Grass Valley NV96xxV Windows v.1.7 - Manual (Page 18)

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Virtual Control Panels
Virtual Control Panels
IP Addresses
When you are viewing control panels in your system (using NV9000-SE Utilities), active virtual
panels appear in the list. In this illustration, the panel named “QC2” with the panel ID 104 is a
virtual panel:
Note, however, that IP addresses for the physical panels are those assigned to the panel and
vary. The IP addresses for virtual panels are, in most cases, those for your computers and vary if
you have more than one computer on your router control network.
Virtual panels running directly on a primary system controller take the IP address of the primary
system controller and that IP address does not vary.
Pathnames
The pathname of the configuration file folder (which is in the NV9000 system controller, not on
your PC) is
C:\NVision\envy\usersys\live\
in case you need to browse the configuration files.
Legacy Configurations
A very old panel configuration might have no .legend file and will not work with a virtual panel.
The remedy is to open the old configuration in NV9000-SE Utilities (version 4.2.0 or later) and re-
save the configuration. After creating the new configuration and associated .legends file, the
virtual panel should run properly with the new configuration.
 NV9000-SE Utilities requires that you must make at least some slight change to a configura-
tion before you save it. (For example, uncheck an option and then re-check it. The ‘Save’
button will become enabled.)
Copies of Configurations
NV9000-SE Utilities has a mechanism by which you can make copies of configurations, but
neglects to copy the configuration’s associated .legends file. If you intend to make copies of a
configuration, open every copy and save it. Here again, NV9000-SE Utilities requires that you
must make at least some slight change to a configuration before you save it. (For example,
uncheck an option and then re-check it. The ‘Save’ button will become enabled.)
Upgrading Old Virtual Panels
If you install a new virtual panel, it will not work properly with the .INI file of an old virtual panel.
There are 3 ways to solve this problem.
• Use the Windows ‘Add or Remove Programs’ command to remove the old virtual panel soft-
ware entirely before installing the new software.