In this video, Paul Richards and Stephen Barrera review PTZ camera control with a Crestron Control Panel. The Crestron Touch Screen used is TSW-1050 with a Crestron DMPS-4K-150-C control processor. Once connected the Crestron Touch Screens allows for complete PTZ Camera Control over RS-232 using the DB9 8 Pin Mini-Din control cable. The Video is output over HD-SDI and uses a frame grabber (Epiphan AV.IO or Magewell HD-SDI Frame Grabber) to output video via USB 3.0 into a Intel NUC micro-PC. The Micro-PC is used for web based video conferencing applications such as: Skype for Business, GoToMeeting or WebEX. For more information about PTZ Camera Control using our pre-made Crestron Control Modules simply visit our website downloads page.

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Video Transcript:

Hello everybody Paul Richards here Chief Streaming Officer at PTZ Optics here with Steve Barrera, Steve is our integration manager, he helps integrators work with custom projects, cutting custom cables, and we’ve actually just worked on a Crestron control panel project we want to show you guys all right. Steve let’s take a look at your camera there and show show everybody the cables that we have that we’re using for connection. Sure, so here we just have a PTZ Optics camera and a control cable that comes with every camera, and what I’m doing here is extending the control cable to a Crestron processor. And I’m doing that by the VISCA cable that comes with extended by DB9 to a 5-pin Phoenix screw terminal. Lets zoom in on that really quickly because we’re going to show a couple pictures in a second here. But that’s a DB9 extender to a Phoenix connector that is specifically for Creston correct? Correct. So let’s show the Crestron here and just kind of walk us through what we’re looking at. Ok so you’re looking at the the DMPS processor They’re made by Crestron and in the bag of it has a screw terminal for control for RS 232. And we just plug that in after extending the VISCA cable. Yeah so there’s back of the camera here you can see the eight pin, that’s called eight pin VISCA connection. Right. And then that goes from… you extend that over DB9 because that cable that comes with the camera is only like six or eight feet. Yes. And you’re extending it over DB9. Right. And from there it goes right into the control processor for control, and then the HD SDI is being converted to USB with the frame grabber. Right. You know this must have before the integrator knew about Magewell they have like a less expensive HD-SDI to USB converter that’s a little better but. Here is the Intel NUC, so the USB is going into the Intel NUC from what I understand. They’re using it for like Skype for business. Right. Like Webex or go to meetings through a cloud-based system and then the customer gets a nice touch screen with camera control. Right. So you can see the camera there on top of it they were just doing some testing in the back. Let’s show a picture of it working in action, video here. You can see, now the customer and a lot of people, you know the reality is that they don’t want to have a remote-control, right let’s say it’s a that one over here. you know it’s a corporate boardroom or something along those lines, a remote control to get lost. If a meeting doesn’t work it doesn’t or it doesn’t go the way it was planned they could lose, like you know they’re just expensive rooms obviously. So this remote can get lost the batteries can be broken. So what they end up wanting is a custom power over Ethernet touch screen. You know it might control more than just one device. Right. A camera is just one of the many things that it’s controlling. Yes, yes. I’m so you could just do audio conferencing from something like this, camera control, web conference a there’s just the part of things you can do there So thanks dude. Thanks for coming in and showing everybody that. Absolutely. If you have any questions go ahead and let us know in the comments below. Steve’s always here, [email protected] I’m [email protected] any questions let us know this is what we’re here for, thanks everybody. Let’s end on a cool old fashioned outro. This Friday we have the history of live streaming completely in black and white.