First Init & Autostart

Network & Licensing

After installation, VIOSO 6 shows a dialog to make some important initial configurations (“First Init”).

Launching the First Init Dialog anytime

In case you missed this dialog or want to change everything all over, there is a way to call this First Init:

• From the Windows Start Menu, type “start first init” in the Search Field

• Select the “First Init” shortcut from VIOSO 6 displayed like this:

Now you can simply click the shortcut and the “First Init” dialog will show up.

First Init dialog explained

App Configuration

These are profiles, that give VIOSO 6 a basic configuration for certain use cases. Selecting an app configuration eases the handling of VIOSO 6 especially in larger installations:

App Configuration	Licensing	Use case
Single-PC	Requires a permanent or demo license; The license must provide the total number of projectors (=sum of all projectors from all participating PCs)	Use when there is just one PC involved. It also enables multi-pc usage but misses some optimizations for networked calibrations.
Multi-PC Master	Requires a permanent or demo license; The license must provide the total number of projectors (=sum of all projectors from all participating PCs)	Use on a PC that acts as a master for a multi-pc calibration.
Multi-PC Client	No license required	Use for all PCs that act as a client for VIOSO 6

Licensing

Licensing	Use case	Result
licenses	VIOSO 6 searches locally for a license	If no license is available, VIOSO 6 starts in demo mode
no license	VIOSO 6 uses a generic 0-channel license	no license nor activation is required. Use this mode to run VIOSO 6 as a client in a networked environment.

Network

Select the network adapter that VIOSO 6 can use for it's general work (nearly aspects of VIOSO 6 are handled via network for maximum scalability) as well as connecting to other VIOSO 6 instances.

If the discovery of other VIOSO 6 instances does not work or takes too long time, please check the network submask and set it eventually to a smaller subnet (wide subnet masks lead to an exponential node search time).

Data save path

Select the path on the local system where VIOSO 6 can save it's work data like project files, calibration data, intermediate data, etc.

Keep in mind that calibration data can consume several GBs of data, depending on the number and resolution of projectors and cameras.

If not changed, the data path is set to this default path:

C:\Users\[Current User]\Documents\VIOSO\VIOSO6

Deploy standard ini-files to default data path

If checked, a set of usually global configuration files are copied to the data path specified above. Alterations in these ini-files have an effect of the behaviour of VIOSO 6.

This enables are more fine-grained configuration of VIOSO 6 in environments where system wide settings cannot be made easily or helps automating the setup in larger installations.

We recommend to leave this checkbox unchecked unless specificly advised by our support engineers.

Autostart

Checking this box launches VIOSO 6 with after logging into Windows. This is required for at least these scenarios:

• VIOSO 6 is used to embedd warping & blending to NVIDIA Quadro GPUs

• VIOSO 6 runs as a client for calibration

Specifying a startup delay helps to avoid network issues. On some systems the network adapters get initialized quite late in the boot sequence. Set a certain startup delay to make sure the network adapter that VIOSO 6 is using is present.

To activate or deactivate the startup behaviour anytime after first configuration, access Menu > Options > Settings > Program > Startup options:

• Click Activate to launch VIOSO 6 with Windows startup

• Click Deactivate to stop VIOSO 6 from being launched at Windows Startup.