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4 BMX
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nations by adding separate Take command lines
from that source to the other destinations.
Include Lists
Sources can only be routed on an RLS module’s
source selector if the source is listed on the
console’s Source Include List. This list is stored in
the console’s
routers.ini
file. The Source In-
clude list (its header is
[srcinclude]
, is cre-
ated and maintained using VMCC. It must list ev-
ery signal that may be required to be routed on a
console.
Since this list could include every signal from
every device in the VistaMax community, the in-
clude list could have several hundred sources. This
would make finding the desired source very diffi-
cult for the board operator.
To limit the total number of sources shown on a
module’s source selector, each module can have a
channel-specific source list assigned by the ses-
sion file. It should include only those sources re-
quired for a particular daypart or application. In
most applications, some modules will keep all
sources available while others will have specific
subsets with only the required signals listed.
It should be noted that once a channel-specific
include list has been assigned in a session file, that
list will be used for subsequent sessions, unless a
different channel-specific include list is specified
for that module. To return the list to the master
include list, the channel-specific include list would
have this command:
include_1=all
.
The following is an example of the channel-
specific include lists for four channels set as Telcos.
In this example Telco 1 (channel ID 81) and Telco
2 (channel ID 82) are active, while the Telco 3
(channel ID 83) and 4 (channel ID 84) entries are
file placeholders since they are not assigned:
[Router_81]
Include_1=D1,65-96,161-192
Include_2=D2,257-272,337-352,
Take=65873
[Router_82]
Include_1=D1,65,67,69,71,73
Include_2=D2,257-272
Take=macro_2
[Router_83]
Take=0
[Router_84]
Take=0
The
Take=
line sets the source for the module
when the session file loads, with
Take=0
or
Take=-1
routing silence. The Take command can
also call a macro file, as shown in
Router_82
. A
macro is a mini-session file, with a
.mac
suffix,
that is called from within a session file or via FTP
commands. In this case, the file
macro_2.mac
is
called up in order to set up a special mix-minus
feed for Telco 2.
The channel-specific include statements
(
Include_x=Dy, channel number range
)
set a range of sources, or individual sources sepa-
rated by commas, that can be selected by the mod-
ule listed in the section heading (e.g.,
[Router_81]
). Each include line must be listed
in sequential numeric order, where x equals 1 in
the first line, then 2, 3 and so on. Typically, all the
sources for one device are listed on a single line,
but they could be divided into separate entry lines
to make it more legible for someone editing the
session file contents.
The
y
entry (as in
=D1
) is the device number. In
the example, there are two devices in the system
that the Telco 1 and Telco 2 channels can select
sources from:
D1
(device 1) and
D2
(device 2).
Channel ID numbers identify the available
sources just like they identify the section head-
ings. A table listing of the Channel Number As-
signments is on page 4-17.
INIT.MAC FILE
The
init.mac
file is very important in the
RMX
digital, but in the BMXdigital it is only used
to assign the sample rates on the Net Card D1
and D2 outputs and chain a session file.
