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Guide to Configuring the

Amino STB
An Amino infra-red keyboard is required to accomplish the configuration
detailed within this guide

Configuration Guide
Version 1.0

Issue 01
Copyright
©2007 HaiVision Systems Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Version 1.0, Issue 01
This publication and the software it describes contain proprietary and confidential informa-
tion. No part of this document may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated or
reduced to any electronic or machine-readable format without prior written permission of
HaiVision Systems Inc. The information in this document is subject to change without
notice. HaiVision Systems Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damages arising from the
use of this document, including but not limited to, lost revenue, lost data, claims by third
parties, or other damages.
If you have comments or suggestions concerning this manual, please contact:
Technical Publications Department
HaiVision Systems Inc.
4445 Garand
Montréal, Québec, H4R 2H9 Canada
Telephone: 1-514-334-5445
info@haivision.com
Or visit our website at: http://www.haivision.com.

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hai500, hai560, hai520, hai1000, hai1060, hai1020, MAKO-HD, haiMO-
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 Table of Contents
About This Guide
Reliability of Information ......................................................................................................... 5
Service Support and Training ................................................................................................... 5
Document Conventions ............................................................................................................ 5

Overview............................................................................................................... 7
Introduction............................................................................................................................... 7
Requirements ............................................................................................................................ 7
Supported STB Products........................................................................................................... 7

Getting Started...................................................................................................... 9
Connecting the STB.................................................................................................................. 9
Logging In ................................................................................................................................ 9
STB Management Page .......................................................................................................... 10

Network Configuration........................................................................................ 11
DHCP Configuration .............................................................................................................. 11
Static IP Configuration ........................................................................................................... 12

Browser Setup (optional) .................................................................................... 13

Video Setup......................................................................................................... 15

Channel Configuration......................................................................................... 16
Channel Selection ................................................................................................................... 16
Channel Configuration............................................................................................................ 17

Auto-Resume (optional) ...................................................................................... 19

Additional Information......................................................................................... 21
Software Version .................................................................................................................... 21

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 About This Guide

Welcome to HaiVision’s Guide to Configuring the Amino STB.

This guide describes how to set up and configure an Amino AmiNET Set Top Box (STB)
to decode and display Multicast and Unicast streams from HaiVision’s TASMAN, CUDA,
hai500 series, or hai1000 series encoders.

Topics In This Section

Reliability of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Service Support and Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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About This Guide
Reliability of Information

Reliability of Information
The information contained in this guide has been carefully checked and is believed to be
entirely reliable. However, as HaiVision Systems Inc. improves the reliability, function,
and design of its products, the possibility exists that this guide may not remain current.
If you require updated information, or any other HaiVision product information, contact:
HaiVision Systems Inc.
4445 Garand
Montréal, Québec, H4R 2H9 Canada
Telephone: 1-514-334-5445
Or visit our website at: http://www.haivision.com.

Service Support and Training

HaiVision Systems Inc. is committed to providing the service support and training needed
to install, manage, and maintain your HaiVision equipment.
For more information regarding service programs, training courses, or for assistance with
your support requirements, contact HaiVision Technical Support at the phone number or
email address listed below:

United States and Canada: Toll Free: 1-877-224-5445

Fax: 1-1-514-334-0088

International: Tel: +1-1-514-334-5445

Fax: +1-1-514-334-0088

email: techsupport@haivision.com

Document Conventions
The following conventions are used throughout this guide.

NOTE The hand symbol indicates a note, containing special instructions or

information that may apply only in special cases.

TIP The light bulb symbol highlights suggestions or helpful hints.

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Document Conventions

IMPORTANT Indicates an emphasized note. It provides information that you should

be particularly aware of in order to complete a task and that should not be
disregarded. IMPORTANT is typically used to prevent loss of data.

CAUTION Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may result in
damage to data or equipment, or minor to moderate injury. It may also be used to alert
against unsafe practices.

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 Overview

Introduction
This guide describes how to set up and configure an Amino AmiNET Set Top Box (STB)
to decode and display Multicast and Unicast streams from HaiVision’s TASMAN, CUDA,
hai500 series, or hai1000 series encoders. See “Supported STB Products” below.
This document is not intended as a comprehensive integration guide for the AmiNet
products. For detailed information about Amino products, please refer to the Amino user
documentation or contact them directly at www.aminocom.com.

Requirements

IMPORTANT In order to configure the AmiNET STB, you must have an IR (Infra Red)
keyboard, LAN, encoded video source, and local display.

