Speaker Device Type

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Elan Paul

May 13, 2026 20:47

Hello support,

We are trying to identify speaker devices in the response from the ‘rest/v3/devices’ endpoint. In many cases, we are able to use the ‘deviceType’ field to identify whether it is a speaker and this works well. Sometimes however, the deviceType comes back as a ‘Camera’ while we know device’s model to be a speaker model and this causes issues. We currently work around this by whitelisting models that we know to be speakers, but we would like a better approach.

Do you either have a list of all the models that qualify as speakers or do you have a way to identify a speaker using the fields in the response from ‘rest/v3/devices’?

Thank you,

Elan

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  Andrew Sharrem

  • Authorized Reseller

  May 14, 2026 20:55

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  Hi Elan,

  Aside from official Nx Support advice, you can identify some of these devices by parsing /rest/v2/system/resourceData.

  Because speakers lack a video stream, they often trigger "offline" errors unless they have the noVideoSupport: true flag. The current list (including Hikvision and Dahua) looks a bit thin—I noticed Axis is missing, which suggests Nx might be pulling these and others via capability interrogation instead of a static list. I suspect this list is to handle devices that don't reply capabilities in the way Nx expects.

  I’ll be testing the Milesight speakers shortly to see how they behave. DW speakers we have used before without issue.

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  Elan Paul

  May 15, 2026 13:37

  Hello Andrew,

  Would you be able to supply the current list of device models that are non-DW speakers?

  Thank you, Elan

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  Elan Paul

  May 19, 2026 19:39

  Hi Andrew,

  Just checking in to see if you were able to answer my previous question.

  Thank you,

  Elan

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  Elan Paul

  May 25, 2026 17:13

  Hello Andrew,

  I hope you had a nice weekend. Are able to supply the current list of device models that are non-DW speakers?

  Thank you,

  Elan

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  Andrew Sharrem

  • Authorized Reseller

  May 25, 2026 19:12

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  Hi Elan,

  Did you look at /rest/v2/system/resourceData output? My intention was to give you a method to find a partial answer now, and in the future.

  That output shows;

  {
  "keys": [
  "hikvision|DS-QAZ1325G1T",
  "Hanwha|NVR-IO-module*",
  "Dahua|DH-VCS-SH*",
  "SxVxAudio|*"
  ],
  "noVideoSupport": true
  }

  There are many other ONVIF compliant speakers that will work with Nx.

  DW is not in the list above - but we know it works -  and I do not work at Network Optix, so I don't have the list you seek.

   

  Warm regards,

  Andy

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