Grass Valley Soft Panels User Manual
Soft Panels
Software Routing System Control Panels
Instruction Manual
Software Version 3.1
071833205
AUGUST 2010
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Soft Panels
Software Routing System Control Panels
Instruction Manual
Software Version 3.1
071833205
AUGUST 2010
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Contents
Section 1 — Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Section 2 — Soft Panels Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Section 3 — Encore System Soft Panel Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 4 — Prelude System Soft Panel Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Soft Panels Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Soft Panels Console and GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing with the Soft Panels Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing with Encore/Prelude Software Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Soft Panel Licensing for Encore Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Encore Soft Panels Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Background Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Encore Soft Panel Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
First Time Quick Configuration with Encore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SMS7000 Soft Panel Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Soft Panel Licensing for Prelude Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Prelude Soft Panels Configuration Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Background Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Prelude Soft Panel Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
NetConfig Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
First Time Quick Configuration with Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Soft Panel Only Prelude Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Multiple Control Systems on the Same Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Section 5 — Control Panel GUIs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Panel Type Drop Down Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Soft Panel Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Encore/Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Kalypso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Acappella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SMS7000 (Encore Soft Panels Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Jupiter (Encore Soft Panels Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Editing Button Labels and the Dynamic Keycap Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Dynamic Keycap Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Dynamic Keycap On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Line Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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Contents
Section 6 — Soft Panels Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Soft Panels Console Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Console Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Connection Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Encore Soft Panels Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Connect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Panel Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Panel Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Recv Port, Send Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Local IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Primary and Redundant IP Address:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Apply Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Restore Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dynamic Keycap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Always on Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Poll Timeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Exit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Prelude System Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Prelude Console Control Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Connect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Send Matrix Cfg Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Prelude Soft Panel Communications Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Broadcast/Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Matrix Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Multicast IP Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Hardware Control Panel Keycap Legend Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Keycap Legend Generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Keycap Legend Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Keycap Legend Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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Introduction
Overview
Soft Panels are virtual versions of physical control panels used with Encore
and Prelude routing systems. Soft Panels operate on PCs connected to that
system’s network.
Soft Panels feature a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that represents the
various specific panel types supported. The button labels on the Soft Panels
GUI can automatically be updated with the current names of Sources, Des
tinations, Salvos, etc. using the Dynamic Keycap feature. The button labels
can also be edited manually.
Section 1
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Once configured, each Soft Panel type operates the same as the corresponding hardware panel. Soft Panels are treated by the routing control
system the same as their hardware panel equivalents.
Soft Panels are sold separately from the routing system and are individually licensed.
On Encore systems the total number of all hardware panels plus all Soft
Panels cannot exceed 127 per Encore SCB. On Prelude systems the total
number of all panels cannot exceed 32.
Soft Panels Requirements
The Soft Panels application runs on Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating systems. It has also been tested to work with Windows 7, provided
the user logs in with Administrator privileges. Soft Panels have also been
successfully tested for operation on the Macintosh (Intel Duo) platform
running the Parallels application to generate a Windows XP virtual
machine.
Note Soft Panels do not work on Windows NT, ME, or 95/98 PCs.
The Soft Panels application requires a monitor display setting of 1024 horizontal pixels or more.
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Section 1 — Introduction
Note Soft Panels running on a PC with more than one monitor may display an extra
window. Attempting to close the extra window closes the Soft Panel application. Clicking on the frame of the extra window
screen. However, the video driver application may have a configuration
option forcing all windows to display on screen. Disabling this option (if it is
available) can permit hiding the extra window off screen.
Soft Panels Console and GUI
The Soft Panels application has a Console that controls how the Soft Panel
application connects to the routing system and what type of GUI panel will
be used. Two Consoles are available, one for Encore (Figure 1) and another
for Prelude (Figure 2). The Console type is selected with the labeled radio
buttons on the left.
Figure 1. Encore XY Soft Panel with Console Connected
may allow it to be moved off
Figure 2. Prelude XY Soft Panel with Console Disconnected
On Encore systems running 1.7.4 or newer software, multiple Soft Panel
instances can be launched, allowing the use of multiple Soft Panels types
simultaneously.
On Prelude systems, only one Soft Panel application can run on a PC at a
time, and
each PC. However, any of the available panel types can be dynamically
selected, connected, and used with the associated routing system at any
time.
