OBPlayer can be set up as a standalone CAP alert broadcaster. Install OBPlayer in-line with your broadcast audio\video chain and it will automatically interrupt the regular broadcast when it receives a valid CAP-CP formated alert. Use the DIY RS232 GPIO to trigger relays to cut into scheduled programming.
Install OBPlayer and login to Dashboard
Sync/Media Tab
Uncheck Enable Scheduler, and Enable Fallback Media Player. This disables all other media and sync settings from OBServer.
Audio/Visualizations Tab
Audio Output “Auto Detect” Defaults to Pulse audio
Audio Input “Auto Detect” Defaults to Pulse audio
Only change these audio settings if you know what you are doing.
Video/Image Tab
Leave this unchecked when using in a radio application
Emergency Alerts Tab
Enable Emergency Alerts
Voices
Select Primary and Secondary languages in order preference with accompanying language voice. Use a voice starting with ‘mb-‘ if mbrola voices are installed.
SGC Code
Enter SGC code for your region availble from Statistic Canada or Standard_Geographical_Classification_code. More than one SGC can be entered, separated by commas.
Alert Repeat Duration Default = 30 minutes
NAAD Streams. Enter in 2 of your Countries NAAD Streams and Archive URL
Truncate long messages. Default = No Emergency messages should be issued by Pelmorex with all the concise info contained in first line. Selecting this, could mean reading out the entire message with unrecognizable TTS translations of websites and URLs. The long message might go on several minutes.
Play Moderate and Advisory Alerts. Default = No Check if you want these to play.
Play Test Alerts.Default = No Enable this for playing test alerts. Normally the play test messages option is for playing messages marked as Test, which normally shouldn’t be played to the public. The test messages for public distribution do not have the status value “Test”. They are like normal alerts
On board CAP Alert Testing
Simple Test Generates an internal CAP-CP formated message and plays using TTS
Embedded Audio Test Generates an internal CAP-CP message and plays a supplied MP3 file instead of TTS.
External Audio Test Generates an internal CAP-CP alert message, fetches and plays a test MP3 file from Pelmorex.
Embedded Audio and Image Test Generates an internal CAP-CP test the displays a JPG image and plays audio recording.
NOTE English and French are presently the only supported language for on board testing with Audio and Visual alerting
Configuring Audio Line In
Status Tab VU Meter shows levels of line in source signal
When using USB/XLR adapter, disable on board audio from BIOS. Go to Settings>Configuration On board audio = “Off”
Monitoring Dual NAAD Feeds with Duplicates
Monitoring two NAAD streams and the same alert comes in on both streams. If by chance a CAP alert came in on different feeds, the alert would be treated as one alert. The player is smart enough to detect and not play duplicates.
GPIO Trigger with RS-232 DTR on CAP-CP Alerts
When enabled and a matching CAP-CP message is broadcast, an alert cycle starts, the serial port will be opened and the DTR line will be set. After the alert cycle has completed, the DTR line will be cleared and a relay will be closed.
Install this package in order to use the RS-232 feature.
python-serial
Lead-In Delay (in seconds)”
This is the number of seconds of silence that will be inserted at the beginning of each alert cycle before the first alert starts playing, but after the DTR/icecast stream notifies that an alert cycle has started. The default is 1 second. Always leave it at 1 or greater. Setting this to 5 or so seconds will give time for buffering to occur.
Trigger RS-232 DTR on Alerts
When checked, will show the “RS-232 Device Filename” option. The device filename should be something like /dev/ttyS0, or /dev/ttyUSB0 if using a USB-to-Serial adapter. For initial setup, disable all RS-232 ports so there is only one available.
Trigger Icecast Stream on Alerts
Will start and stop the icecast streamer module (in the streaming tab) the same as the serial port. In addition to this setting, you must also uncheck the “Play Stream on Startup” option on the streaming tab, or else the streamer will start playing when obplayer starts.
Add Dialout Group
whoami output will be your username
Serial ports on Linux
User account needs to have access to the serial port and be a member of the dialout group.
sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username>
Log out / log back in (or reboot). User now has access to the serial port and all its control lines.
Check group membership
groups <username>
If ‘dialout’ appears in the output you are in the dialout group.
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