Polycom CONFERENCE COMPOSER User Manual

Conference Composer User Guide

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CONFERENCE COMPOSERTM USER GUIDE

Conference ComposerTM Software ..............................................................2

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2

Installation.............................................................................................................. 2

Features of the Conference Composer Window ..................................................... 3

Operating Conference Composer...................................................................5

Device Parameters .........................................................................................8

System ..................................................................................................................... 8

Options.................................................................................................................... 9

Mic/Line Inputs....................................................................................................... 11

Input Filters ............................................................................................................ 12

Automixer................................................................................................................ 13

EF Bus .................................................................................................................... 14

Matrix Mixer........................................................................................................... 15

Output Filters ......................................................................................................... 17

Outputs.................................................................................................................... 17

Logic Input.............................................................................................................. 18

Logic Output ........................................................................................................... 19

Presets..................................................................................................................... 20

Macros .................................................................................................................... 20

Diagnostics ............................................................................................................. 20

Project Files and Creating Reports ................................................................21

File Saving.............................................................................................................. 21

File Restoring ......................................................................................................... 21

Creating Reports..................................................................................................... 21

The Console Window ....................................................................................22

Console Tab............................................................................................................ 22

Properties Tab ........................................................................................................ 23

Modem Use with the Vortex..........................................................................25

Troubleshooting the Vortex Modem Connection .................................................... 27

CONFERENCE COMPOSERTM SOFTWARE

NTRODUCTION

Conference Composer is the design and configuration software that is supplied with

. Its purpose is to make it easy and intuitive to configure Polycom’s Vor-

ONTROL PANEL

window) before installing the latest

NSTALLATION

the Vortex tex products, share configuration files, create presets, macros, and logic assignments.

Conference Composer operates under Windows™ 98, ME, NT, and 2000.

Insert the Conference Composer disk into your CD-ROM drive and run the Setup program. If you have a previously installed version of Conference Composer on your computer, it is highly recommended that you uninstall that version (use Add/ Remove Program from the C version.

After running the Setup program, simply follow the instructions for installing Conference Composer.

USING CONFERENCE COMPOSER WITH A VORTEX AND EF200 PHONE ADD

When using the Conference Composer software with the Vortex and the EF200, plug the RS-232 into the Vortex. If you plug into the EF200, you may not be able to get Level information because the EF200 will not know how to interpret the data from the software that will display metering information.

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EATURES OF THE CONFERENCE COMPOSER WINDOW

Figure 1. Feauters of Conference Composer window

1. E

XPLORER MENU

. The Explorer-type menu structure allows you to easily navigate and browse through your device list. Clicking on an item in the tree will display the parameter page to the right of the explorer menu.

2. S

TATUS METER

. This meter and status light shows the communication status between your PC and a Vortex or EF device (EF200 or EF1210). The W light turns yellow when it is communicating via RS-232 with a Vortex or EF device and the meter indicates how full the command buffer is with commands being sent to the device.

3. DSP L

. Indicates the current percentage of used available variable DSP

OAD

resources.

4. M

ENUS

•F

ILE

. The File menu allows you to create a new Project, Device Chain, or Device; manages file functions of a Project such as Opening, Saving, or Closing; and handles printing and Preferences.

•P O

. The Project menu contains 3 options: A

ROJECT

. A

NLINE

UTOSCAN

scans in their settings. S Composer. O EF device or upload settings to a Vortex or EF device.

UTOSCAN

, S

finds all Vortex or EF devices connected to the PC and

loads a sample project into Conference

AMPLE

allows you to either download settings from a Vortex or

NLINE

AMPLE

AITING

, or

CONFERENCE COMPOSERTM SOFTWARE

•U

SER MODE

. User mode selects between B

ASIC

and A

DVANCED

mode limits user options that can be adjusted. Advanced mode allows control of all parameters available on Conference Composer.

•H

. The Help menu contains the A

ELP

option that shows the version

BOUT

number of the software.

. Basic

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Conference Composer may either be operated online or off-line (not connected to a Vortex or EF device) depending on how you would like to use it. If you work off-line it is easy to save the settings to a file, share the files with others, and then upload the settings into an EF device when you go online. The online or off-line operation of Conference Composer is the same, although if you are operating off-line you will need to add devices to the project before you can start working with the devices.

Conference Composer organizes your projects into a hierarchy of P C

HAIN

, and D

. Starting from the bottom of the list, a D

EVICE

some piece of equipment that will be used in the installation. A D

EVICE CHAIN

, D

ROJECT

EVICE

is simply that –

is a collection of devices that are linked together through the ASPI Bus or EF Bus (that’s where the name device chain comes from). Typically these represent all the devices that are tied to a particular serial port on your computer/controller. The P resents a collection of D the D

EVICE CHAINS

as files and the D

EVICE CHAINS

. You can think of the P

as items in the files.

EVICES

ROJECTS

as directories,

ROJECT

rep-

There are many different buttons and knobs that allow the user to change settings on the device. Conference Composer’s convention is that a feature associated with a button is enabled when the button’s LED is lit. To use a knob, click on the knob and while holding down the mouse button, raise or lower the cursor to increase or decrease the knob value..

Figure 2. To increase the level, click on the knob and move the cursor UP. To decrease the level, click on the knob and move the cursor DOWN.

ONLINE: CONNECTED

TO AN EF DEVICE

To operate online, the EF Device should be connected to an RS-232 port of your host computer. The first step is to have Conference Composer scan your EF Device -- this ensures the settings you see on the PC screen are exactly the settings in the device. To do this, select the A

UTOSCAN

option from the P

menu as shown in Figure 3.

ROJECT

This ensures the settings you see on the PC screen are exactly the settings in the device.

OPERATING CONFERENCE COMPOSER

NOTE

Figure 3. Select A

UTOSCAN

to have Conference Composer automatically find

online devices.

If you have any devices currently using the serial port on your PC, such as a PalmPilot’s HotSync, please close those programs to free the COM port before running A

UTOSCAN

will automatically find all EF devices (EF2280, EF1210, EF200) attached to the RS-232 port and then automatically download all the settings into Conference Composer. Once the settings have been downloaded to the PC, any changes you make to the device through Conference Composer will be sent automatically to the device, updating its configuration in real-time.

Once Conference Composer has finished downloading the settings from the connected devices, you will see the Navigation area look like Figure 4. The amount of time it takes to sync with the Vortex depends on the number of presets that have valid data. More presets means more data must be sent to the PC.

Figure 4. Project generated when connected to a Vortex.

OFF-LINE: OPERATING

WITHOUT AN EF

DEVICE

To operate without any devices connected to the computer you can select NEW>D

->EF2280 to create a sample Vortex system to configure. This will automati-

EVICE

cally create a Project. Once you have a Vortex installed, your navigation tab should

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look like Figure 4 (the red X’s indicate that you are offline), and you are ready to proceed to the next section.

Figure 5. Operating Conference Composer Offline.

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