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Sigma 3000 User`s Manual Ver4.47 - Alge

1. Size Width 32 gt Height 132 gt This function is to show a fixed LOGO on the LED sign You can select either transparent mode or opaque mode And the LOGO can support up to 2048 pixels in total Fig 5 38 LOGO Setting Interface Position is for setting the Logo with the left corner to be the coordinate Size 1s 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 Open the edited Logo files ave Save the current Logo files Edit As Fig 5 39 shows click Edit and you will open Logo Editor the function of which is similar with Sigma Editor It is simplified version of Sigma 23 W H 52 W Editor For more details please refer to Chapter 2 user AppData Local Sigma3000 4 9 191 File Edit Insert He M4 Nomani gt 2 2 10 i Sceen 200 creer a o Line Spacing 1 Fig 5 39 Logo Editor Interface Head Read the Logo files of the Display all Send the current Logo files to the Display 5 3 13 over temperature computer shutdown This software can be off the computer when the internal temperature of the sign over70C When using QS5202 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 r h 0 Over Temperature Mo
2. 1 System Information As shown in Fig 5 26 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 UpdatePacket Version 6 01 40 BuildD ate 2013 11 29 Firmware Version 4906 28 Nov 28 2013 16 59 06 Hardware Version 5800 FPGA Version 5819 Protocol Version 2807 Display Size 128x64 Outside Temperature 16 C 60 F Humidity Percent47 Date Time 2013 12 18 15 46 25 GMT 08 00 GPS INVALID FAN OFF PHY ER PHY 0K 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 WindS peed NA windDir NA DISK Total Free Bytes C 205328384 43991040 205328384743991 040 D E 16726016 16680960 F 0 0 4 Fig 5 26 System Information 2 Pixel Detection Report Pixel detection report is used to check the 20 W detection result of the LED display as fig 5 27 2013 12 30 10 32 Port 1 Red Signal Error Port 1 Green Signal Error Port 1 Blue Signal Error Port 2 Red Signal Error Port 2 Green Signal Error Port 2 Blue Signal Error Port 3 Red Signal Error Port 3 Green Signal Error Port 3 Blue Signal Error Port 4 Red Signal Error Port 4 Green Signal Error Port 4 Blue Signal Error Port 5 Red Signal Error Port 5 Green Signal Error Port 5 Blue Signal Error Port 6 Red Signal Error Port 6 Green Signal Error Port 6 Blue Signal Error Port 7 Red Signal Error Port 7 Green Signal Error Port 7 Blue Signal Error Port 8 Red Signal Error Port 8 G
3. Pig Standard English Fonts 7 Meight Standard English Fonts 11 He t st r sh Fon DODONO gz HEHE Cr parana as na n1111 fn anda aglis onts realise fot 8 14 th Height Standard English Fonts C mal15 Ffnt 9 eight Standard lish F na 15 s onts ra2116 fnt 9 x 16 16 Height Standard English Fonts mt Fort Width 18 Figure 4 13 Font libraries being sent Information m Y m O Send data successfully Figure 4 14 Data sent successfully 4 4 Shortcut Button It is the repetition of the font list pull down menu Being placed at the right side users can use 1t quickly Please consult the counterpart in the previous parts 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 View Function Tool Help Communication Setting Ctrl Alt C Open Group Ctrl 0 Save Group Ctrl Save Group As Change User Log on to Hardware Log off frorn Hardware Language Quit Ctrl Q Fig 5 1 File Menu 5 1 1Communication Setting Fig 5 2 is communication setting interface which is the same as the counterpart in chapter 2 in function except a quick connection function Press the
4. playing and press if you want to read back the playlist of the LED display read back the displaying file Files in the LED display will be marked in yellow local files will be marked in white files not exist in the LED display and local will be marked in red Note You can add 128 files at most in one play list The control panel cannot play the list if files are more than 128 6 2 System Set Only the administrator can operate the function of sending in System Set The common users can just read the configuration information but can t modify the configuration of the display As shown in Fig 6 2 it is the system configuration page of 5246 main board In this panel some characters in some columns are covered by light yellow color which means that information can be read but can t be modified Firstly let s talk about the functions of the above buttons Sar ar open the configuration file with the suffix of dat To save the current setting E yl To read the configuration of the display gt GU To send the current setting to the display To send through E mail itis a shortcut for Email in the Function Bar The following explains in detail the functions and meanings of other items in the System Set A1 Mame It shows the name of the display And the name can be modified here AQ Width It shows the width of the display Th
5. 0 bd Save Ctrl s Save 43 io Options set Communicate Convert Fant Ctrl F f Exit Ctrl x Fig 4 3 File Menu Suppose you want a font of 10dots height and 7 dots width just input the related information choose saving path and press button OK Fig 4 5 is the interface of customized font Fig 4 5 is the interface of customized font Font Width fi 6 Font Height 8 Save To CAU serstuser ppD ata Local Sigma3000 FONT Y conc Fig 4 4 New font interface 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 Double click the place of 0041 there will appear an editing interface like Fig 4 6 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 user
6. 29 74 KB NORMAL88 FNT BOLD22 FNT BOLD30 FNT BOLD32 FNT FONT3 FONT4 FONTS FONTE FONT FONTS FONTS FONT10 Fig 6 13 Content of FONT file Choose one of the font files click the right key of the mouse and the menu as a Fig 6 14 will appear There are four sub menus File Path FAFONTA D 3 y ul T a ba a Read Back IF iF Font File Delet UNIQLO24 FNT FONT1 elete nat Rename S S ext File Picture File Properties iF IF String File FONT2 NORMAL80 FNT Array Picture et IF IF File Size 29 74 KB NORMAL88 FNT BOLD22 FNT BOLD30 FNT BOLD32 FNT uid IF uid Lid FONT3 FONT4 FONTS FONTE IF IF IF IF FONTS FONTS FONT10 FONT Fig 6 14 Right key Menu Read Back it can read back the font file to the computer and save 1t Delete 1t can delete the font file from the control card of the LED display and 41 5 a JE ZN after the file is deleted that type of font cannot 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 cannot 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 15 it is the properties of that font file And users can see the properties of display files too In the same way if you point other files and click the right key of the mouse the right key menu
7. 5 30 Play Log System Log As shown in Fig 5 31 System Log records the main operation of the system It reflects the working status of the control card of a sign Content The number of remaining dynamic memory blocks The number of used dynamic memory blocks The number of the Max used dynamic memory blocks The number of failures in allocating dynamic memory The number of failures in loading font list The number of failures in loading font file The number of failures in loading FPGA The system reaches temperature protection The system comes into OFF state The number of failures in opening display file The number of failures in moving files The number of failures in deleting files The number of displaying illegal files The number of failures in upgrading Firmware The number of failures in reading inside temperature The number of failures in reading outside temperature UNKOWN UNKOWN UNKOWN UNKOWN Fig 5 31 System Log 6 Update Log Fig5 32 1s a grabbed image of Update Log It records the information time and updated communication method of FPGA and CPU files UPDATE END FERARERARERAR RRA RA RARA RARA RARAS UPDATE FPGAFFFFRERAARARARAARRRARRRRRRRA RRA RRA RRA RAR ARA RARRRARAAA 2007 07 02 14 16 02 Display Name DISPLAY IP 169 254 10 53 Group Address O1 Communication Error Unit Address O1 UPDATE END Fe FERRERA RARA RAR RARA RARAS UPDATE FPGA FFRERRAAAAAAA
8. C Users user Desktop picture 1 2848 pg Add Files Destination Path C Users user Desktop Size Width 128 z Fig 5 43 Interface of Picture Resizer Step 1 Add picture file the valid formats are BMP JPG JPEG GIF ICO EMF and WME Step 2 Choose the saving path of the converted file Step 3 Set the width and height of the designated picture Step 4 Click button Convert and the converting will start In Fig 5 41 the indication window when the appears converting finishes Fig 5 44 The converting finishes 5 3 17 MultiWindows Set This function is for windows allocation and to display the content in different windows It is only support control board QS3800 For example divide the screen into 2 parts by 1 2 Step 1 Click Read to read back current window settings Step 2 Click Delete to delete current window Step 3 Click New and Ratio 1 2 on the popup page and click choose Up Down Layout Direction _ IM Step 4 As in following picture there are two windows in 1 2 Click Send to send the setting When the setting 1s done video window and text window work separately Video window 27 m tk 52 W can display all types of files while text window can display files but video 5 3 18 COM TEST COM TEST is to test whether the com port communication of the local computers are normal or not Fig 5 45 is the
9. The Help menu mainly gives the version information of font Manager Font Manager 3 43 Build in 2013 03 18 Copyright 20047 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 H as Add the font to the font list 4 Edit the font in the font list Examine the font in the font list Update the font list to the display D Move down the chosen font Move up the chosen font 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 and we will see a communication interface We select a mode that is workable for the LED screen press the button OK and we will see the progress bar moving towards 100 If the data is sent we will see the figures 4 13 and 4 14 E 13 W Font Manager 342 Fontlist C Users wserappDats Local Sigma 3000 49 19 Font FontList ae de Mane Size Style Progress Path 5 15 Cl Cisco 15 fFn 15 Height Bold English Fonts 1416 Pnt 12 x 16 t6 Height Bold English Fonts gt J h
10. counting up and counting down We can also choose to count by days hours or by seconds Or we can choose to input d of days h of hour s of seconds directly to the editing area What is coefficient of correlation For example we set the coefficient as 100 If we would like to count down for 2 days time the coefficient will multiply the number which makes 200 Only till the days remains day left then it makes the outcome 100 Count Type Multiply by C Count Date 2013 9 18 v Time f 42555 e Count down Insert Day Hour Minute Second Custom edit OK Cancel Fig 2 16 Insert counter interface Insert Back Image 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 18 We now would like to choose one picture BMP file as the background We will see an interface asking us if we would like to set for All frame Current frame or Select frame After we select the function that we want we can add some text to the back ground Insert back image Insert range f All frame From Fig 2 18 we can see the effect of a file which 1s added with some text Special note Only one display
11. it means that IP Address is the same as the IP on internet Portl and Port 2 are two monitors master will connect with Portl and laver will connect with Port2 Phone number of Slave SIM card number of slave For example SERVER 219 128 254 187 8761 8762 86134258774 Select Serial port which connects PC and GPRS model master in COM Port select the baud rate of GPRS model master in Baud rate and see Figure 7 22 46 mW H 52 w Number to Dial SEVER219 128 254 187 8761 8762 861 3425877445 You might need to include a 1 or the area code or both If you are not sure you need the extra numbers dial the phone number on your telphone If you hear a modern sound the number dialed is correct COM Port COM1 Baud Rate 19200 Connect Disconnect fl Exit Figure 7 22 Connect Click appear a progress box as Figure 7 23 Connecting now Please walt Cancel Figure 7 23 If show connect successfully it means that GPRS system has been connected After connection we can communicate with the screen by this channel Because we use COMI to communicate with the displays by only selecting COM1 See Figure 7 25 connect them we can F 47 tk 52 F Communication Sett Communication Device f Ethernet f ROZ32 405 Serial Serial Port ET gt Sign s Address Group Address Unit Address X cnc Figure 7 25 Choose COM1 We communi
