VISSONIC V2 VIS-CATCA Camera Auto Tracking Controller User Manual

VISSONIC V2 VIS-CATCA Camera Auto Tracking Controller

VIS-CATC-A Camera Auto Tracking Controller User Manual

**Product Information

**

The VIS-CATC-A Camera Auto Tracking Controller is a device designed to control the auto-tracking functionality of cameras. It provides users with the ability to track subjects automatically,ensuring smooth and accurate camera movements.

Important Note:

• This product may cause radio interference in the living environment. If interference occurs, users should take feasible measures to mitigate it.

Product Usage Instructions

Safety Instructions

For your safe and correct use of the equipment, please observe the following safety instructions:

• Do not open the machine cover to avoid electrical shock. Contact qualified service personnel for assistance.

General Information Instructions
This section provides information on factors that may lead to unsuccessful operation or setup, as well as relevant information to pay attention to.

Matters Needing Attention in Discarding Product
When discarding the product, please follow these guidelines:

• Do not put the product into regular garbage. Process it as industrial waste or according to local environmental protection regulations.

Attention in the Wiring
Before performing any wiring operations, ensure that all external power sources are disconnected to avoid electric shock or equipment damage.

Preface
The VIS-CATC-A Camera Auto Tracking Controller user manual provides information on the use, performance parameters, and troubleshooting of the product.

If there are any changes to the technical parameters and system usage, the manufacturer will update the manual accordingly. Please refer to the latest version of the user manual.

The copyright of this manual belongs to VISSONIC ELECTRONICS LIMITED. Without permission, copying or modifying this manual, in part or in whole, is prohibited.

Contents

19-inch installation cabinet
Connection

The meaning of symbols

Safety instructions

For your safe and correct use of equipments, we use a lot of symbols on the equipments and in the manuals, demonstrating the risk of body hurt or possible damage to property for the user or others. Indications and their meanings are as follow. Please make sure to correctly understand these instructions before reading the manual.

| This is A level product, which may cause radio interference in the living environment. In this case, users may need to take the feasible measures to get around the interference.
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| Remind users that the dangerous voltage without insulation occurring within the

equipment may cause people suffer from shock.

| CE certification means that the product has reached the directive safety requirements

defined by the European Union. Users can be assured about the use of it.

| SGS certification means that the product has reached the quality inspection standards

proposed by the world’s largest SGS.

| This product passed the ISO9001 international quality certification (certification body:

TUV Rheinland, Germany).

| Warning: in order to avoid electrical shock, do not open the machine cover, nor is the useless part allowed to be placed in the box. Please contact the qualified service personnel.

General information instructions

It lists the factors leading to the unsuccessful operation or set and the relevant information to pay attention.

Important note

Warning
In order to ensure the reliable performance of the equipment and the safety of the user, please observe the following matters during the process of installation, use and maintenance:
The matters needing attention of installation

• Please do not use this product in the following places: the place of dust, soot and electric conductivity dust, corrosive gas, combustible gas; the place exposed to high temperature, condensation, wind and rain; the occasion of vibration and impact. Electric shock, fire, wrong operation can lead to damage and deterioration to the product, either;

• In processing the screw holes and wiring, make sure that metal scraps and wire head will not fall into the shaft of controller, as it could cause a fire, fault, or incorrect operation;

• When the installation work is over, it should be assured there is nothing on the ventilated face, including packaging items like dust paper. Otherwise, this may cause a fire, fault, incorrect operation for the cooling is not free;

• Should avoid wiring and inserting cable plug in charged state, otherwise it is easy to cause the shock, or electrical damage;

• The installation and wiring should be strong and reliable, contact undesirable may lead to false action; ◆For a serious interference in applications, should choose shield cable as the high frequency signal input or output cable, so as to improve the anti-jamming ability of the system.
  Attention in the wiring

• Only after cutting down all external power source, can install, wiring operation begin, or it may cause electric shock or equipment damage;

• This product grounds by the grounding wires. To avoid electric shocks, grounding wires and the earth must be linked together. Before the connection of input or output terminal, please make sure this product is correctly grounded;

• Immediately remove all other things after the wiring installation. Please cover the terminals of the products cover before electrification so as to avoid cause electric shock.
  Matters needing attention during operation and maintenance

• Please do not touch terminals in a current state, or it may cause a shock, incorrect operation;

• Please do cleaning and terminal tighten work after turning off the power supply. These operations can lead to electric shock in a current state;

• Please do the connection or dismantle work of the communication signal cable, the expansion module cable or control unit cable after turning off the power supply, or it may cause damage to the equipment, incorrect operation;

• Please do not dismantle the equipment, avoid damaging the internal electrical component;

• Should be sure to read the manual, fully confirm the safety, only after that can do program changes, commissioning, start and stop operation.
  Matters needing attention in discarding product

• Electrolytic explosion: the burning of electrolytic capacitor on circuit boards may lead to explosion;

• Please collect and process according to the classification, do not put into life garbage;

• Please process it as industrial waste, or according to the local environmental protection regulations.

