Zektor HD800-V2 User Manual

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HD800-V2

User Guide

HDMI Matrix Switches

Important Safety Instructions

CAUTION

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT OPEN

CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT REMOVE COVER

NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE

REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL

Important Safety Instructions

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the pres ence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. Read these instructions.

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

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.

8. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other appara tus (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 ground ing type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong. The wide blade or 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 plugs, convenience recep tacles, and the point where they exit from the apparatus.

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

12. Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or

when unused for long periods of time unless plugged into a UL rated battery backup and/or surge protection device.

13. Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as power-sup ply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or mois ture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.

WARNING: To Reduce The Risk Of Fire Or Electric Shock, Do Not Expose This Apparatus To Rain Or Moisture!

This apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and no objects filled with liquids, such as vases shall be placed on the apparatus.

Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pur suant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio fre quency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a par ticular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interfer ence by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment

and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit

different from that to which the receiver is con nected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV

technician for help.

HD800(V2) User Guide, Version 1.2, 9/11/13

Version History

Version 1.0 05-28-2013

• Initial release. Version 1.1 06-07-2013

• Added HDMI description.

• Added definitions for the EDLO and KSIZI commands.

• Spelling corrections. Version 1.2 09-11-2013

• Added EDID description.

• Added the ESet menu option.

• Added the ‘ESET’ serial command.

• Fixed the ‘KSIZI’ serial command definition.

Version History

HD800(V2) User Guide, Version 1.2, 9/11/13

Thank you for your purchase! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Front Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Rear Panel Connections to the HD800V2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Back panel connections defined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Menu System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Mapping an input to an output zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Changing the IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Adjusting HDCP key counts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Assigning Zones to Source EDIDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Locking the EDID settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Saving the EDID/HDCP settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Clearing the EDID/HDCP settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Functional Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

The HDMI Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

HDCP Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

EDID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Scenario 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Scenario 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Scenario 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Validating the installation of the HD800V2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

TCP/IP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Setting a static IP address vs DHCP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

TCP/IP settings used by the HD800V2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

RS-232 Pinout and Baudrate Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Pin definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Port settings used by the HD800V2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Timing information (unless specified otherwise by a comma nd’s description). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Command Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Type of Responses and Timing Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Acknowledgement Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Error Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Query Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using Bitmapped Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Reading / Writing Bitmapped Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Reference for Basic Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Basic Command Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

‘P’ Power Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

‘SZ’ Set Zone(s). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

‘MZ’ Mute (Disconnect) Zone(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Reference for Advanced Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Advanced Command Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

‘!’ Resend Error Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

‘V’ Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

‘XS’ Control Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

‘ASY’ Set the Polled or Asynchronous Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

‘ACK’ Enable / Disable Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

‘ECO’ Enable / Disable the ‘Parameter Changed’ Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

‘CHM’ Enable / Disable always sending“.ch” masks on zone commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

‘CRE’ Enable / Disable trailing Carriage Returns Line Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

‘SS’ Save Default Power On Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

‘FS’ Reset to Factory Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

‘LI’ Lighting Mode and Intensities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

TCP/IP Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

‘IPSET’ Set the IP operation mode, DHCP or STATIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

‘IPA’ Set / View the static IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

‘IPM’ Set / View the static IP Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

‘IPG’ Set / View the static IP gateway address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

‘IPAX’ Retrieve the current IP address in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

‘IPMX’ Retrieve the current IP mask in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

‘IPGX’ Retrieve the current IP gateway address in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

HDMI Control Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

‘EDLO’ EDID Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

‘ESET’ Assign zones to an input source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

HD800(V2) Serial Protocol, Version 1.2, 9/11/13

‘KSIZI’ Set the number of HDCP keys of a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

HD800(V2) Serial Protocol, Version 1.2, 9/11/13

Thank you for your purchase!

Thank you for your purchase of the HD800V2 HDMI Matrix switch. Every care has been taken to assure you of a successful installation and the subsequent operation of

your new HD800V2 video switch, however should something go wrong, and warranty repair work is needed, we request that you hold on to the original packaging materials.

Please take this time to verify the contents of the HD800V2 box.

The following should be included:

• HD800V2 HDMI Matrix Switch

•Power Cord

•USB Drive

• Quick Start User Guide If anything is missing please get in touch with us as soon as possible so that we can correct the sit-

uation.

What’s Inside

Features

• 8x8 active matrix HDMI video switch.

• Serial, TCP/IP control.

• All discrete codes available including on, off, and codes for mapping any input to any output.

• Made in U.S.A.

• Three year warranty.

HD800V2 User Guide, Version 1.1, 9/11/13

Front Panel Controls

Status {Setup} HdmiSw Power, IP, etc.

SELECT

MENU ZONE

SETTING

NEXTBACK

Key definitions:

MENU - Pressing this button will bring you back to the main menu.

Overview

ZONE - Anytime a zone is being displayed, these buttons provide a shortcut to switch quickly between zones.

SETTING - Provide shortcuts to changing a setting. These change there function depending upon the screen selected. For instance when one of the source/zone switching display is being used, these buttons will allow switching between the sources.

BACK and NEXT - Screen dependent buttons. SELECT - This is a multifunction button. Twisting the knob allows scrolling between menu

options, or the changing of a parameter, depending upon the current selection state. Pressing the SELECT knob will either select a menu option, or toggle between the select-mode, and

the update-mode.

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Rear Panel Connections to the HD800V2

MODEL: HD-800V2

OUT-1

IN-1 IN-2 IN-3 IN-4 IN-5 IN-6 IN-7 IN-8

OUT-2 OUT-3 OUT-4 OUT-5 OUT-6 OUT-7 OUT-8

WWW.ZEKTOR.COM

SAN DIEGO, CA

MADE IN USA

~110-230V

1.7A MAX 50-60 Hz

RS-232

TCP/IP

OUT

HDBaseT

Local

Out

Ethernet

Overview

Back panel connections defined

IN-1 through IN-8 -- HDMI inputs. OUT-1 through OUT-8:

• IR-IN -- These inputs are used to send IR to the HDBaseT receivers. An IR controller can plug directly into these inputs. They are a mono-jacks, polarity insensitive (it doesn’t matter how you connect the two wires to the tip and sleeve of the connector), and they accept any voltage between 3.5V and 15V.

• IR-OUT These outputs are the return IR channels from the HDBaseT. They will drive a controller or a standard 5V IR emitter/flasher. The y us e a mono jack, the sleeve is ground and the tip is +5V when on.

• HDBaseT -- These are the HDBaseT outputs and will drive up to 330ft of Cat5/6 cable to the HDBaseT receivers. Power is also sent over the Cat5/6 cable and the HDBaseT receiver does not need a separate power supply.

• Local Out -- These are local HDMI outputs. They are not mirrored outputs, plugging in an HDMI monitor to one of these outputs will disable the HDBaseT receiver.

• RS-232 -- These allow two way RS-232 signals to be sent to the HDBaseT receiver. These are straight through connections. They are the same pinout as the main RS-232 control port (See: “RS-232 Pinout and Baudrate Settings” on page 24). The baudrates can be up to 115K.

• Ethernet -- Each HDBaseT can have an Ethernet channel sent to it. These are 100Mbs full duplex channels. There are no internal connections between the outputs, to send the Ethernet down all 8 zones, you will need some type of 8 port Ethernet switch.

