Re: [RDD] 3Tb Hard Drives
GPT support is usually a kernel thing so you shouldn't have any issues. You might have to manually partition things but thats usually about it (I've only done this on Debian Squeeze but CentOS isn't that far behind). Having said that the only time (usually) 2TB causes problems is if you want to boot from the drive. Theres nothing stopping you having a small boot drive and then the 3TB mounted to /var/snd Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 15/08/12 21:54, Robert Jeffares wrote: In a move to increase the storage capacity of our system(s) I obtained a new WD 3TB drive to install in a back up system. I can live with the inability of the box to boot from a 3TB drive but is the 64bit appliance system going to be able to deal with the GPT-partitioned disk. I have a feeling this has all been thought through well ahead. Asking here may save a lot of experimenting. Robert Jeffares Big Valley Radio Thames New Zealand ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Budget USB Multichannel Audio Interface
Wow... Hell with it, this guy's getting a 1010. Thanks LT. - Original Message - From: ltynd...@tyndaleweb.com To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:09:41 PM Subject: Re: [RDD] Budget USB Multichannel Audio Interface Hi, I've never used the specific USB device you mentioned, however a while back I did use a cheap $5 USB audio interface / dongle (which used a C-Media chipset) with Rivendell as a Cue output. It did work for me, however there were a few things that I found I had to do. First, I was using straight ALSA, no Jack involved. Second, I had to hard-code the device numbers for both the onboard sound and the USB device in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (Ubuntu-based system). Third (and this is probably most important) I had to make sure that if the USB dongle ever got unplugged, it was plugged back into the *same* USB port (plugging it into a different USB port would usually give it a different device number, even though it was hard-coded - I actually put a sticker / note above the USB port to mark the one to use). And fourth, I had to boot the system with the USB audio dongle plugged into the proper USB port and be sure to avoid unplugging the USB device while the system was running. I also had to hard-code my Rivendell sample rate in /etc/asound.conf or else caed wouldn't initialize the audio interfaces at the proper sample rates. When I did this worked for me. I will say that I did not use this setup long term - it was set up as a test / demo laptop to show off and test some of the capabilities of Rivendell (and to show how it could run on a 10 year old system without difficulty). For on-air use a better audio card would be the way to go. For this test machine I used the internal/onboard sound for the main output, and the usb audio dongle for Cue. The audio quality wasn't as good as it would have been with a better sound card, but considering that I didn't have high quality speakers hooked up to it at the time, you couldn't tell. I'll also note that in my setup each audio interface only had 1 output that I could use. I have no idea how you'd set up the multiple outputs on the card you referenced, however if the card is recognized by alsa and you're able to get Rivendell to output audio to it, then I imagine it should be possible to get all the audio outputs working. As much as I want to run RD with a high-quality audio interface, I have an immediate need for a quickie system that will unfortunately need to be run with a crap-tastic multichannel audio box from the local computer store. I'm being steered towards a Sabrent USB-SND8 (http://www.sabrent.com/category/audio/USB-SND8/) -- eight channel Surround-style output (to be used as separate Main log, RDPanel and Cue lines), 44.1 and 48k sample rates, and two mic inputs, all driven by a C-Media chipset, which I don't see mentioned in the Tryphon wiki. ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
[RDD] no import formats other than PCM
Hi, I installed Centos Appliance on a new machine and imported my database from my old 1.7 build. I added a new host based on my 1.7 host but the new one only shows PCM 16 and oggvorbis for import formats. (and oggvorbis files don't import correctly, they just produce a half second of silence cut). The other hosts show all the regular import formats. I've messed around a bunch with this box trying to get other things working so I certainly could have messed up some permissions or other things. Where should I start to fix this problem? This is currently my on-air box. Thanks for any help, Robert Orr ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] no import formats other than PCM
Just to be clear, if you go to edit host - Audio Resources you get something like the following: SUPPORTED IMPORT FORMATS OggVorbis PCM16 Linear I always thought Rivendell compiled in the supported formats but I guess its possible somethings happened and you've lost the rpms for the MPEG and FLAC libraries? I've not got much experience with the CentOS appliance. If you can stomach a fresh install do you have the supported formats there from the start? Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 16/08/12 17:32, Robert Orr wrote: Hi, I installed Centos Appliance on a new machine and imported my database from my old 1.7 build. I added a new host based on my 1.7 host but the new one only shows PCM 16 and oggvorbis for import formats. (and oggvorbis files don't import correctly, they just produce a half second of silence cut). The other hosts show all the regular import formats. I've messed around a bunch with this box trying to get other things working so I certainly could have messed up some permissions or other things. Where should I start to fix this problem? This is currently my on-air box. Thanks for any help, Robert Orr ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
[RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
Not really a Rivendell problem Dell poweredge 2850 with Perc4/dc raid controller, broadcast appliance install doesn't see the disk...any idea how to fix this? I have six disk setup in a raid 5 ready to go. I can take out the raid card but don't know how to setup the software raid, and I have to use raid to get enough space for my /var/snd. Thanks -- Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
[RDD] Newbie GPIO question
Hi all, I'm afraid I have to show my stupidity in a public setting once again so please forgive me for wasting everyone's time. I set up a Measurement Computing PCI-DIO24 in Debian 6 for use with Rivendell. I downloaded the Rivendell GPIO drivers and followed the install file. Then I ran gpitest (had to be run as root which I hope doesn't bite me later). I have a little break out board that turns the 37pin D type connector into 37 screw in terminals. For reasons I don't understand I'm getting strange results. With nothing plugged into the board gpitest shows all inputs off. If I plug in a 2metre 37pin cable (male - female) inputs 8, 14, 15 and 24 come on (24 eventually goes off by itself). If I then plug the other end of the cable into the break out board over 5 - 15minutes more inputs start coming on. So I figured maybe its a grounding issue so I earthed the breakout board with no success. I then started connecting each gpio pin to pin 21 (GND) and this does switch the inputs off (they eventually start coming back on). I then tried another test by connecting +5V (pin 20) to the inputs to fire them and it worked but for some reason certain pins fire more than one input and I'm not sure why. The pins stay on until I ground them which I assume is intended. The manual for this card says all I/O bits are set to a high impedance input mode on power up and reset and you should install pull up or pull down resistors to get inputs to a known state. Do I need to do this or is it a software switch somewhere? If I do, should I use pull down considering Riv seems to have grounded pins as off? There is a possibility I'm getting interference as I sit right next to the server room which makes nice patterns on old CRT monitors that get too close. Finally I figured I'd just add the gpio card to Rivendell (edit hosts - switchers gpio - 24 inputs using the default local_gpio). I assigned a macro to GPIO 1 (which should be A0) and fired the pins but I get nothing. My Rivendell services don't run as root due to issues with Jack, would this be why I can't seem to get any response? Anyone with any experience with these cards would be greatly appreciated (apologies for the long email). -- Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] no import formats other than PCM
Correct about the edit host - Audio Resources. Reinstall would not be fun... It's my current on-air box. I'll look to see that I have the rpms. Yes I'm pretty sure that the appliance had those import formats at install and then lost them some how. Robert On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Wayne Merricks waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com wrote: Just to be clear, if you go to edit host - Audio Resources you get something like the following: SUPPORTED IMPORT FORMATS OggVorbis PCM16 Linear I always thought Rivendell compiled in the supported formats but I guess its possible somethings happened and you've lost the rpms for the MPEG and FLAC libraries? I've not got much experience with the CentOS appliance. If you can stomach a fresh install do you have the supported formats there from the start? Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 16/08/12 17:32, Robert Orr wrote: Hi, I installed Centos Appliance on a new machine and imported my database from my old 1.7 build. I added a new host based on my 1.7 host but the new one only shows PCM 16 and oggvorbis for import formats. (and oggvorbis files don't import correctly, they just produce a half second of silence cut). The other hosts show all the regular import formats. I've messed around a bunch with this box trying to get other things working so I certainly could have messed up some permissions or other things. Where should I start to fix this problem? This is currently my on-air box. Thanks for any help, Robert Orr ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
The only thing I can suggest is seeing if you can run a live cd version of Centos 5.5 and then do an lspci to see what comes up for the raid card. Then fudge around until you can actually use the thing. My suspicion is that the drivers aren't built into the kernel and its simply a case of hardware not found. If that is the case you might end up having to roll your own CentOS install. Some info from the forums is that if the card can be set to AHCI mode you can use it as 6 individual disks and then use the setup partitioner to install lvm and a software raid. Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 16/08/12 18:27, Nathan Steele wrote: Not really a Rivendell problem Dell poweredge 2850 with Perc4/dc raid controller, broadcast appliance install doesn't see the disk...any idea how to fix this? I have six disk setup in a raid 5 ready to go. I can take out the raid card but don't know how to setup the software raid, and I have to use raid to get enough space for my /var/snd. Thanks ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
