License Plate Recognition Solved: How to Configure Your VMS for LPR
We’ve tried them all and these are the most important features and camera settings for configuring license plate recognition LPR on your VMS.
Configuring Hanwha’s AI Camera Plug-In with Milestone XProtect: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to step up your video surveillance game with the Hanwha AI plugin for Milestone XProtect so you can perform advanced analytics such as object detection and classification, facial recognition, and license plate recognition. This blog covers the basics of the plugin and walks you through the configuration process.
Troubleshooting Milestone XProtect: Our Top Tutorials for Common Issues
Check out our most popular troubleshooting tutorials for common issues on Milestone XProtect. Solve recording server install errors, what to do when your video is streaming but not recording, and learn how and why to update default motion setting thresholds,
How to Enable HTTPS Between Milestone XProtect & Hanwha Cameras
Enabling HTTPS between Milestone XProtect and your Hanwha cameras is a great way to secure the communications between Milestone and your devices. In this blog, we’ll explain why securing communications between your VMS and security cameras is important and how to do so effectively using HTTP.
How to Configure Continuous Recording onto SD Cards on Axis Cameras With Edge Recording
In this blog, we will walk you through how to enable edge storage in Milestone XProtect to allow for continuous recording onto an SD card in your Axis cameras.
How to Set up System Monitor Notifications on Management Client vs Using the Boring Toolbox
In this blog post, we’ll show you two ways to set up camera health notifications for your Milestone XProtect VMS so you can rest easy knowing that your cameras are always functioning properly.
Our 7 Most Popular Tips & Tricks for Managing Milestone XProtect
If you’re looking to streamline your VMS management and improve the cybersecurity of your Milestone XProtect video security system, then this article is for you.
How to Use PowerShell to Find a Video in Windows File Explorer and View It in Milestone XProtect
Windows PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that can be used to automate many tasks on Windows systems. In this blog post, we will show you how to use PowerShell to find a specific video file in the Windows file system and view it in the Milestone XProtect player. Why You Shouldn’t Even Bother To Search Windows File Explorer Without PowerShell Finding a video using Windows Explorer is one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve encountered. It’s basically impossible. First you’ll need to wait until Windows File Explorer loads millions of files and folders. Then if, and only IF, you are lucky enough that it actually loads, you must search, sort, and dig to find the right folder. It’s a real needle in a haystack situation! It will take a toll on you. Just look at this picture of me before and after I started this Windows search: With not a hair left on my head, I knew I needed to find a new solution. Enter PowerShell! With Windows PowerShell, you can query a folder, and its child folders using specific keywords including CAMERAS! Here’s how to do it: What You Need to Know Before You Start Folder Aliases & How to Find The Folder GUIDs In Windows, file explorer XProtect uses aliases to make the folder structure human-readable. These aliases are not real folder names and are unusable in a Powershell script. An easy way to figure out the actual folder name is to just click on the address bar in Windows file explorer. Here is what the address bar looks like with aliases. Here is what it looks like after clicking in. This is the actual folder name. That long string of characters separated by dashes is generally called a GUID. So in this case, 09f85974-d9ca-4e74-bd14-195cb547f62f is the folder GUID. How to Find The Camera GUIDs Cameras also have GUIDs, and you will need to know the GUID of the camera you are trying to find the video for. There are several ways to find the camera GUID, but the easiest way is through the management client. Log into XProtect management client Click on Recording Servers Expand the recording sever of the associated camera Expand the hardware the camera is under Hold crtl+click on the camera name In the Info tab of the camera, scroll down, and you will see the ID In this case, our camera GUID is 1E18F205-C059-4EEC-A745-E5138DBDF11D How to Use PowerShell To Find a Specific Camera Now that you have the basics, it is time to put it together. We will use the commandlet below to search our live database folder for a specific camera. Get-ChildItem -path folder_path_uri</FONT COLOR=”#F14A67″> -Directory -Filter *camera_GUID</FONT COLOR=”#F14A67″>* | Out-GridView The | Out-GridView switch is optional but is super helpful. It publishes the data into an excel-like table you can sort and filter through. Let’s try this using the info for the folder and camera GUIDs we found above: Folder to search through: D:MediaDatabase�9f85974-d9ca-4e74-bd14-195cb547f62f Camera to search through: 1E18F205-C059-4EEC-A745-E5138DBDF11D Get-ChildItem -path D:MediaDatabase�9f85974-d9ca-4e74-bd14-195cb547f62f -Directory -Filter *1E18F205-C059-4EEC-A745-E5138DBDF11D* | Out-GridView Here is the output using the Out-GridView switch: Now you can see all the folders in the file system that contain video for the specific camera without waiting ages for the folders and files to render in Windows File Explorer. Once in grid view, you can click the “Add Criteria” button and filter the results to focus your search results further. Lastly, you may want to browse a specific camera folder in the Name column of the grid. To do this, take the folder path URI, and the camera folder name found in the name column and add them together, as shown below. folder_path_url+/+ camera_folder_name D:MediaDatabase�9f85974-d9ca-4e74-bd14-195cb547f62f1e18f205-c059-4eec-a745-e5138dbdf11d_LOCAL_2022-09-25_13-22-06 We hope you found this blog useful and really hope you found it in time to save you from the anguish of having to figure it out on your own. Pay it forward by sharing this PowerShell hack with all of the security administrators you know and help them avoid countless hours of boredom and disappointment watching files load and crash repeatedly. If you want more helpful tips and tricks for managing your video security system, sign up for our [NOT] Boring Newsletter to get a monthly dose of genius direct to your inbox. Get The Newsletter
How to Enable HTTPS Between Milestone XProtect & Axis Cameras
Enabling HTTPS between Milestone XProtect and your Axis cameras is a great way to secure the communications between Milestone and your devices. In this blog, we’ll explain why securing communications between your VMS and security cameras is important and how to do so effectively using HTTP.
4 Reasons Managed Service Providers (MSPs) Should Be Monitoring the Health of their Clients’ Video Security Systems
Offering VMS camera health monitoring as a service can help you to grow your business and better support your client’s by helping them avoid incidences of missing video.
