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MEDIALON Control
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PRESENTATION
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The introduction of our first Audiovisual Control
Software in 1999 was driven by our vision to develop
innovative technologies to help creative people to
achieve compelling entertainment and edutainment
experiences.
From the original Medialon Manager Control software,
Medialon Control System has evolved into a range of
products:
● Embedded controllers: Medialon
Showmaster ST, Medialon Showmaster Pro and Medialon
Showmaster iPro.
● Open platform control software only:
Medialon Manager V5 Pro and Medialon Manager V5 Lite.
All products share the Medialon Control Programming
environment, based on our legendary graphical yet
powerful user interface.
In our embedded controllers, programming is done through
Showmaster Editor (free) software and then executed in
the controller hosting Showmaster Runtime, while in the
open platform, programming and execution is done in a PC
running Medialon Manager Software.
The embedded controller bring the advantage of an all in
one controller with all relevant hardware interfaces
such as DMX, MIDI, Serial, Time-code, digital IOs and of
course TCP/IP.
The software only version provides an easy integration
in IT environment when link to databases or other IT
resources are needed.
Both can be sized to your exact needs by adding Medialon
or third party hardware interfaces.
Thanks to the easy graphical programming environment,
application are programmed in much less time than with
any other conventional control system, neither coding
nor compilation is required.
The native synchronization capabilities and its
legendary Timeline with drag and drop programming makes
it the ideal choice for Show Control Applications.
However, complex logical task programming is also
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PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT |
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Click on the picture below to discover MEDIALON
Control System's programming environment: |
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PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT COMMON FEATURES |
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A driver for virtually anything… |
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Medialon Control System uses Plug-in drivers
called MxM (Manager X Object Modules) to control
devices.
It exists a wide range of MxMs for most popular
devices on the market connected through Serial,
Midi, Time Code, Infrared, Modbus, OPC, TCP/IP,
etc.
The Programming environment also includes a
powerful tool to write your own drivers in
Serial, TCP/IP, UDP and MIDI. These drivers can
be shared on Medialon's website with other
Medialon users. |
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Not just a device controller… |
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Medialon Control System includes MxMs plug-ins
to add functionalities or control the new type
of devices found in modern AV/IT installations:
SQL Database for data management, FTP Site for
media management and transfer, Email engine,
Telephony engine to build up a DTMF server, etc.
Medialon Control System really uses the power of modern
AV/IT (depending on the hardware used). |
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Device Synchronization |
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The legendary Timelines with drag and drop programming
allows synchronization of virtually any devices to
external or internal time-code with an accuracy of a
100th/sec.
Timeline offers a Medialon unique feature, the Positrack
which locate any device at the position it should be at
any given time when moving back and forth in the show.
This makes rehearsal much easier and efficient.
The Timeline even offer the ability to record external
signal such as DMX, MIDI or Serial for later playback in
synch. |
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Logical Programming |
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Control programming always requires more than a Timeline.
Medialon Control System offers both the time driven
programming, and the event or external condition
programming capabilities.
Input on a touch screen or in IOs as well as complex
data coming from controlled devices or variables can be
used to perform complex logic programming. |
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An open network application… |
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Medialon Control System is network oriented from its
original first version. It not only controls many AV and
IT devices over TCP/IP, but it also communicates with
other Medialon systems on the same network.
Medialon On Network (MON) protocol publishes tasks and
commands to other Medialon Control products such as
Medialon Scheduler for easy development of shared
applications. MON is also available as an API offering
powerful interoperability tool to communicate with third
party software or develop add on module in C++ or C#. |
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Graphical User’s Screen Interface |
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Medialon Control System offers built in user’s
screens while embedded controllers are compatible with
Medialon Panel application to create user’s screen
hosted by tablet PCs.
These user’s screens have multiple graphical objects
such as buttons, sliders, video windows, leds, bar
graphs, pictures, etc., for full customization of the
control system.
Some examples (click on each example to enlarge):
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Hardware independent |
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Independently from the plug-in drivers, Medialon Manager
Software or Showmasters use resources to physically
connect to the controlled devices.
These resources can be Windows serial or relay card for
the software version, or serial over IP converter or
even other control hardware such as Artistic Licence Artnet, Global Caché, etc., for both the
Software version and embedded controllers. |
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MEDIALON, AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM |
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Every Medialon controller share their
programming tasks and devices commands on the
network. This allows other controller to have
access to them and trigger them when necessary.
It’s like having the entire program spread over
several controllers.
These different topologies depend on the
complexity or functionalities of the system to
be installed, see some examples below: |
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Local controllers can perform local tasks and in
the meantime can be slaved of a Master
Controller and by this mean, they can be
synchronized with other Sub Controllers. |
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A main Device Server controller can populate all
its devices commands and perform maintenance
task, while the show command will be initiated
by several up-controllers. |
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Remote controller's tasks are dynamically posted
on the network and can then be scheduled and
triggered by Medialon Scheduler. |
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PRODUCT COMPARISON CHART |
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