Security: Video

According to its Data Sheet, the Flexidome IP 3000i IR camera has 2 options to activate the alarm input. Please refer to the diagram from this article if you would like to get alarm input from some physical sensors.

With BVMS 11.0, new licensing system was introduced. Attached document describes how to migrate existing activated BVMS licenses from the Bosch Software License Manager System (SLMS) licensing system to the new Bosch Remote Portal licensing.

DIVAR IP units can be upgraded to BVMS 11.0. Starting with BVMS 11.0, the BVMS licensing scheme also applies to the DIVAR IP units. This document describes which units you can upgrade to BVMS 11.0 and which licenses you have to order for a DIVAR IP unit!

The article explains the different types of licenses, the basic rules of the license activation and how to activate licenses for the BVMS system.

You may need the SNMP MIB file when you are trying to monitor the camera through a Bosch or 3rd party software. This article aims to describe how to find and enable the SNMP on a Bosch camera.

A password prevents unauthorized access to the device. You can use different authorization levels to limit access. Proper password protection is only guaranteed when all higher authorization levels are also protected with a password. Therefore, you must always start from the highest authorization level when assigning passwords. This article will guide you step by step to set the destination password for decoders.

Do not upgrade the camera FW directly to 7.81. Otherwise, “error 13: device check failed” message will be displayed, and the FW will not be upgraded successfully.

Intelligent Insights is a standalone product. The system can run as a standalone system and be accessed by operators via the web browser or the widgets can be integrated in a BVMS operator client.

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.

The purpose of this article is to help you disabling the compass character from the Screen Display (OSD) of the Bosch PTZ camera via its web interface

This article provides a step-by-step guide about how you can disable UPnP of Bosch IP cameras & multicast scan from Configuration Manager. One of the reason why UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) is enabled in our devices is because ONVIF uses this to scan the ONVIF device in the network.

In some cases the IVA tasks can get lost after firmware update, but you can avoid this by copying the IVA configuration. There are 2 ways. In both ways it's not guaranteed that all task shall work afterwards since new firmware version can contain a new IVA version with new features.

One of the possible traps  that DIVAR IP hybrid/network can send is HDD_STATUS_CHANGE. The HDD_STATUS_CHANGE is triggered when the status of the Hard Disk changes. 

This camera does not have the auto-focus functionality in the same sense as Autodome / Mic cameras.

NetApp SANtricity Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) technology represents a significant advancement in storage system, data protection and data management. As disk capacities continue to grow without sufficient increases in data transfer rates, traditional RAID rebuild times are getting longer, even up to several days. This slow rebuild results in much more time with degraded performance and exposure to additional disk failures.

*Firmware 9.10 must be installed prior to installation of this firmware 9.51. Firmware download location: Download Store or on the product page > Downloads: VIDEOJET decoder 8000 page

By checking the Zoom threshold box you will select the current zoom position at which the mask will appear as the camera zooms in or be hidden as the camera zooms out.

When dealing with 3rd party or VSG, it’s recommended to get at-least "1" I-frame every second (normal scene).

You can collect Service logs from the unit using two methods. Both methods will save the service logs as a password protected ZIP file ( Example: ServiceLog-XXXXX.zip ).

The default SMTP port number for Bosch IP cameras is 25. The required SMTP port can differ depending on the service provider. From FW 5.80.0073 onwards it is possible to change the SMTP port using Alarm Task Script Language (ATSL).