u/LightGuy48

Hive brain, I've got an odd lip-flap issue with EMC 3025 master control switchers that I can't figure out and I've been speaking with Evertz too and so far don't have a good idea what's causing it and hoping maybe someone has some ideas of what might be going on.

Basically two 3025's for station A & station B each fed from an EQT1616 in front of them for pgm and preset routing of multiple sources. When operating in a normal fashion of i.e. network programming, local PCR, or playout of content from our MCR PDR's everything is fine, audio is synchronized with the video. All audio is embedded through the switchers.

However, for a couple hours out of the day station B simulcasts station A. Switcher A is cascaded into Switcher B. When the SDI is cascaded from A -> B significant lip flap develops. Also the same is true vice-versa, we've had times where a newscast was running on station B and we cascaded back to station A for breaking news and the same issue develops on station A.

The only place we have timing adjustment is further down the air chain, before the ASI encoders we have Linear Acoustic Aero 20's for ALC but the only delay compensation is for the processing delay within the Aero 20 to keep the video in sync.

I'm looking for a 'problem solver' SDI switch, it need to be at least 3 inputs but the big thing is it need a GPI for remote control. I'm finding quite a few things with RS232 or Ethernet remote control but I need something for a button box.

I currently have an A/B switch but now they're asking for a 3rd input

Has anyone experienced a case where one of the two controller will intermittently show offline for 5-10 seconds every minute or so? It doesn't appear to be affecting the system operation, looking at both controller logs neither is showing anything in the NV Utilities log for the controller, also the Windows logs for the server in question doesn't show anything in the Windows Event Viewer logs.

Running Ping tests doesn't seem to show any dropped or missing pings either. But it's unnerving to see the controller 'blinking' offline frequently.

I'm curious if anyone has experience with getting a Kohler DM550 to produce usable SNMP via the Modbus Ethernet Converter?

The current setup is 550 > RSA-II > Ethernet Converter. The converter has FW 3.2 on it and the RSA-II is properly indicating the 550 state/status.

I'm able to connect to the Ethernet Converter via a MIB Browser and but when I check the gconStatus it just responds with Unknown (0), I don't seem to get any reasonable responses to the state of the generator.

The Ethernet Converter has the Unit ID correctly set to 1 and the type to 550. I'm kind of stumped at this point, thanks!

Would it technically be possible to trigger a sports blackout to a MVPD/VMPVD? Obviously SCTE can be used for add insertion, but could you use it to trigger a sports blackout at the start of an event and then use it for returning to simulcasting afterwards?

I'm not intimately familiar with all of the capabilities of SCTE-35 or 104.

I'm not finding anything in the manual, does anyone know of a way to reset the ALC normalization setting to a different standard than -24LU/LKFS ? i.e. if you wanted to do -14 for OTT streaming