Preface
This manual mainly describes the use, performance parameters and troubleshooting of VIS CATC A camera auto tracking c ontroller.
If the technical parameters and system usage in this manual are changed, the manufacturer will update the version of the manual. Please use the latest user manual.
The copyright of the manual belongs to VISSONIC ELECTRONICS LIMITED. This manual is protected by the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China and other intellectual property laws and regulations. Without permission, it is not allowed to copy part or all of the manual or modify this manual.

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Function

VIS-CATC A camera auto tracking controller has 4 channels of high definition SDI input, 2 channels of high definition HDMI input, 2 channels of high definition HDMI output, supports buttons, RS232 control, Ethernet control, web page control , etc., and can realize camera tracking, seamless switching, Screen freezing, audio and video scale conversion functions.

Specifications

The Specification of VIS CATC A are as follows:

• Video input port: 4 channel SDI HD interface; (SDI supports 3G SDI and HD SDI; supports digital audio input)

• Video input port: 2 channel HDMI HD interface; (HDMI supports 1080P60Hz downward compatibility; supports digital audio input)

• Video input port 2 channel HDMI HD interface; (HDMI supports 1080P60Hz downward compatibility; supports digital audio output)

• It has a picture-freezing function, which can be set according to the rotation and focusing time of different cameras.

• Compatible with VISSONIC series conference system, support camera tracking function.

• Video signal input to output seamless switching, no black screen, tearing.

• Supports quick configuration of video signal switching through the web GUI.

• Power consumption 12W

• Power supply AC 100 240V 50 60 Hz

• Temperature/Humidity
  Storage:
  40 to +158 °F ( 40 to +70 °C)/10% to 90%, non condensing;
  Operating: +32 to +1
  22 °F (0 to 5 0 °C)/10% to 90%, non condensing.

• Installation 19 inch rack cabinet Installation, 1U

• Dimensions L × W × H 483 × 260 × 43.6 mm

• Weight 3 kg

• Color black

Front and rear panel description

The front panel of camera auto tracking controller includes:

1. Power switch turn the power of the camera tracking controller on or off
2. Control button 1 6 button corresponds to 1 6 HDMI and SDI input channels, can switch any 1 HDMI or SDI input signal to HDMI output
3. Input signal indicator 1 6 indicator corresponds to 1 6 HDMI and SDI input channels
4. Input port support 2 channels of high def inition HDMI and 4 channels of high definition SDI signal input
5. Output port : support 2 channels of high definition HDMI signal output
6. Control port RS 232 female, RS 232 male and RJ45 Ethernet is used to connect the full digital network DSP conference con troller for video switching control of camera tracking or connect the computer for control
7. Power input port connect the camera tracking controller to the power sequencer or plug in with the power cable to supply power to the camera tracking controller
   (HDMI and SDI input interface supports digital audio input, HDMI output interface supports digital audio output)

Installation

19 inch installation cabinet
The main unit can be installed in a 19 inch standard cabinet with standard mounting screw holes.

Connection

Power supply
Connect the main unit to an external power outlet using the supplied power cord.

RS232 control interface

It is used to connect the digital network DSP conference main unit for video switching control of camera tracking or connect the computer for control.
The COM port pins are defined as follows:

The COM port pins are defined as follows:

The COM port pins are defined as follows:

Serial port default settings
Baud rate: 9600bps, Parity: 8, Stop: 1
Serial control command table

switching

|

V:[x] -> [y]

|
FREEZE[x].| Set the screen freeze

time to x seconds

| FREEZE[x].| [x]

Unit:second

SetFreeze.| Perform screen

freeze

| |

<^NET>

|

Query network parameters

|

<SIPR[X1].[X2].[X3].[X4]>

<GAR[X1].[X2].[X3].[X4]>

<SUBR[X1].[X2].[X3].[X4]>

<SHAR[X1]:[X2]:[X3]:[X4]:[X5]:[X 6]>

|
<#SIPR[192].[168].[1

0].[189]>

| Set IP address| <SIPR:[X1].[X2].[X3].[X4]>|
<#GAR[192].[168].[1

0].[1]>

| Set gateway| <SUBR:[X1].[X2].[X3].[X4]>|
<#SUBR[255].[255].[

255].[0]>

| Set subnet mask| <GAR:[X1].[X2].[X3].[X4]>|
<#SHAR[00]:[01]:[2

8]:[00]:[00]:[01]>

| Set hardware

address(hex)

| <SHAR:[X1]:[X2]:[X3]:[X4]:[X5]:[

X6]>

|
<#NETDEFAULT>| Network restore

factory settings

| |

Web Control
Network port default IP: 192.168.10.189. The steps of web page control are as follows:

1. Connect your PC to the Ethernet port of the camera tracking controller through a CAT5 cable.
2. Please set your computer to the following IP network segment.
3. Log in to the webpage, enter the IP address 192.168.10.189, and if you can log in to the screen in Figure 6, it means that the connection is successful. Click “Video” to control the signal switching of the camera tracking controller on this page.
   • Signal switching screen as shown in the figure below

The above ① is the list of video input s ignals of the camera auto tracking controller. Note that the two output channels output the same signal.

