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Our Mangold LabSuite applications are designed to automatically find each other:

This means that the Mangold Remote Observer automatically finds any active Mangold Recorders (like the LogSquare Recorder and VideoSyncPro Studio), allowing you to take control of a recording session  without the need to sit at the recording station.

The Mangold Multimedia Player is automatically found by the Mangold Remote Observer and VideoSyncPo Studio to easily share screen content over the network. And last but not least the Mangold Vision Recorder can be easily selected from within the Mangold Multimedia Player to watch the participant activities remotely.

This works perfectly, as long as all devices are part of the same physical subnet in your local network, without any additional configuration; except for allowing each Mangold application full communication through the local Windows Firewall.

Should your network consist of one or more VLANs, things become a bit more complicated.

In this or other cases where the initial broadcasting system of our applications is not forwarded correctly, this automated connection fails.

For these situations, it is possible to create a list with fix IP numbers of the devices that do run a Mangold LabSuite application and add this information to a start-up script. But it is important that the devices can reach each other with a 'ping' command at any time.

A template of this script can be found in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Mangold VideoSyncPro Studio Data\Scripts.

▪If not, simply create a text file, using your favorite text editor, with the following content:

[Header]

english = Autorun script

 

[Description]

english = Autorun script

 

[Commands]

Network.Find = <IP Address 1>

Network.Find = <IP Address 2>

 

▪Instead of the <IP Address x> place holders, enter the IP number for each device that is part of the Mangold LabSuite video lab.
(Add as many line as required)

▪Name this file Autorun.MIScript

▪Save this file into the folder C:\Users\Public\Documents\Mangold VideoSyncPro Studio Data\Scripts.

▪You may copy this file to the proper locations on the other devices as well.

 

Note: On the other devices, another Mangold application is using the file, hence another <Mangold Product name> Data\Scripts folder should be used to save the file)