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Setting up Channel Groups
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10. Click OK.
11. Repeat steps
5
through
10
for each device channel, as needed.
12. Click Apply (if you want the System Settings dialog box to remain open after settings are
applied) or OK.
The system will prompt you for the administrator password.
13. Enter the administrator password and click OK.
Until this procedure is completed, device channels cannot be added to a channel group.
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Before you can delete a device channel, you must first delete that channel from that channel from any
channel groups or delete the channel group(s) that use the channel.
Setting up Channel Groups
A channel group is a cluster configured with one or more device channels composed from compatible
video servers or character generators. Many channel groups can be created from the same pool of
resources, and different groups can use the same resources to serve different operational needs.
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Each channel group must contain a single “type” of device. For instance, a channel group called AS
is a grouping of channels from two or more AirSpeed video servers, while a different channel group
named CG is a grouping of channels on a character generator.
AirSpeed channels provide one of the best examples of the way in which channel groups provide
control configurations; they do not guarantee media availability, which is the role of the AirSpeed
studio configuration. For example, a station has two AirSpeed video servers, each with two channels
that are numbered 2 and 3. (With AirSpeed video servers, the first channel is reserved for ingest.)
Let’s call the first AirSpeed AS1 and the second AS2. With channel groups on Command, the
station’s system administrator can set up numerous different channel groups and call them anything,
such as:
Channel Group
Channel
Names
Actual Device Channels Channel Type
AS-Noon A
B
C
AS1 - channel 2
AS1 - channel 3
AS2 - channel 2
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