Recalls settings for the whole system.  This includes selected (or all) devices, their Device Presets and Parameter Presets for selected Parameter Preset Groups. Venue Presets are useful for system wide changes in set up across multiple boxes.

To create a Venue Preset press the red 'V' button in the Preset toolbar. This opens the Venue Preset window where these presets can be created, configured, renamed, recalled and deleted.

Start a Venue Preset by pressing the 'New' button. You are then prompted to type a name, use something that describes the purpose of the preset, e.g. for a stadium, 'Pitch set up' and 'Track set up'. Continue with the 'Next' button where you can now select which devices you want to change settings in.

The following screen allows you to select Device Presets to recall when the Venue Preset is selected; click in the Device Presets boxes to engage drop down lists of any pre-stored Device Presets. If the current set up of the devices is what you want to go with then use the 'Snapshot' facility to create Device Presets automatically.

Next a list of pre-configured Parameter Preset Groups can be selected for use with Parameter Presets (in the next screen along if ticked here) to further change settings.

Note that if the required settings have been achieved through a Device Preset selection earlier then there may be no need to use these groups of settings. Conversely, if the Device Presets are not configured, i.e. left blank, then the Venue Preset can be used to exclusively change certain parameters based on predetermined control groups using Parameter Presets.

Device Presets are perhaps better for easy box based overall changes that might include Configuration changes or other hardware settings that cannot be accessed through Parameter Presets. Parameter Presets are better for more focused actions within certain devices.

The final screen shows a summary of the setting that has been created for the Venue Preset; check this carefully to make sure that the preset will have the desired result. You can go back through all the settings to change assignments as necessary. The 'Finish' button in this screen closes the window and returns back to the Venue Presets window.

The settings for a Venue Preset can be edited at any time by clicking on the Venue Preset name in the list and pressing the 'Configure' button, this runs through the process described above again.

 

Venue Preset recall and the HiQnet Node object

Venue Preset recall is part of the HiQnet protocol and its functionality is available on all HiQnet devices. In a Soundweb London system, Venue Presets can be triggered from a PC running HiQnet London Architect software and/or from a BLU network device. This section will deal with Venue Preset recall from a BLU network device.

By default, a BLU network device sends the Venue Recall command (across the Ethernet Control network) to all the BLU network devices and Crown PIP modules in the design file. This functionality can be extended to other HiQnet network devices by adding the HiQnet Node object to your design, solely for the purpose of recalling Venue Presets from a BLU network device.

Preparing Venue Presets

• The Venue Presets must exist inside your non-Soundweb HiQnet device. They must be created and loaded into the device using System Architect

• Equivalent Venue Presets must be created in London Architect. Each Venue Preset will be assigned an ID number incrementally, starting from ID 1. If a Venue Preset is deleted, its ID will be released and used for the next Venue Preset created.

Adding and setting up a HiQnet Node device

• Drag the HiQnet Node object from the Hardware View onto the Main window. Alternatively the object can be added by right-clicking and selecting it from the drop-down context menu.

• In the Properties, enter the HiQnet Node address of the device.

• Go online and load the design into the BLU devices.

The HiQnet Node address of the non-Soundweb device will now respond to a Venue Preset recall from the BLU network device. The Venue Preset can be triggered by using a logic circuit, network wall controller, Control Input ports or 3rd party Serial controller. (eg: AMX, Crestron)

 

 When going online, a BLU network device (except the BLU-8) will hold a list of HiQnet node addresses of the network devices in the design. The Venue Recall messages will continue to be sent to those devices until they are removed from the list. To stop the BLU network device sending Venue Preset recall messages to the HiQnet devices represented by the HiQnet Node objects, follow the procedure below.

Removing a HiQnet Node device and stopping the Venue Recalls

• Delete the HiQnet Node object from the design

• Go online

• Power cycle the BLU network device