Supported STB Products

The following table lists the Amino IP STB products that may be used with HaiVision’s
encoders. Note that “Multi Output” capacity on the STB includes RF, Composite, or
Component at standard definition, unless stated otherwise.

HaiVision Products Amino IP STB Products

hai500 series
CUDA Encoder

hai500 series
CUDA Encoder
TASMAN
hai1000 series [SD]

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Overview
Supported STB Products

HaiVision Products Amino IP STB Products

hai500 series
CUDA Encoder
TASMAN
hai1000 series [SD]
MAKO-HD

hai500 series
CUDA Encoder

hai500 series
CUDA Encoder
TASMAN
hai1000 series [SD]
MAKO-HD

hai500 series
CUDA Encoder

hai500 series
CUDA Encoder
TASMAN
hai1000 series [SD]
MAKO-HD

The above matrix indicates the assumed compatibility between Amino set top box decoders
and HaiVision encoders according to specification. HaiVision has tested our encoders
extensively with the AmiNET 110, 124, 125, and 130 products and includes compatibility
testing within our Quality Assurance release procedures with the AmiNET 124, 125, and
130 products. Exact compatibility may only be calibrated with certain revisions of Amino
and HaiVision firmware.

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Getting Started
Connecting the STB

Getting Started

Connecting the STB

1. Connect the AmiNET STB to the power source, network, and displays using the
proper connectors.
Once the unit is powered on, the main Amino Web page will be displayed.

IMPORTANT In order to configure the AmiNET STB, you must use an IR (Infra Red)
keyboard.

Logging In
1. To access the Management pages, from the IR keyboard, press Alt-m to bring up the
Password field.
The password is set by default to leaves.

2. Enter leaves and click OK.

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Getting Started
STB Management Page

STB Management Page

The STB Management page lists four pages of interest for this configuration process:
• Network Configuration
• Browser Setup
• Video Setup
• Channels

The tasks associated with these pages are discussed in the sections that follow.

CAUTION Do not select Update Software. Initiating the Update Software option will
cause the AmiNET STB to malfunction.

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Network Configuration
DHCP Configuration

Network Configuration

DHCP Configuration
The AmiNET STB has Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) as the factory
default. If your network has a DHCP server on it, the AmiNET STB will automatically
acquire an IP address.

To set the AmiNET STB for DHCP:

1. From the STB Management page, select Network Configuration.
2. On the Network Configuration page, select Always Use DHCP in the DHCP Info
box.

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and enter the password (the default is snake).
4. Click Save Changes.

CAUTION Do not select Packet Ordering. Initiating the Packet Ordering option will
cause the AmiNET STB to malfunction.

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Network Configuration
Static IP Configuration

Static IP Configuration
If your network does not have a DHCP server, or you wish to statically configure the
AmiNET STB’s IP address, follow these steps.

To statically configure the IP address for the AmiNET STB:

1. On the Network Configuration page, select Do Not Use DHCP in the DHCP Info box.
2. Enter the IP Address, Netmask, and Gateway addresses for the AmiNET STB.

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and enter the password (the default is snake).
4. Click Save Changes.

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Browser Setup (optional)
Static IP Configuration

Browser Setup (optional)

The Browser Setup page allows you to configure the AmiNET STB to access a particular
web address upon boot-up. For example, you may wish to set up the AmiNET STB to
connect to an encoder steam address and begin decoding upon boot-up.

TIP To set the AmiNET STB’s Home page to an encoder stream’s Destination IP
address, set the address according to the instructions outlined in “Channel
Configuration” on page 16.

To specify a web address for the AmiNET STB to access upon boot-up:
1. From the STB Management page, select Browser Setup.
2. On the Browser Setup page, in the Home Page field, enter the IP address to connect
to.
3. In the Help Page field, enter a web address for the Help page.
The sample screenshot below shows a Multicast steam address (2325.64.22.42 on port
5000).

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Browser Setup (optional)
Static IP Configuration

NOTE The other options on this page should remain unchanged for basic
configurations.

4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and enter the password (the default is snake).
5. Click Save Changes|Submit.

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Video Setup
Static IP Configuration

Video Setup

The Video Setup page allows you to set the AmiNET STB’s video connections. The two
key options are:
• TV Standard (NTSC or PAL) and
• Output Format (Composite, S-Video, or Composite + RGB)

To configure the video setup:

1. From the STB Management page, select Video Setup.
2. On the Video Setup page, select the TV Standard.
3. Select the Output Format.

TIP For typical usage, you can leave the rest of the video settings at their default
values.

4. When you have finished configuring the video settings, scroll down to the bottom of
the page and enter the password (the default is snake).
5. Click Submit.

