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DashBoard provides control and monitoring to hundreds of products from over 50 partners within the openGear and DashBoard Connect ecosystem, and of course most Ross Video products. Its ability to craft application specific solutions across this breadth of products is what makes DashBoard so special.
DashBoard is an amazing tool for creating custom workflows to control Ross devices, openGear devices, or really any third party IP-based devices. Scripts on Custom Panels are incredibly powerful, but writing them has required a certain amount of effort to learn. This can be a challenging task for users with no scripting or programming background.
To resolve this, Ross has added Visual Logic in DashBoard.
Now scripts can be created by dragging and dropping blocks to create tasks. The steps are really simple… just create the layout of the screen to look the way you want it, and then double click on an object to bring up the ability to edit the component. Add a task and it will take you into the visual ogScript editor.
From the Visual Logic editor you can see your parameters and variables on the left and the functions and logic blocks on the right. Drag and drop what you need into the center pallet and draw the connections between the boxes. It’s as simple as that! DashBoard will then write the script to make it work without you ever having to type in a line of code.
Easy searching is part of the platform, and if you search in the visual logic editor it will highlight instances of that use within the blocks. So if you know you’ve used a parameter somewhere but can’t find it, the search will highlight every place that you’ve used it.
The method of creating DashBoard Visual Logic scripts matches the Visual Logic editor within XPression graphics so that if you learn one you have learned the other as well!
DashBoard
DashBoard Network Control and Monitoring
The DashBoard Control and Monitoring System is a free application, designed for remote control and monitoring of the open architecture, openGear® platform.
Details
openGear® and DashBoard combine to give you unparalleled, flexible control over openGear® products. All openGear® solutions can be controlled using DashBoard without the need to upload custom GUIs or install proprietary software.
DashBoard offers the ability to view multiple frames with full control and alarming of all populated slots inside a frame. PanelBuilder allows users to create custom graphical user interfaces, combining multiple control and status parameters from any combination of cards and frames on a single view. This simplifies the setup of numerous devices in a large installation and offers the ability to centralize monitoring.
The openGear® devices define their controllable parameters and layout to DashBoard, so the control interface is always up-to-date. Alarms raised by devices in the frame bubble up to the upper most level, making it quick and easy to identify potential failures or problems.
openGear® frames are automatically discovered and are available in the TreeView where they can be custom identified, collapsed to view just the frame or opened to view available devices in the frame.
Device control and monitoring is simple and easy. Ross Video GUI's give a quick summary view window displaying the current state of the device, such as input and reference presences, output standard, etc. Control is simplified with multiple categories that group common parameters such as Timing Control, Output Configuration, Proc Control and Alarm Configuration.
DashBoard also offers the ability to upgrade software on devices in the field without the need to replace any on-board components. Batch software upgrades allow multiple cards, of the same model, to be upgraded at one time, right from any DashBoard terminal on the network.
DashBoard allows for multiple control windows to be active and available on one screen which is useful when a functional path involves more than a single device.
DashBoard device window layouts can quickly be saved and recalled, allowing for quick access to frequently used devices. Layouts can consist of a single device window, multiple device windows displayed full screen in tabs, or multiple devices on one shared screen.
Features
- Remote control and monitoring
- OS independent: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
- Automatic discovery of frames and devices
- Practical real-time control
- Alarm reporting
- Multiple frames on a single control network
- Multiple DashBoard applications on a single control network
- TCP / IP based communication
- In-field upgradeability of devices
- No need to upload custom GUIs
For further information visit: Ross Video