Introduction
VMS Gateway can now provide live image snapshots from your video stream to third-party applications using a standard web API. This allows you to build web-based lightweight dashboards or camera video grids that show an overview of your cameras, without the CPU/bandwidth overhead of streaming live video from your VMS Gateway to your video platform.
This feature is enabled by default, but requires entering the same username/password that is used to view the ONVIF/RTSP stream.
Be aware... a known limitation around live images
The stream must be open and being consumed by a VMS to generate an up-to-date snapshot. If the VOD's output stream is not currently streaming, the snapshot will produce an image from the last time it was open!
How to use
For each desired encoder, select Copy image snapshot URL from the ... menu.
To test, paste this into a web browser, and then enter the ONVIF/RTSP credentials - this should show you an image from your encoder.
If you are programmatically consuming the image...
Set authentication type to Digest. (on the receiving platform)
Set username/password in Digest Auth to match the ONVIF/RTSP username/password.