Easy HD Expressway! HV-110 DVB-T HAM TV Receiver Box Quick Installation Guide PACKAGE CONTENTS FRONT PANEL VIEW BACK PANEL VIEW BOARD VIEW IR REMOTE CONTROLLER-TYPE A FILL BATTERY TO IR CONTROLLERS: AAA X 2 PCS IR REMOTE CONTROLLER-TYPE B REMOVE BATTERY PROTECTOR ...
Easy HD Expressway! Package Contents HV-110 Receiver Box 5V DC adaptor CVBS & Line-out cable Remote Controller (either type A or B) Firmware version code: v0.0.1.72.6 Front Panel View Back Panel View WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Numeric Keys Clear “Back” used for menu or exit OK/Enter And Arrow Keys Volume & Channel Up/Dwon Record/Stop Note: The other keys are not defined Red & Green & Yellow buttons Fill Battery to IR Controllers: AAA x 2 pcs WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
IR Remote Controller-TYPE B Power button Reset to PAL CVBS display mode OK/Enter And Arrow Keys menu and exit keys Note: The other keys are not defined Red & Green & Yellow buttons Remove Battery Protector Remove the thin plastic film WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
First of all, please set the bandwidth first. HV-110 can support 2/3/4 MHz or 5/6/7/8 MHz bandwidth DVB-T signal, but the mode should be selected before power on the box. Bandwidth mode can not be changed after powered on. If you want to change bandwidth support, please power off and power on the receiver box.
CVBS and HDMI RF-in Line-out output Channel Scan It’s necessary to do channel scan in the first time usage. When the box is powered on well, click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Select Installation. There are two modes to scan channel, auto mode or manual mode. The auto scan mode will scan a predefined channel frequency list to find TV service while the manual scan mode scans a channel specified by the user input. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Input the Frequency Type-A RC, you may input with numeric keys (0~9) Type-B RC, please click on Yellow key first, then use arrow keys to edit the start channel frequency. Don't care about “End Frequency", which will be ignored WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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You may adjust antenna direction to optimize the reception here. Press “Enter/OK" to scan the specified channel, it will prompt a message to clear the old program list. You may select “Yes” to continue. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Typical example is that the transmitter is changed from HV-100 to DC-101 or vice versa. When you start to play TV, and the following message pop up, please click on “OK” to do channel scan. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Show Signal Statistics When watching TV, you may click on “Yellow” Key to pop up simple signal statistics for checking the transmission parameters or optimizing antenna direction. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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You click on “Back”/”Exit” or “Yellow” key to close the signal statistics display, and return to TV. You may also click on “Green” Key to pop up detailed signal statistics info, as shown below. “Back”/”Exit” or “Green” key will return to TV. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
Easy HD Expressway! Set Display Preference You may set the display output resolution and aspect ratio in this configuration option. Click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Note 2: Because your HDMI display may not support CVBS display modes, like 720x576i/720x480i, you may fail to set HV-110 720x576i/720x480i mode if your HDMI display attached. You may change another HDMI display. Or, you can try in this way, a.
Click on the “Red” button to start recording. In the upper-left corner, an OSD pops up to show the recording time. Click on the “Red” button again to stop recording. The file recorded can be played in the main menu “Multimedia”. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Easy HD Expressway! Click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu. Select “Meltimedia”. Select “PVR”. The file recorded is in TS format. If you want to play it in Windows environment, it’s recommended to install VLC(http://www.videolan.org/) or MPC-HC (http://mpc-hc.org/). WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
If necessary, you can reset the receiver box to factory default. The program list will be cleared and the display mode will be set to 720i50 PAL mode. Click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu Select Tools. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Easy HD Expressway! Select Factory Reset. The default PIN is “0000”. If reset successfully, all channels will be cleared and it pops up channel scan menu. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
There are two ways to update the firmware. You can choose either one to update the firmware of the box. If you can not control HV-110 well with remote controller or the display is not normal, please use Method 2.
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Easy HD Expressway! screws Power on the box Click on the IR “Back”/”Menu” key to popup the menu, and select “Tools” Select “Software Upgrade” WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Easy HD Expressway! Plug in the micro SD card. Select “Upgrade by SD Card” WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Easy HD Expressway! Select “Yes” 10. When the progress bar reaches the end, the update is done. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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There are two ways to update the firmware. You can choose either one to update the firmware of the box. If you can control HV-110 well with remote controller and the display is normal, please use Method 1. Copy the firmware image file “dtv.img” to the root directory of a micro SD card.
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“sd upgrade start” and “sd upgrade finish” Note: From FW version number V0.0.1.71.4 on, the 7-SEG LED shows “88” when updating, and turns off when update is done. Remove the micro SD card, power off, then power on the receiver box. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Easy HD Expressway! Note: 1. If you do not remove SD card, the reboot will fail! 2. From FW version number V0.0.1.71.4 on, dtv.img will be rename to dtv_tmp.img when update is done. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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Easy HD Expressway! UART Debug Messages The UART debug port is located in J5. You may dump debug messages from this J5 pin2 UART Tx. Pin 1: not used Pin 2 :UART Tx Pin 3: Ground The communication parameters are 115200,n,8,1. WWW.HIDES.COM.TW...
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