American Dynamics ADMPCPU User Manual

MEGAPOWER CPU 

8200-0421-03, REV. G 

ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE 

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To add new keyboard definitions: 

1. Click Add on the right side of the Partitions – 

Keyboards to Cameras upper screen. The Add 
Keyboard dialog box appears. 

 

2.  To add keyboards, complete the following fields: 

•  System Port Number – Enter the port number 

of the keyboard’s connection to the 
MegaPower CPU. The MegaPower CPU can 
support up to 128 keyboards using port 
expansion modules. Port expansion modules 
convert a single port into four ports. When a 
port expansion module is connected to a port, 
port numbering adds an alpha character (a, b, 
c, d) to each port number; for example, port 
one becomes ports 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d; port two 
becomes ports 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, and so on. 

•  Expansion Port – Choose the port on the port 

expansion module (if the MegaPower CPU is 
so equipped) that the keyboard will connect to. 
The choices are a, b, c, or d. 

•  Name – Enter a name for the keyboard using 

alpha or numeric characters. 

3. Click OK to display the new keyboard 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 keyboard is defined, edit the definition by 
highlighting the desired field and typing in the 
information. 

1.  Click the header of the row in the upper screen 

that contains the keyboard definition to be 
deleted. 

2.  Press the keyboard Delete key of the PC running 

EASY CPU. The Delete Rows dialog box 
appears. 

 

3. Click Yes to delete the keyboard definition or No 

to retain the definition. 

To associate cameras with keyboards: 

1.  Click on a keyboard (any cell in the desired 

keyboard row) in the upper screen. 

2.  Double-click in either the Camera View Access or 

Camera Control Access fields, and enter the 
desired camera or range of cameras. See Adding 
a Range of Cameras below for detailed 
information. 

3.  Click in another field or press the Tab key on the 

keyboard to set the new camera definition. 

Enter the pseudo numbers of the cameras or range 
of cameras you want to associate with a specific 
keyboard. The specified range shows all the enabled 
cameras by their pseudo numbers. 

For example, Figure 118 displays a range of 
cameras for five different keyboards. For Keyboard 1, 
the pseudo numbers of the mapped Camera View 
Access cameras are 1, 3 through 16, and 19 through 
1024. Each camera number or range of camera 
numbers is separated by a comma.