2
http://camera_ip/set?gamma2=(0..1)

66. Enabling bandwidth saving mode:

http://camera_ip/get?bandwidthsaving
http://camera_ip/set?bandwidthsaving=(“on”|”off”)

67. Enabling low power mode:

http://camera_ip/get?lowpower
http://camera_ip/set?lowpower=(“on”|”off”)

68. Enabling motion compensation:

http://camera_ip/get?motion_compensation
http://camera_ip/set?motion_compensation=(“on”|”off”)
Note: Disabling motion compensation will improve rolling issue but causing image blur

69. Enabling adjustable IR light:

http://camera_ip/get?adjustable_ir
http://camera_ip/set?adjustable_ir=(“adaptive”|”preset”|”disabled”)

70. Adjusting the intensity of wide IR lights

http://camera_ip/get?irwidepos
http://camera_ip/set?irwidepos=(0..7)

71. Adjusting the intensity of tele IR lights

http://camera_ip/get?irtelepos
http://camera_ip/set?irtelepos=(0..7)

72. Controlling intensity of IR lights on 2 LED boards of FLEX camera

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http://camera_ip/get?irpos_chan1
http://camera_ip/set?irpos_chan1=(0..32)
http://camera_ip/get?irpos_chan2
http://camera_ip/set?irpos_chan2=(0..32)

73. Enabling SNAPStream:

http://camera_ip/get?snapstream
http://camera_ip/set? snapstream =(“on”|”off”)

74. Get Sensor Count:

http://camera_ip/get?sensorcount

Panoramic specific setting:

1. Brightness/Color equalization setting:

http://camera_ip/get?equalbright
http://camera_ip/get?equalcolor
http://camera_ip/set?equalbright=(“on”|”off”)
http://camera_ip/set?equalcolor=(“on”|”off”)

2. Vertical Alignment setting:

http://camera_ip/get?vertical_alignment
http://camera_ip/set? vertical_alignment =(“on”|”off”)

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?vertical_shift
http://camera_ip/set<channel>? vertical_shift =(-maximum_shift..maximum_shift)

3. P-Iris reference channel selection:

http://camera_ip/get?piris_ref_channel
http://camera_ip/set?piris_ref_channel =(1..N)
Note: N is the number of sensors

4. WDR cameras exposure reference channel selection:

http://camera_ip/get?exp_ref_channel
http://camera_ip/set?exp_ref_channel =(“off”|1..N)
Note:

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1. N is the number of sensors

2. Setting to “off” will disable exposure reference channel function

HTTP Request Format for Transmitting Audio Data to Camera Line-out

Continuous sequence of G.711 (u-law) data can be transmitted to Arecont Vision cameras by using the
following POST method request format:
POST /g711?

Down-Scaling
To enable/disable down-scaling:
http://camera_ip/set?scaling=(on|off)

To set down-scaling image size:

http://camera_ip/set?scaling_size=width,height
Note: width ranges from 128 to 1280; height ranges from 96 to 720

To request down-scaled images, the substring “channel=scaled” should be included in the request
string. Since the scaling size is preset, there is no need to send image size information, for example:
rtsp://camera_ip/h264.sdp?res=(half|full)&channel=scaled&ssn=3
http://camera_ip/mjpeg?res=(half|full)&channel=scaled

The following table contains a list of the supported scaling sizes:

Scaled Resolution Resolution Pixel Count Notes

720p 1280 x 720 921600

XVGA 1024 x 768 786432
DVGA (16:9) 1136 x 640 727040
DVGA (3:2) 960 x 640 614400
SVGA 800 x 600 480000
D1 (PAL) 720 x 576 414720
4CIF (PAL) 704 x 576 405504
D1 (NTSC) 720 x 480 345600
4CIF (NTSC) 704 x 480 337920
VGA 640 x 480 307200

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2CIF (PAL) 704 x 288 202752

HVGA (4:3) 480 x 360 172800
2CIF (NTSC) 704 x 240 168960
HVGA (8:3) 640 x 240 153600
HVGA (3:2) 480 x 320 153600
HVGA (16:9) 480 x 272 130560
CIF (PAL) 352 x 288 101376
CIF (NTSC) 352 x 240 84480
QVGA (SIF) 320 x 240 76800
QCIF (PAL) 176 x 144 25344
QCIF (NTSC) 176 x 120 21120
SQCIF 128 x 96 12288

SD Card
Before recording with SD card, the system timer has to be configured using the following methods.
1. The camera will request NTP timestamp from NTP server every 5 minutes. The default NTP
server is located in Las Vegas: 64.250.229.100. To connect to NTP server, gateway and
subnetmask have to be configured correctly. The user can change NTP server IP address:
http://camera_ip/set?ntpserver_ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

2. The user can manually and periodically send current NTP timestamp:
http://camera_ip/set?ntp_timestamp=xxxxxxxxxx

To setup SD recording codec, framerate and enable/disable continuously recording:

http://camera_ip/set?sd_codec=(jpeg|h264)
http://camera_ip/set?sd_fps=(0..30)
http://camera_ip/set?sd_recording=(on|off)

Note:
1. 4K models only support h264 recording/playback.
2. For 4K models, “sd_fps” values are (1..15)

To enable/disable events recording, the user has to disable continuously recording, and then enable
the following event(s):
http://camera_ip/set?sd_networkfail=(on|off)
http://camera_ip/set?sd_motionalarm=(on|off)

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http://camera_ip/set?sd_ioalarm=(on|off)
Note: if the continuous recording is disabled and none of event recording is enabled, the SD card will
not initiate recording.

To retrieve the records, the user can inquiry the recording start/stop timestamps and then setup
playback start (and stop) timestamps:
http://camera_ip/get?sd_stampspan
Note: Returns the NTP timestamps corresponding to the beginning and the end recorded video:
xxxxxxx,xxxxxxx

http://camera_ip/set?sd_playbackstamp=xxxxxxx,xxxxxxx
http://camera_ip/set?sd_playbackstamp=xxxxxxx[,0]

Note: Without specifying the stop playback timestamp or specifying it as 0, the camera will
continuously play till the end of recorded video.

