Ada ihome Owner's manual

Brand: Ada

Model: ihome

Category: Networking

Type: Owner's manual

Installer’s Guide

1 Installation Tasks

1 Installation Tasks..................................................................................................... 1

2 Placing iHome on the Local Area Network (LAN) – Recommended LAN

Configuration.................................................................................................................. 2

3 Determine the iHome IP Address on the LAN ......................................................... 3

4 Connecting to iHome using Remote Desktop Client (RDP) from your laptop .......... 3

5 Setting a Fixed IP Address for the iHome ................................................................6

6 Remotely rebooting iHome...................................................................................... 7

7 RAID Manager Alert Settings................................................................................ 11

8 Configuring the Router for Remote Access to iHome ............................................ 12

9 Setting up a Dynamic DNS account....................................................................... 12

10 Authorizing iHome with your customer’s iTunes store account.......................... 12

11 Pre-Populating the Music Library ...................................................................... 13

11.1 Ripping CDs.................................................................................................. 13

11.2 Copy Existing iTunes Library from your customer’s PC ................................ 13

12 Use the iSpec to configure the iHome for operation using ADA Keypads and IP-

based devices ................................................................................................................ 14

12.1 Accessing iSpec............................................................................................. 14

12.2 Adding Rooms............................................................................................... 14

12.3 Adding ADA Tune Suite................................................................................ 14

12.4 Adding ADA IRL controlled devices ............................................................. 15

13 Configuring iTunes to Use the iHome iMusic Network Share............................ 16

14 Configuring the iHome for Windows Media Music Stores ................................. 22

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2 Placing iHome on the Local Area Network (LAN) –

Recommended LAN Configuration

WiFi Access Pts VPN Router Cable Modem

WebPads PDAs GigaBit Switch PCs

iHome

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3 Determine the iHome IP Address on the LAN

1. Go to your router DHCP client list and look for a client that contains

“adamultictr” in the name. The IP address associated with this client is the iHome

IP Address.

4 Connecting to iHome using Remote Desktop Client

(RDP) from your laptop

1. Press Start/Accessories/Communications/Remote Desktop Connection.

2. The following appears. Enter the iHome IP address and press the Options>>

button.

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3. Under the general tab use user name “installer” and password

“1867”.

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4. Under the Local Resources tab, select “Leave at Remote Computer” for Remote

computer sound.

5. Click “Connect” and your Laptop desktop will turn into the iHome desktop. You

are ready to proceed with the subsequent iHome configuration tasks.

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5 Setting a Fixed IP Address for the iHome

1. Select Start/Accessories/Command Prompt

2. At the prompt type “ipconfig”.

3. Leave the command prompt running showing the output of the ipconfig

command.

4. Select Start/Control Panel/Network Connections/Local Area

Connection/Properties/Internet Protocol.

5. Specify a fixed IP address for the iHome that is outside of the DHCP range. Use

the default gateway and subnet mask from the ipconfig output. Use the default

gateway IP address for the primary DNS

server.

6. Reboot the server (see next section for instructions on how to reboot iHome

remotely).

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6 Remotely rebooting iHome

1. Select Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management

2. Click the right mouse on Computer Management and select

Properties

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3. Click the Advanced tab followed by the Settings button under Startup and

Recovery.

4. Click “Shut Down”.

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5. Select “Restart” under Action “Always” under Force Apps Closed and click OK.

The iHome will begin a shutdown and the Remote Desktop session will be

terminated shortly. You can re-establish the session in approximately 2 minutes

after the iHome reboots.

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7 RAID Manager Alert Settings

1. Select Start/Promise Array Management/Local PAM.

2. Select Main/Login. Login as installer, password 1867.

3. Click on ADAMULTICTR and fill out the form. Use the customer’s email server

as the SMTP Server. You will need to use your customer’s email credentials to

complete this form.

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8 Configuring the Router for Remote Access to iHome

1. If using the recommended LAN configuration with VPN router, follow

instructions supplied with VPN router. Normally, allow the use of the remote

client machines to connect using the VPN Client software included with MS

Windows XP. There are 2 distinct advantages in using this method for remote

access. (a) it is secure (b) once connected, you are on the clients LAN which

makes file transfer very simple.

2. If not using a VPN router, you will need to open the following ports on the

firewall: 3389 for RDP, 21 for FTP, 8180 and 8888 for the iHome web server.

This is not a recommended approach as it is not secure and requires FTP for file

transfer.

