# > Broadcast Automation Emergency Alerts > Contact: admin@openbroadcaster.com ### Posts #### Audio over IP with OBplayer 🔊 LIVE Assist Webinar Join us Thursday, October 20 at 10:00 AM PST for a 30 minute demo on the Live Assist feature of our player including: * LIVE Assist Mode * Accepting incoming streams from remote locations * Hot Button Player and LA Play Lists This Webinar will be archived and available after. https://support.openbroadcaster.com/live-assist Global Disaster Preparedness Center Our presentation in Bangkok at the global CAP Alerting workshop CAP Workshop Report 2016 AES67 and Ravenna Audio over Internet Protocol (AoIP) support is under development and presently in testing. This will allow our systems to be compatible with modern digital boards and peripheral devices that support these low-latency protocols. Call out to anyone using Ravenna Supported mixing boards including Axia, Wheatstone, etc that wish to try out our new systems. National CAP Tests Sept 21, 2016 We received a call from a customer that didn’t receive and play the test alert. Upon investigation, we determined they had inputted the wrong SGC Code for their region. Please ensure you have the proper SGC code. Here is a tool to help confirm and select the SGC code for your area. https://support.openbroadcaster.com/location-geocodes We also had a question about stations reporting to Pelmorex how they receive CAP feeds. Our customers are receiving TCP Socket Feeds supplied by DSL/Cable modems. CAP Alert Player Receiving TTS Attachments Some messages being sent to Pelmorex for distribution are in WAV/MP3. This results in much better audio quality and more natural sounding voices, not relying on local TTS. You might see these in the logs as downloading from Amazon as WAV/MP3 files. Our systems are already designed for this function and will automatically play these types of TTS attachments (when present) that will be accepted and processed successfully without any user intervention. Contact us anytime if you need any assistance. New Features and Code Updates Player and Server * Recent updates to the CLFG including reading out info from the description field * Downloading local audio logs and player application logs from Dashboard status page * Fixed condition where Player will keep legacy settings for Remote mode * Inputs and Outputs separated into different menu tabs * Player reports version back to server To receive updates for the Player. Dashboard >Check for updates>Save>Restart player Change Log Support Pages https://support.openbroadcaster.com/accessories We have included a separate page for accessories and configuration examples. Training Outlines Suppport and Training Training materials and outlines. Let us know if there is a specific training module that is needed. Server Clusters and Virtual Machines We now support enterprise server clustering in Canada’s north to make a better user experience at these satellite based communities where internet has latency issues and bandwidth is very expensive. Media Release Coming up Transitioning to updated Xubuntu 16.04. This allows a newer Gstreamer multimedia framework for international language support and smoother Text To Speech. Moving to 100% headless operation with Pulse audio as the default while continuing to support JACK audio. #### Build a better broadcast application with open source 🛠 OBServer Restful API Code Update We've been picking away at code refactoring and API stabilization over the last 6 months selecting the PSR-12 standard updating code to be compliant. We started defining and implementing our API v2 more in line with typical REST principles, transitioning dependencies to be composer-managed. PHP CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files to detect and fix violations of a defined set of coding standards automatically. We know these changes, while not exciting (?), will improve the maintainability of the code, make it easier to involve community members in development, and stabilize third-party integration (via the API or as modules). Thanks for your patience while feature development is on hold to make these improvements. Follow this work in our 5.3 Development Branch and public API Documentation OBPlayer Video The station screen bug is a logo that typically displays as an opaque overlay in the bottom right corner of video signal. We had this on the TODO list from 2014 and happy to report @vincentthedev got this in production. There is active development work on a headless obplayer optimized for video playout from @alphabitnz originating in New Zealand. https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/rtmp-changes 2022 CAP Implementation Workshop The CAP Workshop Report 2022  of the 2022 CAP Implementation Workshop and Training events is now available. The Report summarizes 31 presentations (including ours) given at the two events, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 19-21 September, 2022. Takeaway from CAP conference "When was the last time FM Radio was overwhelmed with no circuits available?” The Workshop Website for these events and our workshop Training: Emergency Communications 101 Emergency Communications 101 All the skills and training (Duration 3- 5 days) needed to run and maintain a community FM radio station during a disaster. We can come to your location or present this virtually online and have some funding assistance available for NGO. https://www.emergencycommunications101.com/ Halifax Hurricane – Community Radio Alerting Hurricane Fiona was a large, powerful, and destructive Category 4 Atlantic hurricane which impacted portions of the Caribbean and Eastern Canada. It was the costliest and most intense tropical or post-tropical cyclone to hit Canada on record. Checkout the Alert Player dashboard of a community radio station that uses our virtual emergency alerts as a service (EAaS) during this event. Public Alert CAP Tests We would like to remind you that Public Awareness tests of the system are planned on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. https://www.alertready.ca/ POLLY AI Voices Update for legacy customers We have created a new firmware update for ML210/ML350 (Orange) hardware, using our installer script, updating the OS with many enhancements for CAP alerting, including POLLY AI Voices. *** There are no fees or charges for this update *** This update and release is meant for experienced users comfortable with using our products, as it has many menus and functions exposed, etc. Always make a backup. Export your settings file. * Auto complete SGC fields by community name * Bilingual AWS Polly AI Voices * Embedded dashboard media player to monitor output remotely within browser * Improved bilingual self-generated test messages * Real time log level > Alerts only * Cancel Alerts * Separate alert logs >Download * Show alert count history by type: Advisory, Broadcast Intrusive and Self Generated Tests. Further support instructions and complimentary firmware for legacy Ml210 and Current ML350 Download Updated POLLY AI Voice Polly Voices Yellowknife International Film Festival Nov 2-6, 2022 Another chance to see Rob is Analog  in the north and online in Canada. Rob is Analog World Radio Day https://youtu.be/A8JFOT7PRLo This eclectic character study follows Rob Hopkins as he endeavours to secure a CRTC licence for community radio and television (and, eventually and controversially, porn). The doc by Jessica Hall finds a great character in Hopkins, who embodies the spirit of community and the mischievousness of a true pirate. Rob Is Analog draws upon Hopkins DIY spirit to explore how older technologies and forms of communication endure as Hopkins deconstructs boxy televisions and fiddles with a “Watchman” (a portable TV equivalent to the Sony Walkman) to tap into the reach of the local signal. Moreover, Hopkins’ effort and choice to take it upon himself to start the community radio and analogue TV, demonstrates how the shift to digital communication leaves some Canadians in the dark. At the heart of this old soul is a belief in the democratic potential for media. The doc effectively evokes Hopkins’ ramshackle spirit. https://povmagazine.com DIY CJUC Radio Dynamic Word Press Theme Check out the API work by Brett Elliot  of Whitehorse. This takes community radio station metadata from a backend OpenBroadcaster server and presents it on a public WP site. * Dynamic Schedule with descriptions * Now playing, upcoming and previous shows and last 100 played media * Embedded streaming media player with album art https://www.cjucfm.com/ Service Providers and Resellers Are you looking for a hosted virtual media server service? Radio and Television Station in a Cloud? Custom broadcast feature development? Check out our service providers and resellers Developer Partners Sponsor a Project Looking for work? Have a new feature request? Do you have any skills to share? See our updated GIT Developer Documentation contributing guidelines for obplayer and observer Git Hub OpenBroadcaster  a project resource to create a bounty Miscellaneous Notes * Thanks to Nat@CKMS-FM a DIY alert player install for sponsoring some of our work in Emergency Alerting to keep updates current. * RSS Certs message from Pelmorex - Not applicable. Ignore. Thanks Corey@CKWE for reporting in with this question. * Developers and beta testers - We have pushed all the obplayer and observer code\issues\docs to the public GIT Repositories and archived corresponding private repos. * Call out to Raspberry Pi Pyrate 4.0 Beta Testers. Seeking users with Pi 4 hardware to give our latest Pyrate 4 Beta ISO some loads. #### Calling All Raspberry Pi Coders and Hackers 🍓 Are you a DIY coder with a passion for technology and open-source innovation? We're on the lookout for talented individuals experienced in: - Raspberry Pi - Ubuntu - Open Source Software - Bash Scripting While familiarity with community radio and broadcasting is a plus, it's not a requirement. This is an incredible opportunity for tech enthusiasts to delve into cutting-edge projects and make meaningful contributions to the open-source community. Why Apply? - Engage with exciting and innovative projects. - Join a vibrant community of like-minded tech enthusiasts. - Enhance your skills and expand your professional network. Interested? If this sounds like a fit for you, we invite you to apply. Please include in your application: your proposals, references, work plans, and any questions you may have. Send your submissions to our team at hr@openbroadcaster.com Explore the Project Code: You can view and get involved with our project code on GitHub: https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/ We look forward to hearing from passionate and innovative candidates eager to take on exciting challenges! #### Climate Alerting with Open Source Software 📻 Hello Radio Friends, I am presently working remotely this winter in Thailand and reside in the Yukon Territory up in northern Canada, beside Alaska. Historically 2 major events happened here; the Klondike gold rush of 1898 and the building of the Alaska highway in 1942 to connect the continental US to Alaska in preparation of a Japanese invasion during World War 2. In Canada we have 634 distinct indigenous groups with around 20 local dialects still spoken. These indigenous groups did not have any written languages and relied on an oral tradition of telling stories. This makes the radio medium effective in sharing audio format messages. One group close to me still has stories of a community dinner and capturing a Woolly Mammoth. That would have been one big feast! Trends in the far north are milder temperatures and slightly more precipitation. Warming in the Arctic is of concern by releasing methane from melting permafrost and glaciers. Side effects from not having extreme cold include; it doesn’t penetrate trees in the forest and allows spruce beetles to take hold, killing vast amounts of trees which then become a fire hazard.  Challenges of forest fires and flood are losing properties, infrastructure and homes. Additionally these events cause food insecurity, when our groceries are delivered by truck from 2000 kms away and the roads are shut down for many days\weeks at a time. Unstable weather systems have also contributed to mining disasters, triggering landslides which release millions and millions of liters of toxic tailings; methylmercury and potassium cyanide into the pristine water systems forever. Radio is an accessible media, no passwords or smartphone, just a simple FM radio and some batteries. In order to survive we need to keep radio relevant while competing with social media and YouTube. The next generation is already full of fake news and AI generated content. Radio still has a role as a trusted medium, where you can hear local news and information from sources and people you know and trust.  I am lucky to be able to travel to remote indigenous communities, where I setup small community radio stations with Open Source broadcast technology and provide training. This allows gathering indigenous languages into a web accessible online streaming media library, with scheduled play lists and sharing enclosed metadata. In Canada it is mandatory to carry emergency alerts issued by the federal government. Some of these stations use repurposed computers that still have life left in them using our open source software, including the low cost Raspberry Pi embedded devices. What makes this even more beneficial is this system is designed to broadcast alerts in both official languages, English and French, but also in understandable indigenous languages. Climate change is a real threat that everyone has to deal with. Radio still has a role to play disseminating trusted timely information in many different languages. Thank-you Rob AIBD Web-summit 2025 - Radio in the Climate Crisis #### Community Media Convergence 📢 Community Media Conference OpenBroadcaster is busy preparing to attend Commedia at Carlton University Ontario Nov 22 – 24 Stop by and say hello to Jake one of the original lead developers for OpenBroadcaster and my nephew Christopher Nash at Commediaconverge.ca They will have a table participating at the technology fair and presenting about our work with Open Source CAP-CP emergency broadcasting. New Emergency Broadcasting Features Three new ways for injecting CAP-CP Emergency Alerting into the broadcast chain: - 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. - Trigger for Icecast Stream during CAP-CP alerts will start and stop the icecast streamer module (in the streaming tab) in sync with the serial port above. - Icecast streamer with the Barix Box will switch to the alert stream when an alert cycle starts and switch back when it stops. In the Barix Box, set the first URL to the alert stream, and the second URL to the normal stream. Special thanks to coder David Parker and Professor Eric Heidendahl of CFRC at Queens University for the tour and collaboration on the RS232 DTR Trigger relay project. We really appreciate the assistance testing and the technical guidance. LIVE Assist local Microphone access. Chrome/FireFox/Safari HTML5 web application asks for browser permission to access local mic and talks over the playing audio or only mic. Uses PCM and ulaw to reduce bandwidth. Load web browser on a tablet or laptop at a coffee shop or community event, then use USB mic to do interviews/shows. Buttons starts a RTP Opus stream to send out a stream to automatically cut into transmitter for live operation in the field. Uses the main media library with integrated logging of material played. Live Assist with Microphone Audio Streaming Audio streaming is now done internally with the player (based on Gsteamer) and doesn't rely on Darkice anymore. From the player dashboard GUI enter in the mount point name, icecast server and password. Audio is recorded and archived by a schedule. Easy Peasy. Podcast Assembler Simply drag and drop media and dynamic playlists to assemble a podcast with our easy web tool. Creates an embedded track list for royalties and logging. Dynamic episodes of a series may be built just by dragging a playlist to update and refresh the podcast. Podcast Assembler Developer Support Program We are launching a new Developer Partners to assist and provide technical guidance to our many new international friends that are creating custom applications and expanding the usefulness of OpenBroadcaster for audio and streaming applications. Icewireless Icewireless a northern business leader takes the initiative and supports accessibility on customer's handsets. CJUC "Recycle the Vinyl"™ The CJUC Media Preservation Project CJUC 92.5 FM - Whitehorse Community Radio is raising funds to move their new 600 watt transmitter to Haeckel Hill, Summer 2016! “The Juice” is updating its digital media library and interested in recycling any vinyl media that you may have hanging around the house. We are especially keen for northern music lying around gathering dust. Saturday December 5, 2015 @ 4pm. CJUC will be broadcasting the Lions Radio Auction LIVE from Whitehorse City Hall. CJUC studio will be open in the afternoon and evening. (careful of the ice) Vinyl fans may come and check out the treasures. Some of the contemporary media are available on a donation basis. Studio Visits CKNN – Bella Coola BC CFRC – Kingston ON County FM – Picton ON FaithFM -Waterloo ON UCB Canada – Belleville ON Thank-you everyone that spent the time sharing your studio and chatting about radio. There is never enough time to visit every station #### Digital Sovereignty Where is your data 📢 Future Home of CJUC Radio CJUC CJUC community radio site overlooking downtown Whitehorse Yukon from Haeckel Hill Open Source North 60 Our Second Annual OSN60 event was well attended with guests from all across Canada coming to Whitehorse. There was a diverse mix of languages including regional indigenous dialects and far away Estonian Language What we heard Many language archives and collections are scattered about, not under a unified system or policy with challenges about release rights. Since some sensitive stories may belong to individual families and specific geographical regions. Over the course of the conference, it became increasingly apparent, no one really knows where they stand with regards to their indigenous intellectual property, covering all things cultural, including written and spoken languages. We acknowledge the challenge that exists for digital sovereignty and lack of guidelines for distribution policy. Does this sound familiar? Trust me, you’re not alone. We welcome you to Contact Us. Special thanks for the familiarization tours of northern radio stations at CHON FM  and CKRW “CKRW The Rush”  (celebrating 50 years on air!) for our out of town guests. Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk Northwest Territories to visit IRC Language Centres Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting – Aboriginal Peoples’ Program Funding Application deadline November 19 https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/aboriginal-peoples/northern-broadcasting.html Shaw Satellite Service Disruption We received several inquiries about a story circulating about updates to Shaw Satellite Service affecting northern broadcasters. Shaw has changed their satellite receivers to MP4. If you are not using Shaw to receive signals AND have not received a letter advising to update, then your off-air radio station is not going to be affected. DRM Files from USA We recently came across an issue with DRM files from the US, causing our playout systems to lockup. The DRM schemed files were able to be uploaded to our media servers thus preventing these files from playing. We have updated the upload junk filter on the server, to reject and not allow DRM enabled files into the media library. Tech Tip - Port Forwarding Guide We have updated our public wiki with sample settings for your router for port forwarding. This allows your player/server box to be reached from outside your network in the real world https://support.openbroadcaster.com/ Know your audio cables I came across this handy visual guide for all things about audio cables Audio cable types guide Featured Module Stream LIVE override to all stations This new features, encodes the “line-in” or USB mixing board, and interrupts remote playout boxes automatically. There is a new button in the Live Assist interface, so pressing the “on” button can send to as many stations simultaneously on demand. Included is a visual counter on LA of how many stations are receiving the live stream. Users can go to any of the other stations and override all players in network. It is setup, so that a main studio station has priority over all others. This is all done with free open source software, replacing the need for expensive proprietary hardware encoders. Grass Roots Conference - Rochester New York Vincent Maggard did a really cool presentation about 21st Century Broadcasting with Raspberry Pi with everything from streaming, to indigenous alerting. The Raspberry Pi computer is a broadcasters power house. Pyrate Firmware Image International Languages Translation Project Call out for translation teams. Do you understand written English and another language? OpenBroadcaster is expanding to overseas markets and picking up a global share of the international broadcast automation business, through inquiries from our website in many different languages, specifically from Asian and South America cultures including many indigenous groups. Candidates should have an existing portfolio of similar projects, experience with open source CMS and strong Google Analytics skills. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/opportunity The National Campus/Community Radio Conference June 3rd, 4th & 5th 2020 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Cost: $200-250 CJUC is excited to be hosting in what is not only an astonishingly beautiful city, but one that is alive, innovative and entrepreneurial. The conference take place across two venues. The first the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre , a fantastic new building which is the gathering place which celebrates the heritage, cultural and contemporary ways of the Kwanlin Dün citizens. The second venue we will be going to is Yukonstruct a new innovation hub in Whitehorse, which is right across the road! The NCRA is also negotiating lower rates for the Raven’s Inn, the first new hotel built in Whitehorse in 40 years. This new build is incredibly modern but built with local materials, and truly representative of the Yukon. All three of these locations are within a block of each other, and also within a block or so of CJUC  park-side radio studios.   #### Do you ever get that gnawing feeling? 🦫 RGH Hall of Innovators My 2025 nomination for Hall of Innovators is Tagish Radio Rob! Rob has no idea I'm nominating him and he's never seen the piece below I wrote this morning for him. While we are lightly friends and worked together on a couple small jobs in early 2000s, we haven't seen each other face to face in several years. I'm just a fan. No discussion of Yukon innovators is complete which doesn't include him and his multifaceted work. Matt Wilkie --- Born from a need to communicate from his home in Tagish 120 kms outside of Whitehorse and which did not have phone service, in the early 1990s Rob Hopkins, with a grade 8 education and little to no technical background, taught himself how to aquire and use full duplex radio recycled from a lighthouse, connect it with the telco, and send a fax to a friend overseas in Thailand. Also wanting to communicate without driving into town other folks kept asking Rob to help them. Eventually this led to him building a large area wireless broadband link connecting Tagish and Marsh Lake with multiple hops and mountain top sites to Whitehorse and the world. Being fascinated with radio content as well as infrastructure, in 1997 Rob started broadcasting music over the air from a small 5 watt FM transmitter – underregulated, a.k.a. pirate radio – from a radio tower erected in his yard, scavenged from the dump. By various negotiations and finagling and do-it-then-ask-forgiveness he got an antenna up on Northwestel's radio tower in Tagish as a legit operation (CFET 106.7), and then eventually in Whitehorse as CJUC 92.5 - The Juice. A natural outgrowth of Rob's activities and interest became how to send out emergency and public service messages in underserved areas. Yukon hinterland is one thing, but why not also rural Africa and Asia? This idea “Radio Station in a Box” eventually manifested the open source hard- and software project Open Broadcaster, which has been in operation since 2002. Tagish Radio Rob is a person who has most certainly cut his own trail through life and achieved supposedly impossible things. A true Yukon innovator, we're lucky to have him manifestly exemplifying the art of the possible, right here in our Yukon backyard. CBC interview CBC interview Emergency Alerts Accessibility Study: Making Alerts Better for Everyone Neil Squire Society—a non-profit dedicated to helping people with disabilities regain independence—is making waves in accessibility innovation. Through their research and development department, they’re working on ideas to improve emergency alerts for everyone, not just those with disabilities. Some of their exciting recommendations include: Different alert sounds for different emergencies Clear emergency types and timestamps in alert titles Large, bold, high-contrast text and varied background colours Visuals: images, emergency-type icons, shapes to indicate severity QR codes for quick info access Enhanced text-to-speech and synced text highlighting Paragraph splits for readability Multi-line text crawlers Remote-controlled pagination for set-top box alerts A centralized, bilingual (English & French) web platform for alerts These findings will help shape upcoming Canadian accessibility standards, update the national guidelines for emergency alerts, and refine the Canadian Common Alerting Protocol profile. Learn more: Accessible Emergency Alerts Tech Tip: Smoother Audio Transitions You asked, we listened! One of our most popular feature requests—fading out audio at the top of the hour when a show changes—has now been implemented. Enjoy seamless transitions between your favorite programs. Pipes and Gstreamer Sink Visualization Sendai Framework Funding SENDAI The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) is an international agreement adopted by UN member states to reduce disaster risks and losses in lives, livelihoods, and health, by guiding countries and communities to better understand, manage, and invest in disaster risk reduction and resilience, especially as climate change increases disaster threats. SENDAI UNDRR Sasakawa Award Geneva 2025 Sasakawa Awards for Disaster Risk Reduction The 8th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) Geneva, Switzerland | 2–6 June 2025 The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has announced I am on the shortlist for the prestigious Sasakawa Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to disaster risk reduction worldwide. UNDRR Sasakawa Award Geneva News? Events? Something to share with the community? Please send to media@openbroadcaster.com Newsletter Archive https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/media-news/   #### Emergency Communications 101 Training 📢 Learn how to manage and configure open source systems to provide community emergency alerts and prepare for the National Public Alerting tests.  CAP Alert Player for Radio and Television April 27 2023 at 10:00 AM – Noon Pacific Time Skill:                Beginner or user of Alert Player. Description:     Manage and operate a CAP Alert Player for broadcast. Challenge:       Certificate upon passing grade of 80% of test. Cost:                 Free For more details or questions please contact media@openbroadcaster.com SGC     Alert Ready     Configuration    Pelmorex    Self Generated Test Alerts Suppport and Training Languages Newest Observer version 5.3.1 includes support for most international languages, including Indigenous dialects. ISO 639-3 provides a unique three-letter code for 7,546 human languages, whether living, extinct, ancient, historical or artificial.   EAS Activity in US FCC recently released an updated 2023 version of its EAS Operating Handbook. FCC rules in US require that a copy of this Handbook be located with EAS equipment locations. Call out to Barry@BDR (Broadcasters' Desktop Resource) as an excellent source of EAS news. TheBDR EAS News In US, EAS boxes beginning Dec 31 2023 must be capable of 32 Bit Audio.  Our systems already handle 32-bit floating point encoded audio in both big endian and little endian formats Cabin Radio – How long does it take to get a CRTC radio licence? After 3 three and half years, CRTC returned this application as “unread”  and prohibited Cabin from reapplying for at least 2 years.  CRTC could be a little more supportive for the communities' choice of radio from small town Canadian broadcasters located in northern Canada. Cabin Radio CLI Tool Yet another useful ob cli command. (replaces password_hash.php in tools dir) OpenBroadcaster API Tools for CJUC Radio Check out the Collection of  CJUC Now Playing Metadata publishing tools from Brett Elliot Whitehorse Yukon. They are available for the community on CodePen. News? Events? Something to share with the community? Please send to media@openbroadcaster.com   #### Emergency Indigenous Alerts ⚠️ Swans in Tagish Yukon Record-high bird count at Yukon's Swan Haven over weekend. 3,000 birds make an awful lot of noise. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-swan-haven-record-count Indigenous Alerts Within Canada, there are approximately 635 FNs and 50+ Inuit communities with numerous spoken languages and dialects. Canadian policy related to CAP alerting specifies support for Indigenous languages, but this has not yet been realized. OpenBroadcaster CAP-CP Emergency Alert Player works by augmenting and compiling key phrases recorded in Indigenous languages by community members. Artificial intelligence is then applied to associate the message in the CAP alert with the available recorded phrases. The result is an open source framework available, not just for Canada’s Indigenous communities, but for any country or any language\dialect to incorporate. Tsilhqot’in National Government Makerspace Like the CJUC makerspace in Whitehorse, YT, this makerspace in downtown Williams Lake, BC boasts re-purposed hardware, including more than a dozen previously enjoyed workstations, courtesy of the Federal Government. In addition to providing broadcast training and indigenous language revitalization, the radio station housed in the makerspace is a template for several others, each to be housed in their own maker spaces located in smaller communities; and, ultimately, to be replicated in other First Nations communities across Canada, all capable of sharing best practices and content between them. https://www.wltribune.com/news/video-tng-radio-opens-station-in-downtown-williams-lake/ Logging and Advertising Affidavits How are your logging systems working? A radio station in Quebec is under fire for collecting revenue and not airing paid ads and psa. All of our systems for radio independently... 1) Log metadata into a DB what, where and when media played searchable at the server 2) Create an audio log of what played out on the player 3) Monitor the broadcast station and record the over the air transmission using a SDR (software defined radio) USB dongle It’s estimated that at least 30% of Canadian radio stations that still do hand written paper logs. Expect a CRTC review and audit of logging practices if you’re one of them. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/rafale-fm-labrador-francophone-radio-advertising Satellite Alerting Project CJUC uses Ku band as a back-up when the internet goes down in the Yukon because of frequent fibre optic cable cuts between Whitehorse and Grand Prairie. Our open source player box is capable of monitoring multiple feeds: TCP/IP Socket, C band and Ku band satellite transponders. Ku band dishes can be easily installed with a bracket and lag bolts, while C band dishes are large, and typically need a concrete base. Up north, we use bigger dishes, C band 3m and Ku band 1.2 m. We undertook a Ku band redundancy emergency alerting project for off grid alerting in rural remote communities as part of of We used recycled Hughes HX50L and HN7700 Satellite modem boards with a regular consumer grade 1.2m satellite TV antennae “mini dish” from Shaw Direct, and sourced outside LNB electronics at the local recycling centre. Thanks go out to Cold Climate Innovation and CFSY Welcome Vincent Maggard – EAS Indigenous Alerts Vincent has always loved technology of all things Linux and phone systems. He started learning tech and coding at the precocious age of seven, and developed some really cool weather alert processing software. When not programming python apps, he can be found driving an ATV through the mountains of eastern Kentucky, USA. Vincent Maggard Featured Modules - Task Tracker Assign and track status of user and group tasks to work on media or playlists in management server. When an assigned task (such as update playlists) is completed, assignee reports back with built-in note and commenting system. Streaming - Send to All Stations From the Live Assist window or player’s dashboard, one click LIVE streaming of the station’s audio including source from line in, Send to All Stations. This is scalable for network operators to support hundreds of nodes in remote markets. Allows setting the priority so central station can act as master and not be overridden. Localized CAP Emergency alerting always takes priority. JAM Live 100th Episode JAM live! is a passion project spearheaded by Dieter Gade. Over the years he’s used his expertise to record 100 concerts and counting, all for free and available for airplay. Keep your ears out for this episode on your local radio station. *** Congrats to Dieter *** and all the volunteers who've made this possible. And thanks for the countless hours you’ve invested in these recordings and all you do to keep JAM sounding incredible! This 100th episode was recorded on Feb 7, 2019 at Jazz in the Hall with Mr. Lonnie Powell & Friends. Jam Live 100 Upcoming National Alert Testing - May 8, 2019 Contact us for any assistance or questions about the Alert Player or upcoming test alerts. Please ensure updates are current. From dashboard >Admin>updates https://www.alertready.ca/testing-schedule/ CAP Emergency Alerting Conference - Hong Kong Indigenous Language Alerting with CAP CAP Workshop Report 2018 AMARC World Association of Community Radio - Yogyakarta, Indonesia Emergency broadcasting for disaster management AMARC-AP Thanks to the Yukon’s Cultural Industries Training Trust Fund and Yukon Department of Economic Development for your support.http://amarc-ap.org/yogyakarta2018/index.php/day-3-agenda #### Emergency Radio and TV Testing 📻 Invitation for Emergency Radio and TV testing Tagish and Haines Junction Yukon On March 10, 2015 between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Pacific daylight savings time Yukon Emergency Measures Organization will be conducting two live to air broadcast intrusive tests of the Yukon Emergency Public Alerting System in Tagish and Haines Junction, Yukon in conjunction with CFET 106.7 FM Tagish, YT and CJHJ 99.9 FM Haines Junction, YT. If you are listening to these radio station during that time period and hear the test message, please contact Yukon EMO with your comments and feedback on the test messages. Information on clarity of the test message, clarity of the alert tone, etc. is good feedback. Thank-you. Community members, first responders and media are invited to participate in this emergency alerting project. When: March 10, 2015 11:00 – 13:00 Pacific Where: Tagish Community Centre - 1km east of Tagish bridge Haines Junction Convention Centre – Village of Haines Junction Municipal office Please join us over lunch at both these locations while the test alerts are issued. Emergency Alerting Dash Board OpenBroadcaster obplayer CAP alert overlay CAP Alert Automation   CBC North Skip to time = 32:30 OpenBroadcaster at CBC North TV – Yellowknife NT #### Estimate & Quotation Tool ✨ Simple as 1, 2, 3 Use this easy to use tool to generate a detailed estimate to pass along to funders and regulators. Add items to Cart and set shipping destination Enter your project name then click Finalize Estimate App generates page to print to PDF or paper with QR Code #### Exciting News for Broadcasters of All Ages!🎙️ Voice Tracking Support OpenBroadcaster launched a new feature—Web-Based Voice Tracking with our intuitive Built in Audio Recorder! 📻 No matter your age or experience level, you can now: Record high-quality voice tracks directly in your web browser Create and edit shows easily from anywhere—school, home, or studio! Enjoy a simple, user-friendly interface—no software downloads needed Voice Tracking Let your voice be heard with OpenBroadcaster’s new web voice tracking! 