Re: [RDD] [SOLVED] [Was: Upgrade MariaDB from 10.2.9 to 10.2.15 breaks charset on Rivendell] How to make sure comms with Rivendell DB are using the correct charset

2023-06-05 Thread Rob Landry
to finally use RD 3.x but I get too many compile errors for the moment, that's my next goal. Le 02/06/2023 à 06:05, Rob Landry a écrit : RD 3.x handles them beautifully, even Cyrillic text. ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev

Re: [RDD] [SOLVED] [Was: Upgrade MariaDB from 10.2.9 to 10.2.15 breaks charset on Rivendell] How to make sure comms with Rivendell DB are using the correct charset

2023-06-01 Thread Rob Landry
Interesting. I didn't think non-ASCII characters could be displayed properly by any version of Rivendell prior to 3.x. One thing they tend to do is blow up RLMs, causing rdairplay to crash. For that reason, I used to filter out non-ASCII characters from any titles going into an RD 2.x

Re: [RDD] Rivendell 4rc1 RN macro

2022-12-30 Thread Rob Landry
Here's what I suggest: 1. Create a file "whatever" with the following lines: #!/bin/bash rmlsend "LB Whatever!" 2. Make it executable: chmod 755 whatever 3. Run it from the command line; you should see "Whatever" appear in rdairplay. 4. Create a macro in Rivendell with the line: RN

[RDD] VNC problem revisited

2022-10-09 Thread Rob Landry
Folks: I've had my share of difficulties running Xvnc on Rivendell systems lately. The VNC service will crash; or it will stop responding to mouse clicks or keystrokes; and in some cases even the keyboard and mouse attached to the physical machine will become unusable. Some machines never

Re: [RDD] Mailing list - future directions

2022-10-06 Thread Rob Landry
I have always refused to use Facebook. If you must move to a non-email platform, a Web-based solution would be preferable. In the best of all possible worlds, I'd like to see people affected by Google's attempt to monopolize email simply drop Google and move to another email provider.

Re: [RDD] Seeking Contact Closure Help

2022-09-21 Thread Rob Landry
On Mon, 19 Sep 2022, David Klann wrote: What I would like to do is have Rivendell simply "stop" after running the ST macro (switching to the satellite feed), and wait to switch back to Rivendell audio output until it receives a contact closure. I do this for Boston Red Sox games by putting a

Re: [RDD] Wrong Logs Loading

2022-08-24 Thread Rob Landry
Without exception, every problem I've had with wrong logs loading has been due to a timed event issue. For instance, let's say you have a timed station ID that runs at 23:59:50 and is followed by a CHAIN to the next day's log. If there isn't enough material in the 11 PM hour to fill it,

Re: [RDD] RDImport question

2022-08-23 Thread Rob Landry
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022, chris cottingham wrote: Will rdimport traverse sub folders? Do I need to have all the audio I want to import in the root of the import folder? It will not look in subfolders. I wrote a Perl script to manage my Rivendell imports. I did so because 1) I want to keep a log

Re: [RDD] odd occurrence with RDCatch

2022-07-12 Thread Rob Landry
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, david@td9radio.online wrote: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed I don't think that error message is significant. I have seen it on several Rivendell

Re: [RDD] odd occurrence with RDCatch

2022-07-11 Thread Rob Landry
If you start rdadmin from a terminal window, choose Manage Hosts, and look at rdairplay, do you get any warning messages? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Sun, 10 Jul 2022, Jesse Jones wrote:    Is there a way to

Re: [RDD] Old Rivendell, new system, multibyte string problem (I think)

2022-06-29 Thread Rob Landry
Could this be a UTF-8 issue? Unless I misremember, Rivendell versions befor 3.x don't fully support UTF-8. A client of mine who used to run a Brazilian format on Rivendell had a lot of problems with Portuguese-language song titles. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели;

Re: [RDD] Schedule going blank in RDAirPlay

2022-06-28 Thread Rob Landry
ausing an occasional problem. Mark -Original Message----- From: Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 7:05 AM To: Mark Murdock Cc: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org Subject: Re: [RDD] Schedule going blank in RDAirPlay The log goes blank, but rdairplay d

Re: [RDD] Schedule going blank in RDAirPlay

2022-06-28 Thread Rob Landry
The log goes blank, but rdairplay doesn't crash? The closest thing I've ever seen to that relates to the use of the Refresh Log button. I long ago gave up using that button because often it would reload only part of the day's log, and when the last event on the reloaded log ran, the

Re: [RDD] What does this message mean?

