Grass Valley Kaleido-X v.7.80 - Manual (Page 366)

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Routers & Kaleido-X
Q & A
Q & A
Q: Is the internal router used to change inputs to the multiviewer in order to direct
signals to the monitor wall?
A: No, an internal router card is not needed to display video on the monitor wall. The
outputs of the internal router do not feed into the multiviewer’s inputs—they come
from the multiviewer’s inputs via the midplane.
Q: What is the main purpose of having an internal router?
A: The internal router allows you to share the inputs connected to a Kaleido-X or
Kaleido-X16 multiviewer with other equipment (e.g., QA monitors, vectorscopes),
reducing or eliminating the need to have an expensive standalone external router. The
internal router allows you to have one piece of equipment (the multiviewer) that serves
two integrated purposes: displaying video inputs on the monitor wall, and sharing them
with other equipment. For example, instead of having a router in front of the
multiviewer to split feeds between the multiviewer and a vectorscope monitor, you can
use the multiviewer as a router. Your feeds enter at a single point, and one of the outputs
can go to a vectorscope or quality control (QC) monitor, so that instead of a large,
expensive station router in front you can have a smaller one—you don’t lose outputs for
QC.
Q: Is there a matrix GUI available for controlling routers via the multiviewer?
A: Yes. The Kaleido-X software (version 4.00 and later) incorporates the single bus and
matrix view from iControl Router Control Software.
Q: Is the “External Router” item in the Equipment library always used to add a router?
A: Yes. This is done for consistency with iControl. Other types of equipment (production
switchers, controllers, tally boxes) have their own specific entries in the Equipment
library.
Q: Can there be more than one external router?
A: Yes. Every router or router control panel that is connected to a serial port on the
multiviewer corresponds to an External Router in XEdit. Similarly, every router with a
unique IP address connected via TCP/IP to the multiviewer is considered a unique
External Router. If the multiviewer is connected to a series of physical routers in a
cascade configuration, the cascade corresponds to a single External Router in XEdit,
where each router is a Level.
Q: Why was the iControl Router Manager integrated into XEdit version 3.00?
A: Previously, a version of the iControl Router Manager appeared as a separate
application within XEdit. This could lead to some issues, such as two devices being
configured on the same serial port. Since Router Manager is now integrated, XEdit is
more “aware” of the router configuration information, and can prevent such
misconfigurations.
Q: Is router management backward compatible?
A: Yes. Router configurations made in version 2.20 will be preserved when upgrading to
version 3.00 (or later). However, even though this has been tested on a large number of