Re: [RDD] Hello guys

2020-05-05 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi Andrejs, I don't have Riv in front of me to check but you use log chains in your logs to automatically go to the next log/day when it has finished. This works fine if you can guarantee your timings but if you have any sort of live shows with presenters who don't pay attention you might find

[RDD] Song plays but no VU or sound (Ubu 18+ and equivalent Debian)

2018-12-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi all, I've been away a while so apologies if this is already solved (I checked, couldn't find an answer). With Ubuntu 18.04 I went through the usual source install procedures everything went pretty well, far less source patching than there used to be (even QT3 went through without messing).

Re: [RDD] RdAirplay Log panel columns

2018-06-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Have a look at the Ubuntu xenial instructions on the wiki. They should apply to the latest Debian for qt3. Regards, Wayne On Sat, 23 Jun 2018, 00:46 Gary Hodder, wrote: > > > > > I already know that it's on the list, but I wouldn't hold my breath. > > > I seem to recall some time back

Re: [RDD] RD on Latest Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
. You guys (and gals) are the best! > > --Chuck W. > > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:12:11 +0100 > Wayne Merricks wrote: > > Subject: Re: [RDD] RD on Latest Ubuntu 18.04 > > > > Hi, > > > > The pow10 to pow(10.0 etc fix does indeed work. Just be aware th

Re: [RDD] RD on Latest Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, The pow10 to pow(10.0 etc fix does indeed work. Just be aware that you will have to remove the mysql secure password plugin (from mysql shell: uninstall plugin validate_password; ) otherwise you get errors in various places. You will also need to change the root user from socket auth to

Re: [RDD] Cloning a Rivendell hard drive

2017-11-15 Thread Wayne Merricks
Just to chip in. I recommend using clonezilla. Just make a cd or bootable USB with the iso from their website. Then boot the machine with it and follow the instructions. It lets you direct disk copy although it is more useful to image to a network drive or whatever else you fancy. I normally

Re: [RDD] Additional Main Log Outputs

2017-10-10 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, In this case I'd just use JACK. You essentially get a software switcher with Rivendell on one side and your sound card outs on the other. You can then hook them up as required. I suppose you could also use ALSA directly but im not completely sure how best to duplicate with that.

Re: [RDD] Have to restart Riv to get sound card

2017-10-07 Thread Wayne Merricks
Is there any chance that pulse audio is stealing your card from Riv? Also when the card is "missing" does it show up in a play -L? Finally a restart is generally not the solution. If the card is there but Riv isn't working a simple killall caed ripcd rdcatchd should do the same as a full

Re: [RDD] Log Locking

2017-06-26 Thread Wayne Merricks
Just to weigh in on the technical side as someone who has both programmed software that does this and also someone on the help desk that dealt with other software. Nothing is perfect. Things that can break a software lock: * Computer crash or shutdown as already noted. * User starts working and

Re: [RDD] Every second cart playing no audio after 2.16.0 upgrade

2017-06-14 Thread Wayne Merricks
By default Rivendell will alternate between the sound card outputs if you have more than one set up inside the host settings with rdadmin. If you go to rdadmin, edit hosts, your pc name, rdairplay. Are you set to output to different ports? Try setting them all to port 0 especially for the

Re: [RDD] Audio issues

2017-05-24 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Looking through the guide there seems to be a step missing which would mean when the daemons are loaded on startup they will be loaded as root and then jack/pulse/some combination will load as your logged in user. Jack only allows the same user to use it. The startup order is also crucial.

Re: [RDD] Running shell commands via RML

2017-04-24 Thread Wayne Merricks
I may be wrong but it could be using whatever user the daemons are running as but then that doesn't make sense as normally that is root unless you have changed things. Unless you haven't logged out/in since adding your user to the dialout group? The only other thing I can think of is Debian 8

Re: [RDD] rmlsend doesn't work?