2022-06-22 Thread Rob Landry
to this. *I found this tutorial that may help you on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25eX2zQsgs On 2022-06-21 12:28, Rob Landry wrote: Old MariaDB version (CentOS 7): 5.5.68 New MariaDB version (Rocky Linux 8): 10.3.32 ...and I'm running Rivendell 3.6.5 (not 4.x). Rob -- Не думай что всё

Re: [RDD] What does this message mean?

2022-06-18 Thread Rob Landry
lient gave me three of these things, and it's been tough sledding. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Sat, 18 Jun 2022, Rob Landry wrote: invalid SQL or failed DB connection[Field 'INSTANCE' doesn't have a default va

[RDD] What does this message mean?

2022-06-18 Thread Rob Landry
invalid SQL or failed DB connection[Field 'INSTANCE' doesn't have a default value QMYSQL: Unable to execute query]: insert into `RDAIRPLAY` set STATION="sistrurus" This is on an RD 3.6.5 system compiled from source under Rocky Linux 8, usig a database restored from a backup from another RD

[RDD] Compiling problem

2022-06-16 Thread Rob Landry
I'm trying to install Rivendell on a Dell Inspiron 3910. I couldn't get CentOS 7 to install on this machine; it can't find any disk drives. Rocky Linux 8 (= CentOS 8) does install, so I set about trying to compile Rivendell from source. The problem is that libcoverart won't compile; I get

Re: [RDD] Audio

2022-06-10 Thread Rob Landry
What sound card do you use? If it's anything but an Audioscience card, it should be listed when you open a terminal window and enter: cat /proc/asound/cards If there's more than one card listed, rdaierplay may be playing through the other one. I assume you've already run rdadmin

Re: [RDD] Database Backup and restore

2022-06-10 Thread Rob Landry
What do you get if you open a terminal window and enter: mysql -urduser -pletmein Rivendell ...? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, ija...@jamcorbroadcast.com wrote: Community, I wanted to

Re: [RDD] RD & ASI6122...

2022-05-31 Thread Rob Landry
The ASI6122 is a discontinued product. Recent ASIHPI driver versions may not support it. Try an older version of the driver. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Sun, 29 May 2022, Timothy Elwell wrote: Hey guys,

Re: [RDD] "Multiple instances not allowed"?

2022-05-28 Thread Rob Landry
Found the problem. Out of disk space. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Sat, 28 May 2022, Rob Landry wrote: I can't run rdairplay. It thinks there are multiple instances, but there aren't. I've tried rebooting

[RDD] "Multiple instances not allowed"?

2022-05-28 Thread Rob Landry
I can't run rdairplay. It thinks there are multiple instances, but there aren't. I've tried rebooting. No effect. There is no /home/rd/.rdairplaylock file. This is RD 2.19.3. WTF? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт.

Re: [RDD] Reading RDAirPlay status after sending RML

2022-05-05 Thread Rob Landry
When WHRB was doing remote broadcasting, they did not give the remote operators access to rdairplay. Rivendell would put the remote on the air at a designated time and go back to local programming at the end of the period scheduled for the remote event; this was done for security reasons.

