Documentation

Documentation

User Guides

This section contains User Guides that can be used by end users. Information for system administrators is in other areas of the wiki.

• The Rivendell Cookbook
• Rivendell Operations Guide The official reference documentation that is published as part of the Rivendell source code.
• WMUL-FM Operations Manual Volume III - Computer Playback. Covers much of the same material as the "official" operations guide. Part of the excellent series of WMUL-FM training manuals published by Marshall University.
• How to Schedule Music - on The-Brett-Blog - Excellent Work with Screen Shots!
• Managing Scheduler Rules
• Log Creation and Music Scheduling
• Creating logs from the command line
• Log Transitions
• How to setup a rotation of fill in logs that can be loaded via a macro
• What to use the Aux1 and Aux2 logs for?
• How to use wildcards in the logname, using the RML command LL
• Importing External Logs into Rivendell - Also see Importing External logs into Rivendell - Music and Traffic
• Delayed playback
• Using rdimport to import mp3 files - Also works for wav files.
• Generating Reports
• Recording airchecks with gpi from microphone switch
• How to do network breaks with multiple Rivendell machines
• How do I make Rivendell play Audio from the "Line In" of the Sound Card on the air?
• How to play time tone pips and fade the currently playing audio
• How to handle Daylight Savings Time/Summer Time changes in Rivendell
• How to delete old voice track carts from RDLibrary
• RDCatch - How to setup downloads and dayparting for prerecorded daily programs
• RDCatch - How to manually run missed events

System Administrator Guides

This secton should not contain information for end users or details of how to setup, configure or troubleshoot Rivendell.

• Understanding users in Rivendell - Describes various types of users, including Linux, Rivendell and Mysql users.
• Migrating audio and database entries from one Rivendell system to another
• Auto-Recovery After a Power Failure
• Remote Administration with VNC
• Rivendell daemons
• Problems backing up or restoring the Rivendell Database
• Rivendell Reference Manual
• Rivendell Operations Guide
• Rivendell Documentation installed when Rivendell is installed
• Rivendell Application Notes
• Rivendell Design Documentation
• Preparing Translations
• Rivendell News File
• Rivendell Database Schema Versions
• Standard Rivendell documentation that should be installed in doc/rivendell
• RDGpiMon - How to monitor GPI events.
• RML MB command - How to use the Rivendell Macro Language (RML) Message Box (MB) Display
• RDLogedit
• Rivendell Loadable Module SDK - For Sending Now & Next Data to external systems
• Dropboxes - How to use dropboxes to send and receive audio.
• Podcasting crash course