2017-04-04 Thread Wayne Merricks
Apologies for the stupid question, is the host IP in rdadmin still the dhcp address? On 4 Apr 2017 01:15, "Rob Landry" <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > > OK; rmlsend started working after I rebooted the machine. > > Now what's happening is that GPI inputs aren't triggering macros. > > I have a

Re: [RDD] rdxport.cgi problem

2017-03-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
Is it the Rivendell Apache configuration permissions problem? The default config is for Apache 2.2 (it might be 2.0) and below but if you're running 2.4 you can't use the allow/deny directives. Instead you have to use require directives. See the top of this section for more info

Re: [RDD] Hard drive use music server.

2017-03-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Linux doesn't really care where directories are in terms of physical drives. All directories are just a link to some location. This can be on the same drive, on a different drive, to a completely different directory on the same drive or even across the network/internet with things like

Re: [RDD] Log generation

2017-03-20 Thread Wayne Merricks
No there is nothing built in. You can use rdlogmanager with some command line options to manually run it. Add this to cron and you're done. Be aware that if you have a non-graphical OS rdlogmanager sometimes moans about not being able to access X.org and refuses to run. Regards, Wayne On

Re: [RDD] Rivendell and Ubuntu.

2017-03-01 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Rivendell works fine on Ubuntu 14.04 and is really easy with the Tryphon repos (hasn't been updated since 2.10.3). If you use 16.04 it has newer versions of MySQL and has issues. You must use at least Rivendell version 2.15 which fixed a bunch of MySQL null date issues. Last time I tried

Re: [RDD] RDXport error

2017-02-22 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, This is probably going to be an Apache'ism. First can you just use any old web browser to view the Rivendell cgi pages: http://localhost/rd-bin/addcart.html Next I'm afraid I have to get into "CentOS" guessing games as I'm only familiar with Debian based setups. Ubuntu changed a bunch

Re: [RDD] Problem with log chain

2017-02-22 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, As a quick note, don't use timed events for midnight and you'll be fine, it works most of the time, but occasionally timing glitches mean it doesn't. You can use cron as mentioned however Riv will work if you use Aux logs and no hard midnight timings. I do this: Main Log: -- Hard

Re: [RDD] RDXport error

2017-02-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Sometimes also happens when the apache config hasn't been implemented properly. Only usually on a source install mind. Try copying a working rivendell apache conf from another machine. Under Debian/Ubuntu the conf looks a bit like this, remember to change /usr/lib/cgi-bin to wherever

Re: [RDD] Can’t import mp3 after update

2017-02-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Can you do a yum install libmp3lame? (I'm not sure on the package names outside of Debian). On 16/02/17 08:45, Pascal Vanbel - Radio Universitaire Namuroise - RUN 88.1 wrote: Hello, Last week, I did a ‘yum update’ to update our computers to the latest versions. Since RD refuses to

Re: [RDD] Insert  note marker with RML

2017-01-26 Thread Wayne Merricks
Not as far as I know, you can use the label command to put messages into the grey box top right of airplay if that is any use (LB Hello for no colours or if you want a nice red warning LC Red Stop breaking things). On 26/01/17 00:36, Patrick wrote: Is it possible to insert meta events into

Re: [RDD] Interesting USB Serial Issue

2017-01-26 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Probably not related but I had a similar issue when using a real serial port. It would be fine for a few days and then would stop receiving via Riv. In the end I stopped using Rivendell as a go between and used screen combined with some shell scripts to relay to Riv via rmlsend. It

Re: [RDD] Renamed group won't show in library.

2017-01-24 Thread Wayne Merricks
table, they all show up as being in STINGS, but Rivendell sees them in BEDS. I'm wondering if restarting the Rivendell daemons on the server will fix the problem. I'll try that next unless someone has a better idea. Greg On 01/23/2017 11:33 AM, Wayne Merricks wrote: There are two tables

Re: [RDD] Renamed group won't show in library.

2017-01-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
There are two tables that work together in MySQL to get the groups to show up. First backup your database! The first table you have is GROUPS, the important thing is that the NAME matches exactly what you're expecting (e.g. STINGS and not Stings). Next you have a table called AUDIO_PERMS.

Re: [RDD] PI GPIO's?

