Where can I get a complete list of cameras that are supported by Milestone VMS?
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Where Can I Get A Complete List Of Cameras That Are Supported By Milestone VMS?
Ethan Ace
Jan 23, 2019The official list can be found on Milestone's site here.
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Undisclosed #1
Jan 23, 2019btw, why is getting a list of cameras supported by a given VMS so simple but getting a list of VMSes that support a given camera so hard?
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John Honovich
Jan 23, 2019Because the VMS manufacturer actively tests each camera in their own environment so they know directly but the camera manufacturer typically depends and does not know what each VMS manufacturer tested.
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Undisclosed #1
Jan 24, 2019JH
John Honovich
Jan 24, 2019It could and it once was. Main fear is that it is a lot of work and it is easy to be out of date.
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Undisclosed #1
Jan 24, 2019You dictate the file format, mfrs upload, if they don’t keep it current or don’t participate, they lose right?
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John Honovich
Jan 24, 2019We lose because people will still blame us for the information being inaccurate.
We get blamed, on occasion, for Dahua and Hikvision breaking all their links. Those two companies do this every other year or so when they change content management systems. Evidently, they do not understand what a redirect is. But... most people can't tell the difference between IPVM linking wrongly and the source breaking their own links.
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Undisclosed #2
Jan 23, 2019There are supported cameras and then there are cameras that are integrated such that you can actually utilize all of it's features.
Jared Tarter
Jan 24, 2019This is a good point U2. Of the 7,556 cameras supported by our Corporate, Expert, Professional+, Express+, and Essential+ software, roughly 4,400 are supported with a dedicated driver and the remaining are supported (meaning we have tested them) with the ONVIF driver.
An easy way to tell if a camera is supported via a dedicated driver or the ONVIF driver is to click on the camera in the list. On that page, you will be able to see whether it is a dedicated driver or the ONVIF driver, which device pack it was supported in, all firmware versions tested, etc. As an example, if you choose the Hanwha XND-6080V, you can see that we supported it via the ONVIF driver initially and then in the most recent device pack (10.1a), we starting supporting it via the Hanwha driver.
If you scroll farther down, you will also be able to see all of the events, codecs, etc. that are supported on that camera.
There are a few hundred of the 3,000+ cameras that are supported via the ONVIF driver that also have support for some edge based events.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3
Jan 25, 2019and thousands of ONVIF-compliant devices that can likely come in fine, but haven't been officially tested and so are not on the supported list.
(milestone employee)
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