RS-232, TCP/IP -- The switch’s control ports. (See: “RS-232 Pinout and Baudrate Settings” on

page 24)

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Using the Menu System

Use the SELECT knob to scroll to a menu option. Press the knob to select the option. Most menu options are self explanatory. As you scroll through menu options, the bottom line of the

display shows a short description of each option’s function. For instance to turn off the HD800V2:

• Scroll to SETUP, press SELECT

• Scroll to OFF, press SELECT

The switch will turn off. Through out the manual the above sequence would be shortened to: Setup > Off Pressing the SELECT knob performs two functions. The first is to select a menu option as shown by the

OFF example given above. The second is to switch between the selection-mode, and the update-mode. The selection-mode is indicated by the left/right arrow characters {}. Whenever the {} are displayed,

twisting the knob to the right (CW), will select the option to the right of the current option. Twisting to the left (CCW) will select the option to the left.

Using the Front Panel

The update-mode is indicated by the bracket characters []. Whenever the [] are displayed, twisting the knob will change the parameter inside the brackets.

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Mapping an input to an output zone

ZONE: A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SRC: 0[1]0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SELECT

MENU ZONE

SETTING

NEXTBACK

To map any source (input) to any zone (output):

If the LCD display is not at showing the main menu press the MENU button. Use the SELECT knob to select the “Map Input /Output” option: HdmiSw

Using the Front Panel

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Using the Front Panel

Use the SELECT knob to scroll to the zone you wish to change. The zones are numbered on the top line. In the above example we’re updating the source of zone 1.

Press the SELECT knob to switch from the selection-mode to the update-mode. The cursor will change from the left and right arrow characters to the bracket characters to indicate that we are now in the update-mode.

Use the SELECT knob to change to the desired source. Press the SELECT knob to use the new source. The switch will switch the given zone to the new source, and the mode will change back to the selection-mode.

Zone ‘A’ represents the “ALL” zone. Setting zone ‘A’ to a source will set all the zones to the given source.

Setting a source to ‘0’, disconnects it from all sources (no audio, blanked video).

Shortcuts:

The ZONE buttons will move between the zones and set the update-mode, to allow easy use of the SELECT knob to update the sources.

The SETTING buttons will increment/decrement through the sources and set the select-mode, to allow easy use of the SELECT knob to scroll through the zones.

Anytime the main menu is being displayed, you can quickl y jump to the HdmiSw screen by pressing either of the ZONE buttons.

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Changing the IP Address

IP Mode: [STATIC] OK Addr: 192.168.001.200

SELECT

MENU ZONE

SETTING

NEXTBACK

By default the switch uses DHCP to acquire an IP address, to change this to static:

If the LCD display is not at showing the main menu press the MENU button. Use the SELECT knob to select the “IP Setup” option: Setup > IPSetup Press the SELECT knob to select the DHCP setting, then use the knob to change this to STATIC.

Press the SELECT knob again to switch to the static mode.

Using the Front Panel

Use the SELECT knob to scroll to the [Addr:] option, press the SELECT to enter the update-mode. The SELECT knob can now be used to scroll between the [Addr:], [Mask:] and [Gate:] options,

allowing you to change the static IP address, the IP mask and the IP gateway parameters. To change any of the parameters, select the parameter you want to change (address, mask, or gate-

way), and press the SELECT knob. Scroll to the octect you want to change, select it, and change it. Hint: The selection knob uses acceleration to allow faster updating of values. To make large

changes in the values, spin the knob quickly. For precise changes, spin the knob slowly. The IP address changes are not made until you scroll to [OK], and select it. You can ignore any of

the changes you’ve made by pressing the MENU button before selecting [OK]. Once you select [OK], the IP address changes will be made and they will be saved in EEPROM so

that they will be retained through a power failure.

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Adjusting HDCP key counts

SRC: 01 02 03 04 05 06 KEYS:[03]00 00 00 00 00

SELECT

MENU ZONE

SETTING

NEXTBACK

Normally these settings can just be left alone, but if you run into a source that does not have enough HDCP keys to distribute to all your zones, you can use this menu to compensate. When the number of HDCP keys is set to 0, this indicates the “Normal” mode of operation. The switch will simply let the source issue keys as needed.

To determine if you have an HDCP problem, refer to the section: “HDCP Keys” on page 18. To adjust the number of keys used by a source:

Using the Front Panel

If the LCD display is not at showing the main menu press the MENU button. Use the SELECT knob to select the “HDCP key counts” option: Setup > HDCP Use the SELECT knob to scroll to the problem zone, then set the number of keys the source makes

available. If you don’t know the number of keys, just set it to 1. Once all changes are made, pressing the MENU button will cause them to go into effect.

When the number of HDCP keys is set to a value less than the number of monitors, the switch still needs to authenticate the source to each monitor. Since there are more monitors than keys, this must be done using smaller groups of keys.

If the source is capable of issuing 3 keys, then the switch will authenticate 3 monitors at a time. So the only real effect of indicating that a source has only 1 keys, is that the authentication will take longer.

Once the authentication is done, the keys will be cached. Once the keys are cached the switch will operate at full switching speeds with no flickering. However if anything is changed (a new source or monitor plugged in, or removed) everything will need to be re-authenticated. So using a low key count will cause longer delays each time a new device is attached or removed from the switch. But once the authentication is done, switching will return to full speed.

Note: All these changes will be lost when power is turned off, unless they are backed up into EEPROM!

Once all HDCP settings have been set, and verified using the verification process (See: “Validating the installation of the HD800V2” on page 21), you should save the HDMI settings into EEPROM, to

prevent them from being lost at the next power cycle. (See: “Saving the EDID/HDCP settings” on page 17)

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Assigning Zones to Source EDIDs

Src: 1 SET Zone: o1{o2}o3 o4 o5 o6

SELECT

MENU ZONE

SETTING

NEXTBACK

By default an EDID that uses the lowest common features of all zones is given to each source. This screen allows you to override the EDID of an individual source by combing the EDIDs of all the assigned zones, and using it as the new EDID of the source.

For more information on EDID settings refer to the section: “EDID” on page 18. To assign zones to a source:

Using the Front Panel

If the LCD display is not at showing the main menu press the MENU button. Use the SELECT knob to select the “Assign EDID zones” option: Setup > ESet Use the ZONE buttons to switch between sources. Use the SELECT knob to scroll to a zone, and the press the SELECT to assign or unassigned a zone. A zone is assigned when the small square to the left of the zone number is filled in. A source that has no zones assigned is the same as a source that has all of it’s zones assigned, in

both cases the default EDID is used for that source. Once all changes are made, pressing the MENU, or either of the ZONE buttons, or scrolling to the

SET option will cause the new EDID to be sent to the source.

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Locking the EDID settings

EDID: Unlocked {Unlock} Lock Cancel

SELECT

MENU ZONE

SETTING

NEXTBACK

Locking the EDID will prevent EDID changes from registering with the switch. When the EDID is locked, all changes to the sources and zones will be ignored.

Audio Vi deo Receivers can sometimes change their EDID settings when power is cycled. When an A/V receiver is on, it will supply its own EDID indicating what type of audio it can play and

what kind of video it can display, or pass through to a monitor. When the receiver’s power is turned off, some receivers can act like they’ve been unplugged (removing the EDID completely), others will pass the EDID of the monitor attached to its output. To the switch, either of these occurrences is indis tinguishable from a zone that’s either had the receiver unplugged, or replaced by a monitor.

