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Crystal Vision Indigo Wallbox Q-Down User Manual

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Crystal Vision Ltd., Lion Technology Park, Station Road East, Whittlesford, Cambridge, CB22 4WL, England.
Tel: +44(0) 1223 497049 Fax: +44(0) 1223 497059 sales@crystalvision.tv www.crystalvision.tv

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  • Page 1 Wallbox Q-Down Dual channel broadcast down converter and DA in a wallbox Crystal Vision Ltd., Lion Technology Park, Station Road East, Whittlesford, Cambridge, CB22 4WL, England. Tel: +44(0) 1223 497049 Fax: +44(0) 1223 497059 sales@crystalvision.tv www.crystalvision.tv...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Crystal Vision Wallbox Q-Down User Manual Contents Introduction Installation General Safety Summary Rack mounting and ventilation Connecting mains cables Wallbox connections Front panel Rear panel Connector pinouts RJ45 Ethernet connector Front panel LEDs Remote control via Ethernet IP address Connecting a PC...
  • Page 3 Crystal Vision Wallbox Q-Down User Manual Audio Status Menu Audio Status Video Settings Menu Output Format & Timing Fixed Aspect Ratio RGB Proc-Amp YUV Proc-Amp Fibre Optic Enable Custom Aspect Ratio Menu Anamorphic, 16x9 Letterbox, 14x9 Letterbox, Centre Cut Anamorphic, 16x9 Letterbox, 14x9 Letterbox, Centre Cut - Crop...
  • Page 4 Crystal Vision Wallbox Q-Down User Manual Appendix 1 11.1 Menu Tree Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0 08 August 2016...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    1080p, 720p and 1080i video can be converted to 625i or 525i digital and analogue. Using Crystal Vision’s proprietary processing, Wallbox Q-Down provides a unique level of image quality – avoiding aliasing while retaining picture sharpness. The sophisticated two-dimensional filtering gives broadcast results without the complication of looking at multiple fields or movement detection –...
  • Page 6 Crystal Vision Introduction Wallbox Q-Down is ideal for use in mixed 3Gb/s, HD and SD environments, or for any areas being converted to HD or 3G. Wallbox Q-Down functional block diagram The main features for Wallbox Q-Down are as follows: •...
  • Page 7 Crystal Vision Introduction • Short processing delay (just 16 or 52 SD lines). • Passes four groups of embedded audio. • Flexible aspect ratio conversion, including custom aspect ratios and AFD insertion and reading. • Match other delays in system with two fixed delay settings plus variable video delay.

  • Page 8: Installation

    To avoid injury or fire hazard do not operate this product in an explosive atmosphere. Only use this rack in conjunction with Crystal Vision modules designed for that purpose. The Wallbox Q-Down houses the Crystal Vision range of optical modules. Although these modules are not...

  • Page 9: Rack Mounting And Ventilation

    Crystal Vision Installation This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A 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.

  • Page 10: Wallbox Connections

    Crystal Vision Wallbox connections 3 Wallbox connections Each channel of the Wallbox Q-Down has a single 3G, HD or SD fibre video input and five outputs. Two of the outputs are equalised and reclocked loop-throughs of the fibre inputs, the...

  • Page 11: Rear Panel

    Crystal Vision Wallbox connections 3.2 Rear panel The IEC mains, two fibre video inputs and the Ethernet connectors are mounted on the rear panel: Wallbox Q-Down rear panel connectors Connector Function 10/100 Ethernet remote control link. Ethernet 3Gb/s, HD or SD fibre video input channel 1.

  • Page 12: Remote Control Via Ethernet

    Wallbox Q-Down is fitted with an Ethernet interface which enables remote control by VisionWeb, VisionPanel and SNMP. Multiple Wallbox Q-Down units can be controlled over a local area network. Other Crystal Vision frames can be connected to the same network. Remote control of Wallbox Q-Down over the Ethernet Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0...

  • Page 13: Ip Address

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet 4.1 IP address Wallbox Q-Down is shipped with the default IP address of 10.0.0.201 and once communication has been established, this IP address can be changed to another. 4.2 Connecting a PC Set the PC’s Local Area Connection (LAN) controller’s sub-mask to 255.255.255.0 and the IP address within the same IP group i.e.

  • Page 14: Visionweb Home Page

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Windows 7 Advanced LAN settings Alternatively, the LAN controller sub-mask can be extended to allow control of frames of similar IP address. For instance, if a frame is to be finally configured as 10.0.1.0 then a sub- mask of 255.255.0.0 would allow control of the frame in its default and final configuration.

