To exit ECS Online mode click on the highlighted ‘Online’ button. The button will cease to be highlighted and the background color of the menu pane will return to white. The button will return to the inactive display “Online”. At this point the configuration on ECS and on the matrix should be synchronized but the configuration will not be saved in the database at this point. The configuration on the matrix will be preserved in non-volatile memory in the event of a power failure but it will be lost if a new configuration is downloaded. Therefore it is highly recommended that after a configuration is updated in Online mode it should be saved in ECS either back to the original configuration or to a new configuration as required to ensure that the changes are preserved. ECS Online mode can also be ended as a result of other actions that force ECS out of this online mode. Some of the possible actions are:
• Changing to a different configuration while online will cause ECS to drop the connection to the matrix. • Closing the current configuration without exiting online mode first. • Selecting ‘Apply Changes’ to download a new map to the matrix. • A physical reset of the matrix. In this case as well as dropping online mode the background of the menu pane will turn red to indicate that the connection to the matrix has been lost. • Loss of the ethernet connection to the matrix. As with a reset the menu pane background will change to red to indicate that the connection has been lost.