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ADDING INTERNET RADIO STATIONS
Locate New Stations
Adding New Internet Radio Stations
Add The Stations To The Guide
Examples
Listen to the New Stations
Uh oh, “Station Not Available”?
WMA-AudioV2, V7 and
44.1KHz
Accessories for Escient FireBall Products
FIREBALL ACCESSORIES
Escient 15” LCD Touch Panel
Escient FireBall Product Accessories
FireBall to Pioneer DVD Changer Serial Cable
FireBall to Sony DVD Changer Serial Cable
FireBall IR Keyboard FireBall IR Remote
Optical Digital Audio Cable 3’
FireBall DVDM IR Keyboard
FIREBALL ACCESSORIES WD015-1-112/22/2003
FireBall DVDM IR Remote
USB to Ethernet Adapter Smart Nic2
QuickTime and a
INSTALLER CHECKLIST WD003-1-112/22/2003
INSTALLER CHECKLIST
Escient FireBall Installation Checklist
Dealer/Installer Information
Customer Information
Connection Type
ISP Information
Dialup Info
IP Info
Optional Accessory Checklist
Audio Connections
Video Connections
HOME NETWORKING PRIMER WD005-1-212/22/2003
HOME NETWORKING PRIMER
Home Networking F.A.Q. Frequently Asked Questions
Powerline Networking
Types of Networks
Ethernet: 10/100Mbps
Wireless 802.11g: 22/54 Mbps
Wireless 802.11b: 11 Mbps
HomePNA 2.0 Phone Line: 10Mbps
Firewire Networking - 400Mbps
Wireless 802.11a: 54 Mbps
Bluetooth
Wireless HomeRF 2.0: 10Mbps
10/100 Ethernet
Ethernet Networking
be placed on each end making the maximum distance something like 40Km. Another use for fiber is electrical insulation. Some people like to run cables underground between homes. If you run CAT5 cable, the homes have different ground potentials and you will burn out network card during any electrical storm. The solution is fiber! Run fiber between the homes or run a pair of fiber converters on one end of the cable with a short fiber run. This will electrically separate the two homes
Access Points
Wireless Networking with 802.11b
Access point varieties
Security
Form Factors
Faster Wireless 802.11g
Speed
Technical Specs
Powerline Networking
A Guide to Installing Multiple FireBall Products
FireBall Client-Server Installation Guide
Servers
FireBall Client Server Products
Clients
Client Server Combinations
Central
Locating the FireBall Clients and Servers
Distributed
Configuring a FireBall Client
Configuring a FireBall Server
Networking
Server Selection
The Server Connection screen displays a list of FireBall Servers found on your network by their default or user defined “FireBall Name”
EXTERNAL CONTROL PROTOCOL WD031-1-34/18/2005
EXTERNAL CONTROL PROTOCOL
Commands and Responses Overview
External Control Protocol Specification
External Control Command Structure
Command Responses
Unsolicited Status Events
Radio only
Event Format
Remote Button / Keyboard Commands
Power Toggle
Play a numbered Playlist argument has Playlist
Database Commands
GROUP1 above = XXXXxxxxYYYYyyyyyyyy where
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INFO1 above = 0003aaabbbbcccccccddddeeeeeee
Reply Format of ‘01’ is as follows
TRACK1 = yyyyzzzzzzz
Reply Formats of ‘00’ and ‘01’ are as follows
Reply Format of ‘02’ is as follows
Play music track/radio station/Playlist
02 –UserMusic group name examples are
20 20
TITLE1 above = wwwwWWWWxxxxXXXXyyyyYYYYzzzzZZZZ
TITLE1 above = xxxxXXXXyyyyYYYY
yyYYYYzzzzZZZZ
Reply Formats ‘‘01’ for Music is as follows
ESCX20110020004aaaabbbbcccccccc
bbbb= length of new playlist name
TRACK1INFO = wwwwxxxxyyyyzzzzzzz
ESCX2016001aaaabbbbbbbb
TRACK1INFO = wwwwxxxxyyyyzzzzzzz
Reply Formats of ‘00’ and ‘01’ are as follows
Reply Format of ‘02’ is as follows
wwwwWWWWxxxxXXXXXXXyyyyYYYYYYYzzzzZZZZaaaaAAAA
Status Commands
Reply Format
gg0004hhhh
Control Commands
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PC Integration
A Guide to Using FireBall with Windows XP
Table of Contents
PC Integration WD044-1-1
2/24/2005
FireBall to PC Networking Basics
Overview
Requirements
Setting up the FireBall Server
Connecting to Your FireBall
Mount Your FireBall on your PC
Backing Up Your FireBall
One Time Backup
3.While all the items on the Content volume are highlighted, select COPY from the Edit Menu
Installing the Retrospect Backup Software
Automated Backups
3.Launch Retrospect 4.Select the Duplicate button
5. Select Source, then CONTENT as the Source volume, then the OK button
7. The following dialog is displayed
11. Select Add button to add a new schedule
12. When the following dialog is displayed, select “Day of the week” then the OK button
14.You should see the following dialog with your scheduled options. If this is correct, select the OK button
16.Close all windows and Save if asked to do so. To verify that the Schedule is set, select Manage Scripts from the Retrospect sidebar
Importing Music Into iTunes
Integrating with iTunes and iPod
2.Select Preferences… from the iTunes menu
PC Integration WD044-1-12/24/2005
PC Integration WD044-1-12/24/2005
PC Integration WD044-1-12/24/2005
Creating iTunes Playlists
Sync Playlists and Music to your iPod
Burn CDs from iTunes
ID3 Tags and the PC
What is an ID3 Tag?
