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Page 1 Beginning with ..AB IPBox 9000HD AB IPBox 900HD AB IPBox 910HD AB IPBox 91HD Beginners guide Rel 120609...
Page 2 This guidebook is designed for beginning users of AB IPBox 9000HD. 900HD and 910HD receivers. It describes some of the functions that are mentioned In Users Manual as well as some new functions that are included in the latest versions of the supported firmware.
Page 3 A little theory won't kill anybody... Let us explain some of the basic terms connected to theory of reception usage of HD signal. HDTV is abbreviation for High Definition Television. It involves a digital signal with higher picture resolution than recent SDTV (standard-definition television) PAL, SECAM a NTSC standards. Minimum HDTV resolution must be at least 720p (1280x720) –...
Page 4 Here you can find description of all formats: Standard Definition: SD PAL 576i 720x576i Transmission in PAL or SECAM standard SD NTSC 480i 720x480i Transmission NTSC standard EDTV 576p/480p Standard that is used by some DVD players High Definition: 720p 1280x720p HDTV format used in HDTV transmission or in HDV camcorders...
Page 5 CD, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio and MPCM formats. From 1.2 version it even supports transmission of control and check data according to CEC (Consumer Electronic Control) protocol. There is comparison of particular HDMI version in table below. AB IPBox 9xx/9000HD receivers are all equipped with HDMI 1.2a connectors.
Page 6 1.3a HDMI version 1.0 1.1 1.3b 1.2a 1.3b1 sRGB Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YCbCr Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 8 channel LPCM/192 kHz/24-bit audio capability Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Blu-ray Disc video and audio at full resolution Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) No No Yes Yes Yes DVD-Audio...
Page 7 Digital HDTV satellite receivers with Linux operating system AB IPBox 9000HD , AB IPBox 900HD , AB IPBox 910HD AB IPBox 91HD 900HD * 910HD 9000HD 2 (*2) Number of tuners Yes 1 Yes 1 Yes 2 Plug&Play tuners DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1, 1.2...
Page 8 AB IPBox 9000HD  DVB-S ,DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-C support  Exchangeable (Plug & Play) tuners  MPEG-2 MP@HL Video Decoder  MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 HP@L4 Video Decoder  MP3, JPEG playback  Dolby Digital AC3 downmix decoder (Stereo output)  HDMI v.1.2a with HDCP protection ...
Page 9 Front panel of receiver: ■ 2 smart card slots ■ 2 Common Interface (CAM) slots ■ MVFD (Matrix Vacuum Fluorescent Display) – showing channel name, current time, receiver status and error messages. ■ On/Off button ■ MENU button ■ EPG button ■...
Page 10 Display of AB IPBox 9000HD rel.2 Stand by mode TV mode Radio mode Actual channel is satellite Actual channel is terrestrial *If neither SAT nor TER is highlighted - actual channel is DVB-C Prerecorded file from HDD is being played...
Page 11: Rear Panel
Rear panel of STB equipped wit 2 tuners. Note: There is a modified AB IPBox 9000HD rel.3 receiver on market from April 2009. It is equipped with similar display as rel.2 receivers but the display is blue without red symbols. Also the ventilation fan is replaced to the rear panel close to power supply souce and new ventilation slots are added onto the front cover of the receiver to reach better circulation of hot air.
Page 12 AB IPBox 900HD/910HD  DVB-S ,DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-C support  Exchangeable (Plug & Play) tuners  MPEG-2 MP@HL Video Decoder  MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 HP@L4 Video Decoder  MP3, JPEG playback  Dolby Digital AC3 downmix decoder (Stereo output)  HDMI v.1.2a with HDCP protection ...
Page 13 Front panel ■ 2 smart card slots ■ 1 Common Interface (CAM) slot (only 910HD) ■ MVFD (Matrix Vacuum Fluorescent Display) – showing channel name, error messages, current time, audio mode, recording status and other information. ■ On/Off button ■ MENU button ■...