The Soft Panel application must connect befor
Encore systems the connection is made to an Encore Panel Server. On
Prelude systems the connection is made to the Matrix being controlled.
only one Soft Panel GUI at a time can be displayed and used on
e it becomes operational. On
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Soft Panels Installation
Note Soft Panels operate on a PC that is on the same network as the control
system or matrix to which it will connect. For example, with an Encore system
if the SCB is on network 192.168.0.x then the PC needs to be on network
192.168.0.x.
The Soft Panels application is included on the Encore and Compact Router
Control System software CDs, and is available for download from the
Grass Valley Support web site. Soft Panels can be installed onto any
number of PCs, but must be licensed and configured before they become
operational.
On Encore systems the first Soft Panel instances launched will be operational (up to the number of licenses purchased). Any additional Soft Panels
launched will not be allowed to change router crosspoints. Closing unused
Soft Panels will free up licenses for use elsewhere on the Encore network.
On Prelude systems Soft Panels are individually licensed on each PC.
Section 2
Installing with the Soft Panels Installer
1. Acquire the Soft Panels software. It can be downloaded from the web
onto any convenient media (hard disk, thumb drive, or burned to CD).
2. Access the Soft Panels directory and run Setup.exe. The Soft Panels install
program will launch.
3. Click Next, accept the license agreement, and click Next again (Figure 3).
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Section 2 — Soft Panels Installation
Figure 3. Initial Soft Panels Installation Screens
4. Screens subsequently appear that allow you to choose the installation
destination and backup existing files (Figure 4). Default settings are
recommended, selected by clicking
Figure 4. Subsequent Soft Panels Installation Screens
Next.
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Installing with the Soft Panels Installer
5. A Start Installation screen appears next, which lets you choose the level
All Users and Administrator settings (Figure 5).
with
Figure 5. Subsequent Soft Panels Installation Screens
• Selecting the default Administrator setting will allow anyone logging
in to use the Soft Panels application on that PC, but only users
logged on as administrator will be able to perform advanced functions (creating and updating the .ini file, etc).
• Selecting
Panels application and also permits everyone access to the
advanced functions. This access is removed if Soft Panels is uninstalled.
After making your selection click
All Users will allows anyone logging in to use the Soft
Next.
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Section 2 — Soft Panels Installation
6. A progress bar screen will appear indicating the software is being
loaded, and a success screen displays when complete (Figure 6). Click
Finish to exit the installer application.
Figure 6. Final Installation Screens
Installing with Encore/Prelude Software Installer
A check box for Soft Panels is available during an Encore or Prelude control
system software installation process. You can choose to install Soft Panels
on the PC along with the control system software if you wish, or you can
select only that checkbox to install just Soft Panels (Figure 7 and Figure 8).
Figure 7. Encore Installer Checkboxes
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Installing with Encore/Prelude Software Installer
Figure 8. Prelude Installer Checkboxes
When selected, the Soft Panels installer (as described earlier) will launch.
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Section 2 — Soft Panels Installation
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Encore System Soft Panel Configuration
Soft Panel Licensing for Encore Systems
Encore system Soft Panels are activated with a license. The license is tied to
Encore System Controllers (SCBs) running the Encore system’s Panel
Servers. For example, if five licenses are purchased, up to five Soft Panels
(of any type) can be can run at a time on five different PCs connected to the
Encore system, provided Soft Panel software has been installed on the PCs.
The total number of all hardware panels plus all Soft Panels cannot exceed
127 per Encore SCB.
Soft Panels licenses are purchased through Grass Valley Sales and the keys
are issued by Grass Valley Customer Support. After purchasing your
licenses, you will need to provide the Device ID(s) of the Encore SCBs
running the Panel Server to Customer Support so they can generate the key.
Section 3
1. Using NetConfig or an internet browser, display the web page of the
SCB and select the
Device Id number displayed on the screen.
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System Controller Description (Figure 9). Write down the
Section 3 — Encore System Soft Panel Configuration
Figure 9. SCB System Controller Description Web Page
2. If you have redundant SCBs, access the web page of the secondary SCB
and write down its
3. Contact Grass Valley Customer Support, confirm the number of
licenses purchased, and give them the SCB Device ID(s). You will be
given a license key number.
4. Go to the SCB web page display and select Application Configuration
(Figure 10)
Device Id number.
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