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SYSTEM INSTALLATION GUIDE
Version 1.0
September 14, 2012

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  • Page 1 SYSTEM INSTALLATION GUIDE Version 1.0 September 14, 2012...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1 Introduction Applicability ........Target audience .
  • Page 3 ....... . . 63 12.3 EPG: Importing XMLTV data into the SnapTV EPG server Configuring the gate- way for using an XMLTV EPG source .
  • Page 4 17 Indices and tables Index...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    CHAPTER Introduction Dear Customer, thank you for selecting SnapTV equipment for your IPTV operation. Please follow this installation manual carefully during installation of your equipment. 1.1 Applicability This Installation Guide is applicable to • SnapTV 360GBPX Combo • SnapTV 360GBPX GW Maxi •...
  • Page 7 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 • http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4 Also, man pages are part of the SnapTV Linux distribution whenever you need detailed infor- mation on the command syntax of relevant utilities. Chapter 1. Introduction...

  • Page 8: Getting Started

    CHAPTER Getting started 2.1 First time power up Connect both power cables to the unit and to 220VAC wall outlets. Switch both switches on the power supplies to the 1 position. Thereafter, switch the unit on by pressing the toggle switch on the front panel.

  • Page 9: Setting New Passwords

    For more details about the passwd command, type man passwd at the shell prompt. 2.3.2 Creating admin user for accessing the web interface Example: ~# /opt/snaptv/bin/create_admin_user.pm <username> <password> <real name> Creating user <username> (admin) with password <pasword>...

  • Page 10: Network Configuration

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 2.5 Network configuration 2.5.1 Default settings Your unit has two network interfaces, named eth0 and eth1 as labeled at the rear of the server. In a typical configuration, eth1 will be used for external connection, providing Internet access, while eth0 is connected to the local network where the radio and TV channels are to be multi- casted.
  • Page 11 Multicast traffic is routed to the interface selected by the multicast route. By default this is eth0. The default multicast route then looks like the following: routes_eth0=("-net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0"). 2.5.5 Checking the routing tables Use the command route to check the routing table of your SnapTV gateway. Chapter 2. Getting started...
  • Page 12 This is done through the Network Time Protocol. As long as the SnapTV unit has access to the Internet, this will work transparently. Should this option not be available, an NTP server should be made available to the SnapTV unit on the local network.

  • Page 13: Assigning Hostname

    Note: If you change the hostname and the new hostname does not have a valid entry in the configured DNS, you have to add an alias for it in the file /etc/hosts, or the SnapTV web interface will not work.

  • Page 14: Accessing The Web Interface

    CHAPTER Accessing the web interface Administration of the SnapTV units is primarily done through the web interface available on the unit. Now that we have done the basics in a terminal window, we can move on and set up the rest of the services.
  • Page 15 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 • Configure Host IP, see section Host IP The following chapters describe how you can use the web interface to administer your SnapTV unit. Chapter 3. Accessing the web interface...

  • Page 16: Manage Inputs

    CHAPTER Manage inputs In this section we will explain how to connect various input sources and configure them to become TV channels. 4.1 Numbering of the input sources The input devices will be numbered from 1 to 12, please observe input card numbering on the rear of the gateway.

  • Page 17: Terrestrial Connection

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 4.3 Terrestrial connection Each DVB-T input has a standard IEC 169 connector (also called Belling-Lee or TV Aerial Plug). 4.4 CA modules Some DVB inputs, depending on configuration, have an associated CAM slot to descramble pay TV channels.
  • Page 18 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 You are represented with a table of available inputs cards in the server that can be tuned up. You can click on any input, the numbering of the inputs will align with the physical labeling on the rear of your unit.
  • Page 19 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 4. Manage inputs...

