For the Innomesh Room Manager Overview, see Room Manager Overview.
The creation of a template allows users to easily deploy standardised rooms with reduced workload per room. A template can be created with a projector, room controller, sources, endpoints, lighting, and more all defined. When deploying a room, you simply select the template on which to base the room, then change the specifics of each device such as the IP address or hostname.
The benefits of using templates include reduced overheads for programming each room, the ability to replicate a known working system at scale, and increased speed of deployment. This brings a task previously limited to specialised audiovisual programmers into the hands of IT professionals, commissioners, integrators, and more.
Other benefits include changing room specifics at the template level, which will affect all rooms using that template. Consider the following tasks:
- Changing the service desk number on the help page in the touch panel user interface.
- Changing the names or order of sources.
- Changing the vendor of an entire fleet of digital signal processors or displays.
Each of the above tasks can be accomplished at the template level. If there are 5 or 50 standardised rooms on a single template, then a great deal of time can be saved and overheads reduced.
What is Defined at a Template Level vs. a Room Level?
Template Level
On a template level, devices can be outlined along with their functionality. Macros, sources, and lighting controls are all defined at this level.
Room Level
Once the template has been defined, device specifics are configured on a room level. This is where IP addresses, IPIDs, hostnames, and lighting areas are defined.
Templates and Rooms Across Subscription Tiers
While the concept of templates and rooms remains the same across all Innomesh subscription tiers, their behaviour changes slightly between tiers. Both Space products have template software versions. These versions can introduce device driver changes, as well as minor and major bug fixes. The key differences between templates and rooms in each product are described below.
Space VC Templates and Rooms
Space VC rooms are highly coupled to the template. Minor changes made to the template affect all rooms underneath it, and this causes a temporary restart of the rooms while Innomesh re-provisions the room in VC-4. For this reason, major and minor changes in the template software version have a significant effect on all rooms under the template. If many rooms are under a template, it is a good idea to maintain an identical test template with one or two rooms underneath it for major template software releases.
Space CE Templates and Rooms
Space CE rooms are quite different to Space VC rooms, in that the relationship to the template is less coupled. Changes can be made to the template software without affecting the room’s functionality, and room software can be adjusted independently of each other even while sitting under the same template.
- Creating a Space CE Template
- Creating a Space CE Room
- Updating Space CE Template Software
- Updating Space CE Room Software
Sight Templates and Rooms
Sight is a lightweight monitoring product, similar to Pulse. Unlike the Space products, Sight does not require the user to select a software version. The Sight software version is abstracted from the user and automatically updated by Innomate as part of the ongoing upkeep of the Innomesh SaaS platform. New Sight drivers and bug fixes to existing drivers are delivered behind the scenes, with backwards compatibility always maintained.
Changes can be made to the Sight template without affecting existing rooms.
Pulse Templates and Rooms
The Pulse product is fairly lightweight compared to the Space products, and as such does not require template or room software versions. Changes can be made to the Pulse template without affecting existing rooms.
A Note on Ops
Innomesh Ops works in the background for any device on the Sight tier or above. It does not require any template or room configuration to function. Once Ops is enabled for your tenancy, its capabilities (remote actions, firmware updates, bulk operations) are automatically available for all eligible devices.