I can pull the card and use the servers internal scsi, then the install disk will see six seperate drives, but the LVM software RAID is all new to me. I know some people actually prefer the software RAID over hardware RAID. Is there no way to add the driver during the initial boot up of the install disk like you can on windows? Thanks, Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 8/16/2012 1:53 PM, Wayne Merricks wrote: The only thing I can suggest is seeing if you can run a live cd version of Centos 5.5 and then do an lspci to see what comes up for the raid card. Then fudge around until you can actually use the thing. My suspicion is that the drivers aren't built into the kernel and its simply a case of hardware not found. If that is the case you might end up having to roll your own CentOS install. Some info from the forums is that if the card can be set to AHCI mode you can use it as 6 individual disks and then use the setup partitioner to install lvm and a software raid. Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 16/08/12 18:27, Nathan Steele wrote: Not really a Rivendell problem Dell poweredge 2850 with Perc4/dc raid controller, broadcast appliance install doesn't see the disk...any idea how to fix this? I have six disk setup in a raid 5 ready to go. I can take out the raid card but don't know how to setup the software raid, and I have to use raid to get enough space for my /var/snd. Thanks ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:03 -0400, Nathan Steele wrote: Is there no way to add the driver during the initial boot up of the install disk like you can on windows? You should NOT have to. The driver is in all 'RHEL' based OSes (the appliance cd). Should have a PERC4 if it's a standard pe2850. See [1], section Red Hat. You will have to reboot the machine and hit 'Control - M' to configure the raid containers and disk setup. After that the installer should see the array. [1] http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/w/wiki/linux-raid-and-storage.aspx signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
One way to go is to forget about running Rivendell on the /var/snd file system computer. If you need that much storage, set up a computer with BSD or Solaris X86 and build a ZFS store to put your /var/snd on. Offer it as an NFS share and after you get your simple/tiny disk Broadcast Appliance built, mount /var/snd from the NFS share. You'll have all the advantages of a high reliability, flexible and easy to administer file server which can have lots of cooling fans (since it doesn't have to be in the studio) and you'll have a simplified Rivendell installation that can be put on a quiet, low power small foot print computer in the studio. A lot of places put the MySQL server on the separate machine but I think it's easiest to just let the BA disk install put that on the playout station. You can't hardly buy drives smaller than 320 GB these days and you only need about 10% of that for a full Rivendell installation if the audio storage is somewhere else. Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA Sent from my iPad On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Nathan Steele nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com wrote: Not really a Rivendell problem Dell poweredge 2850 with Perc4/dc raid controller, broadcast appliance install doesn't see the disk...any idea how to fix this? I have six disk setup in a raid 5 ready to go. I can take out the raid card but don't know how to setup the software raid, and I have to use raid to get enough space for my /var/snd. Thanks -- Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
That's what I thought. I have done the ctrl-m setup. Had no problems on my PE-6650's (Those might be PERC3's though...) Dell open manage has no problem seeing it, but won't accept the broadcast appliance disk asa RHEL 5 installer disc, which is not much surprise since it isn't.. I'll have to double check the card to be sure of whih it is but I am pretty sure it is a PERC4 something, there are a few different versions. The card didn't come with the server, but I ordered what I thought was the one that should go with it, which should have been the PERC4. Thanks Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 8/16/2012 2:22 PM, John Stanley wrote: On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:03 -0400, Nathan Steele wrote: Is there no way to add the driver during the initial boot up of the install disk like you can on windows? You should NOT have to. The driver is in all 'RHEL' based OSes (the appliance cd). Should have a PERC4 if it's a standard pe2850. See [1], section Red Hat. You will have to reboot the machine and hit 'Control - M' to configure the raid containers and disk setup. After that the installer should see the array. [1] http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/w/wiki/linux-raid-and-storage.aspx ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] no import formats other than PCM
