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Hacking The XDS Satellite Receiver?

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spinjector

Has anyone ever taken a stab at hacking an XDS satellite receiver? I'm curious just in the general sense, and I don't want to do anything illegal like try to access deauthorized programs, but I do have a specific need: I'd like to rearrange the order of precedence for how a program is selected on any given port, as follows.

Currently, the MyXDS scheduler webpage overrides everything, and this cannot be changed. It's caused caused us some headaches, and. I'd like to change the order of precedence as follows:

1) A program selected on the front panel and then locked with the padlock icon. Currently the padlock does nothing. All it does is prevent the channel from being changed again on the front panel unless you turn the padlock off. It's really kind of stupid and useless because serial commands and the web page still override it.

2) A serial port command via the M&C port on the back.

3) The MyXDS web page.

So basically I want the order of precedence to be completely backwards from what it is now.

The reason for this is that our sports station would like to have more freedom to jump channels more quickly and cover different games on the fly as the action changes.

I'm considering ditching the MyXDS webpage altogether and simply handling all channel changes with serial port commands in our Nexgen program log.
 
An XDS has 4 audio ports. How many are authorized via the MyXDS page? Maybe you can get all 4 authorized and get them wired to your mixer/switcher. Then the secondary ports can be put on the different games, and just switching to that output gets what you want. Of course, with NCAA, that still may not be enough, as that network carries about 10^6 games on any given Saturday.

At least with XDS, when the MyXDS page is changed and committed, the change happens immediately, unlike the MAX which takes at least 15 minutes.
 
I don't want to "hack" anything. I just wish to God I could log into the receiver remotely. The XDS is at a transmitter site and I can't look inside it without going down to get the stupid daily password. The tech passwords they mention in the Manual don't seem to be do anything.
 
You can. Or at least, I can. If you have remote access into your network, either through port forwarding or VPN. Just hit the IP address of the XDS with a web browser. The old login was tech/radio, but the new one is admin/flash!. Click the Setup tab and scroll all the way to the bottom, and there you'll find a big fat juicy button that says "REBOOT RECEIVER. =-)
 
On the Cumulus XDS receiver, you can log into it's internal webpage (i.e. 192.168.1.xxx) and login using Tech / (friendly password). You setup the friendly password via the myXDS page. Once logged in, it opens on the Setup page. At the top of the page it shows what programming is playing on what port. Directly below that, there is a button "Select Programming". Click that and you can select any program for any port.

Ta Da... Remote programming control! It's a little glitchy, but it works.
 
To expand on setting the "friendly" password.
Go here http://myxdsreceiver.cmneng.com/
You log-in and get the "What would you like to do?" select "Set my password, time zone...(etc)..
Put in a password & click "Update".

If you want to schedule programs on a second port (example: station KXXX-FM)
call CMN *new number* 1-914-908-3210 and have them set it up as a "KXXX-REC-FM".
 
I guess I'm not understanding the remote log in problem. We don't do anything from the front panel. I can log in from anywhere in the world and make programming changes on the three ports we have set up. The key is the friendly password. All you need do is go to the website, enter the receiver # and the friendly password, and you can do just about anything. The XDS is better than sliced bread, unlike the Wegener receivers that Dial-Global uses, which require a phone call and a request to make a change, which often takes days. Plus, the Cumulus carrier is more robust than the Dial-Global carrier. During sun fade last week, the Wegeners were down for several minutes as usual, but the XDS remained operational even when in red alarm status, with the outage measured in seconds, not minutes.
 
bossbill said:
I guess I'm not understanding the remote log in problem. We don't do anything from the front panel. I can log in from anywhere in the world and make programming changes on the three ports we have set up. The key is the friendly password. All you need do is go to the website, enter the receiver # and the friendly password, and you can do just about anything.
Click to expand...

Yes, I'm kinda' thinking the same thing. We don't do anything from the front panel or its integrated web interface. We log on from any web browser to make changes. Isn't this how others are doing it?

-CO
 
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