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  • 1.  Lock Out Controls?

    Posted 20 days ago

    Our Carbonite Solo 13 Console in our church production booth is not secure or covered in any manner. This means that occasionally we'll have someone come up and press a button or two just to see what takes place. Because our computer video output also runs through the switcher, once in a while someone hits a eky combination that switches the output to our projectors to something else. We do have other organizations that use our worship space for meetings and gathering and also need to use our AV capabilities (mainly computer to screens for presentations) and we'll get a call that they're unable to project anything to the screen.

    Without having to acquire or fabricate some sort of locakable cover for the switcher, is there any way to program some sort of lockout so that keys on the mixer surface are inoperable? If so, could someone let me know how to do that?



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    Steve Witwicki
    Video Technical Director
    Light of Christ Church
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  • 2.  RE: Lock Out Controls?

    Posted 18 days ago

    Hi Steve,

    First of all, I assume that you have a Carobnite Black Solo video switcher.

    Unfortunately, I do not have a machine to test this idea on but this is something that you could try and I wanted to reply to you, in the interests of getting you a quick response.

    How to Lock the Control Panel
    1. Press the MENU button on the panel.
    2. Navigate to System > NEXT > NEXT.
    3. Select Diag Tests followed by Contrl Test.
    4. The panel will now stop reacting to standard switcher operations (as it is in testing mode, and any pressed buttons will only display the button's name on the screen). [1]
    How to Unlock the Control Panel
    1. Press the MENU and Exit buttons on the control panel at the exact same time.
    2. This will safely exit the diagnostic test mode and restore all normal switcher controls.

    I hope that this works for you.



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    Raphael Samad
    Business Development Manager
    Production Switchers
    Ross Video
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