PixiePro PX2-NRC-1142 User Manual

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Important Safety Instructions ................................................................. i

I. Overview ...................................................................................................1

II. Sample Systems ................................................................................. 2

III. Getting Started ................................................................................... 5

IV. Basic Configuration .......................................................................... 8

V. Advanced Configuration ................................................................... 17

VI. Scheduling Events and Security ..................................................... 27

VII. Email Alerts and Monitoring .......................................................... 29

VIII. Wiring the NRC ............................................................................... 30

IX. Connecting the Devices on the SP Bus .......................................... 31

Troubleshooting .................................................................................... 33

PX2-NRC-1142 User's Manual November 2009

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Page 1: Table Of Contents
VI. Scheduling Events and Security ............. 27 VII. Email Alerts and Monitoring ............29 VIII. Wiring the NRC ................30 IX. Connecting the Devices on the SP Bus .......... 31 Troubleshooting ..................33 Copyright ..................33 PX2-NRC-1142 User’s Manual November 2009...
Page 2: Important Safety Instructions
10) Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience recep- tion to Web-based control. In those cases, the NRC can be connected to a PixiePro Modular Panel tacles, and the point where they exit from the apparatus.
Page 3: Sample Systems
II. Sample Systems System 2: NRC and Modular Panel combined as control system for a projector, with the relays on the NRC being used to control a lift and a screen. A few real-world examples of systems that the NRC can control will give you a clearer view of the NRC’s capabilities.
Page 4: Getting Started
III. Getting Started System 3: Configuring the NRC to Operate Without Network Control NRC and Modular Panel combined to control a projector, with the relays on the NRC used for a Some users will wish to take advantage of the NRC control capabilities without using its network inter- screen.
Page 5: Iv. Basic Configuration
Use the following IP settings: Step 6: DON’T PANIC! IP address: 192.168.1.1 As soon as you click Apply Changes, the NRC Configuration Wizard will disappear from your browser Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 window. This is supposed to happen. To continue configuration, access the Configuration Wizard with Default gateway: 192.168.1.250 your browser again, but instead of connecting to the NRC directly with an Ethernet cable, connect to it over the network.
Page 6 IV. Basic Configuration In simple rooms like “System 1” detailed in Chapter 2, the NRC will control only a single display de- vice, a screen, and a lift, with a Modular Panel attached as the in-room control interface. This chapter will help you configure the NRC to do just that.
Page 7 (as the header implies). There are a few using. Assemble the virtual Panel in this step. When you’re installing the in-room PixiePro controller, things you might need to know about here, though.
Page 8 Now you’ll map the selection commands from that driver to specific input selection buttons. Node: A node is always an SP Controls product in the PixiePro family. Nodes are numbered sequen- tially as you add them to the bus. The NRC is itself a node, and it will always be numbered 0. Other Selection 1 is the source selection button in the upper-left hand corner, Selection 2 is in the upper- possible nodes are the Modular Panel and the different flavors of Control Puck.
Page 9 (0), the node name tion to the end of your list; case, the name (S-VIDEO) (PX2-NRC-1142), and the port you can choose actions was assigned in Step 5 on that node (RS-232) that the from any driver on any port (“Switching”)
Page 10: Advanced Configuration
V. Advanced Configuration Hidden Functions The NRC can control many more devices than just a display by extending its control capabilities with The tabs you see in the image to the left represent different Control Pucks (sold separately). This chapter will teach you how to configure Control Pucks, as well code sets corresponding to different remote controls you as how to use some of the NRC’s more complicated features.
Page 11 Creating a New RS-232 Driver Advanced Configuration - 3. Attached Devices Complete this section for devices Communications param- Fill out all of the fields for the Driver File Name (spaces and special with absolute volume control, i.e. eters will be found with Add Nodes characters are not allowed in any they require a specific volume level...
Page 12 ASCII: Characters enclosed inside single quotes will be read by the NRC as ASCII. To learn the IR codes, you’ll need to have a PixiePro Modular Panel connected to the SP Bus (see Example: ‘PWR 1’...
Page 13 Then click Send Test To. Note: you shouldn’t ever edit IR codes from inside this win- dow. That function is for SP Controls engineers only. Advanced Configuration - 4. Assemble PixiePro Multiple-Device Mode Selecting this driver here will populate the TCM with...
Page 14 Advanced Configuration - 6. Customization Action List Editing (Advanced Functions) In this section you can group commands together in “round robin” fashion (commands or groups of In this step you can fine-tune the configuration. You should have already created most of your action commands occur on subsequent button presses,) or as macros (all codes sent with one button lists automatically in previous steps, but now you can finalize all of the actions that will take place at press).
Page 15: Scheduling Events And Security
Custom Action List buttons in the lower-right of the screen below the “virtual one event: the Power OFF automation event. PixiePro” in configuration step 6. Then program all of the Source Selection buttons which use those It is scheduled such that every Monday codes to send the Custom List you have created.
Page 16: Email Alerts And Monitoring
VII. Email Alerts and Monitoring Security Email alerts can help you stay instantly Web-Based Security apprised of many different situations with your NRC, including theft (i.e. RS-232 If you have not already changed the Admin password, you should do so now. Keep this password in a cable disconnect), a bulb nearing the end very secure place, because if you lose it, you will have to restore your NRC to its factory default of its life, or a failure to communicate with...
Page 17: Wiring The Nrc
VIII. Wiring the NRC NRC Adapter Combinations Powering the NRC System Converters NRC Output Type/Gender Output pinout None Female DB9 TX 2, RX 3, GD 5 Power the NRC with the included wall wart power supply. All SP Bus devices (Pucks and Modular Panels) will be powered over the Bus connection and do not require their own power supply.
Page 18: Troubleshooting
An NRC may be fully configured with no SP Bus devices connected — they may be added to the sys- PixiePro™, Networked Room Controller™, and the SP Controls switch logo are trade- tem later. Simply add the Bus Nodes that you will eventually connect manually in Step 3: Attached marks of SP Controls, Inc.