Science Image NDI HD User manual

USER MANUAL
NDI HD hdmi sdi mini
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Please use the officially designated adapter.
If you cannot log in to the WebUI, please check whether the device's IP is in the same network segment as the
computer's IP address, and whether the device's IP address conflicts with the IP addresses of other devices in the
network segment.
If the IP address of the device is found to be "192.168.8.8", please log in to the WebUI to set the IP address mode in the
I network settings to manual and fill in the IP address, subnet mask and gateway you need.
If a blank screen appears in the decoding, please check the decoding settings in the WebUI, and whether the NDI source
is selected, please try to click Refresh the list and select again.
If the login fails due to the upgrade, please clear the browser cache and refresh the page and log in again.
If the video freezes during use, please check whether the CPU temperature of the device is too high, generally should
not exceed 70°C; check whether the device is connected to a Gigabit Ethernet port; or try to close the multicast mode
in the WebUI.
If the video output from the device to the display device has abnormal colors, sounds, or images, please try to restart
the device in the Web UI system
If you find that the video stream is not detected in NDI Studio Monitor, please check whether the encoder stream
name conflicts within the network segment, whether the NDI group or discovery server settings have been set to the
NDI Access Manager on the device or PC, and try to change the settings back. , Close
NDI Studio Monitor and reopen the search.
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If you find that some functions are unavailable in future use, you need to check the following to find out whether it is
caused by improper operation or settings:
READING BEFORE USE

How to use Studio Monitor to view NDI video stream
NDI® HD mini interface and indicator
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Three ways to power on and connect to LAN
OLED screen display instructions
Login Web UI
Device Information
Network settings
Modify the IP
DHCP mode
Manual mode
NDI Multicast settings
NDI Group settings
NDI Discovery server settings
Encoder settings
Set frame rate
Set bit rate (bandwidth)
Set NDI decoder volume
Control
Briefly introduce how to use vMix, Studio Monitor software to view NDI video stream
How to use vMix to add NDI video stream and view
Set the screen aspect ratio
Set up tally lights
Set NDI encoder volume
Intercom switch
Camera settings
PTZ control panel
Modify the NDI stream name
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Decoder settings
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System settings
Reset login password
Select NDI source in decoding state
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Firmware upgrade
Restore factory settings
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Working mode switch
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Device restart
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NDI® HD mini Application Topology
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CONTENTS

1. NDI HD mini Application Topology
Video Source
External audio
External audio
embedding
Mixing console
LINE IN
LINE IN
NDI audio and external audio De-Embeding
Headset/Mic
NDI Encoder Application Topology
NDI Decoder Application Topology
SDI
HDMI
SDI
SDI
HDMI
Full NDI Encoder
Full NDI Decoder
All NDI Source
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SDI input:SDI signal input interface (NDI HDMI mini does not have this interface)
SDI output:Encoder is looped out picture, decoder is decoded output picture (NDI HDMI mini does
not have this interface)
HDMI input:HDMI input signal (NDI SDI mini does not have this interface)
HDMI output:The picture is looped out in the encoding state,and the output picture is decoded in
the decoding state(NDI SDI mini does not have this interface)
Network port/POE:Network connection / PoE (Power Over Ethernet) switch can be connected to the
LAN and powered on at the same time
Tally indicator:Real-time display of the two states of the current broadcast video:
green/pre-monitor, red/program
12V DC-IN:12V DC power input
Reset:Long press for 5 seconds to restore factory settings
LINE IN:3.5mm audio input port for external analog audio embedding
Headset or Mic:Headphone jack, adopts American standard; at the same time can be used as Mic
USB/PTZ:support all-round (up and down, left and right) movement of the pan/tilt, zoom lens,zoom
control camera connection
1 / 4 inch screw hole:Fixed connection hole with imaging equipment
Power LED
2. NDI HD mini interface and indicator introduction
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It takes about 30 seconds from power on to NDI working nomarly. It takes time for linux
system to start and please wait patiently.
3. Three ways to power on and connect to LAN
For NDI HD mini series, you can choose two power supply modes: DC input︑POE and USB
1. DC-12V Input
2. POE Power supplier
3. Power on the USB port
Power on with the SCIENCE IMAGE original standard 12V power supply
Power up through the network cable connecting the POE (power over Ethernet) with Gigabit network switch.
Use USB to power on the device, and connect it to the LAN with a network cable.
PoE Power over Ethernet(802.11af/at) support
Always use a certified 802.11 af/at with minimum 10W port power capacity and it's a gigabit network switch.
Always use genuine SCIENCE IMAGE power adapters, 3rd party products perhaps can cause permanent
damage.
After startup, you will find that the character SCIENCE IMAGE Tech begins to appear on the OLED screen,
and the power light on the right starts to light up.
At this time, the device is powered up successfully.
4. OLED screen display instructions
In the coding status, the current status and parameters will be displayed alternately on lines 2, 3 and 4 of
the screen
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Method 1:Open the computer or mobile browser, enter the IP address displayed on the fourth line of the
OLED screen of the device in the address bar, and press Enter to enter the login page, as shown below:
If the NDI®HD mini has been set to the decoding mode, the screen will first display the
default initialization encoding state each time it is first powered on, and it will resume
displaying the currently set decoding state after waiting for about 10 seconds.