To request SD recorded images, the substring “sd=(playback|download)” should be included in the

request string. PLAYBACK option will allow the recorded video to be streamed at the real-time speed;
DOWNLOAD option will allow the recorded video to be streamed as fast as possible, for example:
rtsp://camera_ip/h264.sdp?sd=(playback|download)
http://camera_ip/mjpeg?sd=(playback|download)

Note:
1. For 4K, the command: http://camera_ip/mjpeg?sd=(playback|download) is not supported
2. For 4K models, “download” is not used. A new command that allows for dynamically controlling
the playback framerate has been introduced:

http://camera_ip/set? sd_playback_fps=(1..100)

To select a region of the image to be recorded and stored in SD card, the user can set left, right, top,
bottom, decimation of the image, before starting recording:
http://camera_ip/set?sd_imgleft=xxxx
http://camera_ip/set?sd_imgright=xxxx
http://camera_ip/set?sd_imgtop=xxxx
http://camera_ip/set?sd_imgbottom=xxxx
http://camera_ip/set?sd_imgres=(half|full)

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The user can also retrieve the size of selected region:

http://camera_ip/get?sd_imgleft
http://camera_ip/get?sd_imgright
http://camera_ip/get?sd_imgtop
http://camera_ip/get?sd_imgbottom
http://camera_ip/set?sd_imgres

Quality of Service (QoS)

Arecont Vision cameras support RFC 2474 “Definition of the Differentiated services field (DS field) in
the IPv4 and IPv6 headers”, which is widely adopted by router manufacturers to implement quality of
service (QoS) mechanism.
In Arecont Vision cameras, Per-Hop Behavior (PHB) type Assured Forwarding (AF) is the default
PHB for video streaming over RTP. The recommended default Differentiated Services Code Point
(DSCP) of AF is 34, which means low drop. All other traffic uses default PHB with DSCP value 0.

To enable/disable quality of service:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?qos_enabled
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?qos_enabled=( 1 | 0 )

To get/set the DSCP value for video and non-video traffic:

http://camera_ip/get<channel>?qos_video
http://camera_ip/get<channel>?qos_default

http://camera_ip/set<channel>?qos_video=(0..63)
http://camera_ip/set<channel>?qos_default=(0..63)

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Arecont Vision cameras support RFC 3513 “Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture”.

To monitor IPv6 status:

http://camera_ip/ipv6status.xml

To enable/disable IPv6:

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http://camera_ip/get?ipv6enabled
http://camera_ip/set?ipv6enabled=(“true”|”false”)

To get/set IPv6 manual address:

http://camera_ip/get?ipv6address
http://camera_ip/set?ipv6address= xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

To get/set IPv6 prefix length:

http://camera_ip/get?ipv6prefixlen
http://camera_ip/set?ipv6prefixlen= xxxx

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version 6 (DHCPv6)

Arecont Vision cameras support RFC 3315 “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)”.

To enable/disable DHCPv6:
http://camera_ip/get?ipv6dhcp
http://camera_ip/set?ipv6dhcp=(“on”|”off”)

To change DHCPv6 settings:

http://camera_ip/get?ipv6addresstype
http://camera_ip/set?ipv6addresstype=(“dhcp”|”manual”)
http://camera_ip/get?ipv6acceptrouters
http://camera_ip/set?ipv6acceptrouters=(“true”|”false”)

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Chapter IV - Alternative Access Protocols

RTSP Request Format for Continuous H.264 Video Streaming

Reference documents for the RTSP/RTCP+SDP+RTP protocol implementation are:
• RFC 3550 for RTCP
• RFC 1889 for RTP
• RFC 2327 for SDP
• RFC 2326 for RTSP
• RFC 3984 for the data format of H.264 streaming over RTP

Unicast camera access:

The AVxxx5 series cameras support the RTSP protocol via TCP connections. Any RTSP request
sent to camera via UDP will be ignored. The actual video stream is transmitted by the camera using
RTP protocol. Arecont Vision cameras support two options for RTP transmission: RTP over UDP,
and RTP over TCP (RTP/AVP). The maximum number of simultaneously serviced unicast requests
or video streams is eight.

Multicast Camera access:

The AVxxx5 series cameras support multicast h.264 video streaming. Valid multicast destination IP address
range is: 224.0.0.0 – 239.255.255.255, default is 224.0.0.1. Destination multicast IP address range for SAP
is: 224.0.0.0 – 239.255.255.255, default is 224.0.0.255. There are two methods to activate multicast stream:
1. Use HTTP command (single-sensor models only):
http://camera_ip/set?netopt=(decimal value of corresponding bits on/off)
bit 6 is to disable/enable multicast.
2. Use RTSP session to initiate multicast stream as follows.

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Accessing video stream via RTSP commands:

An H.264 video stream is requested via RTSP using the following URL. Please note that this URL will not
work in a typical web browser. A media player such as VLC or Apple Quicktime is required for this to function
properly.

rtsp://camera_ip/h264.sdp?res=(half | full)&x0=(0..max_sensor_width)&y0=(0..
max_sensor_height)&x1=(32..max_sensor_width)&y1=(32..max_sensor_height)&qp=(16..36)qp_max
=(16..36)&ratelimit=(0..65536)]&[snapstream=(on|off)]&[ssn=(1..65535)&[doublescan=(0|1)]&[bitrate=
(0..65536)]&[fps=1..100]&[mic=on|off]

Where:
 res can have value of either “half” or “full” and specifies whether the camera should decimate the
image by a factor of 2 in each dimension or produce the full resolution image.
 x0, y0, x1, y1 are the left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window,
respectively. These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera
model and should be divisible by 32 if res = full and 64 if res = half.
 qp is the quantization parameter for H.264 encoder. To achieve a higher quality video, a lower qp is
needed. Recommended values are in the range (16...36).
 qp_max is used to determine the lowest allowed quality or the maximum value of qp allowed.
If the target bitrate or the defined rate limit can not be retained even with the maximum allowed QP
value, meaning that current qp value has reached the maximum allowed value but the actual bitrate
exceeds the desired one, the camera will lower FPS for this very stream until the target bitrate is met.
Minimum rate is 5 frames per second. Both fps and qp values will be recovered gradually if possible
to hold the target bitrate or rate limit.
 ratelimit is used to set up a maximum value of bitrate of the H.264 stream in kilobits per second.
ratelimit parameter could work with QP parameter and bitrate will be variable.
 doublescan allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output until a new
image is available from the sensor (doublescan=0) or the image request should be serviced by
outputting the content of the image buffer that was already once output (useful for picture-in-picture
display).
 snapstream allows user to select stream with lower bitrate. User can enable or disable snapstream
mode for that particular stream.
 ssn specifies the stream identifier. MPEG codecs including H.264 codecs are context dependent
(decoding of the current frame depends on the previous frame(s)). The stream is a sequence of
frames of the same resolution which can be decoded sequentially by one instance of an MPEG

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decoder. Accordingly, ssn is a means to distinguish different streams from one another. Use a unique
ssn for each stream with a unique image size, quality, and/or frame rate. Each camera supports up to
eight simultaneous non-identical streams. Each client must have a unique (ip:ssn)
 bitrate is used to set up a constant bitrate of the H.264 stream in kilobits per second. If this parameter
is present in the request string and is larger than zero then the qp and ratelimit parameters are
ignored and the camera adjusts quantization parameters automatically to maintain the specified
bitrate.
 fps specifies the requested frame rate. Values 1 to 15 result in the specified frame rate. Omitting the
fps parameter or using fps values of 0 or any values above 16 will result in maximum frame rate
which is model dependent.
 mic specifies whether or not to enable audio in the H.264 stream.