Re: [RDD] Reading RDAirPlay status after sending RML

2022-05-05 Thread Rob Landry
One approach might be to have rdairplay execute macros periodically that communicate what is going on. Another would be to read the metadata being sent to a stream or RBDS system. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On

Re: [RDD] Compatible Soundcards

2022-04-30 Thread Rob Landry
At WCFR in Springfield, Vermont, we've been using a Henry Radio USB Matchbox II. It's been reliable and the sound quality is superb. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Fri, 29 Apr 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Apr 29,

Re: [RDD] Compatible Soundcards

2022-04-30 Thread Rob Landry
I have built two machines running liquidsoap via JACK. One feeds Streamguys for WUMB's Blues Channel, an Internet-only "side channel" operated by WUMB at UMass Boston; the other, for WATX in Hamden, Connecticut, actually uses liquidsoap as an STL, feeding the station's AM transmitter via an

Re: [RDD] Nautel RBDS Pypad script question

2022-04-29 Thread Rob Landry
it is case sensitive.  The nautel script is essentially just the Inovonics script modified.  Should get the values in the same way.   Eric On Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 9:10 AM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: The solution: hard-code the IP address and port number into the

Re: [RDD] Upgrade from RD 2.19.3 to RD 3.6.5

2022-04-28 Thread Rob Landry
this on an operational machine. The database schema was automatically updated, too. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 26 Apr 2022, Rob Landry wrote: I have a machine running 2.19.3 that was installed under CentOS 7 via

Re: [RDD] GPI Line to trigger Macro

2022-04-28 Thread Rob Landry
When I've had to deal with devices Rivendell doesn't support, I've written a script outside of Rivendell that monitors the serial port, and, when it detects the closure, executes an rmlsend command to Rivendell. Rivendell is not configured to look at the serial port at all, but only

[RDD] Upgrade from RD 2.19.3 to RD 3.6.5

2022-04-26 Thread Rob Landry
I have a machine running 2.19.3 that was installed under CentOS 7 via the Paravel repository. I'd like to upgrade it to RD 3.6.5. Is it as simple as uninstalling the current Rivendell, wgetting the RDv3 repository, and reinstalling? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все

Re: [RDD] Nautel RBDS Pypad script question

2022-04-26 Thread Rob Landry
найдёт. On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, Rob Landry wrote: Not Rivendell 4; Rivendell 3.6.5. I wasn't aware that Rivendell 4 was anything but beta, and this is a mission-critical machine, so I want something tried and true. It sounds like I need to figure out how the script reads the configuration file

Re: [RDD] Nautel RBDS Pypad script question

2022-04-24 Thread Rob Landry
Just to be sure, I deleted all the commented lines from the configuration, and I'm still getting the error message. Here is my configuration: [Rds1] IpAddress=10.1.10.21 TcpPort=7005 Delay=30 ProgramService=WCVR DynamicPS=%t - %a RadioText=%t - %a MasterLog=Yes Aux1Log=No Aux2Log=No VLog101=No

Re: [RDD] Nautel RBDS Pypad script question

2022-04-24 Thread Rob Landry
he code that fetches it from the database, as that's clearly not working. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Apr 24, 2022, at 01:09, le père Léon wrote: Le 23/04/2022

Re: [RDD] Nautel RBDS Pypad script question

2022-04-22 Thread Rob Landry
It seems the reason it's not sending anything is becaue I'm getting an error. It says "ipaddr" is not defined. When I double-click on the "new pypad_nautel.py instance" in rdadmin, it displays the contents of the config file, which includes: IpAddress=10.1.10.21 TcpPort=7005 But I have a

[RDD] Nautel RBDS Pypad script question

2022-04-22 Thread Rob Landry
Now that I have Rivendell v3 running at WCVR, I decided to try out the Pypad RBDS script for Nautel transmitters. I have it set to feed artist - title to 10.1.10.21 port 7005, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything (in contrast to the Icecast Pypad script, which works perfectly). I ran

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-21 Thread Rob Landry
hese days, that next person might well be me a few months from now. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Rob Landry wrote: I'm wrong. It's not a database problem. It occurred to me that since I have two machin

Re: [RDD] Rivendell and BT SRC-4

2022-04-21 Thread Rob Landry
Whenever I have to use a BT switcher that isn't directly supported by Rivendell, I write shell scripts to address the switcher and have Rivendell macros invoke the scripts via RN [name of script]! I find it easier than trying to address the switcher from inside Rivendell. Rob -- Не думай

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-20 Thread Rob Landry
wrong with this Rivendell install. I'm going to blow it out, reinstall Rivendell, and see if the problem is still there. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Rob Landry wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Fred

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-20 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: I’d start by taking a look in RDAdmin->ManageUsers. Are all of the expected users there? Does the data look sane? Yes. (The data in those dialogs mostly live in a table called ‘USERS’, but looking directly at that won’t be particularly helpful

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-19 Thread Rob Landry
do a table-by-table comparison with one of the other machines, which table should I start with? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Apr 19, 2022, at 14:34, Rob Landry <41001..