9 Setting up a Dynamic DNS account

Go to http://www.dyndns.org/services/dns/dyndns/howto.html and follow instructions

provided to set up a free dynamic DNS URL for your customer. With this URL, you will

be able to access your customer’s iHome by name regardless of the IP address currently

assigned by your customer’s ISP.

10 Authorizing iHome with your customer’s iTunes

store account

1. While connected to iHome select the iTunes currently running on the iHome.

2. Go to the music store and create an account for your customer if he does not

already have one.

3. Purchase a song from the iTunes store.

4. Go to the Purchased Music playlist and attempt to play the purchased song.

iTunes will prompt you to authorize the computer. Authorize using your

customer’s account.

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11 Pre-Populating the Music Library

There are a number of ways to pre-populate iHome.

11.1 Ripping CDs

1. Make sure iTunes is set to “Import CD and Eject” on CD Insert. Use Remote

Desktop and check iTunes Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Importing page.

2. Insert CD.

3. When CD is ejected, insert the next CD.

11.2 Copy Existing iTunes Library from your customer’s PC

1. Establish Remote Desktop connection to iHome from your laptop.

2. Shut down the Form1 application currently running. This will shutdown the

music players and iTunes. iTunes will ask you to confirm shutdown. If it does

not, manually shut it down.

3. Using windows explorer copy your customer’s iTunes Music directory usually

found on their machine under C:\Documents and Settings\<their user name>\My

Documents\My Music\iTunes to C:\Documents and Settings\installer\My

Documents\My Music\iTunes on the iHome. You may need to make their My

Music folder sharable if it isn’t already so.

4. Using Notepad or WordPad, edit the C:\Documents and Settings\installer\My

Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml file now on the iHome.

5. Replace all occurrences of the user’s name in that file with “installer”.

6. Verify that iTunes recognizes all the new content by starting the

cvx_iTunesServiceWinApp under Start/All Programs/StartUp and checking that

iTunes has the new library loaded.

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12 Use the iSpec to configure the iHome for operation

using ADA Keypads and IP-based devices

The iHome comes pre-configured for control of 2 independent iTunes players as Special

CD1 input 3 and Special CD2 input 4 via suite 8 or suite 16.

You will need to specify rooms and their corresponding outputs on a suite 8 or suite 16 to

get the basic configuration to work.

You can also add ADA Tune Suite, ADA Surround Sound receivers, ADA IRL

controlled devices, and Lutron Homeworks to the overall system for IP control.

12.1 Accessing iSpec

1. Open Internet Explorer on your laptop.

2. Access http://<iHomeIPAddress>:8180/Mother/config.html.

12.2 Adding Rooms

1. Click on Rooms on the left side menu.

2. Click on Add New Room on the center stage.

3. Type new room name and click Create/Submit button. Don’t worry about the

other items on the page. They will get filled in automatically when you edit the

suite8/16 device and add rooms as its outputs.

4. Continue to add rooms repeating steps 1-3.

5. Click Devices on the left side menu.

6. Click on suite8 on the center stage.

7. Scroll down to the outputs section.

8. Select the new room using the new output drop down.

9. Enter the output number (1-16) and click add.

10. Repeat steps 8-9 this for each room you added.

11. Scroll up to the inputs section and click “Make Global” on each of the inputs

(iTunes1, iTunes2, and any additional inputs), to add them as accessible sources

in each room.

12. Click submit

12.3 Adding ADA Tune Suite

1. Click on Devices on the left side menu.

2. Click on Add New Device on the center stage.

3. Click on ADA Tune Suite on the center stage.

4. Select COM3 as the Serial Port.

5. Specify the tuner module number (1-4).

6. Specify the ADA Tune Suite address, usually 0.

7. Specify band (AM-FM or XM).

8. Click Create.

9. Repeat steps 1-8 for each tuner module.

10. Click Devices on the left side menu.

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11. Click on suite8 on the center stage.

12. Scroll down to the inputs section and add each ADA Tune Suite module as an

input to the suite8. Don’t forget to specify the input number for each.

13. Click “Make Global” for each ADA Tune Suite input to make them accessible

sources in each room.

14. Click submit.

12.4 Adding ADA IRL controlled devices

1. Click on Devices on the left side menu.

2. Click on Add New Device on the center stage.

3. Click on ADA IRL Device on the center stage.

4. Select COM3 as the Serial Port.

5. Specify the port number on the IRL (0-7).

6. Specify the IRL address.

7. Specify the type of device, i.e. SAT, Cable, DVD, VCR, etc.

8. Click Create.

9. Repeat steps 1-8 for each tuner module.

10. Click Devices on the left side menu.

11. Click on suite8 on the center stage.

12. Scroll down to the inputs section and add each ADA IRL device as an input to the

suite8. Don’t forget to specify the input number for each.