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Anytime a zone’s EDID changes, the zone must be authenticated with the attached sources. The authentication process will cause the zones to blank as the EDID keys are read, and the HDCP keys are negotiated.

T o prevent display blanking each time a receiver is turn on or off, the EDID settings should be locked. Once locked, all EDID settings will be ignored, and displays will not flicker when an A/V receiver is powered cycled.

Note: When the EDID settings are locked, any EDID changes will be ignored, this includes the addition of any new equipment. If any equipment is to be added or removed from the current setup, you must first unlock the EDID settings, or the changes will not be registered.

The A/V receivers should be in their powered on state when the EDID is locked. Before locking, you should verify the installation (See: will cause all EDIDs and HDCP keys to be cached. Once this is done you can lock the EDID settings.

To lock/unlock the EDID settings:

If the LCD display is not at showing the main menu press the MENU button. Use the SELECT knob to select the “EDID Lock” option: Setup > ELock Use the EDID Lock menu to either verify the current settings, or to lock or unlock the EDID set-

tings.

Note: After locking the EDID settings you should save all EDID/HDCP settings so that they will be retained after a power cycle (See: not saved they will be lost the next time the switch is powered off.

“Validating the installation of the HD800V2” on page 21), this

“Saving the EDID/HDCP settings” on page 17). If the settings are

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Saving the EDID/HDCP settings

Each time the HD800V2 is power on, it must read the EDIDs of each zone, and negotiate the HDCP keys between sources and zones. Once these EDIDs are read and the HDCP keys negotiated, they will be cached until the next time the switch is powered down.

When viewing a source on one zone, and another zone is switched to the same source, the HDCP keys must be read and negotiated with the new zone. To do this, the HDCP protocol requires the video to be blank while the new encryption keys are shared. This will cause video blanking and flickering on mon itors sharing the same source.

Once the EDIDs and HDCP keys are read, the will be cached by the HD800V2. When a zone, that has previously been authenticated with a source are connected, the keys will not be read from the source, but instead from the cache, and any shared monitors will not flicker.

When the switch is powered off, all the EDIDs and HDCP caches will be lost. To prevent this, the values can be saved in internal EEPROM and read back in each time the switch is powered on. This will prevent the initial flickering after powering on.

The following settings are saved in the internal memory:

• All EDIDs currently read into cache.

• All HDCP keys currently read into cache.

• The HDCP count settings.

Using the Front Panel

• The EDID lock setting.

To save the EDID/HDCP settings:

If the LCD display is not at showing the main menu press the MENU button. Use the SELECT knob to select the “EDID Save” option: Setup > ESave

The settings will be saved when you select the ESave menu selection. If you add or removing any equipment from the switch, you should re-save the EDID/HDCP settings. It’s best to make sure all EDIDs and HDCP keys have been read before saving the EDID settings, this

is done using the installation verification procedure, See: HD800V2” on page 21.

Clearing the EDID/HDCP settings

Each time the switch is powered on, the previously saved EDID and HDCP key settings will be read, and used as the starting point.

If you make changes to the switch’s configuration, the saved EDID and HDCP key settings will no longer match the connected equipment.

If the switch is to be used in a different location, or a new project (all the equipment and connections are going to change) you should clear all the saved EDID and HDCP settings to keep from wasting cache on EDID and HDCP keys that are no longer part of the project.

To clear the EDID/HDCP settings:

“Validating the installation of the

If the LCD display is not at showing the main menu press the MENU button. Use the SELECT knob to select the “EDID Clear” option: Setup > EClear Use the EClear menu to clear the EDID and HDCP keys and settings.

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Functional Overview

The HD800V2 switch is a full featured HDMI switch. It caches EDID settings and HDCP keys. By caching the EDID and HDCP keys, the switch can quickly switch between sources without flicker or video blanking.

The HDMI Switch

HDMI has many issues associated with its distribution. It was originally designed to connect a DVD player to a TV, with a few tweaks to the specification to allow for limited distribution.

HDCP Keys

HDMI allows for encrypted audio/video streams to be sent over the HDMI cables. To do this, each receiving TV or monitor must be issued its own decryption key. This forces each HDMI cable to send a different stream of encrypted data, even if it’s the same program being sent to two different monitors.

This prevents a simple splitter from working, since a simple splitter would send the same stream to two different monitors.

This also allows the source (DVD player, Cable Box, etc) to determine the number of simultaneous monitors allowed to view it’s content. Some cable box manufacturers only supplied a single HDCP key, while some Blu-ray players supplied a very limit number (like 3). Even today there are manufac turers that limit the number of HDCP keys, in their Blu-ray players to 9.

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To work around this problem, the HD800V2 will cache keys from sources and generate keys when needed, to supply up to 24 HDCP keys.

When a source runs out of HDCP keys (there are more monitors attempting to view a source than there are keys), it can do a number of undefined things. Video can go blank, or it can flash on and off, or in some cases the source could even lock up and need to be power cycled.

If you suspect an HDCP problem, you can verify this by:

• Turning off the HD800V2

• Turn off all TVs and monitors connected to the HD800V2

• Turn on the HD800V2 and set all zones to point to the source with the suspected HDCP problem.

• Now start turning on zones. If the disp lay starts flickering o r blanking after you tu rn on a zone, then the source most likely has one less HDCP key that the number of zones you have turned on.

• To remedy the HDCP problems, see the section on setting the number of HDCP keys. (See: “Adjusting HDCP key counts” on page 14).

For the most part there are fewer and fewer HDCP key issues with the newer HDMI products, and usually nothing needs to be done for the switch to work out of the box.

EDID

EDID is simple in concept. Each monitor or receiver contains a small data block that indicates what the monitor’s or receiver’s capabilities are. When a source connects to a monitor, the monitor’s EDID is read, and using this information, the source adjusts its output to match the capabilities of the monitor. If a monitor can display 1080p and the source can output 1080p, then 1080p will be used. The same is true for audio formats. The EDID will contain multiple resolutions that the monitor can display, and if

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it can decode multiple audio formats, these formats will also be included in the EDID. The source will compare the capabilities of the monitor, and it’s own capabilities, and choose the best video and audio solution to send over the HDMI link.

This works well when a single source is connected to a single monitor. A matrix switch complicates this a bit. What happens when two monitors are connected to the same source? Which EDID is used to indicate what the monitors are capable of displaying? What if the monitors have different capabilities?

Traditionally this has been handle in a number of different ways. Some switches will use predefined EDIDs that forces certain modes, like 1080p, 1080i or 720p and Dolby5.1 or PCM stereo audio, and then assume all monitors can handle this.

Other solutions involve reading a single monitor's EDID and sending it all sources. Or a pass through mode, where and single EDID is sent to a single source (in some switches this will prevent the viewing of this source by any other zones).

There have been solutions that depend upon the order of switching, where the 1st zone to switch to a source determines the EDID that is used. This is ideal if only one zone is switched to a source at a time. A shared source can have a different EDIDs, depending upon switching order. This can lead to confu sion “Why does Dolby5.1 only work sometimes?”, and requires the user to disconnect all zones from a source and reconnect them in a different order, depending upon what EDID features they want. This can be disruptive to all viewers of a source, as well as hard to explain to the end user why this is neces sary. Or alternatively it requires custom driver programming at each install.

