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BLOCK DIAGRAM 

The SOFIA 565 is a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) receiver.  Other factors in 

its  design  make  the  product  almost  entirely  DSP-based  with  virtually  all  

functionality provided through firmware coding.  The Block Diagram pre-

sented here illustrates product basics in an easily-understood form, alt-

hough actual signal paths and logical functions may deviate appreciably 

from the circuit shown here. 

 

Summary of Contents for FM SiteStreamer+ SOFIA 565

Page 1: ...SOFIA 565 FM SiteStreamer Installation User Guide www inovonicsbroadcast com ...

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Page 3: ...dmin User Passwords Inovonics Inc 5805 Highway 9 Felton CA 95018 Tel 831 458 0552 Fax 831 458 0554 Register online at www inovonicsbroadcast com PRODUCT REGISTRATION RECORD SOFIA 565 Serial No _____________ Purchase Date _____________________ Warranty Registered Web Reg Date __________ By ____________ ...

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Page 5: ...Frequency Interference RFI 10 Ground Loops 10 INPUTS OUTPUTS AND PORTS Antenna Input and Considerations 10 Analog Line Outputs 10 Unbalanced Operation 11 AES Digital Line Output 11 AoIP Streaming Port and Levels 11 LAN Network Port 11 GPOs 11 Section III SETUP AND OPERATION PRELIMINARY INFORMATION Quick Boot 12 Front Panel vs Web Interface Setup 12 THE SOFIA 565 FRONT PANEL The Jog Wheel Knob 12 T...

Page 6: ...GRAPHS AND METERING Audio Level Metering 18 Histograms 19 The BandScanner Utility 19 The Extended FM Band 21 RDS INFO RDS Data Display 21 ALARMS Alarm Status 22 Audio Loss 22 Low Signal 23 RDS Alarm 23 RT Update 23 Pilot Loss 24 Alarm Logging 24 SETUP Radio Settings 24 Audio Outputs 25 Streaming Outputs 25 General Purpose Outputs 26 NETWORK SETUP AND INTERNET ACCESS IP Setup 27 Assigning a Hostnam...

Page 7: ...rts 30 Trap Destinations 30 The MIB File 30 EMAIL Email and Text Notifications 31 SMTP Setup 31 Recipients Send To 31 Notifications Send What 32 TIME SETUP Time and DST 32 Presentation Formats 32 RTC Battery 32 Time Server 32 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS Security and Passwords 33 Signing In 33 Lost Password Hard Reset 34 The Hardware Profile 34 Reboot 34 Updating Firmware 35 About Info 35 INOVONICS WARR...

Page 8: ...FIA 565 include All digital SDR Software Defined Radio off air re ception of analog FM and RDS RBDS data Stays on channel and holds user settings through sig nal and power losses Provides analog AES3 digital HTTP UDP Web stream ing and independent AoIP streaming program audio outputs Collects and displays a history of signal parameters StationRotation allows automatic sequential monitor ing of mul...

Page 9: ...rom 16kHz to 48kHz ac commodates up to 10 simultaneous lis teners http Icecast and raw UDP streams simultaneously available Alarms Audio Loss Silence Sensor Alarm has programmable On Off thresholds and Time On Off intervals Low Signal Alarm and reset trigger levels are independently adjustable relative to the FM carrier level display and have programmable Time On Off settings RDS Alarm Programmabl...

Page 10: ...make the product almost entirely DSP based with virtually all functionality provided through firmware coding The Block Diagram pre sented here illustrates product basics in an easily understood form alt hough actual signal paths and logical functions may deviate appreciably from the circuit shown here ...

Page 11: ...ir shipping damage sustained due to improper packing for return may invalidate the Warranty IT IS IMPORTANT to register the Warranty of your SOFIA 565 This assures coverage of the equipment under Warranty terms provides a means of tracing lost or stolen gear and adds the user to a database to receive specific service instructions or software firmware updates when issued Register online at www inov...

Page 12: ...ty The optional rack mount chassis should satisfy this requirement INPUTS OUTPUTS AND PORTS Antenna Input and Considerations The rear panel ANTENNA connector is a female 75 ohm BNC connector While the BNC may seem a bit odd for an antenna connection it is nonetheless a ubiquitous connector worldwide and adapters to other connector types are plentiful and readily available Many factors will guide y...

