Control and integration

Config export

Saving and restoring every Diva setting

One click in the CONFIG section produces a text file that answers most of the questions anyone would put to you about your setup. It is worth taking one before you change anything.

A configuration export is a snapshot of what a device is set to, written out in a form a person can read. It matters more in HDMI than in most places, because almost every awkward HDMI problem is a combination problem. What the source sends, what the sink claims in its EDID, which EDID the box in the middle is presenting, what the scaler was told to do and which flags are being forced all interact, and no single one of them is the fault.

The advantage of plain text over a binary backup is that it can be read, compared and quoted. You can hold two exports side by side to see what a change actually altered, or paste three lines of one into a forum post without handing over anything else.

Config export on the HDfury Diva

The control is EXPORT CONFIG, in the CONFIG section of the web server among the maintenance tools. One click saves a text file of the current configuration and settings, written as name and value pairs, so a text editor is the only tool you need to read it.

• Identity and firmware: product name, time of export, hostname, IP address and firmware version.
• Routing: which input each output is currently taking.
• Live signal lines for each receiver and transmitter in the same form the OLED uses, plus the audio format on each audio output and the EDID name of each connected sink.
• Captured infoframes in hex, including SPD, AVI, AUD, HDR, HVS, VSI and HFV, along with any custom HDR and AVI infoframes you have defined.
• EDID configuration: the mode, the Automix algorithm, the table assigned to each input and every forceable flag.
• Scaler, OSD, CEC, ARC, RS232 and macro settings, ambient light profiles and speeds, and analog volume, bass and treble.
• Network settings, and the complete raw EDID of every input and output as full hex dumps.

A few field names repay recognising. edidmode says which of the five EDID modes is active, automix, custom, fixed, copytx0 or copytx1. edidalgo names the Automix algorithm. scalemode says whether scaling is off, automatic or custom. cecla says whether the Diva is claiming video or audio, which decides who owns ARC. EDIDTX0 is the full raw EDID hex read back from the sink on TX0, which is what lets someone else decode exactly what your display is claiming. The file also names your hostname and IP address, so have a look before posting it publicly.

All glossary terms