Grass Valley VM 3000 System Controllers v.7.4 - Manual (Page 565)

7−1 VM 3000 Installation and Operating Manual
Section 7 − Software Control Panel Suite
The Software Control Panel Suite (“Graphical User Interface”) consists of seven routing switcher and machine control
applications plus a configuration application. Only one of the applications can be activated at a time.
Note 1: Activation of the Software Control Panel Suite requires a license floppy disk provided by Grass Valley. For
more information, please refer to the Field Engineering Bulletin supplied with the Jupiter software.
Note 2: Some of the panels may not be available, depending on which packages have been purchased. For more
information, see page 1−33.
Note 3: Systems that include one or more of the original BCS 3000 controller boards † may not be able to operate
GUI machine control panels properly.
The software operates on a PC using the Jupiter Network Suite (JNS) software, which provides the interface to the Jupiter
Control system through the Jupiter LAN. The Software Control Panels are designed for mouse or touchscreen
opera-
tion. § The panels can be run on the Jupiter file server, on one or more separate PCs on the Jupiter LAN, or on both.
The control panels obtain configuration set information from the Jupiter control system file server, allowing the user to
maintain a central configuration control point even with multiple control panel PCs operating on the LAN. The software
provides a means for licensing and operation of multiple copies of the control panel software on a single Jupiter system.
Software Installation
Software installation is described in the Field Engineering Bulletin supplied with the software.
Jupiter Table Entries
If the software panels are to be used for switcher control only, no Jupiter table entries are required. However, the panels
will require the use of existing CP Level, Input, and Output sets.
Note 4: These sets are not assigned to the suite using the MPK Devices table directly. Instead, they are as-
signed using the special “Panel Configuration” procedure found later in this section (page 7−7).
If the panels are to be used for machine control, a Configuration Set must be selected for editing and entries describing
the PC and the machine control panels must be made to the following tables:
† CE 3000, SC 3000, PL 3000, and VG 3000. These boards are no longer supported as of software release 7.1.0.
§
For touchscreen operation, the PC and monitor must be supplied by Grass Valley.