Milestone x Protect Client , camera type identification capability

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Hello Forum members,

We are working on a plugin for Milestone.

We are dealing with cameras.

We want to know whether there is any programmatic way to determine whether a camera is a normal video camera or a Thermal camera. We have to develop some separate logic based on camera type , that is why we are asking this question.

If there is no programmatic way available, what are the alternatives? Can we use custom tags or any other ideas.

Thanks,

Ali

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To my knowledge there is no way. XProtect does not have a property on the cameras which tells whether the camera is “Thermal” or not.

I am not aware if there is a setting that will be on all thermal cameras and not on any other cameras, if there is it will be possible to scan the cameras for such a setting.

Thinking that there is nothing built-in to distinguish the thermal cameras from other cameras I like the idea of a custom tag. What the MIP SDK has is functionality to associate a custom property to every camera. Please explore the Admin Tab plugin sample.

https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=samples/pluginsamples/admintabplugin/readme.html&tree=tree_1.html

Note the tab shows for “Axis” cameras but you can change the code so that it shows for all.

https://github.com/milestonesys

Also visible on all cameras in the Management Client; create a new project with the MIPPlugin template..

Ref.

https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=miphelp/class_video_o_s_1_1_platform_1_1_admin_1_1_tab_plugin.html&tree=tree_search.html?search=tabplugin