Our solution is to allow any combination of EDIDs to be combined and sent to any source. This allows the flexibility of setting a source EDID to the capabilities of any single monitor / receiver, or any com bination of monitors / receivers. Each source can be sent a different combination of zone EDIDs. The EDIDs sent to the source, are not switching order dependent, and since the EDIDs are based on zone EDIDs, they are always valid.

By default, all the EDIDs of all zones (monitors and receivers) are read, and the lowest common features of all the zones are combined into a single EDID, that is sent to all the sources. For instance, if all the zones can receive Dolby5.1 audio, then the EDID will indicate that Dolby5.1 can be sent. If how ever even a single TV can only decode PCM stereo, the combined EDID will indicate to the all the sources that only PCM stereo can be sent to any zone.

You can now use the ESet screen to combine the EDIDs of similar devices and send the combined EDID to a source that will be associated with the devices. For instance all receivers can be combined and sent to a Blu-ray or Cable box that will be used mostly for those receivers. This allows you to enable Dolby5.1, or Dolby TrueHD, or any other features the receivers are capable of decoding.

Here are some common examples:

Scenario 1

You have a dedicated Blu-ray player to be used by a single hometheater receiver. You would use the ESet screen to set the EDID of the Blu-ray’s source to include only the zone of the hometheater receiver. In this case, the EDID of the hometheater will be sent directly to the Blu-ray player and all audio modes of the hometheater receiver will be available to the Blu-ray player. This will not prevent any other zones from switching to the Blu-ray player, but there can be issues if another zone does not support the same audio formats that the hometheater does. Leave all the other EDIDs to their default values, and all other sources will be viewable by all zones.

Scenario 2

You have a dedicated Blu-ray player, but 3 hometheater receivers at different zones. The receivers have slightly different features, bu t you only need the audio features that all three support. Use the ESet screen to set the EDID of the Blu-ray’s source to include the three zones used by the hometheater receivers. Once this is done, the Blu-ray player will always output video and audio that will be play

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able by all three receivers. Any of the receivers will be able to view and listen to anything played on the Blu-ray player. Other zones may or may not be able to, depending upon their capabilities.

Scenario 3

You have two 3D displays and one Blu-ray player dedicated to 3D video. The two displays may support different 3D formats, but they will most likely share formats. By setting the EDID to include both 3D TVs, the Blu-ray player will only send a 3D image that is viewable by both displays.

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Validating the installation of the HD800V2

After all sources and zones are connected, you should perform the following series of steps to verify everything is working ok, and to lock in the HDCP and EDID changes. These steps should only be done after using the ESet screen to make any EDID source changes.

• Be sure the EDID is unlocked. (See: “Locking the EDID settings” on page 16.)

• T urn on all sources, all TV / Monitors, and all receivers. Set the sources to “protected” content if possible. (Play a Hollywood DVD -- not a copy. Set the cable boxes to a premium channel like HBO. Etc.)

• Using the ‘A’ zone, sequentially switch all the zones to each of the sources .(See: “Mapping

an input to an output zone” on page 11.)

• Wait for all pictures to stabilize on each source change, verify that a picture can be seen on all zones. There can be a lot of video blanking and flickering at this point, and if you have sources that have manual HDCP key count settings, this could take a while. Verify that all sources can be seen on all zones.

• You should now be able to switch a single zone between different sources without causing flickering on any of the other zones.

• If you have a receiver attached to any of the output zones, you should lock the EDID. (See:

“Locking the EDID settings” on page 16.)

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• After locking the EDID settings, you should be able to turn of f an on receivers without cau sing flickering on any of the zones.

• You should now save the EDID settings in EEPROM so that all the HDCP keys and EDIDs cached will not be lost when power is turned off. (See:

page 17.)

• Before adding or removing any sources or zones, be sure to unlock the EDID. When the EDID is locked, the switch will ignore all new devices or changes, so it must be unlocked to register any changes.

“Saving the EDID/HDCP settings” on

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RS-232 / TCP/IP Port Hardware

TCP/IP Overview

The Serial and TCP/IP port share the same protocol. The TCP/IP connection is a very simple socket, sometimes referred to as Raw TCP/IP socket, similar

to T elnet, but without the Telnet protocol overhead. Most telnet clients will allow you to telnet into the HD800V2 without error.

We use the open source package PuTTY to do our testing. It has a convenient “Raw” mode that works great with the HD800V2, and is available in Windows and Linux (with a Mac O/S version in the works). (We are not associated with PuTTY in anyway, but do find it a useful tool when communicat

ing over TCP/IP and Serial port connections)

Website: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty By default, the HD800V2 uses DHCP to acquire an IP address. The TCP/IP socket’s is fixed to 50005. Once a connection is made it will remain open until closed by the client, or after 10 minutes of retries

at attempting to talk to the client. After connecting to the TCP/IP port, all commands are identical to those of the Serial port. All strings

coming from the HD800V2 will be sent to both the TCP/IP sockets and Serial ports.

RS-232 / TCP/IP Port Hardware

The HD800V2 will accept commands from both Serial ports and TCP/IP simultaneously, each port’s commands will be buffered until the ending ‘$’ is read, at which time the commands will be executed in the order received. All responses will be sent to both Serial ports and TCP/IP connections.

Setting a static IP address vs DHCP

By default, the HD800V2 will use DHCP to retrieve a IP address, an IP mask, and the address of the router (gateway). The IP address can be set using the front panel, or you can issue serial commands.

When using serial commands, setting an IP address is a two step process. You must first set the static values to be used for the IP address, the IP mask, and the router address, then place the HD800V2 into the Static IP address mode.

The commands to set the static IP address, mask and router are: IPA, IPM and IPG respectively. (See:

“‘IPA’ Set / View the static IP Address” on page 37.)

The command to change the IP address mode is: IPSET. (See: “‘IPSET’ Set the IP operation mode, DHCP or STATIC” on page 36.)

The command to save these changes in EEPROM so that they are used after a power failure is: ‘^SS 32$’. (See:

As an example, to set a static address of 192.168.1.200, a mask of 255.255.255.0 and a router address of 192.168.1.1, and save this in EEPROM, the following commands would be executed:

^IPA 192,168,1,200$ - Set the static IP address ^IPM 255,255,255,0$ - Set the static IP mask ^IPG 192,168,1,1$ - Set the gateway address ^IPSET 0$ - Set the TCP/IP mode to “Static” ^SS 32$ - Save the new settings in EEPROM in case of power failure

“‘SS’ Save Default Power On Settings” on page 34.)

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TCP/IP settings used by the HD800V2

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

Default IP Address: DHCP Port Number: 50005

Duplex: Full Speed: 10/100 Mbps

RS-232 Pinout and Baudrate Settings

The RS-232 port on the HD800V2 is the same format, and pinout, as a PC modem, and uses the same type of cable as a standard serial modem would, which is a standard straight through cable. Do not use a cable that is marked as a “Null Modem” cable.

The HD800V2 can also be used with USB to RS-232 conversion cables, these are all typically straight through cables. (Be sure to install any drivers that come with the USB to RS-232 cable you are using.)

The RS-232 port is a female type DE-9 connector (sometimes mistakenly referred to as a DB-9 connector) with the following pinout:

RS-232 / TCP/IP Port Hardware

Pin definitions

1 - No Connect 6 - No Connect 2 - TX 7 - No Connect 3 - RX 8 - No Connect

4 - No Connect 9 - No Connect 5 - GND

Port settings used by the HD800V2

Baudrate: 19200 Data Bits: 8

Stop Bits: 1 Parity: NONE

Timing information (unless specified otherwise by a command’s description)

Min character to character time: 0ms Min line to line time: 0ms Min time between commands: 0ms

Max time to respond to a request: 100ms

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Command Syntax

The HD800V2 serial command set uses an ASCII based protocol and a terminal emulator can be used to test the serial port of the HD800V2.

