25 Jan
2008
25 Jan
'08
7 p.m.
chris clepper wrote:
I'm looking at the specs for a Sony PTZ cam which uses Sony's ViSCA protocol. The manual gives the commands for communicating with the cam, but I'm not sure if it would work with an existing Pd external or not. The control machine will be running OSX so a USB-RS232 adapter would figure into the equation. I know very little about serial port programming and need a little help determining if the cam is an option or not.
Cam manual (pp 19-37): http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/docs/manuals/evihd1_tm.pdf
I've worked with a VISCA cam a few years ago. It just uses 9600 baud RS232 serial, so [comport] can handle it. The harder part is parsing incoming messages.
Martin