  • Page 15: Visionweb Setup Pages

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Wallbox Q-Down has two Q-Down-AG 3G cards fitted internally which occupy slots ‘1’ and ‘2’. Click on either of the slots to access the card’s home page which will give the user a full range of controls and status monitoring.

  • Page 16: About

    SNMP enabled Crystal Vision products support SNMP, ASCII and HTTP/JSON control protocols. Contact Crystal Vision customer support for protocol details. Hardware ID This page gives useful information about the wallbox. Crystal Vision may ask you for these details if there is a problem: Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0...

  • Page 17: Configuration/Backup-Restore/Auto Restore

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet VisionWeb ‘Hardware ID’ page MAC address Unique MAC address of the frame’s network card. CV_ProductName Product name – SNMP indicates that the wallbox supports optional SNMP control. CV_HwSerialNumber The serial number of the frame entered during manufacture and will be the front panel serial number.

  • Page 18: Configuration/Backup-Restore/Manual Restore

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet slot is of an identical type to the card used to create the backup. If the box is NOT checked then the restore process will be applied to the card in the slot regardless of type. If in doubt, check the box.
  • Page 19 Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet box can be left unchecked if the backup file and the card in the slot are versions of the same type of card. As before – check the box if in doubt. The ‘Settings file’ button will display a list of backup files that are available for manual restoration.

  • Page 20: Configuration/Labels

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Configuration/Labels This page enables the user to add an alphanumeric label to the wallbox and to every slot. VisionWeb ‘Configuration/Labels’ page In the example above, slots 1.01 and 1.02 have been labelled, as has the frame itself. Note that the Configuration/Labels page shows 28 slots which is to provide slots for ‘virtual cards’.

  • Page 21: Software Upgrade

    Clicking on the ‘Software Upgrade’ link will open a page that enables the wallbox software to be upgraded. You may be asked to perform an upgrade by Crystal Vision who will supply the software and instructions to perform this task.

  • Page 22: Configuration/Snmp

    The SNMP window can be edited and changes applied by clicking on ‘Set’. Wallbox Q-Down front panel processors use the Net-SNMP agent and a Crystal Vision XML Schema Definition document to control its operation and the management information provided.

  • Page 23: Management Information Base (Mib)

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet VisionWeb ‘SNMP’ configuration page The SNMP agent can also be accessed via FTP – see section File Structure for more details. Management information base (MIB) As is normal for an SNMP manager system, each of the remotely-controllable boards, frame and PSUs that are to be monitored has an associated MIB.

  • Page 24: Traps

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Partial tree of FrameMon MIB showing identifiers The frame variables monitored by the FrameMon MIB are: Name Function Syntax Value Slot Frame’s virtual slot number INTEGER 1.1...2.16 0..31 isTempOk Frame temperature OK? INTEGER 1=NO, 2=TRUE isPSUFanOk Frame’s PSU fan OK?

  • Page 25: Filters

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet one incident – for example, removing an input may typically trigger eight traps, it will then be down to the SNMP manager to sort these into a hierarchical order or mask as necessary. Example of a trap received by the SNMP manager...

  • Page 26: Control And Status Monitoring

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Unless previously edited, the SNMP configuration window will show an example of enabling the trap filter using the events shown above: <-- Example to unicast send v1 traps on slot occupation change of state. This matches Indigo pre version 4.0.

  • Page 27: Password Protection

    Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Wallbox Q-Down ‘Status’ web-page. All of Wallbox Q-Down controls can be adjusted and monitored via the VisionWeb interface. See section Control Descriptions for details of each of the controls with screen grabs. 4.7 Password protection It is possible to password protect different levels of access to either or both channels of Wallbox Q-Down.
  • Page 28 Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Note: The # symbol indicates that the rest of the line is comment. Editing the ‘passwd.html’ page in Notepad • Exit and save changes. • Copy the file back to the frame replacing the original version.
  • Page 29 Crystal Vision Remote control via Ethernet Logging out from a password-restricted wallbox The password system we use (HTTP Basic Access Authentication) is a standard system that works with web browsers. The browser generally stores the password information while the session is open, although it may time out after a long period of inactivity. That is a browser characteristic not controlled by the frame and if users want to prevent unauthorised access they should close the browser window (not just the tab) when they want to 'log out'.

  • Page 30: Control Descriptions

    Descriptions 5 Control Descriptions The controls of Wallbox Q-Down are accessible from Crystal Vision’s VisionWeb software, SNMP and VisionPanel. The description of controls used in this manual is based on VisionWeb but the path to locate controls by other means follows the same logic.

