Camera Serial Number

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Is there a way to get a camera’s Serial Number through the protocol integration? Or is there another unique identifier that can be used?

For example, if a camera is removed and re-added a week later with a different name, we want to know it’s actually the same camera.

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Yes. You can use the Configuration API to retrieve the Serial Number, or you could use the MAC address.

https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=gettingstarted/intro_configurationapi.html&tree=tree_4.html

https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=samples/componentsamples/configapiclient/readme.html&tree=tree_2.html

https://github.com/milestonesys

When you say the protocol I have an idea that you have already configuration from the Server Command Service protocol, on this configuration these fields (Serial Number / MAC) are not available. So it might be a new protocol you have to use.