Uploading files, Adding a directory, Other file management activities – Extron Electronics SMX System User Guide User Manual

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SMX System MultiMatrix Switcher • HTML Configuration and Control

Uploading Files

Files to be uploaded may only contain valid alphanumeric characters and underscores.

NOTE: The following characters are invalid or not recommended in the files names:

+ ~ , @ = ‘ [ ] { } < > “ ; : | \ ?

and

space

To upload files to the SMX, follow these steps:

Click the

Browse

button to the right of the file name field on the File Management Web

Page.

Browse to locate the file that you want to upload, and open it. The name and directory
path of the file are displayed in the file name field on the File Management screen.

Click the

Upload File

button. The selected file name appears in the

Files column (files

are listed separately under headings of their extensions).

NOTE: If you want one of the pages that you create and upload to be default startup

page, name that file “index.html.”

Adding a Directory

To add a directory or folder to the SMX file system, follow these steps:

Enter the directory name in the

Dir:

field, following the slash (/).

Click the

Add Dir

button.

With the directory name displayed, perform the

Uploading HTML files

procedure on

page 85 to add a file to the directory. The directory name appears at the top of the

Files

column, preceded by a slash.

To add more files to the directory, click the directory name to open it, then use the uploading
files procedure. To exit the directory, click

(root)

(back)

Other File Management Activities

You can also perform the following tasks on the File Management screen:
Open a file — Click on the name of the file in the Files column.
Delete a file — Click the

Delete

button in the row of the file to be removed.

Delete All files — Click the

Delete All

button to delete all files.

Display files by file extension — The

Filter by File Extension

menu lists the

extensions of the files that have been uploaded to the SMX. This menu lets you choose to
display only files with the extension you select. Select

All

to display all uploaded files.

Control Pages

The Control pages allow limited device configuration. From the User Control page, setting
and viewing of input-to-output ties, viewing and adjustment of input audio levels, output
volume levels, muting status, and the configuring and saving of EDID data are possible
across all allocated plane addresses. The Preset page allows global and plane presets to be
saved and recalled.

User Control Page

The User Control page emulates some of the front panel features and displays the current
input-to-output ties, input audio level, output volume, A/V mute status, and current EDID
settings (see figure

). See

Operation

on page 13 for additional descriptions.