2017-01-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
You can't use it directly as there is no Riv driver but you can use standard stuff like wiringpi (and other python interfaces) and pass that to riv with rmlsend. On 2017-01-18 21:05, Lorne Tyndale wrote: Hi, Just wondering, for those of you who have run Rivendell on a PI, has anyone tried

Re: [RDD] caed - jackd connection

2017-01-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
s, how does riv show in the jack graph? riv0, riv1, something else? all the best, drew  EMIR YAPICI On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com [25]> wrote: As an alternative run QJackCtl if you have a GUI and set up the start up scripts that way (it

Re: [RDD] caed - jackd connection

2017-01-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
As an alternative run QJackCtl if you have a GUI and set up the start up scripts that way (it also allows you to use patch bay to autoconnect jamin, Riv to system and whatever else you might use). You still need to chmod -s the Riv daemons however I don't suggest deleting the Rivendell init

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
un...@lists.rivendellaudio.org <rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org> on behalf of Cowboy <c...@cwf1.com> SENT: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 3:11:46 PM CC: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org SUBJECT: Re: [RDD] Macro Help On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:00:05 + Wayne Merri

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
Foundation *From:* rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org <rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org> on behalf of Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 18, 201

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, rmlsend is a command line utility to run macros on any Rivendell computer (--to-host to change machines or leave it for localhost), if you are using macro carts you don't need rmlsend. The \ is a command line problem, you can't use ! in most linux shells as it is a special character

Re: [RDD] Macro Help

2017-01-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, You might be getting hit by case sensitivity. Try this: rmlsend PP S1 1 1\! The broadcast tools stuff tends to have dip switches where you can change the modes, you might have to change it to pull down or pull up (basically the reverse of what it is now). There are no notes that

Re: [RDD] *_STACK Grows Indefinitely

2017-01-13 Thread Wayne Merricks
This appears to be correct although be aware that Riv does sometimes like to pass table names as variables. I replied via github with more of an explanation. It hasn't caused me any problems in over 4 years of Riv however log generation is slower than it was when I started and STACK growth

Re: [RDD] Old database

2017-01-02 Thread Wayne Merricks
In rdadmin -> services what is in your log name template? It seems like its blank for you (hence _LOG). On 01/01/17 12:39, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi all, just setup a new system on Fedora 25 that plays imports edit markers etc all work. When it comes to creating a log I get $ rdlogmanager

Re: [RDD] Better Grid Editing in RDLogManager (or externally?)

2016-12-30 Thread Wayne Merricks
On 2016-12-30 21:28, drew Roberts wrote: Wayne, It would be nice if we could select multiple hours in multiple days and then change all to the same clock with one go.   The way the Javascript/HTML works is similar to some of your ideas. It is all drag and drop so lets say I have my entire

Re: [RDD] Corrupt/Move Database Question

2016-12-30 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Two things, what Riv version are you using and what MySQL version? There are changes to MySQL v 5.7+ that make life awkward for earlier Riv versions than around 2.15.1. You might also have MyISAM vs InnoDB errors with the SERVICES table. Either way, you can manually create the rduser

Re: [RDD] Better Grid Editing in RDLogManager (or externally?)

2016-12-30 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I wrote a prototype (very basic looking) HTML/Javascript grid editor, due to work changes, I haven't had a chance to continue with it but it might give you a place to start. https://github.com/waynemerricks/rivendell-html I use(d) it with Riv 2.10.3, I found it much quicker than the

Re: [RDD] Ubuntu/Debian/Centos

2016-12-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I've used Ubuntu 14.04 for just over 2 years now, I don't keep them on the network so don't worry about updates as much although I do periodically go around and do an apt upgrade of the machines. I don't use the full Ubuntu desktop, I started with Ubuntu server and put XFCE on top. I

Re: [RDD] GPO

2016-12-12 Thread Wayne Merricks
Can you test it with serial commands? I have used screen in the past to do this but any terminal program will work. E.g for serial port 1 at 9600 baud: screen -fn -L -d -m -S switcher /dev/ttyS1 9600 Then you send commands like this: screen -S switcher -X stuff cmd_to_send On the ACS 8.2 I

Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue

2016-12-11 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Might be a long shot but I've had instances recently where some USB sound cards are not detected by Riv at all (I can't remember if rdalsaconfig listed them). It was something to do with the card only supporting 24bit sound and whatever Riv does do swap between 16/32bit didn't work.

