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How to connect wings, nodes, 3D and onPC
There are several things you can connect together. Everything is connected on an Ethernet network infrastructure. This
means that you need to connects all you devices using Ethernet cables (Cat.5e quality or better) to a switch that
minimum runs at 100MB speed and the switch needs to be able to handle Multicast. All devices in the network use IPv6
to talk to each other - so the switch needs to be able to handle this as well.
If you don't know what IPv6 is and you have trouble with the connections, please read the
.
If you have any doubt about what switch to use, please contact your local distributor. They will help you select an
appropriate switch.
dot2 Wings
You can connect wings to your dot2 console or to dot2 onPC. The wings are assigned to a specific device. If this device is
lost on the network then the wing loose it's functionality and waits to be assigned to a different device.
There are two types of wings: the dot2 Fader wing (F-wing) and the dot2 Button wing (B-wing). Each gives you more
physical executors and an extra screen.
Since the wings are connected directly to a specific device you'll need to open the setup menu on the device you want to
connect a wing. In the Setup menu you'll find a button called dot2 Wings , tap this.
This gives you the
. Here you can tap one of the free slots (yellow bar on the left side) of the same type as
your wing. There are only five slots for each device. Depending on your devices you might only have a few free slots. Slots
that are occupied by the console have a red bar on the left side - they are called "fixed, internally". Slots that are currently
occupied by an external wing will have a green bar in the left side.
When you tap a free slot you'll see the available wings in your network. If you don't see any wings here, then you need to
check you network and the connections - also make sure everything is powered on.
When you see a wing on the left side of the screen, then you can tap it. The wing you have selected will now flash all the
keys. This is so you can identify the select wing in a multi wings setup. When the correct wing is flashing, then you can
tap the Assign Selected button.
Now you have assigned and connected a wing and you can exit the menu.
dot2 consoles, dot2 onPC and dot2 3D visualizer
Everything, except wings, are connected to a session. Wings are connected to a specific device. There can be 4 separate
sessions running in your network.
The session system allows for a greater flexibility with regards of backup and redundancy.
Press
Setup
and then the Sessions button. This gives you the
. This view is separated into two
parts the top part shows you if your console or onPC is currently in a network session or not.
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dot2 User Manual – How to...
Version 1.1 – 2020-11-07
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