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Section IV - SITESTREAMER™ II WEB INTERFACE Connecting Locally ........14 Remote (Internet) Access ......14 Now Playing ..........15 Webpage Header.......... 15 TABLE OF CONTENTS Remote Listening ......... 15 RDS Info ............16 Radio Metrics ..........16 Section I - INTRODUCTION Fault Alarms ..........
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Receiver Sensitivity: 10µV for 50dB monaural SNR Product Description Audio Response: ±1dB, 30Hz–15kHz; selectable 75µs/50µs The Inovonics family of SiteStreamers™ receive local broad- de-emphasis cast stations off-air and stream program audio and signal metrics over the Internet to any worldwide location. This al-...
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AC Mains Power Section II All Inovonics INOmini modules are supplied with an out- INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION board, inline switching-type power supply compatible with any destination mains voltage. The actual power consumed by the 645 SiteStreamer is 350mA at 12 volts DC. A second Unpacking and Inspection DC connector on the rear panel allows ‘daisy-chaining’...
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These ‘AUX’ XLR female inputs accept ANALOG LINE Section III stereo program audio at program peak INPUTS levels between –15dBu and +15dBu. SITESTREAMER™ II SETUP Levels may be adjusted from the front panel or remotely. Initial setup of the 645 SiteStreamer is most conveniently VERY IMPORTANT: AUX inputs have performed using a computer, once communications is estab-...
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To set trip levels (only), push the knob; LO and the left tic Locked Menus (Menu Screen 13 - editable) mark will begin blinking. Turn the knob to position the left To guard against inadvertent menu editing or casual tamper- tic mark anywhere beneath the RF bargraph (the correspond- ing, the very last menu in ing dBµV numerical value is given too).
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broadcast modulation. Aggressively-processed program au- Monitor Source Switching (Menu Screen 4 - editable) dio will peak the bargraphs consistently to about –1dB. The 645 not only monitors the FM off-air broadcast, but can monitor and simultaneously meter the level of a stereo ana- Networking Mode and IP Address (Menu Screen 6 - editable) log program audio feed applied to rear-panel XLR connectors.
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MAC Address (Menu Screen 11) Section IV The MAC (Media Access Control) address of any piece of SITESTREAMER™ II WEB INTERFACE hardware with IP connectivity is a factory-set fixed value unique to that specific hardware. Menu Screen 11 displays the MAC Address: of your individual SiteStreamer and can- Connecting Locally not be changed.
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Encoding, decoding and buffering time (latency) of the listen- Now Playing ing audio will depend in large degree on the connection path Open a browser window on your computer and type the IP and network quality. Latency may be several seconds, even address of the 645 into the browser’s address bar.
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RSSI is the same measure of signal strength labeled RF on IF Bandwidth: is selectable to help mitigate specific reception front-panel Menu Screen 2. The numerical value is signal issues. The default setting here is Auto, which automatically level in dBµV at the antenna terminal. factors-in reception metrics to maintain the widest passband.
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StationRotation™ The BandScanner™ StationRotation describes a function of the 645 that allows se- The BandScanner is a useful utility of the 645 that displays quencing through any or all of the saved Preset Stations en- the RF spectrum of the FM broadcast band. tries in the order listed, and at a rate selected by the user.
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The band scaning process will interrupt measurements and Statistical information on all RDS data groups is tabulated in mute audio monitoring during the scanning cycle. Alarms the lower section of the RDS Info Web interface screen. are inhibited for the duration of the scan. The 645 SiteStreamer calculates RDS Block Error Rate along with the percentage of RDS system resources devoted to each RDS Info Webpage...
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point that the measured value must return to for the alarm 3. Threshold On (dB): has been set to -30, meaning that the to reset. This creates hysteresis in the alarm level settings, program peak level must fall below -30 to qualify as a level preventing ‘chattering’...
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Not Updated alarm is set to Alarm: On, the alarm will be trig- America or Europe, respectively, and RDS/RBDS: system se- gered if the message does not get updated within the lection of RDS (Europe) or RBDS (North America). These are timeframe specified by Time On (Min):.
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competent hackers could probably see through this ruse and access the Webpages and their setup options. An independent UDP Stream is available concurrently with the HTTP/Icecast Stream for sending audio to remote equip- ment, such as loggers and ‘skimmers.’ The Transport: format can be either ADTS or ADTS in MPEG-TS.
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Email addresses typically The MIB File take the form of the up- The MIB File is a small text (.txt) file that is read by the SNMP per example here. If in- Manager (network controller). To download and read this file stead you wish to send a yourself, click: Download MIB;...
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time-stamping alarm notifications and for meaningful Alarm loaded into the 645, you’d be back where you started, still Log listings. locked-out and needing to do another Hard Reset. See the final paragraphs under The Hardware Profile to purge pass- Select your offset from UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) words from the file.
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A built-in ‘bootloader’ utility allows firmware to be updated whenever Inovonics issues changes to add features, to im- prove performance, or otherwise to expand the usefulness of the product. Inovonics supplies firmware updates free of any additional charges.
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When downloaded from the Inovonics website, the ZIP file Section VI should reside in your Windows system Downloads folder as shown on the previous page, where the update is highlighted TECHNICAL MATTERS and indicated with a red arrow. Either ‘Save as’ or drag the update ZIP folder to your Windows Firmware Version Desktop, and then double-click the ZIP folder.
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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 com- plete, and in “as received”...
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