Discussed on the previous page. I suspect the vision mixer crashed so they dropped out of circuit while it rebooted, then opted out again with network and the wrong Astons on the output before cutting to Nick.
Something required a new motherboard to be fitted from reading some of the tweets from the crew:
Felt like a lifetime sitting in the producer’s chair but major heroics from our engineers and gallery team tonight - getting us back with new motherboard in under 6 mins 👏👏👏 https://t.co/dckvyVB2Qp
Something required a new motherboard to be fitted from reading some of the tweets from the crew:
Felt like a lifetime sitting in the producer’s chair but major heroics from our engineers and gallery team tonight - getting us back with new motherboard in under 6 mins 👏👏👏 https://t.co/dckvyVB2Qp
Bloody hell, that’s good work. New motherboard in and back in operation in 6 minutes, is kinda like those amazing tyre changes you see in Formula 1 races. They should never be able to be that quick, but they are.
I may be reading too much into this, but having a spare motherboard on hand seems a little curious to me - were they perhaps experiencing issues and had ordered one in ready to swap over at a convenient time?
I may be reading too much into this, but having a spare motherboard on hand seems a little curious to me - were they perhaps experiencing issues and had ordered one in ready to swap over at a convenient time?
That and BBC English Regions BSC are 2 floors below and have spares in stock and technicians always available
I may be reading too much into this, but having a spare motherboard on hand seems a little curious to me - were they perhaps experiencing issues and had ordered one in ready to swap over at a convenient time?
That and BBC English Regions BSC are 2 floors below and have spares in stock and technicians always available
So had this happened in another region the disruption would have bern longer presumably? Do that team cover all English regions or are there teams at all sites?
So had this happened in another region the disruption would have bern longer presumably? Do that team cover all English regions or are there teams at all sites?
Not necessarily, other regions have engineers and would likely have spare parts for various bits of their kit
I may be reading too much into this, but having a spare motherboard on hand seems a little curious to me - were they perhaps experiencing issues and had ordered one in ready to swap over at a convenient time?
The motherboard is usually a PCB, that all the other boards, (in a vision switcher/mixer a dozen or more) are slotted into, and is deep in the back of the crate. It would take a few hours to swap.
I suspect it was something more like initiating a spare CPU card, which (normally in routers, but other kit too) there are two; one active, the other powered up in standby in redundant mode. In that case nothing physical needs to be done, the time consuming bit (and 6 mins sounds about right) is a reboot and re initialisation.
Something required a new motherboard to be fitted from reading some of the tweets from the crew:
Felt like a lifetime sitting in the producer’s chair but major heroics from our engineers and gallery team tonight - getting us back with new motherboard in under 6 mins 👏👏👏 https://t.co/dckvyVB2Qp
Suspect that is someone not understanding what was going on. Some broadcast kit takes almost that long just to boot up fully when powered down... (I was involved with a test where a gallery was catastrophically de-powered to test this. The last bit of kit came on line 4'00" after power was restored...)
Either - as others have said - it was a case of swapping over to an installed hot-spare (which is not unusual in some broadcast kit) or it was a card swap rather than a motherboard swap. (Cards can - in some equipment - be hot-swapped)
The BBC usually spec a reasonable number of on-site spares for mission critical equipment - though not everything has an on-site replacement on-hand.