[openob-users] Re: multiple sends

Mike, You can run multiple ob connections on different ports, I've done this before. I'd have to double check my notes, but years ago I had a machine at a station which had a multiple in-out sound card (with 8 in's and 8 out's an M-Audio Delta 1010lt) and I'd set it up to be able to - from one computer at the station - have 4 different stereo incoming / outgoing connections at the same time, each one with different audio. OpenOB was on the back end making it all work. Essentially I ran several different instances of OpenOB at the studio each on different ports. I'd establish both send/receive channels (again on different ports) to each location. On the Studio end I'd routed it all through Jack. Of course this means with some jack disconnect/connect commands it is easy to change where audio goes. The studio end all ran on a single computer, just with multiple instances of OpenOB. The biggest trick to keeping it all working was to be very specific about documenting it all. Without solid documentation it would become easy to incorrectly route audio to the wrong location. So as an example: Remote location 1 talks to Studio computer - OpenOB 1, on a particular set of ports Remote location 2 talks to Studio computer - OpenOB 2, on a particular set of ports Remote location 3 talks to Studio computer - OpenOB 3, on a particular set of ports etc Studio OpenOB 1, 2, and 3 all ran on the same computer, just as different processes and using different Jack connections. Route it all in Jack at the studio. If you want location 1, 2, and 3 all going to the same audio output at the studio then Jack can do that for you - just route the audio from all 3 OpenOB's to the same audio card output. For extra security you might want to consider having the remote computers establish a VPN connection into your studio. OpenOB by itself is not secure, I would not recommend using it on the public internet without some added security layer. Hope this helps. > > > G'day all, > > Is case you have not heard there is a virus thing going around :-) > > We are home basing all our radio presenters where possible. > We have been using openob for obs for some time but only one at a time. > > We are now in the situation of having multiple openob trx's at the same > time (only because they are not switched off) and this, I believe, is > causing issues. > > questions: > 1. I presume multiple tx's to 1 rx does not work. > > 2. I should be able to to run multiple openobs on different ports using > jack and it will merge everything together? Hopefully. > > So so long as only one rx is sending audio we will only hear one feed. > > Ideally I would use an audio switch to switch between the various feeds > but we have no real way of setting this up now. > We do have this but only one OB input currently. :-( > > -- > Mike Phillips > Coast FM. > _______________________________________________ > openob-users mailing list -- openob-users(a)lists.talkunafraid.co.uk > To unsubscribe send an email to openob-users-leave(a)lists.talkunafraid.co.uk