All the yum install commands (libogg-devel vorbis-tools libvorbis-devel, libmad libmad-devel twolame twolame-devel) say similar things to this: #yum install lame lame-devel .. Package lame-3.97-6.el5.ccrma.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package lame-devel-3.97-6.el5.ccrma.x86_64 already installed and latest version Any other thoughts? Robert On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Robert Orr orrrob...@gmail.com wrote: Correct about the edit host - Audio Resources. Reinstall would not be fun... It's my current on-air box. I'll look to see that I have the rpms. Yes I'm pretty sure that the appliance had those import formats at install and then lost them some how. Robert On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Wayne Merricks waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com wrote: Just to be clear, if you go to edit host - Audio Resources you get something like the following: SUPPORTED IMPORT FORMATS OggVorbis PCM16 Linear I always thought Rivendell compiled in the supported formats but I guess its possible somethings happened and you've lost the rpms for the MPEG and FLAC libraries? I've not got much experience with the CentOS appliance. If you can stomach a fresh install do you have the supported formats there from the start? Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 16/08/12 17:32, Robert Orr wrote: Hi, I installed Centos Appliance on a new machine and imported my database from my old 1.7 build. I added a new host based on my 1.7 host but the new one only shows PCM 16 and oggvorbis for import formats. (and oggvorbis files don't import correctly, they just produce a half second of silence cut). The other hosts show all the regular import formats. I've messed around a bunch with this box trying to get other things working so I certainly could have messed up some permissions or other things. Where should I start to fix this problem? This is currently my on-air box. Thanks for any help, Robert Orr ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
Is it possible that the drive is only a cd reader and not a dvd rom? If this is the case just borrow a dvd rom from another machine for installation purposes. Many thanks Geoff Barkman On Aug 17, 2012 6:54 AM, John Stanley john.stan...@elslc.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:34 -0400, Nathan Steele wrote: That's what I thought. I have done the ctrl-m setup. Had no problems on my PE-6650's (Those might be PERC3's though...) Dell open manage has no problem seeing it, but won't accept the broadcast appliance disk asa RHEL 5 installer disc, which is not much surprise since it isn't.. I'll have to double check the card to be sure of whih it is but I am pretty sure it is a PERC4 something, there are a few different versions. The card didn't come with the server, but I ordered what I thought was the one that should go with it, which should have been the PERC4. You marked the array as bootable right? The BIOS will tell you what controler you have for sure or you should see it on the boot screen also. You can see the array through the DRAC Controler? ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
The ramdisk image contains the drivers that are available at boot time. If you
are not booting off of that array, then modules in the OS build should be
available, and should be queried and/or loaded to activate that device based on
the OSes and module management boot sequences.
If you open a shell window, what does the following command produce?
dmesg | grep 'sd[a-z]'
If you want to go with LVM, I can provide you assistance in doing that, it is
really not hard. Before using the below
script, post your output back here and lets make sure we understand which disks
are being recognized/used for which function.
Basically, it goes like this:
for each disk in the array, do something like the following, where DISK_CHAR is
one of the letters (besides 'a' if that is your boot drive)
Put this text into a file named makearray, and then you can do
sh makearray b c d e
for example, to make an LVM array out of those disks, striped, with out any
error recovery. Pay attention to which device letters you are using here, and
note that this script provides defaults if you don't provide any arguments!
I crafted this just now, but it should work for 6 scsi resolved SATA/SCSI disks
beyond the first disk (the /dev/sda) disk.
#!/bin/bash
lst=
drives=${*:-b c d e f g}
for DISK_CHAR in ${drives}
do
lvm pvcreate /dev/sd${DISK_CHAR}
lst=${lst} /dev/sd${DISK_CHAR}
done
# with all the drive names for the volume group
lvm vgcreate vg_riven_store ${lst}
# now create the mountable volume
lvm lvcreate --name lv_varsnd --size g vg_riven_store
with these commands you'll get an array. However, if you lose one disk, the
whole pool is gone. As was suggested, using ZFS would be a better choice, even
if you just build ZFS for your centos appliance, and then create your snd pool
with it instead.
On Aug 16, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Nathan Steele nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com wrote:
I don't disagree, and am running a networked setup now but I am using
older servers with SCSI drives and as such have six 74Gb scsi drives to
put in this one, which will replace our current server(which will be
switched to backup duty. I have /var/snd, mysql, and the CAE running on
the server, airplay runs on a seperate machine, and production on a
seperate machine with its CAE local. I like the thought of not having
the audio leave the server for playout to air. the longer term plan is
to replace all the machines with newer (SATA) hardware, but we are a
non-comm that is just going on air so we need money coming in first. the
curent servers were ones I had in my personal server lab not being used
for anything important. long story short I just need this one to work
for maybe the next 6 months...
