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Summary of Contents for Inovonics HD Radio SiteStreamer+ SOFIA 568
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- Page 4 HD Radio Technology is manufactured under license from iBiquity Digital Corporation. U.S. and Foreign Patents apply. For patents see http://patents.dts.com/. HD Radio and the HD, HD Radio and “ARC” logos are registered trademarks of iBiquity Digital Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Section I – INTRODUCTION SOFIA 568 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ‘SiteStreamers’ Defined ................6 Product Features ..................6 SOFIA 568 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Specifications.................... 7 Block Diagram ................... 8 Section II – INSTALLATION GENERAL Unpacking and Inspection ................ 9 MOUNTING, POWER AND ENVIRONMENT Rack Requirement.................. - Page 6 GETTING UP AND RUNNING The Main Menu ..................15 Finding the SOFIA 568’s IP Address ............15 Assigning a Fixed IP Address ..............15 Connecting to the SOFIA 568 ..............15 NOW PLAYING Remote Listening ..................16 ‘VU’ Meter ....................17 Signal Metrics..................
- Page 7 Security and Passwords ................. 37 Signing In ....................37 Lost Password (Hard Reset) ..............38 The Hardware Profile ................38 Reboot ..................... 38 Updating Firmware .................. 39 ‘About’ Info ....................39 INOVONICS WARRANTY .......... (INSIDE BACK COVER) — 5 —...
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Page 8: Section I - Introduction
The SOFIA 568 can display HD Radio ‘Listener Experi- ence’ graphics, and provide a signal data and image history of an entire broadcast day. Leading features of the Inovonics SOFIA 568 include: Product Features All-digital “SDR” (Software-Defined Radio) off-air re- ception of analog-FM and HD Radio programs HD1- HD8. -
Page 9: Sofia 568 Technical Specifications
SOFIA 568 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Tuning Range: 87.5MHz-107.9MHz in Alarms: 100kHz steps Audio Loss: Alarm responds to the moni- tored service (FM or HD Radio). Alarm Antenna Input: 75-ohm (BNC) On/Off thresholds and Time On/Off in- Sensitivity/SNR: 10dBuV required for 50dB tervals are programmable. -
Page 10: Block Diagram
BLOCK DIAGRAM The SOFIA 568 incorporates a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) receiver, and other elements in its design that make the product almost entirely DSP- based. Virtually all functionality is provided through firmware coding. The Block Diagram presented here illustrates product basics in an easily- understood form, although actual signal paths and logical functions may deviate appreciably from the signal paths shown. -
Page 11: Section Ii - Installation
MOUNTING, POWER AND ENVIRONMENT The optional 1U rack-mount chassis will accommodate either Rack one or two half-rack Inovonics modules, or one half-rack and Requirement one one-third-rack size in the INOmini series. Consuming little power, the SOFIA 568 itself generates negligi- Heat Dissipation ble heat, thus no noisy internal fan and bothersome filter. -
Page 12: Ac Mains Power
The SOFIA 568 is provided with an external, inline ‘universal’ AC Mains Power switching power supply that accommodates mains voltages be- tween 88VAC and 264VAC. Self-protection circuits obviate the need for an external fuse. The power supply has a detachable IEC-type power cord fitted with a North-American-standard male plug. -
Page 13: Unbalanced Operation
If the analog line outputs of the SOFIA 568 are connected to Unbalanced low-level, unbalanced inputs of consumer-grade equipment, Operation connect the center conductor of the shielded output lead to Pin 2 of the XLR connector and the shield to Pin 1. Leave Pin 3 un- connected. -
Page 14: Section Iii - Setup And Operation
Section III SETUP AND OPERATION PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ‘Boot’ (startup) time of SOFIA 568 is about five seconds. When Quick Boot power is first applied, or following a power interruption, the unit is back in full operation very quickly. Setup and reception parameters in use previous to the power glitch are reloaded in- stantly from non-volatile memory into the processing core. -
Page 15: The Back Button
made into memory automatically, or simply ‘deselect’ the high- lighted item if it has not been altered. BACK button B will always return you to the previous menu The BACK screen. Push it repeatedly to go back to the Main Menu shown Button in the illustration. - Page 16 Menu Titles are shown here in a font similar to the OLED display font. Primary menu items are against the left margin and sub- menu levels are indented appropriately. Menu items shown here are tagged to show whether the item is a readout (display) of some parameter, or if it accepts some form of user entry (data entry).
