Re: [RDD] Fred

[wa7skg]

There were pictures of Fred on Facebook a couple weeks ago. He was 
working on an eight station upgrade. He even got to drive a Tesla. He 
looks pretty much the same as he did last time I saw him about ten years 
ago.


Stan Fotinos wrote on 3/30/21 7:47 PM:

Hi all

I haven't seen Fred post anything for a while, is anyone in contact with 
him?


Hope all is well!

Stan


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Re: [RDD] Linux Mint

[David Klann]

Hey Jonathan,

On 3/31/21 09:45, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just to stick my head above the parapet. 
>

Good to "meet" you. I admire your work on Airpro and your other tools
and utilities! Thank you for sharing!

> I’m actually the person behind the Radiotools site, so I just wanted to make
> clear that “Airpro” exists really in name only to refer to Rivendell 2.19.3 
> with
> a few patches and internationalisations for the UK. The naming is because I
> provide volunteer IT support for several community radio (LPFM) stations and 
> got
> fed up with people confusing “normal” Rivendell with our patched version that
> corrects the UK date format and backports a few bug fixes, so it seemed wrong 
> to
> be distributing something that was branded “Rivendell” but might cause support
> issues for other people if they couldn’t tell that it had been modified 
> slightly.
>
> Having said that, my station (First 105.1 FM in Oxford, UK) has been running 
> it
> 24/7 on Mint 19 for several years with rock solid stability so far (touch 
> wood).
> This includes at least 6 RD machines including those used for remote
> voicetracking and admin. However, we’re currently stuck on Rivendell 2.19.3 as
> I’ve just not been able to get 3.x working on Mint 19 or 20 to the level I 
> feel
> comfortable with and we also have a lot of bodged scripts that talk directly 
> to
> the database and would need updating for the new schema (not a major issue but
> the current system works so there is risk in changing it without extensive 
> testing).
>

Regarding database interaction and migration from Rivendell 2.X to 3.X,
I have no doubt you are aware of how to do this and have a strategy in
mind for when you take this on. I too support several radio stations
here in the US, and I have written some tools (ZSH, Bash, Golang, PHP,
etc.) that interact directly with the Rivendell database. I prefer the
web API, and use it when possible, but as you are likely aware, that's
not always possible...

I just wanted to mention my Rivendell ZSH "library"
(https://github.com/opensourceradio/ram/blob/master/usr/local/bin/zsh-functions),
and specifically the okDatabaseStructure() ZSH function. One calls this
function from a ZSH script, passing it a list of table names and
associated column names. The function checks the database schemas for
the requested tables and columns, and returns "true" or "false" (in
Shell terms) whether all of them are currently part of the schema. It's
not perfect, but it helps me support multiple database versions without
actually checking the database version number.

The script that calls okDatabaseStructure() must know the schema
differences, but it can discern at runtime which "version" to use.

zsh-functions is "shellchecked" and I although I'm not a bona fide
developer, I endeavor to practice "sane coding"... In that same repo is
a (very crude) zsh-functions "test script", which is my feeble effort to
ensure the functions operate as advertised.

Forward!

   ~David Klann

> Best regards,
>
> Jonathan
>


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[RDD] Easy way to disable pulseaudio Centos7 xfce

[Angelena Chapman]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how to disable pulseaudio in the the regular CentOS 7
build (that uses xfce now)?

Thank you so much. I appreciate all the input and help and ideas.

Angelena
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Re: [RDD] Fred

[David Klann]

Hi Stan,

On 3/30/21 21:47, you wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I haven't seen Fred post anything for a while, is anyone in contact with
> him?
>
> Hope all is well!
>
> Stan


I had a brief email exchange with Fred a few weeks ago. In his note, he
said he was (paraphrasing) neck deep in coding for a QT5
re-implementation of Rivendell. And as Florent noted in his reply, one
can see his progress in the "qt5" branch on GitHub
(https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/tree/qt5).

