Solving for intermittent camera connectivity issues can feel a little like a never ending game of I Spy. Follow along as I troubleshoot a flapping camera issue on network with the Boring Toolbox, slack, and an Axis Network Switch.
Video surveillance teams often need to find specific video clips at a moment’s notice and Milestone’s new and improved XProtect Centralized Search framework makes that easier than ever. We will walk you through the basics to get you set up…
Whereas standard processes for changing camera device names can take hours to complete, the Boring Toolbox simplifies this function for Milestone VMS admins by making bulk setting updates quick and simple.
In order to force the recording server to shut down when you lose a hard drive, make sure you check the button that says...
Create always-accurate camera reports for your entire Milestone VMS system, including details for your cameras, servers, and storage configuration.
I was upgrading a Milestone XProtect 2018R3 Corporate system to 2020R3 and found that the recording server would not install. Here is exactly how I fixed it.
Have you ever sat with smart client open and flipped through each camera making a spreadsheet of each one that was not providing video or has a bad picture? Think of how long that took, about what you could have…
We wanted to use Axis Loitering Guard ACAP analytic last week but found there is little to no documentation on how to get it to work with Milestone XProtect VMS. So here is how we connected the alerts from Axis…
We have been asked quite a bit, and most recently on our feature request forum, to create the ability in Boring Toolbox to move cameras in bulk from one Milestone XProtect recording server to another. But, we have yet to…
Milestone released the Interconnect feature back in release 2013 and since then it has been a powerful tool that allowed creative admins numerous ways to scale their systems horizontally. What is the Milestone Interconnect Feature? Interconnect is a feature that…
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