Hey John, I followed the instructions at https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Raspberry_Pi_Broadcastify_Build to install their DarkIce version. It's a manual install outside of any package installer. I'm not sure if there's a more official way. I did a APT uninstall on DarkIce. Then wget http://s.broadcastify.com/darkice/darkice_bcfy_v01.tar.gz Then in the tar, you'll find a pre-compiled DarkIce file to copy to bin, INIT.D file, and sample config. As for the stability, I was using a desktop (non-VM) Ubuntu install with the "Christmas" OP25 version, and it would stall every few days. That's probably something that's been fix by now, but just something I was being mindful of for the next few days. Take care, Chance On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 6:23 PM, John Ackermann N8UR jra@febo.com [op25-dev] <op25-dev@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I had the very busy local feed (24 channels) running here for a couple of months and it seemed perfectly happy. So I think the system may be more stable than one might suspect.
I may go to Broadcastify, but they don't want you to stream TAC talkgroups, and I'd like to include those (quiet as they are) for the couple of local departments I listen to. So for now, anyway, I'm just streaming locally with Icecast.
(Does the Broadcastify DarkIce install as a Debian package, or does it do an out-of-dpkg install? I wanted to stay with .debs wherever possible.)
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On 03/18/2018 06:12 PM, Chance chance1@lindseyfamily.net [op25-dev] wrote:
Hey John,
Everything worked perfectly. Only one change, I installed the DarkIce build from Broadcastify which included the MP3 encoder.
I'm feeding Sachse, TX. I use to carry a neighboring city with more activity, but since they went encrypted, it is just Sachse now. I only mention in case you tune there, it is quiet 97% of the time.
I'll probably switch back to my other PI with a scanner while away from home, until I see that this runs stable for a while. I'm betting I'll need something to restart RX.PY every so often.... But so far so good. And no nasty background noise of the Whistler scanner headphone jack!
Thanks again.
Chance KC5EOK
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 2:53 PM, John Ackermann N8UR jra@febo.com <mailto:jra@febo.com> [op25-dev] <op25-dev@yahoogroups..com <mailto:op25-dev@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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You're welcome, Chance. Since I only tested this on one system and then burned the image, please let me know of any issues/errors you encounter..
Remember that you'll need to configure Darkice and figure out what streamer you're going to feed. I'm using Icecast running on a small Atom processor box to feed my home network.
At present, I'm still using the GUI but it would make sense for a version intended just to stream, to use the CLI only and save a couple of GB of size. That's still on the list.
John ----
On 03/18/2018 03:47 PM, Chance chance1@lindseyfamily.net <mailto:chance1@lindseyfamily.net> [op25-dev] wrote:
Hey John,
Thanks a million! This was on my weekend list of things to do and I was just about to dive into to figure this all out. You just saved me a whole Sunday afternoon. I'm downloading the image now!
Chance
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 2:17 PM, John Ackermann N8UR jra@febo..com <mailto:jra@febo.com> <mailto:jra@febo.com <mailto:jra@febo.com>> [op25-dev] <op25-dev@yahoogroups.com <mailto:op25-dev@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:op25-dev@yahoogroups.com <mailto:op25-dev@yahoogroups.com>>> wrote:
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Well, I'm faster than I thought. The new version with audio streaming via darkice is at
http://febo.com/pages/os_images/2018-03-18_op25_rpi.zip <http://febo.com/pages/os_images/2018-03-18_op25_rpi.zip> <http://febo.com/pages/os_images/2018-03-18_op25_rpi.zip <http://febo.com/pages/os_images/2018-03-18_op25_rpi..zip>>
John
On 03/18/2018 01:47 PM, John Ackermann N8UR jra@febo.com <mailto: jra@febo.com> <mailto:jra@febo.com <mailto:jra@febo.com>> [op25-dev] wrote:
I just got my RPi scanner set up to stream audio to an Icecast server. Graham did all the hard work to figure out how, so he gets all the credit. But I did collect the information together in a blog posting here: http://blog.febo.com/wp/?p=307
I'm also going to update my plug-and-play image file to include this. It may take me a couple of days to get that ready.
73, John