Chapter 4: Rms Remote Monitoring System; Understanding The Rms User Panel - Meyer Sound MILO 120 Operating Instructions Manual

CHAPTER 4: RMS REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM

RMS is a real-time monitoring system that connects Meyer
Sound self-powered loudspeakers with a Windows-based
PC at the sound mix position or other location. MILO 120 is
RMS-ready and fitted standard with an RMS communica-
tion board installed in its HP-4/MILO 120 amplifier.
Optional RMS software delivers extensive status and
system performance data from every installed loudspeaker,
allowing monitoring of amplifier voltages, limiting activity,
power output, temperature, fan and driver status, warning
alerts, and other key data for up to 62 loudspeakers without
a network repeater. Data is updated two to five times per
second.
NOTE: Optional loudspeaker Mute and
Solo functions, helpful for acoustic setup or
troubleshooting, are also available. A jumper must
be installed in the RMS communication board inside
MILO 120's HP-4 amplifier in order to enable Mute
and/or Solo functionality; the software also needs to
be enabled for these functions.
NOTE: MILO 120 is shipped with these func-
tions disabled. Once enabled, the jumper(s)
can still be removed to eliminate any chance of an
operator error (a muting error, for example) during a
performance, and both functions can be controlled
by software commands in any case. Note that RMS
does not control loudspeaker volume or AC power.
Loudspeakers are identified on the network by Node Names
assigned during a one-time "commission" into the RMS
database that resides on your computer (as a part of the
software) as shown in Figure 4.1.
Figure 4.1: Commissioning a MILO 120 loudspeaker using RMS.
This information is permanently retained on each RMS
communication board and in the computer RMS database
unless you modify it. Loudspeaker View labels can be modi-
fied at any time, allowing you to customize how you view
the data. In addition, any MILO 120 can be physically identi-
fied from RMS software by activating the Wink function – a
Wink LED will turn on the RMS communication board that
corresponds to its Node Name.
MILO 120 loudspeakers are identified using the RMS
software by activating the "service" function; an icon will
show up on the RMS screen corresponding to its Node
Name (Figure 4.2). This makes verifying Loudspeaker View
titles and Loudspeaker Field labels easy, using the Wink or
Service Button commands.
Figure 4.2: MILO 120 RMS icon

UNDERSTANDING THE RMS USER PANEL

The RMS section of the user panel has three LEDs and two
buttons (Figure 4.3).
R e m o t e M o n i t o r S y s t e m
Figure 4.3: The RMS user panel
NOTE:
The LEDs and buttons on the user
panel of the RMS communication board
shown in Figure 4.3 are used exclusively by RMS,
and have no effect on the acoustical and/or elec-
trical activity of the MILO 120 loudspeaker itself
– unless MUTE or SOLO is enabled at the board and
from the RMS software.
The following section describes their functions.
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