  • Page 20: Manage Live Signals

    CHAPTER Manage live signals 5.1 List and edit channels TV and Radio channel can be found on seperate pages. TV channels can be displayed by clicking in menu Manage Live signals List TV channels. Radio channels can be displayed by clicking in menu Manage Live signals List Radio channels.
  • Page 21 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 5.1.2 Edit channel information If you need to change the channel name, its address, override the TTL for the channel or edit channel ID, you must use this form to do it. Click OK to save. 5.1.3 Channel descrambling Channel descrambling will, if enabled, use a CA module and smart card inserted into the tuner to descramble the channel before multicasting to the internal network.
  • Page 22 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 • Teletext • Video • Other For each group several selectins are available. Up to 10 languages can be set up in the “Drop all except filter” (Keep filter) for each component. The main selection for each group consists of 4 choices: Drop “none - all - all except - all scrambled except”.

  • Page 23: Add Channel From Input

    5.1.5 Multicast Monitoring See section Monitoring. 5.2 Add channel from input Follow these steps to add channels from a physical input of your SnapTV Gateway product. 1. Click Manage inputs List inputs. Then you should see a menu looking something like this: 2.
  • Page 24 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 3. You decide to add some of the interesting international channels on 11597000 MHz. 4. After clicking Tune!, you should get a list of channels at the given transponder, looking something like this: 5. Enter a multicast address and port for the channels you want to add. You can click on the wand icon to the right to get a suggested value.
  • Page 25 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 6. Now click Add selected channels. After a few seconds the TV channels will be listed in the web interface and the dot behind each channel should change color from red to green, indicating that “channel status” is OK. 5.2.2 DVB-T Follow these steps to add channels from a DVB-T transponder: 1.

  • Page 26: Stream Full Transport Stream From Input

    This channel will not be streamed by the SnapTV equipment, but it will be listed in the clients channel list together with the channels streamed by the SnapTV gateways. It will also be possible to select this channel for recording on an a SnapTV nPVR unit.

  • Page 27: New Looped File Channel

    5. Click OK. 5.5 New looped file channel The SnapTV Gateway can stream “simulated” channels by looping a stored file. To do this a broadcast quality mpeg2 single program transport stream is needed. The file should have no discontinuities.

  • Page 28: Manage Content

    CHAPTER Manage content 6.1 VoD 6.1.1 How to enable VoD 1. Enter the web interface 2. Click in menu Manage content -> VoD 3. Click Enable here under VoD Host 6.1.2 How to add VoD Content • Add some categories •...
  • Page 29 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 6.2.1 Download and install install VLC The version that is known to work well is the 0.8.6i version of VLC. • vlc-0.8.6i-win32.exe – http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6i/win32/ 6.2.2 Instructions how to use VLC Put a DVD in the DVD drive of the PC. Open the menu File >...
  • Page 30 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Select Disc type DVD, try different titles and press OK to watch the selected title. One of the titles, normally title no. 1, is the Feature film. The other titles contain bonus material and so-forth. 6.2.
  • Page 31 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 To transcode the selected title, tick off Stream/Save and press Settings... 1. Under Outputs, select File and choose a file name for the produced transport stream file. 2. Under Encapulation Method, select MPEG TS 3. Under Transcoding options, select Subtitles codec, dvbs 4.

  • Page 32: Mini Browser

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 6.3 Mini Browser Pages To see this browser in the portal, you must first enable the Content server in the webinterface. Read more about how to do that here: Mini browser server 6.3.1 Add pages •...
  • Page 33 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 6. Manage content...

  • Page 34: Manage Recording

    CHAPTER Manage recording To use the Network PVR functionality you need a nPVR ISRV-1234A or a nPVR GHI-480 with some configured channels. Usually this is done by combining the nPVR unit with one or more GW 360GBPX units in a cluster and setting up some channels from these units (see chapters DHCP Add channel from input).

  • Page 35: Configure Recorder Manager

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 The recorder should now start storing the multicast from these channels to disk. The recorder will use EPG info for the channel to record one file per program. If no EPG data is available the channel the nPVR unit will record one hour per file. These will be presented as “Timed recording”...
  • Page 36 3. Click on Enable here / Disable to turn on/off the service. If you already have a nPVR Manager service running on a different SnapTV server, you can point to it by entering its IP address under the Specify other nPVR Manager host heading below and click OK.
  • Page 37 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 7. Manage recording...

