Setup guide

NV96xx Virtual Panels

Windows Setup Guide

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 in your system (using NV9000-SE Utilities), 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 PC) 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. After creating the new configuration and associated .legends file, the

virtual panel should run properly with the new configuration.

S NV9000-SE Utilities requires that you must make at least some slight change to a configura-

tion before you save it. (For example, uncheck an option and then re-check it. The ‘Save’

button will become enabled.)

Copies of Configurations

NV9000-SE Utilities has a mechanism by which you can make copies of configurations, but

neglects to copy the configuration’s associated .legends file. If you intend to make copies of a

configuration, open every copy and save it. Here again, NV9000-SE Utilities requires that you

must make at least some slight change to a configuration before you save it. (For example,

uncheck an option and then re-check it. The ‘Save’ button will become enabled.)