Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................1 Chapter 2 Sigma Editor .................................................................................................................2 2.1 Menu Bar.............................................................................................................................3 2.1.1 File Menu .............................................................
5.3 Tool Menu .........................................................................................................................32 5.3.1 Display Test .........................................................................................................32 5.3.2 Time Adjustment .................................................................................................32 5.3.3 Brightness Adjustment .......................................................................................33 5.3.
Chapter 1 Introduction Sigma 3000 is a type of display software specially designed and developed for LED display off-line control systems. This software is powerful with many function tools. Sigma 3000 can be used to make NMG files and display the contents which would need the support of a font library, or to make PMG files and display the dot matrix files which don’t need the support of a font library. The software can also convert AVI/GIF files to FLW animation files.
Fig. 1.2 Sigma 3000 Software Interface As we can see from the above figure, there are 4 main parts that constitute Sigma’s interface. ķ is the menu bar, where the user can find all tools and functions. ĸ is the panel of short-cut keys, where user can realize the setting and send all types of files.Ĺ is the work area. ĺ is the key editing area in Sigma, where all display control buttons can be found here.
Ļ Status bar. To open Sigma Editor, users can do the following steps: Open Sigma Play. Click Tools Æ Edit FileÆ Text File. Fig. 2.1 Sigma Editor Interface 2.1 Menu Bar 2.1.1 File Menu As Fig 2.2 shows, there are 8 items under the Menu File. New: Open a new file; Open: Open an NMG file; Save: Save the file; Save as: Save the file under the name…; Communicate: The setup information of communicating between the computer and the sign; Send to sign: Send the edited files to the sign; Exit: Exit Sigma Editor.
Fig. 2.2 File Menu Fig. 2.3 Communication Setting As is seen from Fig 2.3, the communication interface tells us the following information: current Trans Mode is Ethernet, IP address 169.254.10.160, Port 8887. Group address: 01. Unite address: 01. (Note: we will refer to the Group Address and the Unite Address as GGUU in the following chapters. E.g.: 0102 means Group address 01, Unite Address 02) Here we need to know what Port, Group address and Unit Address are.
with the user’s computer though Port “3457”, as Fig 2.4 shows. That is to say, WWW service does not need to communicate with Port “80” in the user’s computer. Fig. 2.4 Under the definition of counterpart protocol type, there are two types of Ports: TCP Port and UDP Port. These two types of Ports are mutually independent, because the protocols of TCP and UDP are separate. These two types of Ports do not have conflicts. Either TCP or UDP has 235 Ports.
Fig. 2.5 Drawing of the Port interface As we can read from Fig 2.5, in inner-Net 2, 219.128.254.98 is the IP address of the router. 169.254.19.84 is the IP address of the gateway. From the figure, we can see that in Inner-Net 2, there are 4 dynamic ports –8000~8003, corresponding to the related IP: 169.254.10.160̚169.254.10.163 . How can we control Sign 1 though PC1 in Inner-Net 1? Apparently, if we just input 169.254.10.160 to the interface of Fig 2.3, we will not be able to program Sign 1 by PC 1.
LED sign, we can use the broadcast address to communicate with other GGUU. GGUU is meaningful to our management of the LED signs. For example, we can set up the signs in the workshop as a group. In this case, all the signs in the workshop are with the GG “01”. Every LED sign is a separate unit, with the UU ranging from 01~99. What is more, we can set all the signs in the office as group 2, with GG 02, and different UU to communicate with.
Align Left: Text align left horizontally Align Center: Text align center horizontally Align right: Text align right horizontally Align Vertical: Text align center vertically Spell Check: Checking the spelling of words Default setting: The default editing mode in Sigma Editor Fig.A1 The following Fig 2.9 shows the interface of default setting. We can see that there are 12 default settings in the figure. Press OK, Sigma Editor will follow those default settings when a new file is opened for editing. Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.11 Insert a picture Fig. 2.12A Fig. 2.12B Picture in the Editing area As can be seen in Figure 2.11, if the inserted picture is larger in size than the size of the LED screen, you will see a prompt asking you whether you want to stretch the picture size to the LED screen size. If you press Yes, you will see the picture in Figure2.12B. Insert Symbols: This function helps the user to insert some special symbols whenever they need.
Fig. 2.13 Insert Symbols Interface Insert Special Time, Date, etc. With this function, users are able to insert time of different world time zones, temperature, date, week, and humidity to the sign. Before inserting any time and date, we should correct the time of the sign with the computer’s first, otherwise we might think that there were some problem with the time. Before we insert humidity and temperature, we also need to be sure that we already have the humidity and temperature sensor.
