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Managing Kaleido-X Systems
Detailed Directions
Detailed Directions
Creating and maintaining a Kaleido-X system involves a number of file management tasks,
including backup and restore operations. The XEdit software is used to perform these tasks.
Some tasks are done online, others in offline mode. Most are available in both modes.
A local database is used as a workspace to save layouts and related configuration data
temporarily while you are building your Kaleido-X system in offline mode. If you need to
build more than one system, you can keep working with the same database, and use the
backup tool to save the data for each system separately. To further work on a specific
system you would then use the restore backup tool.
See Managing Multiple Databases
Efficiently on page 108 for an overview of the recommended workflow.
Opening the XEdit Software
When using XEdit offline, you work inside a workspace located on your client PC. When you
first open XEdit, a window will prompt you for the location for this workspace. It is
recommended to consider this workspace as a sandbox into which you will always first
import the database you wish to work on during the current session, and from which you
will export the database at the end of the session.
To open XEdit
1 Double-click the XEdit icon on your desktop: .
A startup screen appears, followed by the Database Location window.
In XAdmin the virtual slot/card concept is represented as follows:
• Cards in virtual slots have no name.
• There is no reset button associated with each card. Instead, there is a
single multiviewer reset button that sends a reboot command to the
multiviewer.
• Cards in virtual slots have no serial number. Instead, there is one serial
number for the multiviewer.
• Cards in virtual slots do not have individual IP addresses. There is only
one IP address, which is associated with the multiviewer.
Calibration Calibration refers to the configuration of different card attributes. For
example, an output card’s Brightness and Contrast attributes can be
calibrated, or an input card’s Silence threshold attribute.
See Calibrating
the Kaleido-X on page 111, for details.
Peripheral devices A peripheral device is an external piece of equipment, such as a router or
production switcher, that can be connected to the multiviewer.
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