  • Page 31: Video Status Menu

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions 5.1 Video Status Menu Video Status Display presence, standard and status of input and output video signals. Present On if a video input is present. Displays the video standard of the input i.e. Format ‘1080i 50’.
  • Page 32 Crystal Vision Control Descriptions output, selecting bypass will also be ignored with a 3G input present. In bypass mode the analogue output selection remains active along with the analogue RGB and YUV proc-amps and the delay controls. The digital proc-amps will be...

  • Page 33: Audio Status Menu

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions 5.2 Audio Status Menu Audio Status Display status of embedded audio signals. On if embedded audio group is present in Input input video. Group 1-4 On if embedded audio group is present in the Output output video.
  • Page 34 Crystal Vision Control Descriptions This control should be left as ‘CVBS(SD)’ output Analog Output format. Format Set the luminance, chrominance and sync levels to the correct values for either SMPTE/EBU N10 NTSC Levels or Betacam standards. Set black level offset for NTSC standard.

  • Page 35: Fixed Aspect Ratio

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions When short delay is selected the minimum delay available is 16 lines. This limit is imposed to prevent possible frame tearing at delays less than this minimum. If the delay is set to less than 16...

  • Page 36: Rgb Proc-Amp

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions Pillarbox 14:9 and Letterbox greater than 16:9 will give a centre cut conversion and set output WSS to full format 4:3. Selecting Auto Adaptive for any full frame input will give an Anamorphic aspect ratio with WSS set to full frame 16:9.

  • Page 37: Yuv Proc-Amp

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions YUV Proc-Amp Set up lift and gain of the output signal in the YUV domain. Wallbox Q-Down’s YUV lift and gain controls allow independent digital image adjustments in the YUV domain, essential for maintaining colour fidelity. In normal operation the YUV proc-...

  • Page 38: Custom Aspect Ratio Menu

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions 5.4 Custom Aspect Ratio Menu Anamorphic, 16x9 Letterbox, 14x9 Letterbox, Centre Cut Adjust size and position of the four fixed aspect ratios. (These controls are identical for all four fixed aspect ratios.) These controls alter the output image size. These...

  • Page 39: Data Insert Menu

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions Select the colour, in the RGB domain, of the border that will appear R,G,B around an image that no longer fills the screen due to aspect ratio correction and/or cropping. Set between black and peak white.
  • Page 40 Crystal Vision Control Descriptions Code for active image area. See section Output AFD AFD Code and WSS for more information. Output widescreen signalling can be set to automatically follow the input AFD data or be manually selected. If WSS data should be present on...

  • Page 41: Presets, Reset & Gpi/Os Menu

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions 5.6 Presets, Reset & GPI/Os Menu Presets Up to 16 user-defined configurations may be stored and recalled from VisionWeb. Presets store the board setup data including operating mode card status. The presets are numbered 1-16. Store or recall Wallbox Q-Down’s configuration to Select one of 16 memory locations.

  • Page 42: Resets

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions Resets Reset the board to its default settings. Reset the board to default settings but leave preset memories Fact. Res Exc unaffected. (See Default Values table below.) Preset Reset the board to default settings and erase preset memories.
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  • Page 50: Gpo Alarms

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions GPO Alarms Wallbox Q-Down has no physical GPOs so these controls mostly have no function. There are two controls, however, that should be left as shown below. Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0 08 August 2016...

  • Page 51: Alarm Delays

    Crystal Vision Control Descriptions Alarm Enables GPI 3 & 4 Alarm Delays Wallbox Q-Down has no GPO connections so the Alarm Delay Timers have no function. Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0 08 August 2016...
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  • Page 53: Aspect Ratio Correction

    Crystal Vision Aspect Ratio Correction 6 Aspect Ratio Correction Wallbox Q-Down has the ability to deal with any HD to SD aspect ratio conversion requirements. You can select a 16:9 Anamorphic output for 16:9 SD systems and either a 16:9 to 4:3 Letterbox, 16:9 to 4:3 Letterbox compromise, or 16:9 to 4:3 Full Screen with centre cut for 4:3 SD systems.

