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PlayIt Live Tone/DTMF Trigger Setup

Has anyone set up PlayIt Live to trigger from a tone or DTMF cue?

I’d like an incoming feed to trigger a local break, play local audio, then return to the feed.

What hardware or setup are you using?

Thanks,
Eric


It's been mentioned here but I've not heard of a successful solution.


Traditionally sub-audio tones have been used as triggers. The key problem is recognition speed.


Many decades ago I built a system for a similar application using FX207 & FX307 chips (https://islandlabs.eu/cml-fx107.html) but it didn't matter that the tones were "in band".


Personally, if I were attempting a similar thing now and the sustaining feed was digital I would think about metadata in the stream but I don't know of a system that does this.


It's certainly something that I think would be good as an addition to PlayIt Live.


Alternatively Amazon sells a DTMF decoder and there are boards that can take button inputs and emulate a keyboard press.


It won't be elegant but it might do the job. 

For completeness it was a while back but I made a button box.


This with a DTMF decoder built in might do the job.


https://support.playitsoftware.com/support/discussions/topics/5000094817


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