3 New OBServer Releases!!! Checkout the many improvements and fixes https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer/releases Sasakawa Award Geneva Sasakawa 2025 winners and commendations Yukoner recognized by United Nations for radio work https://www.yukon-news.com/news/yukoner-recognized-by-united-nations-for-radio-work-8071598 Funding - Digital Museums Canada Apply for an investment of up to $250,000. Develop an online project from the ground up, with the support of our web development agency. Typically, Digital Projects take about 2-3 years to build to achieve your vision and meet web accessibility standards. Call closes: December 1, 2025 Digital Museums CJUC Radio Archive Website Share your OpenBroadcaster assets through a easy to manage responsive WordPress site. Smart Blocks lets you share selected items from your Media library with Gallery. Easily embed media and play list. Built in media player and on the fly transcoding. No Coding Skills Required https://archive.cjucfm.com National CAP Alert Testing Canadian CAP-CP Common Alerting Protocol Province/Territory Date Time Alberta Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM MST British Columbia Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM PST Manitoba Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM CST New Brunswick Wednesday, November 19, 2025 10:55 AM AST Newfoundland & Labrador Wednesday, November 19, 2025 10:45 AM NST Northwest Territories Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM MST Nova Scotia Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM AST Nunavut Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:00 PM EST Ontario Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:55 PM EST Prince Edward Island Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:55 PM AST Quebec Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM EST Saskatchewan Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM CST Yukon Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:55 PM YST  https://www.alertready.ca/ Emergency Comms 101 – Free Training Session FREE Alert Player Radio Training – 90 minute session with a certificate upon completion! 🗓   Date: Nov 17 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time 📍 Platform: Discord Learn the essentials of CAP emergency communications and unattended radio broadcasting in this hands-on training session. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills! 🚀 Register Now  for an invite! CRTC review: Improving the public alerting system Suggestions or improvements? OK with late-night Amber alerts at 2:00 AM? Revised deadline for submissions: 21 November 2025 https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2025/2025-180.htm Crazy CAP Alert Ready BUG It is possible to send and spread malicious URLs through Alert Ready caused by human error. Yukon\BC Council of Archives Exciting News for Broadcasters Preserving Yukon’s Soundscape: Open Source Innovations at CJUC Radio 92.5 FM “The Juice”, Whitehorse, Yukon with Rob Hopkins and Bill Polonsky. Exciting News for Broadcasters Pyrate Embedded Broadcast - Pi5 We’re looking for help from the community to install and configure the new Pyrate Embedded Broadcast server code (version 5.3.6) on the Raspberry Pi 5. If you have experience with Raspberry Pi, Linux, or Pyrate Embedded Broadcast, we’d love your input and assistance! We’re forming a user-contributed support group on our Discord channel to share tips and document the process together. Newsletter Archive News News? Events? Something to share with the community? Please send to media@openbroadcaster.com   #### FREE OpenBroadcaster Radio Training 📻 Happy World Radio Day!!! 2 training sessions. No charge.  You can try and do these lessons on your own or wait until I show you next week that will be conducted through Discord Feb 20 15:00 Yukon Time (MST) https://support.openbroadcaster.com/server-training#saved-search-filters Feb 21 15:00 Yukon Time (MST) https://support.openbroadcaster.com/server-training#advanced-metadata   #### GAATES Emergency CAP Alert LED Signage ⚠️ CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 The pilot project test started out with a couple of bumps. My team worked through these problems enabling both radio stations in Tagish and Haines Junction to each receive and broadcast the emergency messages within the 2 hour testing window. The LCD screen in Tagish Recreation Centre also received and displayed the test emergency message. Download the full PDF Report Our group in Tagish is having lunch listening to CFET radio and watching the slide show on LCD panel waiting for the automated alerts break in. CAP-CP Emergency message displayed as an overlay on community signage Firsts First Open Source MAM (Media Asset Management) system to support CAP-CP First Open Source MAM (Media Asset Management) system to support ITU standard X.1303 First Pelmorex test messages broadcast using Open Source CAP-CP client in Canada. First Pelmorex CAP-CP test message broadcast by a LCD community screen northern Canada First broadcast of a pre recorded MP3 CAP-CP announcement issued by YG-EMO First Simultaneous CAP-CP use of Digital Display Signage and out of band, FM Radio northern Canada SSi Kanata Teleport Final cut over for CFET, CJHJ and CJUC Radio stations with new player code including Pelmorex Emergency support to Eldorado server at SSi Kanata Teleport running newest HTML5 Mobile code. Users now get to choose and create their own accessible theme while they DJ on our northern network. SSI Micro Kanata Teleport Frozen Globe Awards "Most Innovative Company" OpenBroadcaster headed over to #FrozenGlobes Iqaluit on @flyairnorth charter as finalist Frozen Globes Nuxalk Radio – Bella Coola BC CJHJ “The Griz” on air in Haines Junction WUY Upcoming Events OpenBroadcaster will be at Lions Trade show in Whitehorse May 1 – 3. We will have a LCD screen running the emergency test alerting feature of CAP-CP feeds from Pelmorex. NCRC Looking forward to attending and presenting at National Campus and Community Radio Conference June 3 – 10 St John New Brunswick. https://localfm.ca/ncrc2015/ #### Hindi language UTF8 translations 📢 All the menus and help screens for Observer are now translated into UTF8 Hindi language for the community radio sector in India for everyone to enjoy.  We are lucky to have Mohit Godiya on our team, not only providing technical support and coding, but also speaking\writing 7 different languages assisting global users. Hindi Translations Hindi Translations Hindi Translations #### Hindsight is 2020 Foresight is 2020 🎉 Happy New Year! Welcome to The New Decade! I'm presently located in and working out of Nan Thailand until April, 2020. Sawadee Cup! During the next 4 months, I’ll be travelling to neighboring countries and hoping to meet some of you face to face. Complimentary Raspberry PI To celebrate this new decade, we are offering a complimentary Raspberry Pi IMG file to any of our existing customers. Thank-you! Simply log into your user profile , download the IMG onto a SD card, pop into a raspberry PI Ver 1-3 and you have a fully operating alert player with integrated server and media library. False Alarm at Pickering Nuclear Generating Site Pickering Alert My sister’s place in Pickering, Ontario is within sight of this energy generating station. While visiting there a couple of years ago, all kinds of sirens went off in the neighbourhood, so I checked to see what was happening, No one seemed to be in a panic. Later, when she got home, I asked about the sirens and was advised, "they must have been doing a test or something" For a false alert to go out at 7:30 AM in the morning, you’d have thought more people would have taken action. It took over 90 minutes to cancel and advise there was no emergency event. Emergency Alert Fatigue with too many Amber Alerts and people turning their phones off at night, so they don’t get woken up. Tech Tip What are those AWS mp3s I saw during the last round of national alert tests? We have had a couple of inquiries about seeing a message in the player logs showing a download from AWS (Amazon Web Services). AlertReady CAP system works like this: Our OBPlayer box monitors a network feed of alerts provided by Pelmorex (NAAD). When an alert is received, it first tries to play any attached media file (Mp3), and if this file is not present or corrupted, to use onboard TTS to read out the CAP message in a computerized voice. Most of the alerts we have seen recently have been issued as Mp3 and hosted on AWS. So what you are seeing is our player downloading the Mp3 file. Our production machines, in addition to playing indigenous language alerts, can tie in with the AI POLLY system. This is a high quality TTS engine (also hosted on AWS) that will speak out CAP alerts in natural sounding voices. We’ll be releasing this feature with our next major system upgrade later in March 2020. R.I.P. Kelly Fraser 1993-2019 Kelly Fraser The OpenBroadcaster team was saddened to hear of the passing of Indigenous singer, motivational speaker and activist Kelly Fraser, all to young at the age of 26. Kelly will be remembered for the great work she did with the revitalization of the Inuktitut language through music. We hope that many others will be inspired to follow in her footsteps. Article from opensource.com Open Source Broadcasting Open source radio system delivers emergency alerts and music to the Yukon and beyond Advanced Google Analytics Award Google Certification Google Meta Data Certifications Basic and Advanced. Do you know where your users are coming from and what they’re doing? We can help you discover your online community Language Revitalization Funding The Indigenous Languages Component (formerly known as the Aboriginal Languages Initiative) of the Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program (ILCP) is now accepting funding applications for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. The application forms are included in this email and organizations/groups are required to use these templates. Total requested amount should be between $25,000 and $200,000. The deadline to submit your application and be eligible for funding is January 31, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. local time. https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/aboriginal-peoples/languages.html Microsoft Win 7 and Server 2008 support discontinued What this means? No security updates. I’ve heard from two different stations that have been quoted “$30K” to upgrade their server 2008 software and that’s in US DOLLARS! Recently, we did an informal survey on FaceBook to find out, on average, how long an unexpected Windows update took their station off the air. Worked out to 20 minutes of dead air each time. With that kind of a budget, you can get a huge studio automation upgrade on a stable platform that doesn't shutdown your station whenever it feels like it. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/specials Translation Project Our systems presently work with English and French. We’re looking for assistance doing some simple translation for stations; Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Nepali, Portuguese and Spanish We have active teams working on translations for Thai and Tagalog (Filipino). A small stipend (budget) is available, and participants will be rewarded with a fully functional broadcast automation appliance based on Raspberry Pi, which can be used to run your radio station, hold an online media library, and send out an mp3 stream for online listeners. We will also consider supporting other language groups. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/opportunity Conference schedule January 23 - Feb 12, 2020 I’ll be visiting radio and TV stations in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Khulna and Cox Bazaar. March 2 - 5, 2020 Asia Broadcasting Union  at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. June 3rd, 4th & 5th 2020 CJUC is hosting The National Campus/Community Radio Conference Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. #### How did I get here in radio land? 📻 Rob Hopkins - Tagish, Yukon Back in 1989 – 1993 I was able to save up and take off with my bicycle and spend a few years traveling around the world, through China, India, South East Asia and Europe. I was able to subsidize my traveling and live the “Yukon dream” by spending 6 months on the road buying up trinkets and handicrafts and then spending 6 months gypsying around the north at music festivals selling my stuff at flea markets. I started to dabble in taking stuff back overseas for trade and tried salmon, maple syrup and cosmetics with mixed results. Eventually, I got a bit more organized to assist locals overseas to market their goods here and export back as a China Trader. Two guys on bikes Guangzhou China My home was and still is Tagish, Yukon located 120 kms south of Whitehorse. Back in 1984 there was no phone service here except Manual Mobile radio (Handy Talkie) and HF, not exactly modern and none of it supported full duplex faxing. Internet was not available to consumers, restricted and known as ARPNET. My business continued to grow, and I would have to drive to Whitehorse to send a PO with instructions to my colleagues on the other side of the world. Inevitably, the fax wouldn't be on at the other end, and I'd have to drive in the next day, back to Whitehorse to send the fax. There had to be a better way, rather than burning fossil fuels and wrecking my car. The idea of TagishTel was born. In 1992 I switched career paths. With little technical background or training, I got myself hired by an SMR Radio\ Pager shop in town and joined the local HAM club. I scrimped and saved, begged permission (for years) to locate equipment in a Yukon Government communications building, bought some decommissioned full duplex radios used from lighthouses on the west coast, and bought some new expensive interconnect equipment. I went through the dumps, scrounged whatever I could, remanufactured connectors and bought transmission line from the scrap yard. On Oct 11, 1996, I placed my first call to Whitehorse from my home in Tagish, with just a regular phone plugged into to my mountain top radio link, and sent a fax overseas, via a house in Golden Horn, Whitehorse, where I interconnected to the Telco. Analog tech gear on Jubilee mountain cross band VHF UHF repeater That was a very expensive first fax! I made a presentation to the CRTC the following spring, and was interviewed by the media about my telephone and fax solution.  Bell Canada wasn't impressed because they had been saying publicly for years that “it couldn't be done” without millions of dollars of subsidies.  Here I was, grade eight education, with a bunch of recycled stuff from the dump that they trashed and wasted, to connect our community to Whitehorse. That summer I went back on the road to the music festivals and flea markets peddling my “shrunken heads and silk scarves”. People recognized me from the media, and said they wanted a fax\telephone system like I had made in Tagish. I offered to give them a deal on silk clothes and shiny dragon stickers, but again they asked for communications systems. Eventually, I got the hint that there was more money to be had in supplying telephones\fax, and supporting the recent service called the internet. I learned and crafted various business models about the importance of communications in emergencies to warn of fires, flooding in the southern lakes, chemical spills and lost children in the bush. Later, I built a large area wireless broadband link connecting Tagish and Marsh Lake with multiple hops and mountain top sites. Being an inquisitive mind and inventor\entrepreneur, I thought "what else can I do?"  When I was flying over northern China, I could see little villages connected by a road, and these would connect to a city, and carry on to more villages. "What could I sell to these people?" The old saying is "you only have to sell a single toothbrush to everyone in China once to be set for life." 106.7 radio txer with old board from Ross River YT. First song I played on this "new" board was Windmills of your Mind for Margret Thomson I had always been fascinated with radio, and loved listening to Old Time Radio and Electric Light Orchestra. I had the radio trade figured out, and bought a 5 watt “talking sign” FM radio that was then manufactured in Whitehorse by Total North. I launched this radio service on Labour Day weekend in 1997, and have been on the air ever since. I started off playing some LP records, got a tape deck, and rebroadcast the signal of CFMI Rock 101.1 from Vancouver BC. A couple of years later, I moved my stuff to a mountain top, upgraded to better equipment, and built up a following. Eventually, I got around to applying to the CRTC for a licence, instead of remaining as an “underregulated” station. Big, long, drawn out saga ensued. They won one year. I won another. We eventually decided to work together, and I'm now in their good books on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. If its a long weekend, then Tuesday is OK. If it's a call on a Thursday, that usually isn't a good day for anyone. It's complicated. We still talk and love each other, but I'm still not so sure about Thursdays :-\ CRTC had all kinds of questions: "How would I make my studio available to the public for community programming?" " How would I assist in an emergency?" " How would I make it sustainable and be an equal opportunity employer?" " How would I pay royalties on revenue in excess of 1.25 million dollars?" I had trouble with these questions. Tagish was only 150 people (less in the winter), my studio was a small cabin, I didn't have stairs, my driveway wasn't shoveled in the winter. I wasn't even here most of the winter, as there are zero job opportunities in Tagish, and I had to go elsewhere to work. In those days, there were only 3 radio stations operating in the entire Yukon: coming out of Whitehorse, CBC North AM 570, commercial CKRW AM 610, and indigenous CHON FM 98.1.  I had spent time around CKRW in the eighties while running a second hand record shop, and saw the way WHTV Cable was run, by flying in boxes of video tapes from outside, and manually playing these on multiple cable channels.   CKRW later updated their radio station system to a big CD Changer digital jukebox, when I asked the manager at the time about technology and remote access.  They advised that the challenge was to be able to switch the control room between LIVE feeds from around Whitehorse, remotely by the on-air talent, without having a person doing this on standby at the studio. This solution would reduce costs to manage LIVE broadcasts, and be a solution other stations would be interested in, and that I shouldn't call back expecting a sale :-) Radio shack at Haines Junction Forestry Office 1998 I had done some work with emergency broadcasting when I worked for Haines Junction Forestry service, running communications while coordinating 200+ ground personnel and 5 big helicopters. It was here in this large camp that I was assigned the handle “RadioRob”.  I saw a big push for innovation funding to diversify the resource extraction economy, and took a stab at getting some $$$ to develop a web based radio system to run emergency messages and public service announcements for export to African villages, using inexpensive FM radio as the last mile for delivery of community information to be received with Trevor Bayliss wind up radio. This was a bit of a hard sell. Why wouldn't the people in Africa just hop on the internet, learn how to avoid AIDS, and how to plant crops? It took some explaining that the entire village, even if they had a radio,  couldn't afford a single battery. My thoughts were to use the Bayliss Wind up radio as the last mile end user device. Being persistently patient, I got a bit of seed money to develop a prototype of a web based open source “Radio Station in a Box” from the Yukon Research Centre, and hired & mentored Yukon Youth to help design and build this as a Made in Yukon solution. I was very lucky to come across some real talent, and scrimped and saved, with all the development money going into the project called OpenBroadcaster. I supplied the gear, filled out the forms, setup CJUC 92.5 FM in Whitehorse, and hooked up the system with some volunteers to help monitor it. It hiccuped, it broke, it crashed, it flopped, but something started to come out of the radio speaker, though, at first, it was very faint and garbled. I kept at it, learning as much as I could about things that were way, way over my head. I got some paying work, and saved up a bank roll, so that I could go on a holiday, and over Christmas 2004, I went back to Toronto to visit with family. The night before the plane left, I did a backup of the music library, and thought it was so cool that I had finally figured out how to do this in Linux, and that all this would be happening while I was inflight. I got to Toronto, it hiccuped, it crashed, it broke. CFET office Rob on telephone The Tsunami happened on December 26, cheap tickets were to be had, and I had a bunch of cash to go back to my former vacation spot in Nan, Thailand with a passport and entry visa. With friends waiting for me on the other side of the planet, I got on a plane and arrived back in the Yukon to -40 C weather. I bought a bunch of Kraft Dinner, and sat at home, trying to figure out how to get the radio project working. I knew if I had left for Thailand the momentum would have been lost, OpenBroadcaster would have died, and it would've been really hard to get the ball rolling again. So it was a good thing I came back, because that file backup I did really screwed things up, with Tagish Trumpeter swans honking and playing non stop in a loop on CJUC for the entire 2 weeks I was gone, and no one had the keys to the radio room. I figured out what was happening with the messed up code, and got OB Ver1.0 up to something resembling stable operation. Things picked up. Bill Polonsky, the station manager at CJUC FM "The Juice” had volunteers signing up and running lots of cool radio shows through our web system. Then OB Ver 2.0 got off the ground, supporting multiple remote stations, along with images to a community TV transmitter. Tower in Yellowknife NT In 2008, OB Ver 3.0 saw a very talented programmer fall from the sky, and with them, some development money. More stations got involved, AJAX, JSON and jQuery entered the vocabulary, a solid multimedia broadcast framework was born, and with it came real stability on a solid foundation. In 2011,  OB Ver 4.0 was  built, while I spent 5 months in China with a full blown API, Module support, Themes and a kick ass remote player application supporting unattended emergency messaging across all media. In 2014, a touch screen LIVE Assist mode on a mobile HTML5 framework was added. I don't even know what OB Ver 5.0 is going to look like, or what it's going to do. I do know that I'll be having fun chasing that dragon, meeting some great people along the way and pushing the envelope. And that's how I got involved with Radio, Television, Cable, Satellite, Digital Display Signage, Telephones, Smart Phones, Wireless broadband, SCADA, Internet and CAP-CP Emergency broadcasting. The rest, as they say, is history. Rob "Radio Rob" Hopkins - OpenBroadcaster   #### Indigenous Community Media Fund 📢 Indigenous Community Media Fund The ICMF provides financial support to strengthen Indigenous community media infrastructure. It aims to ensure the sustainability of Indigenous-managed media, with a focus on initiatives related to environmental justice and climate change. Eligible regions include Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, North America, and specific countries in Asia. Grants offered are up to $8,000 USD for individual media entities and up to $12,000 USD for network proposals involving multiple media groups. The application deadline is January 26, 2025. Indigenous Community Media Fund Virtual Emergency Alerting (EaaS) We offer a virtual emergency alerting as a Service package that utilizes the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for a reliable and interoperable alerting system. Key features include a configurable web dashboard and an IP receiver combo (Barix Exstreamer), which automatically interrupts broadcasts to deliver alerts. It ensures seamless transitions back to regular programming and is designed to be cost-effective. This system is suitable for broadcasters and emergency management agencies seeking to distribute timely public alerts. CAP Alerting Service Open Source CAP Broadcaster Development Guide A white paper aimed at developers interested in implementing CAP alert support in broadcast systems OBPlayer using Raspberry Pi and open source innovation. OpenBroadcaster encourages DIY tech skills with open-source software in community radio and broadcasting. Raspberry Pi Coders and Hackers of Raspberry Pi coders and hackers A white paper aimed at developers interested in implementing CAP alert support in broadcast systems OBPlayer using Raspberry Pi and open source innovation. OpenBroadcaster encourages DIY tech skills in Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, open-source software, and scripting to join projects in community radio and broadcasting. Join the community of Raspberry Pi coders and hackers https://www.openbroadcaster.com/open-source-cap-broadcaster-development-guide/ This Is An Emergency Broadcast This Is An Emergency Broadcast connects Indigenous political advocacy with the forms of communication offered by community radio, countering power chronicles of state and corporate media and, in its self-determination, offering space for reignited narratives. This is an emergency broadcast Tech Tip Why isn't xmas music playing? Do you have day parting enabled? This feature filters certain media to not play at defined times and dates. New Server Release https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer/v5.3.3 Archive Media Support Industry-standard formats PDF, TIF, and BWF are supported for media archives and playout. Metadata Fields Enhanced metadata features include GPS, date and time fields, private researchers’ notes with inline editor and custom comments public display options via API. Broadcast Certificates and Licenses Are you a nonprofit organization planning to enter the radio or TV industry? We’re here to help you navigate the bureaucratic red tape and secure the necessary licenses to get you up and running. Contact Us today for a complimentary consultation! News and Events CRTC launches yet another Public Consultation to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework. This consultation will update the rules radio stations must follow, while the filing of new stations in Canada is on hold. First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and organizations that do not know how to read and write or submit a web form can CRTC for help. Something to share with the community? Please send to media@openbroadcaster.com Newsletter Archive https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/media-news/ #### Indigenous Global Community Media Fund 📻 Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere -40 Celsius here in Tagish Yukon. For our neighbours to the south, -40C is the same as -40F 2023 Call for Proposals for the Indigenous Community Media Fund Indigenous Community Media Fund at Cultural Survival provides opportunities for Indigenous community radio stations and media outlets to strengthen their broadcast infrastructure and systems. While providing training opportunities to their community journalists through a participatory and dynamic grants program. Eligible countries: All countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa; Canada and the United States; India, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Malaysia are eligible to apply. Amount of funding: Indigenous community radio stations and other community media outlets and groups may apply for a grant of up to $6,000. Radio network proposals presented by three or more Indigenous radio stations can apply for funding up to $12,000. Application Deadline: February 15, 2023 https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/2023-call-proposals-indigenous-community-media-fund Innovation Week 📻 Why do I love innovation and community radio? Everyday is innovation day at CFET and CJUC Community Radio. We have a really good pool of experienced professionals working in the field that enjoy meeting new friends from abroad that are passionate about building open source community broadcasting tools. WUY 25 years of RadioRob  Australia Community Radio Review – Emergency Alerting Australia already has a functional Common Alerting Protocol (CAP-AU) alert feed presently used on Smartphones that is unused for FM radio and available for authorities to be able to provide unattended emergency alerting to the community radio sector and distribute government Public Service Announcements (PSA). See our Public Comments to the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia sharing the Canadian experience about unattended emergency CAP alerting using open source. Australia CAP-AU Profile Australia has its own CAP-AU profile to incorporate local event-related terminology, and area-references, relevant to the Australian community. Tech Update - CLI Checker and Update Tool Installing and updating OBServer has never been easier https://support.openbroadcaster.com Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction At COP 27, the U.N. secretary-general launched a $3.1 billion investment plan to ensure everyone on earth is covered by effective, multi-hazard early warning systems over the next five years. Four pillars for investment The Action Plan lays out four main areas for investment: * Observations and forecasting – US$1.18 billion to monitor hazard and early warning services, * Preparedness and response – $1 billion to build national and community response capabilities, * Disaster risk knowledge – US$374 million to collect data and undertake risk assessments on hazards and vulnerabilities, * Dissemination and communication – US$ 550 million to communicate risk information in an accessible way, so it reaches all those who need it. FCC EAS Notice of Proposed Rule making FCC proposes to enhance EAS security to make every station have a cyber security policy that is updated annually and a requirement to report hacks and unauthorized access. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-387976A1.pdf BARIX Default Passwords Speaking of security, try google searching “barix streaming client” (with the double quotes) and there are many exposed playout boxes open to the web, no passwords set. Broadcast Alerting workflow in Canada The alerting workflow in Canada for TTS (Text to Speech) is designed in such a way that if an alert is issued with an attachment, then the audio attachment is played, switching to the built in TTS if corrupted or missing. Open source CAP alert players operating in production environments use a couple of enhanced ways to play alerts. Some broadcasters use AWS POLLY 6 neural machine learning voices in their systems which speak out the text from CAP alerts in a more natural human sounding manner. POLLY is relatively inexpensive, at around $4.00 USD per million characters for thousands of hours of spoken alerts. If something is broken with POLLY, then the alert player automatically falls back to onboard TTS to relay broadcast intrusive messages in both official languages, English and French. In some remote communities, we have the ability to receive and decode CAP alerts to include one of the many indigenous languages still spoken in the far north. Discord Server Please join us on our public discussion Discord server for hands on interactive learning and capacity development, along with extreme open source hacking, networking and technical skills training. Inclusive for all. No charge. * Coding, Mentoring, Training; GIT, Bash, PHP, MYSQL, JSON, PYTHON * Indigenous Language Preservation technology supports CAP emergency alerting * POLLY Artificial Intelligence Neural Language services and development on AWS * Word Press CMS Web Page Theme Templating with API embed of radio assets, smart blocks * Digital Audio over IP (AoIP) Video Streaming Codecs. * Virtual environments, NAS Docker Images, unattended development installs Upcoming 2023 We have some exciting projects underway including: * API development with smart blocks to embed in WP sites * Syndicating and ingesting of programming with playout schedules * Install packages for Debian, Docker, more... * Metropolis theme and special feature for OBPlayer and OBServer #### Indigenous radio alerting tools ⚠️  Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Wishing you and yours all the best for The Holidays... This year more than ever!! CJUC Radio 92.5 FM 24 hour broadcast from Whitehorse Yukon Canada IT'S HAPPENING NOW! Listen CJUC LIVE at CJUC CJUC is SO EXCITED to be hosting our first 24 hour radio live stream fundraiser/pledge drive on Winter Solstice this year, accompanied by a 24 hour performance brought to you by Garbage Man. Help CJUC celebrate the Longest Night this Sunday Dec 20 beginning at 8PM Special Guest performances by Speed Control, Kim Beggs Music, Ben Mahony, Clancy Mcinnis, Konner Whitney, Paris Pick, Krankenwaggen and more! Tune-in and turn it up... WAYYY UP! CJUC LIVE TAGISH, Yukon — OpenBroadcaster Inc., a Yukon-based provider of Internet radio and IPTV technology for community broadcasters, announced help for Indigenous radio stations with a free emergency alert solution. An open source emergency response radio and TV broadcast toolkit for stations to remotely access their studios and distribute CAP emergency alert messages during COVID19. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/news/press-release/emergency-disaster-assistance-resilience-through-innovation Banchi wins 20K for Nuxalk Radio film Congratulations on the success of your film stories! Looking forward to see this on Knowledge Network. https://www.coastmountainnews.com/nuxalk-radio-film-wins-big-at-vancouver-international-film-festival Boxing Week Dec 26 - 31 Year End Specials Check our site Hardware Tech Tip - Maintenance Mode Maintenance Mode mutes all broadcast channels and logging and plays media from the Fall Back Directory on the Player Dashboard. Useful when setting levels, and not wanting Line In to be recorded. Accessed via player dashboard >Admin 2020 has been a year unlike any other, with special challenges for everyone in Indigenous Communities. OpenBroadcaster has been there to help those Communities get through and rise above, and we’ll keep on helping for as long as it takes. This year, more than ever, we wish everyone all the best for The Holidays and in The New Year! #### Legislative Broadcasting and Archiving 💡 Setup server and player as normal, create a play list containing the "Off Air" message on repeat with an InSession playlist that plays a message on repeat  An example "The legislature is in session but the audio is currently disabled. Please stand by for resumption of the session" - Create a show for each session that plays the InSession playlist On the player, enable the scheduler - Enable the audio input on the Sources tab - Check the "Disable When Silence Detected" and "Prioritize Above Scheduler" options - Restart player In pulse audio, make sure the line in is using the correct audio source When a session is not scheduled, the player will play the DPL, which will give an off air message. When a scheduled session occurs, it will start playing the special InSession message until the audio on the mixer is turned on. When that audio is detected, the player should switch to from the scheduler to the line-in, and play the line-in audio until silence is detected again (ie. the mixer output is turned off), in which case it will switch back to the scheduler, which will again play the InSession message. There is a 2-4 second delay in switching in order to prevent rapid switching. If a pause lasts longer than that, it will switch to the InSession message. Legislative Broadcasting #### Live Remote Radio Summer Solstice 📻 Live Remote Radio Summer Solstice From the land of the Midnight Sun Remote Radio Broadcasting Updated user guides with remote radio broadcasting and Live assist handbooks are available on our support site. Each module now has its own support page. Support Page Live Streaming Use the Live Assist touch screen interface: * Stream to all stations with a USB Mixer Laptop in the field to all stations. * Use Master override from main studio to stations in a network * Use Instant override play button in Live Assist touch interface * Display an indicator to show how many stations are receiving over ride. https://support.openbroadcaster.com/live-assist  Remote Broadcasting Training Video How to setup a live stream using the Live Assist interface   CAP Emergency Alerting with Artificial Intelligence Our latest Alert Player has the capability of using AWS POLLY (Machine Learning AI) voices instead of the onboard TTS. When an alert is received, the text is sent to AWS POLLY using the various voices available and played out as a natural sounding voice. Works for both Broadcast Intrusive alerts and Moderate Advisories. