What's new?

In XProtect Smart Client 2018 R2

Multistory buildings on the smart map:

You can create buildings with any number of levels. You navigate the levels through a pane that appears when you select a building. For more information, see Add buildings to smart map.
You can specify a default level for a building. When you select the building, you immediately jump to the default level. For more information, see Set default level for buildings.
You can add cameras and attach them to specific levels. This helps you shift cameras level by level. For more information, see Add cameras to buildings.
To help you illustrate the interior of a building, you can add floor plans as custom overlays to the levels. This lets you position cameras in a precise manner. For more information, see Add floor plans to levels.

In XProtect Smart Client 2018 R1

The computer running XProtect Smart Client can use NVIDIA® and Intel® display adapters for hardware accelerated decoding. You can add multiple NVIDIA display adapters for better XProtect Smart Client performance and monitor the CPU and NVIDIA GPU load from the system monitor. For more information, see Hardware acceleration (explained)
Users with sufficient rights can temporarily lift privacy masks and thereby view the video underneath. This applies only for privacy masks created as liftable masks in the Management Client. For more information, see Privacy masking (explained).
You can use hotspots to quickly shift between cameras on your smart map. By selecting a camera on the smart map, the video feed is displayed in the hotspot view item. For more information, see Use hotspot to view video from cameras on smart map.
The help is now available as webhelp that you can navigate using your standard browser. It has a more 'webbish' look and feel.

In XProtect Smart Client 2017 R3

Improved responsiveness when changing views.
Better and more efficient left-pane navigation.
You can permanently hide the camera toolbar in the view items. For more information, see Permanently hide camera toolbar.
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) - you can now record and play back recorded audio with improved audio quality. Works with all supported cameras.
Smart map - better visibility of shapefile areas - when using shapefiles with polygons, you can make the borders of the polygon areas stand out. For more information, see Make areas in shapefiles more visible.

In XProtect Smart Client 2017 R2

Smart map:

Support for Milestone Federated Architecture - even with a hierarchy of sites, there is one smart map that gives you a geographical overview of all the cameras from all the sites. This allows you to view live feed or investigate recordings from the cameras on the smart map.
When you add a new subsite to your Milestone Federated Architecture, automatically the cameras of the subsite are displayed on the smart map.
You can also position cameras from the subsites manually on the smart map - from the camera hierarchy or search pane.
Cameras that are configured in Management Client or through the MIP SDK are automatically displayed on the smart map.
You can quickly jump to cameras or custom overlays on the smart map, instead of manually navigating to them.
Through user rights, you can control whether operators can change the position of cameras.
Improved zoom capability - to avoid that cameras clutter the map, cameras are grouped responsively according to the zoom level. For more information, see Explore your smart map, section Zoom in and out.

XProtect Essential Product change

XProtect Essential is discontinued and replaced by XProtect Essential+ that you can download and install for free.

In addition, Milestone introduces XProtect Professional+ and XProtect Express+.

More information available on our website.

In XProtect Smart Client 2017 R1

Smart map:

If you are using OpenStreetMap, you can specify an OpenStreetMap tile server by your own choice, for example if your organization uses its own customized maps stored on a local server.
You can now prevent certain types of XProtect Smart Client users from editing smart maps. To do this, you must configure the relevant Smart Client profiles in Management Client.

The alarm list supports right-to-left languages:

The alarm list has been improved to display elements correctly for right-to-left languages.

Easier to save settings:

The Options window is now titled Settings. When you make a new setting, and you switch tab or close the window, automatically the change is saved.