How to control your camera with Miris ?

Welcome to this article, which will show you how to control your camera from your Miris station !

With Miris UbiCast stations, you can control cameras using custom action buttons that are directly integrated into the Miris interface. This feature allows you, for example, to recall camera presets or trigger specific actions.

SUMMARY

1/ CONFIGURATION

2/ USAGE

Configuration

First, you will need to define your camera presets via the control interface directly on your camera.

Then, on your Miris station, access the administration interface of your Miris station. At last, in the recording profile management section, you can add custom action buttons to execute commands or scripts.

The buttons must be configured in your profile (Advanced Options > Custom Action Buttons) :

Click on the + to add a button :

Two fields must be filled in :

• The "Action label" which is the name of the action that will be displayed in the recording interface.
• The script command to be used, which is a preset call to the camera.

The “Order” field allows you to define the order in which the button is displayed in the recording bar. Finally, the “Timeout” field allows you to define a period in seconds. If the script takes longer than this value to execute, it will be interrupted.

Please note that this feature is compatible with cameras supported by the pycamctl script, which are currently Sony and Panasonic. For other models, check compatibility or contact UbiCast support. You will need to check the compatibility of the scripts or possibly develop a suitable script.

For the script to work properly on Sony cameras, you must disable the "Referer verification" feature via the Settings > Security tab of the camera.

For example, to call a camera preset, use the pycamctl script provided by UbiCast.

Using a Sony SRG 300SE camera, the command to associate with a button looks like this for calling up preset 1, where the camera's IP address is 192.168.1.2 with the username admin and password admin1234 is :

/usr/bin/pycamctl --model Sony-SRG-300SE --ip 192.168.1.2 --user admin --password admin1234 preset_call 1

You must adapt this example to the actual IP and credentials of your camera, as well as the number of the preset used.

For Panasonic cameras, you can enable “tally_enable” or disable “tally_disable,” which turns the camera's tally light on or off :

/usr/bin/pycamctl --model Panasonic-Generic --ip 192.168.1.2 --user admin --password admin1234 tally_enable

Custom action buttons are only available in recording profiles configured for this purpose.

You can create as many buttons as you need for your different shooting scenarios. Each button can be named, for example, “Wide Shot” or “Close-up,” and associated with a specific action.

A button will then appear in the recording interface, allowing you to call up the predefined camera position with a single click.

Usage

During recording or live streaming, simply click on the button to control the camera according to the configured action.

If the action is successful, you will receive a notification such as :

Otherwise, you will receive a message such as :

In this case, please check that the camera IP address is correct and/or that your login credentials are correct.

Using custom action buttons allows you to control cameras (including presets) by associating scripts with buttons in the interface, providing quick and intuitive control during recording or live streaming!

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