ECLER PAGENETDN PAGENETDN_manual_v_20200628.pdf

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PAGENETDN

DIGITAL CONTROL

EclerNet Dante™ Paging Station & Control Touch-Screen

USER MANUAL

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INDEX

1. IMPORTANT REMARK .......................................................................................................... 3

2. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ............................................................................. 3

3. IMPORTANT NOTE ................................................................................................................ 5

4. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 5

4.1. Main features ............................................................................................................................... 6

5. INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS ............................................................................... 7

5.1. Installation and wiring .............................................................................................................. 7

5.2. Audio Settings ............................................................................................................................. 8

6. OPERATION ............................................................................................................................. 9

7. LOCAL CONFIGURATION OF THE UNIT ......................................................................... 11

7.1. Screen Configuration menu .................................................................................................. 12

7.2. Device Configuration menu ................................................................................................... 14

7.3. Network Configuration menu ............................................................................................... 15

7.4. Information / Tools menu ....................................................................................................... 16

8. CONNECTION TO A UCP SERVER ................................................................................... 18

9. PACKAGE CONTENTS ........................................................................................................ 20

10. FUNCTION LIST .................................................................................................................... 20

11. FUNCTION DIAGRAM ......................................................................................................... 21

12. BLOCKS DIAGRAM .............................................................................................................. 22

13. TECHNICAL FEATURES ...................................................................................................... 23

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1. IMPORTANT REMARK

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is

intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage”

within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to
constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the
user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing)
instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance.

WARNING (If applicable): The terminals marked with symbol of “ ”

may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock. The external wiring
connected to the terminals requires installation by an instructed person or the use of
ready-made leads or cords.

WARNING: To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose this equipment to rain or

moisture..

WARNING: An apparatus with Class I construction shall be connected to a mains

socket-outlet with a protective earthing connection.

2. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

1. Read these instructions.

2. Keep these instructions

3. Heed all warnings

4. Follow all instructions

5. Do not use this apparatus near water

6. Clean only with dry cloth

7. Do not block any ventilation openings Install in accordance with the

manufacturer’s instructions

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8. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or

other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat.

9. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding type plug. A

polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other. A grounding type
plug has two blades and a third grounding prong. The wide blade and the third
prong are provided for your safety. If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet,
consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet.

10. Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at the plugs,

convenience receptacles, and at the point where they exit from the apparatus.

11. Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer.

12. Unplug the apparatus during lightening sorts or when unused for long periods of

time.

13. Refer all servicing to qualified personnel. Servicing is required when the apparatus

has been damaged in any way, such as power supply cord or plug is damaged,
liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has
been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.

14. Disconnecting from mains: switching off the POWER switch all the functions and

light indicators of the amplifier will be stopped, but fully disconnecting the device
from mains is done unplugging the power cord from the mains input socket. For
this reason, it always shall remain readily operable.

15. Equipment is connected to a socket-outlet with earthing connection by means of

a power cord.

16. The marking information is located at the bottom of the apparatus.

17. The apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and that no objects

filled with liquids, such as vases, shall be placed on apparatus.

WARNING: This product must not be discarded, under any circumstance, as

unsorted urban waste. Take it to the nearest electrical and electronic waste
treatment centre.

NEEC AUDIO BARCELONA, S.L. accepts no liability for any damage that may be caused
to people, animal or objects due to failure to comply with the warnings above.

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3. IMPORTANT NOTE

Thank you for choosing our PAGENETDN Dante™ Paging Station and EclerNet digital
control device.

It is VERY IMPORTANT to carefully read this manual and to fully understand its
contents before any connection in order to maximize your use and get the best
performance from this equipment.

To ensure optimal operation of this device, we strongly recommend that its maintenance
be carried out by our authorized Technical Services.

Ecler PAGENETDN comes with a 3 years warranty.

4. INTRODUCTION

PAGENETDN is a programmable Paging Station with dual audio output: Dante™
(digital) and analogue (balanced). This way, its control features and its microphone

signal can be used for paging together with any EclerNet digital matrix, no matter whether
it supports Dante or not: MIO4040DN, MIMO88, MIMO88SG and MIMO1212SG.

At the same time it shares the same control features as the WPNETTOUCH, and can be
programmed to control one or more networked EclerNet devices; it can even control a full
installation, a project combining a multitude of different EclerNet devices: MIMO4040DN,
MIMO88, MIMO88SG, MIMO1212SG digital matrices, NXA series digital audio managers,
DUO-NET PLAYER units, etc. It is fully programmable through the EclerNet Manager
application (*).

(*) Refer to the EclerNet Manager Application manual for more information. The EclerNet

Manager application is available for download at www.ecler.com.