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Channel Configuration
Channel Selection

Channel Configuration

Channel Selection
The Channel Selection page allows you to select a range of channels to define.
1. From the STB Management page, select Channels.
2. On the Channel Selection page, enter a range in the From and To fields (by default 0
to 10) and click Edit Channel Range.
-or-
Select one of the predefined channel range groups.

This will open the Channel Configuration Page.

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Channel Configuration
Channel Configuration

Channel Configuration
The Channel Configuration page allows you to define the channels to decode from.
1. For each channel, enter the encoder stream information to be decoded and viewed into
the channel’s edit box. See the sections below for information on specifying unicast
vs. multicast streams, as well as URLs.

• The screenshot above shows a sample Channel Configuration page with four con-
figured channels, all set to decode multicast streams.
2. When you have finished configuring the channels, scroll down to the bottom of the
page and enter the password (the default is snake).
3. Click Submit.
This will open the Config OK page.
4. Press Enter/Return to return to the STB Management page.

Specifying Unicast Streams

For Unicast streams (any streams with a Destination IP address not in the range 224.0.0.0
to 239.255.255.255), enter the following in the channel’s edit box:
udp://:<Destination Port>
For example, udp://:50698 will decode the encoder Unicast stream at destination port
50698. Note the second colon after the forward slashes.

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Channel Configuration
Channel Configuration

NOTE RTP encapsulation is not supported on AmiNET STBs. The AmiNET STB
cannot decode streams encoded with RTP encapsulation. Make sure the relevant
encoder streams have the Encapsulation setting configured to UDP.

Specifying Multicast Streams

For Multicast streams (streams with a Destination IP address in the range 224.0.0.0 to
239.255.255.255), enter the following on the channel’s edit box:
igmp://<Destination IP address>:<Destination Port>
For example, igmp://225.168.1.88:50688 will decode an encoder multicast stream at desti-
nation IP address 225.168.1.88 and destination port 50688.

Specifying a URL
To set the AmiNET STB to display a URL/web page, simply enter the URL into the
channel’s edit box.

NOTE You can set an AmiNET STB to decode/view an encoder stream or any URL
without configuring the channels simply by typing the appropriate string in the URL
edit box at the top of each AmiNET STB web page and pressing Return/Enter.

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Auto-Resume (optional)
Channel Configuration

Auto-Resume (optional)

To configure the AmiNET STB to automatically refresh video after a loss of power or
network communication, follow these steps:

To auto-resume a Multicast Stream:

1. Open the Video Setup page. (See “Video Setup” on page 15)

2. Change “No IGMP event timeout” and “IGMP End of media event timeout” to 0
(zero).
3. Open the Browser Setup page. (See “Browser Setup (optional)” on page 13)
4. In the “Home Page” field, enter a text string describing the channel to be used during
auto resume.
The format of the text string is the same as that used during Channel Configuration
(Example: igmp://225.168.1.88:50688, see “Specifying Multicast Streams” on
page 18).

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Auto-Resume (optional)
Channel Configuration

To auto-resume a Unicast Stream:

To auto-resume a Unicast stream, the STB must be configured to “think” it is receiving a
multicast stream. To do this, you need to alter the channel configuration text string to look
like a multicast configuration.
1. Open the Channels page. (See “Channel Configuration” on page 16)
2. Select Edit Channel Range.
3. Instead of using the Unicast text string (Ex: UDP://:<Destination Port>), use the
multicast text string (IGMP://<Destination IP Address:<Destination Port>). (See
“Specifying Multicast Streams” on page 18)
In this text string, the Destination IP Address will be a false address to trick the STB
into thinking it is receiving a multicast transmission. You can use any multicast address
here. The port number, however, has to match the Destination Port number configured
on the source encoder. The Destination IP Address configured on the encoder should
remain unchanged.
4. Once the above three steps are completed, follow the four steps given in the “To auto-
resume a Multicast Stream:” section directly above.
Note: Make sure to save all changes with the correct Password (snake by default).

TIP To verify auto-resume, remove the Ethernet cable from the STB while running
video, and then plug it back in to see if the video comes up automatically.

The AmiNET STB is now configured to receive and decode encoder streams.
You can use the AmiNET STB remote control to change to the configured channels and
start viewing. For instructions, refer to the Amino AmiNET Installation Guide.

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Additional Information
Software Version

Additional Information

Software Version
If you are contacting Technical Support, you will need to provide the software version
number.

To find the software version for the STB you are using:
1. From the STB Management page, select Software Version.
The software version will be displayed.

2. Please write down this number so you will have it when needed.

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