Insert Text File: This function enables the user to insert the txt. File directly without inputting any message again to the editing area. Sigma Editor will paste the txt. File directly to the editing area once the file is chosen. This function accelerates the programming speed and reduces the inconvenience during programming. As shown in Fig 2.15, click Open to choose the txt. File that we want. Fig. 2.15 Interface of inserting txt.
With this function, users can find it convenient to edit and program the file with both text and graphic. With this function, user is able to program the same content to every frame, or set different background picture in each frame. Or users can even edit some text suspending above the picture. Here is an example, as shown in Fig 2.17. We now would like to choose one picture (BMP file) as the background.
2.2 Tool Bar There are several types of tools in Tool Bar: File tool, Color tool, Align tool and other tool. Here we are going to introduce the usage of these several types of tools.
Fig. 2.20 Simulated display Fig. 2.21 Insert a title 2.3 Mode Bar Fig 2.22 shows the Mode Selecting Bar in the Editor Fig. 2.22 Mode Bar In mode: The display mode of a file when it goes into the sign Out mode: The display mode of a file when it goes out of the sign. Speed: Display speed of each frame Pause: Pause/hold time of each frame. Fig 2.23 shows the interface of Set Hold time. We can see that the pause time of the in-mode can also be included.
Fig. 2.23 Set hold time Zooming: If the sign is too large, we can zoom the editing area in order to make the program more convenient. Line Space: Users can set the space of between 2 lines, with the Max value 9 and Min value 0. The unit of the line space is by pixel. Display mode: Only Jump out and chasing mode is available. 2.4 Editing Area The Editing Area provides the users a platform to edit the files and display the message.
Chapter 3 True Font Editor True Font Editor is a kind of editing tool for editing dot matrix files. The most obvious advantage is that it can edit any font in the computer system and show them on the LED display without downloading font list onto the display. Fig 3.1 shows the process of opening the True Font Editor. Choose ToolÆEdit fileÆTrue Font file. Fig 3.1 Choose dot matrix As Fig 3.2 illustrates, True Font Editor has the same layout as Sigma Editor.
3.1.3 Insert Menu The Insert Menu has only one function--inserting pictures to edit area. The picture format it supports are: BMPǃJPGǃJPEG and ICO. You can pull the pictures randomly to change their sizes. 3.1.4 Help Menu The Help Menu has only the version information about True Font Editor. See Fig 3.5. Fig. 3.5 Version information about True Font Editor 3.2 Tool Bar Tool Bar of True Font Editor can be divided into file tool, color tool, alignment tool and other tools.
3.3 Mode Bar From Fig 3.7 we can see that the setting modes and their related functions are the same as Sigma Editor’s, which include in mode, out mode, speed, pause and line spacing. The only difference lies in the display time. Fig. 3.7 Mode Bar 3.4 Editing Area Different from Sigma Editor, True Font Editor doesn’t regulate the boundary line to separate the editing information frame by frame. In the area, lines can be changed automatically.
Fig. 4.2 Font Manager Interface 4.1 Menu Bar 4.1.1 File Menu Fig 4.3 illustrates the pull-down menu of File Menu. We will focus on some special functions. New Font: It means a customized font based on user’s special need and preference. Fig 4.4 is the interface of establishing new font. Set the height and width of the font you want, and then choose the saving path, you can create your own fonts now.
Fig 4.4 New font interface 41 Fig 4.5 Interface of customized font There is a ruler of line and column in Fig 4.5. Actually it is the ASCII location of each font you are creating. So the fonts should be established in accordance with ASCII principle, otherwise you won’t get what you want through the input on the keyboard. In ASCII code, the big letter A is at 0041(hexadecimal), so we can make a big letter A just at this place.
From Fig 4.6 we learn that the editing area is made up of 5 parts, 1--- Menu Bar, 2---Tool Bar, 3---Character Information, 4---System Font, 5---Font Editing Area. Notes: Menu Bar, Tool Bar are bonded together with the Font Manager, only partial functions belong to this edit interface. Area 3 shows the character information: font—10*7, ASCII code—0041H (H represents Hexadecimal) System font means users can create any fonts on the base of the current fonts in the computer system.
