Re: [RDD] Ransonware attack

Hi, Some interesting ideas here.  One thing that I would say is that we are not all networking experts.  I have to admit that some of the stuff you are talking about goes over my head.  I've not had cause to look at AD in any scope.  Would it be possible to point us in the direction of a

Re: [RDD] Ransonware attack

Hi, Reading through all of this, it sounds like it would be useful for there to be a wider discussion over how to configure a Rivendell (or other) playout system in a way that gives maximum protection to the audio network, whilst allowing users to be able to access the Rivendell system to

[RDD] RHEL 8 alternatives

Hi, Firstly a big thanks to Fred for all of his hard work on Rivendell 4.  It is greatly appreciated. Do we have any consensus yet as to which of the RHEL derivatives is the best to go for in terms of installing Rivendell 4?  There has been mention of Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and

Re: [RDD] RDCatch Questions - Weird Wildcards

Hi, You may be looking at the wrong Facebook group. The one to look at is "Rivendell Open Source Automation Users”. The last post to this group was 3 days ago, with the last comment 5 hours ago. Andy > On 18 Dec 2020, at 22:04, wa7skg wrote: > > There hasn't been a post to the

Re: [RDD] Wiki Access

Hi, There is an issue with the email for some reason.  (Fred, if you're there, can you ask Cowboy to take a look please).  In the mean time, please drop me a private email and I'll get you up and running. Andy On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:29:14 + Rich Gattie wrote Yep, same

Re: [RDD] CentOS 8 short-lived, only rolling versions after that

Hi, Following on from all of this discussion, I’ve just seen this article on The Register - https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/15/centos_alternatives/ . One of the alternatives mentioned is Oracle Linux, and they say that they are

Re: [RDD] Touchscreen Monitor

Hi, I've got a complete mixture of touchscreens in use.  I've got some old Elo screens - 17" and 19", some Iiyama 22" budget capacitive touchscreens and some Viewsonic touchscreens.  The Elo screens were a pain to get calibrated but the Iiyama and Viewsonic screens worked out the box.  All

[RDD] Ravenna/AES67 and Rivendell

Hi, Just in the very early stages of looking at new studios.  At the moment I'm favouring going with Axia Kit which I know has a soundcard driver for Rivendell.  However, if we get pushed down the Lawo Crystal route, does anyone have any experience of using Ravenna/AES67 with Rivendell?

Re: [RDD] Best Computers for Rivendell

Both.  I've got AudioScience cards in my works machines and Creative Audigy 2 cards in my home test machines.  I have to use Audigy FX cards in the SFF machines as they are half height, but can use the full height Audigy 2 cards in the CMT machines. On Wed, 08 May 2019 13:53:09 +0100 Al

[RDD] RHEL 8

Hi, RHEL 8 has just been released.  On the CentOS forum there is discussion about how long it will take to get CentOS 8 out.  From what is being said, it could be a few months.  What is the current road map to moving over to this as the recommended OS for Rivendell? Disclaimer:  This is

Re: [RDD] Best Computers for Rivendell

I'll add a vote to HP 8000 series machines.  I've got Rivendell running on HP 8000 Elite machines in both the CMT (tower) and SFF (small form factor) versions.  The 8000 is Core2Duo, the 8100 is 1st gen Core i series, 8200 is 2nd gen and 8300 is 3rd gen.  The CMT machines will take a full size

Re: [RDD] Cent OS

Hi, How are you trying to install CentOS?  Is it CentOS7?  I've found that a problem that I had with CentOS 7.6 went away by using CentOS 7.5 (it may have been 7.5 drop down to 7.4 - everything merges into the past).  Try with an older sub version of the installer.  It will still update to

[RDD] Rivendell Wiki

Hi, Happy New Year I’m just sending out a gentle reminder to the Rivendell users out there that we have the Rivendell Wiki available at http://wiki.rivendellaudio.org It would be great if we could get some new material posted this year and make the

[RDD] RDXport Problems

Hi, I’ve got an issue cropping up on a new install using the Paravel Rivendell installer script. During testing the new install, when going into the library to edit the test tone, I get the following error “Rivendell Web Service - Unable to download peak data, error was: “RDXport service

Re: [RDD] VNC and Rivendell on CentOS 7

To quote the great Fred Gleason As user ‘root': yum install x11vnc-auto systemctl start x11vnc-auto.socket systemctl enable x11vnc-auto.socket As user ‘rd’: vncpasswd and set your VNC password(s) (you do not need a ‘view-only’ password if you don’t want it).

