We've received some great feedback on the latest module release with the updates to the Import-VmsHardware and
Export-VmsHardware commands. In our current development cycle (sprint), one of our goals was to improve the
MilestonePSTools landing page and initial "onboarding" experience.
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.
The latest version of MilestonePSTools was published yesterday and you can get your [code]signed copy on the PowerShell Gallery. Rather than echo the changelog, this post will elaborate on a couple of the changes I'm most excited about!
The installation scripts provided here are designed to protect you from common errors when you install modules from PowerShell Gallery or run commands or scripts for the first time. Following are a collection of these errors so when you run into them, you'll know what to do!
On an standard Windows operating system you typically have two choices for how to use PowerShell. More than that if you consider the x86 (32-bit) variants! When you're getting started, it's difficult to know which to use, and why. When you click the Start menu button or press your Windows key (Win), and type "powershell", here's what you get...
