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Polycom RS-232 manual Amchnum -- Set Chairman Mic, Amdecay -- Set Decay Time for Automixers

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8.15. AMCHNUM -- Set Chairman Mic

This command sets the chairman microphone for the automixer. The first argument of the command specifies the automixer number (always 1 for the EF2211) . The second argument specifies which microphone should be the chairman microphone for the automixer (always 1 for the EF2211) . This command is not particularly useful on the EF2211 and EF2210, however it is provided for consistency with the EF2280 and EF2241.

Even though this is a channel integer command, use of the wildcard character for the automixer number is not supported.

This command is a channel integer command. See Section 6.3 and Section 6.2 for more information

on this type of command. The minimum and maximum values for this command are 1 and 1, respectively.

This command is saved to non-volatile memory only as part of a preset. The state of this command will be restored after power-up only if a preset is saved and that preset is set to be the power-on preset.

Example Description

Set microphone 1 as the chairman

S01AMCHNUM11 mic for the automixer.

Query the current chairman mic for S01AMCHNUM1? the automixer.

Status Message

S01AMCHNUM11

S01AMCHNUM11 , querying the chairman mic number will always return 1 since there is only one microphone on the EF2211 .

8.16. AMDECAY -- Set Decay Time for Automixers

This command sets or queries the decay time (in milliseconds) for the automixer.

This command is an integer command. See Section 6.2 for more information on this type of command. The minimum and maximum values for this command are 0 and 5000, respectively.

This command is saved to non-volatile memory only as part of a preset. The state of this command will be restored after power-up only if a preset is saved and that preset is set to be the power-on preset.

Example

Description

Status Message

S01AMDECAY500

Set automixer decay time to 500

S01AMDECAY500

ms.

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RS-232 specifications

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