Media Technology Systems ION8.8 User Manual
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Jul‐09
Double
clicking
on
the
ION4.4/ION8.8
device
will
open
a
properties
menu
as
shown
in
Figure 5-5 below.
Figure 5-5: Properties menu
Highlight the Cobranet port and clicking “Edit” will bring up the port properties menu in
Figure 5-6 below and clicking edit again will bring up the Control Variables available for
that port see
Figure 5-7 below.
Figure 5-6: Port Properties
There are over 800 read/write and 400 read only DSP control variables, plus the base
Cobranet
variables.
This
is
an
unwieldy
amount
of
potential
control
and
usually
only
a
fraction
is
needed.
The
Port
control
variables
in
Figure 5-7 below, show a tick box for
“All Groups”. Unchecking this box will remove all the Group controls. Each group control
represents
one
DSP
device,
or
one
section
of
the
Cobranet
control/monitoring
protocol.
Once
“All
Groups”
has
been
unchecked,
then
the
tick
boxes
of
those
few
Groups
required
by
the
user
can
be
manually
checked
and
enabled.
For example,
Figure 5-7 shows the contents of the 25x32 router Group, ie a list of
“output_select_x” variables, where “x” is the router output channel number. As the