Display Mode - Hardware Status Instrument

| General Description
| Instrument Description
| Control Bar - left (upper) section: Hardware Status instrument functions
| Control Bar - right (lower) section

General Description

In display mode, the TouchMonitor shows the instruments and their layout defined in the currently loaded preset.

Touching the screen area of an instrument will put this instrument into focus. This is recognized by a colored frame instead of a grey one. The frame color conforms to the identifier set for the group the focused instrument belongs to.

The Control Bar positioned at the lower screen edge contains several keys. It is displayed permanently if the "Control Bar" option in the "General" section of the "System" menu is set to "permanent". Otherwise, it will be displayed temporarily after touching the screen.

The Control Bar has two sections. The left (upper) section shows the specific keys defined for the focused instrument. This makes it very fast to access a specific function of one of the instruments on screen – just touch the instrument and select the desired function.

Please note:
The specific keys that are displayed in the left (upper) Control Bar section can be defined individually for each instrument. To do this, touch the "Edit Instrument" key and select the "Configure Keys" option in the menu. The default value for each key can be set in the menu as well.

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Instrument Description
The Hardware Status instrument is a control display showing the state of the audio hardware (I/O boards, network). Beside the measured sample rate, it displays type and position of the mounted audio interfaces.
When digital interfaces are applicated, furthermore up to 8 of the available channels are listed, showing type and common data like synchronisation to master clock (Freq.Signal), parity, invalidity, or physical phase (not audio phase) on the display. If there are two digital or the 3G-SDI interfaces available, the left (upper) section of the control bar provides corresponding keys for switching to the respective grouping.
On TM-Dante devices with AoIP interface, type and firmware data of the mounted Dante™ board are displayed with information about active or not active connection to a primary or secondary Dante™ network.

Please note:
The Hardware Status instrument is a control display. Therefore, the minimal oscillations of the measured sample rate should not be overvalued when generally in accordance with the default one.

Please note:
Status changes will be displayed after a delay of some seconds.

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Control Bar - left (upper) section: Hardware Status instrument functions

The number of available function keys in the left (upper) section of the control bar depends on the mounted I/O boards resp. audio interfaces. The available keys are used to switch between the channel groups for display.

Example
A TouchMonitor includes 8 analog inputs, 8 digital in- and outputs (AES) and a 3G-SDI interface. Then, the Hardware Status instrument provides the following function keys:

• Digital
This key is used to display the status overview of the mounted digital I/O board (channels 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b).

• SDI GRP I/II
This key is used to display the status overview of the first two groups of the 3G-SDI interface (channels I-1, I-2, I-3, I-4, II-1, II-2, II-3, II-4).

• SDI GRP III/IV
This key is used to display the status overview of the next two groups of the 3G-SDI interface (channels III-1, III-2, III-3, III-4, IV-1, IV-2, IV-3, IV-4).

• SDI GRP V/VI
This key is used to display the status overview of the further two groups of the 3G-SDI interface (channels V-1, V-2, V-3, V-4, VI-1, VI-2, VI-3, VI-4).

• SDI GRP VII/VIII
This key is used to display the status overview of the last two groups of the 3G-SDI interface (channels VII-1, VII-2, VII-3, VII-4, VIII-1, VIII-2, VIII-3, VIII-4).

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Control Bar - right (lower) section

The right (lower) section of the Control Bar always contains the following four keys:

• Edit Instrument
This key is used to directly access the menu parameters of the focused instrument. Any edits in the menu are saved to the current preset using the "Save" key.

• Load Preset
This key is used to load one of the presets stored in the unit’s internal memory or on an USB storage medium connected to one of the USB ports.

• Menu
This key is used to enter the Main Menu. This is the starting point for global system configuration, licence handling and preset management.

• Help
This key is used to enter the onscreen help for normal display mode (this text). Depending on the focused instrument, the help page will also describe the individual keys of this instrument.

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