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Hi all… Milky I ‘m so happy to also find you here too!
I did a booboo on my system, trying to fix something on the RDS config whilst in the BreakAway remote and my PS Source was set to Edit Box, so I was experimenting with the File/URL option and accidentally killed whatever it was in the edit box and now I can’t find it… So all I get now is the Artist and Title and nothing else from the RDS_Translator!
Any ideas on how to implement the RDS_Translator in the Edit Box?G’day, Teddy. Nice to “see” a familiar face around here.
I’m not sure from your post whether you have clobbered a setting that you had working or whether the default parameter has been knocked out. If it’s the latter, you can see the default settings by entering “http://{your BA1 IP address}:8282”. This will take you into the internal web server and you can then scroll through all of the possible settings.As an aside, you can also export all of your configuration to a file and use it to restore if things go wrong (or you set up another server).
Yes Milky, it was a “complicated” setting that was working in there and accidentally got overwritten when I changed Edit/Box – File/URL dropdown…
It was pulling the data from the RDS_Translator in there, unfortunately there is no documentation and actually I got here by Googling my problem… Didn’t even know this forum existed 🙂I don’t suppose that you have a recent backup of your hard drive? Screenshots, maybe?
Without knowing the original parameters, it’s going to be pure guesswork to try and reconstruct what you had, but we might be able to work through available options to see what we can achieve.
You say that you are “only getting Artist and Title” now. What other information were you providing before that is now missing?
Unfortunately no Milky, no backup or any screenshot, stupid me… Leif did it for me some years ago.
And this forum doesn’t support uploading an image either so I could show you a bit more.
Are you familiar with the RDS_Translator that he created?
Thru that, I had a bunch of other stuff that was getting displayed on the RDS, via txt files.
For example, station ID, some other comments, weather information etc.I don’t personally use the FM Core (although I have a licence to configure one). I know that fm1/misc/rds_ps is to set parameters for the Program Service part of RDS and that, typically, they point to locations (usually on your server hard drive), so Leif would probably set up a folder (Maybe “RDS”) into which information would be written and then picked up by the fm1/misc/rds_ps spec. We need to reconstruct that/those links without me having the faintest idea what they were.
Did he/do you have some sort of scheduled task (or AHK) running which retrieves something from Ots logs or from the RAC in Ots? I assume this is coming from a PC using Ots as the playout system?
no ots interaction at this level…
I have certain txt files that the RDS_Translator reads from and puts it on there, including CurrentSong.txt which contains artist and title of course that get picked up from OTS of course at an earlier stage in the process…
No scheduled task or anything…
Its all done with RDS_Translator, I can paste the .ini file in here so you can get an idea, but in the edit box entry of BA1 it had something with << etc, I never kept it, stupid me!
Here’s the .ini file:
[global]
;http_timeout_seconds=5
http_timeout_seconds=10;we could change display duration timings by adding for example 10s:RADIO
[Input0]
file=C:\Users\Riris\Dropbox\RDS\Weather.txt
type=text
text0=line=0
;text0=line=0 filter_quotes=1 begin=”ON AIR: ” end=” with ”
;text1=line=0 filter_quotes=1 begin=”with ”
replace0=”:”,”\:”
replace1=”,”,”/”
replace2=”$/”,””
uppercase=0
;filter accents=1
trim=1[Output0]
format0=%text0%
format1=%text1%
url0=http://192.168.10.12:8282/parameter/fm1/misc/rds_ps=3t:<< %output1:format0%/%format0%/%output2:format0%/%output3:format0%
replace1=”=3t:<< /O”,”=O”
replace2=” “,”%20”
replace3=”<“,”%3C”
replace4=”//”,”/”[Input1]
file=C:\Users\Riris\Dropbox\RDS\CurrentSong.txt
type=text
text0=line=0[Output1]
format0=%text0%[Input2]
file=C:\Users\Riris\Dropbox\RDS\Static.txt
type=text
text0=line=-1
replace0=”[CR]”,”/”
;replace1=”$,”,””
;replace2=”,”,”/”
;uppercase=0
;filter accents=1
;trim=1[Output2]
format0=%text0%[Input3]
file=C:\Users\Riris\Dropbox\RDS\Ads.txt
type=text
text0=line=-1
replace0=”[CR]”,”/”
;replace1=”$,”,””
;replace2=”,”,”/”
;uppercase=0
;filter accents=1
;trim=1[Output3]
format0=%text0%Ah! Now this looks promising – url0=http://192.168.10.12:8282/parameter/fm1/misc/rds_ps=3t:<< %output1:format0%/%format0%/%output2:format0%/%output3:format0% So, we have now established your LAN IP. We now have to find the parameter substitutions. What happens if you copy/paste "url0=http://192.168.10.12:8282/parameter/fm1/misc/rds_ps=3t:<< %output1:format0%/%format0%/%output2:format0%/%output3:format0%" (without quotes) into the BA1 field? Alternately, Can you point the "RS" spec to that ini file on your hard drive?
Yes I’ve done that Milky already… It’s not working, it shows that text context on the RDS.
Unfortunately I believe only Leif knows what should be there, as there are no instructions.ok.. all fixed!
Thanx to Leif of course…
All you need to do is set it on Edit Box and after a bit it starts working on its own since RDS_Translator pushes the service to BA1… Actually no need for anything!
But… My problem existed long ago and that’s why this whole thing started, the problem was that it wasn’t updating the artist/title correctly for like 3 years now and since Leif had some time to spare now, I shared the screen with him and he couldn’t believe his eyes!
It was a bug, well maybe not an actual bug, but it seemed that although the dropbox was updating the file correctly “CurrentSong.txt” that RDS_Translator was reading from, it was changing the modified date and RDS_Translator was looking for that change in order to update!
So Leif recompiled RDS_Translator and now all is working perfectly again!
🙂 one happy guy 🙂Nice! Leif to the rescue! Good to know that when we can’t help, Leif has our backs on some of the more obscure broadcast technicalities.
Sure Bert, glad to help here’s the link :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5ofe0c6du8s848/rdstranslator_0.60.zip?dl=0Make sure you don’t overwrite your INIs with mine that are included, since Leif used them to debug.
And if you are using the RT part of the exe (RDS_Translator_RT.exe) just copy the RDS_Translator.exe on to it, they are exactly the same!
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