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PDM Operator's Manual Version 2.4a • September 2019
What time is it?
If you give talent or producers a clock that’s been slaved to PDM’s output, they’ll be able
to announce time checks and manage the program while staying in sync with the rest of
the world. For example, if PDM’s delay is 8 seconds, a connected remote clock will show
11:30:00
when the time is actually 11:29:52. Whatever gets said at that moment will come
out of PDM exactly at 11:30.
PDM’s slave output stays in sync no matter what you do. For example, if you DUMP and
delete 8 seconds of programming, the studio clock instantly jumps back 8 seconds. If PDM
is building a delay by slowing the output, the clock slows down to match.
PD Alert
configures PDM’s automatic dump-event logging and alerting function. This
important feature and its settings are discussed separately, below.
Front Panel
mimics the front panel menu settings on PDM’s LCD for visual brightness and
contrast.
Save Changes
The
Save
button changes PDM’s internal settings to match whatever you’ve
entered on this page.
Revert
cancels your recent entries, replacing them with whatever had
been previously set in PDM.
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Whenever you make changes on the configuration page, the title of that selection
appears in bold to indicate a change is pending, and the
Save
and
Revert
buttons will
flash.
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When you successfully Save those changes, the selection title reverts to normal text,
The
Save
and
Revert
buttons stop flashing, and a confirmation dialog appears on
screen. You must click
OK
on this dialog before you can make other changes.
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If you type an invalid value or setting, that field appears in red to indicate an error.
The PD-Alert System
When a user presses the
DUMP
button, PDM can automatically e-mail text alerts—or actual
audio files—to anyone you designate. This is our patented PD-Alert feature. For security
reasons, operators can’t change the PD-Alert setup from the device’s front panel: you must
log into the Graphical User Interface from a network computer, using a password.
PD-Alert uses standard Internet e-mail protocols, so it has to be configured like a standard
e-mail account. You’ll need an outgoing server address, a valid user name, and the password
for that user’s account. This is the same information you’d use setting up Microsoft’s
Outlook Express, Mozilla’s Thunderbird, or any other e-mail program on a desktop
computer
20
.
You can use any existing e-mail account. But most stations find it more efficient to establish
an account specifically for PDM.
20 PDM doesn’t receive e-mails; it only sends them. So it doesn’t need an incoming “POP” server. Also, PD-Alert
does not support the SASL [Simple Authentication and Security Layer] protocol, so you won’t be able to use
web mail services like Gmail.
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