Page 14: I Have Got My New Receiver
- version of original DGS software that AB sw originates from usb_all_noboot – type of installation file AB software also contains basic setting with groups for Astra 19,2E , Hotbird 13E , Astra 23,5E and Thor 0,8W satellites. If you do not use a motor we recommend connection of DiSEqC switch in following...
Page 15 Addons are installed via webinterface of your receiver. Find the IP address of your receiver (or insert it manually) in menu before installation. Use any commander software (software for management of files – e.g. Total Commander) that enables ftp connection to connect to your receiver. Use: root, password : ipbox.
Page 16 Example for Total Commander : Run Total Commander on your PC Select „Connect to FTP“ icon or use key short cut CTRL+F.
Page 17 Select „NEW CONNECTION“. Fill in the displayed window: Session – name of connection (you can use any name) Host name – IP address of your IPBoxu User name – root Password - ipbox ( can be „relook“ for images different from AB)
Page 18 Press OK and select „CONNECT“ A list of directories of your receiver appears: Copy installation file of corresponding addon (ipk extension) into /tmp directory in your receiver.
Page 19 Run a web browser on your PC and insert IP address of your receiver into line for entering web address. Use name : root, password : ipbox.
Page 20 The opening page of web interface of your receiver appears.
Page 21 Select the „addons“ item and confirm by „INSTALL“. The addon will be installed automatically and your receiver will restart. Wait until your STB turns on. Connect to the webinterface again - Client, Server and Keys item appears in upper bar.
Page 22 There is a newcs as server and mgcamd as client preset in addon. If a smart card is inserted into your receiver it will be automatically active after new running your STB. If you need to restart emulation you can do it by two ways: 1.
Page 23 Except for common SF addon there was also "SF addon with Sifteam add..." released that additionally includes addon by Sif team. This addon is determined mostly for AB IPBox 9000HD receiver and is designed to enable decoding from tuner 2.
Page 24 The way of installation is the same as for installation of an image. If you use USB flash memory rename the file into "usb_update.img" - instal just SF addon with Sifteam after installation of AB r9341image – you do not have to instal common SF addon - if you use cards in your receiver –...
Page 25: Network Cooperation Of Receivers
Network cooperation of receivers AB IPBox 9000HD/900HD receivers with installed addon can cooperate in a network as server and client e.g. for card sharing. This function enables sharing one access card for several receivers connected in the network. To activate the sharing it is necessary to configure newcs.xml (for server), newcamd.conf (for server and client) and mg.cfg files.
Page 26 127.0.0.1 is IP address used for sharing own cards. It is always the same. client Configuration files in receiver (AB IPBox 9000HD, 900HD, 910HD) Content of newcamd.conf file in client receiver. Can be found in: /var/tuxbox/config/ CWS = 10.0.0.99 10000...
Page 27 Content of preset mg.cfg file that must be located into var/keys/ # EMM messages 00 don't show any EMMs (default) 01 show only valid EMMs 02 show valid and bad EMMs with complete data display M: { 01 } # ECM messages 00 don't show anything about ecm 01 normal mode, show pids processed, decoded ecm and cw 02 verbose mode, show valid and bad ECMs with data...
Page 28 # network shares priority # 00 gbox, newcamd, radegast, camd3 (default) # 01 camd3, radegast, newcamd, gbox # 02 newcamd, camd3, gbox, radegast P: { 00 } # on screen display type 00 No OSD (default) 01 neutrino 02 enigma 03 relook + user password for http auth O: { 00 } username password...
Page 29 (newcs+mgcamd) preset in your receiver just press the green function button while no menu or OSD information is displayed! Plugins for AB IPBox 9xxxHD receivers Plugins – additional software modules that extend ability of the receiver and bring a new functions that are not included in basic software.
Page 30: Software Upgrade
That is why we recommendalways doing software upgrade always when any problems or errors occurs! There are several ways how to upgrade software of your AB IPBox 9xxxHD: Model ...
Page 31 - Press and hold Standby ( ) button on front panel and hold ( ) button at the same time. “serial upgrad” message appears on display. Continue in update via Flash tools. 5. Forced HDD formatting - Press and hold Standby ( ) button on front panel and hold ( )button at the same time.
