Security: Video

This article explains how you can set up a Virtual Assistant service in Bosch Alarm Management

The Virtual Guard service allows your operators to perform scheduled video checks of all key areas at the customer site.

Keep an eye on your customers’ sites, and verify on-demand if the site is clear before the personnel enters.

To be able to configure Customer Traffic Report service the Bosch IP camera needs to support Intelligent Video Analytics or Essential Video Analytics.

Offer your customers remote access to live video streams from all their video surveillance-secured sites from any smart phone or tablet, so they can check in any time, from anywhere.

This article shows available actions in Bosch Alarm Management and provides a step by step instruction to configure these actions.

The Smart Notification service lets your end-customer easily keep track of business operations. Detection, notification and storage of events like warehouse access, POS transactions or goods delivery enable efficient monitoring and resolution of critical events for the business owner. Please follow below steps to set up a Smart Notification service.

There are two methods of working with 3rd party apps: through Remote Portal and Configuration Manager. In this article you will find the step-by-step guide where is described the method using Configuration Manager.

When login Remote Portal in Configuration Manager v7.20.0067, the following error message is displayed "The remote name could not be resolved: api.remote.boschsecurity.com"

Question Why the Autodome 7000i INTEOX cannot connect to the S&ST Cloud services?   Answer Most likely, when you tried to connect to the S&ST ecosystem, you missed one of the steps explained in this article: How to connect a Bosch INTEOX camera to S&ST using Configuration Manager?   If you are sure that you have followed correctly the steps from the article above, please collect from camera: Diagnostics logs Config file with log in credentials Event logs How to collect logs from your Bosch IP Camera/Encoder? Please check if the the following message is displayed in the logs: ✅ Tip "Not connecting (CC enabled: true; Network connection: true; MQTT client ready: true; NTP enabled: false)" → this indicates that you didn't turn on the NTP which is a prerequisite to connect to the cloud back-end  Please enable the timeserver and make sure the time of the camera is synchronized with a public time-server when connecting to the S&ST cloud.   Note: NTP synchronization is necessary if the camera is going to be claimed in the portal. Please refer also to the Help & Support page:  Claiming cameras

This article explains how to connect an INTEOX camera to the S&ST ecosystem using Configuration Manager (7.20 and later).

Let's suppose that the "Customer" user should see 3 cameras in the Video Security App. When logging to the App, he can see only 2 of them. Why?

Bosch Remote Portal connects you to your Bosch Security devices from anywhere and lets you perform remote administration and maintenance anytime

Depending on the 3rd party cameras’ capabilities, there are different ways of adding cameras to Bosch Alarm Management.