Re: [RDD] MySQL DB Creation

2016-11-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Yes don't let QT3 scare you. I have some Ubuntu 16.04 scripts here but they should work for Debian. https://github.com/waynemerricks/rivendellubuntuxenial/blob/master/install/003.install_qt3.sh On 16/11/16 13:53, Kyle Robbertze wrote: Hi On 16/11/2016 15:30, Wayne Merricks wrote: OK

Re: [RDD] MySQL DB Creation

2016-11-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
specifically need later versions of Rivendell and you will have a very easy time on Debian based distros. Regards, Wayne On 16/11/16 09:02, Kyle Robbertze wrote: On 16/11/2016 00:43, Wayne Merricks wrote: Hi, All you have to do is run rdadmin, it will prompt you for the db access details

Re: [RDD] MySQL DB Creation

2016-11-15 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, All you have to do is run rdadmin, it will prompt you for the db access details. Assuming these work, it will create a database called Rivendell and set up a user called rduser for the db. By default it looks at localhost (/etc/rd.conf), change the conf file if it is not on the local

Re: [RDD] Trouble - database mismatch and audio converter error

2016-09-11 Thread Wayne Merricks
thing with the playback/database machine and get them at the same version. I'm feeling much better about my situation. I was in a bit of a panic when I couldn't bring up RDLibrary on the playback machine! On 9/10/2016 4:01 PM, Wayne Merricks wrote: It certainly sounds like one of the machines

Re: [RDD] Trouble - database mismatch and audio converter error

2016-09-10 Thread Wayne Merricks
It certainly sounds like one of the machines has updated while the other is still running an older version but you can easily confirm it by comparing the version numbers in the title of rdairplay (or rdadmin). Normally when the database is upgraded, the database is backed up to the user

Re: [RDD] question from Argentina

2016-09-09 Thread Wayne Merricks
rdadmin by default is: UN: admin PW: there is no password so just click OK (or Press Enter) On 09/09/16 22:24, La Mosquitera Radio Comunitaria wrote: Hi David and thank you for that quick answer! I had installed from repository now. But I dont know user or password for rdadmin and dont

Re: [RDD] Audio problems long Import

2016-09-01 Thread Wayne Merricks
Possibly Apache time outs? /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Find: # # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out. # Timeout 300 Increase as required (1800 = 30minutes). On 01/09/16 06:47, juan carlos navarro hernandez wrote: I'm having trouble importing audio from an hour

Re: [RDD] Dual Monitors

2016-08-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
If you have any recent Intel they will drive 2 monitors on the open source monitors very well for standard desktop use. Failing that any of the older NVIDIA cards should work fine. I'm running a passively cooled Nvidia GT610 which cost me about £40 a few years ago. In my experience running

Re: [RDD] change end date with rdimport?

2016-08-17 Thread Wayne Merricks
Edinburg, TX 78539 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com <mailto:waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com>> wrote: I'm not sure about the cart chunk but there are options for: --startdate-offset --enddate-offset There are also options for

Re: [RDD] change end date with rdimport?

2016-08-17 Thread Wayne Merricks
I'm not sure about the cart chunk but there are options for: --startdate-offset --enddate-offset There are also options for set-daypart-times and set-datetimes On 17/08/16 15:49, Tom Van Gorkom wrote: Does rdimport (or dropbox) allow any options for changing the start and end dates from the

Re: [RDD] Audio Converter Error.

2016-08-17 Thread Wayne Merricks
tents of Rivendell-dev digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Automation Mode (John Boles) 2. Re: RdLibrary - find songs from year (Morten Krarup Nielsen) 3. Audio Converter Error. (Owen Dawe) 4. Re: Audio Converter Error. (Wayne Merricks) 5. Re: Audio Converter Erro

Re: [RDD] Audio Converter Error.

