These wall plates appear as Dante endpoints to a Tesira system and provide analog audio I/O to otherwise non-Dante devices. They are discoverable through Dante Controller which can be used to configure the device hostname, IP address and set flow connections as well. For extensive configurations, the Attero Tech's unIFY Control Center should be used.
Audio related settings such as Phantom Power, Mute, Level, Invert etc. are adjusted within the Tesira control dialog. Tesira sets the audio configuration of the device, overriding any local settings on the device (including the wall plate’s “power-on defaults”).
Once a wall plate device is connected to the Tesira system using Dante Controller, if the device is removed from the network and subsequently reconnected, Tesira will automatically reconfigure the device back to the current settings using the blocks it has been allocated to. Note that this process may take a few minutes.
The following table contains the limits on the number of wall plate devices per TesiraFORTÉ or DAN-1 card.
| Name | Without Rear IO | With Rear IO |
| unDX2IO+-B (2-In, 2-Out, optional 2-In rear) | 16 |
8 |
| unDX4I-B (4-In, optional 2-Out rear) | 8 |
8 |
unD6IO-B |
8 |
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There is no limit to the number of wall plate devices that can be connected to a single Tesira system – multiple Servers can be used in a single system to allow connecting any number of wall plates.
The firmware on the wall plates can be updated using Attero Tech’s unIFY utility.
Users are required to use Dante Controller or Attero Tech’s unIFY utility to change the network latency settings of the wall plates to match Tesira, as such, they are beholden to the range of latencies allowed in Tesira (1 or 2 ms for Dante as configured in the Network_Latency section of the Document Settings in the Tools Menu). Tesira software provides no interface for changing the audio latency for a Attero Tech wall plate.
On the Attero Tech wall plate object Properties Sheet > DSP Properties tab, an option to configure Fault On Inactive option is available. When set to 'true' Tesira will report a fault whenever the Dante channels of the block are not connected to a Dante device. The name of the wall plate and the related DSP Object in software will be listed in the Fault Reporting dialog and in the Event Log. This will allow easy identification when multiple wall plates are used in a system.