Video Network views

Axis network

The Axis video driver (naxisVideo) supports Axis video cameras.

Supported features include:

Automatic discovery of cameras
PTZ operation, including Go To preset
Focus and iris
Surveillance Viewer
Remote video connections
Fox video streaming
Graphics widgets
Motion detection from the camera

These Axis features are not supported:

Alarm video playback
Live video playback
Switching between live and playback video
Bidirectional alarms

The Axis driver has been tested with these cameras:

Axis P5635–E PTZ Dome Network Camera with firmware version 6.50.2.3
AXIS M 1065-L Network Camera with firmware version 8.30.1.1

Other models may or may not work with the driver depending on the firmware version installed. It is recommended to upgrade the Axis camera to the current firmware when using this video driver.

Axis video driver requirements include the following:

IP access between the camera and remote network controller
Appropriate ports open; the defaults are port 80 for the web, port 554 for control, and port 9000 for data
Security status of each camera. The software defaults to TLS (Transport Layer Security) secure communication.
NOTE: If one or more of your cameras does not support or is not configured to support secure communication, you can add a second network with TLS disabled for those cameras. In this scenario, you can keep all of your https-supported cameras on the Axis TLS network and add the legacy http cameras to the non-TLS enabled network.

Milestone network

Milestone provides four video management software products:

XProtect Enterprise
XProtect Professional
XProtect Professional+
XProtect Corporate

The framework supports these three products with two drivers:

The Milestone Network (nmilestone) driver supports the XProtect Enterprise XProtect Professional, and XProtect Professional+ products.
The Milestone XProtect Network (xprotect) driver supports the XProtect Corporate product.

CAUTION: The Milestone products do not support secure communication, therefore, it is not possible to secure the connection between a station and its Milestone devices.

Maxpro network

This network supports Maxpro cameras and NVRs (Network Video Recorder)

Supported features include:

Automatic discovery of cameras
NVR (Network Video Recorder) and camera health Status
PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) operation including control and go-to presets
Live and recorded video streams
H.264 Codec
RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) and HPS (Honeywell Progressive Streaming)
RTSP streaming has been tested with Honeywell’s HDZMD series camera.
Read camera events and alarms
Forward, rewind, fast forward, and fast rewind
1 /2, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 16 replay speeds
Custom RTSP URL for RTSP streaming

The Maxpro driver does not support Fox streaming.

The Maxpro driver defaults to secure TLS communication with the exception of its RTSP protocol, which, in the Niagara 4.9 release does not support TLS. If your installation requires a connection to a camera or NVR that does not support TLS, you should replace the device with one that does support secure communication. If you must use a device that is not secure, change Use Tls (Network component Property Sheet) to false and change the Address, Port (Network and NVR Property Sheets) from 443 to 80.

CAUTION: Be aware that these changes relax the driver's security settings, compromising security to connect to a device that does not support secure communication. This opens your network to the potential of being hacked.