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ASTi ACE Studio Components Reference Guide Rev. M DOC-01-TELAS-CRG-4
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12.0. Intercoms
The Intercom components provide an audio bus service to which other components
can connect to providing the ability to distribute audio throughout a model.
Additionally, the intercom service and components can simulate the intercom bus
structures of real aircraft and other training applications.
This section provides details on the following intercom components:
•IcomRx
•IcomTx
•Intercom_Bus_Power
This section also describes the Intercom Bus Service.
12.1. IcomRx
Summary: The Intercom Receiver component provides a connection from an
intercom bus within the model. The purpose of this component is to provide a
simplified means of retrieving audio from an intercom bus without the
complication of a comm panel. This capability is useful for monitoring audio on a
particular intercom bus within the model. As its name suggests, the Intercom
Receiver component cannot transmit audio onto an intercom bus.
This component also provides the bus with a power state. If there is not an
“intercom” object included for a particular bus then the bus will be fully operational
by default.
Description: The Intercom Receiver component provides power conditioning of a
specific bus and a direct output tap of the bus composite audio.
This component is defined to map exactly to the same connection required for a
radio object. The operation of these two service-side connections are that they have
values of 1.0 whenever the intercom object power is ‘True’ and 0.0 when the power
is ‘False.’ Basically, the intercom bus is OFF if the power is OFF.
The intercom bus parameter defines which bus the audio is pulled from. This
parameter maps to the ‘handle’ of the intercom bus.
The component output is the audio that comes from the intercom bus. The OutGain
input variable controls the amplitude of the output signal. If this variable is 0.0, this
component does not output a signal.
Control Input
OutGain
Type Default Value
float32 1.0
Description: OutputGain applies gain control to the signal that is
retrieved from the intercom bus.
Modifier: multiply
Modifier_default: 1.0