Using MIP SDK,How do I get the camera item or camera GUID when I have the camera mac address?

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There is no search method for this. You will have to go through the cameras in the system using the Configuration API to find a hardware with a matching mac address. Have a look at the Configuration API Client sample to get an idea of the structure in the Configuration API: https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=samples/configapiclient.html&tree=tree_2.html

We have a set of strongly typed classes build upon the configuration API, which makes it a bit easier to work with. These are all in the namespace VideoOS.Platform.ConfigurationItems and you can have a look at this sample to get started using those: https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/index.html?base=samples/configaddcameras.html&tree=tree_2.html

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I looked at the sample, how do I create IConfigurationService client instance when running from MIP plugin? I don’t have user credentials… I only have EnvironmentManager.Instance

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If you use the classes in the ConfigurationItems workspace you don’t need to supply credentials. They will use the credentials of the current environment session.

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something like this?

ChannelFactory channel = null;

    channel = new ChannelFactory<IConfigurationService>();

    IConfigurationService \_client = channel.CreateChannel();

it doesn’t work… I get the following message:

{“The Address property on ChannelFactory.Endpoint was null. The ChannelFactory’s Endpoint must have a valid Address specified.”}

How do I know the address?

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This is not from the ConfigurationItems namespace. Please have a look at this sample and use that approach instead:

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