Flussonic Watcher 21.08

Get familiar with the changes introduced in Flussonic Watcher 21.08 products.

Flussonic Agent is now available for Vesta with Hi3516EV200 chipset, Mstar MSC325, and Dahua Leo DH7300C cameras. Outdated locked pieces of DVR no longer accumulate. We fixed the issue when enabling motion detection events processing via ONVIF protocol for many cameras led to the Watcher UI became unresponsive. The stability of the face recognition algorithm is increased. Check the full list of fixes below and get your servers upgraded as soon as possible.

What's New

• #12339 (new) (Watcher) Added support of Armenian license plates in video analytics module.
• #15259 (new) (Watcher) When integrating with an access control system the Watcher should submit information about detected person so that the system will be able to verify access permissions and log event details for further reporting. An access control system has it own database with identifiers for persons and it is expected that the Watcher returns this external ID. Now an administrator can assign and edit this external Id for a person in a list of persons via Watcher UI.
• #16441 (new) (Watcher) Support of the agent for Vesta cameras with Hi3516EV200 chipset (models: VC-3147 / VC-3247 / VC-3347 / VC-3447) was added.
• #18239 (new) (Watcher) Support of the agent for Dahua cameras with Leo DH7300C chipset was added.
• #18242 (new) (Watcher) Support of the agent for Mstar MSC325 camera was added.

Issues Resolved

• #18104 (fixed) (Watcher) Fixed Watcher license restrictions signalling.
• #13997 (fixed) (Watcher) Labels for fields Password and Confirm password when setting up password for IRIS camera were added. Without these labels a user was confused what to do.
• #16573 (fixed) (Watcher) Fixed issued when enabling motion detection events processing via ONVIF protocol for a lot of cameras led to the Watcher UI became unresponsive.
• #16612 (fixed) (Watcher) Issue with accumulating outdated locked pieces of DVR was fixed. Now such pieces will be deleted by regular clean up procedure in automatic mode.
• #17661 (fixed) (Watcher) Issue with opening another page when clicking on Load More in camera list was fixed.
• #18050 (fixed) (Watcher) Fixed issue that the filter by organization did't work in the list view.
• #18074 (fixed) (Watcher) Fixed issue with missing previews for analytic events.
• #18305 (fixed) (Watcher) Improved reliability of handling of the camera status change event.
• #18306 (fixed) (Watcher) Issue with rebooting of IRIS camera every 15 minutes was fixed.
• #16624 (fixed) (Watcher) Issue with getting "-" when requesting agent's log in Watcher UI was fixed.
• #17322 (fixed) (Watcher) Increased the stability of the face recognition algorithm. Issue with detecting different faces as the same person should no longer occur.
• #18347 (fixed) (Watcher) After restarting a Watcher server all camera's agents tried to reconnect simultaneously. It led to overload of a server. Some optimizations were implemented to solver the situation.

Documentation updates

• #13369 (doc) (Watcher) The article about API for Agent activation is added to help you add cameras in your own app in the same way as in Watcher app.
• #15009 (doc) (Watcher) Example [organizations] management API calls added to facilitate billing integration and/or app development.
• #17174 (doc) (Watcher) Watcher [Quick Start Guide] is updated to provide you with high-level scenarios of configuring Watcher for CCTV or VSaaS.
• #17486 (doc) (Watcher) New article added about the types of [API keys] and how to use them for API request authorization.
• #17638 (doc) (Watcher) The section about [managing cameras within an Organization] is updated with more screenshots and details.
• #17696 (doc) (Watcher) The ways you can search for users by their login when [managing users and their permissions] are described.
• #17700 (doc) (Watcher) The seamless archive feature is described for the case when streamers are switched in the [camera settings] manually or automatically.
• #17728 (doc) (Watcher) The purpose of substreams in [camera settings] explained.
• #17761 (doc) (Watcher) The article about [creating mosaics] page are described.
• #18214 (doc) (Watcher) The new way of [adding and configuring streamers] is described.
• #18332 (doc) (Watcher) Detailed description of [access to public cameras in Watcher] is added.
• #18445 (doc) (Watcher) Armenia is added to the list of countries for which [ANPR] is supported.