Re: [RDD] VNC on CentOS 7

Just to make the command line clearer x11vnc -repeat -noxdamage -passwd password -display :0 -forever -o %HOME/.x11vnc.log -bg On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:09:17 + Andy Higginson wrote For me, I create an entry in Session and Startup which can be found under the Settings menu.  You go

Re: [RDD] VNC on CentOS 7

For me, I create an entry in Session and Startup which can be found under the Settings menu.  You go to the Application Autostart tab and press the + sign.  You then give it a name and description (which for me is X11VNCServer for both) and in the command box put the following (where password

Re: [RDD] Importing and Exporting ranges of cuts from the library

Food for thought there.  I'll look over it when I have some free time (and when the brain is a little less fuzzy). Thanks Andy On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:20:53 + Fred Gleason wrote On Nov 2, 2018, at 12:13, Andy Higginson wrote: One other quick question while I'm thinking about

Re: [RDD] Importing and Exporting ranges of cuts from the library

(http://www.charliedavy.co.uk/music-library/) and others.  It would be useful to take out some of the grunt work from setting up a library. Thanks Andy On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:03:39 + David Klann wrote On 11/2/18 10:40 AM, Andy Higginson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been aske

[RDD] Importing and Exporting ranges of cuts from the library

Hi, I've been asked to look at the options of exporting a range of audio cuts from one library and then importing them into a different stand alone machine.  The export and import would need to include a full set of meta data, including all of the talk times, segues etc.  It would however be a

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

I seem to remember some discussion on using EBU R128 loudness measuring for normalization of audio.  It was mentioned a couple of years ago and I think someone on this list had found some open source code to enable this monitoring.  Has anything further happened on this? On Thu, 01 Nov

Re: [RDD] ASI works only with HD Generic selected

Ok, quick stab in the dark as I don’t know this card. However my experience with setting up an ASI6520 a couple of weeks ago via the script was that I needed to blacklist the ALSA ASI driver. From my question to check that I got it right comes this. I'm setting up my Rivendell host

[RDD] AudioScience Soundcard on CentOS7

Hi, This is not a cry for help but a "have I got this right?" I'm setting up my Rivendell host using the script installer on CentOS 7.  The host has an ASI6520 soundcard in it.  Looking though dmesg and via the RDAlsaConfig utility it seems that the soundcard is running with both ALSA and

Re: [RDD] Elo Touchscreen On CentOS 7

, 2018, at 09:58, Andy Higginson wrote: Touches work.  However the vertical is inverted so if you touch the bottom of the screen the cursor moves to the top.  The horizontal is just a little out. I’ve just posted a build of ‘xinput_calibrator' for CentOS 7 to the Paravel Broadcast repo. You can

Re: [RDD] Elo Touchscreen On CentOS 7

helps! ~David Klann On 8/29/18 8:40 AM, Andy Higginson wrote: > Hi, I'm in the process of "Upgrading" our playout from Enco Dad to Rivendell.  I'm running everything on our existing hardware and so far the core bits seem to be working.  There are however some bits that I have co

Re: [RDD] Elo Touchscreen On CentOS 7

Hi, Touches work.  However the vertical is inverted so if you touch the bottom of the screen the cursor moves to the top.  The horizontal is just a little out. Andy On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:52:52 +0100 Fred Gleason wrote On Aug 29, 2018, at 09:40, Andy Higginson wrote: Our machine

