WinCC OA Video PTZ Priority

[Nuno]

Hi guys,

Is there any feature in the WinCC OA video suite available to control PTZ camera priority?
If this is not yet available are there any plan in the road map to include this feature?

Thank you
Nuno

[Gertjan van Schijndel]

Could you explain what you mean with control PTZ camera priority?

[acx.lilienthal]

Hi Nuno,

there is not such a feature on board in WinCC OA, but it's likely to do that on your own.

Basic idea is, to block the users access to the PTZ controls, until the user requested the PTZ control and the system give him the right. This could be done by a mutex token.
If a another user, wants to request the PTZ control, there are two scenarios to be handled:
1) The other user has the same or a less priority then the current token, then a request should be send, and the other user should get a popup to decide if he wants to get the other user the control or not.
2) The other user has a higher priority then the current token, then this user should get a warning and the possibility to break the curren token - should result in a error message for this user, that he lost the control.

That's the magic in most cases for "PTZ Priority".
If you need any further help by implementing such a solution, please get in contact.

Regards,
Benjamin Lilienthal