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Destinations and sources assigned with this function are preserved (in the system
controller) even when power fails. Destination and source assignments can be grouped
into different sets to be used perhaps by different users or at different times of the day,
or for any reason.
Broadcast
A broadcast button applies to a data (or machine control) level only. The button assigns one
controlling device (the master) to multiple controlled devices (the slaves). The function is
useful in dubbing applications. See
Pressing the 'Broadcast' button turns off the 'Source is Master' button and vice versa.
The default button text is "Broadcast" but a broadcast button can have any legend.
Category
Each category button represents 3 items: a source category, a destination category, and a
device suffix (or a numerical index).
A category button displays 2 lines of text: (1) either the source category name when the
panel is in source mode, or the destination category name when the panel is in destination
mode, and (2) its suffix text. If the button has no suffix text, the second line shows dashes.
When you first press a category button, the category mnemonic appears in the 'Preset'
display. After the category is thus selected, you uses a keypad (which is a button array) to
enter the device index within the category. (The keypad is a set of category buttons to
which indexes or suffixes have been assigned.)
(Typically the category buttons are arranged to form a keypad on your panel in which the
digits or suffixes are logically arranged.)
Pressing a category button when the panel is in source mode starts the "construction" of a
source device name. Pressing a category button when the panel is in destination mode
starts the construction of a destination name.
Note that category buttons in server mode function differently from category buttons
under LCD XY/MD mode and NV9609 mode. There are differences in the configuration
of these buttons too.
The names of devices in categories are composed of the category name followed by
one or more suffixes. NV9000-SE Utilities allows configurers to designate a separator
character which is inserted between the parts of the device name. (Device names are
limited to 8 characters, however.)
You can also perform device selection either by category list or by category pages
using the panel's knob. See
on page 114 and
Procedure I — Perform Device Selection using Category
page 115.
Chop
When a "chop" function is supported by a router, the button is a toggle that enables and
disables "chop. " Chop is a rapid switching of the selected destination device between the
current source and the preset source.
Broadcast
Routes, on page 90 for more information.
Procedure H — Perform Device Selection by Category
NV9649
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