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Question   What to consider when using the NDA-3080-CND Conduit adapter for DINION inteox 7100i IR installation?   Answer     When using the conduit adapter NDA-3080-CND for the installation, be sure to: For protection against water ingress we recommend to avoid top entry for the conduit adapter and use the side and bottom entry position Mark the position of the hole of the surface Drill the hole with the appropriate diameter drill Install a plug in the hole Put the cable through the hole of the conduit plate Attach the conduit plate with the conduit plate adapter to the surface Install the conduit cover on the conduit plate. Tighten the two screws with the TR15 Allen key NDA-3080-CND:    RJ45 punch-through aid    Mount it Fix the rubber grommets in both cables inlets and make sure that the cable inlets are firmly closed. Mount the wall plate to the conduit adapter NDA-3080-CND   Wall plate Attach the mounting plate to the surface with 4 screws   Compatibility with various existing mounting options Please find all the fitting accessories in the Quick Selection Guide Other useful information: Cable management Connect the Ethernet cable to the unit Connect the power cable in case no PoE is used   Installing the camera base Mount the unit on its base Tighten the four screws     Angle adjustment Using the Allen key, you can loose the camera articulation nuts to adjust the view angle of the camera towards the desired area Always you need to tighten the nuts after positioning the camera as desired     Tilt angle The unit has three flexible joints used for defining camera position and view angle     Adding a Micro SD card You need to move the sun shield forward to the max position, in order to get access to the Micro SD card slot Note: You will find the Reset button here as well        Nice to know:   DINION inteox 7100i IR Quick Installation Guide YouTube videos: DINION 7100i IR cameras simplify installation DINION 7100i IR – Easy installation For a better understanding of using this camera, we encourage you to join our online DINION inteox 7100i IR product introduction training from Bosch Building Technologies Academy! ... View more

Question   How can I avoid black lines appearing in the live view of Bosch cameras?     Answer   This happens due to the difference between the wavelength of the emitting light and the FPS settings of the camera. Depending on your region, the AC frequency may be 50 Hz or 60 Hz. For example, the standard alternating current in the United States is produced and used at 60 Hz. In some European and Asian countries, the standard alternating current is produced and used at 50 Hz.   Please proceed with changing the FPS of the camera. The FPS should match the AC frequency of you region or should be a multiplier of it. You can change it directly in the camera's web page:   If the black lines don’t completely disappear, you might want to consider replacing the light source. ... View more

Question   Can a stream of a Bosch camera be integrated into the end-user web page via http(s)?   Answer   Yes! You can use stream from our Bosch cameras to be displayed in a web page. Bosch IP cameras have a web server embedded and what you see when connecting to a camera with a web browser is a web page. There are the following ways of providing images coming from our cameras on the web pages: 1. JPEG snapshots. This is the easiest solution, what you need is just a very basic HTML code and Java script responsible for page refreshing. However, it is not recommend to use it for this purpose, as you leave the trace of a source camera in the page code. This firstly exposes a camera for potential malicious attacks like DDoS, secondly a camera can get simply overloaded with incoming requests, as internal web server in a camera has very limited capacity in this field, especially comparing to professional WWW servers. Also, keep in mind that what comes out in this solution is not a live streaming, it is more like a web camera with an image refreshed every few seconds.  2. FTP JPEG posting. A camera keeps sending JPEG images to a folder on FTP server (potentially the same server which hosts WWW). Advantage of this solution is that camera IP address remains covered, nobody sees a camera as a source of JPEG images since the actual web server refers to own folder as imaging source. This keeps camera secured, plus allows handling huge traffic, as professional web servers are much better in doing so. Also, all security and continuity is on the web server side, not the camera, making the solution more robust. Application is easy and requires a HTML code and a Java script to refresh the image, but gives effect readable for any web browser with no need to download any special decoder etc. Disadvantage is relatively low refresh rate (max 1 image per second).  3. Mpeg4 or RTSP stream directly from a camera. It is possible to intercept a live video stream from a camera. It is just necessary to place an object capable of decoding our video in web page code. This provides live, high framerate video. But brings some disadvantages too, as source of video streaming is included in the HTML page code and with that camera becomes exposed like with JPEG snapshots solution. Also, keep in mind that a camera displayed over the Internet needs to work in unicast or multi-unicast mode, since multicast with IGMPv3 is not widely supported over the public Internet. Last but not least, some decoding components like our ActiveX will become necessary and nowadays people don’t like plug-ins installed when web browsing.  4. Video streaming over streaming server. In this scenario camera remains hidden and therefore all limitations applicable to a camera internal web server do not apply. What you need is a dedicated streaming server, which would intercept live video directly from a camera and publish it further for all potential web page viewers. Again security and continuity topics are handled on the web server and streaming media, pretty much like in solution # 2. You can use VLAN software to both intercept RTPS streaming from Bosch camera and then stream it further for the purposes of actual web pages, but other streaming software may be applicable too.   🛈 The safest and simultaneously easiest in implementation is FTP JPEG posting. Unless no special requirements are present.   MP4 stream. Given that cameras deliver an MP4 stream, it can easily be integrated using the HTML5 video tag. This will pull a unicast stream. In this case, your browser needs to support the video tag. If it does, you should be able to put the code snippet into a page and get video. 💡 HTML5 video tag: If you get a "bad request 400" message", you can deactivate the "HTTP Referrer Check" feature If a camera is password-protected, the user has to authenticate itself. If there is no possibility to enter username and password, client authentication with certificates might solve this. If multiple users need to access the same video, an application with web pages is really questionable.  See the code example below, which gets the second stream from a camera. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Video</title> </head> <body> <div id="videocontainer"> <video width="640" height="480" controls autoplay> <source src="http://IP_address/video.mp4?line=1&inst=2" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video tag. </video> </div> </body> </html> ... View more

