I'm using Milestone Essential+ with some Axis Q3517s (soon to be more Q3518s).
2018 R2
I like the fence cross, motion guard, and loitering guard analytics better than the built-in motion for Milestone. The built-in motion seems to get confused on bugs, shadows/sun/lighting changes, small animals, spiders, etc, which leads to a lot of "solid red" when there really isn't any motion to speak of, in the playback view...which leads to long review times. I'd like to make things more efficient.
The motion detection on the Axis Q35 series is a bit more sophisticated than Milestone's built-in motion (as configured with automatic adjusting and ignore regions setup to the best of my ability), so I'd like to use Axis to trigger alarms in Milestone, rather than the built-in motion...I have configured alarm definitions that leverage the system motion detection and those work (though, I think alarm reviewing is disabled in this version). I have setup a record rule. I have setup pretty nice viewing options in the smart client, recording options, archiving options, etc. HOWEVER...I created alarm def'n based on Device Events --> Analytics start and that doesn't appear to work. I've tried device events --> Loitering detection start and that doesn't seen to work. (and, yes, both are configured on the camera web interface, which is pretty straight forward). I actually had the cameras writing directly to NAS, based on analytics events, before I started using Milestone. Also tried device events --> adaptivemotionstart and deviceevents --> tripwire (which I think is associated with fence guard) and device events --> motionstarteddriver. Do you have to associate the built-in analytics events with device inputs, then activate based on that?
Question 1: I must be missing something here re: analytics activation of alarms?
The only alarm events that I can get to work are system events --> motion detected.
I have installed the Axis Optimzier plug-in.
I have watched a ton of the Milestone videos, read the manuals, etc.
I do have most of my Milestone recording server, client mgmt, smart client, mobile server working pretty well (with QuickSync acceleration, I might add)...which is very nice and efficient on 5mp and 8mp video!
Question 2: What is the advantage of signaling events vs. alarms? I understand alarms are logged for review...Can I use events to color the red lines at the bottom of the playback to my liking (rather than the non-optimal Milestone VMD coloring?)
Question 3: If there are other best known methods for favorite rules in Milestone (yes, I already added the record rule), I'm interested in hearing them...
Question 4: Setting up gmail SMTP doesn't seem to work either, sigh. I don't think Milestone supports the authentication methods that Google uses. I've tried a bunch of options here and none work...
Question 5: Any other general Milestone advice would be appreciated...I do think I have things running pretty well at the basic level now.
Thanks in advance, -mark