Understanding Soundstructure Command Syntax; Controlling Soundstructure Parameters - Polycom SoundStructure C16 Design Manual

Note: Virtual Channel Groups including Same Virtual Channels
Multiple virtual channel groups may include the same virtual channels, in other
words, a virtual channel can belong to more than one virtual channel group.
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Understanding SoundStructure Command Syntax

The description of the control protocol syntax in this section and elsewhere in this document refers to
Unicode characters in four-digit hex format, such as 002A which is the asterisk character in the Basic Latin
code page. This is consistent with references such as The Unicode Standard.
The control protocol consists of text-based, human-readable commands and status messages. Binary data
transfers are possible (for example, transferring configuration files or sending meter data), but these
transfers are initiated with text-based, human readable commands. The commands use the UTF-8
encoding for characters.

Controlling SoundStructure Parameters

The SoundStructure command and control functions allow an external controller to set, query, and monitor
parameters of one or more linked SoundStructure devices. There are three types of parameters that can be
controlled:
● system parameters,
● virtual channel parameters, and
● matrix parameters.
Understanding System Parameters
System parameters are global and apply to a collection of OBAM-linked SoundStructure devices. A
device-specific system parameter affects a parameter on a single SoundStructure device. Examples of
device specific system parameters include firmware version and RS-232 baud rate.
Device-specific system parameters are addressed by an integer index that indicates the device ID of the
SoundStructure device that is to be controlled. The device ID is created automatically when multiple
SoundStructure devices are linked together through the OBAM interface. All stand-alone SoundStructure
devices will have a device ID equal to 1. In a multi-device system, the device that has no OBAM in
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