Re: [RDD] RDAirplay Time Different Than Linux Time

2019-01-25 Thread Fred Gleason
On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 15:22 -0800, Rich Stivers wrote: > Does this command make a permanent change or would this need to be > executed at each system startup? It's permanent - set it once and you're done. Cheers! |-| |

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay Time Different Than Linux Time

2019-01-24 Thread Fred Gleason
On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 07:01 -0600, Alan Smith wrote: > I can't remember exactly what it was now, but IIRC it had something > to do with setting the time zone as the root user. As oddly as it > sounds I believe different "users" can set different time zones, so > setting the time zone as the

[RDD] Rivendell v3.0.0beta00

2019-01-17 Thread Fred Gleason
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the initial beta release of the next major version of Rivendell, 3.x. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under

Re: [RDD] Using Apache under Windows for Rivendell

2019-01-11 Thread Fred Gleason
On Fri, 2019-01-11 at 15:09 -0500, Pab Sungenis wrote: > What I’m wondering is this: I also have Apache on the Windows server. > Would I be able to use that Apache setup for the audio import/export > under Rivendell, further reducing the burden on my client machine? Not possible I'm afraid. The

Re: [RDD] RDXport Problems

2019-01-04 Thread Fred Gleason
On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 11:12 +, Andy Higginson wrote: > I’ve got an issue cropping up on a new install using the Paravel > Rivendell installer script. During testing the new install, when > going into the library to edit the test tone, I get the following > error “Rivendell Web Service -

Re: [RDD] sending a carriage return in rlm_udp

2019-01-04 Thread Fred Gleason
On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 01:53 +0100, Peter Claes wrote: > How can I send a carriage return (hex : 0D) in rlm_udp ? > > Tried \n , \r , %0d , 0x0d ... > > I found that \n gets translated in #015#012 ? What Rivendell version is this? Cheers!

Re: [RDD] Pinning to a specific version [WAS: VNC and Rivendell on CentOS 7]

2019-01-04 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sun, 2018-12-30 at 13:23 +, t...@tomdawson.co.uk wrote: > When running rivendell-install I just 'ended up' with 2.19.3, which > is > absolutely fine as we're just starting to experiment with the latest > version, however once we're in production with a specific version, > how > do we

Re: [RDD] Alpha 3 ?

2018-12-18 Thread Fred Gleason
On Dec 18, 2018, at 05:57, Aurélien Lorence wrote: > I subscribed to this mailing list few weeks ago, and ran into messages with > these few words which sound like music to my ears: "version 3 alpha". > > My adventures on the web didn't give me any answer to this question: > > Where / How to

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay vu meter

2018-12-07 Thread Fred Gleason
On Dec 7, 2018, at 08:49, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > What sound card are you using? Turm up the gain, or use a line amp if you > have to. Rivendell machines running tone at zero on the rdairplay meters tend > to be quite a bit lower than +4 dBm. True for ‘consumer’

Re: [RDD] Questions On Paravel Centos 7 Rivendell Build

2018-12-07 Thread Fred Gleason
On Dec 6, 2018, at 23:29, Rich Stivers wrote: > At the step for Mount Points - > for /home, 100G is specified. Since I have a 1TB disc, could I specify 200G > instead? Our sound files reside on a > NAS Raid server so this drive doesn't need extra space in /var/snd. Yes, you can tweak those

Re: [RDD] GPI Set

2018-12-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Dec 5, 2018, at 11:17, Tim Camp wrote: > I have played with this and it doesn't seem to work. > Maybe I am using it wrong? > When used does this change the cart assignment you would see in RDadmin? > > I and using this syntax > > GI O I 1 ON 1234! > > for Matrix 0, Type I for Input,

Re: [RDD] Database Migration

2018-12-03 Thread Fred Gleason
On Dec 3, 2018, at 11:24, Jeremy W. Eisenzimmer wrote: > I'm looking at moving one of my database from RCS Master Control into > Rivendell. Taking a look at the MC database in SQL - I think I can pull all > the metadata info I need out of it (Title, Artist, NTP, TrimEnd, file name, > etc)

Re: [RDD] Centos 7 & Dell Optiplex 3060 Tower

2018-12-02 Thread Fred Gleason
On Dec 2, 2018, at 04:55, Rich Stivers wrote: > Has anyone had any positive or negative experiences with installing Centos 7 > on an Optiplex 3060 Tower? Seems like I > remember someone mentioning Dell motherboard capacitors failing. That was much more an industry-wide problem, (allegedly due

Re: [RDD] Dropboxes segue marker

2018-11-30 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 30, 2018, at 09:50, Gabriele Fergola wrote: > When i set it to -10dB and some value from 0 to 3000 nothing changing. The > marker are always at same position and are inverted like start is after end. > What i'm doing wrong? > > i have also normalization (-13dB) and Trim (-30dB) active.