The camera recognizes the following RTSP methods:

OPTIONS – requesting supported RTSP methods;
DESCRIBE – requesting available resources and their format;
SETUP – resolving the camera’s and the client’s ports, unicast or multicast;
PLAY – starting RTP video stream;

The camera also recognizes PAUSE and TEARDOWN but terminates the RTSP session when it receives
these commands. To resume the stream it is necessary to repeat stream initialization.

The following is a sequence of resolving camera’s parameters and starting an RTP stream:
1) Open a TCP connection on port 554 (RTSP) of the camera.
2) Request the camera’s data format via DESCRIBE. The camera will respond with SDP
parameter set of the H.264 stream (SPS/PPS) with trackID=1, and the method of forming RTP data
packets and synchronization (90 KHz timer).
If the microphone is enabled, the camera will also respond with additional SDP parameter set
of the G.711 (u-law) audio stream with trackID=2, and the method of forming RTP data packets and
synchronization (8 KHz timer).
3) Specify via SETUP the client ports for receiving the video stream.
If the microphone is enabled, specify via the second SETUP the client ports for receiving the
G.711 audio stream.
4) Request PLAY to start the RTP video stream.
5) Receive and decode H.264 video frames packed into fragmented RTP packets that are
transmitted via UDP, or optionally over TCP, by the camera.

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If the microphone is enabled, the G.711 RTP packets are also transmitted via UDP or TCP.
Audio over TCP may produce jittery sound due to potential delay caused by TCP packet loss.
6) At least every 5 seconds of the RTP streaming send RTCP feedback packets. If the camera
does not receive any RTCP packets over a 10 second period, the session will be terminated.

The camera sends IDR frames followed by multiple P-frames. All frames are transmitted in the form of FU-A
fragmented RTP packets as described in RFC 3984. The default number of P-frames is 50, and can be
modified using the following HTTP command:
http://camera_IP/setreg?page=3&reg=21&val=(number of P-frames)

Current P-frame setting can be checked using the following HTTP command:
http://camera_IP/getreg?page=3&reg=21

Following is the format to send motion data through H.264 SEI (Supplemental Enhancement Information):
To receive motion data and camera status information via RTP stream, the client can enable H.264 SEI over
RTP, by adding a string of ‘&sei=on’ within the RTSP request. A separate SEI packet will be issued before
each frame. So, the request format would look like:
rtsp://camera_ip/h264.sdp?res=(half | full)&x0=(0..max_sensor_width)&y0=(0..
max_sensor_height)&x1=(32..max_sensor_width)&y1=(32..max_sensor_height)&qp=(16..36)&
ssn=(1..65535)&[doublescan=(0|1)]&[bitrate=(0..65536)]&[fps=1..100]&sei=on

For receiving motion data the on-camera motion detection needs to be enabled before requesting SEI packet.
http://camera_IP/set?motiondetect=on
The SEI packet format in RTP payload is as below:
Element SEI Start md_id md_length md_data status_id st_length status
Bytes 1 1 1 0/8/128 1 1 4
Values 0x66 0x01 0x00/0x08/0x80 … 0x02 0x04 …

md_id: motion data identifier “0x01”

md_length: “0x08” for 8x8-zone motion detection mode; “0x80” for 32x32-zone mode; “0x00” indicates no
motion
motion_data: motion data bit map (each bit indicates the motion for the corresponding motion zone). If there is
no motion, this area is void.

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status_id: camera status identifier “0x02”

st_length: “0x04”
status: bit0: AUXIN; bit1: AUXOUT; bit2: Day/Night; bit3: binning mode

Following is a sequence of resolving camera’s parameters for the AV3135, AV51x5 and AV100x5 cameras:
After initiating RTSP sequence as above, in-band SPS/PPS RTP packets are inserted in the video stream to
help switching between day/night sensors or non-binning and binning mode.

Before sending out every RTP I-frame data packets, the in-band RTP SPS and PPS packets will be sent. The
in-band SPS/PPS packets will help changing image parameter sets on the fly without re-initialize the RTSP
sequence. Especially when the camera switches between day sensor and night sensor, or between binning
mode and non-binning mode, the SPS and PPS packets will be issued immediately and then an I-frame will
follow. Therefore, the client decoder will recognize the new parameter set and decode accordingly.

Following is a sequence of resolving camera’s parameters and starting four RTP streams with one generic
RTSP request for AV8365/AV8185DN and AV20365/AV20185DN cameras:
1) Open a TCP connection on port 554 (RTSP) of the camera.
2) Request the camera’s data format via DESCRIBE. The camera will respond with four SDP
parameter sets of the H.264 stream (SPS/PPS) with different Payload types (96, 97, 98, 99), and the
method of forming RTP data packets and synchronization (90 KHz timer).
3) Specify via SETUP the client ports for receiving the video stream. The client needs to send
four SETUP's corresponding to four parameter sets. For example, for RTP/UDP, ports 1500-1501 for
the first parameter set with trackID=1; port 1502-1503 for the second parameter set with trackID=2,
ports 1504-1505 for the first parameter set with trackID=3; port 1506-1507 for the second parameter
set with trackID=4. For RTP/TCP, interleaved channels 0-1, 2-3, 4-5 and 6-7 will be assigned to them.
4) Request PLAY to start the RTP video streams.
5) Receive and decode H.264 video frames packed into fragmented RTP packets that are
transmitted via UDP, or optionally over TCP, by the camera. RTP packets sent between four sensors
can be identified by RTP Payload types (96, 97, 98, 99).
6) At least every 5 seconds of the RTP streaming send RTCP feedback packets. If the camera
does not receive any RTCP packets over a 10 second period, the session will be terminated.

Additionally, before sending out every RTP I-frame data packets, the in-band RTP SPS and PPS packets will
be sent. The in-band SPS/PPS packets will help changing image parameter sets on the fly without re-initialize
the RTSP sequence. Especially for AV20365/AV20185DN models, when the camera switches to binning
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an I-frame will sent. Therefore, the client decoder will recognize the new parameter set and decode
accordingly.

RTSP SETUP unicast vs multicast stream:

The user can request unicast or multicast stream via RTSP SETUP session. For example,
1. To request unicast stream:
Client->Camera:
SETUP rtsp://10.10.7.12/h264.sdp? RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 3
Session: 12345678
Transport: RTP/AVP;unicast;client_port=52282-52283
Camera->Client:
RTSP/1.0 200 OK
CSeq: 3
Session: 12345678
Transport: RTP/AVP;unicast;client_port=52282-52283;server_port=31890-31891;ssrc=EFDC7C92;mode="PLAY"

2. To request multicast stream:

Client->Camera:
SETUP rtsp://10.10.7.12/h264.sdp? RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 3
Session: 12345678
Transport: RTP/AVP;multicast;destination=224.17.44.9;port=47806-47807;ttl=64
Camera->Client:
RTSP/1.0 200 OK
CSeq: 3
Session: 12345678
Transport: RTP/AVP;multicast;destination=224.17.44.9;port=47806-47807;server_port=8280-8281;ssrc=CF592059;mode="PLAY"

PSIA Protocol
PSIA (Physical Security Interoperability Alliance) is one of the new security industry standardized protocols
that promotes plug-and-play interoperability. Cameras supporting PSIA will be able to operate on any PSIA
compliant NVR software without the need for a special device driver or plug-in, thus greatly facilitate camera
installation and maintenance.

