Digital Alert Systems DASAMS - Manual (Page 23)

Digital Alert Systems
AMS Installation /Operation & Integration Guide
Revision 1.1 Page 23 of 28
Business Technology Inc. - BTI
Data Type: ASCII (UTF-8) text file
Connection: Network connection - BTI Attendant Solutions to AMC via FTP push
Overview: The BTI Attendant Solutions creates an ASCII text output mirroring the text sent
to the various character generators. When information is updated the system
“pushes” the text file into the AMC for subsequent Text-To-Speech conversion
and loading in to the respective MultiPlayer channels for playout.
The system may also be linked with a GPO from the BTI Attendant Solutions
to invoke audio playback in relative synchronization with the text playout.
Configuration Steps: Initial configuration must be completed by BTI to properly set the system to
transfer file(s) to the AMS (please refer to the contact information below). Once
this is completed the station should proceed with additional setup steps as
outlined below.
BTI Breaking News Alerts
Stations using BTI for breaking news alerts will get the new transmission
NU902 (see the yellow highlight in
Figure 16 ). To produce text this may run
stand alone, or BTI can program it into the current broadcast Breaking news or
Amber alert transmission.
Figure 16. BTI Transmission Status screen showing job NU902.
1. To configure the NU902 breaking news transmission, from the
Transmission Status screen click the Configure button shown in
Figure 16
.
Figure 17. Configure Job NU902 screen with number of Cycles highlighted
2. On the Configure Job NU902 screen set the number of cycles to run the
transmission. Typically this has a value of 2 as shown in Figure 17 .
3. Click Save then Close
4. After returning to the Transmission Status screen click the Content
button.
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