Equitel E430, User Manual

Page 1: ...Audio over IP devices Equitel Network Audio E430 IP music and announcements server User s Manual Ed 1 2 ...

Page 2: ... s reference manual for the music server of the ENA Audio over IP family of devices It includes the E430 equipment It is valid for firmware version 1 03 Equipos De Telecomunicación Optoelectrónicos S A Zaragoza July 2015 Ed 1 2 ...

Page 3: ...us 7 4 2 1 2 System info 10 4 2 1 3 Log 10 4 2 2 Generators 11 4 2 2 1 Destinations 11 4 2 2 2 Announcements 12 4 2 2 3 Scheduled 14 4 2 2 4 BGM Icecast 15 4 2 2 5 BGM RTP 16 4 2 3 Configuration 18 4 2 3 1 Network 18 4 2 3 2 Security 18 4 2 3 3 Date Time 19 4 2 3 4 Reboot 20 4 2 4 Firmware upgrade 20 4 3 FTP server 21 4 4 Turning the device off 21 Chapter 5 Step by step configuration example 22 5 ...

Page 4: ...uch as SIP phones Music server E430 Encoder E421 and console E495 E497 send audio input through the network This process is known as streaming Streams can also be generated by other devices like a PC running an application or a SIP phone Decoders E411 E413 or E415 can receive selected channels i e streams from the network and convert it back to an analog audio signal Mixer E417 besides the same fe...

Page 5: ...E430 Server Generates Icecast 1 and RTP 2 streams for background music Provides announcements from digital audio files periodical or scheduled 1 Icecast is a streaming media server software distributed under the GNU GPL version 2 2 RTP is a transport protocol the audio is sent in RAW format or following the RFC2250 protocol according to configuration ...

Page 6: ...commended quality for music transmission and data bandwidth saving it sends audio with a bitrate of 176 4 kb s for each destination 16 bits per sample 11025Hz sample frequency PCM 32000 Mono This is the recommended quality for music transmission it sends audio with a bitrate of 512 kb s 16 bits per sample 32000Hz sample frequency MP3 This is the higher quality available it sends mp3 audio with a b...

Page 7: ...device are used in our software Its main features are Intel Bay Trail D Celeron Quad core 2 0 GHz processor 4 GB 1333MHz DDR3L memory 60 GB Solid State Drive 3 2 External elements location Not used reserved for future use Element Description Power button Suspend button USB 3 0 port Multi Function card reader Microphone input Headphone ouput Element Description COM port USB 2 0 port VGA port HDMI p...

Page 8: ...ely 1 minute of not being able to connect the device will configure itself with the following access parameters IP 192 168 1 1 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 192 168 1 254 To know the IP address of the device in order to gain access to it Use the free EQUITEL Devices Searcher application for locating Equitel devices in an Ethernet network This app is available at ENA main website In this exampl...

Page 9: ...the current condition of the device Generators Audio configuration Configuration Generic device configuration Update Firmware update Figure 3 VERY IMPORTANT After doing changes in the configuration you must press Save apply at the top of the page When changes are saved the device applies them If network changes are found the webpage is reloaded Navigating through the configuration pages does not m...

Page 10: ...Log subsections 4 2 1 1 Status This section enables the user to control the different generators configured System statistics Shows the usage of CPU disk and network bandwidth Announcement generators Control of the announcement generators o Possible status messages Waiting Stopped No destinations No files to play Sending Figure 5 Status subpage ...

Page 11: ...tatus messages Waiting Stopped Source not enabled File quality mismatch File doesn t exist Expired Sending o Control Enable Allows the generator to check if it has to send Disable Disables the generator BGM Icecast generators Control of the Icecast generators o Possible status messages No files to play Restarting Sending file Sending silence Starting Stopped o Control Start Starts the generator St...

Page 12: ...Next Advance to the next announcement Previous Go back to the previous announcement NOTE Whenever an action is performed it is remembered when the device reboots For instance if a generator is configured to start automatically and it is stopped it remains stopped unless it is started manually again or the configuration of its generator changes ...

Page 13: ...or version Software versions currently running in the E430 4 2 1 3 Log You can access the files that record information about system operation Log In the file name it is indicated the date and time when the writing file started according to the following format E430_Date_Time log Date yymmdd year month day Time hhmmss hour minute second The maximum size of a file is 1MByte The maximum number of fi...

