1 Safety Information To prevent personal injury and to protect the device from damage, read and follow these safety precautions. ⚫ Do not remove the cover To avoid personal injury, do not remove the top cover. ⚫ Only use the power supply and accessories specified by the manufacturer The operating voltage of this product is 100V-240V AC.
2 Overview The X12 controller is a professional control system and video processing device designed for LED display engineering applications. It has DVI and HDMI connectors, and supports seamless switching between multiple signals, broadcast quality scaling and multi- window display. Meanwhile, the X12 is equipped with abundant practical functions that enable flexible screen control and high-quality image display, which gives it an edge in the LED display engineering application field.
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Output Connector Port1-12 RJ45, 12×1000BASE-T port Control Connector USB IN USB input, connecting to PC for debugging USB OUT USB output, for cascading with the X12 controller RS232 RJ11 6P6C *, used to communicate via 3 party interfaces Audio Connector...
4 Software Operation Instruction Please make sure the hardware is properly connected before setting parameters, and that all senders and receiver cards can be detected by the software. You can visit www.colorlightinside.com to download LEDVISION installer. 4.1Detect the Sender and Receiver Cards Open LEDVISION, click Control, select LED Screen Settings from the drop-down list, and enter the password “168”.
Click Detect Receivers. On the Detect Receivers sub-page, click Detect All Receivers, and the software will automatically acquire information such as the port, index, running time, and supported chips of the receiver card. Please check the corresponding cable if the number of receiver cards are inconsistent with actual status. 4.2 Receiver Mapping Settings Click Receiver Mapping to enter the receiver mapping settings page.
4.2.1 Mapping Settings Select the target Ethernet port on the left side, and set the connection lines of the corresponding cabinets within the port control area in the simulated cabinet area. In the simulated cabinet area, select the corresponding cabinet of the first receiver card based on the actual connection of the Ethernet port (look from the front), and left-click the cabinet one by one according to actual connection line, until the last one this Ethernet port controls.
4.2.3 Port Backup Setting Right-click the sequence number of the backup port, and select the target port that needs a backup. After setting, a backup sign will be displayed besides the sequence number of the backup port. 4.2.4 Read Mapping Click Read in the lower-left corner of the page, and the mapping parameters of cabinets saved in the receiver cards can be read back.
4.3 Video Source Settings 4.3.1 Multi-window Display The device supports up to 3-window display. In the Output Mode area, you can select an output mode based on your own need, and select a signal for every window in the upper- left corner of the page.
4.3.2 Window Settings In the lower-right corner of the Video Source Settings sub-page, you can set the position and size of the selected window. You can also scale up or scale down the window by dragging the frame of the selected window. 4.3.3 Picture Adjustment Click Picture Adjustment.
4.3.4 Preset You can save 16 preset modes, and every preset mode includes the following parameter information of the video source setting: scaling, cropping, multi-window display and picture adjustment. You can also directly load the saved preset mode to display the image according to your need without needing to set up all the parameters again.
4.3.5 Cropping In the upper-right corner of the Video Source Settings sub-page, click to enter the cropping setting window. In the cropping setting window, select the Enable check box, and set the row starting point (X), the column starting point (Y), and the width and height in the Cropping Settings area.
4.3.6 EDID (Resolution) In the upper-right corner of the Video Source Settings sub-page, click In the Resolution (EDID) Setting dialog box, the resolution of the current sender is displayed by default. Click the dropdown button. From the resolution list, you can select a conventional resolution, or select Custom and set the width, height, frame rate and standard of the customized resolution.
4.4 Other On the Other sub-page, you can select or clear the Better Graylevel on Low Brightness and Mapping from Sender check box, modify the device name, select an audio source, adjust the audio volume and switch the test mode based on your specific need. In the Audio Setting area, you can click the dropdown icon to select an audio signal source.
5 LCD Operation Instruction Operation Instruction Knob/OK: In the main interface, press the knob/OK to enter the operation menu. ⚫ On the operation menu, rotate the knob to scroll to a menu item, press the knob/OK to ⚫ select the current item or enter the submenu. Rotate the knob to adjust parameters after selecting the menu item with the parameter ⚫...
5.2 Main Interface After starting up the controller, the main interface of the LCD display is as follows: First row: Company name Second row: Self-defined name of the controller Third row: Signal type and resolution Fourth row: Brightness, Chassis Temperature Fifth row: Connection status of signal connectors and Ethernet ports 5.3 Menu Operation Press the knob/OK to enter the operation menu, which includes 11 operation items:...
5.3.1 Display Setting Rotate the knob and select Display Setting to enter the Display Setting submenu. Broadcast Press the knob/OK to turn on or off the Broadcast function. If the broadcast function of the cascading devices is turned on, you can synchronously control all cascading devices by setting the functions below the Broadcast menu item on one device.
Picture Adjust In the Picture Adjust submenu, you can select Hue, Saturation, Brightness, or Contrast and rotate the knob to modify their values, or select Reset to reset the value of all parameters in this menu. Finally select Save to save all these parameters. Test Mode In the Test Mode menu, you can rotate the knob and select a test mode.
In the EDID setting submenu of HDMI1/2/3 or DVI1, you can rotate the knob and select a conventional resolution to save the selected resolution to the sender, or select Custom and set the width, height and frame rate, and then select Save to save the setting to the sender.
5.3.4 Preset Setting Rotate the knob and select Preset Setting to enter the Preset Setting submenu. In the submenu, you can turn the Broadcast function on or off; or select Load Preset and choose an item to load preset parameters; or select Save to Preset to save the parameters of the current image.
5.3.6 Output Shift Rotate the knob and select Output Shift to enter the Output Shift submenu. Output shift contains two selections: Whole and By Port. On the submenu of Whole, you can rotate the knob to set the row starting point (X) and the column starting point (Y) of the whole image and then save the setting;...
5.3.7 Lock to Input When several controllers are cascaded with each other, Lock to Input is necessary to ensure the synchronization of the video displays. Rotate the knob and select Lock to Input to enter the submenu. In the submenu, you can select a sync signal source. 5.3.8 Audio Input Rotate the knob and select Audio Setting to enter the Audio Setting submenu.
In the submenu, press the knob/OK to set the sender as the connection source. Then select Set by Port to enter the submenu, in which you can choose the Ethernet port from 1 to 12 that needs setting mapping, and set the offset values of X and Y, and the width, height, row number, column number and link type of the corresponding cabinets.
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