Broadcastify Raspberry Pi Feed Appliance Image v1.0 (BETA)

[scan18]

Apologies is this was already asked and answered, is it advisable (or not) to do a sudo apt-get upgrade on the image to pull down the latest OS updates? Or is it best to leave it alone? I just flashed the latest image and I see there are a lot of updates to install, but I don’t want to mess anything up.

 

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[blantonl]

Apologies is this was already asked and answered, is it advisable (or not) to do a sudo apt-get upgrade on the image to pull down the latest OS updates? Or is it best to leave it alone? I just flashed the latest image and I see there are a lot of updates to install, but I don’t want to mess anything up.

The image works just fine as it is....

 

[zapman987]

If Im trying to feed VHF via SDR, can I use this or need something else for packages?

Also any issues running GQRX on top of this (self adding)?

 

[Andy2712]

Is there an easy way to get all those programs to down load on an existing pi without having to change the image? I tried your image but couldn't get TTD to run with it. I'd like to be able to run TTD and stream my feed.

 

[scan18]

One minor note... in the appliance shell script, looks like the restart_service function for Trunk Recorder is executing systemctl stop command instead of systemctl restart command. Not a big deal, but just thought I'd pass it along.

 

[fatboy_dan]

unfortunately with my rpi4, 4gb model, this img simply boot loops upon initial startup. initial boot is fine, however once the desktop should begin to load, the device resets. tested for hardware failure with other OS and pi runs fine. suggestions? **EDIT - I did manage to fix this on my own, however, despite an active and working connection through the pi, I receive an invalid response error regarding updates (with proper username and password)

 

[blantonl]

unfortunately with my rpi4, 4gb model, this img simply boot loops upon initial startup. initial boot is fine, however once the desktop should begin to load, the device resets. tested for hardware failure with other OS and pi runs fine. suggestions? **EDIT - I did manage to fix this on my own, however, despite an active and working connection through the pi, I receive an invalid response error regarding updates (with proper username and password)

So, what did you find out on the image not booting for you?

do you have a firewall that might be blocking outbound connections? Update service is working fine.

 

[blantonl]

One minor note... in the appliance shell script, looks like the restart_service function for Trunk Recorder is executing systemctl stop command instead of systemctl restart command. Not a big deal, but just thought I'd pass it along.

Good catch. I’ll update in a fix release. Thanks!

If Im trying to feed VHF via SDR, can I use this or need something else for packages?

Also any issues running GQRX on top of this (self adding)?

gqrx is already bundled and ready to go

 

[fatboy_dan]

So, what did you find out on the image not booting for you?

do you have a firewall that might be blocking outbound connections? Update service is working fine.

Not quite sure what went wrong, but I re-flashed, and let it run for a couple minutes and eventually the desktop showed unlike the first attempt. Being a new image (to me) I figured it would be fine... for now

And yes, I do have a hardware firewall, but I made sure to disable until I had the pi configured... eventually I just set the pi to be outside the firewall like one would with DMZ settings, and off it went. Been too busy playing with it to come back and update - cheers!

 

[Andy2712]

Not sure what's going on, but I've tried several times to get TTD to work on your image, and I'm not having any luck. Something seems to be preventing the audio from getting to Pulse. I've had the TTD image running on this Pi and it works awesome, but I don't have the stuff to run my feed from that. I can't run my TTD on the bcfy image so that sucks. Is there some way we can either get the BCFY shell stuff to download to a different image or see why audio isn't going to Pulse on the BCFY image?

 

[Kingscup]

I am running one feed with 2 scanners. One scanner for each left and right side speaker. I noticed with the new image, I am hearing traffic on both speakers at the same time with each scanner. Prior to this image, I had traffic on one speaker. Is this a setting on my end or Broadcastify's end? I have feed 19.

 

[blantonl]

I am running one feed with 2 scanners. One scanner for each left and right side speaker. I noticed with the new image, I am hearing traffic on both speakers at the same time with each scanner. Prior to this image, I had traffic on one speaker. Is this a setting on my end or Broadcastify's end? I have feed 19.

try manually edit your darkice config file and change the "channel" setting from "1" to "2"

nano /home/pi/configs/darkice/darkice_1.cfg

 

[blantonl]

Not sure what's going on, but I've tried several times to get TTD to work on your image, and I'm not having any luck. Something seems to be preventing the audio from getting to Pulse. I've had the TTD image running on this Pi and it works awesome, but I don't have the stuff to run my feed from that. I can't run my TTD on the bcfy image so that sucks. Is there some way we can either get the BCFY shell stuff to download to a different image or see why audio isn't going to Pulse on the BCFY image?

Pulse audio is disabled on our image for any soundcards that you attach to the Pi because it conflicts with darkice.

You most likely cannot run a feed and TTD on the same soundcard anyway.

I can't find a download for TTD to have a look, but if you need one or the other for now you're going to have to make a choice.

 

[Deziel0495]

I can't find a download for TTD to have a look, but if you need one or the other for now you're going to have to make a choice.

Here you go: https://www.twotonedetect.net/downloads/TwoToneDetect73g.zip

 

[Andy2712]

I can send a copy of the Pi version of TTD 73g if you let me know where to send it. I'm going to guess being able to run both is going to be a very common request.

 

[KD4LRU]

Cannot get the feed to work. Followed the steps for setup exactly. My feed does appear live but cannot stream through the web interface or the Android app. Message online says, "Error connecting to feed."

 

[WD0JB]

I have the image up and running, and I'm fairly certain I can get my P25 system going, but I would like to set up some conventional analog channels on a second pi. Does anyone have a trunk-recorder json with the conventional analog configuration? I've been having trouble finding what I need to get that configured. Thanks in advance.

 

[firedude123]

So I am new to broadcasting, With this do you still need a computer to broadcast??

 

[redbeard]

So I am new to broadcasting, With this do you still need a computer to broadcast??

A raspberry pi is a computer technically, so yes.