This is a radio application for FM tuners built into some TV cards, such as the Hauppauge Win/TV.
FreeBSD (Hi, Roger and Juha!) and NetBSD (Hi, Tron and Veego!!)
provide support for these cards via /dev/tuner. (NetBSD as of
version 1.4)
Ti Kan (ti@amb.org) provided linux support. I don't know,
if or how good it works, all I know is, that the linux driver
doesn't support AFC and it can't switch to mono. And the worst,
it can't get/calculate the field strength of the current
signal. Thus, the seeking functionality doesn't work!
There is a compile time option enabling xmradio to connect to an lcdproc server (http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/), you have to manually edit the Imakefile to enable this support.
Starting with version 0.8 there is support for Juha's alternative driver for FreeBSD. That beast can scan very fast (~7-10 times faster!) Edit the Imakefile to add -DJUHA_DRIVER for this.
Notes from Ti Kan:
For Linux, you should be installed with the bttv driver suite in order to use xmradio. Information about bttv and downloads are via the bttv web site:
http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
I ported and tested xmradio on a system running the Linux 2.0.33 kernel and bttv-0.6.4. Supposedly xmradio should also work on a Linux 2.2 kernel with Video4Linux but I did not try this. If you have any success/failure report I'd like to hear about it. (ti@amb.org)
Starting with version 0.7 we have a GUI for the station list configuration. I think, it's simple enough to not write a huge handbook ;) but one hint: if you press shift while clicking on "Delete Entry" all stations will get erased. Just for your convenience if you want to make a complete new scan. You can check online, if there is a newer version available. This feature isn't available in linux.
New in version 0.6 is a remote control. You can now control an xmradio running on your desktop using some special command line options. The functionality is very similar to netscapes remote mechanism, so if you have a running xmradio and type
xmradio -remote StationUp
then it will tune to the next registered station. Here is a list of all supported commands:
- StationUp
- StationDown
- StationSeekUp (doesn't work on linux)
- StationSeekDown (doesn't work on linux)
- Frequency=<freq in MHz>
- Station=<registered name>
- AFC=<on|off> (doesn't work on linux)
- Stereo=<on|off> (doesn't work on linux)
- Mute=<on|off>
- Balance=<new_value> between and including -100 and +100
- Treble=<new_value> between and including 0 and 100
- Bass=<new_value> between and including 0 and 100
- Volume=<new_value> between and including 0 and 100
- ShowAbout
- ShowAnalyzer
- Iconify
- Deiconify
- Withdraw
- Raise
- Lower
- Quit
I think, the commands are self explaining. You can add as many commands as you like in one line, say something like this:
xmradio -remote Station="Delta Radio" -remote Volume=30 -remote Stereo=off
Thats it. Mail me, if you want/need more ;)
Apart from the standard command line options you've got these with xmradio:
-station <name> to tell it a specific start station. -frequency <freq> to tell it a specific start frequency. -volume <value> to tell it a specific start volume.
If you send xmradio a SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2, it will seek or switch to the next/previous station depending on the configuration. (Not available in linux)
I'm sorry, if you have problems with the fact, that I use motif for xmradio. I was a motif fan for a lot of years, but I realize what happens with other toolkits. And it's a pity, but motif is really dead. Other toolkits provide more flexibility, ease of use and extensibility. So this is probably my last project using motif. But as it took a lot of work until now, I won't change it right now.
FreeBSD only:
The sound driver in FreeBSD 4.x (newpcm driver) has huge problems
with recording/sampling. Don't blame me, it works quite nice on NetBSD
and did with FreeBSD 3.x with the following patch:
There is a bug in luigi's soundcode. (At least, upto FreeBSD 3.2)
If you get an error while recording audio, you most probably
have that bug.
Go to /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/snd and find this around line
1027 (FreeBSD 3.2) in sound.c:
if (ask_init(d))
*(int *)arg = d->play_fmt ;
and replace it with this:
if (ask_init(d))
{
if (d->play_fmt)
*(int *)arg = d->play_fmt ;
if (d->rec_fmt)
*(int *)arg = d->rec_fmt ;
}
This is only a quick fix, better look out for a new driver. A bugreport is already submitted.
Btw. I haven't testet with OSS. Any reports welcome.
This software is provided under BSD licence.
If you really like it, I'd like to get a post card of
your home-town/county/country. You can find my address on
my webpage.
Submitted post cards as of version 1.2: 4 (four) with
>> 2000 downloads
Thank you all, who sent cards! :-)
Tom
coto@core.de