Open the Milestone XProtect Management Client and select your Recording Server.
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From the Action menu select Add Hardware.
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In the Add Hardware wizard select the Manual option and click Next.
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Click the Add button to create some new user credentials for accessing your VOD.
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Enter the User name, which in VMS Gateway defaults to root, and the Password then click Next.
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Ensure that the ONVIF driver is selected, as that is how the VOD will be detected, and click Next.
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Enter the IP Address for the VOD, and ensure that Use HTTPS is not selected, unless you have configured your VOD to use HTTPS, then click Next.
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The next screen will show Milestone performing a scan and discovering your VOD. The Hardware model for the discovered device will be Digital Barriers Ltd. VMS Gateway (ONVIF). Click Next to continue.
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The next screen shows Milestone connecting to the discovered hardware and collecting information. When this has finished, click Next to continue.
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The next screen shows information that has been retrieved from the VOD, checking the Enabled box next to each entry will select that information to be added to Milestone. In the case of ONVIF Profile M metadata you'll need to check the box next to the Metadata port entry in addition to the Hardware and Camera ports. Click Next when this is done.
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The next screen lets you select any previously defined Milestone groups to add the data to. In our example we leave all these as the default and click Finish to close the Add Hardware wizard.
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The video stream from the VOD displayed in the Preview panel of the Milestone XProtect Management Client.
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Now confirm that the metadata is being received. In the navigation tree on the left-hand side of the interface select Metadata under the Devices node.

Expand the Metadata node on the Devices panel and click on Digital Barriers Ltd. VMS Gateway...

The Preview panel will show an animation indicating that metadata is being received.
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In the navigation tree on the left-hand side of the interface scroll down and select the Metadata Search node under Metadata Use.
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In the Metadata Search panel you'll see three Search Categories: Location, People and Vehicles. The Object Detector is only applicable to People and Vehicles.

Select People, you'll then see some checkboxes in the Visibility in XProtect Smart Client panel.

Select the first of these, People, the other checkboxes will then be enabled but you don't need to select them as the Object Detector does not currently support Age, Face, Gender or Height. This will enable you to search in the client using the general category People but not clutter the interface by presenting the sub-categories that don't apply.
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Now select Vehicles in the Metadata Search panel. This will display a response box asking if you want to save the changes you made to the People Search Category. Click Yes to continue.
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In the Visibility in XProtect Smart Client panel check only the Vehicles checkbox, as the Object Detector does not currently support Color, License plate, Vehicle speed or Vehicle type.
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After selecting the Vehicles checkbox it is important that you navigate to another node in the Metadata Search panel, as this is the only way to display the response box asking if you want to save the changes. Click Yes in the response box to successfully save the changes to the Vehicles metadata.
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Start your Milestone XProtect Smart Client and login using an account with the appropriate administration permissions to manage views and access cameras.

Once the Smart Client has loaded, in the navigation panel on the left-hand side of the interface select the view group where you want to configure the VOD camera view. In our example this is the Default view group.
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Click the Setup button on the right-hand side of the interface to enter into setup mode.
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In the Views section of the navigation panel, where the Default view group is selected, click on the Create new view tool at the bottom of the section. This displays a popup menu, where you can control how the view is formatted. In our example we choose a 4:3 horizontal ratio with a single view in it.
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When the view is created double-click the name in the panel to change it to something appropriate to your system, in our example we call the view ACME Camera.
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In the System overview panel, expand your recording server node to display Cameras, expand that node and then click and drag the Digital Barriers Ltd. VMS Gateway... camera onto the viewing pane.
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When that's done, you should see a still from the current video feed from the camera. You've now finished configuring the view so you can click on the Setup button at the top-right of the screen to exit setup mode.
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You should now see the live video stream from the camera overlaid with bounding boxes that show the objects being detected by the Object Detector.
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Click on the Search tab. All of your searches are configured here.
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Click on Select camera.... You need to select the camera you are interested in searching.
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Select the Digital Barriers Ltd. VMS Gateway... camera. You will need to select the VOD camera with the metadata.
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Click on the Search for... button. You next need to select the type of metadata you want to search for.
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Select the People metadata option and then click New search. This will constrain the search results to just those events where People were detected.
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The search results in a number of events where People have been detected. Clicking on one of these results, displays the video sequence associated with that occurrence.
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To search for vehicles instead, click the Search for... button, select Vehicles and then click New search.
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This search results in a number of events where Vehicles have been detected, clicking on one of these shows the video sequence related to that event.
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