Supported Alteia Protocol Commands and Messages
System information bypass selection commands are used to control directly which
elementary streams are required. This bypasses the Service Guide and other Service
Information (SI) tables.
SUB
Description
NNN
Parameter Description
QUA
Requests quality status
See below
SRQ
Requests operational
status
See below
QUA
response:
\000:OPR;SIG=ddd_EBN=cdd.d_BER=ddE-d_$FFCr
where parameters are as given above, and the following additional parameters:
SUB
Description
NNN
Parameter Description
SIG
Input signal strength
(satellite input)
ddd
Signal strength in nominal
units, range 000 to 255, where
255 represents full scale.
EBN
C/N value
cdd.d
C/N value +/- range of 00.0 to
99.9
BER
Error Ratio (satellite input)
(post Viterbi)
ddE-d
BER value in scientific format,
range for mantissa is 10 to 99,
range for exponent is -1 to -8
SRQ
response:
\000:OPR;SIG=ddd_ALR=hhhh_BER=ddE-d_ALL=hhhhh_SAQ=ccc_$FFCr
where parameters are as given above, and the following additional parameters
:
SUB
Description
NNN
Parameter Description
SIG
Input signal strength
(satellite input)
ddd
Signal strength in nominal
units, range 000 to 255,
where 255 represents full
scale.
ALL
Alarm status (Alteia type)
hhhhh
See Note
BER
Error Ratio (satellite input)
(post Viterbi)
ddE-d
BER value in scientific format,
range for mantissa is 10 to 99,
range for exponent is -1 to -7
(Will return 1E-8 for decoder
IRD)
SAQ
Signal acquisition mode
ACO
Actual only (always returned)
NOTE…
The alarm bitmaps of the Alteia and System 3000 formats.
A bit set represents an alarm condition as follows
Alteia alarm bitmap
(16 bit)
System 3000 alarm bitmap (20
bit)
Bit
Mask
Description
Bit
Mask
Description
36 (59)
Document No. ST.TS.EXXXXX.1 2010-03-04