Yamaha MCX-2000 setup guide Other Features, Setting Date and Time

Other Features

Your MCX-2000 is fully functional simply configured with Easy Setup. But, it becomes more convenient and useful if you fine tune the unit to suit your need. If you have a broadband Internet connection and already made it accessible from the MCX-2000 via your PC network (page 26), you may want this configuration to fully work. Plus, if you’re such an audiophile as to own a high-end audio system with a Yamaha AV receiver, you have a good reason to integrate your MCX-2000 there. Furthermore, you can use the timer playback feature to automatically start music on the MCX-2000 and any MusicCAST client at the specified time. This section explains how to set up and use the MCX-2000 for such nifty functions.

Correcting Date and Time Automatically

1Select Top Menu > Setup > Date/Time > Auto Setup.

Setting Date and Time

Every MusicCAST client can automatically correct its internal clock to match that of the MCX-2000, over the MusicCAST network. Because this mechanism sets each MusicCAST system the same time, accuracy of the MCX-2000 internal clock becomes the more important. When you select Top Menu > Setup > Date/Time, you can configure the server’s internal clock in several ways.

Auto Setup

PC users may know their computers can retrieve accurate date and time settings from the Internet. There are special servers called NTP (network time protocol) servers on the Internet, which publicly serve accurate time retrieved from a GPS system or an atomic clock. Since the MCX-2000 can access one of these servers to correct its internal clock, other MusicCAST clients can then correct their date and time settings accordingly.

Manual Setup

When you turned on the MCX-2000 for the first time, Easy Setup lets you specify several basic settings including date and time (page 28). If you don’t use automatic correction using a time server, manually adjust date and time once in a while.

Time Display

You can specify how the MCX-2000 internal clock shows the current time. Since your settings are transferred to each client over the MusicCAST network, you can automatically unify the clock display on all MusicCAST systems.

2Select the first item, “Use NTP Server” and set to ON. When you set this parameter to ON, the following three parameters become available.

nWhen you use an NTP server (ON), manual setup of date and time are disabled.

1Server Address

Specify an NTP server you want to use for date and time correction with its URL (server name) or IP address. When URL is specified, it’s necessary that the MCX-2000 can connect at least one active DNS server to find the time server (page 37).

2Time Zone

Specify from the list where you’re using the MCX-2000 and clients. If your locale isn’t in the list, select the closest city or a time difference value from GMT (Greenwich mean time) for your locale.

3Daylight Saving

Select this to ON if your locale where you use the MCX-2000 and clients is in daylight saving time. (Time goes fast by one hour.) If not, set this parameter to OFF.

nIf you’re using a time server on your computer, specify the same values to the above parameters. In addition, you should specify a public NTP server. Don’t specify a private one.

3When you select OK, the “Saving...” message is shown and the MCX-2000 immediately starts querying to the specified NTP server. When the MCX-2000 receives the response from the server, its internal clock is corrected right away and the result is soon reflected on each MusicCAST client.

nOnce the MCX-2000 starts using the NTP server, its internal clock will automatically be corrected every one hour.

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