About The Project - alastairtech/rivendell GitHub Wiki

For many years Edge Radio used a very slick but expensive commercial automation system for both playout, digital library, trafficking and scheduling. It's maker unfortunately seldom updated the product and began to provide less and less support. Not to mention it was stuck on Windows XP, which has long been abandoned by Microsoft. We embarked on a quest to find a replacement that took close to two years. The conclusion was unexpected to say the least. In a random experiment we managed to get the open source Rivendell Automation Suite working extremely well on a Raspberry Pi. For the outlay of about $350 for hardware, Edge Radio transitioned it's entire automation tool-chain to Rivendell, saving the station close to $10,000 a year. Of course we have the people and the enterprise Linux knowledge to support this adventure. But we think other stations can benefit from our hard work.

We have packaged up two Raspberry Pi Rivendell images, which will allow you to test and tinker with a fully functioning standalone system. We use very similar images to these at Edge Radio. The only difference being is that we use a central database and audio storage server and our Raspberry Pis act as playout and workstations.