Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 62)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 62 Advanced configuration
Name Description
Replace Hardware Device
Opens a wizard (see "About the Replace Hardware Device wizard"
on page 58), with which you can replace the selected hardware
device with another one if you need to. This can be relevant if you
replace a physical camera on your network. The wizard helps you
take all relevant issues into account: for example, deciding what to
do with recordings from cameras attached to the old hardware
device, etc.
PTZ device (properties)
The PTZ Device tab is only available if you configure (see "Configure hardware devices" on page 57)
video encoder hardware devices on which the use of PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras is possible:
Name Description
Connected cameras have Pan-
tilt-zoom capabilities Select the checkbox if any of the cameras attached to the video
encoder device is a PTZ camera.
PTZ type on COM#
If a PTZ camera is controlled through a COM port, select the
relevant option. Options are device-specific, depending on which
PTZ protocols the device uses. Select None if you have no PTZ
cameras controlled through COM ports.
The table in the lower half of the dialog contains a row for each video channel on the hardware device.
First row from the top corresponds to video channel 1, second row from the top corresponds to video
channel 2, etc.
Name Description
Name Name of the camera attached to the video channel in question.
Type
Select whether the camera on the selected camera channel is fixed
or moveable:

Fixed: Camera is a regular camera mounted in a fixed
position

Moveable: Camera is a PTZ camera
Port
Available only if Moveable is selected in the Type column. Select
which COM port on the video encoder to use for controlling the PTZ
camera.
Port Address
Available only if Moveable is selected in the Type column. Lets you
specify port address of the camera. The port address will normally
be 1. If using daisy chained PTZ cameras, the port address will
identify each of them, and you should verify your settings with those
recommended in the documentation for the camera.