Re: [RDD] Upgrade Centos 6 to 7

2018-11-24 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 24, 2018, at 18:11, Rich Stivers wrote: > I have written a number of bash scripts which do regex text parsing, invoke > rdimport, and invoke mysql to > extract portions of the Rivendell database to .csv files. Do most of these > actions in Centos 6 bash have a > good chance of working

Re: [RDD] rdimport - Suggested ingestion parameters?

2018-11-20 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 19, 2018, at 23:17, ija...@jamcorbroadcast.com wrote: > Would this also work for voice tracker. If you mean the ‘Import’ button on Voice Tracker dialog in rdlogedit(1), then I’m afraid not. That feature does not use rdimport(1) (and hence, nor the nested_import script). Cheers!

Re: [RDD] RD3 - Debian 9/64

2018-11-18 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 18, 2018, at 06:30, Schwoon, newsletter wrote: > By the way, I would prefer to run caed ripcd and rdctachd with user rights, > so that other jack clients will still work. (Stereotool, CALF, VLC ..) On RD2 > Debian 8 i use three .service files with success.. > >

Re: [RDD] [Off Topic] A little help with vnc on xfce please

2018-11-17 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 17, 2018, at 07:42, Alan Smith wrote: > By the way, my question still hasn't been answered yet: Since I have created > a new linux user for the purpose of having a virtual desktop to log into, are > there any user groups this user needs to be added to or any permissions > issues I

Re: [RDD] Changing to AudioScience Card

2018-11-16 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 16, 2018, at 19:16, Jesse Jones wrote: > I have a Rivendell Appliance version 2.19.3 (in Centos 7) > The unit works nicely using the onboard card - but we want to upgrade > (yesterday of course) to an AudioScience ASI5810 which shows up in lspci on > slot 02 (where I actually put it)

Re: [RDD] Skipping carts problem

2018-11-16 Thread Fred Gleason
The dead give-away is these messages: On Nov 16, 2018, at 17:36, Peter Claes wrote: > caed: unable to allocate stream for card 0 > rdairplay: finished event: Line: xxx Cart: xx Cut: xx Card: 0 Stream: -1 > Port: 0 Some background: each ASI card has a certain fixed number of output streams.

Re: [RDD] rdimport - Suggested ingestion parameters?

2018-11-16 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 16, 2018, at 12:50, Richard Elen wrote: > As I am a novice here, I would be most grateful if you could do me the favour > of providing an example usage of nested-import.pl, just so that I get it > right first time. > > The command-line invocation I am using currently would be: > >

Re: [RDD] rdimport - Suggested ingestion parameters?

2018-11-16 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 16, 2018, at 12:37, Richard Elen wrote: > Thanks for this! Is there a solution to my other query? Just use a of ‘*’. Cheers! |--| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | |

Re: [RDD] rdimport - Suggested ingestion parameters?

2018-11-16 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 16, 2018, at 11:43, Richard Elen wrote: > The first thing I see is the message: > "Session management: None of the authentication protocols specified are > supported". > What is this telling me? Useless cruft from your desktop manager. You can safely ignore it. > Meanwhile, the files

Re: [RDD] VNC or X for Windows access to Rivendell?