To check if a camera supports PSIA protocol or which PSIA feature set it supports, the user can open a web
browser and send the following HTTP command to the camera:
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Upon success, the camera will return a human-friendly XML file which lists the supported PSIA root services.
It is also possible to get an expanded list of PSIA services by sending the following command which instruct
the camera to enumerate all services recursively:
http://camera_IP/PSIA/indexr

PSIA is an open standard and its documentation is available to the public at http://www.psialliance.org/.
Interested users can visit the PSIA website and get latest documentation.

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Chapter V – 802.1x
IEEE 802.1X is an IEEE Standard for port-based Network Access Control (PNAC). It is part of the IEEE
802.1 group of networking protocols. It provides an authentication mechanism to devices wishing to attach to
a LAN or WLAN.

IEEE 802.1X defines the encapsulation of the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over IEEE 802, which
is known as "EAP over LAN" or EAPOL. EAPOL was originally designed for IEEE 802.3 Ethernet in 802.1X-
2001, but was clarified to suit other IEEE 802 LAN technologies such as IEEE 802.11 wireless and Fiber
Distributed Data Interface (ISO 9314-2) in 802.1X-2004.

Authentication Methods
EAP-MD5: MD5-Challenge requires username/password, and is equivalent to the PPP CHAP protocol
[RFC1994].
EAP-TLS: Creates a TLS session within EAP, between the Supplicant and the Authentication Server. Both
the server and the client(s) need a valid (x509) certificate, and therefore a PKI. This method provides
authentication both ways. EAP-TLS is described in [RFC2716].
Only single-sensor 4K cameras use EAP-TLS the rest of cameras use EAP-MD5.

EAP-MD5

1. From Network tab select 802.1x

2. Enter EAP Identifier (identifies the default user to be used in negotiation).

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3. Enter CHAP password (It sets password for the negotiations).

4. Select checkbox Enable CHAP.
5. Reset the camera to start EAPOL negotiations.

EAP-TLS

1. From Network tab select 802.1x

2. Scroll tab to CA Certificate and download CA root PEM file
3. Scroll tab to Client Certificate and download client certificate PEM file
4. Scroll tab to Client Key Certificate and download client key certificate PEM file
5. Make sure that checkbox Enable CHAP is not selected.
6. Reset the camera to start EAPOL negotiations.

The HTTP commands that can be used to configure 802.1x are:

Setting 802.1x EAP identifier:
http://camera_ip/set?security_id=<value>

Setting 802.1x CHAP password:

http://camera_ip/set?security_pwd=<value>

To enable/disable 802.1x CHAP:

http://camera_ip/set?chapmask=(“on”|”off”)

To create a CA root certificate use this command followed by the file data:
POST /ca_certificate HTTP/1.1

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To create a client certificate use this command followed by the file data:
POST /client_certificate HTTP/1.1

To create a client key certificate use this command followed by the file data:
POST /client_key_certificate HTTP/1.1

To create a private password for EAP-TLS:

http://camera_ip/set?security_pr_pwd=<value>

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Chapter VI – HTTPS
Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol used to exchange
data between a browser and a website. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means the
communication between a browser and a website is encrypted. HTTPS protects highly confidential online
transactions like online banking and online shopping order forms.

Aside from performing normal HTTPS functionality, OpenSSL can create self-signed certificates that use the
IP address of the server and current time to facilitate HTTPS configuration.

A user has two options: download client certificate and key separately or create self-signed certificate. Self-
signed certificate should be used for easy HTTPS configurations. However, creation of a client certificate and
key guarantees better security and can fulfill Web Browser requirements. Web Browsers display a warring
each time a user creates a new connection with a self-signed certificates.

This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young ([email protected]).

Self-Signed Certificate

1. From Network tab select HTTPS

2. Select Self-Signed Certificate checkbox.
3. Select Enable HTTPS.
4. Reset the camera to start HTTPS.
5. Make sure the browser’s URL is preempted with https://

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Download Certificate

1. From Network tab select HTTPS

2. Scroll down to HTTPS Certificate and download ready https certificate.
3. Download HTTPS Key Certificate.
4. Select Enable HTTPS.
5. Reset the camera to start HTTPS.
6. Make sure the browser’s URL starts with https://

Note: Using HTTPS without a certificate (self-signed or external certificate) may leave the camera in a state
where HTTPS connection is not possible.

HTTP commands for 4K cameras:

The HTTP commands that configure key, certificate and enable/disable HTTPS are:
To enable/disable a HTTPS self-signed certificate:
http://camera_ip/set?https_self_signed_cert=(“on”|”off”)

To upload a HTTPS client certificate (must be followed by the file data):

POST /https_certificate HTTP/1.1

To upload a HTTPS key certificate (must be followed by the file data):

POST /https_key_certificate HTTP/1.1

To enable/disable HTTPS:
http://camera_ip/set?httpsmask=(“on”|”off”)

HTTP commands for single sensor cameras that support HTTPS:

The HTTP commands that configure key, certificate and enable/disable HTTPS are:

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To enable/disable HTTPS:
http://camera_ip/set? enforcehttps=(“on”|”off”)

To check if the camera supports HTTPS:

http://camera_ip/get? https_enabled=(“on”|”off”)

To generate self-signed certificate:

http://camera_ip/set?usercert =(“on”|”off”)

To upload a HTTPS client certificate (must be followed by the file data):

POST/cert_pem_download HTTP/1.1

To upload a HTTPS key certificate (must be followed by the file data):

POST/key_pem_download HTTP/1.1

HTTPS limitations for single sensor cameras that support HTTPS:

HTTP HTTPS
Firmware download  No
Certificate download  No
Key download  No
TFTP streaming  No
RTP over TCP  Only when AV IP Utility is not
running
SD Card Support  No
Key RSA length > 1024 Not recommended.
Multisession Web  Not recommended.
IPv6  No
Extended Motion detection  No
SAP and RTP multicast  No

Note: Performing factory default on camera will disable previously enabled HTTPs mode on camera.

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Chapter VII – PTZ (OMNI3)

This paragraph applies only to Panoramic-OMNI3 camera family that introduces motorized PTZ for initial
sensor position and focus configuration.