Nathaniel C. Steele
Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director
WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM
On 8/16/2012 2:32 PM, Bill Putney wrote:
One way to go is to forget about running Rivendell on the /var/snd file
system computer. If you need that much storage, set up a computer with BSD
or Solaris X86 and build a ZFS store to put your /var/snd on. Offer it as an
NFS share and after you get your simple/tiny disk Broadcast Appliance built,
mount /var/snd from the NFS share.
You'll have all the advantages of a high reliability, flexible and easy to
administer file server which can have lots of cooling fans (since it doesn't
have to be in the studio) and you'll have a simplified Rivendell
installation that can be put on a quiet, low power small foot print computer
in the studio.
A lot of places put the MySQL server on the separate machine but I think
it's easiest to just let the BA disk install put that on the playout
station. You can't hardly buy drives smaller than 320 GB these days and you
only need about 10% of that for a full Rivendell installation if the audio
storage is somewhere else.
Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA
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On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Nathan Steele nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com
wrote:
Not really a Rivendell problem
Dell poweredge 2850 with Perc4/dc raid controller, broadcast appliance
install doesn't see the disk...any idea how to fix this? I have six disk
setup in a raid 5 ready to go.
I can take out the raid card but don't know how to setup the software
raid, and I have to use raid to get enough space for my /var/snd.
Thanks
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Re: [RDD] Broadcast appliance install can't see disk
I understand. We don't plan projects by dollars either. We use the subscriber/year unit for calculating project costs. My thought was that the less you mess with the out of the box BA the less likely you are to have grief with it. The sound storage server is completely autonomous and you can use about any stable *nix you like to. In your case, ZFS is very attractive because it is very forgiving about adding non-matching storage to an array. You could add a SATA controller card and add SATA drives as needed later. Even if you want to transition completely to SATA from e SCSI drives, ZFS will make that easier. We've been running a separate server environment for Rivendell here from the outset and never had any problems or artifacts I could tie to network file service. The file server and the playout clients all have direct connections to a common Ethernet switch so congestion and latency has never been a problem. Divide and conquer! Bill - KPTZ - Port Townsend, WA Sent from my iPad On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Nathan Steele nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com wrote: I don't disagree, and am running a networked setup now but I am using older servers with SCSI drives and as such have six 74Gb scsi drives to put in this one, which will replace our current server(which will be switched to backup duty. I have /var/snd, mysql, and the CAE running on the server, airplay runs on a seperate machine, and production on a seperate machine with its CAE local. I like the thought of not having the audio leave the server for playout to air. the longer term plan is to replace all the machines with newer (SATA) hardware, but we are a non-comm that is just going on air so we need money coming in first. the curent servers were ones I had in my personal server lab not being used for anything important. long story short I just need this one to work for maybe the next 6 months... Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 8/16/2012 2:32 PM, Bill Putney wrote: One way to go is to forget about running Rivendell on the /var/snd file system computer. If you need that much storage, set up a computer with BSD or Solaris X86 and build a ZFS store to put your /var/snd on. Offer it as an NFS share and after you get your simple/tiny disk Broadcast Appliance built, mount /var/snd from the NFS share. You'll have all the advantages of a high reliability, flexible and easy to administer file server which can have lots of cooling fans (since it doesn't have to be in the studio) and you'll have a simplified Rivendell installation that can be put on a quiet, low power small foot print computer in the studio. A lot of places put the MySQL server on the separate machine but I think it's easiest to just let the BA disk install put that on the playout station. You can't hardly buy drives smaller than 320 GB these days and you only need about 10% of that for a full Rivendell installation if the audio storage is somewhere else. Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA Sent from my iPad On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Nathan Steele nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com wrote: Not really a Rivendell problem Dell poweredge 2850 with Perc4/dc raid controller, broadcast appliance install doesn't see the disk...any idea how to fix this? I have six disk setup in a raid 5 ready to go. I can take out the raid card but don't know how to setup the software raid, and I have to use raid to get enough space for my /var/snd. Thanks -- Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Fonts
Hi
Played a bit around with the fonts and settings on my debian 6.0.5
testbox and finally
found this color/font/antialiasing quite nice:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5564313/Screenshot-RDAirPlay%20-%20Host%3A%20rd1%20User%3A%20user%20Log%3A%202012_08_16%20Service%3A%20WLR247.png
It's basically the Polymer GUI Style with a changed background
basecolor ('R225 G224 B223') (a bit darker than the original setting)
As font replacement in qt3 config did not work for all used fonts, I
tweaked the riv 2.1.5 source a bit and replaced the original font to an
Arial
which apparently had the uses styles 'bold' 'normal'.
