Can 2 SX80's share 1 camera (P60)?

lmsjeremy · ‎03-04-2015

I am trying to set up a combinable space utilizing an SX80 and a Precision 60 in each room. When the room is combined, I want the main codec to use the other camera as camera 2. Is it possible?

I have both cameras on a switch linked to port 2 of each SX80. Only 1 SX80 at a time seems to be able to see the cameras.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Martin Koch · ‎03-08-2015

This does not sound like a supported environment.

You might be able to do some tricks with an external control panel, being able to

unpair and pair the cameras and do some reconfiguration on your switches + some hdmi

switch, or use multisite to add the other camera to the call. but I am not sure if I would go these ways.

For me all of that sounds like issues with the usability at the end. And usability issues = frustrated users.

Maybe just add an additional camera with a proper view to the whole room connected to the main codec might be a way to go or just keep both systems completely separated.

But let us know what you did at the end and how happy you and your users were.

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Wayne DeNardi · ‎03-11-2015

If you do not need control of the 2nd camera, you can connect the HDMI output of the camera to each of the SX80s with an HDMI splitter/DA (something like this: http://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=hdmidaseries). It effectively then just becomes a dumb camera from the device that doesn't have the control but can be fully controlled from the other.

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