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Broadcast Television Equipment
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LynxCentraal
5000 Series
Quick-Start Guide
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5000 Series Quick-Start Guide
1.0 RELEASE
May 2022
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  • Page 1 LYNXTechnik ® LynxCentraal 5000 Series Quick-Start Guide Broadcast Television Equipment LynxCentraal 5000 Series Quick-Start Guide Revision: 1.0 RELEASE Last Updated: May 2022 Service Contact: support@lynx-technik.com © 2022 LYNXTechnik Page 1...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    (for greenMachine Testor), custom control panels and other data between all workstations in the LYNX universe. Since there was no such redundancy and advanced user management in the 5000 series in the past, the changeover is relatively simple. Existing users can be...
  • Page 3: Overview

    LynxCentraal contains an enhanced redundancy management engine for synchronizing operator account information, custom patterns for greenMachine Testor, custom control panels and other data between all workstations in the LYNX universe. This redundancy management engine is not backward compatible with the existing redundancy management of legacy greenMachine software releases.
  • Page 4: Getting Started

    Getting Started Download the LynxCentraal Control GUI from www.lynx-technik.com, to setup and configure a LYNX system from a PC. The LynxCentraal GUI can be disconnected after the system has been configured (because all settings of all devices are automatically stored in the module’s flash RAM). Alternatively, the LynxCentraal GUI can stay connected permanently for monitoring and real time status updates from the system.
  • Page 5: Features (Main

    LynxCentraal 5000 Series Quick-Start Guide Broadcast Television Equipment Features (Main pages) Lynx Centraal has 13 Features. Each feature corresponds to one Main Page. Each page has UI elements for performing specific functions. Pages are often further divided into sub-pages. You can navigate between pages using the toolbar on the left, the view pulldown or hot- keys.
  • Page 6: Series 5000 Control Topology

    LYNXTechnik ® LynxCentraal 5000 Series Quick-Start Guide Broadcast Television Equipment Series 5000 Control Topology Series 5000 Controller A typical LYNX Technik Series 5000 signal processing system consists rack frames with boards, rack controllers, and the LynxCentraal Control system. Each Series 5000 rack frame requires an RCT 5023-G.
  • Page 7: Network Connections

    Network Connections The LynxCentraal GUI will communicate to the LYNX series 5000 RackFrames over the IP network. Therefore, the first important step is to make sure that the LYNX Components and the PC are using compatible IP network settings. By factory...
  • Page 8: Network Configuration

    LYNXTechnik ® LynxCentraal 5000 Series Quick-Start Guide Broadcast Television Equipment Network Configuration The network feature is where control servers are configured and attachments between control servers and RCT 5023 rack controllers are made. It also where you configure the local COM ports. (This feature is available for blue and yellow) Current Infrastructure Configuration The current infrastructure configuration table, on the left, lists all control servers which were discovered in the LynxCentraal IP network via ethernet broadcast.
  • Page 9 LYNXTechnik ® LynxCentraal 5000 Series Quick-Start Guide Broadcast Television Equipment Select an RCT 5023 (or RCT 1012) rack controller from the table. This action will fill the information area at the bottom with data. Click the Attach Button in the Current Attachments section. This will present a dialog which allows you to pick the desired Control Server.
  • Page 10: Components Configuration

    IP find tool below the product table. The selected item detail is visualized below the table. You can change the IP and passwords settings. Select the LYNX RackController or LYNX Server in the list and do one of the following:...
  • Page 11 NOTE: If your LYNX component is not shown in this list, then you can connect (through a 1-to-1 connection to the respective rack frame) a regular web browser to the current IP address of the LYNX chassis, login as user “admin” and make the IP settings on the “System”...
  • Page 12: Blue Page

    I.e. it is not required to trigger a “take-over” function or similar, for any change to become effective. More Information needed? For more detailed informa- tion please check the Lynx- Centraal manual which can be downloaded from the LYNX Technik website over here: https://www.lynx-technik.com/downloads/lynxcentraal/...

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