Re: [RDD] Configuring Rivendell/JACK

2015-03-11 Thread Wayne Merricks
you can also do this to check processes in a terminal: ps -C caed -C jackd -o pid,user,group,cmd and you'll get something like this: ps -C caed -C jackd -o pid,user,group,cmd PID USER GROUPCMD 2305 ukstudio ukstudio /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n4 2329 ukstudio ukstu

Re: [RDD] Cannot record

2015-03-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, drew Roberts wrote: Do you have your inputs set correctly in rdadmin? Yes: card 0, port 0. Are you using alsa or jack? Alsa, no Jack. Rob ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspi

Re: [RDD] Hot Standby Host Question

2015-03-11 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Mar 10, 2015, at 15:52 40, Jimmy Taylor wrote: > It appears that all that is needed to switch the standby to master is close > Rivendell down and run "rd_config master/standby". That’s the old school method. A much more streamlined way to use the RDMonitor/RDSelect tools. For managing DB/

[RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Chuck
There are 3 problems we have encountered while testing Rivendell for migration of our community station to its use. 1) We are using the log generating feature to schedule our music hours. After opening the generated log in RDLogEdit, it has a “Reports” function that the wiki says should create a t

Re: [RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Chuck wrote: All hours start with a legal ID--placement of that is flexible within the usual limits, so no real need to put a time to it, but I have tried it both ways: 'make next' and 'wait'. In testing our typical day on Rivendell, my problem is that spots scheduled

Re: [RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Robert
On 03/12/2015 05:50 AM, Chuck wrote: About half the hours of our day end with 4 to 6 underwriting/weather/promo announcements. All hours start with a legal ID--placement of that is flexible within the usual limits, so no real need to put a time to it, but I have tried it both ways: 'make next'

Re: [RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Robert wrote: put a Make Next in front of the bottom of the hour break. :55 :57 or so If necessary schedule some flannel which can get bumped after the paying stuff... trailers that sort of thing, this makes up for variations in the break length. The top of the hour

Re: [RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues #3

2015-03-11 Thread Robert
On 03/12/2015 05:50 AM, Chuck wrote: the scheduler occasionally puts in a song up to, or more than, 7 minutes long in those 2 minute slots (a 10:13 event appeared there yesterday). The scheduler does not consider time, especially not the time you allocate in the clock, for a very good reason

Re: [RDD] Cannot record

2015-03-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Frederick Gleason wrote: On Mar 11, 2015, at 13:35 16, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: It does indeed return "closed". How about when the Rivendell service is running? access: RW_INTERLEAVED format: S16_LE subformat: STD channels: 2 rate: 48000 (48000/1)

Re: [RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Robert Orr
Number 3. The scheduler doesn't fill based on the length of the pie slices. It just places one cart for each slice no matter how big or small the slice is. So if you needed to over-fill part of the hour you could put ten any-length pie slices (even 1 second long if you want) and the scheduler would

Re: [RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Robert wrote: On 03/12/2015 08:17 AM, Rob Landry wrote: At 12:55, the playing song has one minute to go. The Make Next activates, dumping the following song, making the first spot the next event. You do have to set this up with enough slop to allow for the variation in

Re: [RDD] Need Help with 3 Issues #3

2015-03-11 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 11 March 2015 03:26:47 pm Robert wrote: > Rivendell is a computer program not artificial intelligence. The > thinking needs to be done by whoever is setting it up, who then issues > instructions. You have no idea how close to home that one hit ! ( but at least three on this list,

Re: [RDD] Cannot record

2015-03-11 Thread John Anderson
only when the audio source isn't turned up.. go to alsamixer, and make sure the input is on... and there is audio to record,...right On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 11:55 -0400, Rob Landry wrote: > I have a system running Rivendell 2.5.2 under Debian 7. It does not record > audio. > > Neither rdlibr

Re: [RDD] Cannot record

2015-03-11 Thread John Anderson
also check RDalsaconfig if it's relevant...if you audacity is working, you may not have assigned an input to rivendell On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 20:36 -0400, John Anderson wrote: > only when the audio source isn't turned up.. > > go to alsamixer, and make sure the input is on... > > and there is aud

Re: [RDD] Cannot record

2015-03-11 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Frederick Gleason wrote: > How about when the Rivendell service is running? On Mar 11, 2015, at 15:34 52, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > access: RW_INTERLEAVED Hmm. Have you checked file permissions in the audio store? Is the ‘rivendell’ user (or whateve