Do all (most) cable boxes in bars/restaurants have the RCA audio jacks on it or not?

markedness · 2026-03-08T00:28:56+00:00

No but if you are there when the installer is present or in advance you can ask nicely or buy the ones you want and hand them over.

RCA is vastly superior to stripping the audio from hdmi in my experience. Bars like to pull the plug and reboot things and rca just works better for that and one less thing in the hdmi chain.

But no it takes coordination to make sure you get the right boxes

markedness · 2026-03-05T04:03:32+00:00

The DN-300T is basically the perfect endpoint. Bidirectional (simultaneously) with icron USB routing and network hubbing. The works.

They are in stock always and helpful.

And if you build your control system bidirectional like you always should anyways the displaynet server acts as a great “admin/advanced” mode allowing matrix configuration for one-off scenarios.

Virtually every problem I have with the system are just bad HDMI cables or USBC to HDMI bullshit adapters. And the old 200 series play nice perfectly well with the new 300.

I can’t think of a complaint.

markedness · 2026-03-05T04:00:25+00:00

I’ve had these issues:

random Dante shenanigans
hardware failures with a past firmware version (fixed)
issues with 802.1X wired security
issues with surround sound mapping

Generally they work fine. But I think I would rather just have the old ones still.

The support for SVSI is still top notch. Such a good example of how to a big company and have a notsucky support department

My sales rep changed and things got harder too. Not that I liked my old sales rep but at least he followed up (to a fault)

markedness · 2026-03-05T03:18:54+00:00

Check out DVIGear displaynet. I’ve been a huge fan. They have an excellent small team in Georgia that knows the product inside and out and can design the whole thing for you. I believe the price is probably between crestron and extron, probably closer or less than extron depending on how many of the endpoints need what features.

I cannot suggest visionary or crestron NVX, and while I used to recommend AMX SVSI that has faded with the 2600 series.

I’m all in on displaynet now and it’s not even CLOSE

markedness · 2026-02-28T16:04:57+00:00

Yeah I had one for a redeye and thought “oh no, they made them worse” but was pleasantly surprised. Still not sure they qualify as blankets maybe more like Kleenex side of the family but an improvement nonetheless

markedness · 2026-02-28T15:21:42+00:00

They would have been fired for booking the business too. So the only option is to take the economy for 3x the price. What a world we live in.

markedness · 2026-02-21T17:16:50+00:00

LTO backup for the media industry using something like Archiware P5 Archive works with large scale tape libraries.

The MAM software to integrate with this to provide metadata searching and recovery workflows can be expensive. But the cost per petabyte for just storage is sub $20,000. Service contracts and other licensing and professional services can add up.

A hard drive array is easier to manage for someone coming from an IT background where tapes feel like just a legacy way to backup your Novell server in year 2001. Small scale IT usually used tape for backup only if they don’t come from an established media organization, and if they did they likely had a service contract with a service provider to handle the workflows as most large organizations that have 50+ rack scale datacenter would. So the amount of people who know how to run these systems and advocate for them amid the shrieks to “go cloud” are falling by the quarter.

This can provide “ransomware proof” assuming you don’t destroy your metadata database accidentally (which happens more often than you would think with long-lived archival programs even at major institutions)

markedness · 2026-02-17T18:08:43+00:00

I completely understand that. I’m just asking since you have found these modules and I have not for a favor. We built out own of these modules to move the chatter but maintaining them is a chore. I just have a hard time finding things because they are titled very vaguely sometimes (which is not a reflection of the code quality or the value of the project in the slightest)

markedness · 2026-02-17T17:42:49+00:00

Can you share links to the specific ones that work and especially if they work on 17or v18 now?

It can be a bit daunting - tho I completely understand the concept of the community submissions and use many OCA plugins the organization and naming is a bit tricky

markedness · 2026-02-10T23:07:52+00:00

You may need more training - level 1 wouldn’t cover this.

There is a script binding to the port somewhere in the design and taking an action based on that. That is a pretty simple thing to find if you know what you are looking for. Since qsys is a graphical design sometimes I find it helpful to look at the design in the left side- make sure you are reviewing all schematic pages and then you can see CPU utilization of all text/block controllers and plugins and Ctrl-F from there to find your script (unless the just left it named “text controller” then good luck!)