12. 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 Tool Help New Edit File Font Manager Ctrl F Display Test Ctrl T Time Adjustment Brightness Adjustment Ctrl B Brightness Block Adjustment Temp Adjustment Radar Setting Default Display Setting Information Advanced Options Over Temperature Computer Shutdown Video Monitor Schedule Send Display My LOGO Convert Movie to FLW FLW Editor Picture Resizer Multi Windows Setting COM Test Send Files Tool Temperature Convert Dial Up Http Ftp Option Update Fig 5 19 Tool Menu 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 20 Display Test is consisted of two parts the left is General Test and the right is Gray Test These tests are carried out in the status of off line thus they are invalid in VGA screen As for the Gray Test you can input any number from 1 to 256 into Gray Scale and there are two styles available they are Color and Gradual Change Color means the sign will be in only one color you choose and its brightness is decided
13. 11 shows Choose one BMP file click OPEN The BMP file will be added to the editing area Users can send the file to the sign Then the picture will show in the editing area Ex Help E Insert Picture Insert Symbols Insert special Time Date etc Insert Text File Insert Counter Insert Back Image Insert String File string File Setting Fig 2 11 Insert menu Look in JE fasion eB 4804240 Ql 1 A S o El Recent Places Desktop me 1 3 Copy jpg f 2 1 3 BMP Libraries E 1 3 jpg 1 4 Copy BMP 1 4 BMP 1 4 jpg 1 5 BMP m 1 5 jpg 2 1 6 BMP File name 1JPG DA Files of type Picture Files bmp jpg eS computer stretch picture size to sign size Fig 2 13A Fig 2 12B Picture in the Editing area As can be seen in Figure 2 12 if the inserted m tt 52 w 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 Sometime we find that it is not that convenient to insert some special symbols because they can t be found on the keyboard That is why we need the function of Insert Symbols As shown in Fig 2 13 we can see the special symbols and characters of font Normal130 The symbols and
14. 4 2 is the interface of Font List Bar 4 Shortcut Button The following is their detailed functions Help Mew Edit File Font Manager Ctrl F Fig 4 1 Select Font Manager e a 15 Height Bold English Fonts C Users user App 16 Height Bold English Fonts C Users user App S Height Standard English Fonts C Users user App 7 Height Standard English Fonts C Users user App 11 Height Standard English Fonts C Users user App 1hH Height Standard English Fonts C Users user App 15 Height Standard English Fonts C Users user App 16 Height Standard English Fonts C Users user app 22 Height Standard English Fonts Users user App 24 Height Standard English Fonts C Users user App 16 Height Standard Chinese Fonts C Users user App 24 Height Standard Chinese Fonts C Users user App 32 Height Standard Chinese Fonts C Users user App Stat La J BIGSA_32 Fnt 3 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 1s 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 H 10 mM H 52 w File Font List Window Hi l Mew FontList Ctrl M i Mew Font Ctri Alt M 5 Open Ctrl
15. 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 This the programming the chosen function accelerates speed and reduces inconvenience during programming As shown in Fig 2 16 click Open to choose the txt File that we want m n x a E e Ely Date modified 2013 12 18 9 25 2013 4 23 12 15 2013 4 9 11 43 ile folder 2013 4 9 11 43 ile folder 2013 4 9 11 43 2013 5 13 15 32 2013 4 9 11 43 ile fo 2013 4 9 11 43 ile folder 2013 6 2117 17 ile folder 2013 5 13 15 38 2013 4 9 11 43 2013 4 9 11 40 2013 4 23 16 37 Look in Sigma3000 4 9 19 y E Name y 2P JE FONT de MyLists de Picture d PlayData Le resources Type ile f Recent Places ee Desktop ile fo ile folder de RssFile de skin de stringfile Lo TEMP de TempQst ile fo Libraries ile fo Jo UPDATE Lologtt L SysInfo Txt ile fo Text Document Text Documen t File name Files of type Text files txt Fig 2 15 Interface of inserting txt File Insert Counter With this function users will be able to insert a counter either down counter or up counter From Fig 2 16 we can see that in the counter interface we can count either time or objects The coefficient of correlation rang from 0 1 999 We can notice that there are two count types
16. expansion button gt to open the These searched in the Net Manager Only those connection displays items are displays that can be searched in the Net Manager can be connected quickly As Fig 5 3 shows there are three displays to be chosen from the connection list Choose any one and you can realize the communication with it If the display is found by Ethernet in Net Manage then the display will be connected Fig 5 2 Communication Setting Communication Settin Communication Device Ethernet C RS232 485 Available Signs A N Name Information Ethernet DEMO IP 169 254 12 18 IP f 69 254 1 0 49 Display 1P 169 254 18 124 lt Display IP 169 254 21 210 Port 9520 2 p Search S gt P Display IP 169 254 90 193 Sign s Address Group Address Y Custom TimeOut Timeout 3 4 s Retry Num 3 Z a Unit Address Fig 5 3 Quick Connection Setting 5 1 2 Operation of Play List Open File Manage interface in Sigma and click can see three options Open Save and Save File on the Tools Bar then users As These options aim at saving group list for example save the current group list as a new group and click OK Users can Open the new group list by clicking Open by network when connecting rapidly If 1t 1s found by serial port then it will be connected via serial port a a efter manene ma L refer DASA related e er ae a information about the displ
17. g the size of the display is 96 256 its value of FPGA Length is as the following table 36 W gt 256 16 2 That is gt 18 gt 256 4 gt 256 8 B3 Gray Grade The setting relationship between Gray Grade and FPGA Length is as the following table L gt L Width of the screen 8 2 L L Width of the screen 4 2 L minimum is minimum 1s 18 34 6 Gray 3076 2564 Grade B 4 Bnghtness 4872 6152 9744 It is the setting of the screen brightness Auto is automatic brightness it is only available for the screen equipped with a brightness sensor 1 128 is the value for manual setting This brightness setting here is different from the brightness adjustment in the Tool Bar The brightness adjustment just adjusts the brightness roughly and it will not affect the white balance of the screen But the accurately and improves the white balance brightness setting adjusts brightness Administrator has the privilege to forbid normal users to adjust the brightness see the select check box below BS Lockout user change Using administrator rights can forbit the user to adjust the brightness ticking the option lockout user change as the below fig can forbit B 6 Half Brightness It 1s used to set the time period of half E 5 W ZN brightness of the display screen E g 0200 gfe _ it sets the duration of half brightness from 8 00 to 18 00 It means that the
18. interface of COM TEST Check ifthe serial communication is OK hen testing please connectthe pin 2 and pin 3 of the COM COM Pott COm1 y Start Stop Clear If Close Baud Rate 19200 v Fig 5 45 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 46 1f it shows Communication OK it means the com port of the local computer is no problem Otherwise if it shows Request time out like Fig 5 47 there is some problem with the serial port of the local computer Communication OK 2007 03 24 11 23 48 al Commnication OK 2007 03 24 11 23 49 Commnication OK 2007 03 24 11 23 50 Commnication OK 2007 03 24 11 23 51 F Commnication OK 2007 03 24 11 23 52 A Commnication OK 2007 03 24 11 23 53 Communication OK 2007 03 24 11 23 54 Cormemnicatinn Ok 2007 03 24 11 23 55 vl Check ifthe serial communication is OK When testing please connectthe pin 2 and pin 3 of the COM COM Port COM1 y Baud Rate 13200 v Start Clear fl Close Fig 5 46 Communication OK T 28 2013 12 18 18 14 39 2013 12 18 18 14 40 2013 12 18 18 14 40 Requst time out Requst time out Requst time out Check if the serial communication is OK When testing please connectthe pin 2 and pin 3 of the COM COM P
19. mode The display mode of a file when it goes into the sign Out mode The display mode of a file when 1t goes out of the sign Speed Display speed of each frame Pause Pause hold time of each frame Fig 2 27 shows the interface of Set Hold time We can see that the pause time of the in mode can also be included That is the pause time in mode time out mode time eet hold time Include in mode time Cancel Set Hold Time Zooming If the title 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 id by pixel Display Mode Only jump out and chasing mode 1s available 2 4 Editing Area The Editing Area provides users a platform to edit the files and display the message Users can perform the operation like inserting picture time temperature humidity text files counter down and Fete Fy 8 i SE 5 mM N YN counter up etc All files that saved will be with the suffix name of NMG If we click the right key we will see a Right key menu as it is shown in Fig 2 27 We have introduced these functions in the This the program more convenient and quicker previous parts menu makes Cut Ctrl Copy Ctrl C Paste Ctrl Select all Ctrl A Text Color Text Back Color Frame Background Color Insert Back Image Delete Back I
20. mode is available for the test that insert Fig 2 19 Back ground picture with text In Mode Out Mode Random Random Fig 2 20 insert string interface Fig 2 21 display shows the content of string 2 interface String file setting With this function users can edit the content of string file as in Fig 2 22 Select the string file that need to edit for example select string 1 and string 2 Edit the content that need to be displayed in the right area of the screen and click on OK then insert those string files into the Editor interface as in Fig 2 20 and Fig 2 21 If there is a string file displayed in the control board users only need to modify the display content as the steps showed above and click on Send Selected String To Sign If users want to modify several string files at the same time edit the content and click on Send All Strings To Sign and all string files can be modified as in Fig 2 22 String File Abas String 1 Sting Sting 2 Sting 2 C Sting3 Sting 3 C Sting 4 St C Sting5 Sting S C Sting6 String 6 C Sting Sihing 9 Stan Read Selected String From Sign Read Al Strings From Sign C Sting8 S C Sw Stan l Send All Strings To Sign X Cancel Fig 2 22 string file setting interface 2 1 4 Help Menu In the Help Menu we can find the version number of Sigma Editor as Fig 2 23 shows Editor v3 94 Build 2012 09 20 Copyright 2006
21. 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 If you like to you can also tick Show Image and click Edit Image There you can H 24 mM H 52 w opt to choose placing the picture in the foreground of the FLW animation file Finally you need to select a path for saving the picture file Now let s set the title The first line is Character for title title The second line is color of characters The third line is font setting And then there is title font editing area and Font and size for 3 Animation file conversion and simulator display Here to begin and stop conversion to simulate display and to close the window 4 Conversion ratio setting window The default setting is for width and height be to identical with those of the LED screen We can change these value settings to play FLW animation files in our preferred way Descriptions S Can be changed FLW animation Width H cht files can be generated according to el E the width and height For single color animation select 1 1 For 256 color animation files select 8 8 For 16 bit color animation files select 5 6 5 For Mode 24 bit color animation select 8 8 8 Selecting a proper mode can help save file storage size speed up data tran
22. screen will start being in the half brightness status from 8 00 to 18 00 Then after that the screen will be all bright D1 IF 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 iT icon NEI You can click it to enter configure for network Ti ay Net Configure You can get IP settings assigned automatically if your network supports this capability Otherwise you need to ask your network administrator for the appropriate IP settings C Obtain an IP address automatically IP address 169 254 21 210 255 255 0 0 169 254 11 171 Jf OK X Cancel Subnet mask Default gateway 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 D2 MAC It is used for checking the MAC address of the display but MAC address can t be modified here If this MAC address is changed the setting being sent is invalid and the read back configuration information is still the former MAC address There is another special tool to set the MAC address D3 Group Addr It is used to set the GG address of the display The GG address is also called Com port group address D4 Unit Adar It is used to set the UU address of the display The UU address is also called Com port unit address DS Baud Rate It is
