Question: I understand that ports 33 to 36 on
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the Eclipse Pico can't be used for panels or interfaces. Could they be used
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to provide a port for listening to a Virtual Party Line, e.g. to record a partyline conversation on a server?
Answer: Ports 33 to 36 on the Pico frame are unintelligent 4-wire portsonly. That is why they don’t support Eclipse Panels and interface cards,these ports don’t have RS-422 data the panels and interfaces need to
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hand shake with. To activate these ports go to the matrix hardware screen in ECS
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and declare the port as a “Direct” in the port designation column and assign a talk/ listen label name to the port and apply the change to the frame with
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ECS using a frame reset to “wake up” the port.
These ports can
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be used to support balanced line level 4-wire connections to various 3rdparty devices such as mixing consoles, public address amplifiers,
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wireless intercom systems (WBS-670/680, CellCom or Tempest 2400 for example). These ports can also be used to route audio from the frame to a
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recording device (PC hard drive for example).
In order to
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route the audio from the frame (panels and interfaces) to one of these ports
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for recording purposes make the port a fixed member of a party-line. Assign
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as permanent members to this PL any other interfaces needing to be recorded (
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ports assigned to wireless is a good example). Any panels talking to this
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same PL via their talk PL keys will also have their audio routed to the recording port
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as well.
Other ways to
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route audio to this recording port include using forced listens from the source
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port to the destination port. This creates a permanent crosspoint from
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the recording source to the recording destination. Forced listens can
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be found in the ECS local advanced menu.
Creating audio
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routes in ECS can also be used, simply create the route (source to destination) andassign the route to a control label, assign the control label to a
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panel directly or stack the label to an existing key and the key activation opens
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the route to the recording port.