Hello everybody. Paul richards here with Andy Chatfield our lead support technician.
How's it going guys?
And in this video we are going to do an IP joystick review.
So the IP joystick is can control up to 253 cameras over the network, you can
auto-search your network for PTZOptics cameras that are there, and then you can
take pan tilt zoom control along with presets and a whole bunch of other
things that Andy's going to show off.
Really quickly wanted to show the difference between the IP joystick and
our analog RS232 Visca joystick. The Visca joystick's less expensive it's only $299,
it uses RS232 Sony Visca can protocol,
you can do Pelco as well. It also has RS485 and 422 so it's very much
an analog controller it has a three year warranty and does do presets and
camera switching. The IP joysticks a little bit more expensive it does
everything over the network.
You can have a maximum of two hundred and fifty three cameras, it does support
presets and tours and it has a two year warranty.
So let's go ahead and jump right into our presentation. Andy we're going to
start by I guess explaining the the joystick here.
Yeah, so I just want to let you guys know as soon as you power on the joystick, as
long as you have it hooked up to your network
it should automatically find a dynamic IP address for you.
The one that pops up for us right now is 192 168 111. 177.
So if you will take that IP address and type it into a web browser, you
should be able to gain access to the IP interface for this joystick, which will
be the easiest way to go about setting it up with the PTZOptics cameras. So as
you can see here the login page, this is the login page it's just admin as the
username and blank for the password. You should be able to log in now, and this
this is going to take you to the the IP interface of the camera. So you should
see a green box on the left
the blue box in the middle and the red box on the right. The green box is going
to be available cameras that your your camera can find basically via their
ONVIF protocol, and
once once you hit search in that green box it's going to find every
camera available. You can then go through and add those cameras to the joystick
itself. So we have four PTZOptics cameras we're just going to hit add all, and add
them all to the IP joystick, and now we want to be able to differentiate between
them aside from IP address
so we're going to give each one camera address of one two three and then four
and then Andy I do I have logged into one of the PTZOptics cameras here,
because I didn't know if you wanted to show this part of it. Yea sure so this video is assuming that
you guys do have worked with the PTZOptics cameras before, and you know how to
get into this IP interface but in order for this joystick to find your cameras,
you have to turn ONVIF on in the IP interface for the cameras.
You do not have to turn on ONVIF authentication that would actually cause
some conflicts with the IP joystick, you want to be sure to just turn ONVIF on
and then you'll be good to go.
So at this point Paul has added the the four cameras in the IP interface for the joystick,
we just want to we address them all.
So now I should be able to go back to my joystick here, and I'm just going to hit
search and it should find all four of those cameras.
Hopefully you guys can see this behind us,
we also have another view here it's little better. Yes, you can see it searched CAM I
have one through four so I have one on 1.85,
I have .88 I have .84, and I have .83.
I know 85 is one of the ones we have live so once I pick one that I want to
use, I'm just going to hit escape and it should connect to that camera.
So I'm connected to that camera that would be the one pointing at the fire
extinguisher there, I'm just going to start zooming and panning around and set
a couple of presets and stuff like that. So this is my basic pan speed here I
can go a little quicker if I want, I can go really quick if I want. I tend to move
it pretty, pretty slowly.
So if I want to go ahead and just set that as a preset, I would do
preset one and then enter and I'm just going to move away from that spot, and
i'm going to do shot
1 enter, and that should take me back to that preset that I set. You can do this
for many many presets with the IP joystick,
you can do this between cameras, so if you want to switch to different cameras like
I'm on my 85 right now, I'm just going to hit next
on this bottom left here and it should connect to the next camera I have available.
Ok that will give you .88 there.
That's .88 it's in our back, back to the shop.
Yup, and you can see I have full PTZ control. Now there's buttons next to you, next to your
joystick as well Andy. I see you have focus, zoom, and things like that.
Yep, so the PTZOptics can be controlled for all of these parameters but in order
to control the focus of the camera you have to put the camera into manual focus
mode, which can be done using the ir remote control and just hit the manual
button if you want to use the iris
you just have to go into the on-screen display of your PTZOptics camera and set
the the AE section for the iris to be in either iris mode or manual mode, and then
you'll be able to control the iris with those buttons and the zoom should just
work inherently. Alright great well that was actually a six minute video Andy if you can believe that.
I think we showed everything we wanted to show off PT joysticks there,
here's the back of the unit as you can see there's a network jack really you just
need to plug it to network and power.
Yep, and have all your cameras set to you know ONVIF enabled inside of the
exactly the IP interface you also need to make sure you have the latest
firmware for the cameras which andy has videos on.
So this is only applicable if you have a PTZOptics generation one camera,
we have a separate firmware that you would need to upgrade in order to have
the ONVIF functionality that will let the camera work with this joystick.
The other thing is all the G2 cameras as long as you have one that you bought
after May of 2016
you should be good in that regard to every camera should be shipping with the
ONVIF the firmware on it see you should only have to upgrade the firmware if you
have a G1 camera or you have a G2 that you bought before May and a little tip
you know if you don't need a joystick, there is a program called the ONVIF device
manager which is absolutely free.
Yep and ONVIF device manager, and you can just do that right from your desk we
have open source control software you can use, there's a lot of stuff you can do but
this IP joystick is really nice if you've got up multiple cameras on your
network and you want to just be able to control them
plus it has the analog feel. It's a it's a lot harder to sit there and pan tilt and
zoom your camera and do presets and stuff with a programmer using the mouse
to click and drag and stuff like that, using an actual joystick is a lot nicer
and easier for people who are used to working with cameras.
Thanks for watching everybody have a nice day see you guys.