Anyone successful using one of these $9 computers to feed live audio to broadcastify? If so what software did you use? I've tried using darkice without success so far...
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Just for clarification... what works? I'm specifically asking about the CHIP computer. I've used Darkice with ubuntu on a pc in the past which worked well. I'm hoping to find someone who's actually using the CHIP to feed audio. My understanding is CHIP uses a stripped down version of debian.
According to their site, they don't go into production until October, 2016.
I received two of them a couple of weeks ago that I ordered months ago. Figured maybe someone else had ordered some during the same timeframe. Really inexpensive feed computer if I can get it to work...
Hopefully I'll have it working by then but not much time to play with it right now
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Mine arrived yesterday. They were ordered in early Aug. they are now advertising delivery for Christmas!
I had little trouble setting one up to stream from darkice. I am now only streaming to a local server but if that works, it should go to bcfy also.
I took mine out of the package, plugged it in, configured the wifi and installed darkice (sudo apt-get install darkice). Then set up a configuration file using the source plughw:1,0 since i am using a usb sound card.
That was about it. I did not flash any other OS, simply used what came on the board.
A pretty cheap streaming unit. $9 for the board, probably another $9 shipping, a $4 usb sound card, a 5v power supply and a couple cables. $30-35 total.
Using the on board sound input is more complicated than expected so that is yet to be attempted.
PS i forgot the usb hub. Another $5 or so
Mine arrived yesterday. They were ordered in early Aug. they are now advertising delivery for Christmas!
I had little trouble setting one up to stream from darkice. I am now only streaming to a local server but if that works, it should go to bcfy also.
I took mine out of the package, plugged it in, configured the wifi and installed darkice (sudo apt-get install darkice). Then set up a configuration file using the source plughw:1,0 since i am using a usb sound card.
That was about it. I did not flash any other OS, simply used what came on the board.
A pretty cheap streaming unit. $9 for the board, probably another $9 shipping, a $4 usb sound card, a 5v power supply and a couple cables. $30-35 total.
Using the on board sound input is more complicated than expected so that is yet to be attempted.
PS i forgot the usb hub. Another $5 or so
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Just a brief update this morning. I found a TRRS splitter/adapter on line that would allow me to connect my audio in to the TRRS jack on the chip. So i took the plunge and followed their instructions regarding cutting a circuit board trace and soldering to the mic pad on the circuit board. Worked perfectly. Now i can stream using the on-board sound card and eliminate the usb card and usb hub. A very compact and cheap little streamer. It streams fine to bcfy.
I found that one usb sound card that i had worked fine plugged directly into chip. However, a second one drew too much power and immediately crashed the unit when plugged in directly.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01I5MYQDQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Thanks for the updates. Will try again as soon as I have some time. plughw:1.0 doesn't seem familiar from my attempt months ago so that seems promising...
See my other post on setting it up with darksnow if you haven't found that already:
http://forums.radioreference.com/st...-next-thing-co-chip-computer.html#post2673427
Very interesting. It might serve me well to set one of these up.
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