1.24 Adtec-Afiniti-Decoder

This page describes the device driver and the device window for the Adtec Afiniti Decoder device via SNMP. It supports one decoding instance. For the second decoder instance another device is necessary.

Additionally it is necessary to select the slot where decoding card is installed via device setup config.slot. The dedicated decoder can be selected via config.channel.

For 4k applications that use a single Video PID the Decoder must be set to Single Mode (channel.mode = SINGLE). In single channel mode the 4 SDI outputs will be independent and not mirrored pairs.

The unit does not support BISS Decryption.

It is necessary to preconfigure the Adtec Afiniti Decoder via the webpage:

• ASI-Inputs 'TS Mux Rate' to a suitable value
• ASI-Inputs 'Share Services with All Outputs' to 'ON'

The driver was tested with the following sw releases and it is not backwards compatible to earlier releases.

• 4.4.6

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type.

• --- The main decoding parameters, including service selection.
• --- The video parameters
• --- The audio parameters
• --- Faults and fault mask
• --- The device info page.
• --- The maintenance page.

Configuration parameters

At the maintenance page of the device window there are a couple of configuration parameters which must be set to make the software talk to the decoder.

• parameter --- description

• address --- The SNMP address specification for the device. The full address specification consists of the following fields:aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:pppp read-community write-community

  • aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd --- The IP address of the device in 'dotted quad' notation. This field is mandatory.
  • pppp --- The IP port number where the device accepts SNMP requests. The port number may be omitted, the driver uses the standard port 161 in this case.
  • read-community --- The SNMP read community name. This must match the read community expected by the device.
  • write-community --- The SNMP write community name. This must match the write community expected by the device. The write community name may be omitted, the driver uses the read community name for both, read and write in this case. If both community names are missing, the driver uses 'public' as a default for read and write community.
  • The read/write-community strings factory defaults are 'public' for the read community, 'adtecuser' for the write community. Hence a typical address specification for a Adtec-Afiniti may be 10.0.0.1 public adtecuser.

• readBackDelay --- Defines the delay the driver uses when it reads back parameters recently commanded. The delay is initialized at a proved preset value which should not be changed under normal circumstances.

• slot --- Defines the slot where encoding card is installed 1-6.

• channel --- Defines the used encoder for this device from the 1-4.

• output --- Defines the index of the ts output which should be allocated to the chosen decoding channel.

• deviceComment --- An optional text entered here appears as an addition to the tooltip which is shown while the mouse is placed over a device icon in the GUI. The "\n" character sequence is translated into a newline character, splitting the text into multiple lines.

Variables defined by this device driver