Hi again all,
I've made progress but I'm still stuck.
I was routing the RJ11 "telco" cables through standard CAT5. It didn't
like that so I bit the bullet and cut an RJ11 cable in half, soldered it
directly onto about 10 metres of CAT5 and plugged it back into the RJ11
the other side. My servers actually have a standard serial port (yay
for proper servers).
Using minicom, I can talk to the device on /dev/ttyS1 as the user that
rivendell runs under (I had to add the user to the dialout group to get
serial permissions).
Here is the weird/stuck part. If I click my switcher macros, nothing
happens. If I open minicom and connect to /dev/ttyS1, then click my
switcher macros, the previous commands all flood through.
I can probably set up screen/minicom to run on reboot but is this meant
to be the way it works?
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 16/11/15 17:42, Rob Landry wrote:
I've set up several ACS8.2's and have never had a problem getting them
to work with Rivendell.
Can you talk to the switcher using Putty or minicom via the serial port?
If so, have you checked to see that the serial port is set up properly
in Rivendell and that the switcher is defined to use the correct port?
Also, are you using a USB-to-serial converter? If so, it will probably
show up as ttyUSB0, but I have known them to suddenly rename
themselves ttyUSB1. The only way I know around that is to write a udev
rule to alias it to a name you specify, like SWITCHER0, and set up
Rivendell to use that name.
Rob
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Wayne Merricks wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the hints. Had to wrestle the thing out of a rack to
change DIP switches all while trying to stay on air (not fun).
I've also enabled the serial ports (didn't even know this was an
option) thanks to John's info.
Still coming up short, I'm going to step back from Riv and try and
get a direct serial connection working before I go any further.
Thanks for the help so far.
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 16/11/15 13:32, Cowboy wrote:
On 11/16/2015 07:54 AM, Wayne Merricks wrote:
Hi,
I have a Broadcast Tools ACS 8.2 Plus. I'm trying to use it with
Rivendell although at this point I'd settle for any old bash script
that would make it work.
I've added the switcher to the host as matrix 0 (using the ACS 8.2
profile) and tried to use the ST commands but nothing seems to
work. Do I need to set up the port speed or anything else under
linux before I try using macro commands or does Rivendell do this?
Basically I can't find a decent guide to this and wondering if
anyone has an idiots guide to getting these things going?
It's been a while, but I do distinctly remember that you must get
the dip switches
inside the switcher right, else nothing works.
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