  • Page 38: Content Provisioning Server

    CHAPTER Content Provisioning Server In order to provide end-user access to content such as nPVR or VoD, the SnapTV software stack uses the Content Provisioning Server which can provide selective access to services based on user subscriptions and other metadata.
  • Page 39 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 8. Content Provisioning Server...

  • Page 40: Client Provisioning

    Here you can instruct the gateway you are currently logged into to be the bootcast server by clicking the Enable here link under the Amino heading. If you have more than one SnapTV gateway in a group (see section DHCP) you can alternatively enter the IP address of another SnapTV gateway to act as bootcast server under Specify other amino host and press the OK button next to it.

  • Page 41: Standard

    Motorola STB’s by the multicast based infocast service. In order to avoid conflicting infocasts when several SnapTV products are present in the network, the unit which is to run infocast must be explicitly instructed to do so. In the web interface, click Client provisioning Standard to bring up a configuration menu like this:...
  • Page 42 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 NOTE: Reboot all STBs button can be found on administration page of gateway where Infocast is defined. 9.2. Standard...
  • Page 43 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 9. Client provisioning...

  • Page 44: System Configuration

    CHAPTER System configuration 10.1 Network 10.1.1 Host IP Warning: If you change the IP address you have to do a Configuration remap afterwards. Also remeber that the STBs will not receive new network settings until the end of the lease time and a reboot of the STBs might be necessary.
  • Page 45 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 The new address is enabled, with a timeout set to 45 seconds after which the original address will be restored if the new address is not confirmed. You have to authenticate to the server with its new address and press the confirmation button to make the new IP address permanent.
  • Page 46 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 10.1.3 DHCP In order for STB’s to recevie network settings, a DHCP server must be present in the local network, and the gateway can function as a DHCP server. The DHCP server is started by clicking System configuration Network DHCP able here.
  • Page 47 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 • Subnet • Netmask • Range • Default gateway • NTP server: Network Time Protocol server IP address. This is required for the set-top boxes to have the correct time. Normally, this is the same as the DHCP server. •...

  • Page 48: Cluster

    10.2 Cluster Sometimes it is needed to run several SnapTV servers together on a single site. These can be grouped into a cluster. The cluster has a shared configuration file so that you can have a single channel list with channels originating from one or more servers.

  • Page 49: Mini Browser Server

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 The servers are now authenticated to share each other’s configuration. Each server should show the other server under “Peered/known Servers” with hostname, Identifier fingerprint and a configuration version. The format of the line is: <hostname> (<Identifier>) (<Configuration version>): <Fingerprint>...

  • Page 50: Epg Service

    What you have done so far is only to enable the Electronic Program Guide service as such; you have not yet defined the sources of data for the service. The SnapTV system supports aggregation of EPG data from the Event Information Tables (EIT) that are embedded in the DVB transport streams, and import from XMLTV.
  • Page 51 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 You enable EIT aggregation on a per transponder basis in the DVB card page. 1. Click Manage inputs List inputs in the menu 2. Select a tuned DVB input from the list (see Add channel from input) 3.

  • Page 52: Monitoring

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 10.5 Monitoring With your SnapTV comes the feature to monitor different services. For instance can EPG data for a specific channel be monitored and send e-mail notification when something is wrong. Through the web interface, you can turn on monitoring for different services in your SnapTV unit.
  • Page 53 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 10.5.2 Signal strength monitoring Go to Manage inputs List inputs, then click on a tuned transponder to see tuning infor- mation. Below channels tuned, just above Conditional access module, you will see a header Signal strength Monitoring. Click the drop down menu to choose your level of monitoring. Click OK button.
  • Page 54 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 10.5.3 Multicast monitoring To always be sure that a channel is multicasting, click Manage live signals List channels. Choose a channel to monitor and click Edit behind the channel. You are presented with a page with channel information and at the bottom of the page you can turn on/off Multicast Monitoring for the channel.

