Configuration of IP cameras

Data point name

Data point name of the created camera. Use the button to define a display name for the camera (written to the respective camera data point element object.device.name) which shall be shown instead of the data point name.

Description

Description for the camera.

Server

Specify the host which shall receive the streaming data of the camera. In addition you can define a list of hosts that shall be used for streaming if the first host is overloaded. The "..." button opens the following panel which lists all available hosts.

Available interfaces

A list of all available hosts (Video interface option must be enabled, see Host).

Secondary interfaces

If the host which receives the streaming data is overloaded, one of the configured hosts will take over according to the defined order (from top to bottom).

Configuration

Type

Select one of the available camera types with this selection list. The following types are available:

• Axis camera

• Bosch camera

• Mobotix camera

• ONVIF camera (refer to Retrieve information from ONVIF cameras)

• RTSP stream

• Sony camera

• USB camera/Test stream

The user has different configuration options depending on the selected camera type. Some options are not available for every camera type.

Encapsulation

Depending on the camera type you can choose between http, https and rcpp.

URL extension

It is set automatically depending on the camera type.

IP address

Type in the IP address of the camera.

Port

Must be specified according to the configuration of the video source respectively the encapsulation.

User

Must be specified according to the configuration of the video source.

The default user name for most of the BOSCH cameras is the "live".

Password

Must be specified according to the configuration of the video source.

PTZ

You can specify the number of presets for a camera and if the image shall be mirrored along the X or Y axis.

Streaming

You can select how many streams shall be available with the checkboxes Stream 1, Stream 2 and Stream 3.

Codec

Depending on the selected camera type different codecs are available:

Encapsulation

Depending on the selected camera type different protocols are available: .

Streamlayout

Only available for Bosch cameras. This parameter defines how the interlace frames are packed:

• Progressive

• Topfieldtop

• Bottomfieldtop

• Weaved

Port

Must be specified according to the configuration of the video source respectively the encapsulation.

If no port is specified, the default values for rtsp (=5544) and http (=80) are used by default.

User

Must be specified according to the configuration of the video source.

Password

Must be specified according to the configuration of the video source.

Clone Stream

When enabled a stream can be selected by ID that should be cloned to the current stream.

URL extension

Depending on the configuration of the video source there are different options available.

Media Profile

Must be specified according to the configuration of the video source.

Parameter

Depending on the configuration of the video source there are different options available.

The "..." button opens a panel with a list of all available parameters. This list contains parameters of all cameras, therefore it depends on the camera which parameter you can actually use. If your camera supports any other parameter which is not in this list, you can add this parameter via the button. The parameters are stored on the internal data point element _VIDEO_OA_MAIN.general.generalUserDefFields.

Click the button to delete a selected parameter and to reset the list to the default parameters.

RTP over RTSP

Camera's command channel is used to send back the video data.

Recording

Allows to select one of the configured recordings and enables it for the stream.

In case failover-redundancy is defined for a recording, you can change the recording default settings for each camera stream. Click the "..." button to select another primary recording server. In this case the ranking of the configured failover hosts will change (refer to Recording - failover for further information).

Multicast

It is possible to configure multicast for each stream.

Clicking on this button opens the following panel:

Important notes

• The standard connection is as follows:

  Camera/Encoder -> Unicast -> Interface-Proxy -> depending on the configured transport mode (0=Unicast, 1=Multicast, 2=TCP) -> Decoder (e.g. workstation or display monitor)

• If rtp://<Multicast ipv4 address>:<port> is defined as URL for streaming, the connection is as follows:

  Camera/Encoder -> Multicast -> Interface-Proxy -> depending on the configured transport mode (0=Unicast, 1=Multicast, 2=TCP) -> Decoder (e.g. workstation or display monitor)

• In case that operatornetmulticastaddress = multicastaddress and operatornetmulticastport = multicastPort, the interface proxy for all decoder connections with transport mode 1 (=multicast) is disabled. In this case the interface does not transfer data to the decoders. The decoder receives the multicast data directly from the multicast sender (encoder or camera). If a decoder requests a unicast connection, the streaming proxy is enabled for this connection. To ensure that no streaming connection is established between interface and encoder/camera, the payloadtype must be set explicitly and there must not be a configured recording connection.

• In case of Multi-Homed-Hosts it may happen that receiving or sending multicast data must be explicitly bound to a network adapter.

• Recording connections are always TCP connections. If a recording connection is configured, the streaming proxy is always enabled.