PTZ configuration has two tabs on the webpage: “Presets” and “Focus/PTZ”.
Focus/PTZ menu allows a user to manually set pan, tilt, zoom or focus by using a small number of steps for
fine adjustments:

Presets menu allows a user to set preconfigured pan, tilt and zoom positions. There are hardcoded presets
like home position, 180, 270 and 360 degrees configuration. If these presets are not matching user’s needs
then there are other configurable presets, “User Preset 1” and “User Preset 2”.

In order to configure a “User Preset 1” or “User Preset 2” follow these steps:

1. Click “Create Preset 1” or “Create Preset 2” (all modules move to home positions by default).
2. Move pan, tilt, zoom and focus manually or by using a hardcoded preset button.
3. Do fine tuning for PTZ and focus.
4. Click “Save Preset ” (preset configuration is not recording after this command).
5. Click “Save All Params” to save preset configuration to the flash memory.

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Pan modules can move all at the same time, a group move, by selecting channels “1-4” from the Focus/Pan
drop down menu as in the following image:

To save a “User Preset” configuration to flash memory, click “Save All Params” when PTZ settings are
completed.

OMNI3 uses HTTP commands to control the PTZ configuration.

The <channel number> in the commands below can be an integer number from 1 to 4.
Pan, tilt and zoom steps can be integer values between -20 and 20.

Pan command
To set the pan position use:
http//:<camera IP address>/set<channel number>?pan=<value>
For example, to select channel 1 and move pan by -20 steps run:
http//:10.10.55.33/set1?pan=-20

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Tilt command
To set the tilt position use:
http//:<camera IP address>/set<channel number>?tilt=<value>
Example, to select channel 1 and move tilt by -20 steps run:
http//:10.10.55.33/set1?tilt=-20

Zoom command
To set the zoom position use:
http//:<camera IP address>/set<channel number>?zoom=<value>
For example, to select channel 1 and move zoom by -20 steps run:
http//:10.10.55.33/set1?zoom=-20

Home command
To move all modules to home position use:
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=home
Example:
http//:10.10.55.33/set?ptz=home

Preset 180
To move all modules to 180 degree preset position use:
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=180
Example:
http//:10.10.55.33/set?ptz=180

Preset 270
To move all modules to 270 degree preset position use:
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=270
Example:
http//:10.10.55.33/set?ptz=270

Preset 360
To move all modules to 360 degree preset position use:
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=360
Example:

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http//:10.10.55.33/set?ptz=360

User Preset
To move to a “User Preset” configuration use:
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=preset1 or
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=preset2

For example, a camera with an IP address of 10.10.55.33, uses this command:

http//:10.10.55.33/set?ptz=preset1

To start recording a “User Preset 1” or “User Preset 2” configuration use one of these commands (the same
effect as “Create Preset 1” and “Create Preset 2” buttons on the webpage):
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=record_preset1
or
http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=record_preset2

Example:
http//:10.10.55.33/set?ptz=record_preset1

Note:
When “Creat Preset 1” or “Creat Preset 2” is started, the OMNI3 camera will first start moving all
modules to the home position before allowing a user to set his own pan/tilt/zoom steps.

To save a “User Preset 1” or “User Preset 2” configuration use:

http//:<camera IP address>/ set?ptz=save_preset

For example, a camera with an IP address of 10.10.55.33, uses this command:

http//:10.10.55.33/set?ptz=save_preset

Note:
A user cannot record two “User Preset” configurations at the same time. There is only one
“set?ptz=save_preset” command that saves the current “User Preset” (last one started).

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Collision sensor status

A user can run this command to detect a pan module collision with another module and if module 2 is in home
position:
http://<camera ip address>/get?switcher
Bit 0 to 3 of the returned value are the status of collision sensor on channel 1 to 4.
Bit 4 is the home position sensor status.

Chapter VIII - Troubleshooting and Useful Tips

Connecting Directly to a Laptop or PC

In a typical scenario cameras are connected using network cables to a network switch. A camera can
also be connected to a PC or laptop directly by using a cross-over network cable between the camera
and PC.

When a camera is connected directly, you may need to change the TCP/IP configuration on your PC.
For example, the PC may need to be configured to use a static IP address.

When a PoE injector is used and connected directly to a PC, there are two networking cables. One
cable connects the PC to the PoE injector, while the other connects the injector to the camera. Only
one of these cables should be cross-over. The other cable must be a regular, straight through cable.

Note: AV8360 cameras require a higher PoE power class (Class 3: from 6.49 to 12.95 Watt) than
other Arecont Vision camera models.

Switches and Routers

Note that some Gigabit switches and network adapters incompletely emulate 100BaseT signaling
levels and may not work correctly with high bandwidth 100BaseT equipment.

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Low Sharpness
If the image sharpness appears to be low:
 Check if the lens is in focus.
 Check if the lens is appropriate for a megapixel camera.
 Under the Image Quality menu decrease compression and increase sharpness.
 Check if the lens iris is fully open or closed down too much. For best resolution and depth of
field, the iris (depending on lens make and model) should be closed by 2-3 F-stop.

4K Full Frame Rate

The bitrate in 4k cameras is set to a bitrate of 10Mbps and 30fps by default. To get full video quality
and frame rate a user has to overwrite the default bitrate and fps values. For example, you can get a
frame rate of 60fps in 1080p mode but you need to set the following parameters: bitrate=100000 and
fps=60.

Single Sensor Camera Sensor Cropping and Image Request

The sensor can be cropped by specifying the desired cropping sizes on the sensor. This is generally done to
achieve higher frame rate from camera. The parameters used are - ‘sensorleft’, ‘sensortop’, ‘sensorwidth’,
‘sensorheight’. These values can be set on camera via HTTP commands:
http://camera_ip/set?sensorleft=<val>
http://camera_ip/set?sensortop=<val>
http://camera_ip/set?sensorwidth=<val>
http://camera_ip/set?sensorheight=<val>
The diagram below describes how the offsets are determined:

Sensor Top
Offset

Sensor Left Maximum

Offset Cropped Sensor Height
Cropped Sensor
Sensor
Height

Cropped Sensor Width

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Maximum Sensor Width

To further utilize the cropped sensor, the image should be requested such that it coincides with or it falls
within the currently active area of sensor. That is, the image coordinates need to be adjusted to get the image
out of cropped sensor. Depending on the method being used to get the images either the RTSP/RTP, HTTP
image request coordinates can be modified or default image sizes parameters can be modified.
Example –
1.3MP with maximum resolution of 1280x1024 pixels is needed to be sensor cropped to 640x512 at the
center:
Step 1: Sensor needs to be cropped
http://cam_ip/set?sensoleft=320
http://cam_ip/set?sensotop=256
http://cam_ip/set?sensowidth=640
http://cam_ip/set?sensoleft=512
Step 2: Image request with corresponding sensor cropping
If RTSP/RTP or HTTP streaming is used then absolute coordinates should be used such that the left, top,
right and bottom coordinates are given in the image request for x0,y0,x1 and y1. In this case, the coordinates
requested will be x0=320, y0=256, x1=960, y1=768. So, the RTSP request would look something like
following example request–
rtsp://cam_ip/h264.sdp?res=half&x0=320&y0=256&x1=960&y1=768&qp=26&ssn=2112
If image requests are done via HTTP then the coordinates will be adjusted in same fashion as done above for
RTSP. If the HTTP image is requested without image coordinates then the image sizes can be changed via
set of image coordinates HTTP parameters: imgleft, imgtop, imgwidth, imgheight
Note –
1. if the size of images requested after sensor cropping are bigger than the cropped sensor size then
the sensor automatically gets stretched back to full.
2. These sensor cropping parameters can be saved into the flash so that the parameters can be saved
after reboot. This can be done via camera web page or with http command:
http://cam_ip/set?params=save

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How do I get online technical support for Arecont Vision products?

