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Operating Manual for FLASHMAN II

Summary of Contents for FLASHMAN II

Page 1: ...2012 MAYAH Communications Operating Manual for FLASHMAN II...

Page 2: ...marks All other trademarks are acknowledged with this FLASHMAN II User Manual Order No F UM001 Revision 01 2012 2012 MAYAH Communications For copying this manual even by extract an explicit written pe...

Page 3: ...lt IP settings 17 How to access the device via FTP 17 How to start Web Remote 17 How to update the firmware 19 How to activate Keycodes 19 How to reset the device 20 Boot Script Part III Front panel u...

Page 4: ...te codec profile 66 System 67 Configs 68 LCD 69 Display 69 Miscellaneous 69 Device ID 70 Date Time 71 System health 71 Versions 71 Connections 72 User Interface 72 Factory Default 72 Timeouts 73 AJC 7...

Page 5: ...Part I Introduction...

Page 6: ...professional portable audio recorder the audio input supports the features Switching between line and microphone input Switchable high pass filter Switchable limiter Switchable attenuation of 20 dB Sw...

Page 7: ...e info about this can be found in chapter Front panel user interface menu monitor mixer g Mobile Features as compact size light weight powerful rechargeable battery support of mobile interfaces such a...

Page 8: ...ies SD SDHC card for recording PCMCIA adapter for CF memory card CF Compact Flash USB stick for recording Notes If you want to use FLASHMAN II for mobile transmission you need an 3G UMTS or a WLAN car...

Page 9: ...Part II First Start...

Page 10: ...r PCMCIA memory card For later mobile transmission insert either the original FLASHMAN II 3G UMTS card or the original FLASHMAN II WLAN card 2 2 Battery Charger The original FLASHMAN II battery charge...

Page 11: ...lots a Slot for PCMCIA cards In this slot the following cards can be inserted FLASHMAN II 3G UMTS card for IP transmission via 3G UMTS FLASHMAN II WLAN card for IP transmission via WLAN PC Memory card...

Page 12: ...microphone use 48 Volts phantom power can be activated for condenser microphones b Audio outputs Outputs 1 and 2 are unbalanced stereo outputs using a 1 4 headphone stereo plug each At output 2 the v...

Page 13: ...d the button pressed for 2 seconds changes to delete mode First character is deleted after 0 5 seconds but the delete speed is increased for 10 for each further character b Function buttons The 4 func...

Page 14: ...ol keys Menu key 2 5 Graphic User Interface a Menu mode Menu mode can be opened by pressing the menu button In menu mode the next menu item can be reached by pressing the menu button once again When l...

Page 15: ...e of the screen can be reached by pressing the cursor buttons Direction of the cursor buttons corresponds to the navigation direction on screen 2 6 Switching On And Off To switch on FLASHMAN II press...

Page 16: ...ddress of your FLASHMAN II and your PC must be the same Example Net mask 255 255 255 0 11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000 PC IP address 192 168 1 56 FLASHMAN II with IP address 192 168 1 57 is locate...

Page 17: ...card F USB storage 2 7 3 How to start Web Remote The Web Remote access data are by default Host IP address of FLASHMAN II Username WebAdmin Password WebPower Please consult the Web Remote 4 Manual for...

Page 18: ...the corresponding slot on the device Turn on the FLASHMAN II Don t disconnect the update media from the device if Update Extracting files appears on an LCD screen or ALARM CONNECT and FRAMED LEDs are...

Page 19: ...s_keycode keycode by using Telnet session boot script see below or any other control type 2 7 6 How to reset the device This operation should only be done by expert users MAYAH is not responsible for...

Page 20: ...is located in the root folder of a USB stick A boot script can contain a set of any direct commands one command per line Such direct commands are described in the Communication Reference Manual Please...

Page 21: ...Part III Front panel user Interface...

Page 22: ...main screen is shown 3 1 Main Screen The main screen elements are a Menu bar The menu key enables to activate deactivate the menu mode to select main menu items For more info please consult chapter Fr...

Page 23: ...ull see also Front panel user interface Function keys Playback button Stop playback see also Front panel user interface Control keys Stop key The Recording state can be Recording see also Front panel...

Page 24: ...s often it seems that the percentage state of the progress does not change d 3G UMTS or WLAN signal strength Best Good Sufficient Bad Blinking symbol means no 3G UMTS connectivity e SIP registration s...