Page 32 Software update via Flash tools (only 9000HD) Installation of USB Driver USB driver installation is to be done only before firs running of Flash tools software. 1. Download and install Flash tools software (1.0.2 version or higher) into your PC. The software is available on www.download.abcom.sk (registration is obligatory).
Page 33 Software upgrade through USB (klient) (only AB IPBox 9000HD) 1. PVR and PC mustbe connected by USB cable. 2. Press and hold Standby button, turn on the receiver by power switch and wait until "USB UPGRADE" message appears on display.
Page 34 (see list below). Setting is finished when “STB” button blinks. Release the buttons. Remote controllers of AB IPBox 9000HD and AB IPBox 900HD can be operated in following modes: OK+1 : AB IPBox 4xxS and AB IPBox 250S...
Page 35: Troubleshoting
(TV button blinks when pressing) or is set for Set RC for controlling your controlling different model of model. AB IPBox. CA module is not inserted. Check out if the CA module is CA module does not work inserted correctly.
Page 36 Reinstall firmware of your Forgotten PIN code. receiver by „all_noboot“ installation file. Local time is not set correctly Press Time update in Local No EPG data time setting menu Wrong communication Contact authorized service. “ERR 80” or “ERR 81” message between CPU and appears on front panel of your receiver.
Page 37 Plugins for HD series Read me files for all plugins:  Bitrate plugin This is a bitrate plugin for the AB IPBox 9xxxHD, which displays the current video and audiobitrate from the TV station. USAGE: ====== The plugin updates the values every 2 seconds, you can switch from a...
Page 38  FavPip plugin This plug-in provides an alternative to the favourites channellist in the firmware. Its main advanteges ================== - Allows to switch channels in PiP or live mode (and filters channels which cannot be opened in PiP mode). So it can also be used as alternative to the Sub channel list. - Current epg is shown next to the channelname (if available) - Sorts your favourites groups as defined in PCEditor Key Mapping...
Page 39 RELEASE 0.6 ============= - show epg next to channel names RELEASE 0.6.1 (Mod by COoLoSER) ============= - missing features added in 0.5.2 RELEASE 0.6.2 (Mod by COoLoSER) ============= - features of all previous versions - added EPG bar which presents relation between passed time of current program to duration of that program - LEFT/RIGHT buttons don't roll the list - PgUp/PgDown switch whole page, don't roll the list...
Page 40 and cannot be show. If it is disabled then FILE key controls showing and hiding of that channels RELELASE 1.9.0 - RC for 2.0.0 =========== - whole code was rewritten and now is using widget libraries. - no more global variables - navigation is now 5 times faster then in previous ones.
Page 41 - Starting plugin while recording shows available channels like in PIP mode. This version is mostly usable for those who have only one tuner. Having 2 recordings on boxes with 2 tuners will show full list, this will be fixed in next release. RELELASE 2.0.0 =========== - new feature to show epg info of current audition...
Page 42  HDDtemp plugin This is a very simple plugin, which displays the current temperature from the SATA disk. This plugin is basically a wrapper which executes the hddtemp binary with pfopen system call, and display the result in OSD from ipbox. INSTALL: ======== copy the files to the following directories on your box:...
Page 43 - you have now two background images (galaxy-man-bg-hddtemp.bmp and crash-bg- hddtemp.bmp) and can choose one of them and copy it as /var/plug-in/bg-hddtemp.bmp on the box - replaced hddtemp binary with stripped version from timelord 0.0.6 - does not crash anymore, when bg image is missing - changed parse method from hddtemp to strtok - use new JPEG_convert_to_BMP_plugin function to convert background image from from jpg to bmp on the fly (This function was added by Taehoon.Koo from...
