Wire them together

Basic concepts

  • Add a Wire
  • Orange colored Ports are Already Connected
  • De-Select all Ports
  • Delete the AV component
  • View the Wire More Easily
  • Color key of Wire Types
  • The Info Menu
  • Name and Display Name
  • Manufacturer, Model, Device Description File
  • Edit this Device Description File
  • Use a different Device Description File
  • Turn the Power on and off as Needed
  • Energize a Relay

Audio and Video Wires

  • Add a Video Wire
  • Wire the Speakers
  • Wire to an Assignable Input
  • Re-Assign an Assignable Input

Control Wires

  • IR Control
  • Power Sync
  • RS-232 Control
  • Dropdown Screen

Print the Schematic

Getting Started: One Room Theater

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Connect Your PC to the Domain 3000

PC Requirements
Your PC must be running Microsoft XP.
One of the most import things is to update the Microsoft Windows operating system with all critical updates.
  1. Open Internet Explorer (the web browser).
  2. Select "Tools / Windows update". This will take you to a Microsoft web page.
  3. Click "Scan for Updates".
  4. Install all "Critical Updates".
  5. Repeat the process (it may take a few times to install all critical updates) .
  6. You may also want to install "Windows Media Player 9" for viewing help videos.

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Install the Ubiquity Software
Remove the CD from the box and insert it into your PC.
When the start up screen pops up, click the "Step-by-Step Guide" button to see these instructions on your PC. /
 / Before installing the software, you may want to turn off virus protection as it will significantly increase the amount of time it takes to install the software.
The next step will be to click the "Install Ubiquity" button on the start up screen to install the software on your PC. You will probably want to select all of the defaults by clicking "Next" at each screen.
While it is installing, you may want to see the rest of the contents of the CD by clicking the "Browse the CD" button.
After you have installed the software, close the start up pop up menu by clicking the "Exit" button.
Please go on to the next step while the software is still installing.. /
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Find a Location for the Domain 3000
Remove the Domain 3000, antenna, and Powered RF Antenna from the box.
Install the Domain 3000 at or near its final location such that the IR emitters can reach all of your AV components. An Internet connection is useful, but not necessary. You should be able to easily see the Domain 3000 while working from your PC.
Attach IR Emitters to your AV Components
To find out where the IR receiver is located on the AV component, use a sheet of cardboard with a small hole in the middle of it. Place the cardboard against the front of the AV component and move the hole around the front while sending IR commands to the AV component via the remote control that came with it. There should only be a small area where the IR commands can be received. That area is the IR receiver. Paste the IR emitter on top of it.
If you have a back projection TV and the IR receiver is behind the screen (i.e., there is not a separate IR pick up any where on the TV), then your choices for controlling it are: use RS-232, open the unit and attach the emitter directly to the receiver (often easier than it sounds), use a high power blaster. /
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Install the New Powered RF Antenna
The "Powered RF Antenna" plugs into port #2 of the "Digital Inputs" (see below). The antenna can be extended with a simple 3-wire stereo jack extension cable. /
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Connect Your PC to the Domain 3000
There are two ways to connect your PC to the Domain 3000:
  • Connect your PC directly to the Domain 3000 with an Ethernet crossover cable
  • Connect your PC and the Domain 3000 to the Local Area Network (LAN)
Note, if you are very comfortable with IP networking, you can connect both your PC and the Domain 3000 to your network and skip the next set of steps.
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Connect your PC directly to the Domain 3000 with an Ethernet crossover cable
Remove the Ethernet crossover cable (the yellow one with red tape near the connectors) from the box. Note that this is not a regular Ethernet cable and should not be used for any purpose other than connecting your PC directly to the Domain 3000.
Connect your PC directly to the Domain 3000 via the Ethernet crossover cable.
Connect the power supply to the Domain 3000.
Give the Domain 3000 5 minutes to boot up while you do the next set of steps. /
 / Within 1 minute, the Ethernet port should be up and running. The upper left LED must be orange - indicating that the Domain Controller is communicating at 100 Mbps. If it is not orange, the Domain Controller is either not communicating or is communicating at 10 Mbps. Neither will work. /
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Give Your PC an Alternate IP address of 172.16.16.117
Configure your PC with an "Alternate IP address" of 172.16.16.117 so that your PC comes up on the same network as the default address of the Domain 3000.
Do this by going to your desktop and right clicking on "My Network Places" and selecting "Properties". /
 / The "Network Connections" menu will pop up.
In the "Network Connections" menu make sure your wireless network is disabled (right click it and select Disable, if necessary).
Then, in the same "Network Connections" menu, right click on the Ethernet port that is plugged into the Domain 3000 and select Properties. /
 / The "Local Area Connection Properties" menu will pop up.
On the "Local Area Connection Properties" menu, select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and click the "Properties" button. /
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General Configuration tab
On the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" menu, typically, it will try to "Obtain an IP address automatically" and look like the menu at the right. If this is the case you can proceed to the next step below. /
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IP address: 172.16.16.117
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default gateway: 172.16.0.1
the rest will not matter.
If your PC was on the 192.168.x.x network or the 10..x.x.x or any other network than the 172.16.x.x network, then it is likely that you will want to change the IP address of the Domain 3000. You can do this now and then return to this spot, and change your setting back to the way there were.
Click OK to this menu and the other menus and go on to opening "Find My Destiny". /
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Alternate Configuration tab
On the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" menu, select the "Alternate Configuration" tab.
Click "User configured"
Enter:
IP address: 172.16.16.117
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default gateway: 172.16.0.1
as shown at the right.
Click OK to this menu. /
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Adjust Norton Internet Security
If you have Norton "Internet Security" on your PC, please enable the Ubiquity application by doing the following:
  • Right click the Norton Internet Security icon (located in your system tray at the bottom right or your screen).
  • Select "Open Norton Internet Security".
  • Choose Personal Firewall.
  • Click the "Configure" button.
  • Select the "Program" tab.
  • Scroll through the list of applications to find "LaunchAnywhere GUI".
  • Click on the "Block All" to the right of that application and change it to "Permit All"
  • Click OK and exit Norton Internet Security.