2018-11-16 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 16, 2018, at 10:18, Lorne Tyndale wrote: > With some of the recent discussion around using x11vnc server and a VNC > client to access Rivendell applications from a Windows box, it got me > thinking - is this the best way to do this, or is it better to run an X > server on the Windows

Re: [RDD] Formatting A New Hard Drive In Centos 6

2018-11-16 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 16, 2018, at 06:47, Cowboy wrote: > Honestly, CentOS-6 has an excellent disk manager in the full install GUI. > I'd add the new disk as a second ( or third ) drive in a running, > fully functional CentOS-6 box, and use that. > > It'll be under Applications, System Tools, Disk Utility

Re: [RDD] Multiple remote DB access behavior question

2018-11-15 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 15, 2018, at 07:39, Alan Smith wrote: > Lets say you have a PD that is working on a log remotely via the a fore > mentioned vnc. And lets say simultaneously you have a traffic person doing > the exact same thing to the exact same log. > > Since Widows locks files that are in use, and

Re: [RDD] Win32 build ini file question

2018-11-14 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 14, 2018, at 15:31, Alan Smith wrote: > 1) Is it possible to specify multiple target systems from the Win32 > Rivdendell modules? Say by maybe specifying different .ini files on the > shortcut/command line? Shouldn’t be necessary, assuming that all of the stations are using a common

Re: [RDD] CentOS 7 Rivendell 2.19.3 Free Space in RDLibrary Greyed-out

2018-11-14 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 13, 2018, at 22:06, Bruce Lee Mones wrote: > HDD of my Rivendell machine died and i have to reinstall again everything. I > have a stand-alone system. > > Followed instructions from: > http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install/rivendell-install-rhel7.html > >

Re: [RDD] VNC on CentOS 7

2018-11-13 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 13, 2018, at 10:19, Alan Smith wrote: > My goal is to actually have a system-wide availability to VNC, including the > root user. I understand the security risks involved in that. The plan is to > allow unrestricted local network access to vnc, but only allow vnc over SSH > from the

Re: [RDD] rdimport - audio file location and ingestion

2018-11-07 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 7, 2018, at 10:03, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > A client of mine used to use AudioVault. I spent lots of hours examining AV > .wav files to see how the metadata was stored, and was surprised to discover > that each file stored its metadata twice: in an AV10 chunk, and

Re: [RDD] rdimport - audio file location and ingestion

2018-11-06 Thread Fred Gleason
tabase reconstruction sounds like a neat idea on the face of it. > There are some options in Rivendell for aiding the recovery of a damaged audio store. See for example the --relink-audio switch in rddbcheck(8). > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Fred Gleason wrote: > >> ...This was one of th

Re: [RDD] rdimport - audio file location and ingestion

2018-11-06 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 6, 2018, at 11:50, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > Of course, one consequence of this approach is that if you lose the MySQL > database, the audio files will be more or less useless. Yup. Better have a good backup plan in place! > If each audio file had headers carrying

Re: [RDD] rdimport - Suggested ingestion parameters?

2018-11-06 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 6, 2018, at 12:15, David Klann wrote: > My experience has been that rdimport ignores _all_ of the > metadata if it finds problems with _any_ of the metadata it (someone > please correct me if I misunderestimate that). Can you gives us a specific example of where this occurs? Cheers!

Re: [RDD] rdimport - audio file location and ingestion

2018-11-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 5, 2018, at 17:44, John Edstrom wrote: > Interesting. According to the doc the BWF V2 standard accomodates EBU > R128 loudness metadata, which someone was asking about the other day. > Am I correct in interpreting that to mean than its OK to include > loudness metadata in the audio

Re: [RDD] rdimport - audio file location and ingestion

2018-11-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 5, 2018, at 16:17, Richard Elen wrote: > While the Windows system could no doubt play the WAV files produced by > Rivendell, they may not contain any metadata, so it wouldn't know what they > were. They don’t. This was one of the fundamental design principles laid down at the very

Re: [RDD] RLM

2018-11-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 5, 2018, at 13:08, Tim Camp wrote: > Is it possible to unload, load, or reload a RLM without restarting RdAirplay? No. A (re)start of rdairplay is always needed. Cheers! |--| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. |

Re: [RDD] Carts Manually Imputed Times not shown

2018-11-05 Thread Fred Gleason
de. Do any one have an Idea how we can get the full log with all times. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:38 PM Fred Gleason mailto:fr...@paravelsystems.com>> wrote: This is the expected behavior - there is nothing to ‘fix’. Until the log is loaded and started, there is no context wherein estimated

Re: [RDD] Carts Manually Imputed Times not shown

2018-11-04 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:34, ija...@jamcorbroadcast.com wrote: > We noticed when we printed the logs with The carts that where put in by hand > no times where present. > Does any on have a fix to this. > we only see them when the log is in the run in air play mode. Do any one have > an Idea how we

