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- Page 1 Emergency Alert System Text Crawl Generation Option (+EAS) Manual Supplement Cobalt Digital Inc. 2506 Galen Drive Champaign, IL 61821 Voice 217.344.1243 • Fax 217.344.1245 www.cobaltdigital.com OPT-SW-PHXEAS-MS (V1.1)
- Page 2 Furthermore, Cobalt Digital Inc. reserves the right to make changes to any products herein to improve readability, function, or design. Cobalt Digital Inc. does not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of any product or circuit described herein.
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Page 3: Eas Option Functional Description
Chapter 1 Read and understand the content of this supplement and all setup procedures herein before implementing the Emergency Alert System (EAS) functions described herein for practical use. Proper and expected EAS crawl insertion must be manually observed and verified upon setup and subsequently during a regularly scheduled EAS test (and optimally upon any actual emergency communications). -
Page 4: Eas Interconnect
+EAS Interconnect Option is intended for use with external EAS alert systems which +EAS provide both a logic GPI trigger (optionally) as well as a serial data output in which coding is present that indicates severity level, as well as providing the user-facing text string that is used for the alert burn-in. -
Page 5: Uploading Option Feature (Field Upgrade Only)
Uploading Option Feature (Field Upgrade Only) Note: • If your card/device was purchased with the option(s) covered here, this procedure is not required for your card/device. If you have purchased this feature to be field-installed on an existing card/device, perform the upload procedure here to upload the feature key file sent by Cobalt, and to activate the feature on your card. -
Page 6: Serial Text Formatting For Option +Eas
Select the file, click and then follow the prompts. With intended Open card selected (“Slot 6 9922-FS” in example above), click and wait Finish for completion and click . When the card comes back online, the Close feature appears in the DashBoard controls and is ready for use. Note: •... -
Page 7: Eas Controls And Examples
+EAS Controls and Examples Table 1 individually lists and describes the EAS controls available using DashBoard™ for cards/devices equipped with the option. +EAS Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions Provides master controls that direct the playout of all EAS insertions, including triggering mode, as well as and crawl speed and looping. - Page 8 Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions — continued (continued) Displays a log of the four most recent EAS insertion actions. • Activity Log Display In the example here, log shows a complete cycle for one message event, consisting of a crawl start and crawl stop. Provides controls for setting the serial comms details for the interface between the external EAS system and the +EAS card/ device.
- Page 9 Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions — continued Provides controls for setting the crawl speed, positioning within the active raster, as well as character and background size/ appearance attributes. EAS > Crawl • Crawl Text Attributes Allows setting crawl text speed, burn-in position, and character size as follows: •...
- Page 10 Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions — continued (continued) • Text Opacity Control (HD Only) For HD programming, allows setting the opacity of text and background. (See examples in this section.) Note: Typically, it is recommended to have Character Opacity (text) set at the maximum setting for optimal readability in most cases.
- Page 11 Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions — continued Allows manual actuation of EAS test insertion. This is useful to test and assess visual impact and aesthetics of burn-in for all three Severity levels. Actuation here does not require any external EAS assets or interconnection.
- Page 12 Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions — continued Where +EAS is licensed for a card/device, the Event Setup > Event Triggers sub-tab has added choices associated with EAS actions. An added EAS trigger column exposes EAS actions that can be used as triggers to activate other actions.
- Page 13 Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions — continued Provides logo insertion (such as station ID “bug”) to be inserted into output raster. Logo insertion can be correlated to triggers such as GPI in conjunction with the Event Setup controls. Logo Insertion Controls Note: This feature, while part of the +EAS licensed option, is entirely independent of +EAS setup and functions.
- Page 14 Table 1 +EAS Option Control List and Descriptions — continued (continued) • Logo Positioning Controls Sets logo burn-in position as follows: • Horizontal Position sets horizontal position (in percentage of offset from left of image area, left justified). (Range is 0 thru 100) •...
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Page 15: Integration With Cobalt Option +Tts
Integration with Cobalt Option +TTS Option can be co-installed on Cobalt cards and BBG-1000 standalones +EAS that are also licensed with Text-to-Speech Option . The same GPI (or +TTS other control signals or conditions) used for EAS triggering can also be used (to a large extent) for TTS triggering if desired. - Page 16 Table 2 Troubleshooting Processing Errors by Symptom — continued Symptom Error/Condition Corrective Action Entire message (from start Message start or stop An EAS Event Triggered mode should be used where serial to end) not displayed, or occurs before message is data make take a relatively long time to accumulate in the message is truncated ready or ended...
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