Installer s Guide. 1 Installation Tasks

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 IPbased 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 Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 1

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 Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 2

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 3

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 5

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). Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 6

6 Remotely rebooting ihome 1. Select Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management 2. Click the right mouse on Computer Management and select Properties Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 7

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 9

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 11

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 12

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 13

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 14

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 15

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 Share 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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 16

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 18

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 19

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. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 20

17. Select File/Add Folder to Library and select Z:\iTunes\iTunes Music. 18. After the library is imported, go back to Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General and check Copy files to itunes Music folder when adding to library. 19. You are ready. Now when you download music to itunes on the user s PC or rip a CD on the user s PC it will end up on the ihome/imusic drive and be automatically detected and imported into the ihome itunes Music library. Also, when you sync your ipod with your PC, you are automatically syncing it with the ihome. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 21

14 Configuring the ihome for Windows Media Music Stores There are many different Windows Media based music stores ranging such as Music Giants, MSN Music, Napster, and Yahoo Music. The end user may be using multiple music stores. At this point, MSN Music works most seamlessly with Media Center based servers such as the ihome. Music Giants has higher bitrate music and will be upgrading their store to work well in the MCE/iHome environment. Napster and Music Match offer MCE-based interfaces also. 1. The first step is to connect to the ihome via Remote Desktop and follow steps 1-9 in the itunes section 13 above. 2. Ensure that the registry entry is in place on the ihome. 3. Purchase a song from each of the Windows Media stores that the user will be using on the ihome while connected via Remote Desktop. For most stores with the exception of Yahoo Music, this can be accomplished using the Windows Media Player and selecting each store, logging in with the user s account, and purchasing a song. For Yahoo Music, you will need to download and install the Yahoo music player on the ihome and subscribe to Y! Unlimited before starting to purchase/download. Until further notice, the end user will only be able to purchase songs from Music Giants in this manner via Remote Desktop connection to the ihome. Copyright 2004-2006 Convleux Systems, LLC Page 22