23. the characters vary with different types of fonts MEN 9 I Ji y A 5 E U e u _x oO x moe 3 C Ss C f nnn mna aE a Width E Height 14 Normal22 18x22 Fig 2 14 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 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 Otherwise humidity and temperature will be shown as NA on the sign Special note Even with the temperature and humidity sensor when we insert temp amp humidity it would be shown as NA in the editing area but this would not affect the information shown on the sign xea C HH MM TimeZone GMT 08 00 y C Sec C HH MM AM PM C Def Time GMT 08 00 Date C Date US styles C Year C MM DD YYYY C Month Number Date UK styles Month character C Day of month day of week char day of week number Temperature amp Humidity C Temperature C C Temperature F C Humidity Vehicle speed Vehicle speed KPH Vehicle speed MPH Limit speed KPH Limit speed MPH OK Cancel Insert
24. the font file name being Ariall6 FNT You can add it to the font library and send it to the LED screen Convert M5 Font Font save To C Users userappData Local Sigma3000 FL a Verdana C English Only Bold width 1200 f English and Chinese Italic Height 13 xo Figure 4 8 Conversion completed 4 1 2 Font List Menu See Fig 4 9 the pull down menu of font list menu we will introduce the functions and meanings Add Add new font to the font list Delete Delete font from the font list Edit Edit the font in the font list Move Up Move the chosen font up Move Down Move the chosen font down Update Font List Send the font list to the display af Add Delete Fit 4p Move Up Th Move Down Update Font List Fig 4 9 Font List Menu 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 Y 1 FontList C Users user AppData Local Sigma3000 4 9 19 Font FontList fst 2 Cillserstuser ppDatal Local Sigma30004FONT new font fnt 3 Font 0020H File C Users user AppData Local Sigma3000 FONT new font fnt 4 CA Users user 4ppData Local Sigma3000 FONT Normall5 fnt 5 Font 0041H File C Users user 4ppData Local Sigma3000 FONT new font fnt Fig 4 10 Window Menu 4 1 4 Help Menu As Fig 11 Shows
25. used to set the communication Baud rate of Com port in the display D6 Eaud Rates It is used to set the communication Baud rate of Com port 2 in the display Offset Position PC s 0 0 E D7 A You can modify it only under control mode gg When entering El Login Option It is used to set whether it needs to login before communicating with the hardware When this option 1s on users have to login before communication E2 Play Mode There are two play modes Immediate play mode and Awaiting play mode When the 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 E3 Daylight Saving Time 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 The summer time adjustment will automatically add one more hour at zero o clock on the morning of the second Sunday in March every year then automatically reduce one hour at zero o clock on the morning of the first Sunday in November every year E4 Initialization State There are three optional settings in the E 37 W FE 52 H initial status of the screen Schedule mode When the display is in this mode
26. user Desktop picture 86X56 bmp diries J __detrie J _GeerFes_ cese This system can send many files to many displays automatically at prescheduled time It also can send files instantly But it should be noted that files sent are not played right away They can only be shown after the files have been added to the play list and the play list has been sentto the display list Send Files Later 2013 12 18 y 18 31 r Fig 5 50 Interface of Send Files 2 Step 3 Set the time of sending and clic zet then a clock icon will appear in the taskbar of the computer like Fig 5 51 It is counting down and when it goes to the pre scheduled time the files will be sent Sigma Send Files 7 18 38 2013 12 18 Ji Fig 5 51 Down counter for sending files Note when it is counting down to send the files Sigma software cannot be closed the disappear immediately The computer cannot be turned off either After the file 1s sent to otherwise count down clock will the designated sign it will not be displayed right away because there is no File list in the files which have been sent The LED sign will only display File List Then we need to E 29 Tl ZN FE 52 W do displayable the following to make the files Step 4 Display the designated file which has been sent Open the Sigma software enter List Manage as shown in Fig 5 52 and stick A then the Play List Files like Fig 5 53 appears choo
27. will appear But please don t delete the system files randomly BOLD40 FNT Type of file Font File Location FAFONTA Size 29 74 KB 30 456 bytes 2012 9 5 22 50 36 2012 9 5 22 50 36 Created Modified Fig 6 15 Properties of font 6 5 Net Manage Net Manage is the management area of W the display file and the playlist of the LED display the management reasonably Using playlist panel 1S helpful to enhance the efficiency of sending the display files of the LED display As shown in fig 6 16 it is the interface of the playlist management panel the left part is the playlist management area of LED display the right part is the display file management area bottom is the schedule management area DA 52 Fie Manage Net Manage Editor True Font Editor Editor Phar Fie Schedule Sign info Send File Record Graphics Lbtay OOTO OLOO Fig 6 16 Playlist management panel Here are some living examples to show you how to use the functions in the playlist management panel Add group click Group Name NewGroupl Available Signs Display 169 254 21 210 Selected Signs Group name is default The Available Signs area the left list of the picture above is empty How to import parameters of available signs into this area Step 1 click iB for searching sign Step 2 Click P to add the searched LED signs to Default Signs When add group again the al
28. 0 control board The signal cable must be crossed RS232 with holes on both sides One end connect to QS5800 control board another end connect to computer 7 1 Point to point connection Connect GPRS system shown Connect successfully RS232 GPRS model master GPRS model Slave 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 Number to Dial 0613425070445 You might need to include a 1 orthe area code or both If you are not sure you need the extra numbers dial the phone number on your telphone If you hear a modern sound the number dialed is correct COM Port COM1 Baud Rate 19200 x Connect Disconnect fl Exit Figure 7 11 Connect And then click you will see a progress box as Figure 7 12 Connecting now Please walt Cancel Figure 7 12 If show connect successfully it means that GPRS system has been connected 45 Wm H 52 w After connection we can communicate with the displays by this channel Because we use COMI to connect them we can communicate with the displays by only selecting COM1 See Figure 7 13 s Communication Sett Communication Device f Ethernet f R523455 Serial Seri
29. 201 2 Fig 2 23 About Sigma Editor 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 File Tools Dl Open a new NMG file Open the NMG files E Save the file Color Tools el Palette of the font color Al Back ground palette of fonts e Back ground palette of frame A Shadow Align Tools l Horizontal left align Horizontal center align Horizontal right align Vertical center align Other Tools Short cut key for sending files Ed Set flashing feature for a certain character or picture E Simulated display as Fig 2 24 shows El Insert a title as Fig 2 25 shows Normals esse Choose the font type Simulator CWiserstuserAppD ata WM ocafi5igma30004 9 191 temp nmg Fig 2 24 Simulated display E Editor v3 94 Untitled Bass File Edit Insert Help Ojal 2 fosos ala a EEN je wm S aT tome In Mode Out Mode Speed Pause Screen Line Spacing Display a ers user AppD ata Local Sigma3000 4 9 19 temp nmg HH 2 Fig 2 25 Insert a title Medium Fast w 2Secs 200 X Auto y 2 3 Mode Bar Fig 2 26 shows the Mode Selecting Bar in the Editor In Mode Out Mode Speed Pause 2 Secs 200 jf v Auto Jump out xl Jump out y Medium Fast y Fig 2 26 Mode Bar In
30. 9 126 254 107 Port 9520 Slan s Address Group Address a1 5 Unit Address 01 Fig 2 6 Communication through an outside net Here we need to know what Port Group address and Unit Address are Now let s get to know what Port is and what port is for first GG stands for Group Address while UU stands for Unite Address With the help of GGUU we can communicate with 99x99 LED signs Please note that 0000 means the P 2 hm 52 54 broadcast address If we are searching for one certain 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 Under such circumstance we can manage all the signs according to different groups Even with the same IP address we can still tell the signs apart from the different GGUU The other Trans Mode is serial port As shown in Fig 2 7 Serial Port refers to COM 1 in the computer with GGUU 0101 Sigma Play will check the Baud rate of the sign if Serial Port is used for the Ist time The communicating interface will disappear once the Serial Port receives the data back from the sign which mea
31. AARRARRAARRRR RARA RRA RARAS 2007 07 02 16 18 07 Display Name DISPLAY IP 169 254 10 160 Group Address O1 Sent successfully Unit Address O1 UPDATE ENDF FF FFARARAERARERAR ERA RA RARA RARA RARAS Fig 5 32 Update Log Example the above UPDATE FPGA recorded the update time 1s 2007 07 02 16 18 07 the update figure is FPGA the display name is DISPLAY the IP address after update is 169 254 10 160 GGUU is 0101 result sent successfully 5 3 9 Advanced Options There are four options in Advanced Options they are User Management Get Password and E mail Setting Change Hardware Password Hardware 1 User Management The function of this option is to manage the users logging in to Sigma Fig5 33 is an interface of User Management ag User Manageme No User Name 2 user Current User admin New User Level Password Delete Close 2 Change Hardware Password As Fig 5 34 shows input old password into Old Password the default old password is Ola59g or MSYQYJ then input the new one into the blanks of New Password and Repeat Password and then the old password can be changed Old Password New Password Repeat Password Y conca Fig 5 34 Change Hardware Password 3 Get Hardware Password As Fig 5 35 shows open the window of Get Hardware Password firstly choose the path of the file which has saved password data File Name El G x Cancel
32. Error Please Recycle Electrical Power to Display and SED Press Yes to Continue 32 x Cancel m tk 52 11 Fig 5 65 Resent the display and continue After the FPGA update finishes another indication window like Fig 5 65 will appear now we don t need to reset the display click Yes and the update will continue As shown in Fig 5 66 all the update tasks are completed successfully 1 Update prog Task State 27 Soouth IP 169 254 11 140 GG 01 UU 01 Backup PlayList and Messages Sent successfully Update CPU Program Sent successfully Send FPGA Data Sent successfully Recover PlayList and Messages Sent successfully Fig 5 66 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 67 this window is the edition information about Sigma software Product Mame Sigma Play Version 4 9 20 Build 2013 05 06 Editor 3 34 Font Manager 3 42 Copyright Copyright 2004 Display Bar Set Comments Fig 5 67 About Chapter 6 Shortcut Panel of Sigma Software N 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
33. Fig 5 35 Get Hardware Password As Fig 5 35 shows after choosing the path click Get and then turn off the power of the Display Control Board immediately Turn on the power and wait for the opening information of the display Note Because the data of the password is given during the process of turning on the Display so we should get the data at the beginning of boot strap 3 Get Hardware Password m File Name C Users user Desktop Password psw E G x Cancel Fig 5 36 Choose the saving path of file Reading data is successful 22 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 4 E Mail Setting As Fig 5 37 shows it is the interface of E mail Setting We have mentioned how to use this interface before Fig 5 14 Here we would like to repeat it In this setting the default receiver is our company after sale service mail box If users want to change it to be their own mail address they can do it here The default sender is our company Users can modify it to be their own sending address if there is something wrong when sending email E Mail Setting Receiver Receiver Name Subject demo exam
