Extron electronic RGB 320 manual Installing Windows Control Software

Using Windows® Control Software

Installing Windows® Control Software

This chapter is dedicated to using Extron’s “Windows Control Program for RGB 320 via RS-232” software. Extron supplies this software that runs in the Windows® operating system, version 3.1 or later. Communication between the computer software and the RGB 320 is established after connecting the computer to the RS-232 port on the rear panel of the RGB 320.

1. Connect the PC’s serial port to the RS-232 connector on the back of the RGB 320.

2. Power up the RGB 320 and the PC, and load Windows.

3.To install the software from the 3.5” floppy disk onto the hard disk, run Setup.exe from the floppy disk. (It’s just like

any other Windows application.)

_______ The floppy disk has instructions

printed on the label. The software can be run from the floppy drive, or it can be loaded onto the hard drive

and run from there.	PC with Windows®
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Figure 4-1. Connect the PC to the RGB 320 Switching Interface

4.Installation of the software creates a program group (Windows 3.1) or a folder (Windows 95®) called “Extron Electronics”. Icons for the control program and the help program are installed in that group or folder. The window in Figure 4-2 shows an Extron program group. This example is from Windows 3.1, and it includes Extron’s VTG 200 Control Program; your system may not have the VTG 200 software. (VTG = Video Test Generator.)

Figure 4-2. Extron’s Program Group

5.Double-click on the RGB 320 icon to start the program. You will be asked to select the serial port. After selecting the serial port, the software looks for the RGB 320, “reads” its configuration, and then displays it in a window called “Extron’s RGB 320 Interface Control Program”.

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