Serial Tally Extra Options

Table 1. Contrib Serial Tally Device
Option Value
At Black Select whether the switcher reports that nothing is on-air when the switcher is at black (All Off), or have the switcher not report anything different when it goes to black (Active On).
Data Txfr Select the message size protocol for the tally device. You can select Minimal, Normal, or Complete.
Rate Select the rate, in fields, between update messages sent by the switcher to the tally device.
Slot X Select theME that you want to assign to ME slot X on the tally device.
Source Name Select whether the switcher used the source names from the router (Router Src), or from the input BNC (BNC Name).
Start Select whether the switcher sends None or Init as the start message for the tally device.
Table 2. TSLOut Serial Tally Device
Option Value
Add Header Select whether to include header data when communicating to a TCP device (Header) or not include the data for a serial device (No Header). If you are using a DeviceMaster® to communicate with a serial device
Screen Select the address of the screen that you want to send the information to (0 to 65535).
Tally Bit Selects how tallies are displays and shows the active state of the keyer or send PGM Calculation Path information.
  • Standard — tallies are displays with preview on the left and program on the right.
  • Inverted — tallies are displays with preview on the right and program on the left.
  • Bus Messages — tallies are displayed on the right only and the left tally bits are used to show the active state of the keyer.
  • Bus Messages Inv — tallies are displayed on the left only and the right tally bits are used to show the active state of the keyer.
  • Slot — the tally bit is used to send PGM Calculation Path information. Slot 1 uses the first bit, Slot 2 uses the second, and so on. This setting is used in combination with the Slot option.
Justify Select how the mnemonic names are justified on the output (Left, Right, or Center).
Rate Select whether the switcher sends 1 (Slow) or 70 (Fast) messages per field to the UMD device.
Brightness Select the brightness value (0 to 3) that is sent to the UMD device.
Aux Re-entry Select whether to send the tally data for the aux (No) or the sources selected on the aux (Yes).
Panel Select Select the control panel that you want to use for bus selection data.
Output Format Select what tally information is sent based on the source of that data.
  • Acuity — TSL IDs 0-279 represent switcher inputs 1-280.
  • Ultrix — TSL IDs 0-3999 represent router sources, including Black, Auxes, and ME-Stores. The TSL information now passes the router source that is on the switcher input.
Note: If the same router source is selected on two or more switcher inputs, the TSL input colors will not be correct.
Slot Assign a Tally Bit to a PGM Calculation Path (Outputs menu). The Tally Bit must be set to Slot. The PGM and PV of the same number use the same PGM Calculation Path. Slot 1 uses the first bit, Slot 2 the second, and so on.