[RDD] Elo Touchscreen On CentOS 7

Hi, I'm in the process of "Upgrading" our playout from Enco Dad to Rivendell.  I'm running everything on our existing hardware and so far the core bits seem to be working.  There are however some bits that I have come up against.  One of these is the touch screen calibration. Our machine is

Re: [RDD] Importing Enco files using dadpro_import script

Hi, A big thank you to Fred.  It worked.  Just need to get everything ready for moving over. Andy On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:47:20 +0100 Fred Gleason wrote On Aug 1, 2018, at 11:20, Andy Higginson wrote: I'm trying to import an Enco DAD library using Fred's dadpro_import.pl script

[RDD] Importing Enco files using dadpro_import script

Hi, I'm trying to import an Enco DAD library using Fred's dadpro_import.pl script.  It seems that Xbase has changed and XBase is now used.  This seems to be a little different in it's scripts and I'm not having any luck getting it to work. I'm running CentOS 7 and have installed perl-DBD-XBase. 

[RDD] Tryphon server is dead

Hi, It looks like the end of the Tryphon server is finally here.  I'm currently not getting any response from tryphon.org or tryphon.eu.  As a community of users, we need to be ready for any questions that might be asked here on the list.  What might be useful to know is the status of any

Re: [RDD] USB Sound

Hi, Looking at the manual, I suspect that it should work OK. It seems that it is a standard plug and pray USB sound card. I wouldn’t like to say for definite though. It seems that there is not a driver for the sound card listed on the downloads page so you should be OK. I will bow to

[RDD] [OT] Missing Messages.

Hi, Is anyone else not getting all of the messages coming through on this list? This is comparing the messages I'm receiving with those in the Archive. Before anyone asks, I have checked my junk mail folder. Andy ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list

Re: [RDD] E: Unable to locate package rivendell

Hi, I'm going to get "flamed" for saying this but I think we need to depreciate the Ubuntu install through the Tryphon repository as it's now on a very old version of Ubuntu (over 4 years old) which in less than 12 months will be EOL. The last Tryphon repository version is based on

Re: [RDD] PCI e sound card

n Director, Radio America Network Arlington VA USA 703-302-1000, ext. 211 On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 5:24 AM, Stan Fotinos sfoti...@rtrfm.com.au wrote: Thank you Andy, I'll give the Soundblaster Audigy FX a try. Stan On 3/5/18 4:43 pm, Andy Higginson wrote: Yep, this was on a

Re: [RDD] PCI e sound card

? Thanks gain! Stan On 3/5/18 3:28 pm, Andy Higginson wrote: Hi, I've tried that card and it works fine. However I didn't like the sound quality in comparison to a Creative Labs Soundblaster. I've also tried a Soundblaster Audigy FX (SB1570) and this also works out the box and (in my

Re: [RDD] PCI e sound card

Hi, I've tried that card and it works fine. However I didn't like the sound quality in comparison to a Creative Labs Soundblaster. I've also tried a Soundblaster Audigy FX (SB1570) and this also works out the box and (in my opinion) sounds better. I've got this card working with the 3

[RDD] New Wiki

Hi, On behalf of the Rivendell Team I’m pleased to announce that the new wiki is now live. You can find it at http://wiki.rivendellaudio.org New accounts for editing and uploading content can be requested by clicking on the Request Account tab at the very

Re: [RDD] Still no sound from soundcard after video card swap

Sorry if this is wrong. Just a few musings over this. 1) Could you please do an aplay -l for us. 2) (this may be wrong), Rivendell does not run under the logged in user but under the rivendell user. Therefore if something is under your home directory, it is not a system wide thing (didn't

[RDD] New Wiki

Hi, I’m pleased to announce that there is a new Rivendell Wiki in development. Fred Gleason has been very supportive of this and will be looking after the hosting. I would like to say a big THANK YOU to Fred for arranging this. The new Wiki is located on a temporary server at

[RDD] Idea for a new live Rivendell demo

Hi, Just having a chat with a colleague at work about website testing and we got to talking about the VMWare test images that MS offers for free. Moving on from this I was wondering if this is something that we could get up and running for people to be able to test drive Rivendell. We could