• Modify camera auto tracking controller IP
  1. Click “Setting” to enter the following screen
  2. In the above ② , you can customize and modify the network IP. After completing the modification, restart the camera auto tracking controller.
     Version query: Click “About” to enter the following screen, and check the version information at ③

System connection diagram

Camera RS232 cascade control line connection method

PIN1……DTR;
P IN2……DSR; PIN3……TXD; PIN4……GND; PIN5……RXD;
PIN6……GND ; PIN7……IROUT; PIN8……NC

Conference Controller Camera Tracking Settings
Enter the menu ‘CAMERA’ to set the parameters of the camera tracking.

Table 7.2 “CAMERA” menu list of VISSONIC conference controller

the communication between the conference controller and a camera according to the camera in use.

If a third-party central controller is used, select “CUSTOM” and no longer need to set “Camera map” and “Start Set”.

Camera map| Camera select| 001 to 016| Camera select : Select a camera. Up to 16 cameras are supported.

Camera addr : Set the address of the camera selected in “Camera select”. Need to set a camera address for the SAMSUNG and PELCO-D protocols. If the selected protocol is VISCA, set the parameter to Off.

Video channel : Bind the current camera address. If no video matrix switch is connected to the conference controller, set the parameter to Off. Note: Repeat the following operations to set the next camera:

“Camera Select”→”Camera addr”

→”Video channel”.

The conference controller records the parameter settings of each camera.

Camera addr| Off, 001 to 255
Video channel| Off, 001 to 255
UDP addr| Off, 001 to 255| UDP addr : Bind the IP address of a network camera. If the selected protocol is VCA-UDP, the camera IP address is required.
Start Set| –| 01 to 16| Select the current camera (No. 01 to 16), and then set the microphone position of each unit for tracking. The steps are as follows:

Step 1: Set the parameter to “01”, which corresponds to camera 01.

Step 2: Use the remote control to adjust the camera to track the microphone of

| | | the first unit in the camera coverage. Step 3: Press the on/off button of the photographed microphone.

Step 4: Use the remote control to adjust the camera to track the microphone of the next unit in the camera coverage.

Step 5: Press the on/off button of the photographed microphone.

Step 6: Repeat Step 4 and Step 5 to set all microphones in the coverage of camera 01.

Step 7: Set the parameter to “02”, which corresponds to camera 02.

Step 8: Execute Step 2 to 6 to complete the setting of camera 02. Complete the tracking settings for all the other cameras in the same way.

Step 9: After setting the last camera for the microphone of the last unit, adjust the camera to get a panoramic view of the conference and then press “ESC” to exit the “Start Set” menu. The panoramic view is called when the microphones of all units are turned off.

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Freeze Time| –| 00s to 30s| Delay time needed for the camera tracking controller to switch the camera view. The delay time ranges from 0 to 30 seconds.
Video Mode| –| Normal/Recorder| Two video modes are optional. Select “Recorder” when

VIS-CRS02/03/04/05B or

VIS-CRS02/03/05A is used.

Camera Track| –| On/Off| Enables or disables the camera tracking feature.

The following example shows how to set two cameras when the protocol VISCA,SAMSUNG/PELCO D, or CUSTOM is used.

1. Connect the camera (or a third party central controller) to the lower COM port of the CONTROL interface on the conference controller.

   • Cameras using the VISCA protocol.
   • Cameras using the SAMSUNG/PELCO-D

2. Connect the RS232 port of the camera tracking controller to the upper COM port of the CONTROL interface on the conference controller.

   • Connect to the VIS CATC A camera tracking controller through RS232.

3. If the CUSTOM protocol is used (that is, a thi rd party central controller is used), no longer need to set “Camera map” and “Start Set”.

4. If the VISCA or SAMSUNG/PELCO D protocol is used:

   • Enter the “Camera map” submenu, select a camera, set the camera address, and bind the
     address. For specific operati ons, please refer to the par ameter description in Table 7.2.

   • Enter the “Start Set” submenu, and then use the camera remote control, keyboard, or CLEACON software to set the tracking position for each camera one by one. For specific operations, please refe r to the par ameter description in Table 7.2.

References

• Digital Conference System, Audio Conferencing System - VISSONIC

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