ClearOne StreamNet StarDraw Control - Manual (Page 5)

AV Distribution and Control using StreamNet 2
SOFTWARE OVERVIEW
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The Stardraw Control software must be obtained and licensed from the Stardraw website. It provides
all the tools you need to design, develop, test and deploy sophisticated control applications. You
will require two licenses: the Authoring License and the Machine License.
The Authoring License for Stardraw Control 2010 includes a USB dongle. You can install Stardraw
Control 2010 on as many computers as you want and then just move the dongle around to use
any of those machines - licensing for the authoring tool is based on concurrent users, not machine
installations. For additional users you can purchase additional user licenses (i.e. extra dongles).
A Machine License includes a single dongle that enables that project. The Machine License dongle
is connected to the server PC (usually at your client’s premises) and manages the allowed number
of clients – there is no security on the client machines; it’s all done server-side.
» Important Note: This guide will not give instruction for using the full capabilities of
the Stardraw software. It will only give the basic instruction required to interface the
Stardraw Control to the StreamNet network.
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The ClearOne StreamNet Stardraw Demo Project is contained in the Stardraw Integration Module
zip file that is obtained from the ClearOne website Resource Library under both the Enterprise
Streaming tab (
http://www.clearone.com/resources#enterprise_streaming ) and the
Residential Streaming tab ( http://www.clearone.com/resources#residential_streaming ).
This demo project is imported into a Stardraw project. It includes the Renderer (Zone) Controllers
and drivers to give it the control of network resources within the StreamNet network. Once imported,
it is edited to the specifics of the StreamNet implementation it is to control.
Stardraw Control only needs to know a single IP address, and through this one address can control
the up to sixteen StreamNet output devices. Instead of IP addresses (which may change) the
controller can address commands to friendly, human-readable names such as “Bedroom TV” or
“DVD Player”.
» NOTE: To make the TCP connection, the controller must know the IP address of the
device to which it is connecting. So at least one device in the StreamNet system must
have a fixed IP address. It is best to dedicate a ControLinX device as the portal to the
StreamNet system. The portal ControLinX can be assigned a static IP address but all
of the other StreamNet devices can be allowed to find their own address.