Milestone M50 - Manual (Page 64)

Milestone Husky M30/M50 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 64 Advanced configuration
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.
Cameras and storage information
About video and recording configuration
Once you have added hardware devices and attached cameras, you can configure video and
recording settings in three ways:
Name Description
Wizard-driven
Guided configuration where you can specify video, recording and
archiving settings for all your cameras.
General
Specify video, recording and shared settings (such as dynamic
archiving paths and whether to record audio or not) for all your
cameras.