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Routers & Kaleido-X
Router Control Configurations
cascade using an internal communications mechanism (e.g. MIDI). The router
command contains an ID that causes it to be accepted by one router in the cascade,
and ignored by the rest.
4 All multiviewers can be controlled by an external (push-button) control panel, via a
serial or TCP/IP connection. Usually, such a panel is used to control either a simple
external router (case 2, above) connected to the multiviewer, or the internal router
module (case 1, above).
5 All multiviewers can be controlled by an intelligent router controller, via a serial or
TCP/IP connection. The controller can issue commands to the multiviewer internal
router module (if available), or to any external router connected to the multiviewer. The
Kaleido-X software directs the commands to the designated device, and, as needed,
translates the command to the required protocol.
Router Configuration Scenarios
Controlling an External Router
1 An operator chooses an assignment option on the monitor wall menu (e.g. “switch
output 2 of external router A to QC monitor”).
2 The Kaleido-X software interprets the command, and sends it to the designated router
over a serial or TCP/IP connection, using the appropriate router protocol.
3 The router receives the command and executes a crosspoint switch, either changing
the signal on one of its connections to a multiviewer input, or…
4 …sending the signal to another device (e.g. vector scope, QC monitor, ISO recorder).
Note: In the same way, from the monitor wall, it is possible to change
crosspoints on the multiviewer’s internal router (if available), when its
physical levels are configured in the context of the KX Router logical router’s
first level.
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