ON AIR

[Bob Olson]

I've put together a similar thing, in software, that puts up a red "Mics
Live" or somesuch on the display. It required a little hacking of rat, and
a server thing to run on the audio machine.

A better (simpler anyway) way might be to do a different rat modification
to have it connect to the "sign daemon".

Hm. Or have something monitoring the audio channel for local traffic.

--bob

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeff Ramacher wrote:

> Humor me...  I would like to install an "ON AIR" sign in our AG room,
> which could be manually turned on and off as needed.  I was
> thinking it would be really cool if this could be triggered
> automatically by vic or rat or both.  
> 
> I think there are two problems to solve.  First, interfacing the
> computer(s) to the sign.  This would be fun with a programmable LED
> marquee, but a simple on/off light with X10 controller would work too.
> 
> Second, vic and rat would need to alert an external process each time
> the "transmit" button's state changes.  I guess this could be as simple
> as updating a status file, although there are probably more 
> efficient ways.
> 
> Does anyone know how hard it would be to add this functionality to
> vic and rat?  Or, has anyone already done this?
> 
> Thanks :-)
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