Ptz; A) Using Control Method Rs485 - Night Owl C80XFR Series User Manual

7.4.2 PTZ

7.4.2 (a) Using Control Method RS485

Configure settings on your DVR to control a PTZ enabled camera.
Channel: Choose the channel with a PTZ enabled camera. Not all cameras are PTZ enabled.
Protocol: Is the type of PTZ data protocol that the DVR will use to control the PTZ cameras. The
Default Value for Night Owl's PTZ camera is PelcoD.
Address: Enter an ID number for the PTZ camera, greater than 0. If using multiple PTZ cameras,
ID numbers cannot be the same.
Baudrate: Indicate the frequency of communication to the PTZ camera. We recommend leaving
the default setting which is 9600.
Data Bits: Select the amount of data to send during each transmission. 8 bits is standard for all
modern data transmissions.
Stop Bits: Select the amount of extra data to send each time a direction is sent to the camera. The
stopbit serves as a buffer between commands and should be 1 (by default) when utilizing Night
Owl's AHD PTZ camera.
Parity: Detects corrupt commands sent to and from the PTZ camera. This should generally be left Disabled.
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