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Create an account on our support portal located at http://support.arecontvision.com/. Once an account

has been created, a new ticket can be posted and one of our technical support team will follow up with
you promptly. To ensure timely responses, please make sure to login to the support portal to post any
replies to your open ticket.

2. What information can I provide to AV customer support for a faster response to my issues?
- Arecont Vision camera MAC address and firmware release as shown in the About menu on camera
web page or AV200 Video System software.
If the issue is related to networking and/or AV200 Video System software
- Switch or POE model number.
- Type of network cable eg Cat 5e (min and max distance of run)
- Type of power used (VDC, milliamps, Watts) or POE
- Computer Information:
- 100base-T or Gigabit card
- CPU speed, RAM, Video Card specs
- Hard disk size and available free space.
- Provide the log files of AV200 Video System and AV IP Utility software.
The log of AV200 Video System software can be found at “C:\ProgramData\Arecont Vision
AV200\Log”.
The log of AV IP Utility software can be found at “C:\ProgramData”.

3. How can I obtain an RMA for a camera?

Initial RMA requests should be directed to the vendor from whom you purchased your camera. Your
vendor may be capable of processing your request directly, resulting in a quick turnaround time for a
replacement camera. If this is not possible, please fill out a support request on
http://support.arecontvision.com/ and a support representative will follow up to verify your claim prior
to issuing an RMA number. Please do not ship a camera back to Arecont Vision without an approved
RMA number or your return will be severely delayed in processing.

4. What type of video compression is used in Arecont Vision cameras?

Arecont Vision cameras use MJPEG in the case of model numbers AVxxx0 and H.264 for models
AVxxx5 and AVxxx6.

5. Which DVRs/NVRs support your cameras?

A majority of the world’s leading VMS and NVR manufacturers support Arecont Vision cameras with a
direct driver through our RTSP API. For a full list of verified NVRs, please see:

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6. How much storage space is required when using Arecont Vision cameras?
The storage space requirements will vary depending on the compressibility of your imagery. Shown
below (Figure 33) is an example of a system running at 22 FPS. However, the user can specify the
archival frequency to be lower than the full frame rate. Most Arecont Vision cameras also provide highly
sophisticated on-board motion detection. To further reduce the required storage the user has an option to
archive only those images that contain motion. Furthermore, Arecont Vision cameras support real-time
resolution changes and image windowing on a frame-by-frame basis. The user may wish to archive
windows of interest or reduced resolution images at the high frame rate while archiving full resolution
images at the lower frame rate. A bandwidth calculator is provided at http://www.arecontvision.com/sales-
tools.html to help with determining storage/bandwidth requirements.

Figure 10. Example of a system running at 22 FPS

7. Can I update all my cameras with the same version of firmware?

No, you will need to make sure you use the appropriate firmware file for your camera. There are
several variations of firmware update files, with the camera model listed in the update file name.
Please ensure that the firmware file you are using contains the model number of your camera in its
file name.

8. How do I find out the IP and MAC addresses of my cameras?

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You can find camera IP and MAC address using the AV200 Video System software. The information
is displayed in the Camera tab (Figure 11). You can also find the information using AV IP Utility
software.

Figure 11. Camera Tab

9. What ports are used by Arecont Vision cameras?

Arecont Vision cameras operate on following ports for corresponding protocols:
a. RTSP uses port 554.
b. HTTP uses port 80 and it can also be configured to port 8080.
c. HTTPs uses port 443.
d. TFTP uses port 69.
10. What adjustments can be made to reduce motion blur?
The shutter speed is automatically controlled by the camera. Motion blur may occur when the camera
operates at slow shutter speeds (long exposure times, such as the scene being relatively dark.
Arecont Vision cameras provide a number of options that allow the user to control auto-exposure
behavior when illumination is low.

The user can set the preferred exposure time that the camera will attempt to maintain as long as
illumination level allows. This setting essentially allows the user to choose the tradeoff between gains
and exposure time at reduced light levels. There are 3 basic settings: Speed, Balance, and Quality
These settings can be selected from “Low Light Mode” menu Mode list. The Speed setting will result
in higher image noise but will attempt to maintain 10ms exposure time for as long as possible,
reducing motion artifacts. The Quality setting will maintain 40 ms exposure time, resulting in low-
noise image with some motion blur in low light. The Balanced setting falls between Quality and
Speed.

There are also two special modes, High Speed and MoonLight™, which can be used for very fast
moving targets and very low illumination, respectively. High Speed mode allows the user to specify a

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fixed exposure time in terms of milliseconds (from 1 to 80). While this will allow crisp video of fast
moving vehicles, the side effect of this setting is that low-light performance of the camera will be
significantly worse (up to 800 times) than in default mode. Therefore, High Speed should only be
used for well-lit scenes.

The other special mode, MoonLight™ implements long exposure times of up to 0.5 seconds in
combination with proprietary noise cancellation technology. This mode allows viewing under
extremely low illumination conditions. It is important to note, that MoonLight™ is NOT digital frame
integration and will offer significantly better image quality than cameras that employ digital frame
integration. However, the motion blur will still be significant.

Setting the Low Light Mode to Speed is the first thing to try to eliminate motion blur. If that doesn't
produce enough improvement, the user may want to open the lens aperture more to allow more light
in. The user may also want to consider going with the camera equipped with auto-iris lens - the lens
will open automatically as illumination diminishes. If that is not sufficient, the user may want to
consider using a lower resolution camera. For example, the 2-megapixel AV2100 has larger pixels
and has better low-light sensitivity than the 3-mega pixel product, AV3100. If that still does not yield
sufficient low-light performance then, the user should consider the AV3130 day-night camera that
uses a monochrome sensor in low light conditions and is sensitive to 0.00 lux .

