RDS Request

[thespica93]

Keith seems to have gotten RDS to work with xScheduler.

Is it possible to make RDS a little easier to use.

Each one of my sequences and my music between my shows will receive an RDS Command.
Is it possible to select multiple sequences, and add an RDS command to each of them at one time?

And then is it possible to make a "master" RDS page, that lets me set defaults, such as the station name, and even a way to just say use the sequence name for the text in the RDS (minus the .fseq extension)

Thank you
-Nick

[keithsw1111]

Maybe next year ... I have a number of enhancements I need to make to EDM RDS.

[nmiller0113]

Keith seems to have gotten RDS to work with xScheduler.

Is it possible to make RDS a little easier to use.

Each one of my sequences and my music between my shows will receive an RDS Command.
Is it possible to select multiple sequences, and add an RDS command to each of them at one time?

And then is it possible to make a "master" RDS page, that lets me set defaults, such as the station name, and even a way to just say use the sequence name for the text in the RDS (minus the .fseq extension)

Thank you
-Nick

Nick, are you using EDM RDS and are you using xSchedule on a Windows machine?  If so, I can help you with a workaround that will get you everything you need right now as I'm doing that.

[MooCows]

I’m also interested in the xScheduler for windows RDS work around for the edm transmitter

[nmiller0113]

I’m also interested in the xScheduler for windows RDS work around for the edm transmitter

Follow this https://www.edmdesign.com/docs/EDM%20RDS%20and%20LOR%20setup(1).pdf setup but skip the batch file part as xSchedule will handle that for you.  You'll want to download TinyRDS as MiniRDS is not around any more.  So setup TinyRDS as this document points out and then create a step in xSchedule to modify the rds.txt file.  There is a File step option if you right click.  In that step you'll want to select the option to "Run this step every time".  I may have the wording off a bit as I'm going off the top of my head, but you'll find what I mean.  Inside the body of the File step, you'll put the path and file name of the file you'll want to modify at each step and I use the variable inside the file step of %STEPNAME% and just make sure each of my steps has a name added.

Please let me know if you have any questions, but this works great.  Also, I didn't include the physical instruction which is plug the USB Serial port into the EDM, but I assumed you'd know that

[JerryPlak]

 
my set up is working thanks to Keith from last year.

[nmiller0113]

That photo is too small to tell what you're sharing in how you got yours working.  I'm actually not even familiar with what is in the top left corner and zooming in on the photo only blurs.  Can you elaborate on how you did it as my option works well too, but it's always good to see other ways.

[JerryPlak]

What we set up last year was this

Run Process

RDS RadioText

cmd.exe /c "echo %RUNNING_PLAYLISTSTEP% > "c:\Users\Jerry Plak\Documents\radio\currentsong.txt""

Is the basic text file with the current song being played.

Sorry about the photo quality do a better one in the morning EST
but to answer your question in the upper left is ZaraRadio this is the background audio automation App
so when the display is not running we have schedule ZaraRadio audio tracks just like a radio station..

In the lower left is the TinyRDS app it reads the currentsong.txt  and encodes it so that the EDM transmitter decodes the information.

[nmiller0113]

Ok, so you're essentially doing exactly what I'm doing, just in a different way.  I'm using the File step to write a file to the rds.txt file every time the song changes.  I use the "every step" (new feature just added) to do this so it writes every time a new step (song) occurs.  I was familiar with TinyRDS as that is what I'm using as well to transmit the RDS.  I was more curious about the Top Left app...thanks for sharing.

[keithsw1111]

There are two better ways the run process.

Either use the file create or the rds item.

The rds one is not fully capable at this time but it does work doing what it does.


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[nmiller0113]

There are two better ways the run process.

Either use the file create or the rds item.

The rds one is not fully capable at this time but it does work doing what it does.


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That's exactly what I'm doing Keith, the file create....until the RDS option scrolls...but for now it's working great with the file create.  When you add the Dynamic PS I'll be able to ditch TinyRDS all together