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Page 17: Getting Up And Running
GETTING UP AND RUNNING Some of this information echoes instructions found in the Quick Start Guide (QSG) that accompanies the SOFIA 568. Push the BACK button until The Main Menu you see the Main Menu on the OLED display. This is the ‘gateway’... -
Page 18: Now Playing
The ‘responsive’ design of the SOFIA 568 Web interface pro- vides an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of de- vices, such as desktop computers, tablets, and mobile phones. SOFIA 568 Webpages feature the unabridged Main Menu on the left-hand side of the screen. -
Page 19: Vu' Meter
The independent AoIP audio streaming provision is discussed separately on Page 33. As explained earlier, SOFIA 568 metering is peak-responding. ‘VU’ Meter The Web interface display follows the 10-segment front-panel LED bar readout; see Page 13 for additional details. Metering with higher resolution is displayed on the Graphs &... -
Page 20: Tuning And Program Selection
station Name: and Slogan:, and the Artist: and Title: of the song currently playing. The SOFIA 568 is easily tuned from the front panel Tuner menu, Tuning and or from the Tuner section of the Now Playing Webpage. Program Overtype an FM frequency into the box to the right of Frequency Selection (MHz): or you can grab the slider knob and drag it back and forth. -
Page 21: The Listener Experience
ing the program audio. This is not a consideration for analog- FM-only broadcasts, but if even one HD program is included in the Preset Stations listing, then timing must be set for a mini- mum of 30 seconds, 60 seconds to be absolutely sure. There are additional alarm setup considerations when using the StationRotation feature;... -
Page 22: Graphics Error Reporting
Click the little dots below the images to scroll through the pre- vious 17 Artist Experience graphic images. Hover over any image to bring up image specifications as shown in the right-hand screenshot above. These specs define the received image file. The SOFIA 568 has built-in diagnostics to let you know when an Image Error off-air image does not meet HD Radio Specification for images... -
Page 23: Additional Image Data
The Listener Experience display for other HD Radio channels this station carries will be presented in like manner. Remember that any transmitted HD channel must be selected at the top of the page before it will be presented. Additional information relating to received image files is found Additional under HD Info / Programs/ Image Data. -
Page 24: The Bandscanner™ Utility
The upper graph shows Left and Right program channel levels over the selected time period. These levels reflect the unit’s peak-weighted metering, and although they do not represent true loudness, one can get a pretty good idea of program audio density from this plot. -
Page 25: Rds Info
Every FM carrier found is displayed as a vertical bar, the height indicating the relative signal strength in dBµV per the annota- tion to the left of the plot. Had this scan been done in the sim- ple RSSI: mode, all stations would show up as yellow bars. By ‘hovering’... -
Page 26: Rds Data Display
The top area of the screen shows the most important blocks of RDS data: the static or scrolling PS; the PI Code, either assigned Data Display or, in the US and Canada, derived from the Callsign; RadioText and its interactive RT+1 and RT+2 derivatives; plus the various IDs and ‘flags’... -
Page 27: Alarm Status
the plot is capable of displaying only a certain number of events. Just below the rolling graphic display of Image Data, the information is further clarified in tabular form. The tabulation assigns absolute values to Packet Size, Segment # and Time. This tabulation is ‘rolling’... -
Page 28: Audio Loss
Alarm conditions must first be set-up as described in the re- mainder of this section. Following that, the email/SMS messag- ing and rear-panel GPO tallies may be programmed. These pro- cedures will be described in the Setup and Email Webpage dis- cussions, respectively. -
Page 29: Rds Alarm
(dBuV): set points are programmed in much the same manner as the audio-loss alarm example above. There are two Off / On settings for RDS errors. Turning RDS RDS Alarm Loss: On delivers an alarm when the RDS subcarrier simply goes missing. -
Page 30: Hd Logo Alarm
Artist: the Title: or the Album: field(s) for the specified HD pro- gram does not receive an update in the Time On (Min): period. This feature is very similar to the RadioText Not Updated alarm for analog FM discussed above, except that it is a common alarm for all HD channels transmitted. -
Page 31: Setup
You can View Alarm Log on your screen and even filter the re- sults by overtyping Filter alarms… with a search term from the appropriate column. You may also download the Alarm Logs for Daily, Weekly, Month- ly or Complete (all alarms) time periods. The number of alarms received for these time periods is also shown here. - Page 32 2.5dB lower than the figure shown. However, the concept of 600-ohm sources and terminations in professional audio prac- tices date back to the days of transformer coupling, leased telephone lines and ‘repeat coils,’ and the notion of impedance matching is nowadays generally disregarded. Also with regard to the analog output level, the dBu notations beside the slider actually refer to the r.m.s.
