Configuration Article | CA-20230224-MH-01

VDG Sense | Setup | Devices | Commend Speaker

1 Configuration
2 Usage

PRELIMINARY FUNCTIONALITY

The Commend or Onvif Audio speaker functionality allows the user to ‘speak’ to Onvif enabled loudpeakers like the Commend AFLS 10H HG using your SenseClient application.

Note:
At the moment, only simplex mode is supported, meaning audio from Sense Client to Commend speaker.

To enable the functionality the following steps need to be done:

Configuration

Install Audio Service

Install SenseOnvifAudio service, execute the following command in either command prompt or PowerShell (in administrator mode):

Go to this directory:
C:\Program Files\VDG Security\Sense\Program\

Execute following command

Command Prompt:
SenseOnvifAudio -install

Powershell:
.\SenseOnvifAudio -install

Start SenseAudioService in Windows Services dialog:

Configure SenseClient

Change following setting in SenseClient.ini; change value to 1

[EnableCommendSpeaker]
Description=Set to 1 to view the commend speaker settings.
Value=1

Configure Commend Speaker

Start SenseClient, go to Devices tab and select Loudspeaker icon:

Add Commend speaker by pressing '+' button in the lower left corner. A dialog appears:

Configure the required settings:

Name
- Name of device (user defined)
Host
- Ip address of the device
Port
- Port of the device (Commend speaker defaults to port 8080)
Username
- Username to connect to the speaker
Password
- Password to connect to the speaker

After adding the device it should appear in the list of devices:

NExt step is to enable the microphone in SenseClient, go to System tab->Client Settings and choose an input device:

Now everything is configured to start using the loudpeaker.

Usage

Enabling the speaker is done by Macros. First step is to create a layout to execute the macros. In this example a simple layout with 2 buttons to start and stop the conversation.

Double-click on the ‘Start Audio’ button to open ‘Macro Rules’ dialog, As ‘Action’ choose ‘Viewer->Start microphone conversation’:

Double-click on the ‘Stop Audio’ button to open ‘Macro Rules’ dialog, As ‘Action’ choose ‘Viewer->Stop microphone conversation’:

To use the loudspeaker go to operator mode and open the layout, when pressing the ‘Start Audio’ button the audio connection to the loudspeaker is enabled, a red microphone will appear:

To stop the audio press the ‘Stop Audio’ button to close the connection to the loudspeaker.