Signature User Manual
March 23, 2014
Signature User Manual
Page 22
When the Signature Camera is powered up and your Video Display Software
(AMCAP) is running (so you have a wonderful image of something in your
display, for me it is always corn in the farmer’s field).
Double click on application: Signature Button Control.exe or on Signature Button
Control with Protocol.exe (depending upon which version you downloaded)
The following image should appear on the screen.
Notice that the
Rear Panel
box is shaded red (this indicates that software does not yet allow you
to control the camera (patience, my friends, there is a reason for this).
I, hopefully, have the software reading the available COM ports on your computer and it should
display them in the
PC Com Port
Box (On the above sample image, it is displaying
COM3
). You
will need to click on the
COM
button to display all of the available
Com Ports
, then click on the
Com Port
that your Signature Camera is connected to. (In my case, my Signature is actually
connected to
COM5
, so I would choose
COM5
from the drop down list, and now my
PC Com
Port
would display
COM5
.
Note:
we still have not activated the software control yet, so a little more patience.
When you are ready to control the camera with this software, just click on the
Activate
Emulation
button in the
Activate Menu
box at the top of the screen.
The
Signature
Camera
has a
Communication ID
number. The Default
should be “
001
”. That
is the
ID number
I
expect from your
camera. So go into the
Special Function (2/2)
menu and ensure that
the
COMM ID
is set
to
001
.