User`s guide

2: The Nickel Tour setup • 5
©2014 Axia Audio - Rev.1.3.8
Chapter Two:
The Nickel Tour Setup
This chapter is not intended to replace the content of
the full manual. The goal here is to expose some of the
critical items and get the hurried engineer some level of
functionality. Please refer to the operations chapter for
an understanding of some of the functions. The setup
and conguration chapter goes into full details on the
options. Also, there are case examples that can be re-
viewed to understand the functionality and perhaps give
solutions to some questions.
The manual assumes that the customer understands
the need for stations to be connected to a correctly
congured network per recommendations to support
Livewire. If the network switch has not been cong-
ured, please refer to switch conguration documentation
available on AxiaAudio.com or request support from
[e-mail].
Defining each station
The Axia Livewire Intercom is not based on a central
device. Each station is a unique device and uses mDNS
for discovery of other devices. Therefore a critical step
to functionality is correctly dening each station. Once
dened, stations can discover each other.
Rackmount and Desktop stations
First step is to dene each station with a unique IP
address. Download and run bootps.exe which is avail-
able from AxiaAudio.com support downloads. Connect
the PC to the same network that intercom stations have
been connected to. With the application running press
the recessed ID button located at the back panel.
Figure 2-1: Bootps.exe window with address request
When the request is observed, enter in the unique IP ad-
dress for the device.
With a web browser, enter the address just given to
the station to access the device’s conguration page. De-
fault authentication is
Username: user
Password: (blank)
Select the Congure Intercom link and enter in a 10
character name that denes the station; Prod-01, Ctrl-A,
Bob, NewsGuy.
Enter the same value in the Alternate label or another
name of equal value; Production, KXYZ, GenManager,
Ron B.
Set the Intercom talk to Live Stereo and provide a
unique Livewire channel value (a number from 1-32767).
A suggestion is to use the last octet of the IP address as
the preface to the Livewire channel, as in 192.168.100.41
has a channel of 4101.
Press the Apply button.
Axia Console Intercom Module
The console module connects to the controller bus
within the surface frame. This module is a controller to
the intercom station which is resident in the DSP En-
gine. To congure this intercom station you must access
it through the web interface of the DSP Engine. Select
the Intercom link from the many links available with the
DSP Engine.
Dene a unique Intercom Label for the station and
an alternate label.