Lightware MX2-8x8-HDMI20-L User Manual page 31

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6. Software Control – Lightware Device Controller
Port Tiles
The colors of the port tiles and the displayed icons represent different
states and information about the selected port:
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Input1 I1
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2
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State Indicators
Following icons display different states of the input/output ports/
signal:
Icon is grey
Icon
A
Signal is not encrypted
with HDCP
Source/sink is not
connected
Audio is not embedded
in the video stream
A
Port is unlocked
A
Port is unmuted
Display Modes
View Mode
This mode was designed to display the crosspoint
state of a selected and its connected port(s).
Port name
1
Crosspoint settings cannot be changed in View
2 mode but port settings are available.
Background color:
grey: not connected
Input Switch Mode
yellow: selected
The mode can also be named as 'Input priority-
white: connected
mode': an input port has to be selected at first
3 Port number
then the connected output ports are shown. Thus,
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Signal present indicator:
the output ports connected to the input port can
green: present
be changed.
grey: not present
Output Switch Mode
5 State indicators
This mode can also be named as 'Output priority-
mode': an output port has to be selected at first
then connected input port is shown. Thus, the
output port connected to the input port can be
changed.
Switching Operations
Icon is black
Take Mode
If the Autotake button is outlined with black color
Signal is encrypted with
Take mode is active. In Take mode any crosspoint
HDCP
change – (dis)connecting ports to/from the
previously selected port – is executed only after pressing the Take
Source/sink is connected
button. Following steps describe the process of the switching:
(+5V / Hotplug detected)
Step 1. Press the desired Input switch or Output switch button to select
Audio is embedded
in the video stream
Step 2. Select the desired port; it will be highlighted with yellow color
Step 3. Connected ports are highlighted with white color and displayed
Port is locked
Step 4. Create the desired crosspoint settings by (de)selecting the
Port is muted
Step 5. Press the Take button to execute changes or Cancel to discard.
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the switching mode.
and displayed also on the port bar on the right.
also on the port bar on the right.
ports; they will start to blink.
INFO: Take mode remains active until it is switched off. Selecting
another view mode or menu item does not change the Take/
Autotake mode state.
Autotake Mode
If the Autotake button is outlined with yellow
color Autotake mode is active. In this mode, any
crosspoint change – (dis)connecting ports to/from
View mode
the previously selected port – is executed immediately after pressing
the port button. Following steps describe the process of the switching:
Step 1. Press the desired Input switch or Output switch button to select
switching mode.
Step 2. Select the desired port; it will be highlighted with yellow color
Input switch
and displayed also on the port bar on the right.
Step 3. Connected ports are highlighted with white color and displayed
also on the port bar on the right.
Step 4. Create the desired crosspoint settings by (de)selecting the
ports; the changes are executed immediately.
INFO: Autotake mode remains active until it is switched off.
Output switch
Selecting another view mode or menu item does not change the
Take/Autotake mode state.
Autotake
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Autotake