PESA Cougar 3 User Manual page 26

When configuring the Cougar3 system for our example facility we would create a component entry that
identifies, by IP address, the Cougar video frame as the physical router device for signals assigned to the
VID switching level. Likewise, we would create a unique component entry for each audio switching
level that identifies the DRS audio router, by IP address, as the physical router for signals assigned to
switching levels AUDL and AUDR.
Sources, or source groups, are created in the controller configuration file by configuring signals from
one or more switching levels grouped under a common name and switched as a single entity. The source
group entry allows you to specify the physical input to the router that you wish to associate with each
switching level defined for the source. It is quite common for the same physical input to be used in
multiple source definitions.
We previously introduced a receiver named NET1 that provides a video signal and two audio signals
used as inputs (sources) to the router. Let's assume we physically connect the video output of the
receiver to the Cougar3 video router as input #1, and the left and right audio signals to the DRS audio
router as audio inputs #1 and #2, respectively.
Through controller configuration, we can add a source group entry that creates a router source by the
name of NET1 and define that whenever the source named NET1 is selected at a router control panel:
•
Physical input #1 to the Cougar video router is the selected signal for the VID switching level.
•
Physical input #1 to the DRS audio router is the selected signal for switching level AUDL.
•
Physical input #2 to the DRS router is the selected signal for switching level AUDR.
Destinations, or destination groups, are also configured during creation of the controller configuration
file, and define the router outputs just as sources define the router inputs.
Our example destination device is a recorder named VTR1 that requires a video signal and two audio
signals derived from outputs (destinations) of the router. Let's assume we physically connect the video
input cable of the recorder to the Cougar3 video router at output #1, and the left and right audio cables
to the DRS audio router at audio outputs #1 and #2, respectively.
Through controller configuration, we can add a destination group entry that creates a router destination
by the name of VTR1 and define that whenever VTR1 is selected as a destination at a router control
panel:
•
Physical output #1 from the Cougar video router is the selected destination for the source signal
selected on switching level VID.
•
Physical output #1 from the DRS audio router is the selected destination for the source signal
selected on switching level AUDL.
•
Physical output #2 from the DRS router is the selected destination for the source signal selected
on switching level AUDR.
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