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/emergency-alerting-different-voices Nuxalk Radio https://hotdocs.ca/ We are thrilled to announce that NUXALK RADIO, directed by Slts`lani - Banshee Hanuse and produced by Lantern Films, will have its world premiere on HOT DOCS and TV broadcast premier on the Knowledge Network in 2021. Keep a look out for this short documentary coming to a festival near you. New Public Release OBServer VER 5.1 https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer OBPlayer VER 5.1 available on Dev branch https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/ Change Log Our latest software updates Contact Us if you have a specific requirement or cool feature that you would like to sponsor? Change Log Thai Translations Recent Thai translation using our new framework editing tool. Rethinking Presenting And Touring Artistic impetus, digital technologies and imagining new digital models I talk with Inga Petri about digital radio and remote broadcasting to rural indigenous communities. Upcoming Arts In The Park The concert season will be recorded and broadcast LIVE on CJUC 92.5 FM and at the historic Chamber House at Shipyards Park in Whitehorse Yukon Territory. July 6 - August 3, 2020 https://musicyukon.com/artsinthepark/ Call Out To Stations And Contributors Sending a Hola to @sporterio who added enhanced video capabilities to our player and translated both the OBPlayer and OBServer systems to support Spanish language with the new translation module. Gracias!   #### New Indigenous Radio Station Receives Federal Funding 📻 Tsilhqotin community radio Crystal Rain Harry (left) and Bella Alphonse train with Rob Hopkins from Tagish, Yukon for the new Tsilhqot’in Community Radio station, launched on Friday, Dec. 15. On Monday the federal government announced $180,500 in funding for the radio project. New indigenous radio station receives federal funding Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced $180,500 for the new First Nations radio station in B.C Great News from Tsilhqot'in National Government providing new language revitalization and community communication services in rural towns Tsideldel and Tl'etinqox along Hwy 20. #### New OBServer and OBPlayer 5.3X releases ✨ OBServer Release v5.3.2 (April 1, 2024) Features 🔹 new language field now using ISO-639-3 languages and showing most used languages at the top 🔹 add support for module update files 🔹 improved OB CLI tool output and added functionality (list and run updates, run cron, change user password) 🔹 config file setting for custom media verify command Improvements 🔸 improved manual installation instructions 🔸 switch back from libav-tools to ffmpeg by default 🔸 removed “results per page” setting (no longer used) 🔸 support for automatic routes generation from controller code 🔸 support for using API v2 from client-side javascript code 🔸 begin switchover to single-file-components for UI code 🔸 other code cleanup and refactoring Fixes 🔺 removed outdated installer 🔺 fixes necessary for newer PHP versions (8.1+) 🔺 numerous other fixes and quality of life improvements OBPlayer Release v5.3.0 (April 13, 2024) Features 🔹Pipewire support with Interpipe 🔹Simplify alert pipeline, add resample to prevent issues with different sample rates (fixes missing alert message audio) 🔹Alert scroll refactor, add scroll speed setting, complete alert crawl before removing 🔹Add F11 fullscreen toggle Improvements 🔸Better log filters in http admin 🔸Fade-in after voice-track, play scheduled voice-track 🔸Interpipe timestamp setting for icecast/rtmp 🔸Add option to reload http admin after 15 minutes of inactivity (resolves issue with some browsers resource leak) Fixes 🔺Pre-decode audio (workaround for stutter issue) 🔺Interpipe RTP timestamp issue 🔺Normalize audio caps, provide silent input with main on/off functions 🔺Fix attention signal volume, move temporary attention signal to ~/.openbroadcaster 🔺Fix maintenance mode enable/disable in web admin Follow our Change Log for the most up to date activities #### New OBServer Release v5.3.4 and v5.3.5✨ This release adds significant new features including voice track support (with integrated media recorder) in playlists with a continuously running CLI cron monitor and individual CLI cron task support. Module install/uninstall via CLI, and new custom metadata types for coordinates and license, with visibility settings for API privacy. PDF document media types are now supported, a rotate thumbnail feature is introduced, and the preview player is enhanced with on-demand HLS streaming. Other key improvements include non-interactive CLI password changes, creation of dedicated API endpoints for media versions, thumbnails, and previews, improved automatic thumbnail generation, more robust caching, and an upgrade to FontAwesome 6. Numerous fixes address UI and compatibility issues (e.g., preview positioning, Apache server support, and MySQL file updates), permissions, automatic menu closing, JavaScript errors, and PHP warnings, along with enhanced performance and ongoing code refactoring and bug fixes throughout the application. https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer/v5.3.4 https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer/v5.3.5 #### OB Summer of Code 💡 Summer at OpenBroadcaster How is everyone making out this summer? Not too buggy or smoky? We have some exciting news to announce about our new ecommerce site to create on demand streaming mount points and services. There is also work being done to include some educational video. Stay Tuned for launch details early this fall. Paint Mountain Hiked up this mountain to swap out a piece of gear at the CJHJ radio site 2 weeks ago. There is a mostly vertical trail located along the old tram line. https://www.trailpeak.com/trail-Paint-Mountain-near-Haines-Junction-YT-5193 Upcoming Software Releases PEX - Program Exchange Module The Program Exchange (PEX) Module allows groups of OpenBroadcaster media files to be managed as collections, such as an album as a collection of tracks, or a radio program as a series of weekly episodes. PEX "Programs" are collections of OB media files (episodes) that share production details (metadata) and cover art (placards). PEX is the OpenBroadcaster module for creating "Programs" and associating media files (episodes and placards) from the OB Catalogue. This module may be added to any existing OpenBroadcaster Server installation (Ver 4+). PEX includes a separate Gallery module for interactive filtering(search/browse) of media by program/album, or by most recent episode in a series. The Gallery module facilitates redistribution of multiple episodes of a program in a single download package and dynamic scheduling of the most recent episode in a series. Distinct user permissions are defined for administrative access to the Program Manager, or view only access thru the Gallery. The OB API is enhanced to provide hooks into OB PEX data for use in development of Drupal modules or similar web front ends. OB Players may be defined to distribute PEX media in themed content streams. OB PEX Enhancements currently in development: * Aggregate media as program/episode (~ album/track) * Additional metadata fields (recording date, recording location, topicality, credits, track list) * PAL (Parental Advisory Label) for media content * CanCon for track list selection * Media download link (image/alt text) via API * List of recent uploads via API * Download counts (by program/series/episode) via API XLR USB Cable This cable is used to provide audio pass through functionality for our Alert Player box. We have learned more about the hardware DAC (its used in other pro audio) and finalizing software support for JACK audio for better fidelity with our products and to reduce latency. Accessible Themes and Translations Our latest server code is built for WCAG 2.0  accessibility and available in over 30 different languages French Play List Translation using Tanzenite Theme Chinese Translation using High Contrast Theme CFET Radio 106.7 FM Tagish Yukon Radio website running Nuxalk Theme with Drupal modules linking and automatically updating schedule information from API. CFET Radio In the media RadioRob at Whats Up Yukon WUY RadioRob Arctic Regional Radio Network using OpenBroadcaster https://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/ssi_micro_teams_up_with_inuit_org_on_new_radio_service CJUC Radio – Recycle the Vinyl Media Preservation Project CJUC 92.5 FM “The Juice” is updating its digital media library and interested in recycling any vinyl media that you may have hanging around the house. We would love to get more vintage circumpolar music on CJUC airwaves as part of our Yukon Spotlight shows that play throughout the day. We are especially keen for northern music lying around gathering dust. https://www.cjucfm.com Upcoming Events Central Canada Broadcast Engineers Saturday September 26, 2015 9:00 am to 9:30 am Open Source Alerting with CAP - Rob Hopkins CCBE Upcoming Training Webinars Find us on Google+ or send us an email to be invited to join our Free webinars for the operation of OpenBroadcaster server and Alert Player. #### OBServer Release v5.3.1 ✨ Latest version receiving new features. This version breaks compatibility with modules due to code/API refactoring. For production environments, consider latest v5.2 release until modules are updated. Features API v2 using more modern RESTful implementation (alpha) begin building automated testing via CodeCeption (alpha) OB CLI tool (alpha) with “check install” function Improvements include and configure PHP Code Sniffer (phpcs) / PHP Code Beautifier (phpcbf) code refactoring for near-PSR12 adherence (a few issues remain to be resolved later) code and database refactoring for naming consistency include document generator in core code (tools directory) update document generator to also define controller/method routes for API v2 begin migration to composer and npm to better manage dependencies rename “emergency” to “alert” to better reflect feature usage revise generalized storage method for UI settings remove obsolete apitest tool remove some PHP code maintaining database integrity and rely on MySQL foreign key constraints instead improved look/feel for documentation Fixes fix bug related to show deletion fix bug related to media “where used” information Release v5.3.0 This version breaks compatibility with modules due to code/API refactoring. For production environments, consider latest v5.2 release until modules are updated. Features update welcome screen design when update(s) required, display notice and prevent login Improvements update PHPMailer dependency to latest version begin using composer for dependencies style code tweak (remove old css –prefix, no longer required) update “themeupdate” tool to use latest dart-sass version Release v5.2.0 Latest feature-frozen release. Current best option for production environments. This version maintains compatibility with modules. Any incompatibility with OB-managed modules let us know so we can fix. Improvements updated Versioning and Releases system Fixes ob.installer.sh small tweaks and fixes See Change Log for more release details #### OBServer Version 5 ✨ CLFG 1.2 Support Thanks everyone for your support to date. We wish to advise about updates for Alert Player to conform to the new CLFG 1.2 alerting specifications. Available to all customers and the DIY community, no charge. Customers that purchased Alert Player online have a rescue image ISO in User Account or register at OpenBroadcaster (no credit card required) Technical Operation * Always change the default dashboard admin passwords. * Ensure there is unobstructed airflow above the fanless AlertPlayer. Never place any objects on top of the unit such as manuals or displays. * A monitor (KVM is not advised) must be attached 24/7 for continued operation. * Please visit our Support Site for updated manuals and video tutorials Version 5 - New Feature Highlights Player * Headless with Python3 * All operation including audio levels set in dashboard * HD Video and YouTube Live Streaming Server * 60+ Indigenous language dialects * Last IP Player Connected reports back through firewalls * Audio Video Image media bulk ingest junk filter See Change Log for more details Audio Program Logging Alert Player users are able to record and capture off-air audio logs that can be used for CRTC logging purposes or reused as a podcast. Enable Audio Logging from the sources tab. To access these audio files, click the downloads button on the Status tab. National Alert Tests June 21, 2017 No reported issues. Most, if not all received the test alert as an audio file. We did receive some feedback about reporting to Pelmorex and advise our systems receive alerts via “TCP Socket feeds” In the media Exclaim.ca Vinyl Record Hoard Special Offers We have added a new section that has limited time Special Offers and packages. Until the end of July 2017, we are offering a 10% discount on our GPIO mechanical switching relay that works with Alert Player. Made in Canada. Advertising Promotion Wish to make a bit of extra revenue for advertising? We have a client that wishes to run radio PSA spots in smaller rural Canadian regions. Please Contact Us for more details. Workshops and conferences Attended the inaugural indigenousradio.ca  The Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence conference in Winnipeg. Special Thanks to: Brant, Denis, Morgan, Nat, Sylvain and Tyler for feedback and troubleshooting assistance. We’ve moved Not that far, 2 doors away in Tagish Yukon. Still the same mailing address. #### On Thin Ice: Emergency Preparedness 📢 Media Release 9 Feb 2015 In 2013, the Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) launched the On Thin Ice (OTI) Project. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program, the project seeks to protect lives and improve the security, well-being, and inclusion of persons with disabilities (physical, cognitive and sensory) and other vulnerable populations in the Arctic, through increasing public awareness and the development of disability inclusive emergency planning. In February and March of this year, members of the On Thin Ice project team, in cooperation with OpenBroadcaster, will be simultaneously undertaking a community pilot project in all three territories at, Cambridge Bay NU, Inuvik NT and Tagish YT. This will see the installation and operation of LED accessible emergency signage boards, for use in priority notification in some of Canada’s remote northern communities. The purpose of the LED accessible emergency signage boards is to provide members of the communities, especially persons with disabilities, access to emergency planning and preparation information before an emergency, as well as real-time information about an emergency during the event. The use of community LED signage boards is a recognized international best practice for providing real-time information on emergencies to community members who otherwise would not receive to the information because of lack of access to TV, radio, Internet, telephone service, power outages, etc. OpenBroadcaster is undertaking the installation and providing the open source web based software tools to manage emergency alerts for Radio, Television, Digital Signage and Cable TV channels. The systems being installed are able to accept and immediately broadcast Pelmorex ™ (NAAD) National Alert Aggregation & Dissemination feeds, as well as localized alerts provided by territorial and local emergency managers. Emergency preparedness and planning information will be continually broadcast on the LED accessible emergency signage boards based on culturally and linguistically relevant information gathered during previous meetings with organizations, seniors, persons with disabilities, building code and safety officials, first responders, emergency management administrators, First Nations and Inuit leaders. During an emergency, relevant and timely information about the situation will be broadcast unattended, based on incoming information from Pelmorex and/or local emergency managers. The On Thin Ice Project team is excited to be working with Tagish, YT based OpenBroadcaster Inc., and would like to give a special thanks our to our corporate partners; Air North, Coast Hotels and SSI Micro. Without their support, this Pilot project would not be possible. The Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) is an International not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of accessibility of the built, social and virtual environments, so that people with disabilities and older persons are able to fully participate and contribute to society, without impediment. For more information, on the On Thin Ice project or the Pilot LED accessible emergency alerting signage boards project, contact: Marnie Peters GAATES Executive Officer On Thin Ice Project Manager Tel: 613-725-0566 (9am - 5pm ET) Download Press Release On Thin Ice: Emergency Preparedness #### Open Source Broadcast Automation ✨ Holiday Visitors Techsoup Canada Grants and Free Services Are you a non profit needing web hosting, grants, subsidized rates for commercial hardware and software with an entire catalogue of services and products? CJUC Radio (Whitehorse) recently utilized this easy to access service for a 3,500.00 USD grant for the Azure web hosting offer.  Techsoup We can help you access and utilize these services for your broadcast operation, both in Canada and through international partners. Techsoup-global-network Emergency Alert Heartbeats Heartbeats are received once per minute. If obplayer misses a heartbeat the monitoring process will reset itself after 2 minutes. You can see this count down in the player dashboard >Alerts The app will display in red an error if missing heartbeats. Compatibility for TLS 1.2 This issue about missing CAP alert information attachments was reported recently, from my understanding is to do with being able to use TLS 1.2 (to fetch attachments). AWS where many attachments are stored recently dropped support for older TLS 1.1 in favour of TLS 1.2 All of our hardware players are current with TLS 1.2 For DIY installs to check if your install is working with TLS 1.2, use this tool. How do I view past CAP Emergency Alerts in Canada? Visit these resources to view archived emergency alerts. Open Source Tech Update Improved logging tool Filter and display types and groups of real time log messages to help configure and diagnose issues. Language filters in media library We added all 7 thousand ISO-639-3 languages that makes for a lot of scrolling to find the applicable one and created a special search filter to find results quicker Indigenous Language - Kwakʼwala vs Kwakiutl One of the puzzles I have been researching is how/why there is a mix up in the ISO-639-3 ) classification of the Kwakʼwala language. This affects our OBserver language selection menu that is populating all 7K known languages. Alert Bay first discovered that Kwakʼwala is missing, instead it is referenced by a different name Kwakiutl. Turns out there is a reason for this. In the ISO table it lists this language, including translations to other languages. So they are both correct. Kwakʼwala is the way indigenous people reference this language and Kwakiutl is the english translation. I think ISO left this intentionally, because there are already a lot of materials that are tagged as Kwakiutl from previous researchers. The recognized 3 digit language code kwk refers to both these spellings\translations. We are adding into observer UI the ability to display alternative translations, if they are available like this one, so it will display the indigenous spelling in the drop down. US LPFM Community Radio Sector *** Open for Business *** The FCC says 1,336 low-power FM hopefuls filed applications before the filing window for new stations. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/fcc-receives-1336-lpfm-applications How long does it take to get a CRTC radio licence in Canada? Part 2 The CRTC announced it will defer new applications relating to radio for the next two years as it focuses on implementing its regulatory plan to modernize the broadcasting system. Canada most likely will not see a new community, ethnic, faith, indigenous or commercial radio station for the next 3 - 5 years. If Government of Canada is saying local news and media are important, this makes no sense at all. Radio startups will have to wait until year 3 before engaging engineering services, for a possible application in year 4, that is more like 6 years from now before they can order equipment, estimated 7 years before operational at the earliest (2030). This could be the end of over the air FM broadcasting as we know it, public spectrum could be auctioned off and repurposed for 5G, then community media sector is outsourced directly to Bell\Rogers wireless. CRTC initiates two year deferral on radio Where to buy a Raspberry PI? Global shortage of Raspberry Pi is still affecting supply. Here is a tool to show where you can find Pi and current pricing. https://www.rpilocator.com/ CJUC Radio Winter Solstice Fundraiser With AI present in broadcast, community radio will be one of the last places that actually have humans. https://www.cjucfm.com/ #### Open Source CAP Broadcaster - Development Guide 🚨 Open Source CAP Broadcaster Development Guide 2024 CAP Implementation Workshop     Prepared by: Vincent Maggard Executive Summary This white paper is aimed at software developers interested in integrating additional alerting system support into OBPlayer and potentially other broadcast automation systems using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) covering the following elements: Understanding the Common Alerting Protocol Overview of open source alert systems using CAP CAP code examples for implementation The primary goal of this project is to use bare metal computers including the low cost Raspberry PI and virtual environments to automate the process of receiving and broadcasting a CAP message with open source software. This unattended alerting process for radio and TV is standardized in Canada, the United States and many other countries presently using CAP. What is CAP? Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a worldwide open standard for alert creation and transmission via IP networks. CAP is used by many systems to ingest and distribute alerts for broadcast. Some of the common systems included IPAWS in the US managing Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) on cell phones, sirens, and more.FEMAFEMA Figure : Example of CAP formatted message: Pull Vs Push Methods Alerts can be pulled or pushed from the CAP alert server(s) to the clients. CAP alerts can be life critical, favouring to publish/subscribe (RSS and ATOM). Otherwise, a CAP alert might be missed Pull uses HTTP(s) for alerts fetching. This fetching is normally done via an ATOM or RSS feed. Each alert is given a feed entry with a link to the full cap XML. The client polls the server every x number of seconds, with common poll rates of every 30-40 seconds. The client must keep track of alerts it’s already used in the feed, so as to not keep repeating it over and over. When a new message is found the clients logs and downloads it. At that point it can treat it much the same as Push. Push on the other hand sends the alert or pushes it to the client. This allows for near-real time activation. With push alerts they are still logged but since messages are normally sent once so the receiving system can be sure it’s new. If an internet outage or system reboot happens when an alert is sent, the client would miss it. Some cap servers handle this with alert repeats via heartbeat messages, however if used it adds more processing and code to do so to the system. Profiles Profiles are used with CAP to add needed requirements for special systems like the US’s EAS, or Canada’s Alert Ready system. CA-CP handles unique French language accent characters CLFGCLFG Common profile for the United States is IPAWS. IPAWS ProfileIPAWS Profile IPAWS ProfileAll alerts have the CAP v.1.2 elements. There are profiles for other countries as well such as CAP-AU. Project Breakdown Alert Processing & Validation Alerts received require parsing of the XML and alert validation (simple pre-air checks). The order of handling an alert is as follows: Parse the XML into an object. Run through checks listed in the example table using the object. If the alert passes all checks, download the attached audio, or create text to speech. For video create a crawl via concatenating the description & instructions elements values. Place audio & crawl live on air. Pre-Air Checklist Check Name Needed Actions Is the alert active? Current time > Issue time but < expire time. Is the alert for the broadcasting area? Check for one or more locations is included Check if event code is set for broadcast? Run though list of allowed event codes. Check for the language code for the broadcaster viewer/listener? Use the info block’s language tag to find the right version of the message.     Code Examples Below is group of code examples using Python 3.x This code is open source and can be found on GitHub CAP ExamplesCAP Examples Expired / Active Alert Check To check for a given alerts status expired, or not, is quite simple. To get the difference from the sent time and expire time examine if the difference is > 0 then the alert is active. Figure : Example using Python date objects handling it with two steps. CAP Pull Download Example using an Open source CAP server. Figure : Example downloading the xml file Step by Step Guide HTTP get request (download xml) CAP feed of alerts. Parse xml Compare with alerts already processed while handling multiple alerts. Validate CAP alert and pass along to the broadcast chain.* * OBPlayer presently logs the CAP alerts including off air audio logs as required by regulators.   Appendices Term Definition Crawl Video overlay of scrolling alert text. PR GitHub Pull Request used for submitting code changes for review. HTTP Hyper Text Transport IPAWS Integrated Public Alert & Warning System     Prerequisite Technical Knowledge Coding Skills: Python3 Basic knowledge Can parse and handle XML Hands On Experience: Text to Speech Common A/V codecs Web stack Git & GitHub Sample Workplan Project Tasks CAP Pull client for player. Task Predicted Timeline 1  Coding CAP pull client for OBPlayer. 50 hours 2  Testing alerting playback sequence 8 hours 3  Quality Assurance (QA) 4 hours 4  Issue Pull Request . 10 minutes Key Milestones CAP Pull client for player. Complete Alerting playback for the broadcast location. (US, CA, IN, BD etc) Issue Pull Request (PR) with changes into Git repo. Wait for PR review. Download White Paper Open Source CAP Broadcaster – Development Guide #### Open Source CAP Developed in Canada ⚠️ For Immediate Release September 5, 2016 OpenBroadcaster occupies a unique space in the marketplace as the only company in North America that offers a full suite radio automation and media asset management software package equipped with its own emergency messaging system adhering to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) CAP-CP History Aug 29, 2014 the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) made it mandatory for all Canadian broadcasters to participate and connect to the National Alert Aggregation and Dissemination (NAAD) System operated by The Weather Network for emergency broadcasting announcements on Radio and TV. The cost for hardware and hook up to comply would fall on the stations. Emergency NAAD Provider The Weather Network, owned and operated by Pelmorex Communications Inc. (a privately held company) acts as Canada’s national distributor of public safety messages. The NAAD System receives and redistributes alert messages issued by emergency personnel and first responders free of charge to radio & TV stations all across Canada. This NAAD system issues and relays alerts for fire, flood and chemical spills including weather related and environmental advisories such as Alaska highway closures. Where does it work? All of Canada is covered from the southern border with the United States up to the far north Arctic coast. CAP alerts are delivered by conventional TCP/IP socket feeds via fibre and from a C Band satellite and on 2 KU Band transponders. How does it work? Most radio and TV stations usually have a proprietary hardware device that is connected to the internet, monitoring NAAD system feeds that are hooked up to the broadcast chain using a number of different methods, from inline to external relay controlled. Most of these hardware solutions come out of the US and range in price between $2,100 - $3,750 USD. Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) region codes are available using Canadian Census data. SGC codes are are entered into these devices to set the location of the alerting area. When a valid CAP message is received, and the region code matches, the emergency message consisting of audio/video content will be forwarded to the radio/TV station(s) and play unattended. The NAAD system has the capability so that authorized responders can issue MP3 audio files with Image files as attachments. These are typically higher resolution images and audio quality. If the audio files arrive corrupted or missing, the local emergency receiver has a TTS (Text To Speech) as a backup. Canada is fully bilingual, requiring support for French language characters, so Canadian emergency messages must be broadcast in both French in English with the option to set language for regions. Challenge of the Yukon OpenBroadcaster worked with the Yukon Research Centre and Computerisms to develop an exportable solution for the Canadian and international broadcast sector. An open source solution was developed utilizing local IT talent and expertise, we created a hardware neutral web application not requiring a proprietary device to integrate with the CAP emergency broadcasting system. This investment provided employment to Yukoners with local emergency expertise as an added benefit to the community. The solution had to be secure and stable while running on commodity hardware recycled from the local dump, and, at the same time, being energy efficient enough for Arctic locations where electricity can cost upwards of $2.00/Kw hour. This was achieved using the the Common Look and Feel Guidance planning document as a blue print to create a CAP-CP alerting application. The specifications were so complete that we did not have to ask any technical questions of The Weather Network or the CRTC in replicating the functionality of available industry standard alerting boxes as a disruptive open source web application. Our Solutions using Open Source We created a CAP ITU x.1303 compatible system using HTML5, PHP with a Python3 application and sync connector at the playout box with GPIO triggering with RS-232 DTR. We fully support audio and video emergency messaging in both official languages for Canadian operation. There are 4 on board modes of internal testing systems for all types of CAP alert emergency messages. In a translation framework we support Unicode UTF-8 English, French, Estonian, German, Chinese Simplified, Thai including over 40 more international and indigenous languages. Accessibility features allow the use of screen readers and selectable user theme allow creation of custom high contrast interfaces including a dyslexic font. CFRC A former local student at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario was hired to install our open source system on a unused decommissioned computer box. We mentored and worked with the integrator and faculty and, in return, received some really useful feedback while assisting each other in developing a GPIO relay solution, extending our system’s functionality to work with modern digital mixing boards. This collaborative effort, in turn, resulted in code made available upstream to other stations and users to freely utilize. Nuxalk Radio In 2013, the Nuxalk Nation of Bella Coola BC contacted OpenBroadcaster to help set up a radio station in their community, resulting in the creation of Nuxalk Radio. Nuxalk Radio a not-for-profit indigenous community radio station operated by volunteers, and managed by the Nuxalk Radio Committee Nuxalk Radio uses the OpenBroadcaster platform to run its service, including management of precious Nuxalk language media assets. Emergency messaging in this remote community is important because of its proximity to the Pacific Ocean and the danger of Tsunami and other extreme coastal weather. Conclusion OpenBroadcaster went on to create a supported standalone broadcast appliance and published the completed web application's source code as free and open-source software (FOSS). In the spirit of open source, we shared this code with the international development community so that other stations and broadcasters are free to use this solution in their communities to make them safer. For more info please contact, Rob Hopkins – Radio Enthusiast Bio The day in 1982 that Rob Hopkins arrived in the Yukon via the Whitepass & Yukon Railway it was shut down. Rob took this as a sign that his drifting days were over, the Yukon was where he was meant to be, and settled down in Tagish. Ten years later, he built a private mountain top wireless communication link connecting Tagish to Whitehorse 120 kilometres away, in order to send and receive faxes for purchase orders from Southeast Asia, and then setup up an “under regulated” broadcast radio station from his home there. During the licensing process, while struggling to describe how he would make this station accessible using community access programming, "Radio Rob" began to envision a web based “radio station in a box” prototype. This lead to creating a simple to use, web based inclusive system for community run radio stations with emergency messaging, while listening to music and receiving a residual income doing what he loves to do. The rest, as they say, is history. Download Press Release Open Source CAP Developed in Canada #### Open Source EAS Raspberry Pi 🍓 Open Source EAS with the Pyrate Raspberry Pi was mentioned in a letter to the FCC. Read the letter REC Network sent to FCC mentioning our work with open source EAS to Boost LPFM Participation in EAS. Coincidentally we are also mentioned in a recent CRTC hearing. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/rec-to-fcc-changes-needed-to-boost-lpfm-participation-in-eas Pyrate Headless Video Loopback Emulators *** SOLVED *** The hardware architecture of the orange alert player boxes, Intel NUC Computers and Mac Mini machines insist they must have an actual powered monitor attached for normal operation. Not having a monitor attached will not allow the machine to reboot. Where I came across a secondary market for these was in crypto mining rigs requiring a dummy video. I’ve done a number of things, including direct sourcing a manufacturer over the last 18 months and done a limited production run of a HDMI/VGA dongle that emulates an attached monitor. I’ve done some testing and they work great, super simple, nothing to configure just plug it in. We are getting the next batch on order, and anticipate they will retail for less than $20.00. Update with SKU when they are available. Sound Exchange\ SOCAN Reporting Module Sound Exchange\SOCAN reporting open source tool saves time by creating properly formatted SX in Excel\CSV. Included screen shot of the tool and a sample xls file. What I am seeking is any feedback from stations or royalty agencies that file these reports, if there is anything that you are currently struggling with or that SX\SOCAN is asking you to better format or provide differently. Any advice on how to how to make better royalty reports? https://github.com/openbroadcaster/reports TWIRT - This Week in Radio Tech We were on Kirks show discussing our history and work with open source and LPFM radio. TWIRT RGH Tŝilhqot’in Community Radio project Great News from Tsilhqot'in National Government providing new language revitalization and community communication services in rural towns Tsideldel and Tl'etinqox along Hwy 20. Thanks go out to Decade Transmitters and regional ISED offices. https://www.wltribune.com/news/new-tng-radio-station-receives-federal-funding/ Open Source North 60 Highlights * Featured local private sector and non profit organizations who run on Ubuntu; Beese Entertainment Publishing (What's Up Yukon), Computerisms, RP Singh and the CJUC family of stations. * How easy and useful open source is in the workplace, more secure, stable and free. * Review of international emergency alerting and open source emergency broadcasting with distinguished visitors from far away places. Sponsors CJUC 92.5 “The Juice”, Yukon Convention Bureau, Computerisms, Computers for Schools Yukon, Caribou Crossing Coffee, RP Singh, Air North, Cold Climate Innovation at Yukon College, Days Inn, Decade Transmitters, Ricky’s All Day Grill, Unitech, Whats Up Yukon. Special thanks; Lesli Barnes, Adam Brody, Jane Bell, Eliot and Marcia Christian, Heike Graf, Jessica Hall, Alida Munro, Coralie Ullyett and Robert Vallee WUY North of 60 Canadian Alert Testing for Wireless and Broadcast Last week during the new national Wireless Public Alert testing here is the polygons displayed on the mapping module. AMARC UN Women Jessica Hall and I did an audio piece featuring northern women for the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC). These pieces are being distributed throughout the community media sector. UN Women Nicole Edwards https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/3/feature-story-rural-women-radio-stories Troubleshooting Updating documentation to get you started if you have any need for support https://support.openbroadcaster.com/troubleshooting Resetting Player Passwords How do I change OBPlayer dashboard passwords? 