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ViewPoint
Wireless Touch Panels (Wave Server)
Instruction Manual
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels and
Accessories
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Limited Warranty and Disclaimer AMX Inc. warrants its products to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use for a period of three years from date of purchase from AMX Inc., with the following exceptions. Electroluminescent and LCD control panels are warranted for a period of three years, except for the display and touch overlay components which are warranted for a period of one year. Disk drive mechanisms, pan/tilt heads, power supplies, modifications, MX Series pr
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Table of Contents Introduction..............................................................................1 Overview 1 ViewPoint Models 1 Features 2 Related Instruction Manuals 2 What’s in this Manual 3 What’s New 3 Connections, Cleaning, and Charging ...................................5 Overview 5 Application 5 Connectors 6 Multiple ViewPoints in an Installation 6 Cleaning the Touch Overlay 7 ViewPoint Rechargeable Battery 7 Power Supply 8 VPA-CHG FastCycle Battery Charger fo
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Designing Touch Panel Pages................................................. 19 Overview 19 Activating the Edit button 19 Creating a Page 23 Adding a page 23 Setting the page color 24 Creating a Button 25 Adding a button 25 Resizing a button 26 Button Properties 27 Setting the button properties 27 Setting the button type 28 Setting the button border 28 Setting the channel code 29 Setting the variable text code 30 Setting the page flip 31 Setting the button colors for channel-off
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Setting the bargraph colors/shades for channel-off conditions 51 Linking the New Page to the Main Page 52 Exiting Edit Mode 55 Touch Panel Program Reference .............................................59 Overview 59 Setup Page 59 Beep 60 Display timer 60 Set time and date 61 Double beep 62 AXlink, output resolution, vX.XX, and serial number 62 Setting brightness 62 Protected setup 63 Show palette 64 Wireless status (optional WAV-PK) 64 Wireless status (optional SMT-PK) 66
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Editor 78 Page tracking 79 Sleep message 79 Function show 79 Wireless Settings for VPW-CP and VPW-GS 80 Wave-Pak not locked 81 RSSI 81 Network Eff. 81 Device Eff. 81 Device range 81 Server devices 81 Wireless settings (optional SMT-PKM) 81 Edit button 82 Edit Bar - Button Menu Options 84 Add 84 Copy image 85 Move 85 Resize 85 Delete 86 Text/image 86 Properties 90 Save 98 Paste 98 Save default 98 Set default 99 Put on top 99 Properties Page - Button Types 99 General 100
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RGB Setup 118 Protected 119 Properties Page - External Buttons 120 External buttons 121 Setting external button properties 123 Page Menu Options 124 Add 124 Copy 125 Rename 126 Delete 126 Page color 126 Go to 127 Popup on 127 Popup off 128 Move edit 129 Snap grid 129 Edit Bar - Quit Editor option 130 AXCESS Programming.............................................................133 Overview 133 PC to ViewPoint Connections 133 Programming the ViewPoint 134 AXCESS Programming
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Upgrading the Firmware.......................................................... 169 Overview 169 Configuration 170 Downloading the Firmware 170 Specifications.......................................................................... 173 Overview 173 VPA-BP ViewPoint Rechargeable Battery 175 VPA-CHG Fast-Cycle Battery Charger for VPA-BP 176 ViewPort Docking Station 177 Contacting Sales and Technical Support................................ 179 Overview 179 U.S. Sales and Technical Supp
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Introduction Overview The ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels and ViewPoint WAVE Touch Panels are hand- held, liquid crystal display (LCD) panels that allow you to control devices remotely. Figure 1 shows some of the available ViewPoints. Figure 1 ViewPoint touch panels ViewPoint Models There are four models of the ViewPoint touch panels: • ViewPoint Color Wireless Touch Panel - (VPT-CP) • ViewPoint Grayscale Wireless Touch Panel - (VPT-GS) • ViewPoint Color WAVE Touch Panel - (VPW-CP)
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Features The other features of the ViewPoint touch panels are: • All panels have 6-inch diagonal (153.9 mm), 320 x 240 (HV) pixel screens • VPW-CP has a 256 color passive-matrix LCD screen • VPW-GS has a 16-shade grayscale LCD screen • Four external programmable push buttons • Programmable firmware via programming port connection • Programming port for uploading/downloading touch panel data Note • Panel programming, pages, and drawings are uploaded and downloaded ® using TPDesign (Win
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• PowerTilt and PowerTouch Panels (Firmware version G3 or higher) What’s in this Manual This manual contains the following sections: • Installation Contains cabling, connections, and connectors as well as cleaning of the touch panel overlay, power supply, and battery information. • Touch Panel Basics Contains descriptions and illustration examples of touch panel pages. • Touch Panel Program Reference Describes touch panel operations, flowcharts, and button options. • Des
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4 Introduction ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
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Connections, Cleaning, and Charging Overview The ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels do not require hardware installation. This section describes how to connect, clean, and charge the ViewPoint panels. Application Figure 2 illustrates an example RF application for ViewPoint models Figure 2 VeiwPoint Touch Panel VeiwPoint Touch Panel ViewPoint application example One-way IR Two-way RF One-way IR Power Supply AXR-IRSM AXR-RF AXR-WAVES Card Frame AXlink AXlink ViewPoint Wireles
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Connectors All ViewPoints have two connectors, as shown in Figure 3. The power jack is for connecting an external 12 VDC power supply for ViewPoint operation and charging. The programming jack is a three-wire, 2.5 mm stereo jack. The required cable and power supply comes furnished with the ViewPoint. Figure 3 ViewPoint connectors Power jack Programming jack Stereo plug male Male DB9 ViewPoint to PC programming cable Cable FG10-517 to cable FG10- 727 to your PC's RS-232 Multipl
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The VPW-CP/VPW-GS operates on 2.4 GHz for two-way RF communications with Note the AXR-WAVES Server. It also provides one-way IR using other manufacturers IR The 2-way ViewPoints do not codes. support AMX IR codes (38 KHz and 455 KHz) but do If you plan to use multiple one-way ViewPoints within the same locals, it is strongly support other manufacturers recommended that each unit be ordered for operation on different RF frequencies. IR codes. The 1-way This will prevent erroneous data
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Figure 4 VPA-BP ViewPoint Rear battery cover Rechargeable Battery placement Battery Touch panel (rear view) Power Supply ViewPoints are furnished with a modular wart type Power Supply (Figure 5), which Note requires an input of 110 VAC and provides an output of 12 VDC at 1500 mA. The A 220 VAC power supply is power supply can be used separately from the VPA-CHG to operate the ViewPoint. also available. VPA-CHG FastCycle Battery Charger for VPA-BP The VPA-CHG FastCycle Battery
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Figure 5 VPA-CHG (power supply and VPT-CP Fast-Cycle Battery Charger for VPA-BP) 12 VDC Power Supply Green LED indicates battery is charged VPA-CHG Fast Cycle battery charger Red LED indicates charging Power supply Charging pins connection ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Installation 9
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ViewPort Docking Station The ViewPort Docking Station (Figure 6) provides a built-in battery charger and an angled desk docking station to cradle your ViewPoint touch panel. When a ViewPoint is placed in the docking station's cradle, the ViewPoint makes contact with the charging pins and the docking station then supplies power. When a touch panel is not cradled on the docking station, a battery can be charged when placed within the charging compartment. When a touch panel is cradled on the