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Open Find My Destiny (PC directly to the Domain 3000 with an Ethernet crossover cable)
From the Microsoft Windows "Start" button, select "All Programs", "Destiny Networks", "Ubiquity3.1", "Find My Destiny".
The "Find My Destiny" application will find the Domain 3000 and assist you in troubleshooting any problems you may run into.
As shown in the screen shot below, the "Find My Destiny" application has three sections.
The middle section will tell you information about your PC and its connectivity to the network. It will analyze your PC to make sure it is running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and the Adobe Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) viewer (which was installed with our software). These should all have a green "OK" after them. It will also check your Ethernet network interface card. If you are using the Ethernet crossover cable to connect your PC to the Domain 3000, then you should see an IP address of 172.16.16.117 and this test should also have a green "OK" after it. Finally, it will test your Internet connection. Note that Internet connectivity is not necessary for using Destiny Networks' products. If you are using the Ethernet crossover cable to connect your PC to the Domain 3000, then this test will show a red "Not Available". Later, if you connect the Domain 3000 to your home network, this information can be useful to see if your network is behaving properly.
The right section of the application will show you information about the Domain Controller and its connection to the network. when the name of a Domain 3000 appears in the box on the upper right, click on the name to select it (for example, the name "d3k_E11B" was clicked on in the example below). The name of the Domain 3000 consists of the "d3k" abbreviation of the product plus the last 4 bytes of the MAC address of your particular unit. The MAC address is written on the back of the Domain 3000. You must click on the name before proceeding to the next step. If the name does not appear, make sure your PC is connected to the Domain 3000 via the special Ethernet crossover cable supplied in the box and that the Domain 3000 power supply is plugged in.
Soon after clicking on the name of the Domain 3000, information about the Domain 3000 will appear below the box (you may have to scroll the window to see it). You will see information about the Domain 3000's network connectivity and version of software. Below those two things, you will see the boot up status of the Domain 3000. In the example below the status is "Browser interface up and running". This is the final step and it means that the Domain 3000 is now fully up and running. If it says something else, please wait for the Domain 3000 to finish booting up.
Since you are using the crossover Ethernet cable, then you will get the warning shown below about the missing DHCP server. You can disregard the warning because you are connected directly to your PC, and, therefore, are not using a DHCP server.
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Now, skip over the other method of using a Local Area Network to connect to the Domain 3000 and go to opening the Design Module.

