SecurityMan iCamDVR (after Dec. 2011 shipment) - Manual (Page 36)

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The building map in the E-map is for demonstration only, 5.
and any other engineering merchant to make the practi-
cal map or drawing of map by own according to the actual
needs may be used to scan and save to the computer and
be use for Emap map.
P.T.Z Configuration Control Panel
Click on the icon from Config to enter the PTZ
Configuration panel as illustrated below in figure 49.
PTZ configuration requires serial port on the computer in
order PTZ controls to operation; the serial port is called
an RS485 port. Once a PTZ protocol camera is plugged
into the computer via serial port, the serial port can then
be configured or selected from the Serial Port options in
PTZ Configuration.
Protocol Configuration
Select between CAM1~CAM4 from the Channels list in
which the protocol camera is connected to. Then select
the Protocol of the PTZ camera from the drop down list
according to the type/brand of camera that is currently
connected to iCamDVR unit. The current supported PTZ
protocols are as follow; Null, Lilin, Minking, Neon, PelcoD,
PelcoP, Star, Vido, and VISCA. Next is to select the Serial
Port such as COM2, COM3, etc. for P.T.Z serial port from
which the computer assigns for the port. Finally to match
the address of the PTZ camera, every PTZ protocol cam-
eras has an address assigned to identify the camera. If the
camera address is 1 be sure to input in a 1 in the Address
field. See below for relative explanations.
Relative definitions:
Channels List – select the camera channel that 1.
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If the laptop or desktop do not have a serial port built in, a
converter such as RS485 to RS232 and then another adapter
from RS232 to USB can be applied to control the PTZ protocol
(converters NOT included). There are many other alternatives
but this is one of the best and cheapest ways to convert RS485
serial port to USB.
figure 49 - PTZ configuration panel