I can think of a few options. If you have a private link between your studio and transmitter, or a VPN type link, the easiest way is to use something like Netcat, or if your RDS encoder is on the network accessed via the VPN, and if it is an RDS box that can accept the information via IP, then just send the info from your Rivendell system to your RDS encoder across the VPN.
If you are using the open internet at your transmitter site and just grabbing a stream as a type of STL (I wouldn't really recommend this, but that is a different discussion) then you can potentially run one of the many scripts out there to pull the metadata off the stream (assuming your stream has metadata), and then send that to your RDS encoder. Another option that I've used at one site where I have a network connection that allows me to grab stuff on port 80 but not much else due to firewall issues - is I have wget running at the transmitter on a looping script. Every 60 seconds the script runs and grabs a 1 line text file over the web which contains the information I want to include in my RDS Radiotext field (I've actually customized it to be able to update other fields if I want to, but RT is the main one which gets updated at this site). If the text file is the same as the previous one it received, it does nothing. If the text file has changed then it sends the new information to the RDS encoder. At the station I have a setup which creates that text file and puts it on a computer running Apache, ready for wget to grab it. It isn't the best solution (it is like disconnecting the bell on a phone and then picking up the handset every 60 seconds to see if someone is calling you) and the radio text update can be delayed up to 60 seconds behind the change of information (usually it is no more then about 10 to 20 seconds delayed) but it works within the limitations of the network that I have available. > > My first thought is netcat. > > Can you draw a rough diagram and give a little more explanation of your > setup? > > Rivendell at the station feeds what? The mixing board? Jack on the > rivendell box? What sends the audio to icecast? Darkice? Liquidsoap? > Something else? Or are you like me with rivendell, liquidsoap, and icecast > all one one box and in some instances, no soundcard on that box at all? > > At the fm transponder site, what is picking op the icecast stI'm assuming you > are using your Icecast stream as a type of STLream? Or is > icecast living at the tramsponder site and not at the studio site? Icecast > at both sites? After the icecast stream is picked up, how does it get to > the transmitter? > > What does the rds need to see? Are you running any special software to feed > the rds? (What rds are you using?) > > all the best, > > drew > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Albert Bruc <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone ! > > > > I've a little problem > > my rivendell is a the radio and the fm transponder is at 5 kilometers ... > > the signal (streamed by icecast) is send to a pc who stream the radio > > signal > > how can I send metadatas to the rds encoder > > > > any idea ? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rivendell-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > > > > > -- > http://nakedghosts.blogspot.com/<hr>_______________________________________________ > 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
