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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Document Change Record Issue / Date DCN. Changed Pages / Paragraphs Revision 09 December 2013 First formal release 26 June 2014 General updates for DVB-S2 08 August 2014...
The purpose of this manual is to guide a user through the minimum necessary steps to allow the reception of EUMETCast data (DVB-S or DVB-S2) on the Ayecka SR1 DVB receiver. The base operating system used for this procedure is Windows7.
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide N-B: In this procedure we will use the USB port to make the initial configuration. If a DHCP server is available in your network infrastructure the LAN MANAGEMENT port can be connected to this network and also Telnet used to configure the device.
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide F type Female Connector RF1 Input L-Band ( -35 to -75 dBm ) RED : Receiver #1 is not locked Lock 1 LED Blinking RED :Receiver #1 is in lock process...
N-B: From our example in the figures above can be seen that the device is connected to COM3 Automatic Configuration of SR1 A utility SR1CFG can be used to automatically perform the initial setup of the Ayecka SR1 receiver to allow it to receive the “EUMETCast Ku-Band DVB-S2” & “EUMETCast C-Band DVB-S” services .
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide The zip files contain the binary SRCFG.exe and an ASCII file containing the default configuration sr1cfg.cfg (Do not change the configuration file!). The SR1 local configuration and management interface uses Serial over USB; to use the Serial over USB you must install the Virtual Com driver, on the Client PC;...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Configure a PUTTY session to connect to the receiver To configure the receiver you can use putty (or any other “Windows® HyperTerminal”), in our example below putty is used (it can be downloaded from www.putty.org)
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide For more details regarding the network configuration and the network scenario to adopt refer to the section “NETWORK CONFIGURATION AND SCENARIOS” below. 4.5.2 Radio frequency and reception parameters for DVB-S2 Ku Band Reception 4.5.2.1 Configuration...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide The PID table when complete should be as shown below: RX Transport Filter Table ========================= Slot. Ethernet Address Status IP Multicast CC-F6-7A-04-CA-B8 Enabled Pass CC-F6-7A-04-CA-B8 Enabled Pass...
For Basic Service only systems, where HVS is switched off, lowest values should be the best, to avoid early cut off. After EUMETSAT tests it is recommended to use of the following settings in order to achieve the maximum from the receiver:...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 1. Lower threshold - 0.6 dB 2. Upper threshold - 0.3 dB To reconfigure the Link Margin Thresholds manually please do the following : The following example is to reconfigure the RX Link Margin Thresholds from 0.0 db / 2.5 db (default Value) to 0.6 db / 0.7 db.
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide ========================= 1. Lower threshold 0.6 dB 2. Upper threshold 0.7 dB 4.5.2.4 Verify Lock and quality for DVB-S2 Ku Band Return to the main menu and verify the RX channel has Locked as shown below: ================================================================================ SR1c Serial No.
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 4.5.3 Radio frequency and reception parameters for DVB-S C-Band Africa Reception To configure the radio frequency and reception parameters, from the main menu choose, 1. Configuration ...
SR1 software can be downloaded from EUMETSAT ftp site : ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/OPS/out/user/EUMETCast_Support/EUMETCast_Licence_cd/Win dows/DVB_devices/SR1/SR1_updates/ The TFTP software that EUMETSAT is currently using is tftpd32 under windows (by Ph. Jounin - http://tftpd32.jounin.net/). SR1 software upgrade steps (1.05b232 or 1.05b255 upgrade example) : 1) Connect the SR1 to a Windows PC using a USB cable and configure the putty connection 2) Connect the SR1 Management Port to the Windows PC Ethernet Port 3) Configure the windows Ethernet port (IP 192.168.10.105/ Subnet 255.255.255.0)
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 7) Check that the IP Server Interfaces is 192.168.10.105 8) Click on “Browse” to select the directory that you have download the new software and click “OK”...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 10) Connect to the SR1 device using putty and select “4. System” ================================================================== SR1c Serial No. 111700 30AAC Run Time: 2:38:47 Software Version 1.05b232 Hardware Version 2.00 Firmware Version 2.02b922...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide > 2 SR1c_1.05255.asw Enter Software Image Filename (max. 19 characters): 14) Select “4. Start the download procedure” and at the prompt Select y (yes) Software Upgrade ================ 1.
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 1) Select “4. System” ================================================================== SR1c Serial No. 111700 30AAC Run Time: 2:38:47 Software Version 1.05b232 Hardware Version 2.00 Firmware Version 2.02b922 RX1: Active, Not Locked EUMETCast DVB-S2 1512.500 MHz, Auto RX2: Not Active, Not Locked Profile 1 1100.000 MHz, Auto...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide > 2 Version: 1.5b255, Size: 336832, Valid: Yes Active: Yes ============================================= 1. Active 2. Not Active 5) Select (1) to activate the latest software version > 1...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide (2) Copy the sub-directory Content from the source directory to the destination directory on your machine according to the table: Source Destination yourHardDrive/wamp/www Replace the original /www/ yourHardDrive/wamp/bin/php/phpversion/ ...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide AYECKA SR1 CONSOLE UTILITY You can download the utility from AYECKAs GitHub site at : https://github.com/ayecka http://www.java.com To use this utility you need Java installed ( You can either run Sr1Control.jar directly or use the sample command script, suitable edited, although that should not be necessary.
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide From the SR1 Controller Settings you can also: Telnet to the device Software Update Support Dump That creates a SupportDump.txt file with the following info : Software Version = 1.05b255 Hardware Version = 2.00...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide RX1 22K = 0 SN = 111700 RX1 FreqOffset = -1237 RX1 BER = 0 Active RX = 1 RX1 SR = 32995947 RX1 Power Level = -220...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide TELLICAST AND SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SETUP Tellicast Setup After the steps above have been completed, the Tellicast application must be given the fixed IP from which the data can be taken: Into the configuration file recv.ini the “interface_address”...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide System Configuration Setup under Linux In order to allow unrestricted multicast from network interfaces under Linux reception host, login as root and update (if needed) the sysctl parameters as follow: # vi /etc/sysctl.conf...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Satellite link. Packets distained to the CPU air IP address will be delivered ONLY to the CPU and not forwarded to the LAN. CC-F6-7A-04- Air Ethernet Address CA-B8 ...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 9.2.1 Direct connection and static IP In order to allow the Tellicast client application to receive multicast data packets, the static IP Address of the reception host network interface used to receive the multicast data packets from SR1 must be set into recv.ini (interface_address=<local IP>).
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/730927 v3F e-signed, 15 April 2016 Ayecka SR1 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 9.2.3 SR1 as Switch SR1 can be used as switch to connect the reception host to other hosts (DHCP server, LAN...): The Traffic and Mgmt Multicast are enabled;...
(1) No signal (green LED not showing lock) a) Antenna pointing/cable/connector problem b) Ayecka SR1 mis-configured, e.g the incorrect profile has been selected c) The wrong RF input has been used and or selected as the active device (2) Errors showing on Statistics page (a) Check the antenna, LNB and dish pointing accuracy.
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