I know antialiasing is not always what you want. But on our Acer T231H
touchscreens this looks far better than the bitmap font.
It's a matter of personal taste. So love it or leave it :-)
Only thing that is not perfect is kerning. You may notice it on the
Button Full Clock Fade where the 'de' is not clearly aligned.
But hey... It's not a design software anyway ;)
Kind regards,
Sascha
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:17:58 +1200, Gavin Stephens
small.net...@gmail.com wrote:
I like those fonts too. I think their aspect ratio is better/taller.
- Original Message -
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Its just plain old 2.1.4 with the Polymer theme. To be honest Riv has
always looked like this for me. The screen shot removed the Window
title bar and introduced a shadow for some reason (ALT + Print Screen
was all I hit).
I've put up a plain screenshot of my stock Debian 6 install (without the
drop shadow effect).
http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay-deb6.png
I adjusted the background and button values to I think rgb 225 but
looking at the Ubuntu brightness it seems I should have went to 230/240.
The only reason I did this is that for some reason Debian has a really
dark grey default value that looks really ugly.
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 14/08/12 16:57, Alan Peterson wrote:
Wayne, what version are you running? It looks somewhat different from the
one I've got, and not just because of the graphics.
-AP
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Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Apart from the 3D Effect buttons, my Font looks the same as this on all
the Debian/Ubuntu installs I've performed.
All I had to do was enable the bitmap fonts:
sudo rm -rf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Then a quick poke about in qtconfig to enable polymer.
I've put a screen shot of my test machine on the web for comparison.
http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay.png
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
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Re: [RDD] Newbie GPIO question
Sorry for the multiple responses... As for what you should do, you should use physical resistors (that would be my prefered solution) as software switches can sometimes, accidentally or for no apparent reason, get reset and then you get erratic behaviour. Those pull-(up|down) resistor software switches actually enable real, internal resistors inside the chips. Using physical resistors outside of the chips will not affect wether the internal ones are enabled or not, so you are better off using physical resistors. -- Sébastien Leblanc ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Newbie GPIO question
Cheers for the reply, thats one set of problems dealt with at least. The MC PCI DIO24 actually suggests buying 8 2.2k ohm SIP packages, theres actually free space on the PCB to what appears to be solder them in place. Its an odd way of doing it but I see the logic. I think my Rivendell issue is mostly because I'm not running caed etc as root. I'll reconfigure the box and temporarily switch of jack to test that once I'm back at work. -Original Message- From: rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org on behalf of Sébastien Leblanc Sent: Fri 17/08/2012 01:22 To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System Subject: Re: [RDD] Newbie GPIO question Sorry for the multiple responses... As for what you should do, you should use physical resistors (that would be my prefered solution) as software switches can sometimes, accidentally or for no apparent reason, get reset and then you get erratic behaviour. Those pull-(up|down) resistor software switches actually enable real, internal resistors inside the chips. Using physical resistors outside of the chips will not affect wether the internal ones are enabled or not, so you are better off using physical resistors. -- Sébastien Leblanc ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev ### Scanned by MailMarshal ### Attention: The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Christian Vision or any of its subsidiaries will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message by a third party or as a result of any virus being passed on. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any e-mails sent or received by the company under the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulation 2000. Christian Vision is registered in England as a limited company 2842414 and as a charity 1031031 winmail.dat___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Fonts
I like the look of those fonts too. Very tidy :o)
So are those just Arial?
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Hi
Played a bit around with the fonts and settings on my debian 6.0.5
testbox and finally
found this color/font/antialiasing quite nice:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5564313/Screenshot-RDAirPlay%20-%20Host%3A%20rd1%20User%3A%20user%20Log%3A%202012_08_16%20Service%3A%20WLR247.png
It's basically the Polymer GUI Style with a changed background
basecolor ('R225 G224 B223') (a bit darker than the original setting)
As font replacement in qt3 config did not work for all used fonts, I
tweaked the riv 2.1.5 source a bit and replaced the original font to an
Arial
which apparently had the uses styles 'bold' 'normal'.
