Settings

The settings page is well, ya know, settings. There’s various options and actions here to manage the server.

Global

These are show settings and actions.

Power/Reset Buttons

• Shutdown Server — clean shutdown of the server process.
• Reboot Server — restart the host.
• Shutdown Sensors — power down haze watch sensors.
• Reset Sensors — soft restart of the sensors.

Caution

Always shut down sensors and the server before pulling power. Yanking the cord can make the server sad. Which will likely make you sad. Then we’ll be sad because we have to fix it.

Show Information

Enter the name of your show and it’s location.

E-Stop Settings

This checkbox enables E-Stop on server startup. You may want this if you’re doing haze control so that the server doesn’t try and turn stuff on before you’re ready.

Double Message protection

This drops duplicate OSC messages that are received by the server in a specific timeframe.

Tip

You may not need to do a main/backup switchover if this setting is enabled. The server will just eat whichever message arrives second, so if a device fails the server is none the wiser and one message still gets through.

Time Format

Select 24h or 12h as you wish.

Server

Settings related to the server hardware itself specifically network settings.

Network Settings

Here is where you set the network information for the server. You can add VLANs, setup DHCP as desired.

The IP addresses with subnets should be entered in as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx a.k.a. CIDR notation. An example is 10.40.20.8/24.

Select the interface you want to change and then adust the settings and click save!

Note

Port 8 (server) or Port 2 always has a link local address set 169.254.1.1 in addition to what you set

Why do we do this? Well, there’s nothing worse than when you set the ip address wrong and then all of the sudden you can’t access your devices anymore.

This allows you to get back into the server if you oopsie.

Chat

These are the settings for chat, currently in preview.

The settings are unique to each browser.

Chat Notifications

These are various notifications settings for what happens when your browser receives a message. We really like the rainbow one so that’s the default.

Haze Watch

There’s no settings here! Haze Watch is just that good. We kid.

We’ll probably add some stuff here eventually, and wanted to keep the placeholder.

Router

The main settings here allow for port control and resetting of network server itself.

Network Server ports

You can adjust the ports the server listens on to your heart’s content.

The network server portion of the server will restart after the change. You’ll need to change the ports your devices use to connect to the server.

We reserve a few ports for sndwrks internal use, and we won’t let you set one that we need.

Network Server Control

This allows you to just restart the network server. It may be helpful to have your devices reconnect, or just, ya know, turn it off and on again.

sACN

These are the various settings related to sACN.

sACN Worker

The server has a separate module to handle sACN. You can turn this off if you don’t need sACN on your show.

sACN Worker Control

Similar to the router network server, you can reset the sACN worker. This may be helpful for various reasons just know that if you hit that button, it’s going to interrupt the sACN functionality of the server.

Syslog

Here lies the syslog configuration. The syslog server listens on port 1514 for UDP syslog messages.

Note

What’s syslog?

We’re glad you asked! Syslog (short for system logging) is a standardized message format that various devices can send like network switches.

If you have managed switches on your show, there’s a good chance they can send syslog messages to the server. This is very helpful to troubleshoot network problems because switches often delete their logs when they shut down.

Wikipedia Page What is syslog?

Syslog Server

Like sACN, you can turn off syslog from running if you don’t need it.

Syslog Server Control

This allows you to restart the syslog server. The ‘ol turn it off and on again.

Backup & Restore

We figure you may want to save your work, or load a previous state.

The server also automatically creates more comprehensive database backups and uploads them to our servers, but this way you don’t have to call us to load another show.

Create a Backup

This takes all your show settings like devices, network configuration etc, and zips it into a nice .sdwx file.

We do not save measurements or messages because those can number in the millions, and we want your file size to be reasonable.

Restore from Backup

This allows you to load a .sdwx file you have into the server. Drag and drop or browse for your file to upload. After you’ve uploaded a file the server will restart to load the information.

Danger

The server will create a database backup before restore, but know the restore will overwrite all your settings!!!

If you accidentally load the wrong fileand don’t have a backup yourself, you will have to call us to fix it.

So, just ya know, be careful!