In Space CE configurations, the Microphone Stations section describes the wireless microphone hardware in a room: the docking station the microphones return to, and the receivers that report each microphone’s battery level.
This section is about hardware status, not audio control. The fader a user adjusts for a wireless microphone is defined under Audio Sources; Microphone Stations tells Space CE which receiver channel reports battery for that fader, so the user interface can show a battery indicator and a low battery warning against the right slider.
Station Properties
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Total Dockable Microphone Quantity | integer | The number of wireless microphones that dock in this station. Used to determine whether any microphone is undocked |
| Battery Level Warning Threshold | integer | Battery percentage below which the user interface shows a low battery warning. Defaults to 20 |
Receivers
Each receiver is a device that reports battery level for the microphones paired to it.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ID | string | Unique identifier for the receiver |
| Label | string | UI display label for the receiver |
| Receiver Device ID | string | Device ID of the microphone receiver reporting the battery level |
| Channels | list of objects | Mapping of receiver channels to microphone faders |
| Disable | boolean | Whether this receiver is disabled in this room |
Channel Objects
A receiver reports battery against numbered channels. Each channel object connects one of those channels to the microphone fader it belongs to, so the battery level appears on the correct slider.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ID | string | Unique identifier for the channel mapping |
| Channel ID | integer | The channel on the receiver that the microphone reports against |
| Microphone ID | string | The Microphones channel under Audio Sources that this receiver channel maps to |
| Disable | boolean | Whether this channel mapping is disabled in this room |
What the Indicator Shows
The battery indicator sits with the microphone’s fader and follows the level the receiver reports.
- A level at or below Battery Level Warning Threshold shows as a low battery warning.
- A level above 100 means no transmitter is switched on for that channel. The indicator shows as disconnected rather than empty, so an idle channel is not mistaken for a flat battery.
- Charging bays are reported separately from the microphones themselves and appear as their own indicators.
Two behaviours are worth knowing when a configuration looks wrong:
- A microphone channel with Visible set to
falsehas no fader on the interface, but if it is still mapped to a receiver channel it keeps reporting a battery level with nothing to show it against. Disable the channel rather than hiding it when it is genuinely not in use. - A charging bay becomes known to the room only once something has been docked in it. A bay that has been empty since the room started does not appear on the interface at all, and appears the first time a microphone is docked. An empty bay and a bay that does not exist look the same.