[RDD] Too busy to look at the time?
I got an email from a station just now reporting a timed event problem. This is on RD 3.6.2 under CentOS 7. There was a station ID set up as a timed event (start immediately, STOP transition) at 4:59:50. The previous hour was overprogrammed, the intention being that the song currently running would fade out at 4:59:50 and the station ID would introduce a program to start at the top of the hour. The station's been doing this for a couple years now. Today, however, according to the log listing in rdairplay, the song starting at 4:54:59.5 ended at precisely 4:59:50.0. The timed event was ignored, and additional songs continued to play until the ID was reached, well past its start time, and the station went silent due to the STOP transition. It stayed silent until 5:59:50, when a similar timed event fired another station ID to introduce the 6 AM hour. I'm guessing the machine was busy dealing with the transition from one song to the next and did not check the time until 4:59:50.0 had passed. I've seen this happen before; luckily, it doesn't happen very often. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Reference OS
I have not tried installing Rivendell on Debian since Debian 10. Is it still possible? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Thu, 24 Feb 2022, Steve wrote: Hello, Is the reference operating system for Rivendell still CentOS-something or is Debian a solid option?___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] RDAirplay Crash - Double Free Corruption
I'd be happy to upgrade them all, but they all need to be able to synchronize carts, cuts, and logs with backup Rivendell machines at other sites. This feature is mission-critical, as all of these stations run largely unattended, so when there's a problem in the studio we need to be able to switch to a backup machine and be sure that its contents will be up-to-date. That's not a feature Rivendell has, so it's done with two external scripts. Switching to Rivendell 3 would require rewriting and testing those scripts, as the database structure has changed. The stations are happy with what they have, and no one's supporting them but me, so there you have it. By the way, having those backups has saved WUMB's ass twice in as many years: when the power went down campus-wide for a week in the summer of 2020, and again a couple weeks ago when a hardware problem took down the machine in the on-air studio. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Thu, 24 Feb 2022, starrbuck1...@gmail.com wrote: And you really should upgrade them all. Fred shouldn't have to support much older versions. It's just not realistic. On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:34 PM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: It's ancient, but I run it on at least half a dozen stations, and have never encountered any crashes at log-loading time. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Thu, 24 Feb 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Feb 23, 2022, at 22:32, Steve wrote: > This is Rivendell 2.19.3 on CentOS 7. > > > That’s an ancient version. There have been literally hundreds of bug fixes > and feature enhancements made since in the v3.x tree. Your best bet would be > to upgrade. > > See: >http://wiki.rivendellaudio.org/index.php/Upgrading_from_v2_to_v3_on_CentOS_ > 7 > > Cheers! > > > |-| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |-| > | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | > | | > | -- Cicero | > |-| > > >___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Reference OS
On Feb 24, 2022, at 18:10, Steve wrote: > Is the reference operating system for Rivendell still CentOS-something > or is Debian a solid option? FWIW, the two distros I use for development of v4.x are RedHat Enterprise Linux and UbuntuStudio LTS, and those are the two distros for which I will be maintaining downstream integrations. That said however, the goal is to make v4.x source compatible with “Linux in general”, so downstream integrations with other distros are certainly possible if someone wants to step up and maintain it. Cheers! |-| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |-|___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] RDAirplay Crash - Double Free Corruption
On Feb 24, 2022, at 16:23, starrbuck1...@gmail.com wrote: > And you really should upgrade them all. Fred shouldn't have to support much > older versions. It's just not realistic. And mostly I don’t, beyond recommending an upgrade to the latest-and-greatest (currently v3.6.4). Bugs reported on *that* version do get lots of attention however. A word to those still running v2.x though — those versions are finally going to hit the end of the road when CentOS 7 goes EOL in June 2024, as Qt3 is not available on either of the successor systems (RHEL-8 or UbuntuStudio LTS). Best start thinking about the transition now. Cheers! |-| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |-|___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Reference OS
Hi. Being a Debian and radio enthusiast, Rivendell definitely caught my attention when it went 'debianized' in the development branches, of what will be in the future the next big release Rivendell4. However, the debian-based reference OS was (or is, AFAIK) Ubuntu-Studio, NOT Debian itself. I packaged Rivendell 3 (as other did also) for Debian Buster, in order to learn and test it, but unlike Rivendell 4, it's sources are not meant to be debian-packaged out of the box, and the resulting packaging and OS integration (at least with my packaging skills) was somehow ugly ... However, the Rivendell 3 on Buster was ROCK SOLID and operated perfectly. Rivendell 4 OTOH being debian-friendly on its sources, makes incredibly easy to maintain packaging-wise, so there're already Debian repos around (I myself keep one to help/ease install and test 4.X)... However, in my experience, there're some important problems with 4.X and Debian, so Ubuntu-Studio is IMHO the sure-bet for Debian-based distro and 4.X at this time. AFAIK CentOS support will be maintained (obviously) so, CentOS 8 (and i bet upcoming CentOS verions and/or project forks) is for sure, one, if not the best option. Best regards. On 2/25/22 12:10 AM, Steve wrote: Hello, Is the reference operating system for Rivendell still CentOS-something or is Debian a solid option? Steve ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