2016-08-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Try this: sudo mv /var/snd /var/snd_original Then mount /var/snd on the new device to /var/snd on the original. If it is an entire blank partition you might be able to do it like this: sudo mount /dev/sdb5 /var/snd If it is a drive with its own stuff and a random directory for /var/snd

Re: [RDD] Now and Next

2016-08-12 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Just to check the obvious I use the following udp.conf for the udp rlm: [Udp1] IpAddress=127.0.0.1 UdpPort= FormatString=CART=%n\nTITLE=%t\nARTIST=%a\nALBUM=%l\nMS=%h\n Encoding=0 ProcessNullUpdates=1 MasterLog=Onair Aux1Log=No Aux2Log=No Change Onair to Yes if you don't use on air

Re: [RDD] Pause a recording in RDLibrary?

2016-07-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
Just as an FYI, I use Audacity and JACK to share the sound card with Riv. Via Audacity preferences and some JACK wizardry we even force Audacity to not use the main play out so in essence you can record and play back while live on air without making Audacity live. The options to open the

[RDD] Ubuntu 16.04 Update (Seems OK now)

2016-07-20 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi Fred/all, Apologies for the delay, the current stable branch appears to be usable with Ubuntu 16.04 provided you manually tweak MySQL. There is still oddness with QT fonts but that is most likely an Ubuntu and not a Rivendell problem. Since I last tried, DB upgrades from 2.10.3 seem to

Re: [RDD] New Rivendell Appliance Setup

2016-07-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
log ; EnableMixerLogging=No On 7/16/16, Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com> wrote: Assuming your networking is actually working and you've assigned IP addresses statically (or reserved DHCP leases) all you have to do is edit /etc/rd.conf to point to rdserver on every machine for the

Re: [RDD] Confirming a cart has been played to an external log

2016-07-12 Thread Wayne Merricks
g their best. Our CD media liason is an ex radio guy and when it's really turning pear shaped delivers audio bulletins every 15 minutes. Thanks again Wayne, and RD, keeping radio always on, always local. regards Robert On 10/07/16 02:46, Wayne Merricks wrote: Hi, I used the UDP r

Re: [RDD] Confirming a cart has been played to an external log

2016-07-09 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I used the UDP rlm to do this in house as I found the icecast rlm to sometimes do strange things in our weird set up. I have the following udp conf (for rlm): [Udp1] IpAddress=127.0.0.1 UdpPort=5860 FormatString=CART=%n\nTITLE=%t\nARTIST=%a\nALBUM=%l\nMS=%h\n Encoding=0

Re: [RDD] Importing Issue with wrong Audio Length

2016-07-06 Thread Wayne Merricks
You can use bash as a "dropbox" that copies to the real Rivendell dropbox directory afterwards #!/bin/bash #Path to Rivendell dropbox (Change this to whatever) #Keep the trailing / RIVENDELL=/home/rivendell/dropbox/ #Would be a good idea to run this in screen so that you can monitor it #e.g.

Re: [RDD] ubuntu server 16.04 LTS mysql 5.7

2016-07-01 Thread Wayne Merricks
No it still breaks, the fix is to apt remove MySQL server. Finish the upgrade (dpkg -a) then delete any reference to my.cnf or mysqld.cnf in /etc/mysql and /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/ Once you've done that reinstall mysql server. Your database data will not be deleted. If you leave any

Re: [RDD] Autostarting Rdairplay on bootup

2016-06-30 Thread Wayne Merricks
on startup. On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com <mailto:waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com>> wrote: You can do sudo if you add a NOPASSWD flag via visudo to the script you need to run as sudo but thats getting ahead. The Rivendell

Re: [RDD] Autostarting Rdairplay on bootup

2016-06-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
/etc/init.d/rivendell start. I don't think you can have sudo run in a script though, can you? Don't know what else to try. On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com <mailto:waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com>> wrote: In theory you could repl

Re: [RDD] Autostarting Rdairplay on bootup

2016-06-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
tostart doesn't seem the daemons. I guess the question then is how to maybe start the daemons before autostart runs. I look around but didn't see any way autostarting via gui. Thanks for your help! On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com

Re: [RDD] Autostarting Rdairplay on bootup

2016-06-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
don't bother with rc.local it doesn't always work and its hard to figure out why. I have an older pi running wheezy as opposed to the newer jessie build. Inside the users directory I have this: /home/pi/.config/autostart I'm not sure if any scripts work here but the standard Linux desktop

Re: [RDD] Mp4/aac

2016-06-29 Thread Wayne Merricks
I don't know about the CentOS packages but from a source install if you have libmp4v2 and libfaad (Debian names, they are probably called something else in CentOS) you then have to run ./configure to pick up the changes followed by a make and make install. This has been the case since at

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Wayne Merricks
If you're stuck, Debian/Ubuntu and others are a quick install with the tryphon repos: sudo apt-get install rivendell rivendell-server Obviously configuring and mounting NFS shares can take a bit longer. If you're going Ubuntu start with Ubuntu Server and stick to xfce or lxde. On 24/06/16

Re: [RDD] Appliance Versions...