I think that between this QT5 work and the Red Hat / CentOS news of late
we're going to be seeing some significant changes to the Rivendell
ecosystem in the coming months. This would be a great time to get
involved if you've ever considered contributing to the project!

Best,

   ~David Klann

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Re: [RDD] Linux Mint

[Jonathan Cohen]

Hi,

 
Just to stick my head above the parapet. 

 
I’m actually the person behind the Radiotools site, so I just wanted to make 
clear that “Airpro” exists really in name only to refer to Rivendell 2.19.3 
with a few patches and internationalisations for the UK. The naming is because 
I provide volunteer IT support for several community radio (LPFM) stations and 
got fed up with people confusing “normal” Rivendell with our patched version 
that corrects the UK date format and backports a few bug fixes, so it seemed 
wrong to be distributing something that was branded “Rivendell” but might cause 
support issues for other people if they couldn’t tell that it had been modified 
slightly.

 
Having said that, my station (First 105.1 FM in Oxford, UK) has been running it 
24/7 on Mint 19 for several years with rock solid stability so far (touch 
wood). This includes at least 6 RD machines including those used for remote 
voicetracking and admin. However, we’re currently stuck on Rivendell 2.19.3 as 
I’ve just not been able to get 3.x working on Mint 19 or 20 to the level I feel 
comfortable with and we also have a lot of bodged scripts that talk directly to 
the database and would need updating for the new schema (not a major issue but 
the current system works so there is risk in changing it without extensive 
testing).

 
Best regards,

Jonathan

 
 
From: rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org 
 On Behalf Of Alan Peterson
Sent: 30 March 2021 19:24
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System 

Subject: [RDD] Linux Mint

 
Everyone may already know the folks at RadioTools broadcast software in the UK 
have devised a way to run Rivendell under Linux Mint; a desktop distro based on 
Ubuntu. They call their incarnation "AirPro".

 
There have been some good packages created such as RRAbuntu and Edge Radio's 
RPi version with Raspbian, but has anyone here tried Mint as a suitable and 
stable OS? If so, what were your impressions?

 
https://www.radiotools.uk/playout.html

https://linuxmint.com/

https://www.edgeradio.org.au/rivendell-on-raspberry-pi.html

 
AP


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Re: [RDD] RDCatch Error Notification

[Mike Carroll]

Not directly.  But you can have Rivendell execute an RML command, such as
RN ("run"), which you can then use to invoke a mail command.  Here's what
we have, although we don't have any external mail connections so it's all
internal.

RN mail -s "%y event %d for %t failed: %e" automation-err...@kptz.org <
/dev/null !

You get to it from: RDAdmin -> Manage Hosts -> hostname - RDCatch -> "Host
Wide Settings: Error RML".

One of the OpsGuide appendices has a list of the replaceable strings you
can use in the RML command; I forget which one.

Good luck!
Mike



On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:36 PM wa7skg  wrote:

> Our station currently runs predominately automated. There are days when
> no one even looks at the computer. I only come in once a week, sometimes
> not every week.
>
> I'd like to know when a program download fails in RDCatch. I know
> everything is logged in the /var/log/rivendell/operations log, but I
> really don't want to log into the computer everyday and scan the file.
> Especially when we only have a failure once every couple weeks or so.
>
> Is there a way to somehow have RD detect and send me an email when an
> RDCatch download fails?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> 73,
> Michael WA7SKG
>
> "Any day you do not learn one new thing is a wasted day."
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Re: [RDD] Fred

[Florent Peyraud]

Hello

I can see commits on qt5 branch of Rivendell 6 days ago

I hope everything is all right.

Fred, can you read us ? Please make a sign !

Best regards

Florent

Le 31/03/2021 à 04:47, Stan Fotinos a écrit :

Hi all

I haven't seen Fred post anything for a while, is anyone in contact 
with him?


Hope all is well!

Stan

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