Polycom VSX Series manual Select Diagnostics Video, Select Diagnostics Audio, Audio Meter test

Administrator’s Guide for the VSX Series

Video and Audio Tools

Diagnostic Tool		In the system’s user interface		In the VSX Web
Color Bar test		1.	On the Diagnostics screen,	1. Select Diagnostics > Video.
Tests the color settings of your			select Video.	2. Click the Color Bars icon to
monitor for optimum picture quality.		2.	Select the Color Bars icon.	start the test.
If the color bars generated during		3.	Press any button on the remote	3. Click the Color Bars icon again
the test are not clear, or the colors			control to stop the test.	to end the test.
do not look correct, the monitor
needs to be adjusted.
Speaker test		1.	On the Diagnostics screen,	1. Select Diagnostics > Audio >
Tests the audio cable connections.			select Audio.	Speaker Test.
A 400 Hz audio tone indicates that		2.	Select the Speaker Test to go	2. Click the Speaker Test icon to
the local audio connections are			to the Speaker Test screen.	start the test.
correct.		3.	Select the Speaker Test icon.	3. Click the Speaker Test icon
		4.	Press any button on the remote	again to end the test.
			control to stop the test.	The people at the site you are
			If you are in a call, the far site	testing will hear the tone, but
				you will not. You can send a
			will also hear the tone.
				message to tell them how to
				notify you when they hear the
				speaker test.
Audio Meter test		1.	On the Diagnostics screen,	Select Diagnostics > Audio >
Measures the strength of audio			select Audio.	Audio Meter to start the test.
signals from:		2.	Select Audio Meter.
•	Microphone(s)		The audio meter should
• Far-site audio			register between 0 and 15 dB
			for each active input.
•	VCR audio
		3.	To check the microphone(s),
• Any device connected to the
			speak into the microphone.
	audio line in
		4.	To check far-site audio, ask a
			participant at the far site to
			speak or call a phone in the
			far-site room to hear it ring.
		5.	To check a VCR or DVD,
			connect it to the VCR inputs
			and play the VCR or DVD to
			test the audio.

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