Hides HV-310 User manual

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HV-310 DVB-T HAM TV Transmitter Box
Quick Installation Guide
PACKAGE CONTENTS2
FRONT PANEL VIEW2
BACK PANEL VIEW2
BOARD VIEW3
IR REMOTE CONTROLLER3
FILL BATTERY TO IR CONTROLLERS: AAA X 2 PCS3
SET BANDWIDTH AND POWER ON3
CONNECT RF-IN AND THE DISPLAY OUTPUT5
CHANNEL SCAN5
CHANNEL SCAN-AUTO MODE6
CHANNEL SCAN-MANUAL MODE9
SET DISPLAY PREFERENCE9
RESET TO DEFAULT9
FIRMWARE UPDATE-METHOD 19
FIRMWARE UPDATE-METHOD 29
UART DEBUG MESSAGES11

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Package Contents
HV-310 Transmitter Box
5V DC adaptor
CVBS & Line-out cable
USB UART cable
Front Panel View
Back Panel View

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Board View
Set Antenna Switch
Upward: switch off SMA connector RF output (isolation 30dB).
Downward: switch on SMA connector RF output
Antenna switch
External
Ant RF-out HDMI input
CVBS
A/V
input DC-in
5V
Internal
Ant RF-out
LED:
Red: Power
Green: Tx on
7-seg LED IRMicro SD
Hi/Low
Power switch
UART Port
configuration

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Set Hi/Low Gain Mode Switch
Upward: High gain RF output
VHF:about -5 dBm
UHF:about +1~+5 dBm
Downward: Low gain RF output
about -10~-15 dBm
Power on
Apply DC 5V to either the power jack or the micro-USB connector. One and only one DC power source is
enough. Power jack and the micro-USB connector are connected together.

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Connect RF-output and the video input source
Feed the RF-out to the SMA connector.
Either HDMI or CVBS video input is supported, but only one source can be connected.
After power on, the default transmission channel is CH 21, 474 MHz / 8MHz BW.

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Configure the Transmission parameters
The parameters can be configured with a PC tool, IT9919UARTGUI.EXE.
Connect the USB end to a PC and the RS-232 9-pin DSUB end to HV-310.
When the USB-UART cable is connected to the PC first time, it may take some seconds to install
the driver.
After driver installed, you may check the new RS-232 COM port device assignment in device
manager. COM4 is assigned in the following example.

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Launch IT9919UARTGUI.exe
Select the correct com port for the USB UART cable.
Click on “Open/Close” button to connect HV-310.
In the “MediaConfig” page, please click on “GetMediaConfig” button first.
You can configure the “Max Bit Rate” for video compression.
When configuration is done, click on “SetMediaConfig” button to set HV-310.

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In the “TransmissionConfig” page, please click on “GetTransConfig” button first.
You can configure the Channel number or the transmission parameters.
If you want to input frequency and bandwidth manually, please select Channel# 0.
When configuration is done, click on “SetTransConfig” button to set HV-310.

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In the “TSInfo” page, please click on “GetTsInfoConfig” button first.
You can configure the service name and PID assignments.
When configuration is done, click on “SetTsInfoConfig” button to set HV-310.
Firmware Update-Method
1. Copy the firmware image file “jedi.img” to the root directory of a micro SD card.
2. Power the HV-310 box down.
3. Open the front panel one the receiver box by removing the four screws.

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4. Plug in the micro SD card.
5. Power on the receiver box and wait for about 60 seconds.
If the SD card is detected properly and JEDI.IMG is found, the update progress will be started.
The 7-SEG LED shows “88” when updating, and show 21 when update is done.
If you can connect to the UART debug port (refer to next chapter), you will see the debug messages,
“sd upgrade start” and “sd upgrade finish”
6. Remove the micro SD card, power off, then power on the receiver box.
Note:
1. Jedi.img will be rename to jedi_tmp.img when update is done.
screws

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UART Debug Messages
The UART debug port is located in J8.
You may dump debug messages from this J8 pin2 UART Tx.
J8:
Pin 1: not used
Pin 2 :UART Tx
Pin 3: Ground
The communication parameters are 115200,n,8,1.

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Default Video Input/Output Mapping Table
Input Output Frame Size
Input Frame Rate Encoding Data Rate (Kbps) Output Frame Rate
640 480 60P 2600 60P
720 480 59I 3000 30P
720 480 59P 4000 60P
720 576 50I 3000 25P
720 576 50P 4000 50P
1280 720 50P 16000 50P
1280 720 60P 16000 60P
1920 1080 24P 18000 24P
1920 1080 50I 18000 25P
1920 1080 50P 18000 25P
1920 1080 60I 18000 30P
1920 1080 60P 18000 30P
800 600 60P 5000 60P
1024 768 60P 16000 60P
1280 768 60P 18000 60P
1280 800 60P 18000 60P
1280 960 60P 16000 30P
1280 1024 60P 16000 30P
1360 768 60P 18000 60P
1440 900 60P 16000 30P
1400 1050 60P 16000 30P
1440 1050 60P 16000 30P
1600 900 60P 16000 30P
1600 1200 60P 16000 30P
1680 1050 60P 16000 30P