American Dynamics ADMPCPU User Manual

MEGAPOWER CPU 

8200-0421-03, REV. G 

ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE 

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•  Title 1 – Allows you to create a two-line title 

for each camera that will display on the 
monitor when the camera is called. Title 1 is 
the upper line of the title and can be up to 
eight characters or digits in length with the 
pseudo number appended to the title. Titles 
over eight characters are truncated. 
Note: The CenterTitle1 and Center Title2 
columns in the upper screen allow you to 
position the text shown in the Title1 and Title2 
columns on the monitor. 
For example, to position Title1 on the monitor, 
click on the Center Title1 field of the desired 
camera, and choose the title position from the 
dropdown menu that appears: Left, Center, 
Right, or None (no title will be displayed). 

•  Title 2 – Allows you to create the lower line of 

a two-line camera title. Title 2 can be up to 
eight characters or digits in length. 

•  Video Loss Detection – Provides video loss 

detection alarming. You can set video loss 
detection for the following conditions: 

−  Off – Video loss detection not enabled 
−  Sync – To detect the presence of the 

vertical synchronization pulse in the video 
signal 

−  Low – To detect low picture content 
−  Medium – To detect medium picture 

content 

−  High – To detect high picture content 

•  Site – Identifies the remote site that provides 

the video trunk inputs to the selected local 
camera. 

•  Output – Identifies the monitor output from the 

remote site that is connected to the selected 
local camera input. 

•  Alarm Number – Specifies an alarm contact 

number to activate when video loss is detected 
on this video input. See alarm contact 
definitions and APPENDIX F: Configuring 
Video Loss Detection on page 71. 

4. Click OK to display the new definition or Cancel 

to close the dialog box without displaying the 
definition. 

Note: Remember to save or transfer your changes 
before closing EASY CPU. 

Once a camera is defined, you can edit the definition 
by highlighting the information in the desired field and 
entering new information. 

1.  To add monitors or a range of monitors, double-

click on a field in the Monitor Access column of 
the Partitions – Cameras to Monitors screen. 

2.  Enter the numbers of the monitors or range of 

monitors that you want to associate with the 
camera of the currently highlighted row. 

For example, Figure 112 displays a range of 
monitors for five different cameras. For Camera 1, 
the mapped monitors are 1, 5, 8 through10, and 
55 through 128. Each monitor number or range of 
monitor numbers is separated by a comma. 

 

The Calling Contacts tab section allows you to 
change the alarm contacts associated with the 
highlighted camera. 

Note: Calling contacts must first be defined in the 
Alarms – Contact Definitions screen.