User manual TOPFIELD TF 5100 CI

[. . . ] TOPFIELD TF 5000 CI TF 5100 CI User Guide Digital Satellite Receiver Common Interface Contents iii Contents 1 Introduction 1. 1 1. 2 Features . . 1 1 2 3 4 6 7 7 7 9 What is common interface?. 2 Setup 2. 1 2. 2 2. 3 2. 4 Unpacking . 2. 4. 1 2. 4. 2 2. 4. 3 2. 5 2. 5. 1 2. 5. 2 Connecting up your digital receiver . [. . . ] Finally set the Motor Control option to Store to save the tuned position when the receiving quality is best. There are more motor control options for installers, but this guide does not describe them. If you are an installer, refer them to the manual about the STAB rotor. 4. 1. 3 Configuring USALS settings USALS (Universal Satellite Automatic Location System), also known as DiSEqC 1. 3, calculates the positions of all available satellites from your location. Compared to DiSEqC 1. 2, it is no longer required to manually search and store every satellite position. Just pointing to a known satellite position is enough. This position will act as a central point. The USALS will then calculate positions of visible satellites. To use the USALS protocol, select the Installation > USALS Setting menu. You should see a screen like the left figure. At first you have to set the Motorized DiSEqC 1. 3 option to Enable. To get every satellite position calculated, perform the following steps: 1. Choose your desired satellite at the Satellite Name option. 4. 1 Searching broadcasting services 29 2. Enter your location to the My Longitude option and the £ £ My Latitude option with the ¢ ¡ ¢ ¡and numeric butV- , V+ tons. Enter the position of your selected satellite to the Satellite Angle option if it is not correct. Select the Goto the position option; then the antenna will turn toward your selected satellite as calculating its position. If the receiving quality, which is displayed at the bottom right of the screen, is not good, then tune the antenna finely with the Move option. The changed position is automatically saved. At this time you had better check the receiving quality of every transponder and choose the best one at the Transponder (or Frequency) option. It will be helpful to your fine tuning. 4. 1. 4 Searching services To perform service search, select the Installation > Service Search menu. You should see a screen like the left figure. There are four service search methods: · Searching every service of a satellite. · Searching every service of a transponder. · Searching one service of a transponder. 30 Service Search · Searching every service of a SMATV (Satellite Master Antenna Television) system. Searching every service of a satellite To search every service of a satellite, perform the following steps: 1. [. . . ] Otherwise you will fail in firmware update. 7. 2 From your computer via RS-232 port 51 7. 2 From your computer via RS-232 port It is possible to transfer a new firmware to the digital receiver from your computer by connecting them with a RS-232 cable. You need TFD-Down, a firmware transfer utility for this, which is available from the website, http://www. i-topfield. com. To update the firmware with this method, perform the following steps: 1. Download a new firmware applicable to your digital receiver from the Topfield website. [. . . ]