34. File Edit Insert Help bold15 10 15 x BS Ale peed 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 System setting Set the screen size Exit Exit Sigma Editor Communication easi Trans Mode Edit Inset Help CI Mew Ctrl M Ethernet C RS232 485 a bar Oper Ctrl 0 Ethernet el Save Ctrl 5 IP 169 254 10 49 Sawe ddan Port 19520 al Communicate 5 Send to sign system setup Sign s Address Group Address 01 Unit Address 01 2 Exit X Cancel 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 49 Port 9520 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 Only QS5800 series need to connect with specific port 9520 and other control boards have no special limits Communication Trans Mode f Ethernet f RS2321405 Ethernet IP 21
35. M Save Play List 12 Hour v Time Style The default display setting will be activated when commands of text only are being sent For example after sending lt 0101 gt 200 lt 0x02 gt 44 TestFile lt 0x04 gt when Test File to Display is displayed it will display according to the default settings Itis also for Bitmap file and String file Read Send fl Close Fig 5 25 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 Normal 7 tk 52 H default font of text file is Line spacing default line space is 1 pixel Word wrap default value is ON Time Format to set default time format H M means when time value is less thanl0 O will not be displayed before the value while HH MM means 0 will be displayed when time value is less than 10 In Mode default In Mode is Random Out Mode default Out Model is Random Speed default Speed is Fast Pause default Pause time is 3 seconds Hor Justification default horizontal justification is Center Ver Justification default vertical justification is to Fill Save Play List to set default Disk for saving Play List and the default Disk is Disk C 5 3 8 Information There are five kinds of information in List Information Disk Information Play Log Information they are System System Log and Update Log
36. Mail demo example com Content zende Sigma Information From Customer Sender Name customer Sender E Mail customer sina com ID customer Password gsimagel 2345678 SMTP SMTP sina com crf Y OK X Cancel Fig 5 14 E Mail Setting Next 1s to Save System Information What 1s saved by this function 1s 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 P 16 H TE 52 H second blank is to save the text file of system set information Save the System Set picture to this location Ic Users user Desktop Sigma ipa Cd Save the System Set information file to this location fC Users user Desktop Syslinfo tet The first function is to save the captured image of the System Set into the local computer And the second function is to automatically read the system Information and translate it into text files and then to save it into a designated path of the local computer x Cancel Fig 5 15 Save System Information Y DK 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 Neve Dipty iP waa fin sica Mar poten Set fies 24 21 2710 F 44 EE huge Staton Gowsde 0 2 AA firm Firm PJI TE Und Ad fom 2 Doud Awe man Hardens Vasa
37. OO Fig 6 8 Interface of File Manage UN 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 The capability 39 mM H 52 w of this folder is limited and the Chinese font list can t be saved in this folder FPGA Folder When the FPGA program is downloaded this program file will be saved in this FPGA folder TEMP Folder Temporary file folder CONFIGSYS The files of current system configuration And all system parameter will be saved in this folder DEFAULT SYS The defaulted system configuration files SEQUENT SYS The play list of the current system The list records the name of the current play files LOGO SYS Logo display files COLORTY BIN palette files File Path y E es bel a ends aa Ea N JM LS CA LOGO SYS CONFIG DEFAULT SYS SEQUENT SYS Text File Ls te E Picture File a sE String File LOG CONFIG SYS MODEMCFG SYS AD TAB Array Picture File Size gt gt 215KB TEMP FPGA FONT Fig 6 9 Directory of Disk C Disk D Disk D is Flash disk which save the pla
38. Ola59g Press OK and the login is successful See Fig 5 7 The method of changing firmware s password is in Tool advanced options and you can find the changing password item Log on Hardware USER LOSIN Password Y Remember Password Fig 5 7 Login successfully 5 1 5 Others Operations The last two items about the file menu is language and exit Only seven languages such as English Chinese and German are available and introduce them one by one Function Tool Help Delete Play List Fror Signi Delete All Messages In Sign Backup Syster Files Recover Stern Files Check Backup Files Check Sent Files Email to us sawe Configuration Refresh Ctrl F Fig 5 8 Function Menu 5 2 1 Function of Backup Recover The two items of the second separate line are Backup System Files and Recover System Files As shown in Fig 5 9 the indication window will appear when you choose to back up system files click Yes and it starts In Fig5 10 The major files that can be backed up are FPGA files configuration information r files and palette files and so User Name admin Please input the password Password panna Y OF X Cancel Fig 5 9 Backup System File indication sending data Please wait ot Fig 5 10 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 syst
39. Path ES E E T b i REPORT TXT status sys TEMP EX 4 i wi a olla Fig 6 11 Directory of Disk E Disk F Disk F is NandFlash disk or CF or SD Card The capability of Disk F is very big 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 When the play log is read this file will be created 40 R H 52 w TEMPLOGLOG It recording temperature log the file It records the 1S temperature of the display File Path FA J O E ss 7 do do ds do o pay ac J FONT T S P FA ml LA 5 5 LA LA String File F L Q Array Picture os TEMP ae SCH LOG pane TEMPLOG LOG LOGFILE LOG Fig 6 12 Content of F Disk Now we can double click the FONT folder in F Disk and see the font information in it There are a lot of font files in the folder please see Fig 6 13 File Path FAFONTA x D 3 ao nn 2 E z BOLD40 FNT BOLD11 FNT UNIGLO24 FNT FONT1 Font File Text File a e me gt Picture File iF IF iF IF String File NORMAL 2 FNT NORMAL64 FNT FONT2 NORMAL80 FNT Array Picture File Size
40. Up Information List Manage Net Manage Click the button will see Figure 8 02 pea Advanced Configure Chineses Charset Sign Style C GBK BIGE 32x24 RG New Line Black Screen Sub Width 0 SubHeight 0 The screen goes black when you send messages to it J Check if the file was written in after being transferred Custom Port CustomPort 9522 z Check write in status in 1000 ms BlackScreen if no message be sended to it OpenDoor Switch and Pixcheck percent Black Screen after 0 Min Black afterreboot M OpenDoor Log Bad Pixcel Percent 0 zi A OK X Cancel Figure 8 02 l Selecting Chinese fonts Sigma 3000 is based on English characters please using the Chinese Character 1f insert 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 BIGS stand for Traditional Chinese If displays the Traditional Chinese on the sign please select BIG5 then check in Y Ll and check in gt in the System set after that the screen will be restarted and default selection is BIGS After that you can send the Traditional Chinese to the screen There are three Traditional Chinese character in the Sigma BIG5A_16 BIGS5A_24 BIGS5A_32 Also you can convert the operating system charact
41. User s Manual for Sigma 3000 Ver4 4 Contents Chapter LAO dC ds Chapter 2 1 Cia Pdo ssia OaE ENER 2 LL Mem B E E E A 2 Del Pile ME ias 2 2E ECG VG AO 3 2 AS A a Rensed adhe edna oases ade teteae ots 4 ZA MS a di 7 2 2 TOOL DAA AAA aid 7 PIS Wd A O 8 2A ENS ACC don dnde ated tan dasa NNR 8 2 SUA CUS NUS ia A E E 8 Chapter o rue Pont Bair a aaa 8 Sl TRC TEI Alt RO 9 FLERI MOD PRO REO CO ren nr A Ree car DON eS PS ee Tare 9 PEZE AMO A 9 ILo mert AAA O 9 Mee Nee A E a E eee ee nieee Sin ataeat ace 9 Di WOOL dridco A a 9 w ModS DE 10 SA EGU APC e R se riannaas ee satoumnes 10 SD AUS Danni 10 Chapters Eont Mana cr aeisi ias 10 EE O E a ee Nec E N 10 Al PIC Moi sat ain eaaa aaa ta iad aaah a 10 Be We TOME MAGE e 12 Al Window MENU cant doe saben sans a baacasaetanne tatonsstaaidan Wasanntant dan rasa 12 AV 2h PICO VICMU isco riences tases A A se neniaeceneeeta aes 12 AD TOOL Di A aces Mas eee acoeavaas 13 ied OME MIS e T teesce O 13 AA Shortcut Ma UMLOM aA O a cbbtc dete R 13 Chapter POS OMS ama S MENA A A A AA da 13 LEE ME do 13 MAC caon CUNAS AA 14 31 2 Operation ot Play Dis usada R A A 14 SENA ESSE 14 e RI A dessa ricanenern aoe ti bydaseviaeneaiaa teenies semriannnarnae mar enbeuenss 15 le ia RO 15 D2 FUNC ORMO heen setaied a eutteeat tote nent aoaae eae Gasaeesueen 15 5 2 Fonc nonoi Backup RECON danas dae E secant cece na tec en deed a see een nae 15 5 22 heck Backup MileSin ana cantina dai
42. al Port I gt Sign s Address Group Address Unit Address X cance Figure 7 13 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 Disconnect and then click Discommect there is a progress box you disconnect it Notes We strongly suggest customer use 19200 baud rate for GPRS model If the baud rate for the Mater board and the Slaver board is the same the communication will be better The slaver control board will be adapted the baud 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 y PC Server Master Figure 7 20 First run a server software VMS SERVER in PC Server Follow Figure 7 21 Ei vias Server 1 00 TO is Fim Pim IP Het IP H iO 8761 HOE 8762 Figure 7 21 And then open Sigma 3000 in PC select Toll Dial up enter SERVER IP Address PORTE Port2 Slave into Number to Dial SERVER IP Address Port1 Port2 Slaver SERVER is keyword in command IP Address the IP Address of server this command should be used in a system which has only a module but Server should connect with internet
43. ay modules by the user This bar only can be input one character which classifies the display modules E g the user can input A to sort the 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 F4 M Show Start Up Information It is used to set whether to show the start up information If it is ticked 1t means that when the display is turned on every time the start up information will be shown 6 3 Simulator The simulator is for the users to preview the display files As is shown in the Fig 6 5 the Simulator supplies a window for previewing play files 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 Fig 6 4 Play Control Button Fig 6 5 Interface of Simulator 6 4 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 n the figures File Sie MIOS DO O
44. ay will be cb ro group bst z Group Files Net Fig 5 4 Save As Group When connecting quickly the Save Cancel recorded automatically So once the GGUU or IP address or other about the communication changes the seeking have to correlated information Note Only after choosing a play list can you save the list and file in a package be executed once again Or the quick connection will fail i i 5 1 3 Change user Fig 5 5 is the login interface from which you can change login users The following table shows the login way Communication Device i Ethernet C RS232485 Ethernet P 169 254 10 49l Port 9520 El signs Address Group Address Sigma User Name admin Password kkk Remember Password X cancel Unit Address 5 5 Login interface 14 mM H 52 H 5 2 Function Menu user level User name password administrator admin admin Fig 5 8 is the pull down menu of function menu We will divide them to several parts normal 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 After entering in
45. by gray degree And Gradual Change means a static process of changing from bright gradually to less bright G Display Test General Test Gray Test H Red Mi Green E Red L Green M Blue White Ba vert ses Clear Resume Fig 5 20 Display Test 5 3 2 Time Adjustment Fig 5 21 is an interface for Time Adjustment As for the time in sign we sometimes have to adjust it to make it synchronized with the time in computer Because there are different time zones and user should choose a right time zone before adjusting the time This tool supports time adjustment of main board and slave board i e if these two boards are linked only an adjustment to the main board will make the time in slave board adjusted too EY Time Adjustment Display Date Time 201 3 12 18 1542 Time Zone Computer 201 3 12 18 154322 GMT 08 00 fame Blade foo Fig 5 21 Time Adjustment Date Time Time one 5 3 3Brightness 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 Detailed following first of all select 4 8 blocks you coordinated Operations as can select one block at a time or many blocks by means that indicated in the state bar below Then in the right panel you can set the value of brightness by clicking up or down buttons and also you can input numb