Figure 4.8 Conversion completed Communication setting: Consult the counterpart in Chapter 2 Sigma Editor. Font Conversion: The function of this tool is to convert the font to be a FNT format one in Font Manager which can be downloaded to the display. See Fig 4.8, the converting interface. Choose a fixed font and size you want to change, and set the saving path and the font size you want, press Convert button, then you can realize this function. Fig 4.8 Font Converting Interface 4.1.
4.1.3 Window Menu As Fig 4.10 shows, in the window menu, there are three functions: tile, cascade, and arrange icons. The following is the window converting bar of the open font list. The current chosen item is the first font list. Fig 4.10 Window Menu 4.1.4 Help Menu As Fig 4.11 shows, the help menu mainly gives the version information of Font Manager. Fig 4.11 About Font Manager 4.2 Tool Bar The buttons here are the same as the ones in Menu bar. : Open the font list file. : Save the font list.
: Exit from the Font Manager. 4.3 Font List Bar Font list area shows the fonts users have added. If you want to send some fonts to the display, you need to add those fonts to the list. There is a right key menu of the font list bar. See Fig 4.12. The function is the same as those pull down menu of the main menu. Suppose we want to send the font file Normal5-40 to the LED screen. We first add Normal5.fnt~Normal40.fnt to the font library. Then we click Fig. 4.
˖ Size of the font is 6588 byte. (About 6k). Chapter 5 Tools of Sigma Software In the first chapter we have divided the Sigma Software interface to four parts, Menu Bar, Shortcut Panel, Work Station and Play Controller. We will focus on Menu Bar’s function in this chapter. 5.1 File Menu Fig 5.1 shows the pull down menu list of Sigma Play File Menu. 5.1.1 Communication Setting Fig 5.
Fig. 5.3 Quick Connection Setting 5.1.2 Operation of Play List There are six operating functions about the play list in the file menu. They are: New Play List, Open Play list, Save Play List, Save the Play List as, Open the List File Package, and Save List as well as File in a Package. The final function means you can make a package for the chosen play list and its files in order to make the saving convenient. So you can open the list file package to open it when use next time.
Fig 5.5 Login interface User rank User name Password Manager admin admin Ordinary user user user 5.1.4 Log on to Hardware The login hardware mainly includes log on to hardware and logout. The function can be set in the System Set panel. Once set, you have to choose Login on to Hardware to communicate with the display hardware. In this way, you can avoid the parameter changing by unprofessional persons or some illegal operations. Fig 5.6 illustrates the login interface.
5.2.1 Function of Play List The four items above the separation line are functions operated on play list. The first one is add file to play list, the second one is delete file from play list and the third one move up in play list, and the final move down in play list. These functions are available only in list manage panel and simulating display panel. 5.2.2 Function of Sign Play List The two items above the second separate line are deleting play list from sign and deleting all messages in sign.
Fig. 5.12 Back up the system file See Fig 5.13, when choosing Recover System Files, the indication window will appear, and then you click Yes to start recovering system files. In fact, the current CPU program has already backed up configuration files, Gamma files and palette files, so that formatting Disk C will not erase system files, and the only thing you need to do is refresh FPGA program. Fig. 5.13 Recovering system files 5.2.
Fig. 5.14 E-Mail Setting Next is to Save System Information. What is saved by this function is the information the E-mail has sent. As shown in Fig 5.15, the path in the first blank is to save the picture of the system set interface, the path in the second blank is to save the text file of system set information. Fig. 5.15 Save System Information Click OK, and the following window as Fig.5.16 will appear when the saving finishes.
Fig. 5.16 Saving finishes As shown in Fig.5.17, it is the image of Sigma.jpg saved above. Fig. 5.17 An image of Sigma.jpg As shown in Fig.5.18, it is the interface of SysInfo.txe saved above. Fig. 5.18 A grabbed image from SysInfo.txt And the last function is Refreshing content. It is designed to send the information in the current shortcut panel to the sign. This function equals to Send Configuration, Send List Files, etc., but it is not available in Net Manage. Don’t use this function in Net Manage.
5.3 Tool Menu The Figure 5.19 is a pull-down menu of Tool menu. Edit File and Font Manager have been introduced in detail in previous Chapters, and please refer to the previous explanation. 5.3.1 Display Test Display Test is a special tool for screen test. It has test of single color full-on, scan test and test of gradual change of gray degree in single color. These tests can check if the sign is working abnormally or has flashing pixels. As shown in Fig 5.
Fig. 5.21 Time Adjustment 5.3.3 Brightness Adjustment Fig 5.22 is an interface for Brightness Adjustment. This tool enables you to set the brightness of a small unit block so that you can have the white balance of a sign coordinated. Detailed operations as following: first of all, select 4*8 blocks, you can select one block at a time, or many blocks by means that indicated in the state bar below.
