I have been recently testing out our PIRA32 RBDS encoder in various different scenarios (in preparation, I hope, of getting the approval to buy a couple more) and I have encountered a scenario that I could use a little help with. The station I am trying to use the PIRA32 uses Cumulus' Classic Hits format, which we get on an XDS sat tuner. The XDS has a serial PAD port which shows...PAD...the output looks like this:
CurrentEvent:CHM,CHJ100-1,8-SECOND LINER BED,
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1005-49,Let Your Love Flow,Bellamy Brothers
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1004-96,My Eyes Adored You,Frankie Valli
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1000-32,Hang On Sloopy,McCoys
CurrentEvent:
CurrentEvent:CHO,CHO101-78,You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling,Hall & Oates
CurrentEvent:
CurrentEvent:CHM,CHJ100-1,8-SECOND LINER BED,
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1004-47,Bad Bad Leroy Brown,Jim Croce
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1001-10,Ticket To Ride,Beatles
CurrentEvent:CHF,CHF203,Xmas Military,
CurrentEvent:CHH,CHH100-79,I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,John Mellencamp
CurrentEvent:
CurrentEvent:COM,904,3 min of silence ** DO NOT DELETE **,** DO NOT DELETE **
CurrentEvent:COM,C0184,TOYS R US/MWDAY,
CurrentEvent:COM,C1085,STERLING/LEVIAN,
CurrentEvent:
CurrentEvent:CHM,CHJ100-1,8-SECOND LINER BED,
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1034-79,Baby I Love Your Way,Peter Frampton
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1005-63,Too Late To Turn Back Now,Cornelius Brothers & Sister
Rose
CurrentEvent:CHM,CH1007-46,Another Brick In The Wall,Pink Floyd
CurrentEvent:
CurrentEvent:CHH,CHH100-91,Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer,Elmo & Patsy
(I grabbed this a while ago)
Anyway, so I can successfully put the PIRA32 in no header mode, all this data goes out. I personally think it is awesome, the owners do not. There is a way to filter this data. Here is what I am envisioning:
Feed the PAD serial output of the sat tuner to a nearby computer that isn't doing enough multitasking, have it write the serial data to a txt file. (I have used a title from Altima, RS232 data logger, to log EAS data successfully, and save paper :>) Have this computer write the txt file to a volume that can be seen by the computer running MagicRDS and attached via serial link to the PIRA32 unit. Then point the software to the text file. I wonder if there is going to be a problem though as data is appended to the log file and two apps have it open. I assume that the replace text function would permit me to mask unneeded characters. Any tips on setting this up would be helpful, but I need to log some data and take a good hard look at it to form some rules about what should be replaced, masked, etc.
So, am I thinking about approaching this in the right way? Any help which anyone can offer me is appreciated. I try to always think about what a guy smarter than me would do but it's hard sometimes. I was always one of the dumber kids, furrowing my brow in a vain attempt to understand what came so easily to others. Ya know, I think it all started in the second grade with Mrs. Saunders, I hated that bitch!
Oh yeah, sorry, got on a tear there... Advice?