46. cating after the operation we can stop the connection select the successfully Finish can operate screen Tool Dial up you will see Figure 7 11 Disconnect and then click Disconnect disconnect it 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 and then press Ctrl Alt A You will see the button at the lower right corner See Figure 8 01 o Sigma Play ee orh orane om File View Function Tool Help P Read A Send Name IP 169 254 10 99 MET System Set width 128 y Start Cot MAC 32 46 54 56 54 7E Simula Height 64 v Start Row jo 3 Group Addr jor Baud Ratel 19200 gt Firmware CPUJ 8748 03 Unit ddr 01 BaudRate2 19200 y File Schedule Hardware Version 5008 y A File Manage RGB65 6 5 v Login Option OFF FPGA Length 64 Play Mode Play immediately y Picture Manage Gray Grade 9744 Daylight Saving Time OFF Y Brightness 1 Initialization State Schedule Mode 7 Half Brightness Display Mode Same Content 00 00 00 00 OFF LINE Slave Board Num 0 Power 00 00 00 00 i 0 3 TCP Timeout ms SN arar a 2008 5 17 16 09 19 Create Time 2008 5 17 16 03 13 T Show Start
47. cluding phone number computer serial 49504521 ports Baud rate and GGUU address 2 Display Search Communication Device Ethernet C RS232 485 Dial Up Dial Up Phone Number 805 COM Port Baud Rate Unit Address 19200 E Sign ddress Group ddress NO Name su Est Here add the blank group click OK As in the following picture the New Group is in the list Default Signs 1s default group of this software cannot be delete and cannot be modified E Group Gis Sign A Refresh P Read sp List Manage ma y System Set Default Signs E NewGroupl S Add signs Click MEN as in follow picture EA Add a Sign Information Name DISPLAY Width 128 Height 16 Communication Device e Ethernet C Serial Port Ethernet IP fi 69 254 21 210 Port 9520 Address Group ddress 014 Unit Address IS Login User Name administrator Password When adding a sign please enter the correct IP address of sign es If the sign s control panel has set hardware login users have to tick the Login and input the password default passwords 1s Ola59g Set communication method of signs on the Add Signs interface Select NewGroup1 and Get P 7 click if Connected click 1 add signs Users can refresh sign s SOR O Refresh connection status by clickingk AE the unconnected sign is in red Here add another sign 3 Add d
48. d in the play list press a add from the computer add display files for the LED display it will be as the below fig after adding the files ff EDO o seen ME B lt gt 1 1 pa B lt gt 1 2 BMP Press E if you want to add the file from LED display choose add from sign tick the file you want t add and press ok H 33 mM H 52 W Gi Add Files From Sign temp qst New Text File 148 73 KB m omg pmg Array Picture 24 53 KB Text2 Nmg Text File 231 B i JPA 5JPG bmp Picture File 1 54 MB pPmg F T Text2 Nmg F P JP4 5JPG bmp Za Press E if you want to add the new advertisemet companies choose new companies and type in the list name choose play one file in one cycle or play all files in one cycle istName io ci Embed PlayList Perpor E AD Company j Only one file is played in one cycle C All files are played in one cycle Then you can set file schedule File schedule is a function to set the play time and make the file play as per the setting play time For example set the play time of the first file as November 23th 2013 to December 23th 2014 from Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm every day as procedure is as below 1 Delete the tick of Il Every year set the date tick the start date choose the start date as November 23th 2013 the end date December 23 2013 2 Set the time tick the start time choose the start time as 8am end time is 8pm 3 S
49. d is seven And the connection of this hardware is as the following Fig 6 3 0000 on Do jos D ojoN OFF ER o AR O 0 oFF AR SW2 1 GGUU 0102 Sw2 GGUU 0103 QS5006 QS5006 QS5006 D D D D D D Fig 6 3 The connection of the main and slave boards C2 TCP Timeout It is used to control the communication connection of the display effectively If the value of TCP Timeout is 3 seconds equal to 3000 milliseconds the communication chain between PC and the display screen is connected in this 3 seconds If the time exceeds 3 seconds the communication chain will be disconnected automatically Then the chain should be communicating with the screen If the reconnected before communication distance is far it maybe takes a long time to reconnect the communication chain C3 Create Time It is used to read the written in time of system parameter in the control board FI Power It 1s used to set the ON OFF time of the display E g ON 08 00 OFF 119 00 it means the sign will be on at 8 00 and will display files and the sign will be off at 18 00 and the screen is black display nothing Note This switch is not the switch of the hardware It is the operation on the software The power supply of the screen is still on the control board is still working F2 SM 4 38 H H 52 w It is used to read the serial number of control board of the display F3 Led Bin It is used to define the style of displ
50. 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 Users can use the Sigma 3000 to check or modify the parameters of the display or use it to monitor the working status of the sign At the same time the Sigma 3000 is also a wonderful display file manager which allows the users to schedule files and update their own display contents Users will see the following log in interface whenever they open the software There are two users by default One is the administrator user both the username and password are admin The other one is normal user both the username and password are user If users want to upgrade or modify the settings of a display they have to log in with the admin If users only want to send or edit some files only need normal user to log in Sigma User Name admin Password k amp xk amp xxx Remember Password Cancel Fig 1 1 The log in interface Input User Name and the password and click OK The following interface of Sigma 3000 will show up as Fig 1 2 shows As we can see from the above figure there are 5 main parts that constitute Sigma s Interface 1 is the menu bar where the user can find all tools and functions 2 is the panel of short cut keys where user can realize the se
51. e value is set in accordance to the width of the display A3 Height It shows the height of the display The value is set in accordance to the height of the display screen A4 Start Cot 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 AS Start how It is the setting for the Start Row on the display The value is O usually A6 Firmware CPU It is used to read the CPU edition number of the display A7 Hardware Version It is used to read the hardware edition number of the display B1 tyle It is the style options of the display It is decided by the actual use of display E g The RG bi color indoor display can t be set as the 8 8 8 Style The setting is in detail as the following table St 1 8 8 For display with single color shade it is used with QS0712 main board with 4000 FPGA program 1 8 For the RG bi color display For the outdoor full color 5 6 5 display 3 8 For the outdoor full color display B2 FPGA Length The calculation formula of FPGA Length as the following table gt Actual width of the screen 4 2 gt Actual width of the screen 8 2 gt Actual width of the screen 1 6 2 E
52. em files In fact the current CPU program has already backed up configuration files Gamma files and palette P 15 W FE 52 w files so that formatting Disk C will not erase system files and the only thing you need to do is refresh FPGA program Information Gey Are you sure you want to recover the system files Include FPGA and SD Configuration it may change the current settings Fig 5 11 Recovering system files 5 2 2 Check Backup Files To check backup files firstly you need to type in the user password secondly press yes in the checking confirmation window then start to check backup files i e Are you sure you want to check the backup files This operation will P take few minutes and the sign will reboot If the sign can light up later the backup file is good otherwise it is bad 5 2 3 Check Sent Files Check the files when sending lists to only one LED display Choose yes in check sent file the system will check if the size of the NMG file is fit with the size of the LED display during sending the file to the display if it is not fit with the display the system will ask send or not send and the system will read back the size of the LED display when you open the editor Check the files when sending lists to multiple LED displays choose no in Ignore file with not match sign the system will check if the size of the NMG file is fit with the size of t
53. er with the conversion function in Sigma Please see the chapter 4 2 New line setting When the screen width is bigger than the maximum displays width which the main board is supported and when the screen height is smaller than the half of maximum displays height which the main board is supported it can use the new line to extend For example LED Screen W H 480 48 Main board the maximum supported to the LED screen W H 256 96 Connection 480 as name Software set up New Line Sub di 240 gt SubHeight 48 z Then check in 99 in the System set 3 Choose the type of the driver board The size of the driver board is different from 1ts 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 Set black screen when sending the message Users can set if the LED display would go black or not when sending the message file 6 Users can check if the files is successfully 48 R H 52 w sent and the sending time of the file Chapter 9 Items for Your Attention 1 When you want to use Sigma software to send a file to the sign please make sure the sign is in Schedule status display status If the sign is in remote control status you can see remote contr
54. ers in to RGB blocks When everything is set you just click Set to send the value of brightness to the sign A Brightness Adjustment Read Send fl Cancel Fig 5 22 Brightness Adjustment 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 P 18 H E 52 w 61 Temperature Adjustment This function is to adjust temperature of the outdoor temperature sensor so that the temperature readings fed back to the control board is the actual temperature of the atmosphere The display will automatically refresh the parameter when adjusting is done Adjust Celsius O Fahrenheit Fig 5 23 Temp Adjustment 5 3 5 Module Brightness Setting Fig 5 24 is an interface of Module Brightness Setting Users only need to select the area that need to adjust as the green area in the picture to modify the parameters of RGB In Fig 5 24 each parameter of R G B is 63 Note This function is only applied to QS5246 at present a Brightness Block Adjustmen 6 m This function is to adjust the brightness of the LED sign block by O Stop block RGB being 000 means minimum brightness x9 Y 10 Multi Selected Ctrl Fig 5 24 Module Brightness Setting 5 3 6 Radar Setting Radar Setting Limitation of speed and deviation value are available thr
55. ers ysw Desktop TEMPLOG csv Dest File Choose temperature log file read back from the control board in Source File press button to convert the file A window will come out for reminding after the coonversion as the below fig TmpANAMFC A cvs file will be created in the source file once the conversion is finished Press Open can open the target file and the file can be open by source file path 5 3 21 Dial up Dial Up provides users a communication then distance communication is realized It 1s channel through telephone long 30 W useful for the users in the areas where internet 1s not available Fig 5 56 is the telephone number communication Com Port of the the communication Baud Rate of the LED sign s interface of Dial Up local computer and Com Port Number to Dial 805 You might need to include a 1 orthe area code or both If you are not sure you need the extra numbers dial the phone number on your telphone If you hear a modern sound the number dialed is correct COM Port COM1 Baud Rate 9600 Connect Disconnect fl Exit Fig 5 56 Dial Up To realize Dial Up connection Modem and the required communication cables are needed Please see Fig 5 57 for the connection diagram ZN FE 52 W Fig 5 57 Connection diagram of Dial Up Connect Click and Dial Up connection begins When the connection is successful we can
