Extron electronic MEDIALINK MLC 52 - Manual (Page 5)

iii MLC 52 Series MediaLink Controllers • Table of Contents
Overview of the configuration procedure .............................................................. 5-20
Opening the MLC 52 Configuration Program screen .............................................. 5-20
Displaying the Help program ................................................................................... 5-23
Saving and restoring a configuration ...................................................................... 5-23
Saving a configuration ........................................................................................ 5-23
Restoring a configuration ................................................................................... 5-24
Overview of the MLC 52 configuration program main screen ............................... 5-25
Menu bar ............................................................................................................. 5-26
Front panel representations ............................................................................... 5-28
Button Settings area ............................................................................................ 5-29
Display settings tabs ............................................................................................ 5-29
Button Operations area ...................................................................................... 5-29
Adding a driver ......................................................................................................... 5-30
Removing a driver ..................................................................................................... 5-32
Removing an IR driver ......................................................................................... 5-32
Removing a serial driver ...................................................................................... 5-32
Assigning functions to buttons ................................................................................ 5-32
Assigning user-defined functions to buttons .......................................................... 5-34
Removing a function from a button ........................................................................ 5-35
Setting up button modes and labels ........................................................................ 5-35
Factory defaults ................................................................................................... 5-37
Setting the button modes ................................................................................... 5-38
Entering display device power settings ................................................................... 5-38
Entering display device communications port settings .......................................... 5-39
Programming the MLC 52 for control by the IR 452 Remote ........................................ 5-40
Performing IR Learning via software .............................................................................. 5-40
Playing an IR command ................................................................................................... 5-42
Using emulation mode .................................................................................................... 5-43
Selecting the starting screen ........................................................................................... 5-46
Resetting .......................................................................................................................... 5-47
Uploading firmware ........................................................................................................ 5-48
Downloading the firmware from the Web ............................................................. 5-48
Installing the Firmware Loader ................................................................................ 5-49
Updating the firmware ............................................................................................. 5-49
Using Simple Instruction Set (SIS ™ ) commands ................................................. 5-51
Host-to-MLC communications ......................................................................................... 5-51
MLC-initiated messages ............................................................................................ 5-51
Error responses .......................................................................................................... 5-51
Using the command/response tables ....................................................................... 5-51
Symbol definitions .................................................................................................... 5-52
Command/response table for SIS commands ................................................................. 5-53
Command/response table for advanced instructions
(for the MLC 52 configuration program) ....................................................................... 5-54