Cables Connections to the receiver ..................5 Status Indicators ........................6 CONFIGURATION ........................... 7 Novra’s Console Software and Access to the Receiver ............7 Receiver Configuration ......................9 Verify the applied Configuration ................... 11 Disable High Volume Service ....................14 Verify Signal and Connection ....................
The purpose of this manual is to guide a user through the minimum necessary steps to allow the reception of EUMETCast data (DVB-S and DVB-S2) on the Novra S300N or S300E DVB receivers. The base operating system used for this procedure is Windows (Win7,Win8, ...).
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Novra S300 back Panel Status Indicators The status indicators must be as follow: Power: Lock: Green Data: Blue LED (will blink every ½ second if traffic is flowing) ...
Novra’s Console Software and Access to the Receiver Console software is provided by Novra and can be used to configure the S300. The S300 Console software (Novra Mgmt Vx.y) is supplied as a single executable. Therefore, it is easy to install on different systems. All you need to do is copy the executable to your working directory.
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(since it is not on your LAN), but you can enter the routable IP address of your S300 in the IP box shown in the lower left hand corner of the Managed List screen.
6- According to your system and operating needs you can download on your local PC the appropriate configuration file from ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/OPS/out/user/EUMETCast_Support/EUMETCast_Licence_cd/Windows/DVB_device s/NOVRA/Configuration_Files/ In the above ftp site there are 3 xml configuration files for NOVRA S300 : EUMETCastDVB_NovraS300N_CFG_DVBS2.xml : NOVRA S300N for DVB-S2 reception ...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 7- Click the file drop down menu then “Load Configuration (without network settings)”: Figure 6 Load without network settings Note: The xml configuration file doesn’t contain the network settings session and loading it “with network settings”...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Figure 8 Load Configuration Success Message Verify the applied Configuration The applied configuration must be as follow: 1- From the main menu (see Figure 5) select “Network”: Figure 9 Network Configuration Note: the network configuration can be changed to better fit your network scenario;...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 2- From the main menu select “Satellite” then From “Satellite” menu select “LNB parameters”: Figure 10 Satellite Configuration and LNB parameters for DVB-S2 Reception (Both BS & HVS)
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide 3- From the main menu select “Content”: Figure 101 The Choosen PIDs for DVB-S2 reception (Both BS & HVS) Figure 112 The Choosen PIDs for DVB-S2 reception (BS only) Note: all the parameters shown above can be also manually changed using the above shown menus.
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Disable High Volume Service The High Volume Service requires larger antenna sizes with ~4dB higher gain compared to the Basic Service. It is recommended to disable the High Volume Service if it is not used.
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Verify Signal and Connection Now and after making sure that: The antenna pointing has been performed correctly to EUTELSAT 10A for DVB-S2.( For DVB-S2 reception the antenna pointing and LNB quality is crucial);...
Command Line Tool Command Line Tool is provided by Novra and can be used to monitor the S300. The S300 Command Line Tool is supplied as a single executable. Therefore, it is easy to install on different systems. All you need to do is extract the zip file and copy the executable with the cygwin1.dll to your working directory.
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Figure 17 Command Line Tool Console To monitor the system you have first to login to the device using the following command: CMCS> login 192.168.0.102 (this is the NOVRA S300 IP) Password: (the default is Novra-S2) Figure 18 Command Line Tool Login You can see all the available commands by typing CMCS>...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Some useful Commands CMCS 192.168.0.102> show satellite Figure 20 Command Line Tool “show satellite” Command CMCS 192.168.0.102> show tuner Figure 21 Command Line Tool “show tuner” Command...
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CMCS 192.168.0.102> show traffic Figure 22 Command Line Tool “show traffic” Command There are also a lot of commands that you can use to configure the NOVRA S300 device. More detailes can be found in CMCS300 User Manual, which can be downloaded here: http://novra.com/support/...
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 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/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide System Configuration Setup under Linux In order to allow unrestricted multicast from network interfaces under Linux reception station, login as root and update (if needed) the sysctl parameters as follow: # vi /etc/sysctl.conf...
NETWORK SCENARIOS In order to allow the Tellicast client application to receive the data packets from the Novra, the Ethernet port must be connected to the reception host, this connection can be direct (by connecting the reception host to The receiver using a LAN cable) or indirect (using a switch, router, joining a multicasting network...), this leads to...
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EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide Figure 24 Multiple reception hosts Note: the EUMETCast reception hosts may also belong to different LAN/Net reachable from the receiver through the configured gateway (see Figure 9).
EUM/OPS/MAN/13/736617 v2B e-signed, 15 February 2016 Novra S300 DVB Receiver EUMETCast Setup Guide ACRONYMS Basic Service DVB-S, DVB-S2 Digital Video Broadcast, a broadcast standard Constant Coding and Modulation CMCS Central Management and Control Software EUMETCast EUMETSAT multicast based broadcast system...
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