Page 44 mailserver: imap.provider.ch description: myaccount line in configfile: myaccount:imap://user%40domain.ch:mypasswordk@imap.provider.ch COPYRIGHT ========= This software is distributed under the GPL license. CREDITS ======= This plugin uses the a lot of libraries from GNUmailutils Release-notes: ============== 0.0.1: - initial release 0.0.2: - added support to read plain/text messages 0.0.3: - plugin doesn't panic anymore, when we have a transfer-encoding, but no charset - messages summary does now correctly display date if we have no weekday in date...
Page 45: Known Problems
4 lines = 20 points  WebTV plugin This add-on allows you to watch the tv stream from the AB IPBox 9xxxHD over an web interface. For usage you need original AB image without addon, or SF addon with Sif team addon included.
Page 46: Shoutcast Plugin
CREDITS: The server side code for the streaming is based on the streamts app. RELEASE 0.1.1: ------------------ - fixes Internet Explorer 7 problem with vlc plugin RELEASE 0.1.2: ------------------ - Many streamts server fixes - Deinterlacer added RELEASE 0.1.3: ------------------ - fixed bugs with handling of timeshift files in streamts - fixed segfault under certain conditions in streamts RELEASE 0.2:...
Page 47 Requirements: =================== a working libmxml.so.1.4 has to be in /var/lib including symlinks to libmxml.so.1 and libmxml.so libmxml is not included in the source distribution. In the binary release, the lib is included. From release 0.2 this plugin only works on R8728 and probably newer. Installation: =================== From the binary distribution:...
Page 48 Release 0.5 =================================================== Added features: - Some things are configurable now, see the shoutcast.config file to see how this works. - Stopping the TV station can now be stopped at starting the plugin or when really starting the stream. This can be controlled from the config file.
Page 49 - responsivness of remote control, stopping a stream might take up to 2 seconds, depending on the stream. - closing of network connections to server after stop playing Release 0.2.1 =================================================== Fixed bug: - needed to reboot after usage, this is now fixed. Release 0.2 =================================================== First public binary release.
Page 50  WEATHER Plugin Put weather.cfg in plug-in directory. Set config file: The config file has the following format: p=XXX&u=Y To set XXX go to http://weather.yahoo.com and type in your city. After choosing your city you get to a page like "http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/GMXX0007.html". Set as XXX the name of the html file, eg.
Page 51 This software is ispired to mp_player.plugin for cuberevo by DGstation.co,Ltd EPG9Kdld.plugin version 0.1.0b of 12 August 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELEASE NOTES and CHANGELOG Version 0.1.0b "let'have fun" of 12 August 2008 Preliminary Release Rilascio Iniziale Import db to Box Standard EPG Importa il DB neel'epg standard Relook 400 Importer Compatible for Foreign users Compatibile con il relook 400 Importer per utenti stranieri...
Page 52  FPS - Fast Plug-in Starter Author: COoLoSER cooloser_at_users_dot_sourceforge_dot_net This plugin gives ability to start others plugins easily with any button on the remote. It has three ways of starting plugins: 1. Without any button pressed in TIMEOUT it will run plugin configured as default. 2.
Page 53: Faq
(e.g. WDxxxxAACS). Some HDDs use SSC function – receiver may not identify it. In such a case use connection of your HDD through external USB box. AB IPBox receivers do not support simultaneous operation of two hard discs (internal and external but if you use internal HDD you can also use your USB flash memory to playback MP3 or JPEG files.
Page 54 3. The receiver does not boot the system after installation of new software The most frequent reason is usage of incorrect installation file. Iinstall AB software and try to boot your receiver. If everything goes correctly try to install your desired software again.
Page 55 Links http://www.abipbox.com/ Official pages of manufacturer http://download.abcom.sk/ Official technical support of manufacturer http://www.satupdate.net/ Unofficial pages about AB receivers http://www.denktenk.com/ Unofficial pages about AB receivers http://www.ab-forum.info/ Unofficial pages about AB receivers http://www.parabola.cz/ Satellite technology page http://www.satcentrum.sk/ Satellite technology page http://en.kingofsat.net/hdtv.php Actualized list of HDTV channels http://kmplayer.kde.org/...
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