In Cloud-based Services, different 'Actions' can be configured for automatic processing as well as manual action for the operators (Alarm Agents). There are 2 different options how an action is processed: An 'Automatic Action' is processed automatically when the related Service Scenario is performed. An 'Intervention Action' is executed manually by an operator from the Cloud-based Service Operator Interface. This note shows available actions in Cloud-based Services and provides a step by step instruction to configure these actions.   Step-by-step guide   1. Send e-mail "Send e-mail" sends an e-mail notification to the configured recipient(s). The action can be used as manual action for the operators (Intervention Action). The content of the alarm email can be configured to the customer's needs.   To configure a "Send e-mail" action, perform the following steps: 1. Open Cloud-based Services Configuration website (/config), log in as Integrator or Config Agent. 2. Enter the related Account. 3. Click tab 'Actions'. 4. Click '+' button to add an action. 5. Give the action a descriptive name and select 'Email'. 6. Type recipients, CC's, mail subject and message. Use the pull down to enter environment variables to the e-mail text. 7. Click 'Create'. 8. Add the action to a Service Scenario for processing.   2. Execute PTZ Command "Execute PTZ Command" starts an auxiliary command on a Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera. The action can be used for automatic processing (Automatic Action) as well as manual action for the operators (Intervention Action). Note the available auxiliary commands in the camera’s manual. To configure an "Execute PTZ Command" action, perform the following steps: 1. Open Cloud-based Services Configuration website (/config), log in as Integrator or Config Agent. 2. Enter the related Account. 3. Click tab 'Actions'. 4. Click '+' button to add an action. 5. Give the action a descriptive name and select 'Execute PTZ Command'. 6. Select PTZ camera, select auxiliary command and type the command No. 7. Click 'Create'. 8. Add the action to a Service Scenario for processing   3. Go to PTZ Preposition "Go to PTZ Preposition" moves a Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera to a preposition. The action can be used for automatic processing (Automatic Action) as well as manual action for the operators (Intervention Action). The prepositions (shots) need to be configured via the Device Page upfront. To configure a "Go to PTZ Preposition" action, perform the following steps: 1. Open Cloud-based Services Configuration website (/config), log in as Integrator or Config Agent. 2. Enter the related Account. 3. Click tab 'Actions'. 4. Click '+' button to add an action. 5. Give the action a descriptive name and select 'Go to PTZ preposition'. 6. Select PTZ camera and type the preposition No. 7. Click 'Create'. 8. Add the action to a Service Scenario for processing.   4. Play Audio on Device "Play Audio on Device" replays an audio file directly from the device's loudspeaker. The action is intended to perform standard audio interventions without the need for the operator (alarm agent) to talk. "Play Audio on Device" can be used for automatic processing (Automatic Action) as well as manual action for the operators (Intervention Action). Audio files need to be prepared and installed by CBS development. If you want to use your own audio files, please get in contact with technical support. To configure a "Play Audio on Device" action, perform the following steps: 1. Open Cloud-based Services Configuration website (/config), log in as Integrator or Config Agent. 2. Enter the related Account. 3. Click tab 'Actions'. 4. Click '+' button to add an Action. 5. Give the Action a descriptive name and select 'Play audio on device'. 6. Select the audio device and select the audio file. 7. Click 'Create'. 8. Add the action to a Service Scenario for processing.   5. Switch Relay "Switch Relay" switches a relay of one or more IP devices. The action can be used for automatic processing (Automatic Action) as well as manual action for the operators (Intervention Action). To configure a "Switch Relay" action, perform the following steps: 1. Open Cloud-based Services Configuration website (/config), log in as Integrator or Config Agent. 2. Enter the related Account 3. Click tab 'Actions'. 4. Click '+' button to add an action. 5. Give the action a descriptive name and select 'Relay'. 6. Select activation mode and select one or more relays to switch. 7. Click 'Create'. 8. Add the action to a Service Scenario for processing.   6. Notify Monitoring Center and Log Event Both action types "Notify Monitoring Center" and "Log Event" are obsolete and can not be used in a Service Scenario.  See also: How to add a user to Remote Alert service in Remote Portal?

Follow the steps from this article to add a Bosch IP camera to the Alarm Management.

Possible causes and solution(s) Cameras which get connected from the customer's site to Bosch Remote Portal use an outgoing connection via TCP port 42000. Outgoing connections usually are not blocked by a router, however in a corporate network with proxy server, firewall, etc. involved, the IT department might open the needed ports. The troubleshooting steps below might help you to connect cameras to Bosch Remote Portal.   Known issues on camera commissioning In most cases when camera commissioning fails, the root cause is: No connection to Bosch Security Cloud from the customer’s site Blocked Internet connectivity (e.g. blocked ports by proxy or firewall) User belongs to more than one Company in Remote Portal The camera is already commissioned to a different cloud instance Known camera firmware issues Known camera date issue Further…  

To be able to deploy a camera with DHCP disabled to Bosch Remote Portal, please perform the steps from this article.

"Remote Portal is not reachable. Please check your network settings, maybe no valid gateway and DNS is configured" Follow the steps from this article and find out how you can register and connect your camera to the Bosch Remote Portal.

Does the video stream (from camera to client) remain only on the LAN? Or, does the video stream need to first process 'through' the cloud?