Overview
BSI Simian 2.3 Lite Automation
Features
Simian 2.3 LITE is designed for use by Internet Broadcast professionals. Take your webcast to the next level using a professional grade automation system.
- Fully Automated program Log Playback
- Import logs from all major third party log generating applications
- Create logs from within Simian
- Outgoing serial communications (output metadata via COM port to your favorite streaming hardware)
- Configurable pass-through mixer
- Voice Tracking function for voice-overs
- Event Logging to track played items
- 39 available Automation Macros
- Improved CHAIN macro
Streaming Features:
- Output song and title data directly to your streaming application via HTTP calls
- Built-in metadata formats for popular streaming encoders (includes WME, IceCast, ShoutCast, SimpleCast)
- PASSIVE mode supported by FTP macro
- Metadata (PAD) output via TCP and/or UDP packets
- Data merge 2 user-created HTML or other text based files
The purchase price includes:
- Simian Software Download Link
- Simian 2.3 LITE automation software license validation code
- USB port hardware key (dongle)
- 30 days Web-based Support included
Specifications / Documents
- Dell Optiplex GX7020 Mid-Tower Computer configured with an Operating System hard drive and a large storage hard drive dedicated to audio files. (A 250 GB hard drive will store 5,000+ songs on average in Linear PCM format. We do not advise monitoring more audio files than this at any one given time.)
- Intel Core i5 or Xeon 2.4GHz or better
- Minimum 1GB RAM (2GB for Windows 7 or 4GB for Windows 8 or more recommended)
- Windows XP Professional with SP3, Windows 7 Professional 32bit, or Windows 8.1 64bit
- Professional AudioScience Audio Card with four playback devices and hardware mixer controls and metering.
- 19" or larger monitor running at 1280 x 1024 or higher resolution (21” 1920x1080 recommended)
- Optional dual-output video card
- Optional touch-screen
- Optimized for multi-media play out by BSI technicians, rather than ‘appearance’ or office applications. BSI Technical Support does not cover the cost of configuring computer systems or other hardware not purchased by BSI
For peace of mind, we strongly suggest that you consider a fully configured system direct from BSI that is ready to operate out of the box.
While Simian 2.3 uses no proprietary hardware, just an ordinary Microsoft Windows 10 or 11 Pro 64bit equipped PC. It is very important to have off-the-shelf machines configured and optimized professionally for multimedia performance and long-term reliability.
Purchasing a complete system of hardware and software from BSI means that you benefit from our years of in-house expertise as we carefully select hardware components and then custom configure all the computers we sell for reliable and robust multimedia playout.
These systems are built using Lenovo computers and include a 3-year On-Site Warranty; or we can customize a 19″ Rack Mounted solution for you using carefully selected and tested branded components.
Our recommended hardware platforms are detailed on our computer systems pages. If you are sourcing your own computers & hardware, please ensure that all the hardware is fully compatible with the motherboard – and pay particular attention to memory and cooling.
