How To Extend the HDMI Camera Cable on Cisco Tele Presence Codec C60

[anasnoorani20151]

Hello Every One.

I Need to know, how we can extend the HDMI Camera Cable and the DSUB/RJ45 Camera Control cable up 50m.

we know that the HDMI cab be extended using commercial HDMI Extender but we don't know if the C60 uses standard HDMI signal. and what about the Control Cable.?

[Patrick Sparkman · Accepted solution]

You can use any standard HDMI extender to extend the HDMI video cable. 

For the camera control cable, you can make your own camera cable to either extend the existing cable or just make one as long as you need to. Refer to the camera cable pin-out diagram in the PrecisionHD Camera Guide on pg 17. If the camera cable is over 5m, the camera should be plugged into a camera power supply (PSU-CAM-V=), as the length is too long for the codec to provide power to the camera. 

[anasnoorani20151]

Thanks Patrick Sparkman

[Wayne DeNardi · Accepted solution]

As said by [@patrick.sparkman], the cameras send their video by normal HDMI, so you can extend that with longer HDMI cables, or third party HDMI extenders.

The camera control cable is a serial/VISCA connection, and can be extended as far as the quality of the cable you're using will let you.  Again, as mentioned by Patrick, you will need to power the camera at the far end of the cable separately.

There are third party products out there that will assist with both of the above over a single Cat cable, some examples include:

• Vaddio OneLINK
• Sound Control Technologies RemoteCam4

Wayne
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[anasnoorani20151]

Thanks Wayne DeNardi