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Serial bus

Dreamchip Serial bus

Supported Serial topology

A serial camera connected to CI0

Basic configuration where CI0 turns a camera into managed camera.

A camera on each port

Several Serial camera connected to CI0.
One serial camera by port.
Two ports available on base CY-CI0 model, three ports available on CY-CI03P.

A BUS of cameras

When camera supports Serial BUS, several camera can be connected on a single port (see: CI0 Serial BUS).

Black magic

In your RCP/RIO web UI
Click on + in the Features section
Select Blackmagic : SDI Bus
Click on the new block that just appeared
And select your CI0 (port 3 for a CI0-BM, and 1 or 2 if you're using a CI0/RIO+RSBM) in the first select box
Ensure to adapt the IDs range based on your setup (here we handle the cameras from ID 1 to 8):

Setup the camera on the bus:

Click on the + in the camera block, a new panel will appear on the right
In General Configure a Number and a Name
Select Blackmagic for the brand and Studio camera as the model.
Then select in the interface drop-down list your CI0 serial and camera ID.
Here, my CI0 is CI0-20-36, I have an RSBM on the port 2 and on the bus, my cam has the ID 1:

Your camera should be green and working:

Marshall

RS485 Bus

VISCA allows up to 8 cameras to be connected to an RS485 bus. When a VISCA bus is added and assigned to a CI0 serial port in the configuration, up to 8 interfaces become available. Set each camera with a different Address (see Communication Settings) and select in the configuration GUI the corresponding port that matches the address.