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Ultrix Acuity Setup
The Ultrix™ router must be set up to support the Ultrix Acuity on the Software Defined Production Engine (SWR-SDPE) blade. This includes setup of the Ultripower units, DashBoard connections, video reference and timing, the matrix database, and the UltriScape Multi-Viewer.
Aux Bus Router Sources
Switcher aux buses need to be mapped to router sources and destinations so that video can be assigned to them.
To Create Router Aux Sources

Ultrix Acuity Setup
The Ultrix™ router must be set up to support the Ultrix Acuity on the Software Defined Production Engine (SWR-SDPE) blade. This includes setup of the Ultripower units, DashBoard connections, video reference and timing, the matrix database, and the UltriScape Multi-Viewer.
- Ultrix Acuity Hardware Setup
  The router and switcher components of Ultrix Acuity must be set up separately before they can work together.
- DashBoard Connection
  Ultrix™ has a separate ethernet connection to DashBoard and appears as a separate node in the DashBoard tree view.
- Switcher Network Setup
  From the web interface, you can set up the IP Address, as well as selecting the IP addresses of all the control panels, and SoftPanel that can access the switcher.
- Reference
  Ultrix™ provides the reference input and internal signals that the switcher uses for timing.
- Video Routing in Ultrix
  Sources and destinations in the router must be connected to the inputs and outputs of the switcher.
- Input Sources in Acuity
  Video inputs coming into the switcher can be assigned to a type of device they are coming from. Assigning a device type allows you to associate a device you are controlling from the switcher with an input.
- Audio Routing in Ultrix™
  Audio is handled separately in the router and audio sources and destinations in the router must be connected to the inputs and outputs of the switcher.
- Aux Bus Router Sources
  Switcher aux buses need to be mapped to router sources and destinations so that video can be assigned to them.
  - To Create Router Aux Sources
  - To Create Router Aux Destinations
- UltriScape Multi-Viewer
  Some of the outputs from each ME are available as PiPs for the software defined UltriScape MultiViewer in the router.
- Ultrix™ Ultricore BCS Setup
  If your router ecosystem uses an Ultricore BCS, the switcher requires the IP address of the Ultricore BCS to communicate with the router to switch aux buses.

To Create Router Aux Sources

From the DashBoard tree view for the router, expand the Ultrix > Database node.
Double-click Sources.
Go to the end of the table and select the last item in the list.
Click Edit > Insert.
Enter the following information in the dialog box.
- Prefix — enter SRC AUX1- or how you want the name for the aux bus to appear. The AUX1 represents Aux Bus 1. You can change the name later.
- Starting — select 1.
- Count — select 8. This creates the series of 1-8 for Aux Bank 1.
Click Apply.
For each of the new sources you need to add a custom VID. The VIDs must follow the format <router-name>.slot0.virt-in[aux].sdi.ch1. For example, aux 3 on bank 2 for the router being used for this example would be Ultrix-5ru.slot0.virt-in[11].sdi.ch1.
Repeat this procedure to add all 8 aux bus banks.

Tip: As you are adding the aux buses, don't forget to add the tally ID numbers to each new source.
Insert a single row to the list. This is for the disconnect source on the aux bus which is used to select black on an aux bus from the switcher.
Set the name to Disconnect and the VID to <router-name>.slot0.disconnect[1].sdi.ch1.
Click Apply.