Configuring Rivendell For The WNIP Driver

Configuring Rivendell For The WNIP Driver

Install The Driver

1. Set up a network card on your computer with a static IP in the WNIP subnet range and connect that card to the network. Ping a blade to ensure you're seeing the WheatNet-IP Network.
2. Open a terminal window in the folder where the driver install file is located and type sudo bash ./(filename)

IdeaTip: If you type sudo bash ./install and then hit the tab, it will fill in the rest of the filename.
Enter your administrative password and let the installer run. It will place a driver setup icon on the desktop.

3. Double-click the driver setup icon to launch the program.
For Network Interface, choose the WNIP network card. Set the PC Blade ID to the desired blade number. Set the number of channels according to the number you are licensed for.
If you are using a Node Locked license, click Obtain a License Key and send the seed information to Wheatstone Technical Support to obtain a license key. When you have the key from support, click Enter a License Key to activate it.
If you are using License Server, click Floating and enter the IP address of the License Server and its port number.

Once you have validated the license, click Start to start the driver service. The driver will enter the Wheatnet-IP network and the PC blade will appear in Navigator.

Set Up Audio Devices In Rivendell

This guide will assume you are using ALSA to connect our driver to Rivendell.

Notes
When you assign driver channels to Rivendell in this step, those channels will not be available to other programs, such as Audacity. You can assign some channels on the WNIP driver to talk to Rivendell and keep others free for other applications to use.
1. Open RD ALSA Config

Warning
When you open this application, all audio in Rivendell will stop until you close it.
3. You will see all driver channels listed as Loopback PCM[01] and Loopback PCM[02}.
Click to highlight the PCM[01} of the channels you want to give to Rivendell. Choose multiple channels by holding down Ctrl and clicking.
In this screenshot, there are 24 channels in the Wheatnet-IP driver and we have selected the first 4.
Click Save and exit the program.

Use The Audio Devices In Rivendell

1. Open RD Admin, log in, and go to Manage Hosts. Choose your workstation from the host list. You will be at the Admin screen.
Click on the application you want to set up.
Info
In Rivendell, Audio Devices are Cards and Ports.
Each WheatNet-IP driver will be considered a different card with a port of 0.
Remember that in Rivendell, 0 is the first item. So if you have set up 4 WNIP channels in RD ALSAConfig, they will be cards 0, 1, 2, and 3.
For example, on this workstation, we have RD Library set to use WNIP channel 4, so it will be card 3, port 0.
In RD Airplay, this workstation has WNIP channels 1 and 2 for Main Log Output 1 and 2, so they are set for card 0, port 0 and card 1, port 0 respectively. SoundPanel is set for card 2, port 0 to use WNIP channel 3.
In RD LogEdit (which contains the voicetrack module, this workstation is set for card 3, port 0 for WNIP channel 4.

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