Just thought I'd point out that your motherboard likely has serial on it, you just need a serial header to db9 plate adaptor to use it. Have a great day, Robert
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Rob Landry <[email protected]> wrote: > > WCRI has a Rivendell machine that uses a USB-to-serial converter to talk > to a Broadcast Tools audio switcher. The machine occasionally "forgets" the > USB-to-serial converter (which is normally /dev/ttyUSB0) and then wakes up > and remaps it as /dev/ttyUSB1. > > Now, I have a udev rule in place that automatically creates a symlink o > whatever device the converter gets mapped as... but if it gets remapped > while rdairplay is running, rdairplay can't talk to the switcher until I > stop and restart the Rivendell service. > > On Tuesday, I discovered that I could get around the problem by stopping > and restarting the ripcd daemon, so I set up a cron job to detect the > remapping of the USB-to-serial converter and autoatically stop and restart > ripcd. > > That turned out to be a mistake; it seems to have caused rdairplay to lose > the ability to chain to the next day's log. Two days in a row the station > has gone silent at midnight, and we've had to load the log manually. > > The only solution I can think of is to use a machine with an actual serial > port. > > Have any of y'all enocuntered this issue? If so, how did you deal with it? > > > Rob > > -- > Я там, где ребята толковые, > Я там, где плакаты "Вперёд", > Где песни рабочие новые > Страна трудовая поёт. > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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