Thanks guys for the collective help. I have used the RLM module and it is working a dream? APOSTROPHIES and Andpersands are now displaying on our now playing feeds!!
Could someone please confirm if the twitter RLM is functioning? I read somewhere it doesn't work anymore due to an API change from twitter?? Regards Tom > On 3 Jul 2014, at 16:14, John Hodgson <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI, > > It seems the version of Riv I'm running won't let me put in ' or " marks.... > > Bit of a pain really... To be honest I have no idea how to set up the RLM's > in the new versions. Completely new to me... > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: 03 July 2014 15:17 > To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System > Subject: Re: [RDD] Now Playing.txt > >> On 2014-07-03 14:53, Tom wrote: >> Good Afternoon >> We have Rivendell set up so that it spits out a nowplay.txt file each >> time the song changes in rivendell. We have done this by adding the >> following RML command into the 'Edit Now & Next Window' RN echo %a - >> %t>/home/rd1/export/playing.txt! >> The script works however the script, at irregular intervals, appears >> to stop working. Upon investigation it looks as though whenever a & or >> an apostrophe enters the title or artist field, it appears to stop >> working! Is there a reason for this or indeed does anybody have a >> solution for this? > > Hi. It's not an rivendell issue. It's a shel 'problem'. > > RN echo %a - %t>/home/rd1/export/playing.txt! > > will run a shell command and %a / %t will be replaced by the artist and title > text. > When a field contains a bash/shell special char it will break or do nasty > stuff on your system > > You could try to escape/encapsulate the string in quotes like this: > > RN echo '%a - %t'>/home/rd1/export/playing.txt! > > or > > RN echo "%a - %t">/home/rd1/export/playing.txt! > > this way the & will not be interpreted as shell special char. > but… the first one will break if there is a ' in the string, second one will > break if there is a " in the string. > > Instead try please try to use rivendell modules. There are several rlm's that > do title streaming to servers and textfiles: > > http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Streaming_from_Rivendell > > Best regards > Sascha > > -- > astrastudio > broadcast solutions - on air design > Prinz-Eugen Straße 42 > 53757 Sankt Augustin > fon: +49 2241 591972 > mobile: +49 151 29126299 > mail: [email protected] > web: www.astrastudio.de > USt-IdNr: DE 266329487 > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
