Ubuntu 9.04 Darkice Configuration HOWTO

kc2rgw · #1 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 02:41 PM

I put a wiki page up and linked it into the main Live_Audio page.

Anyone running Ubuntu or linux in general take a look and see what you think so far.

Live Audio/Ubuntu Darkice - The RadioReference Wiki

blantonl · #2 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 05:14 PM

Nice work!!

kc2rgw · #3 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 05:18 PM

Leave me a msg with an email to reach you please. Your account doesn't accept pm's in the forum.

I have a question about embedding a feed that I don't want to put in the forum

My username @ gmail.com will work as well if you just drop me a line directly.

kc2rgw · #4 (**permalink**) 10-23-2009, 12:49 PM

**Updated**

I added a sample init script to automate the start and stop for rebooting the system. Tests out o.k. here so it should be good to go, particularly for an Ubuntu system with darkice and screen installed on it.

slash · #5 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 04:41 PM

The init script works great on Debian Lenny.
Only if I knew of a way to get alpha tags working... would you know of any solutions? I don't have a scanner with usb/serial but would consider one if I knew of any working solutions under linux.

kc2rgw · #6 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 04:46 PM

Well with my own icecast, you could scrape the data, write it to the update file and HUP the icecast2 process and it would stream it.

I'm not sure how it would be done feeding into a shoutcast/Oddcast that I don't control. Maybe there is an RR feed API? I haven't looked.

As for getting the info out of the scanner, hamlib "might" support it, if so, then Python or Perl would be very simple to write to read the info...how to 'know' "on squelch, do read tag" ...not sure.

The other thing is, the icecast2 banner update is instant but there is almost a 20s latency in the stream so it would pretty much have tags well ahead of the audio.