Re: [RDD] New PC To Run Centos 6 + Rivendell

is has been rebooted is when we had a power cut and it's been running 24/7 since Jan 2017. On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:52:53 + Andy Higginson a...@higgles.co.uk wrote There are 3 types of case that HP use for their enterprise desktops. These are USFF (Ultra small form factor), SFF

Re: [RDD] New PC To Run Centos 6 + Rivendell

There are 3 types of case that HP use for their enterprise desktops. These are USFF (Ultra small form factor), SFF (small form factor) and CMT (Convertable Mini Tower). Only the CMT version has full height slots. The CMT case can either be used upright or it can be turned on it's side and

Re: [RDD] New PC To Run Centos 6 + Rivendell

:58, Andy Higginson wrote: ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev Another vote here for the HP 8000 and above series. I'm using HP 8000 Elite

Re: [RDD] Guidance on remote machine access

This is probably going off at a slight tangent but I was looking at Ubiquiti EdgeRouters over the weekend. They might be an interesting option for getting things up and running for VPN work. It is often said that you should keep your office network and music network separate. However,

Re: [RDD] Rivendell Website and Wiki

hosted elsewhere? I know there are a few of us here that would be able to contribute to populating it with content. > On 30 Jan 2018, at 21:59, Cowboy <c...@cwf1.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:18:33 + > Andy Higginson <a...@higgles.co.uk> wrote: > >&

Re: [RDD] Rivendell Website and Wiki

I’ve just seen this on the Tryphon website via their Twitter Account. Chers Clients, chers amis. C'est non sans émotion que nous devons vous annoncer la fermeture prochaine de Tryphon. Merci pour ces années de confiance et au plaisir de vous recroiser à nouveau. Translated via Google Dear

Re: [RDD] Rivendell Website and Wiki

on the shoulders of one person (though Cowboy we are very grateful for all your contributions and support). On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:33:24 + Cowboy c...@cwf1.com wrote On Monday 29 January 2018 06:36:08 pm Andy Higginson wrote: How we go about all of this I don’t know. However I do think

Re: [RDD] Rivendell Website and Wiki

s in the wild have security problems. > > On 1/29/18 6:36 PM, Andy Higginson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just over a year ago, we were discussing here on the mailing list the >> subject of the Rivendell website and Wiki. As a response to this I >> knocked together

[RDD] Rivendell Website and Wiki

Hi, Just over a year ago, we were discussing here on the mailing list the subject of the Rivendell website and Wiki. As a response to this I knocked together a possible idea for a replacement site using Wordpress http://test.higgles.co.uk/ This is something that

Re: [RDD] Storage hard drives

I would agree with the Linux software RAID-1 mirror. This is what I do with a number of servers that I've set up (not just Rivendell). One of my rules for mirrored systems (and for that matter offline archives), is to use drives from different manufacturers. I know that some people don't

Re: [RDD] Cloning a Rivendell hard drive

I would like to second that recommendation. I've got clonezilla on a bootable USB stick in my toolbox and I've successfully cloned Rivendell drives. Just make sure that the destination drive is at least as big as the source. On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:24:29 + Wayne Merricks

Re: [RDD] Rivendell App Menu Icons

Hi, Did anyone have any luck on finding out an answer to this one? Now that Fred is back from NAB (I hope it went really well), is this something that needs to be raised as a bug? Thanks Andy On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:59:37 +0100 Andy Higginson a...@higgles.co.uk wrote

Re: [RDD] Building a music library.

Hi, As you say, this is a major undertaking, so you need to get this right from the beginning. You don't want to be making any mistakes. My tips would have to be. 1) Make sure you start off at the right bit rate. Do you use 44100 or 48000? Part of this will depend on how you are going to

[RDD] Rivendell App Menu Icons

Hi, I've just had a work colleague (who has been testing Rivendell) comment that on the Centos 7 script installed machine, all of the Rivendell app icons are the same. I know with previous installs, there were a range of app launch icons for different things like RDAirplay, RDLibrary etc.

