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Configuration manual
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– When the NTP settings are changed, the system will restart and be unavailable for a
short period of time. Calls in progress can be dropped and background music can be
interrupted while the changes take effect.
9. Select the proper time zone from the drop-down list in Time zone .
10. Click the Save button to save your settings.
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Notice!
Creating a backup is not required for initial configuration. You can find more information in
Backup, page 20.
5.2 PA Settings
To configure the PRAESENSA Public Address system:
1. Select the PA Settings tile.
2. Under System Controller Connection :
– In the Controller IP address / Group IP address field, enter the PRAESENSA System
Controller IP address or its Hostname. For example, 1.2.3.4.
– In the Secure Port field, enter 9403, the default in PRAESENSA.
– Find the SHA-256 Fingerprint in PRAESENSA: Security > Open Interface >
Fingerprints > SHA-256.
– In the Username field, enter the username of the PRAESENSA System controller. For
example, admin.
– In the Password field, enter the password of the PRAESENSA System controller. For
example, admin.
3. Click the Save button to save your settings.
– The page closes and the main administrative page appears. The PA Settings tile
shows the PRAESENSA settings icon as green.
4. Select the PA Settings tile.
5. On the right side of the screen, enter the following under Praesensa settings:
– APAS Call priority : From the drop-down list, select the priority (the same as the
PRAESENSA call priority).
Note: Higher values mean higher priorities. Calls with higher priority can interrupt calls
with lower priority. This priority is used for paging calls from the PRA-APAS except for
BGM, which has the BGM priority selected in PRAESENSA.
–
Input prefix : Enter the input port prefix (for example: System controller SCL 1-1).
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The prefix must be exactly the same as the System controller name that can be found in
PRAESENSA (
Configure > User accounts > System compositions )
– Audio input offset : Enter the first number of audio input (inclusive) from which the
PRA-APAS device will use the inputs onwards. The minimum value is 17.
– Channels count : number of AES67 channels simultaneously active (starting from
Audio input offset ). You can select 10 as a hard coded value.
– Reserved channels for live paging : Select the number of live channels that are
reserved for live paging from the PRA-APAS device. These channels will never be
allocated for background music.