5.3.4 Temp. Adjustment As shown in Fig 5.23, Temperature Adjustment can adjust the temperature of exterior temperature sensor of LED sign, and you can adjust the temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit degree. Fig. 5.23 Temp. Adjustment 5.3.5 Default Display Setting Fig 5.24 is an interface of Default Display Setting. This tool is valid only to string command, but not to files edited by Sigma Editor. This tool is different from the Default Setting in Sigma Editor.
Fig. 5.24 Default Display Setting Default Disk: default saving path is Disk D; Text Color: default color of text file is Red Background Color: default background color of text file is Black Default Font: default font of text file is Normal 7. Line spacing: default line space is 1 pixel. Word-wrap: default value is ON Time Format: to set default time format.
As shown in Fig 5.25, what is taken down is the information of the control board QS5006 of the sign, and you can educe the information as a txt file. Fig. 5.25 System Information ĸDisk Information As shown in Fig 5.25, it is specialized in reading the size of system Disk, and it can format the partitions. After clicking Format, an indication window will appear (as in Fig5.27), then click Yes to format Disk C. Fig. 5.
Fig. 5.27 Indication for formatting Note: Disk C is a System Disk, FPGA program will be lost after Disk C is formatted, but other information is backed up. If font library is saved in Disk C, it will also be lost. ĹPlay Log Fig 5.28 is an interface of Play Log. In this Play Log, there is serial Number marking the Play Files. The number ranges from 0 to 65536, and if the number of files are more than 65536, the beginning files will be deleted automatically.
Fig. 5.29 System Log ĻUpdate Log Fig5.30 is a grabbed image of Update Log. It records the information, time and updated communication method of FPGA and CPU files. Fig. 5.30 Update Log For example, in the UPDATE CPU above, it records that updated time is 2007-07-02 16:22:28, the Hardware Version of the updated object is main board 5006, the version number of the pervious CPU is 873B-01, and the new CPU version number is 873F-02, the name of sign is DISPLAY, new IP address is 169.254.10.
interface of User Management. Fig. 5.31 User management ĸChange Hardware Password As Fig. 5.32 shows, input old password, whose default value is 000000, into Old Password, then input the new one into the blanks of New Password and Repeat Password, and then the old password can be changed. Fig. 5.32 Change Hardware Password ĹGet Hardware Password As Fig. 5.33 shows, open the window of Get Hardware Password; firstly choose the path of the file which has saved password data. Fig. 5.
Display, so we should get the data at the beginning of boot-strap. Fig. 5.34 Choose the saving path of file As Fig. 5.35shows, reading data is successful. Fig. 5.35 Reading Data successful After successfully get the password data, users cannot see the passwords, the data should be sent back to our company and decoded by our engineers, then the password can be got finally. Therefore, in case to prevent any unnecessary trouble, users have to remember the password after setting it. ĺE-Mail Setting As Fig. 5.
5.3.8 Display My Logo As Fig. 5.37 shows, it is the setting interface of “Display My Logo”. There are functions of setting position, size and display modes of the Logo. Fig. 5.37 LOGO Setting Interface Position is for setting the Logo with the left corner to be the coordinate. Size is for setting width and Height of the Logo. There are two options--visible and transparent. Under Transparent, the Logo will flow on the characters of the Display. : Open the edited Logo files.
: Send the current Logo files to the Display. 5.3.9 over temperature computer shutdown 7KLV VRIWZDUH FDQ EH RII WKH FRPSXWHU ZKHQ WKH LQWHUQDO WHPSHUDWXUH RI WKH VLJQ RYHU 7 ć when using QS52002, please check in “over temperature computer shutdown” and open “over temperature monitoring”, connecting the COM of the QS5202 with the COM of the computer, then can be communicated . An icon will be appeared at the lower right corner when set up successful . 5.3.10 Video Monitor picture 5.3.
Name: shown the name of sign(can be any number or letters) Address: IP address of network camera. Sign IP: IP address of LED sign Figure 5.3.9 5.3.11 Video to FLW Conversion Mode If you want to display an animation file in the offline mode, you will need this tool to convert the file into the FLW so that the LED screen can display. The current software version supports converting AVI, SWF, GIF, ASF, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, MOV, QT, RM or RMVB files into FLW format files. The Figure 5.
