Compare camera settings

dutchguy

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Mar 16, 2018
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Since a week or so, one of my camera's was not giving any Alerts anymore. I tried to manually compare to another camera with the same settings, but I could not find anything to make it work. I then just exported the second camera and changes the IP and it worked again.
Is there any way I could compare the settings of 2 camera's (besides checking all dialogs)? I already tried to compare the export files, but they are in binary format, so they cannot be compared easily.
 
This is an option… (from the help pdf)

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I tried this just to see what the human readable text file might look like, but holding the shift key while clicking export only produced a prompt to save the camera's .reg file. So I changed the extension to .txt while saving and took a look at the file...didn't provide much useful info, just a lot of settings/hex keywords. Anyone else try this?

Edit: No need to change the extension to .txt. Save as .reg as prompted. The exported file is indeed readable with individual settings and associated registry keywords. Compare this to a .reg file export where the shift key was not held during export and you'll see it's not at all readable.
 
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Thanks for the tip! When using the shift click option, it still saves a .reg file, but you can open it as a text file and it is in readable format.