OPC Interface Specifications Version 5.

1
Video

Document No. A6V11363947

Edition 2021-10-31

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Video
This workbook describes the objects provided by the Siemens OPC Data Access Server to represent the
Video system

Legend

ID Object Model Description

<ID> <Object Model> <Description>

Commands on OPC Item
State

Notes
The Object Model defines the states and commands of all instances of that type. In particular, an Object Model virtualizes a class of physical objects (devices and points in the system) by means of specific properties.

To identify the Object Model of each object instance, open the CSV export file with a spreadsheet program and refer to the Object Model column (See also Example of Exported CSV File in section OPC Server of the online help).

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ID Object Model Description

VIDEO-001 Camera This object represents fixed/PTZ camera

States Commands on OPC Item

0-Stop Manual 1-Start Manual

Signal Lost Recording Recording Recording
(Recording) (Recording)

1-Reachable 0-NoRecording X

1-Reachable 1-Recording X

0-Unknown 0-NoRecording

2-Fault 0-NoRecording

3-Disable 0-NoRecording

4-NoVMSLicense 0-NoRecording

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ID Object Model Description

This object represents the connection status to

VIDEO-002 Video Manager VideoAPI and VMS

States Commands on OPC Item

Video API State VMS State

1-Reachable 1-Reachable

1-Reachable 0-Unreachable

1-Reachable 4-NoVMSConfigured

0-Unreachable 3-Unknown

0-Unreachable 0-Unreachable

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ID Object Model Description

This object represents the VMS Video Trigger.

VIDEO-003 Video Trigger This object does not have state, activate
command always available

Property Commands on OPC Item

(empty string) srcX

Activate X X

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