  • Page 55: Portal

    10.6.1 Portal Host In order to have clients such as Motorola boxes, Amino boxes or PanelPCs to boot the Portal software, this service must be running on one of the SnapTV servers in your network. To enable this service click System configuration Portal and select the Enable here link under the Portal Host heading.
  • Page 56 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 10.6.4 Factory settings The factory settings page is available after portal is installed. In clustered system this menu is accessible only form servers where the portal package is installed (normally only from the server where it is enabled). Factory settings is used to set up default setting for the set-tob boxes (STB).
  • Page 57 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 In some portal versions it is not possible to alter many of these settings because the Settings menu is not available in the portal menu. It is also easier to set default values in the admin interface instead of manually do it on every STB.

  • Page 58: Set Time Zone

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 What subtitle language to use as standard if the TV channel broadcast subtitles in more than one language. Alernate subtitle language If the standard subtitle language is not available, this will, if available, be used instead. Audio mode If you connect additional sound equipment to the STB, set the output mode to “Digital”...

  • Page 59: Audio Media Player

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 To enable this service click System configuration Unicast radio services, check the checkbox called Run and click OK. 10.9 Audio Media Player Audio Media Player enabled squeezebox provisioning. This provides squeezebox devices with a list of URLs pointing to the unicast radio service. To enable this service click System configuration Audio Media Player, check the check- box called Select this host and click OK.
  • Page 60 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 The channel_admin can set up input cards and looped file channels. The content_admin can manage recordings and VoDs, monitor live channels and set up looped file channels. The admin role has access to all parts of the system. A new user can be created by filling in the form at System configuration Manage admin- istrators.

  • Page 61: Configuration Profiles

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 10.10.2 Maintain users A table gives an overview of all created users. By pressing the view link of a user, details about this user are shown and can be altered. The user can be removed, the Name can be changed, the password can be overwritten by a new and the role can be changed.

  • Page 62: Setting Up Ssl

    Note that upon turning on SSL authentication, your browser is likely to give you a security violation. This results from the browser not being aware of default certificate that SnapTV has self signed. You can either except the certificate by overriding the violation and downloading the certificate or upload a trusted certificate.
  • Page 63 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 10. System configuration...

  • Page 64: System Information

    CHAPTER System information 11.1 License To list your license information click System information License in the menu. To renew your license, you simply need to click the “Renew” button found at the same page, underneath the license information. See image below. If you have no internet connection or if license request fails you could click “Try again”...

  • Page 65: List Versions

    • Click “Upload license” • Choose a file from your computer • Press the “Upload” button 11.2 List versions This is a list of the versions of the installed software in your SnapTV unit. 11.3 System status Chapter 11. System information...
  • Page 66 When you are experiencing a problem with your server, and you don’t know what is causing the problem, you should contact support at SnapTV. Do this is by clicking System information System status in the left menu and at the bottom of the screen you will see a section called Mail to support.
  • Page 67 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 11. System information...

  • Page 68: Console: Advanced Configuration

    If you’re working from Microsoft Windows, PuTTY is a popular remote shell client that can be used to open a connection to the SnapTV server. Download it at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html 12.2 Using the Nano editor...

  • Page 69: Epg: Importing Xmltv Data Into The Snaptv Epg Server Configuring The Gate- Way For Using An Xmltv Epg Source

    12.3 EPG: Importing XMLTV data into the SnapTV EPG server Con- figuring the gateway for using an XMLTV EPG source The SnapTV EPG server comes with support for importing data in XMLTV format. It does not, at the moment, contain support for mapping the channel id’s used by a particular XMLTV source to the internal channel id’s used by the SnapTV Gateway.

  • Page 70: Epg: Importing Xmltv Data

    To import a file containing XMLTV data: • Log into the gateway • Copy or download the XMLTV file • Run the following commands, replacing /PATH/TO/YOUR/XMLTV_FILE with the actual path to the XMLTV file: /opt/snaptv/epg perl -MLibSnap::EPG -e ’LibSnap::EPG::cleanup()’ perl -MLibSnap::EPG -e ’LibSnap::EPG::xmltv_loadfile("/PATH/TO/YOUR/XMLTV_FILE")’...
  • Page 71 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 12. Console: Advanced configuration...

