[PLUG-AV] AV workshop/busybee

[Tim Ansell]

Elena is correct. I'd love you guys to use the board once Elena has
finished designing me a case for it. The more people I can get testing with
the device the better.

Tim
PS We are currently working on the production board design.



On 29 July 2013 03:09, Elena Williams <ele.wil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually it was my understanding that Tim wanted you guys to use the board
> once I'm done with it and I'm not adverse to that to start prematurely!
> ---
> Elena :)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:46 PM
> Subject: AV workshop/busybee
> To: av at plug.org.au
> Cc: Elena Williams <ele.wil at gmail.com>, Tim Ansell <mithro at mithis.com>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:30:36PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> > As discussed in our last committee meeting: we do have the budget to
> > get some of our outstanding gear.
> [some fast flash storage]
>
> > who's up for another busybee? Luke and I can make next Thursday
> > (perhaps at Spacecubed?).
>
> Still a good time? Who else can make it? Jason?
>
> One thing we haven't gotten to was the idea of running Tim Ansell's
> HDMI2USB capture and gst-switch system in parallel to our dvswitch
> recordings - and it turns out that Tim's sent a Digilent Atlys Spartan-6
> dev board to Perth! Elena's designing a robust half-rack-unit enclosure
> for it at the Artifactory and we should be able to use the dev board
> in the meantime. There's still time for a bit of feedback - e.g. what
> works better, an integrated PSU with IEC plug? or a floating wall-wart?
>
> https://github.com/timvideos/getting-started/wiki
>
> [...]
> > From previous hacking session/busybee/workshop plans, we've got a number
> > of things to work on...
> >  * updating our software installs (in progress!);
> >  * getting things to start automatically, perhaps not Mumble;
> >  * status monitoring so it's more obvious when the DV streams or icecast
> >    dies, or perhaps other sanity checks like the output DV file not
> >    growing, disc space not going down, oggfwd dead, network traffic
> >    flowing, audio SNR in sane bounds - audio present, not silent, not
> >    staticy or daleky? If something fails, can we trigger a tally-light
> >    style warning?
> >  * switching machine roles in case of failure;
> >  * reboxing/streamlining the setup of a camera ingest or mixer station
> >    (the reboxing's helped, but there's a fair way to get to with things
> like:
> >       http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/av/2012q3/000606.html
> >       http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=T5052
> >    )
>
> Nick.
>
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