Vaddio Camera Control Codes (ClearView HD 19)

jdonachiue@shaw.ca

I have read the Control Protocol doc and cannot determine what the 8x is supposed to represent.
In some of the packets it is a 81, but most are an 8x.

Any help will be appreciated.
If not can someone point me to a module to control the camera.

Pan-tiltDrive Up
Down 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 03 01 FF
Left 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 03 02 FF
Right 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 01 03 FF
UpLeft 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 02 03 FF
UpRight 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 01 01 FF
DownLeft 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 02 01 FF
DownRight 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 01 02 FF
Stop 8x 01 06 01 VV WW 02 02 FF
Absolute Position
8x 01 06 01 VV WW 03 03 FF
81 01 06 02 VV WW
0Y 0Y 0Y 0Y 0Z 0Z 0Z 0Z FF
0Y 0Y 0Y 0Y 0Z 0Z 0Z 0Z FF

Home 8x 01 06 04 FF
Reset 81 01 06 05 FF

WW: Pan Speed (0x01-0x18)
VV:Tilt Speed(0x01-0x14)


YYYY: Pan Position**
ZZZZ: Tilt Position**

Jeff Lockyear

The 8x is the address of the camera you want to control (since they can be daisy-chained). The camera with address 1 is 81, 2 is 82, etc.

jdonachiue@shaw.ca

Thanks for the quick help.

So the x is what when they are not daisy chained?

I assume it would be 0, but I cannot find any reference to the default ID in the manual....

Do not have access to the equipment until tomorrow.

Jeff Lockyear

In my experience the cameras come defaulted at address 1, so you would use 81 for each camera that's on it's own serial port.

Good luck!

jdonachiue@shaw.ca

Thank you very much.
I am not sure why this is not found in the manual at the start of the command protocol.

Hedberg

You might get a better idea how these things communicate by looking at the Sony Visca camera protocol. Evid 70 or evid 30 or evid 100 and others. The documentation for just about any sony Visca camera should be easier to understand than the Vaddio doc.

Note that those numbers in the document are hex. So, for the address byte you send $81. Probably $88 will address any camera on the RS232 line so you might be able to use that, too.

If you want to try a module, the module for the Sony EVID-100 will probably work just fine, if there is no Vaddio module.

jdonachiue@shaw.ca

Thanks Hedberg.

I did manage to get comm using $81; I knew it was HEX, could not find a reference to what x and y stand for...
I check AMX no module.
I did not know that the Sony EVID-100 would work.
If I have issues tomorrow, I will try that.

Thanks again for all those that helped.

PhreaK

Yep. That protocol looks pretty VISCA-y so you may have some luck using the EVI camera modules if you need to get up and going quickly.

Alternatively, if you want to dive a little deeper the first byte of VISCA protocol is the address byte and is composed of a few different bit groups which are explained really well here on page 3.

JasonS

The only issues I've run into with visca control of Vaddio cameras (since they fixed the improper response to zoom commands in the initial release) is that they don't like most of the Block Inquiry commands.