Communications menu – Grass Valley UniConfi NVISION Series v.2.0 User Manual
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UniConfig
User’s Guide
Communications Menu
The ‘Communications’ menu governs the two modes in which you can communicate with a
router’s control card:
If you wish to communicate with a router control card serially (through a connector at the front
of the control card), click ‘Serial’.
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If you do not know the card’s IP address, as when the card has never been configured, you
must initially access the control card serially.
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A serial connection requires an RS-232 connector on your PC and an RS-232 cable connected
to the router’s control card. Many modern PCs and laptops do not have serial connectors.
You might need to obtain a USB-to-serial interface. See
If you wish to communicate with a control card over Ethernet, click ‘Ethernet’. In this case, your
PC and the router’s control card must be connected, through an Ethernet switch, on the same
network.
A check mark appears beside the option you choose. If you chose ‘Serial’, we say UniConfig is in
serial mode. If you chose ‘Ethernet’, we say UniConfig is in Ethernet mode.
Setup Command
The ‘Setup
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.’ command differs in serial mode and Ethernet mode.
If UniConfig is in serial mode, the setup dialog is for a serial connection:
The ‘Comm. port’ field specifies through which serial port of your PC you will communicate. It to
is this port that you connect your serial cable. The ‘Baud rate’ field allows you to specify one of
several rates. Generally, 115200 Baud is preferable.
If UniConfig is in Ethernet mode, the setup dialog is for an Ethernet connection:
It is in this dialog that you specify the IP address of the control card you want to configure.