Re: [RDD] Evergreen meaning?

2020-05-18 Thread Steve Varholy
Evergreen = has no end date. The content does not expire, hence is "evergreen." Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office/Studio: (803

Re: [RDD] Sweeper

2020-05-05 Thread Steve Varholy
The old school way to do this is to make sure your dry sweepers are shorter than your intros and then have the seque point at the beginning of the sweeper audio so the song and sweepers start at the same time. In the old mechanical automation, this is how it was done Sent from my Sprint

Re: [RDD] Overlay Event

2020-04-02 Thread Steve Varholy
Could you do via a macro as a timed event, such that it fires off a soundpanel button at a set time? Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office

Re: [RDD] tight vnc into new appliance

2020-04-01 Thread Steve Varholy
Is the Rivendell box popping up a dialog on it's screen to ask permission to share the desktop? The 2.x appliances would do that. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia

Re: [RDD] Riv with a NAS

2020-03-04 Thread Steve Varholy
;hard" file system tree. All you would need to do is mount your relocated audio store(directory) as /var/snd and Rivendell will access it, whereas in Windows, you would have to tell the playback that it is now on drive F:, O:, etc... Steve Varholy President and Gener

Re: [RDD] Program Promo Tags

2020-01-23 Thread Steve Varholy
I am not doing it with my Rivendell install, however with our MediaTouch system, I do it by setting the "sec/segue" point at the beginning of the bed, so it starts the tag. Both will play until the EOM on the tag, which triggers the next item, ending both the bed and the tag. Ste

Re: [RDD] RDImport and Disk Space

2019-11-30 Thread Steve Varholy
Neat! Sent from my Sprint Phone. -- Original message-- From: Sébastien Leblanc Date: Sat, Nov 30, 2019 9:50 PM To: Rivendell Users Group; Cc: Subject:Re: [RDD] RDImport and Disk Space On 19-11-27 12 h 16, Steve Varholy wrote: Mark: Add another drive, move/copy /var/snd to it and create

Re: [RDD] RDImport and Disk Space

2019-11-27 Thread Steve Varholy
Mark: Add another drive, move/copy /var/snd to it and create a symbolic link to the new location. Done. In many instances keeping your audio store on a system drive is disfavored. That way a system dusc failure only requires a system reimage. Sent from my Sprint Phone. -- Original

Re: [RDD] pypad delay

2019-09-20 Thread Steve Varholy
, such as TuneIn or your website, then you would have to worry about a delaying the metadata. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251

Re: [RDD] Sound cards

2019-08-21 Thread Steve Varholy
The Rivendell system I have set up to play IDs for network affiliates uses Lexicon Alpha USB interfaces. They are two-channel only, but were cheap and reliable. I say "were" because they are now discontinued. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_9

Re: [RDD] Best Computers for Rivendell

2019-05-02 Thread Steve Varholy
I like to use refurbished HP8300 USFF machines with name brand SSD drives. They've been rock solid. Rivendell did not like the built-in sound card. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite

Re: [RDD] Cent OS

2019-03-29 Thread Steve Varholy
Dells and HP machines are my preference. Had one HP who's internal sound card gave me issues, but never installation issues. I had a DELL XE give me stability issues under Ubuntu. It's been fine with Centos. Sent from my Sprint Phone. -- Original message-- From: Rick Date: Fri, Mar

Re: [RDD] Centos 7 & Dell Optiplex 3060 Tower

2018-12-04 Thread Steve Varholy
, so any component failure can easily and quickly be addressed. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404

Re: [RDD] Substitute Voice Track If Missing

2018-07-12 Thread Steve Varholy
Another possible way to handle it is to schedule liners in front of the voice track break. When the announcer records their voice tracks, they remove the liners. That way the default is that if the hour has not been voice tracked, the liner will play. Steve Varholy President and General

Re: [RDD] FTP set up using FileZilla into Appliance

2018-04-07 Thread Steve Varholy
. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101 A Service of the Independent Media

Re: [RDD] Password error

2018-04-01 Thread Steve Varholy
IIRC that the default is user: admin with no password Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 1, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Tracy Turner wrote: > > I've been able to successfully install the Broadcast Appliance with Centos. > Now when I try to log into the RDAmin module with

Re: [RDD] Need Hardware Genius - Serial Port GPIO and Auditronics 200Console

2018-02-16 Thread Steve Varholy
The GPI-16 and SRC-4 should work out of the box withPatricks install of Rivendell. I have my appliance build using an SRC-4 seamlessly. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202

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

2018-02-15 Thread Steve Varholy
the drivers you need. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101 A Service

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

2018-02-12 Thread Steve Varholy
and it's been rock solid for a year. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101

Re: [RDD] Appliance dvd

2017-11-01 Thread Steve Varholy
nd to swap in and see what it does? Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101

Re: [RDD] Appliance dvd

2017-10-16 Thread Steve Varholy
Sounds like the issue I had 8 months back. What happens if in Rdalsaconfig you change the sample rate? Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office

Re: [RDD] Please fix this bug...