11. Is there a link to view live video from your camera systems?
Publicly accessible cameras are currently unavailable.

12. What is the maximum physical distance between computer and Arecont Vision camera?
Typical Ethernet 100Base-T has a maximum distance of 100 meters (330 feet). The range can be
increased by using a standard powered mid-span switch. Alternatively, 3Com IntelliJack Switch that
accepts the power over Ethernet can be used to avoid the need to provide mid-span power supply.

13. Are Arecont Vision Cameras RoHS compliant?

Arecont Vision products confirm to the Europeans Union Restrictions on Use of Hazardous
Substances in Electrical and Electronic equipment (RoHS) Directive 2002/95/EC for six regulated
substances. The certification is applicable to all Arecont Vision products shipped after April 15, 2006.

14. Can we mount a motorized zoom lens from another supplier?

Arecont Vision recommends using only lenses sold by Arecont Vision to ensure compatibility.

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15. How do I access the Arecont Vision MegaPixel® WEB camera home page to view my cameras remotely?
Type http://200.168.100.10/index.html in your web browser, replacing 200.168.100.10 with the
camera’s IP address.
If the camera is behind a router, you cannot access the camera directly, instead the router has to be
configured to forward incoming TCP traffic with specific destination port to the camera. For example,
you can configure the router so that incoming TCP traffic with destination port 8080 is forwarded to
camera 200.168.100.10 port 80, and TCP traffic with destination port 8081 is forwarded to camera
200.168.100.11 port 80, and so forth. In this way you can access all the cameras on the internal
network using only one public IP address. Different cameras are distinguished by different port
numbers.

16. Is the MegaPixel® WEB camera home page compatible with Mozilla Firefox?
You can take snapshots, view live video and adjust camera settings via Mozilla Firefox.

17. How can I access the SDK download?

Access to the SDK requires an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) to be signed and approved prior to
obtaining access. More information can be obtained by sending an inquiry to
[email protected] or by accessing the support section of http://www.arecontvision.com/

18. How do the Arecont Vision cameras utilize PTZ (Pan, Tilt, Zoom)?
There is no mechanical PTZ. However, Arecont Vision cameras allow instantaneous electronic pan,
tilt and zoom by specifying PTZ window coordinates. Multiple users can each select their own
windows allowing for independent PTZ control. Users of AV200 Video System software can hold
mouse left button to select a zoom window on the image.

19. When I attempt to update the firmware on the Arecont Vision camera with the firmware update option I
receive the “Ack Timeout” message. Why do I get this error?
If you get the timeout message, take the following steps:
 Make sure that no application, aside from FirmwareLoader.exe, is accessing the camera
during the update
 Make sure that the camera is connected via switch and not with a cross-over cable
 Re-run AV Installer prior to the upgrade to make sure the camera is accessible and there is
no IP conflict

20. Do Arecont Vision cameras support multicast?

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All single sensor and Panoramic H.264 cameras support multicasting.

21. What is Wireshark and where can I get it?

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. When camera exhibits network related issues (i.e.
connection issues, loss of frames, etc.), our technical support team may need a network traffic log
captured by Wireshark to help trace the issues.
Wireshark is available at http://www.wireshark.org/.

22. How do I reset the camera settings to the original factory configuration?
Resetting the Arecont Vision camera to its original configuration can be achieved through the built-in
web interface. To reset the Arecont Vision camera open your web browser and type
http://ip_address/set?params=factory
Replace “ip_address” with the camera’s current IP address.

23. How do I assign a subnet mask and gateway to my camera?

a) On the camera’s web interface, click ‘Network’ and enter the desire information, then click ‘Apply’.
b) Save the changes to the camera’s flash memory by going to Administration and clicking ‘Save all
settings to flash.

24. How do I save camera settings via the web interface?

Changes to settings in the web interface are saved by going to ‘Administration’ and clicking ‘Save all
settings to flash.’

25. How do I set up multicasting on H.264 cameras?

You can configure multicasting via the camera’s web interface. Under ‘H.264’, check the box next to
‘Active’ under the UDP/RTP multicast stream options. You should now be able to access the
multicast stream using the URL http://camera_IP/stream.sdp.

26. How do I automatically upload images from the camera to a website/ftp server?
Arecont Vision’s cameras do not support any automatic image uploads to an FTP or web site. NVR
software is required for the camera to stream and record.

27. What is the RTSP command for accessing an Arecont camera using a media player such as VLC?
The general command for RTSP is:
rtsp://camera_ip/h264.sdp?res=(half|full)&x0=(0..max_sensor_width)&y0=(0..max_sensor_height)&x1
=(32..max_sensor_width)&y1=(32..max_sensor_height)&qp=(16..36)&ssn=(1..65535)&[doublescan=(
0|1)]&[bitrate=(0..65536)]&[fps=1..100]

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(see Chapter IV - Alternative Access Protocols for more details)

28. What is the default IP address of Arecont Vision cameras?

Arecont Vision cameras do not have a specific default IP address. The AV IP Utility will allow for
camera detection, giving the current IP of the camera. This software comes standard on the CD
included with every camera. You can also download it from the website:

https://www.arecontvision.com/softwares.php

29. What is the default password of Arecont Vision cameras?

Arecont Vision cameras do not ship with a password set on the web interface. If a password is
required to secure the camera or because 3rd party software requires one, log in to the camera’s web
interface by typing the camera’s IP address into your web browser. Under ‘Administration’, enter the
desired password for admin access. The user name will be admin.

30. Where do I find H.264 demo movies on the web site?

H.264 demo videos are available upon request. Please access http://support.arecontvision.com/ to
request a video.

31. Why is multicasting not working in my web browser?

A media player such as VLC or QuickTime will support multicasting via RTSP.

32. How do I know which features my camera supports?

The best way to find this information is on the camera datasheet, which is located on the Arecont
Vision website. Some features such as HTTPS and scaling aren’t supported on all camera models.
You can also call tech support at 1.818.937.0700 (select option #1) to get this information.

Firmware Upgrade

All models of Arecont Vision cameras are field-upgradeable. All models support firmware upgrade directly
through the on-camera webpage, as shown in the "Administration Menu" section of Chapter III. However, it
can only upgrade one camera at the time. The AV IP Utility is software application for configuring camera’s
settings and upgrading camera’s firmware and hardware. It supports all camera models and allows you to
update multiple cameras simultaneously. In case camera requires a firmware update, you can download the

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software from Arecont Vision Website or contact your distributor to obtain the latest version of firmware
upgrade file and utility.

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Chapter IX - Regulatory Compliance

FCC Compliance Statement

All Arecont Vision cameras have been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device,
pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment
generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the
instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a
residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the
interference at his/her own expense.

Modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user's authority to operate the
equipment under FCC rules.

1. It is recommended to use shielded CAT6 cables to comply with FCC rules.

2. It is recommended to use power-over-Ethernet supply
3. To comply with FCC rules when using auto-iris with AV1300, AV2100 and AV3100 it is also
suggested using a ferrite common mode choke Fair-Rite # 0444164281 with 1 ½ turns place on the
auto-iris lens cable three centimeters from the lens.

