In this video, we’re going to give you a quick overview of the front panel indicators and menu options available to the Omni 16e and 32e Expanders.
To the right of the screen, each Expander will have its encoder with back and forward buttons underneath. The indicator behind the encoder will normally be green, but will show other colors during the boot process that we’ll cover in another video. On the Expanders, the other status indicators are to the left of the screen. The indicator furthest to the right is the power supply indicator. Expanders have only one power supply, and therefore this light will only be green under normal operation. These other two indicators are for the network connections. The indicator on the left is for the H Control ports, and the middle is for the Dante ports. These indicators behave differently depending on the connections detected during the boot process. If only the primary connection is detected during boot up, then these lights will be green with a functioning connection. If both primary and secondary connections are detected at boot up, then these lights will be green with two functioning connections, but yellow if one of the connections is removed or interrupted.
The main screen might show the logo and date/time, or be dark if the screen saver is enabled. To access the menu, press the encoder. The first screen of the menu is the Status screen, and all the accessible menus can be seen on the left bar of the screen. The Status screen is a read-only page, and shows date and time, Internal and CPU temperatures, primary and secondary connection statuses for Dante and H Control, traffic modes for H Control and Dante, sample rate, and device firmware version on the right, and the device name in the bottom left. The next page is the Meters page, which will show input and output metering with phantom power and sync states below for inputs. The meters show dBu and dBFS.
The next page is the H Control page. This page shows connection status indicators, IP addresses, gateways, subnets, and Mac addresses for each connection. Only the MAC address can’t be changed from this page. The Dante page will show the two Dante ports similarly to the H Control page with all the networking information and will also display the Dante Name for reference with Dante Controller.