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Connect your PC and the Domain 3000 to the Local Area Network (LAN)
If you have connected your PC directly to the Domain 3000 via the Ethernet crossover cable that was included with the product, please skip this section.
Before connecting the power to the Domain 3000, connect an Ethernet cable (not included) from the Domain 3000 to a spare port on a10/100 Ethernet switch. The Domain 3000 will not work if it is connected to a 10 Mbps (only) Ethernet hub or switch. It must be connected to an Ethernet switch that supports 100 Mbps. Luckily, these switches now sell for prices as low as $4 per port. Note that the yellow Ethernet cable that is shipped with the Domain 3000 should not be used for this purpose because it is a crossover cable that should only be used to connect your PC directly to the Domain 3000.
Connect your PC to the same Ethernet switch. (Note that your PC can be connected to some other point in the network or even via WiFi but both introduce additional things that can possibly go wrong.)
Make sure the Ethernet switch is powered up and it is connected to the network.
Check that your PC has an IP address which it can get via DHCP or a static IP address on the 172.16.x.x network. if either of these conditions are true, then everything is fine. However, if your PC has a static IP address on the 192.168.x.x network or the 10.x.x.x network, or any other network other than 172.16.x.x then you will probably want to Change the IP Address of the Domain 3000, now.
Connect the power supply to the Domain 3000.
Give the Domain 3000 five (5) minutes to boot up. /
Connect your PC and the Domain 3000 to the Local Area Network (LAN) using a 10/100 Ethernet switch.
 / Within 1 minute, the Ethernet port should be up and running. The upper left LED must be orange - indicating that the Domain Controller is communicating at 100 Mbps. If it is not orange, the Domain Controller is either not communicating or is communicating at 10 Mbps. Neither will work. /
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Open Find My Destiny (PC and the Domain 3000 to the Local Area Network)
From the Microsoft Windows "Start" button, select "All Programs", "Destiny Networks", "Ubiquity 3.1", "Find My Destiny".
The "Find My Destiny" application will find the Domain 3000 and assist you in troubleshooting any problems you may run into.
As shown in the screen shot below, the "Find My Destiny" application has three sections.
The middle section will tell you information about your PC and its connectivity to the network. It will analyze your PC to make sure it is running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and the Adobe Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) viewer (which was installed with our software). These should all have a green "OK" after them. It will also check your Ethernet network interface card. If you are connected to the Local Area Network (LAN) then this test should also have a green "OK" after it and it will show you the IP address of your computer. Finally, it will test your Internet connection. Note that Internet connectivity is not necessary for using Destiny Networks' products. If you have Internet access from your PC, you will get a green "OK", if not then this test will show a red "Not Available". Again, Internet access is not required, but we have found this test to be useful for debugging network problems.
The right section of the application will show you information about the Domain Controller and its connection to the network. when the name of a Domain 3000 appears in the box on the upper right, click on the name to select it (for example, the name "D3K_Theater" was clicked on in the example below). The default name of the Domain 3000 consists of the "d3k" abbreviation of the product plus the last 4 bytes of the MAC address of your particular unit. The MAC address is written on the back of the Domain 3000. As you can see from this example, the name of the Domain 3000 can be changed (from inside the Design Module on the Domain Controller layer). Note that you must click on the name of the Domain 3000 before proceeding to the next step. If the name does not appear, make sure of the following:
  • The Domain 3000 power supply is plugged in and you have waited 5 minutes for the Domain 3000 to boot up.
  • The Domain 3000 is connected to a 10/100 Ethernet switch (a 10 Mbps hub or switch will not work).
  • The LED status of the Ethernet ports on both the Domain 3000 and the 10/100 Ethernet switch indicate that the Ethernet is present.
  • The Flash card is plugged into the back of the Domain 3000.
Soon after clicking on the name of the Domain 3000, information about the Domain 3000 will appear below the box (you may have to scroll the window to see it). You will see information about the Domain 3000's network connectivity and version of software. Below those two things, you will see the boot up status of the Domain 3000. In the example below the status is "Browser interface up and running". This is the final step and the Domain 3000 is fully up and running. If it says something else, please wait for the Domain 3000 to finish booting up.
Check to see if the Domain 3000 received an IP address through DHCP. If the IP address of the Domain 3000 is 172.16.16.116, then it did not receive an IP address via DHCP and is using its default IP address. To configure a static IP address, click the "Name & IP Settings" button near the bottom left of the Find My Destiny application. Then, enter the desired IP address, click OK, and wait 5 minutes for the Domain 3000 to reboot.
Check that the Domain 3000 and your PC are on the same network. If the "subnet mask" is 255.255.0.0 then the first two numbers of the IP address of your PC and of the Domain 3000 must agree. Alternatively, if the "subnet mask" is 255.255.255.0 then the first three numbers of the IP address of your PC and of the Domain 3000 must agree. If the numbers are not matched, your PC will not talk to the Domain 3000. Please correct your networking problem or go back and connect your PC directly to the Domain 3000 with the Ethernet crossover cable.
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Open the Design Module
In Find My Destiny, make sure you have clicked on the name of your Domain 3000 (e.g., d3k_E11B in the example above). Then, select "File", "Open Design Module" from the dropdown menu. The Design Module will take up to a minute to appear. /
 / In the Design Module, you will enter the types of AV components in your theater and tell how they are physically wired. The Ubiquity software will do the rest.
The Design Module consists of a number of "layers" that can be selected by clicking one of the buttons on the left. We will only be using the "AV Entertainment" layer, but the Domain 3000 is capable of many more things.
If you want more information on the Design Module, expand "Design & Installation", "Software" and "Design Module (DM)" in the contents of this manual. Alternatively, just continue with this getting started guide. /
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Architecture for Controlling your Theater
The architecture for controlling your theater will consist of a Domain Controller with IR or serial cables connected to each component of your theater.
In the example at the right, the Domain Controller is the small silver box between the TV and the rest of the equipment. The remote control on the left will use RF to send button press information to the Domain Controller. Since it is RF, you do not have to point the remote control at the Domain Controller and it will not be affected by plasma screen TVs. In addition, the remote control only sends a very short burst of data indicating what button was pressed - the Domain Controller does the rest.
The Domain Controller is connected to every AV component that needs to be controlled (e.g., DVD player, cable or satellite receiver, TiVo, AV surround processor, TV, etc), but not to the speakers or other components that do not need to be controlled.
The easiest way to connect to the AV components is with an IR mouse emitter (specifically, the Xantech 232M or 283M Mouse Emitter). Alternatively, you can use RS-232 connections.
AV components that only have toggle on/off commands require an additional connection. The Domain Controller always wants to know whether an AV component is powered up or not. If the AV component has discrete IR commands for power on and power off, the Domain Controller can use these commands to know the state. However, if the AV component only has a toggle power on/off command, then Power Status must be determined by one of the methods below. /