Hello everyone. I am new to the board and am in need of some help from someone who knows! I have Simian automation and am trying to automate some satellite programming with it. I am new to the new relay/tones automation. I have always been an old school board op type. But in these times, I really need to automate. Anyway, can someone who knows simian and how to automate with the program please contact me. I am really good with the program, just not that side of it. More specifically, I need to know how to set up the log to go to the sat program, use the tones to fire off breaks and then go back to regular programming. HELP!
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Simian Automation Question
- Thread starter hulkhogan
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What are you trying to automate? does the show /network send relays? how do you have the satellite feed hooked up? There a lot of questions to answer.
You may also want to post over in the BSI forum, there are a lot of folks there that use the software to automate satellite stuff and could likely give you a more indepth answer.
http://support.bsiusa.com/forum/
You may also want to post over in the BSI forum, there are a lot of folks there that use the software to automate satellite stuff and could likely give you a more indepth answer.
http://support.bsiusa.com/forum/
Let me second xmusicmatt suggestion, The BSI user forum is where a few of the BSI techs and other users hang out. Many questions are answered there without having to go through tech support. It sounds like you need to create a macro command.
hulkhogan said:Hello everyone. I am new to the board and am in need of some help from someone who knows! I have Simian automation and am trying to automate some satellite programming with it. I am new to the new relay/tones automation. I have always been an old school board op type. But in these times, I really need to automate. Anyway, can someone who knows simian and how to automate with the program please contact me. I am really good with the program, just not that side of it. More specifically, I need to know how to set up the log to go to the sat program, use the tones to fire off breaks and then go back to regular programming. HELP!
Aside from the suggestions to go to the BSI forum, I suggest getting in touch with Broadcast Tools who make a switcher to work with Simian. Once connected they will provide you with an interface which lets you connect wires coming from the sat receiver to the interface.
BSI also sells a small relay box that will connect to the USB port of your computer. This allows you to connect both incoming and outgoing relays to the system.
BSI uses devices from Measurement Computing and Broadcast Tools for its automation interfaces.
Broadcast Tools makes and audio switcher that can be controlled by Simian. Look at their ACS 8.2 Plus.
Measurement computing makes a USB device that will connect between the satellite and the computer--the USB 1024LS. I prefer the usb-DIO 24/37, which is the same device except it has a 37 pin "D" connector for the input, rather than the little tiny screw-in terminal board on the other device
Measurement computing also has a series of relay boards that can be driven by the USB devices through Simian..
1. To have the satellite talk to Simian, you use the 1024-LS and its 24 different lines or "trigger" inputs in Simian parlance. You set Simian up to respond to the device on the "hardware" tab. Under the "async" tab you can edit the triggers and even set up different trigger sets depending on daypart. A trigger can simply start the next event, as in getting into a stop-set, or can start a macro, e.g. run a liner, and turn on an audio channel, such as getting out of a stopset and returning to the network. Read the manual.
2. Either the broadcast tools device or the relay board and external circuits can be used to switch audio channels on/off. We have an Auditronics 2500 console in main control, and use the relay board to turn channels on and off remotely--a feature of this console (you have to leave the faders up, of course,). Our "long form" programming from ABC/Citadel comes in one pot, ABC news another pot and the evening Delilah show a third pot. The newer R55E has the same feature, as do other consoles. In Simian this is simply a relay command, after you use the hardware tab to tell Simian which device you are using.
Broadcast Tools makes and audio switcher that can be controlled by Simian. Look at their ACS 8.2 Plus.
Measurement computing makes a USB device that will connect between the satellite and the computer--the USB 1024LS. I prefer the usb-DIO 24/37, which is the same device except it has a 37 pin "D" connector for the input, rather than the little tiny screw-in terminal board on the other device
Measurement computing also has a series of relay boards that can be driven by the USB devices through Simian..
1. To have the satellite talk to Simian, you use the 1024-LS and its 24 different lines or "trigger" inputs in Simian parlance. You set Simian up to respond to the device on the "hardware" tab. Under the "async" tab you can edit the triggers and even set up different trigger sets depending on daypart. A trigger can simply start the next event, as in getting into a stop-set, or can start a macro, e.g. run a liner, and turn on an audio channel, such as getting out of a stopset and returning to the network. Read the manual.
2. Either the broadcast tools device or the relay board and external circuits can be used to switch audio channels on/off. We have an Auditronics 2500 console in main control, and use the relay board to turn channels on and off remotely--a feature of this console (you have to leave the faders up, of course,). Our "long form" programming from ABC/Citadel comes in one pot, ABC news another pot and the evening Delilah show a third pot. The newer R55E has the same feature, as do other consoles. In Simian this is simply a relay command, after you use the hardware tab to tell Simian which device you are using.
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