  • Page 54: Automatic Aspect Ratio Selection

    Crystal Vision Aspect Ratio Correction the display will either add black bars to the top and bottom or both sides of the picture. There will be some loss of picture. Centre cut will show the central 75% of the 16:9 widescreen picture mapped to the full monitor height with the corresponding loss of the left and right picture edges.
  • Page 55 Crystal Vision Aspect Ratio Correction SMPTE Explanation and Auto 4:3 Auto adaptive 2016 AFD 16:9 input image correction correction Code example (output WSS) (output WSS) 0, 1, 5, 6, 7, Letterbox 16:9 into Undefined/reserved Anamorphic 2,8,10,14,15 Letterbox 16:9 into Anamorphic...

  • Page 56: Output Afd And Wss

    Crystal Vision Output AFD and 7 Output AFD and WSS There are three sets of controls associated with Active Format Descriptor (AFD). These are the inserter mode control, entire image aspect ratio selector (coded frame) and the group of 16 AFD codes.

  • Page 57: Specification

    Crystal Vision Specification 8 Specification General Dimensions Height 44.5mm (1U), width 439mm, depth 200mm. Weight 2.75kg. Power consumption 30 Watts. Power input 90-264VAC, 47-63Hz. Includes one 80 Watt power supply, with processor to report the PSU status and Wallbox fan status.
  • Page 58 Crystal Vision Specification Composite performance (SD only) Processing: Sampling: Video input is 10 bit processed for 12 bit output DACs. Frequency response: Luminance: +/- 0.3dB to 5 MHz. Chrominance: +/- 0.4dB to 2.5 MHz. Noise: < -67dB weighted luminance or chrominance.

  • Page 59: Troubleshooting

    Note: There are no user adjustments inside the Wallbox Q-Down. In the event of equipment failure, it will be necessary to contact Crystal Vision for detailed instruction on how to dismantle the case to replace faulty parts. Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0...

  • Page 60: Replacing The Mains Input Fuses

    Replace the fuse only with one of the same type and rating (3A, 250V time Note: delay). Software upgrades Software upgrades for the Wallbox Q-Down are done via the Ethernet connection. See section Software Upgrade. This should only be undertaken when requested by Crystal Vision. Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0 08 August 2016...

  • Page 61: Fault Finding

    Use ‘ping’ to try connection. Disconnect network and try a single wallbox to PC connection. Wallbox IP address forgotten: Contact Crystal Vision who will give instructions on how to reset IP address to 10.0.0.201. Wallbox Q-Down User Manual R1.0 08 August 2016...

  • Page 62: Wallbox Memory

    Crystal Vision Wallbox memory 10 Wallbox memory 10.1 File Structure Wallbox Q-Down has backup memory located in the Front Panel Processor and is accessible via FTP. The file structure consists of a number of folders all of which contain files for different aspects of wallbox control.

  • Page 63: Cards

    Crystal Vision Wallbox memory trace.log No user content. 10.2 Cards The wallbox Front Panel Processor automatically backs up every card’s settings whenever they are changed. These values can be restored automatically or manually as required – see section VisionWeb Setup Pages for more details.

  • Page 64: Wallbox

    Crystal Vision Wallbox memory 10.3 Wallbox The wallbox front panel processor automatically creates a backup file whenever its configuration is changed such as network or slot labelling. The backup file for the wallbox is in the root directory and is labelled ‘settings.Indigoframe.1004.xml’.
  • Page 65 Crystal Vision Appendix 1 11 Appendix 1 11.1 Menu Tree The basic menu structure for remote control of Wallbox Q-Down consists of the following menus and sub-menus. Status Video Status Input Video Present Format Black Frozen Output Format Down Converted...
  • Page 66 Crystal Vision Appendix 1 NTSC Levels Pedestal Filter, IP Err & Bypass Vertical Bandwidth Select Bypass Bypassed Output Timing Delay Frame Delay Pixel Line Fixed Aspect Ratio Control SD Analog Line Length Proc. Lift Gain Green Lift Gain Blue Lift Gain RGB Cal.
  • Page 67 Crystal Vision Appendix 1 Custom Aspect Ratio Anamorphic 16x9 Letterbox 14x9 Letterbox Centre Cut Size Horizontal Vertical Position Anamorphic Crop 16x9 Letterbox Crop 14x9 Letterbox Crop Centre Cut Crop Crop Left Right Bottom Border Control Green Blue Border Cal Data Insert AFD &...
  • Page 68 Crystal Vision Appendix 1 GPO Alarms GPO Alarm Status GPO 5 GPO 6 Alarm Enables GPO 3 GPO 4 GPO 5 GPO 6 Input Missing Video Black Video Frozen Input Audio Missing Silence Group 1 Ch. 1/2 Silence Group 1 Ch. 3/4 Silence Group 2 Ch.

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