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SERVSWITCH™ WIZARD MP
5.10 Operating Cascaded ServSwitch Wizard MPs
As described in
Section 3.3.2
, multiple ServSwitch Wizard MPs can be cascaded
together. To select channels in cascaded systems, you will need to send hotkey
commands from the master Wizard MP’s attached keyboard (see the “{Hotkeys} +
{Channel Address}” paragraph in
Section 5.5
).
For an example of hotkey switching, consider a situation in which two ServSwitch
Wizard MPs are connected together as shown in Figure 5-4 on the next page. To
select the computer attached to port 1 on the subsidiary ServSwitch Wizard MP,
you would press and hold down the hotkeys, then press and release “3,” press and
release “1,” and finally release the hotkeys. This causes the master Wizard MP to
switch to its port 3, to which the subsidiary Wizard MP is attached, and send the
subsidiary Wizard MP the command to switch to port 1, to which your desired
computer is attached. (If there were any 12- or 16-port switches in the system, you
would have to use two digits to designate each port, inserting a leading zero when
necessary.)
Two more examples, assuming that the hotkeys are the default combination of
[Ctrl] + [Alt]:
•
To switch to channel 4 of a 4-port subsidiary Wizard MP attached to channel 1 of your
4-port master Wizard MP:
Press and hold [Ctrl] + [Alt], press and release [1], press and release [4],
release [Ctrl] + [Alt].
•
To switch to channel 13 of a 16-port subsidiary Duo attached to channel 2 of your 4-port
master Wizard MP:
Press and hold [Ctrl] + [Alt], press and release [0], press and release [2], press
and release [1], press and release [3], release [Ctrl] + [Alt].
Please note that it is not possible to autoscan every channel in a cascaded system
with a single scan. Cascaded Wizard MPs must be scanned individually using their
front-panel pushbuttons or {Their Hotkeys} + [A]. When you switch or scan to a
port on a Wizard MP to which a subsidiary Wizard MP is attached, the Wizard MP
system will display the video from the currently selected port on the
subsidiary
Wizard MP.
