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  • Page 1 XDS PRO4-P Satellite Receiver User’s Guide...
  • Page 2 Receiver”. Every effort has been made to make this document as complete and accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information is provided on an “as is” basis and X-Digital Systems shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this document.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    2.10 Connecting the Modem ..................15 FRONT PANEL OPERATIONS ................15 Status LEDs ...................... 15 3.1.1 The Power LED ..................15 3.1.2 The Signal LED ..................16 XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 4 The Relays Tab ..................39 4.1.5 The Logs Tab .................... 40 The Programming Menu ................... 41 4.2.1 The Programs Tab ..................41 4.2.2 The Recordings Tab .................. 41 XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 5 Digital Audio Output ..................59 PAD/ASYNC Output Port ................60 6.10 Ethernet Port ..................... 60 6.11 Modem (POTS) Port ..................60 6.12 RF Input Parameters ..................61 XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    This ensures that your receiver will always have the most up to the minute features and functionality. Hardware Versatility The XDS PRO4-P can deliver audio received via satellite over any one of its four balanced output ports. Additionally, content can be received and stored locally for later XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide...

  • Page 7: Network Management System

    P‟s internal storage devices. The NMS will also come equipped with an advanced event logging system ensuring that any technical problems will be accompanied by a full history, allowing problems to be easily identified and eliminated. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 8: Getting Started

    Please be aware that surge suppressors alone do not provide sufficient protection. X-Digital Systems urges stations to use an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for the XDS receiver in order to provide protection from power spikes and brownouts. You may also consider lightning protection if you are located in an area subject to frequent lightning storms.

  • Page 9: List Of Contents

    5 inches in the rear should be provided. Proper ventilation will help ensure the receiver performs both safely and efficiently. 2.3.3 Heat, Humidity, and Dust XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 10: Power Cord Cabling

    Warning! If a foreign object is inserted into the receiver, immediately power down the receiver and contact X-Digital Systems technical support. Do not open the receiver, as doing so will void the receiver‟s warranty. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide...

  • Page 11: Physical Installation Of The Receiver

    LNB ON/OFF settings using the front panel display. For directions on how to use the front panel display, see Chapter 4 of this manual. If, however, you have another XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 12: Warnings About Shorting Dc

    Connecting to the Ethernet Network The XDS PRO4-P Satellite Receiver is specifically designed to receive audio broadcasts via satellite transmissions. It is also equipped with an “internet” only mode in which is can receive audio data and receiver updates via its Ethernet port. For this feature to be functional, the receiver must be connected to a network router or directly connected to an internet connection.

  • Page 13: Assigning A Tcp/Ip Address

    Live audio channels will physically connect to one of the four audio ports of the PRO4-P through the R/F downlink. Your PRO4-P receiver is capable of outputting XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 14: Analog Audio Ports

    The PRO4-P is capable of receiving and displaying PAD in two different ways. Your Network will provide baud rate settings for the PAD. PAD settings for the receiver can XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 15: In-Band Ancillary Data

    Each of the four status light-emitting diodes indicates a specific state of the receiver. The following sections provide details on reading the status of the receiver based on the LEDs. 3.1.1 The Power LED XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 16: The Signal Led

    Once you have navigated to a menu which allows you to edit settings, use the ▲ and ▼ buttons to highlight options, and the SET button, to select an option. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 17: The Main Menu Options

    The Main Menu Options When the receiver‟s front panel is not being used, the idle screen featuring the X-Digital Systems logo will be displayed . There are two important statistics displayed on this front logo screen: EB, energy per bit relative to noise floor, which is a quantitative measure of signal quality;...