Terms and Conditions of Sale

1. Terms and Conditions. This sale is subject to the terms and conditions set forth below, which
supersede any and all terms and conditions set forth in any documents issued by Purchaser,
including Purchaser’s purchase order. ANY ADDITIONAL, DIFFERENT OR CONFLICTING TERMS
AND CONDITIONS HEREBY ARE OBJECTED TO BY ARECONT VISION, LLC (“AV”), AND SHALL
BE OF NO FORCE AND EFFECT. No waiver or amendment of these terms and conditions shall be
binding on AV unless made in writing expressly stating that it is such a waiver or amendment and
signed by AV.

2. Limited Warranty. AV warrants to Purchaser (and only Purchaser) (the “Limited Warranty”), that: (a)
each Product shall be free from material defects in material and workmanship for a period of twelve
(12) months from the date of shipment (the “Warranty Period”); (b) during the Warranty Period, the
Products will materially conform with the specification in the applicable documentation; (c) all

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licensed programs accompanying the Product (the “Licensed Programs”) will materially conform with
applicable specifications. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions, AV shall have no obligation or
responsibility with respect to any Product that (i) has been modified or altered without AV’s written
authorization; (ii) has not been used in accordance with applicable documentation; (iii) has been
subjected to unusual stress, neglect, misuse, abuse, improper storage, testing or connection; or
unauthorized repair; or (iv) is no longer covered under the Warranty Period. AV MAKE NO
WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, OTHER
THAN THE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTIES MADE BY AV ABOVE, AND AV HEREBY
SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER EXPRESS, STATUTORY AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES
AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND THE IMPLIED CONDITION OF
SATISFACTORY QUALITY. ALL LICENSED PROGRAMS ARE LICENSED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS
WITHOUT WARRANTY. AV DOES NOT WARRANT THAT (I) THE OPERATION OF THE
PRODUCTS OR PARTS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; (II) THE PRODUCTS OR
PARTS AND DOCUMENTATION WILL MEET THE END USERS’ REQUIREMENTS; (III) THE
PRODUCTS OR PARTS WILL OPERATE IN COMBINATIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS
SELECTED BY THE END USER; OTHER THAN COMBINATIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS WITH
PARTS OR OTHER PRODUCTS AUTHORIZED BY AV OR (IV) THAT ALL LICENSED PROGRAM
ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED.

3. Exclusive Remedy; Limitation of Liability. Purchaser’s exclusive remedy for a breach of the Limited
Warranty shall be limited to repair or replacement of, or refund for, the non-conforming Product (at
AV’s sole option). Product returned to AV for non-compliance with this Limited Warranty shall be
returned in accordance with the “Rejection/Return” provisions below. Any refund shall be equal to
the actual purchase price for the applicable Product. IN NO EVENT SHALL AV BE LIABLE TO
PURCHASER FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
RESULTING FROM AV’S PERFORMANCE OF FAILURE TO PERFORM, WHETHER DUE TO
BREACH OF CONTRACT OR WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE.

4. Repaired or Replaced Product. The warranty for repaired or replaced Product shall be limited in
scope to the warranty set forth above, and shall have a duration of the greater of (i) the remaining
Warranty Period in the original warranty that was applicable to the original Product, extended by the
time elapsed between AV receiving notice of the non-conformity and Purchaser's receipt of the
repaired or replaced Product; or (ii) ninety (90) days following delivery to Purchasers of the repaired
or replaced Product.

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5. Shipment and Risk of Loss. All Products shipped by AV shall be packaged in AV’s shipping cartons
so as to prevent damage and shall be delivered to a common carrier FOB AV’s facility in Altadena,
CA, USA, at which time risk of loss shall pass to Purchaser. All freight, insurance, and other shipping
expenses, as well as expenses for any special packing requested by Purchaser and provided by AV,
shall be paid by Purchaser.

6. Licensed Programs. Upon the sale of any Product to Purchaser, AV grants to such Purchaser a non-
exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to (i) install copies of the Licensed Programs in
appropriate hardware; and (ii) use the Licensed Programs for their intended purpose. Purchaser
may make copies of any Licensed Programs only as necessary to exercise its rights authorized
hereunder and as necessary to back up the Licensed Programs.

7. Payment. Payment shall be in U.S. Dollars, and shall be due and payable in accordance with the
terms set forth on the applicable AV Quotation. Payment shall be in an amount equal to the
purchase price for the applicable Product plus all applicable taxes, shipping charges, and other
charges to be borne by Purchaser.

8. Rejection/Return. All Products shall be deemed accepted by Purchaser twenty (20) business days
after receipt unless Purchaser rejects such Product within such twenty (20) business day period for
failure to comply with the Limited Warranty set forth in above. Upon such rejection, Purchaser shall
immediately notify AV of the rejection and shall, at AV’s option, return the Product or allow AV to
inspect the rejected Product and shall follow AV’s instructions regarding disposition of the rejected
Product. Prior to the return of any Product to AV as provided for hereunder, Purchaser shall obtain
from AV’s Technical Support Department a Return Material Authorization (“RMA”) number. Within ten
(10) business days after receiving an RMA number for the Product, Purchaser shall package the
Product in its original packing material or an equivalent and return such Product to AV or such other
location as AV may designate in writing. AV shall bear the cost of freight and insurance for the return
to AV. Purchaser shall enclose with the returned Product the applicable RMA form, and any other
documentation or information requested by AV. AV may refuse to accept returns of any Product not
packed and shipped as provided in this paragraph. Upon verification that the Product does not
comply with the Limited Warranty, AV shall repair, replace, or provide a refund for such Product, at
AV’s option, no later than thirty (30) days after the time AV receives from Purchaser written notice of
such return or rejection. AV shall be responsible for returning, at AV’s cost, repaired or replaced
Products to Purchaser.
9. General Provisions. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, performance by AV shall be
excused to the extent that performance is rendered commercially unreasonable by acts of God, war,

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fire, flood, riot, power failure, embargo, material shortages, strikes, governmental acts, man-made or
natural disasters, earthquakes, failure or limitation of supply, or any other reason where failure to
perform is beyond the reasonable control and not caused by the negligence of AV. The time for
performance shall be extended for the time period lost due to the delay. This Agreement shall be
governed by and construed under the laws of the State of California, USA, without reference to
conflict of laws. These terms and conditions, including those on the face page hereof (if any), set
forth the entire agreement and understanding of AV and Purchaser with respect to the sale and
distribution of Products, the Licensed Products and Parts and supersede all prior or
contemporaneous agreements relating thereto, written or oral, between the parties. Purchaser may
not assign its rights or delegate its obligations hereunder without the express written consent of AV.
Any assignment by Purchaser without such consent shall constitute a breach hereof by Purchaser.

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