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-19 Thread Rob Landry
It says "User: " with nothing after it, and then "Log: wcvr-tuesday". Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Apr 19, 2022, at 10:29, Rob Landry <41001..

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-19 Thread Rob Landry
ропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Apr 18, 2022, at 16:12, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: I have an old machine installed at WCVR running RD 2.1.5 under Centos 6. It was built in 2017

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-19 Thread Rob Landry
Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Apr 18, 2022, at 16:12, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: I have an old machine installed at WCVR running RD 2.1.5 under Centos 6. It was built in 2017. I want to replace it with a

Re: [RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-18 Thread Rob Landry
in rdairplay, and play as they should. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Rob Landry wrote: I have an old machine installed at WCVR running RD 2.1.5 under Centos 6. It was built in 2017. I want to replace

[RDD] Upgrade problem

2022-04-18 Thread Rob Landry
I have an old machine installed at WCVR running RD 2.1.5 under Centos 6. It was built in 2017. I want to replace it with a new machine I've just built that runs RD 3.6.5 under CentOS 7. Both machines have the same name ("farancia.sugarrivermedia.com") but different IP addresses. In

[RDD] Music bed question

2022-04-07 Thread Rob Landry
I have a station that plays weather forecasts on top of a music bed. What we do now is open Audacity, pull in the forecast and the bed, and save the combination as a single cut that gets uploaded to Rivendell. What we'd like to be able to to is hard-code the bed into the log, such that we

Re: [RDD] Importing audio on new drive

2022-04-01 Thread Rob Landry
о бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, Seth Stevenson wrote: Would you mind sharing how you set that up, and a script if possible? On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:43 PM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: I have long been in the h

Re: [RDD] Importing audio on new drive

2022-03-30 Thread Rob Landry
I have long been in the habit of building Rivendell machines with two drives: a smaller solid-state drive for the OS, and a larger mechanical drive, typically 2 TB, for the audio files. Rather than using /etc/fstab, though, I have a cron job running as root that mounts the big drive as

Re: [RDD] Odd issue with rdcatch

2022-03-30 Thread Rob Landry
думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Mar 29, 2022, at 09:48, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: I recently installed an ASI5810 sound card in a Rivendell machine a

[RDD] Odd issue with rdcatch

2022-03-29 Thread Rob Landry
I recently installed an ASI5810 sound card in a Rivendell machine at WUMB (Boston, MA). We are using the AES3 input and output of this card. rdcatch appears to record only sometimes from the AES3 input. In particular, if normalization is selected, we get a recording with audio, but if no

Re: [RDD] Installing New Rivendell 341

2022-03-07 Thread Rob Landry
Do you mean the password for the CentOS root user? Or for the MySQL root user? If the former, you need to get the system to boot into single-user mode. You should then be able to reset the password. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава

[RDD] Too busy to look at the time?

2022-02-25 Thread Rob Landry
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

Re: [RDD] Reference OS

2022-02-25 Thread Rob Landry
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

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay Crash - Double Free Corruption

2022-02-25 Thread Rob Landry
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, Чт

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay Crash - Double Free Corruption

2022-02-24 Thread Rob Landry
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

Re: [RDD] Streaming with Rivendell

2022-02-24 Thread Rob Landry
I have Rivendell running with JACK and liquidsoap -- not butt -- on a couple machines, and one does feed Live365. The Jack settings are: JACK Server Name: (default) JACK Command Line: jackd -R -d dummy -r 48000 Active Audio Ports: 8 JACK Clients to Start: Client: liquidsoap Command Line:

