MacAddress and SerialNumbers of all cameras in Managment Client

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Hi,

I am writing a Plugin for the Managment Client and i want to list the MacAddress and SerialNumbers of all cameras.

I already know that i can query Hardware Items from the servers (VideoOS.ConfigurationApi.ClientService.QueryItems) but the info there does not contain the info i need.

How do i get the MacAddress and SerialNumber of a Camera?

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Got it to work by using the ConfigurationAPI like in the ConfigAPIClient example.

The Managment Client propaply already has an ConfigurationService. Is there a way to use it so i don’t have to deal with Endpoint and Binding configuration?

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The strongly typed classes / ConfigurationItems are directly implemented.

Getting a MAC address would look something like this.

HardwareDriverSettingsChildItem hardwareDriverSettingsChildItem = new Hardware(EnvironmentManager.Instance.CurrentSite.ServerId, camera.ParentItemPath).HardwareDriverSettingsFolder.HardwareDriverSettings.FirstOrDefault().HardwareDriverSettingsChildItems.FirstOrDefault();
string macKey = hardwareDriverSettingsChildItem.Properties.KeysFullName.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Contains("Mac"));
string macValue = hardwareDriverSettingsChildItem.GetProperty(macKey);

For a deeper understanding let me show this snippet of code I used to see all of a camera (hardware) hardware-driver properties.

private void HardwareProperties()
{
	Item cam = new Item();
	FQID cameraFQID = new FQID();
	ItemPickerForm form = new ItemPickerForm();
	form.KindFilter = Kind.Camera;
	form.AutoAccept = true;
	form.Init(Configuration.Instance.GetItems());
	if (form.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
	{
		cameraFQID = form.SelectedItem.FQID;
	}
	else return;
	Camera camera = new Camera(cameraFQID);
	Hardware hardware = new Hardware(EnvironmentManager.Instance.CurrentSite.ServerId, camera.ParentItemPath);
	label1.Text = camera.DisplayName + " Model:" + hardware.Model;
	label1.Text += Environment.NewLine;
	HardwareDriverSettingsChildItem hardwareDriverSettingsChildItem = hardware.HardwareDriverSettingsFolder.HardwareDriverSettings.FirstOrDefault().HardwareDriverSettingsChildItems.FirstOrDefault();
	ICollection<string> propertyKeys = hardwareDriverSettingsChildItem.GetPropertyKeys();
	foreach (var fullkey in propertyKeys)
	{
		label1.Text += fullkey + " - ";
		label1.Text += hardwareDriverSettingsChildItem.GetProperty(fullkey);
		label1.Text += Environment.NewLine;
	}
}

If using the Configuration API the way you describe you will need to make the contact to the ConfigurationService..