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[Robert Lofgren]

Robert seems to think it would work...

Here it is explained in more detail how it is supposed to be setup and work:

http://dev.audinate.com/GA/dante-controller/userguide/webhelp/#device_names_and_channel_labels.htm

However, murphy's law is always around...

As for switchover time it should be "within just a few seconds":

http://dev.audinate.com/GA/dante-controller/userguide/webhelp/#discovery_and_auto-configuration.htm

[kristianjohnsen]

I built a playback system that uses 2 computers outputting audio simultaneously into a Radial SW8 switcher so if there's a problem with one computer, I can flip a switch to go to the backup computer almost instantly.

Since the rig they run into is now using Dante, I would love to do away with the soundcard and interface, SW8, preamps, etc. and have the computers output their signal using DVS directly.
Obviously in the case of a failure, I could switch outputs using Dante Controller, but that would be too slow and problematic, even if I was using a preset, and it needs to be able to be switched by anyone, ideally using a hardware switch like before. Can a Dante Controller preset be recalled somehow with a hardware switch?

Is there another way to do this? I guess the switching could be done at the consoles, but again, it needs to be a simple remote switch that can be actuated by anyone.

Suggestions?

Just thinking out loud here.

There are Dante-enabelled products with headphones outputs and possibilities for listening to one stereo stream at a time.  The new and very cool Appsys "Dante->many formats"-bridge comes to mind.

Any chance the two computers could be routed via a router through a unit like the Appsys bridge with one computer being ch 1+2 and the second being ch 3+4, then someone could just arrow one up/down and hit enter to route the alternative source to the headphones output, and then that could be used as the audio output?

[kristianjohnsen]

Yeah, that's what I'm starting to think as well. Now, with a FOH and MON console both needing to be remotely switched at the same time, that's a bigger trick. If I were able to use control signals down the Dante line (the way the CL/QL does with communication between Nuendo Live and the console) that would be a slick solution without the need for extra GPIO lines running to FOH.

MIDI-> ethernet-boxes running on the redundant network of the audio gear?  We all know you are the MIDI-Gandalf around here:)

[David Sturzenbecher]

MIDI-> ethernet-boxes running on the redundant network of the audio gear?  We all know you are the MIDI-Gandalf around here:)

I think you mean MADI

[kristianjohnsen]

I think you mean MADI

I meant that if he wants to trigger stuff on a remote console, but doesn't want to run GPIO-cables, perhaps he could set up a device to trigger the same events via MIDI. 

Considering the console is already part of a network (two actually, counting redundant), the network could be used to get the MIDI-commands from a remote controller to where the console is, by using a MIDI->ethernet / ethernet-MIDI extender system and just "piggybacking" it's data traffic on one of the networks.
 

[Chris Johnson [UK]]

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MIDI-> ethernet-boxes running on the redundant network of the audio gear?  We all know you are the MIDI-Gandalf around here:)

IP MIDI would work fine. Kissbox make a nice I/O box

[Andrew Broughton]

I meant that if he wants to trigger stuff on a remote console, but doesn't want to run GPIO-cables, perhaps he could set up a device to trigger the same events via MIDI. 

Considering the console is already part of a network (two actually, counting redundant), the network could be used to get the MIDI-commands from a remote controller to where the console is, by using a MIDI->ethernet / ethernet-MIDI extender system and just "piggybacking" it's data traffic on one of the networks.

IP MIDI would work fine. Kissbox make a nice I/O box

It's already built-in, just not documented.

[brian maddox]

It's already built-in, just not documented.

IP MIDI is built in to the console?  Which console?  If it's a CL5, that would solve an issue for me....

Or did i misunderstand?

[Andrew Broughton]

IP MIDI is built in to the console?  Which console?  If it's a CL5, that would solve an issue for me....

Or did i misunderstand?

Not IP MIDI, but MIDI communication via LAN (in their own format) is done for the CL/QL Editor communication.
A similar system is used for the CL/QL communication with Nuendo Live, but through the Dante connection instead of the Editor connection.
I'm doing work with both systems currently. Contact me via my web site if you'd like to discuss in more detail.

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