1) Reimage box with ISO to bring unit back to factory default state. All settings will be lost. Alternatively, you can try: 2) Access terminal for local machine or SSH and go to /home/obsuser and cd .openbroadcaster (hidden directory under user) a) Locate settings.db sqlite file containing dashboard settings, including passwords that may be viewed or edited. b) Deleting this file and restarting player will force a new settings.db file to be created with default settings including user=admin pass=admin Adam Brody at CBC North Whitehorse Studios during Open Source North 60. Conference Schedule 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2018 held at Hong Kong Observatory in Hong Kong, China. If you have CAP implementation experiences or insights to share, see the Prepare Center #### Open Source North Whitehorse 📢 Open Source North Event - Whitehorse Yukon Mar 23, 2018 A couple of like minded fans of open source and broadcasting are putting on an event in northern Canada’s Yukon Territory. We will have a meeting space to spend the day networking and learning more about how open source works with broadcast. This opportunity is for broadcast stations, regulators, funders, coders, and anyone interested what we are doing. Some of the topics we are learning and discussing; Carcross Tagish First Nation government’s use of open source in the modern world, Emergency Alert broadcasting with CAP, New Safety Code 6 regulations from ISED, Coding, fundraising and OB Module Development. We will put on soft tech demos during a provided lunch. There is no charge to attend this event. We have a group rate for hotel accommodation and discounted airline vouchers. Please Contact Us to RSVP, more details or suggestions. OpenBroadcaster supports Axia Livewire RTP protocol Jan 23, 2018 – OpenBroadcaster releases open source software to provide Livewire\RTP support with Axia Audio over IP (AoIP) consoles. This exciting added functionality presents the opportunity to easily field, deploy and integrate standalone OBPlayer into the AoIP broadcast chain with CAP EAS emergency alerts. This innovation builds on the suite of web-enabled general software and automation appliances with online media libraries, community play lists, multi-station scheduling and streaming. OBPlayer sends a multicast RTP stream that appears as a channel on Axia AoIP consoles. The outgoing digital stream from the console station is ingested into our systems, sent to an Icecast server where a BARIX unit at the transmitter site plays out on radio. This means the stream is 100% digital from OBPlayer to console, up through STL (Studio Transmitter Link) to the Barix exstreamer at the transmitter site. * Solid state fanless infrastructure reduces station clutter, AC power loads and hardware failures * Web friendly 100% digital audio on a quality Axia platform for a cleaner signal path * Easy to integrate additional studios and equipment with Livewire, RTP and Ravenna protocols https://www.openbroadcaster.com/openbroadcaster-supports-axia-livewire-rtp-protocol Photo Credit Rob Hopkins and Bill Polonsky with Axia QOR.16, OBPlayer and Axia DESQ  Alert Player updates to support Python 3 Standalone alert players and media players with Ver4 player code will display a red message in dashboard advising to update to newest Python code with a link to upgrade. Existing alert players may consider doing nothing and continue using old code that is fully compatible with CLFG 1.2 for emergency alerting and CRTC compliance. We do however advise transitioning to newest Ver 5 series image for better performance and stability. To update, login to your account with Instructions and rescue image. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/downloads New Sound Exchange Reporting Tool A sponsor has come forward from the US with a network of LPFM stations that is working with us to create a tool to create XLS formatted royalty and performance reports for Sound Exchange. We are expecting to have this released into our open source code end of March 2018 for all to use. Select types of reports for periods of Player/Station, Save filter settings of report for reuse, Export to CSV/XLS, Print to PDF, headers formated to SX specifications, Commercial Ads and PSA affidavits to include to sponsors and NGO, Per user\group access to self generate or view reports, Extra Fields to support Sound Exchange requirements Version 5 OBPlayer Production Code Supporting Open source by fully releasing our updated player code to the public on Github https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/ Featured Modules What’s Playing By default, observer includes a handy module to give a snippet code to embed in your site or Face Book page showing the current Show and Track playing on a player or channel https://support.openbroadcaster.com/now-playing Supported Devices A list of equipment manufacturers and protocols our systems are known to work with. https://support.openbroadcaster.com/accessories Stats on defective units Zero. We have not had reports of hardware failure for any alert player boxes deployed in the field. Tech Tips Fallback Media in Player Fallback media enabled? (not applicable for standalone CAP Alerting) In the player dashboard under sources, enable and place media into location specified as Fall Back Media. Player auto scans sub folders created to separate audio, image, video media. Fallback media directory items are played at random, all items will be played before any media items are played a second time. Default is 15 Seconds for image display. OBPlayer loads Fall Back Player on startup, checks to see whether something is playing or about to play. If nothing is playing and nothing is about to play, because of missing or corrupted media, a missing DPL or blank schedules obplayer has the intelligence to locally play from the “Fall Back Media” directory so no dead air. CFET is set up with Alan Parsons music in Fall Back directory, so if we hear anything by them, tells us something is up with player. Been a while since I heard Alan Parsons :-) Server Deploy Tool What is wrong with my server install? Configured properly? Is PHP working? Setup observer, login to GUI as admin user, open a new browser tab   https://support.openbroadcaster.com/observer/ MYSQL Server issue - Strict Mode By default, MySQL 5.7 is much “stricter” than older versions of MySQL. That can make your application fail. To temporarily fix this, change the SQL_MODE to NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION (same as in MySQL 5.6): Update: We have a fix in the latest server code for this issue including enabling “short tags” Icecast\Shoutcast Streaming OBPlayer streaming output supports Icecast as well as Shoutcast media servers, both music and video images. Interested in building new applications? Creating custom enterprise installs? Adding support for your broadcast hardware? Join our Developer Partners #### OpenBroadcaster Supports Axia Livewire RTP Protocol 🔊 OpenBroadcaster releases open source software to provide Livewire\RTP support with Axia Audio over IP (AoIP) consoles. This exciting added functionality presents the opportunity to easily field, deploy and integrate standalone OBPlayer into the AoIP broadcast chain with CAP EAS emergency alerts. This innovation builds on the suite of web-enabled general software and automation appliances with online media libraries, community play lists, multi-station scheduling and streaming. OBPlayer sends a multicast RTP stream that appears as a channel on Axia AoIP consoles. The outgoing digital stream from the console station is ingested into our systems, sent to an Icecast server where a BARIX unit at the transmitter site plays out on radio. This means the stream is 100% digital from OBPlayer to console, up through STL (Studio Transmitter Link) to the Barix Exstreamer at the transmitter site. Solid state fanless infrastructure reduces station clutter, AC power loads and hardware failures Web friendly 100% digital audio on a quality Axia platform for a cleaner signal path Easy to integrate additional studios and equipment with Livewire, RTP and Ravenna protocols Since its incorporation in 2005, Open Broadcaster Inc. has offered hardware, software and streaming solutions to help our clients be effective at any scale of operation. Broadcast Innovation Open Source software assists community media and commercial broadcasters with accessible tools to spread their message on-air and on-line. This innovation was developed over two years in Vancouver, Saskatchewan and Whitehorse. The new public Ver 5x series source code, documentation and installation instructions are available on https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/ for all to use. https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/ Community Media Support CJUC 92.5 FM “The Juice” community radio station in Whitehorse, Yukon will be receiving the new Axia DESQ console to compliment their OpenBroadcaster run radio station. Thank-you to the Telos Alliance/Axia, Dave Ellis at Pippin Technical and Sari McFarland for making this all possible. RadioRob AXIA Obplayer Photo Credit Rob Hopkins and Bill Polonsky with Axia QOR.16, OBPlayer and Axia DESQ About OpenBroadcaster Inc. OpenBroadcaster's mission is to develop and provide products and services for broadcasters of any size, working in analog or digital environments. We offer open-source broadcasting solutions to individuals, small-to-medium sized businesses and communities that allow them to distribute media over the air and via the Internet in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We aim to strengthen links between communities and cultures globally by supporting and facilitating the formation of broadcaster networks that are capable of pooling resources, jointly managing media, and sharing stories. For further information, please contact: Rob Hopkins OpenBroadcaster Inc. 867-667-6397 About Livewire Livewire+ AES67 is the second-generation of Livewire, the pioneering technology invented by the Telos Alliance to convey low-delay, high-reliability audio over switched Ethernet. Introduced as Livewire in 2003, today’s Livewire+ AES67 is, like its name implies, completely AES67-compliant. That means that it complies fully with the AES67-2013 Interoperability Standard, allowing AES67 devices to connect directly to Livewire+ AES67 networks and exchange audio streams. Livewire+ AES67 is also extensible, able to incorporate future AES standards when they are ratified. It's also backward-compatible with the Ravenna networking protocol. With Livewire+ AES67, a single Ethernet cable carries real-time uncompressed digital audio, device control messages, program associated data, and even routine network traffic. An entire facility can be wired in hours, instead of weeks. Many Axia Audio studio products, along with other products from Telos Alliance brands, utilize Livewire+ AES67 networking technology. Expanding or modifying your system is simple thanks to the inherent scalability and modularity of Livewire+ AES67. For more info, visit Livewire Download Press Release OpenBroadcaster Supports Axia Livewire RTP Protocol AXIA Desq #### Out In The Open – Spring 2021 📢 Radio Station in a Box Radio Station in a Box Complete RIAB (Radio Station in a Box) assembled in a hard shell mobile case. 100% solid state, no moving parts 1. Open covers of mobile case 2. Hook up antenna, AC power and internet 3. Begin broadcasting POLLY AI Voices Update for ML210 legacy customers We have created a new firmware update for ML210 (Orange) hardware, using our installer script, updating the OS with many enhancements for CAP alerting, including POLLY AI Voices. We wanted to get this out to you with enough time to get ready for upcoming national alerting tests. It’s OK (remaining CRTC Compliant) to keep using your existing set-up until we release a Production firmware update for your Ml210 later this year. *** There are no fees or charges for this update *** This update is beta and this release is meant for experienced users comfortable with using our products, as it has many menus and functions exposed, etc. Don't use any experimental features and always make a backup. Export your settings file. * Auto complete SGC fields by community name * Bilingual AWS Polly AI Voices * Embedded dashboard media player to monitor output remotely within browser * Improved bilingual self-generated test messages * Real time log level > Alerts only * Cancel Alerts * Separate alert logs >Download * Show alert count history by type: Advisory, Broadcast Intrusive and Self Generated Tests. >Alerts>Advance Further support instructions and firmware for legacy Ml210 User Downloads Updated POLLY AI Voice Instructions Polly Voices World Radio Day WRD Play Shout out to AIBD, ABU and Technorama for all the interesting webinars. Canadian Government review of Indigenous Radio and TV CRTC Early Engagement Sessions - Phase One of the Co-development of a New Indigenous Broadcasting Policy https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/radp1/radp1s.htm How to start an Indigenous community radio station Regulatory process for obtaining an indigenous broadcast licence in Canada https://www.openbroadcaster.com/knowledge/indigenous-community-radio-station Canadian Public CAP Awareness Tests Bi-annual Public Awareness tests of the national alerting system are planned on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The test messages will be Broadcast Intrusive (BI) and Wireless Immediate (WI) and must be broadcast on all mediums, radio, TV and cellphone. https://alerts.pelmorex.com/#test-schedule Emergency Alerting Hardware Support MCM Silence Switcher 50-8396 Inexpensive silence detection box interrupts audio programming when a CAP alert is sent by our player boxes. Resumes regular source after alert is finished. Merci to Sylvain Boucher for reporting this simple solution. BARIX Exstreamer 110 Metadata from player displays on a 2 Line by 16 Character LCD Display. Plug and play. First line displays the bitrate (matches OBPlayer) and second line is scrolling Artist-Title. Hardware Modules installed for OpenBox player server combination OpenBox 5 media server now has over 16 additional modules installed, viewed side by side with accessibility themes. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/software/added-feature-modules Dayparting PSA traffic tool Dayparting, where you can specify when certain media can and cannot be played, is now included in our core system. OBServer creates dayparting rules based on tags and searches. One example rule is to only include material tagged as Xmas and/or Xmas genre to only play between December 23 at 15:00 to December 25 at 15:00. Dayparting rules are easily made for time sensitive adult materials, not allowing any material tagged “adult” to play between 5:00 AM and 22:00 PM. Dayparting rules may also be used to create smart segments where PSA plays, A, AA, AAA. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/software/added-feature-modules Pacific Northwest Indigenous Radio Tsilhqot'in Radio Strengthening Language through Technology: A Context for Capacity Building Nuxalk Radio Spoken from the heart language preservation podcast Lexington Kentucky Radio RadioLex has a new home. Now broadcasting from the Greyline Station & Market in an exciting adaptive community reuse project. The studio floor is made up of regular LP records embedded in 3/4” clear epoxy.     Medialex What gets me out of bed in the morning? “Thanks for all your hard work developing this amazing technology and making it available to others!!” “We are so happy to have OpenBroadcaster during this crisis, because it has let us stay on the air and communicate critical public health and safety info--especially to non-English speaking members of our community.” Be safe everyone #### Pop Up Drive-In Cinema 📽️ Decade + OpenBroadcaster = Pop Up Drive-In Cinema 📽️   Pop up Drive in Cinema On the evenings of September 11 + 12, we participated in a really interesting public installation, at the Whitehorse Library. A series of films were shared with an audience in their cars, tuning into a temporary LPFM radio signal for the audio. During the intermissions of the feature films, our OBPlayer was hooked up to the projector with a Display Port cable while the audio was sent from the onboard sound card to the Decade 850 Stereo. Copyright Free material such as 1960’s movie trailers and retro themed content was added to a playlist, creating a true drive-in theatre experience. We assisted in obtaining a special event radio licence from Canadian Government for 48 hours. The radio transmitter is type certified for operation as a LPFM and “Made in Canada”. Coverage for the radio transmitter worked for the whole parking lot and a few streets running along the riverbank. Brought to to you by CJUC Yukon Film Society  CAP Emergency Alerting Virtual Conference 2020 CAP Workshop Common Alerting Protocol – Workshop The 2020 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop take place Monday, September 28 – Wednesday, September 30 - 12:30-17:30 CEST, inclusive. It will be conducted as a video call-in session over Zoom. Join Rob Hopkins and Vincent Maggard of OpenBroadcaster, who will be sharing about CAP open source emergency alerting for broadcast radio and TV. Call-in instructions for Zoom will be sent to all registered participants. The Workshop is a technical meeting intended for information sharing among experts. There is no charge to participate. Everyone interested in emergency alerting is welcome: managers, technical staff, media, etc., including those in government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and commercial organizations. Currently there are 837 registered participants; from 130 countries, 33 international organizations, and 31 commercial companies. https://www.preparecenter.org/initiative/common-alerting-protocol-implementation/common-alerting-protocol-workshop-2020 Global Status of CAP Implementations Frequently Asked Questions How do I send a HD video stream to a Master Control? We do this several ways: * Send out an HD Theora stream to a local Icecast server or a RTMP Video stream to YouTube or Twitch Channel, that are be relayed to Master Control. We do this now, including all the audio encoding and authentication. * Your MC might be picky on what video formats to accept, such as MPEG-TS, MPEG4 that isn't supported in Icecast. What format does your MC prefer? * Output the play out (new model spec have dual Display Port) to a hardware encoder, starting at $500.00 USD that will be more compatible with MC. MC might have a recommendation for hardware i.e. Black Magic Presenter. * We use the GStreamer framework that supports many types of video formats. It would not be too much trouble to include one of these into play out, less than 10 hours billable time. See above question about formats of video accepted at MC. How many individual media items will the online media library hold? Current structure gives us 36X36 directories = 1296 total. Each directory supports 10K items without major performance issues with file manager tools. So that's almost 13 million in all, limited only by the available inodes on the file system. What languages are supported for emergency alerts? OpenBroadcaster systems have been supporting weather related, fire and dangerous animal alerts in English, French and Indigenous languages for rural communities for several years. Given the vulnerability of many Indigenous communities to provide accessible information about communicable infections including COVID19, we thought it was extremely important for these communities to be able to receive specific alerts covering those situations as well in their native languages. We welcome any feedback you have in developing this further. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/frequently-asked-questions Featured Module - Payments Payments Module How do you incentivize your talent to complete tasks like updating playlists, or uploading language translation recordings? Add ecommerce functionality, providing micro monetary incentives for users to complete media creation, scheduling and management tasks. * Payment triggers may be set for task completion; updating media, creating PL, etc. * Filter by user, amount and date * Includes a general ledger to add transactions, notes and download history * Integrates with Task Tracker module. Technical Audio Bug (sort of) Our play out application supports live audio sample rates encoding (32, 48, and 44.1) including 96.1 up to 192 kbits/sec. For stations sending to Icecast servers, it cannot accept audio sample rates above 48,000 kbits/sec. When sending audio to Icecast with a mix of sample schemes encountering one of these unsupported sample rates, it will appear in the logs as playing silence for the duration of the track. A bug report has been filed and a patch to this is in development. Ventoy Multi Boot USB Do you use USB sticks to boot up computers? Do you have a different stick for each utility? I recently discovered this easy to use utility to copy multiple ISO/IMG files, which, when booting, gives me a menu to select which ISO to load, saving many hours of copying and reformatting USB sticks for each individual ISO. Ventoy Testimonials “We are so happy to have OpenBroadcaster during this crisis, because it has let us stay on the air and communicate critical public health and safety info--especially to non-English speaking members of our community.” “I just wanted to say that the process you designed for uploading the captions is excellent. It takes me all of 30 seconds to upload it, and it works perfectly every time.” “I’m happy to say that for about two months now, CKLB has been using the emergency alert box and it is working fine. I configured our LAWO board (with the help of LAWO) to respond to RS232 trigger by muting all faders and sending the emergency alert fader up. I’ve ran a few tests of this and it works flawlessly. I want to thank you for your assistance when I started at CKLB with flashing the box with the provided .iso and for the recommendation of using GPIO triggers. ” Help Wanted Looking for a challenging career in the broadcast and IT industry? Both these Canadian companies are hiring. PippinTech Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Location: Whitehorse, Yukon #### Radio in Kitikmeot Nunavut 📻 KITIKMEOT INUIT ASSOCIATION AND SSI MICRO TO COLLABORATE ON REGIONAL RADIO PILOT PROJECT Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, June 11th, 2015 The Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) and SSI Micro are very pleased to announce a collaborative partnership to launch a Regional Radio Pilot Project in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot region. The Pilot Project will operate for an initial two years, with an anticipated start date in spring 2016 once all necessary regulatory authorizations are secured. Under the framework of the Pilot Project, SSi will construct and commission a satellite-supported FM radio network in the Kitikmeot communities of Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay with initial engineering and regulatory work commencing this summer. Once in operation, SSi’s radio network will provide a platform for KIA to broadcast what is proposed to be a daily Inuit Language radio service mainly focused on revitalizing the Inuinnaqtun dialect in the two communities. To allow KIA and other community collaborators to manage content over its radio network, SSi intends to employ a web-based, media asset management system developed by Yukon-based OpenBroadcaster Inc.; thus making the Pilot Project a uniquely pan-territorial initiative. Following the recent meeting of the KIA Executive Committee, at which KIA’s formal support of the project was confirmed, KIA President Stanley Anablak stated, “The launching of the Regional Radio Pilot Project is a very important milestone in KIA’s efforts to help revitalize the use of the Inuit Language in our communities. KIA is fortunate to have a technical partner in SSi Micro that has a very capable team and years of experience delivering telecommunication services in the north. This partnership allows KIA to focus our efforts on developing content for the proposed language service. To create this content, we intend to work with Inuit Language speakers in our communities and beyond to generate the material that will form the backbone of the radio service. While we are still in the very early days of this initiative, KIA already recognizes that the partnerships, infrastructure and content management systems proposed to be put in place could, if the Pilot Project proves to be successful, be scaled up to provide a regional radio service to the entire Kitikmeot.” Jeff Philipp, President and Founder of the SSi Group of Companies, noted, “As a company with deep northern roots SSi understands the value of oral communication in the Inuit culture. Today’s announcement is an important step in what I hope will be the first building blocks for a Nunavut-wide radio network. I commend the Kitikmeot Inuit Association for their vision and I am proud to say that SSi has a long and successful working relationship with KIA, dating back to 1998 when we broke new ground together and built our first satellite network to bring Internet to the region’s five communities. We’ve come a long way since then and we are constantly engaged in new opportunities to upgrade and enhance our network. I look forward to this next venture and a new era of radio communication in Nunavut.” Totally excited to be part of this project. #### Raspberry Pyrate Radio 🍓 DIY Maker Space Raspberry Pi Super easy, budget friendly, open source broadcast solutions for your Maker space project. Create an amazing, low-tech online digital jukebox broadcast automation system using a cloud based media library. Learn how to create community radio content and start an online radio station from home with open source software running on inexpensive Raspberry Pi hardware using our “how to” guides. DIY Broadcast Open Source North 60 - Whitehorse March 23 Register online to join us next month for our open source broadcast event. There is no charge to attend. Lunch and snacks will be provided. We have finalized our agenda and program. Version 5 OBServer Production Code Supporting Open source by fully releasing our updated server code to the public on Github. Both Player and Server are now caught up and at Ver 5.0 Thanks to everyone for reaching this milestone. https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer Featured Modules SVG In line Slide Editor This module lets you create and publish text slides with graphics to put in with your videos. All this is done within the unified observer interface. No third party applications and 100% done through a common web browser. Use with Video streaming, Over The Air TV, Digital Signage and Cable Community PEG channels. Radio users can easily add a video component using your existing media library https://www.openbroadcaster.com/added-features Upcoming Server Modules under development Data & Statistics Statistics page with charts and graphs (media types, genres, categories, etc). Server Status Widget shows your uptime, disk usage, health, etc. Zero Cost SSL certificates I found this interesting. These were once a very expensive feature,needed to get the green check box of trust in your browser. Previously we were paying 500.00 a year. Lets Encrypt Alert Player install from US A DIY user sent along some info about work they have done to support emergency CAP alerting in the United States. Nice work! We have since requested an MOA from FEMA to continue testing and development and informed in order to use IPAWS you must be located in the Unites States or be associated with some part of the US government or a States government. Mentions Missed this in our last newsletter. Thanks: Alison A, Don, Dan J, Graham G, Crystal R, Jon M, Lyle A, Mark R, Stephen M, Vincent M and Sitetalkers for debug, support and technical assistance.   #### Ready for open source emergency alerting? ✨ UNESCO - Digitization and AI for Archives and collections. Results of a survey exploring how AI is impacting digitization of Archives and Documentary Heritage Material. AI-Assisted Digitization Sunset Advisory for first generation AlertPlayer 5.0 Systems These devices are over 10 years old, with limited storage capabilities and incompatible with current operating systems. Due to these limitations, we are officially announcing the eventual end of the 5.0 hardware series. Don’t panic. No Immediate action required. While they may still function for a while, using latest 5.1 software updates, users should begin planning for replacements in the near future. Affected Models Alert Player Ver 5.0 sold before 2018 – See attached photo. Future Upgrade Path Options ✅ Open-Source Use our https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/and DIY install on familiar OS; Ubuntu, MX Ubuntu, MATE, Debian, Linux (more) ✅Remotely Installed Software – Deploy our 5.3 software on existing PC/Server infrastructure. Learn More   ✅ Virtual Emergency Alerting as a Service (EaaS) – A cloud-based alternative for modern alerting needs.CAP Alerting Service ✅ New Alert Player Hardware 5.3 Series – More storage, improved configuration options, and long-term stability. Special Discounted pricing available for existing 5.0 customers. Obplayer 5 with cap alerting for a coupon Sage Alerting ends Endec production Endec Endec New Software Update for Alert Player 5.3 Series We are excited to announce a complimentary upgrade for Alert Player units sold after 2018. This update includes several key improvements to enhance performance, reliability, and user experience. What's New? ✅ AutoFS Setup – Now includes automatic syncing with common Network Attached Storage (NAS) locations. ✅ Upgraded OS – Based on Ubuntu MATE 24.04.02 LTS, offering free 10 years of support for long-term stability. ✅ Improved Audio Handling – Now supports cross-fades and voice tracking using the Interpipe PipeWire default sound system. Eliminates previous stop/start behavior by replacing it with smooth, uninterrupted audio "Pipes." ✅ Refactored Alert Crawl – Includes new visuals settings for customizable crawl speeds. ✅ Filtered Logs – Now displays only specific event types for clearer, more efficient monitoring. These enhancements ensure smoother playback, better unattended alert performance, and improved customization options. For more details or assistance with the upgrade, feel free to Contact Us TechSoup Grants – $3,000 in Azure Web Services Great news for eligible non-profits! TechSoup Grants provide $3,000 in Azure web services, allowing organizations to build and manage cloud-based broadcast solutions. 💡 We Can Help! We offer deployment & support to operate your own broadcast cloud! with OpenBroadcaster in this virtual environment—giving you full control over your cloud infrastructure. Let us know if you need assistance setting up your Azure environment! 🚀 Techsoup Emergency Comms 101 – Free Training Session FREE Obplayer Radio Training – 90 minute session with a certificate upon completion! 🗓 Date: April 29, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time 📍 Platform: Discord Learn the essentials of CAP emergency communications and unattended radio broadcasting in this hands-on training session. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills! 🚀 Contact Usfor an invite! Canada National CAP Alert Testing Schedule Province/Territory Date Time Alberta Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:55 PM MDT British Columbia Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:55 PM PDT Manitoba Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:55 PM CDT New Brunswick Wednesday, May 7, 2025 10:55 AM ADT Newfoundland & Labrador Wednesday, May 7, 2025 10:45 AM NDT Northwest Territories Wednesday, May 7, 2025 9:55 AM MDT Nova Scotia Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:55 PM ADT Nunavut Wednesday, May 7, 2025 2:00 PM EDT Ontario Wednesday, May 7, 2025 12:55 PM EDT Prince Edward Island Wednesday, May 7, 2025 12:55 PM ADT Quebec No Test in May 2025   Saskatchewan Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:55 PM CST Yukon Wednesday, May 7, 2025 1:55 PM YST https://www.alertready.ca/testing-schedule/ Tech Tip 🚀 Docker Container Installs Streamline your OpenBroadcaster setup with prebuilt containers! GitHub: Brett Elliot Docker Containers 🖥 Ubuntu Pro Get 10 years of free support with Live Patch for enhanced security and stability. New Features & Enhancements ✅ Inline Media Preview – Now supports PlayLists ✅ Duplicate Checker – Prevents duplicate Station IDs and dynamic segment creation in PlayLists ✅ Onscreen TV Station Bug – Adjustable size & location for accessibility ✅ Emergency Features – Customizable video screen crawl speed & size ✅ Pi 5 ARM Support – Compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 ✅ Automatic Gain Control – Improved audio consistency Learn more about Voice Tracking Climate Emergency Alerting with Open Source Software CAP Presentation at Asia Institute of Broadcast Development (AIBD) Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Newsletter Archive https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/media-news/ News? Events? Something to share with the community?  Please send to media@openbroadcaster.com     #### Resilience Through Innovation 🍓 Pyrate 3.0 Pyrate November 18, 2020 Tagish, Yukon, Canada As part of Canadian Innovation Week, OpenBroadcaster Inc is releasing Pyrate 3.0 free and open-source software (FOSS). An open source emergency response radio and TV broadcast toolkit for stations to remotely access their studios and distribute CAP emergency alert messages during COVID19. About Raspberry Pi Pyrate Broadcast Originally designed as a class project to teach computer coding skills, the Raspberry Pi is now mass produced, with over thirty million units sold, gaining a global network of commercial and educational users, based on their proven reliability and low cost. Pyrate 3.0 is open source broadcast automation software configured to run on the inexpensive Raspberry Pi computer for stations operating remotely assisting them in unattended operation, studio access and distribution of emergency messages in regional indigenous dialects. Solution To Remote Studio Access Many domestic and international small-to-medium broadcasters are not able to physically access their central studios, further to COVID19 travel restrictions. Indigenous groups in remote regions with expensive bandwidth are challenged by lack of affordable solutions otherwise out of reach. This open source technology, used in emergency services, increases the reach and utility of relaying important alerts based on the global standard CAP (Common Alerting Protocol). Pyrate 3.0 contains powerful broadcast automation software, saving time for stations to configure and harness innovation in emergency management technology tools to help with the current situation that we are all in today. About OpenBroadcaster OpenBroadcaster's mission is to develop open source products and services for broadcasters of any size, working in analog or digital environments. We offer open source broadcasting solutions to individuals, small-to-medium sized businesses and communities that allow them to distribute media over the air and via the Internet in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We aim to strengthen links between communities and cultures globally by supporting and facilitating the formation of broadcaster networks that are capable of pooling resources, jointly managing media and sharing stories. Resources Download Pyrate 3 https://www.openbroadcaster.com/resource/download Source code on GitHub Git Hub OpenBroadcaster CAP Emergency Alerting CAP Workshop Report Media Contact Rob Hopkins Box 87, Tagish, Yukon, Y0B1TO Canada Tel: +(01) 867-667-6397 Web: OpenBroadcaster Email: media@openbroadcaster.com ### Download Press Release Resilience Through Innovation #### Rob is Analog Audience Favorite Award 📻 Available Light Film Festival 2022 Audience Choice Winners   Plugins 3 Winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Rob Is Analog, is also the audience favorite. Yukon filmmaker, Jessica Hall's funny and charming documentary about “Radio Rob” Hopkins: a ramshackle communications pirate who pioneered community radio in Southern Yukon and fights for the public’s right to over-the-air analog community tv, drew the third largest combined in-person and online attendance. https://yukonfilmsociety.com/available-light-film-festival-2022-audience-choice-winners Demo Sites Check out a live loaded OpenBroadcaster installation with Observer and Obplayer. You can evaluate the broadcast automation system in real time including streaming and API media shares. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/resource/demo-sites/ RFP for OpenBroadcaster Multimedia API development Currently OpenBroadcaster has support to display and publish assets with Drupal 7.0 for dynamically created website content, schedules, whats playing, what played last 24 hours, etc. Our goal with this project is to phase out support for proprietary modules for each type of CMS, instead provide some simple generic embedded API code to paste that radio and TV stations public web site easily to be able to deploy as templates. Budget $3,500.00 USD https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/opportunity/ Case Study - Arichat TV CAP Video Alerting TV TELILE is a unique community television station in Nova Scotia that needed an emergency alerting system. They are found on Channel 10 using an antenna, Channel 4 on the EastLink cable system in western Richmond County, and on Channel 5 on the Seaside cable system. As required by CRTC, Telile must carry the national emergency alert feed from Pelmorex and raised funds to purchase a solution. There are many expensive proprietary systems on the market that were out of reach, instead they investigated the cost saving benefits of using an open source approach. https://www.openbroadcaster.com/case-studies/telile-tv/ Case Study - Virtual Legislative Broadcasting Municipal and state legislatures need to operate remotely, securely and involve public participation from guest speakers. Our systems automatically record, archive and publish legislative broadcasting assemblies. Intelligence switches message when In-Camera and senses audio silence and gaps, combining into a neat time stamped single audio archive podcast. Legislative Broadcasting Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) AIBD World Radio Day 2022 - Celebrating a world of Sounds Broadcast Geek Fest We had attendees from all across Canada and US with remote guests from New Zealand and Uganda. Join us on Zoom for a fun filled 60 minute technical session to geek out about all things open source broadcasting. Upcoming Agenda * Host Message and Introductions * Show and tell * Tech Update * Raspberry Pi * GIT Traffic Future Geek Fest Weds June 22, 2022 13:00 Yukon Standard Time Road Trip to Vancouver Island Campbell River BC March 14 Alert Bay BC March 15 -17 Looking for work? Have a new feature request? Sponsor a project resource to create a bounty See our contributing guidelines for Player and Server #### Rob is Analog World Radio Day 📻 Happy World Radio Day 2022 Rob “Radio Rob” Hopkins is an analog guy in a digital world, a communications pirate fighting for the public’s right to something they might not even know they want. This charming and funny documentary tracks Rob’s quixotic quest to attain a CRTC licence for an over the air community tv licence while capturing Radio Rob’s eccentric passion for all things related to broadcasting and technology. Rob is Analog World Radio Day Rob is Analog World Radio Day Rob “Radio Rob” Hopkins is an analog guy in a digital world. A communications pirate fighting for the public’s right to something they might not even know they want. This charming and funny documentary tracks Rob’s quixotic quest to attain a CRTC licence for an over the air community tv licence while capturing Radio Rob’s eccentric passion for all things related to broadcasting and technology. Rob is many things: he’s an ex-hobo and a self-taught broadcast engineer; a scavenger who built a working telephone system from other people’s junk; and an advocate of over-the-air-technologies who collects CRTC licenses like hockey cards. He’s so enthusiastic that he’s even developed his own software to make analog broadcasting easier. Join Rob as he works with fellow broadcasting enthusiast Bill Polonsky as they attempt to expand CJUC 92.5 FM (the local community radio station) and revive over-the-air analog television with the establishment of the new local community channel CKWH (VHF Channel 9). "I am very excited to announce the World Premier of "Rob is Analog" at the Available Light Film Festival. Jessica Hall - Director & Producer Alicide films Trailer and Pitch reel   Film Reviews Rob is Analog World Radio Day Rob is Analog World Radio Day In theatre Feb. 15 at 7:15 pm Readers can get an offbeat taste of northern living in Rob Is Analog. This eclectic character study follows Rob Hopkins as he endeavours to secure a CRTC licence for community radio and television (and, eventually and controversially, porn). The doc by Jessica Hall finds a great character in Hopkins, who embodies the spirit of community and the mischievousness of a true pirate. Rob Is Analog draws upon Hopkins DIY spirit to explore how older technologies and forms of communication endure as Hopkins deconstructs boxy televisions and fiddles with a “Watchman” (a portable TV equivalent to the Sony Walkman) to tap into the reach of the local signal. Moreover, Hopkins’ effort and choice to take it upon himself to start the community radio and analogue TV, demonstrates how the shift to digital communication leaves some Canadians in the dark. At the heart of this old soul is a belief in the democratic potential for media. The doc effectively evokes Hopkins’ ramshackle spirit. https://povmagazine.com/five-docs-to-see-at-available-light-film-festival/ CHFR Hornby Island, British Colombia Big thanks go out to CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio  for supporting our open source emergency alerting project as a $150.00 GitHub Sponsor This will go towards updating Pyrate IMG for Raspberry Pi 4 hardware. NAAD System Maintenance Notice - February 09 - 10, 2022 Our systems working without any updates or restart needed. Didn't miss a heartbeat :-) >>Please be advised that the scheduled updates were completed successfully. We strongly advise that you keep an eye on your equipment and reconnect manually if necessary. Disaster Risk Reduction Media Hub A toolkit for news media professionals reporting on disasters and resilience. Free CAP Course online. Got spare time? Looking for a a challenge? Check out the self guided course that I was part of last year From Decade Transmitters In these pandemic times, and because of the all the sanitary measures in place, our FM transmitters are an effective tool, in particular for houses of worship. With our FM transmitters, it is possible to listen to the service on your car radio, in the house of worship parking lot. Also, people who don’t have a vaccination passport can attend the mass or other events that they wouldn’t normally be allowed to. This can also apply to people who wish not to attend because of contamination risks. And in cases of containment where many public places are temporarily closed, the FM transmitter is probably the only solution to let people attend religious services or other events that can take place. Finally, it is always a good idea to install an FM transmitter ahead of future catastrophes instead of ordering at the very last minute. Prevention is better than cure ! RADIO FUNDING 2022 Call for Proposals for Indigenous Community Radio Stations https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/2022-call-proposals-indigenous-community-radio-stations Deadline for Submission: March 7, 2022 Eligible countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Nepal, North India, Botswana, Philippines, Indonesia, Congo, Cambodia, Namibia and South Africa. We can assist with custom estimates and Hardware for hardware, online broadcast automation media servers and training. Tech Question How do we find our broadcast radio licence with the Canadian government?   *** This government service is usually broken *** Looking for work? Have a new feature request? Sponsor a project resource to create a bounty See our contributing guidelines for Player and Server   #### Stop Wasting Time 🕔 Grass Roots Radio Conference Portland, Oregon - Oct 5 -7 Bill Polonsky, our training manager from the frozen city of Whitehorse Yukon and Adam Brody, marketing and business development will be delivering a joint presentation and hands on demonstration. Raspberry Pi Pyrate Radio — Open Source EAS Friday October 5 at 9:30 AM. Join us in Room 180 at the Native American Student and Community Center | Portland University WLXU 93.9FM and WLXL 'El Pulso Latino' 95.7FM Lexington, Kentucky Medialex These two LPFM stations sponsored the development of a suite of modules including SX Reporting, Server Status and Statistics to support a feature that satisfies the metadata demands of Sound Exchange obligations and requirements. Hours of sifting through written and digital logs to comply with Sound Exchange reporting can be reduced to seconds using this module. Just set the parameters you want reported, hit “generate report” and out comes a properly formatted XLXS file suitable for quarterly submission. Status module for server shows the uptime and health of disks including status of backup routines. The Sound Exchange reporting tool, status and statistics modules are available to the open source community and all users of the OpenBroadcaster platform. Modules Modules Modules Statistics https://github.com/openbroadcaster/statistics Server Status https://github.com/openbroadcaster/status CJUC Radio Whitehorse Yukon Eestipop Special on Estonian TV TV3 Eesti Best viewed with Google Chrome Featured Station CKUN While in Toronto to see Electric Light Orchestra in concert last August, my friend Pete and I drove up to visit the Chimnissing language radio station, managed by the Beausoleil First Nation located on Christian Island, Ontario. Meegwetch! to Vanessa, Dave and everyone else for your hospitality. https://www.chimnissing.ca/ OSN60 2018 Open Source North 60 A couple of like minded fans of open source and broadcasting put on an event in northern Canada’s Yukon Territory Upcoming Conference Schedule CAP Emergency Alerting Conference Hong Kong Oct 30 – Nov 2 https://www.preparecenter.org/resources/cap-workshop-2018 We are making a presentation about our work in the field of “Indigenous Language Alerting with CAP” AMARC Asia-Pacific (World Association of Community Radio) Yogyakarta, Indonesia November 16-19 https://amarc-ap.org NCRC38 (National Community and Campus Radio Association of Canada) Hosted by CJRU1280 Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario June 2019 https://ncra.ca/members/conferences Thanks to the Yukon’s Cultural Industries Training Trust Fund for their support. #### Supply chain delays? Open source solutions 💡  Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Supply chain issues? DIY Recycle 6 – 8 week lead time sound familiar? Expensive shipping? Stuck on your broadcast project waiting for parts? Re-purpose your existing hardware using Open Source code that runs on surplus equipment. Raspberry PI computers are widely available and inexpensive DIY Broadcast Repurposed Hardware Our latest IMG is backward compatible with legacy Alert Players running updates to support POLLY AI Voices. Extends the life of proven and functional hardware. Contact us for upgrade path for legacy Alert Player hardware. OpenBox * Online media library with API metadata widget * Community scheduler * Streaming media server and player all in one device Boxing Week Dec 26 - 31 Year End Specials Check our site Hardware Tech Tip Xmas Day Parting This allows filter material to play based on times and date ranges excluding Xmas music until Dec 23-26. National CAP Test Results November 17 Emergency alert tests received feedback from users reporting success using our updated production firmware to receive POLLY AI announcements (EN+FR) on alert player supporting legacy hardware from 2015. Computers for Schools Yukon We rely on CFSY to assist northern radio stations with recycled computers before they go to the final e-waste heap. Computers for Schools Yukon is part of a national, Federally funded non-profit initiative that helps to fix up used equipment to provide for education, other non-profits, and First Nation organizations for low cost. They hire Canadian youth as interns in doing this work, while teaching them professional skills which will assist in their future employment. CFSY User Code Contributions * @gubatez P. Jordan - Gstreamer VBR fix for long term Alert Player stability * @sportio S. Porteiro- Electronic Program Guide and Spanish Translations * @mgodiya M. Godiya – Nagios Monitoring * @ralphotowo R. Otowo - OS detection in new installer * @A-c0rN -A. Mayer - Debian 10 dependencies shortcuts Happy Holidays 2021, like 2020 before it, has been a year unlike any others, with special challenges for everyone. OpenBroadcaster has been there helping broadcasters and Communities get through and rise above, and we’ll keep on helping for as long as it takes. This year, more than ever, we wish everyone all the best for The Holidays, and in cautiously optimistic anticipation of a return to normalcy in The New Year! #### Technical Advisory - Software Updates ✨ When there are new software updates, a Technical Advisory explaining what they are, will be sent to manually update installations. Critical security updates will be sent out immediately. Updates Latest Version 4.1.2-20160506 Please ensure your installation is current with these important updates https://support.openbroadcaster.com/install Player - Improved “line in” quality playback. - Fixed geocodes setting to allow spaces between commas. - Show version and check for updates button in dashboard. - “Error” messages are Red. “Alert” messages are Magenta in status log. - Live Assist Mode has updated RTP and local streamer to use a jitter buffer. Server - Database optimizations to resolve performance issues on player/server sync. - Revise password hashing algorithm to bring up to current security standards. - Update media detection system to use libav-tools/avprobe rather than python/gstreamer; provides better media detection, junk filtering and reduces the number of dependencies. - Report invalid media before entering metadata (before save). - Updates script for new dbclean.sql (updates running in wrong order). Mechanical Relay This accessory works to provide a mechanical relay for injecting emergency alerts into the broadcast chain balanced XLR cable or onboard audio. Analog audio output from the Alert Player at your studio is hooked into this relay that mechanically switches sources for output to the transmitter using the DB9 RS232 GPIO Trigger. No Latency or 1/2 second delay. In the event of power failure to Alert Box, signal from source continues to play through by default. Maintains clean audio signal from source to transmitter, independently of Alert Box.  Made in Canada https://support.openbroadcaster.com/rs232-gpio-mechanical-relay #### Technical Advisory - Update your Player ✨ Excuse sending this later at the last minute. I wanted to do something rather than rely on social media.  A situation presented itself today where we discovered a serious glitch in our alert player that had something to do with recent changes at the Pelmorex NAAD.   We worked through the day here, tested and pushed a fix. Please update your player through the Admin button in the dashboard ASAP. Cheers! Rob Open Source North Event The subject of internet privacy, what you give up involuntarily on some services and how to best protect yourself from identity theft and exploitation of your (IP) intellectual property are all conversations being discussed at this years Open Source North 60 2018 event March 23 in Whitehorse. This is a free public event put on by Yukoners. Of interest to the arts scene is our afternoon panel discussion of using open source software in the creative community and work place. We will be hijacking CJUC 92.5 FM - Whitehorse Community Radio "The Juice" to stream this all day event LIVE to the community on-line and on-air. Many thanks in advance to our sponsors and supporters. Drop by for some Raspberry Pi and complimentary; organic, same day fresh, low fat, non dairy, vegan, gluten free, ethically range fed with out chemical additives Snow Cones! #### Technical Advisory - Using the USB-XLR ✨ Hello, Alert Player customers, Checking in to see how everyone is making out with their installations. There is an audio input mismatch condition that occurs between certain studio equipment XLR hook ups to our Alert Player using the USB-XLR adapter. Using a 20 dB H Pad, the USB-XLR adapter will pass thru +4dBu without the need for jack-mixer, simplifying setup. The Alert messages are as loud as the source input. +4dB in and +4dB out is within spec for the PCM2902. PCM2902 seems to be internally boosting by +20dB, which is why using a -20dB pad will still output audio at +4dB levels. Solution is to attenuate the input XLR using an off the shelf inline attenuator. Some stations have already used equipment to further set the input levels. Local access to a electronics shop may not be possible, especially in remote northern communities. To assist stations, we will ship to any of our customers, upon request to support@openbroadcaster.pro a pair of these 20Db Balanced XLR Attenuators for each alerting unit purchased, free of charge including cost of shipping. Be sure to check USB-XLR Support Page for up to date instructions. Contact me anytime for more info and thanks in advance for any comments and feedback. #### Trevor Baylis Wind-up Radio Inventor 📻 Trevor Bayliss Trevor really inspired me to get into radio and provide services for the rest of the world. Would have really liked to meet him. Where I saw the challenge and opportunity was when these villages in Africa all got around to having a wind up radio, (no one could come up with the combined cost of a battery) what content would they listen to and how would they get their programs and messages on the air? This is the historical building blocks and inspiration of OpenBroadcaster There is also a cautionary tale here. Trevor did some really interesting work for humanitarian causes, like the people of Africa. Investors came calling, they named a foundation after Trevor and eventually they booted him out of his own foundation, leaving him out on the street just like Nicola Tesla. Trevor is in good company. Inventor, Stuntman, Champion Swimmer. Trevor Bayliss #### TWIRT 388 Open Source Radio 📻 TWIRT RGH This week in radio technology Episode 388 Lots of fun chatting about our company history and innovative open source broadcast automation systems. TWIRT RGH #### TWiRT 568 - Common Alerting Protocol ⚠️ Common Alerting Protocol Doesn't sound exciting, but what it's doing for people in many countries is sometimes life-saving. We might think of CAP as a new-ish way to receive emergency messages, such as Child Abduction Emergency notification. Or we may consider CAP as just another input source to our broadcast EAS systems. There’s a lot more to CAP than this, however. Interestingly, the USA and Canada are using CAP a bit differently. Rob Hopkins from OpenBroadcaster in Canada, and Vincent Maggard, a software developer, join Kirk Harnack to explore and explain what CAP really is and how it’s used. TWIRT CAP This week in radio technology episode # 569 CAP TWIRT CAP #### UNDRR Sasakawa Award Geneva 🏆 UNDRR Sasakawa Award Geneva Innovation and technology for inclusive resilience This year's theme, Connecting science to people: democratizing access to innovation and technology for disaster resilient communities captured the spirit of innovation and accessibility that drives modern disaster preparedness. With over 200 outstanding nominees received in two categories, Individuals and Organizations, all candidates demonstrated incredible depth of talent and dedication within the global DRR community. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Kamal Kishore delivered heartfelt gratitude to the community present and those watching online, acknowledging the tireless hard work and unwavering dedication of all those nominated for the award. UNDRR Sasakawa Award Geneva   #### UNESCO Remote World Radio Week 📻 CNX 5th Asia Pacific Community Network Xchange We are on a panel discussion with the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) regarding Community Radio and it’s relationship with Community Networks, especially those stations with communications challenges. Date: November 17, 2021 Time: 0500-0715 UTC Album Art A large American university recently sponsored development of a feature to analyze their library of 660,000 individual audio recordings to obtain an Acoustic-ID (unique digital finger print) which is submitted online to MusicBrainz music database while bringing the metadata to their local database. This workflow also supports the updating of Album Art. Enhanced graphical metadata is presented throughout the server and player interfaces, including album art thumbnails in the live assist player. This is all automated using open source software with out any fees or charges.    UNESCO Remote Radio Week Thank you to all of the 17,000+ individuals who participated over 5 days, including 196 speakers from 53 countries. Fantastic initiative of UNESCO and World Health Organization. I had fun virtually attending and presenting at this event, sharing and learning about remote radio. Why should radio broadcasters make use of the cloud? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv80KFk_Rkk [Masterclass] Free Open Source Radio Tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjgoLQlH5IU Major releases for OBServer and OBPlayer 5.1.1 We are very excited that both of these core components are current in the public repos. This is the first time in over 3 years we have matching releases :-) https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/ Change Log TWiRT - Common Alert Protocol: It's Everywhere! This week in radio technology episode # 569CAP TWIRT Common Alert Protocol Vincent and I chat with Kirk Harnack about all things open source and CAP Indigenous Language Funding Call for applications - Indigenous Languages Component 2022-2023 The Indigenous Languages Component of the Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program is accepting funding applications for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The application forms are included in this email, and it is required to use these templates. The deadlines to submit your application and be eligible for funding is November 29, 2021. https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/aboriginal-peoples/languages.html 2021 CAP Implementation Workshop was held 13-14 October Co-sponsored by the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the OASIS standards organization, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Download the executive report Tech Resource - Clonezilla Tech request from user asking about Clonezilla. Clonezilla is FOSS (free open source software) that does partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image or Norton Ghost. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and data recovery. One of our users was amazed they had figured out how easy it was to use disk imaging. We use Clonezilla to create our firmware IMG updates and is a handy utility for backups and insurance against ransomware. https://clonezilla.org National Alert testing Canada - Nov 17 https://www.alertready.ca/ In preparation of these tests, ensure your alert boxes are receiving heartbeats and have the latest updates. Looking for work? Have a new feature request? Sponsor a project resource to create a bounty See our contributing guidelines for Player and Server     #### Welcome to our new web page and store! 📢 Thanks for your patience while we get everything up and running smoothly during the new year!   #### Whitehorse Trade Show 📢 New Features Broadcast Lock down. From a web browser, one click puts your station in lock down, disabling all playout and functions from DJs that are overstepping policy for offensive material. Plays the Default Playlist assigned to station service so there is no dead air. Thanks to Pierre@CHMA - Attic Broadcasting Sackville for this idea. Suggestions? Ideas for a new feature? Send in requests here Contact Us Change log Revamped Uploader. Better workflow for dealing with Junk. Import/Export file for settings backup Reset to defaults. Back to fresh install. Check for updates from dashboard (supports headless mode) Change Log May 3 and 4 National NAAD Tests If you have not already do so register as LMD provider to receive the testing schedules and bulletins. https://alerts.pelmorex.com Pelmorex Upgrading New Software Ver 8.0 Customers should not be affected by this software update. These are only changes to the web-interface for issuing alerts. There's a note at the bottom that the NAAD feeds won't be disrupted and the changes wont affect our existing equipment. https://alerts.pelmorex.com/resources Whitehorse Trade Show April 29 – May 1 Pop Up Raspberry Jam - Mini PI Workshops Drop by and learn how we are developing on this popular platform with a 35.00 computer. Flashing your PI NOOBs Setting up & Backing Up Ubuntu for the Office and replacing MS Office Alternative OS's for the Raspberry Pi Ubuntu 16.04 First Look Alternative OS's for the Raspberry Pi OB Program Manager\Podcast Assembler Ubuntu for the Office OB LIVE Assist operation and remote streaming Ubuntu Phone and Convergence Raffle Prizes Drop off a business card or entry form at our booth. Prizes will be drawn at end of Sunday. 1) Raspberry PI Kit Gen 3.0 Supplied by OpenBroadcaster 2) 12 months Web Hosting and 2 hours technical services Supplied by Computerisms.ca Rob's Birthday party April 30 For anyone in Whitehorse area this Saturday. We are having a get together for a BBQ in Porter Creek @ 7:00 PM. Send an email to RSVP and directions. Bug Tracker and Support Site Something not working? Need more info for setup? Found a reproduceable bug? Support Page   #### Why do I love innovation and community radio? 💡 25 years of CFET Radio. Everyday is innovation day at CFET and CJUC Community Radio. We have a really good pool of experienced professionals working in the field that enjoy meeting new friends from abroad that are passionate about building open source community broadcasting tools. ► เป็นอย่างไรบ้าง ► 你好吗 ► হ্যালো ► Namaste ► Kumasta! ► Knee how ma? ► Apa kabar? Please join us on our public discussion Discord server for; Hands on interactive learning and capacity development, extreme open source hacking, networking and technical skills development. Inclusive for all. No charge. Drop us a welcome note what interests you. Write your own ticket. Coding, Mentoring, Training; GIT, Bash, PHP, MYSQL, Apache, JSON, PYTHON Indigenous Language Preservation technology working with CAP emergency alerting POLLY Artificial Intelligence Neural Language services and development on AWS Word Press CMS Web templating with API embed of radio asset smart blocks SEO Search Engine Optimization for Google Analytics Digital Audio over IP (AoIP). Video streaming codecs using web optimized formats Virtual environments, NAS Docker Images, unattended development installs #### Wildfire Season Emergency Communication? 🔥 Wildfire Season Radio Station in a Box When cell phone towers go down due to fiber cuts or power outages, how do you ensure your community stays informed and safe? Traditional communication methods may falter, but with our mobile Radio Station in a Box, you have a reliable lifeline. Are you part of an indigenous community? You may qualify for license exemption, allowing you to establish a local radio station quickly and efficiently. This enables you to broadcast vital alerts and updates to everyone, including those without smartphones or social media accounts. But what about reaching the audience often left out of modern communication channels? Our solution extends beyond the digital divide, ensuring no one gets left behind. With a portable local radio station, you can reach every corner of your community, keeping everyone informed and prepared. And let's not forget Canada's AlertReady system – an underutilized resource that's absolutely free for communities to leverage. By integrating AlertReady with your local radio station, you amplify your reach and enhance your emergency communication capabilities. Don't wait for the next crisis to hit. Empower your community with the Radio Station in a Box – because when disaster strikes, every second counts. 4 - 6 weeks delivery lead delivery time Radio Station in a Box RIAB   Photo Archiving Workshop Indigenous archives take centre stage as guests tour the Yukon Native Language Centre alongside Rob Hopkins of CFET Radio, Michelle Barroca, RIM Instructor, and Emily Macht, CTFN Archivist. With a collection boasting over 3,000 cassette tapes, of which 2,000 remain undigitized, the centre aims to accelerate its digitization efforts, targeting four tapes per day pending smooth operations. This initiative underscores a crucial step in preserving indigenous languages and culture for future generations, showcasing the commitment to honouring and revitalizing indigenous heritage. Yukon Council of Archives Proposed Indigenous Missing And Endangered Persons Alerts FCC Considers Using EAS To Help Draw Attention To Missing And Endangered Persons Alaska has the highest rate of missing persons, despite it being one of the least populated states. That underscores the high rate of Native and Indigenous Persons that are impacted by one of the most under reported trends. The Federal Communications Commission says it is looking to address that problem, as well as that for all missing and endangered persons coast to coast, as it proposes the creation of a new emergency alert code to help draw public attention when someone is at risk. Using-eas-to-help-draw-attention-to-missing-and-endangered-persons/ HTTPS change to the CAP-CP URL at Pelmorex *** Important Update: Action Required for AlertPlayer Boxes *** Pelmorex is enhancing its alert issuance system for improved security and reliability. As part of this upgrade, CAP-CP alerts will now be hosted using HTTPS URLs alongside HTTP for the next few months. To ensure seamless communication, a simple adjustment is needed in your AlertPlayer dashboard: Log in to your AlertPlayer dashboard. Navigate to the Emergency Tab. Click on the advanced menu. Update the existing NAAD URL from "http" to "https" by adding a single "s" in both NAAD Streams. Remember not to modify the NAAD archive. Save your changes and utilize the Restart button located at the top right to implement the updates. To confirm successful implementation, return to the Emergency Tab. Under heartbeats, you should see a connection status indicating successful syncing to Pelmorex. If any configuration issues arise or networking problems occur, the status will turn RED, indicating MISSING HEARTBEATS. HD Radio HD Radio offers listeners additional stations focused on different genres or styles on FM subcarriers.. However, recent stats indicate that audience engagement has not been prolific, with HD2/3 stations commanding only 1.2% of all radio listening in areas measured by the Nielsen. Upon a closer look, the reasons for HD2/3 channels' underwhelming performance began to unravel. The first hurdle was the user interface - a labyrinth that proved challenging for listeners to navigate. Unlike its counterpart, DAB stations, which present a straightforward alphabetical list, HD Radio didn't offer that simplicity to listeners. Instead, they were required to first tune into the main station and then, in a race against the frequency, find and select the elusive -2 or -3 channel. The story of HD Radio's journey continues, with hope for improvement and adaptation in future chapters. How is HD Radio doing in Canada? It depends How is HD radio doing in Canada? Voice tracking Introducing the Voice Tracking Feature: Revolutionizing Radio Broadcasting Imagine effortlessly creating the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the radio studios, even when they're not physically present. Our new Voice Tracking Feature makes this possible, enhancing the radio experience for both broadcasters and listeners alike. Here's how it works: Seamless Integration: With just a few clicks, access the Voice Tracking Feature directly from your playlist. A simple popup modal window appears, ready for action. Embedded HTML5 Audio Recorder: Say goodbye to complex setups and multiple steps. The embedded HTML5 audio recorder allows you to record your voice with ease. No need for external software or complicated installations. Effortless Editing: Make simple adjustments on-the-fly. Trim your recordings with precision, ensuring your message is delivered flawlessly. Instant Integration: Once you're satisfied with your recording, save it directly into your playlist. No more tedious uploads or dragging files around. It's all done seamlessly within the platform. Whether you're promoting your favourite songs, delivering announcements, or adding a personal touch to your shows, our Voice Tracking Feature streamlines the process. It's the ultimate tool for creating captivating radio content with minimal effort. How long does it take to get a CRTC radio licence in Canada? Part 3 After a temporary closure, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has reopened applications for new radio stations in Yellowknife and Calgary. While the CRTC remains closed to other radio station applications, including; commercial, community, and indigenous stations, this recent development presents a unique opportunity for those interested in broadcasting in these specific regions. Cabin Radio, in response to changing circumstances highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires in the Northwest Territories, has filed a new application. They recognize the importance of increased access to radio content, particularly in the North, and are actively working towards providing a valuable service to their community. If you or your organization have been considering entering the radio broadcasting landscape, now is the time to seize this opportunity. Whether you're passionate about serving the Yellowknife or Calgary communities, this reopening provides a chance to make a meaningful impact through radio. https://www.cabinradio.ca/175141/news/arts/crtc-says-itll-look-again-at-cabn-radios-yellowknife-fm-bid/ Newsletter Archive https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/media-news/ #### Yukon Companies Deploy Radio Network 📻 For Immediate Release Aug 31, 2016 OpenBroadcaster Inc and Computerisms Corporation are pleased to have played a part in a project spearheaded by SSI Micro and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) to introduce its latest public service, the Kitikmeot Radio Network (KRN). The pilot project was launched July 9th and was timed to coincide with KIA's 40th Anniversary. Nodes of the KRN were deployed in Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk, and Ottawa, and were used to broadcast a live FM broadcast and Internet stream of Nunavut Day Music Festival held in Cambridge Bay. The success of the project paves the way to expand the project to all Nunavut communities. Computerisms Corporation deployed software produced by OpenBroadcaster Inc on Linux servers for each of the three pilot project's KRN nodes. Each server is configured so that each community can interact with its own server without using expensive and limited Satellite Internet resources. The geographically diverse servers then synchronize themselves using the Satellite Internet connection in the most efficient way possible. A node in Ottawa with less expensive and more abundant Internet resources is used for streaming to other parts of Canada and the world. “This is a classic example of how the extreme reliability and cost-efficiency of Linux is an excellent fit for Northern data networks,” says Bob Miller of Computerisms, a long-time promoter of Linux and Open Source Software. “It is perfectly suited to running in environments with scarce hardware and network resources, and requires a minimum of maintenance so is ideal for hard-to-get-to geographic locations. We have used it in multiple projects, including management of an entire Yukon First Nation's IT infrastructure, where security was a really important factor.” OpenBroadcaster software running on the KRN servers is used by individual community members to schedule and program radio shows using its own online media library, and then outputs those shows to an FM transmitter or as an Internet stream. As Canada's first and only Open Source Software to support the CAP emergency alerting protocol as recently mandated by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), it also provides valuable Emergency Broadcasting services for corporate enterprises, government organizations and local communities. KIA's primary purpose for initiating the KRN project is as a language preservation tool. Communities will work with Inuit Language speakers to create a library of media, including language lessons, oral history, and contemporary information. OpenBroadcaster's online media library function will be used for long-term storage of this media, where radio station programmers in any community can schedule it for broadcast for years to come. The KRN nodes in Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk will be used to broadcast daily shows in the Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut dialect in the two communities. With the success of the pilot project, owner/operators of the KRN infrastructure SSI Micro will apply to the CRTC for a formal FM Radio license in preparation of expansion of the radio network. For further information, please contact: Bob Miller Director Computerisms Corporation 867-633-3760 www.computerisms.ca Rob Hopkins Founder and CEO OpenBroadcaster Inc. 867-667-6397 OpenBroadcaster About Computerisms Corporation: Computerisms has operated since 2006 in Whitehorse, Yukon, providing IT consultation, design, deployment, and maintenance to a wide variety of indigenous governments, businesses and organizations across the territories and BC. Linux and Open Source Software have been a staple in Computerisms' goal of providing businesses network implementations that provide a comparable or superior feature set at a lower price point as compared to Microsoft-based solutions. About OpenBroadcaster Inc.: OpenBroadcaster's mission is to develop and provide products and services for broadcasters of any size, working in analog or digital environments. We offer open-source broadcasting solutions to individuals, small-to-medium sized businesses and communities that allow them to distribute media over the air and via the Internet in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We aim to strengthen links between communities and cultures globally by supporting and facilitating the formation of broadcaster networks that are capable of pooling resources, jointly managing media, and sharing stories. 