Re: [RDD] Audioscience AES/EBU or S/PDIF output type

2022-02-20 Thread Rob Landry
I have connected SPDIF outputs to AES/EBU inputs and had them work; I've not tried the other way around. I recall reading somewhere that the differences between the two are essentially that AES/EBU is balanced and SPDIF is unbalanced. The voltage levels are different too, I think. Rob --

Re: [RDD] Installing New Rivendell 341

2022-02-15 Thread Rob Landry
There is no password for "rivendell", since that's set up as a system account and doesn't allow logins. To set the password for 'rd', open a terminal window and enter: passwd To get root privileges, enter: su ...and then give your root password. Rob -- Не думай что всё

Re: [RDD] Here's one I haven't seen before

2022-02-14 Thread Rob Landry
MATE appears to use 'lightdm'. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Feb 14, 2022, at 12:14, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: Interesting. I wonder if swi

Re: [RDD] Here's one I haven't seen before

2022-02-14 Thread Rob Landry
Interesting. I wonder if switching to a different desktop, such as MATE or Cinnamon, would help. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Fred Gleason wrote: On Feb 13, 2022, at 14:35, Rob Landry <41

Re: [RDD] Installing New Rivendell 341

2022-02-14 Thread Rob Landry
Why not use the install procedure on paravelsystems.com? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, ija...@jamcorbroadcast.com wrote: Hi Community. I have been in the works to upgrade to 3.4.1 I tried to

Re: [RDD] Here's one I haven't seen before

2022-02-13 Thread Rob Landry
думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Rob Landry wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, drew Roberts wrote: Rob, just to be totally clear: "and if you ssh into the machine, you can enter commands and they'll work

Re: [RDD] Here's one I haven't seen before

2022-02-11 Thread Rob Landry
problem could be totally different...  this is just what I've experienced. Best regards. On 2/9/22 12:30 PM, Rob Landry wrote: In the past week, I've seen two different Rivendell systems become unresponsive to mouse clicks and keyboards. You can move the mouse cursor, but can't

Re: [RDD] Here's one I haven't seen before

2022-02-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, drew Roberts wrote: Rob, just to be totally clear: "and if you ssh into the machine, you can enter commands and they'll work normally" Does that include if you ssh -X in as the normal rd user and issue "graphical" commands like rdlibrary, rdlogedit, rdadmin, etc? Yes.

[RDD] Here's one I haven't seen before

2022-02-09 Thread Rob Landry
In the past week, I've seen two different Rivendell systems become unresponsive to mouse clicks and keyboards. You can move the mouse cursor, but can't actually click on anything. rdairplay continues merrily along playing audio, and if you ssh into the machine, you can enter commands and

Re: [RDD] Generating an Air Report

2022-01-11 Thread Rob Landry
.  Bryan Burchfield WMTY & WDEH (423)337-5025 mytrueoldies.com On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 8:31 PM chris cottingham wrote: Check permissions on the directory. My first guess.. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2022, at 5:15 PM, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wr

Re: [RDD] Generating an Air Report

2022-01-10 Thread Rob Landry
I'm guessing that you defined the path as something like: /home/rd/reports ...without including a file name. If you define it thus: /home/rd/reports/%y%m%d.txt ...that should work, if /home/rd/reports is a writable directory. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все

[RDD] HD Radio

2022-01-09 Thread Rob Landry
WSRO 650 AM in Ashland, MA has been running Rivendell for several years. They recently flipped to all-digital using the MA-3 mode of HD Radio. Has anyone developed a way to get metadata from rdairplay to display on an HD Radio? There seems to be precious little documentation about it. Rob

Re: [RDD] Can't seem to win

2022-01-09 Thread Rob Landry
If you're running CentOS, why not use the paravel.com install procedure? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Sat, 8 Jan 2022, R. Choy wrote: I decided to build another RD box from scratch. Found a nice I5. Put in a 2TB

Re: [RDD] Something not right

2022-01-06 Thread Rob Landry
Do I understand right that you're creating a duplicate of an existing Rivendell machine? Why not use a dd command to clone the old machine's hard drive? You may be able to drop the cloned drive into the new machine and not have to reinstall anything. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что

