Re: [Savonet-users] Scheduled switching of audio streams using Liquidsoap and Google calendar

[Hugo R. <co...@hu...>]

Hello Peter!

Wow! Thats a great idea and its verry well implemented.

Contgrats!

Best Regards,
HR


On 6/5/11 3:58 PM, Peter Retep wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As mentioned some time ago, I have written a stream-switch scheduler, based on liquidsoap.
> I would like to share the current version by this mail.
>
> The scheduler can be used to switch between live audio streams at a givendate and time.
> Date and time of a switch (start of starting a broadcast) can be dynamically (re)configured while scheduler and liquidsoap are running.
>
> There is a google calendar integration which allows you to define when which station (or stream URL) will be played.
> For each station you can define a stream URL and multiple aliases which can be used at the Google Calendar to address the station.
> If a second stream URL is given it will be used as fallback for the first one.
> The scheduler itself should run in the background and communicate with liquidsoap via telnet interface.
>
> Furthermore there is a web GUI which shows you the scheduler status or initiates manual synchronization with the Google Calendar.
> It should furthermore warn you on invalid URLs, missing processes running (scheduler, liquidsoap) and much more.
>
> We use the scheduler now for some weeks for receiving streams of 3 different stations at the city and put the current scheduled one to be played at the FM transmitter station.
> You could also use it for schedule listening to your radio, like play station A from 2 till 3, then play station B from 2 till 4, etc.
> The scheduler does not work with any files or playlists and can be used for audio streams only (input.http).
>
> You can find all of it here:
> http://dev.radiopiloten.de/dokuwiki/doku.php/liquidsoap:scheduler
>
> Thanks again to the LS team for implementing the URL.start/stop function and the output.harbor.
> Url.start / stop is used to dynamically set the current stream (which saves a lot of bandwidth, since only one station is connected at the same time).
> Output.harbor is a perfect solution for simply streaming from 1 station (liquidsoap) to another one (liquidsoap) without need to setup an additional icecast or something like this.
>
> BR, Peter
>
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