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OpenBroadcaster offers great options for you to implement our broadcast automation and media asset management solutions.  No matter what option you choose, you get access to incredible tools that allow you to effectively manage, share and broadcast audio, images and video digital assets across multiple media platforms.  And, as an added bonus, emergency alerting is supported across all our systems.  Everything is documented with user guides and training videos at our Support Page 1. Open Source Code Self host your own system using our public code that you can Download for free including a already configured demo raspberry PI Pyrate 2.  Hardware Broadcast Appliance The easiest way to get started with OpenBroadcaster is by ordering one of our supportedHardware .  These "Plug and Play" solid state devices provide you with incredibly reliable service, ensuring broadcast stability no matter how challenging the environment that you operate in. The complete RIAB (Radio Station in a Box) is assembled in a hard shell mobile case; 100% solid state, no moving parts.  1) Open Covers of mobile case, 2) Hook up Antenna, AC Power and Internet, 3) Begin broadcasting  We also back each device we sell with a full warranty. 3.  Installed on your hardware Don't have the resources and budget to manage your own network, firewall or media server?  Already have newer computers and servers with VM ware? If this is the case, we can Services and Products our broadcast automation streaming solutions on your equipment so that you can focus on quality broadcasting. 4.  Custom Coded Feature Support the development of open source broadcast tools. Is there a particular "must have" feature you would like your broadcast automation to do but not available?  We have an established track record and excellent References that we have built features to spec for a very reasonable price.    5.  Open Source DIY code Into DIY Broadcast in the classroom and have some technical skills? Install our open source software Source Code on your own device as part of an educational program. Choose solutions and integrations from our Technology partners   #### Careers Employment and Volunteer Opportunities Don't see anything that fits your skills but you have an idea for something else?  Please Contact Us to write your own ticket and tell us what you can do. ==================================================================================================== Google Tag Manager - Social Media Expert Closing Date: Feb 24, 2020 Budget: 5,000.00 CDN OpenBroadcaster Inc. is developing a distributed Public Service Announcement network for the North. Using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and open source web technologies will allow NGO and Non-Profits to create and distribute rich media announcements through affiliated community radio stations and alternative media outlets. As part of this work, we are implementing Google Analytics into our broadcast automation systems, including advanced functionality of GTM (Google Tag Manager) to provide media usage metrics. We are seeking an experienced individual to help use with the social media aspects of GTM. Advanced skills are required with Google products, PHP and Python programming languages. This is a contract opportunity to work with our really talented team. Send resumes and questions to hr@openbroadcaster.com ==================================================================================================== Translations - OBServer and OBPlayer Infrastructure Closing Date: Ongoing Presently our systems work with English and French Languages. We have active teams working on translations for Thai and Tagalog (Filipino) We are looking for assistance to do some simple translation for stations: Bengali Estonian French Hindi Indonesian Nepali Portuguese Tagalog Thai Spanish You will need access to a computer, word processor and edit a simple text file. A small stipend (budget) is available and participants will be rewarded with a fully functional broadcast automation appliance based on Raspberry Pi that can be used to run your radio station, centralized media library and send out an mp3 stream for online listeners We will also entertain supporting other language groups if requested. Contact Us for more information about translation products or send inquiries to translations@openbroadcaster.com International Languages Translation Project Closing Date: December 12, 2019 Budget: 10,000.00 CDN OpenBroadcaster is expanding to overseas markets and picking up a global share of the international broadcast automation business, through inquiries from our website in many different languages, specifically Asian and South America cultures, including many indigenous groups. Candidates should have an existing portfolio of similar projects, experience with open source CMS and strong Google Analytics skills. We are seeking qualified and experienced web developers to update our business website to support these international markets with a framework to include language translations. Your work plan should devise a way that we can scale our languages, both with machine learning AI and human. The solution you propose can keep our established Drupal 7 framework, or any other industry standard CMS, providing that we do not lose any of the functionality we presently have. The finished product, should be a new complete solution, not just some maintenance updates. Send proposals to hr@openbroadcaster.com Government Relations Coordinator Closing Date: April 17, 2019 Budget: 20,000.00 CDN The Government Relations/Lobbying Program will include meetings with politicians and their staff, but also include a whole range of other tasks that may or may not be employed including: technical submissions, working-level meetings, third party mobilization, digital outreach, and targeted media. Just as each issue is unique, no single way of approaching government will be effective in every situation. While some firms highlight their access to politicians or the number of political meetings they can organize, these are only a subset of the full range of tactics that can be used. A successful firm will focus on securing government contracts to supply, install and train the approximate 250 FN and Inuit communities on Open Broadcaster’s Emergency Alert Player. Seeking an experienced government relations/lobbying company with presence in Ottawa to set up meetings with both Ministers of Public Safety, Crown-Indigenous Relations Canada and Indigenous Services Canada or their political staff, and departmental officials (e.g. DM, ADM and Director General level). Develop high impact promotional material with targeted power point and handout/briefing notes to summarize the recommendation that the federal government subsidize Indigenous language radio stations. Timeline: May 1, 2019 – September 2019 Qualifications Educational and Experience Requirements Bachelor’s Degree; 5+ years of related experience preferred. Background and familiarity with Indigenous Services Canada. Track record of successful Lobbying. Send resumes and questions to hr@openbroadcaster.com ==================================================================================================== Market Research and Strategic Planning Closing Date: July 6, 2018 Budget: 10,000.00 CDN Develop a strategic marketing plan for our emergency alerting broadcast products and services to expand into new markets with both short and long term goals. You will help us identify new opportunities to engage with existing and new clients by evaluating marketing materials, social media and advertising, determining how successfully these target customers and generate sales. Prepare a plan to maximize lifetime customer value by getting former customers to return more often with new product or service opportunities. Improve client engagement through social media, creating innovative campaigns on various media. Timeline: July 15, 2018 – January 15, 2019 Qualifications Educational and Experience Requirements Post-secondary graduate with a degree or diploma in English, Marketing, Business and at least 5 years experience. Track record of successful innovative research and development funding. Proven experience with established project coordination principles and preparing grant proposals. Send resumes and questions to hr@openbroadcaster.com ==================================================================================================== Python Gstreamer Application Developer Closing Date: July 6, 2018 Wages: Depends on Experience Looking for something challenging? Want to build up your portfolio? Be part of our team to create really cool community broadcast tools for the Yukon and international markets. Skills and experience we are looking for include: Open Source Python Gstreamer Framework Coding Multimedia streaming and Digital Asset Management Drupal CMS Module\Theme development Timeline: Ongoing.  July 15, 2018 – January 15, 2019 Project Code https://github.com/openbroadcaster/observer https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer/ Drupal Understand any of this? We want to hear from you. We welcome people with innovative skills and not afraid to learn. We offer many opportunities including; training, mentoring and industry references. Send resumes and questions to hr@openbroadcaster.com ==================================================================================================== Catering Assistant aka Social Media Rock Star Closing Date: Until Filled Term: Part Time Job Summary As part of the the Catering Team, you will provide quality service of high standards and contribute to the provision of our weekly luncheons promoting these events on social media and community broadcast tools. Assist in preparing and presenting food for our company functions and events. This will include all hot and cold food including drinks for our weekly managers meeting plus any packed lunches, group catering and event catering from time to time. Some travel to Southern Yukon communities may be required. 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Alerting Authorities can use IPAWS to alert and warn the public of public safety emergencies via the Emergency Alert System (EAS), Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio, and other capable public alert and warning systems and technologies.  IPAWS utilizes a digital format for exchanging all-hazard emergency warnings and public safety messages by origination of a single message that can be disseminated simultaneously over multiple communication pathways, as shown in the graphic below   Our Products and Services OpenBroadcaster offers options to clients. If you like your current media and automation management system, keep it and easily integrate our standalone alert Hardware into your existing operations. This very reliable solid state appliance is favorably priced when compared with other products on the market, costing many hundreds of dollars less than our competitors. Even better, our devices are easily upgraded, so you don't have to worry about purchasing a product that will soon be out-of-date. Hardware International CAP Applications Our software code is built using CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) and fully compatible with  ITU x.1303 specification administered by OASIS, the international standards group that defines emergency alerting.  OpenBroadcaster's emergency messaging solution is built to specification to meet existing regulatory requirements concerning emergency alerts. Global Status of Common Alerting Protocol Implementation               OpenBroadcaster EAS emergency alert system facilitates the broadcast of unattended priority messaging within audio and visual alerts based on the Common Alerting Protocol, the world standard for transmitting priority messages. OpenBroadcaster offers its public emergency alerting solution as either a complete turnkey integrated broadcast solution, packaged alongside our broadcast automation, media asset management and other core offerings, or as a stand alone  box that works with whatever a station is using. Indigenous languages are supported within the framework of our EAS emergency alert automation with audio and text alerts.  Standard geographical classification location geocodes use a numeric code to identify discrete areas, based on census districts. Alerts are only issued for regions and neighborhoods that match the alerting regions' geocodes. We inject EAS alerts into the broadcast chain in variety of ways, depending on your station setup. No two stations are exactly the same. Alerts issued using standalone alert player automation software enter the broadcast chain independently based upon their own merits. CAP Audio Alerts Onboard analog stereo 1/8” mini output. Audio present only when a valid alert is being broadcast. GPIO trigger reverses DTR voltage RS232, switching an external relay when an alert message is played. BARIX Exstreamer at radio transmitter uses a priority port for incoming stream of emergency message Silence Detection using external third party hardware senses signal coming out of the Alert Player and mechanically switches a relay on your board. Integrated AXIA Digital AoIP (Audio over IP) Console senses an on demand Livewire stream of alert in conjunction with the Qor’s GPIO, switching channels in the broadcast chain console while EAS is in progress and switches back upon completion. CAP Visual Alerts Applicable for over the air TV, Cable TV and digital signage applications. Normal visual alerts will be displayed. When there is a valid EAS alert, a red scrolling overlay will display the text of this message with accompanying audio. Onboard local video with (HDMI, DisplayPort or DSUB) displays an overlay when a valid CAP message is being broadcast. GPIO trigger using RS232 when alert message is played, switching CATV channel on digital cable head end. Configuring streaming media server to detect new mount point of on demand stream We can custom make an automation solution for your government and country based on CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Hardware Sign up for our Newsletter and receive a free operating manual for the emergency alert automation appliance Contact Us for more info about EAS (Emergency Alert System) for your community television station, radio station or community media multi station broadcast undertaking. We support open source broadcast software, giving back to the community with free television media asset management scheduling software, combined with EAS (Emergency Alert Systems), tying in with other online media libraries and media buyers. #### Join Market Place URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/join-the-market-place/ #### Kitikmeot Radio Network URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/case-studies/kitikmeot-radio-network/ #### Knowledge & Education URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/knowledge-education/ #### Legislative Broadcast Municipal and state legislatures need to operate remotely during emergencies securely and enabling public participation from guest speakers not able to attend in person. Future Town Meetings Future Town Meetings Guest Speakers Jennifer and Jeff Contact Us for a complimentary discussion about your Legislative Broadcasting project and solution. We have many years experience and exceptional references. Where you are now? Kludges, patches and band aids on band aids Vendor lock in Already spent considerable resources on proprietary enterprise systems (need to pay even more now) to add or implement a new feature. Limited budgets, not enough HR Challenge Making multiple proprietary dissimilar systems talk to each other without a unified communication approach. Utilize technology and do more with less human resources. Immense human resources needed to run everything, all prone to simple human error. Remote access within the building and outside community. Multiple computers and laptops open each running a different process for the broadcast chain Work Overload Too many different systems, all with different layouts and work flows to keep up with Anxiety juggling technology, never knowing what exactly is working or broken Cannot keep up with endless rabbit holes Difficulty working with assistants and organizing HR with a million emails\chats to accomplish a simple group task. Not having enough IT resources to keep everything up and running dependably, on time. Risks Burning through HR, scaring away talent and vaporizing volunteer opportunity interest. Turning away viewers when the production quality values becomes low, broken mics, users not able to join, etc they just bail Wasting a bunch of time trying to get users and viewers to use clunky technology without proper training or familiarity. Burning through HR budget, needing 3 candidates to operate current setup; primary and spare/shadow (in case primary is ill/incapacitated) and the third when both primary/shadow are not available. Someone being malicious with hate material that operator cannot mute or disengage Someone having an “accident” on camera, thinking it is on mute and not having the ability to mute or "kick" user Not knowing who is really on the call. Potential for spoofing or imposters. Huge potential security holes when operating anything outside of dedicated network (IE accept incoming connections from public internet) or relying on services "in the cloud" Unknown bandwidth resources and not being able to control or manipulate QOS (Quality of Service) creates a bad user experience with network congestion and jitter. What you should be doing Broadcast streaming strategy Documentation Control and understanding of your systems Master Kill Switches Open Source Software Make the machines do the work of tedious day to day tasks #### Livewire RTP AoIP URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/software/livewire-rtp-aoip/ #### Media & News URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/media-news/ #### Media Asset Management URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/software/media-asset-management/ #### New North Networks URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/case-studies/new-north-networks/ #### Newsletter URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/newsletter/ #### Nuxalk Radio 91.1 URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/case-studies/nuxalk-radio-911/ #### Obplayer 4.x Notes Version 5.1 Player Image Instructions for ML210 Hardware Support Page for updated manuals and video tutorials View Change Log for new features Hardware Supported  Alert Players sold before 2018.  32 + 120 GB SSD. To identify, at boot F2 to enter BIOS screen. BIOS ver OPBR-9159_r02 CPU  "Celeron J1900" Rear View Technical Operation ***Always*** change the default passwords. (Ver 5 now forces password reset on first run and displays a red warning message in player dashboard until reset) - Ensure there is 16" unobstructed airflow above the fan less OBPlayer. Never place any objects (books, manuals or bags) on top of the unit. - A monitor (KVM is not advised) must be attached 24/7 for continued operation. Install the recovery ISO firmware User Downloads and install Etcher or other USB boot stick creators (Disks, Rufus) Open Etcher and write the image ISO file to the USB Drive. Attach a Monitor, Keyboard and Network cable.  Ensure no other USB devices are plugged in. Insert USB in front port Power on unit.  Press F2 key to enter bios.  Confirm Boot mode is set as Legacy.  Arrow over to Set & Save menu and highlight booting from the USB drive. Press enter to boot machine from USB.  Reimaging must be done in Legacy mode, then set to boot with UEFI. Clonezilla menu appears.  Sit back and wait a few minutes. Doesn't need any selections, it is automatically.  You will see various screens, (including a long blank screen) it is actually doing something and eventually it will ask you twice to enter "Y" to proceed with imaging. When imaging is complete press "Enter" Shutdown machine and remove USB stick. Enabling UEFI secure boot NB. Until UEFI boot is enable your machine will not start and display errors about missing OS. Press F2.  Arrow over to menu >Boot and  boot mode to EUFI.  Save and reboot. Machine boots up so you can login with obsuser\obsuser and change password. Once this is complete, all operations are done through the player's web dashboard. After imaging Hard reset required. The ml210 boxes are really finicky after major imaging. First run will come up at a login prompt.  Default user = obsuser pass=obsuser.  System will prompt for current default password and force change for main password. Reset the box once more, find its ip and access via a browser on a different machine.  You do not need to login to the command line interface, once password has been changed. Everything is now accessed through a browser and will automatically restart when the unit is plugged in. To login to the player, use web browser Chrome, Firefox or Safari from another machine on same network using the default port "23233" e.g.  http://<IP_ADDRESS>:23233 user=admin pass=admin Run Updates in Dashboard After imaging run updates from Dashboard on newly imaged box >Admin>Update Player Check for latest version then Update.  Reboot your box. Default Passwords Dashboard  Account admin\admin (Displays a RED message to remind you to change) System  obsuser=user, obsuser=password (system forces reset password on first run, root account disabled by default) Icecast Media Server For security reasons, by default this service is not enabled to auto start to allow users wishing to use this to change the published passwords. This does not apply to standalone Alert Player boxes, unless using creating on demand streams to cut in to Barix exstreamers.  Icecast Passwords Edit the file directly in Terminal and change passwords. sudo /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml Here are the default passwords that are already set in your image for testing.  Recommended that these be changed, otherwise you will get your stream\system hacked. ICECAST_ADMIN_PASS="1c3c4stP4ssw0rD"  to access the administration panel ICECAST_SOURCE_PASS="1c3c4stS0uRc3" to allow incoming streams to create a mount point Auto Starting Icecast Icecast service is disabled by default, so units do not go out with icecast running with default passwords. After install, to make persistent on reboot run: systemctl enable icecast2 && systemctl start icecast2 Networking How do I find the IP of player? The player box is setup to receive an automatic DHCP address when plugged into a router.  There are a couple of ways to find its IP address 1) from the terminal on boot screen, "ip addr show" will display the DHCP address assigned to player box. Network card is enp1s0 or eth0. Look beside inet for your assigned IP Address ie: 192.168.X.X 2) login to your router and show DHCP tables of devices with auto IP address.  our Player device hostname is "obplayer" and its IP will be displayed Set a static IP address Once you have setup and configured, you can optionally  or bind router to your MAC Address.  * Note # means that line is commented out. From terminal. "sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces" Before (Default for DHCP) # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug enp1s0 iface enp1s0 inet dhcp After Substituting your own IP, gateway and DNS # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug enp0s1 #iface enp1s0 inet dhcp iface enp1s0 inet static address   192.168.1.10 netmask   255.255.255.0 gateway   192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1,8.8.8.8 Ctrl +X, Y (to save) Reboot machine Sound Cards External USB Soundcard including XLR USB Cable Enable pulse audio as input and output. Reboot your player and it will show your usb device and signal controls. Additional control of soundcard using Pulse is to go into Terminal and type "pulsemixer" First Run On fresh new install, give it a few minute for heartbeats and audio to appear. It is taking time to sync up. On first boot you may see some red error messages, on restart they should go away. See Debug mode in the status tab if errors persist. Resetting Passwords How do I change OBPlayer dashboard passwords? 1) Reimage box with ISO to bring unit back to factory default state. All settings will be lost. Alternatively, you can try: 2) Access terminal for local machine or SSH and go to /home/obsuser cd .openbroadcaster (hidden directory under user) a) Locate settings.db sqlite file containing dashboard settings, including passwords that may be viewed or edited. b) Deleting this file and restarting player will force a new settings.db file to be created with default settings including user=admin pass=admin     #### Obplayer 5.x Notes URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/resource/obplayer-5-x-notes/ #### Obplayer Software Licence URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/obplayer-software-licence/ #### Obplayer Welcome Page Welcome to OpenBroadcaster! Discover how our Obplayer features make it easy for new users to monitor live broadcasts, access channels, and stay updated with real-time media content. Start exploring today! #### Observer Software Licence All of our source code is released to the public under the AGPLv3 open source license that lets us offer our software to all who wish to use, modify and distribute it freely.  AGPLv3 open source license allows you to use Open Broadcaster at no charges. With this license, you can download, run, inspect, develop, test and freely redistribute OpenBroadcaster code, even for commercial uses. Mandatory paid subscription, unlock codes or dongles NOT required for full operation. #### Observer Welcome Page Welcome to OpenBroadcaster! Discover how our Observer features make it easy for new users to monitor live broadcasts, access channels, and stay updated with real-time media content. Start exploring today! #### Openbox 5.x Notes Version 5.1 OpenBox  IMG Instructions Supported devices: ML350 128GB - 1TB SSD. Single or Dual NIC. Support Page for updated manuals and video tutorials View Change Log for new features Post Install Instructions for OpenBox After imaging on first run; login, find OpenBox IP. On separate workstations 1st run updates. eg "http://ip_of_openbox/updates"  Enter "updates" for when prompted for user and password. Apply all updates. Now you may login to the OBServer management dashboard that is defaulted on port 80.   eg http://ip_of_openbox/  You will be prompted for administrator password (Supplied in separate email) OBPlayer is installed.  The dashboard may be reached on default port 23233. eg "http://ip_of_openbox:23233" using default admin/admin as user and password. Apply all updates. Technical Operation ***Always*** change the default passwords. (Ver 5 forces password reset on first run displaying a red warning message in player dashboard until reset) - Ensure there is unobstructed airflow above the fanless AlertPlayer. Never place any objects on top of the unit. - A monitor (KVM is not advised) must be attached 24/7 for continued operation. BIOS Settings During boot, "esc" brings up bios.  Ensure "Resume AC Power" is enabled.  Current BIOS version is D7820A08 Flashing\upgrading BIOS. Copy the EFI folder to a FAT32 formatted flash drive and boot to it on the ML350 Imaging Fresh Computer Copy ISO img file to usb stick with Etcher or Disks Plug USB stick to any port of computer Turn on computer.  At initial splash screen, press ESC button to enter BIOS Using Keyboard arrow buttons. move to menu at far right, then down arrow to move to boot override "UEFI USB" Press enter and computer will boot to this USB and begin CloneZilla automatic IMG restore. Process will automatically go through to prompt "Y" twice to continue. At end of process, remove USB and power cycle computer After imaging Hard reset required. First run will come up at a login prompt.  Default user = obsuser pass=obsuser.  System will prompt for current default password and allowing you to change the master password. Reset the box once more, find its ip and access via a browser on a different machine.  You do not need to login to the command line interface, once password has been changed. Everything is now accessed through a browser and will automatically restart when the unit is plugged in. To login to the player, use web browser Chrome, Firefox or Safari from another machine on same network using the default port "23233" e.g.  http://<IP_ADDRESS>:23233 Run Updates in Dashboard After imaging run updates from Dashboard on newly imaged box >Admin>Update Player Check for latest version then Update.  Reboot your box. Note Important OS security updates will automatically download and if needed, a restart will happen at 3:00 AM Default Passwords Dashboard  Account admin\admin (Displays a RED message to remind you to change) System  obsuser=user, obsuser=password (forces user to reset password on first run, root account disabled by default) Icecast Media Server For security reasons, by default this service is not enabled to auto start to allow users wishing to use this to change the published passwords. This does not apply to standalone Alert Player boxes, unless using creating on demand streams to cut in to Barix exstreamers.  Icecast Passwords Edit the file  /etc/icecast2/icecast2.xml directly in Terminal and change passwords. Here are the default passwords that are already set in your image for testing.  Recommended that these be changed, otherwise you will get your stream\system hacked. ICECAST_ADMIN_PASS="1c3c4stP4ssw0rD"  to access the administration panel ICECAST_SOURCE_PASS="1c3c4stS0uRc3" to allow incoming streams to create a mount point Auto Starting Icecast Icecast Streaming service doesn't auto start (must be enabled manually).  We did this so your machine with default passwords is not running while you get setup Enable the Icecast2 server by setting entering this at command line once to make persistent systemctl enable icecast2 && systemctl start icecast2 Restart you box, icecast will start up correctly as a service Networking How do I find the IP of player? The player box is setup to receive an automatic DHCP address when plugged into a router.  There are a couple of ways to find its IP address 1) from the terminal on boot screen, "ip addr show" will display the DHCP address assigned to player box. Network card is enp1s0 or eth0. Look beside inet for your assigned IP Address ie: 192.168.X.X 2) login to your router and show DHCP tables of devices with auto IP address.  Our Player device hostname is "obplayer" and its IP will be displayed Set a static IP address Once you have setup and configured, you can optionally  or bind router to your MAC Address.  * Note # means that line is commented out. From terminal. "sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces" Before (Default for DHCP) # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug enp1s0 iface enp1s0 inet dhcp After Substituting your own IP, gateway and DNS # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug enp0s1 #iface enp1s0 inet dhcp iface enp1s0 inet static address   192.168.1.10 netmask   255.255.255.0 gateway   192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1,8.8.8.8 Ctrl +X, Y (to save) Reboot machine Sound Cards External USB Soundcard including XLR USB Cable Enable pulse audio as input and output. Reboot your player and it will show your usb device and signal controls. Additional control of soundcard using Pulse is to go into Terminal and type "pulsemixer" Resetting Passwords How do I change OBPlayer dashboard passwords? 1) Reimage box with ISO to bring unit back to factory default state. All settings will be lost. 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IMG Notes - Supports Raspberry Pi Ver 2 -3.  - Pulse Audio is not present in dashboard (Terminal "pulsemixer") - Mbrola voices in Alert player not installed - Updates not working through dashboard - Not tested at this time for anything other than generating an audio stream to Icecast server. Crypto Mining Malware Raspberry Pi are vulnerable to this kind of malware.  We have removed default user "pi" among other measures. What we have noticed, is compromised Pi's get ZMap and sshpass installed. Neither of these programs is required for our operation. Technical Operation Attach Monitor, Keyboard and Network cable. Pop in SD card with the Pyrate 3 software IMG and boot. First run will come up at a default login prompt. user = obsuser  pass = test1234.  Everything is now accessed through a browser and services will automatically restart when the unit is plugged in. Sample audio programming is already onboard and scheduled, so you only need to plug in headphones to listen. Terminal Mode All operation of both player and server can be run and accessed from terminal System  user = obsuser pass=test1234 (forces user to reset password on first run, root account disabled by default) OB Media Server Find Pyrate ip and access via a browser on a different machine as a regular web site.  Login screen will appear on port 80.   There are several sample accounts with different permissions already created user = admin       pass = test1234 user = basic        pass = test1234 user = manager  pass = test1234 Server Updates From a browser while logged in as real admin user <IP_OF_SERVER>/updates Player DashBoard Find its ip and access via login with web browser Chrome, Firefox or Safari from another machine on same network using the default port "23233" Player dashboard will show red errors, on first run, reset the box once more and these will go away. http://<IP_ADDRESS>:23233 user = admin  pass = admin  (Displays a RED message to remind you to change) Icecast Media Server http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8000 Icecast Passwords Edit the file directly in Terminal and change passwords. sudo /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml Here are the default passwords that are already set in your image for testing.  Recommended that these be changed, otherwise you will get your stream\system hacked. ICECAST_ADMIN_PASS="1c3c4stP4ssw0rD"  to access the administration panel ICECAST_SOURCE_PASS="1c3c4stS0uRc3" to allow incoming streams to create a mount point Networking How do I find the IP of player? Default setup is to receive automatic DHCP address when plugged into a router.  There are a couple of ways to find its IP address 1) from the terminal on boot screen, "ip addr show" will display the DHCP address assigned to player box. Network card is enp1s0 or eth0. Look beside inet for your assigned IP Address ie: 192.168.X.X 2) login to your router and show DHCP tables of devices with auto IP address.  our Player device hostname is "raspberrypi" and its IP will be displayed Set a static IP address Once you have setup and configured, you can optionally  bind router to your MAC Address.  * Note # means that line is commented out. From terminal. "sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces" Before (Default for DHCP) # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug enp1s0 iface enp1s0 inet dhcp After Substituting your own IP, gateway and DNS # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug enp0s1 #iface enp1s0 inet dhcp iface enp1s0 inet static address   192.168.1.10 netmask   255.255.255.0 gateway   192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1,8.8.8.8 Ctrl +X, Y (to save) Reboot machine Sound Cards Additional control of soundcard using Pulse is to go into Terminal and type "pulsemixer" First Run Errors On fresh new install, give it a few minute for heartbeats and audio to appear. It is taking time to sync up. On first boot you may see some red error messages, on restart they should go away. See Debug mode in the status tab if errors persist. If you have anything to share please Contact Us Call out for Betatesters and advanced users. Software supporting Pi 4 and HiFiBerry audio hardware at our Change Log with development status and new features.      #### Pyrate 5 Notes Pyrate 5 software IMG instructions Disclaimer This is an advanced experimenters machine IMG with powerful pre configured software, with the potential to generate a lot of bandwidth traffic when exposed to external internet and publish content to public mount points including LIVE radio and TV transmitters. Default Administrative passwords are all enabled. Recommend separating and isolating this behind a firewall until you are 100% confident what it is doing. *** Using this software and IMG is 100% at your own risk *** Pyrate Support for updated manuals and video tutorials. IMG Notes - Supports Raspberry Pi Ver 4 -5 - Based on Ubuntu 24.04.1-LTS Desktop with OBPlayer Ver 5.3-develop running as a headless process. - Support for Pipewire with Interpipe - Support for POLLY voices in Alert player - Updates working through dashboard - Possible to be managed and adopted by virtual OBServer or Pyrate 4 - Not tested at this time for anything other than generating an audio stream with CAP Alerting to Icecast server. Crypto Mining Malware Raspberry Pi are vulnerable to this kind of malware. We have removed default user "pi" among other measures and use /home/obsuser. Technical Operation Attach Monitor, Keyboard and Network cable. Pop in SD card with the Pyrate5 software IMG and boot. First run will come up at a default login prompt. user = obsuser pass = test1234. Everything is now accessed through a browser and services will automatically restart when the unit is plugged in. Sample audio programming is already onboard and scheduled, so you only need to plug in headphones to listen. OB Media Server Find Pyrate ip and access via a browser on a different machine as a regular web site. Login screen will appear on port 80. There are several sample accounts with different permissions already created user = admin pass = test1234 user = basic pass = test1234 user = manager pass = test1234 Server Updates From a browser while logged in as real admin user <IP_OF_SERVER>/updates OBPlayer Dash Board Find its ip and access via login with web browser Chrome, Firefox or Safari with "localhost:23233" or from another machine on same network using the default port "23233" http://<IP_ADDRESS>:23233 user = admin pass = admin (Displays a RED message to remind you to change) Icecast Media Server http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8000 Icecast Passwords Edit the file directly in Terminal and change passwords. sudo /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml Here are the default passwords that are already set in your image for testing. Recommended that these be changed, otherwise you will get your stream\system hacked. ICECAST_ADMIN_PASS="1c3c4stP4ssw0rD" to access the administration panel ICECAST_SOURCE_PASS="1c3c4stS0uRc3" to allow incoming streams to create a mount point Networking How do I find the IP of player? Default setup is to receive automatic DHCP address when plugged into a router. There are a couple of ways to find its IP address 1) from the terminal on boot screen, "ip addr show" will display the DHCP address assigned to player box. 2) login to your router and show DHCP tables of devices with auto IP address. our Player device hostname is "raspberrypi" or "obplayer" and its IP will be displayed Set a static IP address Substituting your own IP, gateway and DNS is easily done through Ubuntu Control Panel Sound Cards Additional control of soundcard using Pulse is to go into Terminal and type "pulsemixer" Pipewire is default sound system with Pulse.  To see Pipewire managing audio from terminal "pactl info" If you have anything to share please Contact Us Call out for Beta testers and advanced users. Software supporting Pi 5 and HiFiBerry audio hardware at our Change Log with development status and new features.     #### Radio Automation Software URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/software/radio-automation-software/ #### Radio Licensing Canada License Exempt? 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They are found on Channel 10 using an antenna, Channel 4 on the EastLink cable system in western Richmond County, and on Channel 5 on the Seaside cable system.  As required by CRTC, Telile is required to carry the national emergency alert feed from Pelmorex and had raise funds and purchase a solution.  There are many expensive proprietary systems on the market that were out of reach, instead they investigated the cost saving benefits of using an open source approach. We supplied an off the shelf alerting box, running our production open source CAP alerting software v5.1.1 This install had assistance from a local technician Al McNeil who created a switching interface between our RS232 DTR triggering the Black Magic router GPIO. From what I can tell everything is configured and operating properly and receiving heartbeats from Pelmorex. We did a hard reset test (pulling power plug) and all services came up properly on restart. 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PRIVACY POLICY Internet communications are subject to interception, loss or alteration, and, as consequence, you acknowledge that information or data you provide by electronic means by accessing or using this Website are not confidential or exclusive, except to the extent required by the applicable laws, and that communications by email may be intercepted, altered or lost. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy, which you may find at the following address: For any questions, concerns, or disputes, you agree to contact us in a timely manner at the following address: Open Broadcaster Inc. Box 87 Tagish,YT YOB 1 T0 Canada info@openbroadcaster.com #### Testimonials URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/testimonials/ #### Training Services Training and Education We recognize that making investments in people is absolutely essential for a station to be successful and sustainable. The OpenBroadcaster Team produces and delivers onsite training programs aimed at building community capacity in the broadcasting sphere. We recognize that ‘many hands make light work’ and broadcast operations that have a large and supportive base of contributors are best positioned to be sustainable over the long term. To support our partners, especially those operating in community radio environments, OpenBroadcaster offers ‘hands-on’ production courses using open source tools, including those that we have designed ourselves!  Preview our online outlines. How to start an Internet Radio Station We show you how to run a internet stream, create dynamic programming and manage an Icecast media server.  Radio and Broadcast Media Training outlines and customized onsite training packages available for your operation. Training Services Service and Support We work as broadcasters ourselves, actively owning and operating commercial and community radio stations.  Clients requiring support for their own broadcasting operations can draw upon the extensive experience of the OpenBroadcaster team for advice on matters including: Securing compliance with Canadian broadcast regulators (CRTC/ISED/NavCan) Developing and implementing revenue models for station operations and special projects (e.g. grant writing services, commercial advertising and time sales strategies) Identifying and selecting the best available technologies and services within fixed budgets Providing representation in dealing with contracted specialists such as broadcast engineers  #### TV Station Equipment TV Station Setup What equipment do I need to start a Television station? A basic TV station needs professional studio and broadcast equipment. All of the gear should be top notch, licensed and approved for the country in which it is operating in. Studio mixing board Microphones Headphones Cameras Broadcast Media Server for television automation Capture cards for ingesting Live material Scheduler Hardware encoder STL studio transmitter link Streaming receiver Digital TV Transmitter Digital Modulator Power supply Lightning protector Transmission line Antenna Best place to install TV antenna, transmitter and studio? Location, Location Location Higher the better. Provides for best line of site to surrounding area. Roof top tripod mount with a 10 foot pipe 1.25. - 2.0 Inch OD attached or fastened to side of building Keep antennae as far away from humans limiting RF exposure. Away from sources of interference, power mains, transformers, AC units Properly grounded We can show you how to make your own TV station with open source broadcasting tools.  Feel free to browse through our available broadcast Digital TV Transmitter to find a solution that fits your needs. Contact Us for advice on how to set up your community, faith, tourist or commercial TV station. #### Video & Tutorials URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/resource/video-tutorials/ ### Media #### 2 moose 2 moose #### 2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-english-espeak_tts "2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-english-espeak_tts". #### 2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-english-polly "2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-english-polly". #### 2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-french-espeak_tts "2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-french-espeak_tts". #### 2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-french-polly "2021_05_05t13_57_59_07_00i48e30c4b_0dbc_ba1b_e318_d67db22fedea-french-polly". #### 3yr Extended Warranty 3yr Extended Warranty #### 40-below-thermometer URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/12/indigenous-community-media-fund/40-below-thermometer/ #### 50 FT LMR 400 Male to Male PL259 Connectors 50 FT LMR 400 Male to Male PL259 Connectors #### 559873016-324588555ffbed1bc5622c9c161c74cc43f24d75a4b8fc1e80202b09d0e78d26-d URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/?attachment_id=3636 #### aabcyca conference aabcyca conference #### ABU (Asia Pacific Broadcast Union) ABU (Asia Pacific Broadcast Union) #### Ad Manager Manage time-based advertising campaigns and auto archive media when complete. Schedule campaigns. Media is moved to Archive for long term storage or final deletion. Saved search shortcut expedites management to a few clicks. Supports all media, audio for radio, ImageVideo for CATV and streaming video channels. #### ad-manager module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/software/radio-automation-software/added-feature-modules/ad-manager/ #### Adam Brody Adam Brody #### adam brody cbc adam brody cbc #### Adam Brody CBC Whitehorse Adam Brody CBC Whitehorse #### Adobe PDF Icon Adobe PDF Icon #### aibd world radio day URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/03/rob-is-analog-audience-favorite-award/aibd-wrd/ #### album art URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/11/unesco-remote-world-radio-week-2021/albumartplayer/ #### album art server URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/11/unesco-remote-world-radio-week-2021/albumartserver/ #### alert bay totem poles circa 1910 URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/03/rob-is-analog-audience-favorite-award/alert-bay-bc-totem-poles-circa-1910/ #### Alert Icon Alert Icon #### alert player - YG EMO Tests Alert player annual tests with Pelmorex NAAD #### Alert player ML210 Legacy rear view Alert player ML210 Legacy rear view #### Alert ready tests obplayer dashboard Alert ready tests obplayer dashboard #### Alert ready tests POLLY obplayer dashboard Alert ready tests POLLY obplayer dashboard #### Alert switching relay Alert switching relay #### AMARC Indonesia AMARC Indonesia #### analog tech gear on Jubilee mountain cross band VHF UHF repeater analog tech gear on Jubilee mountain cross band VHF UHF repeater #### arctic ocean arctic ocean #### Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union Presentation Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union Presentation #### audio cable types audio cable types #### audio silence detection audio silence detection #### Audio_Streaming_Settings Audio Streaming Settings #### Australia Community Radio Review - RG Hopkins Australia Community Radio Review - RG Hopkins #### axia URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/axia/ #### AXIA DESQ Digital Mixing board AXIA DESQ Digital Mixing board #### Axia Desq Obplayer OpenBroadcaster supports Axia Livewire RTP protocol #### Axia Obplayer OpenBroadcaster supports Axia Livewire RTP protocol #### AXIA QOR16 Rear View AXIA QOR16 Rear View #### Barix URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/barix/ #### Barix CAP Emergency Alerting Barix CAP Emergency Alerting #### Barix Exstreamer 100 Front Barix Exstreamer 100 Front #### barix exstreamer 110 barix exstreamer 110 #### Barix Instreamer Barix Instreamer #### Bill Polonsky Bill Polonsky #### Black Press Logo Black Press Logo #### Bob Miller Bob Miller #### Broadcast Dialogue Logo Broadcast Dialogue Logo #### Broadcast Trade Show 2015 Broadcast Trade Show 2015 #### Broadcast Trade Show 2015 Broadcast Trade Show 2015 #### Broadcasting Options URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/?attachment_id=2578 #### Broadcasting Options Icon Broadcasting Options Icon #### Broadcasting Options Icon Broadcasting Options Icon #### Brook Gagnon Brook Gagnon #### Bundles Bundles #### Cabin Winter CJUC Cabin in the winter #### Canada Nuclear Plant Error Message Canada Nuclear Plant Error Message #### Canadian CAP-CP Common Alerting Protocol Canadian CAP-CP Common Alerting Protocol #### CAP Alert Self Generated Tests URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/11/build-a-better-broadcast-application-with-open-source/created-with-gimp/ #### CAP Alerting Service CAP Alerting Service #### CAP Common Alerting Protocol CAP Common Alerting Protocol #### CAP Common Alerting Protocol Workshop 2020 CAP Common Alerting Protocol Workshop 2020 #### CAP Common Alerting Protocol Workshop 2021 CAP Common Alerting Protocol Workshop 2021 #### cap conference hk cap conference hk #### CAP Conference Hong Kong 2018 CAP Conference Hong Kong 2018 #### cap global development URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/09/pop-up-drive-in-cinema/cap-global-development/ #### cap graphic cap graphic #### cap workshop 2021 URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/11/build-a-better-broadcast-application-with-open-source/cap-workshop-2021-01/ #### CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Logo CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Logo #### CBC North World TV North CBC North World TV North #### CBC Rob at Studio 3 CBC Rob at Studio 3 #### CBC World TV North 1998 CBC World TV North 1998 #### CFBI Studio CFBI Studio #### CFBI Studio Cambridge Bay Nunavut CFBI Studio Cambridge Bay Nunavut #### CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 #### CFET Nanook 2013 Operation Nanook 2013 Whitehorse and Tagish Yukon Territory #### CFET office Rob on telephone CFET office Rob on telephone #### CFET Radio CFET Radio #### CFET Radio Theme CFET Radio Theme #### CFET19_RGH_Tower1_2500px URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/cfet19_rgh_tower1_2500px/ #### CFM-95SL222 3dbi Omni Antennae CFM-95SL222 3dbi Omni Antennae #### change to the CAP-CP URL URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2024/03/wildfire-season-emergency-communication/change-to-https/ #### chinese translation chinese translation #### chon site visit chon site visit #### Circles Circles #### cision URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/cision/ #### CJUC CJUC Audience #### CJUC CJUC Pop up record shop #### CJUC Board CJUC Board #### CJUC by the Yukon River In addition to its specific focus on Yukon artists, CJUC has been extremely receptive to broadcasting the work of new Canadian artists everywhere in the country, allowing its northern audience to hear what the rest of Canada is listening to. #### CJUC Cabin in summer CJUC Cabin in summer beside the Yukon river #### CJUC Cabin in Winter CJUC Cabin in Winter #### CJUC communication building looking over Whitehorse CJUC communication building looking over Whitehorse #### CJUC Community Radio This, in turn, has resulted in CJUC becoming the key promoter and broadcaster of local music in the Yukon Territory, with thousands of songs by Yukon performers, past and present,  forming part of CJUC’s daily broadcast.  #### cjuc fundraiser cjuc fundraiser #### CJUC Logo CJUC Logo #### CJUC LOGO CJUC LOGO #### CJUC Mount Top Site CJUC Mount Top Site #### cjuc mountain site cjuc mountain site #### cjuc pop up drive in building URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/09/pop-up-drive-in-cinema/drivein1/ #### cjuc pop up drive in screen URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/09/pop-up-drive-in-cinema/drivein2/ #### CJUC pop up vinyl shop CJUC pop up vinyl shop #### CJUC Radio Station logo CJUC Community Radio has been extremely receptive to broadcasting the work of new Canadian artists everywhere in the country, allowing its northern audience to hear what the rest of Canada is listening to. #### CJUC Radio Theme CJUC Radio Theme #### cjuc radio Whitehorse cjuc radio Whitehorse #### CJUC Record Sale CJUC Record Sale #### cjuc solstice fund raiser URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/12/indigenous-radio-alerting-tools/cjuc-solstice/ #### CJUC studio beside Yukon river CJUC studio beside Yukon river #### CJUC the juice Whitehorse Yukon CJUC the juice Whitehorse Yukon #### CJUC Transmitter CJUC Transmitter #### CKNN Nuxalk Radio Studio CKNN Nuxalk Radio Studio #### ckrw the rush logo ckrw the rush logo #### Climate Emergency Alerting with Open Source Software Climate Emergency Alerting with Open Source Software #### cnx logo URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/11/unesco-remote-world-radio-week-2021/cnx-logo-2/ #### Coast Hotel Theme Coast Hotel Theme #### Combined Modules Combined Modules #### Community Icon Community Icon #### Community Network Exchange 2021 Community Network Exchange 2021 #### Community Radio and TV Solutions Community Radio and TV Solutions #### Community_Radio_and_TV_Broadcasting_on_First_Nation_Lands Community Radio and TV Broadcasting on First Nation Lands #### Computerisms URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/computerisms/ #### Crazy spam alerts Crazy spam alerts #### CROW-FM Old Crow, Yukon CROW-FM Old Crow, Yukon #### CROW-FM Radio Studio CROW-FM Radio Studio #### CROW-FM Studio CROW-FM Studio Old Crow - Yukon #### Crown 600 Watt transmitter Crown 600 Watt transmitter #### Crown FM 30 Stereo Transmitter Crown FM 30 Stereo Transmitter #### D7820A09 ML350 Firmware A09 #### day parting day parting #### decade URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/decade/ #### Decade FM 850 Stereo Transmitter Decade FM 850 Stereo Transmitter #### Decade MS 100 FM transmitter Decade MS 100 FM transmitter #### Decade MS 100 FM transmitter Rear View Decade MS 100 FM transmitter Rear View #### Dhaka Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladesh #### Digital Headend New North Networks Cable TV Inuvik #### Digital TV Setup Complete Digital TV Setup Complete Package #### DIY Broadcast Projects Do It Yourself Broadcast Projects #### Drive in CJUC Pop up drive 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#### enhanced logging enhanced logging #### Enterprise Broadcasting Enterprise Broadcasting #### Enterprise database replication server clustering Enterprise database replication server clustering #### Example downloading the xml file Example downloading the xml file #### Example of CAP formatted message Example of CAP formatted message #### expired active alerts check expired active alerts check #### fall back media fall back media #### Git Octocat Icon Git Octocat Icon #### git-sponsor git-sponsor #### Global Status of Common Alerting Protocol Implementation Global Status of Common Alerting Protocol Implementation #### Google Advanced Award Google Advanced Award #### Green Theme Green Theme. Yes it is Green. #### Griz Radio Theme Griz Radio Theme #### grizzly bear visitors grizzly bear visitors #### Hardware Products Barix Crown Pippin Hardware Products Barix Crown Pippin #### hayzee-37below1 Hayzee #### helicopter Emergency fire fighters helicopter #### help icon help icon #### HiFiBerry Amp2 HiFiBerry Amp2 is a high-quality, highly efficient Class-D power amplifier for the Raspberry Pi. #### HiFiBerry DAC plus adc pro HiFiBerry DAC+ ADC combines our well-know DAC+ with an analogue input. Both input and output support sample rates up to 192kHz. #### HiFiBerry DAC2 Pro XLR HiFiBerry DAC2 Pro with a pair of XLR jacks. The output is fully balanced. #### Hindi Language Translation Hindi Language Translation #### Hindi Language Translation Hindi Language Translation #### Hindi Language Translation Hindi Language Translation #### Hong Kong Island in background Hong Kong Island in background #### html5 badge html5 badge #### icewireless icewireless #### IMG Icon IMG Icon #### Interactive Tutorial Provide a quick interactive tutorial running through the basics of OpenBroadcaster. Tutorial uses TTS (Text To Speech) to guide student through steps. 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When combined with the OpenBroadcaster web-based interface, the Live Assist tool becomes a powerful application that turns a device into a mobile studio capable of broadcasting live and ‘in the field’. Users can continue to stream audio playlists in the background while simultaneously capturing and broadcasting live audio – perfect for a live DJ set. Users can even take live audio from a capture device, such as a mixing board, and stream it out to broadcast via their mobile device – an ideal solution for broadcasting live concerts or public events. #### LIVE Assist Play List URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/06/live-remote-radio-summer-solstice/la-pl/ #### Live Assist Touch Screen Live Assist Touch Screen #### Live Assist Touch Screen Live Assist Touch Screen #### Live Assist Touch Screen Live Assist Touch Screen #### Live Assit with Microphone Live Assist with Microphone #### Livewire_RTP_Ravenna_Settings Livewire RTP Ravenna Settings #### Loa National Radio Loa National Radio #### making tomorrow URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/06/live-remote-radio-summer-solstice/making-tomorrow/ #### Manufacturers Manufacturers #### mapping module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/ob2ob/ #### Mapping Module The Geo mapping module provides an interactive map, showing areas affected by current Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) alerts (Canada and US only), current global weather patterns as well as location of OBPlayer installations managed by your OBServer. #### mapping module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/mapping/ #### mapping module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/mapping2/ #### mapping module cap alerting canada mapping module cap alerting canada #### Mapping Module CAP Alerts Mapping Module CAP Alerts #### MD5 Logo MD5 Logo #### Mechanical_Relay_Settings Mechanical Relay Settings #### media formats media formats #### Media Library - CJUC FM Media Archive Media Library - CJUC FM Media Archive #### Media Thumbnail Gallery Supports Album Art Media Thumbnail Gallery Supports Album Art #### meta fields meta fields #### Microphone Icon Microphone Icon #### midnight sun URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/06/live-remote-radio-summer-solstice/midnight-sun/ #### Moose Moose #### Nagios remote monitoring report Nagios remote monitoring report #### nature Montana mountain nature Montana mountain #### negative-space-mountain-winter-lake-1062x586 URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/03/estimate-tool/negative-space-mountain-winter-lake-1062x586/ #### New North Networks Inuvik New North Networks Inuvik #### New North Networks Office Dome New North Networks Office Dome #### New North Networks Schedule New North Networks Schedule #### New North Networks Valley and Mountains New North Networks Valley and Mountains #### news radio wave lead news radio wave lead #### Now Playing Logo Now Playing Logo #### nuxalk radio bella coola URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/06/live-remote-radio-summer-solstice/nuxalk-radio/ #### Nuxalk Radio Station CKNN Nuxalk Radio Studios #### Nuxalk Station Logo CKNN Nuxalk Radio #### ob cli check tool URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/12/indigenous-community-media-fund/ob-cli-check/ #### Ob2Ob Transfers Transfer media to another installation of OpenBroadcaster while retaining enhanced metadata. Transfer entire media libraries or filtered advanced search results. Intelligently transfers media server to server on broadband pipes, yet can be managed by a remote session on expensive satellite based internet. #### obplayer URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/resource/open-source-code/obplayer/ #### obplayer 5.0 obplayer 5.0 #### Obplayer front and back view stacked Obplayer front and back view stacked #### obplayer pipes obplayer pipes #### Obplayer RTP Streaming on Axia Obplayer RTP Streaming on Axia #### obplayer-2pack obplayer-2pack #### observer URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/resource/open-source-code/observer/ #### observer observer #### observer install check URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2018/01/open-source-north-whitehorse/observer-install-check/ #### one2many URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/one2many/ #### open source broadcast open source broadcast #### Open Source CAP Broadcaster - Development Guide Open Source CAP Broadcaster - Development Guide #### open source north 2018 open source north 2018 #### Open Source North 60 Open Source North 60 #### Open Source North 60 Open Source North 60 #### Open Source North Yukon 2019 Open Source North Yukon Conference Video #### open source technology open source technology #### Open_Source_CAP_Alerting-CAP_Implementation_Workshop_Bangkok_2016 Open Source CAP Alerting CAP Implementation Workshop Bangkok 2016 #### OpenBox 5 Complete Media Server and Playout OpenBox 5 Complete Media Server and Playout #### Openbox 5 exstreamer combo Openbox 5 exstreamer combo #### OpenBox Obplayer Rack Mount OpenBox Obplayer Rack Mount #### Openbroadcaster and Barix Story from Radio World International Feburary 2007 URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/media-news/openbroadcaster-and-barix-story-from-radio-world-international-feburary-2007/ #### openbroadcaster api documentation URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/11/build-a-better-broadcast-application-with-open-source/openbroadcaster-api-documentation/ #### OpenBroadcaster Logo BLUE OpenBroadcaster Logo BLUE #### OpenBroadcaster Logo GREEN OpenBroadcaster Logo GREEN #### OpenBroadcaster Logo RED OpenBroadcaster Logo RED #### OpenBroadcaster Logo with text OpenBroadcaster Logo with text #### openbroadcaster main logo openbroadcaster main logo #### OpenBroadcaster Modules OpenBroadcaster Modules Compared with themes #### OpenBroadcaster obplayer CAP alert overlay OpenBroadcaster obplayer CAP alert overlay #### OpenBroadcaster Red Logo OpenBroadcaster Red Logo #### OpenBroadcaster Support OpenBroadcaster Support Site #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Emergency Upload Sucess OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Emergency Upload Sucess #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Logging OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Logging #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Modified Segment OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Modified Segment #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Modify Segments OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Modify Segments #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Playlist Segment OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Playlist Segment #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Programmable Segment in Show OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Programmable Segment in Show #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Reporting Tool OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Reporting Tool #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Schedules OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Schedules #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Showing all Templates OpenBroadcaster Ver 1 Showing all Templates #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 2 Search OpenBroadcaster Ver 2 Search #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 2 Show OpenBroadcaster Ver 2 Show #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 2 Week View OpenBroadcaster Ver 2 Week View #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Emergency Details OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Emergency Details #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Emergency Message OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Emergency Message #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Emergency Message OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Emergency Message #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Logging OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Logging #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Media Details OpenBroadcaster Ver 3 Media Details #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Audio and Visual Settings OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Audio and Visual Settings #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Basic Settings OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Basic Settings #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Http Admin OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Http Admin #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series HTTP(S) Admin OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series HTTP(S) Admin #### OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Sync Media and Settings OpenBroadcaster Ver 4 Series Sync Media and Settings #### OpenBroadcaster Vimeo Video OpenBroadcaster Vimeo Video #### OpenBroadcaster Vimeo Video OpenBroadcaster Vimeo Video #### OpenBroadcaster YouTube Streaming OpenBroadcaster YouTube Streaming #### OpenBroadcaster-Install-Start-Obplayer-Observer_Manual-01042026 OpenBroadcaster Install Start Obplayer Observer Manual 01042026 #### openbroadcaster-logo openbroadcaster logo #### Operation Nanook 2013 Operation Nanook 2013 Whitehorse and Tagish #### osn 60 osn 60 #### paint mountain hj paint mountain hj #### Pass_through_audio_Settings Pass through audio Settings #### Payments module Payments module. Works with task manager. Assigns media and Play lists to tasks. Close task to release payment. Includes general ledger. #### payments module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/09/pop-up-drive-in-cinema/payments-2/ #### Pelmorex Weather API Overlay Pelmorex Weather API Overlay #### Peter Jordan Peter Jordan #### Peter Kalm Peter Kalm #### pikalabs URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/pikalabs/ #### pippintechnical URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/pippintechnical/ #### Podcast Assembler Drag playlist to turn into a single file podcast episode with embedded track list for regulatory and copyright compliance. Dynamic Playlist segments are automatically generated including voice overs to create a series of episodes. Podcast includes advanced metadata, including copyright credits and parental advisory information. #### Powered by Raspberry Pi Powered by Raspberry Pi #### press_release-2_yukon_companies_assist_in_deployment_of_radio_network_in_nunavut Press Release - 2 Yukon Companies Assist in Deployment of Radio Network in Nunavut #### press_release-gaates_on_thin_ice_led_emergency_signage_pilot_february_9_2015 Press Release - Gaates on Thin Ice LED Emergency Signage Pilot February 9 2015 #### press_release-open_source_cap_common_alerting_protocol_broadcast_application_developed_in_canada Press Release Open Source CAP Common Alerting Protocol Broadcast Application Developed in Canada #### press_release-openbroadcaster_telos_alliance_axia Press Release - OpenBroadcaster Telos Alliance Axia #### press_release-pyrate_3 Press Release Pyrate 3 #### Procaster Inside Procaster Inside #### Procaster Outside Case Procaster Outside Case #### professional service logo professional service logo #### Program Manager Effectively manages a series of episodes in programming to play most recent ones with an intelligent scheduler. Extended metadata with customized fields for Role, Theme and Licence selection. Long term archiving solution for Archiving past PL/Shows into one audio file with metadata and track list. Download function of archived programming. PEX Program Exchange for distribution and syndication of podcast to other National Community Radio Association (NCRA) stations and devices. Parental advisory included. #### Pyrate 3.0 Pyrate 3.0 #### Pyrate Radio 3 Pyrate Radio 3 1GB IMG #### quick start guide URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/?attachment_id=772 #### Rack Mount Option Rear View Rack Mount Option Rear View #### radio day parting URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/12/supply-chain-delays-open-source-solutions/dayparting/ #### Radio Icon Radio Icon #### Radio Mast Shangrila Dali, China Radio Mast Shangrila Dali, China #### Radio NAF Cox's Bazaar Bangladesh Radio NAF Cox's Bazaar Bangladesh #### Radio Remote Week - Cloud Radio Radio Remote Week - Cloud Radio #### Radio Remote Week - Master Class Radio Remote Week - Master Class #### Radio shack at Haines Junction Forestry Office 1998 Radio shack at Haines Junction Forestry Office 1998 #### Radio Station in a Box RIAB Radio Station in a Box RIAB #### Radio Station Setup Complete Package Radio Station Setup Complete Package #### Radio Training Kugluktuk NT KRN Radio Training Kugluktuk NT #### Radio Veritas Philippines Radio Veritas Philippines #### Radio World Magazine Radio World Magazine #### radiolex ky floor URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/04/out-in-the-open-spring-2021/radiolex2/ #### radiolex ky office URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/04/out-in-the-open-spring-2021/radiolex1/ #### radiorob hopkins cbc north radiorob hopkins cbc north #### radiorob hopkins innovation award with gnawing beaver radiorob hopkins innovation award with gnawing beaver #### Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi #### Raspberry Pi 3 Raspberry Pi 3 #### Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry Pi 4 computer #### Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi 5 Development Board #### Raspberry Pi EAS Raspberry Pi EAS #### ravenna aoip aes67 ravenna aoip aes67 #### records records #### reports module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/resource/open-source-code/report/ #### reviews comments module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/reviews/ #### Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins #### Rob is Analog Pitch Reel URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/02/rob-is-analog-world-radio-day/rob-is-analog-pitch-reel/ #### Rob is Analog Poster URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/02/rob-is-analog-world-radio-day/ria-poster/ #### Rob is Analog Trailer URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/02/rob-is-analog-world-radio-day/rob-is-analog-online-trailer/ #### Rob is Analog WhitehorseStar URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/03/rob-is-analog-audience-favorite-award/ria-whitehorsestar/ #### Rob is Analog Youtube Trailer URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/11/build-a-better-broadcast-application-with-open-source/created-with-gimp-2/ #### rrw cloudradio URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/11/unesco-remote-world-radio-week-2021/rrw-cloudradio-2/ #### rrw masterclass URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/11/unesco-remote-world-radio-week-2021/rrw-masterclass-2/ #### RSPD Komodo Radio Labuan Bajo, Indonesia RSPD Komodo Radio Labuan Bajo, Indonesia #### RSPD Komodo Radio Labuan Bajo, Indonesia RSPD Komodo Radio Labuan Bajo, Indonesia #### sage endec sage endec #### Sasakawa 2025 winners and commendations Sasakawa 2025 winners and commendations #### Sasakawa award text Sasakawa award text #### sat dish sat dish #### Scala FMV Dipole Antenna Scala FMV Dipole Antenna #### sekyvp-logo URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/company/technology-service-partners/sekyvp-logo/ #### sendai framework sendai framework #### Server Status Server status module for server shows the uptime and health of disks including status of backup routines. #### server status module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/server-status/ #### server_diagram Enterprise Barix streaming network scalable solution #### Service Support Icon Service Support Icon #### Shine Your Light Season 3 - CJUC FM Media Archive Shine Your Light Season 3 - CJUC FM Media Archive #### Sound Exchange SOCANReporting What once took many hours every three months, can now be done with a click of a mouse. Properly formatted reports are automatically compiled into a .xlxs file with the correct headers for submission to Sound Exchange. Just set the parameters you want reported, hit “generate report” and out comes a properly formatted .xlxs file suitable for quarterly submission. #### Spirit FM Spirit FM Campbell River #### Spirit FM Studios Spirit FM Studios Campbell River B.C. #### Spirit_FM_Terry_at_Desk Spirit FM Studios #### SSI Micro Comms Tower SSI Micro Comms Tower #### Start a low power fm station without a licence Start a low power fm station without a