Splitter Property Box

The splitter property box is similar to the receiver property box. In the network panel, click on a splitter icon and select Properties... in the popup menu. The Property box of this splitter opens.

Important Note: Cable settings apply to all cat5 output ports. Thus, you should always do the splitter cable settings before the cable settings of attached receivers.

To perform the cable settings, first attach with a short Cat5 cable (1m or 2m), a receiver with a monitor to one port of the splitter. In the receiver, set all cable settings to 0. Then proceed to the splitter cable settings as you would do for the receiver.

Cable Settings

Compensation: Set this slider roughly to the cable length. Then look for the best setting by looking at the monitor image quality. It compensates the cable natural behaviour that attenuates high frequencies more than low frequencies. The more the cable is long, the more this effect is important, and the more you need compensation.

Gain: Use this slider to set the brightness to correct level

Red Shift and Blue Shift: In a Cat5 cable there are 4 twisted pairs of wires, each with a different twist ratio, to reduce cross-talk (digital signals). This means for any RGB signal, each colour arrives at a slightly different time, referred to as “skewed”. These two sliders allow skew compensation between any three Red, Green, and Blue signals. Green is taken as reference. Try to display the test image provided and move the sliders so that the red, green, and blue vertical bars are perfectly aligned.

with skew
no more skew
before
after

 

Maintenance

Under the Maintenance tab you can find important splitter information:

Force Firmware Update: Click this button to ask the broadcaster to upload this splitter with the firmware standing in its firmware store. The upload will take place with no date comparison, i.e., even if the splitter current firmware is newer than the splitter firmware standing in the broadcaster firmware store. This is the only way to upload older firmware versions to the spitters.