DSNET USER’S GUIDE
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A check box is attached to each monitor
. The purpose of this check box is to create groups of monitors
that can receive group commands. For example, you can disable the audio or the video of a group of
monitors corresponding to some area section. See 3.9.
You can check and uncheck the monitor check boxes independently by
right
clicking on the monitor icons.
If you right click on some higher-level device icon, such as a receiver, a splitter, or the broadcaster, you
check or uncheck all monitors attached to this device. Hence, by right clicking on the broadcaster icon you
can check or clear all monitors of the network.
Faulty cables can be detected by the broadcaster. The broadcaster port becomes red and the port is
automatically disabled. Fix the problem and click on the port to re enable it.
Note
: Checking boxes with right clicks and getting access to properties with left clicks may seem unusual.
The purpose is to get easier access to main commands. The check boxes are just secondary in this
application.
Here’s the icon convention
for DSNet:
B8
means it is an 8-port Broadcaster.
S8
means it is an 8-port Splitter.
01
means it is the Receiver Port #1, and NC means “No device
Connected”
.
Faulty cable attached to Broadcaster port 8.
02
means it is the Splitter Port #2, and R2 means it is a 2-port
Receiver that is currently connected to that port.
These icons represent all possible states
of a monitor. Each
monitor can have the video on (blue) or off (grey), the audio on
(loud speaker) or off, and an unidirectional or bidirectional
connection (double arrow)
Note
that the monitor label is kept into the receiver memory. It
does not follow the monitor if you attach it to another receiver.
Note:
all labels attached to icons such as “8-port Broadcaster” or
“8-port Splitter1” can be changed by the user
