Set up Seervision in Q-SYS Designer

Welcome back.

In this part of the training,

we're going to link Seervision and Q-SYS together,

which means giving Seervision direct control over our Q-SYS cameras

and using the Seervision plugin inside Q-SYS. 

We're going to start off in Q-SYS Designer.

For our first example, we're just going to need one camera.

So I'm going to create a basic Q-SYS design with an NC 12x80 a mediacast router,

and I'm going to wire that into the USB bridge on my core.

Now let's return to the, Seervision user interface.

Take a look at the menu bar at the top of the page.

You can see there we have a /1 and a /2 after the server's IP address.

That's because this is a two channel server.

And those two buttons let you access the two separate instances of the service and software.

For now, we just want to configure the first instance.

So let's press slash one.

Now the first thing we need to do is connect our camera to Seervision so it can receive the stream

and control the camera That's done in the operations server.

Click here to access it.

Now, in the operations server, we have settings for network licensing and our camera connections.

We're going to focus on the PTU configuration section for now.

But what does PTU stand for?

It's actually a penguin transportation unit. not really.

PTU stands for Pan Tilt Unit and it comes from Seervision's broadcast background,

where you might be using cameras that have a separate pan tilt unit to the camera itself.

Now, of course, we're using Q-SYS and nc-series cameras  

and we can select that as the PTU right here.

Of course, we need to enter the camera's IP address,

which you can find in Q-SYS Configurator,

if you're not sure what it is.

It might be a good idea to set this to a static address in Peripheral manager,

just in case you're working on a DHCP network and the camera's IP address changes after a reboot.

Next, we're going to tell Seervision the camera and the lens.

that’s attached to the PTU. Of course,

this is the same in a conferencing camera where everything's integrated.

So choose Q-SYS as the model and Q-SYS NC 1280 or 20 by 60 as the lens.

Lastly, we can invert the pan and the tilt for ceiling mounted cameras

and we can add pan and tilt limits if desired.

When you're ready, just click apply.

Now, before we leave the operations server,

we might want to adjust the IP settings.

The Q-SYS plug in is going to be connecting to the server via its IP address.

So it might be a good idea to set this to a static address If you're on a DHCP network.

When you're ready, just click on the arrow in the top left to go back to the main user interface.

Next, we need to link our camera stream to the  

Seervision server as well as the PTU control that we've just configured.