Verify That The Vsx 8000 Remote Control Properly Controls The Vortex Device - Polycom Vortex Series Application Notes

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ERIFY THAT THE EMOTE ONTROL PROPERLY
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CONTROLS THE ORTEX EVICE
If there is only one Vortex Device, go to System, Diagnostics, Audio, Audio Meter in the VSX 8000
User Interface and first verify that there is activity on the Balanced In meter by talking into one of
the microphones. Next, press the Mute button on the Remote Control. Now, there should be no
activity on the Balanced In meter. Press the Mute button again and you should see meter activity
on the Balanced In meter.
To test the Volume Up / Down buttons, turn on the signal generator in the VSX 8000 User
Interface. Go to System Info, Diagnostics, Audio, Speaker Test.
If there are multiple linked Vortex Devices in the system you can perform the same series of
steps, or you can connect your computer to the RS-232 port of the second Vortex device, run
Conference Composer, autoscan, and open a Console Window in Conference Composer by right
clicking on the Comm port in the left side of the window and select Console as shown in Figure 17.
Figure 17. Open the console window by right clicking on the device chain and selecting Console.
Now, push the Mute button on the VSX 8000's Remote Control. If the Macro programming was
successful, you should see activity in the Console Window:
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