How to let 2, 3 (or more) PTZ cameras move together towards a preset position with only one command in Milestone Smart Client ? Their pictures should be seen in a 2x2 mosaic screen (or in another predefined mosaic screen)

Let’s call this function ‘salvo’ . How to trigger a ‘salvo’ with one click ?

For instance by clicking on a button called ‘salvo_1’ , ‘salvo_2’,…‘salvo_xxx’

And/or by clicking on a map on icons called ‘salvo_1’ , ‘salvo_2’,…‘salvo_xxx’

The idea is to be able to let several PTZ cameras move together to the same target. Ideally, it should be also possible to add fixed cameras to the 2x2 mosaic screen. Thank you for your help

You might want to configure a rule in Management Client.

For example, when you trigger a UserDefined Event, then move immediately to a configured preset on a cameragroup. UserDefine event can assign as a button on Smart Client view.

Alternatively, you can develop a plugin for applying PTZ cameras commands to multiple cameras simultaneously.

Thank you for your answer Rie Kito !

The problem with rules is that when there are hundreds of cameras having between 10 and 15 presets each, it is not possible to write a rule for each combination of salvo’s we want to generate.

Not to mention the fact that it doesn’t seem possible to create a tree structure to organise the rules ? Just to see what we’re doing with which camera…

Your idea of developing a plugin seems to be the best way to achieve the goal. I’m rather lost with the SDK. So can you tell me where I should have a look ?

Thank you again.

PTZ and preset sample might be helpful for you –

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