How to remove or hide camera side plugin?

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Mike D

• February 25, 2020 16:35

I am using Meta sdk to build a system plugin and do not want a camera plugin to show. I can modify the manifest to do this but I get a Plugin Diagnostic Event: "Plugin violated its contract: Manifest deserialization error - manifest is not a valid JSON"

 

What is the proper way to do this?

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  Sergey Yuldashev

  • March 05, 2020 15:03

  Hello Mike,

  Could you give us more details please?
  Do you mean camera side plugins like ones that are always enabled for Hanwha, Axis or Hikvision cameras?

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  Andrey Terentyev

  • March 06, 2020 15:02

  Hello Mike,

  There are several options on regard of "hiding" the plugins.

  The first one.

  Device Engine can declare a "deviceDependent" capability in manifest. In makes plugin not be shown in the list in "System Administration".

  The second one.

  Device Engine has the method "bool Engine::isCompatible(const IDeviceInfo* /*deviceInfo*/)"  in which you a developer can decide if the camera, represented by its IDeviceInfo interface is compatible or not. If it is not, the method should return FALSE, then DeviceAgent class instance will not be created for this particular camera and the plugin will not be shown on "Plugins" tab of "Camera Settings" windows. Note, since DeviceAgent class will not be created,  no video frames will be passed to the plugin.

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  Mike D

  • March 17, 2020 20:00

  The second option worked for me. Thank you Andrey.

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