Rivendellaudio/debian

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# Rivendell introduction:
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The Rivendell radio broadcast automation solution has been installed.

The next step is to run the "rdadmin" command with a user that has permissions
to the rivendell system.  The first time it will prompt for a MySQL userid and
password that has permissions to connect and create the database.

Once the database has been created, run the "rdadmin" command again.  From this
point on, rdadmin will allow for configuring of Rivendell.

The default user accounts within Rivendell are "admin" and "user", both with no
password.


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# Creating *nix user accounts that have permission to access Rivendell
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# first create the user, such as foouser
adduser foouser

# add the user to the audio group, so they can access the sound card
adduser foouser audio

# add the user to the rivendell group, so they can access rivendell resources.
adduser foouser rivendell


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# ALSA Rivendell integration
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In order for Rivendell to recognize an ALSA sound adapter, there must exist a
standard ALSA configuration file with a card named "rd0" defined. 

The ALSA configuration file can be global (/etc/asound.conf) or per user
(~/.asoundrc).

Sample contents for the configuration file to define rd0 follow:
pcm.rd0 {
  type hw
  card 1
}
ctl.rd0 {
  type hw
  card 1
}

More information on ALSA configuration files can be found here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php

More information on Rivendell and ALSA can also be found in
/usr/share/doc/rivendell/ALSA.txt .