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SERVSWITCH™ WIZARD MP
5.5 Keyboard Control: Hotkey Commands
You can control many functions on the ServSwitch Wizard MP—such as CPU-
channel selection, autoscanning, or locking—from the keyboard, using commands
triggered with the Wizard MP’s currently selected hotkey combination. All of the
hotkey-control commands are invoked by holding down the one or two hotkeys
and then pressing a command key. By default, the two hotkeys are [Ctrl] and [Alt],
although other keystroke combinations can be selected (see
Section 4.2.8
).
Normally, when you send a hotkey command, you have to release the hotkeys
and the command key before you can send another one. The one exception to this
rule is {Hotkeys} + [Tab], the “switch to next CPU channel” command; you can
“tab through” the channels by holding down the hotkeys and repeatedly pressing
[Tab].
The hotkey commands are summarized below and on the next page. Note that
to generate the numeric digits in the commands that contain them, you need to
press the number keys on the top row of the main section of the keyboard,
not
the
number keys on the keypad; the Wizard MP will not recognize keypad numbers.
• Use {Hotkeys} + [
x
], where
x
is a number from one to four, to switch to the
corresponding CPU channel. If you try to select a channel with a higher
number than the Wizard MP has ports, the Wizard MP will ignore the
command and pass it through to the currently selected computer.
• Use {Hotkeys} + [Tab] to switch to the next channel in numeric sequence (if
the Wizard MP is set to “U7”) or to the next
active
channel (if the Wizard MP is
set to “U8”); refer to
Section 4.2.7
.
• Use {Hotkeys} + [A] to have the Wizard MP start autoscanning (briefly
displaying the video from each CPU channel in turn). You can control
whether or not it scans empty channels, and for how long it pauses at each
channel, with the “L1” through “L4” and “T
x
” configuration commands
respectively (see
Section 4.2.3
). To stop autoscanning, simply select a fixed
channel using the Wizard MP’s front-panel pushbutton, the keyboard hotkeys,
or the mouse (if mouse switching is enabled and the mouse is a 3-button or
IntelliMouse type).
Please note that, in cascaded systems, it is not possible to scan through all of
the channels on every Wizard MP in the same scan. Each Wizard MP must be
scanned separately.
