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Official Response Requested From ONSSI Concerning Legacy Driver Packs...
Dear ONSSI,
If one chooses not to upgrade to Ocularis 5.x at this time, but instead one continues with a legacy version of the recorder, can you state exactly what to expect regarding legacy driver pack availability?
Will you continue to provide the latest driver packs as long as one is using the legacy version, no matter how long?
Will those driver packs have new model cameras as they come out?
Does one have to have a valid SUP to receive them?
Apologies if this had been answered elsewhere.
Thanks.
OnSSI will continue to make the latest legacy version driver pack's available. We just released version 8.2 and it is available on our website.
The newer driver pack's will continue to include newly supported models.
SUP (StayCURRENT) is not needed to receive new legacy version driver pack releases.
Ari Robinson
Ari, thanks. What about the future? Is OnSSI committing to provide new driver packs in 2016 and 2017, etc.? When does that end?
John, the content of the driver pack is the same as the content that Milestone provides.
As long as Milestone makes the driver pack's available, they will be available to all customers using legacy versions.
Sorry John if I was not clear.
The drivers that Milestone releases are compatible with both Milestone versions and OnSSI legacy recorder versions.
Therefore, as long as Milestone makes these drivers available for their own customers, they will also be available for OnSSI customers using legacy recorder versions.
There is no time limit.
......Milestone could make new driver packs ONLY work with Xprotect in all of about six seconds.
If a new driver pack works in Milestone it will also work in any Ocularis legacy product with that corresponding recorder version.
If a new driver pack works in Milestone it will also work in any Ocularis legacy product with that corresponding recorder version.
Disagree.
The driver packs are .dll's. Typically one or two per camera manufacturer.
They are executable code, not simply data.
They are invoked by the higher level process as needed, whether that be Milestone or Ocularis.
A new Milestone driver pack, (i.e. set of dll's), could be written to simply check the registry to see if Xprotect was installed and return an error if it was not. This is trivial.
Even if this were not possible, what stops Milestone from making the driver packs a protected download, free but only available to registered users?
The scenario that you are describing is a completely unrealistic scenario. I won’t get into Milestone’s contractual obligations, but I can and will reiterate to you that newly supported devices *will* continue to be made available for OnSSI customers who are using legacy recorder versions.
Cross posted from Milestone No Updates In Over a Year!:
Milestone Systems' agreement with OnSSI has expired, but Ocularis users of version 4.2 and earlier are welcome to use device packs from Milestone.
In case users need new Device Packs from Milestone, i.e. Device Pack 8.2, which was released after our agreement with OnSSI expired, they are available on our website for download.
We have no agreement with OnSSI, which allows them to distribute our new Device Packs.
Karl Erik Traberg
OnSSI disagrees with this and says they are going to talk to Milestone and then update / respond.
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