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Two things. Make sure the camera is time sync'd using the same NTP server. But for us, we had no option but to disable HTTP replay protection on all AXIS cameras. It's on by default and far, far too sensitive to be workable. Simon Silverstar Analytics Cloud VMS for retailers & logistics

Hi All, Thanks for all the responses and info. jhonovich: Yes, we are considering Onvif membership. I don't know how much sway we will have compared to the build boys. We have been considering joining in the past, to help shape the conformance tests, as today we believe they are limited. We find that cameras that work for the first hour or two, have issues after prolonged testing. We would want to contribute some soak tests to ONVIF. It's surprising but the majority of camera vendors have issues in the area. The one vendor who doesn't in our experience is d-link so hats off to them. buellwinkle, 40th Floor: Yes, the weak point of edge cameras is cheap SD-cards. In our experience (just like with cheap ebay camera specials) cheap no-brand sd-cards are asking for trouble. The higher end SanDisk ones are the items to have. The good news is that Moore's law will sort this out soon. It won't be long before we have 128Gb cards as the norm with the better memory technology and all this early stage FUD will go. SunnyKim: I totally agree with you. The onvif docs and example source code are pitiful. Our engineers gave up on the supplied info and found it quicker to use wireshark running applications. For us, edge recording cameras are a game changer. It allows us to address the devices from the cloud and retrieve the 0.1% of valuable video, whilst leaving the 99.9% of dross on the device. This way, deployment costs are much reduced, network bandwidth usage is minimal and is all round a better way forward. Cheers Simon, Silverstar Analytics

Thanks. We are an VM's (or better described as Managed Video as a service). With all things cloud, we are keen to have as much in the cloud as possible and have a minimal physical footprint/configuration. Thus our focus on edge recording cameras which are directly connected to our cloud service. For us Onvif profile S has been a positive experience (single piece of code that works seamlessly with a wide range of cameras). The next logical step for us is to remove the final piece of needless complexity and use the on-board storage. That way we have an clean and efficient architecture with the cameras being a simple plug'n'go. I was disappointed after a long, long run-up to release, that the Camera vendors didn't have a part of their offerings ready to go at the release of the G specification and today have no clear position if their currently shipping edge recording cameras will have this support added. Oh well, we stick with the proprietary Axis api until Profile G momentum builds. Cheers Simon, Silverstar Analytics

Hi All, The onvif profile G standard was released on the 1st July 2014, which is great news for us application developers. The disappointment is the very slow update from the camera manufacturers. I see very little on google and the onvif certification list only has 9 conformant devices from 3 vendors. I've contacted 5 different vendors about their plans to support this API on their edge cameras and get the 'we don't know' response. I'm looking for a cheapish edge camera that supports onvif profile g. Can anyone help? Cheers Simon, SilverstarAnalytics