New Piece to Playstation

1: New Piece to main project

Projects On MacBook

Copy most recent project from Playstation rsync tu-studio@hufo_playstation:showcontrol_project/reaper_projects/<YYYY-MM-DD>_hufo_show.RPP ak/showcontrol_project/reaper_projects/<YYYY-MM-DD>_hufo_show.RPP

move audio files to Users/humboldt-forum/hufo_show_projects/audiofiles (?)

open production project and hufo_show project as separate project tabs in Reaper

In the production project

TODO: instructions for cleaning up production project ..

Arrange session to have exact same layout/channel structure as the hufo_show_project
- Some tracks might be hidden and can be shown in the Track Manager (Menu: View->Track Manager) by clicking on the fields in the TCP and MCP columns
Every Automation Lane for every plugin (on a channel that contains audio) needs at least one automation point:
- Action: "Envelope: Show all envelopes for all tracks"
- Insert help marker shortly before the start of the first media item and
- move transport to marker
- Bind action "Envelope: Insert new point at current position (do not remove nearby points)" to a key combination such as Opt+.
- Select any envelope in the track control panel and execute key combination
- Repeat last step for every envelope (it is currently not possible to automatically select the next envelope)
Use razor editing to select all media items including automation points
- Also include MASTER_DCA in the selection, even if its empty
Regularly copy the selected razor edit (CMD+C)

In the hufo_show project

Move playback position to some minutes after the last piece in the project
Ensure MASTER_DCA is selected in the track control panel by clicking on it
Paste
Set time selection to length of piece, including the extra seconds for opening and closing credits
Ensure MASTER_DCA is selected in the track control panel by clicking on it
Menu: Insert->New MIDI Item
Menu: Insert->Region (from time selection)
- NB: The automation points previously inserted need to be AFTER the start of the region, transport needs to move over these points for the plugin to get the value
Name the region (does not have to be exact, only for reference)
Add end marker
- Move time selection to end of region
- Menu: Insert->Marker (prompt for name)
- Name: !1016
- ID: one bigger than end marker of last piece
- IMPORTANT: this has to be the same id as audio_index in the seamless-config!
Check proper IP address in SeamLess Plugins
place the time cursor at the beginning of the trailer to make sure plugins are initialized with zeros

2: MAIN PROJECT TO PLAYSTATION

1: Copy Files to Playstation

rsync is used instead of ansible because it gives progress feedback and is faster

# rsync new project
rsync -Purtz ak/showcontrol_project/reaper_projects/YYYY-MM-DD_hufo_show.RPP hufo_playstation:showcontrol_project/reaper_projects

#sync new audio
export new_project="<NEW_PROJECT_NAME>"
rsync -Purtz ak/showcontrol_project/audiofiles/$new_project/ hufo_playstation:showcontrol_project/audiofiles/$new_project

2: open new project in reaper

Reaper will always open the last opened project on boot.

❗IMPORTANT❗ : save the project after opening it, if there was a dialog saying that files could not be found.

Sometimes the kvm switch does not work then restart the playstation

3: Add new Piece to ShowControl

Add track file (yml)

in seamless configs repo: HUFO/showcontrol/config/tracks/
copy other yml, fill with necessary infos, video indices are 0 based, audio indices 1 based
make sure the "name" field contains a unique id for this track
commit and push afterwards

Update schedules

In the showcontrol repo. Install the python package:

pip install -e .

Then use the following commands to generate the schedule and human readable text file in the seamless configs repo

showcontrol_schedule_generator -c ../seamless-configs/HUFO/showcontrol/config/ -o ../seamless-configs/HUFO/showcontrol/config/schedule.yml -r ../seamless-configs/HUFO/showcontrol/readable_schedules

check file the readable schedule and the schedule.yml in the seamless-configs repo and verify if everything looks good
commit and push both repos

Apply changes on PlayStation

Update Configs on playstation:

ansible-playbook -i HUFO_inventory.yml install/install_configs.yml -l "playstation"

# if you want to install something else than the main config branch specify the desired branch/tag/commit using the -e option

ansible-playbook -i HUFO_inventory.yml install/install_configs.yml -l "playstation" -e "config_version=<branch_name>"

Restart Showcontrol Service on playstation run
systemctl --user restart showcontrol.service

4: Upload VIDEOs

videos are rolled out using ansible playbooks. The video files have to be placed on the machines, and the filename has to be placed in the playlist.txt. maintain/rollout_videos.yml is used, however it has to be modified before use:

add video file name to maintain/templates/playlist.txt.j2, {{ video_id }} will be filled with the index of this video player (1-6)
put the video files into the project_source directory (or change the project_source directory to your video directory, whatever makes you happy)

add a block like this to the tasks in rollout_videos.yml: block:

    - name: "Copy <new_project> onto the server"
    copy:
        src: "{{ project_source }}/<new_project>/cool_filename-0{{ video_id }}.mp4"
        dest: "{{ target_content_dir  }}"
        owner: kiosk
        group: avm
        mode: "u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx"

run the playbook
restart the video players