Figure 5.39 Video to FLW conversion interface ĸ Preview window˖We can preview added animation files and FLW files. ĸ Modification window˖ Here we can set an image and title. These settings are for optimizing FLW files. First let’s look at the location for editing a picture or image. In the window, the coordinates X and Y represent the location picture or image in the FLW window as related to the upper left corner. Width and Height represent the size of the picture or image.
Speed(frame/sec) You can use the default speed for normal use Compress If you compress a picture, the display quality will be degraded. If you do not compress a picture, the FLW file size may be too large. Ļ Animation file output window˖This is where you save the converted file. Ľ Window for adding animation files: This is where you add the animation file which you want to add. 5.3.10 FLW Editor Figure 5.3.1 shows a video editing window. You can edit a video file which is in the FLW format. Figure 5.
˖To save a video file˗ ˖To add a frame˗ ˖To delete a frame˗ ˖Move up˗; ˖Move down˗ ˖To insert a frame˗ ˖Cut˗ ˖Copy˗ ˖Paste˗ 3) Video upload area When the video file is added, it will be uploaded in the sequence of one frame after another. 4) Preview area When a video file is being edited or played, a corresponding picture is displayed in the preview area. 5) Video control area It can be used to control the play and stop of a video file. 6) Character editing area.
Figure 5.3.2 ˖Current frame/Total frames. 8) Character font area ˖Bold ˖Slanting ˖Underline ˖Align to left ˖Align to middle ˖Align to right ˖Frame editing ˖Font ˖Font size ˖Font color.
Then click this button. Now you will see the following picture. You can edit the animation frame in the window. Now please save it.
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5.3.13 Picture Resizer Picture Resizer is to convert the picture of any size to BMP picture in a designated size. Fig.5.40 is the interface of Picture Resizer. Fig. 5.40 Interface of Picture Resizer Step 1: Add picture file, the valid formats are BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, EMF, and WMF; Step 2: Choose the saving path of the converted file˗ Step 3: Set the width and height of the designated picture˗ Step 4: Click and the converting will start. In Fig.5.
Fig. 5.42 Tool for Com Port test According to the indication of the interface, when testing, please connect the Pin2 and Pin3 of the COM, and click Start. Then COM 1 will be tested. User can test other serial ports by choosing other COM ports in the column “COM Port”. In Fig.5.43ˈif it shows Communication OKˈit means the com port of the local computer is no problem. Otherwise, if it shows Request time out like Fig.5.44ˈthere is some problem with the serial port of the local computer. Fig. 5.
Fig. 5.44 Communication fail 5.3.15 Send Files Tool The function of Send Files Tool is to send the designated file to the appointed sign in a certain time period. Fig.5.45 is the interface of Send Files. We will introduce how to make the setting of sending files at a certain time period. Fig. 5.
can be in the format of NMG, PMG, BMP, JPG and JPEG etc.. Step 2: Click Fig.5.46 showsˈclick ˈadd the designated LED sign to “Selected Signs”˗As in the window of Choose Signs, then all the signs on the left will be added to the right column, then click . Fig. 5.46 Choose Signs When the user finishes adding files and choosing signs, the window in Fig.5.47 will appear. Fig. 5.
the taskbar of the computer like Fig.5.48. It is counting down and when it goes to the pre-scheduled time, the files will be sent. Fig. 5.48 Down-counter for sending files Note: when it is counting down to send the files, Sigma software can not be closed, otherwise the count-down clock will disappear immediately. The computer can not be turned off either. After the file is sent to the designated sign, it will not be displayed right away because there is no File list in the files which have been sent.
Fig. 5.51 Add List File Fig. 5.52 Play List Files 5.3.16 Dial-up Dial-Up provides users a communication channel through telephone, then long distance communication is realized. It is useful for the users in the areas where internet is not available. Fig.5.53 is the interface of Dial-Up, telephone number, communication Com Port of the local computer, and the communication Baud Rate of the LED sign’s Com Port.
Fig. 5.53 Dial-Up To realize Dial-Up connection, Modem and the required communication cables are needed. Please see Fig.5.54 for the connection diagram. Fig. 5.54 Connection diagram of Dial-Up Click and Dial-Up connection begins. When the connection is successful, we can use that channel to communicate with the sign. Since we use COM1 for the connection, we choose COM1 for the communication with the sign as shown in Fig.5.55. Fig. 5.