2017-05-17 Thread Steve Varholy
VPN into our network and use VNC. At least that is what we do. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404

Re: [RDD] Please fix this bug...

2017-05-16 Thread Steve Varholy
Query me this: why is your playback machine potentially at risk? Wouldnt it be better to have it not exposed directly to the Internet? Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia

Re: [RDD] Sound Blaster Audigy

2017-04-13 Thread Steve Varholy
I am using ultra-small CPUs without space for internal cards. This is the USB card I am using: Lexicon Alpha USB Desktop Recording Studio It's around $50 street. It has worked flawlessly with the Rivendell Appliance and was basically plug and play. It sounds good, too. Steve Varholy

Re: [RDD] Sound Blaster Audigy

2017-04-13 Thread Steve Varholy
to go on. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101 A Service

Re: [RDD] Anyone using Natural Log?

2017-04-06 Thread Steve Varholy
y ID field for Rivendell cart numbers. Once you have done that, it is pretty much schedule, review and send to be merged. Do run the database maintenance every so often or your billing numbers can be weird. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] Th

Re: [RDD] Rivendell and Broadcast Tools switcher.

2017-03-05 Thread Steve Varholy
You might need to use the terminal and send commands to the BT outside of Rivendell to see what it is doing in reaction to manufacturers documented commands. That way you can assure that the switcher is working properly. Had a BT relay box that came half DOA and that is how we determined the

Re: [RDD] Rivendell Event Question

2017-02-28 Thread Steve Varholy
Are you using it just to play the IDs at the top of the hour? If so, I am doing the same thing triggered by GPI closures and can fill you in on how I have it set up. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338

Re: [RDD] installing on Centos7

2017-02-22 Thread Steve Varholy
a RIvendell appliance but I didn't want to mess with Jack and tinker with macros to pull up and play a webstream permanently. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina

Re: [RDD] installing on Centos7

2017-02-22 Thread Steve Varholy
Was playing around with Centos 7 this weekend as well. Having to reactivate the Ethernet port after a restart was a deal killer. Poor choice for a default config IMHO. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 22, 2017, at 3:12 PM, "waynetay...@pipelinebroadcast.com" >

Re: [RDD] Interesting USB Serial Issue

2017-01-30 Thread Steve Varholy
to drive an input on the GPI-16. Having a devil of a time getting this combo to work. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251

Re: [RDD] Interesting USB Serial Issue

2017-01-26 Thread Steve Varholy
a Broadcast Tooks SRC-4 output relay to a GPI-16 input, could you email me off list? I've got MediaTouch closing/opening the relay. GPI is not showing anything unless I physically ground the input pin to trigger the input. Finally learning this side of the business Steve Varholy President

Re: [RDD] Interesting USB Serial Issue

2017-01-25 Thread Steve Varholy
Ouch. That's not good. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 25, 2017, at 7:25 PM, Cowboy <c...@cwf1.com> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 25 January 2017 06:26:14 pm Steve Varholy wrote: >> Any thoughts? Is is a bug in the USB driver perhaps? > > It's a bug in the USB BIOS i

[RDD] Interesting USB Serial Issue

2017-01-25 Thread Steve Varholy
. The GPI16 LED -- is -- showing the closure. If I restart the machine, it will work again - for awhile. Any thoughts? Is is a bug in the USB driver perhaps? The log is not showing that the BT GPI 16 is being dismounted and reassigned another /ttyUSB port. Steve Varholy President

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-19 Thread Steve Varholy
the RML commands in 'test.rml' to the system at 'host.mydomain.com' at port 5858. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-19 Thread Steve Varholy
I've got it working now through rmlsend and running the library macro cart. Now's the trick to get the GPI trigger working. Thank you for your help. As soon as I help a group get their LPFM, I'll submit some draft revised docs to help someone else out... Steve Varholy President

