WheatNet-IP Blades & IP Audio Network
How To Set Up Silence Detect on a Blade
Every WheatNet-IP Blade has silence sensors on every output. Here's how to set one up. Enable Silence Detection In Navigator, go to Destinations. Highlight the destination you want to monitor. Click Edit. Check the Silence Detect box. Then click ...
How To Configure Comrex Access for WheatNet-IP Using AES67
Prerequisites A Precision Timing Protocol (PTP) v2 clock source on your WNIP Local Area Network. Blades do not generate PTP, but they can lock to it. Comrex codecs running version 4.5p2 or higher can be set to generate PTP clock, or you can use an ...
How To Configure Redundant TVE (TV Mix Engine) Blades
The Blade 4 TVE (TV Mix Engine) blade has a new redundancy feature. Two blades may be configured in a hot standby setup. Upon failure, the backup blade will take over in under 3 seconds and will keep all of the routes and mixing intact. As of this ...
Understanding How Destinations Take Control of LIO Logic
When you assign LIOs or SLIOs to a source, the control of that logic is determined by the first destination to lock the source. A destination locks when a console fader turns on or when you right-click a destination in Navigator and select Lock ...
How To Configure Netgear M4250 AV Series for WheatNet-IP
Netgear’s M4250 AV Series is a line of Ethernet switches designed for Audio/Video over IP and targeted at the broadcast and sound contracting markets. While many features used for multicast IP audio are enabled on this switch by default, careful ...
How To Configure Cisco C1000 for WheatNet-IP
Overview Note: The C1000 has a limit of 1024 IPv4 Multicast Routes and IGMP groups. This effectively limits the number of multicast streams (every source in the system is a multicast stream) connected at the same time. When planning a system keep ...
How To Configure Cisco 9200x/9300x for WheatNet-IP
Overview Let’s take a look at what needs to be done to get your Cisco 9200/9300 switch ready for the installation of your WheatNet‑IP system. Properly configuring your switch allows you to take advantage of the “management” capabilities to control ...
How To Turn Hardware Relay Closures From A Satellite Receiver Into Virtual Software LIOs To Connect To Automation
Use Case You have contact closures coming into your system via relays from a satellite receiver. Your automation system does not have a device to connect the relays, but it does have the WheatNet-IP Audio Driver, which has Software LIOs to send and ...
How To Use The NPR XDS Satellite Receiver With AES67 without PTP
The new NPR receivers will output AES67 from LAN Port 3. We have developed a method that can be used to read these streams at either 44.1Khz or 48Khz sample rates without having to use a PTP-1588 Master Clock for your system. Instead of using a 1588 ...
Using the Time Machines TM2000 PTP Clock
The Time Machines TM2000 is an inexpensive GPS clock that provides PTP for AES67 systems. Things to know: The latest version of Time Machines hardware is what will work. This is the TM2000B, with a serial number starting with D. This clock will only ...
Which Blade Models Support AES67?
The following blade models support AES67: All Blade 3 hardware. The front panel looks like this: All Blade 4 hardware. The front panel looks like this: Blade v1/v2 models (identified by having a green LCD alphanumeric display) do not support the RTP ...
Blade 3/Blade 4 2142 Line Driver Output Chip Maps
One of the primary sources of audio problems with Wheatstone Blades is blown output chips. The cables you use to connect your blade outputs to other devices are, unfortunately, susceptible to picking up stray currents from a nasty power hit, or a ...
Configuring Paravel Systems WallTime with WheatNet-IP
The Paravel Systems Walltime is a nice studio clock and notification system based on a Raspberry Pi. It can be used as your primary studio clock and can also display notifications from various systems, including Wheatnet-IP. As many of our customers ...
How To Reset the Navigtor Password
The default password for Navigator is blank; click OK with an empty field to enter if the default has not been changed. Resetting a lost or forgotten WheatNet-IP Navigator password requires editing the Windows Registry. Back the Registry up and ...
Using Wireshark to Find an Unknown IP Address
If you have a device that you need to connect to but don't have a clue what the IP address is, you can find it easily with a laptop and Wireshark. Wireshark can be downloaded at no cost and is easy to install. Assuming your laptop or the target ...
Using Wireshark to Diagnose AoIP Issues
Back in the old days, you could find any signal in a radio/TV station with a Telco Butt-set. Now that everything is IP, the go-to tool is Wireshark. If you don't have it already, download here. Simple Troubleshooting Sometimes we can use the ...
LIO-48 Logic Blade Manual
This is the manual for a LIO-48 Logic Blade. View/download
What is IGMP and Do I Really Need It?
IGMP is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together. — Jedi Master Yoda, paraphrased OK, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But IGMP really is the ...
Rules of WheatNet-IP Logic
How To Add a "Fake-Air Monitor" Processed Headphone Confidence Feed to a WheatNet-IP System
Back in the analog days, we all used to listen to the off-air feed in the studio headphones. Then, digital came around. Between HD Radio diversity delay, latency from digital STL transport, and the increased use of profanity delay, it became nearly ...
How To Install Factory Presets On The M4IP/M4IPUSB
The .fpp package is a factory preset package and is installed via the M4 Processor GUI. All you need to do is: -- open the GUI and get online to the processor; -- open the GUI's Library dialog; -- right click on the left pane of the Library dialog ...