It comes with a desktop console design, including a gooseneck microphone and a 10”
capacitive touch screen panel that can show and manage the User Control Panels for
paging and for the control of networked EclerNet devices, VEO video devices and third­party devices.

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4.1. Main features

• Digital touchscreen embedded control panel, including the same features as the

WPNETTOUCH device:

o 10.1” IPS display (1280 x 800 pixels)
o Capacitive & multitouch touch panel

• PoE DC supply compatible

• External power supply compatible: external & universal PSU included + multi-plug

AC set

• Ethernet Base-Tx 10/100Mb interface

• Flexo type gooseneck microphone included, XLR connector with safety flap (to

avoid microphone unwanted removal)

• Audio transport using Dante™, 2 channels:

o Dante™ channel #1 used for microphone signal transmission
o Dante™ channel #2 used for AUX input signal transmission

• Phantom Power available for the MIC input

• MIC out, analogue balanced signal, that makes the PAGENETDN unit compatible

for paging in combination with devices that don’t support Dante™ in a native way,
as the MIMO88, MIMO88SG and MIMO1212SG

• AUX input, stereo LINE, RCA connectors. The incoming signal is converted to

mono and sent to the network using Dante™ channel #2. It can be used to connect
an external audio source (like a media player) and inject its signal to the network
in Dante™ format

• Paging features based on programmable UCP control panels

• EclerNet control device, with the ability to execute EclerNet projects on its internal

engine, acting as a server and / or client of UCP panels

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5. INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS

5.1. Installation and wiring

The unit comes with the paging microphone unmounted, and it must be inserted into the
console before using the PAGENETDN for paging purposes.

To install the microphone, gently insert it with the connection pins correctly aligned with

the XLR socket in the console (mic’s ecler logo facing the back of the unit) and apply some

pressure until it clicks, meaning this that the XLR safety flap has been correctly triggered.
Once inserted, the microphone will stay in the console with little vertical swaying, thus
delivering little handling noise and high robustness feeling.

Whenever it’s necessary to extract the microphone from the console, a pin tool must be
used to press inside the hole at the back side of the microphone base on the console
surface. It will release the XLR safety tap, allowing to draw the microphone, again with
some force, to successfully extract it.

Before programming and using it, the PAGENETDN unit must be connected to the
network, by means of its internal RJ45 ETHERNET interface. This one, and the rest of
connectors, are available unscrewing the bottom metal plate of the unit (3 screws must
be removed).

PAGENET internal view, after removing the bottom metal plate

It must as well be supplied with DC Power, directly with PoE (Power over Ethernet), when
it is available from the Ethernet switch the unit is connected to, or by means of the
included external Power Supply, 12 VDC, 2A (EXTERNAL PSU CONNECTOR).

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Additionally, there are 2 extra audio connectors available:

• AUX IN (L / R): stereo LINE input, RCA connectors. The incoming signal is

converted to mono and sent to the network using Dante™ channel #2. This input
can be used to connect an external audio source (like a media player) and inject
it’s signal to the network in Dante™ format

• MIC OUT (ANALOGUE AUDIO OUT): mono balanced signal (Euroblock). It’s a

copy of the microphone signal in analogue format, that enables to create paging
systems in combination with devices without Dante™ native support.

5.2. Audio Settings

PAGENETDN has several audio controls in its electronics that can be used to tailor the
incoming analogue audio signals:

• PHANTOM POWER ON / OFF (default = ON): it enables or disables the Phantom

Power delivered to the microphone XLR connector, in case a condenser
microphone is used, like the unit that comes by default with the PAGENETDN
device (Ecler eMCN1 model)

• HPF (High Pass Filter) ON /OFF (default = ON): it enables or disables the High

Pass Filter (100Hz @ 12dB/oct) applied to the audio signal captured from the
microphone capsule, to minimize low frequency and unwanted noise entering into
the voice messages path along the audio system

• MIC IN GAIN (*): preamp gain adjustment for the incoming microphone signal. It

affects both the resulting Dante ch #1 output and the ANALOGUE AUDIO (MIC)
OUT signal

• AUX IN GAIN (LINE GAIN): preamp gain adjustment for the incoming AUX IN ST

LINE signal, later converted to mono and to Dante ch #2

(*) Note: the microphone XLR connector admits standard XLR microphones to be

used, like the Ecler eMCN1 supplied with the unit, but it can’t hold those with the

base thicker than the standard XLR size:

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6. OPERATION

PAGENET must be properly included in an EclerNet project, and configured (regarding
Dante™ audio routing and / or control features) to finally show the UCP paging and control
panels that the end user will have available. Examples:

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Please, refer to EclerNet Manager application user manual, chapter PAGENETDN

DEVICE, for further information.

