OMNEO Main Station – OMS

OMNEO Main Station (OMS) is a digital partyline Intercom solution, capable of the many applications required on events.  

OMS is similar to ODIN, which is a matrix intercom system, but has some features that are different and some limitations. 

What are the capabilities of OMS? 

OMS comes in various formats, which are determined by the level of license purchased with the kit.  All of the OMS at Creative Technology have the advanced license, which unlocks all the features available to the system.    OMS has the capacity for the following: 

• 40 OMNEO ports. 
• 4 Analogue audio bi-directional ports. 
• 8 keypanels 
• 4 RVON (RTS Voice Over Network) ports
• 4 2-wire channels (whilst we don’t own any 2-wire comms systems at CT, we do have occasions where we need to interface with third party client systems on-site.) 
• 2 program audio input ports. 
• 1 Stage Announce output port
• 8 DANTE Audio Tie Lines which can be used to link OMS units to share audio between systems 
• 4 GPIOs 

Compatiable devices

OMS is fully compatible with all RTS devices, such as those featured here.

OMNEO ports

OMNEO ports are virtual ports, facilitating audio in and out of the system. These are essentially DANTE channels with some control data tagged on; so when we mention OMNEO, just think DANTE. (You need an OMNEO port for every panel, digital beltpack or any other source of audio.) 

Analogue ports (Aio) 

There are 4 analogue ports available, which might not seem much, but remember that  DANTE devices( such as Glensound Dark 88, which converts  up to 8 channels of analogue audio to OMNEO,) can be included in system; leaving the analogue ports for other uses. 

Keypanels

An absolute maximum of 8 keypanels are supported by OMS.  These can be a mixture of OMNEO, RVON & analogue. 

If you have 4 RVON panels, you can have 4 OMNEO panels.  If you need more than 8 panels, you will need to consider an alternative solution; such as ODIN. 

RVON

RTS Voice Over Network is RTS Intercom’s proprietary VOIP solution.  This leverages the possibility to extend the system across a wider network, by compressing the audio with a set of CODECS. With a VPN in place, you can deploy an RVON panel anywhere that there is internet, and it will be seen by OMS, and included in your communications system. 

PGM and SA

2 program inputs and one stage announce output brings program into the system and allows any device to talk to the audience over the PA (or be sent to the play-out stream or recording device.) 

Tie Lines

 A question that is often asked is, “can we link OMS units?” 

Linking of units is called trunking, which is possible, but requires expensive trunk controllers to effectively merge discrete systems into a single intercom.  OMS does have 8  Tie Lines, allowing channels of audio to be shared across a link (such as duplex fibre) which can be patched at either end, and included in the appropriate partylines. 

GPIO

OMS has 4 General Purpose input and outputs, so the system can signal to external devices and receive similar from foot-pedals or push buttons.  Each keypanel is also capable of 2 GPIOs; once in the system the triggers can be sent or received at any device. 

Creative Technology’s Best Bit

We have built a kit for site which includes the OMS and pre-configured Cisco network switch into a rack package, with a very tidy rear patch panel. 

The patch panel design incorporates the following: 

• A single IEC power input. 

• Ethercon patch which is particularly useful for connecting beltpacks,(which can be daisy-chained up to six per connector.) 

• LC fibre access and trunk ports to link to other devices and switches. 

• A switch configuration port and OMS control port  

The fundamentals we thought you would use the most have been included on the patch panel, but these can be modified to specific requirements , just talk to us. 

Most of the intercom functions can be programmed from the OMS front panel, which also acts as a 4 page , 4 channel intercom panel, enabling 16 channels from the front panel. 

If you need to know any more you can contact Dallas McIntosh, Comms Solutions Engineer, or a member of the team from Integrated Networks. 

We hope OMS will feature on your event.