EVS IPDirector Version 6.2 - June 2013 GENERAL FUNCTIONS User Manual - Manual (Page 102)

Up to eight GPI inputs can be used on an EVS server.
For each Input GPI, the following information needs to be defined:
• the action triggered by the GPI key on the EVS server.
• the player channel on which the action needs to be executed.
• the type of trigger signal sent by the GPI to EVS server.
In the IPDirector workspace, the triggered action will be reflected in the open applications
to which the player channel has been assigned.
Only the GPI keys set up to be managed by IPDirector on the EVS server can be
configured in the Input GPIs Settings window. The other ones will be dimmed.
Warning
The GPIs IN to be used in IPDirector need to be assigned to the IPDP protocol
Setup Configuration module of Multicam (SHIFT-F2, Page 4). Otherwise, they
cannot be defined in IPDirector.
Example
In the above example, when the GPI key 1 is pressed on the EVS server 03_XT3, this
triggers a playback action on the PGM1 player channel of the XT3 server. The trigger
signal is a rising edge pulse. With the configuration defined above, the IPDirector will
show the triggered action in any application that displays the given player channel.
The following sections describe in details the various fields in the Input GPI Settings
window.
Action
The Action field allows the user to define the action that will be triggered by the GPI key.
The value defined in the Action field for a GPI key is also defined in the Setup
Configuration of the EVS server. Modifying the action type on IPDirector will update the
corresponding value in the EVS server Setup Configuration and vice versa.
The following actions can be defined on a GPI key:
Action Description
PLAY Initiates a play command at 100% on the selected channel.
PAUSE Initiates a pause command on the selected channel.
RECUE Initiates a jump to the IN point of the on air element on the selected
channel.
If this is a playlist, the jump is performed to the IN point of the first clip of
the playlist.
PREVIOUS Initiates a command to go to the previous clip of a playlist on the
selected channel.
NEXT Initiates a command to go to the next clip of a playlist on the selected
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