9.630 Sencore-MRD7000

This page describes the device driver and the device window for the Sencore MRD700 Multidecoder (IRD), controlled via SNMP.

The driver was tested with sw release 1.10.0

The driver can only handle one decoding instance. As the MRD7000 is equipped with up to 4 decoders, each instance has to be setup in a single device. The respective instance has to be configured at first setup via config.decoder

The Sencore IRD only supports two service allocation methods.

• AUTO decodes the first program from the received service.
• SERVICE program has to be selected manually from the service list. It does not support any automatic service hunt mode when set to SERVICE.

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .

• --- Contains the general input and program selection.
• --- Contains RTP/UDP input parameters
• --- Contains SRT input parameters
• --- Contains ZIXI input parameters
• --- Contains the conditional access (BISS) parameters.
• --- Contains the parameters concerning the video decoding.
• --- Contains the parameters concerning the audio outputs and the selection of the audio signals from the MPEG stream.
• --- The faults page.
• --- The device info page.
• --- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this 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 MRD7000.

• 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.

• 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.

• decoder --- Defines the desired decoding instance.

• 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