Re: [RDD] Ransonware attack

2021-12-17 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Bill Putney wrote: Or to paraphrase Nancy Reagan "Just say NO to Windows." "I don't do Windows", except when I have to. In our company, amost everything is on Linux, but the traffic system requires Windows, so there is a Windows machine set up for that. There is

Re: [RDD] Ransonware attack

2021-12-17 Thread Rob Landry
What about reverse SSH tunnels? I use those, rather than VLANs, to access remote sites. A remote host ssh's to my machine and sets up a tunnel I can use to access the remote host, and from there, any other machine I need to access at the site. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все

Re: [RDD] Ransonware attack

2021-12-14 Thread Rob Landry
hates windows. If not for the connected windows box I don't believe they ever would have gotten into the studio side of the network. Tim WZEW On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:10 PM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Jake Tremper wrote: > 2

Re: [RDD] Ransonware attack

2021-12-14 Thread Rob Landry
, "rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org on behalf of Rob Landry" wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Jake Tremper wrote: > 2) Network segregation. An infection on the business side is awful and > hard to recover from. An infection on the business side that jumps an

Re: [RDD] Ransonware attack

2021-12-14 Thread Rob Landry
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Jake Tremper wrote: 2) Network segregation. An infection on the business side is awful and hard to recover from. An infection on the business side that jumps and wipes out the on-air machines is catastrophic. Isolated VLANs, when implemented properly, help greatly in this

Re: [RDD] Serial Port as GPIO

2021-11-23 Thread Rob Landry
If you have a parallel port, you can also use that. There is an application called "parashell" I used to use at several stations. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. ___

[RDD] Simian conversion

2021-10-25 Thread Rob Landry
Does anyone on this list have any experience importing audio files from Simian? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list

Re: [RDD] Mounting Audio Store on Reboot Still Not Working

2021-09-20 Thread Rob Landry
пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Sun, 19 Sep 2021, wa7skg wrote: Rob, would you mind sharing that script? Michael Rob Landry wrote on 9/19/21 6:12 AM: I always write a "/root/startup.sh" shell script and set up a cron job to run

Re: [RDD] Mounting Audio Store on Reboot Still Not Working

2021-09-19 Thread Rob Landry
I always write a "/root/startup.sh" shell script and set up a cron job to run it on boot. It includes a mount command for /var/snd and anything else I need to happen at boot time. The problem with using /etc/fstab is that if a mount fails, the machine won't boot at all, making it impossible

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-09-08 Thread Rob Landry
with the format "nn:nn:nn.n", but EditCut wants an integer representing the time in milliseconds. It's no big deal, but odd. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, Rob Landry wrote: Thanks. I h

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-09-07 Thread Rob Landry
о бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, David Klann wrote: Hi Rob, On 9/7/21 7:02 AM, Rob Landry wrote: OK, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use IMPORT (command = 2). Do I read correctly in web_api.pdf that the field FILENAME is supposed

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-09-07 Thread Rob Landry
OK, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use IMPORT (command = 2). Do I read correctly in web_api.pdf that the field FILENAME is supposed to contain the contents, and not the name, of the file to be uploaded? Unfortunately, the error message I'm getting is "Your browser sent a request

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-08-26 Thread Rob Landry
2021, Rob Landry wrote: SaveLoG doesn't handle MARKER events properly, either. Both CHAIN and MARKER events get entered with Type = 0, and appear in RdLogedit as Audio events. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Thu, 26 Aug

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-08-26 Thread Rob Landry
Does the WebAPI support UTF-8? Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Rob Landry wrote: SaveLoG doesn't handle MARKER events properly, either. Both CHAIN and MARKER events get entered with Type = 0

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-08-26 Thread Rob Landry
SaveLoG doesn't handle MARKER events properly, either. Both CHAIN and MARKER events get entered with Type = 0, and appear in RdLogedit as Audio events. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Rob Landry

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-08-26 Thread Rob Landry
I just updated to RD 3.6.2. The SaveLog command still doesn't handle Chain events properly, entering them as type Audio. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, Rob Landry wrote: Well, it seems there's

