Testing Presets

[Ssayer]

A number of my cams have undocumented presets. Example... White lights on or off, tracking on or off, etc. Is there a way, or has anyone come up with a way to test presets (probably 1 to 100) sequentially with some kind of a pause between each try in order to see what may have changed? AFAIK, the only way in BI is to manually change (up to) 20 presets at a time on each camera and test each one by one that way. Just looking to see if there is an easier way.

 

[Mike A.]

Can you not use the patrol on the cam or Auto-cycle patrol in BI that steps through each of the presets? My only PTZ is fairly limited so I don't know what that may enable other than simply moving the cam through whatever defined presets.

 

[Ssayer]

Yes, but AFAIK, you can only patrol through presets that you have already set up.

 

[Mike A.]

Set up a script to loop through each one using the API calls? I don't do much with that so I don't know the string off the top of my head.

 

[SpacemanSpiff]

Have you tried logging in to the camera itself and reviewing the list of presets?

If seen some cams have the factory-set presets description with the respective action instead of the standard "preset 1", "preset 2", "preset 3", etc

 

[Ssayer]

I'm not sure how I'd come up with a script as I haven't done anything like that (it's why I asked if anyone else had).

None of my cams show factory-set presets with descriptions. I got a manual with my last one that showed all of it's presets which got me thinking about the others.

 

[bp2008]

If you open UI3 and open the developer console (ctrl + shift + i), then on the console tab you can paste this script

var delay = 3000;
function NextPreset(num) {
    if (num > 100) {
        console.log("ending preset iteration");
        return;
    }
    ExecJSON({"cmd":"ptz","camera":"ptzne","button":100 + num},
    function(response) {
        console.log("Preset " + num + " " + response.result);
        setTimeout(function() { NextPreset(num + 1); }, delay);
    },
    function() {
        console.log("Preset " + num + " could not be requested due to an error");
        setTimeout(function() { NextPreset(num + 1); }, delay);
    });
}
NextPreset(1);

Change "ptzne" to the short name of your ptz camera. You can modify the delay between commands (in milliseconds) at the top. On the third line where it says num > 100, that is the last preset number it will try. The very last line, where it has the 1, that is the first preset it will try.

 

[bp2008]

And if you happen to be viewing a ptz camera in UI3, then this console command will simply go to whatever preset number you enter.

ptzButtons.PTZ_goto_preset(1)

 

[Ssayer]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!