MIP 5000 RTP issues

[6110EM]

I have a three seat MIP 5000 console, after a power outage seat 2 and 3 microphone stopped working. Both will break squelch when pushed but no voice. Seat 1 works just fine, we changed seat one mic with seat 2 and 3 with no changes also tried seat 2 and 3 at seat one and they did not work.

 

[billyfromhill]

Go into the control panel of the PCs and check that the correct mic input device is selected. There will be a MIP 5000 settings link in the control panel. There should be a checkbox to display the current settings.

Everything looks good in the DCMP also?

If that doesn't work and you're using the B1914 desk mic, try new cables? The cable from mic to USB jackbox is just a shielded straight through ethernet cable.

 

[6110EM]

Thanks, replaced the cables and it is working well. Also, have a problem with one channel that randomly RED X and now it stays X

 

[billyfromhill]

That's some sort of network issue. When the DCPM cannot communicate with the gateway over the network it displays a red X

 

[DiGiTaLD]

Thanks, replaced the cables and it is working well. Also, have a problem with one channel that randomly RED X and now it stays X

Could be a gateway issue also, or an issue with the radio the gateway is connected to. I had one that would occasionally cycle to X and then repeatedly cycle to X. We are using MIP 5000 gateways connected to rack-mounted APX 7500 mid power mobiles. Long story short, it was the power supply for the mobile flaking out. A couple weekends ago I also had one completely lock up, radio and all. A trip to the site, a couple power cycles and a reseat of the network patch cord and its been fine ever since.

Unfortunately experience has taught me that the MIP can be a finicky beast, and there are a lot of "moving parts" involved especially when you are connecting your consoles to your gateways through a big, busy LAN.

 

[billyfromhill]

Could be a gateway issue also, or an issue with the radio the gateway is connected to. I had one that would occasionally cycle to X and then repeatedly cycle to X. We are using MIP 5000 gateways connected to rack-mounted APX 7500 mid power mobiles. Long story short, it was the power supply for the mobile flaking out. A couple weekends ago I also had one completely lock up, radio and all. A trip to the site, a couple power cycles and a reseat of the network patch cord and its been fine ever since.

Unfortunately experience has taught me that the MIP can be a finicky beast, and there are a lot of "moving parts" involved especially when you are connecting your consoles to your gateways through a big, busy LAN.

The MIP really needs it's own VLAN or physically separate network links. My MIP5000 LAN is airgapped and has no external Internet access. My experience has only been with tone and local gateways where the gateway doesn't actually communicate with the radio and doesn't know if the radio has lost power or if the tone remote wireline lost continuity.

I wish I had digital gateways and APX 7500s. I had to screw around with tone gateways and 7500 based consolettes because the 7500 mobile was EOL when I was ordering. The consolettes get the job done, but you don't get trunking IDs or emergency activations at the console.

 

[DiGiTaLD]

The MIP really needs it's own VLAN or physically separate network links. My MIP5000 LAN is airgapped and has no external Internet access. My experience has only been with tone and local gateways where the gateway doesn't actually communicate with the radio and doesn't know if the radio has lost power or if the tone remote wireline lost continuity.

I wish I had digital gateways and APX 7500s. I had to screw around with tone gateways and 7500 based consolettes because the 7500 mobile was EOL when I was ordering. The consolettes get the job done, but you don't get trunking IDs or emergency activations at the console.

We are running them on a VLAN, but unfortunately its not air gapped from the rest of our network. Maybe one day.