Rik Goldman - Sun, 2012/05/13 - 22:37

Airtime looks like a fanstastic open source radio-broadcast automation server. It is browser based and seems to offer a complete feature set for radio programming and automation. I worked in radio long before the advent of mp3s and automation; so, from where I stand the best feature is its documentation.

Here's the homepage for the software at Sourcefabric: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/

There are several pages of installation documentation intended for any level user/administrator. Here's the "automated" installation documentation: http://en.flossmanuals.net/airtime-en-2-0/automated-installation/

The patch seems ready for testing. Apply to TurnKey LAPP for ready to go Airtime instance. Devs set it up for username: admin and password: admin initially. This can be easily configured on first boot with an inithook using bash.

Documentation for using Airtime is available at its home.

Forum: 
General
Tags: 
tklpatch
airtime

Rik Goldman - Tue, 2012/05/15 - 01:10

here. Trying to make sense of it.

Jeremy Davis's picture

Jeremy Davis - Wed, 2012/05/16 - 10:07

If you add the file as it should be to the overlay then the installation should leave it alone and should work OOTB.

Rik Goldman - Wed, 2012/05/16 - 01:57

Configuring TZ-data on first boot will be essential for this appliance. I'll add that an inithook to configure icecast2 from default security parameters might be necessary.

Jeremy Davis's picture

Jeremy Davis - Wed, 2012/05/16 - 10:15

It's been a little while since I've played with firstboot scripts, but is should be pretty easy to create one to (re)configure tzdata. Icecast2 may be marginally harder but not too big a deal...

Rik Goldman - Wed, 2012/05/16 - 01:59

On a running system. So, I reckon I should post the patch when I next have the chance.

Rik Goldman - Wed, 2012/05/16 - 14:13

This takes care of it, as long as I start apache2 and postgres afterwards:

hostname -F /etc/hostname

..immediately after defining the hostname.

That gets me to airtime-check-system, the final piece of the build. It fails with this now:

*** Verifying your system environment, running airtime-check-system ***
AIRTIME_STATUS_URL             = http://localhost/api/status/format/json/api_key/%%api_key%%
AIRTIME_SERVER_RESPONDING      = OK
KERNEL_VERSION                 = 2.6.32-5-686
MACHINE_ARCHITECTURE           = i686
TOTAL_MEMORY_MBYTES            = 1034472
TOTAL_SWAP_MBYTES              = UNKNOWN
AIRTIME_VERSION                = 2.0.3
OS                             = Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS i686
CPU                            = Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         920  @ 2.67GHz
WEB_SERVER                     = Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
PLAYOUT_ENGINE_PROCESS_ID      = 5025
PLAYOUT_ENGINE_RUNNING_SECONDS = 12
PLAYOUT_ENGINE_MEM_PERC        = 0.9%
PLAYOUT_ENGINE_CPU_PERC        = 0.0%
LIQUIDSOAP_PROCESS_ID          = 5027
LIQUIDSOAP_RUNNING_SECONDS     = 12
LIQUIDSOAP_MEM_PERC            = 1.8%
LIQUIDSOAP_CPU_PERC            = 9.8%
MEDIA_MONITOR_PROCESS_ID       = FAILED
MEDIA_MONITOR_RUNNING_SECONDS  = -1
MEDIA_MONITOR_MEM_PERC         = 0%
MEDIA_MONITOR_CPU_PERC         = 0%
RABBITMQ_PROCESS_ID            = 4595
RABBITMQ_RUNNING_SECONDS       = 11
RABBITMQ_MEM_PERC              = 1.1%
RABBITMQ_CPU_PERC              = 0.0%

I assume this is monit not starting: "+ /etc/init.d/monit start
Starting daemon monitor: monit won't be started/stopped unless it it's configured please configure monit and then edit /etc/default/monit and set the "startup" variable to 1 in order to allow
    monit to start"

So, an overlay.

Rik Goldman - Fri, 2012/05/18 - 03:55

Very challenging until it wasn't anymore. Very rewarding to be able to post a patch that can be applied to produce a ready to rip Airtime server.

Add new comment