Autoscanning
When enabled, the autoscan mode switches between the connected computers
in sequence. This is useful to allow you to sample activity among the connected
computers.
Two scanning modes are available:
•
Cycle all ports
– This mode visits, in turn, to each connected computer. This
mode should be used with care due to the reasons given in the warning
below. To prepare for this autoscan mode, choose within the
configuration menu (see right).
•
Cycle only active ports
– Only computer ports where an active computer
is detected will be viewed. This mode avoids blank screens from being
displayed and helps to prevent the viewing monitor from entering a power-
down state on every scan cycle.
Additionally, when this mode is selected, whenever you use either the
mouse buttons or hot keys + tab to change channels, only computers that
are active will be visited. To prepare for this autoscan mode, choose
within the configuration menu (see right).
WARNING: Many monitors are fitted with automatic power saving
relays that switch off after a few seconds when connected to an
inactive computer. If you are using such a monitor, do not use the
‘Cycle all ports’ mode. Continual switching on and off of the monitor’s
relay will eventually damage the monitor.
Seven autoscan periods are available (the time spent viewing each computer)
ranging from 2 seconds to 5 minutes. To prepare the autoscan period, choose
and then to within the configuration menu (see right).
To start autoscanning mode, press
on the keyboard.
To select an autoscan mode
1 Enter the
Configuration
menu.
2 Press and then press either:
•
to choose
Cycle all ports
, or
•
to choose
Cycle only active ports
3 Press
to accept the setting and return to the main menu section.
4 Press and then
to exit the menu and save changes.
Note: The setting of this option also affects which computers are visited
when the channel is changed using the mouse buttons or hot key + tab.
To select an autoscan period
1 Enter the
Configuration
menu.
2 Press and then press either:
to choose
Autoscan disabled
,
to choose
seconds
,
to choose
seconds
,
to choose
seconds
,
to choose
seconds
,
to choose
0 seconds
,
to choose
minute
, or
to choose
minutes
.
3 Press
to accept the setting and return to the main menu section.
4 Press and then
to exit the menu and save changes.
To start autoscanning
• On the keyboard, press
.
Notes:
During autoscanning, mouse switching, hot key + tab and interactivity with the
computers are all disabled.
During autoscanning, only the KVM and speaker ports are switched to each
visited computer channel, the two USB device ports remain connected to their
currently selected channels.
To stop autoscanning
You can stop the autoscanning process in either of the following ways:
• Press the
COMPUTER
button on the front panel, or
• Select a specific channel using the hot keys + channel number.
