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FM radio receiver

Added by Sulla Sulla about 8 years ago

I'm using a tvheadend headless server successfully for a while with 4 DVB-S2 USB receivers, and TVheadend already strems the satellite radio stations to all clients (correctly as radio stations, not as TV stations) but all the local radio stations that I like are - obviously - not on satellite. Therefore I would like to add terrestrial FM radio stations to the tvheadend radio channels as well.

I came across an "ADS INSTANT FM MUSIC RDX-155-EFG" USB terrestrial and web radio receiver that is reported to be linux compatible. ( http://tipok.org.ua/node/14 )

Question: can I use this USB device as input device for tvheadend?
Question: are there other USB FM receivers available that will do the job?

regards,
Sulla


Replies (4)

RE: FM radio receiver - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 8 years ago

You can pipe the output from any source into Tvheadend using ffmpeg :) As for sticks, I know the RTL (rtl2832u, commonly known as a DVB-T/FM/SDR receiver) can receive fm on linux via RTL-SDR (http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr).

RE: FM radio receiver - Added by Sulla Sulla about 8 years ago

all right, thanks, this could be a good starting point.
But how to feed this into tvheadend server in such a way that I can browse the radio channels from tvheadend clients? For this to work tvheadend must take control over the tuner in the receiver.
But I guess it's just not implemented in TVheadend.

RE: FM radio receiver - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 8 years ago

Sulla Sulla wrote:

all right, thanks, this could be a good starting point.
But how to feed this into tvheadend server in such a way that I can browse the radio channels from tvheadend clients? For this to work tvheadend must take control over the tuner in the receiver.
But I guess it's just not implemented in TVheadend.

It shouldn't be too hard to tell the tuner what frequency to tune to using rtl_fm and pipe the output from there.

This should give you some idea: https://lansley.com/2014/09/27/using-rtl_fm-and-ffmpeg-to-stream-radio-audio-over-network/

I'll give this a go at some point..

RE: FM radio receiver - Added by james Bond about 8 years ago

Thanks for this infos.
I was also interested in converting one of my tunner to a Tvheadend fm radio source.
That may help me.

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