5.3.17 Update There are 5 tools in Update, they are CPU Update, FPGA Update, Palette Update, Create Update Package and Update Wizard. These tools are used to update the sign, and only the Administrator can do the operation. ķCPU Update We use this function when we need to update the CPU of the sign. Fig.5.56 is the interface of CPU Update. Only the files with cpu as suffix can be updated. Click the button Send and the update begins. After the update finishes, please wait for about 1 minute.
Package, users can choose files according to their needs to make the package. Please tick the files needed and click OK. Fig. 5.59 Create Update Package Suggestion: the update package is used only for updating the system from all aspects. Otherwise, it is not suggested to update with package since the efficiency of updating with package is low, what’s more, palette and Gamma files are already included in CPU. ĻUpdate Wizard Please see Fig.5.60, Update Wizard is to update the package above.
Fig. 5.60 Update Wizard Fig.5.61 shows the update progress and the current updating CPU program. Fig.5.62 shows the CPU update has finished, but we have to wait for the display to reset; now we can reset the display manually. As shown in Fig.5.63, an indication window will appear after the display is reset, click Yes and the FPGA update begins. Fig. 5.61 Fig. 5.
Fig. 5.63 Resent the display and continue After the FPGA update finishes, another indication window like Fig.5.63 will appear, now we don’t need to reset the display, click Yes and the update will continue. As shown in Fig.5.64ˈall the update tasks are completed successfully. Fig. 5.64 Task completed 5.4 Help Menu There are two options in the Help Menu. One is the edition information about Sigma software, and the other is this Manual. As shown in Fig 5.
Chapter 6 Shortcut Panel of Sigma Software The shortcut panel is an important part of the Sigma software, so it is necessary to explain the shortcut panel in detail as a chapter. 6.1 List Manage List manage is a tool to manager play files and play lists. Using List Manage properly will be helpful to improve the sending efficiency of display files. As shown in Fig 6.1, this is the interface of List Manage Panel.
: To read the play list on the sign; : To add the play file from the computer or LED sign; : To delete the play file; : To move down the play file; : To move up the play file; : To edit the play file; if the NMG file is selected, the Sigma Editor will be opened for editing; if the PMG file is selected, the True Font Editor will be opened for editing; if the BMP file is selected, the Picture Editor of Windows will be opened for editing; : To switch to File Schedule; : To send the play file and list immediate
Fig. 6.2 Interface of System Set Firstly, let’s talk about the functions of the above buttons: : To open the configuration file with the suffix of dat; : To save the current setting; : To read the configuration of the display; : To send the current setting to the display; : To send through E-mail, it is a shortcut for “Email” in the Function Bar. The following explains in detail the functions and meanings of other items in the System Set. a. It shows the name of the display.
d. It is the setting for the Start Column of the display. The value of the Start Column of QS5006 main board is 2. And if the value is set to be 1, the first Column of the display will display abnormally (The first Column is counted from the right side). And the value of other main board is set according to the actual situation. e. It is the setting for the Start Row on the display. The value is 0 usually. f. It is the style options of the display. It is decided by the actual use of display. E.g.
not affect the white balance of the screen. But brightness setting adjusts the brightness accurately and improves the white balance. j. It is for changing the IP address of the screen, user can input the expected IP address here. After the IP address, there is the icon . You can click it to enter configure for network. If the local network supports automatic IP function, you can select “Obtain an IP address automatically”. Then an IP address will be assigned to every LED display on the net. k.
display screen is playing a file and the user sends a new play file to the screen, for the Immediate-play mode, the playing file will be paused and the new one will be played; as for the Awaiting-play mode, the new one will not be played until the current file finishes. r. It is used to set the summer time. When it is on, the time of screen will self-adjust according to the summer time, and when it is off, the time won’t adjust according to the summer time.
display of 1/2 scanning into A class, input B to sort the screens of 1/4 scanning into B class, and so on. Therefore, the user can define the modules as he likes. x. It is used to set the number of the slave boards in the display. E.g. the main board is QS5006 and the maximum amount of the slave board is seven. And the connection of this hardware is as the following Fig 6.3. Fig. 6.3 The connection of the main and slave boards y. It is used to set the time period of half brightness of the display screen.