FireBall’s ID3 tag Requirements
4.When the Convert ID3 Tags dialog is displayed, select v2.3 from the drop down menu, then select OK
Importing Music Into FireBall
Mounting the IMPORT Volume
Importing your Music Files
Note: The IMPORT directory may contain special “cache files” in it if you have previously imported music into your FireBall. These files are just temporary cache files that appear to be the original music files, however they are not. They are just temporary “stub” files that indicate what you previously imported into your FireBall. You can delete these files without actually deleting the originals which physically reside on the CONTENT volume
Connecting to Your FireBall
Controlling FireBall from Internet Explorer
Requirements
Controlling Your FireBall
Mac OS X Integration
A Guide to Using FireBall with Mac OS X Panther
FireBall to Mac Networking Basics
Table of Contents
FireBall to Mac Networking Basics
Overview
Requirements
Connecting to the FireBall Server
Connecting to Your FireBall
Setting up the FireBall Server
2.Enter “smb://” without the quotes and the name of your FireBall server into the Server Address field in the Connect to Server dialog. Example: smb://MyFireBall
6.The Content volume, which contains all of your FireBall’s music content, will be mounted on your Mac’s Desktop
One Time Backup
Once you have successfully mounted your FireBall’s Content volume on your Mac, you now have access to the music content contain on the FireBall’s internal hard drive. Having this access affords you the opportunity to backup your FireBall’s music collection. There are many ways to backup the music files including copying files to another drive mounted on your Mac or using third party backup software to perform automated backups each night
Backing Up Your FireBall
5.All of the items in the current selection will now be copied to the backup drive. Depending on the size of your music collection, this may take a while to complete. It will take approximately 3 days to backup an entire 300 GB drive over an Ethernet connection
Automated Backups
4.Launch Retrospect Express
9. The following dialog is displayed
13. Select Add button to add a new schedule
15.Select the start date usually today, the start time usually overnight when you are sleeping and on which days to run the backup usually every day. Select 1 week to have the schedule run every week. Select OK when you are done
18.Close all windows and Save if asked to do so. To verify that the Schedule is set, select Automate and Scripts from the Main Retrospect Express screen
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Integrating with iTunes and iPod
Importing Music Into iTunes
ξImport FireBall MP3 music into iTunes
3.Click the Advanced icon in the toolbar to display the Advanced Preferences panel
Mac OS X Integration WD029-1-12/24/2005
You can now access your FireBall music from iTunes just as if it were located on your Mac
Creating iTunes Playlists
Burn CDs from iTunes
Sync Playlists and Music to your iPod
remember is that FireBall’s CONTENT directory must be mounted on your Mac in order for iTunes to locate and burn CDs that contain music which is physically located on your FireBall music server
ID3 Tags and the Mac
What is an ID3 Tag?
FireBall’s ID3 tag Requirements
Media Rage ID3 Editor
Connecting to the FireBall Server
FireBall’s CONTENT volume is read-only,which means you can’t write to it or use it for importing music files from your Mac to your FireBall. There is a way! FireBall actually provides two server volumes, one for reading your music collection and one for importing your music collection. The difference is that the IMPORT volume is a writeable volume while the CONTENT volume is read only
Importing Music Into FireBall
4.Select IMPORT from the share popup menu and click OK
Importing your Music Files
Once the IMPORT volume is mounted on your Mac’s desktop, simply drag and drop any MP3 or FLAC audio file into the IMPORT volume and the files will be copied to FireBall and added to the FireBall Music Library. You can drag and drop whole collections, a folder of songs, or just a single song
Controlling FireBall from Safari
Connecting to Your FireBall
Requirements
The FireBall Web Client Interface is the graphics and control system web pages that appear in your Safari browser. From this web pages, you can control almost every aspect of your FireBall, just as you would from the original IR remote and TV
Controlling Your FireBall
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