  The MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) is a Broadcom Inc. software used to configure, monitor, and maintain MegaRAID Serial-attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controllers with RAID control capabilities and the storage-related devices connected to them.   The MSM 17.05.06.00 version has been release to add enhancements, fix bugs and the log4j v.1.2 reported vulnerabilities as per in the release notes 17.05.06.00_MSM.txt. To upgrade your DIVAR IP all-in-one 7000 (DIP-73xx) unit please carry out the following actions, specified, and advised by Broadcom:   Step-by-step guide   1. Before the MSM upgrade, download all required files to a USB stick: Download the 32-bit/x86 JRE binary, recommended and tested JRE version:  jdk8u372-b07. Notice MSM is a 32-bit application, so ensure the download of the 32-bit/x86 JRE binary. Download the jdk8u372-b07 binary checksum file: OpenJDK8U-jre_x86-32_windows_hotspot_8u372b07.zip.sha256.txt Download the MegaRAID Storage Manager v17.05.06.00 installation package. 2. Plug-in the USB stick on the DIVAR IP and copy the installation files. (Assume: C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads): 3. Set up the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Open the PowerShell and validate the integrity of the JRE binary (assume: C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads): # Checksum value available in the file:_ _OpenJDK8U-jre_x86-32_windows_hotspot_8u372b07.zip.sha256.txt Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 OpenJDK8U-jre_x86-32_windows_hotspot_8u372b07.zip     Unzip the OpenJRE file in your desired location (assume: C:\jre folder). mkdir C:\jre tar -xf OpenJDK8U-jre_x86-32_windows_hotspot_8u372b07.zip -C C:\jre   Create the JRE_HOME as a system-wide variable. setx /M JRE_HOME C:\jre\jdk8u372-b07-jre   To validate the variable creation, close the PowerShell and open a new window to ensure the variable is loaded and run the command: # Expected result: C:\jre\jdk8u372-b07-jre $Env:JRE_HOME   __    Upgrade the MegaRaid Storage Manager application  1. Unzip the zip file (assume: C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads): tar -xf 17.05.06.00_MSM_Windows.zip   2. Ensure the files have not been corrupted during download: # MSM17050600.zip checksum is available in the MD5CheckSum.txt file Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 MSM17050600.zip   3. Unzip the MSM17050600.zip file: tar -xf MSM17050600.zip   4. Run the setup.exe installation file to upgrade the MSM: cd DISK1 .\setup.exe /s /v"/qn UPGRADEONLY=1 SETUPTYPE=Complete"   5. The upgrade will run in the background silently up to a minute. Open the MegaRaid Storage Manager application afterwards and the new version should be available.   Note: A README file is available in the 17.05.06.00 MSM with detailed information about the upgrade. It can be used to support the installation process or troubleshooting.    ... View more

LSI Storage Authority, LSA for short, can be found on the DIP64xx’s Windows desktop. This utility can be used to monitor the status of the drives in the device’s RAID array specifically   Step-by-step guide   1. Log in with the BVRAdmin account credentials by clicking the server’s tab (more than one could show, depending on how many are running in the system):   2. In this screenshot you can see that a drive is failed right away. From this screen you can check out the event log, check the diagnostics, silence the alarm of the degraded RAID array, and figure out which drive is broken. How to collect Controller Event log, Diagnostics Logs or Server Report of DIP 6000 AIO via LSA?  In this case, it is drive 0 (the first drive; drive numbering runs 0…3)   3. After determining which drive is broken and replacing it with a suitable BOSCH-supplied replacement, the critical state doesn’t go away right at that moment. First the array needs to be rebuild. This can take a long time, but the start and end of the rebuild are found in the event logs.   4. In some cases, a drive does not rebuild on its own and needs to be told to rebuild. To do this, choose “Make Unconfigured Good”. Make sure to only do this after replacing with a known good drive, doing this with a broken drive will only postpone the inevitable!   5. Telling the drive it is a new drive & can be used to rebuild:   6. RAID array is in perfect shape once more: After the rebuild is finished, the controller is back in optimal state. ... View more