I know antialiasing is not always what you want. But on our Acer T231H
touchscreens this looks far better than the bitmap font.
It's a matter of personal taste. So love it or leave it :-)
Only thing that is not perfect is kerning. You may notice it on the
Button Full Clock Fade where the 'de' is not clearly aligned.
But hey... It's not a design software anyway ;)
Kind regards,
Sascha
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:17:58 +1200, Gavin Stephens
small.net...@gmail.com wrote:
I like those fonts too. I think their aspect ratio is better/taller.
- Original Message -
From: Wayne Merricks waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Its just plain old 2.1.4 with the Polymer theme. To be honest Riv has
always looked like this for me. The screen shot removed the Window
title bar and introduced a shadow for some reason (ALT + Print Screen
was all I hit).
I've put up a plain screenshot of my stock Debian 6 install (without the
drop shadow effect).
http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay-deb6.png
I adjusted the background and button values to I think rgb 225 but
looking at the Ubuntu brightness it seems I should have went to 230/240.
The only reason I did this is that for some reason Debian has a really
dark grey default value that looks really ugly.
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 14/08/12 16:57, Alan Peterson wrote:
Wayne, what version are you running? It looks somewhat different from
the
one I've got, and not just because of the graphics.
-AP
---
- Original Message -
From: Wayne Merricks
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Apart from the 3D Effect buttons, my Font looks the same as this on all
the Debian/Ubuntu installs I've performed.
All I had to do was enable the bitmap fonts:
sudo rm -rf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Then a quick poke about in qtconfig to enable polymer.
I've put a screen shot of my test machine on the web for comparison.
http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay.png
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
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Re: [RDD] Fonts
I tried Helvetica Regular off the Internet, but it makes the rows to close
together and the top lines of text are half off the screen everywhere. It
looks almost like it wasn't designed for Helvetica with this one.
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To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Hi
Played a bit around with the fonts and settings on my debian 6.0.5
testbox and finally
found this color/font/antialiasing quite nice:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5564313/Screenshot-RDAirPlay%20-%20Host%3A%20rd1%20User%3A%20user%20Log%3A%202012_08_16%20Service%3A%20WLR247.png
It's basically the Polymer GUI Style with a changed background
basecolor ('R225 G224 B223') (a bit darker than the original setting)
As font replacement in qt3 config did not work for all used fonts, I
tweaked the riv 2.1.5 source a bit and replaced the original font to an
Arial
which apparently had the uses styles 'bold' 'normal'.
I know antialiasing is not always what you want. But on our Acer T231H
touchscreens this looks far better than the bitmap font.
It's a matter of personal taste. So love it or leave it :-)
Only thing that is not perfect is kerning. You may notice it on the
Button Full Clock Fade where the 'de' is not clearly aligned.
But hey... It's not a design software anyway ;)
Kind regards,
Sascha
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:17:58 +1200, Gavin Stephens
small.net...@gmail.com wrote:
I like those fonts too. I think their aspect ratio is better/taller.
- Original Message -
From: Wayne Merricks waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Its just plain old 2.1.4 with the Polymer theme. To be honest Riv has
always looked like this for me. The screen shot removed the Window
title bar and introduced a shadow for some reason (ALT + Print Screen
was all I hit).
I've put up a plain screenshot of my stock Debian 6 install (without the
drop shadow effect).
http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay-deb6.png
I adjusted the background and button values to I think rgb 225 but
looking at the Ubuntu brightness it seems I should have went to 230/240.
The only reason I did this is that for some reason Debian has a really
dark grey default value that looks really ugly.
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 14/08/12 16:57, Alan Peterson wrote:
Wayne, what version are you running? It looks somewhat different from
the
one I've got, and not just because of the graphics.
-AP
---
- Original Message -
From: Wayne Merricks
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
Apart from the 3D Effect buttons, my Font looks the same as this on all
the Debian/Ubuntu installs I've performed.
All I had to do was enable the bitmap fonts:
sudo rm -rf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Then a quick poke about in qtconfig to enable polymer.
I've put a screen shot of my test machine on the web for comparison.
http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay.png
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
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