Operation Manual

B264 Operation and Management

The B264 is configured using the free Dashboard™ application, which is available for Windows,

Apple OS X, and Linux. Dashboard can be downloaded from this link:

http://www.opengear.tv/dashboard-software

The B264 user interface is depicted below. It is divided into a statistics panel on the left, and a

configuration panel on the right. Each panel has multiple tabs, corresponding to the various

functions in the card. Note that the Card State alarm indicator is also reflected in the green/red

Status LED in the front of the board. The Status LED will be green when Card State is green or

yellow, and will be red when Card State is red.

For the remainder of this manual, all described features are available for the B264 Stand alone

and openGear card versions unless explicitly stated. Both products are referred to as the B264

encoder.

The following tabs are available:

 Product: this tab provides general information on the card, including firmware version,

uptime, temperatures, and other parameters. It appears only on the Statistics panel.

 Network: this tab is used to configure the IP addresses and network information for the

Ethernet ports. The statistics side of the panel includes some additional information such

as link state.

 Encoder 1, Encoder 2: these tabs are used to configure the two encoder channels.

 ASI Outputs: this tab is used to configure/monitor the ASI ports.

 IP Outputs: this tab is used to configure/monitor the IP Output ports. The configuration

panel provides the facilities to create, manage and delete ports; the statistics panel

includes transmission status information.

 Connections: this tab is used to configure/monitor connections. The configuration panel

provides facilities to create, edit and delete connections; the statistics panel provides a

table where the status of all the connections in the unit can be inspected at a glance.

 Admin: this tab is used for general administrative functions, such as firmware upgrades,

licensing, logs, and configuration management. The Test Packet Generator configuration

is also found under this tab.

 Control: this tab is available only in the B264. It is used to configure/monitor the

control ports and the SNMP functions of the device.

Please note that DashBoard versions 4.0 and 4.1 have GUI performance problems with the B264 Encoder. We

recommend either version 5.0 or higher.