Unable to change FPS setting for 5100i panoramic camera using the MIPSDK or the Milestone PowerShell Module

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Anyone ever see this behavior for the 5100i cameras? I’m trying to change it’s FPS via the MIPSDK or the PowerShell module but it doesn’t work at all. It’s only the FPS value, I’m able to change other values just fine (Like bitrate, resolution, etc). Driver and firmware versions are all on supported versions as well. It works fine through the GUI as well.

  1. Does not occur in GUI or Config API client
  2. Get-Camerasetting reports 10 FPS
  3. Get-VmsCameraStream reports 3 FPS
  4. GUI reports 3 FPS
  5. Smart Client shows actual footage is 3 FPS
  6. Setting the FPS via set-vmscamerastream or set-camerasettings results in no error, but does not update the FPS (no output w/ verbose as well)
  7. $camera.streamdefinitions[0].properties.getvalue(“FPS”) reports 10 FPS, and setting it through the SDK does not change the real value (3 FPS)
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Hi @Dylan Mak​ ,

If the Management Client and the Config API client both work without issue then I’d wager it’s an issue with the module or possibly some confusion with the FPS value for that driver.

What version of MilestonePSTools and MipSdkRedist are you using?

What does the output of the following look like? It could be possible that the driver has a fixed set of FPS options available, and the 10th supported FPS value is 3 FPS.

# Make sure we're not looking at cached objects/properties after having tried to change settings previously in the same powershell session.
Clear-VmsCache
$camera = Select-Camera
$stream = $camera | Get-VmsCameraStream -RawValues # filter this with -LiveDefault or -Recorded to pick one specific stream for example.
 
$stream.Settings.FPS
$stream.ValueTypeInfo.FPS
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I think I found the issue. The problem was that the “Name of the FPS value” and “Actual FPS Value” basically did not match. I made the assumption that it did since every other camera seemed to work that way. Thanks for your help!

TranslationId                        Name Value
-------------                        ---- -----
98f13708-2101-94c4-7568-7be6106a3b84 20   1    
d3d94468-02a4-4259-755d-38e6d163e820 10   2    
768148e9-0d48-d03d-f50e-965793371c4c 6.67 3    
e4da3b7f-bbce-2345-d777-2b0674a318d5 5    4    
a87ff679-a2f3-e71d-9181-a67b7542122c 4    5    
7b058b6c-dbf1-93a1-1133-5052fc65a8ad 3.33 6    
8221435b-cce9-13b5-c2dc-22eaf6cb6590 2.5  8    
c81e728d-9d4c-2f63-6f06-7f89cc14862c 2    10   
c4ca4238-a0b9-2382-0dcc-509a6f75849b 1    20