bry25_uk 0 Posted January 25, 2011 have a sentient h264 ptz dvr and a vcl orb0006(honeywell i believe) and am having trouble connecting them.on the back of my dvr the interface has these connctions "+5,gnd,485b,485a,gnd,1no,1nc,gnd" on the cctv camera i have "s.gnd,sync,data-,data+,0vs,+vs,vgnd,vid… i have established that the 0vs and +vs on camera are a 12v supply and the vgnd and video are the videio line. i have connected these and have a picture, but am unable to get the PTZ side to work. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomcctv 190 Posted January 25, 2011 have a sentient h264 ptz dvr and a vcl orb0006(honeywell i believe) and am having trouble connecting them.on the back of my dvr the interface has these connctions "+5,gnd,485b,485a,gnd,1no,1nc,gnd"on the cctv camera i have "s.gnd,sync,data-,data+,0vs,+vs,vgnd,vid… i have established that the 0vs and +vs on camera are a 12v supply and the vgnd and video are the videio line. i have connected these and have a picture, but am unable to get the PTZ side to work. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks you have your power and video set up but you also need to get the data cables connected which are 485A and 485B your problem is going to be your recorder the sentient dont all have ptz controls on board also if yours is from maplins it will only have a 250 H/Drive installed and using a ptz with 3 other cameras you will get about two days recording. the VCL ptz is old some you could change the protocol and some had to get data from a VCL data box and then a controller. does your dvr look like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bry25_uk 0 Posted January 26, 2011 hi, that pic is exactly what my dvr looks like and in the book it says it does support rs232/485 for ptz. in the menus i can set up protocol, address,baud etc for each channel. i have linked the data+/- to the 485a/b with no response at all. the dvr is configured to pelco-d and looking on th net i have also configured the camera the same Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomcctv 190 Posted January 26, 2011 hi, that pic is exactly what my dvr looks like and in the book it says it does support rs232/485 for ptz. in the menus i can set up protocol, address,baud etc for each channel.i have linked the data+/- to the 485a/b with no response at all. the dvr is configured to pelco-d and looking on th net i have also configured the camera the same you will also need to set up the baud rate on both your dvr and the ptz 9600 on both. and you will also need to set the address of your ptz i.e 001. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soundy 1 Posted January 27, 2011 Try data+ to 485b, data- to 485a. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