  • Page 18: The Setup Submenus

    Figure 2 Status Submenus 3.2.2 The SETUP Submenus By navigating from the Main Menu to Setup, the user reaches the Setup submenus. The different submenus available under Setup are: XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 19 Relays: allows you to toggle any of the individual relay signals on Relay A or B. See section 3.2.2.3 for detailed instructions. Tuner: pressing SET or ▼ will navigate into the Tuner submenu. See section 3.2.2.4 for details on the Tuner submenu XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 20: The Setup:network Submenus

    To change the setting press SET and then use ◄ or ► to move between ON and OFF. Press SET again to confirm the change or ESC (3) to cancel. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 21 Path: Optionally set the path to export files to a specific folder within your share. If you had a folder named „spots‟ within the example file system XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 22: The Setup:usb Submenus

    Gateway WAN Subnet WAN Address Setup Network Setup Network Setup Network Proxy Test NOC Setup Network Setup Network Dial-Up Figure 4 Network Submenus 3.2.2.2 The Setup:USB Submenus XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 23: The Setup:relays Submenu

    Relays submenu. In the front panel, the relays are represented as a series of 0s and 1s with 0 indicating that the relay is off and 1 indicating that it is on. Press ◄ or ► to XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems...

  • Page 24: The Setup:tuner Submenus

    SET, then uses ◄ or ► to navigate between values and ▲ or ▼ to make changes. Press SET to confirm the changes or ESC (3) to cancel. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 25: The Audio Ports Submenus

    PAD/Async data can be selected.. XDS PRO4-P Audio Ports Audio Port A Audio Port B Audio Port C Headphones Audio Port D Figure 8 Audio Ports Submenu XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 26: The Audio Ports:setup Submenus

    Again use the arrow keys and SET to accomplish this. Audio Port # Audio Port # Audio Port # Program Spot Audio Port # Audio Port # PAD/Async Settings Figure 9 Individual Audio Port Submenu XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 27: Receiver Master Menu Tree

    Station Power Insert Remove DHCP Gateway Status Address Subnet Device Device Backup to Restore Subnet Address from USB Dial-Up Proxy Test NOC Figure 10 Master Menu Tree XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 28: Monitor And Control Interface

    Open HyperTerminal from the Start Menu: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Communication > HyperTerminal. In the Connection Description dialog, enter “XDS PRO4-P Console” as the connection Name, and select a connection Logo. Press “OK”. Figure 11 Connection Description In the „Connect To‟...
  • Page 29 Only use this account when trouble-shooting the receiver or performing technical diagnostics. To log into either of these use the LOGIN command, detailed below in section 4.2.7. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 30: Console Commands

    Sets the Ethernet port‟s DNS servers. One to four DNS servers can be specified in a coma delimited list. Run without a DNS server argument will display the current DNS servers XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 31: The Factory Command

    PURGE: This option will purge the receivers log and start over with a clean slate. AUTO, [n]: This option will automatically log the status of the receiver every n minutes XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 32: The Login Command

    Argument Action Displays the current station assigned to each port SHOW STATUS [port] Displays status for all ports with no argument or all ports with [port] argument XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 33: The Ping Command

    Error Name 0x00000001 FPGA Load Error 0x00010000 Recorder Overflow 0x00000002 DSP Load Error 0x00020000 Temp Warning 0x00000004 Ethernet Failure 0x00040000 Temp Critical 0x00000008 No Storage Device 0x00080000 reserved XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 34: The Time Command

    The TUNER command is available to all profiles. 3.4.19 The VER Command This command, which takes no options, simply displays the receiver‟s firmware version to the console. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 35: The Vol Command

    [v] where [v] is a value greater than or equal to 0 (mute) and less than or equal to 63 (full volume). The VOL command is available to all profiles. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 36: Receiver Web Interface

    4 RECEIVER WEB INTERFACE The XDS PRO4-P receiver includes an on-board web interface that will publish itself on your local area network once you have followed the steps in Chapter 5. From this web interface you can view most of the receiver‟s internal settings as well as the contents of the receiver‟s hard drive.

  • Page 37: The Tuner Tab

    Fade count of the tuner. The number of Reed-Solomon errors that the tuner has experienced. The LNB offset the tuner is currently using. The on or off status off the LNB. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 38: The Setup Tab

    Mask, Gateway, WAN IP Address, WAN Subnet Mask, primary NMS website URL, backup NMS website URL, and HTTP proxy settings. Miscellaneous information including data about the serial port and the connection settings, and the current hexadecimal alarm mask. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 39: The Relays Tab

    The Relays Tab lists all the 16 relay mappings complete with their NETRELAYS and on/off status for each of the two relay ports. Thus there are 32 total relays listed, 16 for each the top and bottom relay ports. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 40: The Logs Tab