licence #### Statistics This enhancement enables stations to produce detailed on the fly reports showing media usage, statistics and metadata of collections. #### statistics module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/statistics/ #### Steel case for HiFiBerry XLR This steel case is specifically designed for the DAC+ XLR version an the Raspberry Pi 4 #### Stream_on_Demand_Settings Stream on Demand Settings #### Streaming Technology Streaming Technology #### Streaming Technology Streaming Technology #### SVG Editor Create and edit SVG files within the OpenBroadcaster web interface. Simple inline tools with text editor to make slides that can be added into the online media library and inserted into Play Lists and Schedules. Supports templates available from main interface, and importing of external SVG graphics. #### svg editor module URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/svg-editor/ #### Tagish Fire Hall Pelmorex CAP AlertTest Tagish Fire Hall Pelmorex CAP AlertTest #### tagish swans tagish swans #### tech 106.7 radio txer with old board from Ross River YT. First song I played on this "new" board was Windmills of your Mind for Margret Thomson tech 106.7 radio txer with old board from Ross River YT. First song I played on this "new" board was Windmills of your Mind for Margret Thomson #### Telile TV logo Telile TV logo #### telile TV relay alert URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/03/rob-is-analog-audience-favorite-award/telile-alert-scaled/ #### telile-alert telile-alert #### Terminal showing test emergency message playing from Pelmorex Terminal showing test emergency message playing from Pelmorex #### Test Message Overlay Tagish March 10 2015 Test Message Overlay Tagish March 10 2015 #### Thai Translations URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/06/live-remote-radio-summer-solstice/created-with-gimp-3/ #### The founder of Tagish Radio is getting a special nod from Yukonstruct we talk with the honouree The founder of Tagish Radio is getting a special nod from Yukonstruct we talk with the honouree #### The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail #### The Weather Network-The Weather Network The Weather Network #### This week in radio technology Episode 388 This week in radio technology Episode 388 #### tng radio trainee tng radio trainee #### Tower in YellowKnife NT Tower in YellowKnife NT #### Town Meeting Town Meeting #### Train inside unit with radio Train inside unit with radio #### train outside Canadian Pacific engines at Spuzzum B.C. train outside Canadian Pacific engines at Spuzzum B.C. #### training logo training logo #### translated using tanzenite theme translated using tanzenite theme #### Trevor Bayliss Trevor Bayliss #### tsilhqot-in-community-radio tsilhqotin community radio #### tsilhqotin_radio URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/tsilhqotin_radio/ #### Tux URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/tux/ #### TWIRT-This week in radio technology episode # 569CAP This week in radio technology episode # 569CAP #### Two guys on bikes China Two guys on bikes Guangzhou China #### UN Women Nicole Edwards UN Women Nicole Edwards #### USB XLR Cable Legacy USB XLR Cable Legacy #### User_Generated_Radio_Using_Open_Source_To_Reduce_Administration_And_Increase_Revenue User Generated Radio Using Open Source To Reduce Administration And Increase Revenue #### vanessa ckun vanessa ckun #### Video_Streaming_Settings Video Streaming Settings #### Vincent Maggard Vincent Maggard #### Voice Tracking URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2024/03/wildfire-season-emergency-communication/image/ #### Voice Tracking Tool Voice Tracking Tool #### we have moved we have moved #### whats playing whats playing #### Whats up Yukon Whats up Yukon #### Whats Up Yukon Logo Whats Up Yukon Logo #### White steel case for HiFiBerry ADC PRO White steel case for HiFiBerry ADC PRO #### Whitehorse STAR URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/?attachment_id=2584 #### Widget logo Widget logo #### winter solstice URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/12/supply-chain-delays-open-source-solutions/winter-solstice/ #### winter solstice northern lights URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2021/12/indigenous-radio-alerting-tools/winter-solstice-lights/ #### WLXU URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/global/hire-an-expert/wlxu/ #### wlxu logo wlxu logo #### woocommerce-placeholder woocommerce-placeholder #### World Radio Day World Radio Day #### World Radio Day 2021 URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2022/02/rob-is-analog-world-radio-day/wrd/ #### World Radio Day CFET Radio Tagish Yukon World Radio Day CFET Radio Tagish Yukon #### yfs URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2020/09/pop-up-drive-in-cinema/yfs/ #### Yukon Archives URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com/2024/03/wildfire-season-emergency-communication/archives/ #### Yukon News logo Yukon News logo #### Yukon swans Yukon swans ### Products #### Axia DESQ Console Engine Combo Bundle includes the Axia QOR.16 Console Engine and AXIA DESQ Compact Desktop IP-Audio Console compact, powerful, and perfect for professional broadcasting. Axia DESQ Console Six-fader, two-bus Axia DESQ console is a cost-effective, small-footprint console option perfect for small production studios, remote vehicles, content ingest stations, etc. DESQ has two stereo mixing buses and a Preview (cue) bus, six high-quality 100mm conductive-plastic faders for silky-smooth operation and long life, razor-sharp OLED channel options displays, an OLED meter display with switchable VU / PPM ballistics, and monitor / headphone controls for auditioning of Program buses or two assignable External monitor source selections. There’s also an OLED time-of-day clock + timer display, with auto / manual reset option. As with all Axia consoles, aircraft-quality switches feature all-LED lighting; the anodized work surface has rub- proof etched markings that can’t rub off. Additional features include automatic mix-minus for phone callers and codec sources, EQ for voice sources, and Show Profile instant recall of up to four pre-defined console “snapshots”. QOR.16 DSP Engine QOR.16 is an Axia integrated console engine for Radius, DESQ and RAQ mixing consoles. QOR.16 combines audio I/O, a console power supply, mixing engine and built-for-broadcast network switch into one easy-to-deploy package. Each QOR.16 provides 8 Analog inputs and 4 Analog outputs, 1 AES/EBU input and 1 AES/EBU output, 2 Microphone inputs with selectable Phantom power, 4 GPIO machine- control logic ports, each with 5 inputs and 5 outputs, an integrated network switch with 6 Livewire® 100BASE-T Ethernet ports and 2 1000BASE-T (Gigabit) ports with SFP, a heavy-duty Telecom-grade power supply with fanless convection cooling, and an industrial-grade CPU designed for harsh- environment reliability. #### Barix Exstreamer 100 The Exstreamer 100 decodes IP Audio streams and play out the received Audio signal to amplifiers or speakers. Supporting a large number of protocols, encoding methods and application specific firmware, the products are used for Broadcast applications. CAP Emergency alert receiver STL Studio Transmitter Link Internet Radio Receiver Commercial Audio Streaming Applications Features AACplus, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, G.711, PCM linear Decoding IP Streaming via TCP, UDP, RTP, Multicast Line Level Output (Stereo) RS-232 Serial Port Power Supply (9-30 VDC, 12-24 VAC, plug included) Designed in Switzerland and installed in tens of thousands of locations worldwide, the Barix Exstreamer is the established standard for Instore Radio, Internet Radio, Entertainment and Broadcast applications alike. Links Barix Exstreamer 100 #### Barix Instreamer 100 The Instreamer encodes analog audio sources in real time in a configurable format (MP3, PCM, G.711,G.722) and streams via TCP, UDP, Shoutcast, Multicast RTP format to configurable destinations.  Instreamer has proven its simplicity where Audio over IP encoding is required. Live IP Audio Encoder for Streaming Applications STL Studio Transmitter Link Shoutcast/Icecast Source Encoder Commercial Audio Streaming Applications Low latency IP Audio Encoder for multichannel applications Features G.711, G.722, PCM linear Encoding MP3 Encoding (low latency) Shoutcast/Icecast Source capability IP Streaming via TCP, UDP, RTP, Multicast Line Level Input (Stereo) RS-232 Serial Port Links Barix Exstreamer 100 #### CAP-CP Alerting Service Regional CAP emergency alerting as a service for audio and video medium with a web based management dashboard.  Invoiced as an Annual package. #### Crown FM 30 Stereo Transmitter Classic CROWN FM Low Power Transmitters.  The FM30T is a perfect choice for the lower-power broadcaster, with its built-in audio processor and stereo generator. Frequency agile from front panel SWR metering from remote control Ability to control output power from remote control 3-year warranty 24-hour service support Meets or exceeds all FCC\ ISED requirements TAC 2335-532-121 Technical Specifications Frequency Range : 87 to 108MHz (Japanese frequency available 74-90MHz as an option) Front panel agile RF Power : 3 to 30 watts with front panel adjustment RF Output Impedance : 50 Ohms unbalanced VSWR : 1.7:1 Maximum with automatic foldback at higher VSWR Frequency Stability : Better than +/- 1KHz over operating temperature range Modulation Type : Direct Frequency Modulation of Carrier Modulation Indication : LED Indicators with Peak indicators FM S/N Ratio (FM noise) : Better than 60 dB (70 to 80 dB typical) Asynchronous AM S/N Ratio : Better than 50 dB referenced to 100% modulation @ 100 Hz, no de-emphasis. Synchronous AM S/N Ratio : Better than 50 dB with 100% modulation @ 100 Hz, no de-emphasis (typical >60dB) RF Harmonics/Spurious Products : Better than –65 dB (75 dB typical) RF Bandwidth : +/- 120 KHz, better than –35 dB; +/- 240 KHz better than –45 dB Temperature : 0 to 50 degrees C Humidity : 0 to 80% @ 20 degrees C (non-condensing) Maximum Altitude : 10,000 ft (3,000 m) AC power : 100 to 120 or 220 to 240 volts AC +/- 10%, 50 to 60 Hz Power factor : Greater than 97% (lagging) DC Power : 36 to 48 VDC (48V required for full output) Power Consumption : 100VA Regulatory Notification for FCC part 73 and 74 : Meets FCC requirements RF Output connector : Standard type N, 50 Ohm Chassis dimensions : 5.25 x 16.5 x 17.5 inches (13.4 x 41.9 x 44.5 cm) exclusive of rack mounts but inclusive of connectors Weight : 25 pounds (11.3 Kg) shipping weight = 33 Pounds (14.9 Kg) #### CRTC and ISED Broadcast Certificates Completing and submitting ISED Broadcast Certificates and CRTC Exemption forms for licence-exempt undertakings and limited duration broadcasts. Operating as licence exempt involves compliance with both technical (ISED) and regulatory (CRTC) requirements. 1) Find the proper CRTC Exemption 2) Coordinate with ISED (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) for technical compliance In some circumstances it is possible to legally setup a station for a short period of time, under 28 days max.  This can be for events, conferences and festivals. Contact Us for a no cost consultation and estimate #### CRTC Broadcast Radio & TV Application Complete CRTC Broadcast Radio and TV Licence application service for small market radio and television stations. We can help you with all aspects of your broadcast project: Planning and system design Creating and submitting Radio and TV station application for Low Power Class applications with the CRTC On-air radio testing with Industry Canada. Engineering Briefs Available Equipment sales, service and on site installation Custom software design and selection Training and classroom instruction Experience and proven success with: Commercial Radio and TV Community Radio Indigenous Radio Ethnic Radio Development Radio Tourist/Information FN Exempt Contact Us for a no cost consultation and estimate #### Decade FM 850 Stereo Transmitter FM-850 are professional grade stereo FM 1.8 watt transmitters operating in the commercial FM band (87.9 - 107.9 MHz). They are perfect for small community radio stations, campus radio stations, religious radio stations, special events coverage, touristic sites, large stadiums, etc. They can also be used as an FM exciter to drive an RF power amplifier to obtain a greater RF power level. Their outstanding RF and audio performances, ruggedness, reliability, versatility, ease of use and increased RF power level make the FM-850 favored by many sound contractors and audio professionals. Features • User programmable frequency • User programmable RF power level • LED display for frequency and RF power level • Tuning lock indicator • Coverage of  0.5 miles or more with portable FM receiver, 1.5 miles or more with car radio • Adjustable input level with normal and over modulation indicators • Selectable bass boost and mono/stereo operation • Unbalanced (mono 1/4-F) and balanced (XLR3-F) inputs • Combined audio input connectors (1/4-F and XLR3-F) • UHF-F (SO-239) RF output connector • FCC part 73 and ISED Canada BETS-6 & RSS-123 certified • All steel cabinet • 2 years warranty Technical Specifications • Modulation:  FM, 75 kHz deviation • Frequency selection:  87.9 - 107.9 MHz • RF power: 0 to 1.8 W (programmable in increments of 0.05W) • Load impedance:  50 Ω • Spurious rejection:  50 dB min., 60 dB typ. • Frequency response:  20 - 20 kHz (FM-800), 20 - 15 kHz  (FM-850) • Harmonic distortion:  0.3% max. • Signal-to-noise ratio:  70 dB min. • Stereo separation:  40 dB min., 45 dB typ. • Power supply: 120 VAC (optional 240 VAC), 40 VA • Fuse: 500 mA (120 V) / 250 mA (240 V) slow blow • Dimensions: 19'' W x 11'' D x 1.75'' H (1RU rack mount space) • Weight: 19 lb. #### Decade MS100 FM Transmitter The MS100 is a professional grade low power FM transmitter operating in the commercial FM band (88.1 - 107.5 MHz). It is intended for indoor (churches, theaters, cinemas, auditoriums, conference halls) or outdoor (business parks, tourist attractions, talking signs) short range broadcasting in a variety of applications: hearing assistance, translation, information, sound re-enforcement. Its outstanding RF and audio performances, ruggedness, reliability and versatility make the MS100 stand out from conventional hearing assistance systems. Features User programmable frequency No manual tuning required Works with standard FM receivers Coverage of 150 feet or more with portable FM receiver, 500 feet or more with car radio Hi-Fi audio Adjustable input level with over modulation indicator Selectable bass boost and mono/stereo operation (stereo version only) Choice of 4 audio configurations Stereo 1/4-F audio input connector Choice of fixed antenna or UHF connector FCC part 15 and Industry Canada Bets-1, RSS-210 & RSS-123 certified All steel cabinet 3 years warranty Made in Canada Technical Specifications Modulation: FM, 75 kHz deviation Frequency selection: 88.1 - 107.5 MHz RF power: 250 µV/m@3m (FCC Part 15 and IC RSS-210), 100 μV/m@30m (IC BETS-1), 1 mW (IC RSS-123) Load impedance (UHF connector): 50 Ω Spurious rejection: 40 dB min. Frequency response: 20 - 20 kHz (mono models), 20 - 15 kHz (stereo model) Harmonic distortion: 0.3% max. Signal-to-noise ratio: 70 dB min. Stereo separation: 35 dB min., 40 dB  Input sensitivity / impedance: -15 dBm to +22 dBm / 5 kΩ (mono unbal.), -13 dBm to +22 dBm / 10 kΩ (stereo unbal.), -10 dBm to + 22 dBm / 600 Ω (bal.), -60 dBm to 0 dBm / 950 Ω (mic.) Power supply: 110/16 VAC @ 300mA Dimensions: 6.3" W x 10.5" D x 1.75" H Weight: 5 lb. CERTIFICATION STANDARDS: FCC Part 15, CNR-123, CNR-210 #: FCC: MCHMS-100, INDUSTRY CANADA: CAN 1857102155, CAN 1857231121 TAC 1857102155 #### Digital TV Station in a Box Complete Digital TV Station in a Box. Comes assembled with all cables in a 10RU Hard Shell Wheeled Case. Digital TV Transmitter Processor Combination OpenBox 5 Complete Media Server and Playout OBPlayer 5 with CAP alerting Rack Mount Option 100-FT-LMR-400-Cable 3-Year Extended Warranty Training - Basics Maintenance and Support - 1 Server and 1 Playout Device Maintenance and Support - Playout Devices 2 - 5 Setup - Basic #### Download ISO restore IMG Obplayer 4.x Download the complimentary ISO Legacy Obplayer 4.x ML210 restore firmware image, available to new and existing customers for supported hardware. Easily restore your Obplayer system with official support. *** Confirmed hardware still working 2025 *** Browse our Services and Products creating open source broadcasting software and solutions. Contact Us features and help empower broadcasters worldwide. #### Download ISO restore IMG Obplayer 5.x Download the complimentary ISO Obplayer 5.X ML350 restore firmware image, available to new and existing customers for supported hardware. Easily restore your Obplayer system with official support. Browse our Services and Products creating open source broadcasting software and solutions. Contact Us features and help empower broadcasters worldwide.   #### Dual HD Streaming Playout Package The architecture of this configuration allows for easy addition of extra playout channels allowing for hot swapping of channels and easy access to the system. This provides redundancy and scalability, ensuring that the system is able to meet the current and future requirements of the user. With the addition of the playout channel, users have the option of adding additional channels to the system, allowing them to scale up their service as needed. This allows for a more flexible system that can easily be adapted to the user's needs. Turn Key Package includes: Obplayer 5 with CAP alerting Openbox 5 Media Server Rack Mount Maintenance and Support – 1 Server and 2 Playout Device Assurance and VIP support 3-Year Extended Warranty, All Cables and connectors In addition, we offer a full suite of features that are tailored to your needs such as: Automation and Playlist Scheduling Hot Swap Playout Channel Multi-language Support Metadata Management • System Monitoring • Reporting and Analytics Customizable User Interface Scalable Architecture On-premise or Cloud-based Deployment Third-Party Integration Error Handling and Recovery Multi-platform Compatibility We understand that each broadcaster has unique needs and our configuration is designed to be flexible and customizable. Our team of experts will work with you to develop a solution that best fits your needs. We are committed to providing the highest level of service, support and reliability. The turn key package also allows for remote access to the system, so users can monitor, schedule, and control the system from any internet connection. This package also includes a built-in multi-channel automation system, which allows users to program, manage, and monitor multiple channels simultaneously. Additionally, the package includes customizable playlist support, allowing users to create, organize, and manage their own playlists for various channels. Finally, the package also includes integrated encoding/transcoding capabilities, allowing users to quickly and easily convert audio and video files from one format to another. #### EaaS Combo Alerting Service Emergency Alerting as Service The Virtual Emergency Alerting EaaS package offered by OpenBroadcaster provides a comprehensive solution for emergency alerting that adheres to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standards. This package is particularly useful for broadcasters and emergency management agencies that need to deliver timely and targeted alerts to the public. Configurable Web Dashboard The service includes a web-based dashboard that allows users to manage and configure alerts easily. This user-friendly interface is designed to help operators quickly set up and send emergency notifications. IP Receiver Combo The package includes an IP receiver, specifically the Barix Exstreamer 100 , which is known for its reliability. This device connects to the network to receive alert streams and automatically override the primary broadcast signal with the emergency alert message. CAP Compliance Being CAP compliant, the system ensures that alerts are sent in a standardized format. This compliance facilitates interoperability with other alerting systems and enhances the distribution of alerts across multiple platforms. On-Demand Priority Streams The service provides the capability to send on-demand, targeted alerts. These alerts are prioritized to ensure they reach the intended audience promptly, overriding the regular programming on the transmitter. Seamless Resumption of Regular Programming Once the alert has been broadcast, the system automatically switches back to the regular programming, minimizing disruption to the usual broadcast schedule. This solution is designed to be cost-effective while maintaining high reliability, making it suitable for various organizations that need a robust emergency alerting system. Package Details: Barix Exstreamer CAP-CP Emergency Alerting Setup - EaaS #### FM Antenna Omni Directional Comet CFM95SL 5/8 Wave FM Antenna Low Power FM Broadcast Antenna 88-108MHz Tunable Antenna Sliding aluminum sections allow setting the antenna length to the exact dimension needed for the most efficient transmitted signal. Should the TX frequency ever need to be changed, the CFM-95SL is easily re-tuned to the new frequency. Technical Specifications Gain: 3.4dBi Band-width: 4MHz after tuning VSWR: 1.5:1 or less Max Power: 200 watts Height: 83 inches (108MHz) or 104.5 inches (88MHz) Weight: 2 lbs 7 oz Connector: SO-239 The CFM-95SL is in use with thousands of low power FM stations world-wide providing better coverage area and increased signal strength when compared to a standard 1/4 wave antenna. Expect additional shipping fees on account of the packaging length. #### Multicolour Scrolling LED Sign Designed specifically  to get your message across as quickly as possible. The new, longer length provides more space to display your message in one line. Brighter, Tri-Colour LED's come standard on this model, to give your message maximum impact. Perfect for location in studio, managers office or in store front window. Hooks up with a single 50' data cable and AC power. Standalone alert player displays Normal text and status is Green, Moderate CAP advisories come across as Amber.  Broadcast Intrusive CAP Messages, immediately display on the sign in Red.  When this is used as part of a radio playout box, current Song Title, Artist, Show and Description scroll in Multi Colour rainbow effect.  Emergency messages always take priority. Features Easy networking Character size: 1.5" – 2.1" One year Factory Warranty Keyboard programmable from 30 ft. Brilliant Multicolour & 3 rainbow effects 14 Character fonts #### Obplayer 5 with CAP alerting The OpenBroadcaster Player Version 5.X series industrial fan less PC offers the latest in computing power and performance. This purpose built line is designed for unattended operation and offers dual 4K display, Intel Skylake processor, 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD. With the ability to boot and operate without a monitor attached, this fan less box offers superior performance, reliability and energy efficiency in a small form factor. It is ideal for CAP-CP emergency alerting, playout box management, automation systems and more. With its easy installation and maintenance, this fan less PC is an ideal choice for any industrial application. ALERT PLAYER OpenBroadcaster's web-based automation tools make it easy to decode, receive, and broadcast emergency alerts for radio, television, digital signage, and cable TV channels. The system is capable of accepting broadcast immediate Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) formatted emergency messages via TCP/IP and satellite sources, and is compatible with Pelmorex™ NAAD (National Alert Aggregation and Dissemination System) and other systems. Using OpenBroadcaster's "point and click" interface, users can easily set up and forget about broadcasting CAP emergency messages. The system also supports media asset management and multilingual support with EAS support for international and indigenous languages. Additionally, OpenBroadcaster is designed with a solid state, no moving parts architecture, and a modular structure to fit a range of budgets. Specifications Quad Core Apollo Lake CPU 8GB RAM 128 GB SSD Low power >36 Watts @ 9~24 VDC Dual 4K Display Port, USB 3.0 Optional Single or Dual Network Interface Optional RS232 DB9 DTR (specify when ordering) RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet Includes CAP-CP Alert Monitoring and Playback 2-Year Manufacturer Warranty Specifications are subject to change without notice Are you looking for a scalable, reliable and cost-effective solution for your broadcasting needs? Look no further! We offer a wide range of options to suit any budget and application. From traditional hardware-based systems to more advanced software-based solutions, we have you covered. Plus, our team of experts is available to provide personalized advice and support to ensure you get the most out of your broadcasting system. For those who need more flexibility, our Contact Us solutions are the perfect solution. With this setup, you can keep everything in house, as the server application comes pre-installed on the same hardware. Plus, you'll have the power to customize your system to meet your exact requirements. If you require multiple stations, we can also provide Volume Discounts for commercial and educational broadcasters. No matter what your broadcasting needs may be, we have the perfect solution for you. Contact Us our sales team today to learn more about our products and services. We look forward to helping you find the best solution for your business! Checkout our CAP Alerting Service for FM radio with inexpensive Barix Exstreamer #### OpenBox 5 Media Server and Playout OpenBox 5 radio and TV automation solutions provide broadcasters with an efficient, cost-effective system for creating, distributing, scheduling and archiving audio and video playlists. It includes web-browser access to increase community involvement and local content, as well as a secure collection and access of spoken word recordings for language preservation programs and multimedia archiving. The integrated emergency broadcast system also supports the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). OpenBox 5 offers a range of features to make broadcasting easier and more efficient, including "point and click" media asset management and playout, multilingual support with EAS, HD streaming video for cable TV, IPTV, YouTube and more, solid-state reliability, remote broadcast tools, and built-in archiving for compliance and disaster recovery. OpenBox 5 is easy to manage and secure, making it the ideal solution for radio and TV automation. Specifications Quad Core Apollo Lake CPU 8GB RAM 512 GB SSD Low power >36 Watts @ 9~24 VDC Dual 4K Display Port, USB 3.0 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet Includes CAP-CP Alert Monitoring and Playback 2-Year Manufacturer Warranty Specifications are subject to change without notice Thank you for your interest in our products and services. We understand that every business is unique and requires tailored solutions to meet their specific needs. That's why we offer custom solutions for enterprise networks with multiple stations. If you are a commercial or educational broadcaster, we are also able to provide attractive Volume Discounts. Please Contact Us for more details. We look forward to hearing from you and helping you find the perfect solution for your business. #### OpenBox5 Server Exstreamer Package This package provides an ideal solution for any radio station that needs to send feeds from remote locations with reliable signal and extended warranty. The OpenBox server offers easy setup, along with a comprehensive suite of tools for broadcasting audio and video streams online. The Barix Exstreamer is a versatile and robust unit designed to receive and transmit audio signals over the internet. And the extended warranty provides added peace of mind, ensuring that your system is covered for 3 years. #### Player Installation Supplied Hardware Provision and install OBPlayer software on your own hardware with ease. Includes tailored configuration, CAP emergency alerting, and seamless setup on customer-supplied devices. Download the Remote Install Checklist  to help you prepare hardware for provisioning #### Rack Mount Option Add this to any OpenBroadcaster Appliance and the system will come mounted in a 2U 19 inch wide rack mountable shelf with cable management. #### Radio Setup and Installation Package Turnkey radio setup and installation packages, providing complete solutions for launching and managing your own radio station with ease. Streamline your broadcast with simple installation and expert support. #### Radio Station in a Box Complete RIAB (Radio Station in a Box) assembled in a hard shell mobile case that is 100% solid state with no moving parts.  Open Covers of mobile case Hook up Antenna, AC Power and Internet and then begin broadcasting. Turn Key Package includes: Decade Stereo FM Transmitter * Omni directional 3db gain antenna 15 meter LMR400 Transmission Line with connectors * Rack mount OBPlayer 5 and OpenBox 5 Media Server * 6 Port Gigabit Internet router with WiFi Scarlett 3rd Gen USB Audio Mixer eight mic preamps, 18 inputs and 20 outputs in total * Powered speakers with LED Signal meter 2 headsets with boom mics 4 Channel headphone amp Power Supply Unit * Gator 10U Hard Shell Rolling Travel Rack * Internal 3RU Locking drawer to store headphone mics and accessories * Portable FM Radio with HQ tuner Maintenance and Support - 1 Server and 2 Playout Device * Assurance and VIP support All Cables and connectors * 3-Year Extended Warranty User is responsible for complying with with local broadcasting laws and obtaining required licenses if applicable. FOB Whitehorse Yukon. Total Shipping weight 40 Kilograms Specifications subject to change Contact Us to request custom pricing and configurations Not included in kit To be sourced locally and supplied by customer (greatly reduces shipping costs) UPS (uninterrupted power supply) 300 W Battery backup 3 meter lightweight 1 1/4 - 2" EMT Pipe Mounting clamps or tripod. 5 meters bare copper ground wire Notes RF and Magnetism To operate more efficiently ensuring a longer operating life we apply these best practices to reduce sources of interference. - Digital USB and AoIP from players to mixer - Balanced audio in out of mixer - Bonded to true ground - UPS Isolated power from external sources of interference - Short purpose built cables and high quality connectors Heat - Fanless SSD architecture means less heat being generated - OBPlayers and media servers are mounted in specially designed rack that includes 1 RU additional spacing for increased passive airflow *** Always ensure BOTH front and rear panels are removed from case before operating RIAB *** #### Server Installation Supplied Hardware Easily provision and install OBServer software on your own hardware. Enjoy custom configuration with CAP emergency alerting, and smooth setup on your devices. Remote Install ChecklistRemote Install Checklist to help you prepare hardware for provisioning. #### Server Player Installation Supplied Hardware OBServer and OBPlayer Software installation on customer supplied hardware to provision, configure and install our services with icecast and nagios monitoring. Remote Install ChecklistRemote Install Checklist to help you prepare hardware for provisioning. #### Training - Advanced Advanced Training Learn OpenBroadcaster administrative tools to manage and maintain an active installation.  Prerequisite: Basics. OpenBroadcaster's administrative tools provide users with a comprehensive suite of features to manage and maintain an active OpenBroadcaster installation. The LIVE Assist feature allows users to quickly create and control audio and video elements during live broadcasts. Using Analog and Digital mixing boards allow users to control and adjust audio levels in real time. Remote broadcasts can be easily orchestrated with OpenBroadcaster's built-in tools, and Icecast Streaming server capabilities provide users with the ability to stream their content to a global audience. Moreover, the Player Monitoring and Ad Manager tools provide users with the ability to track, monitor, and adjust their ad campaigns in real time. Lastly, the Priority Broadcast and EAS Alerts allow users to quickly broadcast emergency announcements and other important information. Duration: 6 Hours Training Outlines Player Training Server Training Alert Player   We offer onsite, virtual and webinar training services to meet the needs of your group. Whether you're based in Toronto, Vancouver, or Whitehorse, we can travel to you. To learn more about our training services, please check out our Server Training and Player Training Player training outlines. We're also happy to tailor make materials for your group's specific needs.   Our training sessions are designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to use our products and services in the most effective way. Our experienced trainers will guide you through the installation, setup, and configuration of our products, and help you become proficient in using them. Our training sessions are interactive, and we encourage questions and feedback from participants.    If you're interested in learning more about our training services, please Contact Us. We'd be happy to discuss your needs and provide you with a quote. #### Training - Basics Basic Training All you need to get started. You will learn all the basic user tools and workflow to create dynamic programing with OpenBroadcaster. Participants should bring some media to upload on USB stick. Duration: 6 hours 1. Introduction to OpenBroadcaster 2. Setting up OpenBroadcaster 3. Understanding the Basics of the OpenBroadcaster Interface 4. Working with Assets 5. Working with Playlists 6. Working with Schedules 7. Understanding Alert Player 8. Working with Alerts 9. Troubleshooting 10. Q&A Training Outlines Player Training Server Training Alert Player Alert Player We offer onsite, virtual and webinar training services to meet the needs of your group. Whether you're based in Toronto, Vancouver, or Whitehorse, we can travel to you. To learn more about our training services, please check out our Server Training and Player Training Player training outlines. We're also happy to tailor make materials for your group's specific needs.   Our training sessions are designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to use our products and services in the most effective way. Our experienced trainers will guide you through the installation, setup, and configuration of our products, and help you become proficient in using them. Our training sessions are interactive, and we encourage questions and feedback from participants.    If you're interested in learning more about our training services, please Contact Us. We'd be happy to discuss your needs and provide you with a quote. #### Transmission Cable LMR 400 50-FT-LMR-400-Male-N and Male-PL259-Connectors. Ultra Low-loss Double Shielded Times Microwave LMR-400 Coaxial Cable. PL259 Male to N Male Connectors. Flexible UV Proof, Outer Diameter: .400 (10.3mm). #### VIP Support - Server & Player VIP Assurance Support Program offers a turnkey installation package, providing expert assistance with initial configuration and ongoing system care. Alert Player, OpenBox, Radio in a Box, Digital TV Station in a Box. Advanced Setup, trouble shooting and configuration Assisting with network shares and firewall setup Automated Nagios Monitoring and Email alerts Off-site backups of configuration settings, database and media Quarterly updates and Security Audits Invoiced Annually #### Warranty 3 Year Extended Upgrade to a 3-year extended warranty for OpenBroadcaster Player or Server units. #### Website for Broadcast We create a dynamic website that ties in with our automation systems metadata, updating automatically.  Sharing your message has never been easier. Popup streaming media players allow users to watch videos or listen to music without having to open a separate application. The popup player allows users to pause, rewind, and fast-forward their media without having to navigate away from the page. Now playing widget is a small application that displays what is currently playing on a streaming media player. This widget can be used on websites or in applications to allow users to know what media is currently playing. What played widget is a small application that displays what was previously played on a streaming media player. This widget can be used to allow users to easily see what media has been played recently. Online  schedule allows users to view upcoming shows or events. It displays the name of the show, a description, album art and host information. This makes it easy for users to decide what to watch or listen to. Custom galleries of media items allow users to share their favorite songs, videos, or other media with friends and family. This makes it easy to find and share media with a few simple clicks. We provide turnkey hosting, updates and domain registration with this service. ### Additional URLs #### Home URL: https://www.openbroadcaster.com