Setting up Azena cameras with Teleport

Bosch, Vivotek, the AI Box or any Azena compatible camera

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Written by John Goode
Updated over a week ago

Azena (S&ST) cameras run our Teleport Station application onboard and offer the full Teleport feature set. Including time-lapse, live/historical 8K image recording, live video clip and live video streaming.

Running Teleport Station onboard the camera enables advanced features and simplifies network deployment as port forwarding setup and firewalls are no longer an issue.

The Azena camera setup is straight forward, here are the basic steps. Reach out to our support staff via chat with any questions!

Create a Teleport Account

  • If you already have a Teleport Account, make sure to sign-in.

  • If not, visit teleport.io/signup and create a new account. You can choose the Trial plan to get an idea of what our pricing is like as you change settings.

  • The trial will automatically extend to 30 days to match that of the Azena store.

Pair the camera with your Teleport Account

  • Login into your Azena dashboard, find the Teleport Station app in the app store and install it on the camera.

  • Once it is installed, run the app and it will ask you to pair the app with your Teleport Account. Click 'Provision this device' button.

  • This will take you to the Teleport device dashboard in the cloud. Give this device a camera name and site name to make it easier to track.

  • You can also enter the username/password for the on-camera viewer or admin account. This is currently required for video streaming and video clip features, time-lapse video and historical as well as live image viewing features all work without this.

  • Click 'Create new device' and the Teleport Station device will be created. Hitting 'Show new device' locates the device in the list. Hit 'Start preview' to confirm the device is getting images from the camera. Once you see the preview show up (it may take a minute) turn off preview as we will want images to go to an actual feed for recording in the following steps.

  • We now create a feed that will hold recorded content and enable viewing (see below if you already have a feed created.) A Teleport feed represents image/video content (from potentially multiple devices) while a Teleport Station device represents the physical camera in the Teleport Dashboard.

  • Create a feed in the 'My Stuff' β†’ 'Feeds' section using the 'Add feed' button at the top.. Give the feed a name and a location of your choice, this is the public information that your viewers will see.

  • Hit 'Create' and on the following screen click 'Use existing Teleport Station device', this takes you back to the devices section where we again find our newly created device and need to set the feed as the broadcast target for the device.

  • On the Teleport Station device hit 'Select broadcast feed' you are taken to the 'Cameras' β†’ 'Broadcast feed' section where you select the desired feed and hit 'Save'.

  • We are done! Recording on the feed will begin momentarily, refreshing the feed page after some time should now show it as live and recording.

  • Going back to the on-camera Teleport Station app, it should now show as provisioned. All configuration from now on is done on the Teleport Dashboard and syncs down to the camera.

  • The feed will now operate using default features on an always-on schedule. Here is guide with some common customizations, such as custom schedule or live video streaming.

  • Note the on camera app is fully remote managed, once paired all configuration is done through the Teleport website dashboards.

  • Bosch cameras require an additional small configuration change for video streaming to work.

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