Scribd
Upload
476 views5 pages

Quick Start For Rivendell On Debian

This document provides 7 steps to set up a basic Rivendell audio playback system on a Debian or Ubuntu system for testing purposes. It involves installing MySQL, the Rivendell package, configuring the user and audio settings, initializing the Rivendell database, and playing an audio file to test the setup. The whole process takes about 5 minutes and allows a user to start basic testing and experimenting with Rivendell.

Uploaded by

vanche
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
476 views5 pages

Quick Start For Rivendell On Debian

This document provides 7 steps to set up a basic Rivendell audio playback system on a Debian or Ubuntu system for testing purposes. It involves installing MySQL, the Rivendell package, configuring the user and audio settings, initializing the Rivendell database, and playing an audio file to test the setup. The whole process takes about 5 minutes and allows a user to start basic testing and experimenting with Rivendell.

Uploaded by

vanche
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 5

Quick start for Rivendell on debian/ubuntu

What is the simplest Rivendell setup ? You need :

 any recent computer


 any sound card supported by alsa
 in our case, a debian or ubuntu
 something like gnome and kde
 five minutes

Objective : a first sound in Rivendell :

Step 1 : Install mysql-server-5.0

Rivendell uses mysql, you need a mysql server :

apt-get install mysql-server-5.0

Choose a mysql root password .. and don’t forget it. It will be needed in few minutes.

Step 2 : Install the Rivendell package for your distribution

 Add debian.tryphon.org to your sources.list


 Don’t forget apt-get update
 Install package : apt-get install rivendell
 Important : skip package configuration proposed by the package

Step 3 : Setup your user

To test easily Rivendell, use your regular user account. For that, you need to be a member
of group rivendell :
sudo adduser alban rivendell

This group needs to use realtime threads. Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add :

@rivendell - rtprio 99
@rivendell - memlock 250000
@rivendell - nice -10

You need to logout and restart a new Gnome/KDE session to make effective these changes

Step 4 : Setup alsa

Edit (or create) /etc/asound.conf with :

pcm.rd0 {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.rd0 {
type hw
card 0
}

Rivendell uses alsa card rd0 (rd1, ..) when available.

Step 5 : Setup rivendell

Create a file /etc/rd.conf with :

[Identity]
AudioOwner=alban ; < - your login
AudioGroup=rivendell

[mySQL]
Hostname=localhost
Loginname=rduser
Password=letmein
Database=Rivendell
Driver=QMYSQL3

[Logs]
Facility=Syslog

[Alsa]
PeriodQuantity=4
PeriodSize=1024

[Tuning]
UseRealtime=Yes
RealtimePriority=9

[Format]
SampleRate=44100
Channels=2

Setup 6 : Initialize Rivendell

Start rdadmin.

As database doesn’t exist, it will ask the login for mysql : use root and the root mysql
password :

After this success message :

rdadmin should started “normally” and ask you to login (with a rivendell user) :
The default rivendell administrator user has the login admin and no password.

If rdadmin doesn’t start as expected, something goes wrong. A small visit on rivendell irc
channel is certainly the best solution.

Setup 7 : Start rdairplay for a first sound

 Click on “Main Log” button (on bottom right)


 Click on Add button (on bottom left) to add a first Cart in this empty Log
 Double click on the first (and single) Cart “Test tune” :

 Click on the yellow “Where” button of the first Log entry :

 The Log is no longer empty. Click on green “Start” :


 Your first sound in Rivendell

This is not a production environment. But you can start your first tests with a such setup.

Welcome in the Rivendell user community

You might also like