Each serial command is formatted as:

^CMD param1,param2,...$

Where:

^ = All commands and responses start with the ‘^’ character. CMD = The name of the command.

param = Any number of parameters can follow a command. $ = All commands and responses end with the ‘$’ character.

For instance the name of the command to turn power on / off is ‘P’ (must be capitalized) therefore, to turn on the HD800V2 send:

^P 1$ -> Command sent to the A/V switch ^+$ <- Acknowledgment indicating valid command

^=P 1$ <- Response from the A/Vswitch for new setting

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to turn off the HD800V2 send:

^P 0$ -> Command sent to the A/V switch ^+$ <- Acknowledgment indicating valid command

^=P 0$ <- Response from the A/V switch for new setting

NOTE: Only the characters between ‘^’ and ‘$’ are valid, any characters sent before the ‘^’ or after the ‘$’

will be ignored.

NOTE: By default, the HD800V2 adds a carriage return and a line feed to the end of its responses, after the

‘$’. This makes testing with terminal software easier. Since they are outside the ‘^’ and ‘$’ charac ters, they should be ignored by software drivers. If desired, this behavior can be disabled. (See: “‘XS’ Control Settings” on page 32)

Command Responses

Type of Responses and Timing Information

There are three different types of responses: Acknowledgements, Errors and Query Strings. By default, the HD800V2 will always respond to a command, there are no “time-out” modes, if you

send a command and don’t get a response within 100ms, something’s wrong with the connection.

The Acknowledgement Response

Every command will be followed by an acknowledgement or error response.

Anytime you issue a command and there are no errors, you will receive the acknowledgement response. Which is:

^+$

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The Error Response

Every command will be followed by an acknowledgement or error response. If something is wrong with the command, you will get an error response. Which is

^!<error_number>$

which is the ‘!’ followed by an error number (in ASCII), followed the ‘$’ character. For instance ‘2’ is not allowed as a parameter in the ‘P’ (power) command, so:

^P 2$ -> Command sent to A/V switch ^!2$ <- Error response to an out of range parameter

which indicates there was an out of range parameter. The following are the Error Response codes that can be returned by the HD800V2:

1 - Unrecognized command. 2 - A parameter was out of range.

3 - Syntax error, or a badly formed command. 4 - Reserved. 5 - Too many or too few parameters. 6 - Device busy, cannot process command. 7 - Buffer overflow. 8 - Command not valid if device is not powered on. 2xx - Error initializing the HDMI subsystem.

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And some more detailed descriptions of their meanings: Error 1 - The command given was not recognized as a HD800V2 command. Commands are case sen-

sitive and in the HD800V2, all commands are upper case.

Error 2 - One of the parameters given was too large, or too small, the command will be ignored. Error 3 - Something was wrong with the command's syntax. There was possibly extra data at the end

of the line, or non-decimal data as part of a parameter.

Error 4 - Reserved. Error 5 - The number of parameters given does not match the number allowed by this command. Error 6 - To prevent conflicts between the front panel Setup Mode and the serial port settings, when

the HD800V2 is in the Setup Mode, many parameters become read only and any attempt at writing them will return Error 6.

Error 7 - An internal buffer has overflowed, for instance more than 16 key codes were sent as part of

the “Key Emulation” command.

Error 8 - Power to the device must be ‘ON’ before this command is allowed. Error 2xx - An error occurred while initializing the HDMI sub-section.

The Query Response

The query response is sent by the HD800V2 to indicate a setting has changed, or as a response to a query command. The query response string consists of the ‘=’ character followed by the command string of the command being queried.

For instance, in the case of the power command:

^P ?$ -> Send a power request command to the A/V switch

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^+$ <- Acknowledgement (the command has no errors) ^=P 1$ <- Query response indicating the power is on.

Using Bitmapped Parameters

Reading / Writing Bitmapped Parameters

Some commands accept “Bitmapped” parameters. These are decimal values that represent a series of flags, or bits, that control, enable and/or disable different device operations.

Binary arithmetic is used to represent bitmapped parameters, it is assumed the reader has some familiarity with binary arithmetic.

An example of a command that uses a bitmapped parameter is the “XS settings” command, which is defined as:

^XS settings$

Where ‘settings’ is a bitmapped parameter defined as:

Command Syntax

Valu e Bit Position Name Default:

32768 16384 8192 4069 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

AMU VMU 12V AON IRJ IRS IRE KYE CHG SET CSE CRE CHN ECO ACK ASY

1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1

For information on what each bit of the XS command does, see: “‘XS’ Control Settings” on page32.

The “Value” row, in the table’s header, refers to the values, that when added together, create the decimal parameter used by the command. For instances if you want the bits ‘ASY’ and ‘IRS’ to be set to 1, and the rest of the bits set to zero, the parameter’s value would be calculated as: 1+1024, making the parameter value: 1025.

The command to set those two bits to ones, and reset all the others would be:

^XS 1025$

Individual bits of a bitmapped parameter can be set or reset without affecting the other bits, by prefixing the bitmapped parameter with a ‘+’ to set individual bits, or a ‘-’ to reset individual bits.

For instance in the above example the bitmapped value has been set to 1025. If we would now like to enable the IR jack, by setting the ‘IRJ’ bit, the following command can be issued:

^XS +2048$

The will set the ‘IRJ’ bit, and have no affect on the others, and the new “XS” value would b e: 3073 If we’d like to now disable the IR jack and the IR sensor, by clearing the ‘IRJ’ and ‘IRS’ bits, we’d use

the value “2048+1024, or 3072 and issue the command:

^XS -3072$

leaving the new “XS” value to be: 1.

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Basic Control

Reference for Basic Control Commands

These commands are all that are needed for basic control of the HD800V2 and includes power on/off, remapping sources to zones. This section also includes some helpful control options for changing the way serial commands behave.

Definitions

The following terms are used through out this manual.

Zone

An output. The HD800V2 has eight (8) outputs, known as zones. A single zone consists of the combination of a HDMI video channel, and an HDMI audio channel. For most commands, zones are indicated by using a ‘@’ prefix character.

Input

An input, or source. The HD800V2 has eight (8) HDMI inputs, each consists of the combination of an HDMI video channel and an HDMI audio channel. For commands that mix inputs with zones, ‘inputs’ are indicated by numbers without a ‘

@’ prefix.

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Channel

A channel is an HDMI video path, or an HDMI audio path. Channels are used to control breakaway features.

The following channels are supported by the HD800V2:

1 - HDMI video channel. 8 - Reserved.

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Basic Command Definitions

‘P’ Power Control

Turn on / off, or toggle the power state of the HD800V2:

^P 0$ Turn off power if power is not locked on. ^P 1$ Turn on power. ^P 2$ Turn off power regardless of “locked” state. ^P 3$ Turn on power and lock it on -- only a “P 2” command can turn off power. ^P +$ Toggle power

^P ?$ Query for current setting

Response String:

^=P n$

Where:

n = Current power status, 0=Off, 1=On, 3=Locked On. (A value of ‘2’ is never returned.)