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Page 33: General Purpose Outputs
As already stated, the SOFIA 568 can accommodate as many as 10 simultaneous Web listeners. This number can be truncated, however, in the interest of better streaming service to fewer authorized listeners. The Max Listeners: slider can be set be- tween 0 and 10. -
Page 34: Http Port
Overtype the default Hostname: using all-capital letters and without using spaces. Be sure to click the Save bar at the bot- tom once all entries are finalized. The default HTTP Port: 80 is commonly used when accessing HTTP Port networked equipment like the SOFIA 568 on a local network (LAN). -
Page 35: Dante
to your IT department; explanations and instructions are avail- able from multiple Web resources. ® DANTE The term Dante® refers to networking technology developed by the Australian firm, Audinate Pty. Ltd. It enables simple conec- tion with other Dante-equipped devices, and gives AES67 AoIP (Audio over Internet Protocol) compliance and interoperability among a wide range of pro-AV products. -
Page 36: The Dante Controller
The Dante Controller is a free software utility available from The Dante Audinate, the firm that developed Dante. It is an essential Controller software means of finding, setting-up and controlling Dante- enabled devices on your network. It may be downloaded for operation under either Windows or Macintosh operating sys- tems from the following link. -
Page 37: The Mib File
The MIB File is a small text file required by the SNMP Manager. The MIB File Click: Download MIB to save this file using the usual Windows methods. The MIB file is in plain text with a .mib extension, and may be read with Windows Notepad. NOTE: This is an abbreviated discussion of SNMP operation. -
Page 38: Notifications (Send What)
the Web, or you can check with the wireless carrier to confirm the proper addressing style for Internet texting delivery. When all recipients have been entered, click Save. You may al- so click Send Test Email, which will message all recipients to confirm proper communications setup. -
Page 39: Time Server
RTC Battery: voltage drops to 2V. We have provided a reliable default time server, which is Time Server 1.inovonics.pool.org. If you must change the server because of some corporate edict, overtype the Server: entry with your al- ternate and click Save. -
Page 40: Lost Password (Hard Reset)
User Name: and enter the password into the Password: field, then click OK. NOTE: A ‘hard reset’ is required to bypass a local or a Web in- Lost Password terface password. This must be done at the installation site! A (Hard Reset) hard reset not only deletes the password, but will also return the SOFIA 568 to all-factory-default settings. -
Page 41: Updating Firmware
Profile download first might be a good idea. SOFIA 568 firmware includes the Web interface pages, and up- Updating dates are easily uploaded to the unit when issued by Inovonics. Firmware NOTE: We recommend saving a fresh Hardware Profile, as a firmware update may affect user settings. - Page 42 ning since power was last applied. You also may click Check for Updates to see if a new version of the firmware has been issued. — 40 —...
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Page 43: Inovonics Warranty
INOVONICS WARRANTY TERMS OF SALE: Inovonics products are sold with an understand- ing of “full satisfaction”; that is, full credit or refund will be issued for products sold as new if returned to the point of purchase within 30 days following their receipt, provided that they are returned complete and in an “as received”...
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