AutoDownloading Your Shows to your Br-miniBrick8
This section of the manual is for those of you who are downloading your show(s) to a Br-
miniBrick8 for the first time. It will lead you through all of the steps necessary to send your
show(s) through the serial port for permanent storage on a ʻBrickʼ. You may need to refer to the
manuals for the specific ʻBrickʼ you are going to be downloading to
Your shows can have been programmed using PC•MACs in ʻSoftware-Onlyʼ, ʻHardwareless
Realtimeʼ, or with a MACs-USB Smpte card installed in your PC.
This section of this manual is excerpted from the (much larger) PC•MACs manual. Even
more commands and more details on the following commands can be found in other sections
of the PC•MACs manual. It can be downloaded from the Gilderfluke & Co. website.
Select the serial port........
If a serial port has already been selected, you can skip this step.
If this is the first time that you have used PC•MACs, you will need to select the serial
port you are using. You can do this by opening the dialog under the Preferences
pulldown/Hardware/MiniBrick Interface.... Select the serial port you are going to be us-
ing. This serial port must not already be in use by any other function on your computer.
If it is, PC•MACs will give you a nasty message when you try to do an AutoDownload.
The selected serial port is stored as part of the Gilder.ini file so you will never need
to select it again. If you canʼt connect with the Br-miniBrick8 through the serial ports,
you may need to try a different one.
Downloading to the Bricks........
Select the File pulldown/ʻSave as AutoDownload.....' command. This will bring up the
AutoDownload dialog. If this selection is grayed out on the pulldown menu, it means that
the serial port needs to be selected. See the previous step to set the serial port.
Plug in the Bricks........
If you have already plugged in your Br-miniBrick8 to the serial port, you can skip
this step.
It is now time to plug the Br-miniBrick8 into the serial port of your computer and
power it up. Br-miniBrick8 need a straight nine pin male to nine pin female cable.
Power up the Br-miniBrick8. For testing a Br-miniBrick8, your power supply can
be as simple as a nine volt transistor radio battery.
Reset the Br-miniBrick8........
To test if everything is hooked up OK, just press the ʻReset MiniBrickʼ button. A con-
firmation of the reset should appear on your screen (the ʻHeartʼ LED on the Br-
miniBrick8 should also flash).
Choose the shows to go into the Br-miniBrick8........
The show you have been working on will already appear on the list of shows to be
Auto Downloaded. If you want to download more than one show to the Br-miniBrick8,
just select the ʻAddʼ button and you can select additional shows. If more than a single
show is to be downloaded, you can use the ʻPromoteʼ and ʻDemoteʼ buttons to move se-
lected file(s) up or down within the list.
If the same show is added to the list two or more times, only the first instance will
actually use up memory space. All subsequent instances of the show will only generate
a small header, which will refer to the data stored in the original instance.
Gilderfluke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485
Br-miniBrick8 v3.+ Manual / 8/17/12 / page 32 of 36
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