Time-series data in Redis
For Insanity, I’ve been working on some of the support services that are built into the website that provide our staff with information from ancillary services and tools and bring it into a clear and useful format for decision making and monitoring. Latest on the agenda has been listener figures from our Icecast streaming servers. [...]
Monitoring radio, and the joys of realtime feedback
Monitoring and logging of broadcast systems is often overlooked in smaller setups like university radio stations. Which is a shame. If we’d had monitoring in place last year at Insanity, we’d have known exactly how much dead air went out. Now, we’ve got a much better setup. It’s cheap(ish), a little bit homebrew, but there’s [...]
Arduinos and Telemetry for Radio
So, those of you who come here expecting EVE Online content – well, this blog started out as a personal blog and that’s all it ever has been. I’ve moved on, so here’s stuff on what I’ve moved on _to_. Recently I’ve been building equipment for Insanity Radio, the student radio station where I currently [...]