Author: Sam Hatcher
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Riedel Fusion 6B Firmware
Please find attached the most recent (4.7) firmware for the Riedel Fusion units. This adds useful features including RS-FEC as well as various other quality of life improvements however running this new firmware the device is limited to 4×4 3G SDI, or 1×1 12G SDI / HDMI. When operating in 4×4 SDI mode, dual TX…
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Evertz Scorpion Configuration Tool
Please find below a containerised configuration tool for the Evertz Scorpion 6, kindly made by CT US. This tool will allow you to do a ‘factory reset’ or all the Scorpions parameters, or adjust them to any values defined in the config file.
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Evertz Scorpion Firmware and Documentation
Please find below a link for Evertz Scorpion firmware and documentation.
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Kairos Firmware and Manuals
Please find below a repository for Panasonic Kairos firmware, manuals and documentation.
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Ubuntu (Linux) CLI Cheat Sheet
As we’ve been utilising more IP in our production systems there has been an increasing need to work with Linux. I’ve attached a handy cheat sheet which is provided with Ubuntu with some of the basic CLI commands to get you going.
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Arista mDNS Gateway
Arista switches are able to run an mDNS gateway service which is useful for systems that use mDNS for discovery and if you want that discovery to work across VLANs.
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Cisco 4500 Boots to Rommon Mode
Sometimes when powering up a Cisco 4500 it will boot into Rommon mode by default rather than launching the Cisco IOS operating system as it should. You can get the switch to boot from within Rommon mode simply by entering the command ‘boot’ however ideally we need to ensure that this isn’t necessary every time…
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SMPTE 2110 – Helpful Resources
Please find below links for some useful SMPTE 2110 resources. I’ll add to this as I find more. PTP Explained in a non offensive way
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Generate UCP Config File
In order to utilise the Grass Valley UCP cards within our TFC Flow nodes at the moment some manual configuration is still required. Going forwards this process is going to be automated by a deployment tool built into TFC, but this is the workaround for now.
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Getting started with FLOW – TFC
FLOW uses IP technology to let you transport low latency video, audio, comms and data signals across a venue using the concept of ‘Nodes’ which are liked together using fibre. Our control software TFC allows you to control the routing of these signals in the same way as a traditional video router and sits ‘over…
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