Page 14: ...e destinations of the audio Each destination is the combination of an IP address and a RTP port Additionally an ID may be specified to ease the configuration ENA decoders may have different qualities in different ports so it is a good idea to set an ID according to the quality A more detailed configuration is available at section 5 4 VERY IMPORTANT Once you ve finished the destinations configurati...

Page 15: ...n the end of an audio file and the following one Quality 3 Quality of the audio sent It must match the destinations one Start automatically If checked the generator will start to send files right after saving the configuration and when the device boots up If unchecked the generator has to be started manually at the Status section Emission mode 3 When quality is MP3 you should check which firmware ...

Page 16: ...ion A list of files matching the selected quality in the music folder is shown when pressing View files Then you may check the files you want this generator to send Files will be sent in alphabetical order To add new files from the PC press Add files and select files from the PC once converted the new files will be listed after pressing View files Press Apply to commit all changes made in the gene...

Page 17: ...just the same as the section in the announcements generator Destinations A list of all the destinations available As stated before be cautious about the qualities to avoid sending audio in a format the destinations do not have configured Schedule List of individual conditions that must meet the system time in order to send the announcement o If it is set to don t care the condition won t be checke...

Page 18: ...cast URL to set in a decoder would be http 192 168 1 185 8000 streamE430 mp3 Start automatically If checked the generator will start the stream right after saving the configuration and when the device boots up If unchecked the generator has to be started manually at the Status section Emission mode o Normal to sequence files in alphabetical order o Random to send files in random order Music folder...

Page 19: ...enerator 4 2 2 5 BGM RTP This generator allows you to create an RTP stream in mp3 or pcm formats Files are sent continuously For a detailed example of configuration go to section Id Field to distinguish this generator from others Quality 7 Quality of the audio sent It must match the destinations one Start automatically If checked the generator will start to send files right after saving the config...

Page 20: ...ity in the music folder is shown when pressing View files Then you may check the files you want this generator to send Files will be sent in alphabetical order To add new files from the PC press Add files and select files from the PC once converted the new files will be listed after pressing View files Press Apply to commit all changes made in the generator if the configuration is invalid then an ...

Page 21: ...rver NOTE Once again don t forget to press the top Save apply button to apply changes If new static IP parameters are found you will be reconnected to the new IP address if dynamic mode is set a message will be shown and you will need to discover the device with the Equitel Devices Searcher after a few seconds to know which IP address the device has been given by the DHCP server 4 2 3 2 Security I...

Page 22: ...sider to disable time synchronization after setting the date manually as it may override the manual settings Time zone Current time zone of the device Default value is set to UTC 1 but can be easily changed by selecting another value and pressing the Change zone button Time synchronization When enabled the device periodically synchronizes its clock via the SNTP protocol although it is possible to ...

Page 23: ... 2 4 Firmware upgrade The upgrade of the device firmware is explained below Once a proper firmware file is selected and the Start update button is pressed the E430 server will analyze it and show a brief description of the contents allowing you to continue or cancel the upgrade WARNING Right after pressing the Continue upgrade button you mustn t turn the device off The operation takes about two or...

Page 24: ... your computer via FTP unless you re sure the audio formats match the formats of the generators and this is ensured by the upload conversion process available at the web generators configuration IMPORTANT The right way to work with the audio files via FTP is Reset current configuration via the web server view section 4 2 3 4 Connect to the ftp server and modify the files you want The credentials f...

Page 25: ...0 emitter should have at least this configuration An announcements generator for E413 E415 and E417 A scheduled generator for E417 BGM music via an Icecast stream for any device connected to the network BGM RTP stream for E413 and E415 There are three receivers An E413 decoder which will play periodical announcements from the E430 device and BGM music from the RTP stream An E415 decoder which will...

Page 26: ... E413 AD2 channel RTP PCM 32000 Mono Port 6002 Announcements BGM2 channel RTP MP3 Port 6004 BGM RTP E415 AD2 channel RTP PCM 32000 Mono Port 6002 Announcements BGM1 channel Icecast url http 192 168 1 120 8000 stream1 mp3 BGM2 channel RTP MP3 Port 6004 BGM RTP E417 AD1 channel PCM 32000 Mono RTP port 6000 Scheduled as it has higher priority AD2 channel PCM 32000 Mono RTP port 6002 Announcements BGM...

