Author Archives: John Reilly
Tightrope Topical Training Sessions
Join us next Thursday, December 17th at 3pm (Central) for our first of many Tightrope Topical Trainings. We’ll be discussing two main topics:
Weather bulletins in Carousel. We’ll cover how easy it is to create these bulletins, how to handle common problems that occur, and how to design bulletins that only show the current temperature [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.2.6: New Weather!
Carousel 5.2.6 has been officially released!
To those of you who have been patiently waiting for your weather bulletins and crawls to update, your wait is over! Carousel now retrieves weather data via WeatherBug rather than the National Weather Service FTP site. Gone are the days of battling the firewall to open the FTP ports, as [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.2.5
Today we’re excited to announce the release of Carousel 5.2.5!
This release contains several usability and stability improvements. Specifically, touching on the Clone Tool, Interactive, Display Engine, and the updating of RSS, web picture and clock bulletins. Check out the release notes for the nitty-gritty.
To request this update, please email our support team at support@trms.com. In [...]
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New Cablecast Release: 4.8.3
Today we’re happy to announce the release of Cablecast 4.8.3.
A few highlights:
The SX and VOD servers are better about memory and thread management, particularly when there are a lot of shows to transcode to VOD.
Projects area of WebUI now works again.
Various minor fixes to web service, X-list, public site, and block copy
You can find the [...]
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TRMS at MinneDemo
Join the TRMS development team for a night of cool tech and free beer at MinneDemo, the Twin Cities’ premier technology demo and networking event, this Thursday, May 7th at 7pm.
We’ll be one of the ten presenters this time around, and we’ll be giving a demonstration of Zeplay (PDF), our new instant replay video server [...]
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Tightrope Training, May 20th, in Burlington, VT
Tightrope Media Systems has scheduled a day of training in Burlington Vermont, for the day immediately prior to the ACM Northeast Conference. The conference is on May 21 and 22 in Burlington, and Tightrope Training will be held on Wednesday, May 20th, starting at 9AM at the Hilton Burlington Hotel.
We will hold advanced training from [...]
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TRMS Sponsors Local Twin Cities Tech Events
One of the (many!) things I enjoy about working at Tightrope is the fact that we’re located in the Twin Cities; home of the Twins, the Guthrie Theater, the Mall of America, and, although perhaps not as well known, home to an incredible technology community.
Today I’m happy to share that TRMS is doing its part [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.2.3
We are proud to announce the release of Carousel 5.2.3!
This release contains resolutions to some conditional bugs, seemly occurring only sometimes, under a full moon, in certain time zones. Obviously I’m kidding, but honestly these pests are our favorite to squish, release, and dare I say forget. Among this special breed were the analog clock [...]
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TRMS Labs
The development team at Tightrope is excited to announce the availability of TRMS Labs, a new website to house our open source projects and utilities.
For the site’s launch, we have three projects available:
Cablecast SuperCopy: A plugin for our Cablecast automation system to duplicate a day’s schedule far out into the future.
Carousel RDA Tester: A sample [...]
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TRMS Website Relaunch!