Page 13: ...Audio over Internet Protocol out put appears at the rear panel RJ45 AoIP PORT This port is in dependent of the SOFIA 565 LAN PORT network connection The AoIP streaming output level is set on the Setup Audio Out puts AoIP Level menu The dB notation beside the slider control corresponds to the level of program peaks at 75kHz FM carri er deviation 100 modulation This level is adjustable be tween 0dBF...

Page 14: ...ssary to get the unit up and running THE SOFIA 565 FRONT PANEL All setup and operating adjustments of the SOFIA 565 are un der firmware control There are no jumpers switches or me chanical potentiometers only the front panel jog wheel knob A and Back button B identified in this front panel rendering E D C B A The Jog Wheel Knob Turn the jog wheel knob A to cycle the highlight through the various m...

Page 15: ...escribed starting on Page 22 Level Meters LED segment meters E are LEFT and RIGHT channel audio level indicators with peak response to program dynamics A floating peak hold segment catches the most recent peak level The full scale 0dB reference corresponds to 75kHz monaural FM modulation Meter scaling is linear at 3dB per segment down to 18dB then 6dB per segment to 30dB Because these meters are p...

Page 16: ...T display Blend display Tuner Frequency select RSSI display SNR display ST Mode select IF BW select Highcut select Station Rotation Enable set Rotation Time select Setup Radio De Emphasis select RDS RBDS set Audio Outputs Analog Level select Digital Level select AoIP Level select General Purpose Outputs Output 1 4 select Type select Polarity set Status display Network IP Settings DHCP set IP data ...

Page 17: ...this example the DHCP assignment is IP 10 0 0 16 Note that this menu screen holds more IP address information turn the knob to scroll down Assigning a Fixed IP Address To assign the SOFIA 565 a fixed IP address clear the DHCP box and then navigate through the various fields on this screen entering the called for information manually in each Be sure to execute a Save after entering the IP data in t...

Page 18: ...e personalized see Page 27 Remote Listening What you can hear at the remote location will be pred icated on the what and how settings discussed a bit further on in this section You can click the loud speaker icon at the top right of the screen to listen to the off air audio program through your Web browser Alternatively you may use the IP address method with the ad dress bar of any browser or play...

Page 19: ...ers alarm indications for various signal related issues Alarm status is displayed on the front panel be low the signal metrics readout here on the Now Playing Webpage and on the Alarms Webpage where the alarm trigger and reset parameters are set Alarm specifics and setup proce dures begin on Page 22 In addition to the alarm status indicators the individual alarms can be assigned to rear panel GPO ...

Page 20: ... StationRotation operation will inhibit manual tuning Front panel station selection will be unavailable and the Web in terface Tuner setup section will be grayed out StationRotation must first be turned on by setting Enable to On Next the Rotation Time Sec must be programmed This takes some thought as there are alarm setup considerations when us ing this feature Most alarms have time on time off s...

Page 21: ...ive presentation The Y axis resolution level range is optimized for the display as choices are reduced Obviously the histograms represent only the station being re ceived at the moment If you change frequency to check on other stations in the market the histograms will reflect param eters of those stations during your surfing expedition You might want to jot down the time away from the primary sta...

Page 22: ...µV per the annotation to the left of the plot Had this scan been done in the simple RSSI mode all stations would show up just as yellow bars By hovering over a yellow bar the Freq and RSSI level are shown numerically in the pop up per the first example on the right Click on the bar and the radio will tune to that station and bring up the Now Playing page A yellow bar with a red dot indicates that ...

Page 23: ... to in troduce define and describe RDS features data formatting and grouping For that the reader is directed to the appropriate Standard for either the European RDS or US RBDS RadioData housekeeping utility RDS Data Display The top area of the screen shows the most important blocks of RDS data the static or scrolling PS the PI Code either assigned or in the US and Canada derived from the Callsign ...

Page 24: ...p as described in the re mainder of this section Following that the email SMS messag ing and rear panel GPO tallies may be programmed These pro cedures will be described in the Setup and Email Webpage dis cussions respectively NOTE Do please read the following discussions in their entire ty A setup explained for one alarm that is common or quite similar to the setup of others may not be repeated i...

Page 25: ...f On settings for RDS errors Turning RDS Loss On delivers an alarm when the RDS subcarrier simply goes missing Setting PI Error On gives an alarm when RDS is re ceived with a PI code mismatch RDS data transmitted with an analog FM broadcast contains a PI code unique to that station A PI mismatch can signal a transla tor hijacking by a radio hooligan or the less sinister condition of the expected s...

