Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent FAQ - Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
What operating systems does Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent support?Does the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent support H.265 media?Does the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent work in AL2?How can I run multiple streams within the Amazon IoT thing or device?How can I edit a StartEdgeConfigurationUpdate after it has been sent?Do you have any examples of common ScheduleConfigs?Is there a maximum stream limit?How do I restart a job that has errored out?How do I monitor the health of my Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent?
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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent FAQ

The following are some common questions for the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent service.

What operating systems does Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent support?

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent currently supports the following operating systems:

Ubuntu

  • 22.x

    • AMD64

  • 18.x

    • ARM

AL2

  • amzn2

    • AMD64 amazonlinux:2.0.20210219.0-amd64 (Snowball)

Does the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent support H.265 media?

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent only supports H.264 elementary streams.

Does the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent work in AL2?

Yes.

How can I run multiple streams within the Amazon IoT thing or device?

Send another StartEdgeConfigurationUpdate to the same HubDeviceArn, but different Amazon Kinesis Video Streams/Amazon Secrets Manager ARNs.

How can I edit a StartEdgeConfigurationUpdate after it has been sent?

Send an updated StartEdgeConfigurationUpdateto the same HubDeviceArn with the same Amazon Kinesis Video Streams ARN. When the application receives the message from Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, it overrides the previous configuration for that stream. Changes will take place then.

Do you have any examples of common ScheduleConfigs?

The Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent uses the system time of the device that it's running on.

Description ScheduleExpression DurationInSeconds

24/7 recording, hourly uploading

 (null ScheduleConfig)

9:00:00 AM - 4:59:59 PM every day

 0 0 9-16 * * ? * 3599
9:00:00 AM - 4:59:59 PM weekdays 0 0 9-16 ? * 2-6 *

3599

0 0 9-16 ? * 2,3,4,5,6 *

3599

0 0 9-16 ? * MON-FRI *

3599

0 0 9-16 ? * MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI *

3599

9:00:00 AM - 4:59:59 PM weekends

0 0 9-16 ? * SAT,SUN *

3599

10:00:00 PM - 11:59:59 PM weekdays

0 0 22,23 ? * MON-FRI *

3599

9:00:00 AM - 10:00:00 AM every day

0 0 9 * * ? *

3600

4:00:00 PM - 5:59:59 PM every day

0 0 16-17 * * ? *

3599

For more examples, see the Quartz documentation.

Is there a maximum stream limit?

The Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent currently has a hard limit of 16 streams per device. Use the DeleteEdgeConfiguration API to delete streams from a device. Updating a configuration for the same stream using the StartEdgeConfigurationUpdate does not increase the device’s stream count.

How do I restart a job that has errored out?

If an error is encountered, the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent will attempt to restart the job. However, with some errors (such as configuration errors), you must manually restart the job.

To determine which jobs need to be restarted manually, see the FatalError metric in Monitoring the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent with CloudWatch.

Resend the StartEdgeConfigurationUpdate to restart the job for the stream.

How do I monitor the health of my Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent?

For more information, see Monitoring the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent with CloudWatch.