Milestone will host the first Developer Conference in Fall 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are preparing topics for the conference and seek your input on what you would find interesting and worth travelling to Copenhagen? Any input or ideas are welcome.
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I’m the business development manager for the Milestone Developer Community, and am currently planning the Milestone Developer Conference 2018. Questions or concerns regarding developer community, please reach out to me.
Hm, I think these keywords could attract attention: WebRTC, H264/H265, WebM, VP8/VP9, ONVIF, RTSP, RTP. I think learning all the theory behind those terms from people who have experience would be great. Could be just about the theory becuse many of us don’t have time to dig into details. Or could be focused around one subject like video in HTML5, modern browsers.
Thanks Jakub, valuable input!
@Jasleen Kaur Rehal my pleasure. Where will we be able to get info about the agenda and details of the conference?
@Jakub Bartkowiak check back here in the forum, we will post all info and links once it’s ready. stay tuned!
Some ideas/buzz words…
Hi all,
Good news! The registration is now open and you can see the agenda and current list of sessions!
https://www.milestonesys.com/events/events-and-webinars/Milestone-Developer-Conference/
Sign up today and we will see you in October!
Would be nice to have more descriptive examples on using Powershell to control XProtect using the Configuration API.
I would like to see better XProtect installation instructions document. Our challenges are related to accounts used for running the Recording Server, and SQL Server. The installations/upgrades fail for lack of necessary privileges. If the procedure includes the account rights and privileges detailed list that will be extremely beneficial.
Via the configuration api - is there the ability to add a camera and also add all “common” settings [resolution / frame rate / etc.] if the model and specific camera parameters is already known?
For example, if the camera is an “axis x/y/z” and the max resolution is known to be 1200x800 it would be more efficient to create the camera and set the resolution in a single action rather than 1. creating it, 2. querying it to find out the available parameters and then 3. setting the resolution parameter..
When creating a device using the configuration api is there the ability to add gps coordinates to automatically plot the device on a map?
it would be nice to increase search on forum ‘understanding’ the answer (with NLP) or by boolean condition. For instance, when you search for something that cannot be done with sdk using more than one word you got a long list of non-related answers
A small command line application that can give the user a list of all devices/cameras configured on the system with their settings - codec, resolution, FPS, PTZ capability, etc. will be very helpful for our field service personnel.
It would be really useful for an SDK-based app (plugin or standalone) to be able to “register” with the MGMT server in order to be “traced” by milestone, i.e. to send its name, manufacturer, version etc to a milestone server in the cloud.
Then the plug-in manufacture could log into mymilestone and land to a page when it gets information like: how many installations of a given plug-in, broken down by version, by XP product, XP version, number of channels, world region and so on.
Hi all,
First of all once again thanks a lot for participating in the Developer Conference, engaging in the discussions and providing your input here. Please keep your ideas coming - either in this thread or in separate posts on the forum.
@Michael G. Hansen I have put a story on our backlog about providing PowerShell sample(s).
@Ruslan Georgiev As to XProtect installation documents we should have quite extensive manuals and white papers, but I have passed on your request to our tech write department to ensure that they check whether your request is covered.
Regarding the command line application I have added that to our backlog.
@Patrick Biggin Have a look at the “Add cameras using strongly typed configuration API classes” for an example of how to add camera. It does not configure the specific settings afterwards, but should be fairly easy to extend. It is unfortunately not possible to do all of this in one go, due to the was this is implemented (you first interact with the device driver and next with the device once it has been added to the system).
As to setting the position of a camera (or other device), there is a property named “Device position” in the Config API, which will allow you to do that.
@Frediano Maria Di Carlo (SecurSys S.a.s.) I fully agree that this would make the forum search functionality much better and have passed on your request to the relevant people inside Milestone.
@Alberto Avanzi As I also mentioned at the conference this is something we are currently considering, but I will pass on your request to the relevant person (Yesh 
). Currently your best option would be to use the MIP licensing as this will provide you with much of the same information, but of course introducing some extra work for you.
Once again thanks for your input. Keep it coming and have a fantastic weekend!
Kind regards,
Peter