Re: [RDD] Importing and Exporting ranges of cuts from the library

2018-11-02 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 2, 2018, at 12:13, Andy Higginson wrote: > One other quick question while I'm thinking about music libraries. Is there > a way to use a spreadsheet of music library data (talktime, segue points, > hooks etc) with a Rivendell library? For instance the data provided by > Charlie Davy

Re: [RDD] Importing and Exporting ranges of cuts from the library

2018-11-02 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 2, 2018, at 12:03, David Klann wrote: > I have also imported those previously-exported files into a different > Rivendell instance. My experience has been that the GROUP and CART > number in the XML files are ignored when using `rdimport --xml ...`. > There may be a switch I'm missing to

Re: [RDD] Importing and Exporting ranges of cuts from the library

2018-11-02 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 2, 2018, at 12:03, David Klann wrote: > rdexport --xml --format=FLAC --carts=START1:END1 --carts=START2:END2 > /tmp/foo > > (where /tmp/foo is the directory that will hold the FLAC and XML files) > to export multiple, contiguous ranges of carts. The use of the "--xml" > switch enables

Re: [RDD] Importing and Exporting ranges of cuts from the library

2018-11-02 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 2, 2018, at 11:40, Andy Higginson wrote: > The export and import would need to include a full set of meta data, > including all of the talk times, segues etc. It would however be a part of > the library, and not the whole library. Should this be done using > rdexport/rdimport or

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-01 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 1, 2018, at 10:56, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > My understanding of "normalize" is that it means multiplying every sample in > a file by some coefficient calculated to set the largest sample in the file, > i.e. the peak amplitude, to a specific point, such as -13 dBfs. >

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-01 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 31, 2018, at 15:43, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > Is it safe to do something as simple as having the script go to /var/snd > and run: > for i in *.wav ; do sox --norm=-5 "$i" /tmp/"$i" && cp /tmp/"$i" "$i" ; done > > Oh yeah, there will be rm /tmp/"$i" in there, too. Just noticed that. >

[RDD] Rivendell v2.19.3

2018-10-31 Thread Fred Gleason
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.19.3 Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. From

Re: [RDD] Question re: ISRC

2018-10-30 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 30, 2018, at 15:49, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > rdlibrary includes the ability to rip a track from a CD. Does it read the > ISRC for that track? Supposedly, all new CD releases have the ISRC for each > track embedded in its metadata. Yes, *if* ‘Read ISRCs from CDs’ is

Re: [RDD] Looking for the Rivendell Technical and Administration Guide

2018-10-22 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 22, 2018, at 08:49, Gerard Adriaanse wrote: > The Rivendell Operations Guide refers to the 'Rivendell Technical and > Administration Guide'. > > Where can I find that guide? I’ve you’re running the RPM version on CentOS, you can get it by installing the ‘rivendell-docs’ package, then

Re: [RDD] myQSL Admin/RDADMIN access

2018-10-21 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 21, 2018, at 07:54, Pedro Picoto wrote: > Following the offer of the fellow member Luigino Bracci, I've downloaded and > installed the packages but now I'm stucked 'cause I don't remember the > user/pw for the first ride on the rdadmin. > It's been a very long time since I played with

Re: [RDD] Hello and a question

2018-10-16 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 16, 2018, at 14:37, Cowboy wrote: > And, I can find no benefit ( for my purposes ) of EXT4 over EXT3. The primary user-facing difference is greater capacity. You can find a good overview of the differences (including the data-commit issue to which Cowboy alludes) at:

Re: [RDD] Serial port adventures

2018-10-09 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 9, 2018, at 10:32, David Klann wrote: > Long story short: I'd check ownership and permissions of /usr/bin/ripcd, > and the process owner for the running ripcd process. Correct. ripcd(8) will run all scripts as the user/group specified in the ‘[Identity]’ section of rd.conf(5), but it

Re: [RDD] Easy Install / Freeze version

2018-10-03 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 3, 2018, at 12:08, Alan Smith wrote: > To be completely honest, what scares me most is updates. While rare I'm > sure, a failed update on a production machine could be disastrous. Yet at > the same time if you don't update at all [don't fix something that isn't > broke] yet station A

