Since ours has worked for years now, I'll have to remember what it took
to make it work. I do remember a few settings to be concerned about,
but don't remember for sure what made it work:
First the BT ACS8.2 has two different addressing modes. One allows you
to "daisy chain" a bunch of them together on one serial line. I'm
thinking you might have to put it into this mode and then perhaps have
it assigned to address 1. Not sure.
Second there is the "mix mode" (verses interlocking mode) where it
allows more than one input to be selected to an output at a time. It
might need to be in mix mode for it to work correctly.
Third, I'm assuming you have the baud rate set right and have it wired
correctly. To test, you can either use a Linux program like "minicom"
to talk to the switcher manually using your Rivendell machine, or
temporarily move the serial cable to a Windows machine where you can use
hyperterminal or "putty" to test that you can talk to it using the
wiring and settings you think should work.
Once you get it working, it's great. We use the GPIO and silence sense
capabilities of the switcher the most since we do most of our audio
source switching in software using Jack.
On 11/16/2015 10:00 AM, [email protected]
wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:54:53 +0000
From: Wayne Merricks<[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Subject: [RDD] Idiots Guide to Switchers
Message-ID:<[email protected]>
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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?
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
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