labiuutiset

Plays only given program type from FM radio.

This tool plays only given programs of given FM station using any Osmocom compatible SDR receiver. It is developed to play news broadcast on YLE Radio Suomi at Hacklab Jyväskylä, but any other station and program type will do.

Requirements

• GNU Radio
• Gnuradio blocks from the OsmoSDR project
• Redsea RDS Decoder by windytan

Installation

Install GNU Radio and OsmoSDR blocks and dependencies of Redsea. On Debian or Ubuntu, just:

sudo apt install gnuradio gr-osmosdr git build-essential autoconf libsndfile1-dev libliquid-dev

Clone and build Redsea:

git clone https://github.com/windytan/redsea.git
cd redsea
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Get back to the directory where labiuutiset is and compile the GNU radio block:

grcc news_player.grc

Then, just set station frequency (-f) with the frequency (it megahertz) and give your location of Redsea binary to after -R parameter and run:

./news_player.py -f 99.3 -R /PATH/TO/redsea/src/redsea

See ./news_player.py --help for all options such as gain and PTY.

License

This work is licenced under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later (GPLv3).