Stage 1 - Setup new user on Eagle Eye
Eagle Eye recommend setting up a new user to use with Integrations. This way you can lock down the scope of what the application has access to.
Open User Management and click on ‘Add User’
You’ll need to use a new email address or an email alias.
Select which cameras you want the application to have access to using the ‘Camera’s tab.
In the permissions tab, make sure the following are ticked :
Bridges and Cameras - this is required to associate a bridge to a site in CONXTD
View and Download Videos - this is required to enable CONXTD to associate events with video
We recommend setting a secure password using: https://passwordsgenerator.net/
This will allow you to generate a secure password on your device and not sent over the internet (in-secure)
We recommend a length of at least 16 characters, but ideally 32.
Authorisation Process
At setup when the user enters their username and password we send this directly to Eagle Eye API. This provides us with a authorisation token which we can then use on any subsequent calls.
This Token expires after 2 weeks at which point the system re-authorises with Eagle Eye to generate a new token.
Stage 2 - CONXTD Setup
Login into CONXTD and navigate to the desired site
Click on the camera icon 'Manage Cameras' on the top left of the site view
Click ‘Connect to Eagle Eye’ from list
Eagle Eye login box appears.
User to enter Eagle Eye login details (from step above)
This will associate the Eagle Eye credentials with the CONXTD site.
Click ‘Add Location To Site’
A dropdown of locations associated to the user will be presented
User to select the location for the site
Click ‘Add Camera to Site’
A dropdown of cameras associated to the location will be presented
User to select the required camera
To add multiple cameras continue with adding first camera, then repeat step
Select the bundles to associate to the camera
When an event occurs within one of these bundles it will trigger the integration
On receipt of event, CONXTD will ask Eagle Eye for any video with movement at time of event.
Operation
When an event is received and within a bundle enabled for the feature:
We call Eagle Eye to ask for any video with motion at the time of the event
Any available video IDs are then stored against the site
When the user goes to the timeline
Name of the camera is displayed
Video box
Eagle Eye logo
The user can then view the video
Camera Settings
There are various camera settings within the Eagle Eye platform which can can have an affect on the operation of the integration.
Preview Video
Resolution -
Best if set to ‘std’
Only uses 85kbps is quick to load, and still good quality.
High uses over 300kbps and takes substantially longer to load. Quality is very good, but the load times make it unusable
