1 Safety Notice Keep away the unit from magnetized devices. It Do not try to disassemble the unit. It may cause may erase the data stored in the HDD drive malfunction or fire. inside. Keep away the unit from overheated areas, such Do not place the unit in places that are exposed to oil, water, dust, humidity, rain or wind.
It also has multiple mounting drive options and automatic browsing capability which maximize the network connection experience. TizzBird can be used as an external USB storage thru connecting PC. TizzBird also supports playback the contents at USB flash drive or external HDD thru connecting...
4 Description of Each Part 4.1 F30 Power Button Smart HDD Rack Turn ON/OFF power of the unit. Install/ uninstall the HDD easily with this RACK Connectors Please connect the unit to AV port of the TV or AV receiver. Please connect Ethernet cable or install the Wi-Fi USB dongle for connecting the network.
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4.2 F20 Power Button Bottom side HDD Cabinet Turn ON/OFF power of the unit. Install/ uninstall 2.5” HDD. Connectors Please connect the unit to AV port of the TV or AV receiver. Please connect Ethernet cable or install the Wi-Fi USB dongle for connecting the network. * There’s another USB host port at the side.*...
5 Package Contents The TizzBird package contains the following items. The shape of items described below may slightly different from the actual contents. Main Unit Power Adapter Remote Controller Quick Guide A/V Cable HDMI Cable Power Cable...
6 F30 Installation and Connection Pedestal Assembly This is a guide for assembly of pedestal into the main unit. No screw needed. Find out six bumps of the pedestal and assembly them with six holes of the bottom side of the main unit.
HDD Installation This is a guide for installation of HDD into the rack. No screw needed Before install the HDD into the rack, please check the four bumps on the rack. There are two A bumps on the side, and two B bumps on the bottom. Find out the side holes of HDD, and assembly them with two A bumps.
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Connecting the Video The TizzBird supports HDMI, Component and Composite video output for connection to a TV, and each output needs to be configured in the settings browser depending on what cable is being used. Connection to HDMI Out Connection to Component...
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Connecting the Audio The unit provides RCA analog stereo output, coaxial and optical digital output and HDMI to connect the audio device like AV receiver and TV. Please connect to audio outputs to appropriate port of audio device. Please select the appropriate input at the audio device using remote controller after connection.
Connecting USB Device TizzBird provides three USB 2.0 host ports to connect various external devices, such as FLASH MEMORY drive, external USB HDD enclosure, digital camera/camcorder, keyboard & mouse, or Wi-Fi USB dongle.
7 F20 Installation and Connection HDD Installation This is a guide for installation of HDD into the rack. No screw needed Before install the HDD into the cabinet, you need to un- screw one screw of cabinet at the bottom side of device. Then open the cover of the cabinet.
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Connecting the Video The TizzBird supports HDMI, Component and Composite video output for connection to a TV, and each output needs to be configured in the settings browser depending on what cable is being used. Connection to HDMI Out Connection to Composite...
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Connecting the Audio The unit provides RCA analog stereo output, coaxial and optical digital output and HDMI to connect the audio device like AV receiver and TV. Please connect to audio outputs to appropriate port of audio device. Please select the appropriate input at the audio device using remote controller after connection.
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Connecting USB Device TizzBird provides three USB 2.0 host ports to connect various external devices, such as FLASH MEMORY drive, external USB HDD enclosure, digital camera/camcorder, keyboard & mouse, or Wi-Fi USB dongle. Recommendation The upper port of USB host should be used for mouse or keyboard.
8 Initial Setup Initial setup consists of 6 steps of WIZARD style sequences. The sequence of WIZARD will be LANGUAGE SETUP VIDEO OUTPUT SETUP SCREEN FITTING NETWORK SETUP TIME&WEATHER SETUP THEME SETUP The PREV/ NEXT button on the top side of each screen will bring the PREV/ NEXT step. 8.1 Language Setup The first step is setup the menu language.
8.2 Video Output Setup The 2 setup is video output. Video output screen will pop up both COMPOSITE and HDMI screen. User can select one of these buttons with MOUSE or REMOTE. If user selects HDMI output then the screen resolution selection screen will appear as above.
