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PictureTel APTZ-1N camera

VLCNCRZR Senior member

March 2007 in AMX General Discussion

This is a much outdated PTZ camera that was used with the
PictureTel codecs.

I have acquired this unit and my client would like to attempt
to control this via IR as a stand alone PTZ camera.

The camera unit has an IR pickup sensor on it.

I have tried every PTZ driver that I have (Sony, Canon, PictureTel, Polycom).

I dont know if this particular camera has to talk the codec to operate.

Has anyone ever controlled one of these as a stand-alone PTZ via IR.

If so, whose driver did you utilize for control.

Thanks for any input.

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JustinC Junior Member

March 2007

I think maybe the IR is for signal back to the codec, Im not sure. Is RS-232 a possibility for you or do you have to do IR ?

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VLCNCRZR Senior member

March 2007

I do have an available RS232 port.

I was considering making a cable to see if the camera
possibly listens to the VISCA protocol.

I was not sure if the 8p connection is standard or not.

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JustinC Junior Member

March 2007

I don't think that will work, but I may have the pinout and code to control that camera.

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JustinC Junior Member

March 2007

This should be the pinout

Pin 1 - RX
Pin 2 - TX
Pin 3 - GND
Pin 4 - -12V
Pin 5 - GND Svideo
Pin 6 - SVideo Signal
Pin 7 - +12V
Pin 8 - Svideo Signal

876
5 43
21

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JustinC Junior Member

March 2007

The camera requires a startup sequence. I have a camera that uses the same protocol being used as office cameras utilizing an old axcent3 pro.

I can upload the code if you want to go through it and test it out.

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VLCNCRZR Senior member

March 2007

Any protocol data that you have that works would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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JustinC Junior Member

March 2007

Here is what I have as far as code for this camera.

If you need more, you can get a software serial sniffer and check out this website:

www.camerapad.com

Office Camera.zip 1.7K

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edgelitoc Junior Member

February 2011

JustinC wrote: »

Here is what I have as far as code for this camera.

If you need more, you can get a software serial sniffer and check out this website:

www.camerapad.com

this will also work with picturetel PTZ-N2

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TUTech Junior Member

November 2016

Also works with the PTZ-4N. Good thing I didn't spend two weeks trying to reverse engineer the software from camerapad!!

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