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Extended functions - Interfaces - Camera
Control Software - On-Screen-Display
Extended Manual
Camera system with digital transmission of
analogue A/V signals

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  • Page 1 Camera system Extended functions - Interfaces - Camera Control Software - On-Screen-Display Extended Manual Camera system with digital transmission of analogue A/V signals...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Contents Important Safety Notice............................ 4 Extended Functions of the Receiver....................... 5 General.................................... 5 Configuration of Inputs and Outputs..........................5 2.2.1 Optical Input / AV-Output Card...............................5 2.2.2 Audio/Video Input Card................................6 2.2.3 Relay Card....................................

  • Page 3: Important Safety Notice

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 1 Important Safety Notice This extended manual is only valid in combination with the base manual § • Follow all instructions of the base manual • In particular follow the safety instructions of the base manual •...

  • Page 4: Extended Functions Of The Receiver

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 2 Extended Functions of the Receiver 2.1 General Receivers include/contain additional functions depending on type and selected options. Extended functions of the receiver itself are explained in this chapter. Communication interfaces of the receiver are explained in chapter 3.

  • Page 5: Audio/Video Input Card

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual A-Out Figure 2-2: Connectors of the audio output card When option SDI video output is selected, the card does not have a CVBS cinch connector. Instead, CVBS and audio are available through a combined audio/video (TRRS) female connector, see figure 2-3.
  • Page 6 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual • Camera Control Software see chapter 4. Following table shows all supported resolutions for each video input type. Depending on the selected options of the AV-input card these resolutions can vary. Resolution Frequency DVI / HDMI...

  • Page 7: Relay Card

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual informations about the connected monitor. This way the video source recognizes whether it is connected to an analog (VGA) or digital (HDMI/DVI) interface and which resolutions and frame rates can be displayed. This data is stored in an EPROM and is read over an I2C interface.

  • Page 8: Relaying From Source To Destination Receiver

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual output is identified by the logical channel resulting from the number of the slot plus 20. This is displayed in the Camera Control Software, see also chapter 4.3.7.1. A configuration of the relay card is not necessary.
  • Page 9 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Don't relay AV signals from one source to the same destination receiver multiple times An AV signal from one source (e.g. camera) must not be relayed from one source receiver to the same destination receiver via multiple relay channels.

  • Page 10: Communication Interfaces

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 3 Communication Interfaces Depending on the selected options receivers can have following communication interfaces: • RS 232: serial interface • RS 485: serial interface • LAN: Ethernet, TCP/IP network •...

  • Page 11: Camera Control Software

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 4 Camera Control Software 4.1 Installation To install the software, simply unpack all files from the archive to a (local) target folder on your PC. No further installation is required. The software has been tested under Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

  • Page 12: Connection With The Receiver

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Figure 4-1: Startup screen of the camera control software (CCS) 4.2.2 Connection with the Receiver To connect with the receiver there are the following options [1]: 4.2.2.1 COM Port (Virtual COM Port over USB) Figure 4-2: Options for the connection with the receiver over USB With USB you can establish a point to point connection to the receiver.

  • Page 13: Connection Successful

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Clicking button „R“ rescans the PC for available COM ports and refreshes the list. If Auto Connection (Auto Con.) is checked, the software will try to connect to the last successful connected receiver (USB or LAN) immediately after the software starts.

  • Page 14: Operating The Software

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 4.2.3.1 Selection of the Active Camera Figure 4-4: Selection of the active camera In area all available cameras are shown with a white background, unavailable cameras remain gray, the selected camera is displayed with a red background.

  • Page 15: Camera Control

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 4.3.1 Camera Control Figure 4-5: Control functions of the camera These buttons correspond to the hardware buttons of camera and receiver and are described in more detail there (see base manual).

  • Page 16: Saving And Restoring The Actual Pan/Tilt Unit Position And Camera Zoom

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual which can happen with older hardware. 4.3.3 Saving and Restoring the Actual Pan/Tilt Unit Position and Camera Zoom Figure 4-7: Saving and restoring of the positions With these control elements the zoom position and the position of both pan/tilt axes can be saved to disk, to be restored later.
  • Page 17 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 4.3.4.1 Audio Settings (Automatic) Figure 4-8: Automatic audio mode The Target Level specifies the audio level, that shall be kept constantly. Loud signals can be damped, quiet signals are amplified. Using the Max.
  • Page 18 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual The new ID is immediately active. Changing the ID can lead to a situation, where two cameras in the system can have the same ID, which will cause problems in the receiver. There must never be two or more cameras with the same ID connected to the same receiver! After changing a camera ID it is recommended to restart the receiver.

  • Page 19: Expert Settings

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual With button you can turn the backlight adjustment on or off. Buttons mirror the image horizontally and vertically. The whitebalance can be adjusted by using the values from the dropdown list ,exposure mode with dropdown list [5].
  • Page 20 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Changes at these settings can lead to video images which on the one hand might suggest that the camera is defect, or make the camera unusuable for other lighting situations until it is reset to its default state.
  • Page 21 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual With this checkbox the automatic backlight adjustment can be turned on or off. 4.3.5.8 Whitebalance [10] With this dropdown list the desired kind of whitebalance can be selected. Auto The whitebalance is automatically calculated over the complete video image Automatically between 2000K and 10000K...

  • Page 22: Matrix Connections

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 4.3.5.15 Save/Load/Reset With button [23] user settings can be saved to hard disk, with button [24] these settings can be reloaded. They must then be sent to the camera with a click on button [25]. Especially important is button [26], which can be used to reset all settings back to their default values.

