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USER GUIDE
May 2022

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  • Page 1 USER GUIDE May 2022...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Welcome to BirdDog ..................3 Using This Manual ....................3 First Step .......................3 Firmware Upgrade ......................3 BirdDog Wallplate Overview .................4 Wallplate IN ........................4 Wallplate OUT ........................4 Features..........................4 Wallplate IN ......................6 Central Lite ........................6 NDI Tools ...........................6 Web UI ........................7 Log In ..........................
  • Page 3 Copyright Copyright 2022 BirdDog Australia all rights reserved. No part of this manual may be copied, reproduced, translated, or distributed in any form or by any means without prior consent in writing from our company. Trademark Acknowledgement and other BirdDog trademarks and logos are the property of BirdDog Australia. Other trademarks, company names and product names contained in this manual are the property of their respective owners.
  • Page 4 Regulatory Compliance FCC Part 15 This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

  • Page 5: Welcome To Birddog

    First Step Firmware Upgrade Before you use your new Wallplate, it’s a good idea to upgrade to the lastest firmware. We are always adding new features and improving the performance of our products, so installing the latest firmware will provide you with the best user experience.

  • Page 6: Birddog Wallplate Overview

    BirdDog Wallplate Overview BirdDog Wallplates are the answer to elegant NDI® installations. With two models to choose from, dual input or dual output, they have been designed to make boardroom setups a breeze. Like all BirdDog products, Wallplates are built upon BirdDog’s custom NDI® chip and can be completely automated via the programmable RESTful API.
  • Page 7 NDI® stream and piped where required on your network and converted back only at the neccessary endpoints. BirdDog has been on the NDI® journey since the very beginning and your Wallplate is just one of our products designed to take advantage of the features and potential of NDI®.

  • Page 8: Wallplate In

    NDI® sources. In the example below, three cameras and a desktop computer are shown as NDI® sources. To open the Web UI for your Wallplates, select your desired Wallplate Input and click on the gear icon on the lower right of the window.

  • Page 9: Webui

    WebUI While Wallplate IN has default settings that will usually provide an immediate 'plug and play' experience, you can fine tune Wallplate to provide optimum performance for your particular application. This configuration is done via the web user interface panel (WebUI).

  • Page 10: Network

    DHCP Timeout, Fallback IP address, Fallback Subnet Mask You can set the timeout period during which Wallplate will look for a DHCP IP address. After this period, the device will default to the designated fallback IP address.

  • Page 11: System

    BirdDog Name You can name each Wallplate with a friendly name to make identification. Be sure to make the name unique, as no two devices on the network should have the same name. This name will appear on any NDI® receiver when it looks for video on the network. The name must not include any special characters and can be any combination of ‘a-z, 0-9, and –‘.
  • Page 12 We are always adding new features and improving the performance of our products, so installing the latest firmware will provide you with the best user experience. To upgrade the firmware, please follow the Firmware Upgrade Instructions located in your firmware download folder and perform upgrade process.
  • Page 13 NDI® Network Settings Wallplate operates with the latest NDI® Libraries. There are several options to configure its behaviour in an NDI® network. Each configuration has its benefits, however it is recommended to utilise the default TCP transmit method unless you have reason to change.
  • Page 14 Multicast is especially useful for use-cases that require a single source to be received on multiple receivers simultaneously. Utilising Muliticast offloads the distribution of the NDI® A/V packets from the Wallplate to the network infrastructure. You should take care to ensure your network is specifically configured to support Multicast as using it on an ill-prepared network can create unintended network problems.
  • Page 15 NDI Encode-1 / 2 Bitrate Management Birddog Devices allow you to set your target NDI® output bitrate. This allows you to select a compression ratio that is more efficient for your networking infrastructure (lower bandwidth) or higher image quality for critical footage. The scale allows you to select the range of 60Mbps - 360Mbps.
  • Page 16 If no current HDMI source is selected, you can choose whether to display a captured video frame, a black screen or the BirdDog Wallplate logo. Click the Capture button to capture a frame from your video that will be displayed when you select Captured as your screensaver.

  • Page 17: Wallplate Out

    Select the NDI® source that you want to direct to the HDMI output connectors. When a HDMI monitor is plugged into Wallplate OUT, the IP address of the device will be displayed on the screen. Open a browser on your computer and type in this IP address. The Log In window will be displayed.

  • Page 18: Dashboard

    Dashboard The Dashboard shows important basic settings, such as: Name of the Wallplate (this is user assignable). • • Network settings overview • Video format of connected NDI® sources directed to the HDMI-1 and HDMI-2 outputs. Wallplate operational Status. •...

  • Page 19: Network

    DHCP Timeout, Fallback IP address, Fallback Subnet Mask You can set the timeout period during which Wallplate will look for a DHCP IP address. After this time, the device will default to the designated fallback IP address.

  • Page 20: System

    System Password Settings The Web UI is secured by a user-defined password. The default password is birddog (one word, lower case). It is recommended that the default password be changed, since the Web UI grants full access to the Wallplate configuration settings.
  • Page 21 Config. Update Remote IP List By default, NDI® devices are visible to each other only when they’re on the same VLAN. If you want visibility or control of a device on a different VLAN, you need to add it’s address manually as a Remote IP. Click the CHOOSE FILE button to load your Remote IP List in UTF-8 encoded string format.
  • Page 22 NDI Network Settings Wallplate operates with the latest NDI® Libraries. There are several options to configure its behaviour in an NDI® network. Each configuration has its benefits, however it is recommended to utilise the default TCP transmit method unless you have reason to change.

  • Page 23: A/V

    Wallplate HDMI output. Click on the Apply Source Change button. The source will then be displayed in the Current Source field. In this example, a BirdDog Wallplate IN named Conference Room 1 has been selected as the NDI® source. Refresh / Reset Source List Click the Refresh button to add newly discovered sources to the available sources list or the Reset button to show only active, available sources.
  • Page 24 If no current NDI® source is selected, you can choose whether to display a captured video frame, a black screen or the BirdDog Wallplate logo. Click the Capture button to capture a frame from your video that will be displayed when you select Captured as your screensaver.

  • Page 25: Birddog Central Lite

    BirdDog Central Lite Central Lite is a free version of BirdDog Central Pro and offers an elegant and streamlined way to direct your NDI® sources to your Wallplate OUT. By teaming up Central Lite with any NDI® sources, including all BirdDog hardware capable of creating NDI® sources, you can now drive your NDI® streams directly to Wallplate OUT to decode the NDI®...

  • Page 26: Installation

    Installation During installation, BirdDog Wallplate is mounted within a two-gang Carlon device box. These are available for both old work and new work. Old Work Click the link below for specifications and installation videos for the Carlon old work device box.

  • Page 27: Glossary

    Glossary Domain A domain contains a group of computers that can be accessed and administered with a common set of rules. Domain can also refer to the IP address of a website on the Internet. DNS (Domain Name System) is a system used by the Internet and private networks to translate domain names into IP addresses.
  • Page 28 NDI® comes in two flavours, NDI® and NDI®|HX. NDI® is a variable bit rate, I-Frame codec that reaches rates of around 140Mbps at 1080p60 and is visually lossless. NDI®|HX is a compressed, long- GOP, H.264 variant that achieves rates around 12Mbps at 1080p60. BirdDog uses NDI®. PELCO PELCO is a camera control protocol used with PTZ cameras.
  • Page 29 WELCOME TO THE FUTURE.
  • Page 30 hello@birddog.tv...

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