    At the bottom of the logs, there are buttons to download the current log to a text file and purge the log file. Figure 18 Logs Tab XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 41: The Programming Menu

    For each recording, you are given a link to download the recording to your computer‟s local hard drive, the date that it was recorded, and the length of the recording. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 42: The Content Menu

    NMS to verify the ability of an affiliate receiver to receive files. 4.3.3 The All Tab The All Tab simply displays all files which the receiver is currently storing. Here is what the Content tabs look like: XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 43 Figure 21 Content Tabs XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 44: Affiliate Web Interface

    5 AFFILIATE WEB INTERFACE The XDS PRO4-P Satellite Receiver is capable of communicating with and being controlled by an external web application called the Network Management System (NMS). The NMS is capable of many features which greatly simplify the management of radio programming.

  • Page 45: Play Scheduling

    Clicking „This Week‟ will bring the scheduler back to the current week. The Scheduler shows a 24 hour grid broken into one hour sections. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 46 „Create a new station schedule using this feed…‟ link. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 47 To reach these options click on the „Edit‟ button or „Create a new…‟ link. Figure 28 Add Schedule XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 48 XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 49 If the „End Date‟ filed is left blank, the schedule will be indefinite. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 50 The Network Feed screen will update and you must then Commit the schedule to the receiver. To view and confirm the changes you must then click on „View Schedule”. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 51: Changing The Relay Mappings

    You can use the NMS to specify the relay mapping for the receiver. To do this Click Relay Mappings at the top of the page beneath the X-Digital Systems logo. Click the “Edit” button in the top right.

  • Page 52: Configuration

    A Friendly Password can be set which can be used instead of the daily password found through the front panel of the receiver to login to the Affiliate Website. Click „Update‟ to set the password XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...
  • Page 53 „Steer my audio ports to match my program schedule‟ and click „Update‟ to return to your schedule. Figure 37 Affiliate Configuration Page XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 54: Specifications

    We expect the system to operate without a need for a fan in air conditioned locations. The fan will be electronically controlled via temperature sensor. This will allow the unit to operate under less than optimal conditions. XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 55: M&C Interface Connector

    115.2K baud, 8 data bits, no parity, no hardware flow control Relay Format 1 Form A Optical Inputs 4 Input Signals, Connect to ground to activate Table 8. M&C Port XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 56: Relay Outputs

    RLY8B Ground RLY9B RLY9A RLY10B RLY10A RLY11B RLY11A RLY12B RLY12A Ground NQ TxData RLY13B RLY13A RLY14B RLY14A RLY15B RLY15A RLY16B RLY16A Table 9. Relay Port A Pin-Out XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 57: Analog Audio Output

    The receiver has four analog audio output ports. The following table has the pin-outs of the analog output ports. FUNCTION L OUT+ Ground LOUT+ Ground R OUT+ L OUT- Ground LOUT- R OUT- Table 12. Analog Audio Output Pin-out XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 58: Analog And Digital Audio Input

    L IN- Ground AES_RX- R IN- Table 14. Analog Audio Input Pin-out Connection DB-9M Format Balanced Pair L, R Range +4dBu nominal (+22max) Table 15. Analog Audio Input XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 59: Digital Audio Output

    FUNCTION CH0_TX+ CH1_TX+ Ground CH2_TX+ CH3_TX+ CH0_TX- CH1_TX- CH2_TX- CH3_TX- Table 16. Digital Audio Output Pin-out Connection DB-9M Format Balanced AES/EBU Table 17. Digital Audio Output XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 60: Pad/Async Output Port

    Up to 20 Mbps (combined for all ports) VLAN Each port is managed for VLAN use Modem (POTS) Port 6.11 Connection RJ-11 Connection Rate 14.4L, 28.8L, 56k Format 8Bits, No parity, One Stop XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

  • Page 61: Rf Input Parameters

    Input Level -65dBm to -25dBm Symbol rate 2 to 40 Msps Modulation Scheme QPSK Forward Error Correction modes Reed-Solomon and Viterbi (DVB-S) LNB Power 20VDC 500mA MAX XDS PRO4-P Receiver User‟s Guide X-Digital Systems Rev K - July 29, 2008...

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