Is there a way to return days of recorded video?

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I am writing a command line program (component integration) which queries the server for information about cameras. I’ve succeeded in returning much about the camera, (e.g, online status, ip address, ptz, etc)… I would like to figure out how many days of recorded video exist for the camera… or at least the number of days of recorded video for the server itself.

Any tips? Is it even possible?

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In order to get a storage configuration (retention time), please use ConfigAPI Client sample –

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

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Camera Stream Resolution sample might be also helpful for you to explore.

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

NOTE: This sample says, “It will then for the last recorded image from that camera display …”, please go to first recorded image instead of “last”.

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Thank you for this, but I have some concerns: In the ConfigAPI it seems like these values come back in a freeform “container”, but are not strongly typed. This seems great as metadata for the purpose of creating a “wrapper” type of UI, but less so for machine-to-machine consumption. This example above does not “know” fields are going to be on that page ahead of time… but rather gets a freeform container back that has an object with a description “Retention time”, of integer type, with current value 10080.

What I am trying to do is write a program that will be able to get this data from the server in all cases. What if the server is configured in French or Spanish? Will that field still be labeled “Retention time” or the localized equivalent?

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In order to get how many recording time has a camera you can use JPEGVideoSource class, methods GetBegin() and GetEnd() will return both snapshot and related timestamp

Freddy

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The Configuration API as used in the Config API Client can be replaced by simpler code using strongly typed classes, I recommend doing so, I will illustrate this.

Please click following link and see the last answer from Josh.

https://developer.milestonesys.com/s/question/0D53X000076umkbSAA/need-a-simple-example-of-using-the-configurationapi-to-get-both-a-cameras-ip-address-and-channel-number-none-of-the-examples-show-this-clearly-there-is-one-that-shows-using-the-message-command-to-get-the-ip-but-dont-want-to-message