8.3 Screen Fitting Setup The 3 step is fitting the screen size according to user’s TV. Clicking UP/DOWN button at left-bottom side will increase/ decrease the screen size accordingly. Press OK when done. 8.4 Network Setup The 4th step is setting up network. Both Wi-Fi and Ethernet can be configured here. If...
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Wi-Fi button were pressed, the following screen will enumerate all available Wi-Fi AP. Select one of them and click it. The next page screen will pop up to configure the Wi-Fi. Typing the password will finalize the Wi-Fi setup and Internet connection will be made.
8.5 Time & Weather Location Setup The next step is setting up time zone and weather location. Tizzbird provides automatic setup for those as long as network is connected. To setup the time-zone, select the Time-Zone button as above screen. Then select “AUTO” if...
Otherwise, you can manually input the weather-location. 8.6 Theme Setup The final step is setting up theme. Tizzbird provides two type of theme, one is the Android theme, the other is Tizzbird classic theme. If you are familiar with smart phone user interface, please choose “Android”.
9 Home Screen (Android Theme) The HOME SCREEN is very similar with smart phone. The APPs can be located at the surface of HOME SCREEN freely, while the specific browsers like MOVIE/ MUSIC/ PHOTO/ FILE/ WEB/ APP browser will stick as icons at the bottom side of HOME SCREEN. The several WIDGETs will help the user navigate thru the screen.
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CONTROL WIDGET lets users control the SCREEN and VOLUME by MOUSE. CONTROL WIDGET cannot be accessible by REMOTE. It’s because one of the nature of Android. It’s only accessible by MOUSE. The same functional buttons are on the remote already. Please use them. Power Volume Volume...
10 Using Remote Controller Turn power ON/OFF Change the TV Output mode Input numbers Go to HOME screen Pop-up MENU screen Resume to previous screen Move to previous /next item (page) Move to each directed item Select Optional “hot” context button Play or Pause Fast-Forward and Rewind Volume Up/ Down...
11 Firmware Update & Installation of Apps new FIRMWARE can be updated by OTA (Over the Air) when there is new firmware available. The information dialog will be pop-up when there is new firmware. Here’s the step. 1) Prepare more than 128MB free space of USB flash drive or HDD. 2) Connect this flash drive or HDD to USB host port.
12 Initial Screen 12.1 Turning On Power <POWER> Press button on the remote or press the power key at front panel to turn on the power. The unit will start boot-up. Red color LED will blink fast during the booting. LED will turn into BLUE during normal operation after booting.
(Wireless), the other is Ethernet (Wired). The USB Wi-Fi dongle should be prepared to connect network thru Wi-Fi. This optional Wi-Fi dongle can be purchased thru TizzBird local dealer, or any USB Wi-Fi module that is using RealTEK RTL8188 or Ralink RT3070 as internal chipset can be used.
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This pop-up shows the wireless access points available. Select one of them that can be accessible. It shows the signal strength and prompts the password, if password is required like below picture. Password can be input by remote button if it’s composed of numbers. Or mouse or keyboard need to be used if the password is string.
12.3.2 Configure Ethernet Connection Gigabit Ethernet can be also used to connect wired network. Connect the network cable at the Ethernet network port at rear side of the unit. 1) Select <Settings Browser> <Network> <Ethernet connection>. 2) If the configuration is “Auto IP”, the network connection will occur immediately. 3) Otherwise, network setting should be manually configured by selecting <Ethernet Settings>.
12.4 Turning Power Off, Completely Power Off <POWER> To turn off the power, press button on the remote or press power key on the front panel. The LED will turn into RED status, and this shows the unit is in “STAND-BY” status.
Music Movie The default selection would be MOVIE BROWSER at first start-up. TizzBird is the unique unit compared to other units, since it retains consistent user-interface based on the powerful database feature of Android OS. TizzBird provides full featured cover-view and imaged oriented browsing, which is highly intuitive.
13.2 Change Cover-View Style TizzBird provides Open-GL 3D based Cover-View user interface. One of six different styles of cover-view can be selected as a view-style. Press “BLUE” color button on the remote. The cover-view selection pane will pop-up and let you select one of them.
