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4.5.3 Channels > Add or Configure a Channel
From the View Channels page, you can add a new channel or configure an existing channel:
• Tocreateanewchannel:Clickthe“AddChannel”option.
• Toconfigureanexistingchannel:Click for a channel.
The Add and Configure pages are similar in content.
4.5.3.1 Channel Name, Description and Location
These are all useful ways for you to identify the channel and its origins. A consistent naming and description policy is particularly
useful in large installations.
4.5.3.2 Video, Audio, USB and Serial
These drop down boxes list all of the available streams from installed transmitters. When creating a channel, you can choose to
take all four streams from the same transmitter or from different ones, as required.
Note: Only one receiver can use a transmitter’s serial port at any time. Thus, it’s possible to create a channel without Serial.
4.5.3.3 Allowed Connections
This section allows you to define the types of connection that you wish to permit users to make. You can define particular
individual or combined connection types to suit requirements.
Note: This setting for each channel acts as the final arbiter of whether exclusive access can actually be achieved. If you deny
exclusive access rights within this setting, then exclusive access for any user cannot take place for this channel, regardless of
settings made elsewhere.
• Inherit from global setting - uses the setting of the “Allowed Connection Modes” option within the Dashboard > Settings
page.
• View only - allows users only to view/hear the video and audio output, the USB channel is denied.
• View/Shared only - denies exclusive mode to all users.
• Exclusive only - forces all user connections to be exclusive only.
• View/Shared & Exclusive - allows all types of connection modes.