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Silence Sensor/"Trouble Slide" for HD Radio

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kenglish

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Does anyone make an "all-in-one" unit that would detect silence/outages on a station's incoming HD2 audio feed, and then put an updated, "We are experiencing technical difficulties" message on the Program Services Data (PSD) fields?

Maybe an alternate audio, like a loop or an intermittent "ping" sound could also be generated.
 
I have never heard of a box that will do all of that in one, but here is two boxes that could be used together to accomplish what you want.

Deva Broadcasting DB8000 is a Silence Sensor, Audio switcher, MP3 player all in one. When silence is detected on the audio input, it switches to the internal MP3 player and begins playing.
http://www.devabroadcast.bg/?ac=1&sa=6x6x15&ln=en#dscr

the only other box you'd need would be the DaySequerra M4C-XLR. It an HD radio tuner with XLR outputs.
http://www.daysequerra.com/ViewProduct.aspx?nProductID=7&CurTab=MODULATION%20MONITORS&CurPage=AM/FM%20HDRadio
 
Telos omnia products do this now.

If you are using AES EBU you can select the time to switch to an alternate analog feed, or, vice versa. For4 those with no AES feed lucent makes a box for $200 that makes analog AES EBU.
Thanks Frank!
 
Before spending any money, check out this freebie that I've been using (our automation sometimes "stops" in the middle of the day):
http://pira.cz/eng/silence.htm

I wasted money on another piece of software that didn't do half of what this does, and it's FREE!
 
WebSense says it's something to do with "Hacking" and won't let me go there.
 
kenglish said:
WebSense says it's something to do with "Hacking" and won't let me go there.
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Ugh, Websense is such a piece of junk... It's safe and I've been running the software for years now.
 
kenglish said:
Does anyone make an "all-in-one" unit that would detect silence/outages on a station's incoming HD2 audio feed, and then put an updated, "We are experiencing technical difficulties" message on the Program Services Data (PSD) fields?

Maybe an alternate audio, like a loop or an intermittent "ping" sound could also be generated.
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Why not just have it switch to an alternate audio source instead of looping a ping? Far less annoying than a "ping"....and better yet if alternate audio is similar to normal programming on the channel. Then you wouldn't need to worry about the PSD field at all....
 
I was thinking about something cheap (not lots of memory in it), very reliable, and something that would not be ignored.
I figured that no one would ever notice the main feed was down, if they found "normal-sounding" audio there.

Maybe a loop of "similar music", with an apology voicer, would work, though
 
gunterm said:
Before spending any money, check out this freebie that I've been using (our automation sometimes "stops" in the middle of the day):
http://pira.cz/eng/silence.htm

I wasted money on another piece of software that didn't do half of what this does, and it's FREE!
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I second the motion on this. I'm using this with my flaky feed....
 
I use the Pira software here to guard our internet stream along with a program called RX that constantly tries to connect to the stream in the event it ever becomes disconnnected. Together, it will call me if the stream is down for over five minutes. We've got a significant number of listeners to the stream as our over-the-air signal stinks.
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
I use the Pira software here to guard our internet stream along with a program called RX that constantly tries to connect to the stream in the event it ever becomes disconnnected. Together, it will call me if the stream is down for over five minutes. We've got a significant number of listeners to the stream as our over-the-air signal stinks.
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Do you have a link to the "RX" program?

I need to set up something to keep an eye on a stream during football games. Our streaming provider uses the Windows Media "push to server" method and if the DSL at the station burps, the server will lose connection to us but the Windows Media Encoder software on our encode PC isn't smart enough to know that the connection has been lost.
 
I was a fan of RX too because its so simple and reliable, my only issue with it is that it speeds up or slows down the audio based on network conditions (buffer fill)...

On that subject, the author also tool MBL4 off his site with RX for some reason.
 
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