Specifications

Crestron e-control Vote SW-VOTE
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NOTE: WAITING and DONE appear only on consoles configured for single use queues; WAITING-n and
DONE-n appear on consoles configured for re-entrant queues.
Summary of Operator functions
Through a touchpanel interface, working through the control system, the Operator
has complete flexibility in recognizing seats in queues. Operator functions include:
• Send names
Sends the name of each seat from the Members database table.
• Load queue set
Reloads all queues from a previously saved file;
sets feedback states of all seats’ RTS buttons.
• Recognize (a seat from a queue)
Forces previously recognized seat, if any, to yield its remaining time, if any, and killing
its mic;
marks selected seat as recognized; asserts its mic.
• Put a seat “on hold”
Places recognized seat “on hold”;
kills its mic.
• Take a seat “off hold”
Forces recognized seat, if any, to yield its remaining time, killing its mic;
asserts mic for newly recognized seat.
• Yield
Forces recognized seat to yield its remaining time;
kills its mic.
• Print
Prints current state of all queues.
• Clear a queue
If queue contained recognized speaker, kills his mic;
automatically clears any dependent queues as well.
• Clear all queues
Kills mic (if any active)
automatically clears any dependent queues as well.
• Save queue set
Saves current state of all queues for reloading at some future date.
Speaker timer functions are not implemented in the server but are left to the control
system. (See the Yield signal in the Signal Reference.)
Another popular function, printing queues whenever a queue is saved, or whenever
the touchpanel leaves the RTS Console page, is also left to the control system. (See
the PrintReport signal in the Signal Reference.)
Summary of Seat functions
Members have a single button for each queue. Each such button has feedback
indicating the seat’s presence in the queue. Unlike the seat’s voting buttons, all
request-to-speak buttons’ feedback are controlled automatically by the Voting
Computer through the Request-to-Speak Console signal block.
For each queue, the functions described below are all available to each seat by
momentary contact of that seat’s Request-to-Speak (RTS) button (there being one
such button per queue, per seat). Functions included:
Before entering queue (button feedback is dark; mic is dead):
• Request to speak
feedback asserted; seat added to bottom of queue, marked as WAITING
In queue but not yet recognized (button feedback is hot; mic is dead):
• Cancel request to speak
seat removed from queue (loses place in queue)