Connect a USB control button to control CMS events

Pearl-2 supports connection of an external USB control button to send an individual command. You can connect a USB control button directly to a USB port on the Pearl device.

List of currently supported commands. Please note, a button can only be configured to send a single command,

  • Confirm/Stop an Event

  • Pause/Resume an Event

  • Start/Stop/Pause/Resume an event

The following USB control buttons are supported:

 

Starting in firmware version 4.24, you can program one of these buttons to send a single command to a Pearl device. You cannot configure a single button to send multiple commands.

 

Programming the Delcom USB HID Programmable Single Button Switch

  1. Download, install and start the Delcom Software utility on a Windows computer.

  2. Connect the Delcom USB Single Button switch to a USB port on the computer.

  3. Within the Delcom setup utility, click the Read Device button.

  4. Verify that the Delcom setup utility is able to successfully detect and read data from the attached USB button.

  5. In the Button setup section of the setup utility, program BUTTON 1 of the switch with the following settings:

    1. TYPE: KEYBOARD

    2. ACTION:

      1. Momentary - if only configuring the button for pause/resume or confirm/stop event

      2. Hold/Repeat - if configuring the button for start/pause/resume/stop event

    3. CODE:

      1. 19 - Keyboard p and P - If configuring the button for Pause/Unpause or Start/Stop/Pause/resume

      2. 22 - Keyboard s and S - If configuring the button for Confirm/Stop Event

    4. LED: Off

    5. Init: selected

  6. Click Program Device.

  7. Click Yes, when prompted to program the device.

  8. Verify that the programming was successful.

  9. Within the Delcom setup utility, click the Read Device button to verify the settings match those programmed.

 

To pause a Panopto, Opencast, or YuJa event that is in progress:

  1. Attach the control button to one the USB ports at the back of the Pearl.

  2. When CMS event is in progress, the LED light on the Delcom button is turned on.

  3. Press the button to pause the recording.

  4. The LED light pulses to indicate that the CMS event is paused.

  5. Press the button again to resume event.

 

To Confirm a Panopto, Opencast, or YuJa event:

  1. Attach the control button to one of the USB ports at the back of the Pearl.

  2. Before the CMS event begins, the LED light on the Delcom button is turned on.

  3. Press the button to confirm the event.

  4. The Event will begin as scheduled.

  5. If needed you can press the button to stop the event early.

 

 

To start, stop, pause1, resume a CMS event:

Follow the instructions in the table below to use the USB button to start, stop, pause, resume a CMS event

 

If Pearl Then pressing the button will cause the Pearl to...
does not have an event in progress and has an event scheduled to start in 30 minutes No Action: Recording will start at the scheduled time. Press and hold for 5 seconds or more: Starts the next scheduled recording immediately
   
does not have an event in progress and does not have an event scheduled to start in 30 minutes Press and Hold of 5 seconds or more: Starts a 60 minute ad-hoc recording to the Remote Recorder's default folder2.
   
has an event that is currently recording

Press and Release: Pause Recording

or

Press and Hold for 5 seconds or more: Stop Recording
   
has an event that is currently paused

Press and Release: Resume Recording

or

Press and Hold for 5 seconds or more: Stop Recording