OT: Receiver - REN?

Hi,

I know that this is OT for the board, but I wasn't sure where else to ask:

How many REN's is a Rio Receiver connected to a phone line?

Cheers,

Paul.

PS REN is 'Ringer Equivalence Number' and you can only have 4 on a line before it starts playing up.

Paul Haigh, Reg. 4120
(mk1) 6GB, Blue, 00254
(mk2) 12GB, Red, 00357

Don't think it has a REN, PNA stuff is very high impedance so you should be able to attach lots of stuff to the line. REN is more for line-powered units, otherwise they don't ring properly.

Hugo

Awesome - just what I needed to know.

Cheers,

Paul.

Paul Haigh, Reg. 4120
(mk1) 6GB, Blue, 00254
(mk2) 12GB, Red, 00357

Another - final - question.

Chances of streaming from Linux? The website only mentions Windoze.

Cheers,

Paul.

Paul Haigh, Reg. 4120
(mk1) 6GB, Blue, 00254
(mk2) 12GB, Red, 00357

There are a few people who have written their own servers, though I don't know of any that have actually released them publically.

We'd like to do a server and it may happen, but no guarantees as to when I'm afraid. You can still store the tunes on a samba share though, but you need a windows box to do the serving with the supplied software.

Hugo

Although you are right about the improper ringing, REN is a figure of merit for the indicated capacitive loading of a device (such as a modem or phone) connected to a twisted pair local loop, behind the primary socket box supplied by BT.

If a device can be connected to a phone line in the UK, then it should have a BABT approval sticker, either in the book on on the device with the REN value stated.

There is a bit of a dodgy grey area when you talk about TPL devices without a ringer feed line, though...

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

When I get around to it, OK?


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg

That's what I thought.

Shame, but just keep on giving roger some caffine.

I hear pro-plus is good for that sort of thing.

As for writing our own server - is the protocol documented anywhere (or can you send it over?) - It'd guarantee a sale.

Cheers,

Paul.

Paul Haigh, Reg. 4120
(mk1) 6GB, Blue, 00254
(mk2) 12GB, Red, 00357

It's not documented, no. The booting.txt file on the CD explains the boot process, and when it's actually playing music/doing searches/etc that bit is all fairly vanilla http.

The fact that the 3 people who did it already didn't have any help from us points to it being pretty easy to work out what's happening given tcpdump and some commonsense :)

Hugo