Technical Information
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Alternatively many USB keyboards will work with our STBs (although they are not officially supported). We
would recommend that you follow the instructions to configure the STB for the older Amino keyboard
before starting. Once this has been done, press
F10
to bring up the address bar.
On Ax5x only the older style IR keyboards or USB keyboards are currently supported for the toolbar although
the new style keyboard above can be used for the channel zapper application (see below).
1.6.2
Playing video
To play video being streamed to the STB you simply enter the URL of the stream into the browser’s address
bar.
For a multicast stream the format is:
igmp://<multicast address>:<port>
For an RTSP stream the format is:
rtsp://ServerAddress:554/<Path>/Asset
For more information on playing video streams see the knowledgebase at
http://stbsupport.aminocom.com
1.6.3
Setting up a channel list
This software image has been pre-configured with a basic channel zapper which can be used to set up a list
of URLs (channels).
1.
To access the configuration interface press
alt-C
on the keyboard and enter the password
’
letmein
’.
2.
Enter start and finish numbers of the channels you wish to edit and click ‘
Edit Range
’ (for
example, 1 to 5).
3.
Enter the URLs of the streams that you wish to enable along with a name and then click
Save/View Video
.
4.
You can then set the homepage of the STB to
file:///mnt/nv/index.html
so that the
channel zapper starts up automatically after a reboot. To do this press
alt-m
on the keyboard
(password “
leaves
”), select
Browser
and then edit the homepage field.
For more information on the channel zapper please see TN050 - channel changer (Downloads -> Aminet STBs
-> Documentation -> Configuration Guides).
1.6.4
Configuring software images
There are many configuration options available for the Amino STBs for optimum operation within a network.
These are fully documented in the
Set‐Top Box Configuration Guide
along with the different mechanisms
that can be used for changing them. (The
Set‐Top Box Configuration Guide
can be downloaded at
http://stbsupport.aminocom.com
. Go to Downloads > Aminet STBs > Documentation > Configuration
Guides).
For more advanced features and for pre-configuring a software image you will need a software release
archive. Depending on what configuration you are doing it may be necessary to add a “post build pack” to
the image and/or edit files in the release before you sign it.
