The following Genetec certificates are required for the integration with BriefCam to work properly. They are used for the SDK connection between the BriefCam integration and the Genetec Security Center.

The licenses should be ordered from Genetec (see Genetec part numbers in the table below).

Genetec Security Center license: 

To pull real-time streams from Genetec to create alerts in BriefCam: 

The following section describes the installation and configuration that need to be performed to allow the BriefCam web client application to become embedded in the Genetec Security Desk Application.

After installing the Genetec plugin and the relevant SDK on the BriefCam Server, you are ready to install the Genetec Embedded Client.

To establish a connection from the BriefCam client embedded in the Genetec Security Desk Application to the BriefCam Server: 

To run a silent installation of the BriefCamGenetecPlugin.exe file, use the following command line:

{ GenetecInstaller file name} /qn APPDIR="$env:ProgramFiles\briefcam" SDK_PATH="{path to 5.8 SDK}" SD_5_7_PATH="{path to 5.7 SDK}" 

To run a silent installation of the BriefCamGenetecPlugin5_9.exe file, use the following command line:

./{ GenetecInstaller file name} /qn APPDIR="$env:ProgramFiles\briefcam" SDK_PATH="{path to 5.9 SDK}" SD_5_7_PATH="{path to 5.7 SDK}" 

If Genetec Auxiliary Archiver is configured on the VMS and BriefCam is configured to connect to it, then every request from the VMS will automatically fetch video from the auxiliary archiver. If you want to connect to Genetec Auxiliary, make sure to edit the BriefCam.GenetecSc52Fetcher32.ini file, which is located by default at C:\Program Files\BriefCam\BriefCam Server\32\plugins – Set the ;UseAuxiliaryArchiver = false parameter to true, uncomment the line and save the file.

Alerts can be sent to Genetec Security Center’s Alarm monitoring tab.

The following information is sent to Genetec:

On the Genetec-side you need a full admin user.

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

When the Genetec plug-in is installed, the BriefCam.GenetecSc58Fetcher.ini file or the BriefCam.GenetecSc59Fetcher.ini file is created at: C:\Program Files\BriefCam\BriefCam Server\plugins. The [Alerts] section contains a number of parameters including:

If the TruncateCameraName parameter does not exist in the .ini file, the default behavior will be as if the parameter is set to false. If the parameter is set to true, every alarm sent to Genetec will have the following identifier:

<DefaultAlarmName> - <Camera name> for example: BriefCam Alarm - Camera-55.

You can send events instead of alerts. You do this by setting the SendEvents parameter to true and uncommenting the row by removing the semicolon (;). The parameter is in the BriefCam.GenetecSc58Fetcher.ini file or the BriefCam.GenetecSc59Fetcher.ini file, which is located by default at: C:\Program Files\BriefCam\BriefCam Server\plugins.

To activate geolocation features in the BriefCam system, add the following section to the BriefCam.GenetecSc59Fetcher.ini file, which is located by default at: C:\Program Files\BriefCam\BriefCam Server\plugins.

[General]
GeoLocationEnabled = true

If you are not using Genetec's built-in load balancing, you can manually connect multiple Genetec gateways to BriefCam to share the load of managing your cameras. This is done by adding entries to the BriefCam.GenetecSc59Fetcher.ini file’s Media Gateways section.

The syntax for adding the entries is:

<username:password@MediaGatewayAddress=NumberOfSupportedCameras> 

Note that the username and password should be the same for each of the gateways.

For example:

[MediaGateways]

username:password@1.0.0.0:654=100

username:password@1.0.0.1:654=100

username:password@1.0.0.2:654=100

This configures three gateways with the username/password combination and assigns a capacity of 100 cameras to each.

By default, BriefCam uses the live stream for all cameras. You can change this for individual cameras or globally.

    {
    "CameraName": "Kitchen Camera",
    "StreamType": "lowres"
    }   

{
"Items": [
{
"CameraName": "",
/* OR */
"CameraId": "",
/* live, archiving, highres, lowres, remote */
"StreamType": ""
}
]
}