Hi John, Mike Weaver has explained all this really well. I'll just add that you can get 3rd party VISCA camera control software to install alongside your AG client, for example: http://damien.douxchamps.net/libvisca/
We've got Sony cameras in one of our nodes that are all controlled via daisy-chained VISCA cables into COM1 of the node PC (using IOCOM's IG Meeting which has VISCA camera control built in). The control ID of each camera is determined by dip switches. Don't forget most cameras come with IR remote controllers, which are really useful if you want to position cameras on yourself once you're sat down in the meeting room. I've also attempted to get camera control working with a USB-RS232 convertor, but wasn't successful ! Regards, Ben. ----------------------------------------- Ben Green Access Grid Support Centre Research Computing Services University of Manchester Room 73A, Devonshire House, Precinct Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 306 6621 fax: +44 (0)161 275 6120 email - [email protected] web - www.agsc.ja.net ----------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Maher Sent: 04 February 2009 18:52 To: [email protected] Subject: [AG-TECH] Hardwire control of cameras -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have experience controlling Sony EVI-D70 cameras using rs232 connections? If so, I would very much like to know how to implement such a setup. I questions like: - - Do you use the Sony "demo" software or something else? - - Should the computer controlling the cameras have a multiport serial card (or multiple serial cards), or is there a better way. Any information would be welcome. Thanks. John - -- * - - - - * - - - - * - - - - * - - - - * - - - - * - - - - * - - - - * John Maher Senior Systems and Network Administrator Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Chemistry University of Massachusetts - Amherst voice: 413-577-3120 fax: 413-545-4490 OpenPGP Key ID: 0x2970A144 Want your email to be private? http://enigmail.mozdev.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJiePfG+X1pClwoUQRAmObAJ9pmvogFxDgQ99G748RJYGjGWYPPQCfVQfr +ok7uhKfsMz5gnrs5nvRyao= =Vrr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
