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DATATON WIRETAG

USER GUIDE

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Page 1: ...DATATON WIRETAG USER GUIDE ...

Page 2: ...PICKUP 5 3 2 CONFIGURING TRANSPONDER ID WITH CONFIGURATION APP 5 3 3 USING AUTOMATIC TRIGGERING 5 4 WIRETAG AND SYNCHRONIZED AUDIO WITH WATCHOUT 7 4 1 INSTALLING THE WIRETAG DRIVER 7 4 2 PREPARING THE START SCRIPT 11 4 3 PREPARING MEDIA AND WIRETAG 12 4 4 ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 14 4 5 FIRMWARE UPGRADE 20 4 6 HUBS AND EXTENSION CABLES 20 ...

Page 3: ...AG collects syncronization data from WATCHOUT and sends it to PICKUP via infra red ensuring that the audio is in perfect sync with the WATCHOUT show WIRETAG may also be used as a powered transponder which could be helpful in situations where replacing the battery in a regular battery powered MICROTAG transponder would be difficult WIRETAG left and the Dataton WATCHPAX media player with built in WA...

Page 4: ...ecommended for the audio guides PICKUP Set ID version 1 7 or later is recommended for changing the identity number of the WIRETAG WATCHOUT version 5 5 or later is recommended Earlier verisons may work but are not recommended for best performance PICKUP firmware PICKUP Set ID and WATCHOUT software are all available from www dataton com ...

Page 5: ...ER ID WITH THE CONFIGURATION APPLICATION You can also set the transponder number with the WIRETAG configuration application which is a Windows application downloaded from Dataton Connect the WIRETAG to a computer Install the driver as described in paragraph 4 1 2 if necessary Open the configuration application select the WIRETAG to configure in the list on the left click the Get settings button En...

Page 6: ...6 WIRETAG USER GUIDE Visitors to the experience center at Herkenrode Abbey in Belgium enjoy an immersive chronological tour that combines Dataton WATCHOUT visuals with audio from PICKUP guides ...

Page 7: ...east 10 minutes Any additional time codes seen by PICKUP will adjust the internal clock providing lip sync for any amount of time 4 1 INSTALLING THE WIRETAG DRIVER When the driver is installed WIRETAG will appear as a serial port in Windows 4 1 1 WATCHPAX In WATCHPAX the driver is already installed and the WIRETAG will appear as COM3 Additional WIRETAG connected to a WATCHPAX will be named COM4 CO...

Page 8: ...k Install this driver software anyway After a few moments the window in Figure 1 will appear Click Finish and the installation is done 4 1 3 OTHER COMPUTERS RUNNING WINDOWS 8 The driver for WIRETAG is not digitally signed and by default Windows 8 does not allow installation of unsigned drivers To temporarily enable installation of unsigned drivers proceed as follows Figure 1 The WIRETAG driver has...

Page 9: ...CONFIGURING THE COM PORT NUMBER Now connect the WIRETAG to the computer It should appear as a COM port in the Device Manager To start the Device Manager open the Control Panel from the start menu and then click Device Manager Expand Ports to see the WIRETAG Depending on other serial ports serial adapters or other devices connected to the computer the WIRETAG may be assigned any COM port number To ...

Page 10: ...hat this number has been locked to another device so avoid these if possible Now the WIRETAG will always appear at the same COM port Figure 2 Configuring the COM port number Figure 3 below Selecting the COM port number for WIRETAG ...

Page 11: ...xt and put it in the same folder as WATCHOUT usually C Program Files Dataton WATCHOUT X where X is the version number When started WATCHOUT will look for this file and try to apply the commands listed To open the serial port put the following lines in the start script file authenticate 1 serialPort true COMX where X is the COM port number assigned to the WIRETAG If there are any problems opening t...

Page 12: ...lary timeline Name the timeline using a four digit number which is the same number as the WIRETAG ID and the album name in the audio file 4 3 2 PREPARING THE AUDIO FILE PICKUP only accepts mp3 files For best results we strongly recommend constant bit rate encoding not VBR for audio files used together with WATCHOUT The audio may easily be exported from WATCHOUT Open the timeline Window for the cor...

Page 13: ...he file in iTunes select Show in Finder or Show in Explorer if using Windows This will open a new Finder window where the audio file may easily be located Copy this file to the rest of the audio content and transfer it to a PICKUP for testing Figure 4 Tagging an audio file with ID number 1005 in iTunes ...

Page 14: ...FIGURATION OPTIONS In most cases the only configuration needed in the WIRETAG is to set the transponder ID which is easily done with a PICKUP running the Set ID app But in special cases more configuration options may be needed The Dataton WIRETAG configuration application is a Windows application available from Dataton upon request This application requires Microsoft net 4 5 The main window is sho...

Page 15: ... SYNCHRONIZED AUDIO WITH WATCHOUT 4 4 1 FM FREQUENCY WIRETAG contains a FM transmitter which is not currently enabled Changing this setting has no effect Figure 5 Dataton WIRETAG configuration application main window ...

Page 16: ...ive and is given in milliseconds Its value is added to the time that WATCHOUT sends to PICKUP Thus if the audio is ahead of the video try setting this to a negative value 4 4 4 HIGH POWER WIRETAG sends time code via IR approximately every second When this box is checked default the highest strength available is used providing a range of approximately 6 meters If the box is unchecked signal strengt...

Page 17: ...check the Use cond layers checkbox click the Edit mask button and check the layers to be enabled The conditional layers will be sent to WATCHOUT every time a user triggers the WIRETAG If the Use cond layers checkbox is checked and the CL command is used in the audio track in PICKUP the two layer masks will be logically OR ed together and sent to WATCHOUT For example if the command CL 1 5 11 is in ...

Page 18: ...s to his language while the show is running although he will be able to join in the show and get synchronized audio according to the genre selection in PICKUP As soon as the show has finished or started over he will be able to restart the show with subtitles in language Y by triggering the WIRETAG with the PICKUP Conditional layer settings in PICKUP and WIRETAG Layer mask sent to WATCHOUT at diffe...

Page 19: ...ween PICKUP and the WIRETAG Also the PICKUP must be pointed towards the WIRETAG If Automatic triggering interrupts currently playing audio is not checked PICKUP will only auto trigger if it is not playing audio If it is playing an audio track and receives an auto trigger package from the WIRETAG nothing will happen If this box is checked currently playing audio will always be interrupted when a ne...

Page 20: ... can override this run command by checking the Suppress run command checkbox 4 5 FIRMWARE UPGRADE You can upgrade or downgrade the firmware in the WIRETAG from the WIRETAG configuration app WIRETAG has to be running firmware 1 1 0 or later for the upgrade process to work If running an older version please contact Dataton for assistance During the upgrade only one WIRETAG may be connected to the co...

Page 21: ...ETAG units per computer In earlier WATCHOUT versions only one WIRETAG per computer is supported DATATON AB 2015 All rights reserved Specifications subject to change without prior notice Dataton and the Dataton logo are registered trademarks of DATATON AB WATCHOUT WATCHPAX and PICKUP are trademarks of DATATON AB All other company or product names referred to indirectly or directly are trademarks or...

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