How Do I Deal With Changing Camera Names On Portable Vmses?
Let's say I have a portable VMS. For instance, I am a police officer and I use a system for covert or field monitoring. One day I am on the South side looking at a pizzeria. The next day I am monitoring a suspected meth lab on the North side. Day after, another spot, etc.
I want a way to look up cameras based on the name of the location I was at. The problem is VMSes / recorders typically treat a camera name constant because the camera is assumed to be in a single place. If I name it Pizzeria front door, that works for day 1 but then on day 2 the same camera / input is looking at a meth lab, etc.
Any VMSes or any techniques to handle something like this. Btw, this is not an abstract question. There is a real request for such capability.
Does each location has server or log in directly to camera ?
I've heard of this scenario being dealt with via backup of recordings to a removable drive. For cameras or recorders with SD card or USB drive capability, video is recorded to a device, and then the device is removed/labeled/stored.
If the camera and VMS get moved around physically than I would assume that the ip address of the camera also changes. In this case, the old ip address/name combination would be "unassigned/deactivated" at the pizzeria, hence keeping the recordings associated (Most VMSes save recordings into files using the camera name/ip address/date/time naming convention).
So essentially I would set it up this way for most VMSes:
In the VMS set up 2 camera records:
1. Methlab-<IP Address> be sure to capture a static ip address for the given location if you return there often.
2. Pizzaria-<IP address> capture new static ip address for this network.
Implementation:
Upon arrival to Pizzaria- add "unassigned" camera 2 to server and start using/recording.
Arriving at Methlab: unassign Pizzaria (which should not work in this location) and reassign/readd (in some VMSes its called "enable") to server camera 1.
Does it make sense?
I was under the impression that this was going to be some sort of laptop all-in-one kit with a poe switch/access point and 4 wireless (battery powered?) and/or wired cameras, with assigned/leased permanent private addresses.
why would the ips change?
right now i like alex's bookmarks idea alot, hopefully i can play around with it today...
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Stepping out from behind the curtain...
Answers to some of these questions:
The CCTV system is connected via a local wifi network.
HD PTZ and Static ip cameras are used.
Typical setup is 25 cameras on site for 36 hours.
Each 36 hour project is treated seperately so there would be no need for merging projects.
We are currently using Exacqvision. So when you change the camera name on the next project you lose the connection of the current camera name, replaced by the new name. So when you playback footage, the camera name is enbedded in the video, but that does nothing for us when wanting to seach by original camera name.
Chris - I'm very interested in your notes about ONSSI (doh!)
Greg steps out from behind the curtain as the celebrated Mr K escapes from behind an iron one!
Greg, what I did was quite trivial:
Starting with brand new install of NetDvr 6
Add camera licenses and default generic camera names, framerates etc.
Shutdown recording server service.
Copied the Srv2 configuration out of the program directory and name it default.cfg
Started recording service.
Modified camera names, storage locations, attributes etc.
Recorded random.
Shutdown recording service.
Copied Srv2.cfg to pizzeria.cfg
Copied default.cfg to Srv2.cfg
Restarted service.
Setup 'BackAlley' cams and parameters.
Recorded random.
Shutdown service and swapped config files and verified that all worked correctly.
One way to automate the whole process would be to swap the cfg based on login.
i.e. if the login changed chaned swap the files and restart the service. That way each project could have its own password...
you could also add an option to dupe and modify the existing project sans video if helpful.
Sadly though I downloaded milestones latest and greatest and they seem to be SQL based. While still doable it's a lot more work.
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