Re: [RDD] Easy Install / Freeze version

2018-10-03 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 3, 2018, at 11:24, Alan Smith wrote: > In another thread I had mentioned that I was disappointed to see the > appliance CD/DVD development abandoned. I do understand their were technical > reasons to do so, but it was a WONDERFUL way to easily install and get to > know Rivendell from

Re: [RDD] Backup/Restoring the DB via command line [WAS: Moving RD to another system]

2018-10-02 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 2, 2018, at 11:19, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > I'm curious; how will v3 differ from v2? Will there be major changes in how > Rivendell works? Will it still be based on MySQL, Apache, and QT3? The major goals are: 1) Move off of Qt3 to Qt4 (this part is done). 2)

Re: [RDD] Backup/Restoring the DB via command line [WAS: Moving RD to another system]

2018-09-28 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 28, 2018, at 12:05, drew Roberts wrote: > Of course, you could leave the buttons in rdadmin. > > Have each fire off a script that would pop up a text file explaining what to > do. Then, other people could replace the explanation scripts with working / > action scripts to bring us back

Re: [RDD] [Action required] We’re updating Linux system requirements

2018-09-28 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 28, 2018, at 08:27, Bernardo J Mora wrote: > Forgive me if I’ve missed a previous discussion, please feel free to send > relevant links along via the listserv. > Kindly let this CentOS amateur what I should expect after October 15. CentOS 6 is based on glib 2.12, while CentOS 7 uses

Re: [RDD] Using Jack + 2 soundcards

2018-09-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 27, 2018, at 14:22, Diego wrote: > So from Aux I can CUE, and main list plays on main out. > BUT, my list plays on both outputs alternate; I mean: song 1 y playing > and show red square with a 1 (main sound card), next song will play > but with a 2 (second sound card), third song will

Re: [RDD] Backup/Restoring the DB via command line [WAS: Moving RD to another system]

2018-09-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 27, 2018, at 14:22, Cowboy wrote: > STRONG objection !! > > While you and I might be quite comfortable at a command shell interface > ( perhaps even more comfortable than with a GUI in many cases ) > this is absolutely the wrong direction for the "everything smartphone" > generation.

Re: [RDD] Using Jack + 2 soundcards

2018-09-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 27, 2018, at 13:36, Diego wrote: > I also need to launch a stream using VLC. We take some online radios > (mainly news). Problem is rivendell grabbing alsa devices so no other > app can use sound cards. From a root shell, do: rdalsaconfig And update the list of ALSA devices

Re: [RDD] Moving RD to another system

2018-09-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 27, 2018, at 13:05, Rick wrote: > I sincerely hope you're fast at the keybord. We run multiple streams in a > live environment on 1 rdserver. This doesn't seam an acceptable option to me. > Better sequence : create new load swap old/new delete old The (admittedly implicit) context was

Re: [RDD] Backup/Restoring the DB via command line [WAS: Moving RD to another system]

2018-09-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 27, 2018, at 09:25, Lorne Tyndale wrote: > As far as I understand the Restore in rdadmin does not do a schema check > / update, so it will work if you are staying at the same version of > Rivendell. Actually, it *does* check the schema after the basic restore is complete, and will run

Re: [RDD] Moving RD to another system

2018-09-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 26, 2018, at 22:18, Diego wrote: > owner:group are ok. Double checked (Linux user since 2003 ;) ) > Did MySQL backup from source PC using rdadmin > Then did restore on target PC using rdadmin. > But not worked. Launched rdadmin from terminal and saw several errors about > QMYSQL3. > So

Re: [RDD] REST Services

2018-09-25 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 25, 2018, at 12:13, Yitzhak B. Solórzano wrote: > I find that XML software parsing process can take a long > time. One reason for this problem is the DOM manipulation libraries > that require more memory to handle large XML files. JSON uses less > data overall, so you reduce the cost and

Re: [RDD] REST Services

2018-09-25 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 24, 2018, at 20:56, Yitzhak B. Solórzano wrote: > Advantages is plenty of, like security (Because you can use top > security on it), SSL is not ‘top security’? > easy implementation (anyone who understand basic of > JSON could do an app 100% compatible), easy to understand (JSON >

Re: [RDD] REST Services

2018-09-24 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 24, 2018, at 18:44, Yitzhak B. Solórzano wrote: > Are you planning to develop API Services for Rivendell based on JSON? > > I know that Rivendell uses Apache, mySQL or MariaDB, there's good API > platforms that could be installed on Rivendell as KONG > https://konghq.com/

