[LAD] OPEN CONTROL ARCHITECTURE

Jesse Cobra jessecobra at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 19:39:28 UTC 2015


Late to this discussion but why not a combination go zeroconf and osc for
all this discovery and control?

I have always been surprised someone has not already written an OSC to alsa
mixer controller...

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Frederick Gleason <fredg at paravelsystems.com
> wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2015, at 00:00 29, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
> > Zeroconf discovery is not that helpful on it's own as I found when I
> started playing with Avahi. It can tell you where a device is and if that
> device is multicasting a stream, tell you the address and spec of the
> stream. Control functions seem to be left to http browser setups. These
> would be whatever the manufacture decides to set up.
>
> Or in traditional Un*x terms: the mechanism has been specified, but not
> the policy.
>
>
> > Looking at:
> > http://www.telosalliance.com/support/Livewire-and-RAVENNA
> > The words:
> > "Does this mean Livewire is going away?
> >
> > No! Think of this new RAVENNA broadcast protocol as Livewire 2.0."
> >
> > It looks like the new livewire is Ravenna. Though they may just be
> talking audio transport, control might be a different matter.
>
> Compatibility is strictly at the RTP level.  The control systems (not to
> mention little details like GPIO transport) inhabit completely different
> planets.  I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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