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Hi, We're a small nonprofit (two people) toying around with video, and recently bought a Leitch Panacea P16HSCQ-RB cheap on eBay. It came without software (ie. RouterMapper/RouterWorks), and I can't find said software anywhere either, but I'm talking to it on serial/telnet just fine. The AUX outputs work just fine (I can map anything to anything with XPOINT commands), but the reclocked outputs (PGM1A/PGM1B/PGM2A/PGM2B) don't seem to give out a signal at all.
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I've tried various sources, including a signal generator in all its modes, and there's just nothing. If I turn on router bypass, I instantly get a picture (input 1 gets connected to PGM1 and input 8 gets connected to PGM2), but of course, that's not useful for production, of course. I've tried all the different settings for “SHOW RECLOCKMODE” (including auto, of course), with and without “SET AUTOTIME 1” afterwards, but to no avail.
To top it off, “SHOW RECLOCKSTATUS” sometimes shows results that appear to be random; even ports without reclocking sometimes occasionally come up as “Locked – 270 Mbit/sec” (although this seems to disappear when I set a reclock mode manually). Does anyone have any ideas? I talked to Imagine support, but they wanted $750 (!) just for taking on the case, which is way, way outside our budget.
The HSCQ version of the Panacea needs to have a reference signal feeding the external sync input; it may be either black burst (525i) or tri-level sync in the same format you are switching, and your video feeds need to be locked to that same reference within a certain time window (if I recall correctly, +/- half a line). The Panacea does not automatically synchronize free-running input video. This would certainly explain why your aux outputs work (they don't care about timing, and just pass the raw input straight through to the output), but the clean/quiet outputs, which are trying to fine-align the inputs to reference, do not. Jeff p.s.: I just put my hands on a RouterMapper CD; I don't remember seeing a version of RouterWorks on anything newer than a floppy disk, but I'll look around. I don't think you can just turn off the clean/quiet switching, because it's an entire sub-module.
You might be able to remove the sub-module, though. I've never tried it. If it's like the Evertz Xenon, if you remove the clean switch module, you need to replace it with a passive board to complete the signal path. I'm not surprised that the aux outputs pass 3G, at least with reclocking turned off. This was a pretty advanced little box at the time.
Much of the design team that came up with the Panacea (and the X-Plus and Integrator series that came before) found themselves out of a job in the wake of the transitions from Leitch to Harris, and then from Harris to Imagine. Ross Video managed to get most of them together again, and I understand that they did much of the design work behind the Ross Ultrix: just about the sweetest router I've ever used. We have a 72x72 unit that's the size of your Panacea, and it provides clean/quiet switching on every output (if we want it). And it generates up to a dozen unique multiviewer outputs.
This box replaced nearly two racks full of older gear. I got your link, downloaded and installed; thanks a lot! I was a bit surprised to find that Router Mapper was just some kind of setup tool; you couldn't actually set up switching with it. But the Clean Switch module (hidden under some right-click module, I had to consult the manual) told me something very interesting; it turns out 720p50 isn't supposed to be a supported reclocking target! Only 720p59.94 and 720p60.
(SHOW RECLOCKMODES in the CLI, however, insists it's supported.) So I switched my camera to 1080i50, and tada, output on PGM 1. I wonder if this is a firmware bug somehow, and there are firmware files included in the Router Mapper download (they seemingly used to be downloadable at “Self Service” from Harris), but evidently, I already have a newer version (4.0.B4) than the one included (I assume P-RES-H325.zip is 3.25). Unfortunately I really do need 720p50 on some inputs; I can run modern cameras on 59.94 just fine, but I have equipment going as far back as 1982 which isn't so easily swayed.
Code: show reclockmodes Available Reclock Modes for Hardware Matrix 1: 0 Auto Mode (ASI enabled) 4 270 Mb/s Only 7 1.485 Gb/s (1080i-59.9 Hz) Only 8 Bypass 9 270 Mb/s (50.0 Hz) Only 10 1.485 Gb/s (1080i-50.0 Hz) Only 11 1.485 Gb/s (1080i-60.0 Hz) Only 13 1.485 Gb/s (720p-59.9 Hz) Only 14 1.485 Gb/s (720p-50.0 Hz) Only 15 1.485 Gb/s (720p-60.0 Hz) Only Router Mapper lists 1080i50, 1080i59.94, 1080i60, 720p59.94, 720p60, two 270 Mbit/sec modes (50.0 and 59.94), and Auto. So it lacks the 720p50 mode plus “Bypass” (you can set the entire router in bypass, but not just one PGM output). It can also set all the above modes in “Delay” and “Minimum” modes, which you can query using the CLI, but not set.