Grass Valley NVISION Compact CQX - Manual (Page 43)

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6. Setting Up Machine Control Routers
The ‘Setup Machine Control Router’ page enables you to configure port types for machine control
routers. In general, machine control routers are switched separately from other routers because of
the differences in the behavior of the ports. Unlike other routers, machine control routers have bi-
directional ports and routes are port-to-port.
To open the ‘Setup Machine Control Router’ page, from the navigation pane, click ‘Setup Machine
Control Router’ under the ‘System Configuration’ bar. The ‘Setup Machine Control Router’ page
appears in the right-hand pane.
At any time, click
Refresh Summary
to view the latest list of machine control routers in the system.
An Overview of Machine Control Routers
Compact machine control routers are different from other compact routers because they can receive
signals from both controlled and controlling devices depending on the their port settings. A control-
ling port is defined as one that is connected to a controlling device. A controlled port is one con-
nected to a controlled device.
Machine control routers have unique features:
• Machine control routers have bidirectional ports. Because machine control routers have bidirec-
tional ports (A to B, B to A), whatever connections you make appear twice in the ‘View Router
Crosspoints’ page twice: once in the lower left portion of the matrix and once in the upper right.
• Machine control routes are point-to-point — one input, one output. Outputs only appear once in
a column on the ‘View Router Crosspoint’ page.
For more information about machine control signals, see Signals on page 65.