13.3 Movie Browser Movie browser will scan movie files on the devices when booting first or attaching external device thru USB. It will take several minutes (depends on size of HDD) for the 1 scanning. Once it’s scanned, it will take much less time on next boot. If movie posters are available for the movies, then cover-view screen like below will appear.
14 Watching Movie 14.1 Movie Browser If MOVIE BROWSER is selected and if the posters were already scraped or registered for movies, then the following screen will appear. This screen is called “MOVIE BROWSER” screen. Up to 15 movies can be browsed at once per page. Arrow keys can be used to navigate thru posters.
The control widget bar will appear to control the overall behavior of the browser. 14.3 Selecting Device The attached device can be selected by RED color button on the remote, like below picture. This kind of device selection can be also available at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. [Device Selection] Selecting DATABASE will scan all the movie files on every device and show them.
14.4 Movie Browser Menu <MENU> button at “MOVIE BROWSER” can be used to do various actions including searching movies, scraping movie posters, jumping based on bookmarks & resuming lists. <MENU> Press button on the remote. “SEARCH” menu like above picture lets you search the movie quickly based on the title names and other information.
14.5 To Add Movie Poster Movie posters should be added to make fancy movie browser like following screen. TizzBird has built-in poster downloader inside called <SCRAPER> which means scraping the movie information from network. Network should be connected before scraping movie posters.
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The following screen will appear when start scraping. The scraping will be performed based on the file name, so there can be a chance the file name is not correct or not good enough. In this case, scraping can be tried again on the same file.
14.6 Synopsis Screen The scraping consistes of two steps. One is getting the movie poster, the other is getting the filmography including synopsis of the movie. If scraping is successful, the following screen will come out as a next when the poster is selected. It shows a synopsis, running time, release year, genre, director and actors.
14.7 Resume and Bookmark TizzBird provides RESUME function to the last playback position of movie, so it’s not <MENU> necessary to search it again manually. Press button at MOVIE BROWSER and select <RESUME> menu to pop-up the resuming list. The resume list will appear like following image.
BLUE color button: Select video parameters and 3D movie types. YELLOW color button: Show movie playback information. TizzBird provides various control functions during movie playback. These functions include <TIME/CHAPTER SEARCH>, <INFO>, <SUBTITLE>, <AUDIO> and <VIDEO> settings. Most of functions can be activated by pressing <MENU>...
14.9 Playback Speed Control TizzBird provides various playback speeds and skip controls during playback including PAUSE/ FAST-FORWARD/ REWIND/ PREVIOUS/ NEXT. Press <PLAY/PAUSE> button to play or pause the playback. Press <PREV> or <NEXT> button to skip to previous or next chapter.
14.11 Playback Information Menu Select <INFO> image at movie playback menu to confirm the movie playback information. Select <INFO> image. The movie information and current playback position will appear like following image. 14.12 Subtitle Menu Select <SUBTITLE> image at movie playback menu to control the subtitle language, position, size, sync and font Select <SUBTITLE>...
14.15 Playback 3D Format Movies TizzBird supports 3D files, if 3D display is available. The supported formats are SIDE-BY- SIDE and TOP-AND-BOTTOM. If file name contains 3D and SBS (or TNB) string, then it will turn TV into 3D mode automatically.
14.17 Movie Playback Controller The MOVIE PLAYBACK screen was changed as well to support the MOUSE. The LEFT CLICK MOUSE CONTROLLER will pop up when button. Minimize button Mute button + Menu Playback Volume Bar buttons control buttons Scrollbar Click to move position MENU BUTTON group consists of several menu buttons.
Listening Music 15.1 Music Browser The following MUSIC BROWSER screen will appear if music files contain the album art at their tags. Press <LEFT> <RIGHT> keys to move each direction. Keep pressing arrow keys to browsing continuously. The album-art screen will keep changing. <MENU>...
Music files at large capacity hard drive need to be sorted since it’s easy to organize and search. TizzBird provides various “SORTING” functions based on the powerful Android database. Press GREEN color button on remote to sort by ALBUM, ARTIST, TITLE or YEAR.
Watching Photo 16.1 Photo Browser The following PHOTO BROWSER screen will appear when selecting PHOTO BROWSER. It’s composed of superb folder thumbnails COVER-VIEW which is quite neat and intuitive. Each image shows thumbnails of photos that folder contains. 16.2 Photo Browsing Menu <MENU>...