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7. LOCAL CONFIGURATION OF THE UNIT

PAGENETDN settings and configuration menus can be accessed locally from the touch
screen of the device itself. These menus are exactly the same as the ones available for the
WPNETTOUCH device, as it really includes a WPNETTOUCH unit in it.

The same settings are remotely accessible when the unit is under the control of a remote
computer running the EclerNet Manager application.

Local access to the configuration menus can be done by clicking on the SETUP icon, from
the home page of the unit:

The available configuration menus are the following:

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7.1. Screen Configuration menu

This menu allows setting different parameters affecting the displayed items and controls
on the screen of the unit:

• Display mode: behavior of the screen dimming in sleep state, after 10 seconds of

user inactivity on the touch screen. The available modes are: ON (always lit),
DIMMED and OFF (unlit)

• Backlight Intensity: brightness intensity of the screen when it is not in sleep mode.

• Auto-Zoom Panels: when activated, the graphic control panels (UCPs) are

automatically resized to match the maximum visible area, no matter the original
resolution they were created in the EclerNet Manager project file

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• Show Panel OSD Buttons: enables/disables the superimposed display of the

navigation buttons in the corners of the displayed UCPs. The top corner buttons
can scroll the panel pages (left and right) and the bottom corner buttons access
the icon bar:

Note: even when the buttons are not displayed, they can still be active, so that

pressing the top corners activates the horizontal scrolling between the panel
pages and pressing the bottom corners displays the icon bar. This is an aspect
that must be taken into account for the layout of the controls (buttons, sliders,
knobs, etc.) on each UCP page during its design; the corners must be as free as
possible if these OSD buttons will be used for scrolling between pages (top ones)
and always free in the case of the bottom ones (icon bar display).

• Scroll by OSD Buttons: enables/disables the scroll action between pages pressing

the top corners, even the OSD buttons are hidden

• Scroll by Swipe: enables/disables the scroll action between pages with a left or

right swipe (press & drag) action on the screen

The icon bar displays new accesses to the horizontal scrolling between the pages of a
panel (to the left and right), access to the home page of the unit ("HOME" icon) and exit
of the icon bar ("X" icon):

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7.2. Device Configuration menu

This menu allows adjusting the following parameters of the unit:

• Device Name: name of the device, as seen from other WPNETTOUCH /

WPmSCREEN devices, as well as from the EclerNet Manager application

• Device Password: password for the protection of the device against the editing

of its critical configuration parameters, requested for this purpose if enabled
(enabled = other than blank password)

• Enable UCP Server: enables/disables the embedded UCP server service of the

unit

o Enabled: the EclerNet project stored in the unit (“Local Project”) will be

fully functional, taking control of the hardware devices that are included in
it (MIMO4040DN, MIMO88, NXA units, etc.) and serving the UCP panels it
contains to potential UCP clients on the network

o Disabled: the EclerNet Local Project is deactivated, releasing the control

over all included hardware (MIMO4040DN, MIMO88, NXA units, etc. ) and,
consequently, also ceasing to serve UCPs for clients

Warning: In the disabled status, another device or computer running a

project containing all or some of the hardware devices existing in the
WPNETTOUCH's Local Project could take control of them. Just one device

and project can take control of the same hardware device at the same
time, so that units controlled by a device must first be released before

trying to control them from another device:

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▪ From EclerNet Manager, you can release the devices controlled by

the computer through the creation of a new project (File -> New
Project), or by disconnecting them from the network one by one
(right mouse button -> Disconnect)

▪ From a WPNETTOUCH / WPmSCREEN, you can release the

devices controlled by the unit by setting the Enable UCP Server
option on NO.

7.3. Network Configuration menu

This menu allows modifying the network connection parameters of the WPNETTOUCH
unit: IP address, network mask and gateway.

Note: neither the WPNETTOUCH nor any other EclerNet device supports the protocol

of dynamic allocation of IP addresses (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP),
so it's always necessary to manually assign them static addresses

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7.4. Information / Tools menu

This menu displays the following information:

• Server IP Address: IP address of the UCP server device that the unit is connected

to, as a UCP client. When the unit is connected to itself as a client, it will show its
own IP address (= Local IP Address)

• Server Project: name of the project running in the server the unit is connected to

as a UCP client (project running on the UCP server of the client)

• Local IP Address: IP Address configured for the WPNETTOUCH unit

• Local Project: name of the project stored in the internal storage space of the

WPNETTOUCH unit. This project can be uploaded to the WPNETTOUCH unit
using EclerNet Manager software app

