The Control device object is used to configure the joysticks integrated through the Drivers Pack (see Documentation Drivers Pack).

To use a joystick to control PTZ devices on video surveillance monitors of different computers, you must create and configure the Control device object on the basis of each corresponding Computer object.
For example, if you want to cotrol the PTZ camera, both on the Server and the Remote Client using the same joystick, you must create the Control device object both under the Server and the Remote Client.

To configure the Control device object, do the following:

  1. Create the Control device object on the basis of the Computer object on the Hardware tab of the System settings dialog window (1).
  2. From the Vendor drop-down list, select the device vendor (2).
  3. From the Model drop-down list, select the device model (3).
  4. From the Firmware drop-down list, select the firmware number (4).
  5. In the Address field, enter the device IP-address (5).
  6. In the Port field, enter the device connection port (6).
  7. In the User field, enter the user name to connect to the device (7).
  8. In the Password field, enter the password to connect to the device (8).
  9. In the Sensitivity threshold (0 - 100) field, specify the joystick sensitivity threshold (9). The threshold is measured in the logical elementary shift units in the range from 0 to 100 and means the maximum shift along any of the axes at which the joystick movement messages aren't received by Axxon PSIM.
  10. In the Min. speed (0 - 10) field, set the minimum joystick speed in the logical elementary shift units (10).
  11. In the Max. speed (0 - 10) field, set the maximum joystick speed in logical elementary shift units (11).
  12. Click the Apply button (12).

Configuring the Control device object is complete.

To assign certain actions for the Control device keys, use scripts in the JScript language (see The Script object. Programming using the JScript language). Examples of scripts are given on the pages with specific device settings.