Configuring Rs-232 Equipment - Polycom VSX Series Administrator's Manual

Administrator's Guide for the VSX Series

Configuring RS-232 Equipment

Configuring for Use with a Touch Panel Control
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The VSX 7000 system provides one RS-232 port; the VSX 8000 system provides
two. You can use the RS-232 port to:
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Provide control signals to a PTZ camera or a Polycom Vortex mixer
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Receive control signals from a touch-panel control
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Receive closed captions from a captioning service using a modem, or directly
from a captioner's PC via Telnet
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Pass data to an RS-232 device connected to the serial port of the far-site system
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Provide a Telnet trace for debugging
On the VSX 8000 system, you can only set one RS-232 port at a time to Debug mode.
The VSX 7000 and VSX 8000 systems have a serial port that you can configure for
use with a touch panel control.
To configure the serial port for a touch panel:
Go to System > Admin Settings > General Settings > Serial Port.
1.
Configure these settings:
2.
Setting
Baud Rate
RS-232 Mode
For a list of all available API commands, see the Integrator's Reference Manual for the
VSX Series, available at www.polycom.com/videodocumentation.
Description
Set the baud rate to the same value that it is set on the touch
panel control.
Select Control. This allows any device connected to the RS-232
port to control the system.
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