Page 27: ...ect it so its configuration is available at the right side of the app and introduce the new settings After pressing Accept a confirmation dialog shows after confirming it we press Find devices again As a result of our actions we can see the device changes its IP which makes it possible to continue with the rest of the configuration Figure 21 Applying new network settings Figure 22 Network configur...

Page 28: ... RTP port 6002 Announcements normal priority BGM2 channel RTP MP3 Port 6004 BGM RTP E415 IP address 192 168 1 131 AD2 channel PCM 32000 Mono RTP port 6002 Announcements normal priority BGM2 channel RTP MP3 Port 6004 BGM RTP E417 IP address 192 168 1 132 AD1 channel PCM 32000 Mono RTP port 6000 Scheduled high priority AD2 channel PCM 32000 Mono RTP port 6002 Announcements normal priority Consequent...

Page 29: ... mark E415 Ad2 announcements and E417 Ad2 announcements What is left is the announcements folder and the files to play To do that we create a folder by pressing Create and we enter a name for the folder for instance Announcements which we should Confirm By now this should be the aspect of the configuration The uploading of the files is probably one of the most important things to understand Let s ...

Page 30: ...Once the files are selected we press Upload Convert the message Starting conversion please wait appears and then we wait until the Task completed message appears It should take less than a minute Figure 25 File selection dialog Figure 26 Conversion start Figure 27 Conversion end ...

Page 31: ...ouncements server User s manual Page 28 After pressing View files all the files converted should be visible We press Apply as we want all the files to be played and that finishes our announcements generator configuration Figure 28 File list ...

Page 32: ...s a day Having two messages we need two scheduled generators We need to go to the Scheduled subpage and we start to configure the first one To do that Add is pressed and we enter these settings Id From Monday to Friday Quality PCM 32000 It may be a different one but this ensures high quality Start automatically true Destinations E417 Ad1 scheduled We add the files not only for this generator but a...

Page 33: ...le there are several fields to configure Whenever a field is set with the value the field does not restrict the schedule For instance the default value is for all fields That means the message will be played when the condition minutes equals anything occurs therefore every minute Another example if we wanted a song to be played every day on the hour the setup would be the same but with the minutes...

Page 34: ...ys of week being from Monday to Friday Each row is generated by pressing Add below Schedule and then pressing Edit to enter the final values This is the final schedule for the first generator With this and after selecting scheduledMessage__32k wav which is the message we wanted to send in the first place the configuration is finished we press Apply on the page bottom to commit the changes Figure 3...

Page 35: ...417 Ad1 scheduled Then we add a schedule Now the conditions to meet are the time being 11 30 am or being 12 30 am or being 1 30 pm After adding these three requirements this is the result We Apply the settings and with that the scheduled generators configuration is finished 8 8 We have set a configuration with a potential conflict because the first generator is also active when the time is 11 30 1...

Page 36: ... highest quality Stream URL stream1 mp3 as specified The complete url is to be typed at the decoders Start automatically true Emission mode Random so that the background music is not always in the same order As in the announcement generators a folder needs to be defined We create a folder named Icecast1 after pressing on Create And after pressing Confirm Figure 35 Icecast generator first settings ...

Page 37: ...en Browse to select them in our PC and after that Upload Convert to send them to the E430 After a while this will be the Conversion progress result When that happens pressing View files will make a list with all the files checked appear We do not want to change which items are played so we press Apply and we save the configuration of all generators by pressing the top button Save Apply Figure 38 I...

Page 38: ...al This time the destinations checked should be E413 BGM2 RTP and E415 BGM2 RTP The folder is created with the name bgmRtp1 following the same steps as in the other generators This should be the aspect of the configuration You may add the files as it was done in the other generators After that press View files the mp3 files should be listed and checked Apply the configuration NOTE You should check...

Page 39: ...cheduled generators From Monday to Friday and Everyday are waiting for the next condition to become active and the moment is June 10 th 2015 at 12 30 This illustrates what happens if we set the same conditions for generators sharing a destination the audio would be sent at the same time and as a result the audio received at the decoders would not be correct This problem can be fixed setting differ...

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