Epson Powerlite 737c Multimedia Projector Users Guide

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Managing Projectors 
The software included with your projector lets you monitor and 
control your projectors from a remote computer:
■Use EMP Monitor (available for Windows only) to see your 
projectors’ status, switch image sources, and control basic settings.
■Use the mail notification function to receive e-mail alerts about 
possible problems. 
■Use a network management utility running SNMP, such as 
HP OpenView, to manage your facility’s equipment from a 
pre-existing system (requires an...

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Using EMP Monitor
EMP Monitor lets you use a remote computer to manage your 
projectors, whether connected wirelessly or over a wired network. It 
lets you easily turn the projectors on or off (together or individually), 
switch image sources, and check their status. 
Before using EMP Monitor, make sure you’ve installed the software 
(available for Windows only) as described on page 171. The 
computer you’re using to monitor the projector should already 
be connected to your...

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Registering Your Projectors
Before you can monitor your projectors, follow these steps to register 
them:
1. Click
 Start > Programs or All Programs > Epson Projector > 
EMP Monitor
 or click the EMP Monitor icon in the taskbar. You 
see this screen:
2. Click 
Register projector. You see this screen:
3. Click 
Auto detect to locate projectors currently operating on the 
network. Or click 
Manual registration and enter the projector’s 
network IP address. 
Click here
Click here...

124Managing ProjectorsAny projectors found on the network are listed as shown below:
4. Select each projector you want to add by clicking its name, then 
clicking the 
Add button. When you’re done, click Close. 
You see this screen with a list of all registered projectors.
5. Click 
Close.
Click here
note
To delete a projector from 
the list, highlight the 
projector name, and click 
Delete. 
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You see the status of each of your registered projectors on the main 
EMP Monitor screen:
Monitoring Your Projectors
The EMP Monitor screen lets you monitor your projectors using the 
Status, Video Source, and Error icons shown below. These let you see 
which projectors are currently being used, from which source (or port) 
they are projecting an image, and if a problem occurs.  
For detailed status information, select the projector and click 
View 
details
. 
note
To monitor a...

126Managing ProjectorsThe following table explains the meaning of the status icons:
The following table explains the meaning of the video source icons:  Status icons
 (green) Projecting; no problems
 (dark) Turned off; no problems
 (green) Projecting; problems detected
 (dark) Turned off; problems detected
Network error (for example, not connected to the 
network or power cable disconnected). 
You may also see this error if Network OFF is 
selected in Standby Mode (see page 120).
Video source icons...

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The following table explains the meaning of the error icons. See 
page 151 for recommended solutions to problems. 
Controlling Your Projectors
The control buttons in the upper-right let you select video signals and 
turn projectors on or off. (Hold the mouse pointer over a button to 
see a description of its function.) Select the projector you want to 
operate (with the mouse pointer) before clicking one of the buttons.  Error icons
Lamp replacement notification (the lamp is...

128Managing ProjectorsThe following table explains the functions of the control buttons:
Using E-Mail Alerts
You can set up e-mail alerts to warn you of problems with the 
projector on either a wireless network or a wired LAN connection.
1. Insert the Epson 802.11g wireless card and set up your projector 
to work in Access Point mode, as described on page 59.
2. Turn on your projector and remote control. 
3. Press the 
EasyMP button on the remote control to switch to 
EasyMP.  Control buttons
Turns the...

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You see the following screen:
4. Select 
Config in the lower right corner of the screen and press 
Enter on the remote control.
5. When you see the screen below, select 
Mail and press Enter.
Select 
Mail
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130Managing ProjectorsYou see the following screen:
6. For Mail Notification Settings, select 
ON and press Enter.
7. Highlight the 
IP address of SMTP server box and press Enter. 
The box turns yellow to indicate you are in input mode. You can 
enter numbers between 0 and 255. However, you cannot use the 
following IP addresses: 255.255.255.255, 224.0.0.0, or 127.x.x.x 
(where x is a number between 0 and 255).
8. Highlight the 
Port Number box and press Enter. Then enter the 
SMTP server port number....