User Manual

EASy-PLUS
®
User Manual
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TRILITHIC
Rev 1.02
ENTERING SYSTEM INFORMATION
From the SYSTEM tab, make the appropriate selections for the following:
SYSTEM NAME
Enter your cable system name.
CALL LETTERS
Enter up to an eight character abbreviation for your cable system name in the CALL LETTERS box.
ORIGINATOR
Select EAS Broadcast Station or Cable System
TIME ZONE
Select the time zone which your headend resides in.
ENABLE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
Select if your system headend is in a county/parish which adheres to Daylight Savings Time in April.
MANUAL MODE/SLAVE MODE/SYSTEM CONTROLLER MODE
Select Encoder/Decoder and System Controller button by left-clicking on it.
Slave mode enables the EASy-PLUS
®
system to be a slave tied directly to Trilithic’s PSC-901A or PSC-902
rackmount computer. Currently, the only way to interface with Scientific-Atlanta’s DNCS server to run digital
EAS on Explorer or Voyager settops is through the use of the PSC-902 networkable controller.
UPLOAD PC TIME AND DATE (to EASy-PLUS memory)
To set time and date on the EASy-PLUS
®
system, check for correct DATE, TIME, and TIMEZONE on PC, then
click on the Upload PC Time And Date button.
UPLOAD CONFIGURATION (to EASy-PLUS memory)
After all data selections are made and all fields are filled in using the EASy-PLUS
®
setup software, come back
to the SYSTEM tab press left-click on the Upload Configuration button.