User Guide

Using the Design XPress Project Wizard
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esign XPress Programmer’s Guide
Setting Up Audio/Video Zones
Design XPress can support up to 30 audio zones per system. For instance, in the Sample Whole
House project, the Kitchen and Dining rooms are grouped (Group 1), as are the Pool and Family
rooms (Group 2), and the front door (Fdoor) and BedRM1 and BedRM2 (Group 3), as shown below.
In this example, when an A/V source is selected in the Kitchen it will also be broadcast to the
Dining room. However, both rooms still have individual volume controls.
If a zone is included in a Group (or added to a Group), the first zone in the Group listing determines
the Video Output value, and subsequent entries in that Group are disabled. That is, each group can
have only one video output, which is shared by all zones in that group.
In the example shown above, since Kitchen and Dining are in the same Group (Group 1), and first
entry in Group 1 (Kitchen) is set to use Video Output 1, then Dining will also use Video Output 1. If
there were other Rooms/Locations in Group 1, they would use Video Output 1 as well.
1. Starting with Zone 1, click the down-arrow in the Name column to view a list of all available
rooms in the system. The list of rooms is based on the Room/Location Names information
entered in the System Information dialog. Select a room that you want to include in the first
audio zone (in the example above, the designer selected Kitchen).
FIG. 4 Audio/Video Zones example configuration
No duplicate selections are allowed.