BATC bursary - ATV repeater controller project approved
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:17 am
The committee has approved the following project funding:
Project description:
Over the last 10 years, the ATV community has successfully migrated to digital transmission standards which have enabled transmission of greater resolutions than the 720 * 576 PAL standard.
However most ATV repeater systems are still using PAL based video switching and logic systems. In order to encourage repeater groups to upgrade their systems it is proposed that BATC develops a simple repeater controller enabling the use of consumer HDMI switches.
In order to provide some backwards compatibility it is possible that an analogue switcher could be controlled using the GPIO outputs and the potential for the caption generator to use the RPi composite video output is included as an option.
Benefits to ATV community:
Readily available repeater controller supported by BATC
Total amount of funding requested:
£368
Details of costs / items:
G8GKQ:
Raspberry PI + Case = £60
Seamless HDMI switch = £69
SD card = £10
Clock modules *2 = £10
Total = £160 to be retained as BATC development / support platform
G8GTZ:
Raspberry Pi + case + SD card = £70
2 * seamless switchers = £138
Total = £208 - to be used for beta testing and then installed at GB3HV repeater
Project description:
Over the last 10 years, the ATV community has successfully migrated to digital transmission standards which have enabled transmission of greater resolutions than the 720 * 576 PAL standard.
However most ATV repeater systems are still using PAL based video switching and logic systems. In order to encourage repeater groups to upgrade their systems it is proposed that BATC develops a simple repeater controller enabling the use of consumer HDMI switches.
In order to provide some backwards compatibility it is possible that an analogue switcher could be controlled using the GPIO outputs and the potential for the caption generator to use the RPi composite video output is included as an option.
Benefits to ATV community:
Readily available repeater controller supported by BATC
Total amount of funding requested:
£368
Details of costs / items:
G8GKQ:
Raspberry PI + Case = £60
Seamless HDMI switch = £69
SD card = £10
Clock modules *2 = £10
Total = £160 to be retained as BATC development / support platform
G8GTZ:
Raspberry Pi + case + SD card = £70
2 * seamless switchers = £138
Total = £208 - to be used for beta testing and then installed at GB3HV repeater