2016-06-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
I usually have Ubuntu 14.04 Server which is probably not much different to Debian 8. I don't use 16.04 for anything critical in house but someone on the list wanted to use Rivendell on it and I didn't think it would be too difficult to sort out (it isn't but the MySQL date/time changes were

Re: [RDD] Tryphon Debian Repository

2016-06-22 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi again, I'll try to sit down and build from scratch to double check everything over the next couple of days and report back on any weirdness. On 22/06/16 12:38, Wayne Merricks wrote: Hi, I've not used Riv in anger to double check everything. Logs, log generation and general on air usage

Re: [RDD] Tryphon Debian Repository

2016-06-21 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, PPAs etc might not be a bad idea however I recommend holding off for a while, especially if you're planning to use Ubuntu 16.04. The MySQL changes weren't very Rivendell friendly, a bunch of patches have fixed the worst of these offenders however I guess these won't be in the general

Re: [RDD] Synchronizing carts and logs

2016-06-13 Thread Wayne Merricks
I use syncthing to handle the physical file transfers but thats the easy bit. Its a judgement call how you want to update the DB after that. You could set up slave replication in MySQL but then if you slave client B to A and you write to B it all breaks. Obviously CART/CUT info changes all

Re: [RDD] Apache Conf File Change

2016-06-13 Thread Wayne Merricks
This in theory is just an Apache setup issue. You just need to enable the mod and restart apache, it should load every time after that. sudo a2enmod cgid sudo service apache2 restart On 12/06/16 23:53, Nick Andre wrote: The apache conf file for Rivendell doesn't include any logic to handle

Re: [RDD] Australia

2016-06-12 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I hear this phrase quite often and I hope I can get my point across without stepping on anyone's toes or causing offence (it is certainly not intended and I apologise in advance). The main benefit to us as a radio station in the UK is not that Rivendell is "just as great as a commercial

Re: [RDD] Centos 6 ALSA Updates

2016-06-09 Thread Wayne Merricks
Just as an FYI to any Ubuntu server users, I had to go through the pain of updating a web server to Ubuntu 16.04. 16.04 really should not be used in production unless you're willing to work around breakages during the upgrade. I've had minor issues in the past with obscure bits but MySQL,

Re: [RDD] autoload applications

2016-06-04 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I use the Ubuntu start up applications to load QJackCtl. Then I use the jack pre/post scripts to do the rest. Jack Post Start: #!/bin/bash #Start Rivendell in the background /usr/bin/rdairplay & #Wait 10 seconds for airplay to load sleep 10 #Start Playback ~/scripts/startLog.sh &

Re: [RDD] Desperately need help building clocks for Live Remote (outside broadcast)

2016-06-02 Thread Wayne Merricks
The skipping thing might be related to timed events. As noted in the other reply there are many ways to do it. I use the AUX log. Normally I do this: AUX 59:55 --> Macro Fade MAIN log down over 5 seconds and stop MAIN 00:00 --> Hard Timed Start (Stop transition if not yet time) But for

Re: [RDD] A Tale of Two RDBMSes [WAS: Ubuntu 16.04 - and at the end the font...]

2016-06-01 Thread Wayne Merricks
I'm working (slowly) on a bunch of source code tweaks that hopefully should be Maria/MySQL cross compatible. Most of the changes are fairly trivial, hopefully I can get a pull request going in the near future. On the positive side, I found some unrelated bugs that I'm also trying to fix so

Re: [RDD] Ubuntu 16.04 - and at the end the font...