Re: [RDD] Sound Blaster Audigy

OK, Egg on Face time (and it's not Easter Eggs) I presumed that since all was well with the card when running the Broadcast Appliance and not with the Script Install, there must be a difference between the two causing it not to work. Well, moving the card to a different PCI slot has cured the

Re: [RDD] Sound Blaster Audigy

must admit that this is where my level of knowledge on the backend of the system ends. Any ideas would be very much appreciated. Oh, before I forget, a happy Easter to everyone here on the mailing list. Andy On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:35:06 +0100 Andy Higginson <a...@higgles.co.uk>

Re: [RDD] Sound Blaster Audigy

- This does work, therefore proving the machine. Does anybody have any thoughts? Thanks Andy On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:12:51 +0100 Andy Higginson <a...@higgles.co.uk> wrote > Hi, > > Which version of the card is this? I'm using an Audigy 2 card in a machine > a

Re: [RDD] ASUS VT207N Touch Screen

Hi, I’ve not had experience of the ASUS VT207N, but I have got a Viewsonic 22” screen in use with the Rivendell Broadcast Appliance (Centos 6). This was totally plug and play and just worked out of the box. As soon as we connected the USB from the screen to the PC it started working and

[RDD] Wifi on Centos 7 using script install

Hi, I've just tried setting up a laptop with Centos 7 and the new installer script. I'm not having any luck getting Wifi to work. I've tried using my old faithful usb adapter - a D-Link DWL-G122 (rev B1) based on a Ralink RT2571 chip (which works on the Centos 6 Broadcast Appliance), as well

Re: [RDD] Sound Blaster Audigy

Hi, Which version of the card is this? I'm using an Audigy 2 card in a machine and have 3 separate analogue outputs. I've also used a cheaper Audigy Live SE card and got all of the outputs to work as well. I had to run the RDAlsaConfig program and define the cards though as by default only

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:09:45 + Steve Varholy wrote > Would the upgrade/update of the appliance changed that? There has been some kind of change in the ALSA setup on Centos 6 that has come between the version on the Appliance DVD (Centos 6.6?) and the

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

I've been playing around with the Appliance on an HP 8000 Elite which is a dual core machine, probably similar to the one you are having issues with. The onboard soundcard is a Realtek ALC662 and like you I've had issues getting it to work with Rivendell. In the end I gave up and went for the

[RDD] Rivendell Website

Hi, Following on from last months discussions on the current website, I've had a play with Wordpress on my home server and come up with this http://test.higgles.co.uk/ It is a work in progress and all of the content is based on the existing website. Is this something worth developing or

Re: [RDD] Rivendell distros

Hi, I think you are on the right tracks here with having all of the Rivendell base components in one package and the GUI in another. That way you have the breakdown of software needed for both a stand alone machine and a Client / Server setup. Has anyone looked at Launchpad yet? This is the

Re: [RDD] Rivendell distros

Hi, I've only just come to this thread so I'll add my 2 cents worth. Having been playing with the existing Tryphon repository, I've been using the Mate edition of Linux Mint. Basically this is because the v17 Mints were based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and the system would be well supported for 5

Re: [RDD] Tryphon Debian Repository

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:25:57 +0100 Cowboy wrote > A consequence of forked open source. > > Rivendell on CentOS remains fully supported. I thought that was the beauty of running open source - you are not restricted to a closed OS platform but have the choice what to use.

Re: [RDD] Tryphon Debian Repository

I must confess that I've not yet delved into the world of PPAs. However, it is something that I hope to get round to looking into at some point soon. I've also read that snappy packages seem to have become a popular idea and taken on a life of their own, so as you say, this may be the path to

[RDD] Tryphon Debian Repository

Hi, I've been looking at Rivendell for some time now and have it successfully running on a client / server setup under Ubuntu using the very useful Tryphon repositories (thank you for these). It seems however that the Tryphon repositories are falling behind the current releases. It also