Page 3 - LIMITED WARRANTY
LIMITED WARRANTY Copyright Rose Electronics 2006. All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed in any form or any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without the prior written permission of Rose Electro...
Page 4 - DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY; eclaration; of; onformity; Declaration of Conformity
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY D eclaration of C onformity This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used properly, that is in strict accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions may cause interference to radio communication. It has been tested and ...
Page 5 - TABLE OF CONTENTS; Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Page System Introduction .......................................................................................................................................1 Features..........................................................................................................
Page 7 - INTRODUCTION; QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL; System Introduction; Thank you for choosing the Rose Electronics
INTRODUCTION QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 1 System Introduction Thank you for choosing the Rose Electronics QuadraVista™. The QuadraVista is the result of Rose Electronics commitment to providing state-of-the-art KVM switching solutions for today’s demanding workplace. The Quadra...
Page 8 - Features
2 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Features J Connect to four computers making each video source viewable and controllable on a single KVM station J Four viewing modes; Quad Screen, Picture-in-Picture (PiP), Full Screen, and Dual screen Quad mode displays four computers on one screen P...
Page 10 - MODELS; Figure 1. Front View
MODELS 4 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Figure 1. Front View Selector buttons: 1 – 4 Computer select Quad Switches to quad screen view PiP Thumbnails of non-selected inputs Quad + Pip* Displays the on-screen menu system 1 + 2* Set output resolution to 640 x 480 @ 60Hz 3 + 4** Resets ...
Page 11 - INSTALLATION; Installation; Installing the KVM station; Figure 3. KVM Installation
INSTALLATION QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 5 Installation Please refer to the safety section first before proceeding with any installation or configuration of the QuadraVista. Installation of the QuadraVista consists of connecting the computers and KVM workstation to the unit. The f...
Page 12 - Installing the Computers; Figure 4. CPU Connect
6 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Installing the Computers Connect up to four computers to the corresponding video (DVI-I), keyboard/mouse ports on the QuadraVista as shown in Figure 4. It is recommended that the computers being connected and QuadraVista be powered off until all cable...
Page 13 - COMMANDS
COMMANDS QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 7 Front Panel LEDs / Push-Button Commands The front panel consists of 6 push buttons and 6 corresponding LEDs. The LEDs provide a visual representation of what mode the QuadraVista is in, what computer channel is selected, and what channels are...
Page 14 - Figure 5. Channel select window
8 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL In the Quad mode, the channel selector window will switch active channels each time the PiP button is pressed. The channel selector window will timeout and disappear after a preset amount of non-activity. Timeout value is configured, from 1-30 seconds...
Page 15 - Keyboard Commands
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 9 Keyboard Commands The QuadraVista uses a “HOTKEY” to accept and process a keyboard command. When the “HOTKEY” command is recognized by QuadraVista, the keyboard commands immediately following instruct QuadraVista to perform a function, not the connect...
Page 16 - ON SCREEN DISPLAY; On Screen Menu System
ON SCREEN DISPLAY 10 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL On Screen Menu System The QuadraVista has an easy to use menu system that enables you to customize the “System”, “Mode”, “Configuration”, “Console”, “Video”, and “Computers”. Each section is described in detail on the following page...
Page 17 - Main Menu
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 11 Main Menu System menu The Main Menu is called up by pressing the assigned HotKey + O (not zero) key. You can also simultaneously press the Quad and PiP front panel buttons. This is the starting point for the OSD menus. From the main menu you can set-...
Page 18 - Figure 6. HotKey menu
ON SCREEN DISPLAY 12 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL System / HotKey The system HOTKEY window is used to define the multiple keys HOTKEY and Double Click HOTKEY features. To modify the HOTKEY features, call up the Main menu (Default = left Ctrl + Alt + O key). From the Main menu, high...
Page 19 - Figure 7. System HotMouse; or
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 13 When the multiple key and double click key assignment has been made, exit the menu system and these values will be saved. If you assigned the Control, Alt, and Shift keys (menu value = “Yes”) to be the multiple key HOTKEY, then you must press these t...
Page 21 - Hotmouse Menu
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 15 3- Modify the PiP image size Activate the Hotmouse and move the cursor to the left edge of the PiP window. Press and hold the left mouse button and drag the PiP window to the left or right to increase or decrease the PiP size. Hotmouse Menu A menu is...
Page 22 - System Quad Mode; Figure 8. System Quad Mode; System OSD Position
16 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL System Quad Mode Figure 8. System Quad Mode System OSD Position Figure 9. System / OSD Position From the system / quad mode menu you can set the timeout of the quad selection window. Selecting OSD position allows you to set the screen position of the...
Page 23 - System / OSD Language
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 17 System / OSD Language Figure 10. System / OSD Language System / Security Figure 11. System / security Following lists the security level and functions each level can access. Level 1 security can perform all functions. Level 0 is the factory security ...
Page 26 - System / Test Pattern
20 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL System / Test Pattern Figure 12. System / Test Pattern There are nine test patterns to assist in adjusting the colors and skew. Use the Test Pattern to check the function of internal video circuits or to check the quality of the connected console mon...
Page 27 - System / Disable Channel; Serial Operations; section for detailed information on the DCP mode.
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 21 System / Disable Channel Using this feature, the connected computers should be connected to the channel ports in ascending order. Connecting computers to channel 1, 2, and 4 and selecting the number of channels to be 3, channel 4 can not be displayed...
Page 28 - MODE
22 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL MODE Mode / PiP-Start Selecting “MODE” and pressing enter displays the mode screen. Two mode selections are available, PiP and Start. The PiP features and configuration can be set-up, and the channel and mode setting on start-up. The PiP menu allows ...
