The nmilestone driver

This driver supports the Milestone Professional video management software program running in a stand-alone (single controller) or company-wide installation that includes at least one Supervisor PC.

Nmilestone features

  • Automatic discovery of cameras
  • PTZ operations: control and go-to presets
  • Motion detection alarms and recording alarms
  • Surveillance Viewer
  • Alarm video playback
  • Live video playback
  • Switching between live and playback video
  • Remote video connections
  • Fox video streaming
  • Graphics widgets

Tested models

The nmilestone driver has been tested with the Milestone XProtect Professional. Milestone XProtect Enterprise is deprecated, but uses the same API.

Requirements

  • IP access between the DVR or camera and remote controller
  • Appropriate open ports: the defaults are port 80 for the web (image server port), central port 1237, and upload events port 1234.

Compliance

  • To create presets, use the Milestone application. This driver does not support preset creation. It does support the Move-to-Preset option.
  • Milestone cameras do not support: Enable Detection and Disable Detection. Even if you add an Event Detection Control Ext, it will not work with a Milestone camera.
  • This driver does not support Iris and Focus controls.
  • Camera health continues to report Ok even after the camera is disconnected from the network. This is an issue with the Milestone application. Video is not streamed for a disconnected camera.
 CAUTION: Milestone products do not support secure communication, therefore, it is not possible to secure the connection between a station and its Milestone devices.