Forum Activity for @dannya

Conversion Master

Using Jamroom

I'm not totally clear on the role of the conversion master. I understand it can be run on the same server as the jamroom site. Can it also be run on one of the conversion worker servers?

Is there any reason to run it on a completely separate server just to handle "master" tasks? Not sure what it does.
updated by @dannya: 03/16/15 08:51:42PM

Cloud requirements

Using Jamroom

Thanks. That helps

Cloud requirements

Using Jamroom

For #2- You might want to update the cloud documentation. It does not indicate you need the audio and video modules on the conversion worker. I think this is where there is where I keep getting confused. You say you have to install jamroom core. But my main JR site has many modules besides the core. This includes audio and video. However I thought the core included ffmpeg and other tools so the audio and video modules weren't necessary.

Additionally, this means that each additional conversion server needs:
1 Core client ($$ unknown)
1 Queue client ($$ unknown)
1 worker client ($$ unknown)
1 Audio client ($29)
1 Vidio client ($29)

It seems this could get expensive. It would be great if you just charged for the masters and let the clients be unlimited. And if the core components needed from the audio and video modules were included in the core. The point is we are not really using the full audio/video modules on each worker; just the free conversion tools.

#4- Which modules are safe to disable on conversion workers? (sorry, still getting terminology right)


#6- For the conversion server, is it better to have more memory or more cores? How does each affect performance?

#7- Do you have any recommendations for disabling/securing the jamroom sites on the cloud servers (conversion, log, etc), so that they are only used by the main site? It seems silly to have a bunch of unconfigured jamroom sites just sitting there that people can try to log into.
updated by @dannya: 01/29/15 10:48:58PM

Cloud requirements

Using Jamroom

I want to clarify some requirements around the cloud components.

1. I understand you need to configure a mysql server for each of the additional cloud servers
1a. Is it safe to assume that it is not used for anything? e.g. the conversion client does not use the mysql server at all. its just there for installing the core files
1b. would it be possible to just connect them all to the same db and further reduce the footprint of the install?

2. I understand we need the core and cloud files. But want to confirm we don't need the audio or video modules.

3. Does the hardware configuration have to match? I was thinking my master server has more memory than you conversion server (at the moment). This means that my maximum file size is larger on my main server. What happens if the conversion server tries to pick up a file that is too big for its current hardware?

4. Which modules is it safe to disable from the core install of the client servers?

5. Which modules in the core must be configured for quotas, etc? I am assuming nothing except the cloud modules, but I wanted to make sure.


updated by @dannya: 03/07/15 06:03:41AM

Read functions for conversion

Jamroom Developers

Guys, I'm getting a bit frustrated here.

It's been a week and a half and my developers can't seem to figure out how to read/write images to s3.

They cannot find any documentation showing how to override those core modules without breaking on upgrade.

They cannot find which functions are used to write images on media upload.
They cannot find which functions to modify to read images from s3. They think they have to modify every template where media image is displayed. I know it's not that hard.

If you can provide some best practices for tracking down and overriding those functions, it would be very helpful. I'm concerned that they will break the functionality of the existing modules if they update the wrong functions.

They have already integrated the s3 sdk and we can connect, but the lack of familiarity with Jamroom is slowing things down dramatically.

Read functions for conversion

Jamroom Developers

Great start.Thanks!

Read functions for conversion

Jamroom Developers

We are in the process of moving over to s3 We have gotten the media upload to write directly to our s3 bucket. However, now we want the the media processing tools to read and write the files directly to s3.

Where do I find the functions for this?
I think its just FFPEG and SOX. Are there any other functions I should be looking for?

Any other suggestions welcome
updated by @dannya: 01/27/15 10:07:29PM

Executing script after marketplace update.

Jamroom Developers

Is there a way to add a hook to execute a script once a marketplace update is complete?
updated by @dannya: 02/18/15 01:59:30PM

Email Templates

Jamroom Developers

That seemed to help

Undeleting profile

Using Jamroom

Maybe I can ask a different question. How do you keep the "main" profile for a power user different from one of their regular user profiles? Now I have the label profile showing up as a label artist.