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14 True Tracking Backup and Playback on grandMA consoles
14.5.414.5.4
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14.5.4 Setting up a True Tracking Backup Connection
This window will open if you go to True Tracking Backup and press the CONNECT button.
Pressing the button MASTER will start this console as the Master and the other one as the Slave. If you press SLAVE,
this console will be started as Slave and the other one as Master.
After you have made your choice for MASTER or SLAVE, this window will open, where you can now select the
console to be connected.
After the console has been selected, both consoles will reboot.
After rebooting, the Master console will start searching for the slave system (just as the slave system will start
searching for the Master). Following that, the current show will be transfered from the Master console to the Slave
console.
As soon as the connection has been fully set up, you can start with the normal operation of the Master console. The
Slave console will simultaneously execute all the steps (even fader movements).
The True Tracking Backup Connection remains active, as long as it is not:
 manually interrupted by taking off the EtherNet cable (or by deactivation of the EtherNet Hubs).
 automatically stopped due to a recognised communication problem.
 canceled due to a hardware problem either at the Master or the Slave.
The slave will ask in any case though for a confirmation (by pushing the Escape button on the PC-
keyboard), before it will take up its task to work in Stand-Alone mode. For this reason a Tracking Backup
System should always have a PC-keyboard connected to the Slave.
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Disconnecting a True Tracking Backup Connection
If you go to True Tracking Backup and press the DISCONNECT button in the PROTOCOL-CONFIGURATION menu, the
connection will be terminated. The Master console switches immediately to SOLO mode and can be used the normal
way.
On the Slave console you will see a window called TRUE TRACKING BACKUP showing the following message:
LOGOUT INITIATED BY MASTER. When pushing the OK button, this console will switch to SOLO mode and can be used
the normal way.
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Using consoles in external networks
Do not try to connect Tracking Backup consoles with computers such as office PCs or network printers, as this would
slow down the connection and the Tracking Backup might lose the synchronisation.