Many thanks for the response. I had considered all parts as you mention including the storage and bandwidth (source machine) but good points on Jack.
Maybe a nice science project for a few rainy night! Thanks On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:03 PM, James L. Stewart <jstew...@paceaudio.com> wrote: > Never tried it with an actual VPS, but would consider it. > > I do use our Rivendell installations remotely a lot! The station staff > often takes a laptop or iPad to sporting events and does the whole event > via a VNC remote session without anyone at the studio (Rivendell controls > the our Telos audio CODEC via Jack audio commands). The station is 70 > miles away from its "Engineer" (me) so I'm constantly doing things remotely > with it as well. I did do some odd things however: > > I actually have the whole Rivendell session running solely in a separate > VNC session, as in not associated with any X11 display! It starts it up at > the end of the init process. Then for the local machine, when you log in > with a certain login, it simply runs a VNC viewer as the window manager. > This way it looks like you are logging in to a normal session except you > are actually running a VNC viewer to remote session on the local machine! > Why do I do this? It seems that I get more responsive remote VNC sessions > this way. I guess the normal "x11vnc" part of X11 slows things down quite > a bit as compared to a stand-alone VNC session. > > Another advantage happened once where something went wrong the X11 on the > local machine (I think a power bump scrambled the video card or something), > and although the local machine's view died, Rivendell kept running and one > could still log into it remotely (This event really had the staff > scratching there heads as to them they felt the Rivendell computer had > crashed, yet it hadn't). I simply remotely restarted the display manager > and it all came back. > > Using a VPS however remember you typically are sharing the actual machine > with others in other virtual machines. I don't know how Jack audio is > going to like that as it pretty much wants to run at "real time" priority > in order to get low latency. You might have to dial in a lot of latency in > Jack to get it to work at all. In any case, I expect this would be the > part that would be the biggest stumbling block. > > We have reasonably large music library that could be cost prohibitive to > store and maintain on a VPS, but I have considered trying to get a slave > backup MySQL server running on one as an emergency failsafe, but don't know > enough about MySQL to do this. Instead I do nightly snapshots of it (using > the RML command for it) and rsync it to an emergency backup machine in our > office (70 Miles away, but transmitter is fed from Internet anyway so this > machine can go on the air quickly as well as we've done several times). > > On 8/14/2015 4:50 PM, rivendell-dev-requ...@lists.rivendellaudio.org > wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:03:34 -0400 >> From: Richard Gorbutt<rich...@gorbutt.com> >> To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System >> <rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org> >> Subject: [RDD] Anyone had success with a VPS on RD? >> Message-ID: >> <CAGOTaGjsAw++PyVDFGQ3C-VZ= >> 330-oek7d3ew_np+t-jpno...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm thinking of possibly firing up a VPS (maybe DigitalOcean) and trying >> to >> install a flavor of Linux with a desktop manager. Anyone tried to install >> RD and make it work remotely with relative ease? I have a good install on >> Linux Mint running well with Jack on my studio so have a good amount of >> experience. >> >> also, the upgrade cycle has been quiet recently, any nice features coming >> down the road? >> >> Regards, Richard >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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