Polycom CCUG-0100-01 manual Operating Conference Composer

OPERATING CONFERENCE COMPOSER

OPERATING CONFERENCE COMPOSER

ONLINE: CONNECTED TO AN EF DEVICE

Conference Composer may either be operated online or off-line (not connected to a Vortex or EF device) depending on how you would like to use it. If you work off-line it is easy to save the settings to a file, share the files with others, and then upload the settings into an EF device when you go online. The online or off-line operation of Conference Composer is the same, although if you are operating off-line you will need to add devices to the project before you can start working with the devices.

Conference Composer organizes your projects into a hierarchy of PROJECT, DEVICE CHAIN, and DEVICE. Starting from the bottom of the list, a DEVICE is simply that – some piece of equipment that will be used in the installation. A DEVICE CHAIN is a collection of devices that are linked together through the ASPI Bus or EF Bus (that’s where the name device chain comes from). Typically these represent all the devices that are tied to a particular serial port on your computer/controller. The PROJECT rep- resents a collection of DEVICE CHAINS. You can think of the PROJECTS as directories, the DEVICE CHAINS as files and the DEVICES as items in the files.

There are many different buttons and knobs that allow the user to change settings on the device. Conference Composer’s convention is that a feature associated with a but- ton is enabled when the button’s LED is lit. To use a knob, click on the knob and while holding down the mouse button, raise or lower the cursor to increase or decrease the knob value..

Figure 2. To increase the level, click on the knob and move the cursor UP. To decrease the level, click on the knob and move the cursor DOWN.

To operate online, the EF Device should be connected to an RS-232 port of your host computer. The first step is to have Conference Composer scan your EF Device -- this ensures the settings you see on the PC screen are exactly the settings in the device. To do this, select the AUTOSCAN option from the PROJECT menu as shown in Figure 3.

This ensures the settings you see on the PC screen are exactly the settings in the device.

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