Setup guide

NV96xx Virtual Panels

Windows Setup Guide

Dark buttons

Some panel buttons can be disabled dynamically when you perform certain operations.

Disabled buttons are dark gray and you probably will not be able to read the button text. If you

need to read the text of a disabled button, click-and-hold the cursor on the button. It will illumi-

nate and you can read the text.

In cases where buttons do go dark (become disabled), it is advisable to know what buttons you

can or should click. Read the NV9000-SE Utilities User’s Guide or help files, or the NV9000 User’s

Guide and its associated control panel user’s guides, for information on panel functions.

Caveat about Reconfiguration

If you reconfigure a virtual panel while it is on-line, you might see button text that does not

conform to the new configuration.

Therefore, after you reconfigure a virtual panel, open its context menu, choose ‘Set Parameters’

and click ‘OK’. Doing this forces an update of the button text.

IP Addresses

When you are viewing control panels using NV9000-SE Utilities (on a Windows PC), active virtual

panels appear in the list. In this illustration, the panel named “QC2” with the panel ID 104 is a

virtual panel:

Note, however, that IP addresses for the physical panels are those assigned to the panel and

vary. The IP addresses for virtual panels are, in most cases, those for your computers and vary if

you have more than one computer on your router control network.

Virtual panels running directly on a primary system controller take the IP address of the primary

system controller and that IP address does not vary.

Pathnames

The pathname of the configuration file folder (which is in the NV9000 system controller, not on

your Macintosh) is

C:\NVision\envy\usersys\live\

in case you need to browse the configuration files.

Legacy Configurations

A very old panel configuration might have no .legend file and will not work with a virtual panel.

The remedy is to open the old configuration in NV9000-SE Utilities (version 4.2.0 or later) and re-

save the configuration.

S NV9000-SE Utilities runs only under Windows. You must use a Windows PC.