The power lock and unlock can be used to keep a controller from turning off the HD800V2. Drivers should be written to only use the “P 0” and “P 1” commands to turn on and off the HD800V2.

This allows users to override the driver’s logic by manually issuing the “P 2” and “P 3” commands.

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By issuing a “P 3” command (lock power on), the HD800V2 will be turned on, and locked. Only a subsequent “P 2” command will turn off the HD800V2, The “P 0” and “P 1” commands will be ignored.

‘SZ’ Set Zone(s)

This is the command used to map sources to any number of zones. Its different forms are:

^SZ @zone,@zone,in$ Map all channels of an source, to a zone or zones. ^SZ.ch @zone,in$ Map only the selected channels of sources to zones. ^SZ.ch @zone,+$ Sequence zones forward through sources. ^SZ.ch @zone,-$ Sequence zones in reverse through sources.

^SZ ?$ In polled mode, reads current settings of all logged changes. ^SZ @zone,?$ Read current settings of given zones. ^SZ.ch @zone,?$ Read current settings of the selected channels of zones.

Response Strings:

^=SZ @zone,in$ or, ^=SZ.ch @zone,in$

Where:

@zone = One (or more) zones to be mapped. in = Source to map to given zone(s). ch = Channel bitmap.

‘SZ’ Examples

The ‘SZ’ command in its simplest form:

^SZ @1,@3,2$

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maps the input ‘2’ to the zones ‘1’ and ‘3’. You can also map multiple zones and inputs using a single command. For instance:

^SZ @1,2,@3,@5,7$

maps the input ‘2’ to zone ‘1’, and also maps the input ‘7’ to zones ‘3’ and ‘5’.

‘SZ’ Query Examples

T o make parsing the response strings easier , only one response string is sent per zone. Or , in the case of channel breakaways, only one response string per channel is returned. The response string is sent as a fixed length string using leading zeroes.

You can request the mapping of multiple zones, with one command, and still only one response string per zone will be returned, for instance:

^SZ @1,@3,@4,?

could return:

^+$ <- Indicates no errors in the command ^=SZ @001,002$ <- All channels of input ‘2’ mapped to zone ‘1’

‘MZ’ Mute (Disconnect) Zone(s)

This is the command used to mute, or disconnect a zone from any source. When muted, video is turned off, leaving a black screen. (Or possibly blue screen, depending upon how your receiver acts when video has been turned off.)

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The different forms of the MZ command are:

^MZ @zone,@zone,mute$ Mute all channels of a zone or zones. ^MZ ?$ In polled mode, reads current settings of all logged changes.

^MZ @zone,?$ Read current settings of given zones.

Response Strings:

^=MZ @zone,mute$ or,

Where:

@zone = One (or more) zones to be mapped. mute = Mute setting (0=Unmuted, 1=Muted).

‘MZ’ Examples

The ‘MZ’ command in its simplest form:

^MZ @1,@3,1$

mutes all channels of the zones ‘1’ and ‘3’. You can also mute/unmute multiple zones using a single command. For instance:

^MZ @1,1,@3,@5,0$

mutes zone ‘1’, and unmutes zones ‘3’ and ‘5’. By appending a ‘.’ and a channel bitmap to the ‘MZ’ command, the command can also be used to mute

individual channels.

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‘MZ’ Query Examples

There are two forms of the query response string, depending upon whether any channel breakaway options are in affect.

For instance if HDMI video, digital audio, and HDMI audio, are all muted on zone ‘1’, then:

^MZ @1,?$ >- Query request sent to the A/V switch

would respond with:

^+$ <- Indicates no errors in the command ^=MZ @1,1 <- Video and all audio channels are muted on zone ’3’

T o make parsing the response strings easier , only one response string is sent per zone. Or, in the case of channel breakaways, only one response string per channel is returned. The response string is sent as a fixed length string using leading zeroes.

You can request the settings of multiple zones, with one command, and only one response string per zone will be returned, for instance:

^MZ @1,@3,@4,?

could return:

^+$ <- Indicates no errors in the command ^=MZ @001,1$ <- All channels of zone ‘1’ are muted ^=MZ @003,0$ <- All channels of zone ‘3’ are not muted

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Advanced Control

Reference for Advanced Control Commands

These commands are for more advanced control over the HD800V2, inclu din g front panel light intensities, changes to serial port behavior, etc.

Advanced Command Definitions

‘!’ Resend Error Code

This special purpose command is used to request that the HD800V2 resend the last error code sent. This can be useful if the last error code sent had a checksum appended to it that did not match.

^!$ Request that the last error code sent, be resent

‘V’ Version

Returns the current firmware version of the HD800V2.

^V ?$

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Response String:

^=V “HD800-V2”,1.0a,30B2S12345678$

Where:

“HD800-V2” = Model

1.0a = Firmware version 30B2S12345678 = Serial number

‘XS’ Control Settings

Turn on and off operational modes of the HD800V2. The format of the command is:

^XS settings1,settings2$ Set the control bits to ‘settings1’ and ‘settings2’ ^XS +settings1,+settings2$ Set bits indicated in ‘settings1’ and ‘settings2’ to 1 ^XS -settings1,+settings2$ Reset bits indicated in ‘settings1’ and ‘settings2’ to 0 ^XS ?$ Query for current settings

Response String:

^=XS settings1,settings2$

Where ‘settings1’ is a bitmapped parameter defined as:

Valu e Bit Position Name Default:

32768 16384 8192 4069 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

0 0 0 KYD IRJ IRS 0 0 CHS SET 0 CRE CHM ECO AC K ASY 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1

ASY - 0=Polled mode. 1=Asynchronous Mode. ACK - 0=Don’t acknowledge cmds with “^+$” 1=Acknowledge error free commands with a “^+$” ECO - 0=Do not send a response strings for each cmd. 1=Always send response string when a serial command is issued CHM- 0=Only send a “.ch” when needed. 1=Always append a “.ch” channel mask to a zone response cmd CRE - 0=Don’t send CRs/LFs at end of responses 1=End all responses with a carriage return and a line feed.

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0- Reserved.

Where ‘settings2’ is a bitmapped parameter defined as:

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Valu e Bit Position Name Default:

32768 16384 8192 4069 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0- Reserved.

This command uses a bitmapped parameter. Each bit can set or reset without affecting the other bits.

“Using Bitmapped Parameters” on page 27, for more information on using bitmapped parame-

(See: ters.)

Both parameters do not have to be present on the command line, if a parameter is left out the command, it will be left unchanged:

^XS settings1$ Only ‘settings1’ is changed

Since ‘settings2’ was not present on the command line, it will not be affected. A comma can be used to indicate a missing parameter:

^XS ,settings2$ Only ‘settings2’ is changed

Since ‘settings1’ was not present on the command line, it will not be affected. The following paragraphs define each option in more detail:

‘ASY’ Set the Polled or Asynchronous Mode

With this bit set, the HD800V2 is in the asynchronous mode, which simply means each time a state changes, like the power being toggled, the HD800V2 will send a response string immediately out the serial and TCP/IP ports.

In polled mode, a response is only sent when requested.

‘ACK’ Enable / Disable Acknowledgements

Each time a command is sent to the HD800V2, the HD800V2 responds with either an error message, if there was a problem with the command, or an acknowledgement string of “ changed by setting this bit to ‘0’. If the bit is reset, the “

‘ECO’ Enable / Disable the ‘Parameter Changed’ Strings

Each command that makes a change to a parameter, will be echoed with a response string that indicates the new values of the parameters changed. The response strings are only issued after the changes have taken affect, and reflect the new state of the HD800V2.

