FUSION RESEARCH Ovation Music Streamers and Players

IMPORTANT NOTICES ON OPERATION OF THIS PRODUCT

DO NOT remove the power during boot-up.

Though this is a headless unit, please note that the boot sequence can take 

up to 2 full minutes. Removing the power during this process will corrupt 

the image.

The system is actually a small mini-server based unit with a very robust 

Linux based operating system. While it is designed to be very stable and 

fault tolerate, sudden termination of power during boot-up or during music 

playback should always be avoided.

PAID ACCOUNTS ARE NECESSARY

Please be aware that paid accounts are required for complete function of 

some services. It is important to know that while most of the applications 

are completely free, some of the services do require a paid account to 

function.

Services known to require a paid account are:

Pandora

Sirius XM

Spotify

Slacker

Deezer

It is also important to note that many streaming services limit the active 

streams on user accounts to one stream per account. If issues occur 

during playback, please make sure that there are no other active streams 

associated with that account.

REQUIRED HARDWARE FOR TROUBLESHOOTING

The following items are necessary for any troubleshooting of possible 

installation and operation issues that may be encounter.

VGA Monitor

USB Keyboard

USB Thumbdrive that can be formatted

Phillips Head Screwdriver

AUDIO/VIDEO SPECIFICATIONS:

Audio Formats Supported: 

FLAC & MP3 for streaming

Video Connections: 

Ovation Servers are headless units, that means there is no TV display. 

You will control the system through computers on the same network 

and any of the many drivers that are available for Squeezebox 

servers.

MY SQUEEZEBOX:

Because the player portion of this unit was made to be Squeezebox 

compatible, a Squeezebox account is required to use this system. 

To register for a free account, visit www.mysqueezebox.com.

INITAL SETUP:

Before you begin to setup any connection to a home automation control 

system, add streaming app accounts or anything else, you should first 

confirm that you have music playback.

Follow these steps in order:

1. Connect ethernet cable to existing router/switch

2. Plug in your OMS Server

3. Power the OMS Server on 

[Note: the OMS-SIG powers on automatically when plugged in, ALL other 

OMS servers require the power button to be pressed to turn the unit on.]

4. Connect the audio cables to receiver/distribution amp

VERIFYING THE AUDIO STREAMER:

The next step is to ensure that everything is performing normally. The first 

thing you should do is open a web browser on your PC. Type in ‘http://

ovation.fusionrd.net’ into your browser and the following window should 

come up:

Clicking [Here it is] on the Ovation Finder Utility homepage (as seen in 

the above image) will launch the finder and scan the network for attached 

Ovation devices.

The Finder will return a list of the Ovation devices located on the network.

Select the desired player from the Ovation Finder Utility list and click on its 

IP address. This will take you to the device’s Configurator home page where 

you will complete the configuration of the device.

NOTE: After clicking the IP of the player it can take up to one minute 

to access the Fusion Music Configurator home page.

INTERNET RADIO:

The quickest way to ensure your OMS 

server is working properly is to select an 

internet radio station. 

Choose [Internet Radio] and then any of 

the categories you see listed below the 

tab.

Once you’ve selected the station you wish 

to test, you’ll see it come up in the detail 

screen. Click on the [Play] button and 

you’ll see whatever is playing on the radio 

station at the moment

Note: If you experience low audio playback during testing make 

sure that the volume of the stream is set to max by increasing 

the grey bars on the volume slider.

SETTING UP AN OVATION MUSIC SYSTEM:

The Ovation Music Streamers are very powerful machines. When setup 

properly, a user of the system may access music through:

One of the many Streaming Apps

Any of the thousands of Internet Radio Stations

Pointing to a remote music folder

Pointing to iTunes on a remote computer

The actual user control is very simple and intuitive to use. As you can 

imagine from the list above, with all those options setting up the system 

initially should be done exactly as detailed in this section of the manual.

If you are not a systems integrator or familiar with how computers work 

over a network and shared folders, you may want to consider bringing in 

some outside help to assist you in setting this up.

CLIENT & INTEGRATOR TOOLS:

There are two different web utilities you will be using to set the product up 

as well as the www.mysqueezebox.com page.

1. Ovation Music Manager [http://fusionmusic], [http://musicstream] 

or [http://oms-000####] on the OMS-SIG devices. This is the consumer 

interface. It will be used for managing their music as well as some basic 

setting information.

NOTE: If your web browser has trouble finding this, you can simply