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COMMUNICATION

Communication Menu allows you to set a unique identification for the camera (or a group of cameras)

when operating in command and control communications network. Parameters are NAME, GROUP,

TARGET, set a SERIAL PROTOCOL, ENABLE DHCP, C2C or EXT, IP ADDRESS, NETMASK and

GATEWAY. Using the serial port or a direct Ethernet interconnect, two cameras, or one camera and one

external device can be connected. If the camera is connected via Ethernet to a hub or router, multiple

cameras and devices can communicate to each other.

NAME

Allows the user to create a unique camera NAME used in network communications

Note: the camera name field is limited to 8 characters.

GROUP

A camera can also be identified as a member of a GROUP of devices. (For example, a group "3DRIG_A"

could include two cameras "CAM_A_L" and "CAM_A_R"). The default group is named "DEFAULT".

Group names (like camera Names) can be used to uniquely address commands to a specific group of

networked cameras. Note: the group name is limited to 8 characters, default name is DEFAULT.

TARGET

Using TARGET the user can specify if this camera can send commands to ALL devices on the network,

to NONE of the devices on the network (meaning the camera will only listen to messages and not

originate messages) or to a specific TARGET device - which can either be the NAME of a specific

camera or device or a name of a GROUP of cameras or devices.