Configuration Guide
LDSperimetral
Version: 1.0
Date: 15/08/2014
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1. Contents
2. Document history ................................................................................................................................. 4
3. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................5
4. LDSPerimetral configuration ..............................................................................................................5
Windows Desktop configuration ..........................................................................................................5
LDSPerimetral configuration ..................................................................................................................6
CONFIGURE PROCESSING RESOLUTION...........................................................................................6
DIFERENCE CONTINUOS MODE // NEW LINE MODE ..................................................................7
5. Defining the perimeter system..........................................................................................................8
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2. Document history
Date & Author Changes
Version
14/08/2014 David Carrión & Pere Pons Initial version
Version 1.0
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3. Introduction
This document describes how to configure LDSPerimetral application, in any of its versions,
to match the display and sender configuration.
This document applies to LDSPerimetral version and LDSPerimetral Social version.
4. LDSPerimetral configuration
To configure the software system we recommend to make first the physical installation of
the cabinets and configure the sender, or senders, so that to be sure that the display system
works correctly. Once it is done, you should configure the LDSPerimetral software.
The first step is to configure your Windows desktop and the logical position of the displays
in your installation. Let’s assume that you have a computer with three video outputs: one
dedicated to the control panel (that we recommend to be the first one), and two video
outputs to connect the sender. The second step is to configure the application according
to the first setup.
Windows Desktop configuration
The configuration screens in Windows has to be the following:
Considering that
monitors 2 and 3
(Connected to the
senders) have to be
vertical, the second in the
top, and the third in the
bottom of the second.
Here is important to
check the coordinated
that windows informs
you.
Figure 1 - Windows desktop configuration
Note that the first
display, the number one, will have a monitor connected and will show the control panel of
the application. The number two will have the first sender connected and the number three
the second sender. If you only have one sender, you will only have the displays one and
two.
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LDSPerimetral configuration
Go to the program "LDS Perimeter", shown in
the figure 2, and click on the configuration
system button.
This action will open a window named
“System configuration”, shown in figure 3.
In this window you have to:
1. Configure the cabinet model.
2. Select the monitor video output Figure 2 - LDSPerimetral
(usually the second monitor)
Once it is done, the system knows how are
your cabinets, and where to display the
information to be displayed in your cabinets.
Now is time to provide the system a bit more
detail on how to display the videos so that
the sender can perform the operations you
want.
Figure 3 - System configuration
CONFIGURE PROCESSING
RESOLUTION.
In the selected display as video output, the system is going to display the videos, one after
the other, in a “box” called processing window. This window will begin in display 2 and will
extend through display 2 and 3. As the displays are one in top of another, the maximum
width of this box is going to be the resolution width of the second display, and its maximum
height the sum of the heights of display 2 and 3.
To calculate the size of this “box”, let’s use and example to be more illustrative. It is very
important to set correctly the processing resolution – read size of the “box” - of the
processor, for example:
If we have configured 7 cabinets per line on the sender, and your cabinets are A97Small:
The width of the processor (expressed in pixels) would be, remember cabinets
A97small are displays of 128pixels x 96 pixels, 128 (cabinet width) x 7 (modules per
line) = 896 pixels.
If you have A97Large cabinets – which are 256x96 pixels –, the width of the
processor would be 256 (width of the cabinet) x 7 (modules per line) = 1792 pixels.
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Another example, if we have configured 10 cabinets per line on the sender:
The width of the processor would be, in case you have configured A97 small
cabinets (128pixels x 96 pixels), it would be 128x10 (modules per line) = 1280 pixels.
If you have A97Large, which is 256 x 96 pixels, the width of the processor would be
256x10 (modules per line) = 2560 pixels.
The height is has to be calculated with the number of rows that you will need to set all the
cabinets, for example:
If we have configured 7 cabinets per line on the sender, and we have a total of 70 cabinets
the height of the processor, if you have A97Small that have a height of 96 pixels, would be
96 pixels x 10 (lines) = 960 pixels.
If we have configured 10 cabinets per line on the sender, and we need 200 cabinets (so we
need 200/10 = 20 lines) , the height of the processor would be – using A97 cabinets – 96
pixels x 20 lines = 1920 pixels.
If we have configured 10 cabinets per line on the sender, and we need 201 cabinets, now
we need 201 / 10 = 20.1 (more than 20 so will use 21) lines, the height of the processor
would be set to 96 (pixels) x21 (lines) = 2016 pixels.
DIFERENCE CONTINUOS MODE // NEW LINE MODE
There are two ways of displaying videos in the processing window, the continuous mode,
and the new line mode. Let’s see it in detail:
1. CONTINUOUS MODE. All modules are placed one after
another from the first to the last. The modules can be
cut at the end of a line, and continued in the next line.
Modules will be cut or not depending on the width of
the processing resolution set in the previous described
step. This configuration mode, sometimes is referred as
full screen mode.
Figure 4 - Continuous mode
2. NEW LINE MODE. All modules are placed one after
another, but at the end of the line a module will only be
placed if it feeds completely in the line, there is no cut
of modules, if the module does not fit, it jumps to the
next line and places it there. The first module of a
segment is always placed in a new line.
Figure 5 - New Line Mode
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Usually, older senders used to work in Continuous mode, or full screen, but modern ones
use to work in New Line Mode. This is a general rule, if you understand how the modes
work you can select the best option for your configuration.
We have talked about “segments”, let’s have a look to the configuration of segments in the
system…
5. Defining the perimeter system
In the Control Panel, open the
configuration of the perimeter system,
by clicking on the perimeter button.
The configuration window for the
Perimeter configuration will open, see
figure 7.
In this window we can select the
number of segments of the system and
Figure 6 - Control panel, open the configuration of the
the number of cabinets per segment.
perimeter system.
When you apply the new configuration
Figure 7 - Perimeter configuration window.
it is mandatory to restart the program. This is done this way to prevent accidental changes
during an event.
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To test if all is well configured system, this same screen you can press the button “Cabinet
order test”. The cabinets, if all the configuration is correct, will display the corresponding
cabinet number.
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