Re: [RDD] rdairplay option

2018-09-15 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 14, 2018, at 11:44, Tim Camp wrote: > I believe you just set second, 3rd, 4th, and 5th playout cards to "none" in > rdadmin rdairplay All that will do is change the output port used for those subsequent play-outs. There is no simple setting to limit SoundPanel play-outs to one at a

Re: [RDD] rdairplay option

2018-09-15 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 13, 2018, at 13:10, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > I just had someone ask me how to set up rdairplay so that when you press a > SoundPanel button while another SoundPanel button is playing, it terminates > the playing button immediately after starting the new one. There

Re: [RDD] VNC on CentOS 7

2018-09-07 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 6, 2018, at 20:21, David Klann wrote: > This enables VNC on display 0 (the primary X/wayland display), and any > VNC client can then connect. Unlike Fred's systemd technique, this > approach has the disadvantage of not working unless the user is logged in. Which, depending on the

Re: [RDD] VNC on CentOS 7

2018-09-06 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sep 6, 2018, at 14:19, Patrick wrote: > Which VNC server is recommended for Rivendell on CentOS 7? It depends on the specific use case. For the common one of ‘share my primary display so I can see it remotely’, CentOS 7 does not have a ready-made solution, so I’ve written a SystemD service

Re: [RDD] AudioScience Soundcard on CentOS7

2018-08-30 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 30, 2018, at 08:22, Andy Higginson wrote: > I'm setting up my Rivendell host using the script installer on CentOS 7. The > host has an ASI6520 soundcard in it. Looking though dmesg and via the > RDAlsaConfig utility it seems that the soundcard is running with both ALSA > and native

Re: [RDD] Rivendell 2.19.2 Services and Logs issues...

2018-08-29 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 29, 2018, at 10:42, drew Roberts wrote: > I am seeing the same thing or something very similar on a fresh "centos 7 / > script" install from yesterday. I seem to remember something similar from the > past and am searching the mailing list archives to see if I posted how it was >

Re: [RDD] Elo Touchscreen On CentOS 7

2018-08-29 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 29, 2018, at 09:58, Andy Higginson wrote: > Touches work. However the vertical is inverted so if you touch the bottom of > the screen the cursor moves to the top. The horizontal is just a little out. I’ve just posted a build of ‘xinput_calibrator' for CentOS 7 to the Paravel

Re: [RDD] Elo Touchscreen On CentOS 7

2018-08-29 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 29, 2018, at 09:40, Andy Higginson wrote: > Our machine is running CentOS 7 installed using the Rivendell installer > script. The touchscreen is an Elo ET1729L monitor. It is seen as an Elo > Touchsystems 2216 AccuTouch when looking in dmesg. > > All of the instructions that I have

Re: [RDD] destination file not created - Debian 8 fresh install

2018-08-22 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 22, 2018, at 01:46, le père Léon wrote: > Debian 8 (and following) are systemD. > I don't feel rewriting my own init script for Apache, Nor am I suggesting such, but merely that you try running httpd directly as a test. If that fixes the problem, then we know we have an issue in SystemD

Re: [RDD] SystemD and the UNIX Nature [WAS: destination file not created - Debian 8 fresh install]

2018-08-21 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 21, 2018, at 13:31, Cowboy wrote: > Well, that is SO much better than the mature, proven, well understood init > that I just don't even know what to say ? Three pounds of VAX! (*) Having just thrown away a couple of hundred lines of fussy, platform-dependent Bash script in Rivendell’s

Re: [RDD] destination file not created - Debian 8 fresh install

2018-08-21 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 20, 2018, at 17:14, le père Léon wrote: > I must say that the sound test file - created when launching rdadmin and the > Rivendell database does not exist- is created only when my user is in > rivendell group and /var/snd is g+w (or when I launch rdadmin as the > superuser). Which

Re: [RDD] Branch name changes at GitHub

2018-08-20 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 20, 2018, at 10:53, Patrick wrote: > I'm confused about this one. Does this mean that the following changes will, > or will not, be incorporated into the stable branch and 2.19.3 release? > > 2018-05-25 Fred Gleason <mailto:fr...@paravelsystems.com>> > * Mer