Page 25: ...eys The 2 control keys of FLASHMAN II are located below the LCD screen MENU 3 2 1 Menu key The Menu key has got the following functionalities Switching on FLASHMAN II Press and hold the Menu key for a...

Page 26: ...tion of sub menu item In menu mode a sub menu item can be reached with the cursor keys Selection of track In Main screen the right track can be chosen on the selected storage device with the cursor ke...

Page 27: ...ats In main screen markers can be set during recording and playback with OK button 3 4 Function keys The 4 function keys of FLASHMAN II are located on left side of the LCD screen Pressing any function...

Page 28: ...nications Operating Manual for FLASHMAN II started by pressing the recorder button rec pause once again Storage media and audio quality format settings can be selected via menu item Recorder Setup Rec...

Page 29: ...he recording file n shown Setting markers except AAC AAC HE file formats During the recording a marker can be set by pressing the OK button Coding settings in status bar Operational mode mono m or ste...

Page 30: ...back button toggles between play mode and play pause mode u or u shown Pressing the Stop key stops playback of file n shown Displaying markers Markers are displayed as thin vertical lines on the progr...

Page 31: ...nnect button opens a dialog with the following items End Call Disconnect a currently active connection Last Possibility to establish one of the last 10 connections Phone book Possibility to establish...

Page 32: ...Communications Operating Manual for FLASHMAN II The last 10 connections are stored Select one with the cursor keys and establish the referring connection with dial c PH B Phone book At the phone book...

Page 33: ...ewly created then the following parameters can be set Name max 256 chars 8 chars recommended Settings optional parameter usually unused NOTE Settings are configurations as described in menu item Syste...

Page 34: ...WLAN 3 4 4 Back light Audio button This button has two functionalities a Back light Holding of Back light Audio button for two seconds switches the LCD display back light on and off b Headphones volu...

Page 35: ...ey All settings which cannot be done by the function keys can be reached via the menu 3 5 1 Recorder Here Recording Playback and Audio File Upload settings can be done 3 5 1 1 Tracks In the Tracks men...

Page 36: ...he OK button once and then stepping to the rename icon Repeat mode can be set to single no repeat rep one repeat selected track rep all repeat all tracks starts playback from the selected track Also d...

Page 37: ...mmunications Operating Manual for FLASHMAN II Meaning of the control buttons Upload Starts the transfer of the selected track s according to the settings configured at Params All Selects all tracks of...

Page 38: ...er no path means root directory If the file with the same name already available on the remote FTP server it will be overwritten without further notice IFace Interface if FTP transfer should be done o...

Page 39: ...RAGE 3 5 1 3 1 Quality The desired recording quality can be chosen with the cursor buttons and confirmed by pressing the OK button twice By factory default the following coding formats can be selected...

Page 40: ...kHz Bit rate 192 kbps Mode Stereo AAC Mono Algorithm AAC MPEG 4 Sample rate 48 kHz Bit rate 64 kbps Mode Mono AAC Stereo Algorithm AAC MPEG 4 Sample rate 48 kHz Bit rate 128 kbps Mode Stereo AAC HE 24...

Page 41: ...for recording can be chosen with the cursor buttons and confirmed by pressing OK button twice The chosen storage device is indicated by a following symbol 3 5 1 4 Card The card menu supplies an overvi...

Page 42: ...storage device following utilities can be used chkdisk Check Disk utility This utility provides integrity check and error correction of the storage medium After the check it generates a report on the...

Page 43: ...y mixer profiles For faster and easier control some mixer levels can be linked together How this can be done is determined in the Mixer Mode at menu item Monitor Setup Structure of dialog and navigati...

Page 44: ...nd panning adjustment can be done The panning or level state of the currently underlined control is shown on the right side as a percentage In the diagram shown above the Left Receive level rcvL is se...

Page 45: ...oad Selected mixer profile becomes active Save Current mixer settings are saved in the currently selected mixer profile Rename Here the currently selected mixer profile can be renamed Del Clears all t...

Page 46: ...s the level of received audio from the other side of connection Playback level left and right This is the level of played files d rec The level and the panning state of all possible inputs for recorde...

