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Release Notes for Avaya Scopia® XT Series
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Connect a crossed VISCA cable from the OUT RS232C connector of the first camera to
the IN RS232C connector of the second camera.
Repeat with additional crossed VISCA cables if you have a third camera for XT7000 or
more cameras when using an XT camera switch.
Connect each additional camera to its power source and to XT HD or DVI input, or to the
proper HD slot of the XT Camera Switch.
Power on the system.
Figure 39:
Cascading two cameras using the standard XT camera cable and a VISCA cable.
Camera positions relative to VISCA cascading correspond to the following sequence of camera
inputs on XT, assuming that every camera is configured properly in XT menu to be controlled by
VISCA, in
[GUI]
C
ONFIGURE
>A
DVANCED
>I/O
C
ONNECTIONS
>C
AMERAS
>
(
INPUT CORRESPONDING TO THE CAMERA
)
[W
EB
]
A
DMINISTRATOR
S
ETTINGS
>
I/O
C
ONNECTIONS
>C
AMERAS
>
(
INPUT CORRESPONDING TO THE CAMERA
)
Figure 40:
Enable Camera and its Control for Each Cascaded Camera
Table 1:
Camera Cascading
– VISCA Sequence and XT Input Sequence
Product
First
Cascaded
Camera
Second
Cascaded
Camera
Third
Cascaded
Camera
Fourth
Cascaded
Camera
Fifth
Cascaded
Camera
Sixth
Cascaded
Camera
XT5000/XT4x00/XTE240
HD1
DVI
--
--
--
--
XT5000 with XT Camera Switch HD1
HD2
HD3
HD4
DVI
--
XT7000
HD1
HD2
DVI
--
--
--
XT7000 with XT Camera Switch HD1
HD2
HD3
HD4
HD5
DVI
Important
Be sure to set to
“No” the “Enable” and the “Control Camera” flags for each XT input
which is not connected to the cascaded chain or not used.
It is needed to restart the system when changing the driver mode from automatic to
manual and the reverse. Do not change the camera chain order while the system is
turned on
Flex camera can be cascaded only as last camera in the chain. Some older Flex
camera models do not support cascading. Please check that the Flex camera (Model
VC-B20DRV) serial number (available in a label on the bottom of the camera as
below) is higher than V13
C
04411 or is in the format V13xxyyzzzz (without any letter).