Contera 1.7 Released

Now you can get the most accurate and intelligent alerts and notifications from your video surveillance system with the latest release of Contera Web Services from Arecont Vision. Receive mobile push notifications for alerts, access more granular usage data for video clip shares, more effectively filter alerts to reduce false positives, integrate with your Apple Watch, and get even more event types from your DMP XR and XT alarm panels.

Contera Web Services

NEW – Push Notification support for the Contera Mobile app
NEW – Video clip sharing improvements
NEW – Manage and remotely update software on connected recorders
NEW – Updated Intrusion and Access rules
NEW – Inventory Report cleaned up
NEW – UI update for Add New Alert Rule to make it easier to use
NEW – Limits for the number of events sent to ConteraWS from Contera recorders
NEW – Ability for integrators to search for recorders in customer accounts
NEW – Alert rules have all days selected by default
NEW – Thumbnail report does not show images that are unavailable
NEW – Control the connection types to a recorder: Direct Connect, LAN Smart Forwarding, Peer to Peer, or Relay
NEW – Force encrypted connections to recorders using Relay only method

Contera Cloud Managed Recorders

NEW – Local archive in console for USB devices
NEW – DMP XT panel support
NEW – DMP unarmed event support
NEW – Support and event search added for Analytics queue management
IMPROVED – Local user permissions simplified for ease of use and moved to System Settings in Setup. (Local setup permissions may need to be reapplied after upgrade to 1.7)

ConteraVMS

NEW – Thumbnail view added to Event and Object search
NEW – Grid improvements: 81 channel grid, large panes now load the high-resolution stream
NEW – DST Hour 1 and Hour 2 added to the export dialog
NEW – PTZ keyboard integration

Contera Mobile App

NEW – Push Notifications for web services event and health alerts (must enable per user in ConteraWS)

• See basic alert detail and a thumbnail image if available
• Tap View Details to go to ConteraWS to view additional details about alerts
• Tap View Video to start playing video in the app starting at the time of the alert
• See what alert rules user will receive notification for and will have the ability to silence them.
• View alert notifications and preview image on a synced Apple Watch

NEW – Dates and Times are formatted according to the locale of the device
IMPROVED – Fixed issue preventing the "Relay Status" icon from displaying when streaming video using the relay service