Page 47: ...N II in1 in2 rcvL rcvR plyL plyR hpL hpR lineL lineR recL recR sendL sendR 3 5 2 2 Setup Here the following can be set Audio input mode Mixer Mode 3 5 2 2 1 Audio In Audio In Here can be set how audio...

Page 48: ...onding button is hold Toggle mute can be switched on and off by pressing corresponding button Limiter The limiter guarantees that too high audio input levels are not just cut off which caused big dist...

Page 49: ...tor Mixer can be set approx between 35 3 dBu left position and 56 3 dBu right position At mic level the input signal is amplified by a pre amp at lower grade than at the mic level Afterwards the signa...

Page 50: ...ges must be confirmed in a OK Cancel Dialog 3 5 3 Codec The codec menu supports the following features Status of communication interface and coding during transmission Configuration of communication i...

Page 51: ...ddr IP or SIP address of connection partner input bit rate in kbps output bit rate in kbps jitter in ms lost packets These are packets lost during transmission and cannot be recovered dropped packets...

Page 52: ...ince delay buffer is not big enough these packets cannot be reordered and therefore they re dropped This can be improved by setting a higher delay buffer see Codec Setup Interface Ethernet and or by a...

Page 53: ...ers shown in this screen cannot be modified 3 5 3 1 2 Coding Here the current encoding parameters are displayed for both encoder and decoder It can be selected between them with cursor keys The coding...

Page 54: ...ssary configuration steps can be done for all communication interfaces 3 5 3 2 1 1 Ethernet DHCP DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol enables FLASHMAN II to configure its IP settings except of SIP...

Page 55: ...value 5 000 ms Note RTP packets can be resorted if they are received in the wrong order The higher the value is the more packets can be resorted Generally receive buffer value should be bigger than av...

Page 56: ...a registration However only an inactive profile can be changed Therefore at a new profile first Active must be set to off After all registration info is entered Active must be set to on to validate t...

Page 57: ...te In case that the PIN is deactivated on your SIM card this field will be ignored by FLASHMAN II b APN Access Point Name APN credentials are provided by your mobile service provider e g web vodafone...

Page 58: ...ms Note RTP packets can be resorted if they are received not in the right order The higher the value is the more packets can be resorted Generally receive buffer value should be bigger than average n...

Page 59: ...Here a WLAN link can be activated or deactivated f DHCP DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol enables FLASHMAN II to configure its IP settings for WLAN interface automatically with a help of a DHC...

Page 60: ...arameters algorithm sample rate bit rate operational mode and others The selected quality profile determines which coding settings are used for the next connection if it s not established with the pho...

Page 61: ...tX Mono optional Algorithm AptX Sample rate 32 kHz Bit rate 128 kbps Mode Mono AptX nosync Mono optional Algorithm AptX no sync Sample rate 32 kHz Bit rate 128 kbps Mode Mono EaptX Stereo optional Alg...

Page 62: ...ample rate 48 kHz Bit rate 256 kbps Mode stereo L3 Mono Algorithm MPEG L3 Sample rate 32 kHz Bit rate 64 kbps Mode Mono L3 Joint Stereo Algorithm MPEG L3 Sample rate 48 kHz Bit rate 128 kbps Mode Join...

Page 63: ...desired profile and press the OK button or cursor button to step to the save icon which will be displayed inverted Press OK button to apply the profile to the current codec configuration Current codec...

Page 64: ...C MPEG 4 AAC AAC HE i e MPEG 4 HE AACv2 Linear 4SB ADPCM optional Std APT X sync optional Std APT X nosync optional Enh APT X 16 i e enhanced APT X 16 bit optional Enh APT X 20 i e enhanced APT X 20 b...

Page 65: ...essary for the correct synchronisation of multiple B channels in an ISDN transmission If the IMUX format is set to Auto the FLASHMAN II will automatically recognise the correct format in most cases Th...

Page 66: ...ssing the cursor button twice or more times and choosing the otherwise hidden option edit You can adjust parameters in the same way as described in the chapter New codec profile 3 5 3 2 2 4 Delete cod...

Page 67: ...er mixer codec and other settings to reestablish the transmission scenario to your studio last week Max 50 configuration macros can be saved Automatically the configuration of the last connection is s...

Page 68: ...tion macro in the list To prevent misuse the user will be asked if he she really wants to delete this configuration Note At every outgoing connection a configuration is stored automatically named last...

