Captive” panels remote panel modes – Grass Valley CRSC v.3.2 User Manual
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CRSC
User’s Guide
Operators control a CRSC system using remote panels. An operator is presented with a large and
potentially bewildering array of buttons. It is the configurer’s task to produce a panel that is easy
to understand and to use:
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When your system has multiple panels, exercise caution so that you do not create panel con-
figurations that conflict with each other.
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Avoid configuring source buttons and destination buttons that do not match the actual
router connections and the numbering given by the router partitions.
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Create meaningful button legends that accurately describe what the buttons do. There are
button templates available on the installation CD (SB0033-xx).
“Captive” Panels
Captive panels are control panels that are mounted on a compact router and not on a remote
panel module. CRSC cannot detect or configure captive panels.
When a router is in CRSC mode, the captive panel controls only that router and does so as if the
router were a stand-alone router.
A captive panel displays status according to the inputs and outputs of the compact router on
which it is mounted.
In a CRSC network, changes to a router’s state made at a captive panel are detected through the
network and the network’s remote panels do reflect that status.
Remote Panel Modes
Remote panels operate in one of three modes: (1) standard mode, (2) enhanced mode with
hold, and (3) enhanced mode without hold.
Standard Mode
In standard mode, takes are performed on (manually) selected levels only.
Level selection is persistent and at the discretion of the panel operator. Once the operator
makes a level selection, it remains until the operator changes the selection. The current level
selection enables some sources and destinations and disables others. The sources and destina-
tions that are enabled depend on which level button has precedence. See
page 144 for information about precedence.
If no levels are selected, no sources or destinations are enabled. A take cannot occur.
If the panel has no level buttons, all of a destinations’ levels are always selected and all destina-
tions are enabled.
Which level button has precedence depends on the order of level buttons on the panel and the
order in which the operator presses the level buttons. See
Standard mode allows breakaway. A breakaway is when you route to some, not all, of a destina-
tion’s levels. By default, all valid levels are automatically selected when you set up a take. By
creating a breakaway, you route only to the levels you have individually selected.
Enhanced Mode (Hold and No-hold)
‘Takes’ are performed on all the levels specified by the destination.
In enhanced mode, level selection is applicable only to breakaway. Level selection governs the
selection of sources for the breakaway. All sources and destinations are always enabled.