American Dynamics ADMPCPU manual Editing Camera Definitions, Changing Calling Contacts

•Title 1 – Allows you to create a two-line title for each camera that will display on the monitor when the camera is called. Title 1 is the upper line of the title and can be up to eight characters or digits in length with the pseudo number appended to the title. Titles over eight characters are truncated.

Note: The CenterTitle1 and Center Title2 columns in the upper screen allow you to position the text shown in the Title1 and Title2 columns on the monitor.

For example, to position Title1 on the monitor, click on the Center Title1 field of the desired camera, and choose the title position from the dropdown menu that appears: Left, Center, Right, or None (no title will be displayed).

•Title 2 – Allows you to create the lower line of a two-line camera title. Title 2 can be up to eight characters or digits in length.

•Video Loss Detection – Provides video loss detection alarming. You can set video loss detection for the following conditions:

−Off – Video loss detection not enabled

−Sync – To detect the presence of the vertical synchronization pulse in the video signal

−Low – To detect low picture content

−Medium – To detect medium picture content

−High – To detect high picture content

•Site – Identifies the remote site that provides the video trunk inputs to the selected local camera.

•Output – Identifies the monitor output from the remote site that is connected to the selected local camera input.

•Alarm Number – Specifies an alarm contact number to activate when video loss is detected on this video input. See alarm contact definitions and APPENDIX F: Configuring Video Loss Detection on page 71.

4.Click OK to display the new definition or Cancel to close the dialog box without displaying the definition.

Note: Remember to save or transfer your changes before closing EASY CPU.

Editing Camera Definitions

Once a camera is defined, you can edit the definition by highlighting the information in the desired field and entering new information.

Adding a Range of Monitors

1.To add monitors or a range of monitors, double- click on a field in the Monitor Access column of the Partitions – Cameras to Monitors screen.

2.Enter the numbers of the monitors or range of monitors that you want to associate with the camera of the currently highlighted row.

For example, Figure 112 displays a range of monitors for five different cameras. For Camera 1, the mapped monitors are 1, 5, 8 through10, and 55 through 128. Each monitor number or range of monitor numbers is separated by a comma.

Figure 112. Adding a range of monitors

Changing Calling Contacts

The Calling Contacts tab section allows you to change the alarm contacts associated with the highlighted camera.

Note: Calling contacts must first be defined in the Alarms – Contact Definitions screen.

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