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SGM C5 User Manual

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12/03/2015
SGM C5
Wireless DMX Controller
User Manual v 1.1
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  • Page 1 12/03/2015 SGM C5 Wireless DMX Controller User Manual v 1.1 Page 1 of 15...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    12/03/2015 Introduction The ‘SGM C5’ is an application for controlling and managing SGM devices. The application includes a time management system, which can be setup to handle the output of the devices down to a minute - for an entire year. This user manual contains information on how to use the application and how to setup a time management system.

  • Page 3: Installation Guide

    12/03/2015 Installation Guide The ‘SGM C5’ requires the ‘.Net framework 4.5’ driver to work, and it must be installed in a windows 7 or 8 system. The application uses the ACN network protocol for outputting and does not support XLR in the current version.

  • Page 4: Basic Setting

    12/03/2015 Basic setting The ‘Basic Settings’ handles saving and loading setups. Here you can also choose which IP-address the output is sent to (ACN). To choose an IP-address, click the ‘Output IP’ dropdown list and select your IP-address. The IP-address must be a 2.x.x.x address. Figure 2.

  • Page 5: Saving A Setup

    12/03/2015 Saving a setup This will prompt a save dialog. The application does not have autosave function and shutting down the system without saving first will result in a loss of all changes. Loading a setup This will prompt a load dialog where you can open a saved setup. This is mainly used to switch between setups or to import setups created by other users.

  • Page 6: Device Setup

    12/03/2015 Device Setup Here you add devices and set their DMX address and universe. Adding Devices Click ‘Add Device’ in the menu to the left. This will open a popup, where you can select and add devices. Select the type of device you wish to add from the ‘Device Type’ selector to the right.

  • Page 7: Toggle Identifying

    12/03/2015 There are two ways of setting the address, either with a broadcast or without a broadcast. 1. When setting an address with a broadcast, the application will broadcast the DMX address to all the devices connected to the transmitter within the given universe. This sets the DMX address and universe in the system for the device and it allows the user to change the DMX address of the physical device.

  • Page 8: Time Setup

    12/03/2015 Time Setup The time setup is a scheduler, where you can arrange the output of your devices. The scheduler has a “tree structure” where the top nodes are the dates when your time split starts. Each of these splits have week splits, where you can group the days of the week, and each of these week splits have day splits where you setup the starting time of a day.

  • Page 9: Weeks

    12/03/2015 Weeks Here you setup the week for the selected season split. It is important to note that you need to setup the week for each of your seasons. When you have more than one week split, you can select a week split and check or uncheck the marks of the days.

  • Page 10: Days

    12/03/2015 Days Here you setup the day for the selected week split. It is important to note that you need to setup the day for each of your week splits in each of your seasons. A day split has a start time, and is active until the next day split start time is reached. Click ‘Add Day Split’...

  • Page 11: Day Group Settings

    12/03/2015 Day Group Settings Day grouping is used to minimize the number of outputs that must be handled. Grouping two or more day splits will result in all of them having the same output. How this is used will be described in the next section (Output Setup). Figure 8.

  • Page 12: Output Setup

    12/03/2015 Output Setup This is where the output for each device in each day split or day group (time period) is specified. It is important to setup the output for each and every time period. Selecting a time period The selected time period is shown in the top left corner (Figure 9. Select time period - #2). To change the selected time period, either cycle through them by clicking the left or right button or click the ‘Select time period’...

  • Page 13: Specifying The Output

    12/03/2015 Specifying the output Now it is time to specify the output of the devices. To do this, select one or more devices from the list. It is possible to select multiple devices by selecting a device, hold down the shift key and select another device.
  • Page 14 12/03/2015 Figure 12. Output settings The output of a device consists of a list of colors (#1). The device will cycle through these colors in an endless loop. To add and remove colors to the list, click the “add” and “remove” buttons (#2). The output must always have at least one color in the list.

  • Page 15: Remember To Save

    12/03/2015 Remember to Save It is recommended to save the setup now. Click finish and you will be asked to save the setup. Quick changes The system will automatically determine which output in the time schedule is active, but it is possible to force it to allow a manually selected output.

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