The PC or mobile phone must be in the same routing network as the NDI® Studio 4K device.
5. Login Web UI
First Line---NDI Encoder / NDI Decoder
Displays the current NDI ® HD mini working modes: Encoding or Decoding.
Second Line---NDI Source Name / Primary HDMI/SDI Selection
In encoding mode, will displayed NDI stream name such as "NDI-X" that user could define this stream
name on Web UI
Displays the interface selected by the user's primary input, such as SDI or HDMI
In decoding mode, will display NDI source which was decoding on line, alternatively display ********* if
there is no NDI source was selected.
Third Line--- IN: 1080i50 / CH: SDI-Y HDMI-N
Displays the video format of the current encoded input source or decoded output
Displays whether the SDI and HDMI inputs are recognized, Y is detected, otherwise N
Fourth Line--- 192.168.3.166
Displays the current IP address of the device
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The first step: Download and install the free NDI®tool-NDI Studio Monitor on NewTek'sofficial website.
Download link: "https://ndi.tv/tools"
The second step:After the installation is complete, open the "NDI Studio Monitor" program.
The third step:Click the menu icon in the upper left corner or right-click anywhere, select"SCIENCEIM-
AGE"-click to find an item consistent with the NDI stream name of the device. As shown in the left picture
above.
The fourth step: On the opened Studio Monitor page, click the gear icon in the lower right corner. As shown
in the above right picture.
Method 2: Open the login page through NDI Studio Monitor
Open the IE browser, enter the IP address on the OLED screen and enter the Web UI home page Default user
name: admin Password: admin
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1Device running time (since power-on), HDMI source and SDI source of input (or the format of the
decoded NDI), CPU temperature.
This page is the NDI® HD mini device information page, which contains the following information:
The device information includes:
Device name (can display the current codec mode of the device), device serial number, hardware
version, firmware version (can be upgraded on the system page with the version update), MAC
address (unique and unmodifiable), device IP address (can be Modify at any time on the web page),
local IP address (the IP address of the local PC or mobile phone), and disk space (usage of hardware
flash disk space).
Click [Network] to enter the network setting page
6. Device Information
7. Network settings
7.1 Modify IP
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1Automatic mode (DHCP) needs to be used in the link connecting to the router. The router dynamically
assigns the IP address tothe device in real time. An IP address will be randomly assigned to the device
every time the power is turned on.You can log in to the webpage according to the IP address assigned by
the router and modify the corresponding information (if there is no IP address assigned by the router in
the link, the default IP of the device is 192.168.8.8). When the pattern is selectedThere is no need to fill in
the IP address information on the page, just click the "Apply" button below, and then the device willau-
tomatically restart and get the IP address assigned by the router in the link (this process is long)(30
seconds), to be displayed on the screen of the device after the newIP address in the browser input IP login
can be.
If this mode is selected, the user needs to set the IP address information of the device to be in the same
network segment as the IP address information of the local PC or mobile phone.For example: View the
local computer's Ethernet IPv4 information as "IP address: 192.168.1.144 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.1.1", then you can set the device IP address as: "IP address: 192.168.1.142 gate-
way : 192.168.1.1 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 "The gateway and subnet mask are the same as the local
computer or mobilephone, and the IP address does not conflict with other addresses in this network
segment
After filling in the IP address, click the [apply] button below, and then the system willcomplete the modifica-
tion of the IP address and automatically restart the equipment.The network page will also automatically
enter the modified IP address page (there isno need to enter the new IP again). This process takes about 30s.
There are two modes for device IP address setting: DHCP and manual.
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7.1.1 DHCP mode
7.1.2 Manual mode
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NDI discovery server can transfer video stream across network segments. To use this function, you need to
use the official websiteof newtek（ https://www.ndi.tv/sdk/ Download and install NDI SDK and NDI tools.)
Step 1: open NDI discovery service and record the IPv4 address of this computer (for example: 192.168.1.106).
Sources represents the number of encoders connected to the server, and listeners represents the number of
decoders connected to the server.
Step 2: log in to the Web UI and find the NDI discovery server settings under the network,click open, fill in the
IPv4 address (192.168.1.106) recorded in the first step for the server address, and click apply.
Step 3: NDI®HD mini decoding mode also needs to open NDI discovery server settings and fill in the same
server address in order to find the signal source of NDI®HD mini in cross segment coding mode(for example:
192.168.1.191) click apply.
7.2 NDI discovery server settings
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Step 4: To discover the source of NDI®HD mini in cross-segment coding mode, download and install the NDI
Tools and turn on the NDI For Access Manager, type √ in front of Use Discovery Server under Advanced, and
enter the IP of Server into the IPv4 address recorded in the first step (192.168.1.106), then click OK.
When Multicast mode is turned on, which is the UDP (Multicast) delivery mode, it has a default Multicast
address and a subnet mask. You can configure the address manually,and clicking Apply takes effect. Close
the multicastThe transmission mode of TCP (Multi-Connection) is adopted. The default is to turn off multi-
cast mode.
