Keith:
You are correct; what you're wanting is very "do-able".
Years ago, I coded up a complete "template" of a sample system that would
respond to multiple triggers from Salem Music Network's service in the US.
It's a live music service with floating breaks, liners, imaging jingles, etc.
randomly placed through the hour. They also have multiple DJs working on
different shifts day and night, and it's possible to use simple functions
(panel buttons, scheduled log events, even an RSS feed if you wanted to do some
creative scripting etc.) to load a new set of voiceover liners to match the
on-air DJ voice.
One thing to keep in mind is how to accommodate any possible contingency: e.g.
what happens if the satellite service goes offline for a short time (e.g.
during a solar transition fade) and it misses a required break window (a
situation easily mitigated by a hard trigger to Make Next). I can't list all
the contingencies quickly here, but you get the idea.
I seem to recall that others have written very good and detailed procedures and
generalities on this topic in the past..
Here are a couple of quick links:
Follow the "Next message" links on this thread to get a basic primer to one
specific topic of enabling triggers...
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rivendell-dev/BJ7xvOL2tVk
Another more wide-ranging discussion:
http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/pipermail/rivendell-dev/2012-May/015754.html
Google is your friend.
Also, the Rivendell Operations Guide and the Wikipedia are good reads -- even
if they are exhaustive (and exhausting ;-).
--
Sherrod Munday
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sherrodmunday
From: Keith Thelen
To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:39 PM
Subject: [RDD] Rivendell and satellite formats
Hello all!
Is there anyone out there using Rivendell with a live satellite-based format -
one in which the programming is delivered in real-time (not recorded and played
back), and uses contact closures to trigger imaging, stopsets, etc?
And, if you're one of those people, would you be willing to elaborate on how
you configured Rivendell to handle it? Any tips, tricks, lessons you perhaps
learned the hard way?
I know it can be done - I've just never had to do it.
---
Keith Thelen
Kanabec Systems
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