In the v24.1.9 relase of MilestonePSTools, the Import-VmsHardware and Export-VmsHardware cmdlets have been rewritten
to use a much simpler CSV format, add support for updating existing hardware instead of only adding new hardware, and we
now support extremely detailed exports and imports using Excel. Thanks to the ImportExcel module by Doug Finke, you
don't even need Excel installed on the system running MilestonePSTools.
If so, you're not alone. In the process of researching the circumstances behind Issue #126, I discovered that MilestonePSTools has possibly never been able to successfully export video, or retrieve snapshots when the video codec is H.265. How did we miss this?
If you've never struggled with the difference between "H.264" and "h264" or "true" and "True", then you've never used Set-VmsCameraStream. Read on to learn about stream settings and how to configure them from PowerShell so that you can spend less time interpreting validation errors and more time on the important things.