16.4 Photo Playback Screen Photo slide show will start automatically, so next photos will keep appearing with transition effect. The various TRANSITION EFFECTS can be configured at <SETTINGS BROWSER> <PHOTO>. 16.5 Slideshow Control Slideshow can be controlled by arrow and <PLAY/PAUSE> buttons. Press <PLAY/PAUSE> button to pause or resume to playback.
17 Posters, Album Art and Photo Arrangements The arrangement of each browser and shape of each item can be configured at each browser. For example, you can change the number of items of movie browsers and shape of posters. Press <Menu> button on the remote at Movie Browser. The <Movie Settings> Menu was added to configure the movie browser directly.
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Mode> and <Browser Item Mode>. You can configure layouts of browsers at <Browser Mode> and configure shape of each item at <Browser Shape Mode>. For example, the <Browser Item Mode> will bring you the following screen to configure the border type, border alpha value, width, radius and item alpha.
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This kind of configuration is also possible at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. Please notice the following screen-shots.
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For example, configure 6x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this music browser. Here’s the photo setting:...
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For example, configure 7x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this photo browser.
Using File Browser 18.1 File Browser Screen The following screen will appear when selecting FILE BROWSER. This is quite similar browser user interface that legacy media players provided before. Folder or file based browsing is possible on this browser, and selecting and playback the file directly. The left pane is FOLDER PANE, and the right pane is FILE PANE.
- .TTF extension) to the USB drive or internal HDD from PC, then connect the drive to TizzBird. Press <RED> button to select drive and navigate into the folder that font file was copied. The font file will appear like the following image.
18.4 Using File Operation Rev 1.12 firmware provides the “File Operation” capability which enables COPY, MOVE, DELETE, RENAME and NEW FOLDER functions. Press “MENU” button on the remote then select the “File Operation” ICON at the pop-up window to enter this mode. This will bring the following screen.
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Pressing BOOKMARK button will check the selected item like below picture. The check icon will appear on the small box at left side of item. The total size of selected item will be also calculated whenever BOOKMARK button is pressed. It will take some time if there are many items at selected folder. Pressing MENU button will bring the following POP-UP menu to select the function.
Connecting Internet 19.1 Execute Internet Browser Web browser will appear if WEB BROWSER was selected at HOME SCREEN and network was connected like following image. ※ Using mouse is highly recommended at WEB BROWSING. Wireless RF or USB mouse can be used. Web address or other information can be entered thru virtual keyboard with mouse.
20 Install and Execute Application 20.1 Move applications at Android Phone to TizzBird The applications on the Android smart phone can be installed on this unit. The procedures are like this. 1) Download or move the applications on the Android smart phone at USB flash drive.
Screen Resize Configure the size of graphic user interface screen. TizzRemote Setting Setup the TizzRemote by QR code and setup the System name for TizzRemote searching. The TizzRemote™ is the remote application for TizzBird which can replace keyboard, mouse...
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and keyboard. There are two methods to install the TizzRemote™. The TizzRemote™ itself is already on the Google Market, so you can directly download it at your smart phone. The other way is using the QR code. If you select the above item at the dialog box, the following dialog box will pop-up.
Device Scanning Select between scanning device “Always”, “New Device Only” and “Never”. It will determine the scanner for database will be applied always or new device only or never. Scanning Filename Display It will determine display file name during device scanning or not.
Audio Output Select audio output port and format HDMI Audio will output to HDMI port Digital (S/PDIF) Audio will output to digital audio port (optical) Analog (RCA) Audio will output to analog port (RCA) For HDMI and Digital (S/PDIF) port, the format of audio can be also configured such as ANALOG (PCM) or DIGITAL (Compressed).
Instant Skip Interval Select instant skip interval. Instant skip will occur when pressing <UP> <DOWN> key at movie playback. Sort Type Select sorting type of movie. Order Type Select ordering type of movie browser. Movie Scraper Select movie scraping data base.
