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Manage ONVIF devices

What ONVIF is

ONVIF is a global and open industry forum that provides and promotes standardized interfaces for IP-based physical security products. ONVIF specifications are widely used as common communication interfaces between devices (such as IP surveillance cameras) and software clients (such as video management software). The interfaces enable ONVIF conformant products from different vendors to communicate with each other, giving system integrators and end users the flexibility to choose from a wide range of conformant products without being locked into a specific brand. is a global and open industry forum that provides and promotes standardized interfaces for IP-based physical security products. ONVIF specifications are widely used as common communication interfaces between devices (such as IP surveillance cameras) and software clients (such as video management software). The interfaces enable ONVIF conformant products from different vendors to communicate with each other, giving system integrators and end users the flexibility to choose from a wide range of conformant products without being locked into a specific brand.

Connect to an ONVIF device

An ONVIF device, e.g., an NVR, may have connections with multiple cameras. The device can be integrated with IREX thus making all cameras' streams available to IREX video analytics. Then select which video stream to process.

Diagram showing IREX connected over an ONVIF link to an NVR, which relays streams from multiple cameras, two of which are marked as selected to process

  1. On the ONVIF devices page in the settings ...

    2. Settings — ONVIF devices list with the options menu open for a device, showing Add cameras, Edit, and Remove commands

    ... click "+" to open the Create ONVIF device window.

  2. Complete the fields in this window, in which:

    3. User groups are the user groups that will have the device accessible.
    ONVIF IP - the IP-address of the ONVIF device.
    Login, Password are the credentials to connect to the device.

    Create ONVIF device window with ONVIF device name, User Groups, ONVIF IP, Login, and Password fields

  3. Click Create.

Select video streams to process

Now select which of the video streams to process with IREX from cameras connected to the device.

  1. Click Add cameras as shown to open the Add camera screen.

    2. Add cameras screen, Video Streams section, with the Edge Server selector set to Edge in Cloud and the Choose video streams button

  2. Select which video analytics server to use on the Edge server list - the Choose video streams button gets enabled.
  3. Click Choose video streams to open the Video streams window. 

    4. Video Streams selection window listing camera streams with thumbnails and RTSP URLs, with checkboxes to select which streams to add

  4. In this window, tick the video streams (cameras) to process with IREX.
  5. Complete the Tags, User groups, Location and Recording sections in the same way as for a single camera.
  6. Click Save and add. 

Remove an ONVIF device

An ONVIF device can be removed from the system by running the Remove command as shown. Removing an ONVIF device has the following consequences:

  • Selected cameras stay in the System.
  • Video archive and events from those cameras stay untouched.
  • Camera settings remain unchanged.