56. et the week delete the tick of the S and below the S 4 Set the play time of the file use the same way to set the play 34 W time according to your schedule Instruction if the play time of the file in the playlist is not set the LED display will be always playing that file by default Besides please calibrate the time of the LED display to avoid play ahead of schedule delay or not play a Choose Kal after setting the shedule information you can check and simulate the operation aspects in every period 2013 11 28 4 gt 5 The system will show 4 schedules normally if more schedule is needed please drag the cutting line upwards as the below fig 6 schedule can be shown at most DO DUO Osa a There are some setting items on the right side of the panel El Defaul Pause Sec Those setting items aim at the picture files they can set the in mode out mode and the stay time of the picture Tick default means use the default setting delete the tick of the default 1f you don t want to use default setting and do the settings you want in below JE 52 T In Mode How the picture appear the function is the same as Editor Out Mode How the picture disappear the function is the same as Editor Pause stay time the unit is second Press Meuse to send the list to the control board after the setting is done Choose
57. he LED display during sending the file to the display if it is not fit with the display the system will ask send or not send as fig 5 12 Information O 1 4 BMP The File pixel size and the screen pixel size do not match E Ignore Fig 5 12 Send notes 5 2 4 Other Functions The last three functions in this menu shall be explained as Other Functions The first of them is sending e mail this function enables the customers to send us email about configuration information and system information of the sign Both this function and the next can be available only in the System Set panel Then the user just needs to choose sending e mail and click Yes in the following window Sigma Play gt 1 Are you sure you want to send an e mail to us showing the System Set information of the Display Fig 5 13 Indication window of sending e mail to us With this function we can get to know if there are problems with the system set at customers end or whether the system information is right or not so that we can help customers correct the mistakes The Email is to be sent to our Supports mail box More Email settings can be done in Tool Advanced E Mail Customers can choose the sender and the Option Setting receiver of the E Mail according to their need When all is set the only thing left is to click OK as shown in Fig 5 14 Receiver Subject Receiver Name demo Sigma Information Receiver E
58. he time according to user s schedule Explanation if users haven t set time for the file it is defaulted to play the file all the time Note calibrate the time of the sign in case that there is a delay in playing or the sign plays in advance or don t play The scheduling information setting 1s done gt ODOC Ome Co select and users can view and simulate the file s running conditions in each ec yom Se period of time 2013 5 31 7 gt Bl Normally only four scheduling can be seen on the panel If users want to see more scheduling drag the segment line pointed by the arrow as the following picture shows Meanwhile users can preview Scheduling by clicking on it to turn to File Scheduling panel Fie Manage Editor True Font Editor p gt Ore NOOO O Send Play List send file Scheduling List Set play time of all files in the list and click button Send to send this list to the sign Select the check boxes before the screen and A Send Group List click and send the Play List to the sign sending data now please wait Main Progress Rs Current Display Progess Rs o Display IP 169 254 21 210 z levees tah ak 1 Eancel Read back the Play List of the sign tick the sign s check box
59. isplay file Select NewGroupl click A Choose Add Files From Computer as show in the following picture and select files you want to add Then yov ll Add Ras Select the screen whose IP is 169 254 21 210 Click to add files from computer or the screen like the following picture In the list we can see the added group list files in green E aj Da hera Cee Function button of Add File el To delete display file 3 To move down display file 3 To move up display file To edit display file if the selected file is NMG the system will open Sigma Editor to edit if the selected file is PMG the system will open True Font Editor to edit and if the selected file is BMP system will open the included photo editor of Windows to edit 4 Set File schedule File Schedule is for setting the play time of each file to play files chronologically For example set the play time of the first file as 2013 05 03 to 3013 06 03 from Monday to Friday from 8 00AM to 8 00PM E 43 mh FE 52 5 the setting process as follows Step 1 Set the date Tick the Start Date select 2013 05 03 as the start date and 2013 06 03 as the ending date Step 2 Set the hour Tick the Start Hour select 8 00 as the start hour and 20 00 as the ending hour Step 3 Set the week Cancel the ticks under Saturday and Sunday Step 4 Set the play time of other files Follow the same steps and set t
60. ll aspects Otherwise it is not suggested to update with package since the efficiency of updating with package is low what s more H 31 mM H52 w palette and Gamma files are already included in CPU Update Wizard Please see Fig 5 63 Update Wizard 1s to update the package above Please choose the correct communication device and address in the left columns the right column will show the update files in the package Click Update and it starts e A Update Wizard Communication Device Include Ethemet C RS232 485 CPU Flle ARM_02_4517_06 cpu FPGA File fpga_qs5246_ver460C Ethernet IP 169 254 11 140 Port 9520 GGUU Address Group jor sj Unit jor sj Update Package cu serstuser ppDatal Local Sigma30004UPDATE Update UDP W The Update and initialization Wizard Fig 5 63 Update Wizard Fig 5 64 shows the update progress and the current updating CPU program 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 65 an indication window will appear after the display is reset click Yes and the FPGA update begins Update Cancel r CA Update progress Task State Progress 27 Soouth IP 169 254 11 140 GG 01 UU 01 Backup PlayList and Messages Sending data Update CPU Program Waiting Send FPGA Data Waiting Recover PlayList and Messages Waiting Communication
61. mage Fig 2 27 Right key menu 2 5 Status Menu Status Bar indicates the current information of the current editing file For example Page 1Line 1 1 1 means the current editing page and the position of the cursor Panel Weidthil28 Herght ib4 indicates that the current editing file can be used for the sign with 64 pixels height and 128 pixels wide Chapter 3 True Font Editor True Font Editor is a kind of editing tool for editing dot matrix files The most obvious advantage 1s that 1t 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 Tool Edit file True Font file Help New Edit File Ctrl F Ctrl T Text File True Font File Editor Plus File Font Manager Display Test Fig 3 1 Choose dot matrix N As Fig 3 2 illustrates True Font Editor has the same layout as Sigma Editor 1 Menu Bar 2 Tool Bar 3 Mode Bar 4 Edit Area and 5 Status Bar The following is the introduction of their functions Fig 3 2 True Font Editor Interface 3 1 Menu Bar 3 1 1 File Menu Fig 3 3 shows the pull down menu of File Menu which has the same functions as Sigma Editor Please refer to the above Sigma Editor for more information about Communicate setting and Send to sign E Mew Ctrl h gt Open Ctrl 11 E Save Ctrl 3 Sawe as Communicate 1 System
62. n a 16 SS O apo Lg A 16 22 Other FUNCION ti ars 16 Io LOOMING IU AA A AE 17 3 Display Teste iio 18 552 Me Ad USUMNCNt anne nea ni neni S 18 See EISMIMESS AC USEC MN bale E 18 5 5 4 LEMP c NG IA A oO A 18 5 5 Module Brie ess Seti a 19 INO RASCA ad 19 IFD Display Seis rr nic 19 O A is 20 AN ACERO IS A A Ad 21 5 510 Video Monir o o o de do o dl 22 Ol CE Ulea 23 525 02 Display MY LOS O liada 23 5 3 13 Over temperature computer ShutdOw Dc 24 0 14 Convert Moves to FEW ci oa 24 A T 25 5 LO PAGCTULE RESIZED cti d cid 21 MIA WO WS SEA A Ad 2 LS COMES A RA O S 28 Tnd Files Too AA E 28 5 0 20 emperature CONV Cll sri E A N N AAN 30 ape 7 21 DIA E E E E 30 A A A se ariannnaar mee aatemenes 31 A RRA 32 Chapter 6 Shortcut Panel of Sigma Softwar e ccccccsccccceccceeecceeeaeeseeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeeeseeees 32 Os EA Ta e a o OEN E E A E E E EN T EEN E TE O 33 052 SYSICM EA ah ARS 35 O O E a E A E E E att ren T E entrar arr rer terre 39 OA Pile Nama das 39 05 Net Ma as 41 Chapte GPRS Diak Up Buncuon si io 45 Pou POI LO pot coneccion natalia 45 7 2 Connection from Slayer and Master ds 46 HALE SAC e doean TN TN N A 47 Chaplet 9 a E ee E T E E E AARS 49 ems Tor LAU da 49 Chapter 1 Introduction Sigma 3000 is a display software specially designed and developed for off line control systems This software is powerful with many function tools Sigma 3000 can be used to make NMG files and
63. n you send it to the sign successfully 3 Some LED screens are built with the CPU board QS5202 In such a case you can use Sigma 3000 to set single side or double side mode E 49 Tl HF N N 52 W
64. nitoring 1 0 meS COM Port Baud Rate 19200 0 x Cancel An icon will be appeared at the lower right corner when set up successful 1606 In 2013 12 18 5 3 14 Convert Movie to FLW 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 SWE GIF ASE WMV MPG MPEG MP4 3GP MOV QT RM or RMVB files into FLW format files The Figure 5 40 shows an interface of a video file converted into the FLW mode is the animation file preview window is the modification or setting window is the animation file conversion and simulator display window is the animation file conversion ratio setting window is the animation size setting window is the animation file output window is the animation addition window Functions and methods of use are explained as follow a z Video To FLW ex Input i C Users user Desktop video American Flag Zoom avi C Users user Desktop video cars2 avi Users user Desktop video clock avi emove RGB 5 6 5 y 4 V Compressed eed M Auto i 3 Frame s Figure 5 40 Video to FLW conversion interface Preview window We can preview added animation files and FLW files 2 Modification window Here we can set an image and title These settings are for optimizing FLW files First let
65. ns communication succeeds Otherwise the software will tell that communication failed Communication Trans Mode f Ethernet le Ra232 da5 Serial Serial Por HA Sign s Address Group Address 01 e Unit Address 01 5 X cance Fig 2 7 Serial Port Interface 2 1 2 Edit Menu As show in Fig 2 8 most of the function is the same as the tool bar Insert Help Undo Ctrl Z Select all Ctrl 4 1 Pix 2 Pix 3 Pix Y WordWrap Y Align Left Align Center Align Right Y Align Vertical Spelling Check Y Char Width Auto Char Col Space Default Setting Custom Month and Week Fig 2 8 Edit Menu Undo Cancel the last operation Cut Cut chosen text or graphics in the editing area Copy Copy the chosen text or graphics in the editing area Paste Paste the chosen text or graphics to the editing area Select All Choose all the content in the editing area Shadow You can add a box around a character or some characters but you cannot see the box unless in simulator or display mode The display effect is as in Al Fig Al Edit Back Image Edit the background picture in the editing area Delete Back Image Delete the background picture in the editing area Word Wrap Automatic line change 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
66. of words Default setting The default editing mode in P 3h J 52 5 Sigma Editor as in Fig 2 9 Default Display Setting Text Color Red X In Mode Background Color Black y Out Mode Default Font bold15 10x15 Speed Random Random v Medium Fast v Li a Ta Pause Se gt E ine spacing pixel G Secs C E Wordwrap ON X Hor Justification Left y Wer Justification Center Spelling Check Fig 2 9 Default Display Setting Interface 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 Custom Month and Week The default display of month and week as in Fig 2 10 Week January Sunday February Monday MON March Thuesday TUE April Wendesday WED May Thursday THU pai June Friday July Saturday SAT August A Both the length fo the custom month string and the custom week string must be shorter than 10 Octorber November December Fig 2 10 Default Display Setting Interface After sending the custom settings add month and week the screen will display the custom content 2 1 3 Insert Menu From Fig 2 11 we can see that there are 8 options under Insert Menu Here we will introduce the functions of these 8 options Insert Picture Users can insert the picture Fete a 4 BMP format to the editing area as Fig 2
