PTZ Soft Trigger for Tours / Home Timer Adjustment / Speed Adjustment
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- While Hotkeys are available to trigger tours, some customers prefer to use the option for soft triggers. It would be nice to have the option to select a tour for a soft trigger (many users given PTZ control may not be aware of how hotkeys work).
- Additionally, it would be nice to have the option in PTZ setup to shorten or extend the time in which a PTZ will go "home". By default, the software has a 2-minute timer. However, some customers may prefer it to go home in a time frame as little as 10 seconds. Having the option to specify the length of time until "home" is triggered would be great.
- Lastly, it would be nice to have a speed lower than the lowest setting for position changes. Some customers would like to have the transitions between two points to act as more of a scan. While you can simulate this by setting up a large number of presets with small spaces, the jerky nature may be less than ideal. Perhaps rather than "lowest, low, med, etc.", the speed could be determined by radial degree movement per second (for example, 90 degrees per second, 30 degrees per second, 180 degrees per second) to give a clearer idea on the range of movement that could be expected. Zoom speed options would be nice as well if possible.
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Hi Rhaphiel Molinar,
I have edited your comment to divide the questions, so it is easier for me to respond.
I think these are reasonable requests, but it is up to our product team to decide if they can honor your request.
But I might be able to offer you some workarounds, although aren't the most elegant solutions.
- With our PTZ API (/api/ptz), you can retrieve (GetToursPtzCommand) the list of PTZ tours that are present in Nx. and once you have the UUID of the PTZ tour you want, you can trigger this with a Soft Trigger as the event and Do HTTP request as the action.
Important to know; since v5.0 by default users are authenticated through bearer authentication, this it is recommended to create a specific user to control the PTZ API and set this as a Digest Authentication user as described in THIS support article.
- Although you cannot change the timer, you could use a Soft Trigger and a Do HTTP request to activate the preset (with ActivatePresetPtzCommand) that was used for the home position, this way they can at least move to the home position asap without the hotkey and a Soft Trigger instead.
- This is a bit more challenging, since you can do this with the Nx Witness PTZ API, but if you have the API of the PTZ camera ánd the PTZ camera offers a scan option, you could do something similar as mentioned in the previous two workarounds. If the API documentation of the applicable PTZ camera has an option to start the scan, you can use the Do HTTP request action as well, but instead of requesting the API call to the server, you request the call to the device itself, with the device credentials.
I hope this is clear enough, otherwise, please let me know and I will try to provide more information.
- With our PTZ API (/api/ptz), you can retrieve (GetToursPtzCommand) the list of PTZ tours that are present in Nx. and once you have the UUID of the PTZ tour you want, you can trigger this with a Soft Trigger as the event and Do HTTP request as the action.
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