Gimbals, PTZ cameras and digital crop, driven by any controller. A head is operated the same way whether it is a PTZ camera over VISCA, a phone on a gimbal, or a crop inside a picture.
A PTZ camera connects over VISCA: VISCA over IP, or raw VISCA over TCP or UDP, with a generic profile and a Sony BRC-X400 profile. A phone running the SYGNAL app brings its gimbal as a head. A phone with no gimbal still has a head: its digital crop pans, tilts and zooms inside the picture.
A move holds a short lease and must be renewed to keep moving. Claim a head and nobody else can move it. Another operator can request it, and you accept or decline. Stop is never refused. If the link to a phone drops, the phone stops its gimbal by itself when the lease ends.
Shots live on the server, so a gimbal or a crop has presets even though it has no memory of its own.
Shots are numbered 1 to 99 and stored on the server. A shot holds the pose of every stage of the head. Recall one from the page, a panel key or an automation.
Operate a head from the browser, a gamepad, a hardware joystick or a control surface. On a phone with a gimbal, a zoom in runs through the lens and then into the crop, with no step in speed.
Recall Shot and Recentre Head are automation actions. Gimbal Button and Head Moved are triggers, so a button on the gimbal can start an automation.
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