#26154 - 04/02/2001 09:57
OT: Receiver - REN?
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Registered: 04/11/1999
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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.
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#26155 - 04/02/2001 10:09
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: phaigh]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 19/05/1999
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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
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#26156 - 04/02/2001 10:30
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: altman]
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Awesome - just what I needed to know.
Cheers,
Paul.
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#26157 - 04/02/2001 10:34
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: altman]
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Another - final - question.
Chances of streaming from Linux? The website only mentions Windoze.
Cheers,
Paul.
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#26158 - 04/02/2001 10:59
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: phaigh]
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carpal tunnel
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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
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#26159 - 04/02/2001 14:59
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: altman]
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carpal tunnel
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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
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#26160 - 05/02/2001 03:50
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: phaigh]
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When I get around to it, OK?
Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg
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#26161 - 05/02/2001 14:22
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: altman]
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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
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#26162 - 05/02/2001 14:37
Re: OT: Receiver - REN?
[Re: phaigh]
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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
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