User Guide

Appendix A – Included Application
Axis Communications AB does not provide support for application development of any kind. The
information here is provided "as is", and there is no guarantee that any of the examples shown
will work in your particular application.
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-postdelay
<delay>
Delay between images in milliseconds.
-predelay
<delay>
Same as -postdelay but sets an additional variable.
-pre <number>
Number of pre-alarm pictures, i.e. number of images to save
before stopping the buffer.
-post <number>
Number of post-alarm pictures, i.e. the number of images to save
after stopping the buffer.
-format <format-
string>
Naming convention of the files.
-snapshot Take one picture.
-immediate Take one picture and stop the buffer.
5.3.1.1 By Default
If the option '-buffername' is omitted, the buffer used defaults to 'buffer' ('/tmp/buffer')
The protocol-specification in the request-uri should be 'FTP', instead of 'http', as this
does not generate http-specific headers.
The default delays (postdelay and predelay) are one(1) second (1000 milliseconds).
The default number of images before and after an alarm (pre and post) is 10.
The format-option specifies how the files are named.
Character-expansion is supported with %y (year), %m (month), %d (date), %H
(hour), %M (minute) and %S (second) corresponding to the date and time the file was
created.
Also supported is %i, which specifies the file-number, and can be followed by a
number specifying how many digits are allowed.
The default format is 'snapshot_%y%m%d_%H%M%S_%i4'.