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Steve Varholy
- Card: 0 Stream: 0 Handle: 21 Length: 2042 Speed: 10 Pitch: 0 Jan 18 16:26:40 rdhost caed: StopPlayback - Card: 0 Stream: 0 Handle: 21 Jan 18 16:26:40 rdhost caed: UnloadPlayback - Card: 0 Stream: 0 Handle: 21 Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Steve Varholy
from my iPhone > On Jan 18, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Kyle Robbertze <krobber...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 18/01/2017 22:25, Steve Varholy wrote: >> He's right. I used "/" as the delimiter. I also screwed up the S1 >> [...] >> When specifying RML code on

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Steve Varholy
e=test.rml Send the RML commands in 'test.rml' to the system at 'host.mydomain.com' at port 5858. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office:

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Steve Varholy
Wayne: Thank you. In the macro cart must I prepend rmlsend to the macro command as per your example below? rmlsend PP S1 1 1\! What does the \ do? I didn't see that in the txt file in /docs. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png

[RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-17 Thread Steve Varholy
and running the line in the macro cart (or the whole Macro Cart) doesn't do anything. I'm at a loss to try to figure out what is not set right - and there's still scant documentation to be able to figure it out myself. Any clues where I should start? Steve Varholy President

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-16 Thread Steve Varholy
48000 when the appliance was >>> initially installed. Something that gets updated during the OS update >>> process is changed and causes this issue with my machine. >>> >>> >>> It is simply going to receive GPI closures and play back station ID's,

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-16 Thread Steve Varholy
t were one of our playout machines, that would be a different story. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-16 Thread Steve Varholy
expect the same issue. The other alternative, if I wished to still use onboard sound, would be to simply not run the update/upgrade on the appliance. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-11 Thread Steve Varholy
ht have been 44100, and got bumped to 48000 in later versions... On Sunday, December 11, 2016 7:29 PM, Steve Varholy <st...@wxryfm.org<mailto:st...@wxryfm.org>> wrote: Just did a fresh install of the appliance. The onboard audio worked under Rivendell right out of the box. Ran

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-11 Thread Steve Varholy
-around I am going to try updating just Rivendell and see what happens. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-10 Thread Steve Varholy
tom window are in use in rivendell so you must move the one you want, to the lower part of the window and save... if centos sees it, rivendell can't.. if rivendell is using it, it will not play in centos... . On Saturday, December 10, 2016 12:20 AM, Steve Varholy <st...@wxryfm.or

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-09 Thread Steve Varholy
suggestions? Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101 A Service of the Independent

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-08 Thread Steve Varholy
>>> audio (I didn't do this - only just thought of this) is to try changing the >>> IRQ of the onboard sound in the BIOS. This can be found somewhere in the >>> right hand menu of the bios. This might just sort out the problem. I've >>> known of IR

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-08 Thread Steve Varholy
right hand menu of the bios. This might just sort out the problem. I've > known of IRQ settings on HPs stop things from playing nice. > > Andy > > > On Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:06:40 + Steve Varholy <st...@wxryfm.org> > wrote >> Gentlemen (and La

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-08 Thread Steve Varholy
It's the onboard card. Once I have played around with it, I am going to use a USB external card and roll the dice that potential issues will come up on a reboot. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main

[RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-08 Thread Steve Varholy
. In RDAMIN/System Info, it shows no cards installed. I am assuming it is a potential user permissions problem because of the update. Any advice on where to start? Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main

Re: [RDD] Interesting Issue with the Current Appliance Installation

2016-12-03 Thread Steve Varholy
to build my own. Steve Varholy President and General Manager [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 Direct: (803) 404-5535 Cell: (703) 585-2101 A Service

Re: [RDD] Pitch Control (Again)

2014-11-23 Thread Steve Varholy
5% is way too high. .5% to about 2% is about the range. 2.5% is really noticeable. The point of the technique is to make a competitor playing your music to sound sluggish to button pushers. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 23, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Lorne Tyndale ltynd...@tyndaleweb.com wrote: Hi,

Re: [RDD] Pitch Control (Again)

2014-11-21 Thread Steve Varholy
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Re: [RDD] Mouse Freezes on Paravel Broadcast Automation Appliance DVD image

2014-04-04 Thread Steve Varholy
two Optiplexes this year to motherboards that had the Chinese capacitor plague. -- Steve Varholy President/General Manager Programming and Operations WXRY The Independent Alternative 99.3 The Historic Barringer Building 1338 Main Street Suite 202 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 (803) 753-7260 ex 250