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Topic: CAB4N with MWare

How can a CAB4N be used in MWARE?  I can use software to change IP and bundles numbers, but I have no gain controls or GPIO control.  What to do?

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

You could get ConMan, now referred to, but still not advertised on the website as NControl.

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

All kidding aside, there is no direct support for CAB 4n in MWare.

Make it intuitive, never leave them guessing.

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

The documentation says that is can be used with a mini and main frames.  Is there plan for the future?  If so, when?  If not, why?

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

Sorry, we have tried to find and remove all of those references.  The CAB 4n has too many variables to build a device for MWare, so there is no plan to support this in the future.

Scott

Make it intuitive, never leave them guessing.

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

Lardog20 wrote:

The documentation says that is can be used with a mini and main frames.  Is there plan for the future?  If so, when?  If not, why?

Please tell me where you saw this so I can find it and eradicate it.

Thanks!

-Josh

Josh Millward
Burnt Orange Studios

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

You may wish to detail the level of incompatibility rather than a simple statement to the effect of "Don't cross the beams!!". The CAB4n indeed cannot be controlled by an MWare project, but it can quite happily exchange CobraNet audio with a suitably equipped Mainframe/Miniframe.

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

CAB 4N manual V0.2 page 13 paragraph 5.  Downloaded from the the downloads tab on the Media Matrix website.

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Re: CAB4N with MWare

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Lawrence. I guess we will add that to the list of other issues with the CAB 4n documentation.

Jason is exactly correct... because the CAB 4n is a CobraNet device, it can receive and transmit CobraNet information just like any other CobraNet device. You could possibly use a slew of CAB 4n's around a facility to transmit audio to a MainFrame or MiniFrame with CobraNet cards in them, but the Frames will not be able to control the CAB 4n's at all. If you wanted to use a single NION or an nControl for these purposes, you would be able to do all the control of the CAB 4n's from NWare. This would not exactly be a pretty solution, but if you wanted to slowly migrate from an old MainFrame/MiniFrame based system to a NION based system, it would work really well.

Josh Millward
Burnt Orange Studios