• Available Storage: internal storage space available to upload a project file, which

would include User Control Panels data and graphics

• Ethernet Address: MAC address of the NIC (network interface card) mounted in

the WPNETTOUCH unit

• Display resolution: native screen resolution of the IPS panel of the unit (1280 x

800)

• Firmware version: shown at the lower right hand side corner (in the above

example v0.04r11)

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And the following restore / reboot options:

• Project Defaults: clears the project in memory, replacing it with a blank project,

after warning that the process is irreversible:

• Factory Defaults: clears the entire configuration and all data in the unit, restoring

the factory default settings, after warning that the process is irreversible:

• Reboot: reboots the unit:

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8. CONNECTION TO A UCP SERVER

From the home screen of the unit, the connection icon on the upper side of the screen
will give access to the Connection page:

This page allows deciding the UCP server the unit will connect to as a client. The UCP
server may be a computer, a MIMO4040DN matrix (yes, it has an embedded UCP server
in its engine!) another WPNETTOUCH / WPmSCREEN unit or even the same
PAGENETDN / WPNETTOUCH unit. In any case, the UCP server shall host and run an
EclerNet Manager project that includes a series of UCPs which can be remotely managed
by any UCP client.

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It is possible to directly enter the IP address of the server device, using the touch keyboard
displayed on the screen, or to select a device from a list of automatically detected server
devices, which is accessed by clicking on the grey button with the list icon to the right of
the "Connect" button:

Note: in the list of detected server devices, the name of the WPNETTOUCH unit under

control will appear in green (the one matching with the Local IP Address)

After selecting a server unit or an IP address, using either of these two methods, pressing
the "Connect" button will confirm the selection and start the process of connecting to the
server. If this process is successful, the UCPs that the server makes available for the
WPNETTOUCH client will appear on the screen:

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9. PACKAGE CONTENTS

• PAGENETDN unit

• Gooseneck microphone + anti-pop screen

• External PSU, 24V – 12A, universal, multi AC plug

• Euroblock 3p aerial connector

• Quick User Guide and Warranty Card

10. FUNCTION LIST

1. Multi-touch screen

2. Gooseneck Microphone

3. XLR connector

4. Power cord hole

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11. FUNCTION DIAGRAM

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12. BLOCKS DIAGRAM

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13. TECHNICAL FEATURES

MIC INPUT

Microphone type

Removable gooseneck condenser microphone
(eMCN1)

Polar pattern

Unidireccional

Microphone freq. response

Phantom Voltage

Output level with eMCN1 MICROPHONE

HPF

50Hz – 18kHz (-10dB)
48VDC, ON/OFF by internal JUMPER

-5dBV @ 94dB SPL with ADJ MAX.

-10dBV @ 94dB SPL with ADJ MID.

-20dBV @ 94dB SPL with ADJ MIN.
100Hz 12dB/oct ON/OFF by internal JUMPER

LINE INPUT

Connector

Signal

Nominal input level

Gain adjust

Input impedance

RCA
Line level, L + R

-10dBV

-20dBV / 0dBV
>10k

DANTE AUDIO INTERFACE

Dante Network Tx channels

Latency

Connector

2
1 / 2 / 5 ms (selectable)
RJ45

AUDIO OUTPUTS

Microphone output signal Connector

Output level

Balanced, analog
Phoenix connector (symmetric)
0dBV

System

CPU

RK3128 quad core processor, clocked 1.6G

RAM

1GB

ROM

8GB

Screen

Size

10,1” IPS

Resolution

1280x800

Contrast ratio

1300

Brightness

300cdm2

Screen scale / Display area

16:9 / 218x135mm

Backlight

LED

Touch-panel

Capacitive multi-touch

Network & Connectivity

Ethernet

Supports PoE

Ethernet port

Ethernet Base-Tx 10/100Mb / 1GB CAT5e or
better up to 100m.

Power External power supply voltage

12VDC

DC current (max)

TBD mA from 12V External Power Supply
Voltage
TBD mA from PoE
PoE: class 0 802.3af Poe PD compliant

Mains power consumption

TBD W

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General Dimensions (microphone excluded)

TBD

Weight

TBD

AC Power Adapter

90-264VAC 47-63Hz 12V / 2A

Accessories included AC power adapter

90-264VAC 47-63Hz 12V / 2A, multi-plug

Microphone

Ecler eMCN1

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All product characteristics are subject to variation due to production tolerances.
NEEC AUDIO BARCELONA S.L. reserves the right to make changes or improvements in the design or
manufacturing that may affect these product specifications.

For technical queries contact your supplier, distributor or complete the contact form on our website,
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Support / Technical requests.

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