How to create and setup ONVIF PresetTour

[jim-lin507]

When I call built-in ModifyPresetTour of ONVIF, I am so confused about how to add PresetTourSpot into it. I tried many times and searched on the internet, but I always got an error message. I also asked a question on Stackoverflow(c# - How to create and setup ONVIF PresetTour - Stack Overflow), without any luck.

Is there any demo about the ONVIF presettour of any programming language for me? It would be helpful.

[sujithhanwha]

Since preset tour is not part of profile S and Profile T, not all cameras support this feature.
Therefore its recommended to check the capability, using GetNodes API in ptzserivce.
In the response node configuration, you can check how many tours are supported and supported operations.
eg.,

<MaximumNumberOfPresetTours>6</tt:MaximumNumberOfPresetTours>
            <tt:PTZPresetTourOperation>Start</tt:PTZPresetTourOperation>
            <tt:PTZPresetTourOperation>Stop</tt:PTZPresetTourOperation>

Then call getpresettours to get the list of preset tours available on the device. Check the count in the response whether its less than the capability max count.

If the count is less than capability or if there is no preset tour, you can create a new preset tour. CreatePresetTour

Then use ModifyPresetTour to configure the preset tour with existing preset tokens.

Later use OperatePresetTour API to start or stop preset tour. Only operations supported in the capability can be used here.

I am not aware of any opensource tool or demo code that you can refer. If you follow above steps it should be fine.