13. Click “Make Global” for each ADA IRL device to make them accessible sources

in each room.

14. Click submit.

12.5 Starting with an Empty Configuration

1. Click Serial Ports/Add New Serial Port

2. Create COM2 RS-232 Serial Port with 19200,1,0,10000, click Submit. This is the

ADA keypad port.

3. Repeat 1-2 for COM3. This is the ADA control port.

4. Click Serial Ports/Add New Serial Port

5. Create iHome1 Port IP Serial Port with Server Address: localhost, Port: 1234,

Timeout: 1000. Click Submit. This is the port used to control the music player 1.

6. Repeat 4-5 to create iHome2. The only difference is Port: 1235. This is the port

used to control music player 2.

7. Click Devices/Add New Device/ADA Suite 16.

8. Name: avRouter (your choice), Serial Port: COM3. Don’t add any inputs or

outputs at this time.

9. Click Keypads/Add New Keypad/ADA Keypad

10. Keypad Name: ADAKeypads (Your choice), Serial Port: COM2, Suite16:

avRouter (or whatever name you chose for the suite in #8). Do not add any

devices at this time.

11. Click Devices/Add New Device/iTunes Server.

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12. Name: iHome1 (your choice), Serial Port: iHome1Port (from step #5). Click

Submit.

13. Click Device/Add New Device/iTunes Server.

14. Name: iHome2 (your choice), Serial Port: iHome2Port (from step #6).

15. Click Rooms/Add New Room

16. Room Name: Room 1 (your choice). Do not add any sources at this time. Click

Submit.

17. Click Devices/avRouter (from step #8).

18. Add New Output: Room 1, 1

19. Add New Input: iHome1, 3

20. Add New Input: iHome2, 4

21. Click Make Global next to iHome1 and Make Global next to iHome2.

22. Click Keypads/ADA Keypads

23. You should see a grid with iHome1 and iHome2 on the left and Room 1 across

the top. Place the letter ‘P’ (Special CD1) next to iHome1 and ‘Q’ (Special CD2)

next to iHome2. Click Submit.

24. Click Rooms/Room1.

25. At the bottom, under Linked Commands select Command: Power-Off, Param:

Room1, Linked Device: avRouter (from step #8), Linked Command: Power-Off,

Linked Param: Room1. Click Submit.

26. You can create additional rooms by clicking Clone Room on Room 1 renaming

and submitting. Then just go to Devices/avRouter and add the new rooms as

outputs.

13 Configuring iTunes to Use the iHome iMusic Network

Configuring iTunes in this manners allows the user to buy/download and/or rip music

directly to the iHome in a single step without synchronization. Synchronizing music with

the iPod also will not require synchronization.

NOTE: DO THIS AFTER PRE-POPULATING THE IHOME WITH THE EXISTING

LIBRARY. THIS CONFIGURATION WILL ALTER THE ITUNES

CONFIGURATION IN A WAY THAT DISCONNECTS IT FROM THE EXISTING

LIBRARY.

1. Use Remote Desktop to connect to the iHome.

2. Bring up Windows Explorer.

3. Find the My Documents/My Music directory and select it.

4. Click Tools/Folder Options/View.

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5. Make sure that the “Use simple file sharing” option is unchecked. Click Apply,

followed by OK.

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6. Click the right mouse/Properties/Sharing/Permissions on My Music and grant Full

Control rights to Everyone. Click Apply and OK.

7. Click the Security tab. If the Everyone group does not appear in the top box, click

Add, type Everyone in the “Enter the object names to select” box and click Check

Names, then click OK.

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8. Select the Everyone group and grant Full Control. Press OK.

9. Test the permission inheritance by creating a subfolder under My Music, click right

mouse/Properties/Security and make sure the Everyone group on the subfolder has

Full Control granted and the list of permissions greyed out. If this is not the case.

You will need to remove the share on My Music and recreate it using steps 1-8.

10. Start iTunes on the user’s PC, not in Remote Desktop.

11. Go to the Library Playlist, click Edit/Select All.

12. Click Edit/Clear. A confirmation dialog will appear, click Remove.

13. The following confirmation catalog will appear afterwards. Click Keep Files.

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14. Map a network driver (Z:) to the iHome/iMusic share.

15. Click Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General.

16. Click Change and set the iTunes Music folder location to (Z:) and uncheck “Keep

iTunes Music folder organize” and “Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding

to library”.

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Model: ihome

Category: Networking

Type: Owner's manual

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