67. ol list please press program key in remote to switch to Schedule status from remote control status if the sign is in shut down status please set the sign back to schedule status by press ESC button and then Shift F1 buttons Figure 9 01 Name Display IP 169 254 21 210 MET Width 128 Start Col o MAC 00 6F 78 56 44 5E Height 64 z Start Row 0 E Group Add 01 Baud Ratel 115200 v Firmware CPU A906 28 Unit Addr jor BaudRate2 115200 y Hardware Version 00 Zi Offset Position y Style AGB 8 8 8 x Login Option OFF ha Driver Type 28 80x20 ip67 bd Play Mode Play immediately Ed Signal Direction Down To Up Daylight Saving Time OFF pee Brightness coe Initialization State Schedule Mode y Lockout user change Mods hi Side y Color Temperature 186 G 1255 B 170 Control Mode OFF LINE y Title Num 24 Power 00 00 00 00 Led Bin i 3000 Y TCP Timeout ms El SN 20100601111 ime 2013 12 3 16 25 52 Create Time MV Show Start Up Information Figure 9 01 2 If you use remote to change the content of file B which was received originally from Sigma software before when you use Sigma software to send file B to LED sign please change the file name or change the display content and then send to the LED sign Otherwise the LED sign will not display this file content eve
68. ort COM1 v 19200 sn Stop Clear If Close Fig 5 47Communication fail Baud Rate 5 3 19 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 48 is the interface of Send Files We will introduce how to make the setting of This system can send many files to many displays automatically at prescheduled time lt also can send files instantly But it should be noted that files sent are not played right away They can only be shown after the files have been added to the play list and the play list has been sentto the display list Send Files Later 2013 12 18 y 1829 ME Fig 5 48 Interface of Send Files 1 Step 1 Click AdaFiles add the appointed files to The Files to send these files can be in the format of NMG PMG BMP JPG and JPEG etc Step 2 Click _Add sions add the designated LED sign to Selected Signs As Fig 5 49 shows click 22 lin the window of Choose Signs then all the signs on the left will be added to the right column then Available Signs Selected Signs Display IP 169 254 12 13 i Fig 5 49 Choose Signs When the user finishes adding files and choosing signs the window in Fig 5 50 will appear The Files to send Selected Signs C Users user Desktop 1 1 jpa C Users user Desktop picture 40 40 bmp C Users user Desktop picture 64 16 red bmp C Users
69. ough this setting Note This function is only applied to QS5271 5 3 7 Default Display Setting Fig 5 25 1s an interface of Default Display 19 H N 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 For example after setting Default Display Setting we send JetFile II command file to the sign The lt 0x01 gt Z00 lt 0x02 gt AA lt 0x06 gt Welcome lt 0x 04 gt a simple JetFile II command When it command 1S is sent successfully the sign will display Welcome which is displayed in accordance with the Default Display Setting This means that Welcome has a black Background Color red Text Color and it is saved in Folder T of Disk D its Default Font is Normal 7 In Mode and Out Mode Random Speed Medium Fast Pause time on the sign 3 seconds Hor Justification Center and so on If you change the Default Display Setting the outcome of Welcome will change accordingly For example if you set Default Font as Normal 14 Welcome will be displayed in Normal 14 Default Display Setti In Mode Text Color Red Black gt Speed Nomal Pause Second Hor Justification Default Partition Jump out Out Mode Jump out x Fastest v 3 v Sec v Center v Wordwrap ON Yer Justification Fill ce zl Background Color Default Font Line spacing 1 pixel v Time Format H
70. playing Time Penod 2013 09 11 1500 2073 09 11 16 00 2013 09 11 1500 20130911 16 00 2013 03 11 1500 20130911 16 00 2013 09 11 1500 2073 09 11 16 00 2013 09 11 1500 20130911 16 00 2013 09 11 1500 2013 09 11 16 00 2013 09 11 1500 2 201309 11 15 00 2 2013 03 11 1500 2 2013 09 11 1500 20130911 16 00 201309 11 1500 2013 09 11 16 00 20130911 1500 201309 11 16 00 2013 09 11 1500 2013 10 01 1500 2013 03 11 1500 2013 10 01 15 00 2013 09 11 1500 2013 10 01 15 00 2013 09 11 1500 2013 10 01 1500 2013 03 11 1500 2013 10 01 1500 2013 09 11 1500 2013 10 08 16 00 2013 03 30 17 00 2013 12 11 1500 2013 12 10 10 00 2013 12 10 15 00 2013 12 10 10 00 2013 12 10 15 00 201312 10 15 00 2013 12 10 15 00 2013 12 10 1500 2013 12 10 15 00 2013 12 10 1500 2013 12 10 1500 2013 12 10 1500 2013 12 10 1500 2013 12 10 1500 2013 12 10 15 00 202 12 10 150 213 121 15M File Name Amazon account bmp all jartou bmp char to show red and white bmp big and small font bmp soute with green pg 123456799 bmp Gul Coast Jam dhytestpicture bp Gui Coast Jam four parts sepete jpg lorgsting seve as JPG pg longsting save as JPGIPG bro New Home Ba nihsohelo PG bmp Tuner Orthod sigma jpg Mellow Mushr Urtitedi 1 bro Mellow Mushy Untitled 3 bmp Mellow Mushy Uniitled 5 bro Untitled 4 bro Uniitied 2 bmp FT Ad company FP Date 7 Hou Porrn2n8 gt fo Y Summary V Ignore Zero Data Fig
71. ple com Sigma Information Receiver E Mail Content paas Sigma Information From Customer Sender Name customer Sender E Mail customer sina com ID customer Password gsimagel 2345678 SMTP SMTP sina com cn D X Cancel Y OK Fig 5 37 E Mail Setting Interface 5 3 10 Video Monitor 5 37 is the Monitor please insert an IP adds of network Picture interface of Video camera in the address bar then will see a frame of that camera Address hiip 169 254 12 18 Fig 5 37 Check in ve to add a Monitor clipper key of the sign can add more EA Video Monitor Address Name camera Address http 7169 254 12 18 Sign IP 169 254 21 210 Jf OK X Cancel 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 5 3 11 Schedule Send This setting is mainly for the regular update of RSS Set up the file in the File List and activate it Then schedule the sending time of working hours frequency and the form of files that need to send Scheduled sending Active Interval 5 Mins Select All lf All Text Files Nrng get W All Picture Files Pmo bmp jpg lf All Video Files fly avi Notice X Cancel 5 3 12 Display My Logo As Fig 5 38 shows 1t 1s the setting interface of Display My Logo There are functions of setting position size and display modes of the Logo
72. r ZIN I Site Lege Option OFF o Drives Type E Prey Mode e Signs Descion fome Teup Daigh Soving Time OFF Dagpnese Schedule Ineiskrotion Sate edie Mode Lochos uses charge sree Dapa Mode gt z a f Je pse fro Cia Te Nears fet I Pomer TOP Tresta 700 se Sc DD DAD Fig 5 17 An image of Sigma jpg As shown in Fig 5 18 it is the interface of SysInfo txe saved above 17 Y HE 52 ZN File Edit Format View Help UpdatePacket Version 6 61 46 BuildDate 2613 11 29 Firmware Version A906 28 Nov 28 2013 16 59 86 Hardware Version 5866 FPGA Version 5819 Protocol Version 2867 Display Size 128x64 IP Address 169 254 21 218 GGUU 6161 Baud Rate1 115266 Baud Rate2 115266 Monitor Status Play Mode Inside Temperature 26 C 78 F Outside Temperature 16 C 60 F Humidity Percent 47 Authorized True Serial No 8261666611118 MAC 66 6F 78 56 44 5E Bright Schedule 86 AD Value NA Date Time 2013 12 18 15 33 48 GhMT 08 00 PHY 0K 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 WindSpeed NA WindDir NA DISK Total Free Bytes C 205328384 44109824 D 205328384 44109824 E 16726616 16686966 F 6 6 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 1s not available in Net Manage Don
73. reen Signal Error Port 8 Blue Signal Error Port 9 Red Signal Error Port 9 Green Signal Error Port 9 Blue Signal Error Port 10 Red Signal Error Port 10 Green Signal Error 4 Fig 5 27 Pixel Detection Report 3 Disk Information As shown in Fig 5 28 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 29 then click Yes to format Disk C Partition Giza 195 82 MB 41 95 MB Format Cloze Free Space y Are you sure you want to format this partition It will be permanently Sy overwritten Fig 5 29 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 FE 52 W ZN N 4 Play Log Fig 5 30 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 There is Time Period to record time period of display files and the unit of Time Period is 1 hour The path and file name of display files are recorded The length of File Name should be no more than 8 characters and is recorded with 8 3 principle This Play Log records the times and period total amount of display time of dis
74. s can create any fonts on the base of the current fonts in the computer system Press button OK after choosing a kind of font and you can download the system font into the font editing area Font editing area Click the left key of the mouse the block will turn to black and click the right key the block turns to white Fig 4 6 Font editing interface After editing your own font you should save it and then exit 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 11 mM tb 52 H 4 7 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 E onvert MS Font CAM Sawe To fF O Arial Unicode iia C English Only M Bold width OS f English and Chinese Italic Height xen Fig 4 7 Font Style For example Suppose we want to switch to Arial Font 16 We will open the font conversion dialogue as shown in Fig 4 7 We select a font and size and then a path to save the file Then we Select a language Finally we press the Me Convert progress bar changing and the button e Convert conversion is completed and you will see button and we will see the changes to lar Upen The Figure 4 8 with
75. se Add Files From Sign and another window like Fig 5 54 will appear In this window user can choose the designated files to display The files ticked are added into the File Display List After display P Y LUN then we can see the gt choosing files added files in Play List Files as shown in Fig 5 55 At last click list will be sent to the LED sign then the LED sign will display these files the Play COCIDO Fig 5 52 List Manage Mew Company Add Files From Computer Add Files From sign Add ErnBed List Add Ros Fig 5 53 Add List N 23 Add Files From Sign File Style File Path p Text File 30 B da Text File d 4t _0007999 N mg Text File d t temp Nma Text File Text File Text File a Text File 84 B dt 2 Nmg Text File Aiiticu_home 3 25_480 jpg Text File d t TextT emprtr Nmg Text File d t ee Columbia264_ 130927 112704 pg Text File d t 3 Nmg Text File d t ee Judith March264_ 130927 112704 pg Text File d t star with red jp E _0007999 Nma MM 2333333 1nmg oO 2 Nmg m tfcu_home 3 25_4 m TextTemprtr Nmg Ol ee Columbia264_1 3 Nmg E ee Judith March26 star with red ipa Fig 5 55 Play List Files 5 3 20 Temperature Convert The function of Temperature Convert 1s to convert the temperature log files into cvs files Temperature analysis Ver1 C Wsers yswiDesktop TEMPLOG LOG Source File C Ws
76. ser Desktop 460D paa E Fig 5 60 FPGA Update 3 Palette Update Pallet Update 1s to send the palette to the sign Palette may lose because of some unsuitable operation to the sign as a result some colors cannot be shown on the sign Then we need to send the pallet to the sign Fig 5 61 is the interface of Palette Update It is seldom that the Palette would lose and palette is included in CPU so Palette Update will be used only in special case Palette Update File Name eu sers user 4ppD ata Local Sigma3000 4 9 19 colorty bin m Fig 5 61 Palette Update 4 Create Update Package Create Update Package is to combine CPU file FPGA file Palette file and Gamma file together and make an Update Package Fig 5 62 is the interface of Create Update Package users can choose files according to their needs to make the package Please tick the files needed and click OK M CPU Files E Led control Sigma 3000 343 20070307 Update 4AM 02 za V FPGA Files E Led controls Sigma 3000 v343 20070320 Updates AR M 03 2 V Palette File E Led controls Sigma 3000 343 20070320 Colorty bin z qresscerevesacsevneressersveson V Gamma Data E Led control Sigma 3000 v343 20070320 GAMMA 25 r Esmda EN r pel E pa pa F Save Package To E Led control Sigma 3000 343 20070320 UpdatePackage udp a Y OK X Cancel Fig 5 62 Create Update Package Suggestion the update package is used only for updating the system from a
77. setup Send to Sign Exit Altix Fig 3 3 File Menu 3 1 2 Edit Menu Fig 3 4 is the pull down menu of Edit Menu Since it is simple it is quite easy to understand Inset Help KY Unda Ctrl 2 db Cut Ctrl 4 Ez Co py Ctrl C Paste Ctrl i select all Ctrl 4 7 Default Setting Fig 3 4 Edit Menu 3 1 3 Insert Menu The Insert Menu has only one function inserting pictures to edit area The picture format 1t supports are BMP JPG JPEG 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 Abou A A True font editor v3 26 Build 2013 01 30 Copyright 2006 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 All the tools in True Font Editor have almost the same function as those in Sigma Editor except that True Font Editor doesn t have frame back ground color and the button of headline choice Color tools i Foreground colors of characters 2 Background color of characters Other tools Sending button the same as Sigma Editor At Font choosing tool as in Fig 3 6 supporting fonts in the PC system sl Simulating bu
