On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Sherrod Munday wrote: > On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 20:32 -0500, Rob Landry wrote: >> If I manually short the GPI input to ground, sometimes nothing at all >> happens, and sometimes the commands work as they are supposed to.
> Your word "sometimes" concerns me... The whole point of the computer > *auto*mation is that it's supposed to be automatic and reliable, with > reproducible results. It doesn't sound like you've been able to achieve > that yet. (And, yes, I know *very* well how frustrating that can be.) If I understand correctly, it's the transition from one state to another that Rivendell sees, and not merely the state of the GPI being grounded or not. It may be that if the transition happens too slowly, Rivendell won't see it. That could be ugly. The same switcher connected to a Scott SS32 system behaves differently: when a GPI is grounded, you see a corresponding dot on the SS32 configuration page turn red. It stays red as long as the GPI is grounded, and turns off when the connection to ground is broken. > I'd suggest doing some experimentation with an offline system to try to > determine if the transition type, cart type, etc. in the log/playlist > may have any effect on the reliability of the process. As it happens, I have such a system at home, complete with another ACS8.2 switcher. When I have some free time, I'll play with it and see what I can find out. It sounds like there aren't many Rivendell stations that put satellite feeds on the air in real time. Otherwise, someone would have encountered this problem before. Rob _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
