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BriefCam VMS Integration Guide

Digifort Integration

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Integration Summary

VMS Partner 

Product 

Version 

Last Tested BriefCam Version 

Integration Level 

H.265 Support 

Digifort

Digifort Enterprise 

7.4.0.4

2024 M1

Real time alerts integration (L2a)

Yes

Initial Setup

In the VideoNative.ini file (located at C:\Program Files\BriefCam\BriefCam Server), change both the RtspConnectionTimeout and the RtspGetNextTimeout parameters to 60000 and remove the semicolons from the beginning of these rows (as shown in the image below).

Digifort Video Native.png

Sending Alerts to Digifort

Alerts can be sent to Digifort. To enable this functionality, carry out the steps below.

BriefCam Configuration

In the Environment Settings section, there are three settings relevant for sending alerts outside of BriefCam (see the image below):

  • To send alerts outside of BriefCam, set the Respond.AlertsPublishingEnabled setting to true.

  • To send alerts to a VMS, check that the Respond.AlertsPublishingToVMSEnabled setting is set to true.

  • To change the polling interval, use the Respond.AlertsPublishingIntervalInMilliseconds setting.

    SendAlertssettings.png

  • If you make changes to the settings, you need to restart or start the VSServer service.

Digifort Configuration

The preferable method is to configure every camera separately as follows:

  1. Open the Digifort Administration Client and navigate to Recording Server -> Cameras tab.

    Camera register.png

  2. Double-click on the camera name and go to the Manual Events configuration tab. Click Add to create a new event.

    Digifort alerts 2.png

  3. The default event name is bc_event. The name can be changed in the Digifort plugin configuration file.

    Digifort EventName.png

  4. Click Configure Actions.

    Digifort alerts 4.png

  5. Select event actions. Usually, the Send an instant message to the operator and Request operator acknowledge event actions are used.

Note

The Show objects to operator event action opens a new live stream player for every new alert, which leads to CPU overload. Make sure that this action is disabled.

Digifort request operator.png

Every new Alert window will now appear in the Digifort client.

Digifort alert window.png

Alternatively, you can configure one global event that will be triggered for all the cameras. However, this method has some restrictions.

  1. To enable global event sending, set the plugin configuration file's SendGlobalEvent option to true.

    Digifort SendGlobalEvent.png

  2. Open the Digifort Administration Client and navigate to Alerts And Events -> Global Events tab.

  3. Click Add to create a new event.

    Digifort global events.png

  4. Click Configure Actions.

    Digifort configure actions.png

  5. Select event actions.

  6. Check that the Show objects to operator action is disabled.

    Show Objects to Operator.png

Known Limitations

  • Bounding boxes when playing the original video are not supported.

  • Live timestamps are inaccurate because of time differences. To solve this issue, set both BriefCam and Digifort to the same NTP.

  • BriefCam's alerts are presented in Digifort without an image due to Digifort's SDK limitations.

  • Once every few hours, the real-time stream disconnects for 10 seconds and then reconnects again automatically.

  • In real-time alerts, recorded video saves the timestamp with a short lag.