Blackmagic SmartView SmartScope User Manual Adjusting Network Settings

Network Settings

Device Name

It is a good idea to change your monitor’s name so each SmartView or SmartScope unit is easy to identify on a network, e.g., “Field Cameras 1 & 2”, “Multi-View Output”, “4K feeds” etc.

To change your monitor’s name, make sure your monitor is connected via Ethernet or USB. Launch Blackmagic SmartView setup and click on the settings icon under your monitor name. In the setting page, click network, and edit the name of your monitor located in the ‘details’ section. If the software detects an invalid name, a warning icon will appear next to the name as you are typing. If the name is valid, a green tick will appear. Press the ‘return’ key on your computer keyboard to confirm the name change.

Network Settings

To make changes to the network settings section in Blackmagic SmartView setup, your Blackmagic monitor must be connected to the computer via USB. Network settings cannot be changed via Ethernet.

By default, SmartView and SmartScope use DHCP to automatically obtain an IP address from your network.

In the absence of a DHCP server, you may wish to enable the “internet sharing” feature of macOS, or the “internet connection sharing” (ICS) feature of Windows 10, to provide DHCP addresses to any directly attached units. This will avoid having to manually assign static IP addresses to each unit. You can use this feature to provide DHCP addresses even though your computer might not have an Internet connection. Internet sharing is detailed in the macOS and Windows 10 Help documentation.

If DHCP cannot be used in your configuration, choose to configure the address using “static IP”. Please ask your system administrator for a spare IP address to avoid creating an IP conflict on your network. You will need to specify a unique IP address for each SmartView and SmartScope unit as well as a common subnet mask. It is unnecessary to change the default value in the “gateway” field unless you intend to connect your units to a network gateway such as an Internet router.

If no SmartView or SmartScope monitors are found on the network, the units might not have received IP addresses via DHCP and it will be necessary to manually configure each unit with appropriate network settings.

1. Connect a Blackmagic SmartView or SmartScope monitor to your computer via USB and launch Blackmagic SmartView setup.

2. Your connected monitor will be automatically displayed in the SmartView setup home page and will show a USB icon next to its name.

3. Adjust your monitor’s network settings.

4. Repeat these steps for any other units that have not received an IP address via DHCP.

The USB icon next to your monitor’s name shows that the monitor is connected to your computer via USB. Your Blackmagic monitor needs to be connected via USB to adjust network settings.

Network settings can be set to use DHCP or a Static IP address and can only be changed via USB

Adding a Blackmagic Monitor

If you already know the IP address of a SmartView or SmartScope Duo 4K but it hasn’t automatically appeared in the Blackmagic SmartView setup home page, you can add the monitor manually. To do so:

1. Make sure your Blackmagic monitor is connected via Ethernet. Click on the ‘plus’ icon at the bottom left corner to open the ‘add a Blackmagic monitor’ window.

2. Type in the IP address of the monitor and click ‘add’.

3. The software will verify the presence of the unit and add it to the Blackmagic monitors included on the SmartView setup home page. Click the right arrow icon to see your newly added monitor.

You can manually add a SmartView or SmartScope monitor to the list of connected monitors by clicking the ‘plus’ icon and entering the monitor’s IP address