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-08-25 Thread Rob Landry
Well, it seems there's a problem with the SaveLog command. It doesn't handle Chain events properly, entering them icorrectly as Audio events. I haven't figured out a workaround yet. I'm running RD 3.4 on this particular machine. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели;

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-08-24 Thread Rob Landry
Never mind; it seems I can't use the 'admin' user to run the SaveLog command. I have to create a new user and assign it the relevant privileges. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, Rob Landry wrote

Re: [RDD] Web API question

2021-08-24 Thread Rob Landry
n, 23 Aug 2021, Rob Landry wrote: I am writing a script to copy a Rivendell log from one database to another using the Web API. I observe that the SaveLog command (28) requires a GRACE_TIME field and a LINK_LENGTH field, but neither appears in the output of the ListLog (22) command.

[RDD] Web API question

2021-08-23 Thread Rob Landry
I am writing a script to copy a Rivendell log from one database to another using the Web API. I observe that the SaveLog command (28) requires a GRACE_TIME field and a LINK_LENGTH field, but neither appears in the output of the ListLog (22) command. A lot of other fields (e.g.

Re: [RDD] Spound Panel question

2021-05-31 Thread Rob Landry
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 4:32 AM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: On RD 2.19.3, in rdadmin, in Manage Hosts, in rdairplay: The Sound Panel outputs are defined as "Sound Panel First Play Output", Sound Panel Second Play Output", &q

[RDD] Spound Panel question

2021-05-30 Thread Rob Landry
On RD 2.19.3, in rdadmin, in Manage Hosts, in rdairplay: The Sound Panel outputs are defined as "Sound Panel First Play Output", Sound Panel Second Play Output", "Sound Panel Third Play Outout", etc. What do those correspond to? Is it columns 1, 2, 3, etc? Rows 1, 2, 3, etc? Panels S1, S2,

Re: [RDD] Using Audacity On Rivendell Computer

2021-05-27 Thread Rob Landry
ins and outs, and a CD deck. That pretty much fills it up. Trying to wire in an additional set of ins and outs for the on-board audio simply won't fit. And having to have people try to change wiring to go from production to on-air is going to be above their skill-set. Michael Rob Landry wrote

Re: [RDD] Using Audacity On Rivendell Computer

2021-05-26 Thread Rob Landry
Get a USB audio interface -- the Henry Radio one is a bit pricy but excellent -- and set that up for Audacity, leaving the Audioscience card to Rivendell. Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя

Re: [RDD] Alternative /var/snd directory

2021-05-19 Thread Rob Landry
move /var/snd to /var/snd.0 create a new, empty /var/snd mount your 3TB disk to the mountpoint /var/snd change its ownership as necessary to make it readable/writable by Rivendell Rob -- Не думай что всё пропели, Что бури все отгремели; Готовься к великой цели, А слава тебя найдёт. On

Re: [RDD] New Build Failure

2021-05-12 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 12 May 2021, Robert Jeffares wrote: Rivendell is not compatible with Ubuntu 20 you need 18.04 if you go that way, and be ready for some upstream Gnome surprises. Unless I'm mistaken, that's because QT4 isn't available as a package under Ubuntu 20. Presumably, you could compile and

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:18 AM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: I have a client who is running RD 2.19.3 running on CentOS 7, installed according to the Paravel instructions. Most of his people are doing their shows from home via Comrex Access. They are V

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
 into the machine when using x11vnc and I have a script that will restart it if it does crash and go away. all the best, drew On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:18 AM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: I have a client who is running RD 2.19.3 running on CentOS 7, installed acc

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
Here is the x11vnc command: /usr/local/bin/x11vnc -display :0 -auth guess -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -shared -forever -bg -rfbport 5900 It's run by a startup script triggered by root's crontab at boot time. There are no entries in any logs that show any problem. Rob

[RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
I have a client who is running RD 2.19.3 running on CentOS 7, installed according to the Paravel instructions. Most of his people are doing their shows from home via Comrex Access. They are VNC'ing in to the Rivendell system in the air studio to control rdairplay and doing their breaks live

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