Introduction

This document outlines the available methods for enabling or disabling the IR receiver on the H200 set-top box. This feature may be useful in several scenarios, such as:

1. When multiple set-top boxes are deployed near one another and it is necessary to control which device responds to IR signals.

2. When IR control needs to be disabled on set-top boxes that have been set up for signage purposes.

Prerequisites

This article assumes that basic setup of the devices has been completed and the device is configured to use Orchestrate, USB, or DHCP to receive any necessary configuration settings.

The article also assumes that you understand the use of Amino INI configuration settings and that you can edit and apply INI configuration parameters to your media player.

Summary

Method 1

Manage IR receiver with system parameter

The system parameter system.ir_control.enable manages the IR receiver state. This parameter may be read during boot and sets the IR receiver status.

If the set-top box is booted with VCI, add system.ir_control.enable to the h200_entone_boot.ini file. Set the value to true to enable the IR receiver or false to disable the IR receiver.

Example: Adding the setting to disable the IR receiver to the h200_entone_boot.ini file

system.ir_control.enable = false

If the set-top box is booted with Orchestrate, select ON from the dropdown menu to enable the IR receiver or select OFF from the dropdown menu to disable the IR receiver.

Example: Adding the setting to disable IR receiver to the Orchestrate group.

Method 2

Manage IR receiver with EELM API

Enable Enterprise Local Management (EELM) is a configurable management service that supports a small set of operations accessible via a REST API. EELM is disabled by default on the H200 set-top box, please read the H200 Enable Enterprise Local Management (EELM) Server and enable EELM on your H200 set-top box before proceeding to the next paragraph.

Following EELM APIs manage system.ir_control.enable in real-time, allowing the user to check, enable or disable the IR receiver on a specified H200 set-top box.

To confirm the IR receiver status on the H200 set-top box, use the following API:

curl -v -X GET http://<Set-top box IP>:8090/api/v2/input/irControl

Example: Checking the status of the IR receiver on the set-top box with IP 10.0.35.209 and IR receiver is enabled.

# curl -v -X GET http://10.0.35.209:8090/api/v2/input/irControl
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 10.0.35.209...
* Connected to 10.0.35.209 (10.0.35.209) port 8090 (#0)
> GET /api/v2/input/irControl HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: 10.0.35.209:8090
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:45:45 GMT
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *
< Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 19
* Server Jetty(9.4.35.v20201120) is not blacklisted
< Server: Jetty(9.4.35.v20201120)
<
{"ircontrol":true}
* Connection #0 to host 10.0.35.209 left intact

To enable the IR receiver on the H200 set-top box, use the following API:

curl -v -X PUT -d ' {"enable": true}' http://<Set-top box IP>:8090/api/v2/input/irControl

Example: Enable the IR receiver on the set-top box with IP 10.0.35.209

# curl -v -X PUT -d ' {"enable": true}' http://10.0.35.209:8090/api/v2/input/irControl
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 10.0.35.209...
* Connected to 10.0.35.209 (10.0.35.209) port 8090 (#0)
> PUT /api/v2/input/irControl HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: 10.0.35.209:8090
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 17
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
* upload completely sent off: 17 out of 17 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:45:43 GMT
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *
< Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 0
* Server Jetty(9.4.35.v20201120) is not blacklisted
< Server: Jetty(9.4.35.v20201120)
<
* Connection #0 to host 10.0.35.209 left intact

To disable the IR receiver on the H200 set-top box, use the following API:

curl -v -X PUT -d ' {"enable": false}' http://<Set-top box IP>:8090/api/v2/input/irControl

Example: Disable the IR receiver on the set-top box with IP 10.0.35.209

# curl -v -X PUT -d ' {"enable": false}' http://10.0.35.209:8090/api/v2/input/irControl
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 10.0.35.209...
* Connected to 10.0.35.209 (10.0.35.209) port 8090 (#0)
> PUT /api/v2/input/irControl HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: 10.0.35.209:8090
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 18
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
* upload completely sent off: 18 out of 18 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:24:33 GMT
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *
< Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 0
* Server Jetty(9.4.35.v20201120) is not blacklisted
< Server: Jetty(9.4.35.v20201120)
<
* Connection #0 to host 10.0.35.209 left intact

References

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