On Mar 12, 2012, at 17:39 56, Guy Curtis wrote: > Will Rivendell control Axia Router Switcher TEL-200100134 through Axia > Livewire tech to route the audio and how would one go about doing it.
Yes. Rivendell can control any Livewire device that implements the Livewire Routing Control Protocol (which protocol, as per Axia specs, all Livewire-complaint devices are required to do). It does so in the usual Rivendell manner --i.e. by means of the included Switcher/GPIO driver configured in RDAdmin->ManageHosts->Switcher/GPIO. In effect, Rivendell sees the entire Livewire network a single giant crosspoint router, each crosspoint of which can be controlled via RML and/or RDCatch. > With regards to the audio drivers with said equipment: > Axia offers a single I/O driver or multi-I/O driver, would be be able to run > rivendell using the single I/O driver if we have multiple cards feeding all > audio into a single seperate card? You have a couple of options here: a 'software only' ALSA driver that provides 8 stereo channels in/out, or a card made by AudioScience (the ASI6585) that likewise provides 8 stereo channels in/out, along with all of the added goodies (timescaling support, hardware MPEG acceleration) provided by ASI 6xxx cards. As of this writing, there is no 'single channel' I/O driver for ALSA. <shameless commercial plug> Both of the above items are available from Paravel Systems </shameless commercial plug>. > When using sound panel does it just put item into list or overlay the audio > how does it work to do this? Rivendell treats each Livewire stream it generates just like a physical output on a traditional audio card. Thus, one can configure the system to mix all SoundPanel outputs into a single output stream (which can then be mapped to the Axia Router Switcher, or any other Livewire device), or send them to separate streams, or any combination thereof. The user has full control. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