Re: [RDD] destination file not created - Debian 8 fresh install

2018-08-20 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 20, 2018, at 10:34, riv...@braingia.org wrote: > One other thought. Apache runs as user www-data and group www-data on > Debian. Make sure that user and group have write access to the directory > (chown www-data.www-data) No! Not correct. ‘/var/snd’ should be owned by the user and

Re: [RDD] destination file not created - Debian 8 fresh install

2018-08-20 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 19, 2018, at 19:44, le père Léon wrote: > rdimport considers everything is OK and returns 0, it does insert new record > in CART and CUTS tables, but does not write the file in /var/snd. > > I suspect a write access problem between Apache and the rivendell user/group, > but have no log

Re: [RDD] Rivendell Yum Repository

2018-08-20 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 19, 2018, at 18:14, Patrick wrote: > Does the Rivendell Yum Repository contain builds from the current Stable > branch? ‘Paravel-Broadcast-Test’ currently contains v2.19.2vlog06, but it is about to be superseded by a release candidate for v2.19.3. I strongly recommend *not* deploying

[RDD] Branch name changes at GitHub

2018-08-20 Thread Fred Gleason
Howdy Folks: I finally went ahead and straightened out the rather perplexing set of branch names that have been in use at Github for the past few months. As of right now, the following two branches are hosting active development: stable - The default branch, whence production releases are

Re: [RDD] rdairplay dies, out of memory

2018-08-14 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 13, 2018, at 16:27, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > A station emailed me just now to report that rdairplay died in the middle of > a piece of music. > > /var/log/messages shows that the OS ran out of memory and killed rdairplay. > > This is RD 2.16 running under CentOS 6

Re: [RDD] Importing Enco files using dadpro_import script

2018-08-02 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 2, 2018, at 09:28, Andy Higginson wrote: > It worked. Just need to get everything ready for moving over. Cool. I’ve added that link to the comment header of the script, so the next guy/gal to do this won’t have to jump through so many hoops. Cheers!

Re: [RDD] Importing Enco files using dadpro_import script

2018-08-01 Thread Fred Gleason
On Aug 1, 2018, at 11:20, Andy Higginson wrote: > I'm trying to import an Enco DAD library using Fred's dadpro_import.pl > script. It seems that Xbase has changed and XBase is now used. This seems > to be a little different in it's scripts and I'm not having any luck getting > it to work.

Re: [RDD] Date/week based schedulecodes script

2018-07-24 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 23, 2018, at 19:00, Peter Claes wrote: > I have asked this a while ago, if it would be possible to create date > based schedule codes. > > I know you can add dates in the cut info, but then they are still > sheduled, but marked in red. > > So I was wondering i someone could help me out

Re: [RDD] "unable to create destination file" - Debian 8 fresh install

2018-07-23 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 23, 2018, at 10:17, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > I hate, hate, hate error messages like this. The message should say: "unable > to create destination file: /path/to/filename". > > We're all assuming the problem is access to /var/snd, but what if the real > problem is

Re: [RDD] [UNRESOLVED] Re: "unable to create destination file" - Debian 8 fresh install

2018-07-23 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 22, 2018, at 12:28, le père Léon wrote: > I just have no message or log telling me if it does or not. > Apache log returns 200 -> ok > In the database, CUTS and CARTS are filled. > Unfortunately nothing is written in /var/snd. Check your permissions in ‘/var/snd’. That directory should

Re: [RDD] Upgrade MariaDB from 10.2.9 to 10.2.15 breaks charset on Rivendell

2018-07-18 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 18, 2018, at 06:21, Hoggins! wrote: > There was a new update for Fedora 28 with MariaDB 10.2.16, and the > problem is gone, so it was probably on their side, although I can't seem > to find any relevant entry in the Changelog that would explain that. > Probably a distro-specific issue.

Re: [RDD] "unable to create destination file" - Debian 8 fresh install

2018-07-17 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 17, 2018, at 12:42, le père Léon wrote: > (I must say I did not configure Apache since I don't know the relation > between the c++-qt3-mysql Rivendell application and Apache..) In which case, a great many things won’t work (including import). You basically need to provide two things in

Re: [RDD] nfs mount with CentOS

2018-07-11 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 11, 2018, at 09:23, le père Léon wrote: > /var/snd will be on NAS, I'm trying to mount nfs volume : > [root@rivendell ~]# mount -t nfs4 192.168.0.100:/volume1/Rivendell /mnt/test > mount.nfs4: mount system call failed Try NFSv3. Something like: mount -o vers=3

Re: [RDD] Easiest to install .. and update later on ?

