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Camera Settings

A guide to your camera's Basic and Advanced Settings in the Arcules Portal.

Overview

In the Arcules Portal, you can adjust various settings for each camera device from the Devices page. Selecting a camera and clicking on the Settings icon gives you a few options. This article will cover the Basic and Advanced Settings screens.

Gateway Based Cameras

Basic Settings

Within the Basic Setting screen for a camera you can change a few options:

  • Name

  • Resolution

  • Frame Rate

  • Streaming Profile

  • Enable Audio Devices, if present

Advanced Settings

Axis Cameras

Due to Arcules being a sister company with Axis, our integration is deeper with their cameras. There are more options exposed in Advanced Settings for an Axis camera.

Here you can configure settings such as mirroring the image, rotation, white balance, bitrate, WDR and Zipstream compression.

Non-Axis ONVIF Cameras

Each manufacturer exposes different settings to ONVIF to be accessed. There are a set of standard options that can be accessed within Advanced Settings.

  • Brightness

  • Color Saturation

  • Contrast

  • Sharpness

  • Resolution

  • Frame Rate

  • Quality

  • Bitrate

Example: Hanwha XNV-9082R

Example: Amcrest IP5M-T1179E

Any additional settings not found in Advanced Settings must be adjusted within the camera's interface.

Camera to Cloud Cameras（C2C・D2C)

Basic Settings

For a Device to Cloud camera, the basic settings are reduced. Here you can adjust the following:

  • Camera Name

  • Recording Resolution

  • Recording Frame Rate

Advanced Settings

Here you can adjust additional image related settings such as:

  • White Balance

  • Flip Image Horizontally

  • Saturation

  • Contrast

  • Brightness

  • Sharpness

  • Wide Dynamic Range (WDR)

  • IR Cut Filter

  • Max Shutter

  • Max Gain

Note: Available fields depend on the camera model's capabilities.

Recording Compression and Zipstream Strength

The Recording section of Advanced Settings controls how much a C2C camera compresses video before saving it to the SD card or syncing it to the cloud. Lowering the file size lets your SD card store more hours of footage and reduces the bandwidth used when recordings sync to the cloud.

  • Recording Compression: An adjustable slider that sets the base image compression for the camera's recording codec. High compression lowers bitrate and image quality; low compression improves image quality but uses more bandwidth and storage.

  • Recording Zipstream Strength – Turns on Axis Zipstream, a smart compression technology that lowers bitrate by reducing detail in regions of lower interest, while preserving forensic detail — faces, license plates — in regions that matter. Choose from:

    • Off: Zipstream disabled; standard compression only.

    • Low, Medium, High, Higher, or Extreme: Each step up increases the compression effort, reducing noise and detail further in lower-interest regions across more scenes, for progressively greater storage and bandwidth savings.

Note: Higher Zipstream Strength settings reduce storage and bandwidth use the most, but review recorded footage at your chosen setting to confirm the level of detail still meets your needs.

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