Testing Communications

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Testing Communications

With Compere running the overall Juggler project, with Medialon Manager running its communications project, and with Marquee running its project on the Source Layout Controller PC, you should see the number of windows available as numbered black buttons in the bottom of the Marquee app.

marquee-16connects

Note: here, no NDI feeds have been named, but 16 windows have been linked. They are black, so available to be placed. The grey buttons are Window Groups. There are no Presets showing.

In Medialon Manager, you can see the Compere MxM connection in Project > Compere > Variables:

manager-compere-connection

If you already have media directed to the canvas background, you will see this represented in the Marquee background. If not, you will see ‘NDI’. This is what you will also see until you have assigned the NDI feeds in Medialon Manager.

Make sure you can see the Compere canvas panel as well as the Marquee window and the actual display, if possible. In Marquee, press the top left mode button to make sure you see the red pulsing ‘Live’ icon, not the blue-green ‘Preview’ one.

Drag the first of these Windows, numbered 1, into the background canvas area.

As you move and scale this window in Marquee, you should see the corresponding window move around in the Compere Canvas panel, and on the actual display.

If this does not happen straight away, close the Marquee app, close Medialon Manager, then:

Run Medialon Manager

Open the Manager project

Run the Manager project

Open Marquee

Run the Marquee project

Test each window in the same way and verify each is working.

You will by now have created a mess of windows, so press the eraser toolbar button on the left to clear the canvas. press ‘Erase’: erase

erase-all

Erase and Remove in Marquee

It is important to understand how the Marquee canvas relates to that in Compere. Traffic is one-way, and window information must remain accessible to Marquee, in order to create, re-add or recall Window presets. Erase means ‘remove all’ rather than ‘remove selected’. ‘Remove’ simply means ‘un-enable’ in Compere:

window-enabled

The Window remains where it was in Compere, but can only be resized or positioned in Compere itself by re-enabling it first. When re-added to the canvas in Marquee, by dragging or enabling a preset, it is re-enabled in Compere.