I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station
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I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station
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#2For those looking for technical details, Github, "Pi FM Kitchen Radio Station" https://github.com/trwmato/pi-fm-kitchen-radio>.
NB: Not my project, but it tickles an interest.
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#4This is rad.
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#5https://web.archive.org/web/20260608153435/https://old.reddi...
> Built as part of an attempt at [...] having overseas content on the radio dial
Old radios have the station locations (cities all over the world) as labels for the tuner: https://www.radioheritage.com/story354/
Or: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/european-cities-rad...?
A further (well, different) hack would be to combine this hardware dial with stream URLs e.g. from https://radio.garden/ ...
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#6https://web.archive.org/web/20260608153435/https://old.reddi...
> Built as part of an attempt at [...] having overseas content on the radio dial Old radios have the station locations (cities all over the world) as labels for the tuner: https://www.radioheritage.com/story354/ Or: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/european-cities-rad... ? A further (well, different) hack would be to combine this hardware dial with stream URLs e.g. from https://radio.garden/ ...
A modern station list is available here: https://short-wave.info/
Re: I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station
#7You don't even need a Raspberry PI.
You can simplify it even further. List of things you need.
1. Smartphone or DAP.
2. Car Bluetooth FM Transmitter (~$20)
3. USB to 12 V car adapter(~$10)
4. Existing FM radio.
You can set this up in 5 minutes. Connect the smartphone/DAP using BT or AUX cable. Select a free FM channel and you are ready to go.
Also, in the photos, the FM antenna is fully extended which is unnecessary as these FM transmitters put out plenty of RF power.
P.S. On AliExpress, you can buy both for P.P.S. Just the USB FM transmitter is only $5 on AE. For the cost of a cup of Coffee!
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#8Here in Germany you have to be careful when setting up a homemade radio signal - it might be illegal depending on frequency and transmit power.
I personally prefer a combination of
duckdns.org
Beets
Navidrome
Audiobookshelf
Substreamer / DSub
PaulWoitaschek/Voice / Audiobookshelf
Wireguard
Re: I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station
#9You don't even need a Raspberry PI. You can simplify it even further. List of things you need. 1. Smartphone or DAP. 2. Car Bluetooth FM Transmitter (~$20) 3. USB to 12 V car adapter(~$10) 4. Existing FM radio. You can set this up in 5 minutes. Connect the smartphone/DAP using BT or AUX cable. Select a free FM channel and you are ready to go. Also, in the photos, the FM antenna is fully extended which is unnecessary…
Yea, I did this using a raps-pi as well. Rasp-pi is nice in the sense that it can run a web server to select/enqueue/blacklist/ and what not. I can also ssh to it to download songs and automatically add to the playlist...
Along with the ability to blacklist and add new songs, I hope that I will eventually end up with a huge collection of only the best songs (for my taste)
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#10I miss the experience of having career professionals 100% dedicated to the music world curating a list of what I would hear. Of course, it was not perfect, there were ads, most stations played pop slop, but most of the time there was a few stations for your taste, your knew your preferred DJs times and there was a certain sense of community in being a regular fan of a show.