That's what I did for one of my stations. All my IDs went in one Cart, all
the :30 liners went in another, all the :60s went in another, etc.

In the Sound Panel section of RDAirplay, set up a single button for each of
the Carts that contain the various liner types.

Then, wire up the relays from your satellite receiver to the GPI inputs of
your Rivendell computer.  Finally, set up the GPIs to push the appropriate
Panel buttons when triggered.

If you have to mute the network audio, then you'll need to have those GPIs
fire Macros instead of the simple audio carts. The Macros will first need
to send commands to your audio switcher to mute the Network audio, then
they would fire the audio cart. Finally, after the audio cart completes,
the Macro unmutes the Network audio again.

You can do these things with the Panel buttons (meaning, you put the Macros
on Panel buttons instead of just putting the audio Carts), but you could
also do the same with a log.  In reality, you could do them even without a
log or a panel, but then you'd have a hard time seeing what the system is
doing in real-time - and an even harder time overriding or assisting.  I
personally kind of prefer putting any floating liners on the Panel buttons,
because it also makes it easy to manually hit those same buttons if the
relay closures aren't connected or firing from the network end of things.

Hope this helps.

--Sherrod
On Mar 8, 2016 3:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's what I was trying to figure out. No it wouldn't be necessary. Would
> it be simpler to put the cuts in one cart and then trigger it with a macro?
> Just looking for any input. Will look into this.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 3:33 PM, Sherrod Munday <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2016 1:56 PM, "Seth Stevenson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >...It needs to have a playlist of say 20-30 ID's that rotate in a loop.
> Once one is played then it needs to stop until the next switcher command to
> play the next cut. The log needs to be reloaded at midnight for the next
> day as well.
>
> Question:
>
> Is a log really necessary if the "spots" and IDs are just going to loop
> and they aren't paid/scheduled content?
>
> If not, you can just use the GPIs to push Panel buttons that fire off
> macros to mute the network (if necessary), play the necessary audio, and
> then return to the network.
>
> That would be simpler than worrying about log generation.
>
> --Sherrod
>
>
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