[SBE] do a remote via phone line without the need for someone to run the board at the station.

[Randy Hisle]

Al,

The primary purpose of this request is to keep it simple and not to rely on anything but a pots line. The studio is UPS/Generator backed up with a automatic transfer switch as is the transmitter. They simply want to interrupt the broadcast with emergency messaging if the studio is evacuated or unmanned (which I am finding out in radio today is a LOT of the time) They also requested some simple security to prevent a wrong # or a wise guy kid from breaking into the signal. The station currently has a news guy who lives way out in the country who has a small studio and can remote access the automation system with gotomypc and ftp his news carts and program them in remotely. His DSL line can be rather undependable so he also could break in with important news. Most of these devices have relays that I can wire to the automation (audiovault in this case) that will allow some more sophisticated commands but most of the time it will be used to simply break in with a local emergency and dump out. Like EAS does during warnings etc.

I hope this helps. I am learning so much about remote access possibilities in this thread!


Randall W. Hisle
CBTE


Now there are 2 places to watch!
www.jccEgov.com & Cox Channel 48
-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Alan Peterson
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [SBE] do a remote via phone line without the need for someone to run the board at the station.

I'm joining the discussion a little late, but do the commands to get in and out of the remote necessarily have to be carried on the same line as the audio?

I would think using TightVNC on a laptop connected to wi-fi or DSL at the remote site - separate from the audio line - and bringing up the actual studio control GUI on said laptop is a method to consider. Complete control of the on-air rig can be handled right from the laptop.

It works, too. From his studio in Florida, syndicated talk host Greg Knapp uses VNC to fire off show-related audio events on a Rivendell system located in Washington DC.

TightVNC is a free program. As long as you are securely passworded, the firewall allows the remote computer inside, and your audio management system and [digital] console can talk to the outside world, it'll fly.

Al P.




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