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Navigating Menus
The Up, Down, Left, Right, Enter and Cancel buttons can be used to navigate through
the menus. Menus are organised into lists, these can be scrolled through with the Up and
Down buttons. To enter the selected submenu or option, press the Enter button. Cancel
will return you to previous menu, potentially discarding any unsaved changes made
within the current menu. The Left and Right buttons are predominantly used to select
which character is being edited in settings such as IP address or Frequency.
Status Screens
The first screen that will be displayed to the user is the status screen, depending on the
mode that the unit is set to this will either be the Uni-directional control status screen
(fig 1) or the Bi-directional control status screen (fig 2)
Fig 1. Uni-directional operation mode status screen
Fig 2. Bi-directional operation mode status screen
Uni-directional Status Screen
The Uni-directional control status screen has numbered rows that represent the RCPs
that the IDU can connect to. There can be a maximum of four RCPs per IDU, although
your unit may display less depending on licencing. Each RCP can have two states;
Connected or Disconnected. When an IDU and panel are successfully communicating
‘Connected’ is displayed.
In Uni-directional mode the IDU does not know, and therefore cannot tell the user
anything about the transmit, receive or RX to Camera connection status.
Bi-directional Status Screen
The Bi-directional status screen has numbered rows, each representing connection to a
camera, these connections can have the following status:
‘Not ready’ –This states that a full bi-directional loop cannot be made, this could mean
that a link to the camera or panel has not yet been established, or that there is a fault
with either the forward or return path. You can use the up and down controls to scroll
through the individual status pages for each of these connections.
‘Sync…’ – this states that all of the required links are up, and connections made, but that
devices are ‘waking up’ and synchronisation data is being transferred, and it is therefore
not usable for camera control. This process happens as soon as the required connections
are made and typically takes a few seconds, depending on the camera manufacturer,
manufacturer’s hardware, software and feature count.
‘Active’ – All connections are good, camera parameters and values have been
synchronised and the systems is ready to use.
