lwpeterkin

Okay, It looks like my plan of placing a joystick at the back of the DVR in line with the existing cable will not work. Maybe you know of some way to make it work based on your experience. Anyway, I dissected the cables from the DVR to joystick, then on to the camera as follows: OUT OF THE DVR (4 wires in 2 Cables) Cable 1 - Power 1) Red Wire 2) Black Wire Cable 2 - Data ? 3) Yellow Wire 4) Black Wire INTO THE JOYSTICK FROM DVR (4 wires in 2 Cables) - same as out of DVR OUT OF THE JOYSTICK INTO CAMERA (6 wires) 1) Yellow 2) White 3) Black 4) Black w/White Stripe 5) Red 6) Red w/White Stripe As originally noted, all the cameras are up on the roof in hard to get to places, so cannot run another new cable to the joystick/cameras. I had hoped there was some way to tap the cable at the back of the DVR and add a joystick in line. It does not seem possible since there are only 4 wires from DVR to joystick, but need 6 wires to the camera. Do you concur that this will not work? Or do you have any other ideas that might use a joystick at the DVR end using the existing 4 wires to the joystick/camera to control the OSD? I should have opened the cable up first since I assumed there were 6 wires out of the DVR (even though in hindsight that does not make much sense). Thanks for your time on this.

I have not done anything yet, just seeking some technical advice. I want to purchase a camera and cut off the joystick. In this way I could make an in-line joystick connector that would go between the DVR and the BNC cable going to the camera(s). With 8 cameras, it would be much easier to create an in-line joystick connector that could be swapped to whichever camera I want to adjust at the DVR end. I would leave the 8 existing joysticks attached to the cameras, since the cameras are mounted on the roof in very hard to reach locations. That means I would have two "in-line" serial joystick controls for a single camera. One currently existing at the camera, and a new one added at the DVR end. Do you believe that would work? Would the two in-line joysticks interfere with the operation of the joystick? Thanks for any insights you have here.

Hello, I have 8 Swann pro-642 cameras and DVR. I would like to build a joystick controller that I could "plug and play" in line for any of the 8 cameras where they plug into the back of the DVR. Having a connector on the pigtail joystick would make it easy to swap to different cameras for controlling them inside the house. I would purchase a camera with joystick pigtail, and then cutoff the pigtail. Could you provide any direction on how to modify the pigtail so it could be used interchangeably with any of the 8 cameras. Thanks.