Sending Data; Receiving Data - Panasonic AG-CX350 Manual

SKAARHOJ DEVICE CORES
Multicam Control
With launch of UniSketch V2.4.16 the Panasonic AG-CX350 Device Core have been updated with
Multicam support. This means by default the Device Core will try and connect to up to 4 cameras in a
consecutive IP structure like this:
• Device Core IP (AG-CX350 #1): 192.168.10.92
• AG-CX350 #2: 192.168.10.93
• AG-CX350 #3: 192.168.10.94
• AG-CX350 #4: 192.168.10.95
It is therefore not recommend to have other Panasonic cameras in the IP range if you just want to control a
single camera unless you set a Device Core option limiting the number of cameras the Device Core will try
and connect to (see "Device Configurations" section)
Sending/receiving data from cameras
Please notice with the update for Multicam Control a new action have been added to the Device Core:
Camera Select. This action must be utilised in order to get propper feedback from the cameras. If the
action is not used to change which camera is used, the SKAARHOJ controller will fail to get propper
feedback from the cameras connected to the controller (only relevant if the SKAARHOJ controller
connects to more than one camera)

Sending data:.

Regardless if the above action is utilised a SKAARHOJ controller will always be able to transmit data to
the selected camera. In other words it is possible to assign control of camera 1 and camera 2 directly
diffrent hardware components on a SKAARHOj controller (without using the "Camera Select" action).
However if an action is dependent on knowing the state of the camera such as Shutter mode which is
dependent on if Variabel Shutter mode is on/off then it will not be possible to change Shutter Mode
unless the "Camera Select" action is utilised. Since "Shutter Mode" needs to know if "Variabel Shutter" is
on/off.

Receiving data:

If you change a parameter on the camera itself such as iris value, the SKAARHOJ controller will only get
feedback if the action "Camera Select" have been selected with the matching camera number.
Example:. Changing iris on CAM1 while the SKAARHOJ controller is set to control CAM2 (via memory or
Camera Select action) will not update the SKAARHOJ controller with CAM1 information. The SKAARHOJ
controller must have action "Camera Select" used with matching camera number in order to get feedback
from that particular camera.
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