Pathway Pathport Manager 3 User Guide Manuel d'utilisateur

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 1 Suite 103, 1439 - 17 Avenue S.E. Calgary, AB, T2G 1J9 Canada Phone: (403) 243-8110 Fax: (403) 28

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 10 Click the "Properties" button. Select the "Use the following IP address" radio button, and sp

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 11 Windows 2000 users: Choose <START><SETTINGS><NETWORK AND DIAL UP CONNECTIONS> to open the netwo

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 12 Linux Users: As root, enter the following: ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.5 ifconfig

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 13 The Pathport Communications Setup panel will pop up: If "10.0.0.5" is not listed in the Local IP Addre

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 14 STARTING UP YOUR PATHPORT SYSTEM From the factory, Pathport nodes are configured to continually re-boot until they

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 15 5. Re-start Pathport Manager to enable the servers. 6. Configure the BOOTP server by selecting "Pathport C

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 16 8. Make sure that your PC's IP address is correctly noted in the "Local IP" box. If it is not, en

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 17 13. Once all of your Pathports have started, you can disable the servers for future runs of Pathport Manager

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 18 RUNNING PATHPORT MANAGER FOR THE FIRST TIME: The first time Pathport Manager is run, the program will require tha

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 19 Pressing OK will bring up the "Manage Users" dialog: To create an administrator account, simply enter

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents...

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 20 When Pathport Manager starts, it automatically queries the network for all of the connected Pathports. It then qu

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 21 Once all of the nodes are added to the show, it is important that each DMX input port is assigned a unique xDMX

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 22 To connect an output to a source simply drag an output port to a universe and drop it on top of a universe. The

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 23 AN INTRODUCTION TO PATHPORT MANAGER Introduction Welcome to Pathport Manager 3! This software will provide you with

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 24 channels at a given xDMX source address, a universe is automatically created for those channels, saving a great dea

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 25 GETTING STARTED WITH PATHPORT MANAGER If you've plugged your PC into your Pathport network and the available

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 26 To patch your nodes: 1. Click and hold on the universe you wish to patch in the Patch window. 2. Drag it over t

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 27 ADVANCED NETWORK SETUP Pathports and Pathport Manager are capable of living on any subnet, public or private. Ho

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 28 The Pathport Communications Setup panel will pop up: To set the correct network interface enter the IP address o

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 29 PATHPORT MANAGER'S INTERNAL WINDOWS Pathport Manager's main window consists of a number of internal pane

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 3 INSTALLING PATHPORT MANAGER Windows: From CD If your computer supports Autorun, simply place the Pathport Manage

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 30 Show Tree: The Show Tree represents all of the Pathports that are currently assigned to the show. This tree repre

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 31 Input Map: The Input Map displays the configuration of all DMX input ports connected to the system. Each input po

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 32 Pathport Properties Window: This is a quick, non-graphical view of the currently selected Pathport's properti

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 33 Graphical Pathport Properties window: This window is a graphical look at the current configuration of the selected

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 34 Available Output Ports window: The Available Output Ports window contains all un-patched outputs in the show. Each

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 35 Patch window: This window displays a tree-view of the system's DMX patch. An output can also be re-patched

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 36 CREATING UNIVERSES The first step in creating a universe is identifying within the input map which sources you wou

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 37 Each cell in the table represents a single Patch Element, which is defined as a combination of an xDMX channel at a

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 38 The Command Line: The universe command line is roughly based on standard lighting console patching syntax, and is

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 39 To patch all 512 DMX channels to xDMX Source 1, Channel 1, you can enter: 1-512*1<ENTER> or 1-512*1.1<EN

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 4 Pressing "Next" will begin the installation process. Screen 2: Screen 2 of the installation will pr

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 40 While this universe is probably not very useful, ranges of channels can be expressed for both the DMX channel sid

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 41 Note the use of the "-" THRU operator after the *(AT) symbol. In actuality the number after the THRU o

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 42 To change the xDMX channel assignment for DMX Channel 1 through 12 to source 2 channels 1-12 (xDMX 513-524) simply

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 43 Reverse Ranges: Ranges of DMX or xDMX channels may also be entered in reverse order for convenience. Entering: 5

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 44 BUILDING MERGES AND BACKUPS Merges and backups are created using an extension of the command line that allows fo

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 45 This will create: Note that both of the patch elements created are the same color, and will each describe having

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 46 Which will create: Note that the colors are different and that xDMX 513 shows a priority of 7. While the 2 uni

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 47 This will create: To create a universe that Prioritizes all of xDMX sources 1 and 2, where Source 1 has a highe

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 48 This will create: Up to 8 xDMX channels or ranges can be specified, separated by either the HTP or Priority oper

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 49 The equivalent commands, replacing the HTP operator with the priority operator 1-512*1.1-1.512/2.1-2.512/3.

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 5 Screen 3 allows you to specify where you would like shortcuts created for launching Pathport Manager. The default

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 50 These create: Combinations of the HTP operators can also be used to create prioritized HTP blocks within a univ

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 51 This creates: Note the 2 sets of 2 equal-priority columns of Patch Elements. The result of this patch would me

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 52 Using the HTP or Priority operators as the first character in a command will also allow patch elements to be added

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 53 Now, if you want to merge xDMX 1 with Source 2 channel 1 you can enter: +1*2.1<ENTER> Resulting in:

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 54 To prioritize those elements, with another at a lower priority enter: /1*3.1<ENTER> To create: When appen

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 55 To append an HTP merge of xDMX Sources 7 and 8 at a lower priority onto the above universe enter: /1-512*7.1-7.512+

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 56 NOTE: At this time there is no means of directly editing a Patch Element within the table. Future versions of Pa

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 57 USING UNIVERSES Once all of the desired elements have been added to a Universe, clicking the "DONE" butt

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 58 throughout the system. The quick universe system is separate from the xDMX system, and therefore can be run simult

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 59 All Backlights ON / OFF: This button allows for the quick turning on and off of all of the Pathport backlights.

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 6 The fourth screen is a summary of all of the configuration options given to the installer. If you wish to change

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 60 Query Network for New Pathports: If a Pathport is added to the system and is not detected by Pathport Manager, th

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 61 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Windows: Pentium 2 or better CPU 32MB RAM 64MB Hard Disk Space Windows 95, 98, NT4,2000,or XP.

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 7 As Pathport Manager is being installed, the installer will display its' progress. Pressing Cancel at any tim

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 8 Once the program is installed, the installer will notify you that the process was successful, and will review wher

Pathport Manager User’s Guide 9 SETTING UP YOUR PC From the factory, Pathports are configured to search the network for Pathport Manager to receive