Through it, the users can know the effect of the play files which will be sent to the display screen. This function supports the display simulation of NMG, PMG, BMP, ICO, JEG, JPEG, FLW, GIF, WMF and EMF files. The buttons as Fig 6.4 can control the play of the simulation. And at the same time if the screen is connected with Sigma, the buttons can simultaneously control the play status of the screen. Play Stop Previous FB FF Replay current file Next file Fig. 6.4 Play Control Button Fig. 6.
file˗ Step5˖Send file list. After you have set time for displaying all the files, click the Send button to send the file list to the LED screen. NOTES: If in the play list there is a file that has not been assigned a play time, the LED display will recognize it by default the file should be played on and on without stop. Another point that needs attention is that you must adjust the internal clock of the LED display. Otherwise, it may incur early or late display, or even no-display of files. Figure 6.
please set up the dispatching massage ,then check in situation which files run in any period . ˈcan see and simulate the 6.5 File Manage File manage panel is used to manage the disks of control board of the display screen and the windows of the disks’ system files As is shown in Fig 6.8, it is the file manage interface. There are four disks C, D, E and F in the figures. Fig. 6.
: Go back to the former directory; : Refresh the current directory; Firstly, let’s explain the function and property of each disk. Disk C: This system disk includes important system files, such as System Set, FPGA file, Font list file, Play list and so on. The directory of the Disk C can be opened by double clicks, as is shown in Fig 6.9. FONT: It is the file folder of the font list in Disk C. If there isn’t Disk F, the font list will be downloaded to this folder.
Fig. 6.10 Directory of Disk D T Folder: It is used to save the NMG file which is edited by Sigma Editor); S Folder: It is used to save the character string file, P Folder: It is used to save the BMP picture file.
As is shown in Fig 6.122, there is FONT folder in the directory of Disk F. This font list folder also is used to save the font list file. And because of its big capability, Disk F can save bigger font list file. Therefore, when the font list file is sent, the control board with Disk F will default to download the file to Disk F, but not Disk C. The function of other files in Disk F is as same as those in Disk D. LOGFILE.LOG: It is the file recording play log.
Fig. 6.13 Content of FONT file Choose one of the font files, click the right key of the mouse and the menu as Fig.6.14 will appear. There are four sub-menus. Fig. 6.
Delete: it can delete the font file from the control card of the LED display, and after the file is deleted, that type of font can not be shown on the display; Rename: it can re-name that font file. But font files are system files, if they are re-named, the system can not find them, so please don’t re-name them. But other display files like NMG files can be re-named; Properties: it shows the information such as the size and foundation date of the file, etc. Please see the Fig.6.
: Send the picture to LED screen˗ Fig. 6.16 Interface of Picture Manage Fig. 6.17 Edit the picture 6.7 Net Manage Net Manage is supposed to mainly control many LED screens and display files. Please see Fig.6.18, the Net Manage is divided into 4 parts, we will mainly use the upper 2 parts, and the lower 2 parts are for related information. Now let’s discuss the procedures in using Net Manage.
Fig. 6.18 Interface of Net Manage Step 1: Search LED screen. Click the button for searchingˈand a window named Display Search will appear, like Fig.6.19, there are 3 devices for choice in the column of Communication Device. Ethernet is used to search the LED screen in the current window, please input the Start IP and End IP (for the use of Port, please see Chapter Ċ), click the button “Start” and it finds out 3 LED screen shortly like Fig. 6.20 Other methods of searching: Please see Fig.6.
Fig. 6.19 Window of Display Search Fig. 6.
Fig. 6.21 Display search with com port Fig. 6.22 Display search with telephone number Step 2: Add display file. After Display Search finishes, there are 3 displays in the interface of Net Manage like Fig.6.23.
Fig. 6.23 Click the button Displays searched and the files in the List will be added. Click the button ˈand the display files are added directly. Now we add display files to Net Manage like Fig.6.23.
Fig. 6.23 Display files added : Edit file˄NMG file will open Sigma Editor for editing˅˗ : Set the time schedule of files like Fig. 6.24, user can set the display schedule for the file in the window of Schedule; : Send display files to the chosen LED screen to display˗ Fig. 6.24 Window of file Schedule Please see Fig. 6.25, after the user sets the schedule, the display time of the file can be seen in the column of Message Information. Fig. 6.25 Information of display file Step 3: Send the display file.
Fig. 6.26 Choose the LED screen Fig. 6.27 The display file is being sent Please see Fig.6.28, after the files are sent successfully, the files have been in the LED screens of 169.254.10.159 and 169.254.10.160ˈbut other LED screens will not display these files. Fig. 6.28 File sent successfully The above talks about simply how to use it, and the following talks about other applications.
: Edit the parameter of the chosen LED screen like Fig.6.29. If “hardware login” is set in Display Manage, then user must “¥” in the Login column and input the password. (The default password is all 0 ). ˖set the status of Hardware Login˗ : Test whether that LED screen can be searched back or not. Fig. 6.29 Edit the LED sign : Delete the chosen LED sign; : Add group. Please see Fig.6.30, to add a new group, user just needs to drag the LED sign from the left window to the right window.