78. smission speed and achieve ideal display effect Preview Enlarge preview window window Speed fr You can use the default speed for ame normal use Sec If you compress a picture the display quality will be degraded Compres If you do not compress a picture S the FLW file size may be too large Animation file output window This is where you save the converted file Window for adding animation files This is where you add the animation file which you want to add 5 3 15 FLW Editor Figure 5 41 shows a video editing window You can edit a video file which is in the FLW format a Flw Editor Figure 5 41 1 Menu Bar File Menu Open To open a video file Save To save a video file Exit To exit the system Operate Menu Add To add a frame Insert To insert a frame Delete To delete a frame 1 Icon Bar To open a video file A E 2 To save a video file To add a frame To delete a frame Move up Move down To insert a frame P 25 W E 52 w Cut Copy E _ Paste 2 Video upload area When the video file is added it will be uploaded in the sequence of one frame after another 3 Preview area When a video file is being edited or played a corresponding picture is displayed in the preview area 4 Video control area It can be used to control the play and stop of a video file 5 Character editing area If users wan
79. t to add characters to the video pictures you can type characters in the editing area Users can see the typed characters in the preview area 6 Saving characters hr Save the edited characters in the current frame Utilities Save the selected frame See Figure 5 42 Single Frame f Mult Frame X Carci Figure 5 42 07555 f Current frame Total frames 7 Character font area 26 W E Bold Slanting Underline Align to left Align to middle Align to right bs Frame editing MS Sans Serif Font aoo Font co Te Fort Size S Font SIZE Font Color L Black bi Font color 8 Animation editing Select a frame File Operate Y Mm ate x 9 e ae wy fd als ro 4 i p 3 Total 1000 Now you will see the following picture You can edit the animation frame in the window HF 52 A N ponny G7 eem g Oz Fill P A q Brushes Shapes Clipboard Image Tools Shapes Now please save it Completed File Operate Y om T X 9 ae Y iy i gt i w ia Total 1000 5 3 16 Picture Resizer Picture Resizer 1s to convert the picture of any size to BMP picture in a designated size Fig 5 43 is the interface of Picture Resizer e PES Source Files PreView C Users user Desktop picture 40 40 bmp C Users user Desktop picture 100100 bmp
80. ternative signs will show in Available Signs area When searching signs a window is popup In Communication Device area three devices are available As show in the following picture the Ethernet is used Type in Outset IP and Terminated IP and users can consult the use of port number from chapter 2 Display Sea Communication Device C RS232 485 C Dial Up Ethernet Start IP 169 254 10 49 Port End IP 169 254 10 49 V Broadcast f NO T Name Sign Address Click Start and there are 3 displays in the interface of List Manage The prompt message says that 3 signs are found Search signs by using COM users must ensure that all serial ports communication cables of signs are connected with computer This method searches signs according to GGUU address of each signs thus users have to make sure that each sign 1s set with a different GGUU address Signs with a same GG mean signs in the same group so UU must be different otherwise the GG must be different gt Display Sea Communication Device C Ethernet e RS232 485 C Dial Up COM COM Port COM14 Group Address 01 E NO if Name Size IP im e m G Sign Address Start Unit Address End Unit Address sto top Exit Search signs by using Dial Up This is refine research By this way users can only search signs one by one and they have to ensure the exactness of all parameters in
81. that need to read back the Play List click EE as shown in the following picture The files on the sign are marked in yellow local files are marked in white the files which neither on the sign nor in local are marked in red Send file at set time When the content displayed on the sign need to update regularly users can use this function for example send RSS file at set time Step 1 Edit files containing RSS with Editor Plus please refer to Editor Plus User s 44 Mm H 52 R Manual G Step 2 Launch update A EF then sigma will send files to the sign regularly to update the content of RSS Sending log can Users can refer to Schedule Send to learn the detail setting Note The allowed maximum of each play list is 128 When the number is larger than 128 the control board can not play the list Chapte 7 GPRS Dial Up Function Dip switch setting For the control board QS5800 The NO 1 bit switch on SW1 needs to be ON status indicate that the master board is connected with modem communication For B Modena board For the B Modena board if it connects to QS5800 directly the NO 1 and NO 2 bit switches on SW2 need to be ON status 1f it is connected by RS232 the NO 1 switch on SW2 needs to be OFF status 1 The common parallel RS232 signal cable is OK Communication requirement One end connect to the modem another end connect to the COM6 port on the QS580
82. the information displayed in the screen is played according to the file schedule This is a default mode in the system Continuous display It is the mode for displaying Ticker files Head tail display All files sent to the list of the screen are connected and played circularly without pause E5 Display Mode There are two options in this mode One is displaying the same content the other is displaying different content Their usages are as the following table Display QS5006 QS0712 Mode Different panels Number Single Single of the control control slave board display the board boards same content Same P1 P4P Different content 5 P8 P1 P4 same as same port P5 P8 Pl P2 content display the same content Pl P2 Differen Play t content normall Different y display and P2 independen port tly display independ ently When connecting single panel there are 4 option settings single side double side triple side and all round E6 Control Mode There are two options in this mode One is VGA mode the other is Off line mode Only QS0712 and QS5003 main board can support the VGA and Off line panels Pl port display the and P2 panels Pl port modes The default value of other main boards is Off line mode C1 Slave Board Num 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 boar
83. the sending efficiency of display files As shown in Fig 6 1 this is the interface of List Manage Panel The left part is the management area of play list and the right one is the management area of play files List Manage The LED display in operation is the LED display which is connected currently Fig 6 1 List Manage Panel Bi create play list open the files in the play list Fi save play list if you choose the playing list the system will ask you that you want to save in my play list or save in the computer x delete play list rename play list id Read back the play list in the LED display add the display file can add from computer or from the LED display el delete the display file E move down the display file E move down the display file Pd edit the display file if the NMG file is chose the sigma editor will be open and used to edit if the PMG is chose the true font editor will be open and used to edit if the BMP file is chose the picture editor of Windows will be open and used to edit E E aT eam switch to the file schedule interface send display file and its play list immediately Here the function of List Manage will be explained by taking several examples Press 17 to create play list and type in the list name in the popup dialog Please input a new List name LList rea Choose the new list which was just adde
84. tting and send all types of files 3 is the work area 4 is the area of file scheduling 5 is the key editing area in Sigma where all display control buttons can be found here Fig 1 2 Sigma 3000 Software Interface In the following chapters we will separately introduce the usage and functions of the software in Sigma in chapter 2 we are going to talk about the Sigma Editor in chapter 3 we will introduce True Font Editor in Chapter 4 here comes the Font Manager in chapter 5 we will know how we can use the tools in Sigma and in the final chapter 6 we will tell the usage of the panel of short cut keys and the rules to follow when using System platform Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows XP Vista Windows 7 and Windows 8 System CPU 500MHz Memory 64M Chapter 2 Sigma Editor Sigma Editor which has an independent version number is professional and powerful software that aims at editing and programming display files Users can use the Sigma Editor to send files to the LED sign after editing or preview the files in the simulator With the help of the Sigma Editor users can insert pictures to the sign or make the picture to be the background of other files What is more the functions of time count down and count up can also be found in Editor Sigma Editor consists of 5 parts Menu bar 2 Tool bar 3Mode bar Editing bar Status Bar _ E Editor v3 94 Untitled
85. tton the same as Sigma Editor Font Font style Regular gt Cancel Sirmsun Founder Exter SimSun ExtB P Effects Sample F Strikeout Underline Color MA Red v Script Chinese GB2312 v ERR SEA Fig 3 6 Font choosing 3 3 Mode Bar From Fig 3 7 we can dee 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 display time In Mode Out Mode Random y Random Fig 3 7 Mode Bar 3 4 Editing Area Different from Sigma Editor True Font Speed Pause Line Space Mode y Medium Fast 2 Secs fi y Vertical x Editor doesn t regulate the boundary line to separate the editing information frame In the area lines can be changed automatically same as table editing in Word See Fig 3 8 if the words technology doesn t enter lines automatically then there will come several letters following behind Chain Thus sue to the automatic line changing there will come space of each line Fig 3 8 Automatic line changing 3 5 Status Bar Lime 1 Col 1 The location of the cursor in which line and which column Modified gt In the status of editing information Panel Width l26 Panel Height 64 Size of Panel width 128 height 64 Chapter 4Font Manager As Fig 4 1 Shows press Tool and then Font Manager to open the Font Manager software Fig
86. use that channel to communicate with the sign Since we use COM for the connection we choose COMI for the communication with the sign as shown in Fig 5 58 N Communication Device C Ethernet RS232 1485 Serial Serial Port ET gt Sign s Address Group Address ma CS x canes Fig 5 58 Choose COM1 for Communication 5 3 21 Update There are 5 tools in Update they are CPU Update FPGA Update Palette Update Create Update Package and Update Wizard Linit Address These tools are used to update the sign and only the Administrator can do the operation 1 CPU Update We use this function when we need to update the CPU of the sign Fig 5 59 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 Then turn off the sign and reboot it the CUP has been updated to the control card of the sign D CPU Update File Name Cu sers usersDesktop 4AM_02_4516_06 cpu EJ Fig 5 59 CPU Update 2 FPGA Update When updating FPGA user must choose the FPGA program which is suited with the LED sign Otherwise the sign will display randomly or display nothing the worst situation is the control card may be burnt Fig 5 60 is the interface of FPGA Update Only the files with PGA as the suffix can be updated click Send and the update begins Ek FPGA Update File Name C Users u
87. y files of systems As is shown in Fig 6 10 it is the directory of Disk D File Path Di ia 1 a a o ae GRAPHIC LOG SCH MSG DA Text Fil 3 ES Picture Fil a String File FILELST SYS FILELSTI SYS TEMP Q 7 g 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 All pictures sent to the main board will be transferred to the picture files of BMP format A Folder It is used to save the PMG file which is edited by True Font Editor L Folder It is used to save the NMG file which is transferred from AVI or GIF file TEMP Folder Temporary file folder FILELST SYS The list of all files in the disk And it is different from the list of play files in C disk Note Disk D is Flash disk If files in Disk D are refreshed often Disk D will be damaged easily The lifetime of Disk D is about 100 thousand times rewriting Therefore if it needs to refresh the files often it is suggested change the default disk to be Disk E Disk E This disk is RAM disk the files in it can be refreshed frequently and the refresh speed is fast But after the power is off the files will be lost As 1s shown in Fig 6 11 it is the directory of Disk E The structure and the folder function of Disk E is same as those of Disk D But there is no FILELST SYS file in Disk E File

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