Inovonics 236, Installation & User Manual

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er and easier, but we do advise gaining some familiarity
with the front-panel approach. You will need to set up a
network connection initially from the front panel.
Having said that, if you are adventurous do feel free to
jump-in, set up a network connection and do all your setup
over your network. The Web interface is organized so much
like the OLED Menu Tree that separate sets of instructions
would be redundant. Here in Section II we’ll concentrate on
front-panel setup. But anything in the Menu Tree can be
found in the Web interface pages. Check Section IV for mat-
ters that are specific to networking the NOVIA 236.
Navigating the Menu Tree
In a nutshell, you turn the jog-wheel knob to cycle among
and to highlight menu items, and then push the knob to se-
lect, edit or adjust the highlighted item. To further clarify:
1) If you land on a menu item that requires a text or
numerical entry, a text-entry screen appears when
you enter that submenu. Turn and push the knob to
select alphanumerics, punctuation, backspace, etc.
After text entry, select Save and push the knob to
commit to entry, or press the
Back
button next to the
knob to cancel the operation.
2) If the submenu has a checkbox or ‘radio button,’
bracket the option and push the knob to toggle it.
3) If the screen shows an adjustment ‘slider,’ turn the
knob to bracket the slider, push the knob to enable
adjustment, and then turn it to change the value. Fi-
nally, push the knob or press the
Back
button to
commit to the adjustment.
You may always press
the
Back
button repeat-
edly to return to the
Main Menu screen shown
here.
Analog and Digital Program Inputs
As one might well expect, the rear-panel
ANALOG IN
XLR
connector accepts only a single channel of program audio.
But the stereo-capable
AES IN
digital input may be config-
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ured as required, offering ‘split’ use of the channels to feed
a separate program to a co-located service.
From the Main Menu,
navigate to Setup / Inputs /
Digital Input Mono Mode .
This is where you select
your AES-digital pro-
gram feed, either from internal combining of
Left + Right
stereo channels, or for input audio from only the
Left
or
only the Right channel of the AES-digital stereo pair.
Stream Input
Just as described for the AES-digital input, The NOVIA 236
can accept monaural or stereo streamed audio. Navigate to
Setup / Inputs / Stream Input/Stream Input Mono Mode to select a
Left + Right
stereo feed, or for input audio from only the
Left
or only the
Right
streamed channel.
Under
Stream URL
, man-
ually enter the Internet
address of the streamed
program audio source.
When the Only connect
when stream is source box is not checked, the NOVIA 236 will
connect to a valid stream automatically and remain con-
nected. When the Only connect when stream is source box is
checked, as shown above, the unit will connect to the
stream either when the stream has been manually selected
as the primary input source or ‘failover’ has switched-over
to the stream as the backup source. The
Connect
button
simply forces a re-connection.
Input Sources and Program Failover
From the Main Menu, go to Input Sources to select your Prima-
ry Source and failover Backup Source(s) for program audio.
Under the Primary Source
submenu, set your de-
fault, first-choice source
for program
Audio:
. This
can be any of the three
program inputs:
Analog
,
Digital
or
Stream
.
Second, and even third, ‘failover’ Audio: choices are set up in
a very similar manner. In the example above, an audio loss