  • Page 72: Paga Mute

    When the Mute feature is required, the short-cicruit must be broken. When the SnapTV gateway has been configured to connect to the IO box, PAGA Mute will automatically mute all connected Set Top Boxes for as long as the short-circuit is broken.
  • Page 73 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 13. PAGA Mute...

  • Page 74: Squeezecenter

    CHAPTER SqueezeCenter 14.1 Play radio channels on your Squeezebox Using the audio media player server it’s possible to play radio channels using a Squeezebox. In the examples below the server has the IP address 10.0.0.5. Change this to your servers IP address.

  • Page 75: Setting Up The Server To Play Mp3 Files

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 1. Navigate to: http://10.0.0.5:9000 2. Click Settings in the bottom right corner. 3. Click the SqueezeNetwork tab to log in. 4. Create a user if you not already got one. 5. Click Apply link in bottom right corner. 14.3 Setting up the server to play mp3 files Log into the server either through SSH (using a PuTTY like client or a linux shell) or directly on the server using a monitor and keyboard.
  • Page 76 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Just upload mp3 files and folders to this directory and rescan using the button at the same settings tab page. 14.3. Setting up the server to play mp3 files...
  • Page 77 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 14. SqueezeCenter...

  • Page 78: Snapcast Installation And Operation

    15.2.1 Channels SnapCast delivers it’s content in channels. After SnapCast is synced with it’s mothership, you will see which channels are available. Contact your SnapTV representative if there are any channels you are missing, for example the Video on Demand channel.
  • Page 79 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 • Is subscribed: If you have actively selected the channel for subscription. • Quality: This defines how high quality the videos will be downloaded to. Use low quality when you want to get the feeds fast(f.x. newscasts) or if your connections is slow. •...

  • Page 80: Troubleshooting Snapcast

    System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 15.3 Troubleshooting SnapCast a good start is: tail /opt/snaptv/var/log/snapcast-debug.log report what you see back to support. 15.3.1 Gateway not registered in repository to register a gw in a snapcast repository, do the following: 1. login to the snapcast repository you are using.
  • Page 81 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 15. SnapCast installation and operation...

  • Page 82: Final Notes

    Well, that’s it. If you made it this far, you are up and running with an IPTV service. Now proceed to add the remaining channels - we hope you make a good fortune out of it and want to thank you for selecting SnapTV! Regards, the SnapTV TEAM, August 2011. • support@snap.tv •...
  • Page 83 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 16. Final Notes...
  • Page 84 CHAPTER Indices and tables • genindex • modindex • search...
  • Page 85 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Chapter 17. Indices and tables...
  • Page 86 Index Add channel, Default gateway, Add external multicast, Default settings, Add looped file channel, Descrambling, Admin, DHCP, 5, Administration, DHCP server, Amino, 35, DNS, Analog source, DNS server, Analog sources, DVB, Audio language, DVB-C, Audio media player, DVB-S, 11, Audio Media Player Server, DVB-S2, 11, Audio streaming, 53, DVB-T, 11,...
  • Page 87 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Input, PIMD server, Input card, Polarity, Installation, 1, Portal, Installed software, Portal Debug, IP address, 5, Portal Host, IP settings, Power up, Provisioning, 33, Keyboard, PuTTY, Keymaps, Radio, 53, Language, Reboot, License, Record channel, List channel, Recorder, Logging, RecorderManager,...
  • Page 88 System Installation Guide, Release 1.0 Tuning data, UHF transponders, Unicast, 53, Unicast Radio Server, Unicast radio services, Upload, Upload license, Uptime, user, Username, username, Using nano, Versions, Video on demand (VoD), Video source, VLC, VoD, Wand, Warning messages, Web browser, Web pages, 27, Webinterface, XMLTV,...

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