With this bit set to ‘0’, these response strings will not be sent. To verify the new settings, the controller must read the new values manually.

‘CHM’ Enable / Disable always sending“.ch” masks on zone commands

On commands that change zone settings (‘SZ’, ‘MZ’, ‘DZ’), the “.ch” channel mask is only sent when needed to indicate a difference in settings between channel. With this bit set, the “.ch” mask will always be sent, regardless of any differences between channel settings.

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^+$”. This behavior can be

^+$” string will not be sent.

If you plan on using the HD800V2’s breakaway functions, setting this bit can make parsing the response strings easier, since only one type of response string will be returned.

‘CRE’ Enable / Disable trailing Carriage Returns Line Feeds

A carriage return and line feed can be appended to all responses coming from the HD800V2. This is useful when using terminal software to test command strings.

Since the carriage returns and line feeds are sent outside of the normal string (they are sent after the ending ‘

$’), they should be ignored by the controller . But if there are problems with this behavior, they

can be turned off by setting this bit to a ‘0’.

‘SS’ Save Default Power On Settings

When all power is lost to the HD800V2 (for instance the power cord is unplugged), the current settings will be lost. When power is restored all settings will be set to their initial values. This command allows you to change those initial values.

To use this command, the HD800V2 should be set to the values that are to be used as the initial values. Once the current settings are in place, this command is issued to save the current settings as the initial

values. This command uses a bitmapped parameter to indicate which values are to be saved. A bit set to ‘1’

indicates the associated setting should be saved, a bit set to ‘0’ indicates the setting should not be saved and the previously saved setting will remain unchanged.

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Command formats:

^SS settings$ Set the enable bits to ‘settings’

Response String:

There is no response string to the SS command, this command is write only.

Where ‘settings’ is a bitmapped parameter defined as:

Valu e Bit

32768 16384 8192 4069 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Bit-0 - Save zone input/output mappings, and power state Bit-1 - Save switching delay times Bit-2 - Save LED levels and mode Bit-3 - Save control settings (the XS command settings) Bit-5 - Save IP parameters Bit-15 - Save HDMI settings: EDID and HDCP caches, HDCP key counts, and the EDID lock state.

Note: The HD800V2 must be powered on before sending the “Save HDMI settings” (Bit-15). All other bits are reserved and should be set to 0 when issuing this command.

‘FS’ Reset to Factory Settings

This command will reset selected parameters of the HD800V2 to their factory default settings. This command uses a bitmapped parameter to indicate which values are to be reset. A bit set to ‘1’

indicates the associated setting should be reset, a bit set to ‘0’ indicates the setting should not be reset and the previous setting will remain unchanged.

Command formats:

^FS settings$ Reset the parameters indicated by ‘settings’

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Response String:

There is no response string to the FS command, this command is write only.

Where ‘settings’ is a bitmapped parameter defined as:

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Valu e Bit

32768 16384 8192 4069 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Bit-0 - Reset zone input/output mappings, and power state Bit-1 - Reset switching delay times Bit-2 - Reset LED levels and mode Bit-3 - Reset control settings (the XS command settings) Bit-5 - Reset IP parameters Bit-15 - Reset HDMI settings: Clear EDID and HDCP caches, clear HDCP key counts and the EDID lock state.

Note: The HD800V2 must be turned on before sending the “Reset HDMI settings” (Bit-15), and the switch must be power cycled (using the ‘P 0’ and ‘P 1’ commands) before the cleared settings take affect.

All other bits are reserved and should be set to 0 when issuing this command.

‘LI’ Lighting Mode and Intensities

This command uses a bitmapped parameter. Each bit can set or reset without affecting the other bits.

“Using Bitmapped Parameters” on page 27, for more information on using bitmapped parame-

(See: ters.)

Allows changing the behavior of the front panel LEDs, and adjusting their intensities.

^LI mode,dim,bright,off$ Set mode and intensities ^LI ?$ Query for current settings

Response String:

^=LI mode,dim,bright,off$ Set mode and intensities

Where:

mode = Lighting mode (Settings: 0=Off, 1=Dim, 2=Bright, 3=Auto-dim) dim = Intensity of dimmed LEDs (Range: 0-100)

bright = Intensity of brightened LEDs (Range: 0-100) off = Intensity of the standby power LED (Range: 0-100)

Response Example:

^=LI 3,020,090,010$ Mode=Auto, dim=20%, bright=90%, off=10%

The mode settings allow you to set the front panel LEDs to always be: 0 - off, 1 - Always at the ‘dim’ intensity , 2 - always at the ‘bright’ intensity, or 3 - auto-dim from ‘bright’ to ‘dim’ when the front panel is not in use.

The intensities range for 0, which of off, to 100, which is full intensity. When setting parameters, not all parameter have to be present, if a parameter is not present, it will be

left unchanged. For instance to change just the ‘bright’ value to 50%:

^LI ,,50$ -> Set the ‘bright’ intensity to 50%

Only the ‘bright’ intensity is affected.

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TCP/IP Control

The HD800V2 can use DHCP to negotiate an address with a router, or it can be programmed to use a static IP address.

The ‘IPSET’ command is used to switch between the two modes. ‘IPSET 0’ indicates a static address, and ‘IPSET 1’ indicates a DHCP negotiated address.

T o set a new static IP address, first issue the ‘IPA’, ‘IPM’ and ‘IPG’, commands to setup the IP address, IP mask, and IP gateway, respectively. Then issue the ‘IPSET 0’ command.

‘IPSET’ Set the IP operation mode, DHCP or STATIC

This command is used to set the TCP/IP operating mode of the HD800V2. It allows you to choose between DHCP and Static IP address operations.

When set to the DHCP, the HD800V2 will negotiate an IP address, IP mask, and gateway address (the address of the router), using DHCP.

When set to Static mode, the IP address, IP mask, and gateway address, given by the ‘IPA’, ‘IPM’ and ‘IPG’ commands will be used.

You can easily switch between the two modes without losing the static address setting. In other words when switching to DHCP new IP address values will be obtained from the router, but the static IP address values of the ‘IPA’, ‘IPM’ and ‘IPG’ commands are not lost, and when returning to static mode, these settings do not need to be resent.

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The command format is:

^IPSET mode$ Set new TCP/IP operating mode ^IPSET ?$ Read the current TCP/IP operating mode

Response String:

^=IPSET mode$

Where:

mode = Current operating mode. 0=Static, 1=DHCP.

To change the static IP address the ‘IPSET 0’ form of this command must be issued. This is true even if you are already operating in the static mode. For instance if your static address is 192.168.1.200 and you wish to change it to 192.168.1.201, you must first issue a ‘IPA’ command and then reissue the ‘IPSET 0’ command:

^IPA 192,168,1,201$ Set the new static address ^IPSET 0$ Tell the HD800V2 to use the new static address

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‘IPA’ Set / View the static IP Address

This command does not immediately change the TCP/IP address. It sets up the static IP address that will be used the next time the ‘IPSET 0’ command is issued.

