ACAP version 4.6 – January 13, 2023

Overview

It contains:

Code examples for both SDKs:

New features

A new VAPIX API to toggle allowance of unsigned ACAP applications. See the API specifications in the VAPIX documentation.

New examples

web-server-using-fastcgi - This example in C shows how to handle HTTP requests sent to the Axis device using FastCGI to handle the requests and uriparser to parse received parameters. Differently to the web-server example, the request is handled by the Apache web server in the device, which is beneficial in terms of service discoverability, since it will be using the standard HTTP port, and security, since the requests will have the same level of authentication as any other VAPIX request.

Firmware

Minimum AXIS OS version: 11.2

See Firmware releases for all supported products.

ACAP Computer Vision SDK

Supported architectures:

armv7hf and aarch64, see images on Docker Hub

Compatibility

New supported products: ¹

AXIS M3215-LVE Dome Camera, Product page
AXIS M3216-LVE Dome Camera, Product page
AXIS P1465-LE Bullet Camera, Product page
AXIS Q1656-DLE Box Camera, Product page
~~AXIS Q1798-LE Network Camera~~ ², Product page
AXIS Q1961-TE Thermal Camera, Product page
AXIS Q3538-SLVE Dome Camera, Product page

See also compatibility information for the complete list of supported products and more product information.

Fixes

ACAP application examples using the ACAP Runtime were reported to crash when running over long periods of time. The problem has been resolved in acap-runtime 1.2.0.

Limitations

All examples using the larod-inference-server container image currently require the following volume mount to be added to the compose file: /usr/acap-root/lib:/host/lib e.g.

    volumes:
      - acap_dl-models:/models
      - /run/dbus/system_bus_socket:/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
      - /usr/acap-root/lib:/host/lib

ACAP Native SDK

Supported architectures:

armv7hf and aarch64, see images on Docker Hub

Compatibility

Supported products:

All products with chipsets: ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, S5L and S5.

Fixes

The openssl_curl_example example is now building with the new SDK version.

APIs supported in this release

API	Chip
Video capture API	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, S5L, S5
Machine learning API	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, CV25, S5L
Overlay API	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6
Cairo	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6
OpenCL	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7
Event API	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, S5L, S5
License Key API	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, S5L, S5
FastCGI ³ ⁴	ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, S5L, S5

Corrections in release notes

The structure of the ACAP Computer Vision SDK compatible products has been updated and are now grouped in product families. As a result, some models have been added. Also, we are only including the new products in the release notes, you can still find the complete list in compatibility information. ↩
The device AXIS Q1798-LE was added by mistake to the list of computer vision compatible devices. ↩
FastCGI was added in this release but did not enter the release notes at the release date. A new example web-server-using-fastcgi was also added and shows how to use the API. ↩
The list of chips that support FastCGI is now corrected to also include ARTPEC-6, S5L and S5. ↩