NDI defaults to public group. If you want to add a new group, separate it with comma ",". You can also create
a separate privacy group, such as science image, so that only the device that also fills in the science image
can obtain the video information.
7.3 NDI multicast settings
7.4 NDI group settings
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Encoder setting page can set the output format of video, stream name of video source,aspect ratio of
picture, frame rate, code rate,tally light switch, NDI encoder volume and optical transceiver.
If the device is used as an encoder, you need to modify the NDI stream name. The NDI stream name must be
unique locally, otherwise software such as NDI Studio Monitor may not be recognized. After the modification,
click the [Apply] button below to take effect in real time. You can see the modification result on the second
line of the OLED screen of the device.The default is NDI-X, and the firmwareupgrade will restore the
default.
Supports five screen aspect ratio settings: source aspect ratio, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, square.
8. Encoding settings
8.1 Modify the NDI stream name in the encoding state
8.2 Set screen aspect ratio
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Program and preview are both started, and software with tally (such as vmix) is used to decode the signal
source and broadcast theprogram. Tally lights up the red light, while pre monitoring lights up the green light.
If the green light is on when pre monitoring is not needed, close preview and click apply; If you don't need tally
function, you can turn it all off (note that if you turn off program, the green light will not be on when the pre
monitor is turned on). The tally function is turned on by default.
The adjustment of bit rate can be reduced to save network bandwidth when the requirement of image quali-
ty is not very high
"Encoder volume" regulates the volume of the video source encoded by the encoder, such as the volume of
the screen in NDI Studio monitor.
Support 4 kinds of frame rate settings: source frame rate, 1/2 frame rate, 1/3 frame rate, 1/4 frame rate.
8.3 Set frame rate
8.4 Set bitrate (Bandwidth)
8.6 Set NDI encoder volume
8.5 Set up Tally lights
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Intercom switch, click on - Application to make a call with the supporting guide software Laudo, and click off
- Application to turn Open the Intercom function.
In decoding state, this page displays "set NDI decoder volume", and "decoder volume" adjusts the volume of
decoding output to display device, such as output to TV, etc.
The decoder settings need to be changed in decoding mode. Please refer to page 12 for switching mode.
8.7 Intercom switch
9. Decoder settings
9.1 Set NDI decoder volume
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Restoring factory settings can restore the device to its initial state, but the firmware version will not be
restored (the factory default IP address of the device is DHCP manual mode. If there is no router that auto-
matically assigns IP addresses in the LAN, the device IPwill change to 192.168.8.8).
If this device is used as a decoder, you need to select an NDI source to decode and output.Setting steps:
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9.2 Select NDI source to decode in decoding state
① Log in to the WebUI of the decoder
② Click [Decode]
③ Click [Refresh List]
④ Click the number in front of the NDI source to be decoded ( is the NDI source currently being decoded)
10. System settings
10 .1 Restore factory settings
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The second way is to restore the factory settings. Once it starts, the original system will not
start. Please use this function carefully.
Modify the login password and click apply. After the password is modified, it will take effect at the next login.
The second is to restore all the settings on the firmware version and WebUI to the factory.To restore the
factory settings, you need to power off the device, press and hold the reset key on the device from the small
hole, and power on the device at the same time. Whenyou see system recover on the first line of the device
screen, you can release the reset key.During the process of restoring the factory settings, tally lights up the
red light and starts flashing, When "burning: 100" is displayed on the second line of the screen, tally always
lights up in green, and the whole process takes about 20 minutes to complete. At this time,power on the
equipment again.
10.1 Reset login password
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Don't be surprised when the progress bar reaches 10% and there is a long pause, just wait
patiently.
New firmware upgrades will be released regularly on the company's official website. Users can download the
latest firmware to upgrade as needed. Download address:“http://www.science-image.com/EN-DOWN-
LOAD/ ”After downloading, you canclick the [open upgrade page] button on the [system] page to enter the
upgrade page, orclick the figure icon in the upper right corner, and then click the [firmware upgrade] button
Just push the button.
After entering the page, click the [select file] button at , select the firmware to be upgraded,such as
siup-ndi-20201220b.si, and open it. At this time, there will be a progress prompt in the lower left corner of
the browser. When the progress is completed, the uploaded file information will be displayed. The button at
w will also change from red to green, and then click to start upgrading. As shown in the figure below:
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10.3 Firmware upgrade
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During the upgrade, do not switch off the power supply or close the upgrade page. Otherwise,
system files may be damaged and the system may fail to start.
After the progress bar reaches 100%, the upgrade page is closed and the device restarts. Then, log in to the
WebUI again and check the firmware version to check whether the upgrade is successful.
Click "encoder" or "decoder" button to switch to the corresponding mode, the default encoder mode.
The first line of the OLED screen of the product will display the working mode, "NDI encoder"is the encoder,
and "NDI decoder" is the decoder,as shown in the figure below.
10.4 Working mode switch
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Camera type:Select the type of camera and click Connect.
Click the restart device button under the box restart control to restart the controlled device.
10.5 Device restart
11. Control
11.1 Camera settings
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