This guide will step through the standard settings that we use on Bolero standalone antenna. There are a lot of settings that we do not touch which may be needed but these are basics.
Power up the antenna. You will need access to the antennas web page so it might be easier to power it from a PoE switch. The switch must be gigabit for Bolero to work. The antenna has booted when the LED is solid orange and the screen says RADIO OFF.
Using the buttons on the antenna, set the IP address, subnet and gateway. It is quicker to configure the IP from here rather than the web page.
As a standard, CT are using the following settings:
IP address: 10.10.1.1’barcode number’ (ie 10.10.1.108)
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 10.10.1.1
Once these are set you will be able to open the configuration web page of the antenna from a web browser.
Click on the pencil icon to the right of the Antenna name.
Change the name of the antenna to “CT” and the last digits of the IP address, for example CT 108
Change the user ID to match the last digits of the IP address.
Save and close this settings page.
Before any of the Bolero systems will start working together they have to be in the same Network Space.
Click on the + and select Create Network Space.
Name the new Network Space Temp Net and the unit ID. If you are prepping it for a show, call it something related to the show.
Make sure the system mode is set to Standalone/Link
Set the Admin PIN to 1234
Select Apply to save the settings.
Now that you have created a Network Space, the settings are protected by the Admin PIN.
Click on the padlock and enter the PIN to unlock the rest of the settings.
You can now click on the + and select Registration Mode
Enable NFC and disable the timeout. This means that beltpacks can always be joined to the system by tapping them on the antenna.
Click Apply to save the settings.
By default a reset antenna will only have four partylines available and our default setup requires six.
Select Partylines from the menu across the top of the page.
Edit the four default partylines to be called WPL1 – 4 to make the labelling match the old FreeSpeak setup.
Click the + and add WPL5 and WPL6
Any new beltpacks that are added to system will be given the default profile which controls all the settings on the pack. Currently we don’t change anything other that the assignments of the six keys.
Select Profiles from the menu across the top of the screen.
Click on the pencil icon to edit the profile.
On the Keys tab, change keys 5 and 6 to be WPL5 and WPL.
Click Apply & Close to save the settings.
All functionality of the beltpack can be set from this profile so there may be other settings you wish to change on a job by job basis to speed up the prep.
The NSA 4-wire interfaces appear in the IO Devices page. The NSA should be in Bolero mode with the top LED illuminated blue. If it is purple, press and hold the mode button for five seconds to switch modes.
Select IO Devices from the menu across the top of the screen.
Like the betpacks, you need to assign configurations to the NSA to get them to handle audio in the way you want.
To create a configuration, click on the + and name the new configuration NSA-002A
This configuration page is only half the story, we now need to patch partylines to 4-wire interfaces.
Select Audio Channels from the menu across the top of the screen. Because you have added a profile for an NSA you should have six audio channels listed.
Next to channel one, click the pencil icon to edit the settings.
For the standard config, we want the 4-wires to always be patched, so not triggered by anything else. Select the Always-On tab.
Under the Select function to add: menu, add a Talk and a Listen function. You should have a screen like the image above.
In the two destination dropdowns, select WPL 1. This will patch partyline one to 4-wire interface one.
Click Apply & Close to save the settings
Repeat this process for the remaining five audio channels.
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