Page 26: ...sults by overtyping Filter alarms with a search term from the appropriate column You may also download the Alarm Logs for Daily Weekly Month ly or Complete all logged alarms time periods The number of alarms received for these time periods is shown at the top Downloads are saved to your computer as small csv text files The Alarm Log will continue to accumulate entries but you may clear it at any t...

Page 27: ... average level of a sine wave tone with a peak value corresponding to 100 FM carrier modulation 75kHz monaural carrier deviation at 400Hz The Digital Level dBFS slider adjusts the rear panel XLR AES3 digital program line output between 30dBFS and 0dBFS Levels in this case are dBFS peak values at the output again corre sponding to 75kHz mono FM carrier deviation An accepted and appropriate setting ...

Page 28: ...em time to reassem ble the data with fewer errors with just a few seconds temporal inconvenience Although the SOFIA 565 can accommodate as many as 10 sim ultaneous HTTP Icecast Stream Web listeners the number of lis teners can be truncated in the interest of better streaming ser vice to fewer authorized listeners The Max Listeners slider can be set between 0 and 10 For the SOFIA 565 to automatical...

Page 29: ...CP your router auto matically assigns the SOFIA 565 an IP Ad dress and will populate the four associated fields although they will be grayed out and you ll not be able to edit the data in those fields However if Mode is changed to Static IP then you must make the appropriate entries in all four fields Assigning a Hostname You may change the default name SOFIA565 to something else either to persona...

Page 30: ...e network router Within the router s Port Forwarding utility you will be able to enter your static IP address for the unit Internal IP followed by a colon and a port number The port number may be any number in the router s range If your Internet Service Provider ISP assigns you a static IP address then it is a simple matter to address the SOFIA 565 from anywhere Just type the IP address and port n...

Page 31: ...ry assigned and cannot be changed Link Speed Link Speed this is a readout showing connection status and the expected best networking rate for the AoIP connection Audio Format Encoding refers to the word length for the PCM encoded digital audio to be sent as AoIP PCM 16 PCM 24 PCM 32 refers to word length for Dante AoIP flows AES67 flows are locked to 24 bits regardless of this setting Sample Rate ...

Page 32: ...ite Community fields overtype the factory defaults and enter text that is specified for the read write strings on the SNMP Manager monitoring device You must do a Save after entering your text Ports The default SNMP Ports SNMP Port 161 and Trap Port 162 are customary for a majority of SNMP operations Overtype these defaults to change them as required Trap Destinations When the SOFIA 565 initiates ...

Page 33: ...erver enter the provided outgoing mail server info e g smtp gmail com the required Port number and wheth er TLS is On or Off From is the friendly name that identifies the SOFIA 565 to the email or SMS text recipient You could use station call letters or something like SOFIA Alarm or Oh NO User is the full email address of the unit You may assign a Password to the account Recipients Send To Next en...

Page 34: ...dinated Time for your area In this example the 8 represents West Coast US Pacific time The time at the top of the page will update immediately so you can simply drag the slider until the time shown here agrees with that big clock on the wall Daylight Saving Time is set to the default Auto mode in this ex ample You may either opt for this convenience or click the down arrow to select On or Off for ...

Page 35: ... and saved the front panel Now Playing screen will be the only one visible and all Web in terface screens will be locked out With respect to front panel access the SOFIA 565 will lock any time the screen times out goes dim or dark after the unit is untouched for the programmed timeout period It may be locked immediately by holding down the Back button for a few seconds Signing In With password pro...

Page 36: ...ile to your computer under Configu ration click Download Hardware Profile With the Firefox browser used in this example Windows first asks whether to Open or Save the file After clicking the Save button and OK Windows saves the file to the browser s as signed Save location usually the Windows Downloads folder From there you can move it to a folder of your choice The file carries a default name of ...

Page 37: ...as small bin files which may be downloaded to your computer Desktop or placed in any convenient folder From the Firmware Update utility at the bottom of the Admin screen click Select Firmware File and double click the bin file listing This will transfer the file to the updater as shown at the below With the name of the new bin show ing in File click Update Firmware and follow the prompts to com pl...

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Page 39: ...tion label has been removed or altered III TERMS OF WARRANTY Inovonics Inc products are warranted to be free from defects in materials and workmanship A Any discrepancies noted within THREE YEARS of the date of delivery will be repaired free of charge or will be replaced with a new or remanufactured product at Inovonics option B Parts and labor for factory repair required after the three year Warr...

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