I've had the same question before. 5 years ago when I first set up our Rivendell network, I decided to go with master and slave servers and put clients (6 of them) in the production and main airplay studios. I have never had an issue with this setup but I always make sure that the master server is backing up automatically to the slave and I have a spare client to put into the airplay position if needed - and that has been needed once or twice in 5 yrs. I like having the servers somewhat isolated from the users under my care and accessible to me at any time to run checks, etc.
For backup on-air audio, I run a stand alone Rivendell box in the rack room that I update once in a while with new audio files. It runs a continuous loop of 30 days of logs and if my audio network detects silence for more than 15 secs, it gets put on the air automatically. I can also put it on the air when I want to do maintenance on the entire network... maybe once or twice per year. The other thing I like about using clients is that you don't have to have large hard drives everywhere. I use 250GB SSDs in all my clients and now with Axia, I can use small form boxes (no physical sound cards) and they run very quietly taking up little space in the studio. I would like to hear about other good setups as well since I plan to rebuild the servers in the next few months (still on CentOS 6.9). A lot of the decision depends on how big your operation is. >From my limited perspective, Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539 On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:37 AM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > > Wherever possible, I run standalone Rivendell machines. The "server" is > the "client". > > I do this because with a standalone machine no network failure can make > the radio station go silent. > > With a client/server implementation, the audio is being transmitted in the > form of data packets from the server to the client across a network. If > something happens to the network -- say, the power supply of a switch or > router fails -- the station goes silent. A standalone machine will keep > running if its network goes away. > > The fewer potential points of failure there are in a system, the more > reliable it will be. > > > Rob > > -- > Сквозь грозы сияло нам солнце свободы > И Linus великий нам путь озарил; > Нас вырастил Stallman на верность народу, > На труд и на подвиги нас вдохновил. > > On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Mark Murdock wrote: > > > > > Would it be a good idea, bad idea or indifferent to use a Rivendell > server > > as the on-air playout machine? Is it best to use a client for this > purpose? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Mark Murdock > > > > KAMB > > > > 90 E. 16th St. > > > > Merced, CA 95340 > > > > (209) 723-1015 > > > > m...@celebrationradio.com > > > > Website > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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