2018-07-06 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 6, 2018, at 18:04, Peter Claes wrote: > If so what would be the correct commands to get the .sql file into the > database ? > How do I get all the permissions right ? Once you’ve got the test tone playing, you’re 90% there. Here’s the Fred (aka “The Command-Line Troglodyte”) method:

Re: [RDD] rdairplay audio dropouts

2018-07-06 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 6, 2018, at 14:09, Cowboy wrote: > If so, it might be as simple as starting the nfs daemon with > a nice level 20 > ( positive numbers are lower priority ) > This should cause the nfs daemon to only run when nothing with > a higher priority is pending. > Of course, if there are other nfs

Re: [RDD] rdairplay audio dropouts

2018-07-06 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 6, 2018, at 13:40, Cowboy wrote: > Personally, I'd run a tcpdump on it and see exactly what it is doing. > Then, go from there. It might be easier to just replace it with a CIFS share. Cheers! |--| | Frederick F.

Re: [RDD] Rddbcheck Not Finding A Zero-Length Cart

2018-07-06 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 6, 2018, at 09:29, Chuck wrote: > In my case, all of the files in question play fine on VLC and open and > play without problems in Audacity (WAV files on my system). The Library > sees the files, but refuses to admit there is audio in them, when > clearly there is. Some things to

Re: [RDD] Rddbcheck Not Finding A Zero-Length Cart

2018-07-04 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 3, 2018, at 21:01, Rich Stivers wrote: > Has anyone had a zero-length cart (red line in Rdlibrary) that Rddbcheck > doesn't find? I have one. I could > delete the cart and import it again, but I thought Rddbcheck was supposed to > find these and allow you to > fix them. This cart has

Re: [RDD] Easiest to install .. and update later on ?

2018-07-04 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jul 3, 2018, at 19:18, Peter Claes wrote: > Or If I follow these instructions, using RHEL7 : > http://static.paravelsystems.com/rivendell-install/rivendell-install-rhel7.html > > > Will it update later on ?

Re: [RDD] Upgrade MariaDB from 10.2.9 to 10.2.15 breaks charset on Rivendell

2018-06-29 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 29, 2018, at 09:39, Hoggins! wrote: > So you're saying that changing database schema during Rivendell upgrades > should also have changed the default charset/collation on the Rivendell > DB, right ? If for whatever reason it's not the case and I need to > change it manually in my.cnf,

Re: [RDD] Upgrade MariaDB from 10.2.9 to 10.2.15 breaks charset on Rivendell

2018-06-29 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 29, 2018, at 08:54, Hoggins! wrote: > Everything is (quite) said: on my Fedora 27 boxes, I upgraded MariaDB > (libs, common, etc.) from 10.2.9-3.fc27 to 10.2.15-2.fc27 and now all my > accented characters in the carts' titles and artists show problems (the > usual UTF-8 misrepresentation

Re: [RDD] HPI error #111 and #105

2018-06-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 27, 2018, at 18:19, Peter Claes wrote: > - At startup of RDairplay, it skips the first cart loaded and stops. > At 2nd start, it starts. In logfile it gives a #105 error > OBJ_ALREADY_OPEN What are your channel settings for the Main Log in RDAdmin? Try setting both of them to ‘0:0’. >

Re: [RDD] Cron.daily to delete all /tmp/rivendell* files over 8 hours old...

2018-06-27 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 27, 2018, at 03:06, Rick Thomas wrote: > Do you know of anything that might create files with names that match > /tmp/rivendell* ? Sounds like a local modification —i.e. done by hand. > If not, I’ll remove the line and see what comes of it. Or lat least comment it out (by putting a

Re: [RDD] Cron.daily to delete all /tmp/rivendell* files over 8 hours old...

2018-06-26 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 25, 2018, at 05:39, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on auto-mc >> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:51:04 -0700 (PDT) >> >> /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch: >> error: cannot resolve /tmp/rivendell*: No such file or directory > > There do not seem to be any directories with

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