We are extending LANs out to transmitter sites for many reasons; backup audio, control and monitoring, security systems, VOIP phones, etc.<\/p>\n
I am casually (very casually) toying around with creating my own Linux-based remote control system.\u00a0 The ongoing Windows 10 upgrade debacle continues to not end, I can’t help but think that there are many potential clients who could use a reliable transmitter\/studio remote control and monitoring system based on a stable operating system.\u00a0 Hmm, sounds like a sales pitch \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Anyway, I have run across several Ethernet board manufacturers that offer a variety of boards with 8-12 contact closures and a variety of analog and digital inputs.\u00a0 Most new transmitters have some sort of web GUI which are great for transmitter control and monitoring.\u00a0 As we all know, there is more than just a transmitter at any given transmitter site.\u00a0 In addition to the transmitter, I would like to control and monitor things like tower lights, interface and control of coax switches, temperature monitoring, generator status, the old non-web interface backup transmitters, STL signal strength for those old 950 MHz links, etc.<\/p>\n
Since Google is my friend (when they are not storing my search data), I came up with this: Internet-ethernet-12-channel-relay-board<\/a><\/p>\n That particular PC board is made in Bulgaria, which is home to this: Mount Buzludzha<\/a><\/p>\n What I like about these particular boards is the DRM software (DRM has, apparently, many different meanings) which will run on Linux or Windows.\u00a0 There are also iOS and Android applications that can be used as well.\u00a0 It appears that the GUI can be customized for various uses. \u00a0 This seems like it is written in Java, so perhaps I could have some Java expert customize it for radio use.\u00a0 It looks like up to 32 boards can be controlled by a single instance of the DRM software.\u00a0 Alarm reporting would be via SNMP trap and email.<\/p>\n I don’t know, there is one particular cluster of stations that needs new remote control gear at almost every transmitter site.\u00a0 Perhaps a little alpha testing is in order?\u00a0 It could be fun…<\/p>\n Anyway, just a thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are extending LANs out to transmitter sites for many reasons; backup audio, control and monitoring, security systems, VOIP phones, etc. I am casually (very casually) toying around with creating my own Linux-based remote control system.\u00a0 The ongoing Windows 10 upgrade debacle continues to not end, I can’t help but think that there are many … Continue reading A Linux based remote control system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,215,312],"class_list":["post-9149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-am-transmitter-site","tag-fm-transmitter-site","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11117,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions\/11117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}