How to connect the PTZ Standalone camera on PC

mahendrar · Post by **mahendrar** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:18 pm

Hi friends,

I know this is not the right place to ask this wuestion but ii am putting it here.

I want to connect a PTZ camera(i don not have any right now) to my Linux box and use it as a monitor in the Zone Minder.

Please someone tell me how do i do this.
I do not want to use Network camera.

Thanks,
Mahendra

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jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:20 pm

you need a dome camera that supports 485 telemetry, an 232 to 485 protocol converter and cabling. I have never tried the above but thats the theory

Post by **cordel** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:20 pm

It works fine. I have used rs232 to rs485 converters in the past with no issues.

Regards,
Cordel

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:27 am

As mentioned above the control link needs to be rs485-rs232 serial. However the video link is just regular coax type cabling which you will need to terminate in a video capture card.

Phil