21.5 Photo Transition Effect Select transition effects of slideshow. Slideshow Interval Select transition interval of slideshow. Slideshow Mode Select showing order of slideshow. Sort Type Select sorting type of photos. Order Type Select ordering type of photos. Transition Effect 21.6 Network...
Please download the “ ” server at Internet at the PC. Please visit our WEB-site (http://www.tizzbird.com) to download the TizzNFS program. Please install it after downloading it. The TizzNFS has following features. Runs on Windows™ XP/ Vista/ 7 (both 32 bit and 64bit) ...
22.1.3 Downloading other NFS Server Please download the “freeNFS” or “Allegro” NFS server at Internet at the PC. The “freeNFS” and “Allegro” NFS server was confirmed by TizzBird. The “freeNFS” software can be downloadable at following URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenfs/files/FreeNFS.exe/download FreeNFS can be executed without specific installation.
22.1.5 Connecting NFS Server at Device Select <Settings Browser Network Network Server Connection”. This will bring the following dialog box. Up to 4 network servers can be connected at this version, and the number of connectable server will be increased at next version. Please select one of the network drive number then press OK.
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The available NFS servers will appear with names or IP addresses. The “+” sign on the left side of server name means it has exported folders. There can be no “+” sign server which is not exporting the EXPORT NAMES. If PC runs Windows OS, the PC name can also appear like above picture.
22.2 Network Connection using Samba The following section explains how to connect the shared PC folders or NAS (Network Attached Storage) which runs Samba Server. 22.2.1 Activating PC Share Click right mouse button on the folder which will be shared. Select “Property” then “Sharing”...
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Select “Samba” at dialog box. This will bring the SAMBA BROWSING dialog box like below. If the wanted SAMBA SERVER name is not appeared, please press RED button on remote. The SAMBA server list will appear according to the PC-names or IP address. The “+” sign means it has several shared folders.
If the selected folder requires ACCESS RIGHT to connect it, the following dialog box will pop-up to enter the log-in account information. Input the “User name” and “Password” using virtual keyboard. Please check “Remember account” checkbox to by-pass this log-in procedure at next connection. The connection will be made after pressing “Connect”...
The most important DLNA stack here can be DMR. Because SMART PHONE or TABLET can be used as controller (DMC) and playback can be done on TizzBird. So users can easily browse contents on server or their phones, and see the contents on BIG SCREEN TV.
Preparation for DMR Preparing TizzBird & Access-Point Prepare TizzBird F12 or N1 for demonstrating DMR with Rev 2.90 or later firmware. Connect the Wi-Fi or Ethernet with prepared Access-Point. Enable the DLNA at “Settings Browser Network DLNA”...
24.1 Sending Smartphone’s Contents - iMediaShare APP iMediaShare is a good example of DMC, DMS and connects contents to DMR. It has several on-line-site DLNA server examples, which are very good to demonstrate, and some of them are in High-Definition. iMediaShare is also available on iPhone. Execute the iMediaShare APP ...
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“Victoria’s Secret” on-line DLNA server. Click one of the contents. Select the final renderer. If you click one of the contents, and TizzBird settings are correct, the “RENDERER” selection pane will pop-up. Select “TizzBird DLNA Renderer”. Demonstrating Smart Phone local contents to Tizzbird...
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Select the contents on the SMART PHONE. Select “My Videos” on the menu. Then following screen will pop-up Select one of the movies you want to playback and Tizzbird will start playback. It’s so- called DMR (Digital Media Renderer).
24.2 Sending Smartphone’s Contents - Using Twonky APP Twonky is a powerful DLNA app which let you browse overall DLNA server on your local network. It also provides playback controller which is very stable. Run Twonky Select categories of contents that you want to playback. Then select one of the contents ...
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Designate the renderer. Then the Tizzbird will start playback. ...
25.1 Online Upgrade (O.T.A – Over the Air Upgrade) TizzBird will connect the firmware update server periodically (once a week) and pop-up upgrade prompt window automatically, if new firmware is available. If TizzBird is connected to the network, the upgrade can be performed as following.
25.2.2 Upgrade at File Browser Copy or move the latest firmware to the root folder of USB flash or HDD drive. Connect the drive to USB port of the unit. Select <FILLE BROWSER> at HOME SCREEN. . Browse the firmware file and press <OK>...
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