update May 24 did not go too well abandoned upgrade to ubu 24 after disk failure went back to ubu 20 with Asterisk 18 followed the instructions contained in this document (for the most part) with these more up to date ones https://reintech.io/blog/setting-up-asterisk-voip-server-ubuntu-22 seemed to hit problems related to user groups and settings The edits below -cause problems – so i have revised them in the instructions sudo gedit /etc/default/asterisk

To send from Onyx to Yamaha Voice to Score on old Dell Note Dell very temperamental – unplug from mains and reconnect if desktop does not appear Set audio out on computer to Onyx Connect Behringer mixer in to Alt 3-4 on Onyx Set channel 15-16 to Alt 3-4 (mute button) Ensure that firewire 1-2 is set as the input to channel 15-16 Behringer mixer main out goes to Yamaha

Copied from https://www.gravityisahat.comThere is so much I could say about it, apologies and pathetic justifications to alleviate the pressure to show something good, worthy, arty, entertaining… but instead i will say nothing …………………. except its only 20 minutes long: http://giss.tv:8000/gravityisahat.mp3and then recordings and videoshttp://k6.gravityisahat.co.uk/live-feeds/

Since my holiday on August I have been having a painful time creating content rather than resolving technical problems or contributing to this blog. My 10 day holiday was modestly productive and I produced a script that has moved completely away from what I planned a few months ago. This process should have been fun but was actually very arduous with only about twenty minutes worth of words produced and

i have some holiday from the university so i am back on the project. i still need to resolve a few things from the list on my last post but i am broadly satisfied with the technical setup. i did a test broadcast of lisa’s new album from the box , well actually as if from the box, and the icecast system for web radio worked pretty well. i have

after a long period of development i have to pause and get on with other things. so that i don’t forget here are the things that need doing position the external speaker for optimum effect ensure that a “please wait” message precedes the relevant connection figure out how to pre set jack with all the relevant connections automating the recording of broadcasts polish existing extension stories and create more create

If the % percent character is included in SSML to be rendered by Python it has to be formatted correctly otherwise it throws things out when used in conjunction with %d variables. i don’t yet know how to get round that issue

is possible! – add this to MOH Config in etc/asterisk [default]mode=customapplication=/etc/alternatives/mpg123 -q -s -m -r 7000 -f 8192 -b 0 -@ http://81.136.203.155:7000/di_stream.mp3

another non intuitive system – i have created a file but the patch cables don’t appear to be complete in the visualisation having said that it seems to work – created a new patchbay with the darkice stream connectivity