The message sent out via telemetry looks as follows and will appear in the thirteen text
windows in the top left of the CamSet programme screen (called Boot up message and
Addressing):
ID is:1
Serial No 1160
MIC 440 Model 5A
Date 15/02/3
Software Version: 22AUG120GW
Multi alarms
Sector captions
Privacy
Camera Initialised
Camera OK
Where = any character (these are binary characters and will not be understood by the
ASCII reader).
ID = Camera address.
Serial No = control card serial No.
Model = build standard of control card.
Date = programming date of control card.
Receiving the above message shows that out bound telemetry from the camera has correctly
reached the telemetry point being monitored and also allows the camera address to be
checked.
CamSet will automatically set the camera address in the “
Current Address
” box. Once an
address appears in this box then camera commands may be sent out via CamSet to that
camera.
All “
Preset and camera commands
” function boxes on the CamSet programme should be self-
explanatory.
To make the camera move the “
SPEED
” box is preset to a value of 50 (Max speed = 255 min
speed =1).
Using the “
long test
” tick box will send 10,000 test messages, this will take several minutes
to complete.
Use the “
1 sec timeout
” box when telemetry is switched through a multi-channel hub and
channel switching times are required to allow the hub to correctly switch to the correct
channel.
If there is doubt about communications with the Sony FCB 480 camera inside the MIC1- 440
then ticking the “
cam comms
” box will send through test messages to the FCB camera
module itself inside the MIC1- 440.
Use the “
DETECT
” button to map all cameras currently connected to the CamSet
programme. This process will also list the software version at each camera address loaded
into the camera. If non-ASCII characters are seen for the software version No, this indicates
that there is a duplication of the camera address on the network with the address that
produces the corrupted response.
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