Adding an Axis camera

Cameras are a requirement for every system that manages building access. Axis cameras provide many features with which to customize your installation. This procedure documents how to discover and add one or more Axis cameras and how to manually create a new camera.

Prerequisites: Your Axis camera has been updated to the latest firmware it can support. The camera has been configured using the Axis Device Manager application. Using Workbench, you are connected to the Supervisor station (enterprise-wide configuration) or to your remote host controller station. The station has an Axis network already set up. To facilitate discovery, port 5353 is open in your computer’s firewall.

To determine if the camera’s firmware needs updating, navigate to https://www.axis.com/sv-se/support/firmware.

Perform the following steps:

Expand Config > Drivers, and double-click NAxisVideoNetwork.
The Naxis Video Device Manager view opens.
To discover cameras, click Discover.
The Discovered pane displays the available camera(s).
To add a discovered camera to the database, select it and click Add.
Some cameras will discover and others will not. If the discovery job does not find a camera after a minute or two, cadd the camera manually.
To add a camera manually (without discovery), do one of the following:
- Click New, give the camera a name and click OK.
- Open the naxisVideo palette, drag the NAxisVideoCamera component to the network node in the Nav tree, right-click the camera component and click View > AX Property Sheet.
The camera’s New window or Property Sheet opens.
If you opened the Property Sheet, expand Video Device Id.
As a minimum, configure these properties and click OK:
- Url Address is the IP address of the camera.
- Web Port is 443 for an https:// connection; 80 for an http:// connection
- Ptz Support should be set to Enable All if the camera is capable of pan, tilt and zoom. Do not enable this property for fixed-position cameras.
- Credentials should be the Username and Password for the camera: To connect using a browser, you must know the camera’s credentials. Due to the limitations in the Axis client software, this is how to connect to an Axis camera with a firmware version of 6.x or lower.)
  Another way to log in to a camera with firmware 6.x or lower is to allow guest access for viewing video at the camera. This method is not recommended and should only be used for cameras that are not in high-security areas or where privacy is not an issue. Cameras with guest access enabled should be on a private network that is not accessible by the general public.
- Host Name is the IP address and path to the server that receives the motion-detected video.
- Web Auth Scheme is the type of authentication when using a browser to connect to a station:
  Token or Browser attempts a token connection, and, if it fails due to firmware limitations or bad credentials, opens the browser login window where you can enter the camera’s credentials.
  
  Token requires a firmware version of 7.x or higher to use the credentials stored in the station to connect to the camera.
  
  Browser requires the camera’s credentials.
The system connects to the camera. If the camera supports the Token api (required for HTML5 streaming) and you selected Token or Browser or Token for Web Auth Scheme, the camera is ready to use. If the camera does not support the token api, a window prompts you for the camera’s credentials.
To test the configuration from Workbench, click Save, right-click the camera in the Nav tree and click Actions > Ping.
Status should report: {Ok}.
To accesses the camera directly using a browser, open the browser and enter the camera’s IP address in the Address property.
If Token Over Https is true (the default), and the camera does not have a server certificate signed by a root CA certificate in the station’s trust store, the first time you connect the software prompts you to accept the camera’s self-signed server certificate.
At least temporarily, accept this certificate using HTTP protocol.
The self-signed default certificate encrypts data but does not verify the server.
To verify that the camera is available to the browser, use Workbench to connect to your localhost, expand the Config > Drivers > AxisVideoNetwork and double-click the AxisVideoCamera node in the Nav tree.
The live video view should open.

If you accepted the camera’s self-signed certificate and you do not plan to replace it with a signed server certificate, open the platform/station’s Certificate Management view and approve the self-signed camera certificate.

Adding an Axis camera

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