Gilderfluke&Co old Smart Brick Manual - Manual (Page 69)

- Rack Smart Brick Brain Messages -
The optional LCD display displays a variety of messages about the current state of the Rack Smart
Brick Brain. When it first boots it displays:
Rack Brick Brain
rev 1.00 @00h 8n
This shows the revision number of the firmware, the card is addressed at 00h, the baud rate is set to
9600 (that is what the code number Ф8Х means), and that no parity is enabled (that is the ÔnÕ).
The lower line of the display normally will show the current time as long as there is no show running,
and the show time and frame number if a show is running. A variety of other messages will be displayed
by the top line of the display. Some of these will flash by too fast to ever be read.
" start string ", " end string ", "MultiDisk stringÓ : Sending a start, end, or MultiDisk string. The
number of the string, the byte within that string, and the response to it will be
displayed exactly as on a Heads Up Display.
" waiting for PB ", "waiting for blue", " wait for green ": These are displayed if a code was found in
the start or end string that causes the Brick Brain to wait for a closure on any of
these inputs.
" at end of show ": Normal end of show has been found.
" invalid FPS ": The Frame Rate has been set to a value which wonÕt work with the type of time
code selected.
"int clocked show", "extern. clk show", "SMPTE clock show", " LaserDisk show ": The shows are ac-
tually running.
" starting SMPTE ": A SMPTE clocked show is being started, but the Rack Smart Brick Brain has yet to
receive any time code.
"invalid timecode": This is displayed if the SMPTE hour received doesnÕt point to a show that has
been configured to run from SMPTE timecode.
"in configuration", " exited config. ": These are displayed as you enter and exit the configuration
mode.
"+single stepping", "-single stepping": Displayed in response to the single step serial port com-
mands.
" countdown hold ": This is displayed when the countdown has been stopped by an external input.
" countdown done ": Displayed at the end of a normal countdown. About the only time you will ac-
tually see this is if you donÕt have anything configured to happen at the end
of a countdown, or the countdown has been set to zero length during it.
"countdown delay0": The number of the countdown display is displayed during normal countdowns.
"delay 0/play FFh": This is displayed while running a background show while also doing a countdown
delay. The number of the display, as well as the HEX number of the show are
also displayed.
"bridging dropout": This is displayed while the Rack Smart Brick Brain is bridging over a gap in the in-
coming SMPTE or LaserDisk timecode.
"startup lockout ": This is displayed and most of the functions of the Rack Smart Brick Brain are dis-
abled when the defaults have been forced to reload by pressing the ÔmanualÕ
button as the Brain is powered up. It can only be cleared by entering and exit-
ing setup mode.
" response error ": If a start or end string has within it a request for a specific character, but another
character is received, this message will be displayed.
"PioneerStart err", "Sony start error": These will be displayed if there is an error encountered when
trying to start a LaserDisk show. What this typically means is that the LaserDisk
player needs to be spun up.
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