{"id":1019,"date":"2013-10-22T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/sptblog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T18:51:00","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-ptz-keyboard-hardware-and-ptz-controller-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/GK\/2013\/10\/whats-the-difference-between-ptz-keyboard-hardware-and-ptz-controller-software\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between PTZ keyboard hardware and PTZ Controller software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both PTZ keyboard hardware and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/PTZ.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PTZ Controller<\/a> software are used to control PTZ camera.<\/p>\n<p>However, PTZ keyboard hardware supports limited protocols. It\u2019s also much expensive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/PTZ.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PTZ Controller<\/a> software is dedicated to control PTZ cameras through computer standard keyboard and mouse, as well as joystick.<\/p>\n<p>It supports all functions of PTZ keyboard hardware, such as Pan, Tilt, Focus, Zoom, Iris, Preset, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It supports most popular protocols such as Pelco, Sony, Bosch, Panasonic, etc. It will support more protocols in future.<\/p>\n<p>It can assign meaningful name for presets and cameras instead of just number.<\/p>\n<p>It is capable of sending user-defined Hex data to PTZ camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/PTZ.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PTZ Controller<\/a> software also allows you to control multiple PTZ cameras connected with different serial ports on one computer.<\/p>\n<p>Here are screenshots of PTZ Controller software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/sptblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"PTZ Controller Software\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"PTZ Controller Software\" src=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/sptblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb13.png\" width=\"546\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/sptblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"PTZ Controller Software - Protocols\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"PTZ Controller Software - Protocols\" src=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/sptblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb14.png\" width=\"776\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/sptblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"PTZ Controller Software - Panels\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"PTZ Controller Software - Panels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/sptblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb15.png\" width=\"552\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/PTZ.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0080c0\">Back to PTZ Controller webpage<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both PTZ keyboard hardware and PTZ Controller software are used to control PTZ camera. However, PTZ keyboard hardware supports limited protocols. It\u2019s also much expensive. PTZ Controller software is dedicated to control PTZ cameras through computer standard keyboard and mouse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[209,210],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ptz","tag-ptz-camera-keyboard","tag-ptz-controller-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s the difference between PTZ keyboard hardware and PTZ Controller software? - Serial Port Tool<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serialporttool.com\/GK\/2013\/10\/whats-the-difference-between-ptz-keyboard-hardware-and-ptz-controller-software\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s the difference between PTZ keyboard hardware and PTZ Controller software? - Serial Port Tool\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Both PTZ keyboard hardware and PTZ Controller software are used to control PTZ camera. 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