Fig. 6.30 Add group In Fig. 6.31, when the group is added, there is a new group in the interface of Net Manage. Fig. 6.31 New group in Net Manage : Add LED sign. Please see Fig. 6.32, that window is the same as the one for editing LED sign. The LED sign must be tested whether it can be searched before it is added, otherwise, user can do nothing to it although it is added.
Fig. 6.32 Add an LED sign : Refresh all the LED signs searched back, which means search all the LED signs once again. In Fig. 6.33, the Refresh finishes. Fig. 6.
If the LED sign can not be searched, it will show that sign in Red letters. Please see Fig.6.34 for reference. Fig. 6.34 The LED sign QS5006 can not be searched Chapte7, GPRS Dial-up function Dip switch setting: For the Master QS5136 board: Set the 4 bit switches on SW2 need to be “ON” status; The No. 2 bit switch on SW3 needs to be “OFF” status and the No. 1 bit switch on SW3 needs to be “ ON” status. For Slaver QS5136 board: For the Slaver QS5136 board: The No.
RS232 PC GPRS model(master) GPRS GPRS model (Slave) Figure 7.10 RS232 Display Open Sigma3000 software, select tool—Dial-up, enter GPRS model slave SIM card number into “Number to Dial” (area code should be added), select Serial port which connects PC and GPRS model (master) in “COM Port”, select the baud rate of displays in “Baud rate”, see Figure 7.11 Figure 7.11 And then click , you will see a progress box as Figure 7.12 Figure 7.12 if what you see next is the same as Figure 7.
Figure 7.13 After connection, we can communicate with the displays by this channel. Because we use COM1 to connect them, we can communicate with the dislplays by only selecting COM1. See Figure 7.14 Figure 7.14 selecting COM 1 We can operate the screen after communicating successfully. Finish the operation, we can stop the connection, select Tool----Dial-up, you will see Figure 7.11, and then click , there is a progress box, when you see Figure 7.15, you disconnect it Figure 7.
rate of the control board inside the LED sign If you have changed the baud rate for the main board inside the LED sign, pleased remember to reboot the Slaver GPRS model board and re-dial 7.2 Connection from Slaver and Master to Server Follow Figure 7.20, connect GPRS system; GPRS Master Internet PC(Server) PC GPRS Slave DISPLAYS Figure 7.20 First, run a server software VMS SERVER in PC (Server), Follow Figure 7.21 Figure 7.
: Figure 7.22 Click , appear a progress box as Figure 7.23 Figure 7.23 What you see next is the same as Figure 7.24; it means that GPRS system is connected Figure 7.24 After connection, we can communicate with the screen by this channel. Because we use COM1 to connect them, we can communicate with the diaplays by only selecting COM1. See Figure 7.
Figure 7.25 We can operate the screen after communicating successfully. Finish the operation, we can stop the connection, select Tool----Dial-up, you will see Figure 7.11, and then click , there is a progress box, when you see Figure 7.26, you disconnect it Figure 7.
Chapter 8 Advanced First of all, log onto the Sigma Play as the administrator in the way as described in Chapter 1. After you have opened the software, first confirm communication with the LED screen in the way as described in Chapter 5. Then switch to System set interface. Click the button button , and then press Ctrl+Alt+A. You will see the at the lower right corner. See Figure 8.01 Figure 8.01 Click the button , and you will see Figure 8.02˗ Figure 8.
the Chinese fonts. Chinese fonts including Sub-simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, there are repeated internal code at both characters. So please select one character when you input Chinese fonts GBK stand for Sub-simplified Chinese, BIG5 stand for Traditional Chinese. If displays the ˈand check Traditional Chinese on the sign, please select BIG5,then check in in the” System set”, after that ,the screen will be restarted, and default selection in is BIG5.
Then check in in the “System set” 3. Choose the type of the driver board The size of the driver board is differernt from its pitch. For example 10mm (16x16) means the display module is with the pitch of 10mm, which compose 16x16 dots 4. Use radar to set the speed limit When the LED display is connected to the radar equipment, users can user this setting to set the highest speed limit of the road . 5.
Otherwise, the LED sign will not display this file content even you send it to the sign successfully. Some LED screens are built with the CPU board QS5202. In such a case, you can use Sigma 4.10 to set single-side or double-side mode.See Figure 9.02 Figure 9.