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- Page 1 MX-400HY Installation & Operations Manual Software Revision 1.16.5 West Pond Enterprises, LLC 5/16/2018...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Revision History ............................3 Related documentation ..........................3 Terms and terminology ..........................3 MX-400HY ..............................3 MX-400HY Hardware ..........................5 MX-400HY Software ..........................5 Setting up the system ........................... 5 Unpacking the unit ............................ 5 Installing in the rack ..........................6 Making the connections .......................... - Page 3 Info ..............................19 Tools ..............................20 Appendix A – Quick Start Help ........................21 Confidential Page 2...
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Page 4: Revision History
RTSP security camera TV channels, multi-media advertisement, and venue wide display controls. This document will help you get the MX-400HY up and running quickly. For your convenience a quick start section is provide at the end of this document. See Appendix A – Quick Start Help. For more information please contact West Pond Enterprises sales or support. - Page 5 Integrating these components together not only reduces the cost and space required to host the system, it enables advanced features and simplifies overall operation. A single UI allows you to manage the entire system. Here’s a list of standard equipment the MX-400HY replaces.
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Page 6: Mx-400Hy Hardware
MX-400HY WebUI is accessible via any device with a web browser. Setting up the system Unpacking the unit The MX-400HY is a tightly integrated solution. The box is supplied with a power cable, and adapter cables for the component, composite and S-Video connections. Confidential... -
Page 7: Installing In The Rack
Installing in the rack The MX-400 is a standard 19” 1RU AV rack mounted (round hole) device. Air flow for cooling the devices is moved from front to back and it can be used in slots adjacent to other devices. Mount the device using 4 front panel screws, connect the power to the rear of the unit. -
Page 8: Configuring The System
Configuring the system The MX-400 basic system configuration is performed using the front panel. Software features are configured using the MX-400 Web UI. Front panel Use the front panel of the MX-400 to check system status, configure each of the MX-400 network ports, and reset the WebUI admin password. -
Page 9: Accessing The Webui
To set the MX-400 WebUI password to factory defaults, select “Reset Auth” from the system menu. Use the CH up/down buttons to the left of the right screen to scroll through the video inputs configured via the Web UI. The video monitoring screen shows a scaled replica of each enabled TS multiplexor input source. -
Page 10: Overview
inappropriate for your installation and may need reconfiguring. In this section we will review how to make small changes to these settings to get your system running as quickly as possible. Overview The top level page of the WebUI provides an overview of the MX-400 scalable multiplexor. -
Page 11: Network Sources
Network Sources Network sources are shown on the Sources>Network tab. To add a network source, click “New Source”. Specify a friendly name for the new source, this will be used on other pages of this webUI. If subscribing to a multicast stream, specify the multicast IP address –... -
Page 12: Video Wrapper
Use these web pages to change the characteristics of the presentation. A help system is included. The MX-400HY system will be preloaded with a few useful templates. Confidential Page 11... - Page 13 While presentations themselves can control the HTML content on the screen, a second layer of control is provided via Playlists. Playlist provide the MX-400HY administrator with a mechanism for changing presentations over time. For example, perhaps the morning presentation contains breakfast and lunch offering while and afternoon and evening presentation shows dinner and after hours dining information.
- Page 14 seconds where 0 is midnight) and stop time. The default settings, 0 and 86400 Seconds, will allow the playlist to be active continuously. When you edit the playlist content a dialog box is presented. This dialog box allows you to add and delete entries to the playlist, specify how long each presentation will be active in the playlist, create presentation gaps (full screen video) in the playlist, and change the sequence in which the playlists are...
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Page 15: Outputs
Outputs An Output is a multiplexed TS output which exits the MX-400 on a physical transport such as a modulator, ASI port, or Ethernet port. As this is a software multiplexor, there is no specified limit to the number of outputs. From a practical perspective, it’s best to limit the bandwidth consumed by the sum total of all outputs to less than 500... -
Page 16: Mdx00
targeting receiving devices. For example, if the IP output is feeding an edge QAM modulator for the US market, select US Cable for signaling. A playlist.m3u file that describes all of the multicast outputs can be downloaded by clicking on the playlist icon. For IPTV networks, session announcement protocol (SAP ) is supported and included in the stream when enabled. -
Page 17: Oversubscribing The Transport
to manually set the program number for this program use this field. If not using the “auto” selection for this field, be sure to choose the program number carefully, there cannot be any duplicate program numbers in a given transport. The PMT pid and Elements are for expert use only and should almost always be “auto”. -
Page 18: Display Controls
West Pond RX device such as the RX-WP100. Each receiver must first be registered with the MX-400HY before it can receive commands. Select the “Displays” tab and click on to start. Type in the Serial number located on the bottom of the RX device or via the on screen display. -
Page 19: System
configuration setting is the channel map chosen. The default is US Cable TV. The monitor will tune to each of the frequencies in the chosen channel map and report the status. An empty row indicates an unused frequency. The caution icon indicates the presence of some signal, perhaps noise or an unknown... -
Page 20: Accounts
Timezone: Use the icon to set the timezone in which the server is being used. This is very important when scheduling playback and other time critical WebUI features. FlexDM remote management: West Pond’s remote management allows authorized personel to access the web UI of this, and other West Pond devices, via a cloud hosted web service. - Page 21 Tools These are tools that are used to maintain the system state. System Config: You may export or import the system configuration at any time. This includes account information, the output configuration, and network settings. It does not currently export the provider settings.
- Page 22 When configuring the Video Server, be sure that your TS files are compatible with the devices receiving the output of the MX-400HY. For example, if using and ATSC modulated output you must use MPEG2 encoded files. ATSC devices will not decode h.264 video.
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