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Additional Device Properties
All other properties that are not directly related to audio and real time control are
listed in the Properties window. These are:
General:
ID: This is the unit's unique serial number (Read only)
Device Name: Click to edit the name of the unit
Firmware version: Currently running unit firmware (Read only)
Channel names: Click to edit channel names
GPIO Config: Input: Enable or disable the GPI lines that can be used to control
global mutes and global standby of connected amplifiers. See page
37 for more details.
Output: Choose how the GPI General Error output line behaves,
when the unit is in "Network Master" mode. See page 32 for more
details.
Network Master Mode: Choose how the general purpose output
lines behave when the unit is in "Network Master" mode. See page
32 for more details.
Remote Monitoring and Control On-line via RS485/Ethernet
Breakout boxes utilise the ability of the network audio transport card to "bridge"
the RS485 data onto the Ethernet network, so effectively "extending" the RS485
connection to any other Breakout boxes sharing the same audio network.
What this means in practice is that one PC directly connected to any local RS485
port on a Breakout is able to monitor and control all devices, without needing a
direct physical RS485 connection to do so.
The diagram overleaf shows a typical large-scale system that utilises the ability of
the Breakout boxes and network tunnelling to extend the reach of the RS485
network to each of the connected "nodes". Each node consists of a Breakout box
Ti Series
and a group of
Breakout box and the selected channels are converted into analogue audio and
fed to their respective amplifier channels.
Additionally, the RS485 data is output from the Breakout box via the local comms
connection, and this is daisy-chained to the local amplifiers. This two-way link
allows the amplifiers and Breakout to not only be monitored, but also controlled
remotely from the PC connected to another Breakout elsewhere on the network.
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amplifiers. The network connection arrives at the
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