[K12OSN] IP based PA system?

Wed Apr 12 15:15:13 UTC 2006

I just downloaded this cool little app and it seems to work great.  It
is supposed to be shareware.  If there is a cost, I doubt that it would
be much.  It wouldn't be as much as the cost of your time developing
something new;)

http://nch.com.au/oi/index.html

Ron

Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
(251) 578-7073 x26
(251) 238-1890 cell
1*4238*104 SouthernLinc
rmcdaniel at indata.us

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] IP based PA system?
> From: rmcdaniel at indata.us
> Date: Wed, April 12, 2006 9:30 am
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
> I just came accross this.
> 
> http://www.digitalacoustics.com/ii3_talkmaster.htm#TMEE
> 
> 
> Ronald R. McDaniel
> Conecuh County Schools
> (251) 578-7073 x26
> (251) 238-1890 cell
> 1*4238*104 SouthernLinc
> rmcdaniel at indata.us
> 
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [K12OSN] IP based PA system?
> > From: "Jim Kronebusch" <jim at winonacotter.org>
> > Date: Wed, April 12, 2006 9:13 am
> > To: k12osn at redhat.com
> > 
> > I am forced to do some fairly creative thinking here.  In an effort to save
> > some money the main school I work for is moving the Jr. high into our Sr. high
> > campus.  We will now have Jr. high classrooms among Sr. high classrooms.  Now
> > the fun part.  The sr high runs a 7 period day, the jr high an 8 period day. 
> > And to even get more fun, they both want separate announcements throughout the
> > day.
> > 
> > So one of my many thoughts here is to build some sort of IP based system for
> > announcements.  Does anyone know of a way to say take voice from a microphone
> > hooked to one computer and broadcast it to any computer withing IP range
> > x.x.x.1-.100?  Or on the other hand broadcast audio events from one central
> > computer out to a range of others?
> > 
> > Thinking that all classroom machines already have external amplifiers and
> > speakers hooked up to them, and I already will know the schedule of what
> > classes will be in each room for the day.  Can I script the IP's of machines
> > to change to fall into range a or b at certain periods of the day to accept
> > these broadcast events and play them locally on the speakers.
> > 
> > I know, I am really grasping at straws here :-)  This whole setup is crazy. 
> > But nobody will listen to me when I say dual schedules and mixed rooms is a
> > nightmare.
> > 
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