Enabling Discovery
Quick background about Device Discovery:
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Main goal is to automatically discover surveillance devices on the network and attached to agent machines
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Each device belongs to a specific agent (that discovered it). This agent becomes device owner.
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Audio and Bluetooth devices are physically attached to agent box and they cannot move to another owner.
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Video devices discovery is on first come first served basis meaning that whichever agent discovered the device first claims initial ownership of that device.
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Video devices ownership can be modified to a different agent (device owner) on the same site (this is useful if you would like to capture data using an agent that has access to Video device, but didn’t have a chance to be the first to discover it).
To enable Discovery:
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SSH into Quantotto Agent
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Run
qtoagent discovery config
You will be asked three Yes/No questions:Enable audio? [y/N] [current state: disabled]: Enable video? [y/N] [current state: disabled]: Enable bluetooth? [y/N] [current state: disabled]:
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Answer ‘y’ or ‘n’ depending whether you want to enable or disable specific type of device discovery on current agent.
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Enabling Audio devices does not require further configuration if enabled; you will just see
Enabling audio
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Enabling Video devices requires additional information (subnet to scan):
Enabling video Enter network address for Video ONVIF discovery [192.168.0.0/24]:
Agent machine must be part of configured subnet.
Default option will be class C subnet. Modify as needed or accept the default. -
If Enabling Bluetooth, since this functionality is about beacons positioning, you will be asked to provide
coordinates of the agent:Enabling bluetooth Enter X [0.0]: Enter Y [0.0]: Enter Z [0.0]:
You can accept the defaults (0.0) for all and defer this configuration to later stage
when deploying beacons and location detection as described in the dedicated Indoor Positioning Deployment Guide.