Creative Live Motion Pan/Tilt
The Creative Live Motion module provides control over the Creative Live Motion's motorized pan/tilt
capabilities. Similar to servo control systems the Creative Live Motion provides left and right
panning and up and down tilting. Using the Creative Live Motion module you can control
the camera based on what it sees.
Note for compatibility with other systems this module features redundant variables. The first
variable is used similar to the Logitech Orbit camera
in that it specifies incremental changes to the current position. The second set of
variables is unique to the Creative Live Motion system in that they offer absolute
positioning of the camera, In this way it is possible to memorize certain configurations
and reproduce the exact pan/tilt/zoom coordinates to go back to a known position.
Interface
Instructions
1. To test out the pan/tilt select and hold the appropriate buttons. You should see the camera start moving. The red center button will move the camera to coordinates 0,0,0 (pan, tilt, zoom)
2. To test the zoom drag the scroll bar and the image will zoom/widen depending to the slider amount.
3. To automatically control the camera select a variable that will contain relative increments based
on the code specified in the interface, i.e. 1 for up, 2 for down, etc. This command variable should contain the following values
as appropriate:
0 = stop
1 = up
2 = down
4 = left
8 = right
16 = home
4. Or specify variables that contain the absolute positioning for zoom, pan, and tilt.
Note that even though the Creative camera has absolute positioning the pan range
is from -70 to 70, tilt from -30 to 30 and zoom from 0 to 50. The values you provide
are scaled to those numbers from -255, 255 for pan and tilt only. Thus you may notice
that small value changes will NOT produce any movement within the camera since the camera
only moves on increments of 10 in either pan or tilt.
Example
 Click here
to load a configuration to move the camera using your cursor keys.
Variables
CREATIVE_PAN - the current pan (horizontal) angle of the camera
CREATIVE_TILT - the current tilt (vertical) angle of the camera
See Also
Logitech Orbit
DLink Internet Camera
Dream Cheeky Missile Launcher
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