  • Page 23: Information

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual off) are displayed in gray [4], while active inputs (e.g. AV input channels that have detected a valid input signal) are highlighted in green [5]. If you want to turn output of a certain channel off, click in the top row [3]. •...

  • Page 24: On-Screen Display

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual output is activated. VGA and CVBS together can only be active in standard mode. • M (ute): Audio of DVI-Input cards can be muted here. • A (utomatic): (Function not supported yet) •...
  • Page 25 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual then displays them. (e.g. frequency and field strength for EMC measurements). 4.3.8.1 Permanent On-Screen Display The permanent display can be used to display the current date, the current time and up to four user definable text lines, independent of external software.
  • Page 26 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Figure 4-16: Operating window of the permanent display 4.3.8.4 OSD Groups With the help of the OSD groups, several cameras can be combined into a group, which can then be addressed together via the OSD commands (see chapter 5) A maximum of 15 groups can be created.
  • Page 27 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Figure 4-17: Editing the OSD groups Each camera can only be present in a maximum of 2 groups at the same time. If the camera is selected for a third group, the group can be created, but the camera is not added to the group! 4.3.8.5 Macros For simple overlays without the aid of external software, two macros can be defined here.
  • Page 28 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual The initialization macro is defined in the input field [1]. This macro is executed only once. It is usually used to set font sizes and colors, to display the date and a fixed text, and to clear the screen. Button saves this macro on the hard disk.

  • Page 29: Configuration

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Not every receiver type has an internal real-time clock, so the commands for setting the time and date have no function here. 4.3.9 Configuration The functions on this tab are used to configure internal settings of a receiver. Not every function is supported by every type of receiver.
  • Page 30 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual settings must be configured in the receiver. To configure a network device, basic knowledge of the network in which the device is operated is required. Therefore, this configuration should only be carried out by appropriately trained persons.

  • Page 31: Configuration Files

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Figure 4-23: Configuration of the network time The time zone in which the receiver is located must be configured here [1]. Due to network latencies, this time may differ from the real time, so a correction in seconds can be configured under [3]. This data is set using the button.

  • Page 32: Matrix.ini

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 192.168.1.45=192.168.1.45 The text after the"=" can then of course be changed as desired. 4.4.3 matrix.ini In these files (a separate file can exist for each existing receiver) the names of the individual outputs (video-out for monitors, relay...) and inputs (cameras, DVI inputs...) are defined.

  • Page 33: Text Overlay On The On-Screen Display (Osd)

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 5 Text Overlay on the On-Screen Display (OSD) 5.1 General Information Receivers offer the possibility to display text over the live video image, e.g. the current frequency and field strength for EMC tests.

  • Page 34: Description Of Commands

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 5.3.1 Description of Commands Table 5-1 shows transient OSD commands. These are supported by all types of receivers. OSD:TXT, OSD:TXTABS, and OSD:TXTREL use colours set by OSD:COL and font size set by OSD:FONT. After writing a text, they position cursor behind this text.
  • Page 35 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Command Address Param 1 Param 2 Description SYS:GRP Group ID ACSII List Assigns camera IDs of the ASCII List to the group with the specified ID. Group ID = The value of the ID must be between 1 and 15. ASCII List = Each camera ID is listed as a separate character.

  • Page 36: Examples

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual FG-/BG-Colour Description Do not change colour Transparent Black Green Blue Yellow Violett Turquoise Dark gray Gray 2 Gray 3 Gray 4 Gray 5 Gray 6 Bright gray White Table 5-5: FG-/BG-Colours for transient OSD commands 5.3.3 Examples OSD:CLR 255 1,4,6-9,12...

  • Page 37: Description Of Commands

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual • used by Camera Control Software and 3rd party software: customers typically use the Camera Control Software to configure permanent OSD information (see chapter 4.3.8.1). Once this is completed, EMC software sends only MX:TIME and MX:DATE (see table 5-6) to update time and date.

  • Page 38: Description Of Parameters

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Command Address Parameters Description OSD:PBAT Sets font size and position for battery status. Size Set size to 0 to not show any battery status OSD:PBATSTART Channel- Set colours and text of a specific battery status. OSD:PBATOK FG-Color BG-Color "Text"...

  • Page 39: Synchronisation Of Time And Date With External Sources

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual FG-/BG-Colour Description Transparent Black Green Blue Yellow Violett Turquoise Dark gray Gray 2 Gray 3 Gray 4 Gray 5 Gray 6 Bright gray White Table 5-11: FG-/BG-Colours 5.4.3 Synchronisation of Time and Date with External Sources Time and date can be synchronized with an external source as follows: •...

  • Page 40: Obsolete Osd Commands (Deprecated)

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual and background colour=2. The time value is incremented automatically every second. OSD:TFRMT 2 0 24h hh : mm : ss OSD:PTIME shows 13:05:01 on channel 2. OSD:TFRMT 2 0 12h hh : mm # ## AM OSD:PTIME shows 01:05 AM on channel 2.

  • Page 41: Troubleshooting

    Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual 6 Troubleshooting The following troubleshooting list helps you to locate and fix problems in order to reduce downtimes. Notice! • For problems that you cannot solve yourself, please contact mk messtechnik GmbH for further assistance.
  • Page 42 Camera system messtechnik Edition 1.03 EMC Test and Measuring Systems Extended Manual Error Possible Cause Solution Camera Control Software Incorrect wiring Check the wiring. If connected via network, No connection to receiver check the network settings in the Camera Control Software (see chapter 4.3.9.3) and in your network.

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