2016-05-31 Thread Wayne Merricks
0 (it says invalid date). So yeah I'm carefully trying to make changes without breaking stuff. On 2016-05-31 21:18, Rob Landry wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2016, Wayne Merricks wrote: There are quite a few different database issues with Rivendell where older versions of MySQL implied NULL values or

Re: [RDD] Ubuntu 16.04 - and at the end the font...

2016-05-30 Thread Wayne Merricks
If you can avoid upgrading to MySQL v5.7 you should be fine. There is a very big list of sql to be checked across about 20 different tables, so it might take a while to verify Riv is happy with the date changes needed. On 28/05/16 09:31, Manuel wrote: Lorne Tyndale writes:

Re: [RDD] Ubuntu 16.04 - and at the end the font...

2016-05-27 Thread Wayne Merricks
ell at all but thats a problem for another day. Regards, Wayne On 27/05/16 12:51, Manuel wrote: Wayne Merricks <waynemerricks@...> writes: Polymer isn't easy to get hold of, it was last updated in 2005 I think. When you try to compile it under Xenial, you get an error missing lq

Re: [RDD] Ubuntu 16.04 - and at the end the font...

2016-05-27 Thread Wayne Merricks
Polymer isn't easy to get hold of, it was last updated in 2005 I think. When you try to compile it under Xenial, you get an error missing lqt-mt. This used to be part of the libqt3-mt-dev package but I can't find it at the moment for Ubuntu. On 27/05/16 08:11, Manuel wrote: I would

Re: [RDD] I am starting to hate USB

2016-05-26 Thread Wayne Merricks
How do you get on if you use something like screen to talk to the serial connection directly? The broadcast tools switchers have very simple serial commands you can use so Riv is not strictly necessary. I use this: http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Switchers#Unsupported_Switchers Then I

Re: [RDD] Troubles with fonts and key to close RDAirPlay

2016-05-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
for your user e.g. if your user is manuel: sudo ./003.install_qt.sh manuel sudo ./004.install_rivendell.sh manuel You will also have issues with Pulse Audio, again the wiki for Debian 6 describes how to fix that. On 23/05/16 13:58, Manuel wrote: Wayne Merricks <waynemerricks@...>

Re: [RDD] Troubles with fonts and key to close RDAirPlay

2016-05-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
Apologies for the list spam. The UbuntuXenial scripts are updated to 1.3 and contain patches for this problem. I've also added the pull request on Github so hopefully nobody else has this problem going forwards. Regards, Wayne On 23/05/16 12:42, Wayne Merricks wrote: You also need to drop

Re: [RDD] Troubles with fonts and key to close RDAirPlay

2016-05-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
12:17, Wayne Merricks wrote: Hi again, Password issue. Log into mysql and do this: mysql -u rduser -pletmein Rivendell; mysql> alter table RDAIRPLAY drop column INSTANCE; It will work, will check with github why INSTANCE is there. Regards, Wayne On 23/05/16 11:57, Wayne Merricks wrot

Re: [RDD] Troubles with fonts and key to close RDAirPlay

2016-05-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi again, Password issue. Log into mysql and do this: mysql -u rduser -pletmein Rivendell; mysql> alter table RDAIRPLAY drop column INSTANCE; It will work, will check with github why INSTANCE is there. Regards, Wayne On 23/05/16 11:57, Wayne Merricks wrote: Hi, There are more probl

Re: [RDD] Troubles with fonts and key to close RDAirPlay

2016-05-23 Thread Wayne Merricks
of Rivendell 2.13.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 (clean installationof ubuntu) according the scripts published by Wayne Merricks (great job!), I have two problems that I can not solve. Text fonts look very bad and it is difficult to read. Secondly, when I try to close RDAirPlay, a menu ask me key! I hope you

Re: [RDD] Problem ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2016-05-20 Thread Wayne Merricks
is process! ~David On 05/19/2016 05:44 PM, Wayne Merricks wrote: Hi again, I finally have some instructions up on the Rivendell wiki: http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/UbuntuXenial I have to finish writing up the Systemd scripts for the Rivendell daemons but for now you can just run any Riv