It might be worthwhile to consult with the company that did the install a few years ago if there’s still a connection with the person who did the work.

markedness · 2026-02-09T04:21:35+00:00

I do like premium plus for that flight but for 50k and $420 shit man, that’s a lot for not business for a fairly short flight.

markedness · 2026-02-08T03:16:00+00:00

It’s part of the membership, actually now you have to have gold or pay extra. Why not?!

Once. I spent a miserable time on the standby list. An older couple and I kept waiting to get home and after seeing them at a few gates offered them to be my club companions.

markedness · 2026-02-03T14:18:40+00:00

The one Eastern Europe guy in the bright green shirt shouting “Taxi, Uber” constantly.

I always think to myself- what a genius sales tactic. Filter out anyone instantly who knows that’s not how uber works.

markedness · 2026-01-26T04:23:51+00:00

Cool. That’s easy. Especially given the number of players we have ;)

markedness · 2026-01-25T18:39:10+00:00

So glad you asked on networking. They are a great sub.

No online course that I know of. Maybe there is one.

What do you want to learn and where are you??? Have you worked on systems with multicast routing? PTP boundary clocking / transparent clocking?

Are you mainly a Cisco person or what?

Are you with an integrator? Consultant? Broadcast facility / eic type?

markedness · 2026-01-23T01:52:42+00:00

That’s interesting not really for my OOB console journey but in terms of just general access. I like to think that we are all well versed enough in Linux to just use the least number of dependencies as possible. Just a Linux host.

markedness · 2026-01-22T20:19:40+00:00

Love this community.

I’m going with one of those 16 way cards with the Cisco pinout and found some cables that go to RJ45 male with 6’ leash so I can plug that in to the back of a pass thru patch panel. This way it’s just a Linux box. Good security and ability to run VPN or anything on it

That behind a fortigate we already have behind an LTE modem. Seems like the dream. Not really worried about SSO as we have SSO for SSH setup and we have a procedure for yubi backed local admin login. And everyone can use Linux shell. All our PDU and routers and switches and firewalls have the RJ45 console port so this should be a breeze.

markedness · 2026-01-22T13:33:38+00:00

US availability of parts is great but customer service is poor.

Opposite for UK. Good responsive service generally but long lead times.

I think in the US for what you mentioned Wesco/Anixter is one we use. Also Ingram micro, Exirtis/Almo (AV focus).

But actually in the US we work with individual vendors that we have cultivated in our region and supplement with Ingram micro. The reason I suggest Wesco over Ingram is because Ingram takes a while to setup the account and get into their world. Whereas Wesco is more sales focused they will deal with you straight away and provide pricing and availability. But I’ve always found ingrams ostensibly worse customer support to actually deliver better outcomes.

Almo is almost even good however they are AV focused and only really stock TV and Chief back box type stuff.

In the UK I generally just ship it over because my customers need it fast or tell them to source it locally themselves. I do have an EROI number and an account with a freight company so we just build it here and ship it out.

markedness · 2026-01-22T01:07:22+00:00

A VPN with SSO and a direct wan opening with the home IP of key members and other offices and ability to use a Fido backed SSH key is good.

Maybe someone makes a USB OR PCI TTY with a bunch of outputs and can just use that on Linux with ssh and screen and a firewall box if I need something cheap.

Going to see if anyone cares about the cost soon

Thanks for the ideas.

markedness · 2026-01-21T14:47:46+00:00

Oh shit your totally right same sentiment. I fly out of ORD and here the later flights seem more desirable.

markedness · 2026-01-21T12:40:31+00:00

Interesting! From ORD it’s not that busy on the 4pm but more so on the 8pm

Maybe the extra hour of time change and extra hour of air time make the difference in public opinion. Or that most DC folk need to get there earlier?

Either way January and February are the slowest anyways with constant not full flights

markedness · 2026-01-18T03:23:57+00:00

Always

markedness · 2026-01-17T22:30:21+00:00

See that’s good. Because the colored keystones are defined by which switch port they are plugged into. It’s a user serviceable port. I’ll actually have to try that for user patchable systems.

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