The command format is:

^IPA xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$ Set new TCP/IP address ^IPA ?$ Read the current TCP/IP address

Response String:

^=IPA xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$

Where:

xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx = IP address in standard form (Ex: 192,168,001,200)

The response string of the ‘IPA’ command is not the current IP address of the HD800V2, but the IP address that will be used the next time the ‘IPSET 0’ command is issued. To retrieve the current IP address of the HD800V2, use the read only command ‘IPAX’ (See:

address in use” on page 38.)

‘IPM’ Set / View the static IP Mask

This command does not immediately change the TCP/IP mask. It sets up the static mask that will be used the next time the ‘IPSET 0’ command is issued..

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“‘IPAX’ Retrieve the current IP

The command format is:

^IPM xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$ Set new TCP/IP mask ^IPM ?$ Read the current TCP/IP mask

Response String:

^=IPM xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$

Where:

xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx = IP mask in standard form (Ex: 255,255,255,000)

The response string of the ‘IPA’ command is not the current IP mask of the HD800V2, but the IP mask that will be used the next time the ‘IPSET 0’ command is issued. To retrieve the current IP mask of the HD800V2, use the read only command ‘IPMX’ (See:

on page 38.)

‘IPG’ Set / View the static IP gateway address

This command does not immediately change the TCP/IP gateway. It sets up the TCP/IP gateway address that will be used the next time the ‘IPSET 0’ command is issued.

The command format is:

^IPG xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$ Set new TCP/IP router address ^IPG ?$ Read the current TCP/IP router address

Response String:

“‘IPMX’ Retrieve the current IP mask in use”

^=IPG xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$

Where:

xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx = Gateway address in standard form (Ex: 192,168,001,001)

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The response string of the ‘IPG’ command is not the current gateway address of the HD800V2, but the gateway address that will be used the next time the ‘IPSET 0’ command is issued. To retrieve the cur rent IP address of the HD800V2, use the read only command ‘IPGX’ (See: “‘IPGX’ Retrieve the cur-

rent IP gateway address in use” on page 38.)

‘IPAX’ Retrieve the current IP address in use

This is read only and will return the IP address being used by the HD800V2. If DHCP is being used, this will return the address given to the HD800V2 by the router. If static mode is being used, this will return the static address currently in use by the HD800V2.

The command format is:

^IPAX ?$ Read the current IP address

Response String:

^=IPAX xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$

Where:

xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx = IP address in standard form (Ex: 192,168,001,200)

‘IPMX’ Retrieve the current IP mask in use

This command is read only and will return the IP mask being used by the HD800V2. If DHCP is being used, this will return the mask given to the HD800V2 by the router. If static mode is being used, this will return the static mask currently in use by the HD800V2.

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The command format is:

^IPGX ?$ Read the current IP mask

Response String:

^=IPGX xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$

Where:

xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx = IP mask in standard form (Ex: 255,255,255,000)

‘IPGX’ Retrieve the current IP gateway address in use

This command is read only and will the gateway address being used by the HD800V2. If DHCP is being used, this will return the address given to the HD800V2 by the router. If static mode is being used, this will return the static address currently in use by the HD800V2.

The command format is:

^IPGX ?$ Read the current TCP/IP router address

Response String:

^=IPGX xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx$

Where:

xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx = Gateway address in standard form (Ex: 192,168,001,001)

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HDMI Control Settings

HDMI control settings. These settings are saved using the ‘FS’ command. (See: “‘SS’ Save Default Power On Settings” on

page 34)

‘EDLO’ EDID Lock

Locking the EDID will keep the HDMI switch from registering any EDID changes. Any new devices added to the switch, or any devices removed from the switch will be ignored.

This command is useful in keep receiver from causing the switch to re-read EDIDs and HDCP keys each time the receiver is power cycled.

Most receivers will change their EDID settings when the power state is changed. They will change the EDID to indicate their own built in capabilities when turned on. When turned off they will either remove the EDID completely or pass through the EDID of the monitor plugged into the receiver’s out put.

The switch sees this change in EDIDs as a change in devices, which forces it to re-negotiate the new devices with the sources HDCP keys. This will cause a temporarily loss of video on zones sharing the source that’s having it’s HDCP keys read.

T o prev ent display flickering each time a receiver is turned on or of f, you should perform the “Validat- ing the installation of the HD800V2” on page 21.

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Once your system is validated, you should lock the EDID, and then save the new HDMI settings in EEPROM so that they won’t be lost when power is cycled. (See:

tings” on page 34)

To turn on / off, or the EDID lock state of the HD800V2:

^EDLO 0$ Unlock EDID, sets the switch to the normal mode of operating. ^EDLO 1$ Lock EDID, all device changes will be ignored.

^EDLO ?$ Query for current setting

Response String:

^=EDLO n$

Where:

n = Current lock state, 0=Unlocked, 1=Locked.

‘ESET’ Assign zones to an input source

You can now use the ‘ESET’ command to combine the EDIDs of similar devices and send the combined EDID to a source that will be associated with the devices. For instance all receivers can be combined and sent to a Blu-ray or Cable box that will be used mostly for those receivers. This allows you to enable Dolby5.1, or Dolby TrueHD, or any other features the receivers are capable of decoding.

“‘SS’ Save Default Power On Set-

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To assign zone EDIDs to a source:

^ESET @src,0$ Use the default EDID for this source. ^ESET @src,zmsk$ Assign zone EDIDs to the source based on the bits in the setting.

^ESET @src,?$ Query for current setting

Response String:

^=ESET @src,zmsk$

Where:

src = The source number. zmsk = The zone assignment mask. If Bit-0 is set, then Zone1 will be assigned to the source, if

Bit-1 is set, the assign Zone2.

Example:

To assign zones 1 & 3 to source 4:

^ESET @4,5$ Bit0=Zone1, Bit2=Zone3. Setting bits ‘0’ and ‘2’ = ‘5’.

‘KSIZI’ Set the number of HDCP keys of a source

Advanced Control

For HDMI to work properly , each monitor connected to the switch must be issued a key by each source connected to the switch.

By default the switch simply assumes each source has enough keys to drive all the monitors attached to the switch. But this is not always the case.

Some manufacturers supply a limit number of keys, sometime as small as 1 key. If a source has only 1 HDCP key, then only one monitor can negotiate an HDCP connection with the source. When a second monitor is switch to the source, it will be unable to connect. In most cases, this will also break the video connection to the working monitor as well.

This command allows you to specify the number of keys a source has. The HD800V2 will then limit the number of HDCP negotiations to the given number. All the monitors will still need to be authenti cated with the source, to allow proper HDCP operations, but the switch will limit the number of simultaneous negations to the number given by this command.

Once all the connected monitors are authenticated to the source, the HD800V2 will generate the missing keys.

If you believe you are having a problem with HDCP keys, perform the steps outlined at: “HDCP Keys” on page 18. If it appears you have a source with a limited amount of keys, use this command to limit the number of keys sent to the source.

To set the number of keys of a source:

^KSIZI @src,0$ Sets the switch to the normal mode, where key limits are not checked. ^KSIZI @src,n$ Sets the HDCP key limit to ‘n’ (n = 1 - 23).

^KSIZI @src,?$ Query for current setting

Response String:

^=KSIZI @src,n$

Where:

src = The source number.

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n = Number of keys available in source. 0 = Key limits are not checked, 1-23 = Limit the num-

ber of HDCP keys to ‘n’.

This setting is lost when power is cycled on the HD800V2. To save this settings through a power cycle, backup the HDMI settings using the ‘SS’ command. (See

page 34.)

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