Page 29 - Configure
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 23 Figure 15. Mode / PiP-Start Configure Configure / Backup, Recall, Factory Reset The backup command saves the current device settings. Figure 16. Backup Selecting Start from the MODE menu defines which channel is active, the display mode, and the PiP ...
Page 31 - Console
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 25 Console Video output / Keyboard / Multi-Monitor / EDID Selecting “Console” from the main menu displays the options for the video output, keyboard, Multi-monitor, and EDID. Setting the video output to “auto” the QuadraVista will read the connected mon...
Page 32 - Figure 20. Keyboard layout
26 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Figure 19. Console, Video output Console / Keyboard Figure 20. Keyboard layout Changing the video resolution will display the notification window shown to the right. Press Enter to accept the new setting or any other key for no change. The keyboard o...
Page 34 - Figure 22. EDID display; Video; Figure 23, Video input; xtended
28 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Console / EDID Figure 22. EDID display Video From the main menu, selecting Video will display a menu that allows you to view or change the connected computers video information, set the brightness, contrast, horizontal position, vertical position, sc...
Page 36 - Video / Horizontal and Vertical position
30 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Video / Horizontal and Vertical position The Horizontal position menu is used to adjust the position of a computer's screen manually To adjust the horizontal position, select the computer to adjust, and then select the auto/man field. Select "Man...
Page 37 - Video / Screen width; Figure 26. Screen width
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 31 Video / Screen width Figure 26. Screen width Video / Phase Figure 27. Clock phase The width of the screen can be adjusted to improve screen quality by selecting the screen width menu, the computer to modify, and adjusting the number of horizontal pix...
Page 38 - Figure 28. Video format; Computer
32 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Video / Format Figure 28. Video format Computer Selecting Computer from the main menu will display the features that can be displayed or modified for each computer connection. Figure 29. Computer Wide screen monitors (aspect ratio 16:10) normally dis...
Page 41 - Figure 34. EDID Programming
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 35 Figure 34. EDID Programming When the window to the above right displays and before pressing ENTER / SELECT twice, disconnect the console monitor cable and the computer monitor port to program. Connect a DVI male to male cable from the video output to...
Page 42 - Help
36 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Help Selecting the help section will display the keyboard command list, about, and contact information. The Command List option will display the keyboard commands recognized by QuadraVista. Figure 35. Help / Command The About section informs you of i...
Page 44 - SERIAL OPERATION; Serial Features; Figure 38, Serial connections
SERIAL OPERATION 38 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Serial Features QuadraVista can be configured or controlled from a remote computer by connecting a serial cable from the computer’s COM port to the QuadraVista’s serial input port. To remotely configure the QuadraVista (Display / exe...
Page 45 - DCP Synchronizing Multiple Units
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 39 Execute the Serial Communication software and the window shown below will display. Click on the ICON to connect and display the OSD on the remote computer Remotely navigate within the OSD menu system from the remote computer the same way as you would...
Page 49 - DCP/XML System Querying; The console and video are queried in the below script
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 43 DCP/XML System Querying Using the DCP/XML feature, the QuadraVista can be queried to request setting information. Queries are only replied to in the DCP control mode. Sending the below text script to QuadraVista using Hyper Terminal, queries for the ...
Page 51 - Line length: maximum 38 characters; Timeout for DCP messages is 750 milliseconds.; Unknown elements; Unknown tags may not be nested deeper than 5 levels.; Empty elements
QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 45 Whitespace: TAB, SPACE, CR Whitespace characters are TAB (0x09), Space (0x20) and Carriage Return (0x0D). Whitespace may occur anywhere between two tags, except at the start of a line and inside simple elements Whitespace is ignored. Line length: max...
Page 52 - SERVICE and MAINTENANCE; Service Information; Maintenance and Repair; Electronics; Technical Support
SERVICE and MAINTENANCE 46 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Service Information Maintenance and Repair This Unit does not contain any internal user-serviceable parts. In the event a Unit needs repair or maintenance, you must first obtain a Return Authorization (RA) number from Rose Ele...
Page 53 - SAFETY; Safety; The connection cables are damaged or frayed.
SAFETY QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 47 Safety The QuadraVista has been tested for conformance to safety regulations and requirements, and has been certified for international use. Like all electronic equipment, the QuadraVista should be used with care. To protect yourself from poss...
Page 54 - Safety and EMC Regulatory Statements; Safety information; WARNING; A CAUTION in the manual denotes a hazard that can damage equipment.; Servicing
48 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Safety and EMC Regulatory Statements Safety information Documentation reference symbol. If the product is marked with this symbol, refer to the product documentation to get more information about the product. WARNING A WARNING in the manual denotes a...
Page 55 - APPENDICES; Appendix A. Specifications; Part Number
APPENDICES QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL 49 Appendix A. Specifications Resolution 1900 x 1200 Video compatibility VGA to UXGA / DVI Keyboard USB / PS/2 (Computers), USB (KVM) Mouse USB / PS/2 (Computers), USB (KVM) Dimensions W- 17.125" / D – 9.125" / H – 1.75" Weight 6....
Page 56 - Appendix C. Factory Defaults; Section Function Default
50 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL Appendix C. Factory Defaults The Below table shows the factory default settings. When “Factory Reset” is executed, the unit configuration is changed from the user settings to the below default settings. Section Function Default Setting SYSTEM Hotkey ...
Page 58 - NOTES
NOTES 52 QUADRAVISTA INSTALLATION AND OPERATIONS MANUAL