Re: [RDD] Problem ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2016-05-19 Thread Wayne Merricks
/var/run/rivendell on the system with write permissions to your logged in user. I'm also tweaking a bunch of scripts to automate all of this but they will have to wait for another day or two. Hope that gets you started, Wayne On 2016-05-17 22:21, Manuel wrote: Wayne Merricks <waynemerri

[RDD] Riv 2.13.0 web components and create new db issues

2016-05-19 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi all, I've posted 3 issues/bugs to github. * When creating a new database there is a bug with the insert into logs SQL statement that affects all versions. It is missing a few extra NOW() values. @See https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues/121 Patch here:

Re: [RDD] Problem ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2016-05-17 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I finally had some free time to try this. Installing on Ubuntu 16.04 is a bit more effort than normal because you can't use the Tryphon repos which means you have to install QT3 from source yourself because Ubuntu dropped QT3 in either 14.04 or earlier. The install goes something like

Re: [RDD] Serial Out vs GPIO

2016-05-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I have a BT ACS 8.2. I initially tried to set up the switcher in Rivendell but something about Ubuntu didn't like to reliably do it (the serial port stopped accepting commands after a while). In the end I settled on using RN to call a script that used screen's stuff command to do the

Re: [RDD] USB audio woes

2016-05-10 Thread Wayne Merricks
Something like this might help, network managed power supply, can be scheduled or used via a web browser. https://www.openxtra.co.uk/p/aviosys-ip-power-switch-9258s-4-port-ip9258s On 10/05/16 11:37, Rob Landry wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2016, Cowboy wrote: I've been ( on and off ) searching for a

Re: [RDD] Cue crashing RD airplay???

2016-05-04 Thread Wayne Merricks
Yes it does freeze (Ubuntu 14.04 with tryphon repos 2.10.3). On 04/05/16 10:11, Stan Fotinos wrote: Hi all Could someone please test following? 1. Go into the library and enable the "Air Date/Tme" for a audio cut so that it is not currently active (Red) 2. Then go into RDairplay and select

Re: [RDD] USB audio Card, Configuration Issue

2016-04-26 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I had an issue with a USB Roland DUO Capture EX. For some reason I don't really understand, it only works in 24bit mode. Rivendell tries 32bit and 16bit only. The only way I could get it to work in the end was to use JACK with the sound card and use Riv via JACK. On 26/04/16 00:34,

Re: [RDD] Rivendell on a Pi 3

2016-04-25 Thread Wayne Merricks
any init scripts to cope with /var/run/rivendell. On 25/04/16 12:55, drew Roberts wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Wayne Merricks <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com <mailto:waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com>> wrote: Hi, The Pi build is basically the same as Debian

Re: [RDD] Rivendell on a Pi 3

2016-04-25 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, The Pi build is basically the same as Debian 6. I've put it on an original Pi a few years ago. http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Debian_6_Install_Rivendell_2.1.1_from_Source The issue with Jessie is QT3 is a pain to get going manually but if you add the tryphon source repos you should

Re: [RDD] unable to download peak data, error was: "internal error"

2016-04-18 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, This is a common problem when the web components don't install properly. Can you navigate to: http://localhost/rd-bin/addcart.html If you get a 404 you need to sort your Apache riv config out. On 18/04/16 01:57, jorge soto wrote: If I try to run Rdlibrary from a terminal I get CURL

Re: [RDD] Gpio compiling.

2016-04-15 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, At the moment you need to be on Debian 6 or any other distro with Linux Kernel 2.6 or below. The more recent (2+ years) 3.x kernels don't work. You can edit the source to make it work however a lot of the system calls are deprecated and different. I managed to do some editing quite a

Re: [RDD] reorder metadata on import?

2016-04-11 Thread Wayne Merricks
Assuming there isn't a magic string to get rdimport to do the work for you, Rivendell is just MySQL behind the scenes so providing you have the information in a usable format you could update manually. You are interested in 3 fields from the CUTS table: * CUT_NAME = Cart Number + _cut number

Re: [RDD] Stop and hold

2016-04-11 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, Not really how Riv macros work however you can work around it. * Macro executes and stops for whatever reason * Have that GPI closure execute your resume macro (PN or something). Now assuming its not that simple because that GPI closure might happen for lots of reasons at different points

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