Hi There We have one of these switchers to switch our station output from computer direct on air.... or via the studio desk... or a net radio receiver. The trouble is the stream goes off line from time to time and we have silence during the night. Is it possible to get the Broadcast Tools switcher to put the computer back on air if the audio stream goes down (10 second silence detection)? Many thanks Geoff Barkman
On 5/21/14, Jim Stewart <jstew...@paceaudio.com> wrote: > My Rivendell works perfectly with a BT ACS 8.2 Plus, including all the GPIO > and silence sense capabilities. > > > Under "Edit TTY's", for entry "Serial0", I have "/dev/ttyS0" in the TTY > Device field with 9600, None, 8, 1, and "None" in the rest of the fields > Than just selected "Serial0" under the Edit Switcher section for the BT ACS > 8.2. > > Assuming you are actually sending strings out of your serial port (perhaps > need to test with a PC on the other end): > > > Note that there are some different modes the BT switcher can be in. Perhaps > is this NOT a factory new device? if so note that you can optionally hang > several of these things on a single serial line if you enable a special > addressing mode. When enabled you then have to specify the address of the > unit you want to talk to on the front of each command. You may need to make > sure your switcher is NOT in this mode as I'm thinking Rivendell doesn't > support this. > > > Also you will find you need to put the switcher into the non-factory-default > of "Mix Mode" for it to switch correctly. > > > If in doubt plug the BT switcher into a PC running a serial terminal program > you are familiar with and send some raw commands yourself and see what > happens. There is a little program called "minicom" available on Linux, but > unsure if it is included with the Appliance, if not maybe you can install it > with "yum". > > > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 10:37:36 am Nathan Steele wrote: > > Is there a difference with the PLUS version? I tried controlling it last > night with the setting for the ACS 8.2, no dice.... > > Not sure anything is actually going out the seriel port. the SER light > on the switcher flashes at bootup, but then nothing when trying to test > my macro cart. > > I tried playing with the seriel port settings in rdadmin also? not real > clear on whether i need to enable the seriel port there to work with the > switcher or not. tried both ways. still no dice. not sure what I"m > supposed to put in the ttydevice field..... > > The seriel port is shown by dmesg | grep tty > > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