Blade 4 Meter App Quick Start Guide
The Wheatstone Blade-4 has much improved memory and CPU power over the Blade-3 and thus has the capability to run certain applications directly on the Blade itself. One of these is the Blade-4 Meter App. Based on the Wheatnet IP Meter App, which is a ...
How To Set Up WheatNet-IP On Eventide 600W+
The Eventide delay ships set to a default of 192.168.87.239. If you are deploying more than one, or if you need it on a different address, change the IP using Telnet: Open PuTTY and connect to the device. username: wheatstone there is no password, ...
Blade 4 Screen Engine Quick Start Guide
The Wheatstone Blade-4 has much improved memory and CPU power over the Blade-3 and thus has the capability to run certain applications directly on the Blade itself. One of these is the Blade-4 Meter Script Engine. With the ability to attach a monitor ...
How To Set Up A Tieline Gateway with WheatNet-IP
The Gateway platform will act as a WheatNet-IP blade in the WNIP system. You will change these settings from the WebGUI of the Gateway... Audio > Audio Options > Edit > Audio over IP mode > WheatNet-IP > Save Audio > Audio Options > Edit > Digital ...
How To Add A Redundant Power Supply To Blade 4
The kit will come with the following: QTY: 1) SPS-3016 power supply QTY: 1) IEC power filter to Molex plug assembly QTY: 1) 5-pin JST to 5-pin JST cable assembly QTY: 1) Plastic insulator QTY: 1) Small zip tie QTY: 1) Patch clip QTY: 4) 4-40 1/4 ...
Wide Orbit WheatNet-IP Logic Setup
These instruction sets apply to WideOrbit Automation for Radio versions 2.x to 3.7.x. Newer versions are likely similar. WideOrbit can address SLIO’s on blades via the Wheatnet ACI. For this setup you will need WO automation for Radio Device Server ...
How To Set Up Remote Start/Stop LIO Logic for Any Automation System with WheatNet-IP
Automation Channel Turns On Console Fader With the source disconnected from all destinations, edit the source. Click on the LIO Info Tab. Click the Add button. Expand the tree on the PC Driver Blade you wish to use. Click on the line of the Soft LIO ...
Switching Studios With Momentary LIO/LED and Console Spare Buttons
The Spare Button LEDs on Wheatstone consoles can be turned on by various methods. By default, the surface itself turns a spare button's LED on when the button is pressed. But sometimes you want the LED to display some kind of status such as when you ...
SNMP Information
This is a link to the current SNMP MIB for WheatNet-IP Blades SNMP monitoring can be used to trap for silence alarms, blade errors, power supply failures, temperature monitoring and other statuses.
How To Set Up Telos VX with WheatNet-IP Using AES67
Prerequisites You will need: A Precision Timing Protocol (PTP) v2 clock source on your WNIP Local Area Network. Both the blades and the VoIP phone hybrid need to sync to this clock, and they do not generate it. There are numerous PTP clock generators ...
"You Must Be Online" Error
Many great engineers have been brought nearly to their knees by this message, seen in the GUI for a number of Wheatstone products such as Talent Stations and SS8 panels. It sometimes pops up when you try to send a script to the device to make it do ...
Slave Mode Checkbox in Navigator Blade Admin
In most Navigator versions there is a checkbox on the Master Preference pane in the Blade Admin tab called "Slave Mode." There has been some confusion about when this checkbox should be used. Slave Mode is intended only for unique situations where ...
Sample Rates and Clocking In WheatNet-IP
en you installed your first Wheatstone Blade, you were asked to select a sample rate for that Blade. You either chose 48000 samples/second, or 44100 samples/second. As you installed additional Blades, you presumably selected the same sample rate for ...
How To Use Dante Devices in AES67 Mode with WheatNet-IP Devices
If the Dante device supports AES67, this is how to integrate it into Wheatnet-IP: NOTE: The Wheatnet System must be running at 48K (Dante cards don't support 44.1 for AES67) Put your Dante device on a static address in the WNIP subnet. You need a PTP ...
Getting the Most out of Navigator
Navigator is the control center for your Wheatstone network. It allows you to set up logic, salvos, configure AES-67 signals, make crosspoints, set up aliases and associated connections, assign attributes to source signals. You can see all the ...
About Wheatnet-IP Navigator
Navigator is the "control center" for your Wheatnet IP System. You'll use Navigator frequently to add or change signal parameters (including signal names), set up logic signals, salvos and associated connections, and make routing (crosspoint) changes ...
Multicast Overlap/Stream Manager Error
Multicast overlap is a condition that can occur when system changes are made in a way that doesn't allow Navigator and the Route Master blade to keep up with multicast ip address allocations. You end up with a "stream manager error" in Navigator and ...
Understanding Logic in Wheatnet-IP
How to set up on air lights? Machine starts and stops? Tally lights? We'll explain how here. There are three rules that guide all logic in the WheatNet-IP system: 1. A WNIP source needs to connect to a WNIP destination. Think of the crosspoint grid ...
How To Replace A Blade
It's easy to replace a Blade and have it come up with the existing configuration. Every Blade backs itself up periodically to every other blade in the system. When replacing the blade, the Route Master can restore the backup config to the new device. ...
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