Page 69: ...4 Miscellaneous At Miscellaneous menu item the general settings of FLASHMAN II can be set or requested The different items can be selected via a list box with the cursor buttons and The currently cho...

Page 70: ...cations Operating Manual for FLASHMAN II 3 5 4 4 2 Date Time This screen enables to Set date Set time Set date format Selection between YYYY MM DD Year month day MM DD YYYY Month Day Year DD MM YYYY D...

Page 71: ...re the firmware version of the FLASHMAN II is displayed 3 5 4 4 5 Connections a Accept Mode Here can be set if incoming calls via Ethernet ISDN UMTS 3G POTS or WLAN are accepted automatically default...

Page 72: ...transmit the synchronization information in band Although G 722 H 221 is a recommended EBU standard it s not very widespread G 722 SRT Statistical Recovery Timing Synchronization requires finding the...

Page 73: ...time in seconds by default 30 seconds b Decoder side If necessary the audio delay is increased to adapt the transmission to a current network conditions Increasing the audio delay is achieved by incre...

Page 74: ...Configuration This feature enables to export the whole configuration including phone book and codec profiles to USB storage media recommended SD Card PC Card FTP server Note Following FTP parameters c...

Page 75: ...plementation of the FLASHMAN II is the same as for the CENTAURI II codecs you can find more background information in its manual Visit www mayah com help to download it or to browse on line 3 5 4 4 14...

Page 76: ...y of the week Sunday 0 Monday 1 and so on 1 digit hour Specifies the current hour 2 digits min Specifies the current minute 2 digits sec Specifies the current second 2 digits ms Specifies the current...

Page 77: ...mmended also to setup the NTP function by using Web Remote See Web Remote Menu SETUP NTP e REC Folder With the current firmware version it is an Information field displaying the folder directory name...

Page 78: ...re 78 2012 MAYAH Communications Operating Manual for FLASHMAN II happen accidentally has no effect To switch off FLASHMAN II the user must first press the cursor button to select OK and then confirm t...

Page 79: ...Part IV How to use for...

Page 80: ...sly not configured For instance If just the received audio should be recorded just the levels rcvL and rcvR must be in a different position than 0 left position Note If feature recording during transm...

Page 81: ...ight level ratio between live audio and playback audio the appropriate mixer settings should be done at menu item Monitor Mixer at item send if previously not configured For instance If just a formerl...

Page 82: ...he right file at menu item Rec Tracks After selection of the right file start playback by pressing OK button twice Note During transmission just files with quality linear 16 bit stereo can be used d T...

Page 83: ...Part V Technical specifications...

Page 84: ...4 48 kHz Linear PCM 16bit 20 bit 24 bit 32 48 kHz Std APT X 16bit 20 bit 24 bit 32 48 kHz Enh APT X 16bit 20 bit 24 bit 32 48 kHz File formats Linear PCM wav 16bit 20 bit 24 bit 32 48 kHz Mono Stereo...

Page 85: ...IP Initiation and termination of audio transmissions FTP File transfer update HTTP Web Control Power Supply PSU Power Supply Unit external 100 240V AC 50 60 Hz Rechargeable Battery Lithium Ion 14V 200...

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Page 87: ...rate 74 Before start 10 BGAN 73 Bit rate 63 Bit resolution 63 Bootscript 20 Browser 17 Buffer IP 54 57 58 Buttons 12 C Cell Technology 57 CF card 7 35 41 Charger 7 10 Codec configuration 50 Codec pro...

Page 88: ...y 55 H Handshake 74 Headphones volume 34 Hirose HR10 11 How to use for 80 How to use for playback during transmission 81 How to use for record during transmission 80 HSDPA 57 HSUPA 57 I Import configu...

Page 89: ...ng storage device 41 Remaining time 69 Remote control timeout 72 Reporter Mode 72 Reset 19 72 Resume connection 71 RTP 54 S S N 69 Sample rate 63 Satellite communication 73 Scope of Delivery 7 SD card...

Page 90: ...cations Upload 36 USB A Type connector 11 USB stick 7 41 USB stick FTP access 17 USB storage 35 Useful Accessories 7 Useful hints 16 User Interface 72 V Versions 71 W Web Remote 17 What is FLASHMAN II...

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